MEDIA ROT EVEN IMPACTS C-SPAN: C-SPAN Anchor Returning to Network After Being Suspended for Lying About Hack.

The C-SPAN anchor who was suspended last year after lying about being hacked is returning to the network this week.

Steve Scully was suspended after admitting he lied when he claimed he did not create a post on his Twitter account, alleging instead that the account was hacked.

C-SPAN said Scully made the network aware of the information and “understands that he made a serious mistake.” But it said he would remain with the network, asserting he “has built a reservoir of goodwill” during his 30 years there.

“After some distance from this episode, we believe in his ability to continue to contribute to C-SPAN,” it added.

In a new statement, C-SPAN said executives view what happened last year as “a singular episode” in an otherwise successful career.

“And while it was appropriate in October for Steve to be immediately relieved of his duties leading our 2020 election coverage, we reiterate our belief that now, having completed a three-month administrative leave, he can continue to contribute to CSPAN’s mission,” it added.

Dan Rather must be thinking that some guys get all the luck.

CALIFORNIANS ARE REVOLTING AGAINST THE LOCKDOWN. New video from Reason TV:

SPACE FORCE VICTORY: Report Details Space Force Success in Foiling Iranian Missile Attack.

JIM TREACHER: Incoming Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) Apologizes for Approvingly Quoting Hitler.

So now, all the Democrats are going to call her a Nazi. They would call her that anyway, of course, because that’s one of the few tricks they’ve been trained to perform. But why make it so easy for them? Why hand them this bright shiny gift?

It’s reminiscent of this koan by our greatest living philosopher:

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FLASHBACK: Remember when BLM rioters were burning down cities and Colin Kaepernick literally called for more violence? And then, instead of banning him, @Jack gave him $3M?

POINTS AND FIGURES: Commoditizing Services.

ACLU RAISES CONCERNS AMID TWITTER’S BAN OF TRUMP:

“We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions — especially when political realities make those decisions easier,” said Kate Ruane, ACLU senior legislative counsel, in a statement. “President Trump can turn to his press team or Fox News to communicate with the public, but others — like the many Black, Brown, and LGBTQ activists who have been censored by social media companies — will not have that luxury.”

But the above is likely just an attempt to score some quick PR points off of Trump being censored: ACLU Lawyer Says Stopping Abigail Shrier’s Book On Transgenderism That Target Pulled And Its Ideas Is ‘100% A Hill I Will Die On.’

As Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff noted in 2018, “The ACLU had begun to secretly demote free speech.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Politico Brings In Bounced NYT Editor James Bennet to Display Stunning Hypocrisy on Anti-Rioting Force.

You may have last seen me getting bounced out of The New York Times for running an opinion piece by Sen. TOM COTTON (R-Ark.) arguing for the use of military troops to prevent the rioting that accompanied some of the peaceful protests over the summer. As our editorials made clear, I disagreed with Cotton then (that’s one reason I supported running the piece). And so I hope it doesn’t make me a hypocrite now to say that I wish the military had been out in force Wednesday to stop the rioting and protect what Biden called the “citadel of liberty.”

As Tim Graham responds at NewsBusters, “Obviously, a more robust police force was necessary to prevent the disgraceful riot at the Capitol. Just as obviously, Bennet is a hypocrite.” And note this:

Further full disclosure: My brother, [Democrat] Sen. MICHAEL BENNET of Colorado, was among the hundreds of public servants on Capitol Hill who came under threat from the mob Wednesday.

“Riots for thee, but not for me” (or my brother.)

And speaking of the Times, past performance and the memory hole: NY Times correspondent Maggie Haberman says new U.S. Capitol fence resembles one put around the WH in June for whatever reason.

As Ilhan Omar said about 9/11, “some people did something.”

WELL, I DON’T BELIEVE WE WILL TOLERATE THIS:  The new dark age of silencing.

TIM KOWAL: PEACE IS A MIRACLE.

In the bad old days before Year Zero, some Americans used to know about something called the Miracle of 1800. The reason America’s first transition of power from one political party to another was called a “miracle” was because the peaceful transition of political power in a democracy was not something that had been known to work. There is, in fact, no particularly good reason to think that it should work. And yet, miraculously, it did work. Perhaps it was that Americans, still fresh with patriotic feeling for their new country, forged in a Revolutionary War, willed that it work. Who knows?

But even when it did work, there was no real reason to assume it should go on working. Yet, Americans saw it go on working. Perhaps there was something exceptional about America. Who knows?

In fact, the peaceful continuation of American democratic governance went on working so well, and for so long, that Americans began to take it for granted. They began to see peace as a sort of natural state of their political life. And political violence as something, strange, foreign. Something that, if ever we should observe it, could be explained only as something that must have been imported.

Violence, we came to assume, was not among America’s gross domestic products.

In the bad old days, too, Americans used to acknowledge death as a fact of life. Illness was commonplace, and it took from all groups, not just the old. Poverty, too, was a typical and certain condition. If a person did not work, he would not eat. And then, almost suddenly, there came a point when Americans could expect good health, and a long life, as the rule and not the exception. And to accompany that good long life, Americans could assume a comfortable and satisfying job, and settle in somewhere in the broad middle-class. These became nearly as certain as the Laws of Thermodynamics. Exceptions to the rule prompted questions that someone was to blame for upsetting the natural order of things.

But then came 2020, a year wreathed in horror. That year upset the presumptions of perpetual good health, perpetual prosperity, and perpetual peace.

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AGAIN!  MY, SUCH AN ORDERLY “CHARGE”!  IF IT WEREN’T FOR THE MSM YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW THEY WERE RIOTING! SO PERHAPS YOU SHOUDN’T LISTEN TO THE MSM:  Video shows police officers stand by as rioters charge into US Capitol.

HE WAS SUCH A QUIET MAN, KEPT MOSTLY TO HIMSELF:  Jewish woman, 102, describes disturbing memory of her neighbor — Adolf Hitler.

Or not.

LACK OF LEADERSHIP AT THE UN?  HERE I THOUGHT TONIGHT I’D BE ABLE TO WASH & PRESS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Power struggle leaves UN rights body without leader.

And for the record? UN out of the US. US out of the UN. Let the global corruptocrats bury the global corruptocrats. We have plenty of national ones to deal with.

DON’T ROLL OVER AND SHOW BELLY, UNLESS YOU WANT THIS BOOT ON YOUR NECK:  China Uses Woke Excuses For Genocide.

WELL, WE’RE SCARED, BUT WE AIN’T SHAKING:  Night Terrors.

SOMETHING EVERYONE MEALY-MOUTHING WHAT THE LEFT WANTS THEM TO SAY BECAUSE THEY THINK SOMEHOW THAT’S THE OVERTON WINDOW IS SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO:  Rasmussen: Trump’s Approval Rating Rises After DC Protests.

Remember, folks, in the face of unprecedented demonization of Trump from all official channels, Americans hunched their shoulders and voted for him in such amazing numbers that the Democrats had to extend their already amazing fraud operation to be highly visible and in your face.  Think about it. I know the Maoists think we’re Chinese peasants. But non-Maoists should maybe consider Americans are something else?  You ain’t seen nothing like us yet!

GOOD FOR YOU, MR. CRUZ!  Sen. Cruz Says Electoral Objections Did Not Incite Riot.

Perhaps you can extend your truth telling a bit and tell them there wasn’t a riot? Live not by lies.

YEAH:  Palm Thursday.

AS I SAID. MAOISTS DEALING WITH CHINESE PEASANTS:  Conservative #WalkAway Facebook page removed along with hundreds of thousands of videos and followers.

At this rate they’re liable to make us angry. They won’t like us when we’re angry.

ARE WE ABSOLUTELY SURE THIS ISN’T BEING RUN REMOTELY FROM CHINA? BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT THEY’RE DEALING WITH CHINESE PEASANTS: FBI Agents Raid Homes, Offices of Republican Tennessee Lawmakers.

WELL, OF COURSE.  ANTIFA, NO PROBLEM. BUT PEOPLE PROTESTING LEFTISTS? IT CAN’T BE ALLOWED:  Gov. Inslee calls up National Guard to protect state Capitol.

It’s almost like the peons think there’s a right to protest the left when it seizes power! How uncouth! Evil rioters! Racistsexisthomophobes! Bad Thinkers! To the Gullag!

SO, IT TURNS OUT IT WAS A SETUP: To quote someone, I’ve seen more unruly “mobs” of third graders.

And, btw, all the stuff about cleaning feces and urine from the capitol? They should ask the congress critters to stop using the capitol as a bathroom, then, because you know what? there were so many videos and none of that.

Stop the gaslighting, oh, New-Maoist-Left. We ain’t buying it, and you’re just going to get us riled up.

TODAY, SILICON VALLEY SETTLES ALL FAMILY BUSINESS: Google suspends right-wing app ‘Parler’ from Google Play Store.

Earlier: Apple Has Threatened To Ban Parler From The App Store.

UPDATE: Steve Bannon’s podcast shuttered by YouTube over false 2020 election claims.

MORE: Every. Time. “Big Media and Big Tech’s massive overreach has managed to change the channel for conservatives who were disturbed and confused about the events in Washington, and reunite them in anger — all before the week was out.”

(Updated and bumped.)