THEY’RE GOING TO TRY TO PRETEND IT NEVER HAPPENED:  The Tar-Baby.

But the thing about the tar baby is that the more you fight, the more you stick.

Oh, and guys, Sargent Mom is an amazing writer of historical fiction. Here is a link to her latest, but really, any of her work is worth reading:  That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War.

#CommissionEarned

There wasn’t much of an outlet for an ordinary American woman with ambitions in the 184os; marriage and family was as good as it got back then, for most women … But Minnie Vining wasn’t an ordinary woman. A spinster in her forties, of a respected old Boston family, possessing an independent income and an education worthy of any man among her peers. Minnie took up a noble cause – campaigning for the abolition of slavery. The matter of slavery roiled political and social life in the United States for more than thirty years, splitting apart families, friends, comrades … and eventually the nation. And when the war began in earnest, Minnie followed her heart and her calling … as a nurse, tending to sick and wounded soldiers … but at what personal cost?

 

 

 

IT’S NOT AS IF ANYBODY HAS BELIEVED A WORD SHE UTTERS, SO NO HARM DONE:  Karine Jean-Pierre admits giving false information about Biden neurology visit after outcry over health misdirection.

Frankly, it’s astonishing the mop can talk. Expecting her to tell the truth as well is a bit much.

WHOEVER’S IT IS, IT AIN’T YOURS SO STUFF YOUR COMPLAINTS ABOUT WHO’S IN IT:  Whose loo is it anyway? Your Labour guide to ladies and gents.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED, NAY SURPRISED AND ASTOUNDED FACE:  Iran provided financial support to the pro-Hamas demonstrators.

HAD THOSE STUPID UKRAINIANS NOT BUILT THAT HOSPITAL IN THE ROCKETS’ PATH, NOBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN HARMED:  Russia Denies Targeting a Ukrainian Children’s Hospital. Instead It Blames Kyiv.

HE MIGHT AS WELL ACCUSE THE SUN OF RISING IN THE EAST:  Texas Lt. Gov. Accuses Biden of Politicizing Hurricane Beryl Response.

IF NOT FOR A GOP MAJORITY IN THE NC LEGISLATURE THE DEMS WOULD DE-BALLOT THEM, TOO:   “Partisan Mischief”: North Carolina Democrats Vote to Block Third-Party Candidates from Ballots.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE QUEEN:  Nancy Pelosi Chides ABC Reporter Over Biden Question: ‘Am I Speaking English to You?’

BEHOLD HOW SHOCKED I AM:  Massachusetts Attacking Pregnancy Centers With a $1 Million Taxpayer Funded Campaign.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Report: Globe’s Largest Companies Colluded In ‘Likely’ Antitrust Violation To Censor Conservatives.

IT WON’T SURVIVE THE SENATE BUT THE LEFT SHOULD EXPLAIN WHY. IN DETAIL:  U.S. House Passes SAVE Act to Prevent Non-Citizens From Voting in Federal Elections–With 198 Dems Voting Against.

BECAUSE THEY WANT TO STEAL THE ELECTION, OF COURSE:  There’s Only One Reason Democrats Oppose Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote.

NO IT’S NOT THE ONLY REASON, AND YET:  Don’t Make It Easy.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Fly The Plane.

THE INTERSECTION OF FAITH & POLITICS: Super debut today for PJMedia Editor-in-Chief Paula Bolyard and writer Lincoln Brown with new podcast. They talk at length about the GOP platform’s retreat on the pro-life issue and a bunch of related topics at the intersection. Definitely worth signing up for!

OPEN THREAD: Hump day.

LAWYERS ARE CHEAPER THAN ROCKETS, AND IT’S EASIER TO COMPETE IN A COURTROOM THAN ON A LAUNCHPAD: SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida over environmental, safety concerns.

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Chuck Todd Spills the Beans About Biden: He’s a Bad Man.

Joe Biden Is the Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Human Being I’ve Ever Known in My Life.

He is also “sharp as a tack.”

Not anymore, for either of those things. As Joe Biden has been threatening Mutual Assured Destruction (damn, Ed beat me to writing that post, but I am stealing it!), threatening Democrats with the complete implosion of his political party if they try to push him out–the Narrative about Biden in the mainstream media is going to change and likely change quickly.

The media wants Biden out, and if Chuck Todd’s podcast is any indication, they are less afraid to go nuclear on Biden than his Democrat colleagues in Congress.

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd says Biden’s refusal to step aside has made him “rethink a lot of the Biden biography. I still can’t believe he ran for president in the first place, given that his family was in crisis in 2018…You look at what has happened, I can’t believe he has put his… pic.twitter.com/gi7dgiF6Be

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 10, 2024

Todd isn’t holding back–at least not that much. No doubt he can take it up a notch or three, but this shot didn’t go across the bow–it hit the bow of Biden’s boat.*

Keep that in mind, looking back of Todd’s role as a loyal Democrat foot soldier. Here’s Todd at the beginning of April, 2022: MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Snaps at Guest Over Criticism of Hunter Biden Media Coverage: ‘that’s the Laziest Attack.’

A conversation between MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., quickly became heated when Cramer claimed the media would have treated the Hunter Biden laptop story differently if he was one of former President Donald Trump’s children.

* * * * * * * *

“Here’s the reality,” Cramer began. “If Hunter Biden’s name was Donald Trump Jr. or Eric Trump you guys would be treating the war in Ukraine like—

“Don’t what-about … Enough of this,” Todd interjected, waving his hand. “”That is the laziest attack. It is not about the media. It doesn’t matter about the media.”

“It’s also honest,” Cramer said as the two continued to speak over each other.

Here’s Todd at the beginning of 2021: Liberal Media Scream: Smug Chuck Todd to senator, ‘I’ve had enough of hearing this!’

[Sen. Ron Johnson]: Well, Chuck, you need to look at your mirror because you carried the Democrats’ water on the whole Russian collusion with the Trump campaign hoax —

TODD: Sen. Johnson, I’ve got to go. I appreciate you coming on. I’ve let you, I’ve let you say plenty of —

JOHNSON: That is what you did in the media. You carried that water for years. You destroyed the credibility of the press, not me.

Todd seems to lose it whenever he he has Johnson on, curiously enough: This 2019 Real Clear Politics article by Mark Hemingway, “Chuck Todd and the Demise of True Journalism,” is built around Todd’s interview with Johnson and subsequent insults.

And here’s Chuck at the end of 2019: Chuck Todd Finds All the Disinformation In ‘Ecosystem’ on the Right.

—NewsBusters, Sunday.

* And it brings everything full circle with the summer of 1974: Joe Biden, at a Dead End, Faces Richard Nixon’s Choice.

BYRON YORK: Who enabled Biden? A case study.

On June 4, the Wall Street Journal published a story headlined, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping”…[The] Journal described a January White House meeting with congressional leaders on Ukraine policy in which Biden “spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting. He read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out.” The next month, meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), the Wall Street Journal said, “Johnson worried that the president’s memory had slipped about the details of his own policy.”

White House and Democratic pushback was furious. Biden is as sharp as ever, Democrats said. The article was a hit piece based on Republicans who were playing partisan politics. Among those pushing back was Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), who had talked with the Wall Street Journal for the story but was not quoted in the published piece.

“Surprise, surprise,” Murray posted on X after the story came out. “Everyone attacking POTUS is a Republican with an agenda. I made clear to the Wall Street Journal regarding the January meeting on Ukraine that the president was absolutely engaged and ran that meeting in a way that brought everyone together. I’m not quoted — I wonder why.”

Murray’s answer to her own question was obvious — she was accusing the Wall Street Journal of publishing a partisan hit piece suggesting Biden is not up to the job when she, Murray, had told reporters Biden is as good as ever. Later, the Wall Street Journal would describe it this way: “Murray told the Journal in April that she hadn’t seen a change in Biden’s acuity during her years of working with him. ‘He engages in a very personal way, asking questions,’ Murray said. ‘He is listening and absorbing.’”

That was Murray then. Now, after the disastrous June 27 debate exposed Biden’s infirmities for the world to see, Murray is singing a different tune.

As is the DNC-MSM. In a Twitter thread, Drew Holden rounds up over a dozen examples of the media performing Orwell-worthy pivots.

CHANGE: Chuck Schumer open to dumping Biden in 2024.

WORD: We Finally Know What Turned on The Lights at The Dawn of Time.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Ariane 6 Ignites a New Era in Next-Gen Space Launch Technology.

AMERICA UNDER THE DEMOCRATS:

HOLY CR*P.

Remember George Clooney held a fundraiser for Biden where Biden had to be led off stage by Obama after he froze?

Then KJP responded and said the video was a “cheap fake” and “manipulated”

Now George Clooney is admitting that Biden was the same man at that fundraiser… pic.twitter.com/ld0TeEQQ7x

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 10, 2024

In New 'Ocean's 14', George Clooney Pulls Off $30 Million Heist By Tricking People Into Giving Money To Politician Before Revealing He's Demented https://t.co/BnTnp3xeLr pic.twitter.com/kOAX1p10Uq

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 10, 2024

Democrats want illegal aliens to vote. Period. It’s despicable. https://t.co/YlNKLZpGV0

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) July 10, 2024

UPDATE (From Ed): I don’t know why anybody is worried — if an anonymous Biden staffer is telling CNN that the 81-year old (p)resident has more energy than 63-year old George Clooney, that’s good enough for me!

President Biden has more stamina than George Clooney, a Biden campaign official suggested, per @kaylatausche. pic.twitter.com/dJ1T3KsI8U

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 10, 2024

(Tapper’s eye roll at the end of this clip is pretty amazing. When you’re a Democrat who’s lost Jake, it’s game over.)

MICROBIOME NEWS: ‘Unhealthy’ gut microbiome patterns linked to heightened risk of death after organ transplant.

NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT:

Chyron a moment ago

BIDEN AIDES TO CNN: DISCUSSION IS OVER, BIDEN IS RUNNING

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 10, 2024

If Biden is going anywhere, it won’t be until after the NATO summit and his second attempt at redemption, his “big boy” press conference on Thursday.