You know where we’re going with this: not the rule of law, but rather…
More importantly…
…America’s not on a slippery slope…
…she’s plunging into a bottomless abyss. Here’s the juice:
It’s time to arrest the descent.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Leading off the mid-week edition, since we’re on the subject of the Fall of America, we offer two views of the evolution of Hillary’s email saga. First, Chuck Todd:
Next, a more comprehensive compilation from the Washington Free Beacon:
Either way, color Hillary done; it’s only a question of when…and how she…
…misrepresents it.
In a related item, NRO‘s Charles W. Cooke details the…
“Prematurely sporting a stylized, straight-out-of-Leavenworth, shock-orange jumpsuit, and carrying the disgusted air of a woman who has just been told that the scullery maid has pilfered the most valuable candlestick, Hillary Clinton yesterday took to a Las Vegas gymnasium to indulge in some choice verbal acrobatics. Keenly aware as she was that she has been left no choice but to gamble with the Devil, Clinton’s mood would be most politely characterized as imperiously defiant. This turbulent digital inconvenience was clearly not supposed to have gone on for this long — not to the point at which Bernie Sanders could start making waves and her trustworthiness could begin to take a hit. “What to do, what to do, what to do?” Clinton’s furrowed brow appeared to ask the cameras. And the answer came down from the heavens: Dissemble, as if your life depended on it.
As is now clear, Hillary possesses almost none of Bill’s remarkable personal virtues. She’s not warm or spontaneous or alluring or quick. She has no discernible political instincts. She doesn’t even seem to enjoy the human contact on which successful public servants thrive. But boy can she fib with the best of them.
From start to precipitous finish, her performance was pure Clintonian evasion. “What I did,” she argued carefully — after trying a quick “nothing to do with me” for good measure — “was legally permitted, number one, first and foremost, okay?” “Number two,” she offered, “they’ve already concluded more than 1,200 of the e-mails I gave them have nothing to do with the work, and I said make them public.” “I know,” she concluded emphatically, that “there’s a certain level of, you know, sort of anxiety or interest in this, but the facts are the facts.”
The facts are indeed the facts.But, (Or perhaps, in Hillary’s case, more accurately…
butt!!!) as usual, they don’t much help Hillary…”
As evidenced by this video from Judicial Watch Director of Investigations Chris Farrell, courtesy of theWSJ:
The last batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department included one from Clinton asking to borrow a book called “Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better,” by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe. Clinton has not said why she requested the book, but it includes some advice that is particularly interesting in light of the controversy over her unconventional email arrangement at the State Department and her decision to delete tens of thousands of emails she deemed to be purely personal.
The copy that ABC downloaded for $9.99 had some interesting revelations. Take, for example, Chapter Six: “The Email That Can Land You In Jail.” The chapter includes a section entitled “How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted.” “Some people are hoarders, some are checkers,” the authors write. “The main thing to consider is that once you do decide to delete, it’s like taking the garbage from your kitchen and putting it in your hallway.It’s still there.”
The chapter advised that to truly delete emails may require a special rewriting program “to make sure that it’s not just elsewhere on the drive but has in fact been written over sixteen or twenty times and rendered undefinable.”…Later, on page 226, the writers warn, “If you’re issued a subpoena, your deletion binge will only make you look guilty.”
Res…
…ipsa loquitur!
Next up, courtesy of NRO, David French suggests we…
See the Oppression Inherent in the System: The Alabama Sorority Video Outrage
“So we can thank this video for the latest race and gender campus mini-tempest:
It’s a recruiting video for a University of Alabama sorority, and it just might be the least-Ivy-League-feminist five minutes ever posted on the internet. It went semi-viral after a writer for AL.com called it “worse for women than Donald Trump.”
Her case:
It’s a parade of white girls and blonde hair dye, coordinated clothing, bikinis and daisy dukes, glitter and kisses, bouncing bodies, euphoric hand-holding and hugging, gratuitous booty shots, and matching aviator sunglasses. It’s all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition. It’s all so … unempowering.
The University seemed to agree, penning its own condemnation:
This video is not reflective of UA’s expectations for student organizations to be responsible digital citizens,” Deborah Lane, the associate vice president for university relations said in a statement. “It is important for student organizations to remember what is posted on social media makes a difference, today and tomorrow, on how they are viewed and perceived.
I have three thoughts. First, what’s “unempowering” is the notion that these women aren’t autonomous enough to decide for themselves the life they enjoy or the image they choose to present. No men were demanding they do this video. Indeed, the audience is obviously like-minded women — people looking for exactly the social experience depicted on the video. It’s no wonder so few women describe themselves as “feminist” if that means joining a movement that’s going to crush other women online if they choose to project a “hyper-feminine” image.
Second, it’s more than a little disturbing to see an arm of the state determining that a frivolous little video depicting exactly zero unlawful or irresponsible behavior doesn’t comport with its definition of a “responsible digital citizen.”…”
Welcome to…
…1984.
Speaking of 1984, as Bridget Johnson reports at PJMedia…
“The Obama administration lauded as “historic” Monday’s first-of-its-kind meeting at the UN Security Council on gay rights, organized by the U.S. Missions at the UN and Chile.
Much of the meeting focused on the murder of homosexuals by ISIS, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and other groups in the region including the Al-Nusra Front, but UN Ambassador Samantha Power made clear that they want the agenda to be broader…After the meeting, Power told reporters that images of what ISIS does to gays were displayed “so, if ever anybody was tempted to drift away or have their attention go elsewhere, the graphic, gut-wrenching photos of what is being done and the very real threat posed – even as we sat in this meeting today – in territory where ISIL is dominant.”
…Power made no mention of Iran, which hangs gays...”
Sorry, but did we miss The Obamao-sponsored Security Council confab on what has become, at least in areas under the influence of Islam, open-season…
…on Christians and Jews?!? We can only assume some Black lives…
…matter more than others; particularly when the Black in question is a bullying bandit. How a felonious thug like Michael Brown ever engendered sympathy in the first place, let alone the idolization he continues to be accorded, speaks volumes about the real source of problems in urban America.
On the Lighter Side…
Then, with NO offense whatsoever intended towards any Blackshoes in the audience, there’s this total truism, courtesy of Balls Cotton:
Take it from us: a Navy fighter pilot’s never written a check his ego couldn’t cash!
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with the Think About It; It’ll Come to You segment, as the…
“Ammar Abdirahman’s mother said she sent him from Minnesota to a Somali boarding school to protect him. The teen never returned home.
Sent to Africa to be safe from gangs in Minnesota, Ammar was instead beaten and killed by locals in Somalia in May. His mother told FOX9 the teen may have been targeted because he was American. No formal homicide investigation has been launched and his family is still trying to obtain his remains, according to FOX9…”
Gee, why not just send him to deepest, darkest Detroit…or West Baltimore…with John McCain’s sandwich board from Diehard: With a Vengeance?!?
With all due respect to the Abdirahman family’s grief, the answers they seek are staring them in face every…every time they look in the mirror.
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