Why Isn't the MSM Talking About the Hostages?

 One assumes those chanting for Hamas everywhere are also those who tore down pictures of Hamas's hostages. You know; those people supporting Gazans who raped and mutilated young women after making their families watch or simply machine-gunning them to death. TD

David Strom – HotAir

One of the key ways the MSM shapes the narrative is by choosing what they cover and what they ignore, and they are assiduously ignoring anything related to Hamas' perfidy. We hear "Israel bad" all day, every day, and calls for a ceasefire, yet most Americans haven't a clue that Hamas is the party that keeps turning offers of a ceasefire down. 

 "If you only paid attention to the MSM coverage, you could be forgiven for not realizing that there are still American hostages being held by Hamas. 

"It's not that the fact is exactly hidden; rather, they are barely mentioned. It's almost as if the media considers them as unimportant as the Americans left behind in Afghanistan. Remember them? Few do, because the media dropped that story like a hot potato. 

"Perhaps if they were transgender, they would get a mention. But no, they are only Jews for the most part, and Jews are settler colonialists. 

Everyone has forgotten the American Hostages held by Hamas..
This was a tactical decision by News Organizations ..
Biden and his Admin hardly mentions ..
In 1979
When Iran took Americans Hostage ..
We were reminded nightly for 444 Days
until released ..

— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) April 23, 2024

. . ."They want to keep the hostages--the few they haven't killed, that is." 

"Biden doesn't want any focus on this issue because it makes him look bad, and the regime media is totally compliant."

"However much you hate and distrust the media, you still overestimate their integrity." 

Pro-Hamas protests show higher education has crossed the line (nypost.com)

 . . ."And at the University of Michigan, a business professor smirkingly posed for photos as he tore down posters with names and photos of people Hamas took hostage, while a Cornell diversity and inclusion officer came under fire for social-media posts celebrating the Hamas attack as “resistance.” . . .

Kids are Beginning to Pass on Ivy League Schools to Attend Colleges in the South

 Rick Moran – PJ Media  

"Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the rest of the Ivy League have been floating along, dependent on a reputation that's more myth than reality. Why go to a stuffy school when you can live freely at Clemson or North Carolina State?"

"There's been an unprecedented movement by college-age kids away from Ivy League and other so-called elite schools toward schools in the South.

"It's no mystery. Several factors are at play in this migration, including a greater sense of freedom, great college sports teams, and warmer weather. The pandemic hastened the migration as southern schools had relaxed strict COVID restrictions long before the eastern schools got around to it.

"The Free Press reports, "Both Brown and Harvard saw dips in their application numbers this year—by 5 percent and 3 percent, respectively. (Early decisions to Harvard were down 17 percent.) And while applications to private colleges in mid-Atlantic (25.3 percent) and New England (29 percent) states have risen since 2019, the gains have been small compared to Southern colleges, which saw a 42 percent increase overall."

"Admittedly, a drop in applications is not a reason for Harvard to panic. They get 50,000+ applications a year and are still one of the most selective universities in the country." . . .

The Morning Briefing: Let the Protesters Stay Until Academia Burns to the Ground – Stephen Kruiser 

"We're not seeing something that came from the deep recesses of the collective college student consciousness. This has been simmering just below the surface for a very long time. Academic leftists are the cancer, the anti-Israel protests are the symptom."

 . . ."We're going to broaden the definition of "campus protesters" today. In yesterday's Briefing, I was mostly referring to the student mobs who have been making all of the anti-Israel noise and trouble on campuses all over America. We can't forget the adults in academia who are paid handsomely to indoctrinate the kids and saddle them with such crippling ignorance, however. What we're seeing is the product of decades of pumping impressionable minds full of, to borrow a leftist word, misinformation.

"Or lies, for those of us who don't always need to be polysyllabic. 

"This is from a post that Rick wrote yesterday: 

The most serious confrontations between police and protesters did not feature idealistic, earnest 19- and 20-year-olds, but rather 40- and 50-something faculty members who acted like a bunch of spoiled brats. 

“The faculty were — from what I personally observed, and spoke to lieutenants and captains out there — the most aggressive towards the police,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry told Fox 5. “They would not move, they would not let go.”

"The student mobs have been whipped into a frenzy by the alleged adults in the room. That's the real tragedy here."

Pro-Hamas protests show higher education has crossed the line (nypost.com)   . . ."With the horrific massacre, rapes and infant murders and kidnappings Hamas proudly perpetrated in Israel, much of the American academic community, especially at elite universities, sided with . . . Hamas." . . .

Dozens of Harvard student groups released a remarkably callous statement saying Israel’s government is “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ violence. 

When Accuracy in Media’s “doxxing truck” took to campus on Thursday,
 someone lashed out by crossing out HarvardHatesJews.com in spray paint. . . .

. . ."Sen. Marco Rubio summed up the objections: “For decades cowardly college administrators have enabled our universities to become nests of Anti-American/Anti-Western activism. This week student groups at our most ‘elite’ universities signed their names to proclamations siding with savages who murdered & mutilated babies and raped & desecrated the bodies of dead women. And across America college students” with “federal taxpayer subsidized” loans “celebrated the murder of Jews.”. . .

. . ."It’s almost amusing to see the shocked reaction of elite university students and administrators to the notion that people might object to their statements.

"In their insular worlds, endorsing murder, rape and torture isn’t objectionable so long as the perpetrators are deemed “oppressed.” It turns out others disagree.

"There may be a sea change in attitudes. 

"We’ve long known higher education breeds a lot of silly — and sometimes dangerous — ideas." . . . 

We say they will grow out of all this, but the professors didn't, did they? Jane Fonda didn't. TD

A Prosecution In Search of a Crime

  Power Line (powerlineblog.com)  "Donald Trump is undergoing a criminal trial in Manhattan. He is charged with filing corporate records that included a false statement; namely, that payments to Michael Cohen that were described as being for legal services were, in fact, to reimburse Cohen for making one or more payments to Stormy Daniels in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement. But those payments to Daniels were perfectly legal, and filing a false corporate document is a misdemeanor on which the statute of limitation has passed.

"So in order to charge Trump, District Attorney Alvin Bragg had to allege that the false documents were filed in order to cover up another crime. That would make it a felony. But what is that other crime? Bragg has been coy about it. In truth, there was no other crime, and Bragg’s prosecution is election interference on behalf of the Democratic Party, plain and simple.

"One would think that this case could not have gone to trial without a clear specification of that other crime and evidence in support of it. But that appears to be what has happened, courtesy of trial judge Juan Merchan, who is in on the scam.

"Byron York points out this classic of obfuscation from the prosecutor’s opening statement:

It’s outrageous and unconstitutional. https://t.co/QstsgEBq24

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) April 24, 2024

Kalifornia Krazy –

 Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) 

"But maybe the cost will be worth it. After all, we’ll finally have justice for past injustices, right?  Hardly. Anyone who believes reparations are the final step to healing and harmony is loco. Their legacy will be the intensifying of racial division, greater opportunities for graft, and a boost to race hustlers."

 "Maybe insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But insanity is also whatever the California Legislature is doing at any given time. The most recent example? A reparations bill that would establish the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency has sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"Senate Bill 1403, one of at least 14 reparations bills introduced in the Legislature, cleared the committee by a 8-1 vote two weeks ago, confirming one more time that lawmakers have descended into madness. Unless they regain their wits, reparations will break the state.

"But a return to reason is unlikely. Even though California was not a slave state, the Democratic side is all in. This was obvious in 2020 when they established a task force to study reparations.

" 'It appeared to me that the legislators were violating a fundamental rule of governance: Never create a commission to ‘study’ a controversial problem unless you are relatively certain that you’re going to want to follow its recommendations,” University of San Diego School of Law professor Gail Heriot wrote Monday on Instapundit. Yet it was clear “from the start” that the task force “appeared to be stacked in favor of reparations.”

"There’s a lot of political mileage to be gained for lawmakers in blue states who glom onto progressive initiatives that make no sense to centrists and exasperate conservatives and libertarians. Nowhere is this more true than in California, where bad ideas are birthed and then surge across the country, infecting other Democratic citadels. In terms of rank, reparations might be the worst of them all.

Joe Biden: worse than merely useless

 People should remember what Barack Obama and Robert Gates said about Joe Biden - Jack Hellner

"Summary: Every day, lies are spread through the media to interfere in our elections. They catch and kill truthful stories that are supportive of Trump and Republicans, and catch and kill negative stories about Biden and Democrats. They do not care about misinformation at all. They only care about power for Democrats and their destructive agenda to remake and destroy America."

. . ."Lie: Biden inherited a disastrous economy and his policies turned it around.

"Fact: The economy was soaring the last eight months of 2020, after a short two month recession, and inflation remained below 2%.

"Lies: The inflation was transitional; caused by supply chain disruptions; caused by the Russian war.

"Facts: Inflation was low throughout President Trump’s term despite COVID. It soared as soon as Biden took office. Biden campaigned on destroying the oil and other industries, and has focused on that destruction since day one. Biden sent the message to oil traders and producers throughout the world that we weren’t going to compete. Today crude oil remains over 100% higher than the day he was (s)elected. He compounded the inflation problem with all his spending programs, which focuses greatly on giving huge kickbacks to green pushers."

"The higher oil prices also have substantially helped Russia and Iran finance destruction; Biden further helped Iran and Russia by lifting sanctions Trump had imposed on the regimes.

"A good or intelligent president would fix things that he had screwed up and reverse course. That is not Biden. Results don’t matter, only the agenda—he is doubling down. He recently blocked LNG exports, which helps Russia and harms Europe; he also blocked drilling on 13 million acres in Alaska. It shows he doesn’t care about the destruction he is causing." . . .

Why can't Biden supporters name a single one of his accomplishments?!

Jews get passed over on Passover - Michael Berenhaus  

. . .Enough is enough.  We are witnessing a lack of leadership!  Our president is allowing pogroms on college campuses.  The N.Y. Post reported, “Columbia rabbi warns Jewish students to go home, don’t come back to campus because of ‘extreme antisemitism.”  A Jewish Columbia University professor requested a police escort onto campus and got denied.  He then was even denied access to the campus.  His comment: “This is 1938.”  According to the Free Press, chants of “go back to Poland” were cast at Jewish counter-protesters at Columbia, along with “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground.”  This from the so-called ceasefire crowd." . . . 

Two catastrophic airline disasters in the space of 3 days narrowly averted as controllers apparently not up to the job - Thomas Lifson 

 At one time, Barack Obama actually uttered truthful words—he said “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.” Jack Hellner

  . . ."It’s almost as if less qualified personnel have been hired and placed in positions of critical responsibility. But could such a thing be possible?

"While we don’t know anything about the people involved in these incidents, it is fair to wonder if DEI policies, which lower standards to place less qualified people in jobs, had anything to do with it.

"DEI is VERY big at the FAA.

Diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond. Our inclusive culture is defined by our values and we continuously seek employees from all backgrounds with distinctive ideas, perspectives, insights and talents. As our NextGen technology and systems continue to evolve to meet the aviation challenges of tomorrow, so must our workforce.

Because diversity is so critical, FAA actively supports and engages in a variety of associations, programs, coalitions and initiatives to support and accommodate employees from diverse communities and backgrounds. Our people are our strength, and we take great care in investing in and valuing them as such.

The mission of the FAA involves securing the skies of a diverse nation. It only makes sense that the workforce responsible for that mission reflects the nation that it serves.

HE'S SHOT: Joe Biden Shakes Hands with Air After Incoherent Speech in Tampa (VIDEO)

Obama Gets Around to Commenting on Hamas at Columbia

 Jack Cashill - American Thinker  

As a fellow traveler in the world of Islam, Obama has had to work hard to keep his roots from showing. He has barely succeeded. In a lengthy statement in October, Obama made a few perfunctory remarks about the “unspeakable brutality” perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, but he reserved very nearly all his finger-wagging for Israel.

 . . ."In January 2018, as a way of promoting his new book, Muhammad shared with the world a photo he had taken in 2005 at a Black Congressional Caucus event. In the center of the photo is a smiling Barack Obama. Standing right next to him, also smiling broadly, is Nation of Islam honcho Louis Farrakhan. Sensing what might generously be called “bad optics,” a Black Caucus member stopped Muhammad even before he left the building.

“I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy,” Muhammad admitted thirteen years later. “But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was president, it was kept under cover.”

"When asked whether he thought the photo, if revealed, would have made a difference in the 2008 campaign, Muhammad said, emphatically, “It absolutely would have made a difference.' ”. . . More below this next post.

Photographer Admits Burying Picture He Took of Obama With Farrakhan for Fear of Hurting Obama's Political Career (freebeacon.com)  "Says Congressional Black Caucus pressured him to keep picture secret"

. . ."Obama's past friendly relationships with radical figures like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers dogged him during the 2008 campaign. Farrakhan has made anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-gay statements during his career, and a published photo of the two smiling together likely would have stirred more controversy around his candidacy." . . .

. . . "As Columbia University’s most prominent alum, former president Barack Obama would seem to have a moral obligation to speak about what is arguably the most visible outbreak of antisemitism on American soil in his lifetime.

"I refer here to the occupation of Obama’s alma mater by Hamas-supporters who have been openly threatening Jewish students, chanting “Kill all Zionists,” and shouting racial slurs like “pig.”

"As I sat down to write this, five days into the protest, Obama had said not a word.

"By contrast, Obama was tweeting about the August 2017 Antifa/white nationalist brouhaha in Charlottesville, Virginia before the day was through." . . .

Bruce will love ya, Barack

Amazon.com: Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency eBook : Cashill, Jack: Kindle Store

While the major media were spinning their collective fairy tale about the Obama presidency, the alternative conservative media—America’s “samizdat”—were telling the truth.
During the Obama years, an asymmetrical media war was waged to control the critical first draft of American history. There is no fair way to record that history without first acknowledging the war. The field of battle shaped up as follows: on the right, the alternative conservative media and the “responsible” right, occasionally working together, often working at odds; on the left, the mainstream media, the social media giants, Hollywood, Broadway, the federal bureaucracies, the national security apparatus, and what Ray Bradbury would call “firemen”—the virtual book burners, amateur and professional. Rarely at odds, these forces routinely worked together to amplify what Obama adviser Ben Rhodes famously called the White House’s “messaging campaign.” Money, resources, and power overwhelmingly favored the left, but the right had the equalizer on its side—the truth.