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Tag: Berg’s 20th Law

  • Berg’s 20th Law Goes 33 For 33

    Berg’s 20th Law of Social Justice Warmongering reads as follows: All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone p roven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise. Look – these laws, and the concept of “Berg’s Laws” themselves, were always intended to…

  • Berg’s Seventh And Twentieth Laws Never Need To Fabricate Any Truths

    Jussie Smolett was convicted of lying about being hate-crimed, three years ago, by a roaming band of Trump supporters. In downtown Chicago. Most of the lefty commentators who proclaimed the case a damning indictment of American society were – “unexpectedly” – silent over the weekend. And they may have been the smart ones. Ja’Han Jones…

  • Ruparing

    I’d like to claim this as a late addition to the DFL Dictionary – but alas, it’s actually from the Urban Dictionary: Rupar (Verb): To purposely (sic) mislead. To completely mischaracterize a statement or video by omitting context. Yesterday, at a “press conference” on the Capitol steps, as embattled representative John “Burn Hugo Down” Thompson,…

  • Berg’s 20th Law Is Omniscient And Omnipresent

    Two points “Racial Conflict” is a cover for “Cultural Conflict”. Cultural Conflict is a pseudonym for “Class Conflict”. Oh, yeah – and Berg’s 20th Law of Social Justice Warmongering is not called “Berg’s 20th Impromptu Notion” for a reason: All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not…

  • Berg’s 20th Law Rules All It Surveys

    It’s gotten to the point where hearing about any emotionally charged claim of abuse gets me thinking “deep breath, wait – the odds it’ll be a hoax are just about even, if not better”. I mean, there’s a reason it’s not called “Berg’s 20th Suggestion“. Keep it in mind, and you’re disappointed…well, pretty rarely, to…

  • This Is A Job For The Counselor Squad

    Shot: Vandals of sorts “attack” Lisa Bender’s house: Chaser: And in response Bender filed a… …well, let’s look at the Channel 5 story: The Minneapolis Police Department told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS there is an incident report filed concerning an act of vandalism that occurred at the home of Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender last week.…

  • “But Mitch – Why Does Berg’s Twentieth Law Exist?”

    I’ll cop to it – I’ve been pretty cynical about “hate crimes” lately. Let’s stipulate in advance – they do happen. But Berg’s 20th Law – “All incidents of ‘hate speech’ not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise”…

  • Prediction And Opportunity

    Last week, the “hate crime” at Saint Olaf – a typewritten racist message left under a black students windshield wiper – turned out to be a hoax. As, in fact, have the vast majority of “Hate Crime” incidents in the past six months; for all the caterwauling about the wave of hate certain to accompany…

  • Getting Ready To Mint Another “Berg’s Law”

    And if I do, it’s going to read “All claims of racist “hate speech” not delivered face to face by someone proven not to be a ringer should be presumed hoaxes until proven otherwise”. Because when I got the first word of this “attack”, the first thing that crossed my mind was “No way, just…

  • White Supremacist Terror

    Yet another “false flag” “hate crime” hoax; the arson attack on a Bhutanese shop owner in Charlotte turns out to be… …well, we know where this is going, don’t we? UPDATE: CMPD releases photos of suspect in case of arson, threatening note left at east Charlotte store #cltnews https://t.co/I7zTA0xDkk pic.twitter.com/sr7BpMrCmr — NBC Charlotte (@wcnc) April…

  • That “Epidemic” Of White Supremacy

    An arrest was made in connection with a series of “hate graffiti” incidents in Nassau County, New York: According to authorities, Jasskirat Saini, 20, of Central Park Road, was arrested at 12:38 p.m. for multiple bias incidents at Nassau Community College. Police say Saini drew two swastikas on the exterior wall of Building H and…

  • Fake But Accurate-ish

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Whole Foods suing the hoaxer who lied about the cake. It was all a lie, just like “hands up don’t shoot” or “he was cuffed when they shot him.,”  Why does the media believe it’s okay to substitute a desired result for objective truth? I’m not talking about mindlessly parroting…

  • Degrees

    I’m not sure which was greater; my degree of un-shock that Gary Trudeau bought the University of Virginia Gang-Rape hoax hook, line and sinker… …or shock that Trudeau and Doonsbury are respectively still alive and being published.

  • Journalism Saves The Day

    The City Pages got out there are did that gumshoe journalism that they’re famous for, in noting that this photo… …attributing a quote to Michele Bachmann, which has been sweeping Facebook for the past week, is in fact a hoax. Just one problem: She didn’t say it, and a version of this fake quote has been…

  • Ends Justify Means

    (SCENE:  MITCH Berg and Avery LIBRELLE meet at the coffee shop). MITCH (Walks into store):  Hey, Avery. LIBRELLE (leaving store holding a latte): What’s that?  You want to kill me? MITCH:  Beg pardon? LIBRELLE:  You hate me for my stances on abortion and gun control and you want to shoot me with your assault weapon?…

  • I Feel About 75% Safe In Predicting…

    …that this loathsome incident… A doll found hanging off a Main Street building in Plains is causing controversy. Controversial enough to get the United States Secret Service involved. Witnesses say it was an image of President Barack Obama with a rope around his neck, and the display was found hanging in one of the city’s…

  • Pearls Clutched

    I was thinking the other day that, in the Twin Cities’ leftymedia, many of the same people who last month were ready to indict Rep. Michele Bachmann for “aiding and abetting” in the death of census worker Bill Sparkman are the exact same people who are demanding absolute forbearance in the case of Maj. Nidal…

  • Fearless Prediction

    After this story, coming on top of a bunch of other similar stories…:  A woman robbed at knifepoint at a Pittsburgh ATM told police her attacker knocked her down and carved a “B” in her face after noticing a John McCain sticker on her car. Police say the victim refused medical attention for the wound.…

  • Yet Another Hoax

    If conservatives aren’t being obligingly bigoted, frame ’em! A group of seven GW students sent an e-mail to The Hatchet late Tuesday night admitting to hanging hundreds of controversial posters around campus early Monday morning. The students – Adam Kokesh, freshman Yong Kwon, senior Brian Tierney, freshman Ned Goodwin, Maxine Nwigwe, Lara Masri and Amal…