STEVEN HAYWARD: Open Bigotry At The New York Times.
Archive for 2018
August 3, 2018
YOU KNEW IT ALL ALONG: Kudos to Michael Isikoff for continuing to dig into this story. Of course the Obama Administration is responsible for lapses in cyber-security. But the pre-programmed responses we’re going to see from the ̶W̶a̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶t̶o̶n̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶p̶s̶ DNC stenographers are:
- Old news, who cares?
- Collusion! Russia! Manafort!
- That’s racist.
Note that The Professor has had his eye on this for a while.
IT’S GETTING INTERESTING NOW THAT THE LEFT DOESN’T THINK IT HAS TO LIE ANYMORE: Bernie Sanders Supporters Admit His Socialized Medicine Plan Will Ration Care.
CONSPIRACY FANS WILL BE BUZZING OVER THIS ONE: While it’s true that DNC staffer Seth Rich’s murder was both tragic and mysterious (especially given the theories he was the real hacker) and also given the fact that “Arkancide” is a theory that people dangerous to Hillary Clinton have a way of dying under tragic and mysterious causes, Politico is reporting that a federal court threw out claims against Fox News for reporting on the story:
One, filed by Rich’s parents, claimed that Fox News intentionally tried to inflict emotional distress. The other was filed by a private detective, Rod Wheeler, alleging defamation…Fox News later retracted the article. The report, however, prompted a number of conspiracy theories because it contradicted assessments by the U.S. intelligence community that Russia was behind the hacking at the DNC.
I called this back in March here. As I said then and say now, while I have sympathy for the Rich family, the ability to report on this sort of thing — even if incorrectly on a good faith basis — is too important to penalize and discourage.
August 2, 2018
OPEN THREAD: Now go for it.
ANDREW KLAVAN: Hey Media, You Started It.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF REACTIONARY VIOLENCE? New York man arrested for threatening Rep. Steve Scalise’s children.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: When I reviewed Mark Lilla’s The Once and Future Liberal last year, I asked “Can the Left Escape the Identity Politics Trap?”
The New York Times doesn’t seem eager to find the escape hatch anytime soon.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Planet Nine: ‘Insensitive’ Term Riles Scientists.
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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: NBC’s Thompson Promises ‘Environmental Civil War’ Over Trump’s Rollback of Regulations.
—NewsBusters, today.
● Chaser: NASCAR, NBC announce 10-year deal.
—ESPN, July 23, 2013.
● Hangover: Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Sign Multiyear Contract to Be Analyst for NBC in 2018.
—Bleacher Report, July 24, 2017.
As Glenn likes to say, I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.
IT’S WORSE WHEN YOU’RE OLDER: Take a Vacation From Exercise? Your Body May Not Thank You.
In some past studies with healthy, active young people, often college students, the consequences have been swift but reversible. When these volunteers have taken to their beds and chairs for days on end in the interest of science, they often have developed heightened blood sugar and some early symptoms of insulin resistance.
But within a day or two of returning to their normal activities, their metabolisms usually stabilized and blood sugar and insulin levels dropped.
Many of us, though, are not robust, young college students, and whether the impacts of becoming inactive, even for a short period of time, are likely to be as ephemeral for us has been less clear. . . .
The results proved to be consistent if worrisome. The volunteers almost all had developed what the scientists called “metabolic derangements” during their two weeks of being still. Their blood sugar levels had risen, insulin sensitivity declined, cholesterol profiles become less healthy, and they had lost a little muscle mass in their legs while gaining fat around their abdomens.
Thankfully, most of these derangements were reversed once the men and women became active again.
But for unknown reasons, a few of the volunteers did not return to quite the same level of exercise they had engaged in before. They now completed fewer minutes of vigorous activity each week than previously and had some slight but lasting symptoms of insulin resistance, even after two weeks of moving normally.
Hmm.
NEWS YOU CAN USE? How to Pair Wine With Gummy Bears.
YES, BECAUSE THEY’RE THEIR OPPOSITE NUMBER. The NTY’s Defense of Leftist Racism — It Was Just Some “Counter-Trolling” — Looks Suspiciously Similar to Claims the So-Called “Alt-Right” Made About Their Trollish Comments; Why Does One Standard Apply to Leftist Racism and another to the “Alt-Right’s?”
Related: As Iowahawk tweets:
Q: how can you tell if a tweet is racist?
A: it depends, true racism can only come from a position of power.
Q: how can you tell if it’s from a position of power?
A: when the tweeter doesn’t get fired for it.
Indeed.™
UPDATE: Yes, Anti-White Racism Exists.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Why Men Are Bleaching and Waxing Their Butts.
SCRAPPLEFACE: NFL Players to Kneel Over Cowboys QB Anthem Stand.
NY TIMES’ NEWEST HIRE SENT TONS OF RACIST ANTI-WHITE TWEETS.
So a chip off the ol’ Sulzberger, in other words.
As Rod Dreher warned last year, the elite left “needs to know [that] you aren’t going to be able to count on conservative people like me to help you oppose the alt-right, because you are their ‘respectable’ left-wing mirror image.”
UPDATE: Dreher today: Times Hires Harvard-Educated Honky-Hater.
“Sure, Sarah Jeong’s a bigot,” he writes. But like Alvy Singer, “she’s a bigot for the left.”
COROLLARY TO PARKINSON’S LAW: Scripting expands to fill the bandwidth available for downloading.
I’D LIKE AN ASTON MARTIN: 2019 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera First Drive: Glorious. Glorious. Glorious.