PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WHEN SNL WAS GOOD. I DON’T KNOW, AS FAR BACK AS I WATCHED IT WAS A PROPAGANDA JOB. JUST A MORE SUBTLE ONE: Report: Cecily Strong Felt Uncomfortable, Backed Out of SNL’s Tone-Deaf Antisemitism Hearing.
December 12, 2023
IT’S NOT EVEN A NEW LIE: Not ‘Trump the Dictator’ Again.
SOMEHOW I DO NOT THINK THEY’LL GET THE SAME TREATMENT AS THE LAST GROUP ARRESTED FOR ENTERING THE CAPITAL: Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters demanding cease-fire arrested in Senate office building.
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN WOULD UNIFY THE COUNTRY – HE DOESN’T SEEM ABLE TO UNIFY HIS PARTY: Most Americans back Israel in Hamas war, Democrats deeply divided: poll.
THEY’RE MAKING THEIR APPEAL MORE SELECTIVE: Disney’s worst-rated theme parks revealed as company raises ticket prices across US locations.
QUESTIONS THEY DON’T COVER IN TEACHERS’ COLLEGE: Horrific video shows moment student attacks teacher before choking, raping her: ‘Why won’t you just die?’
IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE: How to Really Fix American Higher Education.
The solution to present discrimination isn’t more discrimination. And it is certainly not for the Jews who have been discriminated against inside the current DEI regime to beg for better placement inside its corrupt hierarchy.
I repeat—because it bears repeating—attempts to expand the DEI bureaucracy to encompass Jews are bound to fail because Jewish identity undermines the whole woke progressive framework. Is Judaism a race? If so, what color, since that’s of course very important? Or is it a religion? Or an ethnicity? Or a culture?
Jews are, by their very existence, an affront to this crude ideology.
Read the whole thing.
ANTISEMITISM: THE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE RACISM: California baristas fired after blocking Jewish customer from bathroom claim owner knew of antisemitic graffiti for months.
THIS CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE, RED STATES ARE RAAAAAAAACIST!: Black students are thriving in red states as blue states fail them.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Biden Admin Pays Anti-Israel Group That Spreads Lies About Gaza War To Fight ‘Disinformation’.
OYEZ, OYEZ: Prometheus Hall of Fame Awards Finalists.
December 11, 2023
A SMALL SIGNIFIER, at Gold’s Gym.
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
THE NORTH POLE’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Children On Best Behavior After Santa Announces Naughty Kids Now Receive The Marvels On Blu-Ray.
THIS IS MOSTLY ABOUT TAX REVENUE: Ghana warns against illegal Starlink services. “Ghana is the latest country in Africa to warn against using Starlink before it issues licenses for SpaceX’s satellite broadband service. The National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana’s telecoms regulator, cautioned the general public Dec. 7 against using services purported to be from Starlink following reports of equipment being sold and operated in the country. . . . Regulators in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Senegal have recently issued similar warnings to the public and Starlink resellers operating without permission.”
JIM TREACHER: Mondays, Am I Right? I am right.
Deadspin has now quietly rewritten that terrible blog post defaming a nine-year-old child as a racist, and the author has protected his Twitter account. I hope that kid’s parents sue them anyway.
Especially since Deadspin is lying about it. Here’s their “editor’s note:”
“We regret any suggestion that we were attacking the fan.”
Oh, really? This is the first paragraph of the original piece:
“It takes a lot to disrespect two groups of people at once. But on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, a Kansas City Chiefs fan found a way to hate Black people and the Native American at the same time.”
That sure sounds like an attack to me. They accused a little kid of racism for dressing up as his favorite team’s logo.
Deadspin deleting what their writer said, and then lying about what was deleted, sure seems like cognizance of guilt. They defamed a blameless child, they know it, and now they’re scrambling to cover their asses.
Bring on the lawsuit!
I look forward to the day when Deadspin is tossed on the scrap heap, right next to Gawker and Jezebel. Clickbait hacks, beware.
Earlier: Sports journalism utterly sucks: Deadspin ‘blackface’ debacle proves it.
#HIMTOO? Famed L.A. DJ accused of sexually assaulting 6 teen girls: Rolling Stone.
Influential Los Angeles radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer has been accused of sexually assaulting six underage girls decades ago, including two who went on to successful music careers.
On Monday, Rolling Stone published a report detailing Go-Go’s guitarist Jane Wiedlin’s allegation that Bingenheimer, believed to be 27 at the time, assaulted a then-15-year-old Wiedlin at his club, English Disco, in 1974.
“It was weird; it never occurred to me that that had been a crime. I didn’t know what to think. It wasn’t until the #MeToo movement started when I realized I was sexually assaulted by [an adult] when I was 15,” Wiedlin told the magazine.
Why did Wiedlin wait until six years after the #MeToo phenomenon began to come forth about Bingenheimer?
Flashback to October of 2017: The sexual predators everyone still worships. “What do we do about predators we actually think are cool?…What is the point at which it becomes necessary for us to channel our inner Savonarolas and just start burning? Is one confirmed incident enough? How many Station to Stations or Physical Graffitis are worth the assault of a single woman or child? Are we affirming or materially contributing to their crimes when we watch films or listen to music made by abusers?”
ELDERLY SOCIALIST TACITLY ADMITS THAT HER WORLDVIEW IS TO THE LEFT OF STALIN: Taylor Lorenz Says NYT Only Allows Right-Wing Opinions At Newspaper.
On Monday, journalist Taylor Lorenz shared a story about The New York Times’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and explicitly stated that the newspaper only allows right-wing opinions to be showcased in its publication.
The piece Lorenz shared blasts the Gray Lady as alt-right for condemning antisemitism and Hamas while noting “the left-wing tilt of higher education is not only wrong but dangerous.”
We here at Not The Bee have covered many of these right-wing moments at The New York Times, such as the instance where The Times lamented the lack of “kink” in The Little Mermaid remake.
There was also the story where the NYT promoted the traditionally conservative value of polyamorous sexual relationships.
The alt-right paper is also known for it’s very conservative headline about elections being bad for democracy.
Far more so than Woodward and Bernstein and Watergate, we must give credit to the WaPo’s Lorenz for finally exposing one of the greatest and carefully crafted long cons in American history:
● In the 1930s, Timesman Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for whitewashing Stalin’s terror famine in Ukraine.
● In 1953, the Times published an obituary for Joseph Stalin which should be in the dictionary as the very definition of “fawning:” Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.
● More recently, then-editor “Pinch” Sulzberger was quoted by New York magazine as saying in 1991, “[A]lienating older white male readers means ‘we’re doing something right.'”
● It was during that era that former Timesman Peter Boyer described the atmosphere in Sulzberger’s newsroom as “moderate white men should die,” according to William McGowan in his exceptional 2010 book Gray Lady Down. The following decade, then-editor Howell Raines, who was responsible for serial fabulist Jayson Blair joining the paper’s staff, described his preference towards diversity over a quality product in a classic Kinsley gaffe: “This [hiring] campaign has made our staff better and, more importantly, more diverse.”
● In 2004, the Gray Lady’s then-ombudsman Daniel Okrent famously wrote, “Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”
●This past October: NYT: A Week Later, Hamas “Fails to Make Case” that Israel Struck Hospital; UPDATE: “Editors Note”?
Marry yourselves to terrorists in haste, repent at leisure? The New York Times has all but redefined ‘leisure’ in this old axiom with its ever-so-slow retreat from its initial report that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza.
A week ago, the NYT and every other American media outlet swallowed that Hamas claim without question while sourcing it from “Gaza’s health ministry. Even after Israel provided video of the failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and radio communications from Hamas confirming the incident as friendly fire, American news media declared that the IDF hadn’t “proven” their case.
Now, a week later, the ‘Paper of Record’ grudgingly admits that the claim came from Hamas and never did have any evidence supporting it. The headline itself is a marvel in the annals of modified limited hangouts (via Power Line):
As America’s Newspaper of Record reported in mid-October: New York Times Patiently Awaiting Zoom Call From Hamas To See What They Should Print Today.
That’s nearly a century of subterfuge, as the Times spent article after article building a nearly impenetrable false front that it was a leftist “Progressive” newspaper. Fortunately, one woman at the Washington Post has finally managed to crack one of the greatest and most brilliantly conceived scams in journalistic history
STONE AGE PIONEERS: Homo erectus’ High-Altitude Life 2 Million Years Ago.
FOR HEALTH AND LONGEVITY, EAT MORE MEAT:
Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistically controlled. Stepwise linear regression selected meat intake, not carbohydrate crops, as one of the significant predictors of life expectancy. In contrast, carbohydrate crops showed weak and negative correlation with life expectancy.
The science is settled. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?
GREAT GIFT FOR SOMEONE WHO SITS A LOT: KINGSMITH Electric Standing Desk, Adjustable Desk. #CommissionEarned
HIGHLY RESISTANT TO GEN-Z CARJACKERS: 2024 BMW Z4 M40i Manual Transmission First Drive.
READER FAVORITE: DMoose Forearm Exerciser. #CommissionEarned
MAYBE ON AN AIRPLANE: Would You Trust Frangible Ammunition in Your EDC Gun?
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The China Trap (And Ours). “You need to see how China has become so deeply weird — a still-developing economy with all the baggage of a fully developed economy like ours.”