It’s Friday, May 1st, 2020…and here’s a belated edition of The Gouge, belated because we were waiting for the Biden interview before going to press.
We must say we were surprised by the tenor of Mika Brezinski’s questions…as was Groper Joe, as evidenced by this deer-in-the-headlights moment:
You can access the entire interview here, but we’ll give the Cliff Notes version of Biden’s assertions:
I didn’t do it, and you must believe me because,…well…I’m me.
There’s no record of a complaint, and you must believe me because,…well…I’m me.
I’m not a hypocrite: my circumstances are totally different from Kavanaugh’s because,… well,…I say so, and you must believe me because,…well…I’m me.
My files can’t be searched because they contain classified information of my conversations with Barack, and you must believe me because,…well…I’m me.
Yeah,…we can only imagine the substance of those “classified conversations”:
Joe’s evasive “explanations” recall his misleading response to a question Tom Brokaw posed in a 2008 interview, which provided a preview of an issue which continues to dog him to this day:
Two thoughts come to mind: (1) Brokaw should have pointed out $140,000 in New York City doesn’t go nearly as far as $100,000 in Delaware; and (2) Hunter’s career has demonstrated, despite having graduated from Yale Law, any success he’s enjoyed has been as a result of his father’s political connections.
Again, two thoughts arise: first, if Biden’s records truly contain classified material, on what basis would the University of Delaware or Biden campaign staffers have access to them? We strongly doubt any possess the necessary security clearances, let alone the critical “need to know”; second, we’d put the likelihood of Obama entrusting Joe Biden with any truly sensitive information on a par with us winning the lottery…without buying a ticket.
In any event, if his minders believe the Morning Joe interview helped the increasingly-befuddled Biden, they’re on dope…in addition to backing one.
As an aside, The Boss mentioned this reminds him of when Sandy Burglar was caught stealing and destroying highly-sensitive evidence from National Archives which highlighted the Clinton Administration’s ineptitude anti-terror efforts. Rather than serving time, Berger was simply assessed a fine. What are odds any of us could steal and destroyanything from the National Archives, then lie to police and not spend time in stir…let alone have the President of the United States find the deed funny?!?
Since we’re on the subject of criminal subterfuge originating in the Oval Office, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel weighs in on…
“The newest Federal Bureau of Investigation documents in the case of former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn are stunning in themselves. But the totality of Mr. Flynn’s treatment shocks the conscience.
…The FBI exists to investigate crimes, not to create them. Some might add this shameful behavior to the long list of the FBI’s “collusion” malfeasance: the surveillance-court abuse, the Steele dossier, the leaks. But the Flynn case is something different. This isn’t the FBI playing fast and loose with sources or the courts. This is law enforcement abusing its most tyrannical power—to strip citizens of their reputations, their livelihoods and their liberty.
The FBI’s treatment of Mr. Flynn lives up to Americans’ worst fears. Attorney General William Barr was right to order a review of the case. Now someone must be heldto account.“
Or, as we fervently hope…
…a lot of someones! Boys and girls, can you say, “two-tiered system of justice”? We KNEW you could!
Next up, writing at The Corner, the great Victor Davis Hanson offers The Donald some unsolicited advice he’d do well to take:
“President Trump seems increasingly ambivalent about the utility of the daily and sometime marathon press conferences. He should be — and for reasons besides just their length and frequency.
First, Trump gets bogged down into long, back-and-forth jousts with the touché Washington press corps. His impromptu skills, honed both as president and in his years on television, usually ensure him tactical victories. He is not peremptory but retaliatory in his put-downs.
Fine.Most Americans don’t especially like the Washington press corps. So they don’t mind them earning the repartee that their rude provocation deserves.
But Trump’s victories are becoming Pyrrhic…
…It is in the interest of the nation as well as the president to diversify the press conferences, shorten them, keep them to tight schedules — and to not let them become monotonously hijacked by those with little if any expertise other than in parroting “I told you so” and “I got you.”“
Speaking of Fake News, one its prime purveyors is the subject of this report by Alexa Moutevelis writing at Newsbusters.org:
“…According to a report by Campus Reform, Rutgers University Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Brittney Cooper came under fire this week after taking aim at Trump supporters in a lengthy Twitter thread. “I am saying some obvious things this morning because as a country we are too good at skipping over the audience and we might as well say this to people as often as we can.Fuck each and every Trump supporter. You all absolutely did this. You are to blame,” Cooper wrote in one tweet.
Cooper wrote that it is “utterly absurd” to reopen the country at this stage of the ongoing pandemic. According to Cooper, white conservatives want to open the nation because it will “disproportionately” affect black Americans. (Here we thought Associate Professor Super-size expertise was in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, not Virology or Epidemiology!)
“I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push [sic] to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID. Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power.”
Professor Cooper has a history of bizarre remarks. In October 2019, Cooper argued during an interview on Oprah’s television network that the policies of the Trump administration have led to high levels of obesity for Black women. “I hate when people talk about Black women being obese. I hate it because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create,” Cooper said. “We are living in the Trump era. And look, those policies kill our people. You can’t get access to good health care, good insurance.”…”
Judging from her picture, something tells us Cooper didn’t gain all that girth during Trump’s term in office. And how The Donald…or Ronald McDonald for that matter…forced all that junk food down her throat, or what her obesity has to do with “access to good health care, good insurance” we’ll never know. Besides, didn’t Obama and Biden solve those particular problems?
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
The there’s this string of humor offered by Ed Hickey…
…these from Balls Cotton…
…one from The Penguin…
…and last but not least, another from Brenda Berry:
Which provides the perfect lead in for our final item of the day, as we wrap up the week with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and a tale of murder most foul we called when it went down, as…
“…News of the police probe comes after a series of Free Beacon stories raised questions about the portrayal of the couple in the initial NBC News report that vaulted the story onto the national stage.
Though that report and others suggested the couple mindlessly followed the president’s medical advice to disastrous results, friends of Gary Lenius told the Free Beacon they were skeptical he would knowingly ingest fish tank treatment.
Rather, they described Lenius as a levelheaded retired engineer and recounted a troubled marital relationship that included a previous domestic assault charge against his wife, of which she was ultimately found not guilty. The Free Beacon also reported that Wanda Lenius was a Democratic donor whose most recent contribution went to a “pro-science” super PAC.
…“What bothers me about this is that Gary was a very intelligent man, a retired [mechanical] engineer who designed systems for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, and I really can’t see the scenario where Gary would say, ‘Yes, please, I would love to drink some of that Koi fish tank cleaner,’” one of his close friends told the Free Beacon…”
To borrow a phrase from the former mayor of Washington, D.C., we believe da b*tch set him up!
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