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NYT’s Harvey Story in ’04
Sharon Waxman describes how the NYT spiked ‘gutted’ a story about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct way back in 2004: In 2004, I was still a fairly new reporter at The New York Times when I got the green light to look … Continue reading
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Sen. Geary 2018
“These hearings on the Mafia are in no way whatsoever a slur upon the great Italian people. Because I can state, from my own knowledge and experience, that Italian-Americans are among the most loyal, most law-abiding, patriotic, hard working American … Continue reading
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The Case For “The Case For Colonialism”
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on Political Science Professor Bruce Gilley’s new paper “The Case for Colonialism”, which I was quite surprised ever got published. Well, right on cue, the article has been yanked and sent to the … Continue reading
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Grace and Frankie
While my Netflix was on pause today, it went into screensaver/Netflix promo mode, and up popped this image promoting the 4th season (who knew?) of a Netflix original ‘comedy’ called Grace and Frankie, created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. … Continue reading
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Spot the Difference
In response to Pat Buchanan’s recent column on the Las Vegas shooter, a commenter notes the press conference the sheriff of Spokane County, Washington gave after a high school shooting. When pressed on gun control by a member of the … Continue reading
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The Steins & The Bergs
From the NYT piece “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades”: At Fox News, where the conservative icons Roger E. Ailes and Bill O’Reilly were accused of harassment, women have received payouts well into the millions of dollars. … Continue reading
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Buzzfeed: “Alt-White: How The Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate”
The longform Buzzfeed piece “Alt-White: How The Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate” has lots of insider baseball stuff (via leaked emails) involving Milo Yiannopoulos and his inner circle. Much of it involves the sausage-making aspects of BNN meme creation circa … Continue reading
Derb: “If Catalonia, Why Not California, Texas, Or New England?”
Derb asks “If Catalonia, Why Not California, Texas, Or New England?”: The great British national conservative Enoch Powell, who fifty years ago gave those eloquent warnings about the evils of mass immigration, once said that if Britain were at war he would fight for Britain, even if it was … Continue reading
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New Yorker: “Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy?”
The SJW jihad against symbols of implicit whiteness marches onward. In The New Yorker, Ruth Ben-Ghiat asks “Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy?”: Italy, the first Fascist state, has had a long relationship with right-wing politics; … Continue reading
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NYT: “An Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics”
Many NYT stories are 50% news story and 50% activist strategy session, with a topping of wish-fulfillment, and “An Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics” by Michael Tackett, which is about the exodus, post Hurricane Maria, of Puerto Ricans … Continue reading