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  • Hit Me Baby One More Time

    Hit Me Baby One More Time

    A few days ago I wrote about the Los Angeles Times forgoing a Presidential endorsement this year. Well, they aren’t the only major lefty rag to do so.

    The Washington Post has decided not to endorse any candidate for President this year. It is unclear if this decision came from Jeff Bezos, who owns the paper or from the Publisher Will Lewis. Lewis released a statement earlier today that reads in part:

    The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates….”

    https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1849846634529816686

    The meltdown by the left has been glorious. Take this one from Karen Attiah, a columnist for the paper:

    https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1849876910337106424

    And this one from the writer who claimed there was a far-right militia hunting FEMA people in North Carolina:

    https://twitter.com/bri_sacks/status/1849844672836899105

    Several other WaPo writers and editors have similar posts on X and other social media sites. Then there are the responses from ‘regular’ lefties, those unconnected with the Washington Post. Seems Olberman is having a normal one:

    https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1849855992684745165

    Here’s dumbass Obama-bro Ben Rhodes take. Fair warning, It’s as dumb as you’d expect:

    https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1849862846051758145
    https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1849873607163289666

    I should note that Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, who was hips deep in Ukraine under Obama.

    https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1849856252224077932

    I’m not sure that these high profile endorsements mean anything when it comes to electoral politics. They do not really sway voters all that much, especially now in the era of highly partisan media outlets. That said, the fact that WaPo has declined to endorse Kamala is a big-ish deal, bigger than the LA Times snub.

  • “2 Down. 6 To Go”

    “2 Down. 6 To Go”

    Nick Sandmann announced today that he settled his defamation suit with the Washington Post.

    https://twitter.com/N1ckSandmann/status/1286675866408431616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1286675866408431616%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fthe-washington-post-nick-sandmann-covington-catholic-twitter-defamation-lawsuit-lincoln-memorial%2F

    The Covington Catholic High School student’s life was nearly ruined because he smirked at serial liar, err, a Native American veteran protester, Nathan Phillips in front of the Lincoln Memorial two years ago, and it was caught on camera. 

    The jackals in the media set out to destroy this young man because he was a white, Catholic kid wearing a MAGA hat. However, this brave young man decided to fight back. In February of last year, he and his attorneys, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry, filed suit against CNN, WaPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, Rolling Stone, Gannett, and the New York Times.

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    Quiz: Science and Nature

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    https://twitter.com/N1ckSandmann/status/1286676812303564800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1286676812303564800%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fthe-washington-post-nick-sandmann-covington-catholic-twitter-defamation-lawsuit-lincoln-memorial%2F
    https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1286697836910989313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1286697836910989313%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2Fjohn-s-2%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fnick-sandmann-settles-lawsuit-washington-post%2F
  • Poll: Americans not as woke as media wants

    Poll: Americans not as woke as media wants

    A new poll seems to have shaken the media establishment. Turns out most Americans don’t want the things they want.

    A WaPo/ABC news poll found clear majorities did not want to defund the police, pay reparations for slavery, remove statues of the Founders who were slaves holders, rename military bases or remove Confederate statues.

    The breakdown looks like this:

    For defunding, or reallocating funds from, the police, 55 percent of Americans oppose moving funds from police departments to social services — and 43 percent say they oppose it “strongly.” Interestingly, among independent voters 53 percent are opposed.

    63 percent polled say the government should not pay reparations. 8 in 10 black people say the federal government should pay reparations while three-quarters of white people say the government should not. Among Hispanic people, 56 percent say reparations should not be paid. While 86 percent of black Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support paying reparations to black descendants, that falls to 35 percent among white Democrats and Democratic leaners.

    Regarding the Founders, 68 percent of Americans opposed and 25 percent in support of their removal. But while at least 7 in 10 white and Hispanic people are opposed, 6 in 10 black Americans support removing these statues.

    See also: Missouri Couple Charged

    Half of Americans oppose renaming military bases currently named after Confederate generals. Here the divide is generational, with a majority of Americans ages 50 and older opposed and a plurality of those under 50 supporting it.

    52 percent of Americans oppose removing public statues honoring Confederate generals. That includes an 80 percent majority of Republicans and 56 percent of independents in opposition, while 74 percent of Democrats support the removal of these statutes. Almost 6 in 10 white people, along with just over half of Hispanic people, oppose removing statues of Confederate soldiers, while over three-quarters of black people support their removal.

    The poll was conducted July 12-15 among a random national sample of 1,006 adults, with 75 percent of interviews conducted by cellphone and the remaining 25 percent by landline. The margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; the error margin is 4.5 points among the sample of 661 white adults and 10.5 points each among the samples of 113 black and 117 Hispanic adults.

    I’m not holding much hope, but maybe this poll will make the media realize that they’re stuck in a tiny little bubble. The coastal echo chambers they live in are limiting, and social media only amplifies that.