NIKKI HALEY IN 2020: George Floyd Riots must “be personal and painful for everyone:”

(Screenshots in case Haley’s social media team deletes the above tweets.)

As Ron DeSantis told an interviewer in November of last year:

Speaking to a South Carolina radio host this week, DeSantis blasted the state’s former Gov. Nikki Haley for her response to the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer who’s since been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.

“It’s important to understand that the death of George Floyd was personal and painful for many. In order to heal, it needs to be personal and painful for everyone,” Haley wrote on Twitter, now known as X, on May 30, 2020, five days after Floyd died.

DeSantis, who’s battling Haley in early GOP primary states to be the main alternative to Donald Trump, accused Haley of “adopting this left-wing mindset.”

“I remember when the George Floyd riots were happening, I called out the National Guard,” he said, as Fox News reported.

“I said I’m standing with police, she was tweeting that it needed to be personal and painful for every single person. I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why does that need to be personal and painful for you or me? We had nothing to do with it.”

For Haley in 2020, it was yet another case of “Riots for thee, but not for me,” to coin a phrase.

QUELLE HORREUR! Lefty Media Freak Over Conservative Exec Saving Baltimore Sun.

SO MUCH FOR THE BELICHICK ERA IN DALLAS: Mike McCarthy will be back for another season with the Cowboys.

More: “‘I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate goals and the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head coach,’ Jerry Jones said in a statement released Wednesday night. ‘There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach.’”

METAPHOR ALERT: Blinken Stranded After Boeing 737 Breaks Down on Davos Trip.

Related: Stranded in Davos: Antony Blinken Is Stuck in Switzerland Compliments of a Boeing 737 Oxygen Leak.

THE RETURN OF THE SWASTIKA:

These graphic anti-Jewish accusations lend visual force to the further demonization of Israel, a process that has been going on for many years now and has become reenergized since Hamas’ assault on Oct. 7. The atrocities that took place on that day should have provoked a sharp sense of horror and outrage. In some, it did. In others, something weirdly akin to elation occurred, and it continues to this day with robust shouts of “Israelis are Nazis,” “Hitler was right,” and “gas the Jews.” Add the formulaic denunciations of Israel as a “racist,” “apartheid,” “settler colonial,” and “genocidal” state unworthy of a future, and we confront questions similar to those provoked by the “swastika epidemic” of 1959-60.

What brought on this wave of open hatred? How long is it likely to last? How much damage will it cause? And what can be done to restrain it and forestall a repeat?

It is too soon to answer all these questions, but the first one may be clarified by what we know about who triggered the events of 1959-60. After the worst of that seemingly spontaneous torrent of raw Jew-hatred subsided, it was discovered that some of the neo-Nazis responsible for the spread of the swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans had been recruited by the KGB, which had launched an ambitious disinformation campaign against West Germany carried out by Soviet secret agents in East Germany. The Russian aim was to expose the newly denazified German state as still incorrigibly infected by Nazi ideology and thereby weaken its alliance with Western nations. For a short time, the operation succeeded, as questions were raised about the true character of West Germany: Was the successor to Hitler’s Germany in fact a liberal democratic state worth supporting or not?

Plus ça change: American multimillionaire couple funds Marxist group coordinating anti-Israel protests.

JUST NBC THE CENSORSHIP! NBC Edits Out CJ Stroud Praising Jesus In Social Media Post Of Post-game Interview.

Earlier: ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt to Houston Texans’ QB C.J. Stroud: Let’s Talk About Something Besides Your Faith, M’kay?

MEGYN KELLY: ‘I Can’t Stand the Sense of Entitlement:’ Megyn Slams Employee Who Filmed Herself Getting Laid Off in Viral Video.

Below is a portion of the exchange:

PIETSCH: I disagree that my performance hasn’t been– I haven’t met performance expectations, when I certainly have, just because haven’t closed anything officially.

HR REP: I hear you. Thank you.

PIETSCH: Also, why are you doing this and not my manager? We’ve never met, so this seems a little odd… Yeah, I would love like an explanation that makes sense…

HR REP: Just for clarification, you are not being singled out in this. Your peers are also being collectively assessed on performance. This is a collective calibration for Cloudfare…

PIETSCH: Well, yeah, no, can you explain for me why Brittany Pietsch if getting let go?

HR REP: I won’t be able to go into specifics for numbers.

PIETSCH: Wait, why though? I just started. I’ve been working extremely hard. Just because I haven’t closed anything, that has nothing to do with my performance… And so I really need an answer and an explanation as to why Brittany Pietsch is getting let go not why Cloudflare decided to hire too many people then are now actually realizing that they can’t afford this many people and they’re letting that go. If that’s the real answer, I would rather just you tell me that instead of making up some bullshit… It’s just very, very shocking. Very, very shocking. I have like really given my whole energy and life over the last four months to this job and to be like go for no reason is like a huge slap in the face from a company that I really wanted to believe in…

I have news for Brittany: It’s none of your f–king business. Unless you have an employment contract, I can fire you because I don’t like your ugly sweater. I don’t have to tell you why. Companies often don’t tell you ‘why’ these days because it just sets them up for a lawsuit. If you didn’t sign a deal promising you ongoing employment, you can be fired at any time unless it’s an unlawful reason like your age, your gender, or some other protected class.

You’re not calling the shots here, Brittany. You’re an employee. You don’t get an answer because you’ve demanded it from HR. I am sick of these young, entitled people trying to play the victim when something happens to them. This has happened to all of us in the course of our lives and we used to understand that it sucks, but I go on with my life.

The CEO of Cloudflare is making the rounds and doing plenty of damage control using the therapeutic language the 21st century outrage mob demands, but it will be interesting to see who hires Pietsch after she videotaped her layoff, grandstanded throughout it, and made herself go viral for 15 minutes.

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, JORDAN PETERSON’S NEXT BOOK IS ABOUT TO WRITE ITSELF: “The war has barely started:” A Canadian court ruled against Jordan Peterson on mandated re-education classes but JP says he’s not going down without a fight.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG VS. AARON RODGERS: A Tale of Two Media Narratives.

The subject? The Jeffrey Epstein Files

Rodgers, whose NFL season ended on Week One after rupturing his left Achilles tendon, referred to the list’s potential release on McAfee’s show.

“A lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are hoping that doesn’t come out,” Rodgers said.
Stop the presses!

The media went into overdrive, skewering Rodgers for his fact-free suggestion that Kimmel should be personally worried about the contents. Story after story. Outlet after outlet. Kimmel joined the fray, and understandably so, knowing the media machine had his back and he had been personally besmirched.

Finally, McAfee vowed to cut ties with Rodgers following the media melee. One comment from a quarterback caused all of the above.

And, ultimately, Rodgers was wrong. He misused his media pulpit although the punishment hardly fit the “crime.” Even if some of his recent statements were more accurate, that initial comment deserved scrutiny.

Now, let’s see what Goldberg has said in recent days.

On Jan. 8, the “Sister Act” star ranted against the usual suspects – Donald Trump and the GOP in toto.

You’re worried that you can’t pay your bill? Wait until the other guy becomes president, and you won’t have to worry about it because you’ll be in some camp somewhere because that’s his promise. His promise to us is he’s going to force people to do his bidding. That’s what he said. I’m going to be good on day one, and I’m going to turn into this other person.

She wasn’t done.

And the hits keep coming at the long-running highly-factual ABC News show: Joy Behar slams Gen Zers who complain they’re ‘left behind’ by the economy: ‘Boo-hoo,’ get a job.

“Every single thing you see is anti-aging, don’t actually look the way that you are,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed. “No one’s actually body positive.”

“They are not hitting the milestones the way every generation before them did,” added Griffin. “They’re owning homes at a lower rate, this is wild. Forty-five percent of people between 18 to 29 still live with their parents.”

“They feel left behind by the economy, and they also see everybody trying to not age,” Griffin, 34, said.

Though Griffin’s comments were backed by fellow co-hosts Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin, Behar was left unmoved.

“Oh please, get a job,” Behar, 81, said dismissively. “There’s a million job openings in this country. Get a job.”

Paris Hilton, to the white courtesy phone, please!

THIS IS CNN: Fareed Zakaria: Israel Will One Day Have to Ask If It Acted Appropriately ‘In the Heat of Anger.’

Related: Gazan ‘Civilians’ Involved in Every Stage of Hamas Hostage Scheme, Freed Israelis Say.

More: Israeli father says Hamas tried to sell his son’s decapitated head for $10,000.

HOLLYWOOD KEEPS REMINDING US WHY WE NEED PHYSICAL MEDIA MORE THAN EVER:

As mentioned previously, Paramount+ has incurred the wrath of sci-fi nerds by taking down the first 10 Star Trek films and moving them over to Max. Trek may be one of Paramount’s most popular franchises, but it appears the studio is not above licensing it out to other platforms, even if it undermines their own. This is not the only instance of Paramount allowing Star Trek media to spill away from “the home of Star Trek.” Last year, Paramount canceled the children-oriented show Star Trek: Prodigy after one season and removed it from the service. The show eventually moved to Netflix, where a second season was assured. Sure, the Star Trek movies will likely wind up back on Paramount+ eventually, but even then it can’t be the definitive place to watch everything from the franchise.

Even if Star Trek isn’t your bag, there are other examples. Disney+ took over distribution for new seasons of Doctor Who outside the UK, with their tenure starting with three specials starring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. But the previous revival seasons are on Max, and if you want to delve into the (26!) seasons of classic Who, then I hope you know what BritBox is. Speaking of British sensations, Amazon may have purchased MGM, but are all of the James Bond movies on Prime? Not quite. These are wildly popular franchises with massive back catalogs, exactly the sort of thing streaming was supposed to make it easy to watch in one go. Instead, audiences have to go digging through “where you can watch” articles and hope nothing changes by the time they can get through it all.

To be fair, Amazon, much like HBO-Max before them, may simply be protecting delicate young audiences from themselves: James Bond slapped with ‘trigger warning’ as modern audiences warned 007 franchise may ’cause offense.’

Your dad or granddad went through WWII; nothing he saw 007 do on a big screen in 1966 was going to phase him. Today’s “modern audiences” are infinitely more fragile.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD GETS TOO CLEVER BY HALF: The Babylon Bee joked about Vivek running Trump’s 7-Eleven and it started a flamethrower war on the internet so let me explain it to you.

Trump Promises Vivek An Administration Position Running The White House 7-Eleven https://t.co/1cYOX4IWUx pic.twitter.com/SojL5OZDAj

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 16, 2024

Joe Biden could not reached for comment:

Couldn't do that in the Biden administration, Vivek speaks English too fluently.

"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."
– Joe Bidenpic.twitter.com/nccNdQBJKZ

— BarleyPop (@MikePilbean) January 16, 2024

JAMES MIEGS: The Likely Lab Leak and the Covid Cassandra.

I thought I was done with writing about Covid-19. But Covid-19 isn’t done with me—or with any of us.

I’m writing this precisely four years after Chinese health officials first announced the emergence of a mysterious new form of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan. “No obvious human-to-human transmission has been observed,” the officials added in that December 30, 2019, release. (Already, the Chinese were lying.) Today, Covid cases are ticking up for the umpteenth time. And documents keep coming to light that expose how American officials and scientists similarly suppressed unsettling facts about the pandemic’s origins.

While the death rate from each new wave of Covid keeps dropping, the disturbing revelations about our public health leaders keep getting worse. In December 2023, a new disclosure revealed how leading U.S. virus experts lobbied to conduct dangerous gain-of-function research at the substandard Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory. The latest leak provides yet more evidence that the pandemic likely emerged from a lab experiment gone awry, and that U.S. scientists actively covered up their possible role in that world-historical catastrophe.

After both the 1986 Challenger explosion and the 9/11 attacks, bipartisan commissions were convened to investigate the disasters. Covid has killed more than a million Americans and has cost our economy at least $14 trillion. And yet we see no great urgency to investigate the pandemic’s murky origins or prevent a recurrence. Republicans in Congress continue to hold productive hearings. But, according to the New York Times, the Biden administration is “privately resisting” pressure to create a 9/11-style commission on the pandemic. The press has largely moved on. And the public health officials most deeply involved in the debacle—including Anthony Fauci and his National Institutes of Health (NIH) colleague Francis Collins—continue to tap-dance around the truth, even after leaving their posts.

It’s as if “just about everything has been corrupted by the left” or something.

UPDATE: Head of the NIH, and Anthony Fauci’s Superior, Francis Collins: Now That You Have Me Here Under Oath and Pain of Perjury, I Guess Maybe the Lab Leak Wasn’t a “Conspiracy Theory” Like I Repeatedly Claimed When I Wasn’t Under Oath.

MARK JUDGE: The ‘toxic’ media of the early 2000s hasn’t changed, but its targets have.

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame and the Tabloid 2000s is a fantastic piece of cultural analysis. Written by British journalist Sarah Ditum, it explores the digital revolution of the early 21st century and how it intersected with feminism, celebrity, and tabloid journalism — to the detriment of young women.

The thesis of Toxic is simple enough: In the late 1990s, the kind of privacy once enjoyed by the famous evaporated with the arrival of the internet. The coverage of women such as Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Aaliyah, and Janet Jackson was not only intrusive but vicious, violent, and unprecedented.

After roughly a decade, the power shifted back to celebrities’ favor with the rise of social media, which allowed celebrities to be their own public relations firms and direct their fans to counterattack the press. This new position of power, however, has flaws, namely letting celebrities avoid hard questions and the immolation of anyone who questions #MeToo or the new feminist orthodoxy.

* * * * * * * *

As Ditum concedes, the correction to the “Upskirt Decade” has had its own problems. Notably, innocent people have been destroyed by false accusations — and banning a song like “Blurred Lines” is never the answer.

It is also just a fact that the same irresponsible, strafing media is still at work. It’s just shifted its attention to politics. “These moments did not signify justice, exactly,” Ditum writes of the new witch hunts, where the press napalms anybody they don’t like, “but they did represent a change: the snark, spite, and violation that had been part of the acceptable treatment of celebrities (particularly women) were no longer to be tolerated.”

I’m not sure that it’s any better if the snark, spite, and violation are now happening to people who aren’t famous.

CNN, which spent the Trump years doxxing any random individual who disagreed with their leftist worldview, doesn’t mind, though.

ED MORRISSEY: DoJ: Hunter’s Laptop Is Real, Spectacular, and So Was the Cocaine on His Holster.

Related: Joe Biden donors made up most of Hunter’s art sales, witness says.

More: “We are therefore confronted with the same mystery that bedevils us with the White House cocaine: Who put Hunter Biden’s cocaine into the carrying pouch of Hunter Biden’s illegally-purchased gun?! We may never know the answer, vows the FBI,” Ace of Spades adds.

ANDY MCCARTHY: The Democrats’ 2024 Plan Is Still Working to Perfection.

The media–Democrat complex is dying to run against Trump — so much so that press outlets couldn’t contain themselves last night, announcing that he’d romped to victory while caucusing was still under way and before many Iowans had voted. Democrats want Trump to be the nominee, which requires convincing skeptical Republicans that he is a juggernaut who can roll over Biden. Hence the early victory projections last night that touted Trump potentially getting over 70 percent of the vote. At this point in the game, Democrats want you to believe Trump could annihilate Biden. Are they unnerved by Biden’s astonishingly low poll numbers? Sure they are — but that’s all the more reason to double down on inducing Republicans to nominate the one guy they’re confident he can beat, the guy he’s beaten before by laying low and letting Trump beat himself.

In reality, when the dust settled, Trump got about 51 percent in Iowa. That would be a huge margin in a normal primary, in which a broad field was making first impressions on voters. But this isn’t a normal primary. It’s, in effect, an incumbent primary in which everyone knows exactly what to expect if Trump were president again. Based on last night’s result, 49 percent of Republicans don’t want that. Some significant percentage of them will never vote for Trump under any circumstances. They’re not getting to know the options; they’re against the option they know quite well.

Mind you, Democrats have barely jumped into the election-messaging fray at this point. They haven’t yet begun the barrage of billions of dollars in negative campaign advertising they are going to start running at Trump once the GOP nomination is sewn up (which it may already be).

The biggest factor in Trump’s early clinching is the Democrats’ lawfare. Phil Klein explained this well a few weeks back. Before the first indictment, Ron DeSantis was within striking distance. Once the indictments began, the base rallied to Trump and he blew the field away. As Phil notes, even DeSantis now concedes that the indictments “distorted the primary.”

And if all else fails, expect plenty of lawfare after the election as well: Advocacy groups preparing litigation in case of Trump reelection.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Chinese Lab Mapped Covid-19 Virus Two Weeks before Sharing Information Globally, Documents Reveal.

AUSTIN COMPETENCY LIMITS:

Shot: Biden White House pledges data, transparency, respect for free press.

President Joe Biden’s press secretary held her first news conference on Wednesday, seven hours after Biden’s inauguration, vowing to bring truth and transparency back to government.

Jen Psaki, who served as the chief spokeswoman at the State Department under former President Barack Obama, told reporters she had a “deep respect for the role of a free and independent press in our democracy.”

Marking a contrast to former President Donald Trump and his top aides’ treatment of what they called “the fake news media,” Psaki pledged professional, civil exchange.

“There will be moments when we disagree, and there will certainly be days where we disagree for extensive parts of the briefing even, perhaps,” she said. “But we have a common goal, which is sharing accurate information with the American people.”

Biden plans to “bring transparency and truth back to the government to share the truth, even when it’s hard to hear,” she said.

—Reuters, January 20^th, 2021.

Chaser: Under the Radar — Lloyd Austin’s Secret Ambulance Request Revealed in 911 Call.

The aide to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who made a 911 call to request an ambulance for the top official early this month requested that the dispatchers work to be “subtle” when they arrived at his residence, according to an audio recording of the Jan. 1 911 call exclusively obtained by The Daily Beast.

“Can I ask—can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens? Uhm, we’re trying to remain a little subtle,” the aide said, according to the recording, which The Daily Beast obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in the state of Virginia.

The dispatcher responded that the ambulance could do that, noting that “usually when they turn into a residential neighborhood, they’ll turn them off.” She added that the ambulance is required by law to run the sirens and lights on main streets, such as Georgetown Pike and Leesburg Pike.

The audio of the call, which has not previously been reported, reveals new details about the Secretary of Defense’s emergency, and suggests that the effort to keep his ailment secret was well-known among his close aides.

—The Daily Beast, today.

Hangover: Biden wants his team to look competent. His Defense secretary made it look chaotic.

The Defense secretary blindsided his boss, an error that’s serious in almost any organization, civilian or military.

Worse, especially in an election year, he played right into a favorite anti-Biden narrative of Republicans: their charge that the president is weak and ineffective.

Voters often say that when they consider candidates for president, they want a strong leader. Polls have found that former President Trump, the likely Republican nominee, outscores Biden on that measure in most Americans’ eyes, fairly or not.

Austin inadvertently strengthened the GOP’s argument. Biden’s critics wasted no time using the club he handed them.

“It raises questions about Joe Biden’s competence, or that he’s really in charge at the White House,” said Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, referring to Austin’s AWOL episode. “If this administration would conceal a mere elective minor surgery for a Cabinet secretary, what might they be concealing about Joe Biden’s health?”

That attack was off-target; there’s no evidence that anyone other than Austin concealed his surgery. But the fact that Austin concealed his hospitalizations from the White House was bad enough.

—Doyle McManus, the L.A. Times, yesterday.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Asa Hutchinson Calls It Quits. “Politico‘s Natalie Allison spent a few days with him, and the former Arkansas governor comes across as less of a principled idealist who wants to help his country than a man addicted to campaigning for office, in desperate need of an intervention by friends…These guys desperately want to believe that they are serious presidential candidates with a real shot at winning the nomination. The rest of us are not obligated to play along with these delusions, and it’s not mean to point out that they’re polling at 1 percent or less.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Terrified Texans Open Fire On Strange White Stuff Falling From Sky.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Biden Angry With Republicans Trying To Stop Kids Seeing Gay Porn.

OPERATION CHAOS 2024 FAILS: Nikki Haley Flounders In Iowa Despite Democrats’ Best Efforts To Meddle On Her Behalf.

And as a result: Trump’s Historic Iowa Win Causes MSNBC Host to Completely Implode.

CHANGE: The Baltimore Sun purchased by Sinclair’s David D. Smith.

Through his purchase of The Sun, Smith said he aims to help turn around a struggling newspaper industry, a decline he blamed on the industry’s inability to adapt to a changing market and to the internet, which has upended consumption and delivery of news and advertising.

He said he believes he can grow subscriptions and advertising for The Sun and its other publications by focusing more heavily on local and community news and investigations, boosting the use of video and social media, and integrating technology in ways other print media companies have been unable to do.

Smith criticized “mainstream media” in general for focusing on issues he said affect only a few people as opposed to those affecting greater numbers, adding that he finds it “curious that the mainstream media in this town often chooses not to cover things that affect everybody,” in particular concerning problems and corruption in government.

He said his first step will be to meet with staff and management of The Sun and its affiliates Tuesday to begin to understand the publications’ mission and operations and start discussions around future vision.

If the media takes their own advice when pink slips in other industries appear imminent, we are likely witnessing the birth of a whole new generation of coders in Charm City:

This will either lead to a bunch of leftists quitting in protest or a bunch of leftists being fired for cause. https://t.co/cprCh5hcpu

— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) January 16, 2024

For those who remain, the Sun has one of the greatest journalistic role models in history to study to learn their craft: Terry Teachout on H.L. Mencken: a real man — warts and all.

UPDATE: “Smith said he will be joined in the newspaper venture by one partner, with an undisclosed share of ownership: Armstrong Williams, a well-known conservative political commentator who hosts a nationally syndicated television show on Sinclair network affiliates.”

(Updated and bumped.)

THE NATION’S PALESTINIAN CORRESPONDENT SAYS ‘WE MUST NORMALIZE MASSACRES:’

The Nation magazine’s Palestinian correspondent is being investigated by the London Metropolitan Police after saying “we must normalize massacres as the status quo” during an anti-Israel demonstration last weekend.

Mohammed El-Kurd, who is described as the Nation‘s “first-ever Palestine Correspondent” on the left-wing magazine’s website, also denounced the existence of Israel and said “we must root [Zionism] out of the world” in his speech at the London rally.

The Metropolitan Police said it was “aware of the remarks” and was “assessing the matter and as part of that assessment will be seeking to speak to the individual concerned.” The U.K. has strict laws relating to discriminatory speech and incitement to violence.

El-Kurd initially mocked the police department and critics of his speech, but on Monday claimed that he misspoke and meant to say that “we should NOT normalise massacres” of Palestinians specifically.

The Nation did not respond to a request for comment.

El-Kurd’s comments came amid a spike in anti-Semitic crimes and attempted terrorist attacks. On Saturday, London police arrested six pro-Palestinian activists who were allegedly plotting an attack on the city’s stock exchange. The Anti-Defamation League has reportedly tracked over 3,200 anti-Semitic incidents since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis.

These sorts of things just seem to keep happening at leftist sites covering the Middle East. After the 7/7 London tube bombings by radical Islamists in 2005, the paper ran a column written by a “trainee journalist” who used the word “sassy” in an article full of moral equivalence over the attacks:

Today’s Guardian gives space to Dilpazier Aslam, a “Guardian trainee journalist” who suggests that one shouldn’t be shocked by Thursday’s suicide bombings – such a reaction would be inappropriate because, among other reasons:

“Shocked would be to suggest that the bombings happened through no responsibility of our own.”

Yes, ladies and gentlemen – we bear responsibility for the murderous actions of maniacal members of a religious cult. An apology is certainly called for – the queue forms to the right.

Needless to say, there are other reasons why shock is inappropriate. Mr. Aslam explains:

“Shocked would be to say that we don’t understand how, in the green hills of Yorkshire, a group of men given all the liberties they could have wished for could do this.”

Fortunately for those who still don’t quite follow, Mr. Aslam provides an explanation immediately, in the very next paragraph – which reads, in its entirety:

“The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don’t-rock-the boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We’re much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks or not.”

Suicide bombing …. sassy!

Aslam was sacked a couple of weeks later, after an intense campaign from both sides of the aisle.

Similarly, CNN staffers drop the mask all too frequently on the topic:

• CNN Reporter Brands Group of Israelis as ‘Scum.’
• ‘One of Hezbollah’s Giants I Respect a Lot.’
• CNN Photo Editor Posted Vicious Anti-Semitic Tweets on Deaths of ‘Jewish Pigs.’
• Another CNN Personality’s Antisemitic Tweets Unearthed: ‘I Love You Hitler.’

Regarding that last item, the Middle East has a rather complicated relationship with the architect of WWII:

How the Arab world talks about the Holocaust: the Holocaust never happened, and the Jews deserved it. Hitler was a hero, and the Jews are the real Hitler.

How many in the West are talking about Oct7: 7/10 never really happened, and the Jews deserved it. Hamas are the heroes,…

— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) January 15, 2024

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: After Lackluster Showing, Nikki Haley Orders Bombing Of Iowa.