The media fails the American people again and again

The media are openly rooting for a surge in coronavirus cases, cheering for violence and racial division in our streets, praying for a slow economic recovery, and demanding that children stay home from school, because they are hoping it will hurt Trump at the polls. The veils have come off for the mainstream media. On November 3, the veils will also come off for the American voters. David Keltz

Recognize anybody in this 'toon?

The Veil Has Dropped from the Mainstream Media  "The last few months have represented a microcosm of just how destructive the mainstream media and their accomplices in the Democratic Party are. Their masks may cover their faces when they are seen in public, but their veils have been fully ripped off.  Make no mistake, the media are just as conniving, cynical, and nefarious as ever, but now they do not even pretend to care about journalistic standards of objectivity, integrity, professionalism, or the well-being of this country.  They have been playing the American people for suckers and underestimating our intelligence for years.  Now they truly believe we are blithering idiots, and just as naive as they always thought we were." . . .

Media bias and bullying go well beyond [Bari] Weiss  . . . "A supposed reporter asked Trump why white police were still killing blacks. Why didn’t she ever ask Obama that question?

"Trump should ask all the reporters why most journalists and other Democrats continually support Planned Parenthood, which was founded by a racist, which slaughters hundreds of thousands of black and brown babies each year at a much higher percentage than their percent of the population.
"Basically, almost all supposed journalists are essentially campaign workers for whichever Democrat is running. The facts haven't mattered to most supposed fact checkers for a long time. They are above all, campaign workers."

Kayleigh McEnany is so effective that the MSM is now lying by deceptively editing her comments  Watch the video It was not Kayleigh who called the rioters "a merry caravan".

Woke WOLVES and the COWARDLY Leaders of Liberal America    . . ."As [Bari] Weiss detailed in a widely read public resignation letter on Tuesday, she left her job after constant bullying by more left-wing colleagues (the vast majority) that included underhanded gossip, anti-Semitic innuendo and public attacks against her that would never have been tolerated had she been the one meting them out.
"She also described an atmosphere of pervasive ideological intimidation and conformity that finally made commissioning diverse viewpoints and writing and thinking freely — essential to opinion journalism — all but impossible.
"So Weiss left. But again, it wasn’t ultimately about her. The mob’s real targets are twofold.

First, the mob yearns to scare into submission everyone in a position of authority at the Times and any other liberal institution in America who might think it wise to hire someone like Bari Weiss — someone who draws outside the ideological lines and brings a fresh perspective.
"You can see how this works in the cowardice manifested by Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger. As Weiss noted in her letter, Sulzberger praised her in private, even as he simultaneously failed to defend her in public from the threats and slanders of her own colleagues, both in internal communications and on Twitter. Such conduct marks the journalistic scion forevermore as less a man than a mouse." .  .  . Full article here.

Police vs. morons

Black Portland Cop Slams Protesters In Oregon, There’s Fewer Minorities In The Protests Than The Police Line…  "Officer Jackson talks about being a black police officer working at the demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. "  Video

VIDEO: Chicago Officer To Protester Who Calls Him A Nazi “I’m A Latino You F**king Moron”

"This happened seconds later. Didn’t see the whole thing unfold, but looked like police were pushing people back onto the sidewalk and singled one person out. Another officer gets in a shouting match and gets aggressive, physical with others." Video Language advisory

Suspects Arrested in Shooting Death of Bronx Father Walking with Daughter

Image by Richard Terrell of Aftermath

Sickening. What emotional scars will this child carry for life. They deserve to live in a better area, but Democrats will put the shooters there as well.

Breitbart “ 'Davon Delks, 21, of the Bronx; Laquan Heyward, 25, of Staten Island; and Devon Vines of the Bronx face murder charges for the death of Anthony Robinson, 28, said police. All three suspects were reportedly gang members,” according to Fox 5.
"Police were investigating if the shooting was in retaliation of another shooting the night before, the report noted.
"Surveillance footage of the incident showed Robinson walking with his six-year-old daughter, according to Breitbart News." . . .

Sickening video

 . . ."Thirty-five people were shot last weekend in New York City, Breitbart News reported Tuesday.
“ 'The single fatality among the 35 victims was a one-year-old boy, shot while in a stroller Sunday night,” the article read, adding that the child was at a barbecue near Raymond Bush Playground when the incident occurred.
“ 'Three others were shot as well, and were transported to a hospital for treatment,” the report concluded." . . .

Joe Biden Campaign Hires Video Producer Who Recently Denigrated Cops, Called for Defunding the Police

Breitbart Politics

"Sara Pearl, a recently-hired video producer for Joe Biden’s White House campaign, called law enforcement officers worse than “pigs” and expressed support for the “defund the police” movement before she joined the campaign."  . . .

. . . "Pearl, who joined the Biden campaign on July 1, deleted her anti-police tweets after Fox News reached out to her for comment. Neither she nor the Biden campaign have responded to the news outlet. She previously worked on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) failed White House campaign.
"Pearl has also taken aim at President Donald Trump on Twitter, saying that comparing the president to a pig was an “insult to pigs!!!!”
"The Trump campaign continues to insist that Biden is weak on crime and unsupportive of police at a time when Democrat-controlled cities are experiencing violent unrest triggered by the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
"On Wednesday, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) endorsed President Trump for president; the organization supported the Obama-Biden presidential ticket in 2008 and 2012." . . .

Nice bank you got here. Too bad if something happened to it...

Could it be for Al Sharpton's birthday? 

. . . "CEO Brian Moynihan said the initiative is a four-year effort and will focus on minority communities that have experienced great impact from the coronavirus pandemic and unrest over the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.
. . . "Bank of America said its initiative will address minority healthcare, jobs and training, support for small businesses and housing and will be coordinated by the institution's 90 market presidents." . . .

Bank of America pledges $1B to address racial, economic inequality

 


I keep reading that Bank of America is giving $1 billion to BLM, but can find no evidence of that. CEO says BOA is giving $1 billion to "address minority healthcare, jobs and training, support for small businesses and housing [etc]." https://t.co/styqQGXyEZ

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 17, 2020

 I visualize Obama delivering cash on a wooden pallet. TD

Who is ‘Titania McGrath’ and why do woke liberals hate *her* so much?

Doyle, whose book “Woke” will be released September in the United States, claimed to have created Titania as a way to troll feminist activists because of what he called their inability to take a joke.

The woke movement has created its own parody; too bad they are so destructive.

Legal Insurrection
"Tucker Carlson Interviews the Man Behind the Parody Twitter Celebrity"

"If you spend any time on Twitter, you have probably seen tweets by Titania McGrath, a young woman who is so ‘woke’ that she often comes across as a parody of progressives. It turns out that’s exactly what she is, and the person behind her is a man.

Titania is the brainchild of a comedian named Andrew Doyle." . . .

. . . 

“Part of the point of the character she is po-faced, very sort of privileged woman who still think she’s this oppressed, modern day feminist who believes in a nebulous thing called the patriarchy,” Doyle explained about his online persona.

“She never laughs and never has a sense of humor, one of the reasons I wanted to poke fun at the whole ‘woke’ movement is it can’t have a joke. Can’t handle a joke constantly looking to be offended by absolutely anything even when there is nothing to be offended about. Of course, the ‘woke police’ aren’t going to like this book. The fact that they don’t suggest I’m doing something right.”

Tatiana McGrath: The only way we can stop fascism is if the police are allowed to arrest people for what they say and think.

Mac45 leaves this cautionary comment: 

In order for parody to be effective, it has to be identifiable as a PARODY. In the Case of Titania, this is impossible, unless one already knows that the character is a parody. Unfortunately, it is impossible to parody today’s liberal/Progressives, because, no matter how outrageous the statement, it still sounds like it came from an actual liberal/Progressive. And that is really, really sad.

Should People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?

Should we celebrate Weiss for accepting what until recently stood as universals as she supports the power-obsessed ideologies that inevitably lead to the anti-freedom, cancel-culture bullying that she decries?

Will O'Toole of Otoons

The American Spectator  "Bari Weiss, a liberal hired by the New York Times strangely to bring balance to its left-wing opinion page in the wake of the paper’s misreading of the 2016 electorate, publicized her resignation this week.
"Thirty-something editor Weiss wrote 30-something publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger that “the lessons that ought to have followed the election — lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society — have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
“ 'Everyone I knew was voting for Hillary Clinton,” she told podcaster Joe Rogan last year. She exudes identity politics but rationalizes this by claiming a distinction between “good identity politics” and “bad identity politics” (she goes for the former). She uses words like “cisgender” and “transphobic” (because everyone with their ear to the MAGA ground knows the “cisgender” and “transphobic” lingo on the lips of every red-hat wearer). She divulges, “I definitely consider myself a feminist.” Most telling of all, she suffers from the pseudointellectual tic of affixing the one-word question “Right?” to every declarative sentence as though it negates the authoritarianism of declarative sentences by Jedi Mind Tricking the listener into hearing democratic consensus when confronted with an individual opinion.Yet, hiring Weiss, an unabashed anti when it comes to Donald Trump, to offset the paper’s biases against that chunk of the population who voted for the president seems like a greater indictment against the Old Gray Lady’s slant than Weiss’s departure. A bisexual living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side who supports abortion, the repeal of the Second Amendment, a porous border, and so many other left-wing articles of faith strikes as a strange counterweight in that she sits in the scale’s cup that gravity already had pulled to the bottom." . . .

What About the Stalin Statue? The National D-Day Memorial Foundation still has some explaining to do.

If we insist - as I do - on keeping statues of American historical figures found objectional by some in this country, we must deal with the issue of displaying major participants in significant world events. Even those who were at least as evil as Adolph Hitler himself.

. . . "But who gets protested? Leftist mobs target Columbus, Washington, Saint Junipero Serra, even Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who (ironically) defeated the Confederacy during the Civil War before going to battle against the KKK and fighting for the right of black Americans to vote. And yet the ideological mobsters haven’t had a murderous communist tyrant like Joe Stalin on their target list? Why is that?

The American Spectator  "As leftists target monuments to everyone from Christopher Columbus to George Washington, Francis Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and even all of Mt. Rushmore, I was reminded of a memorial not on their radar. No, I’m not talking about the 16-foot bronzed statue of Lenin in Seattle, nor the memorials to their revered racial-eugenicist Margaret Sanger. I’m thinking of the bust of Joseph Stalin that emerged in Bedford, Virginia, in 2010.
"Do you remember that one? It remains on my mind, albeit not on the minds of progressives. First a history lesson, and then an update on the status of the statue:
"Stalin’s chiseled mug sat at no less than the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, where he was acknowledged as “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.” Stalin there joined FDR, Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill, who, ironically, finds himself in the ideological crosshairs of today’s Left, the subject of vandalization.
"That acknowledgment to Stalin at the D-Day Memorial was no secret. I wrote about it 10 years ago, as did others. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation had a website at one point (www.stalinstatue.com, now defunct), which featured a petition to remove the statue, with thousands of signatures from every state and dozens of countries, including some really upset folks from the former Soviet empire. Addressed to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation and President Barack Obama’s secretary of the interior, the petition demanded that the “true history of World War II must be protected from distortion and misinformation.”
"Among that misinformation: “neither Joseph Stalin nor Soviet forces played any part in the D-Day landing at Normandy.”
"Indeed, they did not. Even then, the Stalin bust represented a far graver distortion of historical reality. Consider:  . . .More...

Gov. Newsom’s California to Release 18,000 Prisoners to ‘Slow Spread of COVID-19’

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

News Punch   "Governor Gavin Newsom’s California is set to release a staggering 18,000 prisoners by the end of August to ‘slow the spread of COVID-19,’ the California Department of Corrections has revealed.
"Officials in California claim that releasing the prisoners into the public will help protect the “health and safety of the incarcerated population.”

“These actions are taken to provide for the health and safety of the incarcerated population and staff,” Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Ralph Diaz said in a press release.
“We aim to implement these decompression measures in a way that aligns both public health and public safety.”  
"Per Washington Examiner:

An estimated 8,000 inmates could be eligible for release by the end of August, in addition to the state’s reduction of about 10,000 inmates since Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in March, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said.The CDCR says its previous “pandemic emergency decompression efforts” have reduced inmate populations system-wide by approximately 10,000 people already, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission within its facilities.According to the CDCR, of the state’s approximate 115,000 inmates, roughly 2,400 prisoners have tested positive for the coronavirus, and at least 31 prisoners have died from COVID-19 related illnesses – accounting for roughly 2 percent and 0.026 percent, respectively, of the inmate population.

The Gateway Pundit  reports: Violent criminals, pedophiles and sex offenders are being released by the thousands in California as Democrat tyrant Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his second lockdown.
"Newsom on Monday announced a complete shut down of indoor dining, theaters, bars, museums and zoos due to an increase in Coronavirus ‘cases.’ " . . .

The NFL Is on the Brink; The league survived all sorts of crises in the past, yet they are in deep trouble like never before.

Victor Davis Hanson

Then game attendance fell. So did television viewership. Apparently, lots of fans had no desire to spend their Sundays watching 20-something multimillionaires lecture them that the American flag was not worth honoring.

"The National Football League celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar counterpart outside the United States." . . .
. . . "The league survived all sorts of crises in the past. It was one of the first professional sports to integrate its teams, doing so in the 1920s. But the integration unfortunately ceased, and the NFL didn’t reintegrate until the mid ’40s, becoming one of the last sports leagues to embrace fully a racially blind meritocracy."
"The NFL successfully absorbed the rival American Football League in 1966. So far the NFL has avoided federal safety regulations that could curb the incidence of physical trauma inherent in the sport."   But still.....
. . . "In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem. He claimed he was protesting the treatment of African Americans.
Kaepernick was an odd revolutionary. His mother is white, his father is an African American of Ghanaian-Nigerian ancestry, and he was raised by a middle-class white couple. Kaepernick’s only prior controversy was being accused by another player of using the N-word. He denied it but was still fined by the league.
Kaepernick’s rejection of “The Star-Spangled Banner” eventually spread throughout the NFL. Even though he was a backup quarterback, Kaepernick became a #Resistance idol. Soon he was a corporate ad man, pitching Nike sneakers.
. . . 
"The inspirational song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — also known as the black national anthem — will be played before every game of the first week of the season. The league is considering letting players wear protest insignia on their helmets or jerseys. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell apologized to players for not listening to them about racism.
"Yet the NFL capitulation poses fundamental problems for the league. It has now essentially green-lighted the sort of activism that has been eating away its profits in the past few years." .  .  .   Full article

A Silent Majority Isn’t Good Enough In The Culture War

The Federalist
"Whether the Silent Majority is enough to swing an election, it’s certainly no longer enough to swing the culture. If such a group exists, it needs to speak up."

Malleable Young skulls full of mush.

. . . "The “Silent Majority” comes up a lot these days, often in the context of a warning to Democrats about an electrified coalition of under-the-radar voters motivated to support President Trump by the left’s culture war. It’s true Democrats aren’t helped politically by their proximity to radical leftism, although I’m not sure I buy the argument it’ll cost them the Oval Office in 2020.

"Whether the Silent Majority is enough to swing an election, it’s certainly no longer enough to swing the culture. If such a group exists, it needs to speak up.

"I say that with deep empathy for everyone fearful of losing a job, friend, or relative if they push back, and for everyone with little interest in getting involved at all. That, of course, is the biggest challenge. There is a reason people are silent, and it’s a good one.

Dear Majority: your silence is allowing evil to rule over us!

"If, however, you happen to work at Boeing and a former Navy pilot is being forced to resign for a 1987 op-ed against women fighting in combat, consider that pushing back might not be as risky as you think. If you work in the public relations department, consider that weathering the social media storm might not be as costly as you think.

"If you work at the Smithsonian—or any other organization—and a deeply racist guide to whiteness is being circulated, consider that it might be worth voicing your discomfort with a document that ascribes concepts like “self-reliance” to one racial group. Consider that a smart and well-intentioned rebuttal might find more support than you realize. Consider that it might be galvanizing.

"If you work at or attend Penn State and the university is pressured to delete a tweet that welcomes conservative students, consider that a few calm defenses of the post might be enough to save it. Consider that saving it might send a message that reflexive appeasement is not necessary when angry leftists swarm on social media with unreasonable demands." . . .  Full article...    Visit the Tunnel Wall Blog

Can a Whole Country Go Mad?

Hollywood, Democrats and their candidates, academics, CNN and MSNBC "news", schools, American culture, Presidential candidates who choose foul-mouthed and America-hating soccer players for the U.S. Secretary of State, and the cancel culture with the destruction it leaves in its wake. Madness!

Judith Acosta  . . . "Like a man condemned to psychological torture in the Gulag, I started to recount all the lies we were being told under the guise of erudition and belonging.

I am not a man (anymore).

I did not have sex with that woman.

I can marry anyone, including my cat.

It’s all Trump’s fault.

"Then I wondered: Can a culture go nuts? What are the signs? And what happens when it really does?" . . .

. . . "This is what happens when God has been evicted from a culture. It is indeed a strange thing that is happening to western civilization. In the earlier stages of our culture, the existence of things unseen was hardly questioned. Today, if you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist at all. The locus of control has moved from a universe of the Divine to the essential singularity: One’s Self.

"As a result of this tectonic shift, there are things happening in our culture that are truly insane. Period. As a result of this increasing insanity I have resigned from the National Association of Social Workers. I am taking down the shingle that used to stand for compassion and righteousness, but now stands for nothing more than social indoctrination and lunacy, an organization that protests against the death penalty for serial killers but rallies in favor of partial birth abortion.

"Insane." . . .  Full article here.