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Who Is Lisa H. Barsoomian?

Posted on | August 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Who Is Lisa H. Barsoomian?

 

Keep the question in the headline in your mind. Early this morning, I received a PayPal contribution from a frequent commenter here, who urged me “in the name of all that’s holy” to pay attention to a long and complicated story posted at Reddit. It seems kind of crazy, but it all makes sense when you finally discover where this trail leads. Rather than excerpt it, I’ll just re-post the whole thing, unedited, typos and all:

Connnecting some dots
I am passing this on from someone who’s connecting some dots with input from sources he cannot reveal.
Here’s what it looks like when all the pieces are sewn together
It smells like conspiracy and treason. Everyone needs to read this. Slowly, and patiently, because it’s very important……
From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
A Grand Jury had been impanelled.
Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”.
Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.
Look who took over this investigation in 2005: None other than James Comey; Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner. Isn’t that interesting?
But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right?
Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005?
No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States,
Rod Rosenstein.
Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame?
Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.
What do all four casting characters have in common?
They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation.
Another coincidence, right?

Fast forward to 2009….
James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin.
Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, official government business, on her own personal email server.
The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hillary.
Like all good public servants do, supposedly looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.
Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, America got absolutely nothing out of it.
However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Bill Clinton goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech; then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours.
Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme.
Robert Mueller was the FBI Director during this time frame? Yep, He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.
Who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland?
None other than, Rod Rosenstein. And what happened to the informant?
The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.
How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?
Very soon after; the sale was approved!~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal.
Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, – Lois Lerner.
Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?

Let’s fast forward to 2015.
Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.
Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary. .
Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? None other than James Comey; who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer? Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh?
Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and he exonerates her. Nope…. couldn’t find any crimes there.
In April 2016, James Comey drafts an exoneration letter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile the DOJ is handing out immunity deals like candy.They didn’t even convene a Grand Jury!
Like a lightning bolt of statistical impossibility, like a miracle from God himself, like the true “Gangsta” Comey is, James steps out into the cameras of an awaiting press conference on July the 8th of 2016, and exonerates the Hillary from any wrongdoing.
Do you see the pattern?
It goes on and on, Rosenstein becomes Asst. Attorney General,Comey gets fired based upon a letter by Rosenstein, Comey leaks government information to the press, Mueller is assigned to the Russian Investigation sham by Rosenstein to provide cover for decades of malfeasance within the FBI and DOJ and the story continues.

FISA Abuse, political espionage….. pick a crime, any crime, chances are…… this group and a few others did it:
All the same players.
All compromised and conflicted.
All working fervently to NOT go to jail themselves
All connected in one way or another to the Clinton’s.

They are like battery acid; they corrode and corrupt everything they touch.How many lives have these two destroyed?
As of this writing, the Clinton Foundation, in its 20+ years of operation of being the largest International Charity Fraud in the history of mankind, has never been audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Let us not forget that Comey’s brother works for DLA Piper, the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.
The person that is the common denominator to all the crimes above and still doing her evil escape legal maneuvers at the top of the 3 Letter USA Agencies?
Yep, that would be Hillary R. Clinton.

Now who is LISA BARSOOMIAN? Let’s learn a little about Mrs. Lisa H. Barsoomian’s background.
Lisa H. Barsoomian, an Attorney that graduated from Georgetown Law, is a protégé of James Comey and Robert Mueller.
Barsoomian, with her boss R. Craig Lawrence, represented Bill Clinton in 1998.
Lawrence also represented:
Robert Mueller three times;
James Comey five times;
Barack Obama 45 times;
Kathleen Sebelius 56 times;
Bill Clinton 40 times; and
Hillary Clinton 17 times.

Between 1998 and 2017, Barsoomian herself represented the FBI at least five times.
You may be saying to yourself, OK, who cares? Who cares about the work history of this Barsoomian woman?
Apparently, someone does, because someone out there cares so much that they’ve “purged” all Barsoomian court documents for her Clinton representation in Hamburg vs. Clinton in 1998 and its appeal in 1999 from the DC District and Appeals Court dockets (?). Someone out there cares so much that even the internet has been “purged” of all information pertaining to Barsoomian.
Historically, this indicates that the individual is a protected CIA operative. Additionally, Lisa Barsoomian has specialized in opposing Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the intelligence community. Although Barsoomian has been involved in hundreds of cases representing the DC Office of the US Attorney, her email address is Lisa Barsoomian at NIH.gov. The NIH stands for National Institutes of Health. This is a tactic routinely used by the CIA to protect an operative by using another government organization to shield their activities.
It’s a cover, so big deal right? What does one more attorney with ties to the US intelligence community really matter?
It deals with Trump and his recent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports, the border wall, DACA, everything coming out of California, the Uni-party unrelenting opposition to President Trump, the Clapper leaks, the Comey leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal and subsequent 14 month nap with occasional forays into the marijuana legalization mix …. and last but not least Mueller’s never-ending investigation into collusion between the Trump team and-the Russians.
Why does Barsoomian, CIA operative, merit any mention?
BECAUSE….
She is Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s WIFE!

The assertion that Lisa Barsoomian is a “protected CIA operative” is, of course, not something that I can prove — or disprove — but it is also perhaps irrelevant to the larger point: Rosenstein’s wife is connected in various ways to the Clintons, to Mueller, and to other figures involved in the “RussiaGate” investigation. Some observers have said it was never necessary for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from this investigation, and that appointing Mueller as Special Counsel, under the DOJ supervision of Rosenstein, was a trick to ensure that these pro-Clinton/anti-Trump operatives could have carte blanche to run their “Deep State” conspiracy to sabotage the Trump administration.

Whether or not Barsoomian is (or was) working for the CIA, it would behoove congressional investigators to ask questions about her acquaintance with all these figures — including Mueller, Comey and ex-CIA director John Brennan — in the interest of discovering whether Rosenstein, who is supervising the Mueller probe, has a serious conflict of interest due to his wife’s connections to Team Clinton. As I’ve been saying for many months, the Mueller investigation is not actually an investigation, it’s a cover-up, the purpose of which is to conceal wrongdoing by the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.



 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, MuellerGate, Russia

Soros Funding Internet Censorship

Posted on | August 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Soros Funding Internet Censorship

 

The headline at Drudge:

REVEALED: Soros censorship plan…
Plotted with social media to eliminate ‘right wing propaganda’…

The story by WorldNetDaily’s Art Moore:

The recent wave of censorship of conservative voices on the internet by tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple mirrors a plan concocted by a coalition of George Soros-funded, progressive groups to take back power in Washington from President Trump’s administration.
A confidential, 49-page memo for defeating Trump by working with the major social-media platforms to eliminate “right wing propaganda and fake news” was presented In January 2017  by Media Matters founder David Brock at a retreat in Florida with about 100 donors, the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time.
On Monday, the Gateway Pundit blog noted the memo’s relationship with recent moves by Silicon Valley tech giants to “shadow ban” conservative political candidates and pundits and remove content. . . .
The Free Beacon in its January 2017 story said Brock sought to raise $40 million in 2017 for his organizations.
The document claims Media Matters and far-left groups have “access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites” so they can “systemically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data.” . . .
Media Matters met with Facebook, which boasts some 2 billion members worldwide, to discuss how to crack down on fake news, according to the memo.
The social media giant was provided with “a detailed map of the constellation of right-wing Facebook pages that had been the biggest purveyors of fake news.”
Brock’s memo also says Media Matters gave Google “the information necessary to identify 40 of the worst fake new sites” so they could be banned from Google’s advertising network.
The Gateway Pundit pointed out that in 2016, Google carried out that plan on the Gateway Pundit blog and other conservative sites, including Breitbart, the Drudge Report, Infowars, Zero Hedge and Conservative Treehouse.
Facebook, meanwhile has changed its newsfeed algorithm, ostensibly to combat “fake news,” causing a precipitous decline in traffic for many conservative sites.

Read the whole thing. What has happened is that the Soros-funded groups have exploited their access to social-media companies — most of which are based near San Francisco, and staffed with graduates of liberal “elite” universities — to impose a definition of “fake news” that applies only to conservative sites. If Media Matters is in charge of deciding who the purveyors of “propaganda” are, you can be sure that no liberal publications will make the list of banned sources.

 

Category: Media Bias

The Few, the Proud, the Normal

Posted on | August 21, 2018 | Comments Off on The Few, the Proud, the Normal

 

A concern for operational security prohibits me from bragging too much on my son’s achievements, but I suppose people can count the stripes and figure out that his military career is going pretty well. He serves in what is routinely called an “elite” unit. In the 21st century, however, merely being in the military is kind of elite, considering how the quality of young civilians has been declining:

In April, Trump followed up on his pledge by signing a defense bill that . . . called for an increase in the military’s size in 2018 by adding 20,000 new personnel — including 7,500 more soldiers, 4,000 more sailors, 1,000 new Marines, and 4,100 more airmen.
Senior military officers, and particularly Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley, celebrated the increase. . . . So it is that the Army set its 2018 recruiting goal at 80,000 soldiers. Initially, at least, Milley’s target seemed modest, reachable. It wasn’t.
In April, the Army revised that number — downwards. Instead of recruiting 80,000, it announced that it would recruit 76,500 new soldiers. But even that number might be too high, as the Army notes that it’s recruited only 28,000 in the first six months of the year. The problem, it seems, isn’t that young people don’t want to join the Army — or any of the services — it’s that they can’t. And therein lies a paradox: for while the U.S. military represents the best in America (as its most senior officers claim), it doesn’t actually represent America. For that to be true, two thirds of our military would have to consist of obese, under-educated former drug users and convicted criminals.
Here’s the arithmetic: one in three potential recruits are disqualified from service because they’re overweight, one in four cannot meet minimal educational standards (a high school diploma or GED equivalent), and one in 10 have a criminal history. In plain terms, about 71 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds (the military’s target pool of potential recruits) are disqualified from the minute they enter a recruiting station: that’s 24 million out of 34 million Americans. The good news is that while the military takes pride in attracting those who are fit, educated, law abiding, and drug-free, they’re having difficulty finding them — manifestly because fewer of them actually exist.
Then too, of the pool of remaining potential recruits, only one in eight actually want to join the military, and of that number, fully 30 percent of those who have the requisite high school diploma or GED equivalent fail to pass the Armed Forces Qualification Test (the AFQT), which is used to determine math and reading skills.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) I’ve always thought of my kids as normal — healthy, red-blooded Americans — but our ideas of what is normal will have to be re-calculated, if two-thirds of young people are either too fat or too stupid to qualify for military service. Nowadays, most kids are far below the previous average, and the old “normal” is the new “elite.”



 

Category: Military

In The Mailbox: 08.20.18

Posted on | August 21, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Did Leonardo Da Vinci Foresee John Brennan?
Twitchy: So, What’s Sarah Jeong Up To Lately?
Louder With Crowder: ESPN President Demands Less Politics on Channel – “It’s Not Our Job”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: First They Came For Alex Jones
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: What If You Gave A Netroots Nation And Nobody Came? also, Judge Ellis Tells CNN To Get Stuffed
CDR Salamander: Eight Months As The Under – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Trump Forces IC Elite To Squeal, also, Report From Louisiana – More Loose Thoughts
Don Surber: CNN’s Jury Tampering, also, Trump Stands Up For Free Speech – Newspapers Don’t
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, It’s Just Not Fare
The Geller Report: South Africa Farm Seizures Begin, also, Iranian-Backed Sleeper Cells In The U.S.
Hogewash: Messier 104, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Bonus Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Fakest News Yet, also, Who & What’s Behind The Big McGahn Leakage To The Times?
Legal Insurrection: John Brennan – When I Accused Trump Of Treason, I Didn’t Mean Treason-Treason, also, RNC Breaks Fundraising Record Again – $14.2 Million In July
The PanAm Post: UN Asks Brazil To Disregard Law, Allow Lula’s Candidacy
Power Line: Ellison Off The Brink, also, What To Make Of The WH Counsel’s Cooperation With Mueller
Shark Tank: Florida’s Unemployment Rate Drops To 3.7%
Shot In The Dark: This Is Your DFL Candidate For Attorney General
STUMP: Chicago Stupidity
This Ain’t Hell: Admiral McRaven Compares President Trump To Joe McCarthy, also, Corporal With 73 Years Time In Grade Finally Makes Sergeant
Victory Girls: Ex-CIA Chief Michael Hayden Joins The Virtue-Signalers
Volokh Conspiracy: Can There Be Capitalism Without Racism?
Weasel Zippers: Chelsea Clinton Hasn’t Ruled Out Running For Office – A “Definite Maybe”, also, Chelsea Handler Defends Al Franken, Says Groping Is Not Sexual Assault
Megan McArdle: Elizabeth Warren Wants To Make Americans Their Own Boss. Good Luck.
Mark Steyn: Dawn’s Early Light, Eighteen Months On, also, Think


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Category: Linkagery

No Masculinity Allowed!

Posted on | August 20, 2018 | Comments Off on No Masculinity Allowed!

 

Last year, Brown University’s football team posted a 2-8 record, going 0-7 in conference play to finish dead last in the Ivy League. Brown lost 34-7 to Cornell and 53-0 to Princeton. The anemic quality of Brown’s football program is a testimony to the pathetic weakness and effeminacy of the school’s male students, and improvement seems unlikely:

Brown University is working to help its male students “unlearn” and “unpack” their masculinity.
A program at the Ivy League institution provides “safe spaces for men to unpack all of the things they have learned about masculinity and what it means to be a man,” according to its website.
“Rigid definitions of masculinity are toxic to men’s health,” campus officials state online under the heading: “Unlearning Toxic Masculinity.”
“Men will often resort to violence to resolve conflict because anger is the only emotion that they have been socialized to express,” the website states. “Unfortunately, the way that young men are conditioned to view sex and their need to be dominant and have power over others also contribute to instances of sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence on college campuses.”
To help combat that, the program promises to provide “safe spaces for men” to facilitate conversations to combat so-called toxic masculinity. . . .
PJ Media reported in April that at least eight students were hired to facilitate these workshops. . . .
“The goal is to help those socialized as men to unlearn some of the notions that have led to such profound harm being enacted toward others and toward themselves,” the program’s website states.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Probably none of the “interpersonal violence” at Brown involved their football players learning to block or tackle.

Other universities have weight-training programs for their football players; Brown has an anti-masculinity program for theirs. It costs $67,439 a year (including room and board) to attend Brown, a “safe space” for wimps, where no masculinity is allowed on campus.



 

 

Category: The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

David Horowitz Schools Jonah Goldberg: #NeverTrump as Moral Cowardice

Posted on | August 20, 2018 | Comments Off on David Horowitz Schools Jonah Goldberg: #NeverTrump as Moral Cowardice

After a Twitter quarrel that made headlines, David Horowitz decided to make his case against the #NeverTrump crowd at greater length:

The posture of these NeverTrumpers is transparently self-serving. It preserves their intellectual credentials as “conservatives,” and simultaneously takes them out of the line of fire from an increasingly vicious Left whose goal is to destroy Trump and his presidency, and — incidentally — conservative America. Sitting on the fence affords them new career opportunities — appearances on CNN and MSNBC and columns in the New York Times. All that’s required is that they avoid taking sides in the political war that is engulfing the country. All this reminds me of a memorable Trotsky sneer about liberals, whom he accused of being reluctant to step into the stream of political conflict because they were afraid to get their moral principles wet. . . .

You can read the whole thing. Politics is a team sport. In a two-party system, being a team player often forces us to make difficult choices. After the 2012 GOP primary campaign, when I twice went “all-in” on candidates (first Herman Cain, then Rick Santorum) trying to stop Mitt Romney as the “It’s His Turn” establishment candidate, it was understandably difficult for me to get fired up for Mitt’s fall campaign. And yet, I did. By late September, I’d convinced myself that Mitt had a good chance of beating Obama and, even though Romney was by no means my idea of a conservative, I spent the final weeks of the campaign in cheerleader mode, hoping against hope that Obama could be prevented from getting a second term. Alas, we were “Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption,” as I declared after Mitt’s loss.

That experience taught me something, namely that my efforts as a journalist to “make a difference” were futile. The primary voters had their own opinions which I was unable to influence, so I vowed to ignore the 2016 primaries and let the voters hash it out for themselves. This yielded Trump as the nominee and, rather miraculously, he won. Now, however, all the GOP pundit types who’d gone all-in trying to prevent Trump’s nomination are so butthurt about their lack of influence that they can’t get over it. They are like petulant children, ruining a birthday party with a tantrum because they didn’t get the gift they wanted.

Trump is not “my guy.” I have always been for free trade, and oppose protectionism on principle. As for Trump’s tone and temperament, I share many of the concerns of the #NeverTrump crowd, but there is one thing I like very much about Donald Trump: He wins.

You cannot argue with success, unless you would prefer failure. That’s the problem with Jonah Goldberg, et al. If they cannot win with their preferred candidates and tactics, they would rather not win at all. Trump’s success demonstrates a weakness in the “respectable” brand of conservatism the #NeverTrump crowd would prefer.

Horowitz is exactly right that we are in a “political war,” one inaugurated by the Left, in which there are only two sides, and where the consequences of defeat would be disastrous. We have already suffered too much damage from the Left’s war against basic American values and, as a practical matter, conservatives cannot hope to continue the fight unless we can maintain the momentum of winning that began with Trump’s shocking upset victory on Nov. 8, 2016.

My prediction? Trump will keep winning. He has so far defied all expectations. If he can do it again this fall, rescuing congressional Republicans from the dreaded “Blue Wave” in the midterm elections, the #NeverTrump crowd will become permanently irrelevant. Selah.



 

Category: Donald Trump

Rule Five Sunday: Barbi Benton

Posted on | August 20, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Did you know that one-time Playboy model Barbi Benton was a regular on Hee Haw for several seasons? I didn’t. She also had a decent career as a country singer. Here she is, out standing in her field.

Couldn’t find her overalls.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #349, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism offers Rule Five Vermont WTF and the return of the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd of Rule Five links includes Laraine Day, The Color Purple, Cochineal & Carmine, Aretha Franklin, Keith Ellison’s Girlfriend, Indigo, Aretha Franklin RIP, Saffron, Katherine Cunningham, and A New Species Of Waterbear.

A View From The Beach brings us The Outlander – Caitriona Balfe, Fish Pic Friday – Spanish Mackerel, Repugnant Russiagate, Chill Out For Another Wet T-Shirt Thursday, R is for Russiagate, SJWs Find Actress Too Cute, Insufficiently Lesbian for Batwoman Role, Blade Runner Babe Busted for Burglary, Can We Conquer Canada Now?, DeBlasio Sought to Block Jennifer Hudson from Going to School, Death Metal Grandma, Recoiling from Russiagate, That’s One Way to Change a Point of View, I Suppose, and Rejoicing in Russiagate.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Carice van Houten, his Vintage Babe is Laraine Day, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Halle Berry and Omarosa.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Guilt by Association: White House Ditches Aide for Speaking at 2016 Conference

Posted on | August 19, 2018 | 3 Comments

 

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a white nationalist?”

A speechwriter for President Donald Trump who attended a conference frequented by white nationalists has left the White House.
CNN’s KFile reached out to the White House last week about Darren Beattie, a policy aide and speechwriter, who was listed as speaking at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference.
The Mencken Club, which is named for the early 20th century journalist and satirist whose posthumously published diaries revealed racist views, is a small annual conference started in 2008 and regularly attended by well-known white nationalists such as Richard Spencer. The schedule for the 2016 conference listed panels and speeches by white nationalist Peter Brimelow and two writers, John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg, who were both fired in 2012 from the conservative magazine National Review for espousing racist views.
Other speakers from the 2016 conference are regular contributors to the white nationalist website VDare. Jared Taylor, another leading white nationalist, can be heard at the conference in 2016 on Derbyshire’s radio show along with Brimelow.
The White House, which asked CNN to hold off on the story for several days last week declined to say when Beattie left the White House. Beattie’s email address at the White House, which worked until late Friday evening, was no longer active by Saturday.
“Mr. Beattie no longer works at the White House,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN on Friday night. “We don’t comment on personnel matters.”
Beattie confirmed to CNN he spoke to the 2016 conference, saying his speech was not objectionable.
“In 2016 I attended the Mencken conference in question and delivered a stand-alone, academic talk titled ‘The Intelligentsia and the Right.’ I said nothing objectionable and stand by my remarks completely,” he told CNN’s KFile in an email on Saturday. “It was the honor of my life to serve in the Trump Administration. I love President Trump, who is a fearless American hero, and continue to support him one hundred percent. I have no further comment.”

In other words, there is no evidence that Beattie endorsed the opinions of anyone else who attended the Mencken Club event. Merely being at the event was considered sufficient cause to fire him. Readers will note that no such principle of second-hand guilt is ever applied to the Left. Many people in Democrat politics have associated with organizations that promote odious ideas and individuals who have committed odious deeds, but the so-called “mainstream” media goes out of its way to defend Democrats against any such claim; e.g., Barack Obama was not disqualified from office for his association with notorious terrorist leader Bill Ayers or the hate-monger Jeremiah Wright. It is only Republicans who must “vet” their schedules to ensure they can never be connected to anyone with an opinion that Andrew Kaczynski would deem offensive.

Here’s the thing: On the issue of immigration, there is no important difference between Peter Brimelow and Michelle Malkin, and on the issue of affirmative action, there is no important difference between Jared Taylor and Ben Shapiro. That is to say, those deemed “white nationalists” by the Left do not fundamentally disagree with mainstream conservatives on major policy issues involving U.S. race relations. The differences are principally a matter of rhetoric, and also one of attitude.

In general, the “white nationalists” are pessimistic about the prospects of improvement through the normal channels of partisan politics, and believe that we are likely headed toward a racial crisis in America that may be more violent than the breakup of Yugoslavia. Twenty years ago, while mainstream conservatives were preoccupied with the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, men like Brimelow, Derbyshire and Taylor were already prophesying some of the effects of racial tensions that led to Trump’s astonishing 2016 election victory. Why, after all, was Obama able to win North Carolina twice, yet Hillary lost the state in 2016? Couldn’t this have something to do with the #BlackLivesMatter riot in Charlotte, N.C., just weeks before Election Day 2016? The demographic and cultural trends of the past 20 years, which Jared Taylor and others were demonized for warning about, have arguably had the effect of making many white people less “color-blind” in their politics. And when we behold the hate-monger Sarah Jeong hired by the New York Times, we can predict that this trend is likely to intensify in the future, so that “white nationalist” views will become even more common.

The reason I put “white nationalist” in quote marks is that it has become a label used to demonize anyone the Left wants to smear. It’s used much like the way “neocon” was used as a smear-label during the post-9/11 years of the Bush administration, or the way “Religious Right” was used to smear conservatives in the 1990s. The Left always does this, although the labels used in their character-assassination campaigns change, as they shift their demonized bogeymen from time to time. If you ever decide to dig in your heels and fight the Cultural Marxists, it’s only a matter of time before they’ll come up with some excuse to smear you.

By the way, this year’s H.L. Mencken Conference is Nov. 2-3. Maybe I’ll ask my friend Paul Gottfried to clear me for media credentials.

Wait — did I just call Paul Gottfried my “friend”? Darn it, I guess I’ll never get that ambassadorship to Vanuatu now . . .



 

Category: Media Bias
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