Month: September 2019

Aging sitcom actress Debra Messing deleted a racist tweet promoting the idea that black Trump voters are “mentally ill.”

Over the weekend, the Will and Grace star responded with a big “THANK YOU” to a church sign in Alabama that reads, “A black vote or Trump is mental illness.” The other side of the sign reads, “A white vote for Trump is pure racism.”

Her openly racist tweet has now been deleted.

This racist tweet came just a few hours after Messing and her Will and Grace co-star, Eric McCormack, openly called for a blacklist of Trump supporters who work in Hollywood.

After more than a decade of the establishment entertainment media ignoring and dismissing Hollywood’s blacklisting of conservatives, this was newsworthy, the first time the blacklist was openly publicized.

The 51-year-old, whose basement-rated sitcom was just canceled, undoubtedly deleted the tweet after the blowback exposed her naked racism.

A white celebrity on the left @DebraMessing is basically telling black people how to think. Seems like a form of intellectual slavery to me. Liberal policies have hurt black communities around the country and these same people are silent. #RealTalk pic.twitter.com/rRtIOyPcHb

— Jeffery A Dove Jr. (@JefferyADoveJr) September 2, 2019

Nothing like rich Hollywood elites showing off their smug liberal privilege, right?

Glad she got slammed for this 👊🏿

  https://t.co/G8AWT7uJkE

— Wayne Dupree 🎙🎥 (@WayneDupreeShow) September 2, 2019

Thank you @DebraMessing for exemplifying the racism of the left. https://t.co/YqZi3WpMFm

— Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) September 1, 2019

If her open bigotry demanding a list of Hollywood Republicans yesterday wasn’t bad enough, now Debra Messing is endorsing the racist position that all black Trump voters are mentally ill and all white Trump voters are racist. Vile. pic.twitter.com/Kfb4FHv84i

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 1, 2019

Tolerant: willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. I’d say that’s on full display by Will & Grace star @DebraMessing as she applauds a sign calling Black Trump voters mentally ill https://t.co/OIbp0RJxOX

— Jon Najarian (@jonnajarian) September 1, 2019

Unfortunately, Messing’s racist beliefs are the historical norm in the Democrat Party she calls home.

Anyone with the intellectual courage to look back at the appalling history of the Democrat Party will discover that this is a Party that has spent the last 400 years oppressing black Americans for financial and political purposes. Democrats fought against emancipation during the Civil War, created the Ku Klux Klan afterwards, and then summoned Jim Crow and segregation in the South. By any objective standard, what you have is a Party that has literally spent centuries brutalizing black Americans who threaten their political power, and Messing fits right into this dynamic.

All Debra Messing is doing is what Democrats have been doing since the beginning, only now the plantation is an intellectual one, only now the tactics to against intellectual runaways are dehumanizing language and online bullying.

Imagine believing a black person is mentally ill for supporting a president who has lowered the black unemployment rate to its lowest level in history, who signed criminal justice reform into law, who is taking flaming arrows in the back fighting against an invasion of illegal aliens whose cheap labor disproportionately undermines crucial starter jobs needed in black communities, who backs school choice, and who is at long last a Republican who actually asks for and seeks their vote.

But in order to keep black people “in line,” in order to “control the black mind,” something Democrats have been desperate to do forever, all Debra Messing did was continue a sorry Democrat tradition of “othering,” of public intimidation and harassment.

Between the blacklisting and this, Messing is giving all of us an honest and clear look at who Democrats truly are and why they can never be allowed to grab hold of the levers of power over our lives, most especially black lives.

And let’s not forget that the Democrat’s current frontrunner, Joe Biden, spent the summer praising racial segregationists.

Racial oppression is, sadly, a big part of the Democrat Party’s DNA.

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There’s nothing like the power of dishonest journalism, and don’t think the mass media doesn’t know it.

One of the people Ben Rhodes probably meant when he spoke of 27 year-olds “who know nothing,” named Ben Penn over at Bloomberg, has come up with a dishonest story claiming to prove that a young Trump official named Leif Olson at the U.S. Department of Labor is an anti-Semite. His big scoop (his word, not mine) concerned some doxx-style digging of his on (or maybe an activist tip against), the low-level staffer, followed by an irony-challenged claim that a Facebook post the young man made was his presented evidence of anti-Semitism. It wasn’t true – it actually was the opposite of true – and wiser heads pointed it out. But Olson nevertheless, resigned.

Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner wrote a column exposing just how disgusting the whole story was, noting:

In reality, the Facebook post in question was the opposite of anti-Semitic. It was a clearly sarcastic post from 2016 about Paul Ryan crushing alt-right challenger Paul Nehlen. If the over-the-top language isn’t a tip off, it’s a fairly dead giveaway that Olson refers to Ryan having “suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.”

When one of the commenters suggests Ryan must be a “neocon” and a Jew, Olson, clearly joking, responded, “It must be true because I’ve never heard the Lamestream Media report it, and you know they protect their own.”

And yet Bloomberg used this to tear him down. Ted Frank, a lawyer and friend of Olson (who happens to be Jewish), has a Twitter thread on this disgrace. Frank also notes that “a good man who just moved his family from Texas to engage in public service has his life disrupted.” Even liberal Jonathan Chait, no fan of the Trump administration, acknowledged this was “terribly unfair.”

Has that served to chastise the Ben Rhodes’s finest?

Not in the least. He’s doubling down to defend his dishonest story because he’s happy he got his scalp:

 

SCOOP: Trump Labor Department’s new sr adviser Leif Olson posted on Facebook that Jewish media “protect their own.” In response to my request for comment on Olson’s anti-Semitic post, @USDOL says they’ve accepted his resignation. https://t.co/68kDvaFn0h

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

 

 

This is the latest in a series of mishaps under the Trump administration personnel vetting system. What makes this one remarkable is that Olson’s Facebook page was public to his non-friends. Any cursory screening of his social media accounts could’ve uncovered the anti-Semitism.

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

 

After that, Penn brought up what was really bothering him:

 

Before public service, he was an appellate atty in Texas advancing core religious conservative causes. Olson sued Houston law recognizing same-sex marriage licenses – even after Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal nationwide.

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

 

Mollie Hemingway pointed out that Penn has a pattern of this kind of obsession.

After that, Penn played the victim:

 

Nothing says ‘I’m a great journalist’ like defending your garbage journalism by spilling private texts all over your Twitter feed to pretend you’re a victim https://t.co/sXyiBTYuwv

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 3, 2019

 

Klein points out that the Trump administration was remiss in forcing the young man out and should have doubled-down in exposing just how dishonest the report was, and certainly should have exonerated Olson. He’s right on that.

Along with Klein, Mollie Hemingway wrote a piece blasting the travesty. So did Rod Dreher, calling it ‘a revolting smear‘ and noting its resemblance to communism.

To cave on this slimey effort to slime an innocent man is very un-Trumpian behavior, raising questions about the competence of the Labor department’s bosses who caved so quickly.

One Twitterer had a good idea for how to make this right – by not just reinstating the man, but at a higher level (can’t find the tweet, will link when I do).

I have an even better one:

President Trump should step in and declare the resignation null and void. The doxxing of low level staffers by a dishonest press reporting a quote out of context in a bid to weaken the Trump administration has gotten out of control.

Regardless of what happens, an incident like this is certain to sour the public just a little bit more on the press with all its double standards (Hellooo, Ilhan Omar!)– and throw fuel to the already-growing public support for the backatcha doxxing of journalists as righteous payback.

 

There’s nothing like the power of dishonest journalism, and don’t think the mass media doesn’t know it.

One of the people Ben Rhodes probably meant when he spoke of 27 year-olds “who know nothing,” named Ben Penn over at Bloomberg, has come up with a dishonest story claiming to prove that a young Trump official named Leif Olson at the U.S. Department of Labor is an anti-Semite. His big scoop (his word, not mine) concerned some doxx-style digging of his on (or maybe an activist tip against), the low-level staffer, followed by an irony-challenged claim that a Facebook post the young man made was his presented evidence of anti-Semitism. It wasn’t true – it actually was the opposite of true – and wiser heads pointed it out. But Olson nevertheless, resigned.

Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner wrote a column exposing just how disgusting the whole story was, noting:

In reality, the Facebook post in question was the opposite of anti-Semitic. It was a clearly sarcastic post from 2016 about Paul Ryan crushing alt-right challenger Paul Nehlen. If the over-the-top language isn’t a tip off, it’s a fairly dead giveaway that Olson refers to Ryan having “suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.”

When one of the commenters suggests Ryan must be a “neocon” and a Jew, Olson, clearly joking, responded, “It must be true because I’ve never heard the Lamestream Media report it, and you know they protect their own.”

And yet Bloomberg used this to tear him down. Ted Frank, a lawyer and friend of Olson (who happens to be Jewish), has a Twitter thread on this disgrace. Frank also notes that “a good man who just moved his family from Texas to engage in public service has his life disrupted.” Even liberal Jonathan Chait, no fan of the Trump administration, acknowledged this was “terribly unfair.”

Has that served to chastise the Ben Rhodes’s finest?

Not in the least. He’s doubling down to defend his dishonest story because he’s happy he got his scalp:

 

SCOOP: Trump Labor Department’s new sr adviser Leif Olson posted on Facebook that Jewish media “protect their own.” In response to my request for comment on Olson’s anti-Semitic post, @USDOL says they’ve accepted his resignation. https://t.co/68kDvaFn0h

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

 

 

This is the latest in a series of mishaps under the Trump administration personnel vetting system. What makes this one remarkable is that Olson’s Facebook page was public to his non-friends. Any cursory screening of his social media accounts could’ve uncovered the anti-Semitism.

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

 

After that, Penn brought up what was really bothering him:

 

Before public service, he was an appellate atty in Texas advancing core religious conservative causes. Olson sued Houston law recognizing same-sex marriage licenses – even after Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal nationwide.

— Ben Penn (@benjaminpenn) September 3, 2019

 

Mollie Hemingway pointed out that Penn has a pattern of this kind of obsession.

After that, Penn played the victim:

 

Nothing says ‘I’m a great journalist’ like defending your garbage journalism by spilling private texts all over your Twitter feed to pretend you’re a victim https://t.co/sXyiBTYuwv

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 3, 2019

 

Klein points out that the Trump administration was remiss in forcing the young man out and should have doubled-down in exposing just how dishonest the report was, and certainly should have exonerated Olson. He’s right on that.

Along with Klein, Mollie Hemingway wrote a piece blasting the travesty. So did Rod Dreher, calling it ‘a revolting smear‘ and noting its resemblance to communism.

To cave on this slimey effort to slime an innocent man is very un-Trumpian behavior, raising questions about the competence of the Labor department’s bosses who caved so quickly.

One Twitterer had a good idea for how to make this right – by not just reinstating the man, but at a higher level (can’t find the tweet, will link when I do).

I have an even better one:

President Trump should step in and declare the resignation null and void. The doxxing of low level staffers by a dishonest press reporting a quote out of context in a bid to weaken the Trump administration has gotten out of control.

Regardless of what happens, an incident like this is certain to sour the public just a little bit more on the press with all its double standards (Hellooo, Ilhan Omar!)– and throw fuel to the already-growing public support for the backatcha doxxing of journalists as righteous payback.

 

Pro-life Americans believe in the inherent dignity and right to life of every human, regardless of race or ethnicity, declares a hard-hitting essay in the Wall Street Journal Monday.

WSJ writer Bill McGurn cites a tendentious Washington Post op-ed alleging that “antiabortion politics” can provide “cover for white nationalist sentiments” and then goes on to show that the Post has it exactly backwards.

Heading into 2020, the Democrat party has made it clear they support “federally funded abortion on demand up to the moment of birth—and even after birth, if necessary,” McGurn notes, a procedure that overwhelmingly affects blacks and minorities.

“The pro-life proposition is simple: Human life begins at conception, and every human life is equal in dignity and worth, Mc Gurn declares, which is “incompatible with white supremacism.”

“Perhaps that’s why so many African-Americans, especially African-American women, have been leaders in the pro-life cause,” he says.

Black pro-lifers — such as Mildred Jefferson, founding member of the National Right to Life Committee and Kay James, who founded Black Americans for Life — “are treated as if they don’t exist,” he observes.

Catherine Davis of the Restoration Project “notes that the estimated 20 million black abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973 are more than the entire African-American population in 1960,” McGurn notes.

Yet it was Democrat poster-child Ruth Bader Ginsburg who said that the Supreme Court legalized abortion in part because it was concerned about “growth in populations that we do not want too many of,” McGurn observes, despite her efforts to “walk back her remark because of its plainly eugenic implications.”

“Eugenics have been used to justify abortion from the start,” McGurn writes. “It was Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, speaking of the Negro Project — a campaign to get African-Americans to have fewer children” who worried the “more rebellious members” of the black community might start thinking “we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

The high abortion rate among African-American women “is something people don’t talk about in polite society,” he observes, adding that in New York City, “more black pregnancies end in abortion than in live birth.”

The real white supremacists “understand and celebrate this” because abortion helps weed out “the least intelligent and responsible members of society,” who are disproportionately “Black, Hispanic and poor,” McGurn says, citing AltRight.com.

Pro-lifers, on the other hand, speak out on behalf of African-American babies, and not only. “They also speak for the unborn child with Down syndrome, for the child conceived in rape or incest, for the unplanned pregnancy that will undeniably crimp any career plans a mother might have if she carries the baby to term,” McGurn states.

“But no pro-lifer ever said life is easy. We say life is beautiful,” he concludes.

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Colorado College announced last week that they will be dropping the SAT and ACT tests from its list of requirements for admission, to “increase the diversity of its student body.”

According to a press release, Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, will be dropping their standardized testing requirement. Prior to the change, all students were required to submit an SAT or ACT score in order to qualify for admission. Now, students will be permitted to apply with just their high school transcript.

Colorado College claims that the decision to make SAT and ACT scores optional will “increase the diversity of its student body.”

Colorado College Assistant Professor of Psychology Kevin Holmes claims that standardized tests like the SAT and ACT are not perfect indicators of how students will perform in college. “Standardized test scores do not always reflect the academic potential of students from disadvantaged backgrounds,” Holmes said. “The new test-optional policy removes a barrier to admission for these students.”

Mark Hatch, Colorado College’s vice president for enrollment reminded critics that standardized test scores are only one factor in the holistic review process that determines whether or not a candidate is admitted. “Test scores are only one of many criteria that are considered in an applicant’s academic portfolio,” Hatch said.

The decision to make the SAT optional at Colorado College is just one of many decisions in a larger trend against challenging stressed-out students. Breitbart News reported in November 2016 on a Yale professor that decided to make a midterm exam optional for students that were upset over Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.

In April 2019, Breitbart News reported that one version of the SAT test asked students to answer questions about a column penned by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The College Board, the organization responsible for writing the SAT test, claimed that students had previously been asked to analyze writings by President Ronald Reagan, Senator Ted Cruz, and Representative Darrell Issa.

Following Facebook’s removal of like counts on Instagram photos, the company is considering removing likes from posts on its main social media platform, to protect the feelings of its userbase.

TechCrunch reports that Facebook may soon begin hiding the like counter on posts on the sites News Feed. Instagram is testing this feature in seven countries including Canada and Brazil, showing just a few names of mutual friends who have liked certain posts rather than the entire like count on a photo. The idea behind hiding engagement levels is to stop users from comparing themselves to others and competing for likes on photos.

Hidden like counts on Facebook posts were first noticed by Jane Manchun Wong who discovered Facebook prototyping the feature in its Android app.

Facebook is working to hide like counts, too!https://t.co/WnUrM12aZg

Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/TdT73wT6A0

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) September 2, 2019

Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch that it is considering the removal of like counts but the feature is not yet live for users. The company declined to share its results from the Instagram like hiding tests or the exact motive behind these tests. However, the testing of like removals on Facebook may indicate that the company liked the results of the Instagram tests.

Instagram began the like hiding test in Canada in April and added Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, and Japan to the test in July. The author of a post on Instagram can still see the like count on a post but users scrolling through the app’s newsfeed will not see the count. TechCrunch notes that the removal of like counts may actually be in an effort to benefit advertisers, stating:

Facebook has gradually been relegated to the place for sharing showy life events like marriages or new jobs while Instagram and Snapchat take over for day-to-day sharing. The problem is that people have so many fewer of those big moments, and the large Like counts they attract can make other users self-conscious of their of own lives and content. That’s all problematic for Facebook’s ad views. Facebook wants to avoid scenarios such as “Look how many Likes they get. My life is lame in comparison” or “why even share if it’s not going to get as many Likes as her post and people will think I’m unpopular”.

It appears likely that Facebook believes the removal of like counts could encourage users to share more freely and more often. Such a change could also help to hide Facebook’s decline in popularity as users switch to other social media apps, as posts on Facebook that receive fewer likes could encourage users to leave the platform.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com

President Donald Trump defended his decision to golf on the Labor Day weekend, after the Mayor of increasingly crime-stricken Brit capital London Sadiq Khan criticized the president.

“He’s clearly busy dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course,” Khan said to Politico about Trump, after the mayor travelled to Poland to attend a commemoration ceremony for the beginning of World War II on Sunday.

“The incompetent Mayor of London, Sadique Kahn [sic], was bothered that I played a very fast round of golf yesterday,” Trump wrote. “Many [politicians] exercise for hours, or travel for weeks. Me, I run through one of my courses (very inexpensive).”

Suggesting Mayor Khan had more important local issues to worry about than his sports routines, the President continued: “Khan should focus on “knife crime”, which is totally out of control in London. People are afraid to even walk the streets,” he said. “He is a terrible mayor who should stay out of our business!”

Happy Khaniversary! Significant Rise in Crime in 3 Years Under London Mayor: Report https://t.co/7jlscNnkXI

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 30, 2019

President Trump cancelled his planned trip to Poland over the weekend, citing the importance of remaining in the United States to prepare for the approaching Hurricane Dorian.

The president golfed on Saturday and Monday while providing updates to the storm on Twitter and addressing the nation from FEMA headquarters after receiving a storm briefing.

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told reporters that the president received hourly Dorian updates while on the course.

CNN also taunted the president for golfing, reminding him of his frequent criticism of President Barack Obama’s golfing habit.

Trump also said on Twitter that former President Barack Obama would fly to Hawaii to golf, while he golfed at this own courses making it less expensive.

London has seen a surge in crime, and knife crime in particular, during the tenure of Mayor Khan. Breitbart London reported in May on the third anniversary of Khan becoming Mayor when new analysis showed the speed with which the security picture was deteriorating.

After three years knife crime had risen by 52 per cent, robbery by 59 per cent, and gun crime by 30 per cent.

….”knife crime,” which is totally out of control in London. People are afraid to even walk the streets. He is a terrible mayor who should stay out of our business!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2019

Both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Democrat candidate Andrew Yang (D) agree that public officials and media should work to refrain from publicizing the names of mass shooters after such tragedies take place.

Yang took to Twitter Monday and expressed his desire to “explore not publicizing the identities or motivations of mass shooters.” He said it could “discourage those seeking notoriety” but acknowledged that it would be extremely difficult to make it a reality. His tweet followed the tragic shooting that rocked the Midland-Odessa region of Texas over the weekend, leaving seven dead and 25 more injured:

I know it would be difficult to implement and is contrary to human nature – but I think we ought to explore not publicizing the identities or motivations of mass shooters. Would discourage those seeking notoriety or to spread twisted beliefs.

— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) September 2, 2019

Cruz concurred, retweeting Yang’s thoughts alongside his own.

“I agree. Of course, law enforcement must investigate. But public officials & media (to the extent possible) should NEVER SAY THEIR NAME,” Cruz wrote.

“These murderers crave notoriety, but they deserve to be forgotten,” he added. “Instead, we should celebrate the victims, the first responders & the heroes”:

I agree. Of course, law enforcement must investigate. But public officials & media (to the extent possible) should NEVER SAY THEIR NAME. These murderers crave notoriety, but they deserve to be forgotten. Instead, we should celebrate the victims, the first responders & the heroes. https://t.co/LjSUBvKJ8D

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 3, 2019

Yang’s tweet was, perhaps, inspired by Odessa police chief Michael Gerke, who refused to name the gunman during a press conference Sunday.

“You’ll notice that I’m not naming this subject. I refuse to,” Gerke said.

“I’m not going to give him any notoriety for what he did,” he continued. “We’ll provide that information to you but not in this public space”:

Odessa police chief refuses to publicly name the suspect for Saturday’s mass shooting: “I’m not going to give him any notoriety for what he did” https://t.co/H9n7JKbYS7 pic.twitter.com/NieQouVIJ9

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 1, 2019

According to researchers at North Carolina State University, electric scooters such as Bird and Lime scooters are not as eco-friendly as previously believed. According to researchers, only 34 percent of scooter users would have otherwise used a car, while the majority would have used environment-friendly bicycles or public transportation.

The MIT Technology Review reports that while electric scooter companies such as Bird and Lime claim that their scooters are environmentally friendly, that may not be the case. Bird claims that its scooters allow users to “cruise past traffic and cut back on CO₂ emissions—one ride at a time,” while Lime claim that its scooters “reduce dependence on personal automobiles for short-distance transportation and leave future generations with a cleaner, healthier planet.”

But just because the electric scooters don’t run on fossil fuels doesn’t mean that they’re entirely environmentally friendly. A “life-cycle assessment” was conducted by researchers at NC State in which the researchers tallied up the emissions from making, shipping, charging, collecting, and disposing of these scooters. The investigation began after one researcher noticed that Lime receipt stated “your ride was carbon-free,” this is not the case.

The study states that dockless scooters produce more greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with a high volume of riders, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, and a regular bicycle. The scooters produce about half of the emissions of a regular car, according to the study, with around 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile compare to the 415 per mile produced by a regular car.

But a survey of e-scooter riders in Raleigh, North Carolina, found that only 34 percent would have used a car or ride-sharing service to get to their destination, while nearly half would instead have used a bicycle or walked. 11 percent said they would have taken the bus while seven percent stated that they would simply have not gone on the journey.

As a result, approximately two-thirds of the time scooter riders generate more greenhouse-gas emissions than the alternative. Lime said in a statement: “We welcome research into the environmental benefits of new mobility options, however this study is largely based on assumptions and incomplete data that produces high variability in the results. We believe micromobility will reduce pollution and mitigate climate change through clean and efficient modes of transportation and we’re making rapid advances in technology and operations that are helping us become a more sustainable company.” 

Read the full study here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com