Archive for 2019
March 26, 2019
ROGER SIMON: Jussie Smollett Will Be the New O.J.
INVESTIGATE THIS: 2020 Democrats Are Using a Donation Portal Known for Accepting Fraudulent Donations. “Cory Booker’s campaign accepted a donation from ‘Iam Spartacus’ using a bogus address.”
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YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GIF: The Top Twenty Mueller Report Memes.
WHY COLLEGES LIKE TRUMP’S CAMPUS SPEECH ORDER: That sure isn’t what their lobbyists are saying, but I hope I’m wrong and Bauerlein is right!
UPHILL BATTLE, BUT INTERESTING: Bronx Republican says she plans to run against AOC since Amazon deal collapse.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Media Won’t Abandon Russia Story Because It’s All They’ve Know For Two Years And It’s Good For Business.
Short-term, sure. Longterm I think they’re destroying themselves and the entire infotainment industry.
PROSECUTOR WHO DROPPED CHARGES AGAINST JUSSIE SMOLLETT EXPLAINS DECISION: ‘We Didn’t Exonerate Him.’
Mediaite notes that New York Times Julie Bosman tweeted that Assistant state attorney Joe Magats said “he saw no problems with the police investigation or the evidence against Smollett. The charges against Smollett were dropped in return for his agreement to do community service, he said, and for forfeiting his bond to the city of Chicago.” Magats is quoted as saying “Here’s the thing — we work to prioritize violent crime and the drivers of violent crime. Public safety is our number one priority. I don’t see Jussie Smollett as a threat to public safety.”
The Chicago Tribune adds, “Calling it ‘a whitewash of justice,’ Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the decision, emphasizing repeatedly that a grand jury had chosen to bring 16 counts of disorderly conduct against Smollett. ‘From top to bottom, this is not on the level,’ Emanuel told reporters at an afternoon news conference.”
As Jim Treacher writes, “This has never been about justice. It’s about social justice.”
BUT OF COURSE: Twitter Bans User For Laughing At Rachel Maddow’s Tears Of Despair Over Mueller Report.
I still read Twitter, because it’s an excellent source for evidence of our growing Idiocracy, but I’m not on Twitter any longer. I’m done providing that antisocial media outlet with free content, and it’s just plain nice not spending a chunk of each day swimming in a cesspit.
LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: ‘Horror, fear, despair’: Venezuela’s oil capital shattered by ‘tsunami’ of violent looting.
“El demonio,” says Betty Méndez, a local shopkeeper, by way of explanation for the wave of looting and unrest that convulsed Maracaibo earlier this month.
Most, however, describe the mayhem in psychiatric terms: a collective breakdown that shocked this lakeside city to its core and offered a terrifying glimpse of Venezuela’s possible future as it sinks deeper into economic, political and social decline.
“Horror, fear, despair,” said María Villalobos, a 35-year-old journalist, weeping as she relived three days of violence that many here call la locura – “the madness”.
“I thought it was the start of a civil war.”
That’s exactly what the wreckers, hoarders, saboteurs, Trotskyites, kulaks, Yankee Imperialists, counterrevolutionaries, and Jews want you to think.
RAHM EMMANUEL BLASTS DECISION TO LET JUSSIE SMOLLETT WALK: Calls it a “whitewash of justice.”
NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS: Buyer Beware: Seafood ‘Fraud’ Rampant, Report Says.
FLASHBACK: President Michael Avenatti? Never say never!
That’s courtesy of CNN’s Chris Cillizza, who has had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week. And it’s only Tuesday.
(Hat tip, Longtime Sharp Instapundit Commenter™ “HA.”)
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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is it going to be another two-to-six years of ORANGE MAN BAD from an infotainment industry hellbent on self-destruction?
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: The brain starts to register gender and age before recognizing a face, researchers find.
COMING SOON FROM MARK LEVIN: Unfreedom of the Press.
OFT EVIL WILL SHALL EVIL MAR: The press created Russiagate and now they must deal with the consequences.
KYLE SMITH: Bonfire of the Media Vanities.
All of this mad mudslinging had its desired effect, which was to poison the American voter against Trump. In May of 2017 a YouGov poll found that 55 percent of Democrats believed Russia actually tampered with voting tallies in order to push Trump to victory, a fantastical claim even Rachel Maddow wasn’t making, as far as I know.
Unable to concede that the Mueller chapter has wrapped up minus the preferred (expected, prayed-for) conclusion, the most respected pundits and journalists continue to openly fantasize about some less-favorable outcome for the president (“Mueller was always a side show the real action is in NY” — Ryan Lizza of CNN), disparage Attorney General William Barr (“the seeds of a cover-up” — MSNBC’s Joy Reid), and insist that the media are the true heroes here (“With some regrettable and damaging exceptions — individual stories that seemingly went too far — reality-based news outlets have done quite well on this story” — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post). The blob of professional Democrats and their media backers were hoping Trump would get whacked. Instead they got a Sopranos ending. Even the theme song was the same. And that’s fine. Hey, guys, don’t stop believin’. The less credibility you have, the easier it becomes to ignore you.
Related: Mueller Madness: The media pundits who got it most wrong.
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LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela suffers second blackout within a month.
WHAT’S RUSSIAN FOR “VAPORWARE?” Putin’s New Missiles Are Having Decidedly Mixed Success.