It’s Only Surprising To The Press
Stirring Up The Uninformed. Race-Baiters and Their Willing Media Stooges
Manipulating Our Reality
The Disturbing Truth
Another False Narrative Fades
AOC Manipulation
The NY Times published a great article on AOC and how she manipulates the environment to set herself up as a victim. I snatched the below from their pages. Full article here.
It’s pretty impressive of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, playing the victim card in a fight she started.
The flap arises from the recent House passage of the Senate’s emergency border-funding bill, without voting on lefty-favored amendments. AOC and three other radical freshmen women (Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley) voted against it — and AOC’s office started smearing the moderates who’d demanded action.
Specifically, AOC Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti (in a since-deleted tweet) accused such Democrats of propping up a system that “fuels a racist ideology.”
That prompted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a closed-door conference meeting where she warned, “You got a complaint? You come talk to me about it. But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is OK.”
She also spoke to The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, noting of AOC & Co.: “All of these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world . . . But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”
Whereupon AOC whined to The Washington Post about Pelosi’s “explicit singling out of new elected women of color.”
Hello? The speaker was “singling out” the four members who were playing this specific game, and waxing indignant that other Democrats listen to their own constituents.
Nice Try Fella’s
There was a time in my life where part of my job was briefing leaders on the performance of weapon systems by using statistical information. I made the mistake (one time) of demonstrating the data the way it’s done below.
Why it might be technically correct (not likely) when you demonstrate the difference by amplifying the upper portion of two columns it makes it appear that the difference between the two columns is actually much larger than it actually is.
We don’t win the war against liberalism by deluding ourselves into thinking we are smarter or that they are stupid.
The Donald Does Time-Travel
Brit Hume, Fox’s senior political analyst, schooled Soledad O’Brien over her crowing about liberal outlets having forced President Trump’s Wednesday visit to U.S. troops in Iraq, “congratulating” her for noting that Trump had invented time travel.
CNN, other liberal outlets, and activist-celebrities had noted throughout Christmas Day and into Wednesday that the Donald did not visit U.S. service members for Christmas, as has become custom for recent U.S. presidents, especially during the war on terrorism.
Mr. Hume highlighted tweets complaining about this by Alyssa Milano and Montel Williams — the former of which was time-stamped “2:07 PM – 26 Dec 2018” — by noting that “by the time this was posted, the President and Mrs. Trump were in Iraq with the troops.”
Enter Ms. Idiot O’Brien, a longtime CNN host, who tried to take credit for the development. “Shaming him seems to work,” she replied.
Brett lowered the boom.
“Yes, Ma’am. Trump read this tweet when it was posted and time-traveled himself back to yesterday and flew to Iraq. Genius take,”
Nothing but crickets from Soledad.
Twitter Explodes
Astroturf: Paid Protesting is a Big Business
Crowds on Demand, a Beverly Hills company that’s an outspoken player in the business of hiring protesters, boasts on its website that it provides its clients with “protests, rallies, flash-mobs, paparazzi events and other inventive PR stunts. … We provide everything including the people, the materials and even the ideas.”
But according to a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor, Crowds on Demand also takes on more sordid assignments. Zdenek Bakala claims the company has been used to run an extortion campaign against him.
Bakala has accused Prague investment manager Pavol Krupa of hiring Crowds on Demand to pay protesters to march near his home in Hilton Head, S.C., and to call and send emails to the Aspen Institute and Dartmouth College, where Bakala is on advisory boards, urging them to cut ties to him. Bakala alleges that Krupa has threatened to continue and expand the campaign unless Bakala pays him $23 million.
A very interesting read on the full scope and scale of these businesses is located at The Sacramento Bee
Tipping Point: The Beginning of the End
Data Point: New York Slimes
The talk of a blue wave has been in our face for almost a year now. It may be instructional to pause for a moment and look at the track record of those that would have us believe that ‘resistance if futile’. Take heart brothers and sisters. Vote this November and take a friend with you.
Trumpaganda
The University of Illinois-Champaign supplies us with an especially revealing illustration of the politicization of education. Beginning on October 22, the school will roll out its new journalism course:
The course description purports to explore “the Trump administration’s disinformation campaign” and “its ‘running war’ with the mainstream news media,” as well as “their implications for American democracy and a free press.”
Not to be undone, San Diego State University now offers a one-credit course which focuses on removing Trump from office.
Boston Globe Corrections
Correction Reads: Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 6th to 10th generation relative. The generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American
In other words, as Breitbart’s Joel Pollak summarizes, this “falls within Warren’s reported range, and suggests she may be no more Native American than the average white American. Full Story at Breitbart
The DNA test also offers no proof that Warren is in any part Cherokee.
Virtue Signalling Scum
This from a University of Alabama Law Professor, MSNBC Contributor AND Obama appointed US Atty in Birmingham. She has 25 years of professional experience as a federal prosecutor
What’s missing from this is NBC’s later retraction of the report .
They issued a correction Sunday after reporting that President Trump described Gen. Robert E. Lee as “incredible,” acknowledging that the president was referring to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Retractions reads: “An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as ‘incredible’ at a rally in Ohio,” said the network’s correction. “It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee.”
Cynically, I suggest the Fake News crowd intentionally blasts out this blather, allows the twiterverse to rapidly distribute it, then quietly backtracks once it’s in the public domain–Mission Accomplished.
In My Neck of the Woods
From Breitbart
Campaign staffers for Tennessee Democrat Senate nominee Phil Bredesen say he lied on Friday when he released a statement saying he would have voted “yes” to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, according to a new undercover video released by Project Veritas Action on Wednesday night.
Bredesen campaign field organizer Maria Amalla was captured on video by a female journalist sent undercover into one of the Bredesen campaign’s Nashville offices describing Bredesen’s statement on Friday as “a political move” that was necessary because “he’s trying to make up points.”
CNN and the Token Negro
A CNN panel hosted by anchor Don Lemon took turns lacing into Kanye West on Tuesday evening, joking that his embrace of President Donald Trump has caused him to be tokenized. Several referred to him using the term “negro.”
Tara Setmeyer: He’s an attention whore — He clearly has issues. He’s already been hospitalized.
Bakari Sellers: Kanye West is what happens when negroes don’t read,
Full story and good read at The Wrap
The Lovely Brooke Baldwin of CNN
Diogenes Sarcastica (Diogenes Middle Finger) has an excellent article on the Left’s application of mob violence and CNN’s efforts to run blocks on those who call it out. This good read here.
Fake News @ Yahoo
When No News is Fake News
Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
The Senate Judiciary Committee made a criminal referral Saturday for the Rhode Island man who claimed Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted his friend on a boat in 1985, asking that he be prosecuted for lying to Congress.
Not the Smoothest Operator
A dated but delightful evisceration of the media by Ben Stein