Thursday, September 7, 2023

Sometimes The Comments Are More Revealing Than The Video

I for one would rather have a gay president than a cokehead-in-chief. Something about mixing nuclear codes and crack pipes that seems a bit offsetting.

So, Tucker Carlson interviews Larry Sinclair and the comments overwhelmingly focus on Obama's sexuality. Did you catch the part about you know who hitting the pipe? Did you catch the part about who supplied the powder for his playmate? Did you catch the part about whose alleged gay lover was murdered?

A distant second commentary is "why would Tucker talk to that guy?" Maybe because that guy has been ignored, cancelled, defamed and abused for fifteen years. Goes back to this editor's rule of thumb: Show me a story that is suppressed, and I will show you a story that is probably true. Extreme measures were applied to silence Larry Sinclair. Therefore, his story is likely truthful.

Not many comments about the tragic slaying of Donald Young. That is unfortunate.

Conspicuously missing from the interview is the Biden factor. That too, is unfortunate.

Once more the news coverage--or lack thereof--is the big story, but that too is missed by the pundits and commentators. There is depth and to the Sinclair saga, but "Brokeback Obama" is the depth of the tweets.


Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Larry Sinclair, Tucker Carlson, And We, The Scattered Davids Armed With Pea Shooters

Errata: A previous version of this article erroneously stated that Larry Sinclair had not set foot in Delaware prior to his arrest in that state. The bogus charges brought by Attorney General Biden stem from a prior stay at a Delaware motel. Corrections made 9/7/2023.

1. Larry Sinclair might be the most underrated and underreported figure in US history.

2. Speculatively, I do not believe Obama would have chosen Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 were it not for Larry Sinclair.

3. Had Biden never served as vice president, he would never have become president.

4. Had Biden never become president the US might not have blown up the Nord Stream pipeline, we might not be funding a proxy war in Ukraine, we might not have discussed the increased probability of nuclear war, we might not see a global de-dollarization movement, we might not experience runaway inflation, product shortages, and endure economic calamity on the home front. "Let's go Brandon" would not be part of the zeitgeist.

5. I am not entirely buying Tucker Carlson's newfound integrity, his midlife professional crisis, his great awakening or whatever he is now selling. Once a Foxhole, always a Foxhole. Thanks for coming to the party 15 YEARS too late, Mr. Moneybags Journalist!

6. The suppression of the Larry Sinclair story challenges the integrity of every Con, Inc. luminary, including Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin.

7. The Sinclair saga unmasked the news media as suppressors of truth. It would usher in an era where news media would attack independent voices rather than evaluate the legitimacy of their stories.

8. At this site, we posed the question "If Mitt Romney's choir director, who openly bragged about having sexual relations with Romney, was gunned down days before the launching of Mitt's presidential campaign, would the story make national news?" It's a rhetorical question. Kind of like asking do Black lives matter? Yes, Black lives do matter unless your name is Donald Young. Will Carlson "go there"?

An overview: In 2008, Larry Sinclair attempted to steal the national spotlight by declaring that he had twice performed oral sex on Barack Obama. More significantly, he reported that Obama smoked crack cocaine during each encounter.

The news media tried to ignore Sinclair. He would be dismissed as a Clinton dirty trick, sometimes referred to as "the Hillary guy." 

Suddenly, Larry Sinclair was removed from the public's view, He would be transported to Delaware to face charges that he previously defrauded a Rodeway Inn. These charges would later be dropped but coupled with the hijacking of Sinclair's websites as well as the instant discontinuance of his Social Security disability payments, the Hillary guy would be silenced until after the November election.

Despite his wrongful incarceration and further abuses, Larry Sinclair would write "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder?" It would be the first Kindle purchase and I have to say, it did not disappoint. In 15 years of media shunning and harassments innumerable, Sinclair has not changed his tune.

Here, I speculate a little bit. Why did Barack Obama select Joe Biden as his running mate? With a name like Barack Hussein Obama, the Dems wanted a mainstream white person to "balance the ticket." Hillary or Gore would have wrecked Obama's food-taster budget. Bill Richardson might have been a little too ethnic and Joe Lieberman was a little too tribe. Why not John Kerry? Or John Edwards? Why not some 40-year-old who would be well-groomed and well-recognized for 2016? Why Joe Biden?

Joe Biden performed terribly in his presidential primary efforts because he was not popular or particularly likable. Journalists who like the word "charisma" left it on the shelf when discussing Joe. Biden's intellect was not respected by his fellow senators. But Biden was a team player. And yes, Biden played ball.

In 2008, Joe Biden's late son, Beau, served as Attorney General for the state of Delaware. Would the Biden Family fabricate charges against an innocent man to silence him until after the election? Would the Bidens engage in brazen criminal recklessness to ultimately rig a presidential election? Is that how Joe Biden muscled his way onto the ticket?

Could I prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Bidens conspired to illegally incarcerate an innocent man? I couldn't. Could I present a preponderance of evidence that would suggest that Joe Biden had used Stasi tactics to unlawfully jail a political dissident and help rig a presidential election, all for the price of becoming the Democrat vice-presidential nominee? It has already been done.

When Larry Sinclair needed a lifeline, Republican stalwarts and Conservative icons dutifully tossed him their bricks. We, the scattered Davids armed with pea shooters would be effortlessly ignored by the army of Goliaths. Larry Sinclair deserved better treatment than we could provide. Maybe, just maybe, the upcoming Carlson interview will provide a morsel of justice for this wrongly persecuted man. We can dream, can't we?



Friday, July 14, 2023

How and why did Reason.com morph into Ruling Class sycophants?

How and why did Reason.com morph into Ruling Class sycophants?


Has "Reason" Surrendered its Brand?


If you know the answers to these questions, please clue me in. 


Strange things happen when one becomes a proper noun. There are vast differences between republican and Republican, democrat and Democrat, conservative and Conservative. Likewise, nouns and adjectives play under a separate set of rules. We bear witness to a Democratic Party whose raison d'être is rigging elections.


Whereas the Libertarians might not be as blatantly antithetical to their moniker as the Democrats, they are not what they used to be. This writer realizes the oxymoronic "establishment libertarians" have charted a different course in recent years, but he has not educated himself on the details.


Let's narrow our focus to Reason.com. "Reason" magazine was started in 1968. The Reason Foundation was founded in 1978. Unlike other magazines and other foundations, Reason transitioned and flourished on the Internet. Reason.com.


Checking in with Reason from time to time is like tuning into the History Channel after taking a Rip Van Winkle nap. The history has been replaced by pawn shop merchants, trash pickers and aliens. Yes, we can get glimpses and gleanings of history through antique and collectibles speculation but what happened to Genghis Khan? 


Reason.com is as unconditionally anti-Trump as the mainstream media. They don't seem particularly sympathetic to victims of illegal alien violence. Likewise, they don't shed many tears for children who are groomed and conned and castrated. Reason.com is allergic to discussions of election fraud because they "believe in the rule of law". 


Most disturbingly, Reason.com routinely attacks the designated enemies of the orthodox press. Trump, DeSantis and now Robert Kennedy Jr., have found themselves the target of a caged monkey tossing his droppings at passersby. Given the polarity of the times, hit pieces are also not what they used to be, and it might be preferential to be struck by Reason scat than by the emanations of an 800-pound gorilla. The action says more about the monkey than the sidestepping mark.


Reason.com posted "RFK Jr.'s long con" on YouTube. 


Shortly thereafter, Tom Woods penned Respectable Libertarians Attack RFK and it was reposted at lewrockwell.com. 


Reason itself interviewed RFK maybe two weeks ago and asked him about some of the very issues Wolfe raises in her video from yesterday, but the Wolfe video either ignores his responses or (in one case) actually misrepresents them.


RFK, she says, “frequently implies that the establishment is corrupt at best, evil at worst.”


Oh, no! How can he say such a thing about our beloved Jerome Powell, Nancy Pelosi, and Lindsey Graham!...


Then this: “He wildly extrapolates from little grains of truth” — and as these words are being uttered, his excellent book The Real Anthony Fauci appears on screen.


We encourage you to watch the entire video. The upshot is that RFK Jr., this establishment prince, has betrayed his tribe. Point taken. 


Now, let's return to the simian casting feculence. When and why did Reason.com start parroting legacy media? When and why did they start pledging allegiance to the establishment? How and why did Reason.com morph into Ruling Class sycophants?








 

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Killing Occluded Information Links

Clickbait comes in many forms. Usually, it involves a deceptive or sensationalized link. Think of the old days when people physically shopped at grocery stores. The checkout line would offer "National Enquirer" "Weekly World News" or other publications featuring attention-grabbing headlines that often did not match with the embedded story.

The tabloids were notorious for their blunderbuss headlines. When you sell your product from a newsstand or vending machine you have to get the passersby's attention. Sometimes the article lived up to its billing and sometimes it fell short. The paying customer was okay with the pocket change risk.  Ask Rupert Murdoch about this marketing scheme and the conversation might rapidly transition to his family's vast fortunes. 

Seductive, sensational, and bogus headlines found greener pastures on the Internet, and it remains an endless summer. Let's sidestep the "I am shocked, shocked I tell you" phase and accept for now that deception is part of the terrain. Let's move on to a more obnoxious form of clickbait.

I hate occluded clickbait. That is, I hate titles like "Hollywood Reacts to beloved star's Death." The editor has intentionally withheld the star's identity to prompt you to click on the link. What is irritating about this ploy is that the site has already captured your attention but now the webmeister intends to maximize your onsite clicks. They are slowing down your consumption of information to improve their standing with search engines. That is rude and insulting.

This writer is especially hostile to slide shows. Slide shows disrupt the flow of information. Material that might take seconds to scan and possibly dismiss just as quickly becomes an ordeal. The slides are arranged in such a way as to maximize clicks. A scroll down a long article would probably yield one site-based click. Arranged into a slideshow, the site can record dozens and dozens of coins in this digital currency.

Imagine a restaurant where the waiter's compensation is based on the number of trips to your table. Instead of serving the entree and leaving, the waiter has divided your burger and fries into 30 equal-sized portions. Want another bite? Just summon the waiter. 

You just wanted a quick lunch and then get back to work. Now, the afternoon is dragging on and you only tested a third of your food. Yes, the waiter is prompt and only a few times did he add a commercial message before delivering the next morsel but your time is limited. 

You consider voicing your concerns to management, but you know the deal. Management supports the paid incremental service because it satisfies the search engine gods.  Without search engine grace, no one will even know of the bistro's existence. The best way to satisfy the gods is to increase the number of "internal links".  Rather than expand into desserts or takeouts or new product lines, management has chosen to prolong your dining experience. Waiter happy. Boss happy. Search gods happy. If you are an idiot, you might also be happy.

Slideshows are an elevated form of obnoxious. Occluded Information Links (OIL) are almost as bad. Yes, we expect this sort of thing from msn. We don't expect it from Daily Caller.  

The following links are all from today's Daily Caller home page.

ESPN Laid Off Female Host Days Before Her Wedding To NBA Player

If the female host (you mean hostess?) was famous enough to be mentioned in your article, should she not be mentioned by name? Same for the "NBA Player"?
 
From the same page: 
 
We were nice enough to visit your site, and this is how you extend your gratitude? I submit that this is more than a personal annoyance. This shows disrespect for the reader and disrespects the information as well. Truth might not be assaulted but it is certainly insulted. 
 
Back to the NBA, also from the same page: 
 
Speaking of cryptic moves, Daily Caller is hiding the info once more.
 
The unimpeded flow of truthful information is an ongoing struggle. Today's chosen battle is the shunning of Daily Caller. We will still link to them if someone else points us to one of their articles, but why, oh why, would we ever again visit their homepage?
 
Bye-bye  DC.


Sunday, July 2, 2023

What Is A Celebrity?

Who said a celebrity is someone who is famous for being famous?

According to Bing:

The term originates from an analysis of the media-dominated world called The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America (1961), by historian and social theorist Daniel J. Boorstin. In it, he defined the celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness".

Hmmm.

Circa 1976, when most American homes still only had access to three or four channels, and the fuse was still burning on what would be a cable explosion, Dick Cavett mused aloud at the dilution of fame. He had watched a recent version of a delightfully wacky game show called "Celebrity Sweepstakes" that featured six--what else?--celebrities. Cavett stated that he could only identify one or two of the acclaimed celebrities while reminding the audience, "...and I'm in the business."

Then we had cable TV and The Internet and more Internet and YouTube and Twitter and even more social media. The celebrity concept seemed to change with each technological advance. An evolving paradigm, if you will. 

Predictably, the species has grown to Malthusian proportions. The numbers swell with the absence of anything resembling excommunication or retirement. There are no ex-celebrities. In 1969, Pope Paul VI removed over two dozen saints from the canonical roster of holy people. Recently, we have seen monument toppling, renaming of institutions, and even disinterment of fallen soldiers. Cancel culture has not struck celebrityship. Even if you are the third banana in a short run sitcom that ceased production several decades ago, you are still in the club. Once a celebrity, always a celebrity.

With that in mind, let me direct your attention to GLAAD's recent call for censorship.

Let us put the content of the letter on the proverbial back burner and examine the celebrity signatories. Get ready to scroll.


Abby Wambach
Adam Eli
Aitch Alberto
AJ Shively
Alan Cumming
Alejandra Caraballo
Alejandra Ghersi
Alex Clark
Alexandra Gutierrez
Alisa Ramirez
Allie Leonard
Allison Goldfrapp
ALOK Vaid-Menon
Alyssa May Gold
Alyssa Milano
Amber Ruffin
Amber Tamblyn
Amy Schumer
Amy Landecker
Andrew Polk
Angelica Ross
Annaleigh Ashford
Antoni Porowski
Aparna Brielle
Arden Myrin
Arewa Basit
Ariana DeBose
Ariana Grande
Arisce Wanzer
Avan Jogia
Barbie Ferreira
Bebe Rexha
Bella Ramsey
Ben Barnes
Benito Skinner
Benj Pasek
Bethany Cosentino
Bethany Leavel
Billy Eichner
Billy Porter
Bob the Drag Queen
Bobby Berk
Bonnie Milligan
Brad Oscar
Bradley Whitford
Brandi Carlile
Brandon Matthews
Brendan Hines
Bretman Rock
Brian Smith
Brigette Lundy-Paine
Brittany Tomlinson
Busy Philipps
Caesar Samoya
Camila Cabello
Camille A Brown
Cara Delevingne
Chani Nicholas
Chella Man
Chelsea Handler
Cheyenne Jackson
Chris Perfetti
Christa Miller
Cleo Wade
Colton Haynes
Corey Jantzen
Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia McWilliams
Cynthia Nixon
Cyrus Veyssi
D’Arcy Carden
Dakota Fanning
Dan Levy
Darren Criss
David Shatraw
David Oulton
Debra Messing
Deepica Mutyala
Demi Lovato
Des McAnuff
Devery Jacobs
Diana Maria Riva
Diane Guerrero
Diipa Buller-Khosla
Dylan Mulvaney
Ed Droste
Eddie Ndopu
EJ Marcus
Elegance Bratton
Eliot Rahal
Elle Fanning
Elliot Page
Emily Hampshire
Emily V. Gordon
Emma Hunton
Erin Reed
Estefania Pessoa
FLETCHER
Freddy Thomas
Gabrielle Union-Wade
Gigi Gorgeous
Glennon Doyle
Gottmik
Grace Kuhlenschmidt
Griffin Dunne
Haley Baldwin Bieber
Hannah Gadsby
Harry Lambert
Hayley Kiyoko
Hilary Montez
Ilana Glazer
Indya Moore
Isaac Mizrahi
Jackie Bazan
Jacob Tierney
Jai Rodriguez
Jameela Jamil
James Blake
James Scully
Jaymes Vaughan
Jamie Lee Curtis
Janaya Khan
Janelle Monáe
Janet Hubert
Jazz Jennings
Jeannie Mae-Jeninks
Jenna Lyons
Jennifer Kerr
Jeremy Fall
Jessica Betts
Jillian Mercado
Jinkx Monsoon
Joe DiPietro
Jonathan Van Ness
Jonathan Bennett
Jonny Pierce
Jordan Stenmark
Jordan Firstman
Jordan Roth
JP Saxe
Judd Apatow
Justin Baldoni
Justin Tranter
Kal Penn
Kamar de los Reyes
Karamo Brown
Kate Reinders
Katherine LaNasa
Kathryn Grody
Kellie Overbey
Kelly Devine
Kendrick Sampson
Kevin Harrington
Kevin Cahoon
Ki Griffin
Kimber Elayne Sprawl
Kimberly Drew
Kristin Chenoweth
Lachlan Watson
Laith De La Cruz
Laura Terruso
Lauren Jauregui
Laverne Cox
Lena Dunham
Lena Waithe
Lena Hall
Lilly Singh
Lily Rabe
Liv Hewson
Liza Koshy
Lola Tung
Lorin Latarro
Lovell Adams-Gray
Lucky Bromhead
Mae Martin
Mae Whitman
Maggie Boccella
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Mandy Patinkin
Marc Jacobs
Marc Kudisch
Marieme Diop
Martha Plimpton
Matt Bernstein
Matt McGorry
Matt Walton
Medalion Rahimi
Meena Harris
Megan Crabbe
Michael D. Cohen
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez
Michelle Buteau
Midori Francis
Miriam Silverman
Moj Mahdara
Molly Bernard
Mona Chalabi
Montego Glover
Munroe Bergdorf
Nate Wonder
Nats Getty
Neila Karassik
Nicholas Ferroni
Nico Carney
Nico Santos
Nico Tortorella
Nicole Maines
Niecy Nash-Betts
Nik Dodani
Ocean Vuong
Olly Alexander
Our Lady J
Padma Lakshmi
Patrick Stewart
Patti LuPone
Peppermint
Phillip Picardi
Phoebe Robinson
Poorna Jagannathan
Rachel Cargle
Rafael Silva
Ramy Youssef
Randy Shulman
Raquel Willis
Richa Moorjani
Rob Holysz
Robert Horn
Rory Dahl
Rosario Dawson
Rupi Kaur
Sam Smith
Sander Jennings
Sandy Rustin
Sara Bareilles
Sara Ramirez
Sarah Ramos
Sasha Velour
Scott Turner Schofield
Shawn Mendes
Shea Couleé
Shea Diamond
Sherri Saum
Sinead Burke
Solomon Hughes
Stephen Kunken
Susie Park
T. Oliver Reid
Taika Waititi
Tan France
Tatiana Maslany
Tess Holliday
Tiffany Namtu
Tommy Dorfman
Tracee Ellis Ross
Travis Alabanza
Tunde Adebimpe
Vivek Shraya
Wanda Sykes
Warren Carlyle
Wayne Cilento
Wilson Cruz
Yves Mathieu East
Zoë Chao
Zooey Deschanel

Without consulting IMDB, how many of these names do you recognize?

I could identify 6 of these by name and the name produces a picture in my mind. 

I could list a show or movie associated with 5 of the listed. 

There are about a dozen names that are familiar but do not bring trigger any mental  association.

I am not trying to be intentionally daft and granted, I do not consume pop culture as ravenously as I did years (decades actually) ago. Still, I could identify more YouTubers or Civil War generals or past winners of the Indianapolis 500 than I can name from this list. 

How many can you identify?