Straight into the pages of Cameron Diaz’s new book, apparently. Must be a voluminous tome.
Headline writers are supposed to be immune to these mistakes, what with all their vaunted checkers and backups. Obviously management is skimping on the backups at E!
Via Volokh Conspiracy.
Ten days after he indicated in a public forum that he thinks Israel is an apartheid state and a liability for the United States, and despite being called on it by PJMedia, Dinesh D’Souza hasn’t said an additional word about it—in public or on his blog.
“With a large college audience, and facing an open Israel hater and supporter of the BDS movement in [unrepentent terrorist] Bill Ayers—who of course agreed with the questioner, and condemned Israel as an apartheid State–D’Souza had a great opportunity to explain why morality compels one to support the state of Israel. D’Souza had a great opportunity to push back against the atrocious lie that Israel is an apartheid state, similar to racist South Africa. He did not do that.”
I take his silence to mean that he meant what he indicated, that he also believes Israel is an apartheid state and a liability to the U.S. He’s welcome to his opinion, of course, as I am welcome to mine and I’ve removed the link to his blog from my blogroll and will stop promoting him in any way.
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The Fairness Doctrine officially died in 2011, years after the FCC stopped enforcing it on broadcast and cable news in 1987. Comes now the Son-of-Fairness, the Critical Information Needs survey of television and radio newsrooms and, incredibly, newspapers as well. Says dissenting FCC commissioner Ajit Pai:
“…the agency selected eight categories of ‘critical information’ such as the ‘environment’ and ‘economic opportunities,’ that it believes local newscasters should cover. It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their ‘news philosophy’ and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information.”
The FCC claims that its survey is about ensuring that communication industry barriers for entrepreneurs and small businesses are eliminated.
“This claim is peculiar,” says Pai. “How can the news judgments made by editors and station managers impede small businesses from entering the broadcast industry? And why does the CIN study include newspapers when the FCC has no authority to regulate print media?”
Instapundit opines: “You might say they’ll regret this when a Republican is in the White House, but I think this is about making sure that never happens.”
Wiretapping the Associated Press and seizing phone records of a Fox News reporter apparently weren’t enough for the Democrats. They’re going to be proactive now.
UPDATE: A radio talker fires back. And the Democrat feds may back off.
MORE: This from Fox News on Feb. 21: “FCC spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said Chairman Tom Wheeler agreed with critics that some of the study’s proposed questions for reporters and news directors ‘overstepped the bounds of what is required.’
“The agency announced that a proposed pilot study in South Carolina will now be shelved, at least until a ‘new study design’ is finalized. But the agency made clear that this and any future studies will not involve interviews with ‘media owners, news directors or reporters.’
“Commissioner Ajit Pai, who was one of the staunchest critics of the proposal, heralded the decision Friday as an acknowledgement that government-backed researchers would not be dispatched into newsrooms, as feared.
“This study would have thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country, somewhere it just doesn’t belong,” he said in a statement. “The Commission has now recognized that no study by the federal government, now or in the future, should involve asking questions to media owners, news directors, or reporters about their practices. This is an important victory for the First Amendment.”
The feds have a way of backtracking once the furor dies down. Wait and see.
The latest comment at The Fat Guy’s last post has the details:
“For the DFW area folks… From Scott’s mom: Continued update from our family to yours: Memorial services for our beloved son, brother, father & grandad, James “Scott” (Buck) Chaffin, will be held Sunday February 16th at 2PM at Casa View Christian Church, 2230 Barnes Bridge Road, Dallas 75228; we’ll welcome y’all to join us . . . Missy asks that we dress casual, your boots & jeans, Rangers shirt, Hawaiian shirt, your Converse Chucks, etc. (this is not a formal occasion) . . . we’ll cut off your tie if you wear one!”
I had no idea he was called Buck. But the prohibition on ties rings true.
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Oregon? Israel. Illinois? Mexico. New York? Brazil. New Jersey? Russia.
“Gross Domestic Product = consumption + investment + government spending + (exports – imports). Although the economies of countries like China and India are growing at an incredible rate, the US remains the nation with the highest GDP in the world…”
How about that for some American exceptionalism?
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Via Strange Maps
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How appropriate. Traitor John, as some of us Vietnam veterans with long memories still refer to the lying, backstabbing sumbitch Kerry, is getting mocked on YouTube (in Hebrew with English subtitles) by Israelis with a delicious sense of humor.
Which is more than Lurch has. Wormtongue’s other minions (Susan Rice among them) and the state department’s lifetime bureaucrats in American’s richest city (yes, that would be Washington, D.C., where no matter what happens to the economy, everybody still gets pay, bonuses and raises) are demanding that Bibi reign in his citizens. Pathetic.
Imagine if Bibi tried to get Wormtongue to stomp on some American comedians for mocking him. Can’t imagine it? Me neither. Only our witless Democrat overlords are that hypocritical. But Lurch has a very thin skin. Who knows? He may have threatened to resign otherwise.
UPDATE: I was hoping for something like this back a year ago when Clown Kerry became secstate. I am more than pleased. Great comeuppance!
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Tagged Israeli mockery, Lurch, Susan Rice
His cancer-stricken build didn’t fit The Fat Guy image of his longtime blog. As you can see, he wasn’t fat from side to side or front to back.
He’s the third friend I’ve lost to cancer in recent years and another is dying at the moment. Scott was a self-employed wrangler of digital bovines and my good IT guy, who was dubbed an Internet Angel by one of those deceased friends whose blog Scott also kept in good repair.
Not long ago, Scott helped me rescue the Scribbler from Yahoo and move it here to WordPress. I’ll miss him.
He was an inveterate Texas Rangers fan, even when they didn’t deserve it. So I hope he’s settling in to a box seat behind home plate at the baseball diamond in the sky where it’s always spring and the first pitch of a new season is in the windup and about to be thrown.
UPDATE: Another memorial, with a pix from SC’s happier times. And one more, a fine one with some appropriate bluegrass, from Andy at MyOldRV.
MORE: Andy’s bluegrass fits him, but it was high-energy blues that suited him, here.
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