Today I’ve got a lot of feel-good stories of leftists receiving their just desserts, but I want to start with a case study of how putting on ideological blinders can make you stupid. It involves Bill Maher.
If you’ve seen his HBO show or stand-up specials, you know that Maher can be an obnoxious and condescending leftist. But he’s also a smart guy who often sees through woke idiocy and calls it out, willingly taking criticism for doing so. His old show Politically Incorrect (1993-2002) often lived up to its name, when it wasn’t (ironically) being politically correct.
But even though I think he’s earned the incredibly rare description of “intermittently insightful leftist,” his politics cause him to have some shocking blind spots. A while ago, for example, Dave Rubin was his guest when Maher was berating Trump for being an “election denier.”
When Rubin pointed out that Cankles Clinton had spent much of Trump’s term blaming various conspiracies for her loss and calling Trump an “illegitimate president,” Maher was shocked at the idea, and blatantly denied that she’d ever said that.
How can you explain such a ridiculous statement from someone who has made his living by being hyper-aware of political bias, other than to call it an act of self-inflicted ignorance?
Last week he did it again. He had Ann Colter on, and he started a discussion of the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ parade by saying, “We don’t know who did this shooting, by the way.”
Colter drily said, “We have some idea.” Maher said, “What?” and she said, “If it were a white man shooting, we’d know.”
Maher insisted, “We don’t know,” and when Colter gave recent examples of non-white shooters being underplayed, Maher was incredulous. “You think they’re repressing that reporting?”
After a little more back and forth, Colter confidently said, “The longer they go without telling you, it’s not a white male.”
Maher responded by rolling his eyes and sarcastically saying, “We don’t know… [but] you know, because you have special powers.”
Annnnddddd… it turns out (after several more days of MSM obfuscation) that the shooters are black.
Unexpectedly!
If I’m reading Maher correctly, I think he could actually pass a lie detector test on that question: he authentically seems to be unaware of the obvious and consistent bias in virtually all MSM reporting on race, and especially on crime!
How can that be? One of the oldest political jokes I know has to do with a typical MSM headline announcing an imminent extinction-level event: “World Ends Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.”
Similarly, every crime story either becomes the object of obsessive focus and exaggeration or is ignored, depending on the race or politics of the perps and victims. Jussie Smollett’s risible hoax about Trump fans in Chicago nearly lynching him is the biggest story in the country… until the truth becomes clear, and the media slinks away.
Violent thugs like Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and George Floyd die in the process of committing more crimes, and they are transfigured from recidivist criminals into saints and martyrs.
Meanwhile white kids like the Covington Catholic schoolboys are confronted at the Lincoln Memorial by an aggressive American Indian weirdo (rumors that he is Liz Warren’s brother have not been confirmed, but still, #wemustneverstopmockingher), and they stay calm. So the media smear them as entitled white aggressors harassing a morally pure “person of color.”
Or how about Kyle Rittenhouse, the racist vigilante who went on a killing spree against innocent black civil rights protestors? Except that he’s not racist, and not a vigilante, and the guys he shot were all white sex offenders who attacked him, and deserved every bullet he fired in self-defense.
I could go on and on, but I don’t have to, because we all know the truth.
Except for Bill Maher, apparently.
It’s really depressing to recognize how many of our fellow citizens – and voters! – really believe the propaganda the media has been feeding them. But it’s especially so when a guy as smart as Maher, and who has a high profile job that entails obsessively following national politics, is totally blind to the most basic realities of American politics in 2024!
Ugh. Enough with the bring-down stories. Let’s take a quick look at a few stories of lefty follies from the past week.
First up is our Cadaver in Chief. How bad has it gotten for Dems trying to find something positive to say about Joe Biden’s campaign?
This bad: When Biden was doing a photo op at a Mexican restaurant in Cali, several people inexplicably wanted to take a selfie with him. (My guess? They were each hoping to get the last pic with a US president before he died, the creepy vultures.)
As he was posing, he pushed a button on a customer’s phone to switch it to selfie mode. And the Biden campaign actually put this out as part of a statement: The customer was “surprised POTUS knew how to do that.” To which the Corn Pop Slayer responded, “After the last guy, the bar’s on the floor.”
I know: the campaign considered that shot at Trump a shining example of witty repartee. But they buried the lede by sliding right past the telling, hilarious detail: This is what it’s come to! When Joey gaffes manages to press the right button on a cell phone, a potential voter was surprised he could pull that off!
Look for the following puff-piece stories in coming days:
- Voter in a public bathroom when Biden came in reports that Biden was able to use the urinal correctly. Voter shocked!
- During a photo op at Denny’s, Biden ordered something close enough to barely be recognized as a “Grand Slam Breakfast.” Waitress flabbergasted!
- Physician arrived at the White House in the morning to do a routine check of Biden’s vital signs, discovered that Biden had continued to carry out such autonomic functions as respiration and a semi-steady heartbeat overnight. Doctor stunned!
That’s our president, people.
Meanwhile, lefty media outlets continue to get blasted like Sonny Corleone at the toll booth in Godfather I.
I’ve already laughed about the closure of Jezebel and the Messenger, the firings of Brian Stelter, Fredo Cuomo and Don Lemon, and the job cuts at the LA Times, WAPO and CNN. Now we can add Vice Media to the list.
Vice was valued at almost $6 billion in 2017 – I’m assuming by socialist accountants who dusted their peyote with crystal meth whenever they did an audit – before they filed for bankruptcy and were sold last year for $350 million.
Now reports say that they’re trying to sell off a publishing business and fighting rumors that their entire site might disappear because they’re struggling to pay their monthly server bills.
Who would have thought that being dishonest partisan hacks and smearing half the country for years on end would end in tears?
Speaking of which, BuzzFeed is another media outlet that has been diligently searching for the alchemical recipe for turning malicious, dishonest socialism into profits. It bought an entertainment media brand called Complex for $300 million shortly before going public in December of 2021, and for the next year, its stock price hovered around $10 a share.
Its recent price is $21 dollars per share, which I would think is a good indicator of—
No, wait. I misread that. That’s supposed to be $.21 per share. As in 21 cents.
As in, you’re in the drive-through at McDonalds and they ask if you’d like to supersize your fries, and you say, “Yes, but I don’t have any more cash on me. Would you take three shares of BuzzFeed stock to make that a large fry?”
And the teenager in the paper hat would say, “No.”
So BuzzFeed announced more layoffs, and it just sold Complex for $108 million.
Now I’m just a simple country English professor, so I don’t claim to understand the complex world of high finance. But if our resident big financial brains – CO and Chris Silber – could help me out here…
Isn’t buying an asset for $300 million, and then selling it a few years late for $108 million what you’d call “buying high and selling low?”
And that’s not a good thing, right?
It’s not just behind-the-scenes lefty media types who are getting hit with the reality stick. Unfunny comedian Jimmy Kimmel has announced that he’ll likely be retiring at the end of his current contract.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that his ratings (and those of lefty scolds Colbert and the Daily Show et al) have crumbled, and ads on his show are bringing in 41% less than they were doing 4 years ago.
Maybe I was a little hasty in calling Kimmel “unfunny.” Because THAT is hilarious!
Finally, there are also some positive signs coming out of Gaza, where a Palestinian official is claiming that, “Hamas’ leadership is planning to remain in the besieged Gaza Strip and carry on their fight against Israel to the end.”
Sources suggest that three top Hamas leaders – one Mohammed (Deif), one Marwan (Issa), and top dog Yahya Sinwar, whom I am calling “Yahoo Serious” (look him up), because his name is equally stupid, and it amuses me – are all still in a part of Gaza that the IDF has not yet invaded.
They are supposedly determined to stay there and fight to the death.
Which means that this situation presents the terrorists and the good guys with a rare opportunity for bipartisanship. Since they want to die fighting, and we want them dead, this sounds like a win-win to me.
So here’s hoping those three stooges have the life expectancy of BuzzFeed, Vice Media, and Joe Biden.
Because as always…
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 