Good Riddance to Letterman

He knew that the media would not care if he was funny, only that he carried forward its agenda. If he didn’t, it would call him a sellout and a hack. If he did, it would pretend to laugh at all his jokes.
Most of all he realized that politically correct comedy needs an edgy façade to mask its cowardice.

Daniel Greenfield    "David Letterman’s departure isn’t the end of an era. The era of late night talk shows ended a while back. In Johnny Carson’s final week in the nineties, he played to an audience of twenty million. Lately, Letterman has been lucky to get 2 million. His final shows have played to around 5 million viewers.

"Late night talk shows still exist, but their intended audience mainly watches viral clips from them the next day. The average age of Letterman’s audience is 54. CBS hopes that the equally smarmy Stephen Colbert will be able to bring his younger audience demo with him, but even Jimmy Fallon couldn’t bring down the average age demo all that much. Colbert will shave a few years off and then spend his time getting old and stale. Even before then, the networks will collapse and take his new job with it."
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 "Like the leftovers of the media, Letterman’s job had become a comfortable sinecure. He said all the right things about how awful Republicans were, even if no one was paying attention, and in return his colleagues in the media avoided asking too many uncomfortable questions about his sexual harassment, the resulting manufactured blackmail incident and the toxic environment behind the curtain."
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" Letterman survived his lean years by fawning over Democrats. He could be counted on to pitch softball questions to Hillary Clinton or ridicule every objection to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Now he is being replaced by Stephen Colbert who embodies Letterman’s sole virtue of mocking Republicans. Colbert exists entirely in the negative space occupied by Letterman’s humorless sneering." . . .

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

 Catholic League: Glad to see David Letterman depart airwaves   . . . " 'Letterman's gall is limitless. Consider his obsession ridiculing predatory priests. Yet he is an admitted predator – he preyed on his female staffers," the Catholic League stated.
"The 68-year-old Lettterman – who has admitted he engaged in affairs with adult, female staffers in 2009 – has ridiculed the Catholic church for instances when clergy sexually molested youngsters. Other comedians have also skewered the church in the wake of the sex scandal." . . .

Mr Obama approved of Letterman mightily.      

"David Letterman cheerfully discussed his highs and lows with reporters covering his farewell to TV. In recent years, David survived an adulterous sex scandal involving several women staffers and he was given the Kennedy Center Award in Washington. The Kennedys also saluted him for his comedy."  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Letterman: I’m Being Forced Out Because I Gave $75K to the Clinton Foundation
Video at the link

Race, Age, and Gender Trump Experience for 2016

NRO

 

"This rumor raises two important questions with no clear answers, but both issues will have serious impact on our nation’s future. 

"Talk of Castro topping Hillary’s veep list generates the first question: “How much experience is really needed to be president of the United States?” — keeping in mind that the vice president’s main duty is to be ready to assume the presidency if the awful-awful were to happen. 

" Second: “Why is our nation so obsessed with the identity politics of candidates’ race, gender, age and heritage?” 

"Let’s start by attempting to answer the latter question as it applies to a potential Clinton–Castro ticket." . . . Read more at:

While Hillary Slept: Wasn’t Awake For President’s Briefing On Benghazi

Weasel Zippers   "Great commercial, 2008, we need someone who knows the military, tested and ready to lead:"

"Reality 2012. Here’s what we got in reaction to Benghazi:"

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ISIS stages massive victory parade in Ramada with mostly US vehicles. No air strike!

Adina Kutnicki

 INHERENTLY, HUSSEIN Obama is “sitting on his hands” re ISIS’s onslaught and it is not for nothing!

 

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. . . "INTRINSICALLY, this anti-American strategy ensures that ISIS will catapult from strength to strength. Assuredly, they are unimpeded due to a dearth of U.S. hyper-power. Not only that, but they are winning via a treasure trove of American weaponry lifted from the battlefield – with upwards of 52 155mm M198 howitzers back in 2014 – and enumerable more platforms since then!

"IS it not treasonous to abandon the epicenter of the west’s struggle to global hegemonic Islamic monsters?". . .



Report: ISIS Executes Hundreds In Palmyra 
 "This is what ‘degrading’ looks like…
Via Reuters:

Islamic State fighters have executed at least 400 people in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago, Syrian state media said on Sunday. . . .

 Keep reading…

“The administration is sounding like Baghdad Bob”

Legal Insurrection

 

 . . . "Krauthammer isn’t alone in this view.
" This editorial from the New York Post echoes the sentiment:"

In ISIS fight, Team Obama puts spinning ahead of winning

If Baghdad Bob and Hillary Clinton had a love child, he’d probably be hard at work for the Obama administration, denying the importance of ISIS’s gains in Iraq.

Bob was Saddam Hussein’

s mouthpiece during the 2003 liberation of Iraq. As coalition forces advanced on the capital, he kept insisting, “All is well.”

Hillary, meanwhile, evaded questions about the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi with the infamous line, “What difference at this point does it make?”

Team Obama combines the two tactics.

The loss of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, is a distinct sign that President Obama’s anti-ISIS strategy is failing. And all the efforts, from the president on down, to pretend otherwise won’t make it so.

Obama and Hillary Are All Too Happy to Coerce Acceptance of Their Agendas

Rich Terrell

Victor Davis Hanson  "What happens when the public does not wish to live out the utopian dreams of its elite leaders? Usually, the answer for those leaders is to seek more coercion and less liberty to force people to think progressively.

"Here at home, President Barack Obama came into power in 2009 with a Democratic Congress, a sympathetic press, and allies in Hollywood, academia, unions, and philanthropic and activist foundations.

"Yet all that support was not sufficient to ensure “correct” public attitudes about Obama’s agenda on health care, entitlements, taxes, guns, abortion, and cultural issues.

"How, then, do politically correct planners force the people to think and act properly when they push back?

"Extra-legal executive orders can help a president bypass supposed troglodytes in Congress and among the public.

“We’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues.”
— President Obama

"Obama granted blanket amnesties, proposed rules that would lead to the closure of many coal plants, and arbitrarily chose which health or labor statutes should be enforced and at what times. A filmmaker was even jailed on a trumped-up probation charge after making a video about Islam that was deemed unhelpful to the official administration Benghazi narrative. The IRS hounded nonprofit groups considered insufficiently progressive.

"In a recent rant about conservative Fox News — which has a fraction of the combined audience of the liberal mainstream networks ABC, CBS, and NBC — Obama warned that the media are going to have change the very way they report news. Presumably, Obama believes that Fox tricks the unknowing masses into thinking wrong thoughts, especially about the relationship between the poor and government assistance.

"As Obama put it: “We’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues, and how people’s impressions of what it’s like to struggle in this economy looks like.”

"Given the First Amendment, how can the president “change” the media? Should the Federal Communications Commission pick and choose acceptable news outlets in the same manner that Lois Lerner ran her exempt-organizations division at the IRS?" Full article here.

"Arab Muslims are the most racist people on earth, even using the same Arabic word for ‘black’ and ‘slave.’ So it shocking that so many black people in the U.S. willingly convert to Islam despite how racist it is."

Bare Naked Islam
 "The English anti-Obama signs (some of which are posted below) in Egypt because of his support for now deposed and sentenced to death former president Mohamed Morsi are virtually free of racist language, but apparently not so in the Arabic media. "

 

. . . "So popular is this title, that it is given to Obama in Egypt, which the Jerusalem Al-Qudscirculated, that in one mainstream national television program, Al-Rasd, it did not condemn or censor one interview on the streets of Egypt calling Obama even worse terms than just the ‘N’ word. The scene with posters of Al-Sisi in full view of the camera, one women says that having a military man like Al-Sisi in Egypt is best since he can be a terror to Al-Kalb, El-A’bd Obama, in English: “Obama the Dog the N----r”. . . "    Epithet redacted by TD

. . . "The top ranked Yom7 mainstream TV in Egypt, the view on President Obama from the streets of Cairo using vile terminology is neither condemned or censored, the Muslim woman dressed in Hijab speaks in English, except in the end, knowing that this is only for Arabs, she says a few words in Arabic calling President Obama Jild Al-Hantour Obama, Arabic for “brown skinned carriage mule.”
Video in English: . . .

This lady wants to be the leader of the free world!

The left demonstrates its blinding brilliance (again)   These people vote!

"But one brave collegiate-looking lad straight out of Hillary Clinton for President central casting came to the rescue with this amazing save:

She’s been at a high level in numerous offices for about 25 years now. I mean, it’s either going to be that or it’s going to be Scott Walker and, you know, by taking away, you know, destroying America’s unions, and there’s just, you know. She’s not perfect, um, but she’s been in the eye for a long time, the public’s eye, and you’re going to have some stuff on her. But, you know, she has great policies and she knows how to get stuff done.

toonpool

 Much more here.

Clinton's Friday document dump  . . . "State Department Releases First Round of Clinton Emails (All 298 Of Them)"
. . ." The State Department announced plans earlier this week the rest of Clinton's emails, which were hosted on a personal server before they were deleted

Andrew C. McCarthy: Hillary Discussed Highly Sensitive Information, Now Classified “Secret,” on Her Private Email – as We Predicted …

. . . "Within hours, the Obama administration was forced to concede that at least one of the emails contained classified information.

. . . "Yet it is already clear that, as secretary of state, she did business in a way that was, at a minimum, grossly irresponsible … and quite possibly worse. She had to have realized the near certainty that an official of her stature would have been targeted for surveillance of her private emails by foreign intelligence services. Yet, in her determination not to leave a paper trail that might damage her political prospects, she ignored the risks. The Justice Department, which has prosecuted high government officials for mishandling national defense information, should be investigating – and that includes acquiring custody of Mrs. Clinton’s private server."

Mike Ramirez on Memorial Day, 2015; a tribute from the Tunnel Wall

http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/753999

"Taliban ambushed US troops near Bagram killing 6 soldiers and wounding many.-Taliban Sources"

OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS TRIBUTE

Tides of War

HopeN'Change Cartoons

 

"On Wednesday, Barack Obama spoke at the commencement of the US Coast Guard Academy to make the graduates aware of the crucial role they'll be playing in his War On Weather.

"Specifically, he declared that "climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security - an immediate risk to our national security. And make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act and we need to act now."

"As if this wasn't enough to get the graduating class glancing nervously at the skies, Obama said that failure to embrace liberal climate change orthodoxy amounted to negligence and dereliction of duty. He then linked the raping, murdering, kidnapping, slave-trading activities of pretty much every terrorist organization to the alleged reduction in the world's precious permafrost. Put another way, he's less concerned with ISIS at our doors than ices at our poles..."
 

Mike Huckabee supports Josh Duggar; UPDATE: left's schadenfreude

 We know the family is supportive of Josh and one prays especially that they have done much to heal those whom he molested.  TD

TPM   "The liberal TPM refers to the Duggar family as "ultra  conservative".

 

"Josh’s actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, 'inexcusable,' but that doesn’t mean 'unforgivable,'" Huckabee wrote in a Facebook post. "He and his family dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities. No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story."

UPDATE: Josh Duggar and the left's schadenfreude
. . . " Not surprisingly, the liberal media are having a field day with this story.  Remember: if you’re outspokenly conservative and desire to be in the public eye, you’d better be squeaky-clean.  The left will still despise you, but at least they can’t ruin you.

"Former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee released the following statement in support of the Duggars.  It’s quite good." . . .

Read more: However this author has a friend who is totally dissatisfied with the Duggar apology.

"However, Catholic author and speaker Dawn Eden (in the interest of full disclosure, Dawn is a friend of mine) – who’s no liberal – is critical of the Duggars’ statement to the media. She wrote:. . . "

You want hypotheticals? Here’s one: Knowing what we know now, was abandoning Iraq in 2011 the right thing to do?

 George W. Bush was right about Iraq pullout

"At a White House news conference on July 12, 2007, Bush declared: “I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we’re ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we’d allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”

"He had no idea at the time how prophetic his words would be." . . .

Now, on to the article by Mr. Krauthammer.   (Cartoon added by TD)

Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz bridge near Baghdad while fleeing fighting. 

"Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it’s the defense minister of Iran who flies into Baghdad, an unsubtle demonstration of who’s in charge — while the U.S. air campaign proves futile and America’s alleged strategy for combating the Islamic State is in freefall.

"It gets worse. The Gulf states’ top leaders, betrayed and bitter, ostentatiously boycott President Obama’s failed Camp David summit. “We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” laments Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief.

Note: “were,” not “are.”

"We are scraping bottom. Following six years of President Obama’s steady and determined withdrawal from the Middle East, America’s standing in the region has collapsed. And yet the question incessantly asked of the various presidential candidates is not about that. It’s a retrospective hypothetical: Would you have invaded Iraq in 2003 if you had known then what we know now?

"First, the question is not just a hypothetical but an inherently impossible hypothetical." . . .

Read the full article here