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October 22, 2019
DON SURBER: CNN latest news cesspool uncovered.
Project Veritas is exposing the deep dark secrets of the seditious CNN which is cahoots with Obama to bring down President Donald John Trump and our republic as well.
Today’s installment shocked me, “Part 4: #MeTooCNN Video Exposes Alleged Sexual Misconduct by CNN Exec and Possible Cover-Up by Senior CNN Management.”
What? This I did not expect.
People went on the record.
Project Veritas reported, “When speaking about CNN Politics Supervising Producer and White House Unit Supervising Producer/Coverage Manager, Steve Brusk, ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ Senior Producer Rick Saleeby said: ‘he would like make advances if there was a social gathering and they were drunk… Put his arms around them, try and touch their leg. Try and build up emails to the level where he would get flirty and inappropriate.'”
These are not anonymous attacks by cowards.
The allegations come after endless panels on CNN berated Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken for their conduct with women. Weinstein engaged in transactional sex with actresses (and apparently rape) while Franken pretended to grope a sleeping woman.
If what Saleeby said about Brusk is true — and CNN is not addressing the accusation — then Brusk [was] harassing women while he was booking Michael Avenatti to appear on Tapper’s show to accuse President Trump of adultery.
But I got to thinking. Television news departments sure h[ave] a lot of trouble with sexual harassment even as they engage in news actualities and lengthy panel discussions condemning the practice.
The louder the speak of their honor, the faster you should count the spoons.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG: Fireball That Flew Over Japan in 2017 Was Tiny Piece of Giant Asteroid that Might One Day Threaten Earth.
DUNKING ON LEBRON: Shaq defends free speech on NBA opening night: ‘Daryl Morey was right.’
YEP. Media Begins Canonization of Mitt Romney. “Remember when Mitt Romney was a heartless capitalist, torturer of the family dog, and driving his ex-employees into cancer? It wasn’t that many years ago, when he had the effrontery to run against the nation’s First Black President, that Mitt Romney was a cartoon villain so far as the media and other Democrats were concerned. That was then, but now that Donald Trump is president and Romney a senator who may be called to cast a vote in a Senate impeachment trial, Romney is enjoying the media’s ‘strange new respect,’ much like a Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice voting with the liberal bloc.”
MORE SAVAGERY FROM THE BABYLON BEE: Cash-Strapped CNN Now Just Recycling Old Articles But Replacing ‘Russian Collusion’ With ‘Ukrainian Scandal.’ “‘This is a green, Earth-friendly way to recycle news stories,’ said a CNN rep. ‘We have discovered a completely carbon-neutral way to produce indefinitely renewable outrage.'”
IT’S RACIST TO CALL TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT A “LYNCHING,” BUT NOT WHEN DEMOCRATS SAID THAT ABOUT CLINTON IN 1998: You aren’t surprised, right?
NASHVILLE IS VERY DISAPPOINTING THESE DAYS: Nashville Officials Want to Track People on Scooters in Real Time. “Nashville officials are demanding scooter companies turn over GPS and route information that would allow the government to track people who ride scooters in real-time. Scooter companies can already track their customers’ movements, but officials at the Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee say government officials ought not to have the same privilege.”
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Plus, bargains on Bedding.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Best Headphones According to Top Record Producers.
There are some pricy models on the WSJ’s subscription-only report, but I’ve used $75 Sony MDR-V6 sets for 30 years, and haven’t heard anything good enough to bother spending more.
PUSHING BACK AGAINST LEFTY PRIVILEGE: Extinction Rebellion Has A Rough Weekend As People Fight Back Against Climate Protests.
Later reports from Extinction Rebellion San Francisco’s Facebook page indicate that the protesters tried to get police involved and that the group filed an official complaint against the unnamed man who stole their banner. But, the activists said sadly, police officials told demonstrators that they probably wouldn’t investigate the incident.
Further down the California coast, in Long Beach, Extinction Rebellion ran into another set of “intolerant” Americans after the tried to invade an In ‘N Out burger and were summarily ejected by several non-plussed restaurant workers.
At least Marx and the first batch of “Progressives” tried to pose as champions of the working class. A lefty screaming into a bullhorn at a low-wage fast food clerk isn’t a good look — and one that we’ve seen before:
Related: Found via Ace’s sidebar, Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the Climate. It’s about Heteronormativity.
VANS SNEAKERS TAKES A KNEE FOR CHINA: ‘It was really unfair,’ Toronto teen says after her Hong Kong-themed shoe removed from contest.
A Toronto teen is finding out just how controversial making an artistic statement about the unrest in Hong Kong can be: her shoe design garnered hundreds of thousands of votes, but suddenly disappeared from an online contest.
Naomi So’s family has roots in the former British colony that the 17-year-old has visited several times, so she decided to create a Hong Kong-themed shoe for the Custom Culture design contest held by Vans — an American manufacturer of skateboarding and other footwear and apparel.
“My mom and dad have been keeping up with the Hong Kong news, and from that I became interested and researched more on what was happening,” she told CBC Toronto.
Naomi, whose family asked that CBC News not show her face or reveal the location of her school, found out that pro-democracy demonstrators have been protesting in the streets for months in sometimes violent clashes with police. She also learned it all started with a bill that would allow people accused of crimes to be extradited to mainland China.
Using ink as her medium, the shoe is mostly black and yellow — the colours worn by protesters. The design also includes a red Bauhinia flower, Hong Kong’s floral emblem.
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Vans released a statement on Facebook about the decision to remove “a small number of artistic submissions” based on the global competition’s guidelines. It’s been met with a flurry of comments on social media.
“As a brand that is open to everyone, we have never taken a political position and therefore review designs to ensure they are in line with our company’s long-held values of respect and tolerance, as well as with our clearly communicated guidelines for this competition,” the statement reads.
Related: “The brothers, Paul Van Doren and James Van Doren, started The Van Doren Rubber Company in 1966. Over the next 40 years, they opened factories in California and later contracted factories in China and Vietnam to make the classic Vans vulcanized shoes.”
I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP TELLING ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: Study Finds the Wealthy & Celebrities Aren’t Changing Their Flying Habits to Reduce CO2 Emissions.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I tried a polyamorous relationship, and it kinda worked—until it didn’t.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES: The pizza box hasn’t evolved in decades, but now Pizza Hut is trying out a new round design.
And so what might seem like a small step — Pizza Hut’s announcement Tuesday that it’s trying out a high-tech new design that’s round instead of square — feels like a giant leap for pizza-kind.
“For the most part, only marginal changes have been made to pizza boxes through the years,” Nicolas Burquier, Pizza Hut’s chief customer and operations officer, said in an email. “This round box leverages new technology and represents step change innovation.”
The pie chain’s claims about the new box are many. Some of its shiny new features are meant to improve its function and use: The round shape means there’s less waste (i.e., it’s better for the environment), and it’s made of sustainably harvested plant fiber. It’s industrially compostable.
You don’t want to know what the pizza inside that box will eventually “evolve” into.
OLD AND BUSTED: “We Are All Socialists Now.”
The New Hotness? We Are All Pierre Delecto Now.
This is the damage Twitter hath done. It is a time suck, irresistible even to those with the least to gain. Romney’s sad, secret account reveals something about Twitter’s strategic reliance on human nature: we all just want to be heard, and social media affords us that catharsis. So powerful is this catharsis, even Mitt Romney, a man with a Senate office and the means to build a car elevator, chases its fleeting satisfaction.
Pierre Delecto is holding a mirror up to the rest of us. Social media brings out the worst in everyone, and that outcome is fundamental to its design. We’re wasting so much time.
Somebody really needs to write a book about the virus-like nature of social media.
YES, LET’S MAKE ALL AMERICANS PAY NEW YORK CITY RENTS: Strangling the Cities. The Democratic candidates want to make a housing a federal issue — and nationalize the progressive policies that have wrecked local housing markets.
WORSE THAN A CRIME, IT’S A BLUNDER: Trump Warns Democrats on Dangerous Precedent They’re Setting With Impeachment.
In a similar vein, Salena Zito’s piece that Glenn linked to earlier, made me wonder if Never Trump Republicans and Democrats aren’t the new Bourbons: They’ve learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
WASHINGTON STATE’S REFERENDUM 88: Peter Kirsanow explains how the Washington State legislature guts Washington State’s 1998 initiative prohibiting preferential treatment based on race or sex. Very tricky these Washington State legislators. Vote No.
BOOB BAIT FOR THE BOBOS: Beto O’Rourke defends likening Donald Trump to Nazis like Hitler and Goebbels.
Alternate headline: Apocalyptic, race-obsessed, meat-hating socialist who wants to ban your guns, punish churches, and regulate every aspect of your life compares Trump to Hitler.