It’s Wednesday, January 21st, 2015…and not just no, but HELL NO we didn’t watch the SOTUS. First, we can’t stomach even a minute of Barry’s bleating. Second, if we wanted to waste our time listening to propaganda, there’s plenty of Joseph Goebbels’ greatest hits available on the Web.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of one David Carr writing for The New York Times, a brief glimpse into the tortured psyche that is the mind of the modern Progressive:
Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and given the context, it is an interesting moment to ask whether it really matters that the motion picture academy failed to nominate the black director and the black lead actor of “Selma,” the King biopic, for Oscars. After all, it lands fairly low on the list of indignities visited on African-Americans: No unarmed people died, no innocent citizens were patted down or jailed.
But yes, it still matters. The news continues to be full of all manner of pathology and victimization involving black Americans, and when a moment comes to celebrate both a historical giant and a pure creative achievement, it merits significant and broad recognition.
Many would say that it should suffice that “12 Years a Slave,” a film by a black director about black history, won best picture last year, and “Selma” was nominated this year, and that any grievance is a conjured one. I disagree.
Forget about the Oscars; we couldn’t care less. We’ve never watched them and never will; and we’ve never given a hoot in hell what movie, actor or actress won one. So you can imagine our disdain for other Hollywood-created orgies of self-congratulation like the Golden Globes or Emmys.
No, the point is, this is Progressive political correctness eating its own. To which we can only say, bon appetit!!! As Carr continues…
…And no club in the United States — over the last several years, the academy has been around 93 percent white, 76 percent male and an average of 63 years old — is in more need of new blood than Hollywood.
…As someone who once spent a great deal of time reporting on the ins and outs of the Oscars, I know that the snub is not some overt racial conspiracy at work.
…While the snubs may sting and point toward a broader blindness, it’s still more important in the long run that a young female black director received the backing of a Hollywood studio and made an important film. Long after the last blubbering actor has been played off the stage while thanking his or her makeup assistant at the Oscars, we will still have “Selma.”
Soooo…a not-so-subtle hint the Academy’s racist…followed by an inside, personal assessment they’re not…summed up with a thinly-veiled hint they are! No self-contradiction there!
Yeah, we’ll still have Selma; that and a quarter won’t even buy your average Black child born to a single mother a cup of coffee, let alone them the slightest benefit whatsoever. It only allows Liberal Whites who need to feel good about themselves the opportunity to make their politically-correct indignance heard, without actually making any serious effort to identify the real problem, let alone solve it.
As Hope n’ Change suggested, and in line with the undeniably hypocritical whites-need-not-apply BET Awards, this calls for a…
“…Fortunately, the Diversity Task Force came up with a brilliant idea and announced that the always-diverse Black Entertainment Television network will now host the all-black Hollywood “Sharpie Awards.”
There will be awards for “Best Blacktor” and “Best Blacktress,” as well as awards for “Best Denzel Washington Movie,” “Best Movie With Tyler Perry In A Housedress,” “Best Movie That Oprah Had Any Damn Thing To Do With,” and the “Samuel Fucking Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award” which, it is rumored, will be posthumously awarded to Ferguson’s own Michael Brown for his non-moving performance in “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”
Currently, neither the Reverend Sharpton nor his Diversity Task Force has announced plans for a Martin Luther King “Content Of Character” award.”
Just give them their own meaningless award show; problem solved!
Next up, today’s installment of our Muslim Minute, as Watters’ World explores the latest example of deliberate Islamic concealment:
Which flies directly in the face of the malarkey (big surprise) Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s version of Bagdad Bob, has been trying to sell of late.
More importantly, we must point out the amazing naivete Bill O’Reilly displays in this exchange:
Pardon our French, but seriously, Bill: WTF?!? Where have you been, and how do you think these homicidal maniacs get started?!? Yes, you bloviating bag of egotistical douche; “let’s give the kid…
…a break.” Hopefully, when the radical Islamists convince him to blow himself up, along with a to-be-determined number of infidels, it’s on the set of The O’Reilly Factor.
That he also dismisses a refusal to allow any independent observation after the first 20 minutes of a 6-hour+ conference as “they don’t like us” is simply beyond comprehension.
Moving on to Foreign Affairs, courtesy of Balls Cotton and NRO, Kevin Williamson covers the lamest attempt to covers one’s ass we’ve ever personally witnessed:
“Let us call the roll of national badasses: the 75th Ranger Regiment, USMC Force Reconnaissance, the SEALS, Delta Force . . . James Taylor?
What sort of warriors does a weary nation facing a savage enemy turn to? “The Quiet Professionals,” “Semper Fidelis,” “Death from Above” . . . “A Churning Urn of Burning Funk.”
The spectacle of the Obama administration’s dispatching Secretary of State John Kerry to “share a big hug with Paris” as James Taylor — who still exists – crooned “You’ve Got a Friend” is the perfect objective correlative for American decline: The pathetic self-regard of John Kerry and James Taylor’s Baby Boomers meets the cynical, self-serving, going-through-the-motions style of Barack Obama’s Generation X as disenchanted Millennials in parental basements across the fruited plains no doubt injured their thumbs typing “WTF?” It is the substitution of celebrity for power, of sentiment for analysis, of sloppy gesture for clear-headed commitment.
We’re responding to barbarism from the seventh century with soft rock from the 1970s…”
Is it any wonder our enemies hold us in such utter contempt?!?
Since we’re on the subject of things deserving of utter contempt, here’s a truth which conflicts with the Liberal narrative: imagine, if you will, how the MSM would have treated this story had the main character been a Southern Baptist minister or Conservative Catholic priest:
The No. 2 Episcopal bishop in the Diocese of Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after she was involved in a car crash Saturday that killed a bicyclist.
Bishop Heather Elizabeth Cook, who is the bishop suffragan, or second bishop for the diocese of Maryland, which is headquartered in Baltimore, left the scene but returned later “to take responsibility for her actions,” her bishop said in a statement. (Sooo…better late than never?!?)
Court records show that Cook received “probation before judgment” in 2010 for a drinking and driving charge on the Eastern Shore, where she worked before becoming a bishop. She had been charged at the time with possession of marijuana paraphernalia as well. But those charges were dropped, and she successfully completed her probation.
On December 31, The Post ran another story on page B6 headlined “Bishop involved in fatal crash had a DUI arrest in 2010, and diocese knew.”
Ultimately, and belatedly, on January 9th the “good” bishop was finally charged with manslaughter. Her BAC at the time not only was 0.22, just shy of THREE TIMES the legal limit, she was texting at the time of the accident.
Yet somehow, in the MSM’s politically-correct eye, nothing to see here, ignorant masses…move along with The Dear Misleader’s Progressive agenda.
And in the Environmental Moment, courtesy of Newsbusters.org, we present today’s winner of the Emily Litella award…
…for premature expostulation:
NASA Scientists Admit Only 38% Chance 2014 Was Hottest Year on Record
Oops! It turns out there is only a 38% chance that this latest global warming (later change to “climate change” when the preceding didn’t materialize) “fact” is true which means probably wrong. Here is the sad truth for the MSM global warming triumphalists as reported by the Daily Mail:
The Nasa climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true.
In a press release on Friday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) claimed its analysis of world temperatures showed ‘2014 was the warmest year on record’.
The claim made headlines around the world, but yesterday it emerged that GISS’s analysis – based on readings from more than 3,000 measuring stations worldwide – is subject to a margin of error. Nasa admits this means it is far from certain that 2014 set a record at all.
Yet the Nasa press release failed to mention this, as well as the fact that the alleged ‘record’ amounted to an increase over 2010, the previous ‘warmest year’, of just two-hundredths of a degree – or 0.02C. The margin of error is said by scientists to be approximately 0.1C – several times as much.
WAAAAH! I want my global warming delusions back!
If it makes you feel better, one of the NASA scientists is trying to ease your pain:
As a result, GISS’s director Gavin Schmidt has now admitted Nasa thinks the likelihood that 2014 was the warmest year since 1880 is just 38 per cent. However, when asked by this newspaper whether he regretted that the news release did not mention this, he did not respond.
Progressive SOP when faced with incontrovertible truths which contradict their predetermined narrative.
As the WSJ‘s Holman Jenkins noted…
To its credit, the Washington Post alluded to the possibly more important fact that “rising temperatures have not kept pace with computer simulations that predicted even faster warming.”
Which brings us to the Fred Thompson Memorial…
…segment, courtesy today of Debra Saunders who rhetorically asks…
“After what became known as the Moonlight Fire burned some 65,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada in 2007, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection decided that Sierra Pacific Industries was responsible for the damage. The culprit, regulators charged, was a friction spark from a bulldozer operating on Sierra Pacific land. Cal Fire fined the timber company $8 million to pay for related costs. Because the fire burned more than 40,000 acres of national forest, the federal government also went after Sierra Pacific’s deep pockets; in 2012, Sierra Pacific agreed to a settlement that entailed paying the feds $47 million and giving Uncle Sam 22,500 acres of forestland.
That’s how the system should work, you probably are thinking, and I would think that, too — except that Superior Court Judge Leslie C. Nichols tossed the state’s case, citing a lack of solid evidence. Last year, he ruled that the government’s case was “corrupt and tainted. Cal Fire failed to comply with discovery obligations, and its repeated failure was willful.” The judge charged that the state destroyed evidence and “engaged in a systematic campaign of misdirection with the purpose of recovering money from Defendants.” Call it robbery by fiat. If the judge is right, government watchdogs didn’t care who the guilty party actually was, as long as they could cash in.
…The judge was especially harsh on the office of state Attorney General Kamala Harris. In his 47 years as an attorney and judge, Nichols wrote, he had never seen an instance “in which the conduct of the Attorney General so thoroughly departed from the high standard it represents, and, in every other instance, has exemplified.“…”
This business already is out of control; and the country will be lucky to live through it! And if you don’t think the same thing could happen to you…
Finally, on the Lighter Side…
Magoo
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