Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Victoria Orphan Named LGBTQ+ Scientist of the Year

Caltech notes:


Victoria Orphan Named LGBTQ+ Scientist of the Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This edition's playlist

 

 

1) Chase Rice's I HATE COWBOYS & ALL DOGS GO TO HELL.

 

2) Diana Ross' THANK YOU

 

3)  Hozier's  UNREAL UNEARTH

 

4) kd lang's HYMNS OF THE 49TH PARALLEL.

 

 

5) Joni Mitchell's JONI MITCHELL AT NEWPORT.

 

 6)  Bob Dylan's ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS.

 

7) Yusuf/Cat Stevens' KING OF A LAND.

 

8)  Cher's HEART OF STONE.

 

 

9) Cher's 3614 JACKSON HIGHWAY.

 

10) Sam Smith's GLORIA.

 

 

 

Highlights

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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? No, Prince" -- most requested highlight of the week by readers of this site with Yazz commenting, "Please ask C.I. to write about music more."

 

"The Green presidential candidate needs to commit t...," "The Green presidential candidate needs to commit to building the party," "The Green presidential candidate needs to commit to building the party,"  "The Green presidential candidate needs to commit to building the party," "The Green presidential candidate needs to commit to building the party," "The Green presidential candidate needs to commit to building the party" and "The Green presidential candidate needs to commit to building the party" -- theme post in the community.

 

"Whole Roasted Cauliflower – BBQ Flavored in the Kitchen,"  "Chicken and Apple Stuffing Casserole in the Kitchen,"  "Autumn Apple Chicken in the Kitchen," "Stuffed Green Peppers in the Kitchen" and "Cookbooks and Air Fryer Cauliflower in the Kitchen" -- Trina serves up recipes.

 

 "Do not read ENDLESS HIGHWAY at AMAZON" -- Isaiah reviews a book.


 "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Julian," "Elon Musk just gets worse," "Why are outlets simping for Henry Tarrio? His nam...," "George Santos has more problems," "No one wants Little Minded Marjie," "Why is Senator Tuberville trying to destroy the US military?,""Why does Senator Tuberville hate the American military?," "Hate merchants," "Friends and whores on the left," "Trump's 'warm' welcome in Iowa," "Are people making deals to save themselves and turn on Trump?," "Shonda Rhimes' SCANDAL: TRUMP EDITION is a hit with viewers," "Samuel Alito and his crooked ways," "Dianne Feinstein gets even more pathetic," "That illegitimate Supreme Court," "Crooked Clarence hopes to get away with his lies," "Tara Bara Bora Whora granted asylum," "Does Marjorie need some Tums?," "Marjorie Taylor Greene sings her song," "Who won (not the people of Louisiana)," "Idiot of the week, Doo-Doo Ron Ron continues to struggle, an important episode of BURN IT DOWN WITH KIM BROWN," "There should be no pardons for the 1/6 rioters," "Kylie Minogue, Kyle Kulinski and Doo-Doo DeSantis," "BLACK POWER MEDIA, Doo-Doo DeSantis called out on THE VIEW," "Idiot of the week and Bully of the week," and "mila and ashton rush forward to vouch for a convicted rapist" -- news coverage in the community.

 

 "Oh, Ani DiFranco, you had talent once upon a time."  "Keiynan, John Duff, Robert Palmer, John Taylor, the Pretenders,"  "Cher has a new album,"  "The Rolling Stones and others have new albums coming out,"  "The Rolling Stones, the Beatles and Diana Ross" and "Aged out teeny bopper Justy Timberlake" -- music coverage in the community.

 


 

"joan collins," "'minx' season 2 episode 5," "minx season 2 episode 4," "A look at this weekend's possible box office hits,"  "Weekend box office,"  "EQUALIZER 3 and HYPNOTICS,"  "OPPENHEIMER is not the hit that BARBIE is,"  "TV: Hypocrisy, silences, embarrassments, it's YOUTUBE" and "Fall TV" -- TV and film coverage in the community.

 

 

Tuesday, September 05, 2023

TV: Hypocrisy, silences, embarrassments, it's YOUTUBE

Last week, two fugly men showed up on THE REAL 'NEWS' NETWORK to whine about so-called 'identity politics.' Two elderly White straight males trashing Angela Davis and others proving that, even in so-called 'independent' media, the White elderly male reigns supreme.

 

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If anyone earned a pile on, it was those two entitled priss-pots.  Norman Finkelstein, for example, flamed out in academia decades ago and has done little with his life since other than show up on BLACK POWER MEDIA and, to the amazement of all watching, griped about how it was unfair that he, a White man, was no longer being allowed to go on programs to analyze African-Americans.  It was so unfair, Norman explained, that African-Americans were now being allowed to speak for themselves.  Last week, Norman trashed 'identity politics' with serial plagiarist Chris Hedges aka the first 'reporter' to put the false link of 9/11 to Iraq on the front page of THE NEW YORK TIMES with a non-hugely discredited article


The two grifters whined over media attention given to non-Whites, non-straights, non-males because they see celebrity as a zero-sum game and any attention not given to them was, well, attention not given to them. If anyone was begging for a beatdown in the public square last week it was Norman and Chrissy Lynn.


Proving what a circle jerk so-called 'independent' media is, everyone averted their eyes and attacks were instead launched on Kyle Kulinski.  Kyle's crime?


Daring to suggest that might be urine that Cornel West is walking on, not water.


THE HILL's RISING (or as out of touch  elderly Cornel calls it, "The Rising"), THE VANGUARD, and so many more YOUTUBERs -- including the White woman who pretends to be Black (this leftist Rachel Dolezal is a YOUTUBE celebrity hiding in plain sight) -- all wanted to zoom in on Kyle.


Guess it lets them avoid Randy Toler.

 

Who?

 

The name that they won't mention.   From BALLOTPEDIA:


Randy Toler (Green Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Florida. He declared candidacy for the general election scheduled on November 5, 2024.

Toler is also running for election for President of the United States. He declared candidacy for the 2024 election.

 

Day after day Zac and Gavin on THE VANGUARD and all the rest rush to insist that Cornel is the Green Party's presidential nominee.  They lie and lie again.  Over and over.  And then claim that they're not lying.  

Zac and Gavin claimed that last Friday as they again misled their viewers into believing that the Green Party had selected Cornel.  No such thing has happened.  As we've repeatedly noted, the Green Party will hold their national convention in 2024 and they will vote then to decide who their nominee is.


It's funny to watch Zac and Gavin's hypocrisy.  They are the ones, after all, who keep whining that Marianne Williamson won't be on the debate stage with Joe Biden.  She's the one they want to be the Democratic Party's presidential candidate -- yes, they are two of the few rooting for Marianne.  And we have to hear from them how unfair this all is . . . as they repeatedly pretend that Toler's not running for the Green Party's presidential nomination.  


Do they even see their hypocrisy?  


Probably not.  


They are mad about others putting a finger on the scales but they're happy to do the same themselves.


Hypocrisy was all over last week if you bothered to look.


THE NEW YORK TIMES, for example, published another junk science article on transgendered people in which they glorified known liar and transphobe Jamie Reed. 


Evan Urquhart (ASSINGED MEDIA) does a major take down on Reed and the paper's latest garbage:

 

Earlier this week the New York Times published a biased and misleading story by Azeen Ghorayshi on the allegations of Jamie Reed, a former employee of the Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. 

One paragraph in Ghorayshi’s story stood out. It claimed that while at least one of Reed’s claims contained factual inaccuracies, others had been corroborated. Based on the contents of the allegations and of the NYT piece, this didn’t seem to accurately reflect either what was in the allegations or what had been found in the reporting for the NYT piece.

Accusing the NYT of not accurately representing what their reporting found is a big swing, and something we know many people will find difficult to believe. That’s why Assigned Media went through every claim made by Reed and coded them as either corroborated, uncorroborated, or refuted by reporting in either the NYT or other outlets. We believe this shows, conclusively, that none of Reed’s allegations of wrongdoing at the Center have been confirmed, and that the NYT misled readers by implying that they had.

A spreadsheet containing every claim and our coding of them is available in a view-only link at the bottom of this story.

 

 

Alex Koran (FAIR) notes that the 'report' was a greatest hits of every transphobe report that the paper had previously published:

 

Over-emphasizing stories of detransition, regret and complications by using disproportionate sourcing is common in the Times’ gender-affirming care coverage. The paper’s front-page article (9/26/22) on adolescent top surgery, also by Ghorayshi, profiled a single patient happy with their surgery, and two who regretted it.

One of those regretters, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, was also quoted in the Times Magazine‘s heavily criticized “Battle Over Gender Therapy” feature story (6/15/22; FAIR.org, 6/23/22). Along with Lidinsky-Smith—not identified in either Times story as the president of GCCAN, an advocacy group critical of gender-affirming care—that article placed a heavy emphasis on kids who considered transitioning but did not: It quoted three of them, along with a parent who refused to let their kid start hormones. By contrast, it only quoted one child who had happily transitioned, one parent who said they made the right choice, and two adults who said they had made the right choice, though one urged caution.

Meanwhile, rates of detransition are generally estimated to be in the single digits. The current Times article (8/23/23) uses flawed interpretations of studies to suggest detransition rates higher than studies actually show, reporting that “small studies with differing definitions and methodologies have found rates ranging from 2 to 30%.” To corroborate these numbers, the Times links to a literature review whose lead author is Pablo Exposito-Campos, a researcher with ties to the Society for Evidence Based Medicine, an organization that advocates against gender-affirming care for minors.

The 30% number referenced in Exposito-Campos’ review that the Times uses comes from a study that looked at hormone prescription continuation rates in the TRICARE system for family members of military members. The authors noted in the conclusion that their numbers “likely underestimate continuation rates among transgender patients.” They also pointed out that other studies have shown as few as 16% of people who discontinue hormones do so because of a change in gender identity. (If 16% of the 30% of patients who discontinued hormone treatment did so because of a gender-identity change, that would be 0.5% of all patients.)


For more on NYT's anti-trans 'reporting,' see Julie Hollar's "NYT’s Anti-Trans Bias—by the Numbers" (FAIR).  And grasp that people like Glenn Greenwald -- transphobes -- are the problem.  When journalists protested the paper's poor coverage, Glenn sided with the paper.  A long, long trip from when he wanted everyone to side against THE INTERCEPT and support him.  


Transphobe Glenneth has done real harm and given others the green light to attack trans people and their rights.  As one person commented on his one of his videos, "Coming from a man in the G community, your message on these issues has so much more power than those from the orthodox crowd.. you are the man Glenn. Please never stop doing what you do!!"

 

He's not the man.  He's the grifter, he's the lonely dirty whore, but he's not the man.

 

Glenneth has joined NYT in trying to make people afraid of trans persons.  It's all about dehumanizing and lying.  And the hypocrisy can be found in one YOUTUBE program after another that refuses to call Glenneth or NYT out.  USEFUL IDIOTS pretends to cover the media but it's just covering for the media.  Aaron Mate and Katie Halper don't give a damn about trans people or, for that matter, anyone in the LGBTQ+ community.  Nothing is ever news to them on USEFUL IDIOTS or THE KATIE HALPER SHOW if it involves LGBTQ+ people.   And they are pretty much the standard -- or at least the DSA equivalent, right? 

 

They've ignored reality and accused others of identity politics.

 

The 'identity' politics that themselves practice allows them to ignore the murder of LGBTQ+ ally Lauri Carleton in California last month.  It allows them to ignore so much.

 

Saturday, Elaine wrote "Who won (not the people of Louisiana)."  Katie Halper fans have no idea because the brain challenged ditz doesn't cover stories about LGBTQ+ people.  Louisiana's laws -- homophobic and transphobic -- have forced one of the state's three pediatric cardiologists out of the state.  He and his family have relocated to Long Island.  

 

Trina noted this story as it was developing at the start of last month and pointed out:

 

As a medical professional, let me state the obvious:  You never want your community to lose any doctor but a cardiologist?  And then you add in a pediatric cardiologist?  Oh, no.  That's a huge loss.  He and his husband and their children are going to New York now but they could go anywhere because that specialty is so much in demand.  It's New Orleans' loss.  I'm so sorry that the family has had to make this decision.  It was forced on them and nothing they chose.  You need to grasp that these hate merchants are turning you on your own communities.

Moms For Bigotry and Naomi Wolf are not trying to help you, they are trying to destroy people's lives. 


These are real issues but it's not news to YOUTUBERS who want (as THE VANGUARD boys said three weeks ago) "the more important stuff instead of stupid culture war stuff."


This is about people's lives and these crap ass personalities that try to present as journalists and media critics can't be bothered with it.  They can be fan bois and fan gals of politicians -- Cornel, Marianne, etc -- but they can't cover the stuff that impacts actual lives, they can't cover the people being targeted.  Yet they want you to see them as brave and truth tellers.


They're nothing of the kind.

 

They'd rather attack Kyle.  They can't defend Cornel because Cornel's been a failure.  Would a third party candidate take votes away from a Democratic Party presidential candidate?  That's an issue worth discussing.  But to discuss it, we'd have to hear something other than sloganeering from Cornel West and we haven't.  What is his strategy?  What is his plan?  Even THE VANGUARD boys can't seem to agree on it -- in fact, Zac frequently contradicts himself in a single, short segment as he tries to explain what Cornel's 'plan' is.  


All of that made for something last week.   Not information, not news, but it made for something.  At least the ones mentioned above can find relief in the fact that they're not Tim Black.  There was Tim raging against Kyle while he wore a hat that looked like he swiped it from SWV and a loose t-shirt that made us wonder if we bought him a bra, would he wear it?  Probably not.  He's another of those idiots that wrongly believes Cornel already is the Green Party's presidential nominee -- an idiot like his 'viewer' Adrianna Sciortino who wanted to 'help' people out by (mis)informing, "​The Green Party website has free signs you can download and print."  No, the Green Party has no sign for Cornel West that you can print out.  A dope makes a YOUTUBE clip, another dope streams and it's one big circle of stupidity.  Or, as Dorothy Parker famously said,  "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

 

 

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Truest statement of the week

The murder of [Lauri] Carleton is just the latest manifestation of right-wing violence incited, cultivated and inspired by ex-president Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Seeking to divide the working class and lay the groundwork for further attacks on democratic rights, Republicans have made anti-LGBTQ demagoguery and laws restricting gender affirming care, drag shows and sex ed a central tenet of their far-right agenda.

A tracker maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has recorded 494 “anti-LGBTQ bills” proposed in the 2023 legislative session across all 50 states, virtually all sponsored by Republicans. Of these bills, some of which ban gender-affirming care, 78 have already become law, while 197 are classified by the ACLU as “advancing.”

--  Hong Jian, "California shop owner murdered over LGBTQ pride flag by fascist gunman" (WSWS).



A note to our readers

Hey --

Monday night.


Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:


The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen, Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.



And what did we come up with?

 

 

Hong Jian gets a truest.

FRANCE 24 notes the destruction in Iraq.

Ava and C.I. wrote this about how FOX "NEWS" tries to create fear and characters.

Except for Ava and C.I., we all worked on this.  And picking one for this year?  There are still a few months left this year but that's our pick for the best album of 2023.

Ava and C.I. talk to Marcia and Rebecca about their summer read.

Betty, Wally, Kat, Ava and C.I. wrote this today in between speaking engagements.

Betty, Wally, Kat, Ava and C.I. wrote this today in between speaking engagements.

Dona, Ty, Mike, Jess, Elaine and I (Jim) wrote this.

Betty, Wally, Kat, Ava and C.I. wrote this today in between speaking engagements.

Betty, Wally, Kat, Ava and C.I. wrote this today in between speaking engagements.

A list of the hate merchants.

Notable deaths of the year.

Books reviewed in the community this year.

Jacqueline Luqman gets another truest.

What we listened to while working on this edition.

Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.

 

 

Peace.

 

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iraq's polluted rivers threatens daily life, poses serious health risks • FRANCE 24 English

 

 

Over the past few months, temperatures in Iraq have reached 50 degrees Celsius and water levels in the country’s rivers are dropping fast. Despite having two big rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, Iraq suffers from desertification and there are concerns about the water disappearing - mainly from Iranian and Turkish dams upstream and the excessive use of water resources, particularly within agriculture. But despite this, Iraq is doing little to protect its rivers. From the north to the south, industrial, chemical, medical and biological waste flows untreated into the water, effectively poisoning it. From Kirkuk to Basra and Baghdad, the water is contaminated. Marie-Charlotte Roupie and Josh Vardey report. Read more about this story in our article: https://f24.my/9k9v.y

 

 

TV: FOX "NEWS" never listened to Little Richard

FOX "NEWS" is a lot like a certain glossy celebrity mag of the 90s.  Year after year, it took whatever man  slept with a certain male director to get cast in the film, splashed him on the cover and pronounced him a star.  It never really took.  


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In the same way, FOX "NEWS" just can't get it right, no matter how hard they try.  They're not a news network, so they're never bound by facts or reality.  They are a fear network and they cast various people into roles that they just don't fit.

 

Last week, they were casting the role of a well-worn and well-used aging ingenue and went with a woman named Tracy Shannon.  She was brought on to be pathetic and garner sympathy.  Just an innocent "home maker," you understand, who had entire life turned upside down when her husband, after a decade and a half of marriage, left her and became a woman.

 

 She offered all these pathetic and uniformed opinions that no one was supposed to question because she'd suffered.  


Actually, the one suffering were the ones watching her crap.  


Her story never held up on air -- it hasn't in real life and it never will.  She wasn't an innocent.  Before they ever had children, she knew her husband cross-dressed.  They went to therapy for it.  He promised he'd stop.  Repeatedly, she caught him breaking that promise.


She insists that she "believed him several times."


No, she didn't.  She was too lazy to go to work.  She wouldn't get off her lazy ass and get a job -- true during the marriage, true today.  


It's so awful, she tells you, because her husband became a woman and her kids lost their daddy!


Anyone who thought trashy tabloid TV ended with the death of Jerry Springer has not caught FOX "NEWS."


"I think," she said in a tone indicating otherwise, "that gender is a lie."  Huh?  "I don't think that anybody can ever accomplish the goal of completely becoming the opposite sex." 


She blames the internet and a new friend in her FOX "NEWS" interview; however, in the past she's blamed others -- for example, in past interviews, she's blamed Caitlyn Jenner. 
 
In the past?  
 
Yeah, FOX "NEWS" just discovered her but, as her hagged out face makes clear, she's been around forever.  She's also not a "mother" as FOX "NEWS" billed her, she's a "grandmother."
 
She's a lazy ass who's been whining for years now.  She's never taken accountability for her own role and she never will.  But she is an anti-trans activist and has been for years -- a detail FOX "NEWS" left out as they attempted to make her Queen For A Day. 
 
 


Tracy Shannon calls the drag dossiers her “exposés,” something she compiles and sends out whenever she hears about a drag queen story hour. The event, in which drag performers read books to children, started in San Francisco four years ago to boost LGBTQ inclusivity at libraries. As its popularity grows across the country, activists like Shannon are pushing back.

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Emboldened by her success in Houston, Shannon branched out. Ahead of drag queen story time in Leander this summer, she sent her “exposés” to the mayor and city council members, spreading the images among neighborhood groups and other concerned citizens she met along the way.

“We just compile this to illustrate what drag culture looks like in that city,” Shannon said. It’s easier to scare people unfamiliar with drag when the photos are racy, but Shannon insists it’s inappropriate to put kids next to any queen.

“Even if you’re the type of drag queen where you’re imitating Doris Day, and you’re not wearing scantily clad outfits exposing your latex boobs or whatever, it’s still what they’re performing, the culture they’re in,” she said. “It’s adult. It’s immersed in erotic and fetishism.”

 
 Poor sexless Tracy Shannon, she sees sex everywhere while she starves for it. March 1st of last year, Michael Murney (DALLAS OBSERVER) reported:
 

Last month, during a speech to supporters gathered in the conference room of a Hilton Garden Inn in Denton, right-wing activist Tracy Shannon threw down a challenge.

In the coming weeks and months, she and a group of fellow activists in North Texas plan to push a young adult novel into circulation in North Texas’ public libraries and local public school districts, she said. If administrators refused to include the [anti-trans] book in circulation, she said, it would constitute nothing less than political oppression and a violation of all Americans’ rights to religious freedom.

If that happened, it was the responsibility of everyone gathered that night to “raise hell," Shannon told the crowd.





Over the years, she's tried to 'soften' her image and leaves a lot of stuff out of interviews.  She instead wonders if maybe it was something she did that turned her spouse.  In most cases, we'd say no but she appears to deserve her share of blame and then some.  She's a controlling and off-putting person so we wouldn't be surprised if she didn't drive everyone out of her life.

Despite making Caitlyn Jenner the reason for her divorce in past interviews, on FOX "NEWS" last week, she explained it was the internet that was at fault and a new friend her husband met.

She also raged against estrogen.  Her spouse went on it, she explained, and she wasn't told!!!


Nor should she have been.  If her spouse didn't tell her, it wasn't the doctor's job too.
 
She's so stupid that she doesn't understand medical confidentiality.  For example, a woman tells her spouse she's pregnant.  Her doctor is not going to violate her privacy by telling her spouse.  
 
She doesn't understand the law, she doesn't understand anything.

For example, she's railed about being a "paper lesbian."  
 
 
 Huh?
 
While they were divorcing, her spouse was transitioning.  That, she insists, made her a "paper lesbian."  Oh, cool, did she meet Ellen and Portia?
 
She's offended that her spouse was able to do a name change.  She's offended by so much -- as the truly ugly usually are.
 
 
Mainly, read her interviews, she's offended that she had to get a job after the divorce.  She's laid around on her lazy ass for 15 years and now she had to get a job.  The horror!
 
But, happy ending, she quickly met another man -- while perusing dresses at Lane Bryant? -- and she marched him down the alter and went back to not working.  
 
She's a little hate merchant.  FOX "NEWS" tried to pass her off as "a Christian mother."  But a mother -- Christian or otherwise -- doesn't whine that she has to work to support her three kids.  A "Karen" does.  A Karen whines.  But a mother doesn't. 
 
 
Over 70% of mothers in the US work outside the home.  Some do so because they have no economic choice.   We'd say Tracy needs to stop bashing her ex-spouse and feel fortunate that for 15 or so years she didn't have to work, she didn't have to face the demands that most women do.  

But again, she's not a "mother."  She's a grandmother now.  She's an old and ugly woman on a mission to destroy her ex-spouse.  That's all this is about.  It's always that pathetic and that personal.

Just as she couldn't find the joy in the fact that she didn't have to work for 15 or so years, she can't enjoy today when another man's paying her bills and letting her stay home.  Two spouses have carried her lazy ass and she's not grateful.  

And she never will be. 

The tiara doesn't set well on her head but the shame cloaks her.

"If it don't fit, don't force it."  Little Richard sang it but FOX "NEWS" never heard it.

Last week, they were also trying to force Cornel West to be the Green Party's presidential nominee.

There was Laura Ingram, his "dear sister," per The King of Shuck and Jive Cornel, explaining that she couldn't understand how he could win when he was only on the ballot in "fewer than 20 states right now."  He's not on the ballot in any state.

Not only is he not a Green Party member, he's not the Green Party's nominee.  He wants to be.  He may end up being.  But there's a lot of resistance to him and his shucking and jiving within the Green Party.  They're tired of him presenting himself as their nominee.  They won't pick a nominee until the summer of next year.  They're tired of him speaking for the party -- he's not the nominee and he's not a member.  They're appalled that he's taking his tired and pathetic act to FOX "NEWS" because if anyone hates FOX "NEWS" more than Democrats, it's the Green Party.

A Green Party list-serv last week was especially critical as it called him out for telling Laura that Democrats and Republicans had to "earn the vote" with people commenting on how Cornell hasn't earned the vote of the Green Party and may not at this rate.

But there he was on FOX "NEWS" acting like he was the party's nominee and there was Laura forcing him into that role because FOX "NEWS" will always be fact-free.

Asked about his $500,00 reported debt, Cornel blamed the Democrats ("They've got good reason to be afraid.") while, if you paid attention, yes, he does owe $500,000 in taxes.  He can't manage his household budget but he wants to be president?

What we don't understand is: Why doesn't he just declare himself president?

He's declared himself the nominee of the Green Party and he's not that but so many are letting him get away with it that he should try just announcing he's President of the United States and see if he can get away with that too. 

 
 
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