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The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
28th November 2020
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27th November 2020
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26th November 2020
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25th November 2020
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24th November 2020
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23rd November 2020
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23rd November 2020
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How dare these people not know their place?
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22nd November 2020
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22nd November 2020
Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.
The Washington Post claims that the “Black community” is angry over claims of vote fraud by President Trump and his legal team. It’s true that some of the claims of fraud center on precincts that are populated almost entirely by Blacks. However, I doubt that many Blacks care about the Trump campaign’s allegations of fraud and I suspect that even fewer are outraged by them.
The Post cites five Blacks who have expressed displeasure. Four of them are activists. The other is a professor of African-American studies. It’s part of their job to be angry, just as it’s part of the job of Washington Post reporters to dig up people who are outraged by supposed racial slights by Donald Trump.
But the reporters provide no evidence that the grievances of the activists and the professor have any resonance in the Black community. It simply expects readers of the Post to assume they do.
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21st November 2020
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21st November 2020
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I am writing this column from suburban Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the State Capitol building a mere couple miles away across the Susquehanna River. And in that Capitol Friday there was scheduled by the Republican-controlled State Government Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a hearing as part of the committee’s investigation into the election.
The scheduled witnesses were representatives of Dominion. And lo and behold on Thursday night, the literal night before the hearing, State Representative Seth Grove, the Committee chairman, was notified that, in his words, Dominion had “lawyered up” and backed out of the hearing.
Hmmm. As this is written, this news is nowhere to be found in The Washington Post. It is nowhere to be found in The New York Times. Maybe it will at some point. Maybe.
Much less have either paper assigned a Woodward and Bernstein-style investigation of just what is going on with election fraud in this country and the role of voting system companies in this business.
Hmm. Isn’t this curious.
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21st November 2020
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Our elite betters wonder why we don’t trust their “scientific” authority, but let’s roll back the tape to this May 15 story from NBC News, which they called a “fact check:”
Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a ‘miracle’ to be right.
Funny how often Trump turns out to be right about something the “experts” dismissed as outlandish and irresponsible. Start with moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Yeah, the violent unrest in the Middle East in the aftermath of that provocative move still hasn’t abated. What’s that? Oh, never mind.
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21st November 2020
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On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, liberal pundit Mark Shields raged at Republican senators for universally rejecting a beating on NBC’s Meet the Press. Shields compared this to “Dante’s great quote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral.”
Shields described the NBC show as an “important forum,” and avoided the obvious notion that under Chuck Todd, Republican Senators get yelled at for bringing “Fox News conspiracy propaganda” into their answers. Any Republican who showed up was going to be browbeaten into condemning the president’s failure to concede defeat.
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20th November 2020
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20th November 2020
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In recent weeks, Fox News has been losing audience, as some viewers have become disenchanted with the network’s increasingly Trump-skeptical tone. Morning Joe has been a beneficiary of this trend, beating rival Fox & Friends in the ratings for the first time in almost 20 years.
Joe Scarborough et al. thus have an interest in encouraging Fox News to continue down the path that has benefitted Morning Joe. And thus it was that on today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist lavishly praised FNC personalities who have criticized the efforts of the Trump team to contest the election results. Scarborough and Geist singled out FNC’s Kristin Fisher, playing a long excerpt of her takedown of yesterday’s press conference featuring Rudy Giuliani.
It’s all because Fox has decided to join the Corporate Media, and is thus losing viewers.
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19th November 2020
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What did they expect? To be catered to by somebody that they spend all of their days calling a Nazi? I’m surprised he didn’t spit on them on the way out.
If I were Trump I would revoke all White House ‘press corps’ credentials and just e-mail statements to the respective publicans’ editors.
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19th November 2020
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19th November 2020
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Since Krugman has historically been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME he makes a prediction about the effect of something on business, I am greatly encouraged.
(This ought to tell you something about the people who give out the Nobel Prizes, as well.)
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17th November 2020
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17th November 2020
National Review cuck Rich Lowry blames the victim.
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17th November 2020
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The Daily Beast posted a piece on Monday warning that “Dems Are Losing the Social Media War.” Left unsaid was the Dems are winning the “news media” war.
Lachlan Markay, Hanna Trudo, and Sam Stein reported the Biden campaign had a reason to be worried about the potential damage of reporting on Hunter Biden’s sleazy gig trading on his powerful father’s name overseas.
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16th November 2020
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16th November 2020
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THEY ARE FINALLY LEARNING! HALLELUJAH!
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16th November 2020
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… a strongly held noble-savage belief system within progressive circles. Various formulations of this mythology have become encoded in public land acknowledgments, college courses, and even journalism. The overall theme is that Indigenous peoples traditionally lived their lives in harmony with the land and its creatures, and so their land-use demands transcend the realm of politics, and represent quasi-oracular revealed truths. As has been pointed out by others, this mythology now has a severe, and likely negative, distorting effect on public policy, one that hurts Indigenous peoples themselves. In recent years, Indigenous groups have finally gotten a fair cut of the proceeds of industrial-development and commodity-extraction revenues originating on their lands. And increasingly, they are telling white policy makers to stop listening to those activists who seek to portray them as perpetual children of the forest. It is for their benefit, as much as anyone else’s, to explore the truth about the myth of harmonious Indigenous conservationism.
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15th November 2020
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15th November 2020
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On Saturday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera conspired with radical leftist Yale professor of history Timothy Snyder to spout insane conspiracy theories about President Trump. Cabrera proclaimed that she was “unsettled” by a tweet from Snyder in which he claimed that Trump “has attempted” a “coup d’état” and Snyder responded by crazily insisting that Trump is “going for it.”
Cabrera began the segment by hyping Snyder’s book, On Tyranny, in which he compared Trump to Hitler and claimed that Trump will take over the U.S. government through a Reichstag Fire type scheme. Snyder seems to be obsessed with making psychotic accusations towards Trump, as he also told Cabrera earlier this year that U.S. Democracy is in a “precarious situation” due to Trump nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
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14th November 2020
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14th November 2020
The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, anyone concerned about the integrity of the 2020 election is part of a “cluster of far-right extremists including neo-fascists, white nationalists and militia members.” Thus do they describe the #StopTheSteal rally planned for noon Saturday at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. Among the featured guests at the D.C. rally are Michelle Malkin. Amy Kremer, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and many other pro-Trump personalities.
So now the SPLC is defining support for the President of the United States as “hate.”
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13th November 2020
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13th November 2020
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And stop being the toast of the Upper West Side and the Hamptons? Imperil domestic tranquility with Democrat wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski? Maybe even get “canceled” by a liberal establishment baying for Republican political blood?
One of the benefits of having Donald Trump as President is that it has flushed the RINOs out of the underbrush.
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13th November 2020
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he Showtime pay cable channel, owned by ViacomCBS, has become the latest media outlet to promote specious leftist attacks meant to destroy the credibility and respect for a political leader admired by conservatives.
On Sunday night at 8 PM EST (repeating at 11:30 PM and 1:30 AM EST, matching times in the West coast feed) Showtime will debut a four-part documentary series, The Reagans, devoted to smearing President Ronald Reagan as an anti-civil rights user of racist “dog whistles” who, in the words of its director, served as a tool of “plutocrats” who “in many ways paved the way for Trump.”
Remember, if you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog.
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13th November 2020
Scott Johnson at PowerLine.
The dismal performance of FOX News on election night put an exclamation point on the descent of the network into the trough of antipathy and distrust conservatives relegate its competitors. One can infer that FOX News is disturbed by the reaction of conservative media outside the network’s circle to the network’s election night pratfalls (to put it charitably).
Consider the number of respectable conservative pundits who are tongue-tied by virtue of their contractual relationship with FOX News as contributors. Their public silence is inherent in their relationship, but is there any conservative outlet or pundit not on the payroll who hasn’t spoken up to observe the miasma at the network?
Fox fumbled the election coverage pretty thoroughly.
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12th November 2020
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12th November 2020
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Bill Russo, a deputy communications director for the president-elect’s campaign ripped the social network in a series of Twitter posts over its failure to clamp down on users disputing the 2020 election results,” the New York Post (the Post) reported Nov. 11. Russo accused Facebook of “shredding the fabric of our democracy” in an apocalyptic thread slamming the platform for giving conservatives a voice.
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12th November 2020
The Other McCain is on the case.
In addition to botching the presidential call in Arizona, Fox News was even more disastrously wrong in their congressional projections on Election Night, claiming that Democrats would “expand” Nancy Pelosi’s House majority by as many as 15 seats.
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11th November 2020
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11th November 2020
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The New York Times is apparently being dragged into 1984 by its ‘woke’ employees.
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11th November 2020
Steven Hayward at PowerLine.
We knew things at the New York Times were bad, but hoo-ey boy we had no idea just how bad! New York magazine is out with a deep dive into the internal Maoist struggle sessions going on inside the Times, and get a big bowl of popcorn ready for this long piece.
The piece could be called “Annals of the Liberal Self-Obsessed,” as it contains many nuggets of pure comedy gold.
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10th November 2020
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10th November 2020
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MSNBC national security reporter Ken Dilanian dropped an F-bomb and an S-bomb on the air on Tuesday morning with Craig Melvin in the 11 am Eastern hour. Melvin turned to the current liberal spin – the Trump administration’s supposedly awful refusal to work on the presidential transition with Joe Biden’s team. “NBC’s Ken Dilanian has new reporting on something we talked about at the top of the hour, how the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team, or not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent.” He asked Dilanian, “Ken, what have you learned, sir?”
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10th November 2020
The Other McCain puts the hammer down.
Millions of Republicans have stopped watching Fox News after the Election Night debacle in which the network’s “Decision Desk” (i.e., a Democrat named Aaron Mishkin) called Arizona for Joe Biden at a time when they were still claiming that Ohio and Texas were “too close to call.”
Apparently Fox has decided to sell out to the Corporate Media Complex.
Perhaps somebody made Murdoch an Offer He Can’t Refuse.
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9th November 2020
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8th November 2020
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7th November 2020
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6th November 2020
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5th November 2020
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4th November 2020
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3rd November 2020
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2nd November 2020
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2nd November 2020
Kevin Williamson points the finger of shame.
A Slate headline: “Most Slate Staffers Are Voting for Biden—but Not All of Us.”
Another way of writing the same headline: “Not One Slate Staffer Is Voting for Trump, But At Least One Is Voting for the Green Party Candidate.”
It is of some interest that National Review, an explicitly conservative journal of opinion, has more political diversity among its contributors than does Slate, which, unless I have missed something, still presents itself as a conventional news source rather than as a journal of left-wing advocacy such as The Nation or The New Republic. The New York Times does not have one pro-Trump columnist on its pages.
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