Category: Hypocrisy

Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera

It’s the battle of the Al’s and while fun to watch it’s hard to care about which scorpion wins.

Al Gore, with Current TV co-founder Joel Hyatt, filed suit against Al Jazeera America in Delaware Court of Chancery  over $65 million being held in escrow.

Gore and Hyatt sold the unwatched network to the Jihadist propaganda machine in January 2013 for $500 million making him even more obscenely richer than he was.

As  Current-TV had a viewership closer to a public access network airing a replay of a township commissioners meeting than, well, Fox, the Arabs were not interested in its content but in the favorable cable and satellite deals the network had.

Once a former vice president was no longer on the scene, however, Al Jazeera discovered the sweet circumstances to be rather ephemeral. It found itself in litigation with DirectTV and AT&T, along with being dropped by Time Warner Cable albeit it has since returned.

So they’ve be slow to give Gore and Hyatt all the money, which Gore and Hyatt want as the obscenely rich can never have too much.

Al Jazeera has not been doing much better than Current in its ratings, by the way.

Gore’s attorney in the lawsuit is again David Boies who represented him in the 2000 battle over the Florida election recount.

Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera

Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera

 

Democrats Pay Blacks Less

Democrats Pay Blacks LessDemocrats Pay Blacks Less

Democrats pay blacks less according to a study by New Organizing Institute.

Thirty percent less it should be noted.

Republicans don’t it seems.

Those who run the Democrat Party are users who despite all the preaching about equality and social justice are basically in it for themselves.

Their goal is to seek fermentation and division to prevent those who would otherwise unite on shared values from doing so and disrupting their gravy train.

The party has racist roots, and, yes, it has never left them.

Democrats Pay Blacks Less

 

Hat tip TheDailyBeast.com

 

 

Obama Parties While World Burns

Obama Parties While World Burns

Obama parties while world burns

Riots have erupted in the environs of St. Louis after  police in the suburb of Ferguson shot and killed an unarmed black kid named Michael Brown.

Questions and even anger are appropriate but when passersby are attacked just because they can be attacked and stores are looted just because they can be looted, the matter of Mr. Brown’s death gets buried beneath more pressing matters of right and wrong.

Just about all those rioters, if they voted, voted for Barack Obama for president. It is not unreasonable to think that he can calm things down and stop the destruction of property belonging to innocent people not to mention assaults on those people

So where is he? Why he’s golfing on Martha’s Vineyard.

Bombs are falling on Iraq, Christians are being killed by Islamic progressives; unattended children are being pushed across the Mexican border; Russia is conspiring to invade Ukraine, and may have inadvertently shot down a Malaysian jetliner as part of the conspiracy; U.S. wages are down 23 percent and a deadly disease is threatening to engulf the world.

And he’s out golfing.

For two weeks.

Way to go hipsters.

 

Obama Parties While World Burns

 

 

NYU Opressive Slavemaster

NYU Oppressive Slavemaster

NYU Opressive Slavemaster

 

Prestigious New York University is bastion of progressive liberalism.

NYU and other bastions of progressive liberalism, the Louvre and the Guggenheim, are building edifices on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi in the mind -blowingly rich United Arab Emirates (UAE).

And they are using poorly paid indentured servants, whom they trap in the country and force to live in squalid conditions, to do the labor.

That’s right, our progressive liberals are oppressive slave masters.

Just something to consider the next time you want to attend an OWS rally.

Vice.com has a great article spelling out the sordid details here.

In a completely related matter, the world’s most expensive RV was sold in Dubai, also in the UAE, for $3 million. It is a 40-foot long eleMMent Palazzo from Marchi Mobile, an Austrian company.

Gold RV Sold In Dubai NYU Opressive Slavemaster

It is covered with goal.

While our 1-percenters are generally irreligious — even anti-religious — this sort of thing does explain why they are generally less hostile towards Islam than Christianity.

 

 NYU Opressive Slavemaster

 

New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash

The New York Times Magazine carried a paen, July 16, to disgraced former Penn State President Graham Spanier, by Micahel Sokolove.

Sokolove practically acquits him of the charges filed against him stemming from his handling of reports that one-time football coach and retired faculty member Jerry Sandusky was abusing children.

The charges were filed on Nov. 1, 2012 and are one count perjury,  two counts of endangering the welfare of children, two counts of criminal conspiracy, which are all third-degree felonies  punishable by up to seven years in prison and $15,000 fines; one count of obstructing the administration of law or other governmental function and one count of criminal conspiracy, both second-degree misdemeanors punishable by up to two years in prison and $5,000 fines; and one count of failure to report suspected child abuse, a summary offense punishable by up to 90 days in prison and a $300 fine.

“The case against Spanier is at best problematic, at worst fatally flawed,” Sokolove says.

Sokolove writes about how the 66-year-old Spanier’s father flew into a rage at everything and beat him and made him eat everything on his plate and sometimes sent him to bed without dinner.

Sokolove writes that Spanier grew Penn State “from a remote outpost of American higher education into a top-tier public university” and had some of “world’s most decorated architects” design the new buildings on his watch.

He writes that Sokolove “paid his own way through Iowa State.”

Regarding the e-mails that led to the charges, Sokolove says that Spanier says he has no memory of writing it but that using the word “vulnerable” as in “The only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it. But that can be assessed down the road” was a bad idea.

And he blames the late Joe Paterno, anyway.

Maybe Sokolove’s biggest journalistic failure was his omission of any reference to the John T. Neisworth matter in which Spanier was told by a young man in 2002 about how Neisworth, a respected Penn State special education professor who literally wrote the book on autism, molested him. Neisworth would make a six-figure cash settlement to the man.

The contact was made with Spanier two weeks after Spanier had been told about Sandusky.

The New York Times whitewash is almost enough to make one take David Icke seriously.

 

New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash

New York Times Graham Spanier Whitewash

 

 

Sean Bergin Speaks Truth, Gets Suspended

Sean Bergin Speaks Truth, Gets Suspended

Sean Bergin a reporter for News12, which is a “cable-exclusive service” for the New York metropolitan area, was suspended for what he said while reporting the death of rookie Jersey City police officer Melvin Santiago.

Santiago was shot in ambush in Jersey City by area-resident Lawrence Campbell who apparently was motivated “to be famous”.

He was 23.

Campbell acquired the murder weapon by assaulting a security guard at the  Walgreens drug store where the shooting occurred.

Campbell was subsequently shot by police leaving behind a wife, Angelique, and at least one child, a six-year-old girl.

Mrs. Campbell did not express much regret for her husband’s passing. She did say that she wished he had murdered more human beings serving as police officers before his date with judgement.

Campbell’s friends set up a small shrine at the store featuring candles, balloons,  a bottle of cheap liquor (empty), and gang paraphernalia urging the late citizen to “Thug in Peace”.

It was too much for Bergin. He said this:

“It is worth noting that we were besieged, flooded with calls from police officers furious that we would give media coverage to the wife of a cop killer. We decided to air it because it is important to shine a light on the anti-cop mentality that has so contaminated America’s inner cities. This same, sick, perverse line of thinking is evident from Jersey City to Newark and Patterson to Trenton. It has made the police officer’s job impossible and it has got to stop.

“The underlying cause for all of this, of course: Young black men growing up without fathers. Unfortunately, no one in the news media has the courage to touch that subject.”

His employers were displeased and suspended him.

We say God bless Sean Bergin for speaking truth to power.

Here is the report itself:

Sean Bergin Speaks Truth, Gets Suspended

 

America Movie Oscar Pedigree

Maybe Hollywood is finally waking up.  Dinesh D’Souza’s sleeper hit America: Imagine a World Without Her has a pretty good Oscar Pedigree with Gerald Molen, who produced Schindler’s List and co-produced Rain Man, as producer and Gray Frederickson, who produced The Godfather and the Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now as associate producer.

Frederickson describes what some are thinking in this article on Breitbart.com.

If you are interested in seeing America: Imagine a World Without Her here is where it is playing in Philadelphia’s western suburbs.

FYI, it appears that Costco’s decision to pull the movie’s book companion from its stories was political.

Costco has been been a big donor to Obama whom the book and movie harshly criticize.

Did you know one needs a photo ID to get into a Costco? Of course, it’s not like one is trying to vote or anything.

America Movie Oscar Pedigree

 

America Movie Oscar Pedigree

 

 

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

As bad as the bias was that permeated the institutions that supplied the news for most Americans things have taken a frightening turn for the worse.

Those who write for the sources our self-described intellectual elites favor have shown themselves to be not merely ignorant of the basics of their beats but shamelessly so.

It’s like something out of movie Idiocracy, which was made but eight years ago.

Mollie Hemingway writing for TheFederalist.Com lays things out in all their ugliness.

She notes that New York Times writer Kate Zernike had no idea who Friedrich Hayek was. (Answer: the author of “Road to Serfdom” and the Nobel Prize winner for Economic Sciences in 1974.)

She excoriates David Savage of the Los Angeles Times who wrote earlier this month about that Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts saying they  “rely on well-established rights, such as freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, but extend those rights for the first time to corporations, wealthy donors and conservatives.”

So people who disagree with him who he calls “conservatives” didn’t have free speech until now?

How do these idiots get hired?

Ms. Hemingway describes how Ron Fournier of Vox (a new media site that hipsters think is hip) mixed up a map showing rates of gun ownership with that of gun violence.

She  points out that fellow Voxster Matt Yglesias mocked an airline for saying that the African nation of Ghana has giraffes by tweeting out a map of Africa saying “Where giraffes live versus where Ghana is”.

She gives a special category to Yglesias who wrote about South Florida without knowing what the Everglades was.

The name “juiceboxers” has been coined for these hip young precious pumpkins who were raised to believe  that whatever they said was right as long as it parroted political and social fashion.

Let us make sure they are not the future of communication.

 

Hat tip Ed Driscoll.

 

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

 

 

 

IRS Record Keeping Hypocrisy

The Internal Revenue Service has lost critical emails of seven officials accused of targeting conservative groups.

Byran Preston of PJMedia.com notes that the IRS uses server based Microsoft Exchange as its email system hence its excuses of hard drive crashes and recycled backup tapes are not very plausible.

If emails are served on outside servers problems they would obviously not be susceptible to issues involving local computers.

Preston notes that the IRS website provides taxpayers with this strong record-keeping advice:

Note: Keep copies of your filed tax returns. They help in preparing future tax returns and making computations if you file an amended return.

  1. You owe additional tax and situations (2), (3), and (4), below, do not apply to you; keep records for 3 years.
  2. You do not report income that you should report, and it is more than 25% of the gross income shown on your return; keep records for 6 years.
  3. You file a fraudulent return; keep records indefinitely.
  4. You do not file a return; keep records indefinitely.
  5. You file a claim for credit or refund* after you file your return; keep records for 3 years from the date you filed your original return or 2 years from the date you paid the tax, whichever is later.
  6. You file a claim for a loss from worthless securities or bad debt deduction; keep records for 7 years.
  7. Keep all employment tax records for at least 4 years after the date that the tax becomes due or is paid, whichever is later.

Hypocrisy involving government always comes back to bite those responsible in the tail. It may take awhile but it will happen here as well.

IRS Record Keeping Hypocrisy

IRS Record Keeping Hypocrisy

Hillary Book Bombs

The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department experiences is a bomb.

The book has sold 60,000 hard covers the first week and 24,000 ebooks according to Halper. Publisher Simon & Schuster was hoping for 150,000 print the first week.

Mrs. Clinton reportedly received a $14 million advance for the book — she’s not going to donate it to charity, btw . Simon & Schuster is not expecting to make it back.

Hillary Book Bombs

Hillary Book Bombs