It’s Monday, November 6th, 2017…but before we begin, our deepest condolences and heartfelt prayers go out to the families of those slain at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX, along with, if the reports we read are true, well-deserved praise and thanks to the thus-far unidentified individual whose intervention brought the massacre to a halt.
Meanwhile, unlike those who in their utter ignorance cry out for that which would have done absolutely nothing…
…to prevent the bloodshed…
“…Sens. Bob Casey Jr. (Pa.), Dick Durbin(Ill.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.) were among the Democrats who urged Congress to act in response to the latest deadly shooting. “I’m thinking of and praying for all those impacted by the shooting in Texas.In addition to offering my prayers and thoughts I also believe Congress must take action on gun violence,” Casey wrote in two separate tweets.”
…we’ll withhold further comment until the facts are in. But ’til then, we have to love this quote from an Associated Press account of the killings:
“Officials said it remained unclear whether he was shot dead by police or a vigilante-type resident, or if he died from a self-inflicted wound.“
You know, a “vigilante-type resident”…the gun-toting, bitter-clinger types who risk their own lives by confronting armed criminals…
…to save the lives of others.
We must also note, as this next video confirms, gun-toting bitter clingers…
…come in all shapes, sizes…and colors!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the Monday edition with the Sports Section, and this just in from Jason Whitlock writing at the WSJ:
“The critics of National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell are only getting louder. Last week Papa John’s Pizza CEO John Schnatter assailed Mr. Goodell for bungling the national anthem protests. “The NFL has hurt us by not resolving the current debacle to the players’ and owners’ satisfaction,” said Mr. Schnatter, whose company is a high-profile sponsor. “Leadership starts at the top, and this is poor leadership…This should’ve been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago.”
Meanwhile, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, is trying to block an extension of Mr. Goodell’s contract…
…In other words, the time for action has arrived—and Mr. Goodell has a lot to account for…
…It makes sense to blame ineffective leadership. But what if the problem is effectiveleadership? Football is headed exactly where (Like everything, including healthcare, under The Obamao!)Mr. Goodell has steered it—to the left.The NFL has long been a combatant in America’s larger culture war. But Mr. Goodell—whose father, Charles, was a liberal antiwar Republican senator in the late 1960s—was always an odd choice to run it.
Remember that the NFL was cultivated into prominence by Pete Rozelle, a pro-war conservative. In the 1960s, Rozelle hired a World War II veteran-turned-filmmaker, Ed Sabol, to produce highlights, commercials and documentaries that marketed the sport as patriotic and militaristic. Sabol’s NFL Films made football feel more American than baseball. His work was so critical to the league’s wild growth that in 2011 he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The same honor had been bestowed on Rozelle in 1985, while he was still commissioner.
By contrast, a year ago Mr. Goodell hired a Democratic political strategist, Joe Lockhart, as the NFL’s executive vice president of communications.Mr. Lockhart, best known as President Clinton’s press secretary for two years, also worked for Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.Last week the New York Times credited him with crafting the NFL’s message on the anthem controversy.(Hey, why not; after all, he did such a bang-up job promoting the messages of Carter, Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry. Hells bells, he probably drafted Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations” line!)
Mr. Lockhart is an aggressive media manipulator. The Times reported that several NFL owners were bothered by a snide comment Mr. Lockhart made about Mr. Trump: “Lockhart told reporters that talking about police brutality is ‘what real locker room talk is.’ ”
But Messrs. Goodell and Lockhart have made bigger gaffes. In mid-October, Mr. Goodell and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin wrote a letter to the Senate “to offer the National Football League’s full support for the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017.”Mr. Goodell is paid $44 million a year to represent the views of the NFL’s owners, not players or himself.
An ESPN story in late October about the anthem protests portrayed Mr. Goodell as supporting players’ desire to use the NFL as a platform to address whatever social issues they deem important…
..Messrs. Goodell and Lockhart are damaging the league’s longstanding and highly profitable brand. Neither one seems likely to join Pete Rozelle and Ed Sabol in the hall of fame. The question is how long the owners will continue to allow the pair to reshape the NFL.”
Which makes this a problem for the owners. Untilthey address itwith a drastic, 180-degree course correction involving significant action against the misinformed prima donnas demonstrating against and degrading those who’ve enabled them to prosper so greatlydespite their utter ignorance, we’re with Vin Scully, one of the greatest sports broadcasters in history:
Were we the owner of an NFL franchise, it wouldn’t merely be Scully’s words, but the applause with which they were met which would bother us…and thatgreatly!
Turning now from words met with avid approbation to a decision which elicited universal condemnation, we’re seriously tempted to suggest Colonel Jeffrey Nance should be shot, along with the treasonous piece of trash he let off with a slap on the wrist. But we’ll settle…
…for his early and immediate separation from the Service.
Oh,…did we say “universal” condemnation? Make that “near universal” condemnation, as we remember those who sang the praises of this worthless deserter…
…prior to this politically-correct clown of a Colonel letting him off practically scott-free.
Though, as Andy McCarthy notes at NRO, in Nance’s defense…and this is a stretch…
Along with many of us who held our nose and voted for you, Don; and it’s the “unfiltered” which is the problem…along with your 4th-grade vocabulary.
“The twaddle President Trump tweeted (here and here) in urging the “DEATH PENALTY!” for Sayfullo Saipov, the West Side Highway jihadist, is maddening — and not just on its face. Only days earlier, the commander-in-chief had been chastised for intemperate remarks affecting another case, the court-martial of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
As we recounted in a recent column, Trump’s bull-in-a-china-shop routine rumbled through the sentencing proceedings of the deserter and former Taliban prisoner. Unwilling (or is it unable?) to utter the words “no comment” when asked about the case during a press conference, the president reaffirmed his campaign-trail incitements about the “dirty, rotten traitor” (for whom he’d pantomimed a firing-squad execution).
Trump, or at least someone at the White House, must have known that the defense had already moved to get the case thrown out on the theory that Trump had prejudiced Bergdahl’s fair-trial rights. When he denied this motion, the military judge explained that candidate Trump had not been in command authority when he made his remarks.The clear message to the White House was that this would be a much tougher call if Trump spewed such demagoguery as president.Seemingly taking this as a dare rather than prudent advice, he proceeded to spew it as president. Naturally, the defense renewed the motion. After a few days of hand-wringing, the manifestly irritated judge denied it, on grounds that were far less defensible. Yesterday, undoubtedly concerned that the president’s comments could result in a reversal on appeal if a stiff sentence were imposed, the judge sentenced Bergdahl to no jail time — notwithstanding that desertion can carry a lengthy term of imprisonment, and Bergdahl’s desertion resulted in soldiers’ being severely wounded in the search for him.
Earlier, aware of the problems his off-the-cuff remarks had already caused in the court-martial, the president nevertheless butted into the West Side Highway jihadist’s legal proceedings. He was moved to do so, he said, because the justice system “is a joke and it’s a laughingstock.” Well, it is if the president turns it into one…”
Here’s the juice: we understand McCarthy’s point. Yet even were his explanation of Colonel Nance’s cowardly thought process correct, who cares whether Bergdahl’s sentence was overturned on appeal. Nance still should have had the intestinal fortitude to sentence Bo to the stockade for life, as he so richly deserved. Thus would Nance’s clear and unambiguous duty bedone. Instead, he’s deservedly condemned in the dock along with Bergdahl.
Since we’re on the subject of those deserving of two behind the ear…
Sis, no problem; just like Bloody Bill Anderson’s bushwhackers in The Outlaw Josey Wales, your brother, having received a fair trial and being decently treated, will be…
Next up, courtesy of Townhall.com, Timothy Meads suggests we…
“…“ANDERSON COOPER: Do you think it was appropriate for her to do that about a town hall question?
ROBBY MOOK: I don’t honestly know the specifics of it. It sounds like CNN looked into it and took action as they saw fit. But again, Anderson, I’m not just interested in these things in the past. This is why we got to move beyond 2016. We have a governor’s election less than a week away in Virginia. We’ve got critical midterm elections.”
It’s ludicrous for Robby Mook to praise Brazile for her work over the past thirty years. It appears the Democrats “moved on” from the fact that Brazile was fired from the Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign against then Vice President George HW Bush.Brazile lied about a made up affair that H.W. Bush was allegedly having.
“Donna Brazile, deputy national field director of the Dukakis campaign, resigned last night (i.e., was fired!) after telling reporters covering the campaign that they should pursue rumors, which she did not document, about Vice President Bush’s personal life. In resigning, she said: ”Today I made certain comments which I deeply regret. I believe too strongly in the importance of electing Mike Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen to allow myself to become an issue in the campaign. Because the time is short, and the issues are so important, I have decided to leave the campaign. I wish Mike Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen the best in the final weeks of the campaign.”
But rather than be ostracized for her lies, Brazile simply moved around various Democratic campaigns throughout the 90s, working her way up the party. This put her in the position to assist in the rigging of the primary for Hillary Clinton by providing debate questions in 2016.“
And now that she’s out of power, she’s looking to make a fortune from peddling an account of her crimes. Truly a woman after the Clintons’ collective heart!
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this poignant picture worth far more than a mere thousand words:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with one last meme we’d be willing to bet speaks to you…
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