At Da Wire, Prominent Pollster Nate Silver: Biden On Track To Lose To Trump, Dems Have
‘No Plans To Fix The Problems.’ Mike Miller at RedState, Nate Silver Drops Truth Bomb on White House for Trying to Hide Biden's
Cognitive Decline Althouse, Nate Silver poses "A simple challenge to the White House" to prove Biden's
fitness as a candidate.
At Substack:
Over the course of the next several weeks, Biden should do four lengthy sitdown interviews with “non-friendly” sources....Yeah, of course, it's not too much to ask, but I think we all know in our heart it is too much for him to do. It's hard to picture him even doing 2 of these things. Or one.
For instance, Biden could pick... • A lengthy sitdown interview with the Washington bureaus of the New York Times or Washington Post. • An interview with 60 Minutes.... • An interview with some sort of center-right print or digital outlet... say the Wall Street Journal op-ed page.... • Wild card.... Go on Ezra Klein's podcast? Go on Rogan? Just kidding, I think. But Bernie Sanders did it....
This really isn't too much to ask.
Tom Nickels at Front Page, But Trump Has Dementia Too! "The Left's embarrassing efforts to save Biden's image." Hat Hair's KT takes note of Rashida Tlaib: 'If You Want to Be Louder, Vote Uncommitted'. ABC assures us Biden isn't leaving the 2024 race, but how would Democrats pick a nominee if he did? ""It's a timing question," one party member said." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair comments "It's too late to qualify via the primaries. Deadlines for ballot access passed months ago for most states. A handful of states might grant an exception, but the state Democrat parties would have to shift to a caucus system instead -- and even that would be tricky, and likely wouldn't provide any other candidate with nearly enough delegates to win a nomination. No matter what happens, opening the convention is the only solution." Bob Spencer at PJM wonders is it Bye-Bye, Joe? CNN Claims That Calm, Cool Kamala Is Taking Charge. At Da Wire, Presidential Historian Reveals Jill Biden Is The Reason Joe Biden Ran Again: ‘She Likes Power’, Wants ‘Revenge’. Reddit, Joe Biden doesn’t let cameras and witnesses stop him from groping children, no reason to doubt her own diary entries as fact. Ace, Politico: James Biden Used Joe Biden's Name to Promote a Bankrupt Company Paying Him for Influence. "MXM digests Politico's story so that you don't have to dirty yourself." At TNP, Biden Opened a Campaign Office in D.C. Because No One Wanted to Go to Delaware. It's hard to blame them.
Althouse again How to be 14th best. "Wrote Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, who are responsible for the survey reported at "Poll Ranks Biden as 14th-Best President, With Trump Last/President Biden may owe his place in the top third to his predecessor: Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office" (NYT)." Capt. Ed has a poddy, Media Sycophants to the Naked Emperor. At WaEx Dan Chaitin, New York Times Publisher Says White House ‘Extremely Upset’ With Coverage Of Biden. Matt Vespa at TownHall, CNN Legal Analyst Highlights What He Thinks Is the Real Biden Scandal. Libs Will Hate It.
The Dersh claims Whatever Mayorkas Did or Didn’t Do, He Committed No Impeachable Offenses, Isn't it a little late to claim actual offenses are necessary? Capt. Ed, "Maybe we're entering into a Golden Age of Impeachments. I think we're in another interregnum of mediocrities in politics of the kind that afflicted America in the period between Jackson and Lincoln, and less tragically in the period between Grant and Teddy Roosevelt later in the same century." From Ace, The Newest Wave of Invaders Over Our Open Southern Border? Chinese Nationals. "We're giving away our country and our birthright to a hostile communist foreign power." VodkaPundit at PJM, on Border Crisis: From 'Take the Money and Run' to 'Run and Take the Money'. KT at Hat Hair wonders about Biden's Hail Mary Pass: Is an Executive Order Coming on Immigration As SOTU Looms? Reagan Reese at Da Caller, Team Biden Reportedly Going All-In On One Big Hail Mary To Turn Campaign Around, SOTU. At Breitbart, Presidents Day: 5 Presidents Who Warned Against Mass Immigration. Breitbart finds Boston Families Furious as City Kicks Black Children Out of Community Center to House Biden’s Migrants. At Am Spec, Dave Catron believes Non-Citizens Have Been Voting Since 2008 "Is this why Biden recklessly opened the border to millions of illegal immigrants?"
Rick Moran at PJM sees Biden's Next Unconstitutional Plan to Forgive Student Loan Debt. Pete Suderman at Reason explains The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics. "Biden's economic policies gave us three years of excessive, wasteful, and poorly targeted federal spending." Nick Ballasay at JTN calculates In next decade, 84% of federal spending growth comes from health, Social Security, interest: CRFB. "Spending on Social Security will grow from $1.5 trillion this year to $2.5 trillion by 2034, while spending on health care will grow from $1.6 trillion to $2.8 trillion," says a new Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analysis." VodkaPundit again, What the Hell Do We Need Economists for When They're THIS Wrong? They did what they got paid for. Rick Moran again, It's a No-Brainer: Economic Growth Is Happening Mainly in Red States. Breitbart has a Report: Joe Biden Pumping Brakes on Electric Vehicle Mandates Before 2024 Election. Don't believe them, if they win, it's coming back. At Da Caller, ‘It’s Scary Right Now’: Autoworkers Worried Biden’s Electric Vehicle Push Could Kill ‘Thousands Of Jobs.’ Yep, and that's part of the point. mrcTV reports New 'Climate Czar' Podesta's Brother May Benefit From Biden's Gas 'Pause'. Hat Hair's Dave Strom is pretty worked up that Biden Administration Funding Research Into Edible Bugs Raised on Landfill Refuse. "We sound nutty saying "the Elite wants you to eat bugs." I mean, come on...if you didn't follow this stuff closely you wouldn't believe it either. It sounds as sane as claiming Bill Clinton got sexual technique tips from green aliens, right?" Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller, ‘I Would Love To See The Monument Go Away’: Rancher Suing Biden Over Arizona Land Grab Sounds Off.
Politico reluctantly reports Biden’s brother used his name to promote a hospital chain. Then it collapsed. "Jim Biden played a major role in a company called Americore, which the government has accused of massive Medicare fraud. At PJM, John O'Connor explains How Hur’s Report Hid Biden’s Obstruction.
At News Week, Exclusive: Donald Trump To Challenge Judge Engoron's Fraud Definition. Capt. Ed, "Ya think? A higher court should have pulled the plug on this earlier, but appellate courts do not like to insert themselves into the fact-finding mission of the trial court. All that happened here is that Trump exaggerated the valuations for loans, the lenders did their own due diligence and lent the money anyway, and then got paid back. No one lost any money, which makes the "fraud" allegation laughable on its face and the $355 million penalty an obscenity." Jerry Wilson at Red State sees Clean Up on Aisle Engoron: Hochul Attempts to Reassure NY Businesses They Won't Suffer Trump’s Legal Fate" unless they don't like your politics. Sundance at CTH, New York Governor Admits State Legal Targeting Was Only at Donald Trump. At LI Herr Professor Jacobson says Get Out of New York, If You Can. "Rough politics has given way to the political weaponization of prosecutors’ offices. The price of living in and doing business in New York should not be that you have to be politically obedient." From TNP the FedSoc Founder says Trump NY Case A Travesty On Par With Killing of Hamilton. Briana Lyman at Da Caller, Turley Lays Out ‘Insidious’ Part About Trump Ruling, he has to pay the exorbitant fine before he can appear. Breitbart, Trump Must Pay Half a Billion Dollars Before He Can Appeal New York Decision. Charlotte Hazard at JTN, Truckers boycott NYC following Trump's $355 million fraud ruling. "The civil fraud case against Trump was brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James." Jeff Lord at Am Spec, Truckers Target Trump-Hating New York Judge "A boycott of New York City." It would be better if it were water and power.
News Week fears Fani Willis Hearing Could Be Upended by Nathan Wade Texts. Capt. Ed, "If those texts are not protected by privilege, maybe it will. The next step, however, relates to whether all of the knowledge that Terrence Bradley has about their relationship is protected by privilege. And don't forget that this isn't the only DQ motion that McAfee has to consider. There are separate motions to DQ based on Willis' race-baiting speech at the Ebenezer Church last month." From Rumble, "This Case Is Dead" - MSNBC Legal Analyst SHOCKS Viewers. Richard Painter at the Slantic says Step Aside, Fani Willis. "Recusal is the right course for the Fulton County district attorney, even if the judge rules in her favor." Capt. Ed, "I don't think stepping away is going to solve the problem, though. First off, if Judge McAfee finds reason to believe that Willis and Wade lied on their submissions to the court on this first DQ motion, stepping aside won't save them for the consequences of perjury as officers of the court. Second, there is another DQ motion on the table over Fani Willis' public comments about the case and the principals in it, whom she cast as "racist" in remarks that got widely publicized in the jury-pool area. And third, if Willis was inclined to "step aside," she would have done so before her absurd performance on the stand last week." Hat Hair has the video, Fani Willis' Father Might Be Even More Delusional Than She Is "Fani Willis's father, John Floyd, took the stand a few days ago in Fulton County, Georgia, just one day after his daughter's outrageous performance while testifying — It did NOT go well." Well, he was a founding member of the Black Panthers.
Andy McCarthy at NRO (cited at Hat Hair) warns us Bragg Prepares Criminal Version of AG James’s Civil Annihilation of Trump. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair VIP, Just Because Donald Trump Is Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not After Him. Dave Strom on The Leftist Lynch Mob Attacking Trump. AT HE, Democrats are trying to send Trump the way of Alexei Navalny. TNP, War Criminal’s Daughter Says Trump Could Kill Political Opponents Like ‘Putin Did to Navalny.’ I do object to characterizing Dick Cheney as a war criminal, but otherwise, spot on. At ET, Supreme Court Could Set Landmark Precedent in Trump Jan. 6 Case. "President Trump and special counsel Jack Smith have filed competing briefs on presidential immunity."
Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks New Evidence in the J6 Pipe Bomb Story Is Bound to Cause a Stir. Looking more and more like a false flag.
Stacy McCain expounds on ‘News’ in the Post-Literate Age. "Somewhere, of course, State Department bureaucrats are watching CNN’s Alexei Navalny coverage and thinking to themselves: “Yes! Our message is getting out!” But there are more people watching Paw Patrol. Adjust your expectations to reality. Good night." At Points and Figures Jeff Carter finds Free Speech Is Truly Under Assault. "Your Betters Don't Think You Need It."
Dave Strom finds More and Worse Antisemitism at Harvard. Behind the Black finds There is no diversity in American academia, none at all. At Front Page Mark Tapson looks at BLM ‘Week of Action’ at School All About ‘Disrupting’ White America. "Welcome to the new Cultural Revolution." Leslie Eastman at LI, California’s Race-Based Amber Alert System Is Crazy, and Possibly Unconstitutional. "California…where we drown under atmospheric rivers of ludicrous race-based legislation." Mike Cantrell at PJM, R.I. Teacher Warns That DHS-Funded 'Media Literacy' Program Will 'Indoctrinate Children.' Joy Pullman at Da Fed, Our Library Stopped Late Fees, So I Stopped Returning Books.
PJM's Mick Cantrell finds an Anti-Catholic Drag Queen Busted for Child Pornography and Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Kevin Downey says The LGBTs Need to Do Something About Their PEDOs, ASAP,
Selwyn Duke at Am Think thinks There Can’t be a 'Trans Genocide' — Because 'Trans' People Don’t Exist At Da Wire, ‘This Is Sick’: British Hospitals Say ‘Milk’ From Men Equal To Mothers’ Breast Milk For Babies, but they think cows get too many hormones, and a Video: Trans Controversy Erupts When Girls Basketball Game Ends In Forfeit Following Three Injuries. “Trans-identified male player for Kipp Academy in MA injured 3 girls before half time causing Lowell Collegiate Charter School to forfeit,” Riley Gaines, a top collegiate swimmer-turned-girls sports advocate, captioned the video. “A man hitting a woman used to be called domestic abuse. Now it’s called brave. Who watches this & actually thinks this is ‘compassionate, kind, and inclusive’?” From Twitchy, Jordan Peterson Says Study on Trans Adolescents and Suicide States the ObviousWoman tells Christian man he isn't allowed in her 'gayborhood'
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) February 18, 2024
Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? The media would be sharing this everywhere. pic.twitter.com/f1S4ea9bya
Oh look:
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 19, 2024
The absolutely fucking obvious has once again been demonstrated.
Every clinician worth his or her salt already knew this to be true.
And damned few had the cojones to state it publicly.
I'm truly ashamed of the cowards in my profession. https://t.co/5XOFdrCiHB
Da Sun, The Baltimore Sun purchased by Sinclair’s David D. Smith "Business leader uses own funds in deal, returns Sun to local ownership"
The Baltimore Sun, the largest newspaper in Maryland, has been acquired in a private deal by David D. Smith, executive chairman of Hunt Valley-based television station owner Sinclair Inc.
Smith said Monday that he acquired Baltimore Sun Media on Friday from investment firm Alden Global Capital, marking the first time in nearly four decades that The Sun will be in the hands of a local owner.
Smith decided to personally buy the newspaper, along with the Capital Gazette papers in Annapolis, Carroll County Times, Towson Times and several other Baltimore-area weeklies and magazines, because of the publications’ focus on local news in the Baltimore area.
“I’m in the news business because I believe … we have an absolute responsibility to serve the public interest,” Smith said in an interview. “I think the paper can be hugely profitable and successful and serve a greater public interest over time.
. . .
Smith would not disclose how much he paid for Baltimore Sun Media. He purchased the newspaper group independently of Sinclair, which is known for its ownership of television stations and local news programming across the U.S. and a recent failed foray into regional sports network ownership. The Sinclair empire started with Baltimore’s WBFF Fox 45 television station.
Through his purchase of The Sun, Smith said he aims to help turn around a struggling newspaper industry, a decline he blamed on the industry’s inability to adapt to a changing market and to the internet, which has upended consumption and delivery of news and advertising.
He said he believes he can grow subscriptions and advertising for The Sun and its other publications by focusing more heavily on local and community news and investigations, boosting the use of video and social media, and integrating technology in ways other print media companies have been unable to do.
Smith criticized “mainstream media” in general for focusing on issues he said affect only a few people as opposed to those affecting greater numbers, adding that he finds it “curious that the mainstream media in this town often chooses not to cover things that affect everybody,” in particular concerning problems and corruption in government.
He said his first step will be to meet with staff and management of The Sun and its affiliates Tuesday to begin to understand the publications’ mission and operations and start discussions around future vision.
Capt. Ed at Hat Hair comments "This sounds exciting. It’s the first major newspaper purchase by a conservative owner that I can recall for a very long time. Smith says he wants to focus on local news and fact-based reporting as a model for profitability, almost exactly the opposite approach Jeff Bezos took with the Washington Post. It will be very much worth watching, especially for Williams’ contribution."
I usually have low cost leader e-subscription to the Sun which I use mostly for Chesapeake Bay related content. If it actually does become a more conservative paper, we might have to drop the WaPoo and pick up the Sun. I'm not holding my breath, though.
For some values of "random," "celebrity" and "news." avid Strom at Hat Hair claims Taylor Swift Is Not a PsyOp: Human Events@HumanEvents, "It's no secret
that Taylor Swift is immensely popular among the younger generation, but is
the media helping push her and the DINK (dual income, no kids) lifestyle she
promotes on Americans? Jack Posobiec and Evita Duffy say yes."
The theory is based on an obvious fact: you can’t escape Taylor Swift these days. She is always on TV–even hanging out with Mr. Double Jab Travis Kelce-MaAuto. She graces the cover of Time Magazine. And her music is everywhere.
For some reason, many in Trumpworld have decided to take aim at Swift and declare her sudden ubiquity in the media to the scheming of nefarious actors. I attribute it to the fact that she attracts eyeballs in a valuable demographic.
As something of a Swiftie–well, maybe not, but I liked her album 1989–I can confidently say that Taylor Swift’s ubiquity is nothing new. It is only notable because a new demographic is being exposed to her–the viewers of Kansas City Chiefs football games. This, it turns out, is a demographic less likely than most to pay attention to the comings and goings of Swift, so it may seem odd that she appears to be everywhere.
It isn’t. It is called celebrity. Few conservatives that I know are deeply invested in celebrity culture, but then again, few Millennials are deeply invested in the NFL or read Time Magazine, so it washes out.
Swift, who stayed out of politics for most of her career, has come out as a liberal, and this seems to be a key point in the conspiracy theory.
The genocidal profiteers trafficking in human misery in Pfizer’s marketing department, before whom Josef Goebbels would flush with envy, recently hijacked one of my YouTube crust punk videos (wrong demo, no disposable income) to sell migraine pills — this time featuring Lady Gaga. Via Pfizer:
“An Academy Award®, Golden Globe® Award, and 13-time Grammy® Award-winning actress and philanthropist, Lady Gaga was diagnosed with migraine when she was 14 years old, and it has had a profound impact on her life.
‘Lady Gaga’s story is a powerful reminder of how significantly migraine affects the lives of so many people,’ says Angela Lukin, Global Primary Care and U.S. President, Pfizer. ‘We believe that this collaboration will help raise awareness of this often ‘silent’ disease and inspire those living with migraine to have conversations with their healthcare providers about the best way to manage their condition’”
By showcasing Lady Gaga’s experience, Pfizer hopes to help people better understand the effect migraine can have on their lives and to show people living with the disease that they are not alone.”Translating the PR speak: “By showcasing Lady Gaga’s plastic-surgeried-to-hell avatar for NPC millennial/zoomer rubes on DeepStateTube, Pfizer hopes to open new profit-generating avenues with a non-geriatric audience that has thus far avoided our ads that saturate CNN or Fox News.”
[Gives me the willies. She looks like a Saran-Wrapped lizard woman out of a really bad original Star Trek episode. ~ Beege]
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A founding member of the Dixie Chicks, Laura Lynch, was killed Saturday in a car accident in Texas, according to a press release. Texas authorities stated that the 64-year-old musician had gotten into a head-on collision with another vehicle that was attempting to pass on a two-way highway.
A preliminary report indicates Lynch was driving eastbound on U.S. 62 when another driver traveling westbound attempted to pass another vehicle on a “two-way undivided portion” of the highway, according to the press release. Following the head-on collision, the westbound driver’s vehicle caught fire while Lynch’s vehicle rested inoperable in the wastbound lane. The Dixie Chicks founding member was pronounced dead on the scene by authorities, according to the press release. The other driver was rushed to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities reported.
Because I don’t watch much TV except news and sports, I know almost nothing about Millie Bobby Brown, one of the stars of a popular Netflix science-fiction series, Stranger Things. As for her fiancé, well, his dad used to be kinda popular in the 1980s, and maybe still is, if you count karaoke singalongs. When their engagement made headlines in April, there was a good deal of journalistic chatter: “Oh, they’re so young!”
Georgia and I weren't a lot older when we got engaged, back in the 70s.
Really? During the 1950s, the median age at first marriage for women in the United States was 20.3 years, which is to say that nearly half of weddings involved teenage brides. Such was life in the Golden Age of middle-class America, when Dwight Eisenhower was president. You would probably risk a United Nations human rights investigation if you advocated a return to the 1950s status quo ante, what with all the propaganda directed toward denouncing “child brides” (by which they mean any girl marrying before age 18). This is why Millie Bobby Brown’s engagement at 19 was “controversial,” as if she were a helpless child in a Third World village being bartered off by a tribal leader in some kind of primitive exchange where the father of the bride gets a herd of goats.
She's worth at least one small herd of goats.
The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year! ready at The Other McCain.
When they were rioting in Minneapolis, they were thugs and hoodlums, but attacking CNN? Civil rights heroes:Unlike most of the people whose businesses have been damaged or destroyed by the vandals that CNN has rooted on, I have zero sympathy for CNN.
A protest erupted at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta Friday amid nationwide demonstrations following the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, with many of the protesters seen vandalizing the entrance of the building in videos posted to social media.Terrible? No, it’s beautiful. Karma is a beautiful thing.
A crowd gathered in front of the CNN Center and grew over the course of several hours, initially breaking windows and spray-painting the CNN sign, and later throwing objects — including what appeared to be a firecracker that exploded — and reportedly shooting BB guns into the lobby.
The iconic CNN sign, a popular tourist destination in the downtown area, was covered with graffiti and others were seen jumping on top of the structure.
A CNN journalist captured footage of a window being shattered by the crowd, which can be heard sparking cheers.
Law enforcement eventually cleared the area, pushing the crowd further down the street.
Reporting from CNN correspondent Nick Valencia showed multiple police cars that were set ablaze and Georgia State Police entering the scene.
“This is terrible to witness, it’s terrible to witness,” Valencia told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
If you were hoping to see the mob dragging Brian Stelter’s lifeless corpse through the streets or parading with Jake Tapper’s head on a pike, however, you’ll be disappointed, because Jake works out of CNN’s D.C. bureau and Stelter’s in New York, not the Atlanta headquarters.
an American television journalist who serves as an overnight anchor and headline news reporter on Fox & Friends First and Fox & Friends.
Hasnie was born in Lahore, Pakistan but raised in Bedford, Indiana. She is a 2002 graduate of Bedford North Lawrence High School. Hasnie graduated with a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University where she was a Dick Yoakam Broadcast Journalism Scholar. During school, she interned as an on-air reporter at WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois (where her cousin, Maira Ansari, was a reporter), WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, and GEO-TV in Pakistan.
After school, she accepted a position as investigative reporter and fill-in anchor at WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she was nominated for an Emmy award for an investigative report on voyeurism. In 2011, she accepted a position as investigative reporter at WXIN-TV (FOX59) in Indianapolis and also served as anchor of First at Four. In January 2019, she accepted a position at Fox News in New York City as overnight anchor and news correspondent for Fox & Friends First and Fox & Friends.Who says they only pick blondes?
Melas began her career at CNN as a news assistant. She left in 2009 after meeting editor Bonnie Fuller, helping her launch Hollywood Life. Melas eventually became the site's senior entertainment reporter. In 2010, she hosted her own weekend entertainment segment on New York City's WNYW television station. In 2011, she also became the host of Penske Media Corporation's ENTV, where she filmed spots for ION, Yahoo!, and Vodaphone.
In 2013, Melas became one of the hosts of VH1's morning show The Gossip Table.The show ran for four seasons until it was cancelled in September 2015.
In 2014, Melas joined the New York City television station WPIX as its weekly Hot List contributor, where she discussed the biggest entertainment news of the week every Friday morning. Melas has been a contributor on Fox & Friends, HLN, The Wendy Williams Show,The Insider, The Today Show, and elsewhere.
In 2017, Melas covered a publicity event for the film Going in Style, starring Morgan Freeman. Melas, who was pregnant at the time, said that Freeman made several inappropriate remarks to her. Melas reported the incident to CNN, which then informed Warner Brothers, a division of Time Warner. Time Warner did not take any action on the report because it could not corroborate Melas' account. Melas "heard rumblings about Mr. Freeman's behavior with other women" and decided to pursue leads on the story.The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Carole King and FMJRA 2.0: Monolight up on time and under budget. Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. Linked at Proof Positive in the weekly Best of the Web* and at The Right Way in the weekly Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama.
