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Alaska IHOP rips Biden in note apologizing for staff shortages

2021-12-14

[NYPOST] An Alaska IHOP is going viral with a savage note blaming President Joe Biden

...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan......
for its lack of staff.

"Due to the fact that Biden gave out way too much free money and nobody wants to work anymore, we are forced to reduce our hours during this week," the sign in the window of a franchise in Wasilla read.

"Thank you for your understanding and patience," read the widely shared, error-ridden note that IHOP confirmed was genuine but "unauthorized."

The sign quickly divided those who shared it online, with some using the hashtag #BoycottIHOP — but others deliberately seeking out the exact location to support it for being honest about the damage caused by the increasingly unsupported president.

"We can’t wait to eat at [a] place that has the courage to admit the obvious," one person tweeted, while admitting they’d never been to one of the International House of Pancakes locations before.

"Haven’t been to an IHOP in over 20 years, but now I’ll start," another person tweeted, while others told the chain the sign had made new customers.

"So, the snowflakes are boycotting IHOP, because they spoke the truth. I suddenly have a serious craving for Pancakes," someone else wrote.

Others, however, said they were so angered, they would boycott the all-day breakfasts, including the Twitter user who appeared to have first posted the picture.

"We can’t eat at a place that condones this," said @ThatOtherDude12 while posting the sign on Friday.

Others pointed out that the stimulus payouts had been started by Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, ridiculing the suggestion that they were the real cause of staff shortages.

"It couldn’t be the $2.25 an hour that people don’t want to work for, could it?" someone named Jamie Carter asked, looping in IHOP’s official account.

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'Go and do something productive': Melania Trump snaps back at trolls

2020-03-08

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Melania Trump snapped back at online trolls who accused her of having a Marie Antoinette moment during the Coronavirus outbreak

The first lady was criticized when she announced an update to work on the White House tennis pavilion

'I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the @WhiteHouse to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities. #BeBest,' she tweeted

Twitter users accused Melania of being tone death

'29 people were killed by a tornado in Tennessee, the world is shuddering as a pandemic expands and what is a tennis pavilion?,' wrote actress Mia Farrow

Others compared first lady to Kirsten Dunst in movie 'Marie Antoinette'

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Home Front: Culture Wars

How a Soros Trojan Horse Took Down Chris Matthews and Is Poised to Bully Others into Submission

2020-03-06

[AMGREATNESS] With hundreds of millions of dollars from billionaire financier George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
and dozens of his comrades-in-arms at the "Democracy Alliance," the progressive network of labor unions, activist investment firms, social justice organizations, and ideological media outlets is the tip of the spear in "cancel" culture.

Matthews was accused of sexually inappropriate comments by Laura Bassett in a GQ column. The "Hardball" host’s precise crime? Boorish and slightly creepy comments about her appearance and his penchant for "falling in love" with her. Matthews did not touch her or proposition her. Inappropriate? Probably. But Matthews is no Matt Lauer or Harvey Weinstein.

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Seven Deadly Sins: Lust

2019-11-04

[BREITBART] Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow said on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, that "credible" accusations of rape had been made against former President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
by Juanita Broaddrick, adding that an investigation into the allegations is now "overdue."

Maher asked Farrow, who is best known for helping uncover the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal, whether Clinton could have survived in today’s political climate of hyper-awareness about sexual misconduct.

"I think that it is very important to interject that Bill Clinton is a different conversation," responded Farrow. "He has been credibly accused of rape. That has nothing to do with gray areas. I think that the Juanita Broaddrick claim has been overdue for revisiting."

Broaddrick, a former nursing administrator, first made the allegations against Clinton in 1999, claiming that he raped her in her hotel room in Little Rock in 1978, when he was Arkansas attorney general and running for governor. Clinton has denied the allegation through his attorney.

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A New Book Targets NBC News and How Harvey Weinstein May Have Leveraged Matt Lauer

2019-10-10

[Hollywood Reporter] In his first interview about the explosive 'Catch and Kill,' the journalist reveals fresh claims of secret payouts and how Lauer may have played a role in the network’s decision to kill his 2017 Harvey Weinstein exposé: "I'm very clear about the fact that Harvey was laying siege to NBC."

It was September 2017, and Harvey Weinstein was huddled at a corner table at New York's Loews Regency hotel alongside Dylan Howard, chief content officer of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. Weinstein had become increasingly alarmed about a story that Ronan Farrow ‐ then a correspondent for NBC News and most famous for being the son of Mia Farrow and ~~Frank Sinatra~~ Woody Allen ‐ was vigorously pursuing about the powerful producer's long-rumored sexual predations. Weinstein had worked to suppress variations of that story for decades, and he was desperate for it to stay secret. But Farrow (along with a team at The New York Times) was closing in. Weinstein wanted to bully NBC News into killing the story. He needed leverage.

Howard pulled out several thick manila envelopes and laid out their contents on the table. The men huddled for hours, strategizing quietly. Weinstein had found a pressure point: Matt Lauer.

"Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer's behavior and capable of revealing it," Farrow writes in his long-awaited new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Little, Brown and Company, Oct. 15). Citing anonymous sources at NBC and AMI, Farrow, 31, claims that Weinstein was using the Enquirer's accumulated dirt on the Today show star's alleged workplace misconduct to pressure NBC executives to kill Farrow's long-gestating Weinstein exposé. (Farrow also includes a denial from NBC that a specific threat was ever communicated. And in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the network says: "NBC News was never contacted by AMI, or made aware in any way of any threats from them, or from anyone else, for that matter. And the idea of NBC News taking a threat seriously from a tabloid company about Matt Lauer is especially preposterous, since they already covered him with great regularity.")

Related: Washington Insider - NBC probably fired Megyn Kelly for her Matt Lauer coverage

Related: NY Post - Brooke Nevils calls Lauer defense ‘a case study in victim shaming’

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Megyn Kelly’s exit has been great for ‘Today’ ratings

2018-11-15

[PAGESIX] Viewers are returning to the 9 a.m. hour of the "Today" show after Megyn Kelly’s ouster.

Variety reports that since Kelly was canned about three weeks ago, "viewership in the key demographic favored by advertisers in that time period is up around 10 percent."

The news will perhaps not surprise NBC brass, who saw viewers abandon the time slot in droves after Kelly took over from Tamron Hall and Al Roker in 2017.

Anecdotally, "Today" also saw a spike in viewers after it fired Matt Lauer last November.

Perhaps NBC News just needs to keep firing its most highly paid staffers till it’s unbeatable?

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The More Young Men Are Bathed in Femininity, the More 'Toxic Masculinity' You Will See

2018-06-08

h/t Instapundit
One of the most ironic things about the constant "toxic masculinity" complaints that we hear these days is that we live in an overly feminized culture where most of the "toxic" males seem to have either been raised without fathers or claim to be adherents of feminism. The statistics on men raised without fathers are grim almost beyond belief.

70% of gang members, high school dropouts, teen suicides...and teen substance abusers come from single mother homes.
...80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)

...85% of all youths sitting in prisons (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Department of Corrections 1992)

Then there are the men from liberal Hollywood who have been at the epicenter of the #metoo earthquake. Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Michael Douglas, James Franco, Morgan Spurlock, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Russell Simmons ‐ it goes on and on and on.
Truly a puzzle.

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Matt Lauer Having A Rough Go, Divorce Is Imminent

2018-04-24

I just wanted to wind down the work day with some really sad, sad news...
[MSN] - Matt Lauer is having a tough time as divorce proceedings from wife Annette Roque continue, a source tells ET.

The 60-year-old former Today show anchor has currently been living a very private life in the Hamptons in New York since being abruptly fired from the NBC morning show last November due to "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace." He also put up his lavish, 11-bedroom Manhattan apartment for sale earlier this month.

"Matt cut himself off from the life he knew in Manhattan and has remained for the most part isolated," the source tells ET. "He looks exhausted. Matt is finally coming to terms with the reality that his marriage is over and he is in bad shape. He feels he lost everything important in his life overnight. He is embarrassed and ashamed."

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NBC names Hoda Kotb as Lauer replacement on ‘Today’

2018-01-03

[ARABNEWS] NBC News opened the new year Tuesday by appointing Hoda Kotb as co-anchor of the "Today" show’s first two hours with Savannah Guthrie, replacing Matt Lauer following his firing on sexual misconduct charges in late November. Kotb, 53, will continue to co-host the show’s fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford.

It will be the first all-female team headlining "Today" in the show’s 65-year history. Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts blazed that path for ABC’s "Good Morning America" in the 2000s, but morning shows have traditionally paired a man and a woman as host. With an audience dominated by women in an era where news of badly behaving men is frequent, the Guthrie-Kotb pairing may be particularly timely.

"Today" won’t be an all-female zone in its first half, however, with longtime weather forecaster Al Roker and correspondent Carson Daly as regulars. Megyn Kelly hosts the show’s third hour.

"This has to be the most popular decision NBC News has ever made and I am so thrilled," Guthrie said on Tuesday, announcing the appointment on the air.

"I am pinching myself," said a beaming Kotb, sitting beside her. "I think we should send some medics to Alexandria, Virginia, where my mom has likely fainted."

Lauer’s eventual replacement had long been the subject of internal angst but with a sudden decision forced upon the network, Kotb’s performance made it easier. She’s subbed for Lauer since the day he was fired and "Today" has won four straight weeks in the ratings, after having spent much of the past few years in second behind ABC.

"Hoda has seamlessly stepped into the co-anchor role alongside Savannah, and the two have quickly hit the ground running," NBC News Chairman Andy Lack said in a memo to staff on Tuesday. "They have an undeniable connection with each other and most importantly, with viewers, a hallmark of ’Today’."

Lack said Kotb "has the rare ability to share authentic and heartfelt moments in even the most difficult news circumstances. It’s a tribute to her wide range and her innate curiosity."

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Montage: The 10 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2017

2017-12-20

This was the year American journalism came roaring back, America's journalists reported (again and again and again). With a new president in office and a whiff of scandal in the air, reporters raced to their battle stations and began pummeling the president, seemingly certain he'd soon be frog-marched into federal prison and they would be celebrated with Pulitzers.

The only problem is that their biggest scoops … were almost always wrong. Over the course of the last year, reporters breathlessly accused Trump of committing impeachable acts, lending assistance to mass shootings, sowing racial discord, and even outright treason. Meanwhile, when Hillary returned to the fray, she was feted with flattery, humorous viral videos, and chardonnay. And that's just a taste.

Trying to choose the 10 lowest moments was no easy task, but we think the montage above captures the spirit of 2017 in all of its unholy glory.

Without further ado, here are our 10 most mortifying media moments of 2017:

10 ‐ It's Our Job to Tell You What to Think. During a February broadcast of "Morning Joe," co-host Mika Brzezinski chastised Trump for telling Americans to be skeptical of the press, worrying Americans may trust him over her media colleagues. "He could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."

9 ‐ ABC Botches Biggest Story of Year. Shortly after Michael Flynn was indicted for lying to the FBI, ABC's Brian Ross broke what appeared to be a massive scoop: that during the campaign, Trump instructed him to coordinate with Russia. This led to reporters giddily anticipating the apparently inevitable downfall of Trump, which no one highlighted better than Joy Behar, who literally shouted "Yes!" after delivering Ross's "scoop." The only problem is the story was completely wrong; it was then President Elect Trump who had given these (very normal) instructions, just as President Elect Obama had reached out to Iran during his own transition. Ross was subsequently suspended for the "serious error."

8 ‐ Late-Night Leftism. When Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy sponsored a health-care reform bill that would have given states more flexibility to operate health-care exchanges, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel abandoned comedy altogether and instead used his show to rally his audience against the bill. After turning "Jimmy Kimmel Tonight" into a platform for nauseating left-wing sermonizing, he was dubbed "America's Conscience" by his colleagues in the media.

7 ‐ Hillary, Our Hero. After spending months hunting for an opportunity to expose a Trump scandal, Hillary published her book on the 2016 race ("What Happened") and went on a whirlwind publicity tour, where reporters treated the scandal-scarred former First Lady to chardonnay, flattery & panda videos.

6 ‐ ‘Reporting' as an Excuse for Venting. All too often in 2017, "reporting" on the Trump Administration became synonymous with "venting." Mika Brzezinksi, for example, used the opportunity of reporting on a Trump tweet to say (all in one sentence) that the president has no morals, is a bully, acts like a bigot, is racist, and is a sexual harasser. The New York Time's Tom Friedman, commenting on a torrent of news from the Trump Administration, said that "from a journalism perspective" Trump is like a "brain eating disease." Former reporter Mark Halperin said the election of Trump was a "more cataclysmic event" than 9/11.

5 ‐ Let's Impeach Trump Already! After President Trump fired FBI director James Comey, the media appeared certain he'd just committed his first impeachable offense. Almost without fail, Democratic guests appearing on TV in May were expected to announce when they would initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.

4 ‐ Vegas Scapegoating. When an atrocity of inexplicable scale struck Las Vegas, Americans demanded answers. When those were slow in coming, the media turned their sights on Republicans, blaming gun rights for the tragedy. (Note: They did the same thing after the mass shooting in Texas.)

3 ‐ Abandoning Any Sense of Perspective. After Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged accepting a meeting a sketchy Russian lawyer who said she had dirt on Hillary Clinton, reporters and others in the media jumped the rhetorical shark, calling it a case of "treason." Yet months later it was reported the Clinton campaign solicited anti-Trump gossip from Kremlin agents (via their intermediary, Fusion GPS), an arguably far worse ethical lapse, and these same talking heads were curiously quiet. https://grabien.com/file.php?id=277165

2 ‐ Emoting as Reporting. Just weeks into the Trump Administration, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was struggling. The emotional toll was already too much; after Trump had tweeted that the Trump Tower had been wiretapped, she could no longer take it, telling viewers it was OK to be scared. "We're all really nervous, too," she emoted.

1 ‐ Reporters Treat Obama to One Final Slobberfest. In President Obama's final appearance before the White House press corps, reporters used the opportunity to … shower him with praise, adulation, and hagiography. These sycophantic reporters were seemingly competing to see who could offer Obama the most effusive praise. That honor may have gone to The Blade's Chris Johnson, who itemized to the president what he felt were his greatest accomplishments -- before inviting him to bash Trump. Or the LA Times' Christi Parsons, who begged the president to call her (while pointing at her phone), and telling him it's been "an honor" covering his administration. Her actual question? How he was going to explain the election of Trump to his children.

Honorable Mentions:

‐ Of course no synopsis of 2017's mortifying media moments would be complete without mentioning the many reporters who were felled by sexual misconduct. Stories about how Matt Lauer used his office as a secret sex chamber, or Charlie Rose's predilection for parading naked in front of young female producers, or Mark Halperin praying on interns, were indeed mortifying.

‐ When tragedy struck Texas in the form of Hurricane Harvey, many in the media politicized the tragedy, assigning blame on Republicans and other critics on the global warming theory.

‐ As President Obama was finishing his second term, he began insisting he was leaving without a single scandal marring his legacy. The media, picking up on this effort at posterity puffery, was only too happy to oblige, likewise insisting he was leaving office unblemished.

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Daily Depravity Digest

2017-12-03

Pelosi calls on Democratic Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen to resign amid sexual misconduct report

Fashion photographer Bruce Weber accused of touching, forcefully kissing male model

Matt Lauer’s wife leaves their home amid sex harassment scandal

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Rush: Timing of Flynn charges no coincidence - Trump-Russian issue back on page one

2017-12-02

[Breitbart] Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh questioned the timing of the announcement former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been charged by special counsel Robert Mueller for lying to the FBI.

Limbaugh suggested the timing of the news was to draw the attention away from passage of the tax bill among other items in the news, including the Matt Lauer firing from NBC and the "not guilty" verdict in the Kate Steinle murder trial.

"So there you have it ‐ they’re all excited," Limbaugh said. "Mueller did the deed on the right day. Mueller did the deed to sweep the tax cut deal off the table and to tick everybody off. This is, in Jonathan Martin’s opinion, the swamp banding together ‐ the establishment coordinating its efforts to continue to destroy Trump and muddy the waters. The tax bill is going to pass. As far as [Mitch] McConnell and [Paul] Ryan are concerned, none of this today is a legal problem."

"It’s a bit of a political problem, but it doesn’t present any legal problems to them or their tax bill," he continued. "The tax bill is going to pass. But I don’t have any doubt that the timing of this thing today may not be coincidental. Just look at all the news it has swept off the front pages and look what it put back on the front page: ’Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary.’"

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