GREAT MOMENTS IN JOURNO-LISM: George Stephanopoulos Just Did WHAT to JD Vance? “Would it kill Stephanopoulos to stop acting like a Democrat operative and conduct himself like an actual journalist just once, or would his head explode, ‘Scanners’-style, if he merely considered it?”
Archive for 2024
February 5, 2024
MORE COMPETITION WOULD BE BETTER, BUT IMPOSSIBLE: Airlines learn patience in constrained Airbus-Boeing duopoly.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Police warn shoppers of new crime trend at Bay Area Trader Joe’s locations. “Shoppers are advised to remain vigilant, keep wallets in a zipped bag close to their body and tell employees if they notice any suspicious behavior. The Danville Police Department also recommends taking it a step further and using a carabiner to secure your bag to your cart, the department wrote in a Friday Facebook post.”
Carabiners — the new Bay Area fashion must-have.
KING CHARLES III DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER, NOW UNDERGOING “REGULAR TREATMENTS,” BUCKINGHAM PALACE SAYS: “Doctors have detected cancer in Britain’s King Charles III, Buckingham Palace said in a statement Monday. The unspecified cancer was discovered as doctors treated the monarch for an enlarged prostate just over a week ago. CBS News partner network BBC News quoted royal sources as saying the king had been diagnosed with cancer elsewhere in his body, not of the prostate…Buckingham Palace said Charles had ‘commenced a schedule of regular treatments,’ and that during that treatment he would ‘postpone public-facing duties.’ It said he would continue with his official business and office work as usual.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: US patient ‘happy again’ after brain implant treats epilepsy and OCD.
QUESTION ASKED: Is it wrong for Tucker Carlson to interview Vladimir Putin?
In September, 1934, William Randolph Hearst, the most famous journalist and publisher in the world, visited Berlin and interviewed Adolf Hitler. At the time, Hearst admired Hitler, and was rather taken aback when the Fuhrer asked why he was so “misunderstood” in the English-language press. Hearst replied that Americans love democracy and distrusted dictatorships, to which Hitler answered that he had been democratically elected by a vast majority of Germans.
Hearst then said that Americans were concerned about the treatment of a certain unnamed minority. Hitler duly pointed out that Americans had mistreated Native Indian tribes and assured Hearst that Nazi discrimination was being curtailed. Hearst told Hitler that his public would be pleased. He was then surprised to be photographed with various Nazi leaders as part of what was obviously a press stunt for the Third Reich. “Visiting Hitler is like calling on the President of the United States,” he grumbled. “One doesn’t talk about it for publication.”
Journalism has changed a lot since in the 1930s, but that Hearst story is worth bearing in mind as self-righteous pundits queue up to denounce the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for visiting Moscow, apparently to interview Vladimir Putin.
Bill Kristol, the director of Defending Democracy Together, said, kidding on the square: “Perhaps we need a total and complete shutdown of Tucker Carlson re-entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
Bill Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital who writes books about the awfulness of the Kremlin, said that Carlson is “either remarkably stupid or consciously evil.” “He’s not stupid,” replied John Harwood the former Wall Street Journal and CNN man.
Related: Adam Kinzinger’s Reaction to Tucker Carlson’s Russia Trip.
On Saturday, Kinzinger took to X with his own reaction to Carlson’s Moscow visit, dubbing the former anchor a “traitor” and sharing a poll asking his followers if Carlson is “on Putins payroll,” with the answers being either “yes,” “of course,” or “no he just LOVES him.” As of Sunday morning, “yes” led the poll with 62.4 percent of the vote from over 16,000 respondents.
“He is a traitor,” the former congressman wrote in one of his posts.
If Kinzinger thinks that Carlson is a “traitor” for interviewing a tyrant like Putin, surely he holds Pinch Sulzberger, Dan Rather, and the late Barbara Walters, Henry Luce, and the aforementioned Hearst to the same standard. I thought Kinzinger was the proverbial RINO, but that’s some serious hardcore hatred of past and present MSM elites!
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GROOMING, STRAIGHT UP: New Jersey Bill Would Allow Teachers to Give Obscene Material to Minors.
WOEING: Boeing finds new problem with 737 Max planes after worker spots mis-drilled holes on fuselage that could lead to delays on delivery of 50 new planes. “While this potential condition is not an immediate safety issue and all 737s can continue operating safely, we currently believe we will have to perform rework on about 50 undelivered planes.”
How soon is not immediate?
JOHN NOLTE: Tracy Chapman’s Grammy Moment of Pure Americanism.
Using only her art, the legendary Tracy Chapman took to the Grammy stage Sunday night and made the most American of statements.
The story behind Chapman’s iconic, Grammy-winning hit “Fast Car” dates back 36 years to 1988, when it was first released. She was only 23 then, but in the synthesized-saxophoned eighties, “Fast Car” was something all its own.
The Clevelend-born Chapman was lucky. America was still a young country then, a country eager to embrace The New, an anxious culture always glancing over the shoulder of the latest superstar, eager for whatever was next.
The stagnant America we live in today, a culture crippled by nostalgia that still watches Law & Order, anticipates the next Star Wars movie, attends Rolling Stones concerts, and pays to see an 80-year-old play Indiana Jones was inconceivable then. And so, during a year that gave us “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Milli Vanilli, and Tiffany, seemingly from nowhere came this beautiful, moving, and vivid folk-rock song, a young woman’s desperate lament to escape the quicksand of poverty and “be someone, be someone.”
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Superstardom and awards followed, as did another big hit in 1997 with “Give Me One Reason.” Through it all, Chapman never lost her poise. On top of her physical beauty, Chapman’s charisma is primarily a product of how we are drawn to her remove. We know she’ll always give us our money’s worth. We also know she’ll never tell us her secrets. She doesn’t need us. She knows who she is. And who she is is none of our business.
Throughout her life, Chapman was having none of it when it came to fame. She kept her personal life personal, quietly supported her causes, and turned down untold riches from rap artists who sought to sample her music — and when Nikki Minaj did so without permission, Chapman sued and won $450,000.
But in the realm of “having none of it,” nothing will ever top the moment when Tracy Chapman’s humanity met America’s modern-day culture — this obscene, cancerous, ignorant, smug, divisive, oversharing, narcissistic, mean-spirited glob of hate and stupidity.
Speaking of which:
I guess they did not read this piece. https://t.co/yiYN9ZNQKV pic.twitter.com/iPmkpeLdIZ
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 5, 2024
HE ISN’T UP TO THE JOB: Biden Declines Super Bowl Interview Fearing Tough Questions About the Border.
DE-GLEICHSCHALTUNG* IS BEGINNING: Shocker: New York Times Opinion Piece Highlights Detransitioner Stories.
To quote esteemed NYPD detective John McClane, “Welcome to the party, pal!”
* Which also means it’s time to breakout the airbrushes on a Stalinist level: The Trans-Children Era is About to Be Memory-Holed and the Perpetrators Will Be Disavowing Involvement.
UPDATE: I Was Told to Approve All Teen Gender Transitions. I Refused. For six years I worked at a hospital that said all teenagers with gender dysphoria must be affirmed. I quit my job to blow the whistle.
DON’T GET COCKY: Stunning NBC Poll: Biden Presidency ‘in Peril, Declined on Every Measure.’
Illegal immigration has been widely deemed the No. 1 voting issue, according to exit polls in the early GOP primary states.
“What is most concerning is the erosion of Biden’s standing against Trump compared to four years ago,” Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates told NBC News.
“On every measure compared to 2020, Biden has declined. Most damning, the belief that Biden is more likely to be up to the job — the chief tenet of the Biden candidacy — has evaporated.”
The numbers look great now for Trump and “difficult” for the incumbent going into the heart of the 2024 primary cycle, according to Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies.
“It is hard to imagine a more difficult set of numbers before a reelection,” McInturff told NBC News.
With 73% of registered voters say the U.S. is on the wrong track under Biden, the only silver lining for the sitting president and Horwitt is there remains time to turn the numbers back around.
With what, mass hypnosis?
NEW SENATE BORDER BILL HAS DROPPED, to bad reviews:
🚨The new Senate border bill is out (https://t.co/tyjA6Jyz7R) and we are evaluating it, but here are TEN things you should know to start with (there are more).
In sum, it appears to be WORSE THAN the current law.
Read this 🧵and decide for yourself.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) February 5, 2024
"The border never closes" is a good summary of this bill, and of Joe Biden's policy.
I can understand why Chris Murphy supports it. I cannot imagine why any Republican supports this atrocious proposal. https://t.co/ekv7LJ8qbO
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 5, 2024
Well-summarized https://t.co/HSF5R8LyaA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2024
Plus: House Speaker: Senate Immigration Bill ‘Dead on Arrival.’
MULVANEY WAS ONLY THE SYMPTOM; THE DISEASE IS BUD’S RELIANCE ON WOKE MILLENNIAL EXECS WHO HATE THEIR CUSTOMERS: You Won’t Believe How Bud Light Is Trying to Distance Itself From Dylan Mulvaney.
MICHELLE ESQUENAZI: By letting cop-beating migrants go, NYC looks like biggest dupes in the world.
Back in 2019, when Don Cuomo was about to sign “Bail Deform” into the big state budget bill, the National Association of Bail Agents warned against such a drastic policy change.
Consider crime victims, consider the emotionally disturbed, consider the law abiding constituents that put you where you are! But nothing was going to stop the George Soros-funded runaway freight train. A big money funded initiative won over the fundamental differences between right and wrong.
So here we are in 2024, when a cop beater flips us off with not one, but two middle fingers, a language New Yorkers understand well.
“Dupes” is too kind a word. At some point, you have to stop attributing to stupidity that which ought to be attributed to malice.
335,000 NEW JOBS, FEWER HOURS WORKED? Media Lies: Those January Jobs Gains Never Happened.
GOOGLE IS ELIMINATING A POWERFUL TOOL FOR BYPASSING THE MEMORY HOLE: Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Election in El Salvador Is a Triggering Event for American Commies. “American Democrats are big fans of criminals, especially since President LOLEightyonemillion and his ne’er-do-well son have been stinking up the White House. President Bukele is decidedly anti-lawbreakers, which is no doubt one huge reason that the Squad types can’t stand him.”
MICHAEL WALSH: Happy Birthday to Us, Not to Lenin.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal judge ‘not interested’ in delaying challenge to Illinois gun ban. “The claimants believe that their constitutional rights have been imperiled and so it’s the court’s belief that I should try to work through this with as much dispatch as possible, understanding that we want to get it right and whatever discovery needs to be exchanged can be exchanged, but also understanding that in these cases there isn’t a lot of prolonged and protected discovery.”
Well, good.
AMERICANS DIDN’T WANT WORLD WAR I EITHER BUT WOODROW WILSON GAVE IT TO THEM: Pollster John Zogby warns against a Biden war ‘people have said they don’t want.’ But to be fair Wilson was smart enough to wait until after the election.
ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Biden and the Border: Are we approaching a Civil War?
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