Yeah,…and Pravda, Izvestia and Tass were independent “news” organizations! After all, doesn’t EVERY streaming service sign $50,000,000 contracts to “produce” content with couples possessing no prior production experience whatsoever?!? This is NBC hiring Chelsea Clinton for over $600,000/year for who knows what on hemorrhoids…er,…steroids!
As CNN premeditatively misstated:
“The Obamas want to highlight positive stories about people making a difference, they do not want to use it as a platform to take on President Trump (at least directly).“
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, a retiring Republican Representative recently offered these rather intriguing observations:
“Never”…NEVER?!? Inquiring minds who’ve long wondered why Lois Lerner was never incarcerated in the House jail, let alone remains unindicted, wonder no longer.
Hey, if Trey Gowdy believes it, it MUST be true…and in the best interest of America!!!
“To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip about a 28-year-old fourth-tier Trump adviser, George Papadopoulos.
The FBI’s media scribes have dutifully reported the bare facts of that “intel.”We are told the infamous tip came from Alexander Downer, at the time the Australian ambassador to the U.K. Mr. Downer invited Mr. Papadopoulos for a drink(WHY?!? How would Alexander Downer have the faintest clue as to who or what Papadopoulos was?!?)in early May 2016, where the aide told the ambassador the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. Word of this encounter at some point reached the FBI, inspiring it to launch its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31.
Notably (nay, suspiciously) absent or muddled are the details of how and when that information made its way to the FBI, and what exactly was transmitted. A December 2017 New York Times story vaguely explains that the Australians passed the info to “American counterparts” about “two months later,” and that once it “reached the FBI,” the bureau acted. Even the Times admits it’s “not clear” why it took the Aussies so long to flip such a supposedly smoking tip.The story meanwhile slyly leads readers to believe that Mr. Papadopoulos told Mr. Downer that Moscow had “thousands of emails,” but read it closely and the Times in fact never specifies what the Trump aide said, beyond “dirt.”
When Mr. Downer ended his service in the U.K. this April, he sat for an interview with the Australian, a national newspaper, and “spoke for the first time” about the Papadopoulos event. Mr. Downer said he officially reported the Papadopoulos meeting back to Australia “the following day or a day or two after,” as it “seemed quite interesting.”The story nonchalantly notes that “after a period of time, Australia’s ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, passed the information on to Washington.”
My reporting indicates otherwise. A diplomatic source tells me Mr. Hockey neither transmitted any information to the FBI nor was approached by the U.S. about the tip. Rather, it was Mr. Downer who at some point decided to convey his information—to the U.S. Embassy in London.
That matters because it is not how things are normally done…”
Trey Gowdy’s contention to the contrary notwithstanding. And the rest, as they say, is history, courtesy of Jeff Sessions.
Since we’re on the subject of the man whose only notable achievement as Attorney General has been his principled opposition to the irresistible tide of marijuana legalization, as NRO reports, The Donald has nomination remorse:
We second that emotion, as if he hadn’t, America would still have two Republican senators representing Alabama and deservedly consigned Robert Mueller to the dustbin of history. Trump has been highly (and rightly!) critical of Sessions ever since his cowardly recusal, blasting the former senator for not launching full-blown investigations into Hillary’s email, Uranium One, James Comey and Andrew McCabe…not to mention Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and the rest of the Commie cast of Hillary-Hur.
Next up, again courtesy of NRO, David French disseminates…
“After reading the FBI’s latest reporton active-shooter incidents in the United States, two things are increasingly clear. First, the United States has a growing problem with actual or attempted spree killers.And second, armed and alert citizens can be part of the solution.
Let’s begin with the problem.The FBI defines an “active shooter” as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” In many ways, it’s a better metric for our nation’s mass-shooting problem because it includes attempts, not just completed mass killings (which the FBI defines as “three or more killings in a single incident”).
Make no mistake, active shooters are on the rise. In 2016 and 2017 there were a total of 50 active-shooter situations, 20 in 2016, and 30 in 2017. These shooters inflicted a total of 943 casualties, with 221 people killed. Let’s contrast this with previous years.In 2014 and 2015, there were40 active-shooter incidents(20 each year), which inflicted a total of 231 casualties, with 92 fatalities.Extending the analysis even farther, we find that between 2000 and 2013there were an average 11.4 incidents per year, with a low of just one in 2000 and a high of 26 in 2010.
In the 14 years between 2000 and 2013, there were 20 or more active-shooting incidents only twice. There have been 20 or more incidents every year since. In other words: America, we have a problem.
As I wrote right after the Santa Fe school massacre, thebest explanationfor the rise in active shooters is the least comforting.That explanation comes from Malcolm Gladwell in aseminal 2015 essayfor the New Yorker (As featured in an earlier edition of The Gouge.). In essence, we are in the midst of a slow-motion “riot” of mass shootings, with each shooting lowering the threshold for the next.
Any sophisticated(“sophisticated”: spelled “i-n-t-e-l-l-i-g-e-n-t” or “r-e-a-s-o-n-e-d”) approach to a problem involves discussing potential solutions both left of boom (before the shooting) and right of boom (after the shooting starts). Gun control is a classic left-of-boom approach, designed to prevent attacks before they can happen.Even Gladwell is skeptical of its effectiveness. While he’s said that gun control “has its place,” he also says, “Let’s not kid ourselves that if we passed the strictest gun control in the world that we would end this particular kind of behavior.”
In fact, as the Washington Post’s Glenn Kesslerfound in a now-famous fact check, no recent mass shooting would have been prevented by any of the conventional gun restrictions progressives often propose.
But this isn’t a left-of-boom essay. Let’s talk about what happens when the shooting starts. Here, the FBI provides extremely helpful data. How do shootings end? The most common ways are exactly what you’d expect: The shooters kill themselves or flee, or the police exchange gunfire with the shooter and/or apprehend him. But a surprising amount of the time (surprising at least to the uninformed or willfully blind), citizens stop the killer, and an increasing percentage of those citizens are armed…”
Good news for John Q. Average Citizen, bad news for the knee-jerk anti-gun narrative of the mindless Left.
Speaking of knee-jerk reactions from the mindless Left, courtesy of FOX News, Brian Flood relates yet another…
“The New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein incorrectly shared Obama-era pictures of children sleeping in enclosed cages to take a swipe at the Trump administration – and that was only one of several Twitter stumbles by anti-Trump public figures over the holiday weekend.
It turned out the photographs were published byThe Arizona Republicin 2014 after authorities detained over 1,000 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and placed them in a detention facility.
“All of these photos are disturbing, but the first two are especially awful,” Silverstein wrote in the tweet, along with a link headlined, “First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility.”
…Silverstein was widely criticized for the blunder and his “correction” received over 1,400 responses ranging from followers referring to the Times as “fake news” to followers criticizing the editor for blaming his family.
Next he’s going to blame Ambien!
“This is what happens when you throw away your journalistic standards in favor of political bias,” one user responded while another wrote, “We could have done without the excuse.”
…CNN reporter Hadas Gold also shared the Obama-era image, prompting White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to ask a CNN reporter about the situation on Tuesday:
“Your CNN colleague retweeted two migrant children, I suppose, laying in a cage to make the point against this president. It happened under President Obama’s watch and then [she] deleted the tweet because it didn’t fit the narrative,” Conway said when approached by a CNN staffer at the White House before asking, “Do you or do you not care about the migrant children?”
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gold eventually deleted her tweet and wrote, “Deleted previous tweet because gave impression of recent photos (they’re from 2014),” but hundreds of responses ripped the CNN reporter (deservedly!) for the misleading tweet.
“No you did not ‘give the impression.’You flat out said it,” one user wrote while another said, “Don’t delete it. You could’ve said ‘Correction: These were children detained under the Obama administration.’”…”
For more on the subject of narratives trumping truth, we turn to this commentary from Julie Kelly writing at American Greatness as forwarded by G. Trevor:
I think the last civil conversations we had occurred just days before November 8, 2016. You were supremely confident Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election; you voted for her with glee. As a lifelong Republican, I bit down hard and cast my vote for Donald Trump. Then the unimaginable happened.He won. And youlost your fucking minds.
I knew you would take the loss hard—and personally—since all of you were super jacked-up to elect the first woman president. But I did not imagine you would become totally deranged, attacking anyone who voted for Trump or supported his presidency as a racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic Nazi-sympathizer.
The weirdness started on social media late on Election Night, as it became clear Hillary was going to lose. A few of you actually admitted that you were cradling your sleeping children, weeping, wondering what to tell your kindergartner the next morning about Trump’s victory.(Which leaves us wondering what you would have told them in the wake of the revelation Bill Clinton whacked off into door jamb of the Oral Orifice!) It continued over the next several days. Some of you seriously expressed fear about modern-day concentration camps. Despite living a privileged lifestyle, you were suddenly a casualty of the white patriarchy. Your daughters were future victims; your sons were predators-in-waiting. You threatened to leave Facebook because you could no longer enjoy the family photos or vacation posts from people who, once friends, became Literal Hitlers to you on November 8 because they voted for Donald Trump.
I admit I was a little hurt at first. The attacks against us Trump voters were so personal and so vicious that I did not think it could be sustained. I thought maybe you would regain your sanity after some turkey and egg nog.
But you did not. You got worse. And I went from sad to angry to where I am today: Amused…”
Here’s a case in point via Joe Wulfsohn writing at Mediaite.com, who is honest enough to highlight MSM hypocrisy of the rankest variety, as…
“…Acosta said Kim Kardashian “shouldn’t be here talking about prison reform,” something he never said about John Legend in 2015. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt that sexism isn’t a factor. So what is? Perhaps it’s his disdain for Donald Trump, a president who he essentially admitted doesn’t take seriously. If that’s his position, fine. But specifically on prison reform, the House just passed a bipartisan bill that Kushner personally had a major role in constructing. And Kardashian has put a spotlight on Alice Marie Johnson’s heartbreaking story since last year.
Between President Trump, Jared Kushner, Kim Kardashian, and even Congress, everyone seems to be taking prison reform seriously.Well, everyone except Jim Acosta.“
The carriage driver in Ghostbusters had Acosta pegged:
And a lying, hypocritical a*shole…
…at that!
For more on the subject of lying, hypocritical sphincters, FOX News records the righteous…
Though both Bee and TBS have since “apologized”, we recall Roseanne “apologized” as well. Yet her show’s still cancelled while Bee‘s remains on the air.
“A Transavia flight to the Spanish island of Gran Canaria was forced to make an emergency landing in Portugal when several passengers reportedly became ill by the “unbearable” smell of an “unwashed” man onboard. The male passenger allegedly smelled so bad that others on the flight began fainting and vomiting once the plane took off from Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. One Belgian passenger, Piet van Haut, told Express the man smelled like he had not bathed in “several weeks.”“It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks. Several passengers got sick and had to puke,” van Haut said.
According to the publication, airline crew members tried to keep the man contained in the airplane bathroom while the pilot diverted the flight. The plane landed in Faro in Portugal where the man was removed from the Boeing 737 and placed on a bus by medical personnel.
In a statement to Express from Transavia, the airliner (great grammar!) confirmed the emergency landing wasdue to “medical reasons.” “The aeroplane diverted because of medical reasons, but it is indeed right that he smelled quite a bit,” a Transavia spokesperson told the news site.
It is unknown what medical condition – if any – the man suffered from.
Reports the man suffered from Edzachary Disease (i.e., his armpits smelled edzachary like his a*s!) remain unconfirmed.
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