Behold Our Betters

Kurt Schlichter

"But who does the elite idolize? The aspiring elite, college students, seem to idolize Che and Bernie Sanders, as if we needed more evidence of their terribleness."

"To be a normal American is to constantly be scolded, to be lectured, to be treated as a morally bankrupt simpleton in need of the guidance and direction provided by an urban elite ruling class notable for its empty academic credentials, its track record of incompetence, and its idolization of people who erotically abuse the foliage.

" If we are to have betters, is it so wrong for us to demand that they actually be better? Superiors should be distinguished by their superiority – if you presume to take charge shouldn’t you demonstrate tactical, technical, and moral mastery? So what has our ruling class mastered lately? What is the skill set that sets the smart set apart? 

"Are they our betters because of the degrees they hang on the walls of their over-priced, openfloor plan townhouses? Going to college used to mean something more than you had nowhere else to go after high school. It was a training ground for the leadership class. A college student was an invitee to an intellectual banquet where he could sample the best of Western civilization, of art and literature, of civics and philosophy. But today, it’s all gender studies and grade inflation, with whiny social justice warriors drowning out any voice that won’t sing in tune. It is steam table trays heaped with gray, fatty meat and limp asparagus - the Golden Corral of the mind. " . . .

Hillary Clinton was so angered by Weinstein ‘revelations’ that she…

Doug Powers via Michelle Malkin:  

…Released a two-sentence statement through her spokesman five days after the story broke and a couple decades after everybody knew about his habitual behavior:

“I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein,” Clinton said in a statement through her spokesman Nick Merrill. “The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.”

Weinstein is a longtime associate of the Clintons and a major Democratic Party donor who bundled funds for the party’s political campaigns, including supporting both of Clinton’s presidential bids.

"Hillary went on to say she’s going to give away all the money Weinstein had ever given her campaigns or raised for her political efforts. Wait, I mean she didn’t say that. Hillary’s statement took a lot of chutzpah coming from the same woman who oversaw the Clinton White House’s “Bimbo Eruptions” wing to discredit and destroy women with accusations about her husband.

"Watching Dems like the Clintons, who constantly slammed Republicans as waging a “war on women,” pretend they didn’t know about Weinstein is utterly laughable. Click “play” to roll tape on the Jumbo Hypocrite-Tron: . . .

Colonel Who Reported Communist Cadet Slams West Point Leadership

Daily Caller  "Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington issued an open letter to West Point graduates earlier this week blasting the superintendent, commandant, and dean of the military academy for contributing to a “culture of permissiveness.”

"The letter was subsequently posted on the website of American Military News.

"Heffington told The Daily Caller he wrote the letter to the USMA Class of 1963 when several of its graduates contacted him asking how Spenser Rapone, a cadet espousing radically anti-American views, was allowed to graduate.s to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline,” the letter charges. “The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution.”

“ 'The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline,” the letter charges. “The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution.”
. . .

Rapone — a supposedly brilliant cadet, according to his mentor, Professor Rasheed Hosein of the History Department — responded with a childish tantrum: “Sir, this isn’t fair! You’re just putting me on blast!”

 (RELATED: Communist West Point Grad Was Reported In 2015 For Anti-American Posts) 

Spencer Rapone

From his various online rantings and posts, it appears that DCT Rapone is an avowed Marxist, which is completely out of line with the values of this nation and its Army,” Heffington said in a sworn statement. “Moreover, CDT Rapone’s posts indicate that he hates West Point, the U.S. Army, and indeed this country. One post dated 16 November 2015 states, ‘F*ck this country and its false freedom.’ He also … even implicitly justifies the actions of ISIS and blames the United States for terrorist attacks.”Heffington concluded in his report, “I cannot reconcile the image of a first class cadet at West Point with the things he has posted online for the world to see. To me, these are red flags that cannot be ignored, and I fail to see how this individual can possibly graduate and become a commissioned officer in six months.” . . .

 American Patriotism NEVER Takes a Knee, Prof. Hosein

Good grief, is the thought pervading college campuses overtaking West Point as well? If we get a military full of Bradley Mannings we will be done for. TD

The star-studded lives of the Clintons and Obamas come back to bite them.

Hollywood Democrats quickly tried to turn the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal into a critique of President Trump and dug up his past accusers. It never ends. Hollywood is the only place where you’re awarded a Doctorate in Political Science after completing your third movie.    Comedian Argus Hamilton

Thomas Lifson: Hillary stumbles badly handling Harvey Weinstein  "With the same cluelessness that lost her the presidency, Hillary Clinton is setting herself up for trouble in the way she is handling the revelations about one of her key political backers, Harvey Weinstein. First of all, she waited five whole days before responding at all, and when she first broke her silence, she did it indirectly. Instead of speaking personally, or even writing a tweet, she had her spokesman, Nick Merrill, tweet out a prepared statement:"  . . .

Monica Showalter:  Weinstein Collateral Damage: The Obamas  . . . "Obama is more than a little rooted in the world of Hollywood, starting with the fact that he shows up in Hollywood and its redoubts quite regularly – so regularly that an Obama visit to those parts is known as an "Obamajam."  He's believed to have been nosing around to buy a property in tony Rancho Mirage among the Hollywood elites for his post-presidency.  He also shipped his eldest daughter Malia to work as an intern for Weinstein's Weinstein Company.  He's seen his closest campaign aides take positions in Hollywood.  Oh, and at least one engaged in a little sexism of his own.  Meanwhile, Michelle Obama called Weinstein "a good friend" and a "wonderful human being," which shows how tight the Obamas were with Weinstein himself." . . .

Weinstein was easy, Hollywood pedophiles won't be

Child stars: Haim (left) and Feldman (center) starred together in films including The Lost Boys 

Jack Cashill  . . . "It only took the media about 13 years to bust Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for his sexual depredations once reporters had the story in hand.

"But that story will prove to be relatively easy on the media. There is another, trickier Hollywood story the nation’s newsrooms have been sitting on longer than Weinstein was stalking young women.

"For years, powerful men in Hollywood have been preying on young boys, and the media have remained mute largely for fear of offending the LGBT lobby.

In its article on Weinstein’s demise, the Washington Post’s Stephanie Merry alludes to the problem. “Corey Feldman,” she writes in something of a throwaway line, “has also talked about the abuse he endured as a child and the fact that his friend and co-star, the late Corey Haim, was raped at 11 years old.”

"This one sentence is the only major media reference to the Hollywood pedophile scandal in the week since the Weinstein story broke. This is a sordid tale, made all the more scandalous by the failure of the media to tell it.

"The story last surfaced in May 2016, at least in Hollywood. The immediate cause was a comment made by “Lord of the Rings” star Elijah Wood, who began his Hollywood career as an 8-year-old." . . .

It remains to be seen whether anyone in the major media will have the nerve to pick it up. If editors and producer do not, they are as complicit as the men in Hollywood who continue to prey on little boys, some of whom, like Corey Haim, never get over it.

FLASHBACK: Pedophiles In Hollywood Exposed By Elijah Wood, Corey Feldman  . . . "Former child actor Corey Feldman has publicly stated that, “I was molested and passed around,” while discussing how in Hollywood adult males in the industry would pass young stars “back and forth to each other.” Feldman revealed that his co-star Corey Haim was raped at 11-years-old. 

"Actor Elijah Wood confirmed Feldman’s claims in May 2016, describing Hollywood as a den of “vipers” in an interview, and saying “If you can imagine it, it’s probably happened.”

"Wood said he was protected from abuse by his mother, who didn’t let him go to Hollywood parties, but he said other young child actors were regularly “preyed upon” by those in power.

"Wood also compared Hollywood’s sexual predators with known pedophile and English TV personality Jimmy Savile.“You all grew up with Savile,” Wood said. “Jesus, it must have been devastating. Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. It was all organized.' ” . . .

Will Democrat politicians like Senator Chuck Shumer – who have long taken campaign contributions from Weinstein – disavow Hollywood’s pedophilia and sexual abuse? Or will Shumer and the Democrats stay quiet, obstruct Congressional investigations of pedophilia in Hollywood, and try to make the public forget that the entertainment business is filled with men that rape children?

Media Begging Us For Conspiracy Theories on Las Vegas

Ann Coulter   "Now the media are just taunting us with their tall tales about Stephen Paddock, the alleged Las Vegas shooter. Reputedly serious news organizations are claiming that he made a living playing video poker. That's like claiming someone made a living smoking crack. 

"The media are either doing PR for the gambling industry or they don't want anyone considering the possibility that Paddock was using gambling to launder money.

"NBC News reports, with a straight face: "Las Vegas gunman earned millions as a gambler." A Los Angeles Times article is headlined, "In the solitary world of video poker, Stephen Paddock knew how to win." The story says that Paddock's gambling "was at least a steady income over a period of years."

"I don't know all the ins and outs of Paddock's life, but that's a lie.

"How do reporters imagine casino owners make a living? Any ideas on how all those glorious lobbies, lights, pools and fountains are paid for? How do they think Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn became billionaires if gambling is a winning proposition for people like Paddock -- and therefore, by definition, a losing proposition for the casinos?

"The media think about money the way Democrats do. They have absolutely no conception of where it originates. Those casino owners sure are generous! reporters think to themselves. Economist Thomas Sowell is always ridiculing journalists for not understanding basic economics. It turns out, they don't understand the spreadsheet of a lemonade stand.

"The New York Times explained that the "top" video poker machines pay out 99.17 percent. That's great that Paddock was only losing cents on the dollar (if true), but it's still losing. The Times quickly explained that he could have more than made up his losses with all the "comps" -- the free rooms, meals and "50-year-old port that costs $500 a glass," as his brother Eric said.

"Gamblers who are beating the house are not given $500 glasses of port. Refer to the profit/loss spreadsheet. And yet, according to his brother, Paddock was treated like royalty by the casinos. Which means he was losing. " . . .




Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Had an Unusual Financial Life. Here's What We Know

Fitzgerald: Kneeling’s a kick in the stomach to our country

Boston Herald

"The ongoing flap over NFL players disrespecting our national anthem is lowbrow theater at best, casting jocks as deep thinkers whose moral indignation demands everyone’s attention.

"So they take a knee when “The Star-Spangled Banner” is played as a way of alerting the rest of us that we live in an imperfect world.

. . . 

"Though for most Americans it’s a kick in the stomach to see anyone trashing or denigrating the symbols of this great nation, it’s not shocking when the venom is spewed by sabre-rattling megalomaniacs like the sociopath now calling the shots in North Korea.

"But it is a bit much to seriously regard the bruised sensitivities of conscience-stricken NFL players who’ve been blessed beyond measure with free education and stratospheric salaries because they are able to advance a football 100 yards.

"America offends them? Please. This country they so blithely disparage is, for them, a land of milk and honey." . . .

Harvey Weinstein is not the nastiest thing going on in Hollywood

Earick Ward

As now brave celebrities come forward to condemn Harvey Weinstein, how many will extend that bravery to the most innocent in Hollywood: child victims of pedophilia?

. . . "Sadly, Harvey Weinstein's act isn't the darkest in Hollywood's repertoire – at least that we know of.  As has been reported, the women Harvey sexually abused were adults.  But did Harvey rape or sexually abuse any minors?  Corey Feldman?  Corey Haim?  Drew Barrymore?  The Olsen twins?

In 2011 interview with ABC News, Corey Feldman stated:

"I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret[.] ...

I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. ... Didn't even know it. It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted ... till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere.

"Feldman credits pedophilia as a contributing factor in the death of his best friend, Corey Haim, his co-star in the movie The Lost Boys." . . .

Stupidity Is Timeless

"In the new civil war, no one needs to die for their cause.  Violence is the left’s purview.  The right just needs to defeat and delegitimize the irrational ideas of the left, as well as their violent tactics.  As in the past, leftists will retreat and become pacifistic, lying in wait for their next opportunity.  But, it will not be as easy as it sounds.  A lot of social and emotional upheaval will be required for this to happen.  And we must understand that the incredibly misguided ideology of the left will never die as long as humans are involved."

Dark Angel Politics

"In my younger years, studying world and American history in school, I used to wonder how people of those past times could have been so stupid.  How could people actually believe that Hitler was a righteous man?  How could they be convinced that Jews were evil, and Nazism was good?  Germans and Japanese at that time must have been crazy.
. . . 

"How could it have been possible for Josef Stalin to starve tens of millions of Ukrainians to death with no resistance?  How could Mao, as leader of the world’s largest population, assassinate a major portion of his own people without opposition?  It seems impossible, almost like fiction.

"After 65 years of my existence, I now realize that people have not changed.  The ignorance of man is not a fantasy, it is real and enduring."

"In our modern, so sophisticated Western world, we welcome the conquerors and assassins of an ancient culture into our society, where they can continue conquering and assassinating us with our complete cooperation.

"We welcome laws suppressing our freedom to speak, to own property, to operate a small business, and to defend ourselves.  We actively oppose the Constitution that brought us where we are today.

In America, we built a thriving civil society, amazing the world with our wealth, our perseverance, our moral strength, and our positive ideology.  We were the saviors of humanity.

"And now, we show that we are truly fallible humans, in the process of destroying it all. "  

Stalin-induced famine in Ukraine

Weinstein and the rich and famous Democrats

Friends, Media Turning on Hillary Due to Silence on Harvey Weinstein
. . . "I saw some tweets about reporters not asking Hillary about the Weinstein accusations, but Eli Watkins and Dan Merica at CNN reported that the network has asked her spokesman for a comment. They have not received any response from Hillary or the Obamas:

Representatives for the Clintons have not responded to comment for this story, and Obama’s office declined to comment. Clinton did not mention Weinstein during an appearance Monday night at the University of California, Davis, as part of her book tour, her first public appearance since the story broke.

Longtime Hillary Clinton aides have been confused by the former secretary of state’s silence on the issue, questioning — in private — why she has not weighed in at all.

Weinstein has long been a Clinton donor with ties to the political family. Weinstein was one of many from Hollywood who donated to Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund in the 1990s, a Washington Post report from the time stated. More recently, the Clintons rented a home next to Weinstein in the Hamptons in 2015, and Weinstein served as a connector between Hollywood stars and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Weekly Standard: The Human Stain: Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Worse Than You Think

It goes much deeper than one big creep.

. . . "Bill Clinton offered get-out-of-jail-free cards to a whole army of sleazeballs, from Jeffrey Epstein to Harvey Weinstein to the foreign donors to the Clinton Global Initiative. The deal was simple: Pay up, genuflect, and get on with your existence. It was like a papacy selling indulgences, at the same time that everyone knew that the cardinals were up to no good. The 2016 election demolished Clinton world once and for all, to be replaced by the cult of Obama, an austere sect designated by their tailored hair shirts with Nehru collars. “That is not who we are as Americans,” they chant, as Harvey Weinstein’s ashes are scattered in the wind."

A Vicious Virtue; When tragedy strikes, you probably deserve it — if you’re a conservative.

Victor Davis Hanson

Note the logic: Once again, whether or not the loss of so many innocent lives is a tragedy hinges on the perceived politics of the murdered. 

Is vicarious violence and crudity the means by which the modern soft suburbanite — like a Colbert, Michael Moore, or Bill Maher — messages his inner bravery and progressive authenticity?

"Not long ago, late-night comedian and would-be philosopher Steven Colbert signaled the nation his virtuous outrage over the Trump presidency. Colbert offered that Trump had “a feeble f***ing anemic firefly of a soul.” His puerile efforts at alliteration were not helped by the redundant “anemic.” 

"Obscenity in service to an announced virtuous progressive cause is apparently now Colbert’s brand — and the more vulgar, the more virtuous. 

"Of Trump, Colbert had earlier announced crudely on national television: “You talk like a sign-language gorilla that got hit in the head. In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c*** holster.” Do Americans stay up late to hear that? 

"Yet Colbert’s incoherent crudity is mild compared with the epidemic of assassination chic in which politicians, celebrities, actors, and academics vie to kill Trump by symbolically stabbing, decapitating, hanging, shooting, and maiming his likeness. (The various ways of killing or torturing Trump have exhausted the imagination of the virtuous.) It is as if the more macabre one can be in imagining how to eviscerate Trump, the more virtuous one becomes." . . .

Virtue signalling. Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values by an individual done primarily with the intent of enhancing that person's standing within a social group.  Virtue signalling - Wikipedia

Obama's $1.5-billion ego project

Monica Showalter   . . . "What the $1.5 billion boondoggle will be about is blocking community roads, putting public park space off limits, fundraising for Obama causes, community organizing, shoveling pork for South Side denizens such as basketball courts, and...satisfying President Obama's gargantuan ego.

"Where did anyone get the idea that taxpayers owe ex-presidents this kind of golden parachute?  This is Ozymandias (Pharoah Rameses II)-style excess.  Or if you want to be much less charitable: Mobuto stuff.  Much of the complex itself will be privately funded, of course, but taxpayers are certainly going to be paying for millions of it, and there doesn't seem to be a cap on how much.

"Even the private-sector funding is a bit eyebrow-raising.  The kind of money this project requires is the kind of money a presidential campaign to the finish requires.  That takes fundraising, and small-dollar donors aren't going to cut it.  Big-dollar donors might.  But that kind of donors – from Goldman Sachs-style investment banks, Hollywood heavies like Harvey Weinstein, foundation fat cats like George Soros – are going to be asking something in return.  And what's more, if they have already given the money, it's worth looking at what they got in return.  Post presidencies are notorious for bribe cash to flow in in exchange for favors already delivered.  And as the Clintons demonstrated so ably, leftist presidencies are historically for sale."

UIC Releases Ambitious Obama Presidential Library Proposal

Below: artists conception of visitors at the library.