LET’S BE REAL, OKAY? BIDEN NEVER WAS FIT FOR OFFICE: Ex-White House physician Ronny Jackson ‘convinced’ Biden not fit for office.
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October 14, 2020
AND SPEAKING OF GOVERNMENT MAKING THINGS MORE EXPENSIVE: Where We’re Going, We Won’t Need Roads—or Collectivists.
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GOVERNMENT ALWAYS MAKES THINGS MORE EXPENSIVE: Obamacare’s costs soar so high, Americans now delaying medical treatment —study.
DOG BITES MAN: Biden forgets.
THESE “INDIGENOUS” PEOPLE ARE OF COURSE MOSTLY WHITE AND STUPID: ‘Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage’ in Portland Takes Aim at Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, and Historical Society.
INDEED: Holy Toledo.
STOPPED CLOCK, ETC. WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: Biden: People Who Think They’re Better Off Under Trump Shouldn’t Vote for Me.
October 13, 2020
NOW OUT: My new book, America’s New Destiny in Space (Encounter Intelligence Book 7).
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STANDARTENFUHRER WHITMER REBUKED: Mich. Supreme Court Denies Whitmer’s Desperate Attempt to Resurrect COVID Lockdown.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Remote tribe says SpaceX Starlink “catapulted” them into 21st century.
IT’S 2020. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Researchers At Large Hadron Collider Are Confident To Make Contact With Parallel Universe In Days.
SPEAKING OF PEOPLE WHO VIEW CNN AS REPUBLICAN APOLOGISTS: California Radicals Believe Their State Is Too ‘Moderate.’
IT’S COME TO THIS: Pelosi Calls CNN ‘Apologists’ For Republicans In Heated Interview With Wolf Blitzer.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi slammed CNN and anchor Wolf Blitzer in an interview Tuesday when he pressed her on passing a coronavirus stimulus package.
In the interview, Blitzer pressed Pelosi on why she would not accept the $1.8 trillion dollar deal the White House and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had proposed. She responded by saying it is still not enough money. Blitzer then went on to read a tweet from Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna which urged Pelosi to take the deal from the White House.
“I don’t know why you’re always an apologist and many of your colleagues are apologists for the Republican position … Ro Khanna, that’s nice. That isn’t what we’re going to do,” Pelosi said to Blitzer in response.
You know you’re out there on the far, far left when you’re accusing CNN as being “apologists for the Republican position.”
QUIN HILYER: Amy Klobuchar is more concerned about hypothetical voter intimidation by conservatives than she was about the very real voter intimidation by New Black Panther Party members that took place in 2008. Funny how that works.
(If you don’t remember the New Black Panther Party case, my Commissioner Statement on it is here.)
MEMO TO NEW YORK TIMES: 1984 WAS NOT A HOW-TO BOOK. It’s almost as if re-writing history and secretly purging material when they go off the rails is something embedded in The New York Times’ culture.
As you’ve seen elsewhere, The Old Gray Lady has been called out for revisionism and flawed research inherent in its controversial “1619 Project.” The Times, true to form, circled the wagons and “stood by” the work. Except they didn’t. In fact, historians and journalists pointed out that The Times used undisclosed “stealth” corrections to significantly alter the original piece:
“The announced intention of reframing the country’s origin date struck many readers across the political spectrum as an implicit repudiation of the American revolution and its underlying principles […] Rather than address this controversy directly, The Times—it now appears—decided to send it down the memory hole—the euphemized term for selectively editing inconvenient passages out of old newspaper reports in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.”
You’d think that is bad enough. Nope. It gets worse. Bret Stephens, the house “conservative” so hated by his fellow Times editorialists was raked over the coals by the News Guild unit representing those journalists. As Glenn Greenwald explained:
“THE NEW YORK TIMES GUILD, the union of employees of the paper of record, tweeted a condemnation on Sunday of one of their own colleagues, op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. Their denunciation was marred by humiliating typos and even more so by creepy and authoritarian censorship demands and petulant appeals to management for enforcement of company “rules” against other journalists. To say that this is bizarre behavior from a union of journalists, of all people, is to woefully understate the case[…] They are demanding that their own journalistic colleagues be silenced and censored. What kind of journalists plead with management for greater restrictions on journalistic expression rather than fewer? (Emphasis added).
Now, the big reveal: the union has deleted the tweet Greenwald refers to. It never happened:
This is to me, as a journalist, media ethicist and lawyer, indicative of a culture that is more Orwell than Murrow. It’s in their DNA. Allow my colleage to explain. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
**DISCLOSURE: I was for many years a member of the then-called Newspaper Guild, now the “News Guild.”**
UPDATE (From Ed): This is the since-deleted tweet from the Times’ union that Smith is referring to:
(Updated and bumped.)
THEY WEREN’T EVEN ABLE TO TAKE OVER UKRAINE: Russia losing its influence? Nagorno-Karabakh fighting tests limits.
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