NBC accused of smearing Covington Catholic teen in 'Law & Order' episode. Law & Order update!

Washington Times

"If you watched “Law & Order: SVU” this week, you may have noticed that the teenage boy in the red cap locked in a faceoff in the middle of a rowdy crowd bears a strong resemblance to Nicholas Sandmann.

"A week after being sued by the Covington Catholic teen, NBCUniversal aired an episode Thursday of the long-running hit series with a scene that looked a lot like the 16-year-old Sandmann’s viral Jan. 18 encounter with an older Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial.

"Certainly the conservative Media Research Center thought so, posting an analysis Friday accusing the show of slandering Sandmann by perpetrating the debunked media narrative of a racist teen taunting a person of color — in this case, Nathan Phillips being replaced by a Muslim councilwoman.

"“It’s probably not the smartest idea to mock a group of people as bigots as they are currently suing you for $275 million dollars in a defamation lawsuit,” said a film critic on the “conservatarian” Society Reviews website." . . .

UPDATES: They do have a track record:
Rerun: "Law & Order": another TV show that sucker-punches half the American population  "We began watching a 2009 episode of "Law and Order" entitled "Fed" last night and I had to shut it off at the start. We saw people like ourselves - TEA par-tiers, portrayed as rifle-toting, hateful bigots. Only Hollywood is capable of inspiring dislike and outrage by the simple means of the skillful acting of those who portray people like you and me as despicable and violent. They give us the same treatment they give to pharmaceutical  and insurance companies.
"May God bless all courageous conservatives in our country trying to stem the socialist tide sweeping America because the left has such massive force to bring against them. And the propaganda is being spoon-fed to the American public. How do we stand a chance?"


More examples of this here.

Mike Pence Calls for Ilhan Omar to Be Removed from House Foreign Affairs Committee

Plus this bonus feature:  Muslim Ilhan Omar and Stalinist Angela Davis Form Mutual Adoration Society

. . . "We collectively must make sure that we are dismantling all systems of oppression…we’re the party of love, the party of compassion.” (Ilhan Omar expressing her lifelong adoration for Angela Davis, lifelong devotee of a system that conquered, enslaved, tortured and murdered many more human beings than Hitler’s Nazis.)"

PJ Media  

"Today, in an interview with Fox News, Vice President Pence called on the Democratic House leadership to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“ 'Ilhan Omar has made statements, anti-Semitic comments against our most cherished ally, Israel, that ought to be rejected by every American," Pence said in the interview. "And frankly the fact that very recently, she’s been trying to blame the United States of America for the deprivation and the poverty brought on by the dictatorship in Venezuela tells me … Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has no place on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Democratic leadership ought to remove her."

"This is not the first time Pence has called out Omar for her despicable views. “Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress, much less the Foreign Affairs Committee,” Pence said of freshman congresswoman back in February. Democratic leaders have yet to hold her accountable for her anti-Semitism, and it’s unlikely they will now. Omar did offer a rather insincere apology for her statements, but hopes that the controversy surrounding her would fade away were lost when she managed to put her anti-Semitic foot in her mouth again, Rather than hold Omar accountable, Nancy Pelosi actually defended Omar’s anti-Semitism, claiming Omar "has a different experience in the use of words."

"The Democratic Party has a growing problem of tolerating anti-Semitism amongst its ranks, and failure to address it has allowed it to become mainstream in their party." . . .

. . . "Even if the Democrats did remove Omar, it would be over a public relations concern, not a genuine desire to oust the anti-Semites from their party."

Matt Margolis is the author of The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama and the bestselling The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. His new book, Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama's Legacy, will be published in July 2019.

Don't try posting the above in Denmark: Crackdown on Islam-Critics in Denmark

. . . "Shakespeare was right. There IS something rotten in the state of Denmark.

"I took a quick look at Steen’s Steen’s blog. He has posted — using a borrowed computer — about what happened. He’s not the only one who was rounded up this morning; evidently this was a big day for cracking down on “Islamophobes” in Denmark." . . .
"In Denmark! I thought Denmark was different, but evidently not." . . .

Via Gates of Vienna

Democratic Party dreck*: See how many you can recall

*Dreck: "Worthless, distasteful, or nonsensical material: "the dreck that generally passes for the modern sitcom' "

James Mullin  "The so-called party of the common man seems to have more than its share of trash.  One wonders if the Democrats below actually have had any time left over to represent the people. 
"If you can't recall or are unaware of any of these, don't forget to thank the mainstream media and social media and the internet tyrants. 

• Richard Blumenthal – publicly lied about Vietnam military service.
• Dianne Feinstein – had a communist Chinese spy on her staff for 20 years.
• Joe Biden – creeper extraordinaire; questionable business dealings in Ukraine; ties to Fast and Furious and Benghazi; plagiarism.
• Robert Menendez – publicly censored by his own Senate for corruption.
• Eric Holder – Obama attorney general, where the buck likely stops on Fast and Furious; withholding evidence in Sen. Ted Stevens investigation; illegal targeting and surveillance of reporter James Rosen.
• Loretta Lynch – Obama attorney general famous for illicit "tarmac meeting" with Bill Clinton.
• Bill Clinton – "I did not have sex with that woman."
• Hillary Clinton – Uranium One; Benghazi; Steele Dossier; contempt for the common man.
• Elizabeth Warren – AKA "Pocahontas," publicly lied about Native American ancestry and used such for Harvard position.
• Andrew Cuomo – "America was never that great," infanticide-celebrator.
• Keith Ellison – accused of domestic violence.
• "Beto" O'Rourke – DUI, leaving the scene, publicly lied about it.
• Kamala Harris – ask Willie Brown.

. . . Read the full list here.

Post–Mueller Report Reminder: The Russians Would Have Loved President Hillary Clinton

Remember Hillary's red "Reset" button?  Looking back it seems like something AOC would do with the Russian Ambassador.

American Thinker  . . . "Did Russia interfere in the 2016 election by other means?  That answer is assuredly "yes," but there was no organized scheme of coordination, conspiracy, or "collusion" with the Trump campaign.  It wasn't necessary and would pay no dividends.  Clinton was Russia's preferred candidate.

"So why would Russia interfere?  Quite simply, to sow (more) discord and acrimony among the political parties and voters to undermine American government, society, and leadership.  After the Trump victory, the Russian agitprop apparatus shifted to organizing anti-Trump demonstrations that American media all too obligingly covered.  For all that, Kremlin actors likely exchanged high fives and fist bumps for their handiwork's amplified effects.  You can bet they'll be back with more meddling in 2020.

"All 400-plus pages of the Mueller report — redacted or not — are now a historical document.  The more important question now is, whom does Russia — and whom do other global bad actors — wish to see in the White House come 2020?  Whom would Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping prefer to face in a stare-down with the stakes higher and the objectives being the Baltics, Central Asia, or the South China Sea?  Which candidate does Iran or North Korea prefer to see in the White House?  If our 2016 experience is prologue, such actors will both overtly and covertly default to the Democratic candidate.

Race Relations: If Democrats Would Get Out of Our Way

He speaks of his father's experience as the lone black firefighter in his station who, I feel, would be someone I would want to see have reparations. How sad that the experiences of his father would be cheapened by the likes of Al Sharpton or Maxine Waters. TD

Lloyd Marcus

"To keep blacks feeling like victims in a forever racist America, Democrats keep the flames of racial division burning. Blacks are only 12% of the population. This means white voters gifted the first black president two terms. Despicably, Democrats continue to tell blacks, “Keep voting for us to keep racist white America off your backs.” Contrary to the Democrats’ lie, we have come a long way baby in race relations in our country. Living, working, and playing together, a majority of Americans work out their racial issues. We need race-baiting Democratic politicians to get out of our way.

Read the sad account of his father's treatment by the firefighters at his station here.

. . . "Racism will exist along with every other sin until Jesus returns. Thanks to pioneers like my dad, blacks are thriving in every area of American life. We just need Democrats to stop scheming to divide us."

The US-China confrontation.

A (Trade) War with China is Inevitable  . . . "Since coming into office, Trump has targeted China for being an unfair, predatory trading partner. Trump has picked up the protectionist rhetoric that was traditionally the province of the Democratic Party, outflanking the pro-labor elements of the left and thereby gaining the support of the Rust Belt states in 2016. The defeat of Hillary Clinton was not only a defeat for the leading Democratic contender for the White House, but also marked the end of the comfortable and very corrupt consensus around supporting “free trade” with totalitarian police states like China.
"Each time that Trump has imposed tariffs on Chinese products or set a deadline for the ongoing negotiations, the financial markets have quavered in fear, reflecting the abhorrence investors have for disruptive change. But most investors looking at China also reflect an infantile naivete when it comes to the true nature of the communist state. “When the time comes to hang the capitalists, they will bid against each other for the sale of the rope,” Vladimir Lenin is reported to have said." . . .

U.S. Hikes Tariffs on China to 25 Percent as Trade Deficit Narrows, Negotiations Continue  . . . "On Friday, the U.S. hiked tariffs on China from 10 percent to 25 percent, a sharp increase worth more than $200 billion amid ongoing trade negotiations. At 9:00 AM EST, the world’s largest and second largest economies will resume talks.
“ 'Talks with China continue in a very congenial manner – there is absolutely no need to rush – as Tariffs are NOW being paid to the United States by China of 25% on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods & products,” President Trump tweeted early Friday morning. “These massive payments go directly to the Treasury of the U.S.' ” . . .

. . . "The Chinese vowed to retaliate.

“China deeply regrets that it will have to take necessary countermeasures,” China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.

"While Wall Street and D.C. have largely opposed President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy, it is clearly working to reduce the trade gap between the two nations." . . .

Flashback Video: When Democrats Were Against Holding The AG In Contempt…

Weasel Zippers   2012: House holds Holder in contempt over Fast and Furious; Democrats charge racism  . . . "More than half of the House’s 191 Democrats marched out of the chamber before the first vote to protest the proceedings rather than cast ballots. Some accused the Republicans of racism for challenging Holder." . . .

There will be a theatrical show for the skulls full of mush out there.

Congress contempt citations pretty toothless, says Brit Hume. Eric Holder, Lois Lerner proved that.

Tony Branco

Dems Invite Controversial Imam Who’s Expressed Support For Hamas To Give Prayer On House Floor

Daily Caller  "A Muslim cleric who called for violence against Israel and expressed support for Hamas gave the opening prayer before the House of Representatives Thursday, angering several representatives.

Omar Suleiman, an imam and president of the Yaqeen Institute, delivered the invocation at the invitation of his congresswoman, Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Republican New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is Jewish, decried the invitation in light of the fact that Suleiman has repeatedly called for a third Intifada against Israel, referred to Jews as “Zionists” and called them “enemies of God,” and defended the terrorist organization Hamas on social media.

"Suleiman has also openly supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and Israeli businesses. The BDS movement has several financial and personal ties with Palestinian terror groups." . . .

The Little-Known Story Of Mary Jo Kopechne

Heavy.com

Powerline Blog  "I am so old, I actually remember when Chappaquiddick happened. Some years later, I looked into the facts and found that they are quite clear: Senator Ted Kennedy, then 37 years old, drove his car off a bridge and saved himself, leaving a young woman to die, when she could have been rescued if he had simply called for help like a normal human being. Instead, he tried to convince his cousin to take the fall and, failing that, lawyered up. Ted Kennedy is not history’s most contemptible man, but he is easily in the bottom one percent." . . .
. . . "There isn’t any doubt about that. But liberals like Ted Kennedy have always believed that some people are important, and others aren’t. Mary Jo Kopechne was in the latter category. She was collateral damage in the Left’s attempt to remake American society. If she is mostly forgotten today, it is because most news outlets shared Ted Kennedy’s political goals and were happy to cover up his craven cowardice." . . .

Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape

Victor Davis Hanson

There will be no indictments of Trump for either collusion or the obstruction of justice during the investigation of that non-crime. So now what?

"Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr’s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump–Russia collusion narrative.

"Barr recently released a brief summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusions that Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians to warp the 2016 election. Barr added that Mueller had not found enough evidence to recommend that Trump be indicted for obstruction of justice for the non-crime of collusion.

"Progressives, who for 22 months had insisted that Trump was a Russian asset, were stunned. But only for a few hours.

"Almost immediately, they redirected their fury toward Barr’s summation of the Mueller report. Yet few rational people contested Barr’s synopses about collusion and obstruction.

"Both the Mueller report and Barr’s summation can be found on the Internet. Anyone can read them to see whether Barr misrepresented Mueller’s conclusions.

"Again, there have been few criticisms that Barr was wrong on his interpretation that there was no collusion and not enough evidence to indict on obstruction of justice." . . .

The Persecution of Attorney General Bill Barr

Rich Terrell

The Morning Briefing: Clowns Vote to Hold Barr in Contempt . . . "The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt because he refused to turn over the unredacted Mueller report, including material he is legally prevented from releasing to Congress. A copy of the complete report, without the grand jury material, is available for some members to view. No Democrats have gone to read it. Nadler, the chairman of the committee, could go to court to get an order to release the material but he hasn't done that, so one has to wonder if he wants the complete report or he wants to damage the attorney general. That's a rhetorical question. Of course the goal is to create a spectacle and damage Barr." . . .

William French writes at National Review: Against the Persecution of Bill Barr

"The Democratic party’s current war on Attorney General William Barr is one of the most misguided, misplaced bursts of outrage that I’ve seen during the first term of the Trump administration. Barr protected the Mueller investigation, he went above and beyond legal requirements to release Mueller’s report to the public, and he has offered to congressional leaders far more details about the investigation than are publicly available. Yet now he’s subject to congressional contempt proceedings?  "This is nonsense." . . .

One can fake sincerity (Joe Biden does it well) but fear shows itself truly.

 Attorney General William Barr mentions spying, and fear roils the Democrats
. . . "But in Washington, they don’t call it fear. They pretend, rather, that it is the anger of the righteous. Yet it is fear just the same, that treacly Washington bureaucratic and political fear." . . .
. . . It is the same fear that was felt in Rome and later in pre-revolutionary France, and now they feel it in Washington.

"And the man who is causing it all is Attorney General William Barr.

"Because when Barr explained, almost casually and quite publicly just a few weeks ago, that he was looking into the origins of the inquisition of President Donald Trump and that discredited Russian collusion business, and into the “spying” on the Trump campaign, something happened.

"The Washington establishment’s fear rolled over him in waves." . . .

Update: Dems Hold Barr In CONTEMPT, Proving They're Long On Partisanship, Short On Historical Memory

. . . Most Democrats strongly condemned Republicans seven years ago when the House (including several Democrats) voted to hold President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil contempt of Congress for failing to turn over thousands of pages documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. Key distinctions between the two situations illustrate why there is no Republican support for a contempt vote today."

Mike Harris

Follow-up update: Democrat Penn state Rep. Brian Sims: The decline of public discourse even in the halls of governments

To "Dox": Dox definition, to publish the private personal information of (another person) or reveal the identity of (an online poster) without the consent of that individual: The professor was doxed by a bitter student who failed her class. Several players doxed the programmer because the final version of the game disappointed them.  

Democrat Offered Reward to ‘Dox’ Pro-Life Teens "Teenage girls praying outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia were harassed by a Democrat state politician, and the father of two of the teens has contacted police after the girls were apparently “doxed” by abortion supporters." . . .
"Joe Garecht says his wife, two of their daughters, and one of his daughter’s friends were praying in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic April 18 —the Thursday before Easter — when they were approached by Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims who “yelled at them for ten minutes, then comes back with his phone and starts recording video.” Garecht said his wife didn’t recognize Sims, who was elected in 2012 as the first openly homosexual member of the state legislature. The Garechts also didn’t realize Sims had posted the video online, offering $100 “to anyone who will identify” them.
. . . "In the video, Sims calls them “a bunch of pseudo-Christian protesters” and says “there’s nothing Christian about” opposing abortion. The Garechts are devout Catholics; two of the girls in the video are home-schooled, while the oldest Garecht daughter now attends a Catholic day school. In the video, Sims can be seen calling them “a bunch of white people,” at which point Garecht’s daughter’s Hispanic friend says, “I’m not white.” . . .

In 2017, CNN applauded harasser of women and teenage girls Brian Sims . . . "And the CNN producer portrayed Sims as virtuous for pursuing an online critic and his grandmother.  (Sims would make that ominous "get the household" tactic a component of future misdeeds.)"  Perhaps Sims will provide Bail for this Democrat.

"It seems that the Brian Sims I interviewed in 2013 is not the same Brian Sims anymore." It was . . . "a column about a politician who is as passionate in his support for abortion rights as I am in my opposition to abortion."

The Next Battlefront: Social Media

Sims

Does Brian Sims Hear Himself?  National Review.
"Representative Sims is a low kind of man with a low kind of mind, but Representative Sims is, in fact, representative . . ."
 . . . "Some fanatics are dangerous. Almost all of them are boring. They are tedious in themselves and the cause of tediousness in others. Forgive me for repeating this story: I once had a student who discovered the Palestinian cause in college, as a certain kind of WASP suburbanite does, and she endeavored to turn every conversation to the evils of Israel, rarely speaking a sentence that did include the word “Zionist,” which she pronounced in a distinctly low-pH way. I shared with her Winston Churchill’s observation that a fanatic is “a man who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” She did not miss a beat. “Exactly. It’s like when you’re debating with a Zionist . . .”



Immoralists: The Example of Brian Sims  . . . "Strangely, the strange man condemns the protester as “extremely racist.” He announces, “If you’re a white person like I am we have a lot of catching up to do. We have a lot to apologize for. I’m going to start by apologizing for this woman.”
Why not apologize for Planned Parenthood’s racism?
"Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger spoke at a Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1926. She called “the aboriginal Australian” the “lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development.” In one letter, she used the n-word to refer to a black man.
" 'The Jewish people and Italian families,” she testified before the New York legislature, “who are filling the insane asylums, who are filling the hospitals and are filling our feeble-minded institutions, those are the ones the tax payers have to pay for the upkeep of, and they are increasing the budget of the state, the enormous expense of the state is increasing because of the multiplication of the unfit in this country and in the state.' ” . . .

UPDATE, 6:30 CDT: Pro-Life Rally Garners Over 1,000 Participants In Response To Rep. Brian Sims. Here Are The Highlights.  . . . "Another moving moment came when prayer broke out for the unborn. As noted by Nate Madden of The Blaze, the prayer outside the clinic comes just days after Rep. Sims live-streamed himself harassing teen girls for praying outside that very clinic." . . .  Video 

. . . "Garecht and her husband have helped raise over $118,000 for the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia since Monday.
"The rally also challenged a false narrative too often perpetrated by the Left and their mainstream media allies: the pro-life position is not one held by “the patriarchy”:" . . .

. . . "Every speaker at the Pro-Life Rally today except for @MattWalshBlog is a woman. No "male-dominated" pro-life movement here! @abbyjohnson @lilagracerose Dr. Monique Ruberu Richara Krajewski Ashley Garecht Tina Whittington Toni McFadden Marilyn Musgrave @LaurenMuzyka