MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL REPEATS DEBUNKED ANTI-SEMITISM SMEAR AGAINST PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY:

“When Schlafly spoke of the Eastern Establishment and the kingmakers within the Republican Party, she was referring to people like Ogden Reid, publisher of The New York Herald; Thomas Lamont, senior partner of J. P. Morgan; and Nelson Rockefeller, heir to the Rockefeller fortune. They were WASP’s,” Critchlow explained. As it turns out, Schlafly was attacking white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, not Jews.

“Warner asserts that everybody knows that ‘Wall Street and the Trilateral Commission’ are code words for world domination by an international Jewish conspiracy. Schlafly never spoke of world domination by the Trilateral Commission. She has opposed such international treaties as Kyoto, the Law of the Sea, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Her views are arguable, but it is unfair to say that she is anti-Semitic,” Critchlow explained. “Are those unionists, environmentalists and anti-Wall Street, anti-Trilateralist types who protest at international meetings of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or G-8 using anti-Semitic code words?”

The historian also noted that real anti-Semites do not use “code words.”

As Mark Steyn wrote in 2012, “On the matter of those racist dog whistles all these middle-age white liberals keep hearing, the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto put it very well: ‘The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else,’ he wrote. ‘The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.’”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: [VIDEO] Bernie Sanders Opposed Amnesty for Illegals, Guest Worker Programs in 2007.

OUT ON A LIMB: Elizabeth Warren: ‘I Shouldn’t Have’ Claimed to be Native American.

Warren, 70, apologized in public for the first time in August about her claim of Native American heritage, saying she regretted “the harm that I have caused.”

Asked about the issue at a New Hampshire town hall on Dec. 6, Warren said she’s not a Native American.

“I grew up in Oklahoma and my three older brothers and I learned about our family the same way most people do, from our mom and our dad. My family is very important to me and that’s why, many years ago, I sometimes identify as Native American,” she said, claiming that the identity “never had anything to do with any job that I got, or any benefit.”

Warren wrote “American Indian” on one of her job applications and was described as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color.”

“But even so, I shouldn’t have done it. I am not a person of color, I am not a citizen of a tribe. And I have apologized for confusion I have caused on tribal citizenship, on tribal sovereignty, and for any harm that I’ve caused,” Warren added on Friday.

Having ticked this box off, presumably, Warren is both assuming that the DNC-MSM will never mention it again, and if they do, she’ll play the Clinton-esque “that’s old news” game.

CRYING WOLF: Linda Ronstadt to Mike Pompeo: Stop ‘Enabling’ Donald Trump.

Ronstadt has probably forgotten the minor role she played in enabling Trump, including her telling the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2004, “It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”

Pauline Kael could not be reached for comment.

UPDATE: Also from 2004: Casino gives Ronstadt the boot: “Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after praising filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ during a performance. Before singing ‘Desperado’ for an encore Saturday night, Ronstadt called Moore a ‘great American patriot’ and ‘someone who is spreading the truth.’ She also encouraged the audience at the Aladdin hotel-casino to see the documentary about President Bush. Ronstadt’s comments drew loud boos, and some of the 4,500 people in attendance stormed out of the theater. People also tore down concert posters and tossed cocktails into the air.”

HORSE GONE, BARN DOOR CLOSED: Defense secretary orders review of security and vetting procedures following Pensacola shooting.

WELL, THEY’VE SUPPORTED HIGHER TAXES FOR A LONG TIME: Harvard To Pay $50 Million Tax Due To Trump Tax Reform. Of course, that’s chump change for the hedge-fund-disguised-as-a-university that is Harvard. “Despite the new tax bill, Harvard’s net operating surplus rose almost 52 percent to $297.9 million in 2019. Total operating revenue rose nearly 6 percent to $5.5 billion as total student revenue rose 7 percent to $1.2 billion.”

MAY GOD FAVOR THE BOLD AND THE FREE: Hong Kong Protest, Largest in Weeks, Stretches Several Miles.

RIP: Caroll Spinney, Puppeteer Behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Dies at 85.

OUT ON A LIMB: Anthony Hopkins on Why He Doesn’t Talk About Politics: ‘Actors Are Pretty Stupid.’

And they’re supposed to inhabit a character, not be activists. Knowing that you’re watching a screen full of Deplorable-hating actors is a surefire way of taking the viewer out of the film or TV show.

ROGER KIMBALL: Impeachment really is a pathetic clown show.

UPSIDE OF PRODUCING A SAD GENERATION: Carjackers’ Plan Foiled Because They Can’t Drive a Stick Shift.

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#JOURNALISM: CNN’s S.E. Cupp Loses It, Says Trump Will Demand a ‘Third Term’ as President. This sort of pronouncement might alarm the public, but since no one watches CNN except Republican pundits looking for material there’s not much danger.

10 SAUDI MILITARY STUDENTS AT PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION NOW DETAINED AFTER JIHAD MASSACRE.

Earlier: NAS Pensacola Killer Hosted Jihadi Snuff-Film Party, Praised bin Laden, Yet Pentagon Brass Balk at Calling It Terrorism.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Cuddlists’ hug and spoon clients in nonsexual sessions. “A lot of people have touch deprivation, skin hunger.”

WAUSAU, WISCONSIN BANNED THROWING SNOWBALLS: The Wussification Of Our Kids Continues.

As a wise woman once wrote, “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”

DEFECTIVE AND UNREASONABLY DANGEROUS? Our cellphones are causing more head and neck injuries, study shows.

WE LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF MUSCLE CARS: Hennessey Will Now Build You A 1,200HP Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray.

NO. GO AWAY. Flu season comes early this year due to unexpected virus. I’ve had my shots — who knows if they’ll work this year — and taken my Vitamin D. Lots of hand sanitization, too. After that, it’s mostly luck.

THE NYT “1619 PROJECT” REVISITED:  Katherine Kersten offers some perspective.

GREAT NEWS: The Peloton Wife Is Safe, She’s Leaving Her Husband, And She’s Drunk As Hell.

Imagine a Peloton wife ad multiverse across 10 different brands tracing her path to freedom. In the final ad she’s on trial for his murder because he reacted … badly to their break-up, of course. She’s nervously sipping a White Claw at the defense table when the jury comes in. Verdict: Not guilty, says the foreman, because “ain’t no laws when you’re drinking Claws.”

Dynamite. I’m willing to write the whole series for a modest fee.

The Aviation [Gin] ad is titled “The Gift That Doesn’t Give Back,” by the way, a direct reply to the title of the Peloton ad. At the rate she’s drinking in the clip, I feel like this gift actually might give back before the night’s over.

Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™

CHINA SYNDROME: FDA testing levels of carcinogens in diabetes drug metformin.

WELL, IT’S BEEN DECADES SINCE THE “EXPERTS” HAVE LOOKED LIKE THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING: Twilight of the Technocrats: How Bernie and Biden both channel an exhaustion with the experts.

But it’s not just Bernie and Biden. Trump is the biggest example of all. Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

Also related: Trump and the Crisis of the Meritocracy.

DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: On the Passing of Oberlin Plaintiff David Gibson.

As I reported at the time, David Gibson testified that the school had offered to allow the bakery’s food back in the university cafeteria on two conditions: that Gibson’s drop the shoplifting charges, and agree to report all future instances of theft by students to the university and not the police. Gibson refused. “They didn’t want to move forward until we agreed to special treatment for students shoplifting,” he told the jury. “But I kept telling them that we have to be consistent and call the police no matter who is stealing.” Only later did he realize that the school administrators might be using the controversy to launder their own reputations. “[The school administration] had been accused of being racists by students in the previous year,” he testified, “and I think they used us to deflect from that problem they had. I believe they were using us as a target so that their racial problems with their students would go away.”

In December 2015, Oberlin College’s black student union had published a 14-page, 58-point list of demands, in which they accused the university of “anti-blackness” following four separate race-based controversies in a single year. At the end of May, the New Yorker published a long essay about Oberlin College entitled “The Big Uneasy,” examining unrest at the college, in which one student interviewee complained, “I literally am so tired of learning about Marx, when he did not include race in his discussion of the market!” When Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016, the students thought their world was ending. “Part of the inconceivable quality of the election is, I don’t know a Trump voter personally, and I can’t imagine someone voting for Trump,” an Oberlin College senior told the campus newspaper. “I don’t know how to reach across that line. I don’t even know who they are.”

When three African American students attempted to steal three bottles of wine the following day, the protests against the Gibson family’s allegedly racist decision to call the police became a vehicle for election anxiety. David Gibson knew immediately that the timing was going to bring trouble. “They’re going to be trashing us,” he told police an hour after the crime occurred. The row which ensnared the small family business was a proxy for national and college political battles in which it had no part, and over which it had no control.

Read the whole thing.