Archive for 2019
November 8, 2019
The woman who obtained a clip of an ABC News reporter trashing the network for spiking a story she did years ago about Jeffrey Epstein accuser, was fired from her job at CBS News because she accessed the footage.
Ashley Bianco, 25, an Emmy-winning producer for CBS This Morning, is the former employee who obtained the footage of Amy Robach, according to The Daily Mail and journalist Yashar Ali. She was a producer at ABC for Good Morning America prior to her leaving for CBS News. CBS has since fired Bianco after they found out she accessed the video.
Note the use of the word “accessed.” According to Ali in a Twitter thread:
It’s really important to remind folks that Ashley Bianco was not fired by CBS News for leaking the footage of Amy Robach to Project Veritas. No one at either network knows who did that. Bianco was fired because ABC News determined that she accessed the footage of Robach.
All the idiots leaving me voicemails, DMing me, and replying to my tweets saying I’m covering for CBS News in the tweet above need to be reminded that you wouldn’t know about this if it weren’t for me. It’s actually worse that she was fired for accessing footage, not better.
For those asking (and I think this is an important distinction), Bianco is not accused of accessing ABC News footage while she was at CBS Bianco, according to my sources, accessed the footage while she was still an ABC employee. She was not fired by ABC, she left on her own.
Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller adds, “Let me get this straight. ABC is so embarrassed about the Epstein thing that they are tipping off competitors regarding former employees who simply accessed to Robach footage? What are they going to do to the employee who actually leaked it?”
Megyn Kelly is apparently planning on releasing an interview with Bianco on her YouTube channel. As one Twitter wag jokes, “If Ashley Bianco isn’t a major stockholder in CBS by the end of the year, she has a sh**ty lawyer.”
HOT, HOT, HOT OFF THE PRESS: My latest (and not yet officially published): “Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal.” The Trump Administration needs to be paying a lot more attention to this ghastly area of the law.
SUNSHINE IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Sens. Johnson & Grassley Ask Pompeo To Release All Hunter Biden Documents.
FLASHBACK: The Borderline Shooting And Woolsey Fire.
BOOK TALK AND SIGNING AT HERITAGE FOUNDATION: On November 13 at noon, the Heritage Foundation will host a book forum for me and Randy Barnett. We will sign copies of “Introduction to Constitutional Law” afterwards. The event is free and open to the public. You can register here. Order a copy today! Or, if you are in a hurry, you can download the E-Book or stream the videos.
UGH: US Military Duped Into Buying Chinese Cameras Rife With Flaws. “According to the Justice Department, New York-based Aventura Technologies has been concealing that its network-connected camera products were made in China while raking in millions through lucrative contracts with the US military and government agencies.”
Rife with flaws — and who knows what else.
IS THIS WHY HOROWITZ FISA REPORT IS DELAYED AND DELAYED AND … Understanding why things happen (or don’t happen) in government begins with knowing the bureaucratic regulations and processes that entangle and strangle straightforward laws. Sundance points to an explanation for the Horowitz FISA report’s increasingly suspicious delays in the approaching expiration of the USA Freedom Act?
That’s the law that birthed the NSA database in the Obama administration’s extensive unmasking of dozens of U.S. citizens for political purposes. And it’s the authority for the 702 surveillance program through the FISA court used by the FBI to get the ok to spy on Carter Page, George Papadapoulos and perhaps others connected to the 2016 Trump campaign.
HOW ABOUT ONE WHERE INSTEAD OF LETTING COMMIES SPEAK, YOU PUNCH THEM? Berkeley speaker advocates for alternate interpretations of First Amendment. I mean, now that we’ve established that free speech is conditional.
HAWKS OVER SYRIA AND THE SEA: Two U.S. Army medical evacuation Blackhawk helicopters takeoff from an undisclosed location in Syria. Photo taken October 31. A day later, U.S. Navy sailors in the Gulf of Oman hook cargo to an MH-60R Sea Hawk. The sailors are assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen. (The MH-60R is a navalized variant of the UH-60 Blackhawk.) The Blackhawk and its variants have spawned copycats — for example, the Chinese “Copyhawk.” For what it’s worth, here’s a photo I like — a Blackhawk landing in Balad, Iraq, taken in 2006. Last but not least, a Blackhawk extracts Special Forces operators from a mountain in Afghanistan.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: MSM Finally Finds a Whistleblower It Doesn’t Like.
These depraved psychopaths are the same people who have been having a love affair with whistleblowers ever since Chelsea Manning was just a traitor named Bradley. They lionized Edward Snowden and, for the past several weeks have been portraying the second-hand hearsay whistleblower in the impeachment nonsense as the second coming of John the Baptist.
But the person who exposed just how long ABC was a perv hideout gets fired. The fact that CBS was willing to exact ABC’s revenge for them makes me wonder just how much more there is hidden.
Lots, would be a safe bet.
IT’S TELLING THAT THE MILENNIALS DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT A BOOMER IS, BUT USE THE TERM WITH SMUG CONTEMPT ANYWAY: William Shatner gets into Twitter feud with millennials calling him a boomer: ‘That’s a compliment for me.’ And he’s unsparing with his critics.
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT: Glenn Harlan Reynolds On Social Media Mobs And The Last Hope For Digital Free Speech.
It’s not too late to buy my book, The Social Media Upheaval.
WELL, I SUPPOSE THAT’S A TAKE: Adam Schiff Stops Devin Nunes From Turning Impeachment Hearings Into A Circus.
Not The Onion, not The Babylon Bee.
You really don’t want to click this one. I’m merely posting it as yet another example of the two different realities somehow coexisting in one America.
YOU WANT MORE WHITE NATIONALISM? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET MORE WHITE NATIONALISM. East Tennessee State asks for a lawsuit by promising to prosecute ‘It’s OK to be white’ vandals. “East Tennessee State University’s president is the latest campus leader to rush out a statement in response to the flyers’ appearance, without apparent regard for the legal liability he himself could face for punishing constitutionally protected speech. . . . Noland and the university did not respond to a tweet asking how posting flyers with constitutionally protected speech can be a ‘crime’ deserving ‘prosecution,’ as Noland said in his statement.”
Just your regular reminder that the people in charge of our institutions are often hysterical children.
ELECTION MESS: Bolivia mayor has hair forcibly cut by crowd of protesters.
BECAUSE IT’S JUST ANOTHER WOKE WHITE PEOPLE CULT: Why Extinction Rebellion seems so nuts.
