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Affirmative action in the control tower

I don’t fly.  When folks ask me why, the short answer is that I know too much: I’m a former FAA air traffic controller.


It’s been recently reported that the FAA is now actively recruiting new trainees to work in the towers and control rooms directing airplanes and that the criteria they now utilize to screen applicants is a curiously absurd “biographical questionnaire.”  Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal:



A recently completed six-month investigation by Fox Business Network found that the Federal Aviation Administration has quietly moved away from merit-based hiring criteria in order to increase the number of women and minorities who staff airport control towers.  The changes come despite the fact that the FAA’s own internal reports describe the evidence for changing the hiring process as “weak.”


Until 2013, the FAA gave hiring preference to controller applicants who earned a degree from one of its Collegiate Training Initiative schools and scored high enough on an eight-hour screening test called the Air Traffic Selection and Training exam, or AT-SAT, which measures cognitive skills.  The Obama administration, however, determined that the process excluded too many from minority groups.  In May 2013, the FAA’s civil rights administrator issued “barrier analyses” of the agency’s employment procedures, which recommended “revising how the AT-SAT is used in establishing best-qualified lists.”


By the start of last year, the FAA was using a biographical questionnaire (BQ) to initially vet potential hires.  The questions – “How many sports did you play in high school?”, “What has been the major cause of your failures?” – seem designed to elicit stories of personal disadvantage or family hardship rather than determine success on the job.


I can tell you with absolute certainty that the FAA Air Traffic Control Division has been down with the affirmative action program for a long time. 


The PATCO controllers’ strike during the summer of 1981 seemingly gave the “fire whitey” gang the opening they craved.  There was one problem.  The air traffic system needed to get back up and running smoothly, and especially safely, so that Ronald Reagan’s mass firing would look reasonable.  So they quickly hired aviation-experienced people, including pilots and experienced military air traffic controllers.  I was one of them.  Granted, some of these well qualified new guys were black, but no one would look upon this new controller work force and call it a model of so-called diversity.  The big push for hiring other than pale males would have to wait.  Safety first, as it were.


A few things happened in the next few years.  First, the FAA stopped reporting aviation incidents, including near mid-air collisions and runway incursions.  When safety incidents are under-reported or deceitfully downgraded, the system starts to look like perfection, and the FAA will gladly report, as it frequently does, that it is “The Safest System In The World.”  These people want the flying public to skate out onto the ice, even as they are lying about how thin the ice is, and while we are at it, how warm it is today.


Along with under-reporting system failures, the FAA started conspiring, almost openly, with leftist groups like the Black and Hispanic Controller’s Coalition.  Gay and lesbian organizations started demanding hiring and promotion slots for their members – as if one’s preference for a particular style of recreational sexual behavior is an indispensable predictor of air traffic control ability.


NATCA (the National Air Traffic Controllers’ Association) replaced PATCO.  I was one of their officers for a period.  The new union gave wide latitude to the wacky leftist organizations, even as they encroached on the union’s right to bargain exclusively for working conditions. 


The FAA “Biographical Questionnaire,” exposed last night by Tucker Carlson Tonight has been known to me for some time.  Knowing the FAA as I do, nothing about it surprises me.  The entire exercise is designed to identify applicants who are white males for the purpose of eliminating them from consideration.  The FAA has been openly hostile to straight white males since 1981.


My novel, EXIT 13A – A Control Tower Diary, is an exposé on FAA abuse of power.  It is written in novel form so names could be changed to protect the guilty. 


There are a lot of reasons to limit your flying to only the most necessary flights.  The affirmative action angle is only a part of the problem.  For a more complete report, read the book.  Most people don’t believe me when I tell them that boarding an aircraft is like playing the world’s largest game of Russian roulette. 


 See you on Greyhound.


Willie Shields is a former USMC and FAA air traffic controller.  He has experience at some of the nation’s busiest control facilities.  Mr. Shields resides in Wilmington, Delaware.


I don’t fly.  When folks ask me why, the short answer is that I know too much: I’m a former FAA air traffic controller.


It’s been recently reported that the FAA is now actively recruiting new trainees to work in the towers and control rooms directing airplanes and that the criteria they now utilize to screen applicants is a curiously absurd “biographical questionnaire.”  Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal:


A recently completed six-month investigation by Fox Business Network found that the Federal Aviation Administration has quietly moved away from merit-based hiring criteria in order to increase the number of women and minorities who staff airport control towers.  The changes come despite the fact that the FAA’s own internal reports describe the evidence for changing the hiring process as “weak.”


Until 2013, the FAA gave hiring preference to controller applicants who earned a degree from one of its Collegiate Training Initiative schools and scored high enough on an eight-hour screening test called the Air Traffic Selection and Training exam, or AT-SAT, which measures cognitive skills.  The Obama administration, however, determined that the process excluded too many from minority groups.  In May 2013, the FAA’s civil rights administrator issued “barrier analyses” of the agency’s employment procedures, which recommended “revising how the AT-SAT is used in establishing best-qualified lists.”


By the start of last year, the FAA was using a biographical questionnaire (BQ) to initially vet potential hires.  The questions – “How many sports did you play in high school?”, “What has been the major cause of your failures?” – seem designed to elicit stories of personal disadvantage or family hardship rather than determine success on the job.


I can tell you with absolute certainty that the FAA Air Traffic Control Division has been down with the affirmative action program for a long time. 


The PATCO controllers’ strike during the summer of 1981 seemingly gave the “fire whitey” gang the opening they craved.  There was one problem.  The air traffic system needed to get back up and running smoothly, and especially safely, so that Ronald Reagan’s mass firing would look reasonable.  So they quickly hired aviation-experienced people, including pilots and experienced military air traffic controllers.  I was one of them.  Granted, some of these well qualified new guys were black, but no one would look upon this new controller work force and call it a model of so-called diversity.  The big push for hiring other than pale males would have to wait.  Safety first, as it were.


A few things happened in the next few years.  First, the FAA stopped reporting aviation incidents, including near mid-air collisions and runway incursions.  When safety incidents are under-reported or deceitfully downgraded, the system starts to look like perfection, and the FAA will gladly report, as it frequently does, that it is “The Safest System In The World.”  These people want the flying public to skate out onto the ice, even as they are lying about how thin the ice is, and while we are at it, how warm it is today.


Along with under-reporting system failures, the FAA started conspiring, almost openly, with leftist groups like the Black and Hispanic Controller’s Coalition.  Gay and lesbian organizations started demanding hiring and promotion slots for their members – as if one’s preference for a particular style of recreational sexual behavior is an indispensable predictor of air traffic control ability.


NATCA (the National Air Traffic Controllers’ Association) replaced PATCO.  I was one of their officers for a period.  The new union gave wide latitude to the wacky leftist organizations, even as they encroached on the union’s right to bargain exclusively for working conditions. 


The FAA “Biographical Questionnaire,” exposed last night by Tucker Carlson Tonight has been known to me for some time.  Knowing the FAA as I do, nothing about it surprises me.  The entire exercise is designed to identify applicants who are white males for the purpose of eliminating them from consideration.  The FAA has been openly hostile to straight white males since 1981.


My novel, EXIT 13A – A Control Tower Diary, is an exposé on FAA abuse of power.  It is written in novel form so names could be changed to protect the guilty. 


There are a lot of reasons to limit your flying to only the most necessary flights.  The affirmative action angle is only a part of the problem.  For a more complete report, read the book.  Most people don’t believe me when I tell them that boarding an aircraft is like playing the world’s largest game of Russian roulette. 


 See you on Greyhound.


Willie Shields is a former USMC and FAA air traffic controller.  He has experience at some of the nation’s busiest control facilities.  Mr. Shields resides in Wilmington, Delaware.




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After Clinton Buddy Gov. McAuliffe Restores Rights To Felons, Pedophile Runs For Congress In VA

He will split the democrat vote.

Via Yahoo:

Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state. He is also a pedophile, as he admitted to HuffPost on Thursday, who has bragged in website posts about raping his late ex-wife.

In a phone call, Larson confirmed that he created the now-defunct websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today ― chat rooms that served as gathering places for pedophiles and violence-minded misogynists like himself. HuffPost contacted Larson after confirming that his campaign website shared an IP address with these forums, among others. His sites were terminated by their domain host on Tuesday.

On the phone, he was open about his pedophilia and seemingly unfazed about his long odds of attaining government office.

“A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it,” he said. “People prefer when there’s an outsider who doesn’t have anything to lose and is willing to say what’s on a lot of people’s minds.”

When asked whether he’s a pedophile or just writes about pedophilia, he said, “It’s a mix of both. When people go over the top there’s a grain of truth to what they say.”

Asked whether there was a “grain of truth” in his essay about father-daughter incest and another about raping his ex-wife repeatedly, he said yes, offering that plenty of women have rape fantasies.

According to Larson’s campaign manifesto, his platform as a “quasi-neoreactionary libertarian” candidate includes protecting gun ownership rights, establishing free trade and protecting “benevolent white supremacy,” as well as legalizing incestuous marriage and child pornography.[…]

Larson’s political ambitions span more than a decade. He first ran for Congress in Virginia’s 1st District in 2008 on what he described as an “anarcho-capitalist” platform. That same year, he sent a letter to the Secret Service threatening to kill the president, which landed him in federal prison for 14 months and barred him from seeking public office.

But in 2016, then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) restored voting and other civil rights to thousands of felons, allowing Larson to campaign yet again. In 2017 he ran in Virginia’s House of Delegates District 31 and secured less than 2 percent of the vote. Now he is gunning for a seat in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District.

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Left-wing intolerance

It often feels like open season on Trump-supporters:




Doesn’t the left claim to be the model of tolerance in America?  While the left talks a big game about tolerance for a diversity of opinions and political beliefs, this political violence is simply unacceptable.



When Roseanne Barr recently made racist remarks about Valerie Jarrett, the left rightfully pounced.


Yet President Trump also rightly pointed out that when the media or other high-profile personalities use fake news and personal attacks against him, his family, or his supporters, the left remains silent.  Why the double standard?


When President Trump meets Kim Kardashian, he is mocked, yet when President Obama had a stampede of celebrities see him, it was cool.  Almost on cue to highlight the tolerance for intolerance on the left, Samantha Bee leveled a grotesque personal attack against Ivanka Trump on her TBS program just two days after Barr’s comments.  While the mainstream media reported on Bee’s insults, her show remains on the air. 


The left’s double standard applies not just to the president and celebrities – it also impacts everyday hardworking people who choose to engage in political discourse and express their views – and innocent people are being fired, attacked, and hurt because of it.  @AmyMek is a controversial Jewish Twitter influencer and outspoken critic of sharia.  While many of her tweets have been offensive, she has also been retweeted by President Trump and a slew of others.  She has a right to tweet, and her family shouldn’t be attacked for her political beliefs.


Until recently, @AmyMek had remained anonymous online, until HuffPost reporter Luke O’Brien exposed her full name in a recent exposé.  In the name of working on a story to expose @AmyMek’s true identity, O’Brien called her husband’s employer and “outed” his wife as the woman behind @AmyMek.  Her husband was promptly fired.  His offense?  Being married to a woman whose viewpoints some don’t like.


In his article, O’Brien went after Amy’s entire family, naming her father’s and brother’s businesses, neither of whom have anything to do with Amy’s Twitter account.  These attacks are entirely unfair and below the belt.  The implied threat here is that if you choose to speak out, your family will be found and targeted.  How is that fair?  Should people be fired and their businesses harmed for the political views of their family members?


I don’t expect the left to agree with those on the right, but I do expect some tolerance for a different worldview, even when they find that view offensive.  No one deserves to be fired for the views of his family members.  Guilt by association has no place in the American marketplace of ideas, and certainly not in the workplace.


Ronn Torossian is a leading P.R. firm CEO.


It often feels like open season on Trump-supporters:




Doesn’t the left claim to be the model of tolerance in America?  While the left talks a big game about tolerance for a diversity of opinions and political beliefs, this political violence is simply unacceptable.


When Roseanne Barr recently made racist remarks about Valerie Jarrett, the left rightfully pounced.


Yet President Trump also rightly pointed out that when the media or other high-profile personalities use fake news and personal attacks against him, his family, or his supporters, the left remains silent.  Why the double standard?


When President Trump meets Kim Kardashian, he is mocked, yet when President Obama had a stampede of celebrities see him, it was cool.  Almost on cue to highlight the tolerance for intolerance on the left, Samantha Bee leveled a grotesque personal attack against Ivanka Trump on her TBS program just two days after Barr’s comments.  While the mainstream media reported on Bee’s insults, her show remains on the air. 


The left’s double standard applies not just to the president and celebrities – it also impacts everyday hardworking people who choose to engage in political discourse and express their views – and innocent people are being fired, attacked, and hurt because of it.  @AmyMek is a controversial Jewish Twitter influencer and outspoken critic of sharia.  While many of her tweets have been offensive, she has also been retweeted by President Trump and a slew of others.  She has a right to tweet, and her family shouldn’t be attacked for her political beliefs.


Until recently, @AmyMek had remained anonymous online, until HuffPost reporter Luke O’Brien exposed her full name in a recent exposé.  In the name of working on a story to expose @AmyMek’s true identity, O’Brien called her husband’s employer and “outed” his wife as the woman behind @AmyMek.  Her husband was promptly fired.  His offense?  Being married to a woman whose viewpoints some don’t like.


In his article, O’Brien went after Amy’s entire family, naming her father’s and brother’s businesses, neither of whom have anything to do with Amy’s Twitter account.  These attacks are entirely unfair and below the belt.  The implied threat here is that if you choose to speak out, your family will be found and targeted.  How is that fair?  Should people be fired and their businesses harmed for the political views of their family members?


I don’t expect the left to agree with those on the right, but I do expect some tolerance for a different worldview, even when they find that view offensive.  No one deserves to be fired for the views of his family members.  Guilt by association has no place in the American marketplace of ideas, and certainly not in the workplace.


Ronn Torossian is a leading P.R. firm CEO.




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Opening the White House to the Muslim Brotherhood

One of the unfortunate side effects of Roseanne’s racist tweet implosion involving Valerie Jarrett is that it may put off limits the documented influence held by the Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama administration – influence that was so great that we handed over a loyal ally, Egypt, into its control for a time.


The key player in Obama’s administration is the Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett.  Her role in the Obama administration has been likened to the mysterious Rasputin in the era of the Russian czars:



Her influence is shown by an account in Richard Miniter’s book “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him.”


It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL mission.  Seems she was concerned about the possible political harm to Obama if the mission failed.


Then there is Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner and top aide to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.  She is expected to assume the Jarrett role in a Hillary Clinton White House.  Her affiliations and loyalties are also suspect:


Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government’s Muslim World League, and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood.  World Trade Center bombing prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review: “The ties of Ms. Abedin’s father, mother and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated.”


The Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt with the Obama administration’s approval after it had all but abandoned the government of Hosni Mubarak, a long-time ally and friend.  It was while Abedin was advising Hillary that State dropped its long-standing policy of having no dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.


In early 2015, Jarrett brokered a meeting between Obama and 14 Muslim leaders, some with disturbingly close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood:


[T]he White House confirmed that Azhar Azeez, President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was one of the Muslim leaders that met with President Obama.  ISNA was founded in 1981 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.  The group was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial[.] …


Azeez’s bio also reveals him as a founding member the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter.  CAIR has also allegedly funneled money to Palestinian terror groups and was also started by members of the Muslim Brotherhood[.] …


Hoda Elshishtawy of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) was also in attendance at the Muslim leaders’ meeting with President Obama.


MPAC, just like CAIR and ISNA, was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood[.] …


Mohamed Majid, who serves as Imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), was also in attendance at the White House meeting with the President, and senior advisors Ben Rhodes and Valerie Jarrett.


In 2002, ADAMS was raided as part of a U.S. government initiative called “Operation Green Quest,” where federal agents suspected the group of supporting terrorist organizations.  Government documents said that the ADAMS Center was “suspected of providing support to terrorists, money laundering, and tax evasion.”


If you have ever wondered just why President Obama could never bring himself to condemn or even say “radical Islamic terrorism,” Valerie Jarrett is one of the reasons.  One of the very first things he did as president was to give a speech to students in Cairo in 2009 in which he apologized for America’s role as the world bully, particularly in the Islamic world, and for our support of our only true ally in the Middle East.  His snubbing of both Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not subtle, and his push to make Iran a nuclear power, in opposition to the will of Congress and the American people, showed just where his, and Jarrett’s, hearts were.


Christians were being murdered around the world, and little was done by the Obama-Jarrett administration to help them or even acknowledge the fact or that Islamic jihadists have marked them for genocide.  President Obama’s silence on this ongoing slaughter speaks volumes about his and Jarrett’s true loyalties:


From the Christian-influenced Yazidis in Iraq to the Christian schoolgirls targeted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Christians worldwide have had their churches bombed and burned and themselves murdered, all because of what they believe and who they are.


Yet, with few exceptions, Obama refuses to acknowledge or even mention this fact.


On Sunday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest, who had also expressed the administration’s condemnation of the “random” attacks in Paris, issued a statement condemning the IS’s murder of 21 Egyptian “citizens.” No mention of their being Coptic Christians.


Ft. Hood was “workplace violence.”  Benghazi was a spontaneous response to an inflammatory video.  Paris was just a case of people being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  When world leaders marched in Paris to protest the latest Islamic atrocity, Barack Hussein Obama was conspicuous by his absence.


In Obama’s world, Islam is a religion of tolerance; not so much Christians, maligned as “bitter clingers.”  He took a shot at Christians when he said at an Easter Prayer Breakfast that “I have to say that, sometimes when I listen to other less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”  Not so concerned was he by the mass beheading of Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach by the Islamic State.


The coziness among Obama, Jarrett, Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other radical Islamic terrorist groups is a historical fact and should not be obscured by a bigoted tweet.


Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.










One of the unfortunate side effects of Roseanne’s racist tweet implosion involving Valerie Jarrett is that it may put off limits the documented influence held by the Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama administration – influence that was so great that we handed over a loyal ally, Egypt, into its control for a time.


The key player in Obama’s administration is the Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett.  Her role in the Obama administration has been likened to the mysterious Rasputin in the era of the Russian czars:


Her influence is shown by an account in Richard Miniter’s book “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him.”


It relates that at the urging of Jarrett, Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL mission.  Seems she was concerned about the possible political harm to Obama if the mission failed.


Then there is Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner and top aide to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.  She is expected to assume the Jarrett role in a Hillary Clinton White House.  Her affiliations and loyalties are also suspect:


Her father is said to be close with the Saudi government’s Muslim World League, and her mother is said to be a member of the Muslim Sisterhood.  World Trade Center bombing prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review: “The ties of Ms. Abedin’s father, mother and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated.”


The Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt with the Obama administration’s approval after it had all but abandoned the government of Hosni Mubarak, a long-time ally and friend.  It was while Abedin was advising Hillary that State dropped its long-standing policy of having no dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.


In early 2015, Jarrett brokered a meeting between Obama and 14 Muslim leaders, some with disturbingly close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood:


[T]he White House confirmed that Azhar Azeez, President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was one of the Muslim leaders that met with President Obama.  ISNA was founded in 1981 by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.  The group was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial[.] …


Azeez’s bio also reveals him as a founding member the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter.  CAIR has also allegedly funneled money to Palestinian terror groups and was also started by members of the Muslim Brotherhood[.] …


Hoda Elshishtawy of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) was also in attendance at the Muslim leaders’ meeting with President Obama.


MPAC, just like CAIR and ISNA, was founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood[.] …


Mohamed Majid, who serves as Imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), was also in attendance at the White House meeting with the President, and senior advisors Ben Rhodes and Valerie Jarrett.


In 2002, ADAMS was raided as part of a U.S. government initiative called “Operation Green Quest,” where federal agents suspected the group of supporting terrorist organizations.  Government documents said that the ADAMS Center was “suspected of providing support to terrorists, money laundering, and tax evasion.”


If you have ever wondered just why President Obama could never bring himself to condemn or even say “radical Islamic terrorism,” Valerie Jarrett is one of the reasons.  One of the very first things he did as president was to give a speech to students in Cairo in 2009 in which he apologized for America’s role as the world bully, particularly in the Islamic world, and for our support of our only true ally in the Middle East.  His snubbing of both Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not subtle, and his push to make Iran a nuclear power, in opposition to the will of Congress and the American people, showed just where his, and Jarrett’s, hearts were.


Christians were being murdered around the world, and little was done by the Obama-Jarrett administration to help them or even acknowledge the fact or that Islamic jihadists have marked them for genocide.  President Obama’s silence on this ongoing slaughter speaks volumes about his and Jarrett’s true loyalties:


From the Christian-influenced Yazidis in Iraq to the Christian schoolgirls targeted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Christians worldwide have had their churches bombed and burned and themselves murdered, all because of what they believe and who they are.


Yet, with few exceptions, Obama refuses to acknowledge or even mention this fact.


On Sunday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest, who had also expressed the administration’s condemnation of the “random” attacks in Paris, issued a statement condemning the IS’s murder of 21 Egyptian “citizens.” No mention of their being Coptic Christians.


Ft. Hood was “workplace violence.”  Benghazi was a spontaneous response to an inflammatory video.  Paris was just a case of people being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  When world leaders marched in Paris to protest the latest Islamic atrocity, Barack Hussein Obama was conspicuous by his absence.


In Obama’s world, Islam is a religion of tolerance; not so much Christians, maligned as “bitter clingers.”  He took a shot at Christians when he said at an Easter Prayer Breakfast that “I have to say that, sometimes when I listen to other less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.”  Not so concerned was he by the mass beheading of Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach by the Islamic State.


The coziness among Obama, Jarrett, Abedin, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other radical Islamic terrorist groups is a historical fact and should not be obscured by a bigoted tweet.


Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.




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Nolte: Media Normalize C*nt, C*ckholster, Joy Reid, Porn Stars, Booing Rape Victims

Which one it was, I don’t remember, but when you’re talking about America’s uninteresting and predictable (in a pedantic left-wing kinda way) Sunday morning news shows, does it really matter?

What I do remember is the fear in the eyes of all concerned. Donald Trump had just won the presidency, our media were still in shock, and this panel of Sunday geniuses were fumbling about trying to prove a nationwide election did not just expose them as the mindless herd of provincial know-nothings they really are.

Oh, and I also remember that about half of the guys on this particular panel were later fired over decades of sexual misconduct (which actually doesn’t help at all to narrow down which Sunday show it was).

Anyway,  one of these panelists (I think the one who masturbated in front of an intern) said to another panelist (I think the one who sent dick pics to an intern while forcing her to watch him take a shower) came up with a word that made this entire panel of emotionally shattered Thought Leaders feel a little better about themselves and their place in the world — and that word was NORMS.

“During the upcoming Trump-era, we in the media have a responsibility to protect the cherished norms Trump is sure to threaten,” one of them managed to squeak out about five months before he was fired for flashing an intern with dick pics of him masturbating in front of an intern watching him take a shower.

“We must protect the norms,” one of the brittle feminist panelists added about six months before we learned she knew all about how the other panelists sexually terrorized interns but said nothing so she could be on a Sunday show.

“Oh, yes, yes… the norms,” One-Of-The-Left-Wing-White-Guys-Who-Knows-Nothing-About-Real-Life-But-Still-Gets-To-Host-A-Sunday-Show, replied, as the confused fear in his eyes sharpened into something closer to zealotry and purpose.

Then, all around the studio table, the full panel of Sunday Morons began to murmur about “norms” until it sounded like Mia Farrow’s neighbors praying to Satan in Rosemary’s Baby. “Norms. Norms. Yes, norms. NORMS! We must protect the norms. PROTECT! We are the keeper of the norms. KEEP! Keep the norms. KEEEEP THEMMMM!”

My reaction watching this was exactly what it has been towards the establishment media since Trump’s victory, since the day I was liberated from 25-years of worrying about the media’s impact on public opinion: “Assholes.”

Imagine the narcissistic arrogance these pompous simpletons must be infected with in order to bestow upon their self-righteous selves the title of America’s Norm Sheriff. I mean, here you are, a member of the establishment media — one of the most distrusted and loathed institutions in the world; no one elected you to do anything, much less to abuse your power to protect our social and democratic norms; no one even elected you through public acclaim (the highest rated Sunday show in the country cannot attract two percent of the population); and yet, here was this group of smug, unelected, know-nothings with approval ratings just above that of “child molester” organizing against a man who had just won the presidency with some 65 million votes.

“Good luck with that, children,” I said to the Sunday Coven, before flipping channels until I found one of those Avengers episodes broadcast in color where Emma Peel’s wearing leather to remind you that life is worth living as long as there is TV.

Flash-forward 18 months and look at the media’s precious norms now…

In summation: “cunt,” “cockholster,” Joy Reid, booing rape victims, Stormy Daniels, and that “divine spark” in MS-13, whose motto is “Rape, Kill, and Control.” (But in their defense, I’m told MS-13 only went with that after learning Ford had already copyrighted, “Quality is job one.”)

The very same media that just 18 months before was in a barely-controlled panic over what Trump might do to norms, now demand we be horrified over the idea of describing MS-13 as “animals,” but does not believe there should be any professional consequences for using the words “cunt” and “cockholster” on national television.

And these were not jokes. I’ll defend a joke to the end of the earth. This was just name-calling; this was two angry leftists, Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert, screaming sexist and homophobic obscenities at Ivanka “The Feckless Cunt” Trump and Donald “The Cockholster” Trump.

Oh, sure, our media went through the motions of throwing a tut-tut at their ideological colleagues Colbert and Bee, but drew the line at the only true norm-enforcer known as a “professional consequence,” even as this very same media destroyed Roseanne Barr, Justine Sacco, Curt Schilling, and  Elizabeth Lauten.

Welcome to the media’s new norm, y’all — you can now call the president’s daughter a “feckless cunt” and the president a “cockholster” and suffer no professional consequences. Well, done media!

Speaking of “professional consequences,” how about that Joy Reid? America’s Norm Sheriffs would like to announce another new norm: You can now lie to the whole world to cover up your bigoted, anti-Semitic, conspiracy theory-spreading backside; you can even lie to the FBI; and you still get to remain a star at NBC News, an anchor at MSNBC.  

Speaking of backsides, how about that Stormy Daniels? America’s Norm Sheriffs would like to announce another new norm: Since our Russian collusion and obstruction hoax has collapsed, we’re gonna go with the porn star and her hack lawyer.

Speaking of hacks, how about that Jake Tapper, whose ego and self-regard cannot be sated with a trivial title like Norm Sheriff, and so he has anointed himself America’s Decency Czar. And now America’s Decency Czar would like to announce a new standard of decency: In the noble crusade of gun-grabbing, it is totally cool to allow your audience to boo a rape victim. Harrumph. Harrumph.

While the media freak out over Trump’s norm-busting tweets and tariffs, they are gleefully annihilating every norm with respect to journalistic standards of truth, of moral decency, of professional standards and ethics, of not making a political hero out of those who do anal for money, of not filing false reports with the FBI, of not  — my God — booing rape victims.

 

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Nolte: 9 Indefensible Things NBC’s Lying Bigot Joy Reid Said

Joy Reid is a big marquee star for NBC News, a weekend anchor at MSNBC. She is also a bigoted homophobe and proven liar. Just how broken is the establishment media as a whole–and NBC News in particular? So broken that a serial-lying, gay-baiting, conspiracy theorist who believes the Jews should be cleansed from the Middle East still has a job at NBC News, a national news outlet.

I’m not calling on Reid to be fired. But it is certainly valid to point to Reid’s ongoing employment as a sign of just how dysfunctional and amoral our media have become due to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The media continue to crybaby over Trump’s killing “norms” as they themselves annihilate every journalistic standard of truth, credibility, and human decency.

So here are the nine grotesque things Joy Reid, the big NBC News star, has said or done:

  1. I WAS HACKED!

The worst thing Joy Reid has done, the most unforgivable act committed by this hateful woman, did not occur ten years ago. Nope, it happened just a couple of months ago when Reid lied to the world about being the victim of a hacker. According to Reid, a hacker went into her now-defunct blog and seeded it with the worst kind of homophobia as a means to frame her.

Reid’s team and NBC News even went so far as to tell us the FBI was involved, even though lying to the FBI is a crime, as is filing a false report.

Reid sent the entire media on a wild goose chase looking for a hacker she invented to cover up her homophobic past, and is STILL an anchor at an establishment media outlet.

  1. Stop Being Nice to the Joooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

In a post on the Reid Report dated July 16, 2006, Reid admonished CNN’s Wolf Blitzer for being too kind to Jews. Here is the excerpt:

Blitzer’s behavior is not only anti-journalistic, it’s irresponsible and transparantly (sic) ideological. If he wants to do an editorial program promoting the interests of a foreign government (Israel,) he should petition his bosses at the network to do just that. Otherwise, if he is purporting to do “news,” he should stick to the news, and put aside his AIPAC flak jacket. (Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha didn’t fare much better with MSNBC’s resident twitterbug Norah “Giggles” O’Donnell, who even managed to characterize the U.S. veto of a U.N. resultuion (sic) condemning Israel’s use of excessive force in Gaza as a repudiation of criticism of Israel by the Security Council…)

Shame on CNN for allowing this spectacle to go on.

  1. You Know, That Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Has a Point About the Jooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzz

To sum up the below, Ahmadinejad is calling for Jews to be ethnically cleansed from Israel and the Middle East, to be sent back to Germany and Austria (preferably in boxcars?), and Reid thinks that’s a pretty sweet idea:

Iran’s pres strikes again

Says “move Israel to Europe”

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“You believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price? You oppressed them, so give a part of Europe to the Zionist regime so they can establish any government they want. We would support it. So, Germany and Austria, come and give one, two or any number of your provinces to the Zionist regime so they can create a country there… and the problem will be solved at its root.”

I hate to admit that Mr. Amadinejad has a point.

  1. How Great Would It Be if Ann Coulter Killed Herself? Pretty Gosh-Darned Great

I’m old enough to remember when the media opposed eliminationist rhetoric.

  1. The Straight /11 Truther Truth from Joy “The McTruther” Reid

Hey, CNN hired 9/11 Truther Van Jones.

Welcome to the media’s New Normal.

  1. Gays Are Icky!

Reid said a hacker wrote this.

She lied:

Keeping it real … most straight men feel exactly the same way, and would have the exact same reaction to the idea of stripping naked in a sweaty locker room in close quarters with a gay teammate. Most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing… Most straight people had a hard time being convinced to watch “Broke Back Mountain.” (I admit that I couldn’t go see the movie either, despite my sister’s ringing endorsement, because I didn’t want to watch the two male characters having sex.)

Does that make me homophobic? Probably. And I’m not exactly proud of it. But part of the intrinsic nature of “Straightness” is that the idea of homosexual sex is … well … gross … even if you think that gay people are perfectly lovely individuals. For the record I’m sure gay people think straight sex is gross, too, it’s the that the nature of political correctness is that gay people are allowed to say straight sex is gross but the reverse is considered to be patently homophobic.

  1. I’m Gunna Go Ahead and Out a Straight Man Who’s Married to a Woman as Gay

Hoping to destroy then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s political career, Reid repeatedly and falsely outed him as a homosexual, even after he married a woman.

Before they came out as gay, Reid also outed singer Clay Aiken and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, whom she mocked as “the gayest thing on TV” because she had it “on good authority that Cooper is totally gay.”

  1. Don’t Vote for Charlie Crist. He’s GAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY
  • “Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie. Stop pretending, brother It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies.”
  • “When a gay politician gets married, it usually indicates that he is highly ambitious, and desires to put himself in a position to move up the power ladder.”
  • “I can just see poor Charlie on the honeymoon, ogling the male waiters and thinking to himself, ‘god, do I actually have to see her naked…?’”
  • “Miss Charlie … would immediately start planning the state funeral down to the last flamingo-shaped napkin and get his decorator to the West Wing faster than you can say ‘George Takei!’”
  1. Homosexuals Sure Do Love to Molest the Children

Here is Reid trafficking in the worst kind of stereotypes:

And then there are the concerns that adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubescent types, bringing them ‘into the lifestyle’ in a way that many people consider to be immoral… Ditto with gay rights groups that seek to organize very young, impressionable teens who may have an inclination that they are gay.

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It should be noted that Reid wrote numbers 2-9 on her now-defunct blog a decade or so ago. Nonetheless, during this time, she was not some young, immature college student enjoying the freedom of self-publishing and looking to build an audience through provocation; Reid was in her mid-to-late thirties, and during the latter part of this time, she co-hosted a morning radio show and wrote a political column for the Miami Herald.

But the lying — Reid and NBC News spreading the phony conspiracy theory that she had been hacked and even getting the FBI involved — that happened just a couple of months ago.

Nevertheless, Reid fits right in at a NBC that also employs homophobe Alec Baldwin, rape-denier Andrea Mitchell, abuse-enabler Mika Brzezinski, serial liar Brian Williams, accused stalker/groper Mike Tirico, and accused harassers Chris Matthews and Tom Brokaw.

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Hate-Promoting SPLC Smears Bolton’s Chief of Staff, Media Run with It

The controversial leftwing hate group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is spewing out misinformation about Fred Fleitz, National Security Adviser John Bolton’s newly named executive secretary and chief of staff of the National Security Council.

“We’re deeply alarmed by this trend of people associated with hate groups joining the Trump administration,” a statement from SPLC said, referring to the respected Center for Security Policy (CSP) where Fleitz was senior vice president before taking a post with the Trump administration.

SPLC’s statement that CSP is “known for propagating wild conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact but do stoke a climate of fear and violence against American Muslims.”

This despite SPLC’s “hate map” that targets groups because of their religious convictions or ideology it finds unacceptable — a map that a man said inspired him to go on a shooting spree at the Christian Family Research Center (FRC) in Washington, DC.

On Aug. 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins, 29, entered FRC brandishing a gun and was thwarted by a security guard who suffered a gunshot wound but was able to subdue the shooter, preventing what could have been mass murder.

Corkins told the FBI he targeted FRC after finding it listed as an “anti-gay” group on SPLC’s website.

Aside from FRC other D.C. based “hate groups” targeted on SPLC’s “hate map” include Religious Freedom Coalition, Clarion Project, Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), and the Center for Immigration Studies.

The leftwing media has jumped on the misinformation campaign against Fleitz, including New York Magazine, which used the headline on Bolton’s announcement: “Bolton Installs Anti-Muslim Wingnut As NSC Chief of Staff.”

The Washington Post’s headline reads “New NSC chief of staff is from group that believes Muslims are plotting to take over U.S.”

The Post’s report uses radical leftwing groups to build a case against Fleitz:

The appointment of Fred Fleitz drew condemnation from civil rights groups this week. The Anti-Defamation League criticized what it described as “his senior leadership role with the Center for Security Policy, an Islamophobic, conspiracy-promoting organization.”

Another organization, Muslim Advocates, wrote in a statement responding to Fleitz’s appointment Tuesday, “The White House continues to be the nation’s central organizing body for white supremacists.”

The Post labeled Fleitz as “one of an assembly of aides and advisers that civil rights groups have accused of bigotry and religious bias since Trump took office.”

Talking Point Memo reported:

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the group was founded Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan official, in 1988 and has morphed from a ‘hawkish think tank” to a “conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States.’

But Fleitz has many supporters who attest his long public service record and security expertise.

 

 

Fleitz was Bolton’s chief of staff when he was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the George W. Bush administration.

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‘Gun Control’ in Action: Driver Riddled with Bullets in ‘Machine Gun’ Attack in Khan’s London

A man is in critical condition in hospital after being riddled with bullets in Sadiq Khan’s London, just 20 minutes after another man was stabbed in the chest in an unrelated attack.

The 24-year-old shooting victim was blasted in his car in what has been described as a “machine gun” attack, with witnesses recalling up to 17 shots fired in Brent in north-west London at about 8.34 p.m, The Sun reports.

“From what I can tell, he was sitting in his car when he got into an argument with someone who then shot at him with a machine gun (at least) 11 times,” said one witness. “The police… told everyone to stay indoors.”

“Heard shots all the way from north side Stonebridge as they were fired I counted about 17 shots,” tweeted another.

“Absolute madness!!! Enough is enough!!!’”

It should be noted that the actual firearm type has not been confirmed, and no arrests have been made in connection with either the shooting or the earlier stabbing.

The news comes right after a young man stabbed to death on the capital’s ‘millionaire row’ became London’s 69th suspected murder victim in 2018, with top surgeons predicting a “summer of carnage” as attacks using acid, machetes, knives, and firearms surge under the mayoralty of Labour’s Sadiq Khan.

Establishment commentators have often appeared to suggest that gun crime ceased to be an issue in Britain after the introduction of draconian gun controls which followed the Dunblane school shooting, with no further school shootings being carried out since then.

However, the Dunblane shooting was the first massacre of its kind in British history, and quite unlike the typical U.S. school shooting. Moreover, while there have been no further school shootings involving handguns since the near-total handgun ban, Countryside Alliance research indicates that general handgun crime spiked by 40 per cent in the two years following its introduction.

This process appears to have accelerated in recent years, with gun crime for all types of firearms in London increasing by 42 per cent between 2016 and 2017.

Law-abiding citizens may not carry firearms, pepper spray, or articles of any kind for self-defence anywhere in the United Kingdom except Northern Ireland — where serving and former members of the police and Armed Forces may apply for a personal protection weapon — and self-defence is not considered a valid reason for keeping a firearm at home.

This contrasts sharply with the United States, where law-abiding citizens, as well as criminals, may carry guns, with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research indicating that millions of crimes are thwarted by defensive gun uses every year.

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DELICIOUS: Obama’s Chicago Presidential Center Fought By Progressives And Environmentalists

In an ironic turn of events, the Presidential Center devoted to Barack Obama, who fancied himself as a man who cared about revitalizing inner-city neighborhoods and a man who cared deeply about the environment, has been hit with a lawsuit from progressives and environmentalists who don’t want what looks like a giant 235-foot monstrosity wrecking Chicago’s famous Jackson Park, the site of the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair.

As Dennis Byrne writes in The Weekly Standard, the $375 million Obama Presidential Center is running into opposition from “white Chicago lakefront progressives, University of Chicago professors, environmentalists, African-American activists, and a community organization of the kind that once employed Obama as an organizer.”

A group called Protect Our Parks filed a lawsuit on May 14 to obtain a court order preventing local government agencies from building the Obama center. The lawsuit seeks to bar the city from ceding control of the center’s site to the Obama Foundation. In order for the center to be built, the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago would have to transfer public parkland to the Obama Foundation, which the lawsuit claims would constitute the “illegal taking of public park land.” The suit adds that the sale would be “a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab.” The suit alleges:

The City and Park District clearly realize and fully understand that this established law precludes the Park District from arbitrarily transferring possession, use and control of this dedicated “open, clear and free” public parkland in Jackson Park to a private nongovernmental … entity’s self-determined use. Defendants have chosen to deal with it in a classic Chicago political way, known as a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab, one that will endure for centuries to come, regardless of future changing public park needs and increasingly consequential environmental conditions.

As Byrne notes, “the plans for the Obama Presidential Center also appear to violate the city’s Lakefront Protection Ordinance, which has often been invoked to protect the 19-mile-long string of Chicago lakefront parks from exactly the kind of intrusion the Obama Foundation is proposing.”

This is not the first time preservationists have fought construction in the area; in 2016, Friends of the Parks filed a federal lawsuit that wound up blocking a proposal to put the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art along the lakefront south of Soldier Field.

On January 8, over 120 University of Chicago professors, faculty, and staff published a letter that listed over 20 community, labor, environmental, open space, and other groups whose objections to the project “taken together . . . form an intelligible whole.” The objections included the $175 million cost of related infrastructure, the surrender of public land to a private entity, and the proposed use of 21 acres guarded by the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally, a major thoroughfare would have to be constructed linking downtown with the South Side.

The letter stated that the location for the center “privileges cars and those who can afford them. Parking is expensive and though public land is being given away all the profits from the parking lot will go to the Obama Foundation. None of the funds go back to the city to improve train lines and public transportation infrastructure.”

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NYT: We Ran Out Of Words To Describe How Good The Jobs Numbers Are

Every now and again, they let a little truth out.

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The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for “good” in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.

So, for example, “splendid” and “excellent” fit the bill. Those are the kinds of terms that are appropriate when the United States economy adds 223,000 jobs in a month, despite being nine years into an expansion, and when the unemployment rate falls to 3.8 percent, a new 18-year low.

“Salubrious,” “salutary” and “healthy” work as words to describe the 0.3 percent rise in average hourly earnings, which are up 2.7 percent over the last year — a nice improvement but also not the kind of sharp increase that might lead the Federal Reserve to rethink its cautious path of interest rate increases.

And a broader definition of unemployment, which includes people who have given up looking for a job out of frustration, fell to 7.6 percent. The jobless rate for African-Americans fell to 5.9 percent, the lowest on record, which we would count as “great.”

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