Archive for 2018

FACEBOOK IS SOOO SORRY IT MISTAKENLY CENSORED PRO-LIFE ADS: Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman lays out how the social media giant keeps censoring certain kinds of political ads, then bowing and scraping with apologies.

Freeman quotes Susan B. Anthony List spokesman Mallory Quigley saying, “’At this point all of the ads are back up and running,’ reports Mallory Quigley of SBA List via email. She adds that four different ads created by her organization ‘have been suspended and then approved multiple times in the last month or so.’”

But the fact remains that Facebook’s apologies don’t change the reality that Facebook shut down political speech of one side during an election campaign in which every minute of advocacy could change the outcome of voting.

SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE PRESIDENT CHRISTIE COLLINS JUDD IS APPARENTLY AFRAID OF BAD PUBLICITY FROM POTENTIAL LEFTIST STUDENT PROTESTS but not from students threatening and intimidating a conservative-leaning professor, with zero consequences. So let’s give Sarah Lawrence some bad publicity for Judd’s atrocious handling of this situation.

THIS MAY SINK SEN. JON TESTER’S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: The American Spectator’s David Catron reports that “Libertarian Rick Breckenridge decided to endorse Republican Matt Rosendale. The Libertarian has been pulling enough support in the polls to enable Tester to slither back to the swamp again.”

It worked for Tester in 2012 and appeared to be working again in 2018, but then somebody pulled some dirty tricks and it appears the senator is taking the brunt of the resulting blowback.

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: I guess The Washington Post has hired the wizard from “The Princess Bride”, seeing how they must have been only “mostly dead”.

BONUS: “Real Journalism Matters”

NBC FINALLY GETS THEIR WISH:

● Shot:

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS TO NO ONE IS ASKING: “NFLers are Protesting During the National Anthem. Here’s Why Cheerleaders Aren’t,” young Democrat operative with a byline Kalhan Rosenblatt writes at NBC. And check out her lede:

Millions of Americans have applauded the NFL players who have taken a knee during the national anthem, but not the women whose job it is to root for the teams — the cheerleaders.

No leftwing bias here! And it’s a somewhat poorly written biased sentence as well — millions of American guys applaud the NFL’s cheerleaders whenever the programming director cuts to a shot of them on the sidelines, whatever the players are doing on the field before or after the game. Of course, what Rosenblatt really wants is the women’s edition of what Allahpundit calls the NFL’s pregame “woke Olympics.”

Your humble narrator, October 16, 2017.

● Chaser: 49ers cheerleader takes a knee during anthem before Raiders game.

—Yahoo Sports, yesterday.

Perhaps she’s simply protesting the rampant income inequality in the NFL: While the male players make millions, “A lawsuit filed on the behalf of one former San Francisco 49ers cheerleader said that she earned a total of $1,250 per season, which worked out to roughly $2.75 per hour.” Fight fiercely Gold Rush Girls for $15!

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Trump Is the Best President Ever for American Jews.

The forces of anti-Semitism are concentrated in four groups of our fellow Americans: white supremacists like the man who murdered the congregants of Tree of Life; the Nation of Islam and our black community, Hispanic immigrants and to a lesser extent, native-born Hispanics, and progressives. Three of these four groups are large, significant voting blocs. All three are crucial to Democrat electoral victory.

Democrats are indeed the anti-Trump. He has zero tolerance for anti-Semitism, they have 100% tolerance. They must have anti-Semites’ votes to get to their 90% bloc voting in the black community, and to kowtow to their progressives. Democrat tolerance of anti-Semitism is a national disgrace. And it is getting worse, far worse.

Harsh, but fair.

PROCUREMENT BLUES: Brand-new German tanks, helicopters need improvement before deployment. “The bulk of the tanks, fighter jets and helicopters delivered to the Bundeswehr were not ready for deployment, the Defense Ministry has said. Manufacturers delivered 97 large items but only 38 were fully operational.”