The Daily Jot: 2020-09-13

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS ALARMED BY THE FIRES DESTROYING CALIFORNIA -- SHE'S SO ALARMED SHE'S SENT TWO LUKE-WARMLY WORDED LETTERS.

REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, DIFI SAYS SHE HAS MORE THAN LETTER WRITING UP HER SKIRT AND IF THE LETTERS PROVIDE NO SOLUTIONS, SHE IS PREPARED TO TAKE THINGS UP A NOTCH.

"IF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE REFUSES TO DO ANYTHING DESPITE MY LETTER," DIFI INSISTS, "I WILL RESORT TO WHAT I LIKE TO CALL 'SHOCK YOU FOREVER.' THIS MOVE ENTAILS ME HEADING TOWARDS THE HEART OF THESE FIRES, REMOVING MY SKIRT, REMOVING MY DEPENDS AND URINATING ON THE FIRES UNTIL THEY ARE ALL OUT."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

"Bring Them Home." A column by Michael Brendan Dougherty. It runs at THE NATION? Nope. At the conservative NATIONAL REVIEW. Over at THE NATION, they continue to flounder and wallow in a cesspool. We've got British Jew Sasha Abramsky explaining the US to Americans because, gosh, isn't that what everyone needs? Elie Mystal frets over 'poor' E. Jean Carroll. She was the topic of Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Crazy Lady" that went up last night. You may remember Carroll, she was elevated to hero status for claiming that Donald Trump raped her -- in some year, she's not sure of which year it was, but it was a department store, she knows that. As the latest in a long of questionable characters was embraced by the faux resistance, they realized that they had another character issue on their hands like with Michael Avenatti. Of course, it took Carroll going on CNN live with Anderson Cooper for them to realize there was a problem with Carroll. While an open mouthed Anderson stared in shock, Carroll went on to 'educate' the American public that rape was (her exact word) "sexy."

Anderson quickly cut to commercial It was too late to save Carroll.

Rape is not "sexy" and once someone makes a statement like that on live TV, I don't really think they can be defamed at that point. She's a lunatic and she was always seen that way in the industry. She never had her head on straight and she had no real support from her peers. She floundered from one job to another, burning bridges repeatedly.

Can someone like that be raped? Absolutely. Anyone can be raped.

But there are survivors out there who can use our help and someone who claims she was raped and also wants the world to know that she finds rape "sexy"? That's someone who needs to fight her own battles. She clearly has issues that go beyond whatever did or did not happen to her in a department store and she's not allowed to insult the survivors of rape and also expect us to all rally around her at the same time. She's on her own as far as most of us are concerned.

But that desperate, in-bred group which calls itself the 'resistance' won't let her case die because they've got no real issues to address. Either they lack the mental abilities to do so or they just don't see the world around them.

Which goes a long way towards explaining why the week that it's announced 2,200 US troops will be leaving Iraq (only 3,000 remaining -- CORRECTION, this sentence has been fixed to note 3,000 remaining -- at least 3,000), THE NATION has nothing to offer on its front page about that.

Grasp that they have three articles about Vietnam. Babyboomers are aging and apparently the WWII trough has been gone to one time too many so THE NATION is ready to pivot to . . . Vietnam.

There was a time when THE NATION announced -- in an editorial that ran on the cover of the magazine -- that they could not support anyone who voted for the Iraq War. That was so long ago that many have forgotten and most never knew about it. The tiny number of people who continue to read THE NATION may have no idea that US troops are in Iraq. The rag certainly doesn't encourage them to acknowledge it.

War and peace? Not a concern for THE NATION. In fact, it stopped being a concern the minute Democrats were no longer the minority party in the House and the Senate. It's a rag of misfits who can't be employed anywhere else. That's why SALON and MSNBC reject Joan Walsh writes (badly) there currently.

It was a success in terms of circulation and web views when they pretended to be interested in the Iraq War. Even then, it made itself a joke. Naomi Klein had a column there. It also ran at THE GUARDIAN. She did a two-part column on people profiting from the war and THE NATION gladly ran the one on Republican James Baker and gladly refused to run the one on Democrat Madeline Albright. Things like that started to get attention. Or rolypoly Katha Pollit who presents as a feminist but refused to write about one of the biggest US crimes in Iraq -- when a group of soliders plotted to leave base, break into the home of an Iraqi family, gang-rape the 15-year-old Abeer and kill her, her parents and her younger sister. They then attempted to make it look as though 'rebels' had committed the crimes. That is a horror all on its own. And maybe if the ring-leader Steven D. Green hadn't been given the choice of going behind bars or going to Iraq, it wouldn't have happened. An attack on US troops took place in response to this. There were so many ways to cover it.

So THE NATION elected to ignore it. And fat girl Katha chose to ignore it. After months of being publicly rebuked, Katha put down the fork and spoon and wrote about Abeer -- she wrote a single sentence. Thanks for the 'sisterhood,' Katha.

We covered it here. We covered it the minute the news emerged. We covered it the minute Green was arrested on US soil. We covered the article 32 hearing for those who were still in Iraq. We covered the civilian trial in the US for Green. There were many, many times anyone could have picked up the ball and run with the story.

Katha didn't. And Elie Mystal, so nervous today over 'poor' E. Jean Carroll, never gave two s**ts about an Iraqi girl who was gang-raped by US troops while she heard her sister and parents killed, an Iraq child who had to know that the gang-rape would also end with her own murder.

But, hey, privileged Carroll thinks that in some year -- she's not sure which -- she was raped by Donald and, golly, gee, rape is "sexy."

Die on that mountain, Elie -- but die quickly because we don't need you.

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