Pedophile loving Jackson Hinkle was thrilled to bring convicted and registered sex offender Scott Ritter onto his program, so thrillled he Tweeted about it -- and he got burned.
Jackie and his tiny Hinkle got burned!
Ava filled in at Ann's site on Friday and we're reposting it:
Ava here, filling in for Ann. If you read many things in the community, you know I'm a Latina.
No, AOC, not LatinX.
Michele Dauber is an Anglo-White woman who has taken to attacking Camille Vasquez because that's what the Matriarchy does.
As C.I. and I noted in HILDA'S MIX two weeks ago, it was so very cute the way Camille was being attacked. She was a woman and she was attacked for this. She was betraying feminism, according to the Matriarchy.
Johnny was suspect, the Matriarchy insisted, for having a woman on his team.
But, as C.I. and I pointed out, Amber Heard wasn't called out for having a woman on her team or, for that matter, for having men on her team.
The Matriarchy -- excuse me, the Anglo White Matriarchy -- had no problem with that. They only had a problem with the Latina.
That's how it goes, by the way, they let their hatred for 'the other' loose. The Matriarchy is as pathetic and as limited as the Patriarchy. As a feminist, I reject them both.
Camille did an excellent job and deserve praise for what she did.
Michele Dauber -- a very repulsive person (and I don't just mean physically ugly, although she is) -- instead attacks Camille because, well, what's a Karen going to do?
Amber Heard is a cheap liar who couldn't even keep her own lies straight during the trial.
But Michele wants to stan for her -- of course she does, this is the anti-democratic Matriarch who doesn't feel an accuser should have to face the accused.
What world are you living in because it sounds like something out of THE CRUCIBLE.
Shame on you.
And now I'm going to show you, Michele, what you're doing. I'm going to show you by doing it to you.
How many lies have to told, Michele?
Was your daughter really 25 in 2008? I'm not saying she wasn't. Just seems strange that you didn't marry Ken Dauber until 1997 yet Amanda Dauber was 25 in 2008. I was told, maybe true, maybe false, that Ken wasn't her father. That it's a man you knew earlier. That you public presentation of Ken as Amanda's father was insulting to the actual father.
Is that true, Michele? Care to comment.
Here's the other thing, dear, I have a child.
And my child's not going to commit suicide because I wasn't there for her.
You don't like to talk about Amanda's suicide. So maybe you shouldn't speak publicly.
I'm told you worked very hard on your career. And that Amanda was left alone and isolated.
That would explain the suicide, wouldn't it?
Don't like what I'm writing? I don't like you attacking Camille.
Also, as a mother, I don't need to hear the opinions of a woman who failed her own daughter but wants to judge others.
Now children do take their own lives.
And it doesn't have to be the parent's fault at all.
But if the child was neglected?
I think the parent needs to take responsibility.
You got multiple degrees from 1991 to 2003. Must have been a lot of work. And you also clerked during that time period. And you were a 'fellow' here and there as well. You were so very busy.
Must have been hard for Amanda.
Again, suicide happens for any number of reasons. But if you want to put Camille on trial in the court of public opinion, I'm happy to put you on trial there as well.
It's cute the way the parents who abandon their children later want to pretend that the suicide happened for reasons other than their own failures as parents.
Judy Collins, for example. As C.I. and I have noted -- see "Trapped in an AA meeting with Judy Collins (Ava and C.I.)" she doesn't want to take responsibility for Clark's suicide and she's written her own biographies, changed details, to run from her responsibility. Not all that surprising when you grasp that's what she did with Clark. She ran from her responsibilities as a mother. She sure had an exciting life didn't she -- and she sure thinks she was a hot piece of ass and wants you to believe she was. Maybe if she'd slept around less, maybe if she'd stayed at home and not farmed Clark out to a house keeper and then to military school, maybe if she'd been around he wouldn't have felt so much depression and so isolated.
So, Michele, if you want to attack a strong Latina woman named Camille, this Latina woman named Ava is inviting you to get honest about how you failed your own daughter.
Of course, you could always just stop attacking Camille.
Whatever you do, don't think you're fooling anyone with your pretense to be a feminist. You're part of the Matriarchy and that's just the flip side of Patriarchy.
In other words, you're pathetic.
C.I. and I have covered the lies of Amber Heard repeatedly but, if you want our most recent take, "Media: Justice for everybody" went up earlier this week.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Thursday:
Reposting C.I.'s Friday "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, June 10, 2022. The fake assery of what they are trying to tell us is independent media as they continue to act as Jimmy Dore's fan club and try to do yet another pile on of women.
I don't know what woman hurt Kit with HARD LENS MEDIA but he needs to get over it. If that's not too triggering for him, of course. He has championed -- and he's not the only one -- the hideous David Weigel. The fact that he's now noting David is hideous, isn't good enough. Nor is his limited knowledge base that doesn't go beyond 2015. Grow up, get a f**king education. I'm sick of your stupidity and you should be ashamed of it
He says David's reTweeted joke was just dumb and nothing offensive. To which I say let's use parallel therapy on David's 'joke,' , "Most Black men are bi -- bisexual or bipolar." Is that funny from a White man? Is that just dumb? I think it's racist. But it's not sexist or offensive when it's about women?
Kit's too stupid and uninformed to grasp that THE WASHINGTON POST has a long, long history of sexism in its institution and he's too stupid to know that 'jokes' are how WP 'reporters' keep getting in trouble. It's not all hushed up. It comes out from time to time. Was it Mad Dog Bitch Beer? Is that what Dana Milbank served up in 2008? The paper should have fired him for it (for those who weren't paying attention or just plain stupid, that was among the sexist attacks launched at Hillary Clinton in 2008). The paper didn't fire him for it because they taped it and they posted it and they thought it was funny.
It took the publisher to inform them -- rightly -- that no one was expecting Jon Stewar at THE WASSHINGTON POST and that the next time the paper confused itself with THE DAILY SHOW, they could pack their stuff and move on over to COMEDY CENTRAL, This year is only half over and 'jokes' about women have been circulating non-stop through the newsroom and offending many men and women who work for the newspaper. I'm sorry Kit's too stupid -- and, yes, out of touch, face pressed against the glass watching his betters live a more exciting life -- to know the climate at THE POST.
All he does know is that he hates Felicia Sonmez.
He wants to connect her to Amber Heard. I have no idea why. And I really don't care. Just like I don't care who wrote the VANITY FAIR article. Actually, it's not that I don't care on that, it's that I know the problems VANITY FAIR's having and I don't want to know which piece of trash wrote it because that would be a whole other snapshot.
But Kit wants you to know that WP staffers are onto Felecia and, to prove it, let's quote this great article from VANITY FAIR.
Pause. Have they had a great article since they lost Tina Brown? Nope. They haven't. It's been one long drive down the hill for them since that. They used to have one great article or column an issue. Graydon Carter was a bigger joke than his hair style and we all loved to laugh, in the industry, as they'd put any gay actor on the cover and insist he was catnip to women and the next big thing and then he wouldn't live up to that promise -- but, hey, he slept with the male director that Grayden liked to party with so Graydon was always happy to put that flavor of the month -- that no one really knew -- on the cover and insist that they were a star. They never really were. I was reminded of that again as one of them to decided to do a social statement this week. I just shook my head sadly and thought, "Is he ever going to come out of the closet?"
Because that actually would be a brave thing for him to do. Right now. Pretty soon, there will be no impact all all -- like when Richard Chamberlain finally came out and the world said: Richard who?
Radhika Jones is a joke and has no idea how to present VANITY FAIR. First thing you do, get out of your NYC bubble. There are already enough magazines trying to represent New York (THE NEW YORKER, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, etc). Tina Brown didn't revive the corpse of VANITY FAIR by making it a clone of every other NYC magazine. (And that's what the pissy response to her at THE NEW YORKER was about -- her attempting to expand the magazine beyond that limited focal point.)
But if, like Kit, you're too stupid to realize VF made a huge mistake by printing what they did, let's walk you through slowly.
This idea that she's fighting for sexism or gender, while that might have been true at some point, now just feels disingenuous, even for people who want to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Kit's a f**king idiot who needs to stop clapping his hands together and stop crowing with delight.
I know who VF spoke with. I know it because they made the mistake they make when always speaking. They're known for their Freudian slips and, goodness, didn't they have one. It flew by VF and despite reading it out loud to the camera, it flew by Kit as well.
Felicia might be fighting for gender but, no, she's not fighting for sexism. The unnamed WP-er put his own preference in their, just slipped out of his mouth. Again, I know who it is because he has a long, long history of doing that.
Kit knows nothing and he sure enjoys demonstrating that.
Kit declares, "I'm smelling BS here."
Well, sweetie, get your head out your ass.
You'll find the smell will lessen and a good shower will wash it right off you.
We did the roundtable from hell for the gina & krista round-robin. It went on past 1:00 EST. Most people went to sleep after -- not Gina and Krista who are assembling the round-robin and not Ava and I who had to write our piece for this week's edition. I then thought I'd go to sleep. But then I saw e-mails about Kit's video. Looking at the title, I thought, "Oh, he's going to take on THE WASHINGTON POST."
No, he wants to attack Felicia. And he wants you to know that Jimmy Dore has too.
You know what Jimmy did to Ana of THE YOUNG TURKS wasn't harassment. And we said that in real time, we said it here and we said it at THIRD. But Jimmy is a sexist.
Bob Somerby is as well.
And the reason they're sexists is because they love to attack women. Nothing gets them more excited than ripping apart a woman.
Sadly, it's true of Kit too. Watch him smack his hands together in glee.
Amber Heard lied. I said that here. I said that long ago. Before the marriage fell apart, I stated it was a mid-life crisis on Johnny's part that he would live to regret because she would try to destroy him. I told him the marriage was a mistake to his face. When she started her garbage, I noted online that she abused him not the other way around and I pointed out that there were recordings that would back that up.
I don't know what Kit feels is Felicia's connection to Amber Heard but --
Okay, let me say this very clearly, F**k you, Kit. You and HARD LENS MEDIA need to get your crap together.
This snapshot is not dictated. I paused after "--" to get on the phone and thank you to three friends at WP who took my early morning calls and walked me through.
And the F you to Kit is because I had surgery on both eyes on Wednesday. I was just supposed to have surgery on the right eye. But the retina detached again on the left eye. My doctor I was supposed to see performed the surgery on the right eye. And then, as I was coming to (which was as the surgery was ending -- it never knocks me out hard enough to make it through the entire surgery), I was asking him questions and when he finished he noticed the left eye and asked about pain. I'm always in pain these days. I'm on eight different prescribed eye drops. I have pressure issues in both eyes. I just push on through the pain. But he said the retina looked detached and he called my retina doctor who ended up doing a second surgery that day because it was.
Every now and then, I try to pause to grab the magnifying glass that I'm using right now.
This is not fun for me. This is not something that I want to do. But Kit has to be a dumb ass and so I'm stuck doing it.
I watched thinking the video would be of import and about something that mattered.
It wasn't. It was about trashing a woman.
Why was David suspended for a month?
The joke was judged offensive and, as I noted earlier, THE POST is under orders, their reporters especially, to grasp that they are not comedians. They are not be 'edgy.' If they repost a joke it better not be anything more than a mild knock-knock.
David's reposting of that joke offended the staff.
And there are four previous Twitter issues that THE POST has discussed with him this year. Four. He got past strike three.
That's why he was suspended. He had repeatedly been cautioned about this and he also has another HR issue that I'm going to leave alone but that those defending him should be very wary how far out on the limb that they want to crawl.
David has serious problems with his co-workers. With regard to his reTweeting that joke, it was his fifth social media incident this year -- and we're only at the half year mark. He was warned four times already. When he pulled this one, the staff was appalled by the joke and management had enough. That's why he was suspended.
It's going to be difficult at THE POST for the man who spoke to VAN FAIR because I did bring that up and they agreed, due to his slip-up, that it was him. So it'll be an interesting day for him in a few hours.
Felicia's not a saint. The three I spoke with didn't think she was. She has come to Amber Heard's defense, by the way. I asked about that and they walked me through that.
Felicia's an idiot when it comes to what happened with Johnny Depp. She's far from the only idiot. Michelle Goldberg is who Ava and I chose to focus on in "Media: Justice for everybody.'' These women are confusing feminism with matriarchy.
They're also trying to pimp Amber as a feminist (though that failed and Amber's pr team is now trying to pimp Amber as a bisexual being discriminated against because of her sexual orientation -- see Marcia's "Amber Heard does not speak for this L"). Amber's done nothing in her life or work to qualify as a feminist. The term is not elastic.
She wants to help herself. That doesn't make her a feminist.
And Michelle Goldberg, I'm not forgetting your attacks on Tara Reade. Tara told the truth. Tara has more supporting incidents than anyone victim that's ever come forward. That includes -- but is not limited to -- her divorce papers and her mother's call to Larry King. Amber lied repeatedly. Her make up artist testified to the fact that she didn't have any black eye when she was made up for the talk show and that Johnny couldn't have beaten her on a day she claims because he wasn't in the country. Her former assistant testifies to what a liar she is (and we have two disputing her claims re: the dog in Australia). She lied when she said she was giving the 7 million to charity. Amber's spent most of that. She's got a little less than two million left -- and that's before the current fees from her trial. Supposedly, she's about to shut up because her p.r. team is demanding some form of payment.
When she got the 7 million, she might have planned to give it to charity (I don't think she ever planned to) but a friend of Amber's insists (to me) that she dipped in "just a little." She was convinced she'd be making so much money as an actress that she could refill it. Then she dipped again. And again. And . . . Now she's got a little less than two million.
What a stupid fool. Now I've been there. And I'll never be there again. Back in the day, believing a lot of whores, I gave my money away. There was a little from my career and there was a lot that was family money. I'm not the only person who did that but I will own it -- unlike a friend of mine -- and I will own that I was stupid to do so. I ended up with nothing and had to rebuild and was lucky to be able to do so. But I honestly believed that we were building a strong media that would cover reality and that would defend the people.
Nope. Nope.
Amy Goodman's the best example of today's grifter but before Amy there were many others. Amy is making millions from PACIFICA RADIO thanks to her friendship with members of the board. She was given a contract she did not deserve for a program she is not the sole creator of. Anyone ever going to point out that if she's worth the millions she's getting -- if the program is -- that Amy needs to stop ripping off, for example, an African-American man? More to the point, PACIFICA RADIO never had and never should have a million a year to give any one person. It's public radio. All that money and they don't even own DEMOCRACY NOW! -- she keeps ownership of the programs.
I don't give to PACIFICA currently. I got damn tired of giving to KPFA and seeing our money go out to save WBAI and the others who don't know how to fund raise or, honestly, how to program.
If PACIFICA had a functioning board, they would cancel the contract with Amy Goodman immediately. She has stolen enough dollars and I'm not giving money that's going to cover her fake ass.
But I did give before she started broadcasting, to many outlets, and I watched the Watergate glory be replaced with the timidity. I watched the sell outs. I watched a wonderful and brave Latina being trashed by these outlets because she dared to hold Jimmy Carter accountable. They had redefined their purpose. They weren't about the people, they were about defending powerful Democrats who held elected office.
That's what I wasted my money on: helping to create and continue fake media that betrayed the people.
And that's why I don't give today.
I did give to PACIFICA and when I did they were not fake media. After they became it, I only gave to KPFA -- my local PACIFICA station. Since our money we give to KPFA is forever being funneled elsewhere to pay Amy and to save garbage, I don't give anymore.
And, yes, WBAI was garbage. Unlike Jeff Cohen and his lies, we told the truth about WBAI. It was The Winter Soldier hearing. The Iraq War veterans were telling their stories. A number of us donated big to PACIFICA ahead of that. I worked overtime reaching out to friends in the media to get coverage for these hearings. And KFPA covered it. PACIFICA on their national stream covered it. WBAI? Saturday they were more interested in playing their canned programming. Bad music shows and Grandpa Munster. Winter Soldier held hearings March 13th through 15th of 2008. Al Lewis, Grandpa Munster, died February 3, 2006. But it was more important to WBAI that crap like Grandpa Munster be played. It was old and had been played years before. But instead of carrying the live feed of Winter Soldier, they reaired old programs -- bad music programs and Grand Pa Munster -- dead for two years but more important to WBAI then what Iraq War veterans wanted to share about the Iraq War. That's why I say WBAI is garbage and that's why I call out the ridiculous Jeff Cohen because he wrote that hideous column praising people and stations that did not do the actual work -- KPFA did. WBAI -- and other PACIFICA stations -- did not.
I'm not giving now. They can screw themselves -- they're certainly going to screw over their supporters.
And, as someone who made the costly mistake of giving everything to these con artists in the past, I do now look for warning signs.
Jimmy Dore is a warning sign. Not by himself. He may well stick to his guns and not sell out.
But this need of the others who are around him to promote him non-stop. I don't think Kit could show more support for Jimmy Dore than he does now even if he dropped to his knees in front of The Bean and blew Jimmy Dore as everyone looked on.
When you're hearing stuff like "Jimmy Dore" over and over from other so-called independent programs, you're seeing that they aren't independent. When I made that point earlier this week, someone e-mailed the public account insisting that I don't object when it's Glenn Greenwald.
If Jimmy hadn't brought on the child molester -- the convicted child molester -- I wouldn't have stopped including his videos here. But he did.
And when I noted Rachel Maddow and the disgusting fawning over the Iraq War vet who beat his wife, three e-mail came in insisting that she didn't know. And two others wanted to cite PTSD. I had to wonder on the two, was one of them Rachel's daddy. Rachel's father was her sock puppet on the message boards for the radio program UNFILTERED. He would lie for her constantly. When Rachel had the man on the first time, it was posted to the board about him beating his wife -- who, by the way, he was speaking of on the program -- and Rachel's dad -- posing as the woman he always posed as -- rushed in to insist that it was just once and PTSD caused it because he'd just returned from Iraq.
No.
He beat her before he ever left the US. He beat her and he was arrested for it. That may be why he enlisted. He beat her, got arrested. Went off to Iraq. Came back. Got inside her home and, when he returned, he beat her again. Got arrested again. While out, Rachel tried to make him a star. And she knew while the show was airing. And her father was there trying to lie that it was because of PTSD.
And while it was airing, Rachel invited him back for Friday's show.
That's why I don't care for Rachel. You'd think a lesbian would be the last person to glorify a man who beats up women. You'd think that. But then I never would have thought a lesbian would do to a former lover what Melissa Etheridge did to Tammy Lynn Michaels. Deadbeat dads and pigs? They can also be women.
Melissa proved it and she's not the only woman who has.
A matriarchy defends Melissa. Feminism doesn't defend her.
So we move back to Felicia and feminism.
She's being misrepresented. by VANITY FAIR and by idiots like Kip who repeat VF. The e-mail the rag criticizes?
She is not ridiculing people who need help or discouraging them from getting it.
That's THE WASHINGTON POST's talking point to discredit her.
When they sent out their e-mail about if you need help . . ., she replied sharing what happened to her in 2018. She is questioning the sincerity of their claims.
These are not Felicia-stans, by the way. Two (in management) don't like her. The third says she's "indifferent'' to Felicia personally.
Felicia was taking on the power structure of WP and the response from 'independent' media was to attack her. One in management at WP this morning pointed that out and also told me that Michael Tracey was part of the bandwagon attacking her online this week.
Ah, it makes sense doesn't it.
Let's jump back to Glenn Greenwald. I don't particularly care for Glenn. This predates Snowden and predates THE GUARDIAN. I have valid problems with Glenn. But I did give him credit for breaking the news about the spying (thanks to Ed Snowden).
And when he refused to go along with Betsy Reed and other well known liars -- not well known people, but well known for being liars -- I defended and praised him here.
He sacrificed a lot to do that and I respect that. I noted here that I was tabling criticism on him and noted that on Naomi Wolf as well.
Historically, I am Naomi's biggest critic online. I'm also not that cozy with her in real life and that goes back to the 90s. But the attacks on Naomi that popped up around 2020? I wasn't going to be a part of that and I will stand by her right to say what she wants to say and against efforts to attack or silence her. If I didn't have the current eye problems, I would be reading her book and offering an evaluation -- hopefully positive.
Krystal and Saagar talk about how cable 'news' is destroying the country. Some group, I'm sure connected to David Brock, is working to defund FOX NEWS -- or as NPR wrongly stated "FOX." FOX is an entertainment network now owned by WALT DISNEY.
I marvel over that. With all the real problems in the world, some think the need is to take down FOX NEWS?
Interesting because I lived through times where the left actually did stuff -- broke into the FBI, for example, revealed real lies from the government, forced the end of the war on Vietnam -- and we never said, "Oh, we've got to stop THE NATIONAL REVIEW" or any other magazine. We weren't that stupid or that lustful for censorship. We believed in free speech. That's not the case today.
Kit has every right to say what he wants to say -- even when it's stupid and idiotic. But that doesn't mean he should say it.
Not when he's silent on Iraq. Not when he's silent on the ACLU. Felicia's stupid enough to defend Amber Heard. Well the ACLU wrote Amber's column. The ACLU refused, in the London trial where Johnny sued a newspaper (Amber Heard was not a party to that lawsuit so Matriarchs in the Media need to stop speaking of her 'victory' in London -- it was Johnny Depp versus NEWS GROUP NEWSPAPERS), the ACLU refused to answer whether or not Amber had kept her promise and donated $3.5 million. (The answer was NO and they knew it.) And it is the ACLU that's being vindictive trying to bill Johnny for almost $90,000 for the 'work' and 'research' they had to do to testify at his trial and produce documents. The op-ed libeled him -- that is what the court found -- and yet the ACLU is trying to charge him?
He could sue them. He could sue them for their ghost writing of the op-ed for what it claimed. More to the point, the ACLU is a legal organization. Johnny was very kind. He did not go after Amber for breaking the contract that they signed. He could go after the ACLU for their work that violated that contract, that broke that contract. They're lawyers, they should have known better.
He's not going to sue the ACLU-- I say that as someone who knows him -- but he should.
But the point here is, Kip and the gang want to go after a woman -- any woman will do.
They don't want to go after the ACLU. They don't want to go after legacy media and call out THE WASHINGTON POST -- Bob Woodward should have been canned long ago. His harassment in the workplace is not a secret.
But, hey, go after Felicia because she called Kobe a rapist!!!! Oh, the horror. And she got David suspended!!! He got himself suspended and he may get himself fired. (Again, defenders of David, you have been warned.)
From what I'm told Felicia can be exasperating and that doesn't surprise me. Most people who go up against a Goliath are.
There may be reasons to call her out -- again, I'll call her stupid for ignoring reality and defending Amber -- but to attack her -- as Kip has, as Jimmy Dore has, as Michael Tracey has -- as all the little dicked boys have -- is to side with the system.
That makes it clear that you're not independent media.
I am independent. I side with April Oliver to this day. She reported the truth on CNN and just because a source gets some heat from the Pentagon and wants to change what he said on air? That doesn't make April a liar. He's on tape saying it.
It's amazing that -- as I type that -- I know Jimmy Dore has no idea who April Oliver is nor does Kip nor does Michael.
Because they're really not about taking on the power structure. They're about getting cash and when they do this circle jerk with one another then they make it really clear.
That's your warning sign. Don't be stupid like I was decades back and ignore it. Take them for what you can get from them but don't give them a cent. They're going to betray you. The signs are there.
Jimmy? Jimmy's pissed that the Green Party didn't give Jesse Ventura the nomination. That's a warning sign. He's furious that the DNC rigged the primaries against Bernie. Yet he thinks that the Green Party should have ignored the people who declared to run for the party's nomination and instead have given it to Jesse who is not a Green -- or left -- and who didn't declare a campaign for the nomination. He's angry that they didn't do this.
That's not just the height of hypocrisy That's also your warning sign that he's not who he presents as. Someone who truly believed in fair primaries wouldn't be arguing that Jesse should have been gifted with the nomination.
It's not that DNC rigged the primaries that has Jimmy upset, it's that his candidate ( Bernie) didn't benefit.
I'm telling you that's a warning sign.
Right now he rails against this and that but if the same tactics were used for what he wanted, he'd be all for them.
That's who he is.
And that doesn't mean he's awful and mean. I have many friends who are exactly like that. They are wonderful in other ways. But I am always aware not to ever take them at face value. It may be a long con, it may be a short con, but they're always running something.
Is Jimmy Dore going to run for president? Is that what this is all about?
I have no idea. But the constant drumbeat of Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy is a turn off. I refused to meet George Michael back when he was in Wham and when he was putting out his first album. When I did meet him, he wanted to know why. We became good friends. But as I explained, when people hype someone all the time, it turns me off. And I'm not alone in that. Nora Ephron wrote a classic essay about that and how Liza and other cover stories at that time could never, ever live up to the hype these outlets were churning out.
You're hyping him only makes me not want to like him and not want to like you. Why in the world is your program constantly mentioning him when you are ignoring so many realities in the world? Is he click bait? I have no idea what your obsession with him is. But there are real stories and real issues out there and what mean thing someone said about a comic doesn't really interest me. And it certainly didn't interest you when the comic was Roseanne Barr and when a corporation stole her life's work.
I don't see any greatness in Jimmy as a comic. At THIRD, Ava and I called out Joan Rivers for comments she made on WBAI. Joan was furious with me over that and made it known with a loud and long phone call. I bring that up because in the midst of a lengthy, screaming monologue at me, she stopped and laughed. "I hate everyone," she said. "That's an idea I can run with." And she did. That's what made her a comic genius. From her yelling over the phone, she developed a book that was a best seller and she went edgier than she'd ever been before. That's comic genius.
Jimmy's a third-rate comedian who does a show that celebrates White people. And, Kit, you're the reason I have to say that because you won't stop pimping him. That's how my brain works. I have serious issues to address. I've never really thought about Jimmy until right now when you're hype has forced me to figure out where Jimmy falls on the scale of greatness. He falls off the scale. And that's reality.
You remind me of a really kind actress I know who is also very dumb and she went on and on about ROOSTER TEETH -- I may not have that title right. In 2014, she was obsessed with them and their greatness. They weren't great. This is the Jimmy Dore Bandwagon. It's not going anywhere just like ROOSTER TEETH didn't. She got me to watch and it was a lot like Jimmy Dore. I watched about three hours with her and then I asked her, "Did you not notice the lack of women? Did you not notice every man was White? Are they trying to create content in the 21st century or do they think this is 1957?"
ROOSTER TEETH has never achieved. They've wasted a ton of money and are in danger of being dropped (DISCOVERY sees them at having had millions of dollars poured into them but having produced nothing of quality and having never expanded their initial, limited reach).
I'm really bothered by the pile on of Felicia for many reasons. Again, there are worthy targets. It reminds me of a 'woke' comedy special that Ava and I'll probably rip apart this weekend. It's cute how we have a 'woke' comedy special and we're all supposed to ignore, for example, the woman on stage -- Jewish -- who uses the N-word all the time in the past (not in this special of course) and who went to town on Britney Spears (not in this special of course).
Ava and I didn't go off on Britney Spears. We were covering the media when it took place. And we noted that we wouldn't be joining in the public stoning, we noted that the dogpile was offensive.
It's called "Bash The Bitch" and Ava and I publicly called it out long ago:
Who knew it was a war crime? Katie Couric was a cheerleader and an army
of Beate Klarsfelds are on her trail in an attempt to warn America of
this dangerous contravention of the law. We imagine it's only a matter
of time before the tribunal is held. The cheerleader as Eichmann, no
doubt, sends shudders through the hearts of many women on the left,
center and right, since they too may be charged.
Couric's
apparent crime, for some on the left, is saying that Navy Seals "rock."
That moment was immortalized in Michael Moore's FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and seems to be the chief piece of evidence that will be introduced when the commentators gather at the Hague.
For
some of the left, though not all, that's at the root of their pursuit
of Couric. It's the gift of impunity that allows them to operate in a
fact-free environment as they compose the charges against Couric. But
those who hear such a statement and nod agreeably are also engaged in
the national pastime of bash-the-bitch.
Bash the bitch is as American as apple pie and rush to judgement, so who are we to complain?
If
it makes us "America haters" to say "Just a minute now" then so be it.
Let all the ones partaking in bash-the-bitch wrap themselves in Old
Glory, we'll call it the way we see it.
Here's what we see. A woman's trashed. For what she did?
Oh
cookie, please, it's for being a woman. Read the commentaries.
"Cheerleader" is a trumped up charge -- as usual, the true crime is
gender.
The zeal with which Kit goes to town on Felicia makes it clear this is about bash the bitch, the zeal and the glee Watch his smirk, watch him clap his hands in delight. And the pile on that he's part of makes that clear as well. They need to take a look at themselves and how they critique women. They won't, but they need to. They rage against Felicia as though she started the Iraq War.
That's not a fair statement.
I apologize.
They've never raged on Bully Boy Bush as much as they rage on Felicia.
And that really is part of the problem.
You can start an illegal war as a man and these same voices will coddle you or laugh humorously about you. The real hatred only comes out from this crowd if you're a woman.
I have no problem with tone, I don't police word choice. But I do expect that you critique fairly and consistently. What I see is that a kinder approach is used for male criminals (including child molesters) than is used for a woman.
YOUTUBERS need to stop pimping Jimmy Dore and start covering reality.
It's June 10th? What does that mean in Iraq? That the political stalemate is now eight months long.
AP has an article, please read it. A friend at AP called to ask if I'd be including it? I told him to e-mail me the link. Here for the report by Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Samya Kullab.
He read parts of Qassim and Samya's article to me over the phone. I have not read it myself nor am I able to. I'm actually supposed to be resting my eyes. But I will note that we finally have a US news source noting Nouri al-Maliki and his large role in the stalemate. We've covered him from the start, covered him before the election, because he's one of the biggest political players in Iraq. Former prime minister and forever thug Nouri was underestimated by the western press -- especially the US press. What was read to me -- not the Nouri parts -- I had a quibble or two with but what was read was also a strong report.
Again, this is now eight months since the election and no prime minister, no president. And no moving forward per the Court for that reason.
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com. And typos are what they are, my vision is almost gone completely, I have got to go rest my eyes.
ADDED: The following sites updated:
Max Blumenthal:
1) Harry Styles' HARRY'S HOUSE.
2) Diana Ross' THANK YOU.
3) Chrissie Hynde's STOCKHOLM.
4) Chase Rice's THE ALBUM.
6) The Cowboy Junkies' ALL THAT RECKONING.
7) Janet Jackson's UNBREAKABLE.
8) Dionne Warwick's SHE'S BACK.
9) Bob Dylan's ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS.
10) Judy Garland's JUDY IN LOVE.
This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.
"Iraq snapshot" -- most requested highlight by members of the community.
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"Michele Dauber, let's play your game (Ava)," "A good question," "One more reminder of reality with regards to Tina Fey," "Tina Fey, that typical Karen," "Amber Heard does not speak for this L." "Chris Rock, Judge Joe Brown and Anna May Wong," "The worst groupies ever," "Idiots of the week," "My sympathies are with the Iraqi people," "Isaiah, Graham Elwood, Lee Camp and Mickey Z," "Amber Heard needs to grasp that it's over," "Look, pressure does work," "Look how pathetic Sabby Sabs is being now," "Let's build our community," "Sabby Sabs, leave the plantation already," "Joe Biden responds to the speculation" and "THIS JUST IN! JOE BIDEN RESPONDS TO HIS CRITICS!" -- news coverage in the community.
"15 bean soup in the kitchen (to steal from trina)," "Vegetable Lasagna in the Kitchen," "And you can eat it cold with chips!," "Recipes in the Kitchen" and "Budget-Friendly Stuffed Peppers in the Kitchen" -- Rebecca and Trina serve up some recipes.
"AMAZON PRIME members can stream a James Bond marathon this weekend," "What we watch," "Tallulah," "SUPERMAN AND LOIS," "Fall TV is disappointing (and THE CW is hurting SUPERMAN AND LOIS' ratings)," "dynasty, cleaning, the gay gaston - it's a grab bag," "chrisley didn't know best," "'dynasty' - watching after learning it was cancelled," "try sarah jessica pathetic," "JURRASIC WORLD DOMINION," "Neve Campbell," "The Batman movies," "Weekend box office" and "Grace Randolph is an idiot" -- TV and movie coverage in the community.
"The Moon" -- Betty covers science.
"Rest Assured, Judge Tootie Is here" -- Isaiah dips into the archives.
"Fake ass Bono," "Noah Weiland, Judy Garland," "Chase Rice," "Michael Buble," "Jonathan Turley, George Ezra" and "George Ezra's GOLD RUSH KID" -- Kat and Elaine cover music.
Humility is a value that needs to be taught more. It is very easy to back yourself into a corner. It's not that hard to fix it. You admit you were wrong. But, as we've seen far too many times, too many people box themselves in and then get desperate.
We've long noted that Bob Somerby (DAILY HOWLER) was on the wrong side of reality on the outing of Valerie Plame. And we've pointed out this took place, in part, because of his friendship -- his undisclosed friendship -- with Matt Cooper.
It was embarrassing to watch Bob flail about trying to justify his position -- especially when the logical outcome took place and he was indeed on the wrong side. We felt that cringe again last week after the court verdict in the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard trial came in because immediately we saw a press unable to deal with reality even when it was official.
The public did not have that problem.
We were in a waiting room when the verdict came in. And women were cheering. At first, we thought maybe inflation was going down or maybe Joe Biden had announced the end to a war. We looked around puzzled at the waiting room and one woman explained, "The verdict just came in!"
We had OBGYN appointments and, no, there weren't any male patients in the waiting room. It was all women.
Yet, in the days that followed, certain media elements and certain self-promoted women wanted to insist that only men were happy and that this verdict mean this and meant that.
It was something to watch.
The verdict wasn't a surprise.
But they were still trying to lie for Heard and pretend that she was a reliable witness and a truthful person. In fact, as we learned on Sunday that Amber was even more stupid than we thought and that she was paying over $20,000 to rent the home for the trial, we started wondering if Amber could sue the press for misleading her about the chances on the verdict?
The rental goes to just what a world of lies Amber was living in. She'd been dropped as a spokesperson by Loreal and she'd gotten close to signing with a cosmetic company when that fell through. She had no major film and no major film role due to shoot and she'd been reduced, according to her own testimony, in the AQUAMAN sequel. She was whining on stage that she only -- only -- got $2 million for the sequel.
She had to use home owners insurance to pay her legal fees and she's renting a home for over $20,000 a month? Her lies had removed her that much from reality.
But again, the press enabled and encouraged her.
They had imposed their narrative -- MAN BAD! -- onto their coverage and, despite what took place in the courtroom and what the jury eventually found, they refused to recalculate.
It's not just that they can't admit that they were wrong, it's also that they can't believe that they were wrong.
But they were.
Especially wrong were those self-proclaimed 'femenists' who wanted to paint Amber Heard as a feminist. Because they themselves had never done anything remotely feminist in their lives, they weren't bothered by the fact that neither had Heard.
Feminism is not your personal road to success. Your greed and glory will not suddenly become feminist objectives because you are a woman. Translation, "you do you" may be a waiver of guilt but it is not a feminist message.
Feminism is the collective. The personal is political became a rallying cry not because on individualism but because a group of people (women) were able to see that these things that were passed off as ''individual problems'' were in fact societal issues.
B-b-b-but Amber Heard was the victim of domestic violence!!!!!
Yes, she said that. Like us, the jury didn't believe her. Unlike the jury, one of us (C.I.) knew her rather well and knew she was the abuser -- both with Johnny and with multiple women she'd been with before him. She is an abuser. She's also a user.
Those 'feminists' at high name publications (that no one reads) were quick to step up for Amber against the big, bad man.
When did Johnny become that?
He has no history of violence and his exes were on his side and not Amber's -- by contrast, Amber's violent fits on film sets is well known in the industry. She has a history of violence and she had a istory of violence with her partners and she was caught on tape telling Johnny that no one would ever believe him if he came forward as a victim of abuse and then mocking him and questioning his masculinity.
True feminists would have listened to that recording with horror because that is an abuser speaking.
No one will believe you.
I will destroy you.
That's what abusers say.
Feminism is not matriarchy -- someone tell Michelle Goldberg.
Root for the girl! is not a feminist position.
Amber Heard tried to use her body to get ahead before the camera and out of the camera's view. When she wanted to be a star and thought she was finally on the verge of becoming one, she published a column in THE WASHINGTON POST.
She didn't do anything to help anyone else.
She was about helping Amber, promoting Amber, all about Amber.
But some Michelle Goldbergs wanted to make her the face of feminism. For a ghost written column, no less.
Her failure is the failure of a liar.
Liars are smarter than pedestrian 'feminists' and you saw that because liars didn't step forward insisting that Amber had disgraced all of them and made it that much harder, in the future, for liars to be believed.
No, liars were smart enough to stay in the shadows.
The Michelle Goldbergs stepped forward to insist this was awful and it was wrong and it was going to hurt all women and --
Johnny Depp is the victim here. Of lies, yes. But of domestic abuse as well. And it's about time that the matriarchy stop trying to control feminism. Men are the victims and survivors of domestic abuse. That's true when they're in same-sex relationships and that's true when they are in relationships with women.
What Depp V Heard provided was an opportunity to expand our knowledge.
But the Michelle Goldbergs don't want knowledge.
So they hissed and they bitched and they embarrassed us all because they self-identify as feminists.
Long before Hillary Clinton ever ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, we noted that singular ambition wasn't feminism. "TV Review: Commander-in-Chief aka The Nah-Nah Sisterhood" ran in 2005:
What really frightens us, besides the fact that a backlash only takes
root when people who should know better applaud this junk, is an elitist
attitude that seems to greet this show.
"We got our woman president!"
Consider
us too grass-rooty but we don't see that as an end all be all. We
weren't among the ones saying "At least we still got Martin Sheen on TV"
so maybe we're missing it. But honestly, we'll take an Alice over a Commander-in-Chief. Give us working class women who pull together over a queen bee living a rarefied life.
We've
never doubted that a woman could be president (and at some point will
be). But we've never assumed that gender would be an answer. A woman who
supports equality? Absolutely, that's a great thing. A woman who makes
her way as an exception, backs up an agenda she doesn't believe in and
does nothing to help other women? We don't see the point in applauding
that.
We felt that then, we feel it now.
We need to expand our knowledge of abuse -- we as a society. All the posers and pretenders -- especially those who took their 'expertise' to NPR -- made clear that they need new professions. They are not fit to treat survivors of abuse. Their refusal to grasp that men can be the victims of domestic abuse make it clear that they are in the wrong field and are not helping anyone.
The posers, the women who pretended to be feminists and the press glorified a woman who had accomplished nothing on her own and then advanced her as the face of feminism
There was no proof that she'd been abused and there was no proof that she was a feminist.
During the trial, proof emerged that she was a liar -- repeatedly.
Did you give the money to the ACLU?
That's a yes/no question. But how she did dance around it.
The answer was no. She did not, as she had promised, give the seven-million-dollar divorce settlement to the ACLU and Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. She's a liar. Johnny donated $100,000 on her behalf and Elon Musk donated $500,000. Amber hasn't donated a dime of the seven million -- she spent the money on herself, over five million, we're told, and had less than two-million left.
She lied to the public to begin with. Claiming she was not going to keep the seven million made her look like a better person. But she's greedy and she wanted the money and she didn't donate it.
She lied.
And the thing was, she kept lying and she kept getting caught in one lie after another.
She was violent towards Johnny, she did commit abuse. She lied. She lied about a mobile home being destroyed and when the owner testifies? Amber calls him a liar. Then seconds later, insists she didn't. She lied about WARNER BROTHERS. Over and over, she lied. And the jury saw it.
So did the world which is why the media is out of step with public opinion yet again.
Instead of admitting their mistakes, the media doubled down and wanted to insist, post-verdict, that Saint Amber was the victim.
No. What was she? The reincarnate of Barbara Payton -- she even has Payton's bizarro chin. As the public turned on Barbara and no man wanted her anymore (at least not for more than ten minutes in a motel), she managed to scrape up $1000 for boozing via an autobiography. Leo Guild died in 1997 so a ghostwriter might be a problem but we're sure the ACLU will be happy to step into the sewer for her once again and we're also sure no one will begrudge her borrowing Barbara's book title: I AM NOT ASHAMED. It was laughable with Payton's name attached and will be even more so with Heard's attached. The only thing more laughable is the continued attempt by the press to turn our modern day Barbara Payton into a resident at a nunnery. It's just not going to play. No matter how many times they serve that nonsense up, it's just not going to play.
