The New Porker

New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident - In a statement to VICE, Jeffrey Toobin apologized for the "embarrassingly stupid mistake." [More]

No, a mistake is when you're adding numbers and you don't carry over to the next column properly. 

A mistake isn't jerkin' your gherkin in front of an unsuspecting audience. Toobin was simply being a disgusting, perverted swine.

The New Yorker.

Only the best and the brightest, I see...

Asking for a Friend

 NEW YORKER AMPLIFIES CALLS FOR PIPELINE BOMBINGS TO SAVE THE PLANET. And it’s not just the New Yorker: [More]

So Bill Clinton's Rules of Engagement for the media apply...?

[Via Michael G]

New York, New York, It's a Wonderful Town

 'Why did another New Yorker have to die?' ...  [More]

Because you lot won't let them protect themselves and focus on removing guns instead of bad actors? And not to be insensitive or anything, but tell us more about the victim...

[Via bondmen]

A Looney Reading List

“I wish he had sent me a New Yorker, the New Republic or the Atlantic,” Looney said when told he was the recipient of a high-capacity gun magazine. [More]

The provincial clod just can't conceive that useful knowledge might exist outside his self-imposed ideological boundary limits, can he?

This is a follow-up to a piece mentioned earlier, as part of a Gaelic lesson.

Mike has lots more.

We're the Only Ones Not Reckless Enough

The judge overseeing the case, Gustin L. Reichbach, displays portraits of the civil rights figures Paul Robeson and Nelson Mandela on his courtroom walls.

Pointing to those portraits and speaking in passionate tones, Mr. Ricco compared Lieutenant Walton Tuesday to the heroes of the civil rights struggle. Invoking his client’s public service, he said, “This is not a reckless person you’re talking about here.”

Yeah, you shoot an unarmed man multiple times because he stood up to your thug bullying and you're some kind of damned civil rights hero. And woe unto any New Yorker who dares lift a finger against an anointed "Only One."

Don't worry overmuch, Shamik. Your esteemed judge has pointedly displayed portraits of black communists on his walls (and leave it to the "authorized journalists" at The New York Times to refer to these subversive apologists for totalitarianism as "heroes of the civil rights struggle"). You couldn't ask for a better set up than that.

[Via Declan]

A Coordinated Effort

Over the last week the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN. NBC News, CBS News, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, Vox, and the Daily Beast have all written a plethora of over 20 articles on the Qanon Movement all using highly similar talking points to marginalize the movement. [More]

Isn't that what they call "collusion"?

And what ever happened to the threatened takedown?

[Via Andrea Shea King]

#justatroll

Right, because exposing your utter and undeniable hypocrisy is "trolling."

Any other words you'd like to redefine?  Like "common sense" and "gun safety"?

Here's something we must never forget when dealing with these creatures, and why I am so unforgiving of those ostensibly on "our side" who offer one-sided "compromises" in the unfounded, and frankly, stupid hopes that throwing a scrap of flesh to circling hyenas will satisfy them and persuade them to go away:

We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. . . .  [W]e'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again.  Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice.  Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. . . .  The first problem is to slow down the number of handguns being produced and sold in this country.  The second problem is to get handguns registered.  The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal.
              Richard Harris, A Reporter at Large: Handguns,  New Yorker, July 26, 1976, at 53, 58 (quoting Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc.) (boldface added, italics in original).

Anybody think that's changed, and that we're not one SCOTUS replacement away from having to deal with that possibility?

Nicely done, Kurt-- I can tell you got under her skin and you're living in her head rent-free with the desperate and pathetic way she tried to dismiss you. And nice "reasoned discourse," too, having her just block you like that -- the virtual equivalent of "La la la still not listening."

You're absolutely right. Being despised by the despicable brings a warm glow...

Tea and Sympathy

“They say his flesh comes off his back in Steaks,” a woman reported afterward. [More]

Sounds good to me.

And The New Yorker's attempts to diminish this as arising primarily from mercenary motivations notwithstanding, the fruits of our labors are the fruits of our lives. Siphoning sand from a closed-system hourglass that belongs to someone else can result in people realizing how limited and precious their time is.

[Via Skip]

What You Mean 'We'?

WE COULD HAVE BEEN CANADA - Was the American Revolution such a good idea? [More]

Nothing's stopping YOU, Gopnik. I'm sure the press restrictions there won't impact a good little tyrannophile like you one bit.

This is what I've come to expect from the self-styled "intellectuals" at The New Yorker.

[Via Michael G]

Back by Popular Demand?

Public support for stricter gun laws is substantial, and growing. [More]

Or as they try to convince their Twitter followers:

Stronger gun laws are popular and necessary—and they’re also constitutional.

Speaking of Twitter, this thread has some good rebuttal info.

Infringements will never be constitutional, but as for "popularity," they're working on it. Too bad "the gun lobby" doesn't have the stomach to even admit the threat, let alone do anything about it. Why, if they do, The New Yorker and other snotty media leftists will tar them as haters and extremists.

Like they don't already. And like silence on it buys us anything.

He Certainly Picked the Right Town for It

He was allegedly going to use a machete on diners at a local restaurant [More]

Good plan if what you want to guarantee is success, as the average New Yorker supports his own disarmament.

And Muslim Machete Man here is the crazy one...?  Especially after being duly impressed by the publicized way this low-hanging fruit was picked, they'll resume their cud-chewing under the illusion that they're safe...

[Via Keith B]

Chi-Crock

In the film women in the area withdraw sexual favours until the violence ends. [More]

As opposed to withdrawing sexual favors until a committed, stable and responsible relationship begins?  I mean, if you really want to go after causes instead of effects...

But no, and besides, Spike is the darling of the rich, white urban elites, what with Tribeca and The New Yorker giving him an approving swap job over this without having to actually descend into the midst of "those people."

Yeah, go ahead, anyone who lets anyone else call them a "ho":  Tell these guys "No" and see what it gets you. Who believes the demographic the totalitarian lobby relies on when they spread the "women with a gun the home are more likely to be killed by a domestic partner" lie includes statistically significant representation of NRA member households?

Spike Lee: There's a voice of reason to heed.  And don't worry about the box office receipts or the fact that the studio is evidently keeping production costs under wraps.  The value he provides the elites is calculated off the books anyway.

Armed American Radio

Last night's show is posted. Host Mark Walters' guests included "News Chick" Val DeOre "back by popular demand," New Yorker columnist Dan Baum, author Kathy Jackson, David Burnette, and George "Mad Ogre" Hill.

• 8-19-2012 Hour 3
• 8-19-2012 Hour 2
• 8-19-2012 Hour 1

I was on in Hour 3 and set up the background for the John Shipley series in the first half of the hour, and brought listeners up to date in the last half.

Something to Note

Today's "Notes from HPS" entry over at The Captain's Journal...[More]

He links to a New Yorker piece that is the cover for another one of those divide and conquer Astroturf "gun groups" that I'll have more to say about later.

'The Meta-Thinking Shuts Down'

‘Woke LARPing’: Let the New Yorker open your eyes to the world of white students pretending to be fugitive slaves [More]

No one thought to hand them burlap bags and tell them to bring back some snipe?

[Via Michael G]

The Plan Could Use Some Fine-Tuning

If Legislative Filibuster Dies, then Gun Confiscation and Bans on Private Gun Sales Will Follow [More]

Good point.

But again I must ask: If you're a Californian or a New Yorker or from a "safe" Democrat state, what good will pleading with your senators do?

The Content of Her Character

New Yorker’s ‘Fact-Checker’ Defamed a Combat Veteran. She Hasn’t Even Apologized. [More]

That's because, based on results, she's a coward who hides from personal accountability:

[Via Mack H]

A Walk in the Park

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.

More reasons to hate us because we're free, from the VFFP...

[Via Ron W]

Tasteless and Offensive

The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife...

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds quickly e-mailed: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.”

What I find tasteless and offensive is both of these candidates. Tell me these are the best leaders America can produce.

Why does the McCain camp parroting back the exact words remind me of the "Petarded" episode of Family Guy, where Peter Griffin hears television comentators use the critique "shallow and pedantic," and adopts that as his standard response to everything, including Lois' meatloaf?

[Via Mack H]

I Thought Cartoons in The New Yorker Were Known for Their Wit

Surely they can do better than Adam Gopnik. [More]

Still, he proves my point.