The ridiculous stories are coming at us so fast that I might have to make this another three-column week. No promises, but I’ll do my best.
We Don’t Hate the Media Enough
This story is already two weeks old, but I have to mention it: George Stephanopoulos put on a truly shameless display when he interviewed Nancy Mace on his sleazy Sunday morning show.
He opened with a clip of Mace talking about her rape when she was a teenager, and then attacked her for supporting Trump, whom GS dishonestly said – 10 times! – had been found “liable of rape” against the crackpot E. Jean Carroll.
Mace fought back and repeatedly played the victim card – rare as it may be, she was actually justified in this case for doing so! But I wish she had really attacked GS directly, because he certainly deserves it. I wanted to hear her say something like this:
“George, are you telling me that I shouldn’t support a candidate just because he’s been accused of rape?” (Wait for him to give a smug, self-righteous reply.) “Well didn’t you coordinate the vicious attacks on Bill Clinton’s numerous sex assault victims, including Juanita Broaddrick, who credibly accused him of raping her? And didn’t you call those victims “nuts and sluts?” And didn’t you refer to their true accusations as “bimbo eruptions?”
“And by the way George, you know very well that Tara Reade has credibly accused Joe Biden of doing to her exactly what Jean Carroll said Trump did to her, except that Reade knows the year it happened, as well as the day and the place and the details. Since her charge is so much more credible than Carroll’s, will you agree to denounce Joe Biden right now, and urge your dozens of viewers to refuse to vote for him, since you strongly disapprove of rapists?”
Ugh. If our MSM weren’t thoroughly corrupt, they’d never hire someone like GS, and if he had a conscience and even a scintilla of self-awareness, he’d never be able to attack a rape victim on air, after he’s spent decades pimping for Clinton and Biden.
To follow that story up with a little schadenfreude chaser: Trump has filed suit against ABC News and GS for defamation. Those suits don’t usually succeed, but Trump’s might have a chance, since GS repeatedly said that a jury found Trump “liable for rape.”
Unfortunately for him and ABC News, and even though the Carroll jury were biased hacks who bent over backwards to pretend to believe her, even THEY couldn’t go as far as GS claimed.
They answered 10 charging questions in their verdict. The first one read, “Did Ms. Carroll prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Mr. Trump raped Ms. Carroll.”
Their answer, and I quote, was “No.”
So here’s hoping that Trump beats George like he’s going to beat Fani’s fanny.
Stupid Criminals
Today’s Stupid Criminals story has a little mystery to it, because I found two media stories about it, but one says that it happened in Trenton NJ, and the other in Muskegon County, MI. So let’s just look at what the stories agree on:
At 2:00 a.m., Citizen-of-the-Year candidate Andray Ingram, 34, used a hammer to break into an apartment and assaulted the resident there. Then he tried to enter the main home that apartment was attached to. He broke the ring camera with the hammer and made it inside, before the owner greeted him with a pistol.
Shortly after that, cops arrived to find Andray with a brand new hole in his chest. He was taken to a local hospital, where he joined the choir invisible.
The moral may at first seem obvious: Moron Brings Hammer to Gunfight, Goes Down Swinging.
But I think the lesson is more complicated:
Hammer vs. Unarmed resident; Hammer Wins.
Hammer vs. Ring Camera: Hammer Wins. But…
Hammer vs. Pistol; Armed Homeowner Wins.
In other good news, the Israelis ignored Tony Blinken, Que Mala and the Biden administration’s strongly worded letters telling them to leave Hamas alone now that they are trapped and one the edge of defeat in Northern Gaza. (You know, like the allies left Hitler alone once we had him trapped in Berlin, or the way we left the Japanese alone once they had pulled back to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
Instead, the IDF raided the al-Shifa hospital over the weekend, killing 170 terrorists and capturing 480 more. They also “located weapons and terrorist infrastructure in the hospital.” (You know, the way your local hospital will also be a staging place for jihadi lunatics, RPGs and AK-47s.)
Israel also said that it killed Fa’aq Mabhouh – a guy whose name sounds like a verb followed by a direct object – whom it identified as Hamas’ “head of internal security.”
According to NPR, though, “The Government Media Office in Gaza said Mabhouh was in charge of the coordination between tribes and UNRWA to bring humanitarian aid into northern Gaza.”
They say “tomato,” I say “tomahto.” And by now, I think we all know what Hamas calls “humanitarian aid,” don’t we?
Anyway, I’ll always remember Fa’aq as the guy whose name I will NOT spell out phonetically, because I’m a gentleman. If I weren’t so gentlemanly, I’d be tempted to speak for all of us when I say to the “Government Media Office in Gaza” (which, oddly enough, is Arabic for “NPR”), “Fa’aq Mabhouh, and the horse you rode in on!”
But I am a gentleman, and I know that hearing about the deaths of so many terrorists can hurt the tender feelings of many of our leftist brethren and cistern, let me rephrase what happened in a way that will ease their minds:
“Women’s health care in Gaza was defended by IDF medical personnel who surgically removed 170 tissue masses at the al-Shifa hospital. These “parts of a woman’s body” ranged in age from 57 to 165 trimesters. You are now free to shout these abortions.”
Sorry. My crack staff tells me that “cistern” was the wrong word to use in the last sentence, and that I should have used “sistren.” I apologize for the mistake, and will happily amend my last paragraph to replace “cistern” with “septic tank.” Mea culpa.
Celebration of Excellence
Finally, I highly recommend to you the Daily Wire’s new 8-part video series by Bill Whittle on the history of the Soviet Union, called “An Empire of Terror.” I’ve only watched the first episode and the first five minutes of the second, and it is stellar. The production values are high, and it provides a great re-cap for people who already know the outlines of the story.
It really brings alive the heartbreaking cruelty and malice at the heart of all top-down central control schemes (99% of them leftist), and the shocking extent to which those evil forces worked in Russia. And for those who have only learned about the story in public school – i.e. those who have barely heard of it – it will be a gut-wrenching revelation.
Whittle knows how to tell a story by starting with some intriguing details, and then providing a Paul Harvey-esque “the rest of the story” payoff.
For example, the second episode begins with the story of a train carrying a devastating biological secret weapon that left Switzerland for Germany and then on to Russia in November of 1917. Whittle reveals that Lenin was on that train, then cites a haunting 1929 quote from Churchill: “The Germans turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed train like a plague bacillus…”
Whittle hammers home the point: “Lenin was not carrying the weapon. Lenin WAS the weapon.”
The comparison of communist ideology to a plague bacillus is chilling, but it might even be understating its destructiveness! In the 14th century, the Black Plague killed no more than 30 million people at the most, while communism killed 100 million people in just the last 87 years of the 20th century. (And the actual plague never imprisoned, tortured and immiserated tens of millions more, the way the commies did!)
You need to subscribe to the Daily Wire to see the entire series now, but I think most conservatives would benefit from supporting the Daily Wire. They have some great writers/speakers (Andrew Klavan, Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro among them), and they make docs (What is a Woman?) and comedies (Lady Ballers) that Hollywood wouldn’t touch.
They are even making wholesome cartoons for kids to counter the agenda-driven, grooming weirdos at Disney and elsewhere.
So check out “An Empire of Terror,” if for no other reason than to say, “Fa’aq Mabhouh!” to Disney and the MSM.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 