THE LEFT NEVER ADMITS FAULT: David Webb gets CNN’s Areva Martin to apologize . . . for her staff.
Archive for 2019
January 17, 2019
OH, DEAR LORD: Don’t ask — that’s an order.
THEY WERE JUST LIGHTING THE VIRTUE SIGNAL: Gillette Follow-Up: Why Did They Do It?
IT’S NOT DONE: Four Americans killed in Syria; ISIS claims responsibility.
AT SOME POINT THE LEFT MIGHT REALIZE THAT TIGHTENING DOWN ON THE POWDER KEG IS A SUCKY STRATEGY. BUT PROBABLY NOT: A New Tea Party Protest.
January 16, 2019
MICHELLE MALKIN: Procter & Gamble’s Toxic Sanctimony.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT CALLS FOR A FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION:
THE INSTA-WIFE: The Gillette Ad: The War on Men Is a War on Trump. Just like #MeToo was, though that kinda backfired.
PC MOUTHPIECE BILL MAHER HILARIOUSLY CALLED OUT IN HOLLYWOOD BILLBOARDS:
It turns out there are still a few good-humored, politically-incorrect folks in Hollywood after all. Over the weekend, lefty-bashing street artist provocateurs publicly slammed HBO’s Bill Maher with a satirical billboard depicting him not as the thought leader he imagines himself to be, but as a rote purveyor of mainstream liberal propaganda. Specifically he was made fun of as being an “NPC.”
On Sunday pranksters from conservative street artist group “The Faction” decided to point out the fact that Maher might actually belong to this category, going after a Real Time with Bill Maher billboard located at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard & West Holloway in West Hollywood. “The Faction” spray painted a gray, expressionless face over Maher’s and changed the image’s tagline from “The Whole Truth and Nothing But” to “The Whole Narrative and Nothing But.” They also changed “HBO” to “NPC.”
This is the same group that put down dozens of mock Donald Trump Walk of Fame star stickers in response to the President’s real star being vandalized multiple times since his election.
Since Maher’s show airs on HBO, sister network CNN has no doubt already activated the doxx squad. 
BLUE STATE UPDATE: State Lawmakers Partied While California Burned.
THE COMPASSION IS ALWAYS SELECTIVE: After Ignoring Angel Moms, Senate Dems Hold Rally for Government Workers Affected by Shutdown.
THEY’RE TRYING REALLY HARD TO RE-ELECT TRUMP: Latest caravans from El Salvador, Honduras start treks to U.S.
OPEN THREAD: There are other comment threads, but this one is yours.
MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY PLANNING TO ATTACK WHITE HOUSE:
A 21-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly planning an attack on the White House and other federal buildings.
Authorities arrested Hasher Jallal Taheb of Cumming, Georgia amid a yearlong investigation into his alleged intention to use anti-tank rockets and improvised explosive devices to attack the federal buildings, U.S. Attorney B.J. Pak said at a press conference Wednesday.
The investigation began after a community member sent in a tip in March 2018 that Taheb had become “radicalized” and made plans to travel abroad, according to the criminal complaint. When he was unable to travel abroad due to passport issues, he allegedly began planning an attack in the U.S.
The use of scare quotes around radicalized is a nice touch by NBC.
More from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution:
On Aug. 25, 2018, Taheb allegedly put his vehicle up for sale to fund a trip. An FBI informant reached out to show interest and met with the suspect days later.
Taheb allegedly said he planned to travel to “hijra,” a term said to refer to Islamic State territory.
He also told the informant he wanted to attack the White House and Statue of Liberty in jihadist attacks, authorities said. At the beginning of December, Taheb arranged a meeting with the informant and an undercover FBI agent, the complaint said.
“Taheb explained that jihad was an obligation, that he wanted to do as much damage as possible, and that he expected to be a ‘martyr,” the complaint said.
Obviously, we may never learn the suspect’s motives.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Beto Fans Insist: This Is Not a Drill.
Scott Rosenberg and David McCabe, Axios:
No, Beto O’Rourke did not live-stream his teeth cleaning on Instagram — any more than Al Gore ever actually claimed to have invented the internet. But if you were under the impression that O’Rourke did precisely that, you’re not alone — we did, too!
This is how online myths start.
It certainly is. But what actually happened, you see, was that Beto was live-streaming an interview with his dental hygienist, as a sort of slice-of-life-on-the-Mexican-border thing. And as part of that interview, he, um… well, okay, sure, he literally live-streamed his teeth cleaning. That is exactly, precisely what he did. That’s why there’s footage of it, which Beto took himself, intentionally, and which will never go away now. He did that. But it’s a myth that he did that, because… er…
C’mon, look, just forget he did that, okay? It makes him look silly and dumb, which might hurt him with voters, so let’s just pretend it never happened.
This is how the next two years are gonna go, everybody. The Dems will wave away every single one of this guy’s gaffes and oopsies, no matter how minor. We will be gaslighted. Beto says the Constitution sucks now? Whatever. He says that a border wall is literally Death itself? Big deal. If they’re willing to overlook the time he got in a drunken car wreck and fled the scene, nothing else he does is going to deter them. They’ve got an election to win. They’ve got an orange demon to beat.
For a party obsessed with reducing fossil fuels, Democrats and their media operatives with bylines sure believe in maximum gaslighting.
GILLETTE TRASHES MASCULINITY. HARRY’S RAZORS SAYS HOLD MY BEER.
Related:
It’s the Babylon Bee, so it’s satire — but is it, really?
And if you missed it earlier: Surprise: Genius behind man-hating Gillette ad is a radical feminist.
SO THE BIGOTS ARE UNAPOLOGETIC: Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: We Progressives Are Going to ‘Run Train.’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used a vulgar sexual term in an interview with the Washington Post published Wednesday, threatening conservatives that Democrats would “run train on the progressive agenda.”
The term “run train” refers to a gang rape. According to UrbanDictionary.com, the “top definition” for the term “run train” is “to ‘gangbang’ a girl with several friends.”
The last time such a phrase was mentioned in regards to DC was via Creepy Porn Lawyer™ Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick during the Kavanaugh hearings, as this typo-filled article from September at Heavy.com notes:
Swetncik [sic] signed a sworn affidavit that Kavanaugh and Judge were part of a groups [sic] of teenagers who, in the early 1980s, perpetrated gang rapes by drugging girls with grain alcohol spiked with Quaaludes and the[n] “ran trains.” And Swetnick said she herself was raped. She does not say Kavanaugh raped her but was present.
(The following month, The Hill reported, Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred Swetnick and Avenatti to the Justice Dept. for investigation.)
Flash-forward to January, and as Peter D’Abrosca of Big League Politics writes, “Ocasio-Cortez Normalizes Rape Culture With ‘Run Train’ Comments:”
AOC mentioned nothing about whether she’ll ask for the consent of the Republican Party before she gangbangs them into submission. What if they’re just not that into her? Is she literally threatening to rape 60 million plus Republican Americans?
As James Bovard of the Mises Institute wrote in November, We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent.
UPDATE: “Why attack [AOC] for using a term that means she’s going to gang rape America with progressivism? I applaud her honesty,” Andrew Klavan tweets.
DELIBERATELY MISSING THE POINT: Reason: The Gillette Ad Tells Men Not to Hurt People. Why Is This Offensive? “Yes, the ad invokes ‘toxic masculinity,’ an ill-defined concept sometimes deployed by the campus left in overbroad ways. But most of the ad depicts men deciding not to bully each other, harass women, or commit violence. Are these really ‘leftist social priorities’? Do conservatives really wish to portray them as such?”
Now try this: Ad tells black people not to steal. Why is this offensive?
Or maybe: Ad tells women not to lie. Why is this offensive?
Or, so that the Reason folks will really get it: Ad tells pot smokers not to become drug-crazed mass killers. Why is this offensive?
But I think the reason that this really struck a nerve is this: Men are used to being treated badly on TV shows and in ads, because women control most discretionary spending. But now men are even being treated badly in ads for the products they themselves buy. Advertisers thinking they can get away with that is a pretty open expression of contempt. And the contempt is being returned.
WHO ARE WE KIDDING? IT’S ALIENS. Is ’Oumuamua an Alien Spaceship? Sure! Except, No.
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AYN RAND DIDN’T INTEND FOR THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE TO BE A HOW-TO GUIDE. Gag Alert: PETA Puts Pasty Vegans with Carrot Schlongs in Sexual Stamina Video.