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January 23, 2020
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#JOURNALISM: CNN Analyst Fabricates Quotes From GOP Senators to Smear Trump, Fox News. His defense: Hey, it’s not like anyone watches CNN anyway!
WHITE RABBIT: Grace Slick’s Isolated Vocal.
UPDATE: From the comments: Isolated vocals from Somebody to Love.
Military service is so alien to most Democrats that they don’t notice the details. Say someone told you he was from Nepal. You wouldn’t have a lot of follow-up questions. You don’t know that much about Nepal. That’s how the military is to most liberals. To them, whether your record is that of Nathan Phillips or Norman Schwarzkopf, it’s all the same. Liberal reporters didn’t notice the weasel words when Phillips (the Indian who provoked the Covington kids by marching straight up to them and banging a drum in their face) kept saying he was a “Vietnam-times” or “Vietnam-era” veteran, which was his way of saying he was repairing refrigerators in Nebraska in the early Seventies. Reporters kept saying he was a Vietnam veteran. He wasn’t.
Republicans are far more likely to be familiar with the basics of the military, which is why we are unimpressed with Pete Buttigieg’s military career. Three things stand out about his brief sojourn in the Navy: One, he joined via direct commission. This, to most veterans, is a jaw-dropper. To say the least, this isn’t the way it’s usually done. Many of us recall the intensive pre-commission training (in my case, four years of ROTC in Connecticut and Advanced Camp with the 82nd Airborne in Fort Bragg) as the most trying intervals of our careers. Others spent four years at Annapolis or West Point. Buttigieg just skipped all of that. He passed a physical. He signed some papers. Voilà. To put this in terms a liberal might understand: Imagine you heard that someone got a “direct diploma” from Harvard but didn’t actually have to do four years of papers and tests. You’d never forget it. You’d probably think of that person primarily as a short-cut specialist for the rest of your life.
The second thing that stands out is that Buttigieg specifically cited Kerry as a role model. John Kerry! Kerry is a guy who immediately and shamefully turned on his brothers in arms when the political winds turned that way, and became very famous at a very young age because of it.
Indeed.
MICHAEL YON RECOMMENDS THIS BOOK: Robert Spalding: Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept. Some of them slept. Others were standing right there, with their hands out.
I SUPPOSE WE SHOULD BE PROPERLY GRATEFUL WHEN THEY GRASP THE OBVIOUS: Prof. Jacobson: Impeachment: Republican Senators “recognize the trial . . . as an attempted political decapitation.”
WORST PUTIN PUPPET EVER: Standoff: U.S. Troops Block Russian Forces From Capturing Syrian Oilfield.
WHY NOT JUST LET THE RUSSIANS OR THE CHINESE COUNT THE VOTES WHILE YOU’RE AT IT? Ignoring Security Experts, Washington State Eyes Voting by Smartphone.
OPEN THREAD: This is your thread. There are others like it, but this one is yours.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters.
RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, BED BUGS UPTOWN: Multiple Subway Lines Delayed After Bed Bugs Found Inside MTA Office.
Related: Video shows MTA subway train fully covered in graffiti. “The video was tweeted out by the Police Benevolent Association, which pointed to the vandalism as a sign that the city isn’t holding criminals accountable, sending the subways back to the bad old days. ‘The 70s & 80s, now in living color on a subway platform near you,’ the PBA tweeted late Monday.”
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TURNS OVER DOCUMENTS THAT WERE “INADVERTENTLY OMITTED” IN FLYNN CASE.
I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS, BUT, WELL, YOU KNOW. A burst of gravitational waves hit our planet. Astronomers have no clue where it’s from.
SALENA ZITO: The Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Isn’t Going Away.
Troy Carter, 49, says that, other than voting, he’d never been involved in politics. That changed late last year, when he heard that a county board of supervisors in Virginia voted to become a gun sanctuary. On Monday he was one of an estimated 22,000 people who gathered peacefully at the Capitol Square in Richmond, Va., to support gun rights. Many of those attending were visibly armed.
Ninety-one of Virginia’s 96 counties have passed sanctuary measures to resist proposed state gun regulations. Last year Democrats took control of both chambers of Virginia’s General Assembly for the first time in nearly three decades. They, along with Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, have stood firm on their campaign pledges to enact stricter gun control, partly in reaction to a shooting last May in Virginia Beach.
For Virginians like Mr. Carter, the effort has brought about a political awakening. He learned to shoot when he was six years old. Guns are a normal part of his life, like fishing or going to church every Sunday, and something he considers vital to protecting and providing for his family. Mr. Carter choked up as he described a tradition of safety, protection and providing taught to him by his grandfather—and his grandfather before him. When he discovered the sanctuary movement, he decided to go to a meeting two counties away to learn more.
Becoming a Second Amendment sanctuary means a locality won’t use law enforcement resources to prosecute the proposed antigun laws. Whether such resolutions have any teeth depends on local officials’ resolve, but at the very least these measures are a reflection of regional sentiment on gun control.
This grass-roots movement is largely composed of people like Mr. Carter, who aren’t otherwise political but strongly believe in the importance of the Second Amendment. At his first meeting, he encountered massive support, “I just couldn’t believe the amount of people that showed up.”
This reminds me of the Tea Party. The Tea Party was killed off by a cooperative bipartisan effort. That may not work here.
UPDATE: Seen on Facebook:
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS: Oops: Lesley Stahl Says Fox News Didn’t Exist for Clinton Impeachment.
Flashback: Cal Thomas Stumps Stahl Who Can’t Name a Conservative at CBS.
“Why, why, why, why, why, why, why! You’re getting nervous, man. Calm down! It’s OK!” he shouted, placing his palms on [CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe’s] chest as he then tried to explain.
“He apologized for saying that I was corrupt,” a calmer Biden said.
“He didn’t mention anything about whether or not I was telling the truth about Social Security,” he added, as O’Keefe smiled nervously.
Biden then gave the reporter a gentle left-hand fist bump before turning and continuing on his way.
That’s Biden’s way of saying “Keep it up, and it’s closet time for you, my Democratic Party operative with a byline.”
HISTORY MADE: Trump Will Be the First President to Speak at the March for Life.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): NeverTrumpers and lefties ask how Evangelicals can bring themselves to support Trump. This is how.
ONLY SIX? The Top Seven Lies Adam Schiff Has Told to Boost Impeachment
I take it back: Matt upgraded to seven when I wasn’t looking.
EVERY TIME I THINK I COULDN”T POSSIBLY BE MORE CYNICAL, SOMEONE PROVES ME WRONG: So, a tweet thread from Joe Lockhart.
Screenshot for posterity, but here’s the original tweet,
and here’s the confession.
Notice that Lockhart is a CNN Contributor. Clearly, CNN hasn’t hit bottom yet.
WELL, THAT SEEMS LIKE A TERRIBLE IDEA: Some Push To Change State Laws That Require HIV Disclosure To Sexual Partners. If the fact that somebody’s girlfriend lied about it means you shouldn’t have a law, what do we do about rape laws? But the gist of this NPR story is that you can’t believe the women.
STEPHEN KRUISER: Comedy Loses Another Legend: Monty Python’s Terry Jones Has Died.