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January 23, 2019
WAIT, ARE PITCHFORKS ON THE TABLE? WON’T THEY BE A LITTLE CONSPICUOUS IN NYC? Covington Catholic Update.
OH, IT’S NOT JUST CATHOLICS. OVER AT ACE OF SPADES, THERE’S A LIST OF INCIDENTS THIS CRITTER HAS BEEN IN OVER THE YEARS. THE ARTICLE RELATES TO OTHER STUFF, SO LINKED HERE. BUT LET’S SAY THIS MAN IS A SAD CREATURE DETERMINED TO GET VENGEANCE ON PEOPLE WHO NEVER DID HIM ANY HARM FOR REAL OR IMAGINARY (BUT MOSTLY IMAGINARY) ILLS DONE TO PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE SOME VAGUE OR DISTANT GENETIC RELATIONSHIP TO HIM. MR. PHILLIPS IS A VICTIM OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE NOBLE SAVAGE MYTH. THEY’RE EATING HIM FROM THE INSIDE: A Pattern Emerges.
On the other subject Ace of Spades gets into: if you’re on the right and you bow to this crazy leftist narrative, it’s time to take a deep breath and wonder why. Seriously. Investigate those stories that come from the left too. Not to do so doesn’t make you stand above the fray. It makes you hit the right with friendly fire.
LOOK, JOURNALISTS, IT’S SIMPLE: IF YOU DO YOUR JOB, YOU MIGHT WIN BACK THE RESPECT OF THE PUBLIC, AND YOU MIGHT GET TO KEEP A JOB. IF YOU DON’T, YOU WILL BE REPLACED. INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS AND JUST THE PUBLIC WILL MAKE YOU OBSOLETE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW LOOK TOWARDS TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING WHO ALSO DECIDED THAT THEIR JOB WAS TO “EDUCATE” THE PUBLIC AND NOT, YOU KNOW, TO SELL BOOKS: Red Caps and Yellow Journalism.
I don’t care what your journalism school professors told you. Your job is not to afflict the comfortable. Your job is not to comfort the afflicted. Most of you couldn’t tell the difference with a seeing eye dog, a cane and the proverbial two hands. Your job is to investigate claims and report as close to the facts as you can. And if the story seems to endorse the narrative you like? INVESTIGATE TWICE AS HARD. Have some pride. Do your job to the best of your ability. Are you human or a puppet of your journalism professors and leftist ideologues?
COLORADANS! WAKE UP. CLEAN UP ELECTIONS AND GET INVOLVED. WE HAVE IDIOTS GOVERNING US. PERNICIOUS IDIOTS: CO State Reps Not Allowed To Introduce Resolution Honoring Dr. King Because They Are White. If you left California because it was no longer good to live in, stop doing the same to my state. Or go back. FIFO (Fit in or F OFF) is for more than immigration between nations.
MY FRIEND BILL THINKS THAT: It Is Later Than You Think.
January 22, 2019
ABSURD. I HEAR HIS CANDIDACY IS DOOMED. HE WON’T EVEN WIN THE GOP PRIMARY IN 2016. Kurt Schlichter: Everyone Who Takes on Trump Ends Up Crushed.
OF COURSE IT IS, HE’S A LYING LEFTIST TOOL: Nathan Phillips’s Interview with CNN Is Full of Falsehoods, Inconsistencies, and Nonsense. He’s a disgrace to the tribe of which he’s allegedly an “elder.” They should be ashamed to be represented by such a sad sack.
THE RACIST HISTORY OF THE MINIMUM WAGE.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: “The prosecutor who brought down former Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens has found her office under investigation for possible perjury over the same case. Kim Gardner, the St. Louis circuit attorney who led the charge in the Greitens case, was accused of suborning perjury by the former governor’s defense team. A state grand jury is now considering evidence pursuant to a police investigation that began in May of 2018, according to a Tuesday morning report from local St. Louis radio station KMOX.”
WITH ALL THE PHARMACEUTICALS GETTING INTO THE WATER, I THINK WE NEED BETTER SEWAGE TREATMENT: The Thames Is So Full Of Cocaine It’s Pranging Out London’s Eels, Study Suggests.
HEY! Want to get outraged over a video that’s not taken wildly out-of-context, involves people who are actually powerful, and, if that’s your cup of tea, still has a juvenile white male villain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kjpNyvw9Z84
OPEN THREAD: Do your best work.
I’M ALMOST READY TO THINK THAT TRUMP SET THIS WHOLE THING UP, BUT WE ALL KNOW HE DIDN’T HAVE TO: Nathan Phillips rally attempted to disrupt Mass at DC’s National Shrine.
Meanwhile, from a friend on Facebook: “Verdict on Covington: 500K more votes for Trump in 2020.” In a crucial part of the country.
CLEANUP TIME: Vogue, Indian Country Today ‘adjust’ Nathan Phillips’ Vietnam anecdotes.
As does CNN.
I HOPE HE FEEDS THEM CHIK-FIL-A: BREAKING: Covington Kids Going To The White House.
UNEXPECTEDLY: “A new government program was supposed to prevent certain Medicare recipients from cycling in and out of hospitals. Now experts worry some older patients are being denied necessary care.”
UPDATE (FROM STEVE): “New” in the NYT headline obscures the fact that this is 2012 program authorized by ObamaCare.
REPOSTED FROM EARLIER: My I24 interview today about the Covington Clusterf*ck.™
This story has got it all. Rush to judgment, confirmation bias, cowardly celebrity journalists, Social Justice Keyboard Warriors, the whole nine yards.
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WELL, THAT’S THE TRUTH: Joy Behar: We jumped to conclusions about the Covington Catholic kids because we desperately want Trump out of office.
God love ‘er for betraying no shame in recognizing that the proposition that All MAGA Hat-Wearers Are Bad in this case seems to require the continued pummeling of a bunch of children. And I stress “continued.” I jumped to conclusions too when the first carefully edited clip of the confrontation emerged but it’s one thing to render judgment rashly and regret it and another to double and triple down after evidence to the contrary emerges, as some of the Lords of Tolerance have done over the past 48 hours. . . .
My thought last night was that the last thing this clusterfark needed was Trump weighing in. Every controversy he touches turns more bitter; God knows what he might say about it off the cuff to damage his own side; and it’s a bad look for him to be taking time out for something like this when the government’s shut down and federal workers are looking at another missed payday. The right has done quite well without him over the last few days prosecuting the case in the kids’ defense too, with help from Fox News. The more I think about it, though, the weirder it would be if he *didn’t* weigh in. This sort of cultural brawl is why he was elected, after all. Ann Coulter has convinced herself that it was because of the wall, but no, it’s because Trump is willing to grab the left in a headlock unapologetically whenever a nasty bar fight like this breaks out. Fans will forgive him sooner or later (spoiler: sooner) if he doesn’t get a wall but Trump refusing to throw a chair at SJWs trying to smear a bunch of kids for “the cause” really would be a “Why did we elect this guy?” moment.
Well, when you’re in a bar fight, it’s nice to have a guy at your side who realizes that you’re in a bar fight.
UPDATE: Related:
ALEX POURNELLE ON FACEBOOK:
I was lectured, from a position of great moral advantage, about how the KY Catholic boys “should have been taught to respect their elders”, not long after the first reports ran. I’ve since been blocked by at least two of those lecturers, plus the random three who decided I was a follower of NSDAP. (They used That Word, in point of fact.)
I mention the reactions to point out the köstliche aufrichtige Empörung, the delicious righteous indignation which flowed—flows—through the argument. I think that’s important. It’s as dangerous a neurotoxin as we have on the market today.
Those reactions shot through the entirety of the legacy media: the March for Life, despite its size, received far less print than one boy’s reaction to being drummed at. If it bleeds, it leads; if it smirks, we’re jerks.
That to one side: back to “elders”.
It’s clear now that there’s a lack of elders TO respect, a moral and leadership vacuum, both general and specific. It’s pretty widespread. Diocesan and school officials should not use the Red Queen juridical model.
Respect is a two-way street. “Elder” implies wisdom as much as age. In the aftermath, some of the Blue Check Mafia apologized for their two-minute hate; others memory-holed it. (Oh, Orwell.) Ditto for Facebook conversations and blog posts.
Others vagued past their original statements and are using Let’s Pretend Nothing Happened to run out the clock. Yet others used the “Wear a MAGA hat, you get what you deserve” Defense. (“Now do women in short skirts”, as one commenter said.)
Still others used a modified Fake But Accurate ploy: these KY kids are, they say in light of the more voluminous evidence, in sync with the racist zeitgeist of a guilty nation, book ‘Em. Implied in that last is a group-guilt assumption. Reverse that: does the “all X are guilty because a small minority of X did Y” pass the smell test on any other group? Today of all days?
I hope the hard lessons are clear: the 72-hour Rule always applies; ascribe not to malice what could be from another cause, until more facts are known; the Braying Mob destroys as easily as the Kind Herd lifts up. I’m trying to learn that myself.
I also hope the hard lessons don’t result in physical or career harm to any of these kids. It appears they are far tougher inside than their critics or those who should have been Elders in the video evidence. They, these KY kids, defended their friend who happened to be black against attacks; they yelled “not cool” when the more offensive N-Word (and more) was thrown around; they cheered school cheers when they could have easily responded (with some of that delicious righteous indignation which flowed so freely online) in kind, or escalated.
The alternatives to learning these lessons will be much more expensive.
Now go be worthy of respect.
Indeed. Also, it’s hilarious to hear the Left suddenly going on a “respect your elders” kick after over 50 years of the reverse.