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James Carville's comment about 'preachy females' reflects how Democratic Party doesn't stand for 'masculinity'

2024-03-25

[FoxNews] The co-hosts of "The Big Weekend Show" on Sunday discussed Democratic strategist James Carville’s recent comments where he blamed ‘preachy females’ for Biden’s polling numbers.

Carville spoke with New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd, where he slammed the Democratic Party's culture of wokeness and censorship.

"A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females. Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you - the message is too feminine," Carville said. "If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?"

"The Big Weekend Show" co-host Dagen McDowell said the Democratic Party's woes with men is because the party no longer stands up for masculinity.

"This is about driving men out of the Democrat Party. And I'll point out one thing in all seriousness - the labor participation rate among men has fallen. It's only two thirds of men [that] are participating in the labor force. It has just plummeted, and there is honor and dignity in work. And when men do not work, there's something critically wrong with this country," she said. "There's one party that stands up for masculinity and is okay with it, and there's one party that doesn't."

"I do wonder if he was projecting at all," co-host Kat Timpf added. "Like maybe a little bit because I don't know what kind of women, or he said, [females]. I'm sorry, but calling women females, like, ‘these females’ - stop. Please don't ever do that again. He shouldn't project that onto all the rest of us. I think that the way he made the point was absurd."

McDowell continued, "If you look at the numbers, 53% of married women backed Trump, 64% of unmarried women backed Biden - but don't give James Carville too much credit. I think one thing driving reasonable women out of the Democrat Party is look at him, that sleaze stack, that's all you got."

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Here's what happens when Biden cancels a 4-year-old girl

2023-07-14

[FOXNEWS] When one of the most significant left-wing columnists, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, writes an opinion piece titled, "It’s Seven Grandkids, Mr. President," you know that President Biden has made a huge mistake.

Dowd was referring to Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter of Hunter Biden (as was confirmed in a 2019 DNA test).

There is something particularly cruel about a president and a grandfather who, with his unavoidable media presence, constantly reminds this little girl of her "unperson" status.

Reportedly, the Biden staff has been told to publicly say that there are only six grandchildren.

This is both a lie and is emotionally contradictory to every decent feeling we should have toward children.

What harm would it have done to the president to put up a seventh Christmas stocking, to invite Navy Joan to the White House for cookies and a photo, or to treat his granddaughter and her mother with dignity?

As Sen. Tom Cotton of the Roberts’ home state of Arkansas tweeted, "Remarkable that Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
hangs a Christmas stocking for his dog but won't acknowledge his granddaughter."

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Senator Kaine Compares Catholic Views on Abortion to Sharia Law, Says It Wouldn't Be a 'Primary Concern' For Jesus

2021-05-24

[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Senator Tim Kaine, who claims to be a Catholic, has compared the church’s teachings on ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion to Sharia Law.

In an op-ed for the far-left National Catholic Reporter, Kaine was arguing against bishops who want to withhold communion from Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
over his radical ~~child sacrifice~~ abortion policies.

"Catholics in public life not only live according to church doctrine but additionally shape the law, even to include the threat of criminal prosecution and punishment, to enshrine church doctrine on sexuality as mandatory for all Americans is contrary to our basic liberty," he wrote. "Why would government require that Catholic sexuality doctrine, or Sharia law, or Orthodox Jewish rules about Sabbath observance, be followed by all?"

He went on to claim that protecting the unborn would not be a primary concern for Jesus.

"No reading of the life of Jesus would suggest these issues as his primary, or even secondary, concern," he states. "His towering message is about love of neighbor as oneself with a special focus on the poor, sick, hungry, marginalized."

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Twenty Years Too Early, Ten Years Too Late and the Relic From Rome

2019-10-29

BELMONT CLUB
"I still say Kayla should be here, and if Obama had been as decisive as President Trump, maybe she would have been," Marsha Mueller said, referring to the death of her daughter at the hands of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. "After Kayla's death, the Muellers became outspoken critics of the American government's handling of its foreign hostages. They had been encouraged to keep her captivity secret, and discouraged from attempting to free her or pay a ransom."

Leaving aside the question of whether Obama ever had a good tactical option at rescuing Kayla Mueller, "decisive" is probably the wrong word to characterize the former president's style. Obama knew what he wanted and valued signaling and appearances in a sincere way. He was always signaling.

...Obama was not indecisive. He simply decided on a different course and held to it. The only problem is it led nowhere. Ironically it was Maureen Dowd in the NYT who most clearly understood this. "Obama ‐ Just Too Good for Us." "'Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,' Obama mused to aides." Persuasion was his sole and sometimes insufficient weapon. Dowd saw Hillary's nomination as the machine politics backlash against the ineffectual idealism of Obama.

...Alas for Hillary the candidate, if Obama came 20 years too early she came 10 years too late.

By contrast, Trump's reaction to Mueller's murder was far more Roman and atavistic. It was frankly tribal. In the video clip below mentally replace Caesar's line upon seeing the head of Pompey, "he was a consul of Rome" with "she was a citizen of the United States" and one gets the sense of what Delta Force conveyed. Not very enlightened, but there it is.
I wonder, could McRaven's outburst on 17th been motivated by service jealousy?

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Home Front: Politix

The Clintons struggle coming to terms with the 'passing of their relevance'

2018-12-03

[Washington Examiner] Bill and Hillary Clinton's star power has faded, but that has done little to humble their egos, according to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

After attending a recent event in Toronto for the political power couple, Dowd described a "depressing" sight in which organizers cordoned parts of the Scotiabank Arena because of poor ticket sales.

The opinion piece published Saturday explores how former President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary Clinton, a former senator, ex-secretary of state, and failed presidential candidate, used to attract massive crowds in Canada and elsewhere and could command top-dollar ticket prices. While they still insist on embarking on the speaking circuit, with some VIP seats for speaking tour events have gone as high as $700, the fanfare isn't what it used to be.

"Their pathological need to be relevant in America is belied by a Canadian arena, where stretches of empty seats bear witness to the passing of their relevance," Dowd writes.

Dowd could not help but note the "sad contrast with the sold-out boffo book tour of Michelle Obama, who’s getting a lot more personal for the premium prices."

Dowd also has some harsh words for President Trump, whom she calls "an orange puffer clown fish who will go down as one of the most destructive forces in American history" and says she's been told that former President Barack Obama has expressed regret for putting so much faith in Hillary Clinton in 2016 and misreading voters.

In a June opinion piece, Dowd wrote that Obama believed he was "too good" for Americans who were "constantly disappointing him."

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-Land of the Free

The Left is too smart to fail

2018-07-27

From 2013.

[SultanKnish] The infrastructure of manufactured intelligence has become a truly impressive thing. Today as never before there is an industry dedicated, not to educating people, but to making them feel smart. From paradigm shifting TED talks by thought leaders and documentaries by change agents that promise to transform your view of the world, manufactured intelligence has become its own culture.Manufactured intelligence is the smarmy quality that oozes out of a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Frank Bruni and the rest of the gang who tell you nothing meaningful while dazzling you with references to international locations, political events and pop culture, tying together absurdities into one synergistic web of nonsense that feels meaningful.

There's a reason that there's a Tom Friedman article generator online. But it could just as easily be a New York Times article generator that sums up the hollowness of the buzzword-fed crowd that is always hungry to reaffirm the illusion of its own intelligence.

We all know that George W. Bush was a moron. And we all know that Obama is a genius. We have been told by Valerie Jarrett, by his media lapdogs and even by the great man himself that he is just too smart to do his job. And it's reasonable that a genius would be bored by the tedious tasks involved in running the most powerful nation on earth.

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Home Front: Politix

Obama -- Just Too Good for Us

2018-06-03

[NYTIMES] Maureen Dowd notices, after nine years or so.

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Hillary! Still Whining About Getting Hosed On Election Nightyellow

2018-04-20

Holy s&^t, Hillary, see a shrink; this is not healthy. Self-pity is not good box office.
[DailyBeast] "No one in modern politics, male or female, has had to withstand more indignities, setbacks and cynicism.
(Sarah Palin, anyone? - ed.)
She developed protective armor that made the real Hillary Clinton an enigma. But if she was guarded about her feelings and opinions, she believed it was in careful pursuit of a dream for generations of Americans: the election of the country’s first woman president."

That would have been the nut graf of The New York Times story about Hillary Clinton’s historic victory that would have run under the headline "Madam President" spread across six front-page columns, according to reporter Amy Chozick’s new book, Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling.

Chozick writes that the Clinton campaign, which she covered from the beginning, had reacted furiously to the prospect of a Joe Biden run, as floated first in an August 2015 Maureen Dowd Times column and then in a reported story by Chozick. In the book, she writes that "Biden had confided (off the record) to the White House press corps that he wanted to run, but he added something like ’You guys don’t understand these people. The Clintons will try to destroy me.’"

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Home Front: Politix

Greenfield: The Fall of an FBI Director

2016-11-07

Every agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation takes an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” And he swears to “faithfully discharge the duties of the office.”

It is much the same oath taken by members of Congress, by military officers and government employees. It is an oath that goes back to Washington and Lincoln. Its origins lie in the Constitution.

And FBI Director James Comey violated it.

The oath is not to any president or government, but to the impartial law of the Constitution. It says that no one is above the law. James Comey twice stated implicitly that one politician is above the law.

Twice now, Comey faced a choice between his own rank and file agents who dutifully followed their oaths and faithfully discharged the duties of their office by investigating criminal conduct at the highest level and his political superiors who sought to protect the criminal conduct from coming to light.

Twice now, Comey submitted to a cover-up. Twice he violated his oath, sold out his own investigators and got nothing for his troubles except a swift kick in the teeth from the national press corps.

Like the Weebles, Comey wobbles. The Bureau’s agents pursue their leads. The DOJ scowls and warns. And Comey tries to serve both masters. He compromises both the investigation and the cover up. He serves up information while selling out its conclusions. His people find evidence of criminality while their boss whitewashes the culprits. Even as new damning emails come out every day, Comey shambles out to wave the whole thing away. He tries to do the right thing and the wrong thing at the same time.

Now Comey did the right thing and the wrong thing again. The order is predictable. The FBI director will only do the right thing until he’s intimidated into doing the wrong thing.

The last time around, one side wanted a cover-up and the other side wanted an investigation. And Comey obligingly gave them both what they wanted. His investigation also doubled as a cover-up. And his cover-up also doubled as an investigation. It all worked very well until Comey had to make a choice.

And Comey chose the cover-up. He laid out evidence of illegal actions and denied they were illegal.

He tried to play the trick a second time, but by now everyone was wise to it. The left demanded an instant cover-up and lambasted the looming lawman for even considering an investigation. It didn’t take long before Comey folded like a cheap Korean car. After being threatened with violations of the Hatch Act and Maureen Dowd no longer telling her media friends that he looks like Henry Fonda, he gave up.

If Comey was expecting gratitude for eventually agreeing to a cover-up, he had misjudged his audience.

"Today's letter makes Director Comey's actions nine days ago even more troubling," Senator Feinstein hissed.

Al Franken shoved his Droopy Dog face into the lens of the nearest CNN camera. "We will have hearings. I'm sure that FBI Director Comey will be before us," he bellicosely lisped.

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Trump on Warren: 'You mean Pocahontas?'

2016-05-17

[THEHILL] Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is not reining in his attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

When New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
columnist Maureen Dowd asked Trump if "he had been chided by any Republicans" for his Twitter war with the Democratic senator, the presumptive nominee said, "You mean Pocahontas?"

Trump earlier this week fired off insults on Twitter, calling the senator "Goofy Elizabeth Warren."

In March, Trump attacked Warren for saying she was part Native American while a professor at Harvard.

"You mean the Indian?" Trump said then when asked about Warren.

Warren said she "laughed out loud" when she saw Trump had called her "goofy."

"Really? That’s the best you could come up with? Come on. I thought Donald Trump said he was a guy that was good with words," she said.

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NYT Public Editor Margaret Sullivan will depart in 2016

2015-12-22

Margaret Sullivan will conclude her tenure as public editor of The New York Times when her four-year contract expires in eight months, she told Poynter today.

“Yes, I am headed into the home stretch of my four-year term,” she said in an email. “The role really requires an outsider’s perspective, so I’ve thought all along that having a clear time limit serves The Times and its readers best.”

Editors at The New York Times have “already begun considering who should replace her,” according to POLITICO Media, which first reported Sullivan’s pending departure.

Sullivan signed a four-year contract in 2012 to replace Art Brisbane as public editor, the paper’s in-house ombudsman. The contract came with the possibility of extending her tenure to six years, an option Sullivan has opted not to exercise.

Most public editors at The New York Times have occupied the job for two years or less. An exception is Clark Hoyt, who held the job from 2007 to 2010.

Jill Abramson said to me early on, ‘What will happen here is you’ll stick around and eventually you’ll alienate everybody, and then no one will be talking to you, and you’ll have to leave.’ I’m about three-quarters of the way there."

Sullivan normally eschews press, preferring to let the criticism on her blog speak for itself. But she offered this wry reflection on the conclusion of her tenure in a rare interview with Longform’s Max Linsky this summer:

Jill Abramson said to me early on, ‘What will happen here is you’ll stick around and eventually you’ll alienate everybody, and then no one will be talking to you, and you’ll have to leave.’ I’m about three-quarters of the way there.

Sullivan has certainly pulled no punches since taking the public editor’s job. She has been critical of several high-profile stories from The New York Times, including the paper’s exposé on New York nail salons, its deep-dive into Amazon’s workplace culture and its coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email imbroglio.

For New York Times kremlinologists, Sullivan’s blog has also proved to be a clearinghouse of news about the inner workings of The Times. In recent months, she has reported word about changes to the Times’ comments section, quoted Maureen Dowd in defense of her news-breaking column about Vice President Joe Biden and shed light on the paper’s new fact-checking practices.

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Judge Napolitano: The midwife to chaos, Clinton's lies.

2015-10-31

[Wash Times] The New York Times' Maureen Dowd captured the moment last weekend when she referred to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "the midwife to chaos" in Libya. Ms. Dowd apparently came to that conclusion after watching Mrs. Clinton bobbing and weaving and admitting and denying as she was confronted with the partial record of her failures and obfuscations as secretary of state, particularly with respect to Libya.

The public record is fairly well-known. In March 2011, President Obama declared war on Libya. He did this at the urging of Mrs. Clinton, who wanted to overthrow Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi so she could boast of having brought "democracy" to the region.

She and Mr. Obama conspired to do this even though former President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had publicly praised Gadhafi as an ally in the war against terrorist groups and even though the United States was giving the Gadhafi government more than $100 million a year in foreign aid.

Mr. Obama did his best to avoid constitutional norms. He deployed American intelligence agents on the ground, not troops, so he could plausibly deny he had put "boots" on the ground. He did not seek an American national consensus for war because Libya presented no threat whatsoever to the United States. He did not obtain a congressional declaration of war as the Constitution requires because he couldn't get one. And he did not seek United Nations permission, which is required to attack a fellow U.N. member.

He did obtain a U.N. embargo of the shipment of weapons into Libya, and he secured a NATO-enforced no-fly zone over portions of Libya. In order to enforce the no-fly zone, NATO sent jet fighters over the skies of Libya. The jets were guided and directed by American intelligence agents on the ground to bomb Libyan planes on the ground, which had been paid for by American taxpayers.

To pursue her goal of a "democratic" government there, Mrs. Clinton, along with Mr. Obama and a dozen or so members of Congress from both houses and both political parties, decided she should break the law by permitting U.S. arms dealers to violate the U.N. arms embargo and arm Libyan rebels whom she hoped would one day run the new government. So she exercised her authority as secretary of state to authorize the shipment of American-made arms to Qatar, a country beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood and friendly to the Libyan rebels, and a country the United States had no business arming -- unless the purpose of doing so was for the arms to be transferred to the rebels.

Once this plot was hatched, Mrs. Clinton and her fellow conspirators realized that some of these rebel groups were manned by al Qaeda operatives; and selling or providing arms to them is a felony -- hence the reason for months' worth of missing and destroyed Clinton emails. How could someone running for president possibly justify providing material assistance to terrorist organizations in the present international climate?
Gives midwifery a bad name simply through association.

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