The Future Of Journalism Is Emerging From Academia, And It Isn't Pretty

This is definitely worth a read, even if the writer makes some lazy assumptions. Here's a whopper...

"Journalism is not about creating safe spaces," the managing editor of the Times, Joseph Kahn, tells Pompeo. Damn straight. But something tells me Kahn belongs to the losing side in this conflict, that he is a partisan of the Lost Cause of objective journalism.

The NYT hasn't been interested in objective reporting for a very long time, it's just that the higher echelons aren't quite as maniacal about purging every bit of perceived injustice as the new, wet-behind-the-ears fellow travelers in the newsroom.

Regardless, The Battle of Woke Island is an interesting glimpse into the insanity of the SJWs in journalism.

The hiring of a conservative writer for the opinion pages of a liberal publication now occasions a ferocious debate over whether the cause of social justice is being served by implicitly legitimizing an “offensive” voice. Such a debate, of course, assumes that the object of a publication is not to inform or entertain readers, nor to provide them a range of views, but to advance a party line. That is the logic of the campus. And that logic prevailed in the case of Kevin Williamson—a pungent libertarian writer hired by The Atlantic only to be terminated a week later over his views on abortion. (Needless to say, those views are pro-life.) Indeed, even the language of the announcement of Williamson’s firing, which accused him of “violent” speech, echoed the denunciations of student activists.

The schadenfreude of Williamson getting bounced after only a few days aside, it is indicative of a huge problem that a well-respected writer of the GOPe persuasion is discarded so quickly after the first hint of heterogeneous thought appears.

Posted by: CBD at 12:10 PM

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1 Firstest, hat trick to boot

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:06 PM (aC6Sd)

2 Get up with fleas

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2018 12:06 PM (IqV8l)

3 Corgis called.

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:08 PM (aC6Sd)

4 "Pungent",ha.

Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2018 12:09 PM (LiyEm)

5 I could have been first, but I couldn't think of anything pithy to write. Or pissy. Either one.

Posted by: rickl at April 08, 2018 12:09 PM (sdi6R)

6 'Sup?

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2018 12:10 PM (MVjcR)

7
But something tells me Kahn belongs to the losing side in this conflict, that he is a partisan of the Lost Cause of objective journalism.

To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2018 12:10 PM (IqV8l)

8 J School is one tiny step above Ed Schools for dumb University ghettos (to use Walter Williams' terminology)

Posted by: TexasJew at April 08, 2018 12:11 PM (ATL/t)

9 I'm on my break from a work project. I'm going to puke if I look at it anymore.

Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2018 12:11 PM (MVjcR)

10 I have seen the future of journalism and it sucks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:12 PM (+y/Ru)

11 No fan of Williamson for sure, and really detest Nevers, but crowd think will be the end of Leftism eventually, might take until the gulags open back up.

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:12 PM (aC6Sd)

12 "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science." -- Chairman Mao

Yes, let a hundred flowers bloom, as long as they all lean Left.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 08, 2018 12:12 PM (pV/54)

13 The key is Credentialism.

The idea that you need a Degree to do a job.

It used to be that Reporters were just that... reporters... they were people who fell into the trade, so they usually had other skill sets.

Now, Journalism is a Major... you get degrees in it, which if you don't have... you don't get hired.

So the ones shaping what a Journalist is?? College Professors.... in Journalism.

Posted by: Don Q. at April 08, 2018 12:13 PM (NgKpN)

14 The Atlantic isn't journalism anyway, it's a lefty rag. But journalism qua journalism is dead, at least as far as the MFM goes. About the only ones doing real journalism anymore are the New Media/Alt-Media.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 12:13 PM (NWiLs)

15 Didn't Williamson wrote a post saying the white working class should die? Fuck him.

Posted by: BomberCommand at April 08, 2018 12:13 PM (dpOO+)

16 "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science." -- Chairman Mao

After which, when those of heterodox views spoke up, Mao had them whacked.

Fooled ya!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 08, 2018 12:15 PM (wrqZC)

17 Journalism is a dying business. Indeed, it's very nature, the way it is done today, is anti-business, so they live and die in a spiral of shame over what they must resort to, in order to stay relevant.

So increasingly, the industry WILL be a creature of powerful forces that prop it up, and so much less competitors in the marketplace.

Eventually, people will see there's no good reason to pay any more attention to the poobahs of journalism, than it is to... say, some stupid sociopathic kid who tweets.

We're not far from Lord of the Flies territory. And the journalism industrial complex is one of THE prime causes of it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 08, 2018 12:16 PM (Pz4pT)

18 Don't care about journalists, they are all dead to me. They are nothing like the ones I knew in the 70's and 80's even though most of them were lefties. Now they are so far left that you cannot even see them anymore. They've dropped over the horizon.
I rate them even lower then actors. With actors you know their job is spouting fiction, even when it's based on a true story. Journalists do it when they are reporting the news. Yes, they are still required (I think) to take an ethics class. They may pass it with flying colors but never actually utilize what they learned.
Lying, duplicitous assholes.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 08, 2018 12:16 PM (N3JsI)

19 "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science." -- Chairman Mao

After which, when those of heterodox views spoke up, Mao had them whacked.

Fooled ya!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 08, 2018 12:15 PM (wrqZC)

Well yeah. Because there can be no competing marketplace of ideas, outside of government. We are getting there. Soon. Soon.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 08, 2018 12:18 PM (Pz4pT)

20 KW, toughshit ! you helped creat when devoured you. I'd say your ass just got run over by the Karma Bus

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 08, 2018 12:19 PM (y3aQB)

21 "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science." -- Chairman Mao

After which, when those of heterodox views spoke up, Mao had them whacked.

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Reminds me of the Monty Python skit on camouflage.

Private Whoever, please stand up.

[Shot rings out and he falls dead.]

Rule number one: don't stand up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:21 PM (+y/Ru)

22 The schadenfreude of Williamson getting bounced after only a few days aside,

A cuck is going to get cucked

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 08, 2018 12:21 PM (SiINZ)

23
Everything inside The Narrative, nothing outside The Narrative, nothing against The Narrative.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2018 12:22 PM (sUWg9)

24 The hiring of a conservative writer for the opinion pages of a liberal
publication now occasions a ferocious debate over whether the cause of
social justice is being served by implicitly legitimizing an "offensive"
voice.

They've learned the lessons well.

Posted by: Zombie Lavrenty Beria at April 08, 2018 12:22 PM (Tyii7)

25 'Sup?
Posted by: Weasel at April 08, 2018 12:10 PM (MVjcR)

Hey, Weasel.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 08, 2018 12:22 PM (y87Qq)

26
Coming soon to the HR department at your company.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2018 12:24 PM (sUWg9)

27 Pretty sure that Cankles will be President before Tiger wins again

Posted by: Martha at April 08, 2018 12:24 PM (VWsDy)

28 it is indicative of a huge problem that a well-respected writer of the GOPe persuasion is discarded so quickly after the first hint of heterogeneous thought appears.
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Which glimpse actually appeared in 2014, I believe - the bit about hanging women who've had abortions.

I can't decide if Continetti is being derisive by describing Williamson as a "pungent libertarian," but it makes me chuckle.

Posted by: bluebell at April 08, 2018 12:26 PM (oMtOd)

29 26
Coming soon to the HR department at your company.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2018 12:24 PM (sUWg9)
----------------------------
THIS.
I always sigh when people make jokes about how Wymynz Studies and LGBTQWERTY Studies majors won't find jobs.
Because they will.
And you will bend the knee.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 12:26 PM (0jtPF)

30 Anti-Christ Wake Forest Professor Claims Believing in God is 'Immoral and Illogical' and that 'Christian Theology is Problematic, Racist, Sexist, Imperialist, and Fundamentally Evil'

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Now do Islam.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:27 PM (+y/Ru)

31 Oh, I just learned an interesting trivium about the giants of yore. I got curious about William F. Buckley and started watching the things and reading the things.

Fun Fact: English was Buckley's third language, after Spanish and French, and he didn't start learning it until he was seven.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 08, 2018 12:28 PM (fuK7c)

32 From the files of Believe It Or Not!

How $37 Million from the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund Disappeared in Baltimore

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:29 PM (+y/Ru)

33 F*ck Kevin Williamson. He's the douchenozzle who said "white, small town America should die just to save us all a lot of trouble," right? Then he neverTrumped his way to what he thought was a cushy job at the lefty, cultured, Pravda~for~cocktail~party set~publication known as The Atlantic.

Viper, breast, some assembly required.

It is good that he is so publicly fired for holding the somehow abhorrent view that killing babies is actually murder. Pour encourager les autres. So they might realize that the left delenda est and cannot, and certainly should not, be reasoned with; or even taken as a bastion of human beings. It. Must. Be. Destroyed.

Posted by: Publius Redux at April 08, 2018 12:29 PM (0/0WS)

34
The schadenfreude of Williamson getting bounced after only a few days aside, it is indicative of a huge problem that a well-respected writer of the GOPe persuasion is discarded so quickly after the first hint of heterogeneous thought appears.

I'm still of the opinion that KW was hired specifically so that they could fire a well-known righty writer in a humiliating fashion. There's no way in hell that they didn't know his views on abortion, guns or any other hot-button issue.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2018 12:29 PM (eXA4G)

35 And they say there isn't a war on Christianity

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:29 PM (aC6Sd)

36
It is a common misconception by liberals that they are immune to the groupthink and herd mentality they assume their leaders suffer from. But the smaller the social group the more intense the pressure to conform. So arts, academia and journalism are now centers of loyalty oaths and burning of heretics.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2018 12:30 PM (sUWg9)

37 it is indicative of a huge problem

For useless people with no productive skills as Uncle Sam's free goodie bag empties.

Posted by: DaveA at April 08, 2018 12:30 PM (FhXTo)

38 36
It is a common misconception by liberals that they are immune to the groupthink and herd mentality they assume their leaders suffer from. But the smaller the social group the more intense the pressure to conform. So arts, academia and journalism are now centers of loyalty oaths and burning of heretics.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2018 12:30 PM (sUWg9)

Immune? Hell, they're the vanguard.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 12:31 PM (NWiLs)

39 Wakes up.
Scratches.
Looks around.
Morning Horde!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 08, 2018 12:32 PM (8DZhw)

40 Good news is that the left's presstitutes are basically preaching to the choir. As Trump succeeds in the economy he will pick up converts and lose few.

I read of an Iowa hog farmer griping that he would lose the market for 25000 of his hogs and that would make him dump Trump....

Not really, just a short dip in prices will bring new buyers off the sidelines to buy his hogs....just as we are seeing with soybeans. Plus the Chinese people are going to get pissed as soy prices zoom up in China.

Tom Sullivan last week showed his noodle backbone carping about trade wars America can't win....well no war can be won without a fight.

The press has sold out to the globalists...there is opportunity for parties to move on them and win one for Donnie 2 Scoops there too.

Posted by: torabora at April 08, 2018 12:34 PM (4kMjX)

41 That's gonna leave a mark.

Parkland Hero Who Was Shot Five Times Rips Leftist Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel: 'I'm a 15-Year-Old Who's Been Shot Five Times, While Broward Sheriff's Deputies Waited Outside and Decided That They Weren't Going to Come in the Building'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:36 PM (+y/Ru)

42 This New Orthodoxy had better get thrown down the stairs before it does the same to us.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 08, 2018 12:36 PM (oVJmc)

43 I'm on #TeamKevin, by the way.

Posted by: ArthurK at April 08, 2018 12:37 PM (AHElI)

44 I'm still of the opinion that KW was hired specifically so that they could fire a well-known righty writer in a humiliating fashion. There's no way in hell that they didn't know his views on abortion, guns or any other hot-button issue.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 08, 2018 12:29 PM (eXA4G)

A reasonable assumption.

The nevertrumpers may still be perceived as a problem, at least in journalism circles. Way too much #metooing going on. So the lefties need to have a sacrifice, to separate the #wehatedrepublicansfirst crowd from the relative newcomers.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 08, 2018 12:37 PM (Pz4pT)

45 30--- Anti-Christ Wake Forest Professor Claims Believing in God is 'Immoral and Illogical' and that 'Christian Theology is Problematic, Racist, Sexist, Imperialist, and Fundamentally Evil'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:27 PM (+y/Ru)
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Ah, Wake Forest. Founded by Baptists and, until a couple of decades ago, at least nominally Christian.

I get a big kick ---(no, not really, more like big nausea)--- when I survey all of the academies founded and nurtured by pious Christians and that now embrace the Devil.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM (0jtPF)

46 Y'know my wife always watches the news...hates it when she misses it. I tell her its nothing but fake news or slanted whatever. I'll say, didja hear abut this... and she;ll say no and I'll say thats because it's REAL news and they dont want to broadcast it. I think she's learning.

Posted by: Sweet Andy Licious at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM (Mo5Uy)

47 The press has sold out to the globalists...there is opportunity for
parties to move on them and win one for Donnie 2 Scoops there too.

=====

I recommend the Vincente Fox v Nigel Farage debate moderated by some WSJ lady (through Breitbart London). Globalism v Nationalism. Interesting character study on both speakers. I was chuckling at how Fox's accent kept shifting to become more 'Mexican' as his arguments became less coherent and more talking points of hating DJT and the wall.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM (MIKMs)

48 I remember when I was a kid and my father got the New York Times. As lefty as it was, it was often well-written and even erudite. They had bureaus all over the world and you can count of at least getting the "facts" about a story--even if there was some spin. Even the letters-to-the editor were well-written and seemed to reflect a cultivated and fairly intelligent readership.

Read the comments section of the online NY Times now and you are subjected to a symphony of derangement and outright stupidity.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM (7uYFy)

49 The Atlantic treated Williamson exactly how Williamson treated Donald Trump. They judged him to be unacceptable and exiled him from their portion of the public square.

That neither he nor most of his supporters realized it could happen to them is only more proof that no one is ever as smart as they think they are.

Mike

Posted by: MBunge at April 08, 2018 12:39 PM (7Nkan)

50 Immune? Hell, they're the vanguard.

Always have been. Trust me.

Posted by: Zombie Lavrenty Beria at April 08, 2018 12:40 PM (Tyii7)

51 Hmmmmmmm.

India Builds Over 14,000 Bunkers In Preparation For War With Pakistan

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:40 PM (+y/Ru)

52 51. By the many arms of Vishnu - be coming at me, bro!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 12:41 PM (fA1SL)

53 I recommend the Vincente Fox v Nigel Farage debate moderated by some WSJ lady (through Breitbart London). Globalism v Nationalism. Interesting character study on both speakers. I was chuckling at how Fox's accent kept shifting to become more 'Mexican' as his arguments became less coherent and more talking points of hating DJT and the wall.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM (MIKMs)

Anyone ever see Orson Welle's noir "Touch of Evil?" For decades it's been a thing to laugh at Charlton Heston's portrayal as a Mexican police detective. He's too white they say.
He looks like Vincente Fox.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 08, 2018 12:41 PM (7uYFy)

54 I get a big kick ---(no, not really, more like big nausea)--- when I
survey all of the academies founded and nurtured by pious Christians and
that now embrace the Devil.

They'll be sorry. It's fuckin' hot down here.

Posted by: Zombie Lavrenty Beria at April 08, 2018 12:42 PM (Tyii7)

55

Twitter CEO Shares And Raves About Article Calling For Dem Victory In Second "Civil War"

From that article:

California today provides a model for America as a whole. This model of politics and government is by no means perfect, but it is far ahead of the nation in coming to terms with the inexorable digital, global, sustainable transformation of our era.

It is a thriving work in progress that gives hope that America can pull out of the political mess we're in. California today provides a playbook for America's new way forward. It's worth contemplating as we enter 2018, which will be a critical election year.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2018 12:42 PM (IqV8l)

56 Sweet Andy Licious at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM

My mother is the same way, only gets Leftists media point of view

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:43 PM (aC6Sd)

57 Like ace has pointed out,the dream of these establishment "kept" conservatives is acceptance by their left wing peers.Getting hired at the Times or The Atlantic is their dream job because they look down on the average conservative as much as any left winger if not more.

Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2018 12:43 PM (LiyEm)

58 California today provides a playbook for America's new way forward.

Yes, forward and over the edge into the abyss.

Posted by: Zombie Lavrenty Beria at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (Tyii7)

59 Was a good F-1 race and there were no commercials at all on ESPN 2

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (aC6Sd)

60 Well thats cheery. I never thought I'd say this but I'd rather have one of CDB's fat guy paintings this morning.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (o7tuA)

61 Ah, the joys of marxism!

"Journalism" has been dead for quite a few years now.

What we have now is comparable to the Stasi in East Germany with a Starbucks latte double mocha on the side and a Fakebook page.

And yes, it's in your HR departments already and has been for along time.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (EoRCO)

62 Increasingly they are becoming Democrats with simply a few different policy preferences.And they are finding out they are not allowed to have even those few differences if they want to be in the club.

Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (LiyEm)

63 California today provides a model for America as a whole. This model of politics and government is by no means perfect, but it is far ahead of the nation in coming to terms with the inexorable digital, global, sustainable transformation of our era.

It is a thriving work in progress that gives hope that America can pull out of the political mess we're in. California today provides a playbook for America's new way forward. It's worth contemplating as we enter 2018, which will be a critical election year.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2018 12:42 PM (IqV8l)

What a steaming pile....

Posted by: JoeF. at April 08, 2018 12:45 PM (7uYFy)

64 I swear to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
-- stuff journos never promise

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 08, 2018 12:46 PM (hMwEB)

65 Anyone ever see Orson Welle's noir "Touch of Evil?" For decades it's
been a thing to laugh at Charlton Heston's portrayal as a Mexican police
detective. He's too white they say.
He looks like Vincente Fox.
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Wonder if Fox holds dual citizenship -- like that Jorge Ramos guy. Voting in both countries.

Heston was also one of the few who marched for voting rights from the beginning. Just as he advocated for 2nd Amd rights.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 12:47 PM (MIKMs)

66 Don't make a deal with Lord Foul, Kevin.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 12:48 PM (sRNJP)

67 >>>For decades it's been a thing to laugh at Charlton Heston's portrayal as a Mexican police detective. He's too white they say. He looks like Vincente Fox.

That sounds more like a failure on the part of the makeup department.

Posted by: Eli Wallach at April 08, 2018 12:49 PM (g6yUI)

68 62
Increasingly they are becoming Democrats with simply a few different
policy preferences.And they are finding out they are not allowed to have
even those few differences if they want to be in the club.

Posted by: steevy at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (LiyEm)

After they sold out, theres no use for them.

Posted by: muckrack at April 08, 2018 12:50 PM (RZ4iC)

69 California today provides a model for America as a whole. This model of politics and government is by no means perfect, but it is far ahead of the nation in coming to terms with the inexorable digital, global, sustainable transformation of our era.

It is a thriving work in progress that gives hope that America can pull out of the political mess we're in. California today provides a playbook for America's new way forward. It's worth contemplating as we enter 2018, which will be a critical election year.

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Just a few concentration camps and everything will be fine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:50 PM (+y/Ru)

70 Journalists today are about as useful as Pravda writers of the 60's and 70's

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2018 12:50 PM (aC6Sd)

71 Anti-Christ Wake Forest Professor Claims Believing in God is 'Immoral
and Illogical' and that 'Christian Theology is Problematic, Racist,
Sexist, Imperialist, and Fundamentally Evil'

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Now do Islam.
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Islam is a religion of peace, and we must respect and echo their beliefs, since Mohammad is the one and only messenger of god, peace be upon him.

Posted by: Anti-Christ Wake Forest Professor at April 08, 2018 12:50 PM (9oJYp)

72 Two thumbs up for The Battle of Woke Island.

Posted by: Puddin Head at April 08, 2018 12:51 PM (vV/gB)

73 Mexico's Ambassador to the US, who looks pretty white, is Gerónimo Gutiérrez.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 08, 2018 12:51 PM (IqV8l)

74 Touch of Evil also had an Armenian playing an American Mexican gangster

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (fA1SL)

75 47----I was chuckling at how Fox's accent kept shifting to become more 'Mexican' as his arguments became less coherent and more talking points of hating DJT and the wall.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 12:38 PM (MIKMs)
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This is almost certainly not a deliberate shift, as with, say, Hillary's fake Southern/black accent. It's a sign of being rattled, of knowing on a certain level that his arguments are weak, of his losing focus.
And the immediate resort to cliches about Trump is another sign of the same.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (0jtPF)

76 California? We're going to need a bigger terminal.

Posted by: Pinochet Airlines at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (Tyii7)

77 60 Well thats cheery. I never thought I'd say this but I'd rather have one of CDB's fat guy paintings this morning.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 08, 2018 12:44 PM (o7tuA)
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Here you go!

https://benushko.deviantart.com/art/Fat-man-Leigh-Bowery-Lucian-freud-316942802

NSFW, but it would be a great conversation piece to hang in your dining room.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (qJtVm)

78 For decades it's been a thing to laugh at Charlton Heston's portrayal as a Mexican police detective. He's too white they say. He looks like Vincente Fox.
That sounds more like a failure on the part of the makeup department.
Posted by: Eli Wallach at April 08, 2018 12:49 PM (g6yUI)

Yup....the "elites" in Mexico are as lily white as Billy Kristol.

Carlos Slim looks like Mel Blanc for crying out loud.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (EoRCO)

79 I swear to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

--

I swear to report to you MY truth, the whole of MY truth, and nothing but MY truth. Which may change dramatically, depending on what the DNC and Mr Soros tells me what is the truth on any particular day.

Posted by: Kollege Educated Journo-List at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (9oJYp)

80 Torabora said "Tom Sullivan last week showed his noodle backbone carping about trade wars America can't win....well no war can be won without a fight. "
We could never win WW2 today.
The SSM is a fifth column in the fourth estate.

Posted by: Ed Bonderenka at April 08, 2018 12:53 PM (V3xhc)

81 At some point, who is going to pay for this crap. The demographic of the Utne Reader subscription base can't support inflated urban salaries and costs of mass distribution.

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 12:53 PM (ZVaO6)

82 "But men do flirt like birds! 'Dozens of the genes involved in the vocal learning that underpins human speech are also active in some songbirds.'"
twitter.com/holland_tom/status/982658229267304448

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 12:53 PM (sRNJP)

83 Journalism:

What, Where, When, Who, and sometimes Why.

For some reason, I think there is another in there, but it has been many many years and lost in antiquity.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 12:54 PM (MIKMs)

84 I flirt like a Swallow.

Posted by: Shemp! at April 08, 2018 12:55 PM (Tyii7)

85 boulder t'hobo

Ya shortened your nic!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 12:56 PM (hyuyC)

86 Ah, the National Review.
Well, now I understand 'intersectionality' until the defination changes again.

I didn't get the punchline. Was there a punchline? Too many code words for me to keep up with, he said awkwardly.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 08, 2018 12:57 PM (roQNm)

87 Well, I didn't expect this. The Trump tower fire? No sh*t, the media is approaching it as :

"Trump opposed sprinkler systems in NYC buildings!"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at April 08, 2018 12:57 PM (ks6bw)

88 81 At some point, who is going to pay for this crap. The demographic of the Utne Reader subscription base can't support inflated urban salaries and costs of mass distribution.
Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 12:53 PM (ZVaO6)

We're already seeing it.

The MSM is all in Washington DC, or New York.

No where else is covered...

Which is why we are inundated day in and day out with stories of Trump.... he gets 5 times the coverage of any other President ever...

Why? That's where all the 'reporters' are.

Posted by: Don Q. at April 08, 2018 12:57 PM (NgKpN)

89 NaCly Dog, yeah, I'm not feeling as,er, down in the dumps these days, and I'm aiming for more positivity here as well.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 12:57 PM (sRNJP)

90 Old and busted: What, Where, When, Who, and sometimes Why

New hotness: Shut up

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 08, 2018 12:58 PM (+y/Ru)

91 Plus the Chinese people are going to get pissed as soy prices zoom up in China.

Price controls, guarantee it. No way the Chicoms allow broad based civic unrest to take hold.

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 12:58 PM (ZVaO6)

92 Maybe you should be Boulder T-Rex now.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 08, 2018 12:59 PM (qJtVm)

93 74 Touch of Evil also had an Armenian playing an American Mexican gangster
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 12:52 PM (fA1SL)

I do not provoke

Posted by: Pablo at April 08, 2018 12:59 PM (VWsDy)

94 Stay woke everyone

Posted by: thathalfrican - Stay woke! - Leigon of Gloom founding member/too sweet at April 08, 2018 12:59 PM (IYHxL)

95 The United States is the only country in the world that would ever seriously wonder whether Vicente Fox is "white."

(I mean today. If you're an old timey Brit who believes "wogs begin at the Channel," okay!)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 12:59 PM (0jtPF)

96 Whatever will I do without soy?

Posted by: Camera Hogg at April 08, 2018 12:59 PM (Tyii7)

97 Which is why we are inundated day in and day out with stories of Trump.... he gets 5 times the coverage of any other President ever...

Which he revels in.

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 01:00 PM (ZVaO6)

98 boulder t'hobo

The new job, or all your groupies?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:00 PM (hyuyC)

99 it is indicative of a huge problem that a well-respected writer of the
GOPe persuasion is discarded so quickly after the first hint of
heterogeneous thought appears.

And what does it say that people like David Brooks have been there so long and have apparently said nothing offensive to the left? Speaking truth to power probably doesn't describe it.

Posted by: pep at April 08, 2018 01:00 PM (LAe3v)

100 (I mean today. If you're an old timey Brit who believes "wogs begin at the Channel," okay!)
---

I was called a Bloody Wog when I was in England!

Made my day, it did.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 08, 2018 01:01 PM (qJtVm)

101 91 Plus the Chinese people are going to get pissed as soy prices zoom up in China.

Price controls, guarantee it. No way the Chicoms allow broad based civic unrest to take hold.
Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 12:58 PM (ZVaO6)

Yep... the Chinese could knock down one room of our house.. the room we added onto our Brick House... the one we made of sticks...

But in order to do it... they would destroy their entire house of straw.

The Chinese economy is built on having a huge customer base... it fails if we take said base away.

Posted by: Don Q. at April 08, 2018 01:01 PM (NgKpN)

102 Well, I didn't expect this. The Trump tower fire? No sh*t, the media is approaching it as :

"Trump opposed sprinkler systems in NYC buildings!"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at April 08, 2018 12:57 PM (ks6bw)

But they still had them in Trump Tower, right?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 08, 2018 01:02 PM (7uYFy)

103 95. They're not wrong, you know.

* spits at the BENELUX *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:02 PM (fA1SL)

104
The United States is the only country in the world that would ever seriously wonder whether Vicente Fox is "white."
=====

If you spend any time with 'hispanics' you will be astonished at the incredible casual racism. Class and income is strictly based on not having any indian or black heritage. If Lizzie Warren was operating in Mexico, she would never claim her fake indian ancestry.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:04 PM (MIKMs)

105 >>Plus the Chinese people are going to get pissed as soy prices zoom up in China.

No Ginseng for you!

Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2018 01:05 PM (icEus)

106 102 Well, I didn't expect this. The Trump tower fire? No sh*t, the media is approaching it as :

"Trump opposed sprinkler systems in NYC buildings!"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at April 08, 2018 12:57 PM (ks6bw)

But they still had them in Trump Tower, right?
Posted by: JoeF. at April 08, 2018 01:02 PM (7uYFy)

The RUSSIANS don't require sprinkler systems in their buildings too, therefore Trump=Putin Puppet!

Posted by: The MSM at April 08, 2018 01:05 PM (N+OGf)

107 We love you long time.

Posted by: Chinese Wogs at April 08, 2018 01:06 PM (Tyii7)

108 105. Heh. They import that, too. Everybody knows American ginseng is best ginseng.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:06 PM (fA1SL)

109 Yes, let a hundred flowers bloom, as long as they all lean Left.

Posted by: Ignoramus

A cascading bonsai is upright by comparison.

Posted by: pep at April 08, 2018 01:06 PM (LAe3v)

110 BOYCOTT FIVE GUYS UNTIL THEY CHOOSE A MORE INCLUSIVE NAME!!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 08, 2018 01:06 PM (p9qVR)

111 >>If you spend any time with 'hispanics' you will be astonished at the incredible casual racism.

I had a couple Carlos Slim style clients from Mexico City.

You couldn't take the or their kids anywhere in public. Holy shit, the Racism.

Posted by: garrett at April 08, 2018 01:06 PM (icEus)

112 It is good that he is so publicly fired for holding
the somehow abhorrent view that killing babies is actually murder. Pour
encourager les autres. So they might realize that the left delenda est
and cannot, and certainly should not, be reasoned with; or even taken
as a bastion of human beings. It. Must. Be. Destroyed.

Posted by: Publius Redux at April 08, 2018 12:29 PM (0/0WS)

...and the roads paved with their bones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 08, 2018 01:07 PM (aMlLZ)

113 Having journalopined his livelihood away, it would be a most delicious irony if KDW found himself applying for work at a newly woken steel plant, in some formerly derelict town.

Hey dude, don't forget to rent a U-Haul to get there. Maybe a few of your new one week friends will help ya load it up. Pack your shit, so to speak.

Heh heh heh.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 08, 2018 01:08 PM (0ogQG)

114 I'm still of the opinion that KW was hired
specifically so that they could fire a well-known righty writer in a
humiliating fashion. There's no way in hell that they didn't know his
views on abortion, guns or any other hot-button issue.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I disagree on this. They have a huge credibility problem and they know it. They thought he was a "house conservative" in the David Brooks mold. That and they didn't appreciate the lunacy of their other staff.

I didn't say they were smart.

Posted by: pep at April 08, 2018 01:08 PM (LAe3v)

115 It's probably the groupies.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:09 PM (sRNJP)

116 57 I agree with you, steevy.

the operative agent in journalism and politics seems to be permanent adolescence, in which being considered cool is the ultimate goal.

if you can stand the nausea, recall the ex-presidential imposter reading off his phone a tweet by President Trump, who was then a candidate, about the former going down in history as the worst president, and ex saying something like 'at least i'm president' and THROWING Down his phone. with an adolescent smirk.

grownups vs. adolescents. we can take 'em

Posted by: booknlass at April 08, 2018 01:09 PM (xGMkv)

117 Trump towers doesn't have sprinklers according to an article in the DailyMail. Trump Towers was built before 1983 and NYC doesn't require sprinklers unless the old buildings undergo renovation. According to the DailyMail several old people live in Trump Towers and they won't want to move so the building can be renovated and sprinklers installed.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 08, 2018 01:09 PM (roQNm)

118 110 BOYCOTT FIVE GUYS UNTIL THEY CHOOSE A MORE INCLUSIVE NAME!!!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 08, 2018 01:06 PM (p9qVR)

BOYCOTT FIVE GUYS UNTIL THEY STOP MAKING BURGERS OUT OF THE MUTILATED CORPSES OF INNOCENT ANIMALS WHO WERE CRUELLY MURDERED!!!!!

Posted by: PETA at April 08, 2018 01:10 PM (N+OGf)

119 7 To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

So you know my ex-wife.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 08, 2018 01:10 PM (0ogQG)

120 Berserker-Dragonheads Divison

Two countries have decisively broken Socialist / Communist insurgencies by themselves.

France and the Paris Commune with 17,000 or so dead socialists.

Chile after Allende's election with 5-6,000 or so Communist deaths.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:10 PM (hyuyC)

121 I'm still puzzling over the phrase "pungent libertarian."

Do I need to use more Old Spice in my pits?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 08, 2018 01:10 PM (jn7FC)

122 Jake Tapper interviewing Larry Kudlow -- Trump's new economic adviser -- this morning did his typical minutes long screeds before asking a question like: so, has Trump stopped beating Kelly like a rented mule?

Journolism at its finest.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 08, 2018 01:11 PM (pV/54)

123 Two countries have decisively broken Socialist / Communist insurgencies by themselves.

Peru? (Shining Path)

Posted by: pep at April 08, 2018 01:11 PM (LAe3v)

124 120. Mi General plyed the finest of scalpels. Most of those killed were combat in the first 18 months or so.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:12 PM (fA1SL)

125 I'm still puzzling over the phrase "pungent libertarian."

Er, I live in Colorado. I could introduce you to some very pungent libertarians.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:12 PM (sRNJP)

126 Do I need to use more Old Spice in my pits?

Nah, you're good.

Posted by: Putrid Progressive at April 08, 2018 01:12 PM (Tyii7)

127 Williamson is a hard person for me to defend, because he's made it clear, as a middle class conservative, I am a member of the untermenschen. NeverTrumpers should take a salutatory lesson from this about sucking up to the progs, but they won't.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 08, 2018 01:14 PM (ppaKI)

128 "Anti-Christ Wake Forest Professor"

Exactly. there are many many anti-christs, and then there will be the Anti-Christ.

You know me by now, maybe. I see things in terms of the Angelic Conflict.

Posted by: booknlass at April 08, 2018 01:14 PM (xGMkv)

129 Two countries have decisively broken Socialist / Communist insurgencies by themselves.

Khomeini did this by setting himself up as a liaison between the communist (Tudeh) revolution and the Iranian middle class. having made himself indispensible, and once the revolution won, the ayatollah turned around and executed all the commies.

Peru is a model for defeating commies in mountainous areas.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:15 PM (sRNJP)

130 I flirt like a dead, decomposing bird.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 01:15 PM (DeZs2)

131 121 I'm still puzzling over the phrase "pungent libertarian."

Do I need to use more Old Spice in my pits?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 08, 2018 01:10 PM (jn7FC)

OLD SPICE TESTS THEIR PRODUCTS ON ENSLAVED LAB ANIMALS KEPT IN BRUTAL AND UNSANITARY CONDITIONS, BOYCOTT THEM!!!!!

Posted by: PETA at April 08, 2018 01:16 PM (N+OGf)

132 *sends Insomniac one of my groupies*

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:16 PM (sRNJP)

133 121. Old Spice is the poor man's bay rum.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:16 PM (fA1SL)

134 116 booknlass

Absolutely!

We are at the range with our virtue signaling, covertly OP-Planning with our peeps, and having to fight for our historically-valid principles every day.

And we learn. From the 20th century, especially, and from other history. The Left is a theocracy or insular, mutually affirming coterie who regard any outside voice as risible or dangerous. Too rigid. But the Left is good on power acquisition and encouraging slavery.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:17 PM (hyuyC)

135 Still, I bet Sandy Fluke regularly has Five Guys for lunch.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 08, 2018 01:17 PM (l1wsb)

136 new video at intellectualfroglegs.com

Joe Dan does a great job of treating the 'journalism' takeover

Posted by: booknlass at April 08, 2018 01:18 PM (xGMkv)

137 I get a big kick out of suggesting to white "Hispanic" lefties that the Oppressed Victim status should only be for indios and mestizos.

They go berserk!!! Talk about flustered and incoherent!

BTW, the reason I put "Hispanic" in quotation marks is because it is a pretty silly category. There are lily white people in this country who were born here, speak not a word of Spanish, but happen to have a Spanish surname. Oppressed!!!!
It's like calling Vicente Fox an "Anglo" because he has an English surname. (Well, actually his gramps was German-American and it was anglicized. But still.......)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (0jtPF)

138 135 Still, I bet Sandy Fluke regularly has Five Guys for lunch.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 08, 2018 01:17 PM (l1wsb)

THAT MAKES HER AN ACCESSORY TO MURDER!!!!! BOYCOTT HER TOO!!!!!

Posted by: PETA at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (N+OGf)

139 NeverTrumpers should take a salutatory lesson from this about sucking up to the progs, but they won't.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 08, 2018 01:14 PM (ppaKI)
----------

The thing that amazed me the most about this whole thing is that Williamson had agreed to give up his Twitter account to go work for The Atlantic. Sucking up to the progs indeed.

Posted by: bluebell at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (oMtOd)

140 Still, I bet Sandy Fluke regularly has Five Guys for lunch.

Posted by: Amy Shumer at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (pAx+1)

141 BOYCOTT FIVE GUYS UNTIL THEY CHOOSE A MORE INCLUSIVE NAME!!!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Too late.

I'm already boycotting them because a hamburger, coke, and fries should not cost $14.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (aPsQQ)

142 Ok, Ok. Four countries. I like that trend. We will win.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (hyuyC)

143 Speaking of Journolism, they're doing battle space prep for the OIG report by giving Loretta Lynch quality NBC airtime to pre-game her denials and deflections.

Word is that the unredacted stuff Rosenstein won't turn over will implicate higher-ups in the Obama administration.

MSM will try to deflect and obfuscate, but will find that indictments are stubborn things.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 08, 2018 01:20 PM (pV/54)

144 Amy Shumer

Sandy Fluke has gone full manatee. Never go full manatee.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:20 PM (hyuyC)

145 So what is the count of countries convicting and jailing former leaders in the past two years -- which I would think is 'news'. Brazil, Argentina, SKorea, etc.

That is why I am 'meh' on jailing Hillary and BHO -- exposure and shaming is enough for me.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:21 PM (MIKMs)

146 Still, I bet Sandy Fluke regularly has Five Guys for lunch.

That was Zoe Quinn van Valkenburg. That's what started the #gamergate mess, because she was blowing crooked journalists.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:22 PM (sRNJP)

147 144 Amy Shumer

Sandy Fluke has gone full manatee. Never go full manatee.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:20 PM (hyuyC)

MANATEES ARE PEOPLE TOO!!!!!

Posted by: PETA at April 08, 2018 01:22 PM (N+OGf)

148 BOYCOTT FIVE GUYS UNTIL THEY CHOOSE A MORE INCLUSIVE NAME!!!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Ok Five Guys and a Fat Chick, do not Google that btw

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 01:22 PM (ZVaO6)

149 That is why I am 'meh' on jailing Hillary and BHO -- exposure and shaming is enough for me.
Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:21 PM (MIKMs)
--------

It should be enough for me too but oh how I long to see them both in orange jumpsuits. Petty of me, I know. But I can't help it.

Posted by: bluebell at April 08, 2018 01:23 PM (oMtOd)

150 ... Five Guys and a Fat Chick...

New this fall, on CBS

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 08, 2018 01:24 PM (Mkuv2)

151 https://fxn.ws/2JrYsuN
+++++
Berlin half-marathon attack plot foiled, 6 detained, officials say Fox News
++++++++
Damn Amish again I bet

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 08, 2018 01:25 PM (y3aQB)

152 Increasingly, people are seeking "news" told with only their point of view.

The problem is that there are fewer print and TV outlets that lean right.

Name us a nationally recognized daily that is as right-leaning as the NYT, WaPo, LaTimes, BostonGlobe, etc. is left.

And on TV, other than FNC, which is getting pretty squishy, name another that is right-leaning. Virtually every local news network affiliate runs left if in a metro market of 200,000 or more. Everyone else on cable goes hard left.

And all the journalism schools are full-tilt SJW.

So where do we land by about 2020?

A divided America? Or two actual countries, separate?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 08, 2018 01:25 PM (4ZE6o)

153 5 Still, I bet Sandy Fluke regularly has Five Guys for lunch.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 08, 2018 01:17 PM (l1wsb)
++++++++++
Lunch?? Hell that is her Protein Slurpee Breakfast Drink

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 08, 2018 01:26 PM (y3aQB)

154 I assumed Zoe Quinn was a dude.

Posted by: Monk at April 08, 2018 01:26 PM (tcQdP)

155 Sandy Fluke has gone full manatee. Never go full manatee.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Except with a n outboard

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 01:26 PM (ZVaO6)

156 132 *sends Insomniac one of my groupies*
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:16 PM (sRNJP)

I appreciate the gesture, but not even the most enthusiastic of groupies would come anywhere near me.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 01:27 PM (NWiLs)

157 Speaking of Amy Schumer, in her next flick I Feel Pretty she gets dropped on her head and wakes up thinking she's the most beautiful woman on the planet. That's deep, no?

Emily Ratajkowski is in it, presumably for levels of ironic contrast.

It's PG13, which is good news / bad news. We won't see Amy nude, but then we won't see Emily's bodacious ta-tas.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 08, 2018 01:28 PM (pV/54)

158
I get a big kick out of suggesting to white "Hispanic" lefties that the
Oppressed Victim status should only be for indios and mestizos.
They go berserk!!! Talk about flustered and incoherent!
=====

Northern Illinois gang wars between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. PR are citizens and Mexicans have to apply.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:29 PM (MIKMs)

159 So where do we land by about 2020?

A divided America? Or two actual countries, separate?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 08, 2018 01:25 PM (4ZE6o)

In a perfect world? A renewed America with a new slave army to build our monuments.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at April 08, 2018 01:29 PM (aMlLZ)

160 OT --- Remember way back in 2008 when Obama said that the world leaders he most admired were Lula daSilva and Erdogan?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 01:29 PM (0jtPF)

161 159. And dig our canals. What this country needs is an Atlantic to Pacific canal, large enough for the girthiest of super freighters and tankers. Dug by hand.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:30 PM (fA1SL)

162
The problem is that there are fewer print and TV outlets that lean right.

Who cares, cut the cord, cancle.the print crap, and ignore their screeching. Spend the money you save on ammo.

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 01:31 PM (ZVaO6)

163 157 Speaking of Amy Schumer, in her next flick I Feel Pretty she gets dropped on her head and wakes up thinking she's the most beautiful woman on the planet.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 08, 2018 01:28 PM (pV/54)
-----------------------
Oh, for carp's sake, another bio-pic on Michelle Obama?
Enough!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 01:32 PM (0jtPF)

164 Meanwhile the FBI is offering $10,000 for information on a mechanic who went missing when that ValuJet crashed in Florida more than 20 years ago.

If the FBI can't catch a jet mechanic, then what good are they?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:32 PM (YndnO)

165 And dig our canals. What this country needs is an Atlantic to Pacific
canal, large enough for the girthiest of super freighters and tankers.
Dug by hand.
=====

Gah. I hate having to reinvent the wheel. Love, Panama.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:32 PM (MIKMs)

166 Does anyone know what Presdent Obama is doing to help Senator Muller get rid of Trump? I have not heard anything lately. Brattleboro is rooting for Senator Mulller nd hid quest ti get rid of that liar Trump...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 08, 2018 01:34 PM (qM84C)

167 Trouble is that MSM sets the agenda for what gets talked about, so it's hard to ignore.

I'm hoping that a whole bunch of indictments changes this.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 08, 2018 01:34 PM (pV/54)

168 rcikl - I read about your strange dream on the EMT. Your dream most likely was about something unrelated and innocuous that your brain didn't quite understand.

However, there is a small chance that could have been your subconscious
trying to tell you about cancer metastasis. People with smallpox often
dream about being eaten by lions.

Posted by: An Observation at April 08, 2018 01:36 PM (e0WVc)

169 Funny that you posted this now, CBD. I just now got around to reading dad's March copy of the Limbaugh Letter. Very interesting interview with James O'Keefe.

Posted by: Infidel at April 08, 2018 01:37 PM (a3OL0)

170 Les, print and TV outlets are often delivered on the smart phone, which puts them into competition with youtube, Breitbart, and the blogosphere.

hell, even the evil FB serves as a conservative news platform for those of us with the guts. (I deleted my account after the election and started a blog.)

Bill Whittle said in his video Fake News: White House correspondents say it's the end of democracy. I say it's the end of White House correspondents. I say that 80 million Americans walking around with high definition television cameras in their pockets, and thousands and thousands of news sources reporting the actual truth, is the rebirth of a long dormant democracy, and not the end of one."

Remember Common Sense!

Posted by: booknlass at April 08, 2018 01:37 PM (xGMkv)

171 Northern Illinois gang wars between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. PR are citizens and Mexicans have to apply.

Dominicans feel the same way. They think they are Puerto Ricans, and genetically and geographically they're almost right, but by accidents of history PR is an American territory and the DR is stuck next to Haiti.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:37 PM (sRNJP)

172 167. Hope you've all been preparing to hear the wails of 'a weaponized justice department, ' cause we're gonna be hearing that for years to come.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:37 PM (fA1SL)

173 172 167. Hope you've all been preparing to hear the wails of 'a weaponized justice department, ' cause we're gonna be hearing that for years to come.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:37 PM (fA1SL)

I want them to get it good and hard, but I'm not expecting it.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 01:41 PM (NWiLs)

174 158---Northern Illinois gang wars between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. PR are citizens and Mexicans have to apply.
Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:29 PM (MIKMs)
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Oh, of course, that too.
"Hispanic" is as broad a category as "Anglo."
Not at all monolithic.

PRicans and Mexicans have many more differences than citizenship status, especially when you get below the upper classes.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 01:41 PM (0jtPF)

175 Berlin half-marathon attack plot foiled, 6 detained, officials say Fox News
++++++++
Damn Amish again I bet

According to Bild, police have taken six people into custody. The ringleader was in the personal circle of Anis Amri, the Christmas Market terrorist.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 08, 2018 01:41 PM (fuK7c)

176 I see George Will is racing to the bottom to be as great a Twitdiot as Billy Kristol by arguing for a sweeping no holds barred restoration of voting rights for felons regardless if they have truly turned their lives around.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:41 PM (YndnO)

177 Hope you've all been preparing to hear the wails of 'a weaponized justice department, ' cause we're gonna be hearing that for years to come.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine

Are they talking about the Obama DOJ?

Posted by: Infidel at April 08, 2018 01:42 PM (a3OL0)

178 Anis Amri

A real asshole.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:42 PM (sRNJP)

179 173. Same here. We have to exhaust all the normal and customary remedies so that & etc.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:42 PM (fA1SL)

180 O'Keefe, Atkisson, Schweitzer, D'Souza, and the two who are following the DOJ/FISA stuff. Are there any others?

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:43 PM (MIKMs)

181 177. That's the cherry of irony atop the two scoops of vengeance.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:43 PM (fA1SL)

182 Townhall

MSNBC Joy Reid dreams of seeing Trump in handcuffs after being arrested by US Marshalls.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8chn3jh

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 08, 2018 01:45 PM (roQNm)

183 Bill Kristol doesn't even wear a jacket and tie to dinner. How dare you compare me to that knave, madame!

Posted by: George Will at April 08, 2018 01:46 PM (H5knJ)

184 As an actual example of investigative journalism, a mix of other news links plus a little on the ground camera work, I give you this story about Dick's Sporting Goods from TheTruthAboutGuns:

https://tinyurl.com/y9vdaj5c

I saw this same 'shelf-stretching' display strategy at the local Sears a few years ago, before the place went belly up.

And the article itself is a great example of what a lone journo with an internet connection and a camera can produce.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 08, 2018 01:46 PM (0ogQG)

185 two scoops of vengeance.

----
Berserker's weekend jam band.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 08, 2018 01:46 PM (qJtVm)

186 176 I see George Will is racing to the bottom to be as great a Twitdiot as Billy Kristol by arguing for a sweeping no holds barred restoration of voting rights for felons regardless if they have truly turned their lives around.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:41 PM (YndnO)
-------------------------
Well, he hasn't been getting any attention lately.
But seriously, that's the best that he can do?
That ain't gonna cut it with competition like Billy and Max Boot, etc.

Now, if he were arguing for restoration of gun rights, THAT would make a splash. The wrong kind, from his point of view, but still........

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 08, 2018 01:47 PM (0jtPF)

187 I saw The Rightist Brothers open for Two Scoops of Vengeance at the Santiago Parade Ground.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:48 PM (fA1SL)

188 Anis?

Not to be confused with Francesca Annis.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:48 PM (YndnO)

189 181 177. That's the cherry of irony atop the two scoops of vengeance.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:43 PM (fA1SL)

In every box of Vengeance Bran

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 01:48 PM (NWiLs)

190 I don't care if the foreward is a pardon. I just want to see a complete charging document for Obama and Hillary that lists every felony and the sentences. Along with the obliteration of their apparat before it can be re-inflicted on the country by someone competent.

Posted by: DaveA at April 08, 2018 01:48 PM (FhXTo)

191 newsmax.com

Heartbreaking image of Palestinian fathers shielding little babies from horrific gas attack.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 08, 2018 01:49 PM (roQNm)

192 Along with the obliteration of their apparat before it can be re-inflicted on the country by someone competent.
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RICO, RICO, RICO. (Even as much as I despise that law, this is a case where it could be honestly used.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:51 PM (MIKMs)

193 191 newsmax.com

Heartbreaking image of Palestinian fathers shielding little babies from horrific gas attack.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 08, 2018 01:49 PM (roQNm)

Syrians. If it were Palestinians, it would be fake.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 01:51 PM (NWiLs)

194 Even if it was Syrians it might be fake. Or their own side did it for PR.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:52 PM (YndnO)

195 Skandia Recluse: Assad now has the backing of Erdogan and Putin as well as the Islamic Republic. The Kurds yet again have 'No Friends But the Mountains'.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 08, 2018 01:52 PM (sRNJP)

196 In the early days of our republic, every party had its newspaper and there was a paper for every party line. Somehow is the latter party of the 19th century, this changed with the big news companies, (thank you Randolph).
I guess for some period they were neutral fact providers, but they aren't now and haven't been for awhile. The internet has freed us. Everyone gets their own news source. Special benefits for established news organizations need to get tossed. MSM does not need seats at White House Press conferences.

Posted by: Cheshirecat at April 08, 2018 01:52 PM (8i5iQ)

197 193. Imma go ahead and say this one was also fake. If anything was used, it was by the 'rebels'.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:53 PM (fA1SL)

198 Hey, anyone else see on twitter - I haven't watched it yet - Stephen Crowder got smashed in a debate by some kid talking up socialism?

Posted by: thathalfrican - Stay Woke! - Leigon of Gloom founding memeber/too sweet at April 08, 2018 01:53 PM (IYHxL)

199 194 Even if it was Syrians it might be fake. Or their own side did it for PR.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:52 PM (YndnO)

Certainly possible. But with Palestinians it's practically guaranteed.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 08, 2018 01:53 PM (NWiLs)

200 Syrians, Palestinians - they all look alike to me.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 08, 2018 01:53 PM (roQNm)

201 Kev, baby, call us.

Posted by: FOX News Channel at April 08, 2018 01:54 PM (r9UYA)

202 Palestinian fathers. = Syrian fathers. The chemical attack was in Syria.

Hunh. pbho swore that he eliminated Syrian chemical weapons with his dreaded Red Line. How could this happen?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 01:54 PM (hyuyC)

203 I haven't read the link, but does it mention a key player in the Williamson kerfuffle: Media Matters? It's not like feminist Atlantic writers (birm) magically knew that Williamson has wrongthink badthoughts on a podcast 4 years ago - this was fed to them, providing them the weapon they needed to get him ousted.

Looks like the Left has dossiers on non-progressive writers, all queued up and ready to drop should someone from a conservative publication consider a move to a more mainstream one.

Fusion GPS, Media Matters, SPLC and gawd knows who else are supplying the oppo research to those who are at war with us. worldview.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2018 01:55 PM (W+vEI)

204 FAZ (more reputable paper than the tabloid Bild, but with no tittie pics on the front page) has conflicting reports on the planned attack on the Berlin Half Marathon.

Official story is that there was never any actual danger, because the ringleader was under close observation. An anonymous official was quoted as saying "that was probably a close call".

Six arrested, it seems to have been a planned knife attack on runners and watchers, but bomb sniffing dogs are sniffing around some of the basements.

Apparently, this time a known wolf was in fact stopped.

Oh, Anis Amri was the guy who murdered a Polish truckdriver and drove the truck into a crowd killing eleven more. He was later shot and killed by Spanish police.

Tunesian. Declared fealty to IS.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 08, 2018 01:55 PM (fuK7c)

205 Hunh. pbho swore that he eliminated Syrian chemical weapons with his dreaded Red Line. How could this happen?
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There are no chemical weapons, it was all a lie to get us involved in a war for oil. Silly Wabbits.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 08, 2018 01:55 PM (MIKMs)

206 Corgis, ein neu

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at April 08, 2018 01:56 PM (YndnO)

207 >>Heartbreaking image of Palestinian fathers shielding little babies from horrific gas attack.

Uh, there's a long history of staged, totally fake photos of Palestinians being attacked. "Pallywood".

Posted by: Lizzy at April 08, 2018 01:58 PM (W+vEI)

208 Price controls, guarantee it. No way the Chicoms allow broad based civic unrest to take hold.

Posted by: Jean at April 08, 2018 12:58 PM

The Chinese are terrified of civic unrest. You know how the USA has a 'strategic oil reserve'? The Chinese have the equivalent for sugar. Yes, sugar. Their people have become so hooked on the stuff (and diabeetus, too -- but that's another story) that they fear widespread unrest if the price gets too high or shortages occur.

We need to get them hooked on high fructose corn syrup. Dump it on 'em good and hard. Basically give it away to 'em.

The Chinese Army can't very well march on no feet.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 08, 2018 02:00 PM (LOgQ4)

209 it is indicative of a huge problem that a well-respected writer of the GOPe persuasion is discarded so quickly after the first hint of heterogeneous thought appears.

Bob Dole had a heterogeneous thought last night. Popped a blue pill, but Libby wasn't 'in the mood'.

Posted by: Bob Dole at April 08, 2018 02:04 PM (LOgQ4)

210 161 159. And dig our canals. What this country needs is an Atlantic to Pacific canal, large enough for the girthiest of super freighters and tankers. Dug by hand.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 08, 2018 01:30 PM (fA1SL)

Ah, the White Sea Canal model. Yet another use for the Trump Camps.

Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at April 08, 2018 02:06 PM (1FhAQ)

211 Nood. US vice UK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 08, 2018 02:07 PM (hyuyC)

212 The Treacher Postulate: "Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats."

And modern academia is all about inventing high-flown excuses for silencing you. Free Speech is under taxpayer-funded, tenured attack, here and abroad.

Facebook to Diamond and Silk: "The Policy team has came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community. This is final and it is not appeal-able in any way."

Macron is arresting Le Pen for retweeting the photo we all saw of ISIS burning the Jordanian pilot.

Britain is detaining and expelling people for ThoughtCrime, excepting Imams, of course.

AP, CBS and FOX reporters are wiretapped by Obama--yet Jim Acosta is the real victim here. It's funny; the people who have the most free speech refuse to use it.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 08, 2018 02:08 PM (Ndje9)

213 >>>a *pungent* libertarian writer

There's no way to save that poor word choice. I guess the reference is to Williamson's pungent humor. But, no.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2018 02:18 PM (U6XUk)

214 BOYCOTT FIVE GUYS UNTIL THEY CHOOSE A MORE INCLUSIVE NAME!!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Too late.

I'm already boycotting them because a hamburger, coke, and fries should not cost $14.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 08, 2018 01:19 PM (aPsQQ)
And you're the authority on how much their food SHOULD cost? Huh. Well, let's try this......YOU make too much money and should take a pay cut.

A show of hands, please.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 08, 2018 02:55 PM (TPimP)

215 Williams deserved his firing and I don't want his thoughts passing for "a conservative view" and tarring me in the process.
It would be nice for non-opinion journalism to be non-opinion journalism.
Those days are gone, so people need to return to the mindset of not believing any and everything they read, and look for stories untold, and remark on them and spread the news.

Learning the "press," if it ever was reliable or had a golden age of informing and entertaining, is something different is a good lesson.

Posted by: sarahw at April 08, 2018 04:04 PM (Sp1NT)

216 55

Twitter CEO Shares And Raves About Article Calling For Dem Victory In Second "Civil War"

From that article:

California today provides a model for America as a whole. This model of politics and government is by no means perfect, but it is far ahead of the nation in coming to terms with the inexorable digital, global, sustainable transformation of our era.

It is a thriving work in progress that gives hope that America can pull out of the political mess we're in. California today provides a playbook for America's new way forward. It's worth contemplating as we enter 2018, which will be a critical election year.

How are groups of people that are shooting their government and corporate overlords en masse considered "a new way forward?"

More proof that running a big corporation is possible without the common sense of basic survival that God gave a goose.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 08, 2018 05:33 PM (UsCnO)

217 California has a third of the nation's welfare cases and runs Mexico's prison system for them. The authors recommend a One Party-State because California's works so well.

Twitter's CEO recommends the article, even as Twitter is shadowbanning sitting Republican senators.

Question: Isn't it fraud to lure users by offering them an open platform while secretly shadow-banning them? And isn't it fraud to sell ads to advertisers without telling them that you are banning a class of your users?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 08, 2018 06:41 PM (Ndje9)

218 19 "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science." -- Chairman Mao

After which, when those of heterodox views spoke up, Mao had them whacked.

Fooled ya!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 08, 2018 12:15 PM (wrqZC)

Well yeah. Because there can be no competing marketplace of ideas, outside of government. We are getting there. Soon. Soon.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 08, 2018 12:18 PM (Pz4pT)

Mao used this crap as a way to smoke out dissidents, much like Mongols used to force residents of a conquered city to proclaim that the Mongols had left ... so that when residents emerged from hiding, they, along with the Mongol collaborators, were of course whacked.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 08, 2018 09:45 PM (wrqZC)

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