Republican Demands 'Full-Fledged Apology' From 'SNL' Over Skit

 MSN (msn.com)    "Republican representative is demanding that Saturday Night Live issue a "full-fledged apology" after the show mocked New York Representative Elise Stefanik.

Saturday's episode opened with a sketch parodying the congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. On December 5, the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania discussed measures to address the rise in antisemitism at colleges amid the Israel-Hamas war, with their testimonies prompting uproar online.

An exchange between University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and Stefanik has gained particular traction, with conservatives—including North Carolina Representative Greg Murphy—blasting SNL for ridiculing Stefanik while being less harsh on the "progressive" college leaders.

On October 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 hostage. Israel subsequently fired airstrikes on Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut off supplies of food, medicine, fuel and energy into Gaza, before launching a ground offensive. As of Monday, 17,700 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Associated Press, with roughly 90 percent of the area's 2.3 million population displaced.

The conflict has led to a rise in anti-Palestinian and antisemitic attacks across the U.S. Although she denounced antisemitism earlier in the hearing, Magill was criticized for seemingly evading a question by Stefanik.

When asked if students "calling for the genocide of Jews" breaks the university's rules against harassment, Magill called it a "context-dependent decision."

"If the speech turns into conduct it, can be harassment, yes," she told Stefanik.

The exchange went viral, with Magill resigning from her post on Saturday. The SNL skit that night starred Ego Nwodim as Harvard President Claudine Gay, Heidi Gardner as MIT's Sally Kornbluth, and Chloe Fineman as Magill, while Chloe Troast portrayed Stefanik.

"I'll turn it over to MAGA superstar Elise Stefanik from New York, who's been pacing the hallways listening to Lose Yourself by Eminem," said comedian Molly Kearney, dressed as Representative Virginia Foxx, chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

"Thank you, chairwoman," Troast replied. "I'm going to start screaming questions at these women. I'm Billy Eichner."

"Yes or no, is calling for the genocide of Jews against the code of conduct for Harvard?" she asks Nwodim, who replied: "Well, depends on the context."

Troast then moved on to Fineman, yelling: "UPenn lady, same question, yes or no?"

Americans finally back Israel in wiping out terrorism from the river to the sea

 FAFO War update - Don Surber (substack.com)

Other media outlets in America followed suit because the horror by Palestinians was unjustified and inhumane. Palestinians went beyond the pale, which justified Israel finally taking off the gloves and doing what it should have done decades ago.

"Palestinians celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War with an attack on Israeli civilians that was so brutal and inhumane that most Americans finally said to hell with Hamas and the Palestinians. Israel is well on its way to ridding the world of Hamas as the West now rejects the Palestinian Propaganda machine — Pallywood — which fakes war crimes by Israel while committing war crimes against Israel.

"Palestinian actor Saleh Aljafarawi, 25, appeared in so many of the videos that Americans began calling him Mister FAFO — the acronym for F*ck Around, Find Out. Palestinians are learning what FAFO means.

"Liel Leibovitz, editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine, wrote, “Why do we love him so? Why has he become the subject of so much attention, on social media and in the press? Because he is the pure embodiment of a greater truth: We live in an age that has progressed beyond rational argument.

“It should be obvious by now that so many of the creeps who purport to weep for Palestine don’t really care about Palestinians, dead or alive, or about Israelis, or about the historical and moral intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they want is an excuse to indulge in something deeper, more libidinal, ancient, and indeed erotic — hating Jews.

“They cheer for Mister FAFO not despite the fact that he’s so obviously faking it but precisely because of it. His performances promise liberation from the annoyances of a fact-based reality whose contradictions are inherently troubling, and instead affirm that old motto coined by Hasan-i Sabbah, the 12th-century founder of the Hashashin, or the Order of the Assassins — nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

"This is the FAFO War as Hamas sees the West growing a spine. The blowback is approaching hurricane level.

"Hamas-shielding AP asked four days after the attack, “What was Hamas thinking?" . . .

Oh, the West reverted back to form and the Biden administration. Its anti-Semitic wing (led by Obama’s operatives) pushed for a ceasefire. Palestinians saw that as the victory it was but made the mistake of celebrating too early.

They had seen how the Obama Democrats operated in the past and would be justified in thinking it would be as before. It is a default position for all to consider campus and congressional Democrats as feckless and cowardly. TD

Illuminating the October 7 Massacre

  Elise Cooper  "Two books have been recently published highlighting recent atrocities against the Jews. The first, a novel, The Paris Housekeeper by Renee Ryan, and the other a non-fiction, War Against the Jews by Alan Dershowitz. These books are very relevant to the atrocities committed on October 7th by Hamas against Israeli civilians. But they also show the similarities between what happened to the Jews during the Nazi reign and the October 7th massacre.

"How apropos that Hanukkah, the miracle of resistance, started on December 7th, the “Day of Infamy,” when America was the victim of an unprovoked brutal attack. As Jews around the world celebrate this festival, they are reminded that October 7th was, quoting an Israeli official, “Israel’s Pearl Harbor.”

"Below is an interview with both authors about their books and the relevance to today.

"Alan Dershowitz wrote the book out of outrage. “As soon as I heard about the events of October 7th, I dropped everything and called my publisher and said I must write a book about this because it changes everything. It makes it clear why Israel does everything in its power to destroy Hamas, a genocidal organization. If they had the opportunity to go further than the Kibbutz they would have beheaded, burned, raped, and murdered every Jew in Israel. This is a game changer, and the world must realize it.”

"Renee Ryan wrote the book a year ago, having no idea how relevant it would be today. “I thought I was writing these quotes about what happened fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty years ago during the Nazi reign. I cannot comprehend that these quotes can be applied to October 7th. Quotes such as this by my Jewish character, Rachel, ‘This enemy, these new Germans are hardened, angrier, and more ruthless. Hate lives in their heart. Hate for people like us.’ It is so heartbreaking. Have we not learned anything. October 7th is very similar to what happened. It is even the same rhetoric, the exact same things said in the 1930s, 1940s.”

"Mr. Dershowitz believes Hamas wants a Final Solution. “’Never Again’ has not meant anything since the day it was uttered. Never Again tragically just became a slogan. Now on college campuses, students and faculty feel free to call for genocide against the Jews. Everyone should read the Hamas Charter, which in some ways is worse than Mein Kompf because it is more specific.”

"Women were viciously gang raped, had their pelvises broken, children were raped, babies were burned in ovens, people were brutally tortured and killed. Yet, many either demonstrate against Israel or just look the other way. Dershowitz refers to the congressional testimony by the college presidents of Penn State, Harvard, and MIT. He wonders, where are the feminist groups? People love to utter the words “Fascist” and “Nazi” against Donald Trump but refuse to say a word against Hamas." . . .

Hamas supporters are completely unhinged from logic and even reality - American Thinker   . . ."I’ll end, not with my words, but with Harry Truman’s, contained in a letter he wrote to Samuel Cavert, General Secretary for the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America, who was upset with Truman’s decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan:

August 11, 1945

My dear Mr. Cavert:

I appreciated very much your telegram of August ninth.

Nobody is more disturbed over the use of Atomic bombs than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them.

When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

Sincerely yours,

Harry  S. Truman [in autograph]

Nearly Half Of Dems Say Charges Against Trump Are Politically Motivated: I&I/TIPP Poll –

  Issues & Insights  "With less than a year to go in the presidential election cycle, most Americans almost always have a good idea of who will be running for president, and who won’t. That’s especially true when an incumbent president is eligible for reelection. As this month’s I&I/TIPP Poll demonstrates, that’s not the case this time around.

"While both of the main parties’ likely candidates — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — have healthy leads against potential competitors within their own parties in virtually all polls, it’s still not clear that either will even be on the ballot next year.

"The media are full of stories that cite Democratic Party sources and contributors suggesting that the 81-year-old president, who has shown signs of age-related mental impairment in recent years, should drop out of the running. The complaints have become increasingly urgent as Biden’s presidential favorability readings have plunged sharply.

"Meanwhile, Trump faces an unprecedented legal assault, with four separate indictments covering 91 allegations of criminal behavior on his part. In normal times, that would be a political disaster.

"But these are not normal times.

"To better gauge national sentiment, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,301 registered voters this month a number of questions related to the upcoming primary election season. The poll, taken from Nov. 29-Dec. 1, has a margin of error of +/-2.8 percentage points.

"Of Trump, I&I/TIPP asked two key questions.

"First: “To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement: The Democratic Party is using the law to try to prevent Trump from running in the 2024 election.”

"This is a big topic of discussion, both inside the Beltway and outside, despite mainstream media efforts to downplay the issue by calling Trump a “threat to democracy.”

"Voters aren’t buying it." . . .

It's as if the talent within academia is stirring, and has had enough of wokesterism, too.

 

Cartoons - American Thinker

Harvard’s president Claudine Gay accused of plagiarizing… Dr. Carol Swain?! - American Thinker   "(Somebody get the popcorn—and quickly—because the show is about to start, and you won’t want to miss it.)

"Yesterday, Christopher Rufo took to X and released bombshell evidence against Harvard’s current president Claudine Gay, accusing her of a serious infraction—but it had nothing to do with her refusal to expel the pro-Hamas students calling for the death of their Jewish counterparts (let alone condemn their actions), or the university’s scandalous hard-left policies… but Gay’s alleged plagiarism for her Ph.D dissertation. See the thread from Rufo below: . . . 

 As Rufo also noted, Gay is a darling of the left, “touted as the first black woman” to run Harvard in its 368-year existence, but she’s been mired in scandal since the outset of her stint.. . .

 With Magill out, academic heavyweights start to speak out against university wokesterism - Monica Showalter    "With the resignation of woke University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, following an execrable performance addressing antisemitism in Congress, some kind of dam has broken. Now academics with actual achievements are beginning to speak out against the wokesterism that has laid low the reputations of their universities.

"CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria, who's best described as a left-leaning moderate, has thrown down the gauntlet about woke universities, calling them indoctrination centers, not places of learning, and demanded that universities return to their core mission of seeking the actual truth, demanding excellence, instead of creating their own "truths."

"He's on fire here: . . .   He wrote up his remarks in this CNN commentary America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.

Elise Stefanik: smiting the unworthy - American Thinker   . . ."We saw this clearly at the hearing. The lady presidents had their noses so high in the air that they couldn’t see the elephant trap that Elise Stefanik so adroitly prepared for them. Sally Kornbluth and Claudine Gay’s robotic delivery and raised-eyebrow disdain were bad enough, but the champ here was the smirking Liz Magill of UPenn, who fairly oozed smug superiority as she set out to put this uppity backwoods congresswoman in her place (“Stefanik? Realllly? What kind of a name is that, anyway?”) Magill fell hard, resigning on Saturday night, the most opportune point of the news cycle, and taking the university trustees board chairman with her. Elise S. can stencil two victories on the side of her fighter jet, with more to come.

Secondly, what the Hell is wrong with these people? Who acts this way? You can’t get beyond the age of twelve in American culture without realizing that smug arrogance gains you nothing and will get you nowhere. If you present a punchable face, you will be punched. How did Kornbluth, Gay, and particularly the smirking twit Magill miss this lesson?

This Chanukah, Let’s Vow to Defeat Our New Oppressors: Higher Education › American Greatness     "We know from history that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest and once again most fashionable form of bigotry, is the chameleon of all hates — forever taking on new hues to suit the scapegoating needs of the day. It has always been thus, and it will always be thus. This is a cancer for which there is sadly no cure.

. . ."But in the aftermath of Tuesday’s astounding congressional hearing with the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during which the demonic triumvirate smirked their way through rigorous bipartisan questioning and repeatedly failed to condemn calls for genocide of the Jewish people as contrary to their universities’ codes of conduct, we must make another related commitment. This Chanukah, modern-day Maccabees and like-minded fellow defenders of our Western heritage must commit to razing to the ground today’s Hellenizers: American higher education." . . .

You have to see how SNL treats Elise Stefanik in this skit  Have you seen anything more juvenile?

We Are Jews Against Soros

 

We Are Jews Against Soros | Opinion (newsweek.com) "George Soros is an evil man. In fact, he is one of the most evil men currently shaping American and Western politics, and global events more generally.

"To straightforwardly opine in this manner is not to traffick in antisemitism or noxious Jew-baiting. It is simply to share one's perspective about one of the most influential political donors, "philanthropists," and social activists in the world—someone who doles out countless sums to undermine and reshape in his dystopian image entire countries, spreading across at least five separate continents.

"It is frankly astounding that this even needs to be said. I am a Jewish columnist, podcaster, and public speaker. As such, I routinely share my opinions as a basic feature of my job. I imagine some of those opinions are provocative—perhaps highly so—for a subset of the population, especially those of a left-of-center bent. Some (very) small percentage of my critics may hate me and hate my opinions because I am Jewish, but it is surely the case that the overwhelming majority of my critics disagree with me on the merits of my ideas and contributions to the public discourse. Unless I have a compelling reason to believe a specific critic is acting out of rank bigotry, I operate from a baseline presumption that the critic is not a Jew-hater, but simply disagrees with my position.

"Again, this should be obvious. But for far too many, it is apparently not obvious—at least when it comes to criticism of George Soros.

"For years, whenever conservatives, nationalists, and traditionalists have criticized the absolutely sprawling influence of George Soros and his left-wing Open Society Foundations umbrella network, Soros' praetorian guard in the elected official class and corporate press invariably shriek, "That's antisemitism! You can't say that!"

"What utter tripe." . . .

The True Evil of Hamas

The Caroline Glick Show In Focus  "Hamas pretends to be the "nice guy" while we begin to hear about the horrors endured by the hostages and the terrifying nature of Palestinian society. Yet the Biden administration pushes onward to a Two State Solution of disastrous proportions."

Dumb and dumber: Ever wonder why transgender freaks are rooting for Hamas?

Barenakedislam  "You’ve probably seen the suicidal gay people in the West marching around with “Queers for Palestine” signs. When it comes to “Queers for Palestine,” what’s richly ironic is that many LGBT Palestinians seek asylum in Israel—the same country they are trying to wipe off the face of the earth. But this is even more bizarre."

Jill Biden's Ex-Husband Drops Bombshell Claim About Biden Crime Family

  Analyzing America   “After spoiling Jill for five years, I was on the wrong side of them, and they have literally come after me [for] 35 years in a row. One little thing after another.”

"The pair divorced back in 1975. “It’s been tragic,” Stevenson continued.

“ 'I can’t let them do this to a president that I love and respect [Trump]. I can’t let them do this to our country. This is why I’ve come forward,” he said.

“ 'This is the only reason I’ve come forward. It’s like I said, nothing about the divorce, no bitterness,” he explained. “But Jimmy (James Biden), Frankie (Francis Biden) and President Biden are very dangerous, and it’s tragic.”

“I can’t let them do what they did to me to President Trump,” Stevenson insisted.

"Stevenson alleged that Francis Biden threatened him in the immediate aftermath of the divorce.

“Frankie Biden, of the Biden crime family, comes up to me and he goes, ‘Give [Jill Biden] the house, or you’re going to have serious problems.’”

“I looked at Frankie, and I said, ‘Please. Are you threatening me?’” Stevenson asked.

“And, uh, needless to say, about two months later, my brother and I were indicted for that tax charge for $8,200,” he explained." . . .

Harvard Student Calls Out The Left's Failure To Support Jews: 'I Will Never Vote For Them Again'

  Analyzing America

“My family’s originally from Germany. They survived Kristallnacht. They know exactly how the Holocaust happened,” he continued. “It happened with the words. That’s how it first started, and we are seeing that those words and violent rhetoric and we are seeing the total moral abdication of universities, those who are supposed to be the arbiters of morality and values in our society betray us.”

"Ivy League presidents testified before Congress about the surge of antisemitism on their campuses, prompting outrage from Jewish students, one of whom called for the removal of Harvard President Claudine Gay.

"Some students and representatives expressed concerns over university leaders’ responses to rising antisemitism, particularly regarding calls for the genocide of Jews.

"Students and representatives criticized the lack of condemnation and appropriate action.

“ 'This was a softball question of ‘do you condemn the rising rhetoric and violence against Jewish students?’ And none of them would condemn it,” Harvard graduate student Shabbos Kestenbaum said.

“ 'If Claudine Gay had a heart, she would resign, and if the Harvard Board of Trustees had a brain, they would fire her.”

“ 'She’s an absolute disgrace to this university,” he added.

“ 'She has let down Jewish students repeatedly, and Harvard is simply not a safe place for Jewish students anymore. There is a moral rot at the center of all of these Ivy League universities.”

"Rep. Elise Stefanik questioned Harvard president Claudine Gay on the university’s discipline for students pushing for “Intifada.” . .  .

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Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest - American Thinker    "Watching Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s questioning of the presidents of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania may have been eye-opening for many, but for those of us who have been paying attention, it wasn’t. Their answers were dumb and once the full extent of their discriminatory policies are exposed in private litigation and Title VI federal and congressional investigations, it will be clear why they answered as they did, hoping to avoid the scrutiny they deserve. Even dumber are the students being taught at these and most of our colleges and universities. Dumbest are the boards which have for the past decades ignored the policies which have led to this, a clear violation of their fiduciary responsibilities to these institutions which have been rotted out under their watch.

Good luck finding “good teachers” with the educators stacked from top to bottom not on merit but on identarian bases. Choosing teachers on such bases isn’t the end of it. Admissions are also being made using identarian standards, and jiggering has consequences.

I can see all this being the root and foundation of Antifa. What intelligence have you seen manifested in anything Antifa ever did or chanted? TD

Front-page anti-Israel animus at The Washington Post - American Thinker  "It was telling, and not unexpected, to see the front-page, above-the-fold placement of the Washington Post article “Young Palestinians describe harsh treatment in Israeli jails” (12/04/23) describing alleged Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners.  With the origin of the recent Israeli/Palestinian war being the broken ceasefire and subsequent barbaric massacre by Hamas of 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians from infants to the aged, along with the taking of 240 hostages, also from infants to the aged, it wasn’t surprising to see The Washington Post have an article sympathetic to the initiators of the massacre — the Hamas-led Palestinians.  With the apparent end of what amounted to an exchange of innocent Israeli hostages with Palestinian criminals, the Post’s interest was to highlight alleged trauma that the Palestinian prisoners received rather than the Israeli hostages stolen from their homes and families.

"It is mind-blowing how the Washington Post can attempt to build a case critical of Israel for claims of, for example, occasional solitary confinement compared to Hamas gang-raping women, mutilation and dismemberment, and wholesale murder of Jewish civilians.  Hamas cut off the fingers and limbs of children in front of their parents, murdered parents in front of their children, gouged eyes out.  Does the Post really see an equivalence?

"The message of the article both in content and placement is clear.  The Washington Post has an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish animus. . . ."

If only the Israeli hostages — tortured, starved, dismembered, raped, and murdered — had a fraction of such rights.

 

Haley Vows War with Iran, China, Russia and TikTok

 Haley Vows War with Iran, China, Russia and TikTok - Ann Coulter

"This is why I always say immigrants should wait at least three generations before telling us how to run our country. Take some time, observe, and learn how the most successful country on Earth operates."

"GOP mega-donors are appalled that Gov. Ron DeSantis prohibited kindergarten teachers from sharing anal sex cartoons with their students. Must be some kind of fundamentalist nut.

"But a candidate who wants to entirely ban a social media app as bad for children? That’s our gal!

"Nikki Haley has vowed to shut down TikTok, right after she declares war on the entire world.

"In case you are not one of the 150 million Americans on TikTok, it is a China-based video-sharing app, primarily used by teenagers to post short reels of themselves lip-synching, pranking, dancing and creating optical illusions. Also cute animal videos. Also book reviews. #BookTok has multiple billions of views every year.

"Haley’s freakout over an app is only the latest in a long line of hysterias that seem to greet every new technology, particularly those popular with teenagers. (“Hysteria” is from the Greek word “hystera,” meaning uterus.)

"In the 1930s, Scarsdale mothers charged that radio was “overstimulating, frightening and emotionally overwhelming” for kids. Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, famed parenting expert, warned in The Washington Post that, unlike other diversions, radio “cannot be locked out.”

"Twenty years later, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, whose work was cited by the Supreme Court in overturning school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, said, “I think Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.” His 1954 book, “Seduction of the Innocent,” argued that comic books led to juvenile delinquency.

"In the 1980s, PTA moms nationwide were panicked over video games. One mom quoted in The New York Times said video games “are addictive, you can get hooked on Atari.” Another claimed video arcades “encourage gambling and antisocial, aggressive behavior.” (Endless studies have found no link between violent video games and violent behavior.)" . . .

Three Blind Mice: Victor Davis Hanson Scorches Disgraced University Presidents

  RedState

"We’ve seen it before: you can be fired as a professor or have your admission revoked as a student if you misgender a transgender person or question DEI philosophy. But seeing crowds of their own students and faculty calling for the genocide of the Jewish people, the presidents of several major universities reacted with a… meh.

"Harvard University President Claudine Gay, former University of Pennsylvania head Liz Magill (she resigned under heavy pressure Saturday), and MIT chief Sally Kornbluth all thoroughly embarrassed themselves and our country this week during hearings by the House Committee on Education and Workforce when they failed to condemn the virulent antisemitism on their campuses and the chants for “Intifada Revolution” and Jewish genocide by their students and faculty.

. . ."Senior Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson eviscerated the decline of our once legendary educational institutions in a blistering X thread Saturday, labeling the three school presidents “our three blind mice.”

. . ."The professor, farmer, and prolific author went on to point out that the three are supposed to be the smartest people out there, yet they were “utterly eviscerated by Republican congressional representatives with no such academic credentials.”

When the president of Harvard or MIT is rendered a moral pygmy and intellectual lightweight by our local congressional representatives, it warns us of what higher education has become and perhaps reminds why academics should be kept as far away from governance as possible.

"His final point was that they only issued groveling apologies in the wake of their disastrous congressional testimonies because they saw a threat to their universities' pocketbooks—in the form of withdrawn donations, of which there have been many. 

"But Hanson has a plan:"  But what are its chances?