Archive for 2020
October 8, 2020
OUT OF THE BATHTUB, AND INTO THE FLAMETHROWER: Keith Olbermann Quits ESPN to Bring ‘Flamethrower’ to Trump on Political YouTube Show.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HIGHER EDUCATION HAS CHOSEN SIDES: Berkeley law school dean: Democrats would be ‘justified’ in packing the Supreme Court.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Veep Debate Was a Painfully Boring Overcorrection. “So much for what I wrote yesterday about the 2020 vice-presidential debate being one to actually look forward to. You’d think after 2016 I would have learned to stop making any predictions about politics. It’s a good thing I’m not a gambler, I’d be eating dry ramen for every meal.”
REPUBLICANS SEIZE! “Republicans seized on romantic extramarital text messages sent by North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, quickly airing an ad highlighting the scandal in an effort to upend one of the most competitive Senate races.”
As Jim Treacher likes to say, “When Republicans screw up, that’s the story. When Democrats screw up, the Republicans’ reaction is the story.”
BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: Fake Hunting Group Tries To Bail Out Democrat Bullock In Montana.
#METOO’S DESCENT INTO SELF-PARODY CONTINUES APACE, AS HOLLYWOOD PLANS ADAPTATION OF KATIE HILL’S MEMOIRS. In response, Anonymous ‘former staff’ of Katie Hill slam film adaptation of ex-congresswoman’s book.
A forthcoming film adaptation of former California Rep. Katie Hill’s memoir was the target of online criticism Wednesday morning from anonymous members of “Katie’s former staff” posting from her old congressional Twitter account.
In the series of messages purportedly written by Hill’s former House aides, the posters reacted to the news that actress Elisabeth Moss would be playing Hill in a streaming film based on Hill’s book, “She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality.”
“Disappointed in so many folks — including Elizabeth Moss, @Blumhouse, & @michaelseitzman — regarding today’s announcement,” the posters tweeted early Wednesday, referring to writer Michael Seitzman and producer Jason Blum, who are reportedly developing the project with Moss.
The posters went on to write in a 10-part Twitter thread that Hill’s story “is also one of workplace abuse and harassment.” Hill “can be both a victim and perpetrator,” they wrote, arguing that she “is not a hero for women.”
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Hill addressed the messages in a tweet sent from her personal account less than an hour later, claiming that her old government account had been hacked.
“Control of my account was immediately handed back to the House Clerk when I resigned, including password changes and access restrictions,” she wrote. “God knows who hacked it from there. Reported to @twitter.”
Screenshots, in case Twitter does clean-up work for the former Democratic congresswoman:
As Jim Treacher writes, “Harvey Weinstein’s mistake was not being a bisexual woman.”
JEFF JACOBY ON PROP 16: On California’s ballot, an invitation to legalize discrimination.
NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Biden Surrogate Jane Fonda Calls COVID ‘God’s Gift to the Left.’
QUIN HILLYER IN THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Against Quotas? Help Defeat California’s Prop 16.
WE SHOULD ALL VOTE BY MAIL, THEY SAID. YOU CAN TRUST THE POSTAL SERVICE, THEY SAID. Postal carrier charged for dumping mail, ballots in dumpsters.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC rocks Black Panthers shirt, touts group’s free food program.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sported a Black Panther shirt in an Instagram post Wednesday touting the organization’s influential early 1970s free food program.
“Did you know: If you or anyone you know ever benefited from free & reduced school lunch, you’ve likely benefited from the work and legacy of the Black Panthers?” Ocasio-Cortez said in the post to her Instagram story.
The militant organization launched the “People’s Free Food Program” back in Oakland in 1969 as a way to both improve its image and feed students breakfast before school in marginalized communities of color.
Flashback: Bobby Seale’s Confession: David Horowitz Was Right On.
In the now famous 1998 60 Minutes program during which he admitted the pernicious ruthlessness of the Panthers, the former Panther leader discussed his change of heart. Cleaver stated,”If people had listened to Huey Newton and me in the 1960s, there would have been a holocaust in this country.”
Betty Van Patter was one of the tragic victims of that holocaust in its beginning stages –- and fortunately that potential holocaust did not animate itself into a larger force.
Betty had been recruited by Horowitz in the early 1970s to keep the books of a”Learning Center” in Oakland that he had created to run a school for the children of Black Panthers. A Leftist radical at the time, Horowitz had become affiliated with the Panthers after he met their infamous leader, Huey Newton, and became enchanted with him.
Horowitz didn’t have a clue that the”Learning Center” served as a cover for Panther criminal activity; it was a military training center that was also being used as a vehicle to embezzle millions of dollars in California state and local education funds.
After Newton killed a teenage prostitute and fled to Cuba in 1974, Elaine Brown took over as leader of the Panthers. She asked Horowitz to recommend an accountant to run the Party’s finances. Horowitz suggested Betty.
Extremely naïve about what she was dealing with, Betty found something wrong with the Panthers’ record books and went to inform Brown. She subsequently disappeared. In January 1975, Betty’s battered body — with her head caved in — was found floating in San Francisco Bay.
Horowitz was horrified by the murder of his friend. He felt a personal responsibility because he had brought Betty into the fold. He began to ask questions about her death, but he faced a disturbing lack of curiosity among his Leftwing associates.
AOC’s Black Panther T-Shirt is of a piece with her former chief of staff and Green Nude Eel ghostwriter Saikat Chakrabarti being photographed last year wearing a T-shirt with “Subhas Chandra Bose on it — the Indian nationalist whose plan for fighting British colonialism involved sucking up to, uh, Hitler.” That was around the same time that AOC praised Evita Peron. As one wag joked on Twitter at the time, “Look just because she’s favorably comparing herself to the lady that Franco liked a lot who sheltered Mengele doesn’t mean… OK, I forgot where I was doing with this.”
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