Three Cheers for Lib Defectors

Laura Hollis   "Conservative journalists, commentators and on-air talent have been working for years to break the stranglehold that the Left has on the media, and therefore news and culture. They have made remarkable strides, and their impact is growing every day.

"More recently, a less-frequently discussed but equally notable phenomenon has been taking place. Over the past few years, a notable number of left-wing authors have broken ranks with their comrades in pursuit of a work environment free of the censorship and bias that has been throttling real reporting.

"Bari Weiss left The New York Times, moved to Substack, and then founded a new online newsletter called The Free Press that features writers of a variety of political persuasions. Glenn Greenwald was one of the co-founders of The Intercept, created purportedly in response to a perceived need for independent journalism. Greenwald subsequently left The Intercept, citing editorial censorship; he, too, moved to Substack. Michael Shellenberger, who used to describe himself as a progressive, wrote a scathing piece for Forbes magazine in 2019, criticizing so-called progressive policies in California that were contributing to the homelessness crisis in that state. Shellenberger has since authored two bestselling books, "Apocalypse Never" and "San Fransicko," exposing the deceit and damage inflicted by the environmental and homelessness policies espoused by the Left. Matt Taibbi was once a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine. He now publishes his popular online newsletter, The Racket, via Substack.

"Greenwald has become a relentless critic of American media, newly popular on the Right and now loathed by the Left. Weiss, Taibbi and Shellenberger have also made themselves personae non grata on the Left by helping Twitter's new owner Elon Musk reveal the extent of the censorship that was taking place in the social media behemoth. Twitter's former executives — often at the behest of Democrat operatives in government — were falsely labeling political conservatives as Russian operatives, suppressing truthful but damaging information about Joe Biden and his son Hunter in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, and shutting down the accounts of anyone with questions or information that ran counter to the "official narrative" about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, alternative treatment protocols, the efficacy of masks or the risks of vaccines.". . .

I suggest the tracks be replaced by a pipeline

 

Pete Buttigieg Blames Trump for Ohio Train Disaster He Ignored for 10 Days

Buttigieg Blames Trump for Ohio Train Derailment but Leaves Out One Inconvenient Detail  . . ."He somehow failed to mention, however, that the Trump administration ended two years ago — and that he and his fellow Democrats have had every chance to rectify the situation if they really believed it would cause an accident like this.". . .

OUCH: Biden Administration Calls Out Buttigieg For ‘Misinformation’ for Blaming Trump for Ohio 

. . ."However, an official from his own administration called these statements “misinformation.” Buttigieg referred to a “braking rule” but the rule had already been dismantled by Trump in 2018.". . .

Looking for a cabinet member named Pete  . . ."I'm not mocking the job but only pointing out that this is not supposed to be a controversial post.  Of course, that was before a fellow named Pete Buttigieg got the job because he met certain criteria in the "identity politics" section.  In the old days, people got cabinet jobs because they had certain expertise in their areas.  In this administration, it's all about clicking boxes, e.g., just check out the press secretary.". . .

Geraldo Rivera: Buttigieg is the most disappointing member of Biden’s cabinet  Video

The Babylon Bee won't let this pass:  Pete Buttigieg Celebrates 24 Hours Without A Train Derailment   

The Transportation Secretary was clear, however, that his work is still not done. "We still have a long way to go," he continued. "Clearly, some trains are racist, and we must stop them. Some train tracks are still racist, and we must dismantle them and then rebuild them using construction workers of color. I am gay."

. . ."At publishing time, Buttigieg had decided to delay his presidential campaign announcement until everyone forgets about this whole thing.". . .

Don Lemon Utters 'Dumbest Thing Ever Said on CNN' - And Hilariously Cites Google as His Source

Google: the most trusted name in news.

 Western Journal   "CNN’s Don Lemon made a belittling comment about women on his low-rated morning show Thursday and cited Google as his source.

"In today’s society, overt sexism is not generally tolerated. In Lemon’s case, we can probably assume his comment was made with confidence and without fear of repercussion because he checks off enough diversity boxes.

"In any event, Lemon’s short tenure as a co-host of “CNN This Morning” has been an unmitigated disaster. The calamity continued unabated on Thursday as the dedicated left-wing activist took on a new enemy: women older than 40.

"As he discussed Nikki Haley’s presidential bid in relation to her comments on some of America’s elected officials being too old, he implied the former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor is over the hill.". . .

Magical Thinking at the New York Times

 Ann Coulter

It's understandable that the very same news outlets fanning the flames of anti-police hysteria in the wake of Floyd's martyrdom -- directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of black people -- would want to shift blame to "The Pandemic." But witch doctors have more empirical evidence for their diagnoses than the Times does for its repeated pronouncements that the pandemic caused violent crime. Ann Coulter

"Ancient primitives -- or as we now call them, "Indigenous people whose land we stole" -- believed in talismans, voodoo, rain dances and other versions of "A preceded B, so A caused B." Today, we consider such reasoning classic fallacy. Except at The New York Times.

"First, you need to understand that the Times is no longer a newspaper, but more of a shaman. The paper used to report news. Anyone reading it for information these days might as well pull into a gas station and expect the nice man in a crisp white shirt to dash out and pump his gas.

"Much like a Starfish tuna factory, the news comes in, then has to be cleaned, chopped up, soaked in oil and tightly packed into a tin can. If you peered into the Times' back room, you'd find hundreds of woke scriveners repacking the news to fit the narrative.

"Second, an urgent cleanup operation was needed to explain the paroxysm of violence that followed 2020's anti-cop mania pushed at places like the Times. It simply could not stand to have people imagine that revering criminals while anathematizing the police would have any effect on the crime rate.

"No, that wouldn't do. The facts had to be retrofitted into an alternative narrative. What was the best backup explanation? The pandemic!

"Attributing the massive crime wave to the pandemic solved two problems that would have arisen had the Times simply reported the facts: the upsurge in black crime, and the Times' active encouragement of such.". . .

Biden installed: What could possibly go wrong?

This man does not believe Americans have a right to self-defense, but criminals have the right to unrestricted freedom. 

 Patricia McCarthy  "Beyond Molly Ball’s Time Magazine bragging confession, there are the ballot box-stuffing mules, and the accounts of numerous cyber experts that demonstrated how some voting machines could be (and seemingly were) programmed to cheat. Biden was not legitimately elected, he was fraudulently installed. So terrified of Donald Trump are the denizens of the swamp that they were willing to sell out the country, the Constitution, and the American people, and put into the oval office a man so corrupt and so compromised, that the nation might never recover from this catastrophic theft of an American presidential election.  Biden has effectively ruined America in two short years.

"We are no longer energy independent but are being starved of domestic energy. Businesses, especially restaurants, that survived the ridiculous Covid lockdowns now face unaffordable gas bills. Gas prices are twice what they were under Trump — and now these fools want to ban gas stoves! Punishingly absurd.

"This is a party that means to restrict all of the freedoms Americans have long taken for granted. The loathsome governor of California dismisses our reverence for those “freedoms” (his air quotes) in favor of gun control:

We’ve chosen this. This is our decision to live in these conditions. It doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world. So, we’ve chosen this. We’ve accepted this. We can sit there and say ‘thoughts and prayers’ or we can look in the mirror, say, ‘This is the price, I guess, of whatever, fill in the blank, freedom? This is the price of freedom.’ Freedom from what?. . .