Ilhan Omar thinks we’re the “Klan”:
Omar’s not stupid. She knows that’s not true.
She just knows that CD5 Democrats pretty much believe anything they’re told.
Can You Feel The #Unity, Here In #OneMinnesota?
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Category Archives: Slander Files
Pride
Forget, for a moment, the fact that not only has President Trump denounced ‘white supremacist” groups frequently and unequivocally, but he’s done it roughly 100% more than Joe Biden has denounced “Anti”-Fa.
What if the ‘group’ that the press is mau-mauing on command…
…isn’t “white supremacist” at all?
But there’s a small problem with this narrative about the Proud Boys besides the fact that Trump didn’t even know who they were and has no connection with them.
First, Proud Boys have brawled with Antifa because they regard anarcho-Communism as a danger to Western society. They’re not the ones rioting in the streets attacking the police and other people, that’s BLM/Antifa who have been the leftists’ shock troops to push radical reform. The only group that seems to be connected to a political party and political agenda is BLM/Antifa. The Biden campaign specifically endorsed the BLM during their convention and has yet to denounce BLM/Antifa violence by name. Joe Biden even denied the existence of Antifa, completely ignoring their involvement in hundreds of BLM connected riots in the last few months.
Second, there’s another problem with the accusation. Proud Boys have members of all races and have black, Hispanic and Asian leaders. They may be many things but white supremacists they aren’t, they’re multi-racial.
They didn’t like Joe Biden calling them white supremacists and following that came out in Salt Lake City, Utah to publicly say they were not in any way white supremacists.
I can’t speak for the “Proud Boys” – of whom I’ve heard very little, notwithstanding the fact that I’m, well, not tuned out of that scene.
But I do recall the local media and DFL (ptr) riffing on the “Boogaloo Boys” during the “Anti”-fa tantrum last May, as if they were a “white supremacist” group…
…when, in fact, they tend to be radical libertarians. And the closest person I’ve ever know to a Boog was in an interracial marriage.
#shrug.
If you get it from the media or Democrats, it’s probably wrong, likely intentionally so.
Make Nick Sandman Rich Again
A whole bunch of general counsels for a whoooole bunch of media outlets are changing their drawers right about now:
I’m smelling panicky settlements in the air.
Some Good News In 2020
Quick tangent before I cut to the chase: is anyone out there as sick as me about people whining about how awful 2020 is? Yes, epidemic and riots and collateral damage, this generation’s 9/11, yadda yadda, I get it, it’s the worst thing people under thirty have ever seen. Gotcha.
Comparing it to 1962, or 1942, or 1933-1936, or 1915, or 1861, or pretty much any year the bubonic plague was active, seems pretty…trivial.
But never mind – the year, bad or overrated as it may be, just got a little better:
Much as I’d love to see one of the media outlets go to court, and lose big, this is a great start.
We’re All In This Together, In One Minnesota
If you think fighting disaster with economic devastation is a bad strategery, this is what Channel 11’s weather talking head thinks of you:
And Sven? When you go on to talk about the “sacrifices we are making”, don’t tell it to social media. Go to the small businesses who are arbitrarily shuttered and tell the owners whose lives’ work is being destroyed while competing business are chugging right along, exactly how “in it together” you are with them.
I”ll wait.
A Bit Of Advice
Back in 2010, when the Tea Party was at high tide, there was a wave of sightings of some disturbingly racist and violent signs at Tea Party rallies. These signs got all kinds of media attention.
Thing is, when people were able to crowd-source the people carrying the signs, a huge portion of them turned out to be ringers – people from leftist groups who just happened to wind up in front of the news media with their objectionable signs. Not just a few, eitheri – there was a very high correlation.
Of course, some of the less curious members of the media just ran with it – killing the Tea Party and other obstreporous bitter clinging deplorables was just fine by them.
But before I MCed the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party rally, I made sure the organizers got the word out as publicly as possible – anyone with an off-color sign would be photographed, and publicized, and “outed” either way – but especially if they were lefty ringers bent on slandering the Tea Party.
Sounds like certain conservative groups need to re-learn this lesson.
How likely is the woman’s sign a hoax?
Is there a number over 100%?
Crystal Dodged A Bullet
Former Crystal Mayor ReNae Bowman took one of the dumbest swipes I’ve ever seen at Andy Richter, founder of “Community Solutions” and one of the driving forces behind Crystal’s libertarian/conservative insurgency – an insurgency that’s undone a lot of ex-mayor Bowman’s toxic legacy.
But never let it be said the woman doesn’t ooze class.
Emphasis on “ooze”:
Bowman’s lunacy, and borderline slander, gets worse – including a swipe at Richter’s wife that’s straight out of some trailer park reality show.
I’m going to presume Bowman is angry with Andy for two reasons: he clobbered her in a city that was supposed to be a DFL sinecure, and Andy helped lead the way doing the most unforgivable sin in the “prog” religion; peeled back “progressive” power.
Richter’s response was as classy as Bowman’s was toxically “progressive”:
The truth is Ms. Bowman you don’t scare me. You’re nothing more than a classless coward. While I go out and work hard with my blog and my podcast and on campaigns, you sit around on social media and spread 24/7 hate. it’s a pathetic existence. If you’d like to be as successful as my group I have a suggestion; why don’t you come up with a positive agenda and persuade people to support it?
I know I’ve helped defeat you and all your friends in Crystal and that has to be eating at you. I can understand that. Losing that much has to drive someone crazy. She probably dreams about defeating our group in just one election. And why not? Dreams are important. I won’t knock them.
And since Bowman still harbors political ambitions, I’m gonna post this for my friends in Crystal:
Having said all this, I will support Ms. Bowman’s right to free speech. If I try and shut her up then I’m no better than she is. Her first amendment rights will be supported by this group even it attacks me and my family. What I will not do, under any circumstances, is stop exposing her vulgar and despicable words. These are her words, published in their entirety. Voters of Crystal will know what she says and who she supports. No amount of attacking me will intimidate me into silence. One thing Bowman won’t do is shut up, so you can rest assure that her conduct will continue to be exposed here.
Your choice is clear – achievement, competence and success, or “Honey Boo Boo Moves To City Hall”.
Swamp Creature
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Counter-terrorism official claims that mass shootings in America are White right-wing terrorism and therefore should be handled like any other terrorists.
Author ignores untreated mental illness, claims it’s all White Supremacy and easy access to guns. Only nation in the world to have this problem. Article is easy to read, conveniently free of citations to studies or news reports or actual proof. Entirely based on “I’m an expert, believe what I say,” which is a form of the logical fallacy “appeal to authority” that I’ve found particularly annoying since junior high school.
And what’s the proposal – treat White Supremacy like Muslim terrorism? How? Put all White American Presbyterians under surveillance? Infiltrate spies into White organizations like the Kiwanis? Tap the President’s phones (wait, already did that, it was a bust). No, the author wants the country to adopt two gun control bills presently in Congress, tinkering with background checks.
Suppose the FBI receives a background check application. Applicant has no criminal record, never officially diagnosed as mentally ill, not in their database. But the FBI agent finds disturbing Facebook pictures of the applicant in front of a Nazi flag giving the Nazi salute saying “Finish what Hitler started.”
Is that enough to deny him the gun? On what legal grounds? That he’s a member of the American Nazi Party? “Being a hater” isn’t listed in any state or federal law as grounds for denial and for good reason – it’s political speech protected by the First Amendment, and thus cannot be used to deny firearms purchases under the Second Amendment.
The author was a Deep State government employee for years. And his big solution to mass shootings – background checks – can only work if it’s expanded to include crushing unapproved political opinions. Now we see why draining the swamp is more important that anyone thought.
Joe Doakes
If I were President, it’d be the moral equivalent of…
…well, not “war”. Maybe “dismantling the Department of Education”.
Which is, to be fair, mighty important.
Comforting The Comfortable, Afflicting The Afflicted
I don’t know about you – but these days, when a accusation of a “hate crime” gets massive, immediate coverage, I’ve started to assume it’s a hoax until proven otherwise.
Don’t get me wrong – hate crimes exist. But the more publicity the unproven allegations get, and the more lurid the charges against someone in a MAGA cap, the more likely it seems the whole story turns out to have all the substance and integrity or a Ryan Winkler presentation on Black History Month.
Jussie Who?:Three weeks ago, I had not heard of Jussie Smollett. I’ve never had occasion to watch Empire, and I doubt I ever will.
But when I heard the story of the “Hate Crime” that reached out and, per his story, caught him a few weeks ago, nothing, even to my rather cursory listening, seemed to add up.
Kyle Smith – not a cop, but rather a writer at National Review – noticed the same things, and has 27 questions for the “journalists” who presumed Smollett’s story – of “MAGA”-screaming rednecks who attacked him without really attacking him – was unassailably true.
8 . How likely do you think it is that attackers would shout, “This is MAGA country” in Chicago, a place that no one thinks is MAGA country?
There are 26 more – the sort of thing “journalists”, ostensibly being the curious sort, should have asked.
13. Don’t you think it strange that his attackers fled without much harming Smollett or robbing him?
14. Related to (13), did it not occur to you that the whole alleged attack looked a bit like the criminal equivalent of a press release, meant to send a message rather than accomplish anything?
15. If you were beaten up, would you somehow remember to pick up your Subway purchase afterward?
Goalposts Moved: Over the weekend, as Smollett’s story began to collapse, the narrative changed; Smollett’s actions weren’t themselves a publicity “hate crime” against deplorables; they were “starting a conversation”:
Don’t let anyone say this latest hate crime hoax was okay because it “started a conversation.”
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) February 17, 2019
This episode SHOULD start a conversation – about the outright bigotry of the media and those who hate Trump and his supporters so much they will do things like this.
I don’t know about you, but I think Jussie Smollett, and especially all the #Resitance media sycophants who parroted the story because, if you hate the MAGAs, it’s just too good to fact-check, just made life a lot harder for people who actually do wind up on the wrong side of bigotry.
Other than deplorables, obviously.
It’s Becoming Evergreen
From Twitter yesterday:
“Conservatives pounce on failed attempt to smear conservatives” are the best conservatives pounce stories.
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) February 17, 2019
I’m not sure about you, but it’s almost gotten too easy.
“Stop Demonizing Evil People!”
Don Lemon pulls off a rhetorical triple Salchow:
It took me a couple of reads to make sure I wasn’t missing something.
Dissonance
Followers of the party that has undercut Israel for 40 years, many of whom cuddle up to Louis Farrakhan, and where Keith Ellison and Ilhan Omar are leading emergent figures…
…says Donald Trump’s rhetoric promoted an anti-semitic attack.
Keeping Up With The Joneses
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
You know the pipe bombs are fake when celebrities and politicians start MeToo-ing them.
Obama, the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, George Soros – sure, they are Conservative hobgoblins. It’s believable some Conservative might send them bombs. But Robert DeNiro? He gets a bomb? And now New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants in on the action (NYPD denies he got one).
Receiving a fake pipe bomb is the latest status symbol. How come I didn’t get a bomb? Did you get a bomb?
“Getting a bomb” is the new “once dated Taylor Swift”.
The Reichstag Fizzle
Andrew McCarthy on the media’s treatment of the “pipe bomb” story:
There is plenty of media commentary at the moment about incivility, in the form of incendiary rhetoric and actions. This is entirely appropriate. But I’m at a loss to understand how the climate is improved by spicing up reports with thinly veiled suggestions that President Trump may have triggered a series of potentially murderous attacks on political opponents. When Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson opened fire on the Republicans he targeted and nearly killed Representative Steve Scalise, I don’t recall much Times speculation about whether he could have been set him off by Democrats urging their supporters to get aggressive — “get in their face”; “if they bring a knife, we bring a gun” — when dealing with political adversaries.
Every one of these episodes is like a mini Reichstag fire, a Gliwice incident; every Democrat from Maxine Waters to Kathy Griffin to the New York Times can openly fantasize about killing the President and attacking Republicans – but let Trump talk smack about reporters and suddenly we’re on civility patrol.
As we often observe after terrorist attacks, everyone needs to take a deep breath until facts begin to emerge. The investigators are doing their jobs. Chances are we will know soon enough who is actually responsible for the pipe bombs. Then we probably won’t need speculation about motive and incitement . . . though there will be no shortage of it, anyway.
As Andrew McCarthy points out, there is no evidence yet as to who did it – which doesn’t excuse the media’s double standard in covering the story. At any rate, my speculation is of no more (or less) value than what you’re seeing on the news right now.
So I’ll speculate:
- – The bombs were amateur productions: https://twitchy.com/…/former-bomb-disposal-officer-weighs-…/
- – They targeted obvious Democrat figures – the Clintons, CNN, Obama, and George Soros – but only in a way that was practically guaranteed to get discovered long before they reached their ostensible targets (at least some were apparently packed in padded envelopes).
- – They came out two weeks before the election.
Seeing that, what would YOU think?
I, Dreg
Joe Biden attacks Trump supporters as the “Dregs of Society”:
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden assailed President Trump’s supporters during a speech Saturday at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, lamenting that “virulent people” and the “dregs of society” still had a friend in the White House.
Mr. Biden told an enthusiastic crowd of LGBTQ rights advocates that social conservatives at home and abroad who used religion or culture as a “license to discriminate” were committing a “crime” of prejudice.
“Despite losing in the courts and in the court of public opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he argued. “This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.
He’s speaking, of course, of a President who was supporting gay marriage and other “LGBTQ” rights long before the Obama/Biden White House felt it’d be politically worth it.
Because the key to maintaining a “Progressive” majority is whipping up and maintaining a culture of hate and fear toward the “others”.
Which are, well, pretty much me and my entire audience.
“Anti-Hate”
I’m on the brink of declaring…not so much a new “Berg’s Law”, but a corollary to Berg’s Seventh Law.
Something to the effect of “the more the Left’s hangers-on jabber about “Right Wing violence”, the more left wing violence will be going on.”
Oh, the media will continue to parrot the narrative, even as they occasionally, perhaps unwittingly, undercut it with some basic facts, still, the deep-down depravity of the left’s inner id is always out there.
NBC Ignores
Berg’s Seventh Law Is Getting Creaky And Worn Out From Constant Over-Use
If a conservative were to say bla blq bla that Jimmy Kimmel just bla bla bla yadda yadda:
In the place of ABC’s late-night Jimmy Kimmel: The “Man Show” Jimmy Kimmel. The only thing missing were the women on trampolines.
Kimmel took aim Thursday at the Christian proprietor of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado. For the late-night funny man, the takeaway from Jack Phillips’ refusal to bake a cake celebrating a trans person’s transition is that the cakemaker might be gay, and that he sure looks gay.
“It’s funny because this is a guy who spends all day, every day, meticulously designing flowers out of icing. His whole life is gay, OK?” Kimmel said to laughs. “I don’t know if the wrong cake might bring that to life or what.”
The late-night host turned his attention to the shop owner’s physical appearance, adding for good measure that Phillips is “the totally straight cake baker.”
“You would think that someone who looks like the Reba McEntire’s version of Col. Sanders would be more sympathetic to gender identity issues,” the host laughed.
“Progs” jabber about “right wing hate”, and then marinade their own culture in the real thing.
The most depressingly evergreen story in all of media.
Berg’s Seventh Law Is Universal And Unfailing
When Democrats whinge about “right wing violence”…
…well, you know what comes next, don’t you?
Pro Tip
If you read a report of a hate crime, and it doesn’t involve unrelated witnesses, much less actual physical presence (to say nothing of physical contact), assume its a hoax first, then verify.
And, on verifying, almost invariably congratulate yourself on not being fooled!
I did that with this story. And most every one like it in the past 18 months.
It’s served me well.
Clear, Present
SCENE: Mitch BERG is mowing his lawn. He stops to clear some crud from around the blades as Avery LIBRELLE slowly walks up behind him, picking up a flattened pop cup from the sidewalk. LIBRELLE gets behind BERG and throws it at him. It catches the air and planes away from BERG, who notices the sound of it flopping to the ground.
LIBRELLE: Merg! Get the hell out of public!
BERG: (Shakes head wearily) Hey, Avery. What, now?
LIBRELLE: We’re shutting you down!
BERG: I’m mowing my lawn. On my own property. Why so violent?
LIBRELLE: Oh, yeah? What about when the Tea Partiers yelled at us progressives during the Town Hall meetings in 2009?
BERG: Individuals expressed anger – but not violence – at events intended to be public dialogues. No GOP leadership called for violence against the opposition…
LIBRELLE: I am the Resistance! I am going to attack you, because Trump is literally Hitler. So get off your lawn before I kill you!
BERG: Seems a little drastic (Resumes clearing blade).
LIBRELLE: Besides, you need to know…
BERG: You know I have surveillance cameras on my yard, and our entire interaction has been taped, right?
LIBRELLE: DON”T YOU DARE! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TAPE ME! HOW DARE YOU! (Turns and runs).
BERG: (Shakes head, restarts mower)
And SCENE
Is There A Legal Attack Fund?
As opposed to a legal defense fund, I mean?
Because I’d love to donate.
The Second Bull Run Of The Second American Civil War
The Atlantic hired, and then fired, Kevin Williamson – perhaps America’s best political journalist, and one of the best interviewees I’ve ever had in a decade and a half of doing the NARN.
Andrew McCarthy has thoughts on the subject.
My thoughts?
I’ve observed for years that one of the greatest side-effects of Urban Progressive Privilege is a complete inability to “debate” anyone who’s not part of their club – because they have no concept of cognitive dissonance when it comes to politics or any area of life touched by politics (and politics touches every area of their life.
Differ with an blind date’s politics? Ghost ’em!
Differ with a fellow student’s politics? Shame them!
Disagree with a co-workers’s politics? Slander, ostracize and try to destroy them!
Irreconcilable
There are times I wonder if this isn’t the right answer.
UPDATE: Clearly, I wrote this before looking at the map. While the article makes sense, clearly the author thinks all northerners look alike. The idea of the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho siding with New England is as risible as Rebecca Otto’s candidacy.
My two cents? It’s not just two nations (Dems aren’t the only ones fighting the last war). Short of dividing up by counties (which would be much more politically accurate), I could see several options:
- Two nations .- with the West Coat, New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Chicago existing as an archipelago of liunacy
- Three nations – a Japan and China-aligned West Coast, a New England/Mid-Atlantic nation that’d join the EU, and the rest of the country.
- Four nations: the above, with the former confederacy (less Texas, perhaps) forming a socially-conservative nation and the remainder a libertarian-conservative agricultural and petroleum based nation.
But again, it’s all hypothetical.
Or is it?
For Ye But Not For We
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Northam beat Gillespie for governor of Virginia. The New York Times notes it was a racially charged campaign and that Gillespie dragged in the Confederacy. Not one single word about the Confederate pick-up ad run for Northam. Masterful job of projection – accusing Republicans of doing something they’re not doing, while completely ignoring Democrats who actually are doing it.
Joe Doakes
Almost worth a new corollary to Berg’s Seventh Law.
Damned If You Don’t
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Every day, new claims of sexual harassment against powerful men. Some are admitted and therefore true. Some are denied and may be true, may not be. All are possible only because powerful men spent time alone with women not their wives. Which brings us back to Vice President Mike Pence, who got a ton of grief for practicing the defensive policies necessary to avoid false claims of sexual harassment and avoid the temptation to engage in it. I assume an apology will shortly be forthcoming.
Joe Doakes
Of course it will be…