And yet the Kavanaugh standard will live on

Jim Treacher: "#MeToo Is Dead, and Doug Emhoff Killed It."

For the record, I don't believe the Emhoff slapping story from these anonymous sources.  But I didn't make up the Kavanaugh standard of evidence and if the media applied it equally this story would be the lead on CNN for a week.  It's now obvious that standard only applies to Republicans.

The Left hates free speech, continued

Federalist: "Tim Walz Endorsed Censorship In Front Of Millions Of Americans And No One Cares" - "The Democrat vice presidential candidate doesn’t understand the First Amendment and clearly disdains free speech."  

That's why they have to mute the mics. 

How Vance won: trial by fire

Sasha Stone: "America Finally Got to See the Real JD Vance - The media was caught out once again lying."

Vance has learned a thing or two from battling a hostile press. Walz has avoided them and it showed last night. He did what Biden did - he stared with a terrified look on his face as Vance spoke.

But for Vance, there isn’t a nasty question he hasn’t already had to answer at least ten times. If you’ve been watching his press conferences as I have, you already know he can handle them. He was born to do this. You can tell when he’s about to give a really good answer because he blinks very slowly to show he’s tolerating their terrible question as he locks and loads.

But it wasn’t so much how he batted the moderators around — always a fun thing to watch — but how he directed his message straight at us, those watching at home.

Vance soared in this debate because he absorbed the lesson that Trump did not in his debate: the mainstream media is your enemy.  At every campaign event, Vance invites questions from the press which is almost universally hostile to him and Trump.  And he answers them.  So when it came time for the debate, Vance was well-practiced and tempered by fire.

On the other hand, Democrats in general are so used to the kid-gloves treatment that the result is Walz's fumbling and bumbling performance.  Me?  Answer questions?  What is going on?

J.D. Vance won the debate

Is it too late for a Vance-Trump ticket?  Vance did a great job even in the face of yet another 3-1 pile-on from the CBS moderators.  Climate change as the second question?  FFS.

Your new meme:

When it's important to stand

Twitchy: "Who Ordered Word Salad for Dinner? Watch Kamala Harris Botch Easy Question on National Anthem."

Should Americans stand for the National Anthem?  Kamala: "Meh."

Should Americans stand for Kamala as she enters a room?  Kamala: "Hell, yes!" - "Kamala Harris viewed White House aides not standing when she walked into a room as 'a sign of disrespect,' book says." 

Kamala's Katrina

PJ Media: "The Biden-Harris Federal Response to Helene Is a Total Disaster."

Don't worry: the "President" was working the phone from the beach.

"I was on the phone for two hours" as a response to Americans dying in floods ought to be remembered as one of the most shameful statements ever uttered by an American president. https://t.co/VbEe7uey3p

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 30, 2024

The Left hates free speech

The Corner: "California Leads the Way in Undermining Freedom of Speech" - "This is a cautionary tale of what would happen if progressives get the chance to load up the judiciary with their brand of ideological judges." 

These people

Legal Insurrection: "Leftist Icon Fran Lebowitz to Bill Maher: Biden Should ‘Dissolve’ the Supreme Court."

Sure thing, toots.

Tricky Ds

Derek Hunter: "Why Can’t Kamala Harris Prove She Worked At McDonald’s (And Why It Matters)."

There was a third-party political ad shown during the football game that alleged that Harris worked at McDonalds while Trump is a billionaire.  Did she work at McDonalds?  Isn't it false advertising to say so when there isn't a shred of evidence this is true?

She’s never told a story about her summer at McDonald’s, never explained why she allegedly worked in a McDonald’s in California while living the rest of the year with her mother in a rich area in Montreal. Was she visiting her dad, who is still alive and she never, ever talks about (we don’t know why because no one asks) for the summer? Did the wealthy Marxist economics professor force his daughter to work at the absolute symbol of capitalism during their limited time together? Was he just really into irony?

These are questions a normal media would ask. Since we don’t have normal media, they aren’t asked.

We've noticed.  We'll never find out what kind of gun she owns either although some suspect it's a "Focusgroup 3000." 

There's nobody home

Washington Examiner: "White House Report Card: Total failure by Mr. Potato Head as US becomes irrelevant." - "This week’s White House Report Card may be the worst yet for President Joe Biden and his administration, a rare double “F” from our conservative and Democratic graders." 

"Thank heaven he wasn't a Republican" - Washington Post

Washington Free Beacon: "'Father Figure': Mainstream Media Eulogize Hezbollah Butcher Nasrallah, Who Slaughtered Innocents Across the Globe - 'Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide,' writes WaPo." 

But was he an "austere religious scholar?"  

I support this practice

Reason: "Kids Should Be Blindfolded and Dropped in the Woods at Night - In the Netherlands, kids grow up with more independence than in the United States."

At the risk of dating myself, my youth was spent playing Nerf football in the street during the day and then playing "Manhunt" well into the dark.  Never once did I have a "playdate" and I walked to school every day of my life (yes, even kindergarten).  Some have suggested that the declining birthrate in America is connected to the time and expense of driving your kid to soccer practice or ballet lessons every other day.  

This guy is representative of the entire media

Federalist: "Washington Post’s Incurious Philip Bump Says The Media Should Just Give Kamala The ‘Benefit Of The Doubt’" - "Bump is ready to quickly move on from any issue that could be a problem for the political party he’s trying to help win this election." 

Extra - "Greg Gutfeld: The Media Would Rather Have You Die Than Trump Be Right." 

The Hezbollah org chart is getting thin

Fox News: "Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Beirut strike." 

Yeah, it's called an election year

NY Times: "Harris, at the Border, Shows Democrats’ Hard-Line Evolution on Immigration."

The gaslighting is amazing.  Of course, the media will play along: "'In the Real World, She'd Be Toast': Gutfeld Slams Media for Covering Up Those Damning ICE Numbers." 

Not a true story

White House transcript:

When I was a senator and I introduced the first effort to ban them, those weapons, I literally was walking through the swamps of eastern — the Northeast Cor- — excuse me, in southern Delaware, down in the area where the r- — where the swamps and rivers are. There was a guy fishing, and he looked at and me and he said, “Biden, what the hell you going to take my gun for? Why are you going to take my assault weapon?” He was fishing. And I said — (laughter) — true story. And I said, “You need that?” And he said, “Yeah.” (Laughter.) I said, “You must be one hell of a lousy shot.” (Laughter.) “And I don’t see a lot of dear running around here wearing Kevlar vests.” (Laughter.) He said, “Well, that’s not” — “Well, why do you have it?” “Well, I hunt.” “You hunt? Like hell.” (Laughter.)

Sure thing, chief.  Kamala covered this up. 

The IDF takes it to 11

World's worst jobs

1. Hezbollah
2. Spinal Tap drummer

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 27, 2024

The simplest explanation is that Kamala is a moron

People are starting to (finally) notice that Kamala Harris is a complete airhead.  The softball MSNBC interview yesterday only underscored this conclusion and even the New York Times couldn't deny the obvious: "Even the NY Times Admits That Stephanie Ruhle Is a Hardcore Kamala Harris Partisan Who Did Not Press Her on Any Issues, Says Kamala Harris Failed to Offer Any Substantive Answers."

Charles C.W. Cooke says we should apply Occam's Razor here:

Now, I hear similar questions about Kamala Harris. Why can’t she talk in public? Why can’t she answer elementary questions? Why can’t she provide any details of what she believes — or outline her political agenda — without descending into indecipherable platitudes? I think the answer is similarly simple: Harris is incapable of any of that, because she doesn’t have anything useful in her head. Hers isn’t a language problem, it’s an ideas problem. The issue is not that Harris possesses all manner of well-considered notions but struggles to translate them into English; it’s that she’s never engaged with politics as anything other than an electoral exercise, and she probably couldn’t if she tried. Last night’s interview with Stephanie Ruhle further persuaded me of this. Words follow thoughts — and Harris doesn’t have any.

She's a dimwit.  That's the answer.  

MSNBC, natch

The Corner: "Kamala’s First Very Big One-on-One Media Interview Will Be with . . . an Ardent Kamala Booster" - "Since the Ruhle interview is going to be pre-taped — of course it was going to be pre-taped, God only knows what might need to be edited out — you can safely assume it will make no news and present Harris in the most flattering light possible. Harris is too fragile a candidate to face an actual journalist. She needs loyal servants instead, and she has no shortage of them in the media." 

No kidding.

PDFs attached

Just the News: "Bombshell transcripts: Trump urged use of troops to protect Capitol on Jan. 6 , but was rebuffed" - "Key lawmaker says interviews prove Pentagon wrongly allowed optics to overwhelm security concerns in lead-up to fateful day. The Pentagon's top brass did not comply with Trump's orders because of political concerns and "optics."

I knew the J6 Committee was a complete farce when they pumped up Madison Cornbread's testimony about Trump allegedly grabbing the steering wheel of the "Beast" without requesting the testimony of the President's driver who could have easily confirmed such an event happened.  

Spoiler alert: it was a physical impossibility for Trump to grab the steering wheel.  Nice try, Liz Cheney.

Biden: "Kamala was right by my side!"

PJ Media: "Biden Is Totally Trying to Sabotage the Harris-Walz Campaign." 

New Trump ad just dropped pic.twitter.com/kVRDPg33tg

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 25, 2024