Archive for 2021
August 26, 2021
FASTER, PLEASE, CAPTAIN SLOW: James May: Our Man In The USA Has Been Confirmed For 2022 Release – Details Here.
HARSH BUT FAIR:
Holy cow. What an ad. pic.twitter.com/hPUFtr4qBV
— Storm Paglia 🇺🇸 (@storm_paglia) August 24, 2021
UPDATE: From the comments: “Administrations are judged on how they respond to their first real crisis, it’s hard to imagine how Biden could have done any worse than he has on this one.”
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Antifa Attacks Reporter in Portland.
Nonetheless, antifascist protesters have taken their absurd demands of non-coverage quite far in the past, making lists of protester-approved media and going after reporters and videographers from papers like local CBS and ABC affiliates as well as the Washington Post, NPR, the Toronto Sun, and others. Their rationale is that filming hurts their cause by making them vulnerable either to arrest or doxing, a dubious concept one could argue on multiple levels, but again, that’s what masks are for. Moreover — and I know this can be a hard concept — cameras generally help public protests, with the exception being when activists behave stupidly or unattractively in public. If you don’t do things like knock female reporters to the ground, you’re probably not going to end up dealing with negative press.
By general assent many mainstream outlets and politicians have taken the position that “Antifa” doesn’t exist, with outlets like Vanity Fair writing pieces like “Sure looks like the right’s Antifa boogeyman doesn’t exist,” and people like Jerrold Nadler calling Antifa violence a “myth.” It does seem to be true that there is no “Antifa” in the sense of a nationally organized phenomenon, and they certainly are not the threat Donald Trump claims they are, but that doesn’t mean they are a completely harmless non-entity either. Too many news outlets have respected the desire of such protesters to remain invisible when they behave atrociously, and this is one of those cases.
If the protesters from this past weekend had any integrity, they would come forward and start with an apology. There’s no excuse for attacking press, especially when your modus operandi is moronic attention-grabbing public stunts. I’ll let Ford and News2Share tell the rest of this story, but to say I’m furious about the events of this weekend would be an understatement. It also doesn’t say a lot about the ethics of mainstream press outlets that they let behavior like this go without comment. How is any of this “progressive”?
Because during the Trump administration, the uber-woke DNC-MSM decided to compare Antifa to brave men storming the beaches of Normandy:
THEY WON’T BE SHY ABOUT EXPLOITING IT, EITHER: China Announces Discovery of a ‘Major Shale Oilfield.’
MY BODY, THEIR CHOICE: You do not have the ‘constitutional right’ to refuse the Covid-19 vaccine.
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND ABUSE? Ex-‘Good Morning America’ producer accused of sexually assaulting two women.
NICE. NOW WHAT ABOUT THE POWER GRID WE’LL HAVE TO PLUG THEM INTO? Remarkable density of new lithium battery promises massive range for EVs.
ALSO, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH: University bioethicists: Vaccine mandates ‘promote freedom.’
SO MUCH RACISM IN HIGHER ED THESE DAYS: Stanford prof says ‘Whiteness’ explains parents’ opposition to school mask mandates. If you start with the presumption that anyone going on about “whiteness” is stupid, dishonest, or grifting, you won’t go far wrong.
PEOPLE ARE PAYING ATTENTION: Biden Approval Index at -21.
HR4 IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN YOU KNEW: Attorney Cleta Mitchell has been in the front lines of election reform battles for decades, so she knows a thing or thirty-three about how the Left has corrupted