Media Find Las Vegas Shooter's Motive: He's White!

Ann Coulter . . . "The media's idea of hard-hitting investigative reporting is to taunt gun-owners and white men. Making snarky political remarks is Job No. 1 of reporters. Apparently, it's also the new job description for late-night comics. As long as we're looking for jobs that Americans just won't do, maybe we could find some immigrants to tell jokes and report news.

"We're getting a lot of smirky, celebratory headlines, like these:

• AMERICA'S WHITE MAN PROBLEM 
• HOW AMERICA HAS SILENTLY ACCEPTED THE RAGE OF WHITE MEN 
• THE WHITE PRIVILEGE OF THE "LONE WOLF" SHOOTER

" While it's great that liberals have finally found a mass murder that they don't think can be defeated with a "Je Suis Charlie" hashtag, they're either lying or they don't know what they're talking about. Blacks and Hispanics are extremely well-represented as perpetrators of mass shootings, Muslims are over-represented, and surprisingly, even the usually law-abiding Asians more than hold their own.

"Typical Reporter: Yeah, we decided not to go with the mass shootings at the Tennessee church, the Washington Navy Yard, San Bernardino, the Pulse nightclub, Fort Hood, the LIRR, the Carson City IHOP, the Trolley Square Shopping Mall, the Windy City Core Supply warehouse, Virginia Tech, the Binghamton Civic Center, the Hartford Distributors, the hunting tract in Wisconsin, the Appalachian School of Law … and on and on and on.

" And those are just a few of the famous ones! It's hard to notice what's not there, so it's especially annoying that the journalist's method of illustrating mass murderers is to assemble pictures of all the mass shooters, but then only show the white guys.

"There was one characteristic of white men in abundant evidence at the Las Vegas massacre. They're awfully chivalrous, these white male country music fans. Twenty-two thousand people came under sustained, high-powered gunfire and few people, if any, were stomped to death -- something you can't say for a Black Friday sale at a Long Island mall.

"At the Las Vegas concert, men died protecting women, using their bodies as shields and standing up in the middle of gunfire to direct the women to safety. The New York Post reports that one woman said she "was running away and a couple of guys said, 'Hey, come stand behind us,' and boom, they went down.” Heather Melton has described how she felt her husband, Sonny, being shot in the back, fatally, as he shielded her from the rain of bullets.

"Without many facts to go on, the only sweeping conclusion we can make so far is that there's a reason feminism didn't emerge from the country music community."

Jimmy Kimmel update: This One Tweet Perfectly Mocks All The ‘Diversity’ In Comedy

Daily Wire

Every single talk show comedian is a full participant in left-wing Group Think

. . . "Not only is this utter lack of diversity extremely boring and about as edgy as Bob Dole, it's also completely void of comedy.

Take our friend Jimmy Kimmel, for instance. The former Man Show host received talking points from the office of a prominent New York Democrat to pitch us health care reform for goodness sake, while, of course, painting Republicans as evil. In another laugh-free monologue, he cried to us about the death of a lion. And, most recently, the host's late night monologue ripped into GOP members and the NRA for the Vegas shooting, suggesting they have blood on their hands and noting that their thoughts and prayers are insufficient for his liking. 

"But it's not just Kimmel.

"Remember when Jimmy Fallon had a good time with Donald Trump on his show, audaciously tousling the president's hair in good fun? Well, Fallon was scared straight from attempting a comedic show with Literally Hitler. He soon apologized for the interview with Trump. Pathetic stuff.

"And then there's Stephen Colbert. The host who called the president a "c*** holder" for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Seems pretty homophobic to me, to be honest.) That was comedy? No, there were no punchlines in sight; he was unhinged, unable to actually formulate an anti-Trump joke, instead spewing unfunny, vicious insults.

"Honestly, where have all the comedians gone?" . . .

UPDATE: Jimmy Kimmel Targeted by Street Artist

Billie Jean King: White Women Who Voted for President Trump ‘Really Don’t Like Themselves’

Caroline Glick: "The new Democratic Party"

In 2016, the party of Bill Clinton ceased to be the party of the working class. Hillary Clinton abandoned her husband’s Rust Belt base, referring to his voters as “deplorables.”
Today, the two predominant branches of the party are the Obama branch – which is comfortable with antisemitic dog whistles – and the Sanders branch, which is comfortable with Corbyn-style Jew-baiting and open discrimination of pro-Israel Jews.

Caroline Glick  . . . "Since then, according to Jewish Labor Party members, Corbyn has refused to take any steps to diminish the increasingly strident antisemitic rhetoric and character of his party.

"This then brings us to the American Democratic Party.

"Over the past week, two incidents occurred that indicate that the party of Harry Truman and Bill Clinton is becoming increasingly comfortable with blaming the Jews.

"First, last Thursday, Obama loyalist and former CIA operative Valerie Plame approvingly shared a fiercely antisemitic article on her Twitter feed.

"The article, “America’s Jews are Driving America’s Wars,” was written by Philip Giraldi, a fellow former CIA officer and outspoken Jew-hater.

"Giraldi’s piece included all the classic antisemitic tropes: Jews control the media and culture; they control US foreign policy; and they compel non-Jewish dupes to fight wars for Israel, to which the treacherous Jews of America are loyal.

"Giraldi recommended barring Jews from serving in government positions and participating in public debates related to the Middle East. And, he added, if an American Jewish Israel-backer refuses to recuse himself, the media should duly label him, “Jewish and an outspoken supporter of the State of Israel.”

"Such a label, he contended, “would be kind of like a warning label on a bottle of rat poison.”

"Plame, who ultimately issued a contrite, defensive apology for circulating Giraldi’s anti-Jewish screed, initially justified her decision to repost the article and say it was “thoughtful.”

"She added, “Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish.” . . .

About Caroline B. Glick   . . . "I joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years. 

'From 1994-1996, as an IDF captain, I served as Coordinator of Negotiations with the PLO in the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In this capacity I was a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians. 

'In 1997 and 1998 I served as assistant foreign policy advisor Binyamin Netayahu during his first stint as Prime Minister. . . .

I make no apologies for the two pro-Israel cartoons in this post. It took a lot of searching to find ones that stand up for Israel, as you will see if you visit this link to see how many cartoons you can find that support Israel. The Tunnel Dweller.

Ouch! NFL TV Ratings Drop Again As Angry Fans Exercise Their Own Rights

Hot Air

As a disappointed and likely apocryphal Hollywood producer once said about a box-office flop, “If people don’t want to come, you can’t stop them.”

. . . "Despite the always insightful, candid commentary of Jon Gruden, this week’s Monday Night game on ESPN lost audience again. It was actually a pretty good game, by all accounts. After the 29-20 win, Kansas City remained the only unbeaten team at 4-0, while Washington fell to 2-2.

"This game though drew 13% fewer viewers than last week. And the drop was worse — 16% — in the key demo that ad buyers covet.

"The game drew 11.9 million viewers, down almost two million from last week.

"Perhaps even more disturbing for the 32 billionaire team owners, another sponsor pulled its ads over the protest controversy.

"Said Steve Kalafer, a mega-car-dealer and baseball team owner in New Jersey:

The National Football League and its owners have shown their fans and marketing partners that they do not have a comprehensive policy to ensure that players stand and show respect for America and our flag during the playing of the national anthem. We have cancelled all of our NFL advertising (for 2017)…As the NFL parses the important nationwide issues of ‘social justice’ and ‘freedom of speech,’ it is clear that a firm direction by them is not forthcoming.

. . . "Reaction against protests by the multi-millionaire players has been emotional and nationwide with President Trump weighing in. We wrote here Monday about a Georgia high school football team that had its own surprising patriotic response to the pro protests." . . .

4 Ways out of the Korean Crisis

The National Interest

. . . "Yet, the main responsibility for today’s awful predicament on the Korean Peninsula must fall squarely on the George W. Bush administration that recklessly linked North Korea to the 9/11 attacks and sent Kim Jong-un’s father on a headlong rush for the bomb that culminated four years later in Pyongyang’s initial nuclear test. In an ironic and dangerously perverse twist of fate, some of the same incautious thinkers that dreamed up and pressed the “Axis of Evil” doctrine in the first place are now in positions of influence regarding the present crisis. The press was all too busy unraveling the fiasco of the Iraq War to ascertain its second order effects in Northeast Asia, much less to call to account those responsible. Is it any wonder that President Donald Trump’s speech before the UN in September had an eerie similarity in tone to Bush’s infamous 2002 speech? By now, Americans are quite sick and tired of neoconservative bromides that make for ringing rhetoric, but have had disastrous policy outcomes. However, to put disasters into true perspective, a new Korean War would quite obviously make the Iraq War look like a garden picnic." . . .

ISIS terrorists sure are celebrating the massacre of Americans

Pamela Geller  "A pro-ISIS channel named Las Vegas USA is dedicated to celebrating yesterday’s attack, criticizing President Trump, and issuing further threats. One graphic shows an image of President Trump waving on one side, and the other side of the graphic shows the aftermath of an attack. The quote featured in the graphic reads: 

New details emerge about Marilou Danley, girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock

WaPo  . . . "Employees at a Starbucks in Mesquite, Nev., however, described the couple’s relationship differently. A supervisor at the coffee shop told the Los Angeles Times that Paddock often berated Danley in public. The Starbucks is the only one in town and is inside the Virgin River Casino.  

“ 'It happened a lot,” Esperanza Mendoza, supervisor of the Starbucks, told the Times. He would verbally abuse her when Danley asked to use his casino card to buy food or other things inside the casino, Esperanza said.

“ 'He would glare down at her and say — with a mean attitude — ‘You don’t need my casino card for this. I’m paying for your drink, just like I’m paying for you.’ Then she would softly say, ‘Okay’ and step back behind him. He was so rude to her in front of us.' ” . . .

Relatives say the roots of Paddock’s loner lifestyle may have been planted July 28, 1960. On that day, when Paddock was 7, a neighbor from across the street took him swimming. The neighbor at the time told a local newspaper that she knew authorities were coming for his father, a bank robber, and she wanted to spare the boy the trauma of seeing his father hauled away by authorities.

No, gun silencers wouldn't have worsened the Las Vegas shooting

Cory Warren at Libnorants

FACT CHECK: DO GUN SUPPRESSORS REALLY SILENCE ‘THE SOUND OF GUNSHOTS’?  . . . "Joshua Waldon, CEO of the gun suppressor designer and manufacturer SilencerCo., estimated to TheDCNF that unsuppressed gunshots range between 155 to 165 dB, while suppressed gunfire range in the “upper 130s,” a 20 to 30-decibel drop." . . .

Tony Branco

If I Were Hillary Clinton...

. . . "If I were Hillary Clinton...well, I am not, and neither is any of you, and thank God for that." . . .

Photosnark by Rich Terrell

By Elizabeth Nahas   "Hillary Clinton is a tragic figure.  Those were my thoughts after it was safe to say Donald Trump had won the presidential election.

"Prior to Trump's victory, I expressed concerns to my liberal friends about Hillary Clinton's continuous drift toward leftism, socialism, whateverism.  They tried to allay my fears and expressed absolute belief that as president, she would return to the centrist positions of her husband.  Although their sincerity could not be questioned, I saw blind loyalty to a power-hungry woman as naïve and, more significantly, dangerous.  Thankfully, Mr. Trump upset the apple cart, and we will never know what may have been.

"Once the dust settled, I agreed with President Trump.  Although this woman had committed acts of malfeasance, never mind possibly putting our country at great risk, I thought the loss of this election was so humiliating as to be consequential enough.  My thoughts changed when Mrs. Clinton came out of hibernation and spoke at her alma mater's 2017 commencement.  After her pathetic show of poor sportsmanship, I wondered what it is like to be this woman and began to review some of her momentous actions.  I decided to speculate how many of us would have approached them differently." . . .  Read the entire article here.. . . 

Columnist Elizabeth Nahas is Acura Facilitator/Process Management at Pohanka Acura in Washington D.C.

Related to Hillary: No, gun silencers wouldn't have worsened the Las Vegas shooting

Sports and Politics; I can't take it anymore!

ESPN changes mind, decides to broadcast anthem before Redskins-Chiefs game    . . . "The TV networks and NFL are well and truly trapped.  Their failure to act has made the anthem protest bigger than the sport.  But even though they want the whole issue to disappear, they can't help but cover the story, given fan interest in the protest.

"The three K.C. players who refused to stand during an anthem dedicated to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre showed that all their talk about their protest not being anti-American is just that – talk.  While the entire nation is in mourning, their petty, political protest took precedence over showing solidarity with the victims. 

"I'm sure the Canadian Football League would welcome them with open arms." . . .

Politics and Athletes . . . "When the Baltimore Ravens kneeled in unison before Sunday’s home game with the Steelers, the fans booed them (apparently misinterpreting the team’s gesture). All the talk about “unity” is beside the point. There is no team unity, only individual decisions. You know, Americans."

Roger, Over And Out

Earl of Taint

Hysterical Keith Olbermann calls on foreign countries to release damaging intel on Trump

 . . .  “I appeal to the intelligence agencies and the governments of what is left of the free world,” Olbermann began, “to them as entities, entireties, as bureaucracies making official decisions and to the individuals who make decisions of conscience, to GCHQ and MI-6 in the U.K., to the BND in Germany, the DGSE in France, the ASIS in Australia, and even the GRU in Russia, where they must already be profoundly aware that they have not merely put an immoral cynic in power here, but an uncontrollable one, whose madness is genuine and whose usefulness, even to them, is at an end.

“To all of them, and to the world’s journalists, I make this plea,” he continued. “We, the citizens of the United States of America, are the victims of a coup. We need your leaks, your information, your intelligence, your recordings, your videos, your conscience. The civilian government and the military of the United States are no longer in the hands of the people. Nor in the control of any responsible individual on whom you can rely.” . . .

I'm sure little Kim in North Korea will help.

Keith Olbermann Calls the NRA 'a Terrorist Organization'  "Keith Olbermann, probably the only person ever fired from MSNBC for being too radical, cited former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and claimed that the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee people's right to own guns.  . . .the Framers had intended for it to be a gun-control measure. He said it was meant to limit our access to firearms, not enable it. "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..."

Why the Media are in a Never-ending Hunt for Right-wing Violence
 . . . "Facts on the ground: 

-- Approximately every other year since forever, liberal hooligans have been rampaging through the streets, beating people up, setting off bombs, killing cops, smashing store windows, assassinating politicians and burning down neighborhoods -- against capitalism, Vietnam, Nixon, Wall Street, a police shooting, Trump, Starbucks, a sunny day. -- Conservatives, mostly families, have generally avoided even the mildest forms of political protest, and, when they finally are driven to petition the government over their grievances, they pick up after themselves-- at tea parties, town halls, Trump rallies and so on. Result: The entire media are constantly on Red Alert for the threat of Right-Wing Violence.. . . 

"Remember when polite, hardworking Americans came together to oppose Obamacare at tea party rallies in 2009 and 2010?
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steny Hoyer called the protesters "un-American." The Democratic National Committee called them "rabid right-wing extremists." Sen. Harry Reid called the tea partiers "evil-mongers."
"Jimmy Carter pronounced an "overwhelming portion" of them racists. ABC called them a "mob."
"CNN called them "rabble-rousing critics." Democratic congressman Brian Baird of Washington accused tea partiers of using "close to Brownshirt tactics."
"The AFL-CIO called them an "extremist fringe," using "mob rule.' "  . . .

Sick: Leading BDS activist tries to make #LasVegasShooting about Israel

The obsession with demonizing Israel is beyond political at this point.

Legal Insurrection

So why bring up Israel at all? Why try to make the Las Vegas shooting about Israel, or by implication, suggest that Israel is somehow connected to gun violence in the U.S.?
We’ve seen a similar tactic in other contexts by anti-Israel, pro-BDS Jewish Voice for Peace, whose Deadly Exchange campaign seeks to blame Israel and pro-Israel Jewish groups for police violence against non-whites in the U.S.

"When I woke up this morning and learned of the Las Vegas shooting, I fully expected all sorts of horrible hot takes and political exploitation.

"And Twitter has not disappointed in that regard.

"But I have to admit, as attuned as I am to anti-Israel activists hijacking causes and events to turn them against Israel, it never entered my mind that the Las Vegas shooting would be exploited in that manner.

"After all, as far as is currently known, the shooter and the shooting have nothing whatsoever to do with Israel. (There is a claim of responsibility by ISIS, but that is unverified.)

"So, I actually was surprised when I saw a tweet from Yair Rosenberg:

“American guns are overwhelmingly produced in America, but there is no atrocity that cannot and will not be blamed on the Jews or their state.”

Rosenberg was referring to this tweet from Yousef Munayyer, responding to a statement from the Israeli Embassy sending their “thoughts and prayers” and “love and solidarity” to the Las Vegas shooting victims:

“Also from Israel, assault rifles into the US market”