2017, MAN: The Next Administration Has a More Dangerous World to Deal With.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: “Regardless of who is your chosen – or least favorite – presidential candidate, independent minds should be concerned about the latest revelations in the news media’s unseemly relationships with government and political actors. While there are many responsible journalists working today, inside documents and leaks have exposed serious lapses constituting the most far-reaching scandal our industry has known. It’s our very own Newsgate,” Sharyl Attkisson writes.
As a reminder, CEO Les Moonves said earlier this year of Trump’s campaign, “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Its nightly news anchor Scott Pelley once likened global warming skeptics to holocaust deniers. John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation and the “political director” for CBS, wrote an article for Slate in 2013 charmingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.” Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security advisor is the brother of CBS News president David Rhodes, and CBS pushed out Attkisson after her investigative coverage of Obama and Hillary’s Benghazi debacle.
BADASS! Sorry not sorry: Politico’s Glenn Thrush doubles down on Podesta emails.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: HBCU Law Deans Oppose ABA’s Proposed 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Requirement Due To Diversity Concerns.
THE HILL: Ex-Arkansas reporter accuses Bill Clinton of groping her.
A former television reporter from Arkansas is accusing Bill Clinton of groping her in 1980 in a new interview with Breitbart News.
Leslie Millwee alleges that the former president groped her on three separate occasions while she worked as a reporter for a television station in Fayetteville, Ark. At the time, Clinton served as the state’s governor.
Millwee’s interview was published the same day as the final presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. She gave the video interview to Breitbart News, the conservative site formerly led by Trump’s campaign CEO, Steve Bannon.
She alleges that after a series of inappropriate comments, Bill Clinton confronted her on three separate occasions in a small room at her station, both touching himself and grabbing her as she protested. She added that after Clinton sought her out at her apartment at night, she decided to change jobs.
It’s okay, he’s a Democrat.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: On Accepting Election Results.
AH, THIS EXPLAINS THE EAGERNESS TO SEE MICHAEL MOORE’S HIT PIECE RELEASED: Dead even. Not that it will help them. I don’t think anyone but the most craven partisans believe Michael Moore anymore.
IT SHOULD HAVE THE REST OF US FREAKING OUT: Email: Clinton’s ‘Forceful’ Gun Position Had Some Democratic Caucus Members ‘Freaking Out’.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Project Include Sends A Message. That message is that those who think differently need not apply.
HILLARY PROMISES TO GO WHERE THE MONEY IS… AND KILL THAT GOLDEN GOOSE DEAD: Byron York: Clinton promises major wealth redistribution — starting with Trump.
OUR LITTLE BOYS GROW; IF WE LET THEM: Lefty Parenting Blogs Finally Discover Boys Have Feelings Too.
BEHIND THE PUTIN CURTAIN: Inside the radical ‘war camps’ where Russian fighters are born.
NEWS FROM THE CULTURAL BATTLEFRONT: Screwtape and Human Wave.
IF YOU ARE AT ALL SENSITIVE TO LANGUAGE (APPROPRIATE TO THIS SUBJECT) DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK: But this is what Nicki Kenyon thought of Madonna’s offer to… ah… reward Hilary voters. No, seriously – WHAT THE F*CK?
TAKE A DEEP BREATH, STEP OFF THAT LEDGE: Yes, America is great.
CARTHAGE… THAT DIVERSE MULTICULTURAL UTOPY? Why Carthage Failed and Rome Succeeded.
October 19, 2016
HELL, AL GORE CONCEDED AFTER THE ELECTION, AND THEN UN-CONCEDED LATER: Mickey Kaus: “Imagine asking Gore in Oct 2000 if he’d accept the result of the election. What would it mean? Rightly not enforceable.”
IN THIS LAST PUBLIC DEBATE DID HILLARY GIVE US HER PUBLIC POSITION OR HER PRIVATE POSITION?: It’s a reasonable question to ask. In an extremely well-paid speech Hillary delivered to the National Multi-Housing Council, she said “you need both a public and a private position.” Check it out. April 24, 2013.
LEFTIST VIOLENCE: Two Journalists Were Held Hostage by Environmental Activists Inside Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp. “The message is you can only ask softball questions. If you ask difficult questions you will be met with violence and intimidation.”
I AM OF COURSE DRUNKBLOGGING THE FINAL DEBATE over at the PJMedia home page.
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UNTRUSTWORTHY COMPUTING: Study finds ‘lurking malice’ in cloud hosting services.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Madonna pledges oral sex for Clinton voters.
Madonna is pledging to perform oral sex on voters who cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton.
The pop queen, known for her shocking antics, made the remark Tuesday while opening for comedian Amy Schumer in New York.
“If you vote for Hillary Clinton,” Madonna told the crowd at Madison Square Garden, “I will give you a blow job.”
“And I’m good,” the 58-year-old “Like a Virgin” singer, an outspoken supporter of the Democratic presidential nominee, said to cheers from the audience.
I’m glad someone is standing up against Trump’s coarsening of the culture.
WILL PAULA JONES, KATHLEEN WILLEY, AND JUANITA BROADDRICK BE THERE THIS TIME? Ex-reporter who accused Bill Clinton of groping will attend debate.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: When Democrats say the ‘system is rigged’ the media doesn’t seem to mind.
JAMES COMEY COULD NOT BE REACHED TO IGNORE THIS ACCUSATION. Newt Gingrich on Veritas Videos: ‘Where’s the FBI?’
HE PLAYS IT VERY WELL, BUT PUTIN FUNDAMENTALLY HOLDS A WEAK HAND: Putin’s Boasting Hides His Fear of Sanctions:
Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Goa, India this weekend at the annual BRICS summit, where the big announcement was that Igor Sechin’s Rosneft had bought a controlling stake (49 percent) in the Indian Essar Oil company. At a press conference for the announcement yesterday, Putin was asked if Russia would consider softening its counter-sanctions against the United States and the European Union. “Screw them,” he said. . . .
The bravado was surely music to the ears of his Russian audience. But Putin was sounding a distinctly different note two weeks ago, when he submitted a law to the Russian Duma withdrawing Russia from a long-standing plutonium disposal agreement with the United States. Among the preconditions for the resumption of the treaty named in the document one in particular stands out: “The United States must pay for the damages incurred by the Russian Federation as a result of the aforementioned sanctions, including any costs born from counter-sanctions the Russian Federation was forced to undertake.” (This language was of course not mentioned in Russian coverage of Putin’s bill. What the Russian people instead heard on TV was that Putin Almighty was sticking it to the United States.)
The economic reality is harsher. The Russian Government, looking ahead to a future where oil prices stay at around $40/barrel, recently announced that it will slash its budgets for next year, including a cutting its health care budget by one third, down to $6 billion for 126 million people, which includes spending on research. And yet all these budget cuts still have the Russian Government running a deficit well into the future. Russia’s reserve fund is expected to drop to $15 billion by the end of the year by some analysts, and could run out as early as mid-next year. Though the IMF is predicting that the Russian economy will return to growth next year, it maintains a gloomy outlook for the next few years out, arguing that growth “remains subdued given long-standing structural bottlenecks and the impact of sanctions on productivity and investment.”
EU Foreign Ministers are meeting this week, and Russia is on the agenda. New European sanctions seem unlikely—Austria today joined Hungary, Cyprus, and Greece in signaling opposition—but recent developments in Syria appear to have forestalled any talk of easing the sanctions currently in place. For his part, Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday announced that the United States was mulling imposing additional sanctions on Russia in connection with Syria. We will see if anything comes of it.
President Putin is indeed screwing someone over, but it’s not the West; he is screwing over his own people, over and over again, millions of whom are paying the price for their leader’s personal ambitions and interests. Critically, however, Putin’s decisions are also hurting those in his inner circle, and his regime is suffering and weakening.
We, on the other hand, hold a strong hand and are playing it badly. That’s called “smart diplomacy.”
OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Journalist emails Jennifer Palmieri to give her a “heads up” on coming sex scandal story. “I need to give you a heads up on something Menendez-related that will affect your new boss so you have time to put together a plan for it. . . . Won’t be breaking news until next week, but likely to be big enough that you’ll want to plan for it in advance. And good luck with today.”
UPDATE: From the comments:
So far, the biggest thing I’ve learned from these Wikileaks documents is that big-shot journalists in New York and D.C. regularly take a big, steaming dump all over the standards and ethics that were drilled into my head back in journalism school like they were the Ten Commandments. Seriously, a lot of this stuff would get your ass fired in a heartbeat if you were a regular reporter at a TV station or newspaper out in flyover country.
So: One set of rules for them. Another set of rules for everybody else.
Noted.
Or as they say, “It doesn’t matter what the legal and ethics people say, we need to win this mother***er.”
UPDATE: Oops, actually I think I have the wrong Matthew Miller. I thought it was this guy, but it’s this guy. He publishes in high-level places sometimes, but he’s a PR guy, really, not a journalist, though the difference grows ever more elusive.
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME… Hot dogs ‘must be renamed’ in Malaysia, says religious government body.
DRIVING ONE OF THE SURVIVING CHRYSLER TURBINE CARS. “There are nine left in the world. Only five run.”
A STEP FORWARD FOR PLANET-SAVING ZERO-CARBON-EMISSIONS ENERGY! TVA’s Watts Bar Unit 2 Achieves Commercial Operation.
Reader Eric McErlain emails:
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Hurray!
FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTH, AND TENTH-PARTY CANDIDATES: Tired of Hillary and Donald? You Have Options!
I love this country.
IT’S A GRANARY: Intriguing anomaly found inside the Great Pyramid at Giza. And does anybody else even remember that reference from primary season?
MICHAEL LEDEEN ON THE IRAN DEAL: We’re Losing the War and We’re Paying for It.
GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Dem Operative Who Oversaw Trump Rally Agitators Visited White House 342 Times. “A key operative in a Democratic scheme to send agitators to cause unrest at Donald Trump’s rallies has visited the White House 342 times since 2009, White House records show. Robert Creamer, who acted as a middle man between the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and ‘protesters’ who tried — and succeeded — to provoke violence at Trump rallies met with President Obama 47 times, according to White House records. Creamer’s last visit was in June 2016.”
IBD/TIPP TRACKING POLL: Trump Leads Clinton By One Point Going Into Debate. Hmm.
Plus: “By gender, Clinton does much better among women — 47% to 37% — but Trump’s lead among men is just as strong at 47% to 32%. Trump does better among parents (46% to 32%), married women (44% to 41%), lower-class households (53% to 37%), and the religious, among whom Clinton’s support never tops 38%. Among those who express no religion, Clinton handily beats Trump 63% to 16%.”
UPDATE: Rasmussen: “Dead even.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What To Look For When Purchasing A Knife For Backpacking And Camping.
That’s not a knife. Now this is a knife.
TROLL LEVEL: SUPREME GALACTIC OVERLORD. Obama’s half-brother will be at Vegas debate cheering for Trump.
President Obama’s Kenya-born half-brother Malik will be in the audience in Las Vegas on Wednesday night when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off in their third and final debate.
Malik — an American citizen who lives in Washington, DC, when he’s not in Kenya — says he will be a guest of Trump, the Republican nominee he supports for president.
“I’m excited to be at the debate. Trump can make America great again,” Malik told The Post.
“I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik,” Trump said. “He gets it far better than his brother.”
Malik agrees with Trump that the mainstream media is biased, and he dismisses the women who claim Trump kissed or groped them without their permission.
“I don’t believe them,” Malik said. “Why didn’t they come forward before?”
Malik also blasted Clinton’s performance as secretary of state for exacerbating the chaos and violence in the Mideast. Malik said ousted Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy had been a good friend. “Check out the situation in Libya now,” he said.
Well, it’s not like Libya’s in the news much. Nor will it be, until after the election. . . .
I’M NOT SOLD ON THE “INTERNET OF THINGS:” Akamai: 12-Year-Old SSH Vulnerability Fueling Internet-Of-Broken-Things DDoS Attacks, And Worse.
WIKILEAKS: WHAT WAS JOHN PODESTA’S SECURITY CLEARANCE WHILE DISCUSSING ISIS STRATEGY WITH HILLARY?
Found via an Insta-reader, who notes that “We already know that neither had secure email.”
COOL CLOCK, AHMED: Another ‘Islamophobic Hate Crime’ Hoax Unravels.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Aussie Uses Arduino Chips To Roboticize a Ford Focus.
A BETTER ANTI-BULLYING APP: PUNCH THE BULLY IN THE NOSE. But that approach offers insufficient opportunities for preening and graft. On the other hand, there’s this: DISD is Buying an Anti-Bully App They Claim Works When Students Don’t Use It.
Although the app rarely sees a report, Lizardo still feels that it’s a crucial part of the schools anti-bullying efforts. “Even if I have no one use the program all year, I’ll continue renewing it,” Lizardo says. “It shows the parents and community that this is something I’m serious about.”
So it’s basically an appearance thing.
THE INSTA-WIFE: Are Colleges Making Our Young Men Sick?
ROGER SIMON IN VEGAS ON DEBATE NIGHT: Do We Have a Rigged Election in a Rigged City?
Steve Green and his titanium liver will be drunkblogging the full horrorshow tonight at PJM.
OPERATION PETTICOAT: A COMEDY FOR THE REST OF US, A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR THE FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED US NAVY: Twitter Lashes Out at Obama’s ‘Woke’ Pink Fighter Jet.
It’s an old F9F-8 Cougar(!) from the 1950s – but still, I’d feel better if Tony Curtis and Cary Grant were at the controls, as once again, there is no way for satire to imitate real life for its pure absurdity, particularly when the Obama administration is involved.
Seriously though, I wonder how wigs for chemotherapy patients and other remedies could have been purchased with the amount of money and bureaucratic man-hours that went into dreaming up this PR scheme?
Earlier: US Navy gets PC makeover — while its ships fall apart.
RESET: East-West SpyWar Heats Up with Arrest of Russian Hacker in Prague.
Although the hacker’s name has not been released, video of the arrest, provided by Czech police, shows how it went down. Accompanied by his girlfriend, the Russian drove into the heart of Prague, the Czech capital, in a high-end automobile, to a swank hotel. The went to the hotel restaurant, only to be confronted by police, who moved so quickly that the Russian had no time to resist.
Indeed, he was so stunned by the appearance of the police at his table that the suspect fainted and was subsequently hospitalized. He is now in custody, awaiting an extradition request from Washington. The United States has 40 days from his arrest to ask for the Russian to be sent here to face charges, but Czech justice authorities today stated that they have yet to receive any American extradition request.
We don’t know specifically what hacking the Russian stands accused of, although Czech police have stated that he had perpetrated cyber-crimes against Americans, and he was wanted on an INTERPOL Red Notice—an indication that the FBI wanted to get their hands on this man rather badly.
Where’s the extradition request?
21ST CENTURY ROBBER-BARON CRONYISM: Memo: Google’s Eric Schmidt Working Directly With the Clinton Campaign; ‘Discreet conversations’ also started with Facebook, Apple in 2014.
TAMMY BRUCE: I PREFER TO BE OFFENDED BY TRUMP ON OCCASION THAN TO BE LEFT FOR DEAD BY HILLARY.
Bruce appeared on Face The Nation, which airs on CBS, whose news division president is David Rhodes, brother to self-immolating Obama advisor Ben Rhodes, and where the current host advised Obama in 2013 to ‘Destroy the GOP.’
But hey, media bias is a total myth.
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1259.
WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES. Gross: Hillary Campaign Bus Caught Dumping Human Waste in Georgia.
Insert obligatory “If this had been Trump, this would be playing on a loop on CNN and amongst the late night comedians” reminder here. Also, a reminder, these are the people who want to regulate every aspect of the environment and how you get to use it, and believe the earth is perfectly balanced eco-system that must not be disturbed by man, but have no problem dropping their sh*t down a storm drain.
As John Sexton adds at Hot Air, “I’m not suggesting team Hillary had anything to do with this dumb and illegal decision, but it’s a pretty good metaphor for a candidate who clearly believes the rules set up for others do not apply to her.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
4TH TIME AROUND: Nobel Prize committee gives up trying to contact Bob Dylan.
TRUMP’S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED (Video):
THE WINTER WAR REDUX? Finland sees propaganda attack from former master Russia.
Mantila, showing on his laptop what he said were false news pictures, skewed authority statements and pro-Kremlin online discussions, said his network has verified around 20 cases of clear information operations against Finland from the past few years, and around 30 “very likely” such operations.
“There is a systematic lying campaign going on… It is not a question of bad journalism, I believe it is controlled from the centre,” he said.
Kremlin and Russian foreign ministry officials were not immediately available for a comment.
Foreign Minister Timo Soini has also acknowledged the alleged propaganda, saying the government was countering false information with facts.
“All states engage in propaganda, authoritarian states even more so,” he told Reuters.
Some of the incidents have taken aim at Finland’s independence and at its historical figures.
Putin is the master of Brandolini’s Law.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd and his wife, a Democratic consultant, hosted a dinner party at their Washington D.C.-area home last year for Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s communications director.
Todd began his career working as a Democrat operative on the 1992 presidential campaign of “stolen valor” Congressman Tom Harkin; little has changed in that regard in his current job.
WHOA: LOOKS LIKE JAMES O’KEEFE CLAIMED ‘LEGIT SCALP’ IN WAKE OF EXPLOSIVE EXPOSÉ. “As Twitchy told you, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas recently released a video in which Democratic operatives admit to inciting violence at Trump rallies, with, according to them, the Hillary Clinton campaign’s knowledge. One of the major players is Robert Creamer, co-founder of Democracy Partners.”
Creamer is the husband of Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky. According to the Washington Free Beacon, “Creamer, a political consultant who worked with the Democratic National Committee to consult Barack Obama on his two presidential campaigns, pleaded guilty in 2005 to defrauding nine financial institutions out of at least $2.3 million while running his own failing non-profit organization.”
Naturally, don’t look for the DNC-MSM to connect the dots or play up the story.
SURPRISE! Media Donate Overwhelmingly to Clinton Campaign.
As if we needed any further evidence that the liberal media are in the tank for Hillary Clinton, a new analysis by the Center for Public Integrity reveals that political contributions by journalists to the Democratic nominee outstrip those made to Donald Trump by a margin of more than 27 to 1
Of the $396,000 the Center for Public Integrity tracked, $382,000, or 96 percent, went to Clinton.
Among those giving to Clinton were former ABC “World News Tonight” anchor Carole Simpson, at $2,800, longtime television talk show host Larry King, at $2,700, and New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, who said during the Republican National Convention that Donald Trump was running an “ugly and xenophobic campaign,” while conveniently forgetting to disclose that she gave Clinton $250 in April.
Playing the role of Pauline Kael in tonight’s performance of 1972, Chris Cillizza.
Well this is super depressing. NO idea why any journalist would donate $ to politicians https://t.co/xyGheUdkIA
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) October 17, 2016
NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Dem Operative Who Oversaw Trump Rally Agitators Visited White House 342 Times.
THE HITS KEEP COMING: New Bill Clinton Sexual Assault Accuser Goes Public for the First Time. “Leslie Millwee says that on two of the alleged occasions, Clinton groped her while he rubbed himself against her and reached climax. After these alleged sexual assaults, Millwee claims, Clinton showed up at her apartment and knocked on her door for several minutes while trying to talk his way inside.” There’s video at the link.
IS THERE ANYTHING TRUMP CAN’T DO? Once-Critical Canadians Are Now Telling America It’s Great.
We haven’t seen that since Gordon Sinclair.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: The 2016 election’s tabloid simplicity. Except it’s now tabloid complicated.
GREAT MOMENTS IN TROLLING: Obama to Trump: ‘Stop whining’ that the election is ‘rigged’ against you.
Pretty rich coming from a former rookie senator whom the media pulled out all the stops, and permanently damaged their credibility, to help hit 52.9 percent of the vote in ’08.
THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN IN A NUTSHELL: “It doesn’t matter what the legal and ethics people say, we need to win this mother***er.”
REALLY? Marco Rubio Warns Republicans: Don’t Talk About Wikileaks.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is warning his fellow Republicans not to talk about the Wikileaks dump of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta, breaking with the example set by Donald Trump.
“I will not discuss any issue that has become public solely on the basis of Wikileaks,” said Rubio in a statement to NBC News. “As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our electoral process and I will not indulge it.”
Once the information is out there, by whatever means, it seems foolish not to use it.
THERE WILL BE A LOT OF THESE IN THE U.S., TOO, IF HILLARY IS ELECTED PRESIDENT: Thailand sees rise in royal defamation cases.
Thai police are investigating 12 new complaints of royal defamation on social media lodged since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week, a sharp rise amid intensifying scrutiny of anything deemed offensive to the monarchy.
Remember this line. Anything deemed offensive to the Queen.
THE SIX SCARIEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House.
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: So Dan Markel’s ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, published a novel called This Is Our Story about a year before she walked out on Dan Markel. It’s not very good, reportedly, but there’s this:
My interpretation of the breakup scene is that author Wendi Adelson was signaling through her fiction that she not only wanted to divorce Markel, but that she also wanted him out of the lives of her kids. The naming question in the novel foreshadows Adelson’s real life behavior, post murder, in changing her children’s surnames from Markel to Adelson and removing the middle name of one son because it referenced Markel’s deceased grandmother.
I think it is also likely that Adelson wrote the novel in order to promote herself as the public face of the morally unimpeachable cause of female antislavery, notwithstanding her lack of literary talent, her relatively meager academic credentials, and her relative inexperience as a practicing lawyer. This is Our Story was chosen as featured reading for the thousands of incoming freshmen at Florida State, and was also enthusiastically profiled in the Florida Bar News. …
In the novel, Lily’s heroic work is obstructed by a clueless and condescending husband whom she has outgrown. Hubby Josh whines and snivels, but ultimately accepts his marching orders. However, discarding Josh’s real-life model seems to have been a messier proposition.
Indeed.
OF COURSE HE DID: John Podesta grouped Clinton VP picks by race and gender.
In March 2016, Hillary Clinton was still struggling in her primary against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Still, we know the contest was basically rigged for Clinton, with Democratic National Committee staffers openly hostile toward Sanders.
With the fix already in (and even if it wasn’t, it’s never too early to start considering possible vice presidential picks), Team Clinton needed to start looking for her running mate. In a March 17, 2016, email sent to Clinton staffers, her campaign chairman John Podesta sent out a list of potential VP picks, which he organized into “rough food groups.”
What, exactly, rough food groups means is anyone’s guess right now, but it’s clear from the lists that potential candidates were separated into groups by race and gender.
“Food groups?” It’s a cookbook!
THE HIGGS BISON: Yes, bison, not boson.
SHOT: Saudi Minister Sees End of Oil-Price Slump.
CHASER: Saudi has little room to slow austerity drive, IMF says.
Have you thanked a fracker today?
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Obama ‘jokes’ that he ‘still doesn’t know why’ he won the Nobel Peace Prize in interview with Stephen Colbert.
The clothes have no emperor, to coin a phrase. And leftist elites did permanent damage to their reputations by ignoring that fact, which everyone else could see but them. Or as Peggy Noonan wrote last week, “I don’t know about you but when people look down on me I want them to be distinguished or outstanding in some way—towering minds, people of exquisite sensibility or learning. Not these grubbly poseurs, these people who’ve never had a thought but only a sensation: Christians are backward, I saw it in a movie! It’s the big fact of American life now, isn’t it? That we are patronized by our inferiors.”
GEORGE WILL: Trump Is Right: The Elections Are Rigged, And The IRS Scandal Is Part Of It.
It is hard to think of an innocent reason why Democrats spend so much time, energy and money, scarce resources all, resisting attempts to purge the voter rolls, that is to remove people who are dead or otherwise have left the jurisdiction. It’s hard to think of an innocent reason why they fight so tremendously against Voter I.D. laws. They say, well that burdens the exercise of a fundamental right. The Supreme Court has said that travel is a fundamental right and no one thinks that showing an I.D. at the airport burdens that fundamental right.
We know — we don’t surmise — we know that the 2010, ’12 and ’14 elections were rigged by the most intrusive and potentially punitive institution of the federal government, the IRS. You can read all about it in Kim Strassel’s book Intimidation Game. She’s familiar to all Wall Street Journal readers and FOX viewers. This is not a surmise. I have talked to lawyers in a position to know they say it’s still going on. The IRS is still intolerantly delaying the granting of tax exempt to conservative advocacy groups to skew the persuasion of this campaign.
Gangster government, as Michael Barone calls it.
DON’T HARSH MY BUZZ WITH YOUR FACTS: Thomas Sowell on the left and the masses.
BILL ROGGIO: A “Lasting Defeat” of the Islamic State Will Be Elusive.
Keep in mind that many analysts were quick to pronounce the Islamic State’s predecessor, al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq, as defeated after the US surge that began in 2007 rooted out the jihadists from its sanctuaries across Iraq. By 2010, Iraqi and US forces killed the Islamic State of Iraq’s emir, Abu Omar al Baghdadi, and War Minister Abu Ayyub al Masri a.k.a. Abu Hamza al Muhajir, and the group was driven underground. But these setbacks did not deter the Islamic State of Iraq. Its new leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi rallied the Islamic State of Iraq’s remaining forces and reconstituted the organization. In Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq took advantage of the Syrian civil war to rebuild its strength. By 2012, it created the Al Nusrah Front, its branch in Syria, and was launching large scale raids inside Iraq, such as the one in Haditha in March 2012, that presaged the events of 2014, which saw Iraqi forces defeated in Anbar, Salahaddin, Ninewa, and Diyala.
The Islamic State is not alone in its phoenix-like rebirth after losing ground to local forces backed by the US. Al Qaeda branches in Somalia, Yemen, and Mali, have experienced major setbacks and lost ground it held, only to regroup and retake territory. The same is true with Boko Haram in Nigeria and Taliban branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Each of these countries have been in a state of perpetual war for well over a decade due to jihadist insurgencies.
Killing jihadis, as my colleague Bill Whittle says, is like mowing the lawn — a dreary job that must be done with some regularity or else it grows out of control.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION:
—Headline, the London Daily Mail, yesterday.
● ICYMI: Activist Who Took Credit For Violent Chicago Protests Was On Hillary’s Payroll.
—Headline, the Daily Caller, yesterday.
According to the DNC-MSM, fascism is forever descending upon the American right, but it always seems to land rather far left of the target, to paraphrase Tom Wolfe.
WHY IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION LETTING PEOPLE DIE? Zika Funds Not Going Anywhere Fast Until Next Year, HHS Says. “Hundreds of millions of dollars approved by Congress last month to fight Zika won’t go anywhere until the beginning of next year — almost a full year after it was first requested, federal officials said Tuesday.”
WIKILEAKS: Email Shows That Clinton Seeks ‘the Unraveling’ of Obamacare.
In the email, Clinton conveys her support for Republicans’ ill-advised effort to repeal—or delay—Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax.” (Such efforts are ill-advised because Republicans should be pushing for full repeal, not catering to various interest groups in pushing for partial repeal.) But the striking thing is Clinton’s motivation: She wants the Democrats “to be careful” to let the Republicans’ legislation pass, because that legislation, she conveys, “begins the unraveling of the ACA” [Obamacare].
That doesn’t sound like someone who’s trying to make Obamacare better, which Clinton has campaigned as being committed to doing. Rather, while posing as an Obamacare supporter, she has been eager to see President Obama’s signature legislation “unravel,” so that it can to give way to a true government monopoly.
“The worse, the better,” as another leftist is supposed to have said.
I BLAME GLOBAL WARMING: Early humans were plagued by Supervolcanoes: Huge eruptions closed off migration routes for our ancestors.
I don’t want to hear another goddamn word about Fred Flintstone’s carbon footprint.
IT’S A POPULAR IDEA: Trump proposes term limits for Congress.
Donald Trump on Tuesday called for term limits in Congress as part of his new ethics reform proposal.
“If I’m elected president I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” Trump said at a rally in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Decades of failure in Washington and decades of special-interest dealing must and will come to an end.”
“Not only will it end our government corruption, but we will end the economic stagnation that we’re in right now — no growth,” Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, added of the proposal.
Trump released a five-point ethics plan Monday night in an effort to “drain the swamp” in Washington.
He also wants Congress to pass a law preventing all administration officials, lawmakers and congressional aides from lobbying the government for five years after leaving public service.
He should endorse my revolving-door surtax. It has bipartisan support!
GREAT MOMENTS IN CHUTZPAH: President Barack Obama has some advice for Donald Trump: Man up.
You first, Chief.
RICH LOWRY: How Team Hillary secretly sees the world.
A certain high-handedness and bad faith pervades the entire Clinton campaign. Hillary Clinton was perfectly comfortable with the globe-trotting financiers throwing six-figure speaking fees at her, but then had to turn around and shovel boob bait for Bubba at her party’s inflamed left-wing activists, who hate those very financiers and their views on trade, among many other things.
The Clinton campaign’s predicament was captured in microcosm by spokesman Brian Fallon. In September 2015, he worried about an op-ed attacking the Keystone Pipeline that, he noted, had already been extensively edited and re-edited.
Secretary of State Clinton had, reasonably enough, indicated she’d likely support the pipeline and now she was coming out against. Will her newly aggressive opposition, Fallon wondered, “be greeted cynically and perhaps as part of some manufactured attempt to project sincerity?”
Yeah, probably — like much of what she says and does.
Read the whole thing.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Seriously? MSNBC: ‘No Proof’ of Collusion Between Media and Hillary.
Billy Bush could not be reached for comment. (Neither could George Stephanopoulos.)
WHAT WE DO NOW INSTEAD OF WINNING WARS: Twitter Lashes Out at Obama’s ‘Woke’ Pink Fighter Jet. “Someone told them we can’t literally fight cancer with jets, right?”
SHOT: Millennials Aren’t Fired Up by 2016 Presidential Campaign: Decline in interest since 2008 and 2012 is a worry for Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “I don’t see the enthusiasm we saw even in 2012, and certainly not the kind of enthusiasm we saw in 2008.”
Chaser: In Hindsight, Backers of Bernie Sanders Lament What Might Have Been. “If he had only attacked Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, instead of offering her a reprieve, some supporters lamented, perhaps things would have been different. And now, as Mrs. Clinton contends with daily disclosures from the hacked messages of top campaign aides — missives that have reinforced the central progressive criticisms of her bid, including her coziness with Wall Street — some of Mr. Sanders’s admirers have been compelled to consider again what might have been.”
IMAGINE IF DONALD TRUMP, INSTEAD OF BILL CLINTON, HAD TOLD THIS JOKE:
In a chapter titled “Charm Offensives,” Halper reports on a very strange encounter the former president allegedly had with a group of rich Republicans at the 2003 running of the Preakness, where Clinton allegedly told off-color jokes at the Turf Club of Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course.
According to Halper, Clinton—“always eager to please”— told his embarrassed audience a joke that began: “These two old Jews are walking down the street.”
“As the joke begins, everyone around the table looks dubious,” Halper writes. “Where is he going with this? Surely the former president of the United States is not about to tell an anti-Semitic story in front of people he hardly knows. This, of course, is exactly what he does, according to a number of people present.”
Briefly, the joke has the two Jewish codgers walking by a Catholic church, where a sign out front offers $100 to converts. One of the Jews, named Abe, agrees to convert and give half the proceeds to his friend. Abe meets with the priests, learns the traditions of the church, is declared a Catholic, and collects his reward.
“Hey! Look at the new Catholic here,” Abe’s friend says. “You got my money?”
To which Abe retorts: “You fucking Jews. It’s all about the money, isn’t it.”
Halper writes: “As the former president laughs, the others offer weak smiles. No one wants to offend him.”
Why not?
October 18, 2016
WHY HILLARY GOT 200 GRAND A POP FOR HER WALL STREET SPEECHES: “Knowing Hillary’s genuine policy goals is very valuable to investors and business planners. Wall Street toffs who pay her top dollar speaking fees receive off the record insider info American proles don’t get to hear.” See, she holds public and private positions.