Hillary: Impossible to be her fault (Update)

Hillary 'Rodney Dangerfield' Clinton gets no respect  "The late Rodney Dangerfield found that his early attempts at comedy "didn't pay the bills," but his later "I don't get no respect" routine is legendary.  Hillary Clinton's early campaign attempts at humor were a flop, but her new and "surprisingly funny" campaign memoir routine is...well, not surprisingly, another flop.

"While Hillary's upcoming book tour promo at hillaryclintonmemoir.com says Hillary will "connect with audiences with a story that's personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly funny" (emphasis added), Hillary's comedy theme seems to be that she "don't get no respect, no respect at all," channeling Mr. Dangerfield.

"Excerpts from Mrs. Clinton's forthcoming new book, What Happened, accuse Bernie Sanders, for example, of "resorting to 'innuendo and impugning my character.'"  Rodney Dangerfield might have added, "That's the story of my life.  I don't get no respect.' " . . .

UPDATE: Democrats not thrilled about Hillary’s book tour, call it “the final torture”  . . . "Callahan points out that big name Democrats have come out against Hillary and want her to go away:

“When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don’t blame other things,” Chuck Schumer told the Washington Post in July. “What did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump.”  And on and on and on...

From The Onion: Clinton Already Working On Follow-Up Book Casting Blame For Failures Of First [Book]

"CHAPPAQUA, NY—Saying it would provide a candid account of her experiences writing an unsuccessful tell-all, sources confirmed Thursday that Hillary Clinton is already working on a follow-up book casting blame for the failures of her previous memoir What Happened. “From my agent negotiating that underwhelming deal with Simon & Schuster, to the graphic designer’s lackluster cover art, to my so-called supporters who couldn’t be bothered to drop $17.99 for the hardcover copy—everyone had a hand in undermining my last book’s success,” reads a passage from the introduction to Clinton’s What Also Happened, which repeatedly decries her prior book’s “indecipherable” font and dedicates an entire chapter to lashing out at her copy editor for making her look like “an idiot third-grader.” “I’ll never forget how Amazon buried me and how Barnes & Noble completely sabotaged me by displaying my book way in the back in that no man’s land by the CDs. Frankly, it’s obvious I got screwed on all sides.” Accusing them of stealing her spotlight, the book reportedly concludes with a long list of every other celebrity who published a memoir in the past year."

No, Eric Holder, The Dreamers Aren’t Americans. That’s The Point

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Citizenship is not defined by one’s mindset, but by law. That's the whole reason we're even having this discussion.

The Federalist  . . . "In truth, the question of what to do with the children of illegal immigrants—the so-called “dreamers”—is a difficult one, insofar as those children are illegal immigrants themselves through no fault of their own, and we might consider whether it makes moral sense, at the very least, to ship them back to countries which they may barely know. This is a question on which Congress should spend considerable and careful time. 

But Eric Holder nevertheless gets it wrong, as he is wont to do. “I’m calling on all Americans to see and treat dreamers as our own,” he writes, “because they are our own.” These individuals “should not be defined by their immigration status,” he claims. He quotes President Obama, who says that the dreamers are Americans “in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper.”

Well, gee, thanks for pointing out the obvious, professor.

"Indeed, Obama gets it right: the dreamers are not Americans “on paper,” and so in that one profoundly critical way they are not Americans at all." . . .

How The Republicans Beat Campus Censorship

But let the record reflect that the DNC system, which owns the UNC system, was the enemy of free speech throughout the entire process. Remember that when they call begging for donations.

Mike Adams

"Back in January of 2016, I sent a letter to UNC-Wilmington President Jose Sartarelli, which was copied to all 16 members of the Board of Trustees. I later published the same letter on Townhall.com. In my letter, which you can read here, I accused the university of having at least two policies that clearly violated the First Amendment. I then asked the administration to work with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to do an audit of our policies and then revise them towards the goal of attaining a coveted green light rating from FIRE. For those not familiar with the FIRE rating system, a green light simply signifies that a school has no policies that threaten free speech.

"It should go without saying that when I sent my letter to the administration there was no guarantee they would respond. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised when UNCW Board of Trustee Dennis Burgard responded within just a few hours. Burgard, who is a registered Republican, urged the administration to take my letter seriously and contact FIRE for an audit of our policies. Without his support, my letter would have gone nowhere.

" Within the following weeks and months a constructive dialogue took place between FIRE and UNCW’s Office of General Counsel. During that dialogue, it was revealed that I had misstated the number of unconstitutional policies at my university. There were more than just a couple. There were nine. Working together with FIRE, my university abolished eight of them before the beginning of the fall semester of 2016. 

At CNN, Retracted Story Leaves an Elite Reporting Team Bruised

The linked story is here: NY Times

Wow, CNN had to retract big story on “Russia,” with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Post News Report introduced the Times' story  . . . "Still, it is unclear to what degree the story was inaccurate. CNN has never said that the article’s reporting was incorrect, and Mr. Zucker made clear on a morning conference call, soon after the retraction, that the network would not go back and report the story again.

"Some journalists inside and outside the network said privately that they believed the story was materially true. But the story also suffered from a lack of clarity. A reader could easily come away with the impression that Mr. Scaramucci himself was under investigation for some kind of illicit dealings with the Russians — an assertion that the article does not explicitly make.

SIGNIFICANT CONSEQUENCES

"The fallout came quickly. The day after the retraction, Rich Barbieri, the editor of CNN’s business and finance site, sent his team an email barring the publication of “any content involving Russia” without editorial approval — “no exceptions.”

"As Breitbart News and other CNN critics gloated over the retraction, Mr. Zucker decided that stern action was necessary to demonstrate to its employees — and to the outside world — that the network would not tolerate such mistakes. The network asked Mr. Lichtblau, Mr. Haris and Mr. Frank to resign." . . .

On to the Times article: 

U.S. soccer team booed in their own country as Mexican fans turn LA into an 'away' game

LA Times

• U.S. goalie Tim Howard swears after trophy ceremony in Spanish
• Majority of 93,000 fans supported Mexico

Dreamers gather

"The 37-year-old Monrovia resident reflected the sentiment of most of the 93,000 strong crowd when he added: 'But yet, I didn't have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.' "

. . .  

"Long after the game finished Mexico supporters remained, bouncing up and down as they chanted and cheered for their team.

"The American's were not even spared in the trophy ceremony after Mexico's 4-2 win - booed for one final time as they were announced as runners up.

"Speaking after the game, another fan summed up the mood for many American-Mexican fans.

"He said: 'We're not booing the country, we're booing the team.

" 'There is a big difference.' "

Do you recall Obama has said, “These are young people who study in our schools…play with our kids,” he said. “They are Americans in their hearts, their minds, in every single way except one – on paper.”

Really? What about this?  Mexico Soccer Fans Boo National Anthem, Slur Goalie    . . . "Mexican fans by the thousands jeered and whistled during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner that played over the Estadio Azteca sound system before the United States played Mexico, USA Today reported.

"USA Today reported that most in the stands refused to stand as well. The United States would go on to tie Mexico 1-1 Sunday."

Death of the ‘impeach Trump’ movement

Barry Farber  . . . "Even the dimmer lights among the Democrats were warning their clinically insane protesters that you don’t impeach an American president just because you don’t like him. There has to be a “high crime or misdemeanor” in there somewhere, and for the first few months of Democratic head-banging without benefit of padded cells, there was no such thing.

"All of a sudden in mid-May it looked like the Trump-haters’ fantasy was coming true. The alchemists of ancient times never succeeded in converting ordinary metals into solid gold, but the political alchemists of today’s Democratic Party did succeed in converting vapors into solid “obstruction of justice,” namely, Trump asking then-FBI Director James Comey to “Let the investigation of General Mike Flynn go.” And there was great excitement throughout the Democratic ranks of those who began to hate more intelligently. Not only did they now have a “crime,” they had an independent counsel to investigate it. The No. 2 man in the Justice Department, Rod Rosenstein, appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel. Here’s where flaky history ends and solid guesswork begins!" . . .

"We Made Donald %#&@ Trump PRESIDENT -- What Else Can We Do?"

"We know what happened after the Reagan amnesty. We know politicians and the media are lying to us. Why, some of the politicians who lied to us then are lying to us today, for example, Chuck Schumer." . . . 

Ann Coulter  "Congress has tried to sneak through amnesties three times in a little more than a decade. Every time, the American people somehow found out -- despite the best efforts of the press -- rose up in a rage and killed the proposed bills. 

"In 2006, President Bush got the brilliant idea to push amnesty on the country. His party was wiped out the very next time voters could get to the polls.

"Liberals like to claim that their brave opposition to the Iraq War led to the midterm slaughter, but, as I recall, they were against that war in the 2004 presidential election, too, and Bush won. An April 2006 Washington Post–ABC News poll -- taken about a month after Bush launched his amnesty crusade -- showed that more Americans approved of Bush's handling of the Iraq War than approved of his handling of immigration. In nearly every poll on Bush's handling of immigration that year, a huge majority of the public disapproved.

"Three years ago, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his seat to an unknown economics professor, Dave Brat, by a whopping 55 percent to 45 percent, despite outspending Brat 40-to-1. It was the first time in history a member of leadership had lost a primary. (This despite Cantor being one of the “Young Guns”!) Brat had explicitly attacked Cantor for supporting amnesty.

"Most spectacularly, last year, an utterly implausible presidential candidate crushed all his opponents -- including the media -- and won the White House by promising to deport illegals and build a wall." . . .

Californians Give North Korea Congratulations On Achieving Their Dream Of Hydrogen Bomb

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers, who remarked "only in California".

"North Korea is claiming that they successfully detonated their first hydrogen bomb. You’d think that the idea that they might have an H bomb would be somewhat alarming to those of us who are here on the West coast, but we went out on the street and it seems like if you ask people a question in a cheerful enough way, we will offer congratulations for just about anything."

Civil Rights Group Wants Kid Rock Detroit Concerts Canceled Because He Criticized Kaepernick

Weasel Zippers



"And Kid Rock has done more for Detroit and black people than Kaepernick ever has."

The choice of Kid Rock as the opening act for a new sports arena in mostly black Detroit has injected the musician into the national debate over race and culture because of his embrace of the Confederate flag, an expletive-laced criticism of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and unabashed support for President Donald Trump.

Olympia Entertainment selected Kid Rock to open the new Little Caesars Arena with concerts next week. Kid Rock, who is white, has been lauded for his philanthropy and support of Detroit, but his recent criticism of Kaepernick has prompted one civil rights organization in Detroit to plan a protest and call for the concerts to be canceled.

Kaepernick, who is black, refused to stand during the national anthem while with the San Francisco 49ers last year in protest of police violence and social injustice. During a concert last month in Iowa, Kid Rock told fans that “football’s about ready to start,” then went on to say, “You know what? (expletive) Colin Kaepernick,” the Des Moines Register reported.

Kid Rock, who is from the Detroit suburbs and proudly claims the city as his home, has six concerts scheduled at the $860 million, 20,000-seat arena, starting Tuesday — a move that Peter Hammer, director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Detroit’s Wayne State University, called “incredibly tone deaf.” . . .

Stupid Men in culture

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The denigration of men: Ridiculed, abused, exploited - the triumph of feminism has made today's men second class citizens, argues a deliciously provocative new book.  . . . "If ever we do manage to do something well we’re told it’s because our achievements were handed to us on a plate — probably at the expense of women — and not because we’re skilled and work hard. And, naturally, the problems of the world are all our fault.

"In 2013 the Labour MP Diane Abbott made a damning speech about Britain’s men and boys, smugly announcing that masculinity was ‘in crisis’.

"The then shadow Public Health Minister declared that male culture is a ‘celebration of heartlessness; a lack of respect for women’s autonomy and the normalisation of homophobia’." . . .

MESSAGE to large corporations, small businesses and the advertising agencies they employ:   

The Facebook page of the same.

In this Subway commercial you can't miss the childishness of the men and the total disrespect for them in the woman's face. You may recognize the woman's expression from many, many other commercials and programs.

This is a safe space for politicians as well, especially rejected ones:
Hillary Clinton mixes it up with Bernie Sanders, blaming him for her loss
"Blaming sexism didn't work, blaming the Russians didn't work, and blaming Trump "the creep" didn't work.  So now Hillary Clinton is blaming Bernie Sanders for her miserable election rout last November." . . .

What do you mean “we,” lefty

Paul Mirengoff  "Leaders of the National Lawyers Guild in San Francisco have written an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “We are all Antifa.” The truth of the statement depends on the meaning of “we.”

"If the authors mean the National Lawyers Guild, their statement is accurate. This outfit is, and always has been, a far left organization. As Jesse Rigsby wrote in FrontPage Magazine back in 2003:

The National Lawyers Guild embraces every anti-America, anti-capitalist, anti-war, anti-Israel, and “anti-imperialist” cause in vogue among the far left and declares itself “dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system.” If this strikes the reader as a slight hint that the Guild’s underlying ideology is not exactly laissez-faire capitalism, that is because it is not. While the Guild is not officially communist or Marxist, its membership, leadership, past internal struggles, and adopted stances consistently point to an organization whose underlying convictions could best be described as such.

"Antifa is just the latest in a long line of anti-America, anti-capitalist causes the National Lawyers Guild has embraced. It hardly needed to say “we are all Antifa.”

"But if by “we” the Guild means the American public, from which it has always been alienated, then the statement is false. This is clear from recent surveys of likely voters by McLaughlin and Associates, a conservative-leaning organization that polled for the Trump campaign." . . .

Guess Who Didn’t Make It Onto Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed List

Musta been those spike heels that ruined her.

Tony Branco

Daily Caller   "Vanity Fair’s 2017 International Best-Dressed List honors celebrities and politicians who stand out as fashion icons of the year, but one usually well-dressed figure is notably absent.

"Melania Trump, a former model and current first lady of the U.S., did not make the cut, but former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama made the list for the third time.

“ 'Heads of state are particularly well represented this year,” a press release for the list said, “with former president and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama (Couples) honored for the third time.”

"Other political leaders include Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was honored for the second consecutive year, and French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

"Vanity Fair Magazine has criticized Melania Trump this summer as the first lady has stepped into a more public role at the White House. The magazine dinged the first lady for wearing high heels on the plane to visit Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey August 29." . . .    Hat tip to Moretti Underground