Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
5th November 2022
Kimmel on Biden’s democracy speech: ‘Like Gandalf talking about Sauron’ (The Guardian) More like Saruman talking about Sauron.
Hawley aims to reshape Senate GOP with Vance and Masters (Politico)
The Hawley caucus under construction (Politico)
Bombshell leaked emails: Trump lawyers targeted Clarence Thomas to steal election (MSNBC)
‘And on the 8th Day’: DeSantis Rolls Out Cringe Ad Saying He Was Sent by God (Daily Beast) He might be right.
Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Ron Johnson fought for a tax cut as his family was amassing luxury real estate around the country (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher (N.Y. Times) Gossip Girl ‘journalism’ is all they’ve got left.
How Zeldin’s tough talk on crime in New York could lead to more of it (Washington Post) Up is down, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and Jonathan Capehart is pushing the Narrative.
Flashback: The Media Exploited Giffords’ Shooting to Slime Conservatives
How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack (N.Y. Times)
BRACE: “Hate, Harassment and Incitement” Are Coming to Twitter
‘The View’ Will Now Just Be One Hour Of Hosts Beating White Women With Sticks (Babylon Bee)
The Unruly Heirs of Sarah Palin (N.Y. Times) Upon the Restoration in 1660, royalists dug up the corpse of Oliver Cromwell and subjected it to various indignities. The Narrative Media don’t even wait for people to be in the ground first.
Ron DeSantis, who denounced Disney, actually got married there (Washington Post) Hannah Sampson phones it in.