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Archive for 2019
August 24, 2019
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: Biden Wrongly Claims 40 Students Were Killed at Kent State in 1970.
IN THE MAIL: From D. Scott Johnson, Child of the Fall.
DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF #NEVERTRUMP:
● Max Boot, Professional Former Republican.
● ‘This is aging well:’ Bill Kristol and Joe Walsh’s bromance has come a long way, baby.
● Fake Conservative Website The Bulwark Gives Joe Biden Campaign Advice.
Related: The Empty Relevance Of Never Trump.
SHOCKER: Cornell scholar cited in NYT’s ‘1619’ series charged with fabricating quotes, evidence.
The Michael Bellesiles scandal was bad enough, but what really caused me to lose faith in the discipline of history was how many historians rallied around him even after his fraud was obvious. But it’s worse now — I’m not at all convinced he’d be fired today.
HE’S NOT WRONG: ‘Douche Zest:’ New York Times Politics Editor Describes What His Newspaper Publishes.
New York Times editor Tom Wright-Piersanti, under fire for racist and antisemitic tweets, also had some choice words for the product his current employer publishes, as a series of more controversial tweets before he went to work at the Times reveals.
The New York Post has uncovered tweets demonstrating that Wright-Piersanti, while employed at Newark’s Star-Ledger newspaper in New Jersey a decade ago, had a particular fondness for the use of the word “douche.”
“Wright-Piersanti’s Twitter page suggests he adores the word ‘douche,’ which crops up more than a dozen times,” the New York Post‘s Keith Kelly wrote Thursday evening.
In fact, he even described the work product his future colleagues at the New York Times publish as “douche zest.”
“What the NYTimes does is take your story, spice it up with a dash of *douche zest* and then a million people read it,” Wright-Piersanti tweeted on October 13, 2010, according to the New York Post.
Can the Gray Lady pick ‘em or what? Flashback: NY Times’ New Hire Sarah Jeong Trashed Paper’s Op-Ed Writers in Old Tweets: ‘Absolute Nitwit.’ “A just God would not allow Tom Friedman to keep talking,” said Sarah Jeong of her new colleague in 2013.
“Between Jeong’s lengthy past criticism of Times’ columnists, and management’s apparent pressure to keep her on the job, the Fast Times at Sulzberger High must be a fun environment to work in, I wrote around this time last year, adding, “As Stephen Miller tweets, ‘NYT Christmas parties are going to be lit af.’”
Even more lit, thanks for Wright-Piersanti’s old tweets. Speaking of which, if you missed it yesterday from Charles Glasser: Bigotry At The New York Times.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: VIDEO: US students bash America while Hong Kong protesters fly its flag.
That’s crazy. How could something like that happen? Related: Iowa prof admits: ‘I am Antifa.’
UP TO THEIR NECKS: U.S. Navy sailors conduct damage control training at the Basic Shipboard Damage Control Wet Trainer located at Naval Station Mayport, Florida. Wet –yes, and claustrophobic. But this is the type of training that saves damaged ships.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” NEEDS TO HIRE NEW SOCIALIST WRITERS: It Sure Seems Like AOC Was Being Propped Up By Her Former Chief of Staff.
Flashback: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” Saikat Chakrabarti, the ghost writer of the Green Nude Eel told the Washington Post shortly before walking the plank, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all..we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Poll: Support for impeachment at lowest level ever. “While some 2020 Democrats and House leaders are eager to open impeachment hearings against President Trump, the public has lost interest.”
IF YOU’RE TRYING TO ESTABLISH YOUR STRATEGIC BACON RESERVE, there’s also Yoder’s Canned Bacon.
Single cans here.
When I really want to creep out a liberal, I tell them that I not only have met the Koch brothers, but once visited Charles Koch at the Death Star in Wichita, and dined with David Koch once in New York (in addition to some very friendly and thoughtful meetings in his office a long time ago). But then I usually like to deepen their dismay by going on to tell them that I also once had lunch with George Soros and some of his foundation board members (at his invitation and expense), where I had great fun pointing out how much Soros and the Koch brothers had in common, on immigration, foreign and defense policy, drug policy, and so forth. At this point, you can almost see the synapses frying and shriveling up inside the simple-minded Manichean liberal brain.
As Nick Gillespie of Reason joked in 2011, quoting a Reddit post: Why the Evil Koch Bros. Must be Stopped: They Support Drug Legalization, Gay Marriage, Reduced Defense Spending.
The KOCH brothers must be stopped. They gave $40K to Scott Walker, the MAX allowed by state law. That’s small potatoes compared to the $100+ million they give to other organizations. These organizations will terrify you. If the anti-union thing weren’t enough, here are bigger and better reasons to stop the evil Kochs. They are trying to:
- decriminalize drugs,
- legalize gay marriage,
- repeal the Patriot Act,
- end the police state,
- cut defense spending.
Who hates the police? Only the criminals using drugs, amirite? We need the Patriot Act to allow government to go through our emails and tap our phones to catch people who smoke marijuana and put them in prison. Oh, it’s also good for terrorists.
Wikipedia shows Koch Family Foundations supporting causes like:
- CATO Institute
- Reason Foundation
- cancer research
- ballet (because seriously: FUCK. THAT. SHIT.) …
If there’s one thing I know about billionaires, it’s that they only care about money. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and George Soros. They aren’t fooling me. Bill Gates isn’t fooling me with his vaccination campaign in Africa. He’s just trying to make African children live longer so they will buy more copies of Windows. Wow. Not even trying to hide it.
Now, I don’t know why the KOCH brothers want gay people to have the right to marry. Everybody knows marriage is for a man and a woman. Even Obama said that. Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve amirite? I haven’t figured out the angle. Maybe it’s like this:
- legalize drugs
- legalize gay marriage
- sell drugs and oil to gays
- ????
- PROFIT$$$
I don’t know exactly how it would work, but we can all agree that they’re evil.
The New York Times sure can. Read on at the first link for the Gray Lady blaming the Kochs for Trump’s election win in David Koch’s obit, despite their loathing of him.
Koch, who fought prostate cancer after being diagnosed 27 years ago, donated a record $150 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2015 through the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation. The hospital named a cancer center in his name after getting its largest donation ever.
The Upper East Side facility is described as one that offers innovative outpatient and ambulatory care to cancer patients.
In 2013, he also gave $100 million — another record — to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, which has a building in his name…
He was a generous donor to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which named its ballet and dance theater in his honor after receiving $100 million in 2008.
Koch’s network also donated millions of dollars to promote charter schools through two groups, the Libre Initiative and Americans for Prosperity, to provide more opportunities to disadvantaged youths.
All pure evil, right there.
JOURNALISM: MSNBC Calls Republican’s Belief in Only Two Genders ‘Incendiary.’
Well, those are the rules: First, demand a drastic change in the culture. Next, portray anyone who doesn’t go along as an aggressor.
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: How To Help Hong Kong: Start By Defending Taiwan.
PATRIK JONSSON: The Future Of America’s Past. Too many wish to rewrite the past so as to control the future.
IT’S COOL; HE SLOWED THE RISE OF THE OCEANS ALREADY: Obamas Accused of Hypocrisy on Climate Change for Buying Waterfront Property in Martha’s Vineyard.
WHEN THE BABYLON BEE IS SO OBVIOUSLY SATIRE EVEN SNOPES CAN’T MISS IT: Democrats Announce All 2020 Candidates Will Forego Armed Security To Protest Gun Violence.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 3 Law Schools Now Charge Cost Over $100,000 Per Year.
OH, YEAH, IF YOU CAN, BLOGGER IN DISTRESS NEEDS HELP: The post I’d hoped I’d never have to write.
THE BABYLON BEE, AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That’s Where Israel Is.