Politicians and media people doing what comes naturally

Sebelius: The Clinton White House doubled down on 'abusive behavior' and it's fair to criticize Hillary Clinton   "As a wave of stories unfold about sexual harassment and assault by men in power, a senior Democratic leader says her party should reflect on how it handled such charges when they were leveled against former President Bill Clinton.

" 'Not only did people look the other way, but they went after the women who came forward and accused him," says Kathleen Sebelius, the former secretary of Health and Human Services and Kansas governor. "And so it doubled down on not only bad behavior but abusive behavior. And then people attacked the victims."
"Sebelius extended her criticism to Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton White House for what she called a strategy of dismissing and besmirching the women who stepped forward—a pattern she said is being repeated today by alleged perpetrators of sexual assault—saying that the criticism of the former first lady and Secretary of State was "absolutely" fair. Sebelius noted that the Clinton Administration's response was being imitated, adding that "you can watch that same pattern repeat, It needs to end. It needs to be over.' " . . .

Ethics lawyer: Conyers summoned me to his office while wearing underwear  "Melanie Sloan, who formerly headed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and worked for Conyers from 1995 to 1998, told The Washington Post on Wednesday that Conyers asked her to come to his Rayburn Building office at one point, where she found him in his underwear.

“ 'I was pretty taken aback to see my boss half-dressed,” she said. “I turned on my heel and I left.' ” . . .

Political media engulfed by sexual harassment crisis  . . . "Glenn Thrush of The New York Times, Charlie Rose of CBS, author Mark Halperin, NBC’s Matthew Zimmerman, NPR’s Michael Oreskes, Vox’s Lockhart Steele, The New Republic’s Hamilton Fish and The Atlantic’s Leon Wieseltier have all been suspended or fired in the last month over varying degrees of alleged harassment or assault." . . .

Groping’s Just Cool If You’re ‘For The Common Good’

Three CBS employees accuse Charlie Rose of sexual harassment  . . . "The three CBS employees spoke on condition of anonymity, reports CBS News correspondent Bianna Golodryga. One says she's not ready for details of her allegations to become public. The other two described unwanted encounters with Rose at work-related events. One claims he groped her rear. The other says he grabbed her inappropriately and whispered a sexual innuendo in her ear. Our CBS News communication office issued a statement saying: "This is new information. Beyond that, we have no comment at this time.' " . . .

Former Charlie Rose intern says he made her watch sex scene from a movie
. . . "A former intern says Charlie Rose made her watch an explicit sex scene from a movie while dropping mail at his home." . . .

Rose, 75, co-host[ed] the morning show with Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell — and the three frequently chat about sex.

. . . "In one video, Rose tells King she looks tan as he looks her up and down, to which she laughs and jokingly tugs at her bra strap.

" 'Can I see that one more time?" Rose asks with a laugh.
"On another occasion, Rose says he wouldn't think less of a woman who slept with him on a first date, and that he likes a girl wearing Victoria's Secret." . . .

Kaepernick the freedom fighter

Hillary’s Version

By Conrad Black at National Review. . . "Previous narrowly defeated presidential candidates have been almost uniformly civilized. It never seems to have occurred to Hillary Clinton that Trump won because the previous 20 years of government had been utterly and bipartisanly incompetent, in the White House and the Congress. Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama produced the housing bubble and the Great Recession, endless and fruitless war in the Mideast and an immense humanitarian tragedy, mountainous budgetary, current-account, and trade deficits, and, under Obama, serious increases in poverty and violence, a shrinking work force, and a foreign policy of telling America’s allies and enemies to change roles and places. (Clinton proudly claims that the surrender to Iran’s nuclear military ambitions avoided an arms race in the Middle East, and fears what a mess Trump might make of North Korea, oblivious to her own and her husband’s bungling of the issue.) She somewhat grasps that tens of millions of voters don’t enjoy being called “deplorables” (though she thinks they are anyway), but doesn’t grasp that Trump was running as much against the Bushes and Obama as against the Clintons. She seems not to realize that he and his supporters concluded that the entire political class, including its national-media launderers, Wall Street paymasters, greasy lobbyists, and Hollywood cheerleaders, all had to go when the swamp is drained." . . .  Read more

Sexual Harrassment story: all in one big post. Plus our tweet of the day

Why the SNL Women’s Defense of Franken Means Little

. . . It doesn’t matter how Franken treated his coworkers if he harassed other women. Treating one person well doesn’t expunge treatment of others.
As Yashar Ali pointed out in the tweet above, the only result of these kinds of letters is that they dissuade other women from speaking up, and serve to delegitimize their allegations. Especially when the media talking points on Franken’s alleged offenses are that he made an itsy bitsy ‘mistake‘. A ‘mistake’ that as one reader pointed out, Franken made repeatedly, if allegations are to be believed. . . .

Built up anger of abused liberal women finally breaks through, enabled oddly enough by Trump’s defeat of Hillary.  "Not all the revelations have been about liberals (see, Roy Moore), but it seems that there is a liberal self-cleansing mechanism in progress when WaPo, the NY Times, and even Vox are turning on their own after years of looking the other way (or in the case of NBC, spiking the story)"

 The Resistance Tony Branco

Your Tax Dollars Pay for Sexual-Harassment Settlements Against Lawmakers

Although Conyers has since denied the claim, the news follows a recent Washington Postreport that Congress’s Office of Compliance has paid over $17 million to settle 264 workplace complaints since 1997 — a figure that includes sexual-harassment allegations. But where does all this money come from? From U.S. taxpayers.

Today in Sexual Harassment  Some guesses:  "Bill Moyers (oh please, please)

"Brian Williams (because he was there)"Mister Rogers (because all our childhood memories need to b ruined)

"Ted Kennedy (oh, wait. . .)

Reminder of how the next Oscar night is shaping up:  "I didn’t think the morning news that Melissa Gilbert has accused Oliver Stone of sexual harassment way back in 1991 (I’d kinda forgotten who Melissa Gilbert is, and Oliver Stone is best forgotten on general principle), but then I saw the news that came out later that Pixar’s major creative force, John Lasseter, is “taking a leave” from the animation powerhouse because of the usual problem:" . . .

Tweet of the day:  

Dan McLaughlin

✔@baseballcrank

John Conyers settled charges of sexually harassing staffers during the time his wife was in prison for taking bribes on the Detroit City Council.
The perfect Democrat power couple.

CNN, the favorite news source of the California schools

From a Ventura County California middle school textbook
The young lady who was working on this assignment says she and her mother are CNN followers only. TD

Hat tip to Jeff Kuepper

ISIS Urges Supporters To Kill Trump’s 11-Year-Old Son, Lists His School Location…

Weasel Zippers   Via SITE:

Islamic State (IS) supporters distributed a call to kill Barron Trump, the 11-year-old son of U.S. President Donald Trump, providing the name and Google Map location of his school.

From living through the Rodney King riots and watching the attempted murder of truck driver Reginald Denny, I visualize Maxine Waters's response as being along the lines of ,"I do not condone the murder of this young man, but certainly understand the fear ISIS must have toward this racist, bigoted President and their need to do something to save the world from his evil".
The Tunnel Dweller

Source: SITE Intelligence Group

Why Aren’t Any NFL Players Kneeling Over This Pennsylvania Cop Shooting?

Law Enforcement Today

The Federalist  "On November 17, a police officer was killed during a routine traffic stop in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. His name was Brian Shaw, and he was only 25 years old.

"According to reports, the suspect, 29-year-old Rahmael Sal Holt, fled his car after he was pulled over, and shot Shaw during the subsequent chase. Officials said Shaw did not appear to have fired his gun, while Holt fired at least six times, landing at least once in Shaw’s chest. Shaw lay in the street gasping for air before dying in a hospital that night. After several days on the lam, Holt was captured and arrested November 21 with Shaw’s handcuffs."

Hilarious: watch Charlie Rose interview Kevin Spacey on Bill Clinton’s sex accusations

Thomas Lifson  "Savor the irony, folks. It just doesn’t get much better than this. Except that with all the media figures accustomed to pontificating on air now exposed as harassers themselves, and with all those video recordings archived in the vaults of broadcasters and YouTube, there surely will be more gems like the short video embedded below coming along. Charlies Rose, after all, has been in the business of condescending to us for decades.

"Virtue signaling* has never been more dangerous than when applied to the sexual behavior of others.  Add in the magic of video tape, and you have what must be called SchadenfreudeFest 2017." . . .

"My favorite Spacey line:

“ 'I was always there… I was a true friend. I never doubted him. I never stopped believing him.' ”

It gets worse — he is also accused of firing one of the female employees he harassed just for discussing the harassment with another person.

Why Have Liberals Been Such Horrendous Hypocrites on Women's Rights?
. . . "What moral narcissism!  Only a couple of weeks ago Rose was inveighing against the other newl -unmasked sexual predators, as was Al Franken.  There's a lesson in that. Beware most of all those who pompously tell us  how to live.  It's usually a dead giveaway.  Call it the Jimmy Swaggart-Elmer Gantry syndrome.  Something's up behind the scenes. Rose and Franken are guilty of that, in the secular sense, as is and was, to be honest, Judge Moore, in the religious sense.  For that reason, among others, I have to say I suspect Moore's accusers are truthful as well.  I wish Trump had cut him loose." . . .

Sex, lies & excuses: Partisan madness on predators

. . . "But they both insist that the rules should be different from the very rules they would impose on everyone else in America — because, well, Franken is a Democrat and America needs to be saved from Republicans. 

"Harding says Franken should be saved and should then go on a listening tour of far-left Democrats and become their frontman as penance for his rotten behavior." . . .  

"Or as Woody Allen. . .  said in the movie he made celebrating an affair with a 17-year-old girl: “I’m a bigot, but for the left.' ”

*Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values done primarily with the intent of enhancing standing within a social group. The term was first used in signalling theory, to describe any behavior that could be used to signal virtue—especially piety among the religious. In recent years, the term has become more commonly used as a pejorative characterization by commentators to criticize what they regard as empty, or superficial support of certain political views, and also used within groups to criticize their own members for valuing outward appearance over substantive action.

Be thankful

                                                                           TerrellAfterMath

TAKEDOWN! Fan Confronts Muslim Athlete Who Shot Hoops During National Anthem

Todd Starnes  "Jim Howard, of Garden City, Kansas is a red-blooded, American patriot and a faithful supporter of the athletic program at the local community college. 

"For 32 years he’s volunteered with the booster club – keeping scorebooks, holding fundraisers, running the chain gang for football – and even providing a place for players to have a Thanksgiving meal.nal anthem, he He was in the stands on Nov. 1 for the season-opener of the Garden City Broncbusters basketball team. And when the announcer asked everyone to stand for the national anthem, he dutifully joined the crowd and stood at attention.

"That’s when he noticed a lone player seated on a bench at courtside – Rasool Samir, a 19-year-old Muslim red-shirt.

"It was unusual because there’s a team rule that the entire basketball team was supposed to stay inside the locker room until after the national anthem had concluded.

"But as the crowd began singing about the bombs bursting in air and the rocket’s red glare, the Muslim basketball player grabbed a ball, walked onto the court and began shooting baskets.

“ 'It was an ‘in your face slam,’” he said.

Media Circus photo

"Mr. Howard decided enough was enough. He was tired of people disrespecting the national anthem. So at the conclusion of the song he walked onto the court and confronted Samir.

“ 'I walked onto the floor and I told the guy he should respect the flag and if he’s not going to respect the flag, he should get off the court and get out of the gym,” Mr. Howard told the Todd Starnes Show.

“ 'You should respect the flag. If you don’t respect the flag, just stay seated. Don’t make a big scene,” he said. “At least respect the people that paid for your scholarship to get you on this campus – like myself and everyone else in that gym.”  

"The Garden City Telegram reported that a police officer broke up the confrontation – telling Mr. Howard to return to his seat and escorting the player off the court." . . .Twitter Ads info and privacy

The ACLU stood up for the Muslim player

If Roy Moore wins, thank Gloria Allred and Al Franken

Legal Insurrection

"Unless more comes out, it’s likely Moore will outlast the accusations."

"Based on the present state of affairs, and assuming there are no further revelations, it looks like Roy Moore will outlast the outrage over the accusations, which he denies, that he molested a 14-year-old girl and assaulted a 16-year-old girl almost 40 years ago. Those serious accusations of criminality have been conflated in the media with non-criminal accusations that Moore dated teenage girls of legal age.

"I say “assuming there are no further revelations” because I would not be shocked if more comes out. Moore’s wife complained that the Washington Post is calling everyone the two of them have known for the past several decades, and certainly other major media are conducting similar searches. So what follows assumes there are no new accusers, and no additional evidence to support the current accusations.

"If there was a turning point in Roy Moore’s political fortunes, it was the press conference Gloria Allred held with accuser Beverly Nelson, who emotionally described what she said was a sexual assault behind a diner at which she worked.

"That press conference gave Moore two things he needed politically: a chance to make Allred an issue in the campaign, and a piece of physical evidence to attack, the handwriting in the yearbook." . . .

North Korean Soldier Shot In Border Blitz Wakes Up … Here’s What He Had To Say

Daily Caller

Daily Caller video

"The North Korean soldier who was shot multiple times fleeing into South Korea at the border has regained consciousness, according to South Korean reports.

“ 'Is this actually South Korea? I want to hear South Korean songs,” the man said after waking up in a South Korean medical facility, presumably curious as to whether or not he made it to the South, the Dong-a Ilbo introduced. The medical staff hung the South Korean flag in the man’s hospital room to comfort him, Yonhap News Agency revealed.

"The suspected staff sergeant in his 20s made a mad dash into the South in the Joint Security Area at the Demilitarized Zone last Monday. His comrades, apparently using weaponry not permitted in the JSA, opened fire on the defector. Amid a barrage of bullets, the young man’s brazen blitz was successful.

"After collapsing in a pile of leaves, he was rescued by South Korean military personnel and airlifted to Ajou University Hospital in Suwon, South Korea, where he underwent two major surgeries to remove the bullets, pull roundworms from the man’s intestine, and combat infection, blood poisoning, and Hepatitis B." 

(RELATED: Doctors Found Parasites They’d Never Seen Before Inside The North Korean Soldier Who Bolted At The DMZ)
Just how bad are conditions in that country anyway?  Could these conditions have affected the health of  Otto Warmbier?

Kim Jung Un bans Fun … No More Singing And Drinking In Pyongyang