OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH SUPREME COURT NOMINEES: Joe Biden Claims Ketanji Brown Jackson Was Put Through ‘Verbal Abuse…Anger…And Most Vile Baseless Assertions And Accusations.’
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April 9, 2022
EFREM ZIMBALIST JR. LEFT THE HOOVER BUILDING A LONG TIME AGO: Prosecutors Fail to Secure a Single Guilty Verdict in Alleged Whitmer Kidnapping Plot.
As Howie Carr wrote last fall: Abolish the FBI: You heard it here first.
CHINA HARVESTED ORGANS FROM LIVING PEOPLE, DOCTORS HELPED WITH EXECUTIONS, ISRAELI RESEARCHER CLAIMS: “Ethan Gutmann, a researcher and human rights activist…estimated that China murders at least 25,000 people each year in Xinjiang for their organs. He described fast tracks to move the organs in local airports, and crematoria built to dispose of the bodies. Customers for organs these days, he said, are mainly wealthy Chinese. However, he noted, there are also ‘organ tourists.’ They included Japanese, South Koreans and Muslims from the Gulf States who prefer ‘halal organs’ taken from Muslims like the Uighurs, he said. But despite the extensive evidence on organ trafficking in China, no ‘smoking gun’ has been found yet in the form of official documents that could prove the state is behind the illegal, immoral and profitable industry. Until now, apparently.”
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Barack Obama and Company Dishonestly Lecture UChicago Students on ‘Disinformation.’
And inadvertently put on quite a show in the process:
● Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum: I still don’t care about Hunter’s laptop.
April 8, 2022
ACADEMY BANS WILL SMITH FROM OSCARS FOR 10 YEARS: “There have been calls from industry insiders and moviegoers for Smith’s Oscar to be taken back, which the Oscars have no legal authority to claim. To compare, convicted criminals Harvey Weinstein and director Roman Polanski still hold their Oscars following their expulsions.”
THE 1980s CALLED, AND THEY WANT THEIR FOREIGN POLICY BACK: Obama: Hey, I warned you that Putin “was always ruthless.”
WAIT, THE RUSSIANS REALLY DID DIG TRENCHES NEAR CHERNOBYL? “I’m reminded of what a source who works at the plant told Reuters a few weeks ago about his conversation with Russian soldiers occupying the site. ‘When they were asked if they knew about the 1986 catastrophe, the explosion of the fourth block (of the Chernobyl plant), they did not have a clue. They had no idea what kind of a facility they were at,’ he said, claiming they were merely told that it was ‘critically important infrastructure.’ That seems absurd given Chernobyl’s infamy in the west, but is it so hard to believe that Russian twentysomethings wouldn’t have heard of it? Such episodes probably aren’t spoken of in history class or on state television. So how would they know? The military high command surely knew. They just didn’t care to tell them, it seems, possibly fearing that units would have refused to deploy there had they known where they were going.”
April 7, 2022
OUT ON A LIMB: Weirdos Who Want To Sexualize Your Children Should Absolutely Be Stigmatized As Groomers.
Joel Barry, the managing editor of The Babylon Bee (which has been censored for truthful statements about sex and gender), put it correctly when he said, “Most teachers aren’t themselves pedophiles, but they are working in a pedophilic system designed to make kids more exploitable—both politically and sexually.” He continued:
They aren’t grooming kids for a specific pedophile, necessarily. They’re grooming them for a system of pedophilia — which in the long run will result in horrors we can’t comprehend. Find your courage and stop it.
“System of pedophilia” isn’t conspiratorial; it’s an apt way to describe a depraved culture that preys upon its children — in the womb, in entertainment, in the classroom, online, during global pandemics, and anywhere else self-serving adults can exploit children to accomplish their political, social, and sexual ends.
The ridiculous “groomer” tut-tutting is just the latest friendly fire from the dwindling faction of used-to-be-conservatives who care more about getting published in The Atlantic than in defending the rights of parents and their vulnerable children. According to many of them, you’re too sensitive about censorship, not concerned enough about decorum, secretly racist, not a faithful enough Christian, and now too sensitive to child exploitation.
But we know what grooming looks like, and if we’re too afraid to call it what it is, what the hell are we conserving?
The aforementioned opportunity to write for the Atlantic, and the desire to enjoy the catering in the CNN green room!
Related: Media In Sync Trots out ‘QAnon,’ ‘Red Scare’ Cards to Attack Parents Rights Movement.
Like gay conversion therapy … but with scalpels. https://t.co/5mmWcRe9VH
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) April 7, 2022
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: John Nolte: Disney’s Jimmy Kimmel ‘Jokes’ About Will Smith Slapping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Kimmel, a far-left propagandist who hosts Disney’s basement-rated late-night show on ABC, “joked” about how much he’d like to see Will Smith slap Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
“This woman, Klan mom, is especially upset with the three Republican senators who said they’ll vote yes on Ketanji Brown Jackson, who’s nominated for the Supreme Court,” Kimmel said, adding, “She tweeted, ‘Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for KBJ.’ Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need him?”
You see, when chauvinist leftists like Kimmel “joke” about committing violence against women who dare to defy them with their political opinions, that is perfectly acceptable to the Walt Disney Co., the pro-grooming multinational that owns the ABC network that pays Kimmel millions to attract an audience of dozens.
And these calls for violence are nothing new…
Just last week, Stephen Colbert, Kimmel’s far-left counterpart at CBS, used Will Smith’s assault on comedian Chris Rock to call for a journalist to be slapped. But because Colbert was referring to a Fox News journalist, Peter Doocy, a journalist who asks tough and relevant questions of a regime Colbert is paid millions to protect, suddenly it’s okay to call for violence against journalists.
For her part, Rep. Greene has done the correct thing and reported Kimmel’s “joke” to the Capitol Police.
I’m no defender of Greene and her conspiracy theories, but Kimmel works for a network who in the midst of a moral panic, tried to blame the January 2011 massacre in Tuscon on Sarah Palin’s clip art. Afterwards, every major person in the liberal overculture talked about “we can be better” and the dangers of violent rhetoric. Later that month, “CNN’s John King issued a prompt on-air apology minutes after a guest on his program used the term ‘crosshairs’ during a segment: ‘We’re trying to get away from using that kind of language,’” as NewsBusters noted during that brief period of magical thinking when the DNC-MSM convinced themselves of the awesome talismanic powers of Palin’s clip-art and the media’s own violence and gun-related metaphors.
Curiously, violent rhetoric is much in favor these days, by the same players:
Flashbacks:
● Sen. Rand Paul had part of his lung removed this weekend because of damage from 2017 attack.
● Actor Jeff Daniels to CBS’s Stephen Colbert: ‘We Need Someone That Can Punch Trump in the Face.’
● Ilhan Omar Retweet Suggests Rand Paul Deserved to Be Assaulted.
● Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to 2020 Dems: Don’t Run Away from Trump — ‘Punch Him in the Face.’
● Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.
● Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul.
● CNN Host Palled Around with, Promoted ICE Firebomber’s Antifa Group.
● Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Berkeley Student While Fellow Students Laugh.
● Journalist Andy Ngo Beaten Up at Portland Antifa Rally.
● John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation and the “political director” for CBS, wrote an article for Slate in 2013 charmingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”
DICK DURBIN LEADS THE CHARGE TO PROTECT CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS.
Last week, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Protect Act of 2022. You can read the text of the bill here, but the Reader’s Digest version is that it would create minimum mandatory sentencing for offenses for child pornography and keep judges from imposing lighter sentences.
The bill faced stiff opposition from Democrats in the Senate, including Dick Durbin, who denied Hawley unanimous consent. Durbin asked: “Why now? I know why. He said as much. This senator has suggested over the course of the last two weeks and hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee that somehow this judge… aspiring to the Supreme Court is out of the mainstream when it comes to sentencing in child pornography cases.”
Well, Dick, why not now? Please explain to me why this is a bad bill. I know your side has dumped millions into getting your nominee confirmed. I know you dream of using the Supreme Court as a juggernaut to ensure that every one of your fevered dreams is enshrined as law no matter the vox populi. After all, you were in favor of a similar bill back in 2003. Remember that?
To his credit, Hawley did not back down, stating: “The Senator from Illinois says Congress hasn’t acted in 2 decades. That’s true. I haven’t been here for 2 decades. He has, the Senator doesn’t want tougher sentences, he doesn’t want to talk about this issue, he wants to sweep it under the rug. I’m here to say I won’t let that happen.”
Related: Dick Durbin Is a Bad Joke on Supreme Court Nominees.
WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON PUTIN: ‘This is a crazy, unjust attack:’ Pink Floyd re-form to support Ukraine.
TATER TAUNTED: College Freshman Torches Stelter/CNN at ‘Disinformation’ Conference.
As the final question for the “How Media Platforms Shape Consumer Realities” panel, self-identified “first-year” student Christopher Phillips chided the panel (moderated by the New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg, The Dispatch’s Stephen Hayes, Lauren Williams of Capital B, and Stelter) for attacking Fox News while they themselves had a laundry list of disinformation sins:
You’ve all spoken extensively about Fox News being a purveyor of disinformation. But CNN is right up there with them. They pushed the Russian collusion hoax, they pushed the Jussie Smollett hoax, they smeared Justice Kavanaugh as a rapist, and they also smeared Nick Sandmann as a white supremacist, and yes, they dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop affair as pure Russian disinformation.
That airing of the laundry was followed up with two hard-hitting questions. “With mainstream corporate journalists becoming little more than apologists and cheerleaders for the regime, is it time to finally declare that the canon of journalistic ethics is dead or no longer operative,” he asked in his first.
And in his second question, Phillips made the astute observation that “[a]ll of the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.” And that brought him to wonder: “Are we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence or is there something else behind it?”
Stelter was clearly uncomfortable and quipped that it’s “too bad” he couldn’t answer the questions because “it’s time for lunch.” And he didn’t want to get into a discussion about CNN’s lies on camera, telling Phillips, “I’ll come over and talk in more detail after this.”
Of course, in his bloviating that followed, Stelter didn’t actually answer any of Phillips’ questions. He initially scoffed, suggesting the student was “describing a different channel than the one that I watch.” And he dismissed the facts of CNN’s flamboyant bias as just “a popular right-wing narrative about CNN.”
More at our sister site, Townhall: “Stelter added that behind the scenes, outlets help each other out. He used Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall’s injury while reporting in Ukraine as an example. Oh, and the last time Brian spoke with a Biden official, he was yelled at by them or something. Yeah, not so sure how that absolves him or his network of the pervasive incompetence we’ve seen for years, but whatever. There’s no accountability here. We all know this. Everyone who peddled the Russian collusion hoax as fact at CNN and elsewhere deserves to be fired. Someone must be tossed into the meat grinder over this fiasco since it’s one of the biggest journalistic failures in recent memory.”
As Sohrab Ahmari tweets, “How delicious: Thanks to brave and smart student questioners, the Atlantic’s ‘anti-disinfo’ fest is turning into a sustained critique of elite-media disinformation. And the likes of Applebaum and Stelter appear so arrogant and dismissive. Kudos, lads! We’re cheering from home.”
Earlier: Atlantic Staff Writer Anne Applebaum Says The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Not ‘Interesting’ … At ‘Disinformation’ Conference.
GOP PROBE OF HUNTER BIDEN’S BUSINESS DEALINGS TURNS TO PRESIDENT’S BROTHER JAMES: “‘We have people with the Biden name, dealing with Chinese business people that have a relationship to the Communist Party,’ Senator Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge. ‘I think James Biden was very much a part of this.’ Bank records released by Republican senators this week indicate James Biden’s company, the Lion Hall Group, received payments from a Chinese-financed consulting group in 2018, before his brother Joe announced he was running for president. Grassley says that same year James Biden and the president’s son, Hunter, received monthly retainers totaling $165,000 — $100,000 to Hunter and $65,000 to James.”
REPORT: Geico hired Linda Sarsour for a “Middle Eastern and North African Heritage Month Celebration:”
At the time of this post, the only posts I’ve seen referencing this are linking to the above Stop Antisemitism.org tweet and a cached Reddit post that has since been deleted:
So it’s possible Geico’s management got cold feet about associating with Sarsour, which isn’t too surprising. She’s too toxic for even the Biden administration — or is she? Biden campaign appears to walk back apology over condemning Linda Sarsour.
The Biden campaign has been sending conflicting messages over whether or not it regrets comments directed at Linda Sarsour, a prominent pro-BDS activist.
On a private call on Sunday with dozens of prominent Arab and Muslim activists, the Biden campaign expressed regret over how it construed a statement condemning former Women’s March leader and Bernie Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour. Sarsour was featured last week at the Democratic National Convention’s Muslim Delegates Assembly, despite her history of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and other bigotry.
In that call, top foreign policy adviser Tony Blinken expressed “regret” over the matter, according to Middle East Eye, which obtained a recording of the call and first reported on it.
National coalitions director Ashley Allison reportedly said, “I am sorry that that happened. And I hope that whatever trust was broken, that this conversation is one small step to help build back the trust, but that is not the last time we have this conversation.”
The call followed the backlash the Biden campaign received from the Arab and Muslim communities after it rebuked Sarsour.
So they were for her before they were against for before they were for her. That’s the Biden mindset gone plaid!
UPDATE: Geico distances themselves from Sarsour:
More here: Insurance Giant GEICO Cancels Event With Linda Sarsour After Outcry.
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XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! How China Used American Influencers To Shill for the ‘Genocide Games.’ “China Central Television disclosed that it spent $26 million in the past six months producing television and promotional content in the United States. The amount paid to Monumental is not disclosed, but the TV company lists a $53,000 payment for advertising and promotion. Monumental broadcast a video message from China’s ambassador and displayed pro-China graphics at Capital One Arena during the Capitals game…Crystal Kung Minkoff, the Real Housewives star, promoted the games on her Instagram account, noting that Beijing would be the first city ever to host the summer and winter Olympics. None of the social media influencers hired by Vippi Media registered as foreign agents with the Justice Department. None of the video spots reviewed by the Free Beacon included disclosures that their content was funded by the Chinese government. TikTok and Instagram did not respond to questions about whether the content violated their policies regarding sponsored content.”
BRENDAN O’NEILL: Now we know just how dehumanizing the ‘Nazi’ slur can be.
As for the masses who voted for Trump, or for Brexit, clearly they had been brainwashed by neo-fascistic propaganda. The vote for Brexit was ‘in the fascist tradition’, said the Archbishop of Canterbury. Then there were self-styled ‘anti-fascists’ like Paul Mason, who said Trump had tapped into a ‘plebeian mass base for American fascism’. Those fascist-leaning masses. Mason also argues that in modern-day Britain ‘the psychological traits’ that made Nazism possible in the 1930s are now most commonly found among ‘working-class people and the urban poor’. This is surely only a more polite way of saying ‘Nazified masses’, of suggesting that the throng, the mob, is susceptible to fascist-style brain invasion. Pro-war Russian thinkers claim the people of Ukraine have been corrupted by Nazi thought; our own chattering classes claim the people of Britain and the US, especially the poorer ones, posses the ‘psychological traits’ that are amenable to far-right ideology.
No, our elites are not agitating for violence against the ‘Nazified masses’. And yet they share something deeply disturbing in common with the Putin regime and its extremist supporters – an addiction to writing off vast swathes of people as fascists, or at least ‘fascist-adjacent’; a compulsion to dehumanise certain politicians and their voters through the language of the 1930s. The tragedy of Ukraine has shown just how toxic the Nazi slur can be. Those Russian soldiers who appear to have murdered citizens in Bucha will have been fed the lie that these people, like all Ukrainians, are a Nazi menace to civilised society. They will have been told, essentially, that they’re subhuman, for that is the role the Nazi accusation plays today – to depict certain people as morally inferior, as lesser, as lacking the intellectual and moral resources required to function as a decent member of society. It seems to be a terrifyingly small step from believing that somebody is a Nazi to believing that they deserve to be shot like a dog in the street.
Read the whole thing.
A University of Chicago student asks a left wing reporter about the media cover up for Hunter Biden. Watch his question and watch her arrogant reaction. It perfectly encapsulates why so many distrust the media. pic.twitter.com/W8UXwmNKYn
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 6, 2022
Unexpectedly, considering alleged “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella blurbed her 2017 book:
April 6, 2022
GREAT MOMENTS IN OWN-GOALS: The Miami Herald ran a hit piece on DeSantis for raising money using a “fake news” site. That site was literally The Babylon Bee.
I know the Herald is extremely jealous of the Bee’s rapid ascension to becoming America’s Newspaper of Record, but try not to be so obvious about it, guys.
BRILLIANT: Allie Beth Stuckey looks at systematic groomer supremacy and groomer fragility.
As this editor wrote yesterday, Tuesday seemed to be the big push (from the Left and Right) against using the term “groomer” to those opposed to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill. David French posted a thread saying that “redefining” grooming in that way was “pure malice.” Jonathan Chait wrote that “groomer” was the “hot new smear” against “everybody who disagrees with the GOP.” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes kicked off his show with the truly despicable “pro-pedophilia slander” that’s become “mainstream” among conservatives. And on Wednesday, David Harsanyi wrote in National Review that the “groomer” accusation is counterproductive.
A few days ago, a non-binary birthing person wrote in HuffPost how she was trying to raise her kids as homosexuals, but they were steeped in “heterosexual grooming” culture. It was satire intending to turn the argument around, but the Left aren’t the only ones who can play that game. Allie Beth Stuckey has taken her cues from Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi and posted a thread today on “groomer fragility.”
Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: Conservative host triggers groomers in epic Twitter throw down.
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NEW VERDICT IN CAPITOL RIOT CASE THROWS A WRENCH INTO POLITICAL NARRATIVE:
A federal defense contractor who had been charged with four misdemeanors for walking into the Capitol on Jan. 6, fought the charges and was acquitted on all counts today by Judge Trevor McFadden. Matthew Martin was charged with: entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, as well as parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
But Martin didn’t commit any violence or break into the building. He argued that he believed that the Capitol Police had allowed him into the building, and he just walked in.
McFadden said that, based on video of the scene, that assertion was at least “plausible” and that prosecutors failed to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
“People were streaming by and the officers made no attempt to stop the people,” said the judge [….]
“I do think the defendant reasonably believed the officers allowed him into the Capitol,” the judge said.
McFadden said that the government did not show any evidence of Martin crossing police lines, and that Martin’s “conduct was about as minimal….as I can imagine.”
This is a significant verdict. While some are charged with more serious offenses, many of the people charged for Jan. 6 offenses are in a similar position to Martin — they didn’t do much beyond walk into the building. Some have argued — as Martin did — that the police let them in.
And as Julie Kelly tweets, “What’s notable in this trial isn’t so much that Martin convinced McFadden he was waved into the building but that a USCP official CONFIRMED under oath that police let people inside.”