TODAY’S NON-SHOCKING HEADLINE: Democrats planted false stories in effort to derail Biden investigations, Grassley says.
Archive for 2020
August 6, 2020
THE PRICE OF PANIC: Cancer diagnoses drop as many skip screening due to COVID-19.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE: NYT discreetly deletes Chinese-funded propaganda advertorials. “Dating back to 2016, the NYT received more than $100,000 per month to print Chinese propaganda, according to China Daily filings requested by the U.S. Justice Department earlier this year. The NYT was also paid $50,000 in 2018 to put additional Chinese propaganda on its website.”
TAKE THAT, GILLIGAN: Giant SOS on Pacific Island Leads to Rescue of Three Stranded Sailors.
THEY CAN’T WIN IF THEY CAN’T CHEAT: Austin City Clerk Refuses To Let Homeless Ban Appear On November Ballot.
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76! Biden: “‘What you all know, but most people don’t know,’ Biden said. ‘Unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.’”
U. OF NORTH TEXAS’ WEIRDO SCHENKERIAN MUSIC THEORY INQUISITION: Yeah, you read that right. Now an official FIRE case! Did you think “cancel culture” was out of control? Well, prepare to have your preconceived notions totally confirmed.
OLD AND BUSTED: Defund the Police.
The New Hotness? New York Attorney General Moves To Dissolve The NRA After Fraud Investigation.
Alternative headline: NY AG makes surprise massive in-kind contribution to Trump 2020 reelection campaign.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 1699.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Why does Joe Biden think black people are all alike?
Answer: Shut up, racist.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
• LA Mayor Garcetti steals a page from Kim Jong-un’s psychotic playbook.
• Nancy Pelosi melts down on PBS.
• The very latest in home defense/lawn maintenance.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Economics professor barred from teaching class critical of Marxism to student body.
Academia has chosen sides, for the most part. Take note.
FRANK FUREDI: The humiliation of Western history. “Those who zealously seek to pollute the past are very much devoted to gaining total cultural hegemony in the present.”
Unlike previous initiatives designed to encourage people to look critically at uncomfortable truths about their past, the 1619 Project offers a ‘take it or leave it’ version of history. Its aim is not to criticise existing historical narratives about the US. It is to negate and even morally annihilate the very foundation on which the US was built. As the NYT put it: ‘Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. Black Americans fought to make them true. Without this struggle, America would have no democracy at all.’
In rejecting the founding ideals of liberty and equality as false, the 1619 Project strips America’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, of every shred of moral authority. It also erases the profound contribution the American Revolution made to the development of the Western ideal of freedom.
The 1619 Project does not offer any new insights into the past. Rather, it seeks to contaminate the past and render it toxic. Indeed, one of the main contributors to the project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, admits that its principal objective is not to shed light on the past, but to undermine the moral authority of the present. ‘I’ve always said that the 1619 Project is not history’, she writes. ‘It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and therefore national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is about the past.’
Read the whole thing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, COLLUSION EDITION: Republican lawmakers to universities: Show us your foreign funding.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Mainstream Media Hacks Are the Root of Most American Woes. “American media hacks spent years as the chief propagandists for the Russian collusion myth simply because they were in an extreme fit of pique over the fact that they couldn’t get Hillary Clinton elected president. It was the first time their power had been rejected on a large scale.”
FIRING AWAY: A Opposing Force (OPFOR) soldier opens up on soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and the Royal Thai Army (RTA). The action took place during Exercise Lightning Forge 2020 held at the Kahuku Training Area, Hawaii. Photo taken July 15.
THE PRESS IS THE SCHWERPUNKT IN THE CULTURE WAR: The American public holds media in contempt. The public is right.
EPISTEMIC CLOSURE: Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles. “Political journalists in D.C. are people who use Twitter all day. And so the question is what does that do to how they think about the world. And generally, from this paper and a previous one I did on gender and Beltway journalism, it seems to me that it can make things worse.”
Twitter makes everything worse.
PAPER BALLOTS, CAST IN PERSON WITH ID, COUNTED ON CAMERA: Developed countries ‘ban’ mail-in voting, US would be ‘laughing stock’: Report.
Related: Flashback: USPS improperly enabled workers who helped Clinton campaign.
WITH LEFTIES IT’S ALWAYS EITHER PROJECTION OR DISPLACEMENT: Feminists who loved Bill Clinton (and the wife who protected him) focus their ire on the true horrors of the age: conservative women.
