Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
11th April 2023
What the Bud Light backlash has in common with today’s Republican Party (Washington P0st) Philip Bump is Jennifer Rubin’s understudy at the WaPo.
Senate panel will hold a hearing on the Supreme Court’s ethical standards (NPR) The Senate has no control over Supreme Court ethical standards, other than trying an impeachment, so this is an obvious attempt to continue the witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas.
Clarence Thomas makes a mockery of ethical standards (Philadelphia Inquirer) Although not as much of a mockery as the Inquirer makes of journalism standards. Still waiting for some mention of the Biden Crime Family.
Louisville Shooter Connor Sturgeon’s Pronouns Spark Outrage (Newsweek)
Congress Members Announce Hearing, Demand Chief Justice Investigate Clarence Thomas’ Trips (ProPublica) The witch-hunt against Clarence Thomas proceeds apace. (Still no mention in ProPublica of the Biden Crime Family.)
Taibbi Still An Establishment Outsider For The Crime Of Actual Journalism
Judge’s abortion pill decision embraces extreme language and ideology of anti-abortion movement, experts say (NBC News) What experts? ‘Several legal and medical experts’. No names given, of course.
VILE Reid: GOP Likes ‘Lynching Vibe’, Doesn’t Care About Gun Deaths
Shellenberger: Why Trans Activists Attack Women
Jane’s Revenge ‘Will Be Held Accountable’ for Attacks on Pro-Life Centers, Lawyer Says
54 Years Ago, a Supreme Court Justice Was Forced to Quit for Behavior Arguably Less Egregious Than Thomas’s (N.Y. Times) Anything is ‘arguable’. Scraaaaaaape that barrel….
The Effort to Suppress the Vote Is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream (Slate) Democrats’ effort to steal the vote has long been their mainstream.
Meet the young Democrats waging war on MAGA from behind enemy lines (Washington Post) Apparently Democrats have no interest in making America great again. No surprise.
PBS Uses Thomas Story to Push CNN Reporter’s Book Warning of Scary Right-Wing SCOTUS
Colbert Suggests Thomas Friend is a Nazi, Calls Tennessee GOP Racist Of course he does.
‘People will die’: why is Ron DeSantis loosening gun laws that most Floridians support? (The Guardian)
Senate to vote on measure condemning Trump’s call to ‘defund’ DOJ, FBI (Washington Post)
Right-wing judges may cripple the GOP (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (She must have been on vacation or something.)
False Events: ABC Misleads, LIES About Texas Man Shooting BLM ‘Protester’
‘Devastating’: GOP Texas gov. moves to pardon man convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester (Raw Story)
Wisconsin Is Finally Coming Out of Its Scott Walker Nightmare (The Nation)
CNN Condemns GOP For Focusing on Education, Abortion Instead Of Gun Control