Archive for 2019
October 13, 2019
NO, THEY’LL WORK FOR UKRAINIAN OIL COMPANIES AND THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS: Biden Takes Shot at Trump Family After Question About Son Hunter: None of My Kids Will Have White House Offices.
Though to be fair, Biden’s never going to have a White House office either.
ABSOLUTELY: Rand Paul Calls For Probe Into 4 Democratic Senators Over Threats To Ukraine. “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for a probe into four Democratic Senators on Sunday over a letter that they sent to Ukraine in 2018 that threatened to withhold aid from the country if it did not continue to investigate President Donald Trump.”
OPEN THREAD: Do that comment voodoo that you do so well.
ANTISEMITISM IN OUR TIME: I was protested at Bard College for being a Jew.
SCHEDULES: Why we don’t see each other anymore.
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OH: HK leader ditches meeting Ted Cruz, says the U.S. senator.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam scrapped a meeting with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, the highest profile U.S. politician to visit the city since anti-government protests broke out more than four months ago, the senator said on Saturday.
Lam’s office had requested that the afternoon meeting be completely confidential and that Cruz refrain from speaking with the media about it, Cruz told journalists in Hong Kong.
“She seems to misunderstand how free speech operates, and also how freedom of the press operates,” said Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas and a vocal critic of China who was stopping in Hong Kong for two days as part of a regional tour.
I’ve always gotten a kick out of Cruz’s low-key wit.
THE COLLEGE LOAN CRISIS THAT ISN’T: The Manhattan Institute’s Beth Akers dove deep into the data on Millennials, college loan debt, and household incomes and family wealth, and concluded there is no crisis. At least not like the one claimed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and most of the rest of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination contenders.
IT REALLY IS RELENTLESS: Kimberley Strassel: Inside the media’s relentless crusade to destroy President Trump. “The press has embraced its bias, joined the Resistance and declared its allegiance to one side of a partisan war. . . . This media war is extraordinary, overt and increasingly damaging to the country.”
GOOD: U.S. to Restrict Visas for Chinese Officials Linked to Abuse of Muslim Minorities.
The visa restrictions—which will limit the ability of affected Chinese officials to travel to the U.S.—come a day after the U.S. imposed export restrictions against more than two dozen Chinese firms for having a role in government policies toward minorities.
Both moves come as U.S.-China trade talks are slated to resume Thursday in Washington.
The State Department said the visa restrictions will apply to designated Chinese government and Communist Party officials, along with their families.
China has engaged in a crackdown on what it sees as a long-simmering separatist movement led by the region’s Muslim Uighur population.
Western scholars estimate more than one million Turkic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities have been arbitrarily detained in China’s Xinjiang region over the past few years.
Not just detained, but “re-educated” in fine Chinese Communist tradition.
IT WAS TRUE THEN, AND IT’S STILL TRUE: Glenn Greenwald: CNN and MSNBC Are Like “State TV” With Ex-Intel Officials As Contributors.
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT REALLY? Hillary enters 2020 race after entire Democratic field have surprise heart attacks.
WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF NBC UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE: MSNBC president Phil Griffin ‘smirked as he waved around a zoomed-in photograph of Maria Menounos’ naked crotch in a staff meeting, after she was caught on camera suffering a bikini malfunction, according to Ronan Farrow’s new book.
ANTIFA BURNS NAZI MANIFESTO’S SECTION ON RACISM, PRESERVES REMAINDER AS PART OF OWN PLATFORM.
I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still satire, before morphing into America’s Paper of Record.
GOOD: In Advance Of Law School Speech By Attorney General William Barr, Notre Dame Dean Marcus Cole Issued A Ringing Defense Of Free Speech. He’s a great guy and looks like he’ll be a great dean, but it’s not enough to speak in favor of free speech, you have to act against those who try to deny it to others.
JOURNALISTS IN GLASS HOUSES: The Age of Mutual Assured Cancellation. A modest proposal for my fellow journalists: Could we declare a bipartisan amnesty for the stupid things people did in high school and college—or at least stop pretending that these things have any relevance in judging a middle-aged adult’s professional competence? As much as journalists love to smear political opponents, there’s now a self-interested reason for us to stop throwing stones.
WEIRD, THEY HAVE SO MUCH SOCIAL MEDIA TO BRING THEM TOGETHER: 1 in 3 young adults is lonely—and it hurts their mental health.
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UNITED AIRLINES DOESN’T LOVE ITS FREQUENT FLYERS ANYMORE: It loves big spenders instead. Understandably, I guess. But as a longtime 1K/Million Miler who often flies on government fare, I am stricken to my very soul. Or something. It looks like I’ll be flying Jet Blue, Alaska and Southwest a lot more.
JOHN NOLTE: Good Riddance to Shepard Smith.
Tell me, what exactly is honorable about pretending to be an unbiased journalist whose only job is to inform the public when you are, in reality, just another far-left talking head spreading conspiracy theories, just another leftist having narcissistic temper tantrums in public about guns and gay marriage, just another propagandist serially misleading your viewers with crazed conspiracy theories as a means to grind your sorry little ax… just another sanctimonious, blow-dried, fake news grifter?
You might not agree with, or even like, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Lawrence O’Donnell, or Tucker Carlson, but at least they have the personal integrity, professional maturity, and moral courage to say This is my opinion. This is what I believe personally. Come at me, bro. At least they have enough respect for their audience, for themselves, and for their profession not to shiver like a punk inside the armor of an Objective Journalist Just Telling the Objective Truth as a means to avoid challenge and criticism.
Pretending to be “objective” is a nice pose — if it was 1927. Hopefully Shep will enter the 21st century in his next job.