GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T EXCHANGE A WIDELY DIVERSE WORLDVIEW HERE — THIS IS CABLE TELEVISION! Clogged Heart Ready to Die: Stelter Decries Fox News Celebrating 25 Years.

Invoking a tone one would expect a parent to use to inform a child of something tragic, CNN’s Brian Stelter concluded Sunday’s so-called “Reliable Sources” by informing his meager viewers that Fox News would be celebrating its 25-year anniversary the coming week. Warning them that they could see commercials for it, Stelter lashed out at his ratings superior by equating them to the diseased heart of the Republican Party, ready to give out at any moment. He even suggested Fox had torn apart families.

“You’ll probably hear a lot about Fox News this week. The network is turning 25 and running lots of commercials celebrating its birthday,” he announced in his clownishly sober tone. “But you won’t hear any honest assessment of Fox on Fox of how the network has changed America.”

After hawking his trashy anti-Fox News book, yet again, Stelter suggested Fox was about to have a heart attack, grotesquely whining about them being patriotic after 9/11, and bashing them for being pro-America[.]

Well, you’ll never have to worry about that from CNN. Whatever his faults, the late Roger Ailes knew how to create populist television — in large part because he had CNN and its spin-off channels number 17 years ago:

Also, Stelter’s meltdown is a reminder of how time stands still with “Progressivism:” “‘I look forward to crushing Rupert Murdoch like a bug,’ [CNN creator Ted] Turner told the press. He compared Murdoch to Hitler, which would make Roger Ailes a reincarnation of Goebbels, and followed up with an explanation, quoted by the Los Angeles Times [in October of 1996]: ‘The late Führer, the first thing he did, like all dictators, was take over the press and use it to further his agenda. Basically, that is what Rupert Murdoch does with his media.  .  .  .’ The Nazi analogy was too much for the Anti-Defamation League, which rebuked Turner for trivializing the Holocaust. Turner apologized, but that didn’t prevent him from likening Murdoch to ‘the late Führer’ a year later; or, in 2005, comparing the success of Fox News to the rise of Hitler.”

YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HELP MORE? LESS ARROGANCE AND LYING. How storytelling can help public health officials combat distrust, skepticism. Because the distrust and the skepticism come from the arrogance and lying, not from poor messaging.

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T EXCHANGE A WIDELY DIVERSE WORLDVIEW HERE — THIS IS A NEWSPAPER! WaPo Published a Column from Hugh Hewitt and the Left Had a Complete Meltdown.

“My conversation with Fauci last week revealed that the good doctor is now embattled: He does not understand that he has become a polarizing figure. He rejects most every criticism, believes all the backing and forthing is the consequence of changing data. He struggles, as far as I can tell, to admit error,” Hewitt wrote.

“The portion of the country that has resisted his prescriptions and admonitions isn’t going to change its mind about him now. It is time for a reset. The first step to conquering such a problem: Admit that it exists,” he added.

While Hewitt brought up valid points, that didn’t stop the left from having a complete meltdown over his column and that WaPo would dare publish the conservative radio host.

As St. Greta would bark, “How dare you!”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Rand Paul’s Warning to Americans: ‘Be Afraid of Your Government.’

I DIDN’T KNOW THIS. I’LL BET JOE BIDEN DOESN’T EITHER. U.S. Troops Have Been Deployed in Taiwan for at Least a Year. “The U.S. special-operations deployment is a sign of concern within the Pentagon over Taiwan’s tactical capabilities in light of Beijing’s yearslong military buildup and recent threatening moves against the island.”

PRIORITIES: California sets nation’s strictest rules on recycling labels.

Leftists seem to have a real fetish involving complicated rules for garbage.

AN EXTENSIVE CABAL: Durham Probes Pentagon Computer Contractors in Anti-Trump Conspiracy. “Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John Durham. Durham is investigating whether they were involved in a scheme to misuse sensitive, nonpublic Internet data, which they had access to through their government contracts, to dredge up derogatory information on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign in 2016 and again in 2017, sources say — political dirt that sent FBI investigators on a wild goose chase. Prosecutors are also investigating whether some of the data presented to the FBI was faked or forged.”

If you wonder why so many Americans are cynical, ponder this. And recognize that the press and establishment are still covering for this stuff.

WOEING: NASA Is Losing Patience With Boeing’s Indefinitely Delayed Starliner.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, a spacecraft for transporting astronauts to the International Space Station built under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, is taking shape so slowly that NASA wants to move some novice astronauts assigned to Boeing’s planned flights to competitor SpaceX’s Crew Dragon so that they can get some spaceflight experience, Ars Technica reported Tuesday.

Citing two anonymous sources, Ars Technica’s Eric Berger reported that the changes have yet to be approved by NASA’s Multilateral Crew Operations Panel, the group in charge of flight assignment.

If the changes are happening, the three astronauts originally assigned to Starliner—Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada and Jeanette Epps—will likely fly on the SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission, the company’s fifth operational flight to the ISS, targeted for launch no earlier than August 2022.

Plus: “It’s unclear when Starliner may attempt to launch again, because more than two months later, Boeing still hasn’t figured out what exactly caused those valves to shut abnormally.”

The previous report indicated Boeing was studying whether to remove the valves — a painstaking process — so I guess they’re still studying.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Oh my: Amazon looks at leaving Seattle over city council hostility.

To paraphrase Animal House, Andy Jassy hasn’t dropped the big one — yet — but he put it in play this week. After years of deteriorating relations with their home city of Seattle and its ultra-progressive city council, Amazon’s CEO made it known that the online giant may look for greener pastures.

As Conquest’s First Law of Politics states, “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”

THE AMERICA THAT WORKS: SpaceX will debut new Dragon capsule for upcoming crew launch.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me.

On August 12, a colleague and I wrote an op-ed in Newsweek in which we argued that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as it currently is implemented on campus “violates the ethical and legal principle of equal treatment” and “treats persons as merely means to an end, giving primacy to a statistic over the individuality of a human being.” We proposed instead “an alternative framework called Merit, Fairness, and Equality (MFE) whereby university applicants are treated as individuals and evaluated through a rigorous and unbiased process based on their merit and qualifications alone.” We noted that this would mean an end to legacy and athletic admission advantages, which significantly favor white applicants.

Shortly thereafter, my detractors developed a new strategy to try to isolate me and intimidate everyone else into silence: They argued on Twitter that I should not be invited to give science seminars at other universities and coordinated replacement speakers. This is an effective and increasingly common way to ratchet up the cost of dissenting because disseminating new work to colleagues is an important part of the scientific endeavor.

Sure enough, this strategy was employed when I was chosen to give the Carlson Lecture at MIT — a major honor in my field. It is an annual public talk given to a large audience and my topic was “climate and the potential for life on other planets.” On September 22, a new Twitter mob, composed of a group of MIT students, postdocs, and recent alumni, demanded that I be uninvited.

It worked. And quickly.

On September 30 the department chair at MIT called to tell me that they would be cancelling the Carlson lecture this year in order to avoid controversy.

It’s worth stating what happened again: a small group of ideologues mounted a Twitter campaign to cancel a distinguished science lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because they disagreed with some of the political positions the speaker had taken. And they were successful within eight days.

The fact that such stories have become an everyday feature of American life should do nothing to diminish how shocking they are, and how damaging they are to a free society. The fact that MIT, one of the greatest universities in the world, caved in so quickly will only encourage others to deploy this same tactic.

Read the whole thing.

COMPLY, THEY EXPLAINED: Los Angeles City Council Passes ‘Strictest in the Nation’ Mandate for COVID Vaccine Proof.

COMPLY WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE: Health system defends requiring COVID-19 vaccine for organ transplants.

SO NEXT THEY’LL WANT TO REGULATE FAT PEOPLE TO PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH: Obesity is contagious.

HEH: Why Nothing (Even The Air Force) Can Kill The A-10 Warthog. “The United States Air Force (USAF) has spent almost two-thirds of its existence as an independent service trying to get rid of the A-10, one of its most well-known aircraft. But has the Air Force finally given up? It is odd to think that a fifty-year-old aircraft might have more job security now than at any time in its long history, but it does seem that the Warthog now has a relatively secure space in the USAF fleet.”

QUESTION ASKED: “Why does Joe Biden feel the need to use a Fake White House set across the street from the actual White House?”

UGH: Missouri Social Services Lost Foster Kids to Sex Trafficking, and All GOP Lawmakers Can Do Is Say They’re ‘Disappointed.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Yes, you CAN find a match and stop being single before the pandemic is over.

OBAMA’S THIRD TERM: Gas Prices Hit 7-Year High.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF DISCRIMINATION? Syracuse To Pay $3.7 Million To Settle Female Professors’ Class Action Equal Pay Lawsuit.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: The Mob Attacking Trump’s Lawyer Is More Dangerous Than Anything John Eastman Is Accused of Doing. “What is happening to the legal profession is the same thing that is happening everywhere else. An oppressive orthodoxy has taken hold. Fall in line, or suffer consequences to your livelihood. Represent the wrong clients, say the wrong things, think the wrong thoughts, and you will be targeted by a leftist pack of wolves wearing suits or holding endowed faculty chairs.”

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO: The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing — Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed.

JOANNE JACOBS: Stand up to the monomaniacal mob. “Monomaniacs compete for prestige by expanding their one true idea to ever greater areas and competing to be the truest believer, he writes. When enemies are out of reach, they attack ‘innocent people who happen to be nearby.'”

I’m reminded of this gem from Robert Heinlein:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Insects are automatons, which is exactly what the Left desires.

DIE WERTENTWICKLUNG IN DER VERGANGENHEIT IST KEINE GARANTIE FÜR ZUKÜNFTIGE ERGEBNISSE:

Earlier: Of Course, We Should Blame the Greens for the Energy Crunch.

LYNCH MOBS: Students riot over sexual assault allegations against frat despite no officially lodged complaint: Protests based on vague online anonymous allegations: ‘tried in a public square by a violent mob.’

Odds are that university “student life” educrats are encouraging this.