Journalism adjacent; Treason, Epstein, And ‘Distractions’ — A Guide For The Perplexed

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"Distraction (n.): Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat; Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative"

Toon added by TD

"Shortly after President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason – an epithet that has been thrown at Trump practically every day – Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said: “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”

"Distraction from what?

"Rodenbush didn’t have to say, because the media have been busy filling in that blank.

“Trump tries to distract from Epstein by casually accusing Obama of treason,” is how MSNBC put it.

"CNN’s headline blared that “Trump’s longtime rage at Obama roars back amid Epstein furor.”

“Critics say Trump is trying to distract from Epstein by talking about everything but that,” is how ABC News put it.

"Let’s see if we understand this.

"We’ve just learned that hundreds of pages of declassified documents appear to show that Barack Obama orchestrated a phony Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) report, issued just before Trump first took office in 2017, that accused Vladimir Putin of ordering an “influence campaign” to “denigrate” Clinton and “help” Trump win the 2016 election, in a apparent attempt to sabotage Trump’s presidency." . . .

. . . The Daily Beast provides yet another example of how this works, with its headline over the weekend that “Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic.”

"So, we decided to write down the official media definition of 'distraction.”

Distraction (n.):

1. Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat
2. Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative

We hope this clears things up.

Leftist Elites Seek to Divide Us by Race

 Victor Davis Hanson   

"The diversity/equity/inclusion industry, the defund-the-police madness, and the perpetual left-wing hunt for “white racism/white privilege/white rage” —from the prior Pentagon hierarchy to the lunatic fringe of Jasmine Crockett, Joy Reid, and Zohran Mamdani—have all legitimized double standards . . ."

"Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati.

"The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all.

"Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman and a man. Others continued to kick or body slam the victims, who were sprawled on their backs and seemingly unconscious.

"There were many disturbing aspects to the beat-downs.

"One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial one-on-one dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.

"Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies. They also recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence.

"Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely Good Samaritan interventions.

Instead, what ended the attacks was simply the fact that at least two of the targets appeared nearly comatose. So their assailants apparently concluded that their agenda of beating whites into unconsciousness was mostly complete." ... More...    How can we forget Joe Biden's first speech as President when he proclaimed our first and foremost issue as a nation was "white supremacy? TD

Trump and Abbott End Run Around Democrat 2026 Hopes, and a Total Freak-Out Ensues

 GOP map draws Texas Rep. Crockett's home outside her current district 

"A gerrymandered map proposed by the Texas GOP would kick firebrand Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett out of her own district and likely add more House seats to the Lone Star's Republican delegation.

"Last week, Texas House Republicans introduced a redistricting proposal that could net five new GOP seats. The draft congressional map, which is likely to change before approval by both state legislative chambers, aims to redraw district lines to include more Republican-leaning areas in Democratic strongholds like Dallas and Houston.

"Crockett, who serves Texas’ 30th Congressional District, which represents a large part of Dallas, has called the redistricting effort "a power grab to silence voters." . . .

Here We Go: Texas Dems Run to Illinois to Deny a Quorum for Redistricting, and Now the Real Fun Begins – RedState    "As expected, Texas Democratic legislators have fled the state to deny a quorum for Gov. Greg Abbott's redistricting push. The members flew to Illinois on Sunday, which qualifies as peak irony given that the blue state is arguably the most gerrymandered in the country. 

"This plan was reportedly hatched with Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), and the 30 odd Democrats will spend at least a week there. Given what we saw when they did this in 2021, denying a quorum for an election reform vote, there is no doubt a lot of grandstanding, dramatics, and cringe singing on the way. 

In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, dozens of Democrats in the state House of Representatives are heading here Sunday to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with those efforts." . . . 

New: Texas Democrats Make an Even Dumber Move, and You Just Have to Laugh at This Point

Greg Abbott Drops Bombshell on TX Dems Who Fled State: Return Today or Be Removed, Face Felony Charges   . . . "Abbott, in his statement, cites a 2021 Attorney General opinion (KP-0382) that could let him petition a court to declare their seats vacant. On top of that, he’s dangling the sword of felony charges, alleging their fundraising to cover $500-a-day fines might violate bribery laws.

" 'Real Texans do not run from a fight," Abbott wrote. "But that’s exactly what most of the Texas House Democrats just did."

" 'Rather than doing their job and voting on urgent legislation affecting the lives of all Texans, they have fled Texas to deprive the House of the quorum necessary to meet and conduct business."

"His statement outlines the legal consequences that House Democrat members face for breaking quorum, including the potential loss of their seats and felony violations.

"Abbott further explains, as RedState's Bonchie reported Sunday evening, that the Texas state constitution allows for such actions - including tracking down and arresting House members - to combat their politically motivated stunt." . . .

Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages

  The American Spectator   "I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas."  Debra J. Saunders

How Shiri Bibas, sons Ariel and Kfir were 'brutally murdered' by Hamas in Gaza

. . . "First French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize the state of Palestine ahead of the General Assembly confab.

"Then British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the U.K. would recognize Palestine as a state — unless Israel takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation in Gaza.”

"Then Canada climbed onto the bandwagon. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” Trump cheekily responded.

"At Thursday’s White House briefing, of course, a reporter asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt if Trump would recognize a Palestinian state. Leavitt responded, “That’s rewarding Hamas at a time where Hamas is the true impediment to a ceasefire and to the release of all of the hostages.”

"Exactly right. I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of many news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas, when they know Hamas is to blame.

"Cue the Wednesday New York Times editorial that opined, “Israel’s often reckless administration of its war and occupation has helped create this emergency, and Israel has a unique power to alleviate it. It must do so.”

“ 'If your ideology dictates that Israeli Jews are symbols of racism and colonialism, and Palestinians symbols of Third World innocence, then a story that makes Israelis seem constructive and Palestinians obstructive must be avoided even if it’s true, because it serves the wrong people,” observed Matti Friedman, a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press." . . .

‘They are in the same state I was in’: Holocaust survivors ‘hurt and angered’ by latest hostage videos  . . ."Holocaust survivors have reacted with horror to Hamas' latest propaganda videos which showed starving hostages "near death".

"The images of Evyatar David, 24 and Rom Braslavski, 21, showed the captives visibly emaciated and in poor health. On Saturday, the first day of Tisha B'Av, N12 News showed the pictures to two Holocaust survivors.

"One of them was Naftaly Furst, 93, who survived the extermination camps and death marches. He was kept in the concentration camp block where "the dying men" were housed." . . .

Kamala and Colbert

 "My favorite part of the interview was that the former VP Harris now thinks that the system is broken. She even wrote a book about it. Why is it that the system always breaks down when the GOP wins? That’s what she thinks of the voters or the ones who broke the system."

When Kamala met Stephen  . . . "The two spoke about a lot of things but said little. In the end, neither one understands where the country is, no matter how often the crowd applauds them.

"This is from The New York Post:

Kamala Harris’ visit Thursday to Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” was a fine reminder of why both of them are failures." . . .

 Stephen Colbert’s Costly Mistake   

Bear in mind that this is late-night TV. Americans are either getting ready to head to bed or already tucked in, slowly starting to doze off to dreamland. The last thing they want after a long day of work and kids is some humorless alleged comedian acting like a jack lecturing them on politics.

. . . "That problem? His obsession with President Donald Trump.

"One of the reasons for the continual success for the man known back in the day as “The King of Late Night” — that would be NBC’s Johnny Carson — was that he made sure that when he or his guests went after the president of the moment, it was always done for laughs. 

"Take a look here from this clip now on YouTube. Carson’s guest of the moment was the comedian/impressionist Rich Little — and, as you can see, Little’s Nixon routine was not some serious lecture on Nixon’s politics and issues of the day. To the contrary, Little did his best Nixon imitation, exaggerating Nixon’s mannerisms to the max and leaving both his audience and Carson in stitches. 

"Alas, Colbert is utterly unwilling or unable to go down the road of making humor out of a president. What Colbert is about is thinly veiled humor that is so obviously a stern, humorless lesson promoting far-left politics. And, in doing so, he usually includes a stern lecture about Trump. Or addresses the president directly, as just in the last few days when  Colbert looked into the camera and told Trump…

"Hmmm. This being a family publication, I will not print what he said." . . . 

After blacks in Cincinnati beat white adults, why was there no nationwide racial outrage?

 Victor Davis Hanson

"City leaders, the chief of police and the media variously blamed the mass black-on-white violence on 1) social media, 2) the original dispute, 3) alcohol, 4) the lack of civilian intervention to stop the violence and 5) a festival atmosphere — anything except endemic racial hatred shown toward whites from the crowd of black youths"

The woman, identified as “Holly,” was sucker-punched by a man in the disturbing attack that elicited “ooos” from a crowd of onlookers, some of whom filmed on their phones instead of coming to her aid.

"Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling white adults in downtown Cincinnati.

"The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all.

"Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman. Others continued to kick or body-slam the victims.

"There were many disturbing aspects to the beatdowns.

One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.

Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies, they recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence.

"Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely good Samaritan interventions.

"Four, oddly few of the usual black spokespeople who habitually comment on interracial violence were to be seen.

"During the fake Jussie Smollett attack, self-appointed leaders from Al Sharpton to Kamala Harris immediately issued warnings about so-called systemic white racism that had reared its ugly head to victimize Smollett.

"Yet when it was revealed that Smollett had concocted the entire charade — and even hired his own assaulters — there were few if any retractions from those once so eager to shout “Racist!”

"Such demagoguery is a well-known pattern dating back to the days of the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, the Duke Lacrosse charade, the Covington kids ruse, the Michael Ford “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” fabrication or the NASCAR noose fable." . . .

2019: Giving HIV On Purpose Should NOT Be Crime, Says Gay Candidate, Pete Buttigieg

 

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Giving HIV On Purpose Should NOT Be Crime, Says Gay Candidate, Pete Buttigieg   "U.S. Democratic presidential primary candidate, Pete Buttigieg – a homosexual man and mayor of Southbend, Indiana – says that giving someone HIV on purpose should not be a crime.

"Being asked by Anderson Cooper, a CNN pundit who also happens to be gay, asked Buttigieg about laws that penalize those who transmit HIV when they knowingly have the virus but choose not to disclose it. In doing so, Anderson said the laws were “antiquated.”"

Buttigieg agreed and said, “It’s not fair and it needs to change.”

"Laws requiring disclosure of HIV before sexual activity started to be passed in the 1990s after it was discovered that the deadly disease was being transmitted from one sexual partner to another, often when the already-diseased partner knew they were sick but would not notify the other party. In some cases, hundreds of individuals contracted HIV because a promiscuous and infected individual chose not to inform their partners of their contagious illness.

"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 19 states have laws penalizing sex without disclosure of HIV (other figures put the number at 26). The CDC championed such laws only a few years ago as necessary for public health. Additionally, federal law penalizes prostitutes and blood-donors for not disclosing their HIV status, although it leaves penalizing the intentional transmission of HIV in “casual” sexual encounters to the states.

"Elizabeth Warren also agreed with Buttigieg, who advised easing up on transmitting HIV. Corey Booker, a long-shot odds candidate claimed that there was “no scientific evidence” that an HIV-positive individual intentionally having unprotected sex without disclosing it has anything to do with the spread of HIV.

"Science, of course, demonstrates their opinions are as silly as fluid gender.

"Two-percent of men in the United States are homosexuals but account for 59% of new HIV infections and more than 60% of other venereal diseases. They also have four to five times the number of lifetime sexual partners and are more than twice as likely to have “unprotected sex.” Science matters."Facebook

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