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Archive for 2020
November 4, 2020
SO MUCH FOR THE BLUE WAVE: House Democrats stunned that they didn’t oust a single GOP incumbent.
YEAR OF THE WOMAN: Crickets Over Republicans Adding 11 New Female Representatives in the House.
One of them was my friend Nancy Mace, who turned a seat in South Carolina red, shown below eating a celebratory post-campaign breakfast at the Waffle House where she used to be a waitress.
YOU CAN’T SAY WE WEREN’T WARNED: Biden says in video he has created ‘voter fraud organization.’ “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
YOU CAN’T DEFAME AN UNKNOWN: Not Libel to Defame a Pseudonymous Chat Group User.
MY DEM FRIENDS ARE LAUGHING AT THIS. BUT THEN THEY LAUGHED AT TRUMP AFTER HIS 2000 RUN, TOO. Kanye West Concedes 2020 Election But Signals He Isn’t Done.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: ESPN Layoffs Are on the Horizon.
Last month, OutKick first reported that ESPN was bracing for major cost cuts including the potential layoffs of hundreds of workers. Now, industry sources say that those layoffs are on the horizon; today, The Athletic reported that they could begin as soon as Thursday.
ESPN currently has about 4,000 employees in Bristol, CT and another 2,500 employees in other offices across the United States and the world.
An ESPN spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
Unfortunately, the bulk of those layoffs will likely impact the hard-working behind the scenes crew members, not the on-air talent that drove ESPN into uber-wokedom.
More from Outkick the Coverage:
The pandemic has affected many of Disney’s business operations, such as theme parks, cruises, movies and live sports. Though most sports leagues have been salvaged, there was some lost revenue in college football and other sports. As a result, Disney announced in September that it was laying off 28,000 park employees.
Disney groused over California’s “arbitrary guidelines” that lead to those 28,000 employees being laid off, even as ABC, its news division, was attacking Florida for re-opening its economy: Florida reopens state’s economy despite ongoing pandemic.
“IRONIC, ISN’T IT? THIS COULD BE TRUMP’S FINEST HOUR:” The Nasty Street Fight ahead for 2020: This is Why We Elected Trump.
SO FAR, THE UNDISPUTED LOSER IN THE ELECTION IS FOX NEWS, BOTH FOR ITS ELECTION-NIGHT COVERAGE AND ITS FOLLOW-ON COVERAGE TODAY. We watched, hated it, and switched to NewsmaxTV and to CNN, which surprisingly did a good, data-driven job. Chris Wallace was the worst. And a former student commented: “That guy who was their expert last night looked like Fauci in a wig. And Brett Baier wants his job and to keep paying for his wife’s bad Botox, so he had to smile through it.” Harsh, but fair.
UPDATE: A reader emails: “Could not agree more with your reader who is angry with Fox for having its coverage run by partisan Dems. I changed over to Newsmax TV and have never looked back. They’ve been solid all night, calm, and following the data. More interesting experts on too.” I think last night was a big breakthrough for Newsmax TV. We’d never watched it before, and I’m hearing good things about it from a lot of people who had never watched it before.
IS THIS PRAISE? Tested: 2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Is a Three-Row Prius.
LIVE at 3:30pm EASTERN: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Preston.
I wonder what we’ll talk about.
NICE WORK, GUYS:
The A+ is for narrative-pushing, not accuracy. Plus:
Also, if wild inaccuracy means you’ll never work again as a pollster, nearly all of them will be out of work.
THE ANGRY DENIAL IN THE REPLIES PROVES HIS POINT:
It’s the sanctimonious scolding that’s the worst. People can forgive wealth and power differences, but they don’t like a presumption of social superiority. But the assumption of social superiority is the main coin in which the left pays its useful idiots, even as they babble on about equality.
And I love this:
ROGER KIMBALL: Save our Democracy! Trump presumably will fight it in court. But I think he should take a page from his own playbook and hold rallies the contested spots over the next couple of days.
I suspect that such Save Our Democracy rallies would attract tens of thousands of people, just as Trump’s campaign rallies did these past weeks. There is no way that Sleepy Joe Biden could compete with them. Not only would they dramatize the extent and enthusiasm of Trump’s support, they would also serve as a salutary reminder that Trump, unlike so many Republican politicians, is willing to fight to assure a free, open, and fair election. They would have the additional attraction of driving the Left even more beyond the pale than than they already are. It’s not nice to take pleasure in the sufferings of others, but I am willing to make an exception in the case of the anguish such rallies would cause among the people who have spent the last four years trying to destroy the president and anyone who came into his orbit.
Save Our Democracy! It has a ring to it. I hope team Trump will consider organizing a bunch of them now, today.
If Trump ends up losing*, those rallies would certainly keep his profile high in the media for whatever he chooses to do next, as Glenn recently wrote:
Trump was big on the national stage long before he was president. Why would he go away after the election is over? He’ll still have tens of millions of (probably angry) followers, deep pockets and a huge megaphone.
There has already been some talk of Trump starting his own television network to rival Fox News, and/or his own social media platform — the latter made more plausible by the heavy censorious hands of those running Twitter and Facebook — and I suspect that Trump would regard a 2020 loss as a setback, not a defeat. Grover Cleveland came back to win a second term after losing the White House, Trump might reason. Why not me? He’ll probably hold campaign-style rallies around the country starting right after the election.
Fox’s dismal performance last night would allow Trump TV to peel away a lot of viewers — and possibly a few of Fox’s hosts, as well.
* As Stephen Kruiser quipped in 2010, every Republican should assume that his election is well within the margin of ACORN.
SKYNET SMILES: Attack of the Hexapod Robots.
WHY IS COMCAST A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Joy Reid complains ‘Uncle Clarence’ won’t rule fairly if the 2020 election goes before the Supreme Court.