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Bookworm Beat 10/15/19: Warren, Modern Art, Project Veritas, LGBT craziness and more

October 15, 2019 by Bookworm Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Warren’s hubris, the decline of Modern Art, Project Veritas videos, radical LGBTQ and the church, and urban Leftism — it’s all discussed here.

Bookworm Beat Obama Brennan double standards insane leftists(This is a companion post to the No. 24 Bookworm Podcast which I uploaded yesterday. The content is mostly the same, although not identical. It won’t matter much whether you prefer to read or listen.)

Elizabeth Warren’s dangerous hubris. The other day, during my No. 23 podcast, I noted that success has gone to Elizabeth Warren’s head. She’s no longer the soft-spoken, mousy law professor I remember from the mid-1980s. Instead, she’s a nasty, aggressive, anti-conservative politician. Even Saturday Night Life has figured out that Warren is no longer Ms. Sweet Granny, but instead thinks she’s the Don Rickles of politics:

I had in the back of my mind when I mentioned this change the fact that Elizabeth Warren reminded me of a movie character undone by her own hubris. I just couldn’t remember which character. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bits and Pieces Tagged With: Beto, Buttigieg, CNN, Elizabeth Warren, Ethel Mae Potter, Ethel Mertz, I Love Lucy, LACMA, LGBT, Lina Lamont, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modern Art, Project Veritas, Urban Leftism

No. 24 Bookworm Podcast: Warren, Modern Art, Project Veritas and more

October 14, 2019 by Bookworm Leave a Comment

A Bookworm Podcast looking at Elizabeth Warren’s hubris, the decline of Modern Art, Project Veritas videos, radical LGBTQ and the church, plus more.

Bookworm PodcastMy latest podcast is up and running. You can listen to it through the audio embed below, or at LibSyn, or through Apple Podcasts.

I’ll be publishing a companion post sometime Tuesday morning, which will include relevant videos and hyperlinks. In the meantime, here’s a brief summary of the subjects I cover in the podcast: [Read more…]

Filed Under: GBLT, Lefties on Parade Tagged With: CNN, Elizabeth Warren, First Amendment, Jeff Zucker, Leftism, LGBTQ, Modern Art, Project Veritas

Trump: Vulgar president or great president? Or both?

October 14, 2019 by Bookworm 1 Comment

Democrats who gave Obama a pass are shocked by Trump’s vulgarity — but Trump, vulgar or not, will go down as one of America’s greatest presidents.

Pearl clutching Democrats shocked Trump vulgarity(This is a companion post to the No. 23 Bookworm Podcast which I uploaded yesterday. The content is mostly the same, although not identical. It won’t matter much whether you prefer to read or listen.)

As you all know by now, Trump had a rip-roaring rally in Minneapolis. The attendees adored it, despite Mayor Jacob Frey’s efforts to block it by charging grossly inflated security fees and then by removing Porta-Potties and messing with temperature controls. Apropos that inflated security fee, and given the ugly mob scene the Left presented outside the venue, I’m reminded of this wonderful Iowahawk tweet:

One other thought that just occurred to me about the unpleasant and unseemly riots outside the venue: In 1968, when Democrats rioted outside the Chicago convention center, the mainstream media — indeed, back in the day, the only media — fully covered Democrat behavior. Fast-forward to 2019 and the mainstream media — i.e., the Democrat Party’s official media outlet — has ignored, downplayed, or lied about the riots. But back to my main point. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Media matters Tagged With: Brooke Baldwin, CNN, Dov Fischer, Mainstream Media, Media Bias, Obama, obscenity, Swear Words, Trump, Trump Greatness, Vulgarity

Bookworm Beat 2/11/18 — the Olympics illustrated edition and open thread

February 11, 2018 by Bookworm 26 Comments

It’s been a while since my last illustrated edition, but with the Olympics in play for a few days, the memes are starting to emerge.

I no longer watch the Olympics. It was fun back in the days of Cold War tension and carefully curated, and quite entertaining, three-hour stories every evening (before we knew we were the victims of curated stories). Remember when the media used to root against the Soviets (and, before that, against the Nazis)? Nowadays, with a media engaged in a slobbering love affair with a high official from one of the worst countries in world history; with endless, banal, stupid talking heads; and with a parade of generic, high-performing athletes on 24 hours a day . . . well, it’s just not my thing.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Open Threads Tagged With: Adam Schiff, CNN, Hillary Clinton, Kim Jong-un's Sister, media, Olympics, Stupid Leftists

The Bookworm Beat 11/4/17 — Day of Rage edition

November 4, 2017 by Bookworm 12 Comments

As I’m still groggy from fighting migraines, Wolf Howling wrote this Bookworm Beat, a glorious potpourri showing that the good guys are mostly winning.

Wolf Howling Bookworm BeatToday was supposed to be a big day, with Antifa raging in the streets and less-violently inclined Leftists screaming at the heavens. When I search for stories about either of these Day of Rage protests, though, I find nothing. I guess it’s hard to get up on a cold Fall morning when you live in your parents’ basement or partied hard the night before in your college dorm.

I’m a little inert today too for an entirely different reason: I’ve been adjusting my daily anti-migraine medication. The adjustment seems to be working, because I haven’t had a migraine since I made the change, but the downside is that the increased dosage makes me sleepy and dims my mental energy. Both those problems will pass with time, but for now, even though I’m paying attention to the news, I can’t seem to rouse myself to write about it.

Fortunately for the Bookworm’s reputation as a purveyor of interesting content, my friend Wolf Howling send me an email chock full of interesting information. For your enjoyment and edification, therefore, I present to you the Wolf Howling edition of today’s Bookworm Beat:

Teen Vogue is caput. Conde Nast announced today that Teen Vogue is getting the axe.

The New York-based publisher, which has instilled a hiring freeze, will slash about 80 jobs, equal to a decrease of about 2.5 percent of its 3,000-person workforce. Budgets across departments are also expected to get a haircut, with the worst-performing divisions and magazines getting cuts of up to 20 percent. As part of that mandate, Condé is reducing the frequencies of most of its titles and will shutter Teen Vogue in print.

(Bookworm here: Wolf Howling is not the only one who remembered my utter disdain for Teen Vogue — which I expressed here, here, here, and here. I got emails from several other people and am grateful to all of them for keeping that wonderful news right in front of me.)

A man who had been arrested asked for a “lawyer [,] dog” Depending upon how you read it, the man either called the police officer “dog” (which is definitely better than calling him “pig”) or asked for an actual “lawyer dog.”  The Louisiana court held it was the latter and, dogs with law degrees being in short supply, concluded that the police  had no obligation to the man to hunt up that particular type of lawyer before questioning  him.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Open Threads Tagged With: Charles Barkley, Clintons, CNN, CO2, Conde Nast, Donna Brazille, ESPN, Fracking, Gay marriage, Hillary Clinton, Liberation Theology, Lion King, Political correctness, Pope Frances, Priests, Teen Vogue

Trump Kills The HHS Mandate: CNN Preaches To Christians; The NYT Preaches To Progs

October 15, 2017 by Wolf Howling 96 Comments

Whether it’s CNN telling Christians or the NYT telling progs, the message is the same: Christians have to get with the program; socialism trumps principles.

Christians Christianity CNNCNN is at the vanguard of a progressive jihad to drive Christian voters away from Trump.  CNN’s two openly gay (one married) hosts, Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper, are taking part in lecturing Christians that they have no business voting for or supporting Trump.  On Lemon’s panel, one panelist accused all Christians who support Trump as having “made a deal with the devil.”  On Cooper, Charlie Sykes called it “stunning” and “remarkable” that Christians would support Trump, apparently preferring that they would have simply wasted their vote.

As to Cooper and Lemon, I wonder if either of these two have ever opened a Bible, let alone spent more than a two minute block of time with a Christian?  If so, they might learn that average Christians see their religion and their freedom of conscience as under an existential assault not seen since the time of the birth of socialism in the French Revolution.  And none of that is coming from Trump or the right.

Most recently was Anthony Kennedy’s torrid, unconscionable. and blatantly unconstitutional act judicially amending  our Constitution to proclaim a constitutional right to gay marriage.  Before that was the Obama DOJ decision to unconscionably and unconstitutionally rewrite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishing new laws that create “gay rights”  and that allow for the prosecution of Christians in the public square who do not acquiesce. At the same time was the extra-constitutional act by HHS to establish as law that all Christians purchasing health insurance must not merely purchase, but also effectively underwrite birth control and abortifacients.  And then of course there is the prog effort, ongoing for well over a century, to act in loco parentis, beginning in kindergarten, to promote ethics and morality free normalization of sex, abortion and abnormal sex in America.

As to Sykes, what he is arguing for is Christians to act so dogmatically that they could not pull the lever for anyone other than one of the twelve disciples, thus handing political power to the Christian’s persecutors.  He wants to transfer his personal animus towards Trump onto Christians generally.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Christians Tagged With: ACA, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Sykes, Christianity, CNN, Don Lemon, Donald Trump, First Amendment, Judeo-Christian Values, Linda Greenhouse, Little Sisters of the Poor, Media Bias, ObamaCare, Religious Freedom

America’s universities seed the Orwellian world that surrounds us

August 20, 2017 by Bookworm 8 Comments

America’s Leftist universities are the poisonous trees and America’s newsrooms are the toxic, hate-filled fruit they bear.

Universities Big Brother OrwellI routinely rant and rave about the fact that America’s colleges and university systems are Ground Zero for the thinking that is destroying America. Whether it’s Third-Wave man-hating feminism, anti-white racism, BDS antisemitism, open borders demands, or some other idea attacking America’s integrity and core values, these really evil ideas are incubated on campus so that graduates can later take them out into the world. You can think of the campus and its professors as poisonous plants, with the students functioning as bees. Once heavily coated with the plants’ toxic pollen, they graduate and disseminate that pollen in the wider world.

Today’s really perfect example of the sickness that lurks in academia is Elizabeth Harman, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. I’m not going to tell you what’s in the video. You must watch it on your own to understand fully what’s going on in America’s educational institutions, from the Ivy League down. All you need to know to watch it is that actors James Franco and Eliot Michaelson ask Harman to explain her philosophical view of abortion:

Harman’s logic, which is based upon temporally based magical thinking, would fit well in a Kindergarten class, assuming a 5-year-old was bereft of all moral decency. [UPDATE: Talking with a friend, I finally distilled the essence of Harman’s argument: The moral worth of your life is entirely dependent on whether your mother wants to kill you.]

That she is an Associate Professor of Human values at a school that admits only 6.4% of its applicants and that costs almost $64,000 per year for tuition and room & board is the most scathing indictment imaginable of those Blue voters who believe themselves morally superior to Trump voters. To the extent that people like Harman aren’t on the fringe of the Democrat party but operate at its core is reason enough never again to let Democrats near the levers of power.

Now that you’ve watched Harman’s amazing performance, imagine more than a decade’s worth of students taking her class, and heading out into the world, many as journalists. With that in mind, you can readily understand why a college graduated at CNN (and we know it’s a college graduate because non-graduates are “dirty” Red staters who could never work in any self-respecting mainstream media newsroom) would write the following headline for a CNN’s Antifa article: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Abortion, Education, Media matters Tagged With: Antifa, Ben Rhodes, Big Brother, CNN, Eliot Michaelson, Elizabeth Harman, James Franco, Millennials, Orwell, Princeton

[VIDEO] Scott Adams demonstrates how the Russia collusion smear works

July 19, 2017 by Bookworm 6 Comments

Lacking evidence that Trump or his team were guilty of actual Russia collusion, they resort to smears. Scott Adams shows how this technique works.

Don Lemon Russia CollusionAlthough the election is over and Scott Adams is no longer making predictions, I still check his blog on a regular basis. He thinks entirely outside of the box, but not in a crazy, unrealistic way. Instead, his clever ideas open up new ways of thinking about things.

This video-podcast he did shows him taking on the Russia collusion meme that dominates progressive thought. His targets CNN’s Don Lemon, which is a lovely thing, because Lemon is at the head of the pack when it comes to the Russia collusion smear:

Also, here’s some food for thought from John Hinderaker about the whole Russia collusion meme: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Donald Trump, Lefties on Parade, Media matters Tagged With: CNN, Don Lemon, Media Bias, Russia Collusion, Scott Adams, Sharyl Attkisson, Smears

Just a lot of little things — nice things — for a Sunday

July 9, 2017 by Bookworm 8 Comments

The demands on my time over the last few days, which have seen me taking care of family, helping out friends, and working on What Business Thinks, left me with no time for blogging. I’m still busy with all three things, so I thought I’d entertain you by compiling a some very amusing short videos.

We’ll start with a perfect satire: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Donald Trump Tagged With: CNN, Donald Trump, Fireworks, Marine Cover

[VIDEO] Brandon Morse gives CNN the public apology it deserves

July 6, 2017 by Bookworm 4 Comments

CNN threatened to dox some poor shlub unless he groveled and silenced himself for joking about it. Brandon Morse shows how to apologize to CNN.

.@TheBrandonMorse would like to make an apology that is not forced in any way. pic.twitter.com/yIEX99vSFn

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 6, 2017

Filed Under: Media matters Tagged With: Brandon Morse, CNN, Public Apology

What’s happening at the Watcher’s Council?

October 24, 2016 by Bookworm Leave a Comment

WOW-Logo-1As always, the revamped Watcher’s Council, which is now WOW! Magazine, a collaborative magazine with posts from Watcher’s Council members and their friends, is worth checking out. If you were to go over there now, you’d find the following recent posts (and Lord alone knows how much time you could spend reviewing past posts from this informed and prolific crowd):

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Filed Under: Watcher of Weasels Tagged With: #NeverHillary, Antisemitism, CNN, Debates, Freddie Gray, Global Warming, John KLerry, John Roberts, National Anthem, Police, Second Amendment, Social Justice Warriors, United Nations

[VIDEO] Please enjoy watching Daniel Hannan politely, but firmly, bitch slap the execrable Christine Amanpour

July 1, 2016 by Bookworm 5 Comments

Daniel Hannan Christine AmanpourChristine Amanpour is not a journalist. She’s a vicious, unprincipled, loud-mouthed, bullying partisan hack, who has no interest in investigating issues but, instead, simply wants to imprint her hard Left, anti-West narrative on everything she touches. That’s why it’s so delightful to see Daniel Hannan refuse to let her bulldoze him and then put her firmly in her place.

Amanpour, incidentally, is typical of the transnational self-styled “elite” who have sought to control the Western world for their own benefit for the past 20 or so decades. While they’ve enriched themselves, they’ve impoverished the middle class, and reduced the very poor to such an infantile, dependent level that they can no longer care for themselves. My dream is to see the middle and working classes throughout the Western world rise up and, through the democratic process (i.e., the ballot box), remove all power from the hands of Amanpour and her ilk. They are fatuous, yet horribly dangerous, people who need to be sidelined. In a just world, Amanpour would be cleaning the toilets at a gas station, not broadcasting her toxic (and often highly antisemitic, and therefore anti-Israel) effluvia to the world.

Filed Under: Britain, Media matters Tagged With: Brexit, Christine Amanpour, CNN, Daniel Hannan, Racism

The Bookworm Beat 4-26-15 — the “writer’s block” edition and open thread

April 26, 2015 by Bookworm 8 Comments

Woman writingI know this is going to surprise those of you used to my usual output of posts, but I’m suffering from writer’s block. The last few weeks have been so chaotic, my opportunities to write so random and infrequent, and the news of the world so overwhelming that, now that I finally have time to sit down and write, I’m frozen. After sitting her for a while, I decided that the best thing to do would be to clear my spindle. I know some of the contents are outdated, but they may still be of interest, and getting through the backlog may help spark my dormant (I hope, rather than extinct) yen to write.

Obama fiddles with Iran while the Middle East burns and Israel is forced to go it alone

All eyes may be on Obama and his desperation to get a deal with Iran (despite the fact that, in a sane world, the smaller, weaker, poorer Iran would be desperate to get a deal with Obama), but the fact is that the entire Middle East is a flaming disaster thanks to Obama’s habit of alternately meddling in and abandoning Middle Eastern affairs.

Bret Stephens explains that, thanks to Obama’s policies, it is now impossible for Israel to walk back the way in which he’s abandoned and isolated it:

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Barack Obama, Education, Gay marriage, GBLT, Iran, Israel, Japan, Media matters, Military, Presidential elections, Second Amendment, Ted Cruz, World War II Tagged With: BDS, Boycott Divest Sanction, Campus Fascism, CNN, Election 2016, Gay marriage, Gays, Iran, Israel, Japanese Surrender, LGBT, Marines, Media Bias, Military, Obama, Pentagon, Second Amendment, Second Amendment, Ted Cruz

Come on, Patrick Howley. Tell us what you REALLY think about Stephanie Cutter

September 10, 2013 by Bookworm 1 Comment

I haven’t seen CNN’s newly re-booted Crossfire, but Patrick Howley did.  Howley does not think highly of Stephanie Cutter, who lied her way through Obama’s campaign and still land on her feet as a well-paid talking (or squawking) head on the “Obama mania media”.  How much does Howley dislike Cutter?  This much:

A loathsome creature like Stephanie Cutter, the roots jutting out from her blonde dye job as black as the recesses of her soul, can push her way onto national television to sit next to a former Speaker of the House and two sitting U.S. senators. A charmless, dead-eyed, tacky sociopath with no sense of ethics, an empty shell spewing her flat-throated bile without the slightest trace of self-awareness, can beat all of us to the front of the Darwinian line.

A figure of hatred and dishonesty, a person devoid of any pleasantness or redeeming human value, a treadmill-stomping, Starbucks-chugging monument to modern self-absorption, someone incapable of appreciating good art, fine food, or the love or kindness of her fellow man, can shove and kick and lie her way ahead of the rest of us in this misbegotten society. This unmitigated monster can appear before us, talentless, grating, fraudulently tanned, thrusting in our faces the career trophies she earned simply because we didn’t care enough to stop her from getting them.

And that’s just the intro!  You really should read the whole thing.  It’s positively Shakespearean in its venom.  I can’t say I disagree with it.  I only wish Howley had gone on for a few more paragraphs to give us the full flavor.

The following video does not show the real Stephanie Cutter, but it could be:

Filed Under: Media matters Tagged With: CNN, Crossfire, Stephanie Cutter

Monday already? Well, there’s good stuff out there.

February 11, 2013 by Bookworm 5 Comments

William Kristol and Peter Wehner, even though using the polite language of statesmen, have delivered a scathing indictment against our absent commander in chief.  Considering that Obama is indeed the CIC, court-martial for dereliction of duty doesn’t seem unreasonable.  Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll even get impeachment.

I know that, for many, the Constitution these days is just passé.  (I mean, if the leader of the House Dems can’t understand it, who can?)  David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman try to resuscitate that vital document in the context of the Left attack on the right to bear arms.

Roger Simon deftly ties together Dr. Benjamin Carson and the racism that still poisons the heart of the Democrat party.

Upon hearing the Pope Benedict is retiring, CNN has leaped into the fray with inchoate conspiracy theories and claims that the child abuse scandal is driving Benedict out.  I have absolutely no doubt, though, that the Pope spoke the truth when he said his health, mental and physical, is the reason he is retiring.  One of the things I’ve seen watching my Mom and her friends age is that, just as the first 18 or so years of a person’s life are a time of incredibly rapid change, so too are the years after 80 for most people (and Benedict is 85).  For my mother, her 80th birthday was like stepping off a cliff — within months, she went from vital elderly, to decrepit old. And it’s not just my Mom.  It’s the norm at her retirement home.  Just as the very young grow up at warp speed, the very old age at warp speed.  I think that Benedict is wise to arrange for an orderly transition and, even more important in these times, is making sure to have a say in the Papacy’s future direction.

Had it been an injured Israel, the Palestinians would have ripped him to shreds and bathed their hands in his blood.  Because it was an injured Palestinian, the Israeli Defense Force acted rapidly to save his life.

If Wolf Howling writes it, it’s good.  So when he turns his eye to the subject of the Obama administration’s war on children and family, with ammunition supplied by ObamaCare, you know it’s a post you’ll want to read.

Have you guys come across anything interesting?  This is an Open Thread.

Filed Under: Open Threads Tagged With: Barack Obama, Benjamin Carson, CNN, Israeli Defense Force, Palestinians, Pope Benedict

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