This week, Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The man whom Obama's White House claimed served the United States with honor and distinction now faces penalties including life in prison. The sentencing phase of his court martial begins on Monday.
As many will recall, on May 31, 2014, in a much ballyhooed ceremony in the Rose Garden, then-President Obama, flanked by Bergdahl's parents, announced the deal that was to return Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from captivity with the Taliban in exchange for five terrorists then held in Guantanamo Bay. Immediately after the announcement, murmurs were heard in the military community that grew to shouts that Bergdahl was a deserter. No doubt the Obama administration was moved by Bergdahl's father's sympathetic beard and his efforts to learn Pashtun, the language of his son's captors. This was, after all, the era of compassionate globalism. Leave no man behind, was the mantra.
Since then, the military conducted its investigation and brought charges against Bergdahl. Many in the military, both veterans and those who served in theater during the time of Bergdahl's misconduct, called for him to be jailed for life, if not put to death. Troops sent out to look for him were injured and six were killed in their searches. Those losses had an effect on the active military and veterans who called for harsh punishment of Bergdahl.
There were several rulings by the court that compelled Bergdahl to plead guilty. Arguments can be had whether the court erred in making its rulings; I don't believe it did. But for those not paying close attention to the case, the plea may have come as a surprise. For those of us monitoring it, it comes as a relief. There was little reason to see this play out in a trial; there was very little evidence to support Bergdahl's tale that he simple took off for a walk and was captured.
What's more interesting is the public reaction from a couple of quarters. First, what's the MSM been doing to report on this? I mean, besides announcing his guilty plea, has the MSM been investigating the deal that brought us a deserter in exchange for five hardened terrorists who've vowed to kill Americans? As far as I can tell, Bergdahl hasn't taken up arms in defense of this country and now he's admitted abandoning his post. Does the MSM see a problem with releasing five terrorists for a deserter? Does it disagree with the precedent set by the Bergdahl trade? Is it interested in holding the former president and his human piñata accountable for their gross overstatements?
How about the parents? Sure, they're glad to have their son back and out of harm's way, but are they proud of the child and his brand of patriotism, duty and loyalty? Is the father glad he grew that ridiculous beard and learned to speak Pashtun (which I'm sure is useful in Idaho). Do they feel as if their son brought shame to them and their family name?
But most of all, has anyone asked the former president or Susan Rice about the Bergdahl plea? Do they feel at all responsible for making the worst trade since Lou Brock was traded for Ernie Broglio? Are they sheepish about having been played by Bergdahl? Are they angry about his perfidy? Do they regret making the trade? What do they think should be his punishment? Or will the MSM not even ask them questions about one of the worst decisions they made while in power?
Bergdahl will get what he has coming. He'll be in jail; the only question will be for how long. Nothing will bring back the six brave souls who lost their lives searching for him, or the lost limbs others lost on patrol trying to rescue him. But for those who hailed or approved the deal, I wonder what they're thinking. I also wonder if the MSM, which is trying so hard to find a Russian collusion allegation to stick despite evidence to the contrary, will tear itself away for a moment to look at a real scandal that's been under their collective noses for more than a couple of years.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Friday, October 20, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017
Weinstein -- More Fallout
If it seems like I'm obsesses with the Weinstein scandal, I'm not. I'm just reveling in the hypocrisy of the Left who lectures those of us who voted for President Trump despite his indiscretions involving women, given the fact that many people now caught up in the aftermath of the revelations of Harvey Weinstein's conduct were lecturing us for over a year about how stupid we were for voting for President Trump, all the while it was an open secret that Weinstein ruled Hollywood with his penis.
Weinstein is now in a hermetic cocoon called therapy where he's allegedly going to be taught how not to be a cretin. Good luck with that. On his way to Arizona, he told the gathering throng of reporters that he was going to therapy but would be training his sights on the NRA, whatever that meant, as if he was going to curry favor with the Left. If that's what he really thought, he's even more of a buffoon than I thought.
But the interesting fallout for me is how women are coming out of the woodwork not only to accuse Weinstein, a la the Bill Cosby accusers, but also other celebrities who have followed the Weinstein Power Trip Career Path. Some of Hollywood's most outspoken liberals are now being dragged kicking and screaming into the limelight, something they typically embrace but from which they are now running.
Ben Affleck, he of the boorish behavior and the wandering eye, was outed by Rose McGowan for having known of Weinstein's misbehavior. Ms. McGowan, who is quickly becoming a favorite of mine for her no-holds-barred style, tweeted of Affleck You Lie after he tweeted a milquetoast denunciation of Weinstein that was probably drafted by one of his handlers. Affleck sheepishly admitted it and hasn't been heard from since. Of course, Ben was beaten to the punch by his younger brother Casey, who'd been accused of sexual harassment before Harvey's indiscretions became public.
His buddy, Matt Damon, who had been reported to have intervened for Weinstein for an Italian victim, came out and invoked the Three Monkeys. So far, he hasn't been pressed about his response to the matter.
Jimmy Kimmel, the darling of the Left and the self-appointed spokesperson for all things Lefty, has been outed for some of his more immature behavior, nothing that approaches Weinstein territory but that is nonetheless unflattering.
George Clooney has now been accused of blackballing an actress of Mexican descent who appeared on the television show ER. I wonder how Amal liked that.
Has Hollywood never heard of the Glass Houses rule? Apparently, going after President Trump was easy for them because they were protected, in part, but the unwritten rules of Hollywood but also by the MSM, with whom they were in league against the President. It's frightening at the same time it's enjoyable to watch all these mega-Leftists who accused the President now fighting accusations of their own. It's a feeding frenzy and for once I don't feel sorry for the targets. They've brought this on themselves not only by their conduct but by their hypocrisy. In fact, this weekend, I learned a new term from a friend online whom I've never met (a friend of a friend...).
The Left should rename itself the Hypocrats.
It's fitting.
I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings....
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Weinstein is now in a hermetic cocoon called therapy where he's allegedly going to be taught how not to be a cretin. Good luck with that. On his way to Arizona, he told the gathering throng of reporters that he was going to therapy but would be training his sights on the NRA, whatever that meant, as if he was going to curry favor with the Left. If that's what he really thought, he's even more of a buffoon than I thought.
But the interesting fallout for me is how women are coming out of the woodwork not only to accuse Weinstein, a la the Bill Cosby accusers, but also other celebrities who have followed the Weinstein Power Trip Career Path. Some of Hollywood's most outspoken liberals are now being dragged kicking and screaming into the limelight, something they typically embrace but from which they are now running.
Ben Affleck, he of the boorish behavior and the wandering eye, was outed by Rose McGowan for having known of Weinstein's misbehavior. Ms. McGowan, who is quickly becoming a favorite of mine for her no-holds-barred style, tweeted of Affleck You Lie after he tweeted a milquetoast denunciation of Weinstein that was probably drafted by one of his handlers. Affleck sheepishly admitted it and hasn't been heard from since. Of course, Ben was beaten to the punch by his younger brother Casey, who'd been accused of sexual harassment before Harvey's indiscretions became public.
His buddy, Matt Damon, who had been reported to have intervened for Weinstein for an Italian victim, came out and invoked the Three Monkeys. So far, he hasn't been pressed about his response to the matter.
Jimmy Kimmel, the darling of the Left and the self-appointed spokesperson for all things Lefty, has been outed for some of his more immature behavior, nothing that approaches Weinstein territory but that is nonetheless unflattering.
George Clooney has now been accused of blackballing an actress of Mexican descent who appeared on the television show ER. I wonder how Amal liked that.
Has Hollywood never heard of the Glass Houses rule? Apparently, going after President Trump was easy for them because they were protected, in part, but the unwritten rules of Hollywood but also by the MSM, with whom they were in league against the President. It's frightening at the same time it's enjoyable to watch all these mega-Leftists who accused the President now fighting accusations of their own. It's a feeding frenzy and for once I don't feel sorry for the targets. They've brought this on themselves not only by their conduct but by their hypocrisy. In fact, this weekend, I learned a new term from a friend online whom I've never met (a friend of a friend...).
The Left should rename itself the Hypocrats.
It's fitting.
I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings....
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Harvey Weinstein -- The Saga Continues
Another day, more dirty laundry. The allegations -- stories? -- coming out are tawdry at best, disgusting and reprehensible at worst, and I'm not just referring to Weinstein's antics.
The reports coming out suggest that Weinstein had a fetish for massages and having women watch him shower. As someone for whom massages do nothing, I don't understand that, although I will confess that many people, including my dear wife, not only love them but need massages. I'm not sure anyone who doesn't have an unusual fetish, like Rex Ryan, would understand the business about showering with an audience. Unless, of course, audience participation was expected.
For as bad as this is getting, there are some interesting sidebars that are occurring. I touched on a couple of them yesterday, but a few more have arisen today and I think they're worth mentioning.
First and foremost, She Who Would Be President, the defender of all things female, the person who referred in her book to President Trump as a creep took an exceptionally long time to condemn her benefactor's misdeeds:
I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein," Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said in a statement. "The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.
As condemnations go, it's a little weak. But what should we expect from a woman who has stood by her philandering husband, vilifying women who made very similar accusations about him, and whose charity took money from countries where women's rights are still mired in pre-suffrage day? Yet there are those who still feel cheated by the less-than-inevitable outcome of the Inevitability Tour that left Cankles walking around forests trolling for admirers?
At least she's come out publicly...finally. Scores of other recipients of Weinstein's largesse have quietly returned the money to charities as if these returns will cleanse their political souls.
The Obamas, meanwhile, have evoked Nero and remained silent, despite having benefited from Weinstein's celebrity connections over the years. Wasn't Obama the President women loved? Wasn't he just the coolest? And now...? Where's his statement of condemnation? Where is his repugnance? O', wait. His eldest daughter interned for Weinstein. Can't bite the hand that feeds now can they?
Meryl Streep, who was silent only a day or two less than Cankles, broke out the old Yalie textbooks and made the following public statement about Weinstein:
The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported. The intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse are our heroes.
One thing can be clarified. Not everybody knew. Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally. I didn’t know about these other offenses: I did not know about his financial settlements with actresses and colleagues; I did not know about his having meetings in his hotel room, his bathroom, or other inappropriate, coercive acts. And if everybody knew, I don’t believe that all the investigative reporters in the entertainment and the hard news media would
have neglected for decades to write about it.
The behavior is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar. Each brave voice that is raised, heard and credited by our watchdog media will ultimately change the game.
Well.
Ostrich, meet Meryl. Meryl, meet Ostrich. It's one thing to play make-believe for a living. It's quite another to try to pass it off when serious, real-life actions with doleful consequences come to light.
How would I know that Meryl is fibbing? Well, I don't. But listen to others in the entertainment industry:
Jessica Chastain, the comely actress from one of my favorite movies, Zero Dark Thirty, and a noted liberal, said this today:
I was warned from the beginning. The stories were everywhere. To deny that is to create an enviornment (sic) for it to happen again.
If Ms. Chastain, a relative ingénue compared to Dame Meryl, heard the stories, how is it Meryl was ignorant of them...unless she was in character as an ostrich for an upcoming nature film? It would be one thing for a conservative such as Dean Cain to assert, when asked whether the news about Weinstin's behavior became public:
Not in the least. You hear rumors about this, this was the worst kept secret in Hollywood, no question about it ... Hollywood loves to wear the self-righteous finger and tell everybody what they should be doing and what is going on but this is not known as the bastion of morality, Harvey Weinstein is an extremely powerful man, an absolute bully and he clearly had an M.O. -- something that he did — you were aware of it, everybody knew. I wasn’t somebody that would be a target for him but it’s something that he had done for a long time
The stories were everywhere...the worst kept secret in Hollywood...yet Dame Meryl heard nothing. Or did she choose to hear nothing? This from the woman who excoriated the President publicly...it only goes to show that what I tell my wife Karen is true: Higher education isn't proof of intelligence, only that someone passed a series of tests. Or it taught Meryl to dissemble really well. Come to think of it...
As if all this weren't bad enough, Weinstein's wife, Georgina Chapman, is concerned about the fallout from the scandal, but not for the reasons one might expect. If she's troubled by how hurt the women harassed by her husband are, there's little in public to support that. There is, however, a report that she's concerned for the effect this scandal will have on her couture line, because Weinstein gave her entrée to the celebrity world which provided her with free advertising. Weinstein would also order actresses and models to wear the Marchesa line to red carpet events to maximize the effect for his wife's business. So her greatest concern, at least insofar as information available publicly is concerned, is for her business. Not their minor children, not their marriage, but for her business.
And these are the people lecturing us about politics.
Yes, I'm enjoying this. This has all the marks of a huge crash and burn in slow motion playing out over a course of days, not minutes. Each day brings more recriminations against Weinstein and the people that enabled him, like Russell Crowe and Matt Damon, the latter of whom was a stalwart defender of Liberalism (until it came to his life, when he was free to choose for his family the way they want to live). More than anything, though, is the display of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance that is on display from people who hold themselves out as smarter and better than the rest of us.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
The reports coming out suggest that Weinstein had a fetish for massages and having women watch him shower. As someone for whom massages do nothing, I don't understand that, although I will confess that many people, including my dear wife, not only love them but need massages. I'm not sure anyone who doesn't have an unusual fetish, like Rex Ryan, would understand the business about showering with an audience. Unless, of course, audience participation was expected.
For as bad as this is getting, there are some interesting sidebars that are occurring. I touched on a couple of them yesterday, but a few more have arisen today and I think they're worth mentioning.
First and foremost, She Who Would Be President, the defender of all things female, the person who referred in her book to President Trump as a creep took an exceptionally long time to condemn her benefactor's misdeeds:
I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein," Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said in a statement. "The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.
As condemnations go, it's a little weak. But what should we expect from a woman who has stood by her philandering husband, vilifying women who made very similar accusations about him, and whose charity took money from countries where women's rights are still mired in pre-suffrage day? Yet there are those who still feel cheated by the less-than-inevitable outcome of the Inevitability Tour that left Cankles walking around forests trolling for admirers?
At least she's come out publicly...finally. Scores of other recipients of Weinstein's largesse have quietly returned the money to charities as if these returns will cleanse their political souls.
The Obamas, meanwhile, have evoked Nero and remained silent, despite having benefited from Weinstein's celebrity connections over the years. Wasn't Obama the President women loved? Wasn't he just the coolest? And now...? Where's his statement of condemnation? Where is his repugnance? O', wait. His eldest daughter interned for Weinstein. Can't bite the hand that feeds now can they?
Meryl Streep, who was silent only a day or two less than Cankles, broke out the old Yalie textbooks and made the following public statement about Weinstein:
The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported. The intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse are our heroes.
One thing can be clarified. Not everybody knew. Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally. I didn’t know about these other offenses: I did not know about his financial settlements with actresses and colleagues; I did not know about his having meetings in his hotel room, his bathroom, or other inappropriate, coercive acts. And if everybody knew, I don’t believe that all the investigative reporters in the entertainment and the hard news media would
have neglected for decades to write about it.
The behavior is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar. Each brave voice that is raised, heard and credited by our watchdog media will ultimately change the game.
Well.
Ostrich, meet Meryl. Meryl, meet Ostrich. It's one thing to play make-believe for a living. It's quite another to try to pass it off when serious, real-life actions with doleful consequences come to light.
How would I know that Meryl is fibbing? Well, I don't. But listen to others in the entertainment industry:
Jessica Chastain, the comely actress from one of my favorite movies, Zero Dark Thirty, and a noted liberal, said this today:
I was warned from the beginning. The stories were everywhere. To deny that is to create an enviornment (sic) for it to happen again.
If Ms. Chastain, a relative ingénue compared to Dame Meryl, heard the stories, how is it Meryl was ignorant of them...unless she was in character as an ostrich for an upcoming nature film? It would be one thing for a conservative such as Dean Cain to assert, when asked whether the news about Weinstin's behavior became public:
Not in the least. You hear rumors about this, this was the worst kept secret in Hollywood, no question about it ... Hollywood loves to wear the self-righteous finger and tell everybody what they should be doing and what is going on but this is not known as the bastion of morality, Harvey Weinstein is an extremely powerful man, an absolute bully and he clearly had an M.O. -- something that he did — you were aware of it, everybody knew. I wasn’t somebody that would be a target for him but it’s something that he had done for a long time
The stories were everywhere...the worst kept secret in Hollywood...yet Dame Meryl heard nothing. Or did she choose to hear nothing? This from the woman who excoriated the President publicly...it only goes to show that what I tell my wife Karen is true: Higher education isn't proof of intelligence, only that someone passed a series of tests. Or it taught Meryl to dissemble really well. Come to think of it...
As if all this weren't bad enough, Weinstein's wife, Georgina Chapman, is concerned about the fallout from the scandal, but not for the reasons one might expect. If she's troubled by how hurt the women harassed by her husband are, there's little in public to support that. There is, however, a report that she's concerned for the effect this scandal will have on her couture line, because Weinstein gave her entrée to the celebrity world which provided her with free advertising. Weinstein would also order actresses and models to wear the Marchesa line to red carpet events to maximize the effect for his wife's business. So her greatest concern, at least insofar as information available publicly is concerned, is for her business. Not their minor children, not their marriage, but for her business.
And these are the people lecturing us about politics.
Yes, I'm enjoying this. This has all the marks of a huge crash and burn in slow motion playing out over a course of days, not minutes. Each day brings more recriminations against Weinstein and the people that enabled him, like Russell Crowe and Matt Damon, the latter of whom was a stalwart defender of Liberalism (until it came to his life, when he was free to choose for his family the way they want to live). More than anything, though, is the display of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance that is on display from people who hold themselves out as smarter and better than the rest of us.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Monday, October 9, 2017
Harvey Weinstein and Liberal Hypocrisy
Well, another week, another example of liberal hypocrisy.
Reports surfaced last week that Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood heavyweight mega-producer, had been sexually harassing Hollywood starlets and others for years, some of the allegations going back over twenty years. Nasty woman Ashley Judd, a beauty of the first order and equally annoying and unhinged, brought the allegations to light last week, telling people that Weinstein made inappropriate suggestions involving massages and stages of undress. Then the payoff to Rose McGowan came out. After that, the stories came out faster than the rain came down in the Houston floods.
Weinstein, the brash, piggish power-broker who could make or break careers, has lawyered up and started pointing fingers. He even went so far as to say that he would now be tutored how to act more appropriately and would channel his energies into forcing President Trump to resign. This, apparently, was a sop to Leftist Hollywood to garner sympathy. If it's worked, it isn't showing.
Some women, like Judd and Ms. McGowan and, oddly, Lena Dunham, have bravely stepped forward. Others, like Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench and Catherine Zeta-Jones, have so far remained silent. Weinstein's reign of terror still casts its dark shadow over the industry, causing even these highly visible and powerful women to stay out of the limelight.
Weinstein has been forced out of his own company by its board of directors. He's been subjected to some ridicule, a few stories in newspapers, but nowhere near the universal condemnation that President Trump made for his reckless and sexist comments years ago. Apparently, in Hollywood, Weinstein's behavior was such an open secret that it was tolerated and overlooked. But it went farther than even Hollywood. Several Democratic politicians, whom Weinstein favored, received campaign contributions, including Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and the Clintons. Now, the politicians are scrambling to divest themselves of this dirty money, money they had to know came from a sexist pig.
But the difference with which it's being treated by the same industry that pilloried Donald Trump and Fox News for their similar indiscretions is telling. The late night talk shows mention it but don't beat it to death like they did with Mr. Trump. Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live, which has feasted on Donald Trump, had nary a sketch about Weinstein. When asked about it, Lorne Michaels said that during dress rehearsal, the jokes fell flat so the sketches were pulled from the live telecast. Later, he said it was a New York thing...which, given Donald Trump's New York bona fides, begs a very obvious question.
These are the same people -- celebrities in the entertainment industry -- who lecture us in the heartland about how we should vote, how we should view things, what should be important to us and, above all, how horrible Donald Trump is. Yet, when their own industry's president does things that are in the same vein yet more reprehensible, they clam up and refuse to condemn a man who has wrought havoc on women for decades. Moreover, two of the women who came to defend him were late of the Obama administration. Progressive indeed.
And that woman who championed women in her bid to be the first female president? Cankles is even more quiet. She's not been heard from since the story broke. She can attack Donald Trump, but when an abusive man who can help further her career does something similar, she's silent on the matter. This, Cankles supporters, is the disingenuous, two-faced candidate who lost the election through her own fecklessness, not Russian meddling. Then again, Cankles is used to using men who sexually harass women to get ahead. Frankly, Weinstein is getting off lightly.
At least he's not married to her.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Reports surfaced last week that Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood heavyweight mega-producer, had been sexually harassing Hollywood starlets and others for years, some of the allegations going back over twenty years. Nasty woman Ashley Judd, a beauty of the first order and equally annoying and unhinged, brought the allegations to light last week, telling people that Weinstein made inappropriate suggestions involving massages and stages of undress. Then the payoff to Rose McGowan came out. After that, the stories came out faster than the rain came down in the Houston floods.
Weinstein, the brash, piggish power-broker who could make or break careers, has lawyered up and started pointing fingers. He even went so far as to say that he would now be tutored how to act more appropriately and would channel his energies into forcing President Trump to resign. This, apparently, was a sop to Leftist Hollywood to garner sympathy. If it's worked, it isn't showing.
Some women, like Judd and Ms. McGowan and, oddly, Lena Dunham, have bravely stepped forward. Others, like Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench and Catherine Zeta-Jones, have so far remained silent. Weinstein's reign of terror still casts its dark shadow over the industry, causing even these highly visible and powerful women to stay out of the limelight.
Weinstein has been forced out of his own company by its board of directors. He's been subjected to some ridicule, a few stories in newspapers, but nowhere near the universal condemnation that President Trump made for his reckless and sexist comments years ago. Apparently, in Hollywood, Weinstein's behavior was such an open secret that it was tolerated and overlooked. But it went farther than even Hollywood. Several Democratic politicians, whom Weinstein favored, received campaign contributions, including Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and the Clintons. Now, the politicians are scrambling to divest themselves of this dirty money, money they had to know came from a sexist pig.
But the difference with which it's being treated by the same industry that pilloried Donald Trump and Fox News for their similar indiscretions is telling. The late night talk shows mention it but don't beat it to death like they did with Mr. Trump. Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live, which has feasted on Donald Trump, had nary a sketch about Weinstein. When asked about it, Lorne Michaels said that during dress rehearsal, the jokes fell flat so the sketches were pulled from the live telecast. Later, he said it was a New York thing...which, given Donald Trump's New York bona fides, begs a very obvious question.
These are the same people -- celebrities in the entertainment industry -- who lecture us in the heartland about how we should vote, how we should view things, what should be important to us and, above all, how horrible Donald Trump is. Yet, when their own industry's president does things that are in the same vein yet more reprehensible, they clam up and refuse to condemn a man who has wrought havoc on women for decades. Moreover, two of the women who came to defend him were late of the Obama administration. Progressive indeed.
And that woman who championed women in her bid to be the first female president? Cankles is even more quiet. She's not been heard from since the story broke. She can attack Donald Trump, but when an abusive man who can help further her career does something similar, she's silent on the matter. This, Cankles supporters, is the disingenuous, two-faced candidate who lost the election through her own fecklessness, not Russian meddling. Then again, Cankles is used to using men who sexually harass women to get ahead. Frankly, Weinstein is getting off lightly.
At least he's not married to her.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Las Vegas and Liberals
Another day, another shooting, only this time it's the worst in our country's history. Some deranged nutjob in a room on the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel overlooking the Strip in Las Vegas opened fire on a crowd below enjoying (if that word can be used in connection with) a Jason Aldean concert. So far, fifty-eight innocent lives were taken and over one hundred people are still in the hospital or have been released after being wounded. The shooter is dead.
Americans were horrified when they heard the news Monday morning as they woke up. For no reason other than the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, people had their lives snuffed out by a man whom many if not all had never met. Stories of selfless heroism abounded. Across the country, blood drives and fundraisers sprang up immediately. Americans are nothing if not charitable in times of crisis.
There are some Americans, however, who have a completely different reaction.
A now-former executive with CBS said, I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters. Unsurprisingly, Hayley Geftman-Gold, a 2000 Columbia law school grad was fired after making these reprehensible comments.
Two Democratic congressmen from Massachusetts refused to take part in a moment of silence on the House floor claiming that it was nothing more than an excuse for inaction. As in the aftermath of any shooting, Leftists are calling for gun control and the abolition of the NRA. Even Cankles herself has used the platform to advocate for gun control and the dismantling of the NRA.
Jimmy Kimmel gave an impassioned monologue and Steven Colbert used the shootings to pillory his favorite punching bag, Mr. Trump. Many Leftists are blaming the shooting on Trumpism.
At this point, no one knows for certain what prompted the shooter to commit this heinous deed. No one knows exactly whether the firearms he used were legal or illegally bought. No one knows whether he was mentally imbalanced or had a political agenda. But that it happened suffices for the Left to follow the Rahm Emanuel dictum of never letting a tragedy go to waste to make political hay out of it no matter the truth of the assertion.
The only facts of which we are certain is the number of dead and the shooter's identity. We know nothing more at this point; the rest is conjecture.
Check that: We know that the Left has but one agenda, and that's its own. What's good for America takes second place after whatever promotes the Left's agenda.
The American people need to wake up and take stock not only of what antifa is doing but what the stalwart protector of the American people, the Democratic party, is doing and saying in the aftermath of this tragedy. For people to cackle about the deaths of innocent people because of the perception of who it forwards a political ideology is disgusting.
I hope the American people are paying attention.
(c) 2017 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
Americans were horrified when they heard the news Monday morning as they woke up. For no reason other than the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, people had their lives snuffed out by a man whom many if not all had never met. Stories of selfless heroism abounded. Across the country, blood drives and fundraisers sprang up immediately. Americans are nothing if not charitable in times of crisis.
There are some Americans, however, who have a completely different reaction.
A now-former executive with CBS said, I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters. Unsurprisingly, Hayley Geftman-Gold, a 2000 Columbia law school grad was fired after making these reprehensible comments.
Two Democratic congressmen from Massachusetts refused to take part in a moment of silence on the House floor claiming that it was nothing more than an excuse for inaction. As in the aftermath of any shooting, Leftists are calling for gun control and the abolition of the NRA. Even Cankles herself has used the platform to advocate for gun control and the dismantling of the NRA.
Jimmy Kimmel gave an impassioned monologue and Steven Colbert used the shootings to pillory his favorite punching bag, Mr. Trump. Many Leftists are blaming the shooting on Trumpism.
At this point, no one knows for certain what prompted the shooter to commit this heinous deed. No one knows exactly whether the firearms he used were legal or illegally bought. No one knows whether he was mentally imbalanced or had a political agenda. But that it happened suffices for the Left to follow the Rahm Emanuel dictum of never letting a tragedy go to waste to make political hay out of it no matter the truth of the assertion.
The only facts of which we are certain is the number of dead and the shooter's identity. We know nothing more at this point; the rest is conjecture.
Check that: We know that the Left has but one agenda, and that's its own. What's good for America takes second place after whatever promotes the Left's agenda.
The American people need to wake up and take stock not only of what antifa is doing but what the stalwart protector of the American people, the Democratic party, is doing and saying in the aftermath of this tragedy. For people to cackle about the deaths of innocent people because of the perception of who it forwards a political ideology is disgusting.
I hope the American people are paying attention.
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