June 8, 2025

WAIT UNTL 2025-ERA GAVIN NEWSOM DISCOVERS WHAT GAVIN NEWSOM DID IN 2020!

Posted at 4:32 pm by Ed Driscoll 19

THE WAY WE STILL ARE: Remember that 1973 classic flick starring Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand? They were total opposites, but somehow managed to find love, get married, ignore their irreconcilable differences for a stretch of years, but it all ended when her Marxist “principles” were more important than love, companionship, loyalty, etc.

There is a vitally important lesson in that movie, one that the conventional wisdom of the Left will never acknowledge, as I explain in my latest Substack column.

Posted at 4:27 pm by Mark Tapscott 5

SERIOUSLY?

Update: An LA friend just pointed out one of these is LAPD, and the other is LA County Sheriff, which is responsible for Paramount.

Posted at 3:45 pm by Charlie Martin 61

GREAT MOMENTS IN DEMOCRAT OPTICS:

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll 104

I THINK WE KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE:

UPDATE (From Ed):

Posted at 2:15 pm by Glenn Reynolds 261

ED MORRISSEY: ‘Mostly Peaceful’ 2.0: Another Great Moment in Protection Racket Media.

If this looks familiar, it’s because CNN used the same playbook as they did five years ago during the George Floyd riots:

MSNBC also used “mostly peaceful” as their motto in 2020, and the rest of the media followed suit, including and especially the coverage about the Twin Cities and the massive destruction that took place there. As John detailed in his post last night, there is a massive amount of violence sweeping through Los Angeles, much of it directed at legitimate law enforcement actions by the federal government. The local authorities didn’t lift a finger to stop it the first day, and it predictably escalated the second day.

Meanwhile, just like CNN and every single £$%^&% Protection Racket Media outlet did with Joe Biden’s cognitive incapacity for the last four years, they are going to tell you to trust them rather than your own eyes and ears. They will flat-out ignore the violence as long as they can’t use that violence to damage Republicans, and pretend that nothing’s happening as the city (or cities) burn. They want to paint the decision by Donald Trump to send in the National Guard to protect federal agents as somehow illegitimate, just in the same way these same media outlets told us that the evidence of Joe Biden’s senility was really just his “childhood stutter,” when it wasn’t “cheap fakes” and vicious Republicans making up stuff about President Sharp-As-A-Tack, Ring-Runner Around Youthful Aides.

No wonder CNN’s founder melted down so hard in 1996 when the concept of Fox News was first announced, and old media in general dived for the fainting couches when the first iteration of the Drudge Report debuted in the late-1990s, followed by the original Blogosphere. It’s somewhat ironic that CNN was simulcasting George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck from Broadway last night, as they would love to be Pravda in a nation without access to media with another worldview, or a platform like Twitter/X where it’s possible to see uncensored images and non-regime media approved opinions: CNN Has Always Hated the Competition.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll 79

THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Disgrace: This Is What They Call Journalism?

After Dana Bash notes (correctly, for once) that in the 1992 Rodney King riots, California’s Governor Pete Wilson — a Republican — requested the National Guard be activated, while on Saturday, President Trump activated the National Guard without such a request. She also notes that the last time a president unilaterally activated and deployed the National Guard was in Alabama in 1965.

Why did President Johnson send in the Guard in 1965? Because local authorities refused to enforce federal law.

Why did President Trump send in the Guard in 2025? Because local authorities refused to enforce federal law.

In both cases, you had local authorities either refusing to enforce federal law or actively defying federal law.

Senator Mullin defenestrated that comment.

Well, you’ve got two issues here. You’ve got a very weak, lawless, governor in Governor Newsom, who’s not enforcing the nation’s laws. And then you had a Biden administration for the last four years that didn’t enforce our immigration laws… Regardless of what they’re doing right now, they entered the country illegally, and therefore they are illegal, and they are criminals.

I don’t know why a governor would want to try to protect illegal activity inside a state. And the president has made it very clear, if the governor or the mayor of a city isn’t willing to protect the citizens of his state or the city, then the president will.

Which brings us to Dana’s real jaw-dropping assertion:

Dana Bash: I just want to state for the record that what did happen in 1992 was so different from what we’re seeing now. That was a real riot.

Dana, it’s not your job to state anything for the record. It’s your job to report. You’re interviewing a United States Senator. Let him state things for the record. Senator Mullin replied:

Dana, if you have people… You and I can look at this and we can obviously see that this is not under control. It’s not under control. You and I both can see that. And a riot is a riot. They’re throwing all types of objects at law enforcement. And the president’s absolutely right. It’s pretty bad.

The pictures, videos, and reporting, much of it right here on RedState, coming out of this disaster speak very eloquently on just how out of control this situation is.

It’s a good thing for Dana that nobody is watching this stuff: Cable News Ratings: Fox News More Dominant Than Ever, CNN A Non-Factor, Troubling Sign For MSNBC.

Posted at 12:49 pm by Ed Driscoll 62

TELEVISION SETS: Kyle Smith on George Clooney’s adaptation of Good Night and Good Luck for Broadway. As Smith notes, “luxuriate in your fears for $300 a seat, which is the average price for tickets to George Clooney’s stage version of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck (at the Winter Garden Theatre through June 8). Clooney, who seldom fails to remind interviewers that he is the son of a journalist, cowrote both the movie and the play with Grant Heslov, originally conceiving this hagiography of CBS News’s mid-century television drama queen Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn in the movie and now by Clooney himself on Broadway) as a response to the George W. Bush* administration’s decision to make war in Iraq. Now, of course, the Red Scare Scare is pointing to Donald Trump:”

But his own script shows that Murrow was a preening, showboating editorialist. Positioning himself as merely an objective reporter, he strayed further and further into self-righteous, openly partisan grandstanding. Abandoning his bona fides as a war reporter, he became an on-air columnist on the program See It Now, deploying euphemism, half-truths, deliberate obfuscation, and other rhetorical maneuvers to engage in a public debate with McCarthy over his anti-Communist hearings. Far from being the opposite of today’s cable-news attention-seekers, he was essentially Rachel Maddow with a cigarette. (In an amusing montage of silly moments in television news played on a screen, the all-hysterics Maddow network gets dinged for pushing the Trump–Russia hoax, as do commentators who insisted President Biden was sharp as a tack before Clooney himself helped usher him into retirement via an open plea to step aside in The New York Times.)

Clooney simply can’t see how badly he undermines his own case here. After Murrow denounces McCarthy, CBS grants the senator equal time to respond, and McCarthy unloads on the newsman, noting that he led a Soviet “educational” front group and hence took paychecks from Moscow in 1934 while being a member of the Communism-lite group International Workers of the World. Rebutting the rebuttal on air, Murrow says nothing about serving as a Stalinist stooge in the educational group (because it was true) but issues a clipped denial of IWW membership. Oh? Wherever, then, could McCarthy have gotten the notion? Wrote Murrow’s biographer, A. M. Sperber,

To Ed Murrow, the IWW would always have the aura of the great lost cause, a soft-focus memory of stalwart men and great songs and failed native radicalism. . . . . [W]hile he alternately claimed or denied membership in later years—his lifelong favorite song would be “Joe Hill”—no one could ever prove he had or hadn’t carried the red card.

Er, if Murrow himself ever claimed membership in the IWW, McCarthy would appear to have had a decent reason to mention it, and the matter was certainly relevant to viewers who might have wondered whether Murrow’s thundering denunciations of the senator were based in ideological differences rather than objective reporting.

As is usually the case with those promoting the Red Scare Scare, the crux of the dispute is mere semantics; support for the immense evil that was Communism was to be waved away unless the ideologue in question went so far as to formally register as a member of the Party (a similarly fine distinction is at the heart of the movie Oppenheimer). The intellectual vapidity of this game is evident.

So Murrow was at least Communist-curious, and Carl Bernstein’s parents “were secret members of the Communist Party USA:”

“A case can be made that [Bernstein] should have disclosed the conflict of interest he brought to his Watergate exposes,” wrote New York media consultant Sidney Goldberg in 2003. “After all, he was brought up as a Nixon hater and readers might have been told that his family regarded Nixon as vile, as an enemy.”

As Zhou Enlai never said, “The French Revolution? Too early to say.”

* Speaking of which, wait, that George W. Bush? Oceania Has Never Been at War with East Dubya: Liz Cheney Pleads With George W. Bush to Take the Uniparty Plunge and Endorse Kamala.

Flashback: Legendary Hollywood Leftist Pines for the 1950s: Good Night, and Good Luck review: George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in a sleepy newsroom play.

And then there’s blacklist subtext of any film or play about McCarthy. That’s a topic that should never be touched by Hollywood again, since the industry has spent the last quarter century blacklisting anyone to the right of Stalin – and even blacklisting lefties who have made anti-blacklisting movies. Or as Glenn wrote in late 2020, “After a decade of seeing leftists doxxing people and getting them fired for expressing a forbidden opinion, I have to ask what’s their beef with Joe McCarthy?”

He had an (R) after his name, of course.

More: David Marcus: CNN’s airing of ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ proves it has learned nothing.

After the play, there was an assemblage of journalists, speaking before journalism students about the importance of what they had just witnessed. Of course, the closest thing CNN had to a conservative was Brett Stephens, a nice guy, but widely acknowledged as the Washington Generals of conservative political punditry.

Needless to say, they congratulated themselves on being so enlightened and brave and speaking truth to power, while the handful of people watching threw up a little in their own mouths.

You almost have to admire the audacity of CNN. Just weeks after bombshell books and reporting finally confirmed the obvious about Biden’s incapacity and the liberal media’s lies, the network aired a play in which it dressed itself up as brave heroes of the newsroom. It’s amazing.

It’s also informative. This bizarre effort by CNN to paint itself in historical glory is proof positive that the network has learned nothing from its lies over the past eight years, and there is no reason to believe it will start being honest anytime soon.

Still though, I’m sure the simulcast worked wonders to recruit new leftists to the cause:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 82

SOMEBODY’S GETTING A TIMEOUT: ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over X Post That Called Trump Official Stephen Miller A “World-Class Hater.”

ABC News said that it has suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran over a late night X post, since deleted, attacking Trump administration official Stephen Miller as a “world class hater.”

“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage* and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” a network spokesperson said. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”

Top Trump administration officials had called out the X post on Sunday morning, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that the network should hold him “accountable” and Vice President JD Vance asking for an apology.

The 12:06 a.m. post called Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, a “world class hater.”

“You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”

“Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

Even though the post was already deleted, Leavitt flagged the post on Sunday morning and wrote, “This is unhinged and unacceptable. We have reached out to @ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable.”

* George Stephanopoulos could not be reached for comment.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll 65

WE NEED TO COMPLETE THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE COLOR REVOLUTION:

What you’re seeing in LA is an attempt to gin up a color-counterrevolution against Trump and MAGA.

Posted at 11:31 am by Glenn Reynolds 150