CNN PANELIST: IF YOU LAUGH AT TRUMP’S JOKES, YOU’RE DAMAGING SOCIETY.

We’re Time-Warner-CNN-HBO – only we get to damage society!

As Glenn wrote in January while leftists were freaking out over Trump’s “shithole” comments, “I’m amused when people who’ve spent 50 years declaring the very concept of decency repressive and outdated suddenly start with the ‘have you no decency?’ shtick. When Joseph Welch used that phrase, it was pretty much Peak Decency, or as we’re now told, a horrible regressive time of racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: CNN knocks on woman’s door, wants to know why she promoted a Russian-organized pro-Trump rally.

And because of the symbiotic relationship of big media and social media, the inevitable occurs:

That’s a mighty weak news hook. But what makes it worse is that CNN chose to name her in its report. (Her name’s not featured in the clip below.) And now, per Jerry Dunleavy, she’s being harassed by lefty trolls because of it.

But of course – the Central Scrutinizers at Time-Warner-CNN-HBO will dox any and all potential customers when they commit doubleplus ungood crimethink.

DISPATCHES FROM THE CADDYSHACK NEWS NETWORK: CNN Whines About Truck Blocking Golf Course [VIDEO].

The Secret Service and the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office both denied responsibility for the truck, causing CNN to launch into full-on conspiracy theory mode.

“Today this truck showed up out of nowhere and actually moved at one point when our journalists tried to get a different angle,” CNN’s Ryan Nobles cried. “It’s clear no one wanted us to get a picture of the president golfing.”

The Secret Service responded to CNN’s inquiries about the truck with an appropriate level of snark, stating, “The USSS is in the business of protection and investigations not in commissioning vehicles to block the media’s view of the president’s golf swing.”

CNN will get to the bottom of who the truck driver was – and then doxx the daylights out of him. You know they don’t take any guff from their viewers at Time-Warner-CNN-HBO.

Related:

23: The number of times over the past day that CNN has mentioned the white box truck that obscured view of Trump golfing.

0: For comparison, the number of times CNN has mentioned that Politico report on Obama admin’s quashing of Hezbollah investigation.

Unexpectedly.

Update: “At this point, I think the only way we get CNN off this dumb truck story is if we tell them there are Hezbollah drug runners released by Obama behind it.” Heh, indeed.™

IT’S COME TO THIS: “CNN political commentator Hilary Rosen accused a Georgetown student of anti-semitism and bigotry because he wore a bacon-themed onesie to a basketball game.”

He’s an anonymous potential viewer – better doxx the daylights out of him, CNN! Or hire him as a newsreader, if he actually is anti-Semitic.

UPDATE: CNN contributor jumps to conclusions and is left eating crow. “It turns out the fan’s name is Michael Bakan, and he regularly wears the get-up just because his last name is pronounced like the non-Kosher breakfast staple.”

This is CNN.

CNN’S BRIAN STELTER FRETS ‘STUPID’ MISTAKES IN MEDIA ARE ‘AMPLIFIED’ TO HARM THEM.

Of course, in Soviet America, media harms you! CNN threatened to dox an anti-CNN gif-maker this past Fourth of July, and a month later, former Time-Warner-CNN-HBO employee Lena Dunham threatened to dox American Airlines stewardesses for an allegedly politically incorrect conversation she overheard (or imagined she overheard) in an airport. Back in May (also at the second link above), leftwing academician Freddie deBoer wrote a post in which he suggests that everyone, on both sides of the aisle, is a cop these days. “Give me a few hours and 800 words. I’ll get you your indictments. That’s what liberalism is, now — the search for baddies doing bad things, like little offense archaeologists, digging deeper and deeper to find out who’s Good and who’s Bad. I wonder why people run away from establishment progressivism in droves.”

JIMMY KIMMEL THREATENS TO “POUND” FNC HOST BRIAN KILMEADE; Amazingly, CNN’s Brian Stelter and NYT’s Sopan Deb, Who Routinely Decry Threats Against the Media, Claim That Kimmel Meant Give “Fist Bumps” to Kilmeade.

Shouldn’t Kimmel just threaten Kilmeade with a good doxxing? That’s the acceptable form of left to right retribution for both CNN and the Times.

DEMOCRACY DIES WITH DOXXING: The New York Times explores “How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars,” and “unexpectedly” fails to mention the time it doxxed Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in 2014, and CNN’s threatening to doxx an anonymous anti-CNN gif maker this past Fourth of July.

THIS IS CNN:

UPDATE: Twitchy has since updated their post to include these tweets from Ryan:

Woman who works for employer who last week doxxed and threatened to destroy the life of an anonymous person on the Internet for creating an anti-CNN GIF wants us to all lighten up and have a better sense of humor.

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD — or, question asked and answered.

Shot: “How is CNN Not Embarrassed” [by its doxxing of an anonymous GIF maker]?

—Melissa Mackenzie, the American Spectator, yesterday.

Chaser: The embarrassment emotion is surgically removed when you join the DNC-MSM: “CNN’s Chris Cillizza embarrasses self over Trump/Agata Kornhauser-Duda handshake. Is this his worst tweet yet?”

—Twitchy, today.

Heckuva week, CNN — as Jon Gabriel noted yesterday at Ricochet, “Trump Has Driven CNN Stark, Raving Mad.” And the fakery never stops at CNN:

Heh, indeed.™

Related: Fake News: Journalists Invent ‘Awkward’ Handshake Snub of Trump.

JON GABRIEL: Trump Has Driven CNN Stark, Raving Mad.

While the rest of America was celebrating Independence Day, CNN kept digging its own grave.

Furious over a silly video President Donald Trump posted Sunday, the flailing network sicced Senior Editor Andrew Kaczynski on its creator. He tracked down an anonymous Reddit user who first posted the GIF of Trump tackling a wrestler whose head was replaced with a CNN logo. Kaczynski then found out the person’s real name and threatened to release it if he misbehaved again. . . .

That’s right: a Senior Editor for CNN is blackmailing an American citizen for daring to criticize them.

This isn’t Kaczynski’s first attempt at destroying a private citizen’s life. As a BuzzFeed reporter, he gained notoriety for publicizing a lame joke Tweeted by a 30-year-old PR director named Justine Sacco. As Sacco was boarding a plane from London to Cape Town, South Africa, she poked fun at many people’s poor understanding of the continent. Kaczynski decided the joke was racist and helped gin up a digital lynch mob while she was in the air for 11 hours sans internet. By the time Sacco landed, she was mobbed by reporters, was fired from her job, and had to go into hiding.

Kaczynski’s insanity was just the latest in CNN’s string of horrible decisions related to Trump.

All the news media would have to do to have a shot at beating Trump would be to act in a measured, professional fashion. Trump has revealed that they’re incapable of that; it seems as if that option has never even occurred to them.

UPDATE: From the comments:

I’ll tell you who is sweating bullets: FBI agents and IC officials who were “sources” and provided classified information to CNN. After the usual suspects dox the network’s producers and reporters, at least some of those sources will be outed. Even if the information they provided CNN was false, as often was the case, these agents and officials face serious legal and career repercussions.

Yeah, a lot of stuff is likely to leak out now.

DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Don’t Say ‘Hey Guys!’ in The Workplace Anymore, advises CNN Money.

 You can’t just clock in and focus on your job anymore, identity politics now dictates how you introduce yourself to a room of colleagues.

Julia Carpenter, CNN Money writer specializing in gender in the workplace, listed ways to avoid accidentally misgendering a coworker.

People who “identity as non-binary, gender non-conforming or genderqueer prefer “they/them” pronouns to reflect their identity and gender expression” but “for many workplaces, making space for non-binary people is tricky, because some people may prefer certain pronouns but present themselves in a more masculine or more feminine way.” This confusion can make coworkers, “misidentify them without even realizing their mistake.”

As Thomas Sowell wrote over 20 years ago in The Vision of the Anointed, on the left’s sustained attack on “The Generic ‘He:’”

Trivial as such crusades may seem, they have been very successful in changing the way people talk in the media, in academia, and in government. Not only is the generic “he” taboo in many quarters, the speech controllers have pressed on to new conquests, attacking such words as “layman,” “craftsman,” “actress,” or “matron,” which violate their unisex view of the world, and also proscribe such phrases as “to master a language” because it uses a sex-specific word. These examples are from an official guidebook put out by the Australian government, which shows how far such crusades have spread. An American guidebook, distributed internationally, declares that there is “a perfectly scientific, completely foolproof, and highly theoretical model for avoiding sexism on the job.” As so often happens, pretensions of “science” are the last refuge of those who offer neither the evidence nor the logic that are integral to science.

The net effect of all this is that young women, especially in educational institutions where they are bombarded with radical feminist propaganda, are led to believe that every use of the generic “he” in books of the past is proof of disdain or hostility toward women, when in fact such usage simply avoided cluttering up the language or forcing writers into strained constructions and awkward phrases. In short, the anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.

Time-Warner-CNN-HBO is rapidly going full Airstrip One. In addition to articles advising on the newest advancements in woke pronouns and gender theory, Lena Dunham is happy to play Central Scrutinizer* and dox the daylights out of any employees she overhears speaking doubleplus ungood crimethink.

Exit question: Is “Hey You Guys!” still acceptable, or is Rita Moreno the next person on the CNN dox list?

* Sorry to cross the streams between Orwell and Zappa.

OLD AND BUSTED AT THE WASHINGTON POST: The wrong clip art can get a politician killed or injured, and thus we need a new era of civility.

The new hotness? WashPost Writer Celebrates ‘Mad Hot Summer,’ ‘Higher Dosages’ of Leftist Incivility. Dan Zak “endorsed and celebrated ‘invading spaces’ of the Trump appointees.”

That seems to be an obsession with Post columnists these days.

Related: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

Update: Ana Navarro, “Republican” Analyst for CNN, the Network That Demands Endless Deference to People on TV, Delights in Incivility, Seems to Take Pleasure in Assaults on and Threats Against Rand Paul.

Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of CNN doxxing a gif maker, because his anti-CNN animation was retweeted by Trump.

HOT NEW LEFT-WING PROTEST IDEA: Let’s Occupy Fox News And Shut It Down.

Amazing, not least of which that it’s being floated almost exactly one year after CNN doxxed a previously anonymous 4chan member for creating an anti-CNN GIF that was retweeted by Trump.

THEY LEARNED IT BY READING YOU, GRAY LADY: Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire, the New York Times reports:

After a day of work at the Engineering Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Kyle Quinn had a pleasant Friday night in Bentonville with his wife and a colleague. They explored an art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and dined at an upscale restaurant.

Then on Saturday, he discovered that social media sleuths had incorrectly identified him as a participant in a white nationalist rally some 1,100 miles away in Charlottesville, Va. Overnight, thousands of strangers across the country had been working together to share photographs of the men bearing Tiki torches on the University of Virginia campus. They wanted to name and shame them to their employers, friends and neighbors. In a few cases, they succeeded.

* * * * * * * *

Mr. Quinn, who runs a laboratory dedicated to wound-healing research, was quickly flooded with vulgar messages on Twitter and Instagram, he said in an interview on Monday. Countless people he had never met demanded he lose his job, accused him of racism and posted his home address on social networks.

Fearing for their safety, he and his wife stayed with a colleague this weekend.

“You have celebrities and hundreds of people doing no research online, not checking facts,” he said. “I’ve dedicated my life to helping all people, trying to improve health care and train the next generation of scientists, and this is potentially throwing a wrench in that.”

For someone whose only sin was a passing resemblance to someone else — the actual man in the Charlottesville photo has not been conclusively identified — Mr. Quinn bore the direct consequences of the reckless spread of misinformation in breaking news, a common ritual in modern news events.

Flashback: New York Times Publishes [Ferguson policeman] Darren Wilson’s Address.

—Ed Driscoll.com, November 25, 2014. And of course, this past fourth of July, CNN doxxed an Internet gif maker for kicks and grins. Or as they say at BuzzFeed, “What time does Justine land?”

Classical allusion in headline.

DYLAN BYERS: Ronnaghazi and The Hunger Screams of Late-Stage Linear.

On Monday, after the Scarborough crowd opened the 6 a.m. hour with their own admonishment of the McDaniel hire, it became clear that the next 18 hours were going to be devastating for NBC. Early in the afternoon, I was notified that Nicolle Wallace and others intended to speak out that night, and that it was going to be an onslaught. (Wallace, a former Bush II aide, also used MSNBC to outrun some political baggage…) Around that time, Stephen Labaton, the executive vice president of communications for NBC News, and the top P.R. aide to Conde, reached out to McDaniel directly to try to reassure her that Psaki and other former political officials had faced scrutiny when they’d joined NBC, and that it might blow over. According to a source familiar with the discussion, he also told McDaniel that the MSNBC hosts were being “fucking insane.”

In a statement, Labaton told me: “Ronna and I spoke for six minutes on Monday after she indicated she was drafting some kind of statement. I never criticized anyone at MSNBC during that brief conversation. Your account of the conversation is coming from someone who was dropped by the network yesterday.”

Both Labaton and Budoff Brown’s efforts to quell the uprising seemed to emphasize a blind spot. Yes, the green rooms of television news are stuffed with former party chairs, press secretaries, and spokespeople. Indeed, an Axios analysis this week noted that, since 2000, “more than half (16 of 31) of White House press secretaries and communications directors have gone on to become paid contributors, commentators or hosts on news programs.” But as American politics has grown more fractured, these hires have become more problematic. In the Trump era, the most controversial hire was CNN’s appointment of Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a paid contributor. Of course, for all his myriad sins, Lewandowski had never participated in an effort to undermine or overthrow an election and then lied about it. The NBC News leadership seemed to overlook that distinction, and how much it would offend the anchors and correspondents who had bought into the “Lean Forward” and “This is Who We Are” mantras.

Of course, as Larry Elder notes, some “election deniers” have much better odds of being able to use MSNBC to rehabilitate their image: MSNBC: One Man’s ‘Election Denier’ Is Another Man’s TV Host.

After McDaniel’s hiring, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said he and his “Morning Joe” co-host would not allow McDaniel to appear as a guest. But Sharpton, Scarborough’s colleague, regularly appears on the show. In 2000, when Scarborough served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, he proposed a resolution called “Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton.” It read in part:

“Whereas the Congress strongly rejects the racist and incendiary actions of the Reverend Al Sharpton;

“Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘bloodsucking [J]ews’, and ‘Jew bastards’;

“Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as ‘white interlopers’ and ‘diamond merchants’;

“Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton was found guilty of defamation by a jury in a New York court arising from the false accusation that former Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who is white, raped and assaulted a fifteen year-old black girl; …

“Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton’s vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people; …

“Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, ‘The White Man is the Devil …'”

Apparently, all is forgiven.

Sharpton is also, to use MSNBC’s parlance, an “election denier,” and an egregious one at that. About the 2016 election, Sharpton said: “There’s no question that the process that elected (Trump) was not legitimate. When you look at now the evidence from the intelligence agencies that there was the influence from the Russians …”

So, McDaniel out, Sharpton in. One man’s “election denier” is another man’s MSNBC host.

It helps Sharpton’s little-watched show to remain on air because,  “Without the support of Sharpton and his racist admirers, Comcast would not have been able to gain control of NBC,” Daniel Greenfield writes.

But as for Ronna McDaniel’s “election denialism,” the cool kids at MSNBC would have found another reason why she shouldn’t be allowed to sit at their lunch table, Ed Morrissey writes:

They’re “committed to the principle,” Conde claims — right up to the point where executives have to stand up to the down-twinkles of their own employees. That’s where their “commitment” ends. And that means, of course, that they’re not committed to it at all.

So Courage! Much Conviction!

This isn’t just about Ronna McDaniel or J6 either. Kevin Williamson got the exact same treatment at The Atlantic over abortion. Ben Shapiro got iced out of Politico Playbook over ambiguous charges of “bigotry” (likely referring to his opposition to gender ideology). An op-ed on using federal troops to break up urban riots by Senator Tom Cotton made New York Times staffers feel so “unsafe,” in fact, that they forced the paper to withdraw the column and fire the editor who approved it. And just a few months later, the same staffers would demand to know why Cotton’s strategy didn’t get deployed on January 6.

Jack Shafer deduced what actually happened to Williamson at the time, and it applies in all other cases as well, including McDaniel:

Without relitigating Williamson’s abortion views—which I don’t share—let’s agree that if he hadn’t been sent packing for his less–than-modern views on abortion, his critics would have griped about something else in his archives to engineer his removal. Let’s be real here: Kevin Williamson wasn’t sent packing for expressing strong language on abortion but for being Kevin Williamson.

Precisely. It’s not McDaniel, or J6, or even Trump. The Occupy MSM newsrooms hate any form of dissent to their orthodoxy and will stamp out any attempt to allow its expression. The Protection Racket Media’s idea of diversity — especially at NBC — is solely to allow Republicans on the air to cheer on progressives and criticize conservatives.

Meanwhile: NBC News Journos Now Worry About Lost GOP Contacts.

As the fallout from the hiring-crying-firing of Ronna McDaniel continues, Max Tani is reporting that inside NBC News offices, some of the saner journalists have looked over the aftermath of the on-air therapy-couch sessions across the network and now are facing further pullback from Republican and conservative sources:

‘Political reporters here didn’t take part in the backlash, nor did they get to give input on the hire,’ one NBC News journalist said. ‘But they’ll be the ones who have to pick up the pieces with sources who are now dismayed with the organization.’ Four NBC News staffers expressed concern that instead of fixing the problem, hiring and then firing McDaniel had only alienated liberal viewers while confirming Republican fears. Two Republican aides told Semafor they’d texted their NBC News contacts to express their anger with the decision.

There was similar wailing and gnashing of teeth by Republicans when CNBC’s John Harwood hacktastically blew up the debate by the GOP’s presidential candidates in 2015. But this time around, why would those inside NBC News be worried?

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.

OH, THAT LIBERAL FASCISM: Hillary Clinton Calls For ‘Formal Deprogramming’ Targeting Trump Supporters.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a “formal deprogramming” of “MAGA” supporters during a CNN interview that aired Thursday.

Clinton weighed in on the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who lost his gavel Tuesday, drawing a distinction between the “sane” wing of the Republican party and what she described as a Trumpist “cult.”

“I mean, we had very strong partisans in both parties in the past, and we had very bitter battles over all kinds of things,” Clinton said. “But there wasn’t this little tail of extremism, waving, you know, wagging the dog of the Republican party as it is today. And sadly, so many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure. He’s only in it for himself. He’s now defending himself in civil actions and criminal actions. And when do they break with him?”

“At some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members, but something needs to happen,” she added.

C’mon Hillary be specific! Would these be modeled after the CCP’s Uighur reeducation camps, or the North Korean reeducation camps? Or perhaps something a bit more old school?

“One Soviet technique of oppression was to declare that dissidents were insane. They were then incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals where they were tormented and tortured. Some were used as human guinea pigs for dangerous experiments.” For example, Vladimir Bukovsky “spent a dozen years being shuffled between Soviet jails, labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals.”

One of the “therapies” was “putting a cord into Bukovsky’s mouth, threading it from his throat up through his nasal passages, and then drawing it out through one of his nostrils. Alas, this communist ‘treatment’ did not ‘cure’ Bukovsky of his rational (not irrational) abhorrence of tyranny and brutality.”

The type of “formal deprogramming” Clinton seeks could be promoted as public health issue and  imposed under the regime of White Coat Supremacy. That regime remains in place even after the alleged retirement of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the loathsome Lysenko figure who claims to represent science. For her part, Hillary Clinton recalls the 1979 point-counterpoint skit on Saturday Night Live about the Michelle Triola palimony suit against actor Lee Marvin.

And of course, “Notice [Christiane] Amanpour doesn’t question this language, or ask for specifics,” so it’s a safe bet she’d be fully onboard with the notion, especially given CNN’s proclivity for doxxing Trump supporters.

Related:

And just like that the real meaning of the Second Amendment becomes crystal clear. https://t.co/Ufc1SSs2gA

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 6, 2023

As Kevin Williamson wrote in his 2019 book, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, “The Bill of Rights ought to be titled ‘A List of Things You Idiots Don’t Get a Vote On, Because They Aren’t Up for Negotiation.’”

A CASE STUDY IN HOLLYWOOD HYPOCRISY: How It Deals With Stars From the Left and Right.

As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller.

Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled.

You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young adult book-to-movie adaptation of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Miller also starred as Credence Barebone in the Harry Potter prequel series “Fantastic Beasts.”

Now, he’s starring in the title role in “The Flash”—but this time, with more allegations of sexual misconduct and petty crimes under his belt than last time he donned the red supersuit in 2021’s “Justice League.”

Miller’s fall from grace is nothing short of bewildering. What’s more unbelievable than his resume of offenses is the way Hollywood has collectively decided to turn the other cheek to his rap sheet while punishing other actors—conservative actors—for the much lesser “offense” of disagreeing with Hollywood’s left-wing orthodoxy.

Pay no attention to Miller’s rap sheet. However, it’s imperative that you notice that Jim Caviezel is QAnon-adjacent: The media’s bizarre Sound of Freedom freakout.

The media is committing a rhetorical trick and logical fallacy by linking all child trafficking to one vague if well-known online conspiracy. “QAnon believes children are abducted for weird spirit cooking rituals and therefore all child trafficking is a conspiracy theory.” On CNN, a guest said that “these films are created out of moral panics… it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings.” These segments seem to exist solely due to the personal politics of the lead actor.

Yet when a new Top Gun or Mission: Impossible film is released, we are not flooded with stories about star Tom Cruise’s role in the kooky Church of Scientology from the Washington Post or CNN. Why is this?

Good question. Why does the media campaign hard to defend child exploiters?

MORE ON TUCKER CARLSON’S DEPARTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT THEREFOR: Past Their Prime (Time): Fox News and CNN enter the last stage of their parallel history. “Of course, former cable news producers can switch to digital delivery of their TV production, but they will never have the monopoly in supplying the news or any content to people on the internet that they used to have on the air. The most critical digital shift related to the freedom of watching: Digital viewers want to watch whatever content they want when they want and not when some TV programmer wants them to. The paradox is that objective, middle-ground, adult-conversation journalism can be produced but cannot be consumed at the scale sufficient to support TV production. It is technically possible to restore objective TV journalism of very high quality. This could even secure some recognizable spot in the news menu. But it will always rely on life support, not on the market.”

THE BRIAN STELTER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR WORST QUOTE OF THE YEAR:

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and declared a winner.

This year the winner is Don Lemon!

The CNN host won for his laugh-out-loud response to CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s silly inquiry that “you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore” under new CNN CEO Chris Licht’s leadership. To which Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.”  

And for once, he’s right! Certainly by the traditional, laissez-faire definition of liberal before the term was stolen by “Progressives” in the 1920s. But if pressed, how would LeMon define CNN’s ideology? Socialist? Statist? Corporatist?  The network has a penchant for doxxing its viewers, and has run odes to North Korea, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Hezbollah, so totalitarian is also an option.

THE LEFT-WING JOURNALISTS ELON MUSK SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED:

There can be only one reason to promote or retweet real-time location information about a person or their family: You hope something bad happens to them. You hope someone acts on it. In this case, these reporters were amplifying a Twitter account that was posting location data about Musk’s private jet, and doing so on the heels of a disturbing incident in Los Angeles involving a stalker targeting a car that was carrying Musk’s toddler son.

In other words, the media elite who for years absurdly claimed that “speech is violence” actually engaged in the promotion of violence and got caught doing it — and we’re supposed to feel bad for them? I don’t think so.

Media leftists who for years have demanded online censorship of conservatives, don’t care at all about free speech, and in fact actively work to quash it however they can are suddenly alarmed at Musk silencing their own?

To quote Sen. Tom Cotton’s recent remark to the woke CEO of Kroger, a company that fired Christian employees for not endorsing the grocery chain’s LGBT advocacy but now wants Republican help with a proposed merger: “I’m sorry that’s happening to you. Best of luck.”

CNN is having a meltdown over one of their journalists being temporarily suspended by Musk:

Which is too bad, as they belatedly discover that doxxing someone finally has some consequences.

MATT TAIBBI DROPS MORE INFORMATION ON THE ‘TWITTER FILES’ AND EXPOSES AN ATTEMPTED COVER-UP:

Matt Taibbi, who authored the first release of the infamous “Twitter Files,” is back for round two. Or at least he’s back to provide a supplement to round one while round two is still being worked on.

According to Taibbi, James Baker, who was general counsel for Twitter and a former top-level FBI official, inserted himself into the disclosure in an attempt to “vet” the files that were ultimately released. Elon Musk was not notified of Baker playing middle-man.

As RedState reported, Baker was fired on Tuesday, and with Taibbi’s latest thread, we now know why. I normally try to not flood my articles with long strings of multiple tweets in a row, but it’s important to get all the information out there.

More details about Baker from Jonathan Turley: Six Degrees from James Baker: A Familiar Figure Reemerges With the Release of the Twitter Files.

Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department, including the hoax involving the Russian Alfa Bank. When Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann wanted to plant the bizarre false claim of a secret communications channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, Baker was his go-to, speed-dial contact. (Baker would later testify at Sussmann’s trial). Baker’s name also appeared prominently in controversies related to the other Russian-related FBI allegations against Trump. He was effectively forced out due to his role and reportedly found himself under criminal investigation. He became a defender of the Russian investigations despite findings of biased and even criminal conduct. He was also a frequent target of Donald Trump on social media, including Twitter. Baker responded with public criticism of Trump for his “false narratives.”

After leaving the FBI, Twitter seemed eager to hire Baker as deputy general counsel. Ironically, Baker soon became involved in another alleged back channel with a presidential campaign. This time it was Twitter that maintained the non-public channels with the Biden campaign (and later the White House). Baker soon weighed in with the same signature bias that characterized the Russian investigations.

As Howie Carr wrote before Baker’s ouster: Howie Carr: Newly liberated Twitter blows lid off Democrat tainting of 2020 election.

As they attempted to prevent Americans from learning about the Biden family’s racketeering enterprises, the Democrats of Twitter turned to a veteran of the previous attempt by Democrats to steal a presidential election — the Russian collusion hoax.

James Baker had worked for the corrupt FBI in 2016 on, among other frame-ups, the phony-baloney surveillance FISA warrants. For his unstinting efforts in trying to railroad POTUS and everyone around him, Baker’s Democrat comrades rewarded him with a big job at Twitter.

Soon the bent G-man was assuring his fellow travelers that “caution is warranted” in preventing any real news about Democrat corruption from being disseminated to the electorate.

It was the same BS being peddled by 51 other Democrats in the “intelligence community.” They had claimed that Biden’s laptop bore the “hallmarks” of Russian disinformation, which gave the Big Guy cover to lie about it at one of the debates against the racist tangerine.

I could go on, but I’ll close by repeating an earlier statement.

Elon Musk did not commit suicide.

Heh, indeed.

BILL MAHER: The Times buried the Kavanaugh assassination story because he’s a conservative.

Katrina Trinko remembers how the Gabby Giffords shooting, perpetrated by a genuine random lunatic, was immediately and egregiously coopted by the media as an indictment of tea-party agitation against Democrats. But the supreme example of the double standard will forever be the attempt by an ardent Bernie-loving progressive to mass-murder Republican congressmen on a baseball field in 2017, news that would have been treated as a national trauma on the order of a major terrorist attack had the partisan roles been reversed. As it is, the story fizzled after a few days and probably would have fizzled sooner if not for the subplot of Steve Scalise fighting for his life in the hospital. Trinko:

[W]hen it comes to political violence in the United States today, here’s a maxim you can always rely on: If the victim or likely victim is on the right, the perpetrator is simply a lone wolf. But if the victim or likely victim is on the left, the perpetrator was fueled by dangerous rhetoric…

Sure, the justices have been given some additional security. But where is the outrage from top liberal lawmakers and activists? Where are the calls for people to remember that at the end of the day, no matter how vehemently we disagree on certain policies, we are all Americans who should be working together to resolve our differences?…

Here’s the reality: Corporate media and liberal lawmakers probably aren’t going to rush to highlight the horrific assassination attempt on Kavanaugh. They know that moderates will be horrified to discover how commonplace it has become for Supreme Court justices to face protests at home. (Notice how little coverage the corporate media has given to these protests, despite the fact that they are publicly announced ahead of time.) And they don’t want to risk alienating the extremists on their own side by focusing on this.

Left-wing agitators understand that they operate free of scrutiny from major media. It’s why the same group that doxxed the Court’s conservative members last month felt no compunction about advertising a new protest at Amy Coney Barrett’s home even after the news broke about a threat to Kavanaugh.

Flashbacks:

● Reagan historian: Releasing Hinckley signals it’s OK to target conservatives.

● Bill Ayers Smiles: ‘MAGA is the most extreme political organization in American history:’ Biden warns of Republicans’ ‘ultra MAGA agenda’ and suggests they’ll ban LGBT children from classrooms if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

● Nancy Pelosi tells 2020 Dems, “You have to be ready to take a punch. And therefore you have to be ready to throw a punch—for the children.”

● 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.’

● Parents cheer as kids bash an ICE agent piñata and throw balls at the painted image of President Trump.

● 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.”

● Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION:

● Shot: WaPo’s Taylor Lorenz on ‘Libs of TikTok’ Exposé: ‘For All We Knew, This Could Have Been a Foreign Actor.’

During Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz said one of the reasons she revealed the identity of the so-called “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account poster was because “for all we knew, this could have been a foreign actor.”

Lorenz also said given the “Libs of TikTok” poster’s willingness to conduct interviews with other media outlets, it was “quite important and in the public’s interest” to reveal who she was.

—Jeff Poor, Breitbart.com, yesterday.

● Chaser: German government funds ‘research’ project that doxxed Libs of Tik Tok.

The hit piece on the woman behind Libs of Tik Tok by the Bezos-funded Washington Post‘s professional victim Taylor Lorenz was based on a cyberstalking thread by an ex-Twitter employee who is working on a German-backed project.

Software developer Travis Brown, a former Twitter open source advocate per LinkedIn, unearthed Libs of Tik Tok‘s history on Twitter and posted a thread Saturday detailing information about the account’s profile changes.

Lorenz cited Brown’s series of tweets in her WaPo report published Monday doxing the woman who created the Libs of Tik Tok sleuthing persona.

Brown is working on an ongoing project with support from Prototype Fund, an organization that provides financial support to Brown’s so-called “Hatespeech-Tracker.” Protoype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

—The Post Millennial, Tuesday.

TAYLOR LORENZ IS SIMPLY FOLLOWING THE NEW RULES OF JOURNALISM:

However, in singling out Taylor Lorenz, what the political Right doesn’t understand is this is about politics and shutting down opposing speech. That is to say, speech that Lorenz or Kaczynski or the Daily Beast are ideologically opposed to. Of course, this is also about media power.

CNN is a multibillion-dollar media conglomerate that used the full weight of its corporate power to threaten a private individual with a Reddit account. In a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, Lorenz publishes a story with an individual’s name, professional license, and address information. It’s a struggle between one of the richest, most powerful men on the Earth and someone behind a Twitter account with less than a million followers (although that follower count is almost certainly about to increase).

Taylor Lorenz is not the ultimate problem. The problem is news outlets and infotainment companies using their outsize power and vast budgets to harass and doxx private citizens they disagree with. It’s a new journalistic model for an industry that sees its grip loosening on what news it can control and create (see the media freak-out over Elon Musk buying their favorite toy). Taylor Lorenz, for all her theatrics, is simply leading the charge.

Or as Glenn Greenwald noted at the start of the month: Your Top Priority is The Emotional Comfort of the Most Powerful Elites, Which You Fulfill by Never Criticizing Them.