UNEXPECTEDLY! Comcast Pulls Plug On G4 TV, Ending Comeback Try For Gamer-Focused Network.

Comcast’s Spectacor division is pulling the plug on video game-centric network G4 TV, whose early incarnation in the 2000s remains a cultural touchstone for many millennials, just a year after its relaunch.

In a memo set to be sent out to all employees, Spectacor CEO Dave Scott explained that the company’s investment and efforts to revive the network just didn’t gain traction.

A few dozen employees and contract workers are affected by the shutdown. Comcast said it will assist them with outplacement and consider some for internal opportunities.

If only there were warning signs that this was coming:

As G4TV Slides Towards Bankruptcy, They Finally Fire “Frosk.”

Obviously they were going in a different direction from Olivia Munn.

Frosk is a loud, obnoxious SJW feminist without an ounce of humor in her. She is full of hatred and rants. She also sometimes works for China and defends China.

G4 didn’t get a lot of watches on YouTube despite the high budget and its promotion and brand name. And Frosk started to get criticized because despite having very dogmatic and firm opinions about everything — like every leftwing feminist fatmouth — she was a leftist SJW, by which I mean, she did not know what in the hell she was talking about.

And I don’t mean about politics. I mean she would make dogmatic pronouncements about basic things about games and game systems and get them completely wrong. You know, her supposed field of expertise.

People would comment that she got them wrong, and she’d get angry.

That spurred her to go on this tirade against G4’s viewers — and remember, they didn’t have all that many viewers. She only briefly mentioned that bit about her getting a lot of things wrong, and then started insisting that everybody was always telling her how ugly and not-f***able she was, especially compared to the previous female hosts on G4.

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I will keep saying: SJWs, if you want to push your unpopular #Woke CRT poison on the public, you need to vote for Trump, or DeSantis. You need a booming Trump or DeSantis economy so that corporations are so flush with cash that they can limp along with the losses you’re incurring them.

In a Biden economy, you get fired. In a Biden economy — in a recession — they can’t afford failure. They demand profits.

I don’t know what it’s going to take before corporations finally turn away from woke propaganda. I don’t know how many millions of dollars they will have to pour gasoline on to and set aflame before they finally realize that everyone hates wokeness.

And I don’t know how quickly I want them to realize it. I don’t watch their horrible content any longer.

But I am extremely entertained watching them lose millions and millions of dollars.

Do you think the marketplace is being irrational in rejecting all of your beautifully elevated woke propaganda?

Well, as Wall Streeters used to say: The market can remain irrational for far longer than you can remain solvent.

Indeed. Got woke, went broke.

THE WASHPOST WAY: ‘Badass’ Journalists ‘Afflicting the Comfortable’ for ‘Radical Change.’

Margaret Sullivan recently stepped away from her soapbox as a media columnist for The Washington Post, but she has a new book out titled Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life. Mark Judge at the Washington Examiner provocatively asserted journalism is a like a drug, and they became addicted to the power of “doing good,” like forcing Richard Nixon to resign over Watergate.

Judge quoted Sullivan on liberal heroes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: “They were badass, the essence of swashbuckling cool, especially when confused in my teenage mind with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman … I wanted to be them, or at least immerse myself in that newsroom culture. Righteousness could be achieved, according to the self-important journalism adage, by ‘afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.'”

Fair enough. When will the Post start?

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT? Pests, Filth, and Killer Elevators: Inside Raphael Warnock’s Secret Low-Income Apartment Building.

JEFF DUNETZ: We Are VERY Powerful –Kanye West Says So. “Isn’t he wonderful? Kanye West believes the Jewish people are so influential. Thank you, Kanye. My middle finger salutes you.”

DON’T WORRY; I’M SURE NOTHING COULD GO WRONG (AGAIN): Boston University creates a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemic.

JILL BIDEN BOOED DURING EAGLES-COWBOYS SHOWDOWN:

There was no brotherly love for first lady Jill Biden from Philadelphia Eagles fans Sunday night.

Biden, who was raised just outside Philadelphia, and doesn’t hide her support for the city’s pro teams, was greeted with boos as she took part in the coin toss prior to the matchup between the Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys.

The first lady was serving as the Eagles’ honorary captain for the game and was also present to promote the Biden administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.

Jill Biden received the traditional greeting from the Philly Phaithful as she took the field with cancer patients, survivors and their families.

Joe Biden seeks his revenge!

Heh, indeed.™

UPDATE: “Dr. Jill, do no harm.”

(Updated and bumped.)

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Shot: Why does the media never call world leaders ‘far left?’

MSNBC weighed in with a piece likening [Italy’s Giorgia Meloni] to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and other “white feminists” who are part of “crypto-fascistic and white nationalist movements.” The piece claims that Meloni’s election “is absolutely anything but a win for feminism,” but rather “an exemplar of how some white women weaponize gender and use it to oppress other women and minorities.” For its part, CNN published a piece with the headline “Giorgia Meloni claims victory to become Italy’s most far-right prime minister since Mussolini,” describing Meloni as a fascist who was “raising fears for the future of women’s rights in the country.”

Matteo Renzi, a former prime minister who is liberal, threw cold water on the idea that Meloni is a fascist or a demagogue on CNN. “She’s my rival, we will continue to fight each other, but there is not a risk of fascism in Italy,” he said. “It is absolutely fake news.” His comments were largely ignored by American pundits who had already reached their verdict on Meloni.

This pattern of portraying conservative world leaders as far-right extends beyond Europe. The media also despises Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who faces an October 30 run-off against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Like Meloni, he’s been branded “far-right” by news outlets. By contrast, Lula, who served 18 months in prison on corruption charges that were later vacated, is never branded far-left.

—Spectator World, Friday.

Chaser: Has the media told you about the massive protests happening all over Europe right now? Come watch them here. “If not, why do you think that is? Is this not newsworthy?”

—Not the Bee, today.

No enemies to the left, to coin a phrase.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BARACK OBAMA IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Obama warns Democrats against woke extremism.

MARK JUDGE: The media dismissed Hunter Biden — while turning my life upside down.

On Friday, former CNN boss Jeff Zucker was confronted by CNN host Michael Smerconish over media bias. Smerconish challenged Zucker for not covering the scandal surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop. Zucker and Smerconish were also joined by Phil Griffin, the former head of MSNBC.

Zucker said this: “Well, I mean, I think I think we, the question is, we did deal with it. But to the degree that, you know, you would have thought was appropriate, I think the answer is in the final two weeks, you know, it was looked at. We did not know enough about it.” Griffin similarly argued that MSNBC didn’t cover it because Hunter Biden “was never arrested. The Justice Department was looking into it, never reported it until he is the son of a candidate. I don’t think it’s a main story until that happens.”

That’s funny. Because in the fall of 2018, my entire life was turned upside down by the media. CNN and MSNBC were some of the worst offenders.

I was not related to any politician, and I had never been arrested. Yet I was a focal point of hour upon hour upon hour of coverage and speculation when the media, politicians, and opposition researchers, fueled by an absurdly vague accusation of sexual assault against my high school friend Brett Kavanaugh, decided to destroy my life and Brett’s to prevent him from getting on the Supreme Court.

Ronan Farrow, the redoubtable smear artist from the New Yorker, called me in early September 2018 and told me I was in a letter along with Brett, a letter that accused us of taking part in “sexual misconduct” in “the 1980s.” Farrow couldn’t tell me the specific time, the place, or even who the accuser was. Then, on Sept. 16, 2018, Emma Brown of the Washington Post broke the story: A woman named Christine Blasey Ford was accusing Brett of sexual assault. In her email to me that morning, Brown mentioned a woman named Leland Keyser, whom Ford claimed was at a party where Brett assaulted Ford.

However, in her final published story, Brown left Leland Keyser out. She did so because Keyser denied any such party ever took place — and would later tell the FBI that she had been threatened if she didn’t support Ford. Kimberly Strassel at the Wall Street Journal noticed the omission.

When Kevin Williamson was hired and then nearly-immediately fired in 2018 by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg after his crybully staffers melted down, Williamson reminded Goldberg that the Atlantic had always welcomed controversial authors, and specifically mentioned the late polemicist Christopher Hitchens. To which Goldberg replied, Godfather-style, “Yes. But Hitchens was in the family. You are not.” Hunter is definitely in the family, whereas Judge (and Kavanaugh) are not.

When you’re in the DNC-MSM’s family, you can get away with anything. Just ask Dan Rather, an unexpected postmodernist, in a May 2001 exchange with Bill O’Reilly that foreshadowed Rather’s downfall three and a half years later:

Related: Leaked emails reveal Hunter Biden’s real estate company received a $40 million investment from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of corrupt Moscow mayor, who also paid president’s son $3.5million consulting fee.

Does the Big Guy get a cut?

DON’T GET COCKY: GOPerdammerung: Signs of a Seismic National Shift and a Red Tidal Wave. Americans rejected impotence in 1980. Something comparable is afoot this election year.

Upon graduating from college, I applied for, and got, a newswriting internship at influential Washington, D.C. station WTTG’s The 10 O’Clock News. There, even as a young punk, I could recognize the historic importance of the 1980 presidential campaign, although not yet the magnificence of the Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan. My focus was on Jimmy Carter, and how two occurrences — one tragic and one comic — seemed to highlight his incompetence.

The worst of these was indirectly caused by Reagan, specifically his incomprehensible — to the Democrats — competitiveness in the race. The Carter team had wanted to run against the unacceptably right-wing — so they thought — Reagan as opposed to the formidably respectable steady hand, George H. Bush. But Reagan consistently hitting Carter for the Iran hostage fiasco resonated with the American people, and certainly me. A July 1980 Harris poll showed Carter losing to Reagan 53 to 26 percent (independent John Anderson had 18 percent). The desperate Carter went against his nature and authorized a military rescue of the hostages. This resulted in eight soldiers dead and a helicopter burning in the desert without combat.

The lesser incident, which took place two months prior, became humorously known as the Attack of the Killer Rabbit. President Carter was alone in a small fishing boat on a Georgia lake when a small white rabbit swam right toward him. Carter tried to repel the beast with a paddle and the rabbit swam away. Pictures of Carter wielding his oar against the non-monster took on ridiculous proportion and made him a mockery at the worst time, even in the then still valid Washington Post.

On November 4, 1980, I was at the Republican National Headquarters helping the WTTG reporter cover election night. It was the most electrifying night of my life. I watched a giant electronic map of the United States go red in 44 states in what seemed like half an hour. Saw the faces in the crowd change from shock to elation amid screams of joy. Looking back, I view the two Carter incidents as omens of the seismic shift in American politics and culture that took place that night. Eight years of a strong, patriotic American comeback followed — accompanied by some of the best films and music ever produced — leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then George Bush came in and mucked it with his “kinder, gentler nation” idiocy. Nonetheless, I see similar signs of change now, and foresee a sharp turn for the better this November 8.

Related: Independent Women Swing Hard Toward GOP Despite Democrats’ Abortion Push.

Republicans made massive gains with independent women in recent weeks as Democrats ramped up their messaging on abortion ahead of the midterm elections.

Forty-nine percent of voters plan to vote for the Republican nominee to represent their House district while 45 percent said they’d back their Democratic opponent, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday. Of particular note was a 32 point swing among independent women toward the GOP. In September’s iteration of the poll, Democrats boasted a 14 point lead among that demographic, but by October, Republicans held an 18 point advantage.

While Democratic officials and progressive commentators had suggested that the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade might lessen the expected electoral blow of the midterms, the swing toward the GOP among independent women — the group most heavily targeted by Democratic strategists — suggests that their focus on abortion might be to their own detriment.

Still though, eschew the cockiness. As Glenn advises, “Seriously, if you care about this election, you need to be out volunteering and donating. Commenting on the Internet doesn’t count.”

ATLANTIC REPORTER* TACITLY ADMITS SHE WANTS TO DATE KARI LAKE:

Related: Libs Freak After Kari Lake Runs Over Dana Bash on CNN.

* I know. But it’s hard to work “Democratic Party operative with a byline” into the headline and keep it concise.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Dr. Anthony Fauci on what Americans can do to limit pandemic’s harm:

Judy Woodruff: Speaking of spring break, there has been conflicting advice to Americans this week in different states about whether schools should be closed or open, day care centers.

What is your best advice on that right now?

Anthony Fauci: You know, it really varies from location to location.

And you want to listen to the local — state and local health authorities. But you also would hope that they are looking at the guidelines that are coming from the federal level, because they are only guidelines. They say you should. They don’t say you must.

But they should at least be looked at. So, clearly, in certain circumstances, particularly in areas where there’s community spread, the schools should be closed.

—PBS News Hour, March 20th, 2020.

Chaser: Fauci: School Shutdowns Something ‘I Had Nothing to Do With.’

[ABC’s Jonathan Karl] interjected, “But much less than the older population obviously.” Despite the fact that children faces significantly lower risk of developing severe health complications after contracting Covid-19, they were forced to mask in schools for nearly two years. New York City only recently dropped its mask mandate for public pre-school and daycare kids.

Fauci reminded Karl that he, allegedly, repeatedly urged school districts to keep schools open as long as possible. “No one plays that clip. They always say ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it]. I mean, let’s get down to the facts,” he asserted.

As late as September 2020, Fauci recommended that schools only open back up once the virus is “under control,” he told CNN at the time.

Fauci said in August that he plans to step down from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December, concluding many decades in government.

—NRO, today.

Fauci can’t step down fast enough. As James Meigs explored last month: Why Fauci Became a Bobblehead. 

Fauci seems to have concluded that he is synonymous with science itself. “It’s easy to criticize,” he complained on Face the Nation last year, “but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science.” Note to reader: No one “represents” science. Science is a radically transparent system of inquiry, debate, and a willingness to challenge received wisdom. As soon as any individual claims the authority to speak for science as a whole, that person is doing the opposite of science.

Today, there is reason to believe that Covid-19, as devastating as it was, did less damage to our society than our ham-fisted overreaction to the disease. Fauci and his public health colleagues were enthusiastic cheerleaders for the policies that inflicted this damage. The social, medical, and economic aftershocks will reverberate for decades to come. It’s tempting to lay the blame here all on Fauci, to assume that his personal moral shortcomings created this mess. I don’t think that’s right. By all accounts, Fauci is a well-meaning official who really believes he’s doing what’s best for the country. But so what? Well-intentioned people can do just as much damage as malevolent ones, sometimes more.

No. The real problem here is power. Fauci simply has had far too much of it for far too long. When the Good Saint Anthony retires in a few months, this administration (or, more likely, one that follows) would be smart to ensure that the next NIAID director operates on a much shorter leash. We would all do well to recognize that appointing “czars” in times of crisis always backfires in the end. And it’s fundamentally un-American.

Flashback: Fauci and other health ‘experts’ are messing up monkeypox just as they did COVID, Ebola and AIDS.

OLD AND BUSTED: 81 Million Votes!

The New Hotness? Only 33% would vote to reelect Biden if presidential election was held today: poll.

Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

STACY MCCAIN HAS ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who Put the Bomp? “What does a car made in Wolfsburg, Germany, have to do with a novelty hit from 1961? It’s a strange tale, with musical connections to Dolly Parton, the Mamas and Papas, a children’s cartoon and an iconic scene from a famous 1980s movie. It’s about a boy from Brooklyn.”

LEFTIST TROLL TRIES TO PISS OFF J.K. ROWLING, AND SHE COULDN’T CARE LESS:

J.K. Rowling is a freakin’ savage.

An internet troll tried to piss off the Harry Potter author for losing a “whole audience” over her personal beliefs – namely, that men can’t be women. Luckily, Rowling couldn’t care less about cancel culture’s numerous attempts to get rid of her, especially since she’s still a major success.

“How do you sleep at night knowing you’ve lost a whole audience from buying your books?” the troll wrote on Twitter.

Rowling’s response dropped jaws when she blasted back, “I read my most recent royalty cheques and find the pain goes away pretty quickly.”

Rainier Wolfcastle sympathizes:

THE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE TWINS: Panic in the Fetterman Camp.

“After my stroke,” Fetterman opens, “I was just grateful to see Giselle and my kids.” In the soft-focus spot, Fetterman denounces “politicians” who “spend so much time fighting about the things that don’t matter.” What does matter, says Fetterman, is having the economic security to be able to spend time with loved ones because we never know how much time we have.

It’s a touching message, but it hardly allays concerns about Fetterman’s ailments. The point of an ad like this is to “hang a lantern” on the candidate’s negatives, thereby reframing the issue in more favorable terms. That’s a workable strategy, but it comes at the cost of conceding that the negative in question is a real and pressing concern for voters.

More ominously, from the perspective of Pennsylvania’s Democratic voters, is the prospect of President Joe Biden’s imminent return to the state.

As the midterm election season heads into the home stretch, the president will host a fundraiser in Pennsylvania alongside Fetterman. Biden hasn’t been seen with Fetterman in any capacity since September 5; indeed, the president hasn’t campaigned much at all of late. “Biden doesn’t appear eager to land Air Force One in states where he’s underwater in the polls, and incumbent Democratic senators are fighting to hang on,” Axios reported on Friday. “And he’s yet to headline any campaign rallies this month where he is in front of big audiences to make his closing argument.” Pennsylvania is just such a state where Biden’s presence could do more to harm than good for Democratic prospects.

September’s Franklin & Marshall Poll of the Keystone State showed that only 28 percent of Pennsylvania’s registered voters say the president is doing a “good” or “excellent” job. Seventy percent describe his performance in office as “fair” or “poor.” While that poll showed the race for Senate tightening significantly from August, Fetterman maintains a narrow lead over his Republican opponent. Moreover, the Fetterman campaign has outraised and continues to outspend Mehmet Oz, who has pumped at least $17 million of his own wealth into his campaign. The wisdom of the Fetterman camp’s decision to tether itself to the Democratic Party’s unpopular figurehead is questionable unless we assume that Democratic wallets are starting to tighten up as enthusiasm for the candidate wanes.

The media are doing all that they can to bail Captain Pike out: Rolling Stone: Gisele Fetterman became the “de facto candidate” after husband’s stroke.

As Michael Graham wrote in 2004 after Frank Lautenberg was swapped in to replace Bob Torricelli on the Democrats’ Senate ticket in NJ, “Don’t assume you know who’s on the Democratic ticket until Election Day.”

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Just Stop Oil activist sprays Aston Martin showroom with paint as others block London’s Park Lane.

I’m sure they’ve got all of the appropriate kit to protest Big Oil:

GREAT MOMENTS IN LAW AND ORDER: Rather than prosecuting car thieves, St. Louis wants to sue Kia and Hyundai for making their cars so easy to steal.

So what’s the city’s solution to all the car thieveries?

Why, sue the auto makers for making the cars so easy to steal of course.

The city has focused on Hyundai and its subsidiary Kia as their targets for the lawsuit. Gardner and St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones have singled out these two automakers because of a viral TikTok challenge using the hashtag “Kia Boys,” which demonstrates how certain models of Kias and Hyundais can be stolen with a screwdriver and a USB cord. The models in question are not equipped with electric immobilizers.

That’s why the city leaders claim car thefts are on the rise.

It has nothing to do with the removal of all deterrence from the criminal justice system in their minds.

Speaking of which: St. Louis mayor accused of defunding police department by millions of dollars.

THE STAGFLATION PRESIDENT: Joe Biden’s terrible economic legacy.

Another month, another bad report. On October 13 the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that consumer price inflation, at an 8.2 percent annualized rate, was higher than expected through September. Americans continue to endure the worst inflation in four decades. They continue to experience a decline in real average hourly earnings. They continue to tell pollsters that the economic recession has arrived. Blerina Uruci, an economist at T. Rowe Price, does not like what she sees. “This is very troubling,” Uruci told the New York Times. “The trend is very troubling.”

Not at the White House. It doesn’t see any troubles. According to President Biden, the most recent BLS data are superfluous. After all, everybody already knows that “Americans are squeezed by the cost of living: that’s been true for years, and they didn’t need today’s report to tell them that.” As a matter of fact, Biden said in a statement, rising costs are “a key reason I ran for President.” And anyway, the situation is under control. “My policies—that Democrats delivered—directly tackles [sic] price pressures we saw in today’s report.”

End of story, thank you all very much, nothing to see here, move along, move along.

Just a minute. Biden’s reading of recent economic history is filled with evasions, half-truths, and “yarns.” They deserve comment and rebuttal. I don’t remember Biden staking his 2020 candidacy on inflation. He couldn’t have. The inflation hadn’t happened. It didn’t arrive until the spring of 2021. By which time Biden was living—during weekdays, at least—at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It’s as if “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” A theme that would have made a younger Biden – or at least his comms team, back in the day – quite cross:

But that was decades before people started wondering: Is Team Biden purposefully grinding down the middle class?

UPDATE:

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: ‘You All Got Caught With Your Sparkly Panties Down:’ Mom Wrecks School Board Over Halloween Drag Show.

One outraged mother, Brittany Mayer, accused the Encinitas Unified School District school board members of “pimping out” the district’s children to a transgender surgical facility and a 21-and-over gay bar, apparent sponsors of the event.

“What is it about a grown man costumed in a sparkly bra with augmented boobs busting out, a leather miniskirt barely covering his twerking ass with tuck tape on his front while spreading his fish-netted legs as he writhes on the ground, grinding his groin next to a minor, ‘family-friendly?’” Mayer slammed the school board, video shows.

“You all got caught with your sparkly panties down,” the outraged mother continued, demanding an explanation and an apology from each member. “And while we have a culture that has a massive problem with child porn, with sex trafficking — you, a little school district, board of adults, made the decision to feature an event to hyper-sexualize young children.”

There’s a word for that, which Twitter’s current management doesn’t allow its users to say: OK, Groomer: Phrase Calling Out Predators Banned on Twitter.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The left is losing its war on parents.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Is Fake Money Made For Movies And TV? (Video.)

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Climate Activists Pour Out Milk in Edinburgh Grocery Store.

Activists poured milk out in a grocery store in Edinburgh, Scotland, and other locations across the United Kingdom, on Saturday, October 15, as a part of a climate protest organized by the Animal Rebellion group.

The environmental organization, with the goal of “transitioning to a plant-based food system,” said that “dairy, like all forms of animal farming, is an incredibly wasteful and destructive industry, and a major contributor to the climate crisis that is currently threatening all life on Earth.”

Exit questions:

“WHO SAYS THE LEFT CAN’T MEME?” Out-of-touch Joe Biden brings the ice cream meme to life.

IRAN: Huge fire sweeps through notorious Evin prison in Iran as ‘gunfire rings out.’ Prison houses Tehran’s political prisoners as videos shared on social media show black smoke billowing from the facility.

REPORT: Jim Acosta’s next to go at CNN — but he won’t be the last.