New York Times: ‘vexed’ and ‘incendiary’

“Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday and his campaign has unveiled a new television ad condemning the rioters and looters that have vexed some American cities...” Vexed. As in “I’ll vex you with a baseball bat and a flaming bottle of gasoline!” Vexed? “...Mr. Trump...countered Mr. Biden’s moves with two new ads seeking to leverage civil unrest in incendiary fashion as a wedge to divide the Democratic coalition....” ‘In INCENDIARY fashion’? After three months of the Democrat shock troops burning down cities with encouragement and explicit support of Democratic mayors, Democratic prosecutors who turn arrestees loose without their ever seeing the inside of a cell and refusing to prosecute them, and Biden campaign committee members contributing money to bail funds so those who are briefly locked up can be released the same night so they can vex cities with some more flaming bottles of gasoline, Trump acts in INCENDIARY fashion? “ Mr. Trump is trying to prosecute those arguments and persuade voters to see threats to public safety...” Uh, ‘persuade’? As in ‘perceive vexatious firebombings encouraged by Democrats‘ as a threat? ‘...which so far have been limited to sporadic violence in some cities...” The Blitz was limited to sporadic violence in some English cities, of course. The Civil War was limited to sporadic violence in some states. The Russian pogroms against Jews were limited to sporadic violence in some places. The Lebanese Civil War was limited to sporadic violence for fifteen years. I’ll bet the the whole lot of them didn’t realize they were vexed, though. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/politics/biden-ads-trump.html

Washington Post Expose' On Scott Walker

It's ugly, too:

...he had trouble showing up on time for French.

...his father was a Baptist minister.

...On campus (Marquette U in MKE), Walker made a close group of friends, who gathered weekly to...cook dinner on Sunday nights. They remember Walker as fun, upbeat and cautious...

...“Kind. He’s very kind,” said Mary Riordan, a friend who is now a speech pathologist. She could remember four medical emergencies in which Walker volunteered to drive her to the hospital....“Scott carried me eight blocks to his car and drove me to the hospital,” Riordan said.

...“God’s honest truth,” said Quigley, remembering the epic un-hipness of their debates. “I remember him talking about being an Eagle Scout.”

...“I thought that the guy was too nice to ever be successful in politics,” Satran said.

Vicious racist lies. All of them. I hope Walker stands up for what is good and decent and demands a retraction and an apology. Then they can all get together at his house for a Puppy Milkshake Summit.

Read the whole sorry tale here.

Marine Le Pen, in the New York Times

Pigs Soar: The New York Times published an opinion piece by Marine Le Pen.

I continue to be baffled by the use of the term Right Wing, both here and in Europe. It is applied to Nazis, who were socialists, and to Libertarians, who are Classical Liberals. A term which includes both genocidal proponents of big government and proponents of small government which protects people's rights hardly seems like a useful term, except as one of abuse for "people with whom I disagree".

Any thoughts on that?

Megyn Kelly or Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

I understand that most of my revered readers are more MSNBC or CBS kinda people, but on the off chance you saw tonight's Fox News with Megyn Kelly, what did you think of her Sheena, Queen of the Jungle leopard print outfit?:

Megyn.

Sheena.

A) Totally Intellectual: Worthy of a Ph.D in Sociology
B) Totally Babacious Empowered Woman Award: Worthy of Sheena, Bare-handed Killer of Mighty Lions
C) Totally Babaciously Intellectual: Worthy of a Republican Vice Presidential Candidate
D) Ummmm...my wife might see my reply. What's your name again? Prank Call! Prank Call!!

More on Jonathan Gruber vs Rich Weinstein

The citizen journalist who has been finding video clips of MIT professor and ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber isn't a professional: He just plays one in real life.

Here is what he has been up to while the professionals settle for thrills running up their legs.

Yet at a January 2012 symposium, Gruber seemed to be making the conservatives' argument. “What’s important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill,” said Gruber. “So you’re essentially saying [to] your citizens you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country.”

The investment advisor e-mailed this around. Nobody cared.

One of the designers said on camera that people who do not go through state exchanges don't get subsidies.

Fancy that.

Not that several of the US Supreme Court members will care: they are Obama's boys and girls.

The Republican War On Women

"CNN host Carol Costello can barely contain her excitement" pretty much says it. Costello appears delighted that Sarah Palin's daughters were physically assaulted.

Oh...wait...I don't think Costello is a Republican...

More here, with the emergency call audio..

"HOW NOT TO LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT WHEN WRITING ABOUT FIREARMS"

Ben Langlotz, firearms patent and trademark attorney, and attorney for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has a short article on terms which are commonly misused by journalists who are writing about guns.

It might be worth reading if you don't know the difference between a cartridge and a bullet.

Forty Questions About Gaza

Here. I doubt that any will be asked aloud, much less answered honestly.

Innocent Iranian Grad Student...

...burns himself making Molotov Cocktails in Georgia.

Media pretty much ignores. At least compared to a Tea Party supporter doing the same.

I have little idea how old this guy is, but most of us got past recreational Molotov Cocktails by the time we hit 8th grade.

He's a grad student, tho, so maybe he's socially stunted.

"Ho Li Fuk"??

Check out the "names" of the crew of the Korean airliner which crashed in SFO, "confirmed" by the news station's source, alleged to be the NTSB.

The names start at 44 seconds in.

No wonder the clowns who pass for journalists couldn't get anything right about the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmermann case.

When The One loses NBC...

...there may be a glimmer of a shadow of a possibility of a hope that someone meaningful will be held responsible.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA!!!!!

Right.

Pew Research: "Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware"

Pew Research has this to say about the explosion in gun related crime in the US:

Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm— assaults, robberies and sex crimes— was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades...

Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, today 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% think it is lower.

In other words, gun-related violence has collapsed while most people think it is going up.

So, what is the reason for the wild mis-perception? One might wonder if it has something to do with how the daily news is presented, although crime accounts for a smaller share of reporting than it did years ago.

For the Pew report, clik here.

MSNBC: Scum

MSNBC has no shame. They are nothing but pimps for Obama. Or to use the President's own civil term for Mitt Romney: Bullshitters.

Why would anyone believe anything this bunch has to say on politics?

Democrat Pat Caddell Blasts the News Media Again

Pat Caddell, former democratic pollster, reiterates his comments about the news media having morphed into the enemies of America, and why he believes that:



Good for him. Pity he says it on Fox instead of NBC or CBS, or CNN, or MSNBC.

Second Presidential Debate: Moderator Tackles Romney

Of course, she should: Obama went to her wedding.She owed him one:



In any case,Romney had already gotten Obama to assert that he had said the Benghazi attack was terrorism, when in fact for two weeks he called it a demonstration which got out of hand.

We'll see how that plays out.

UPDATE: Several links to comments at InstaPundit, including one to Michael Walsh at NationalReview Online: "If Obama knew it was terrorism on Day Two, then why did his administration continue to blame the video for days afterward?"

Pat Caddell on “The Audacity of Corruption”

Former Democratic Pollster Pat Caddell on today's media bias:

I think we’re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy or not.

Yes, it is the news media this Dem is calling corrupt.

At about 18 minutes in:

When they decide that their job...is to decide...what truth you may know as an American, and what truth you are not allowed to know, they have then made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy and in my opinion have made themselves the enemy of the American people.

There is a short, somewhat choppy excerpt, and a complete video here.

Plagiarising a Blogger is Double Plus Ungood

When Duane Lester over at the All American Blogger discovered that a local paper had published one of his posts verbatim, he apparently got mad, then got even.

I'm a bit surprised he was allowed to keep the camera rolling throughout the entire encounter, but it makes good watching.

"the dance of the low-sloping foreheads"

What does David Carr of the New York Times really thinks of us? Try a remarkable moment of truth here:



I don't suppose this attitude at the Times has anything to do with NYT market cap being about equal to the value of their real estate holdings.

But it might have something to do with their statist belief that they have an inherent right to give orders to the rest of us.

Ed Driscoll has more.

Maureen Dowd's New Civility

I don't read the lady often, and this seems like encouragement to continue so:

(The Supreme Court) has squandered even the semi-illusion that it is the unbiased, honest guardian of the Constitution. It is run by hacks dressed up in black robes...

Just as in the Senate’s shameful Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings...

John Roberts Jr...is deceiving; he’s a crimson partisan, simply more cloaked than the ideologically rigid and often venomous Scalia.

Just as Scalia voted to bypass that little thing called democracy...

Inexplicably mute 20 years after he lied his way onto the court, Clarence Thomas didn’t ask a single question...

Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and the insufferable Samuel Alito were nurtured in the conservative Federalist Society, which asserts that “it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.”

And the duty of the judiciary to prevent the politicians from acting without Constitutional authorization, even if they they have majority opinion behind them.

Some people seem to think that good policy is automatically authorized. They seem to forget that others may have ideas on good policies which are quite different.

Speaker Newt vs MSM: What the "News" Media Didn't Report Today

When was the last time a debate speaker got two standing ovations in one response?



Standing ovations for standing up to Pimps for Democrats, Inc. doesn't fit the narrative. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Newt Gingrich is erratic, statist, a technocrat, amoral, and very, very smart. I think he'd be a bad president, but he would be head, shoulders, hips, and knees above our current one.