Lara Logan worked at CBS for 16 years. Here she discusses the media bias from the left and the negative media coverage on President Trump.
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Bet that Navy Seal had a hard time looking at her eyes.
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Sunday, February 24, 2019
Did they run out of Confederates?
Leftists want to rename John Wayne Airport because he was a racist...or something
An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times is calling for John Wayne's name to be removed from the airport in Orange County because of The Duke's racist, homophobic, and anti-Indian beliefs.
Most people familiar with the life story of John Wayne are aware that the late movie star was a dyed-in-the-wool right-winger — after all, he was still making a movie glorifying America's conduct of the Vietnam War ("The Green Berets," 1968) well after the country had begun to get sick of the conflict.
But the resurrection of a 1971 interview Wayne gave to Playboy magazine has underscored the sheer crudeness of the actor's feelings about gay people, black people, Native Americans, young people and liberals.
A writer who spends 3,000 words trashing conservatives is concerned how Wayne viewed liberals? Sheesh.
This doesn't necessarily mean that it's impossible or immoral to enjoy Westerns and war movies starring John Wayne; that's a personal choice. But it certainly undermines any justification for his name and image to adorn a civic facility.
Is it really "immoral" to enjoy any movie? Maybe watching Triumph of the Will is questionable, but as a piece of propaganda, it is unparalleled. It is not moral or immoral to enjoy — or hate — watching any movie. The writer is instructing us the "proper" way to think — as he does throughout his piece.
Certainly, Wayne's beliefs were based on rancid stereotypes and urban myths that most people had abandoned by the time the interview in Playboy appeared in 1971.
A few examples:
PLAYBOY: What kind of films do you consider perverted?
WAYNE: Oh, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy — that kind of thing. Wouldn't you say that the wonderful love of those two men in Midnight Cowboy, a story about two fags, qualifies?
Wayne's views on African-Americans were particularly obnoxious:
WAYNE: With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.
The context in which the term "white supremacy" is used in 1971 differs from today. But it's still an odious way to think.
Wayne's views on Native Americans need to be included in their entirety:
PLAYBOY: How do you feel about the government grant for a university and cultural center that these Indians [then encamped on Alcatraz Island] have demanded as "reparations"?WAYNE: What happened between their forefathers and our forefathers is so far back — right, wrong or indifferent — that I don't see why we owe them anything. I don't know why the government should give them something that it wouldn't give me.PLAYBOY: Do you think they've had the same advantages and opportunities that you've had?WAYNE: I'm not gonna give you one of those I-was-a-poor-boy-and-I-pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps stories, but I've gone without a meal or two in my life, and I still don't expect the government to turn over any of its territory to me. Hard times aren't something I can blame my fellow citizens for. Years ago, I didn't have all the opportunities, either. But you can't whine and bellyache 'cause somebody else got a good break and you didn't, like these Indians are. We'll all be on a reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.
To say that Wayne's beliefs were a product of the times in which he lived would not be accurate. His views on blacks were antebellum. Considering how much money he made off Native Americans, he had surprisingly little empathy for them. And even in 1971, people knew enough not to refer to gay people as "fags."So that's it? We are to judge John Wayne based on his view of race and sexual orientation? Should we judge Martin Luther King solely on his utter failure to be faithful to his wife? The left wouldn't like that at all. Or perhaps we should judge leftist icons like Ted Kennedy on treatment of women, including leaving a young girl to die in a submerged car?John Wayne believed in stereotypes. He was wrong to do so. But how can you judge anyone without looking at the totality of his life? It's easy for the left to take titans like Washington and Jefferson and trash them because they were slave-owners. The fact that they created the freest, most prosperous nation on Earth is erased from history. It doesn't mean their slave-owning is excused. It means that sin is placed on the scales of history and weighed against all other accomplishments — and failures — of their lives. To do any less does a massive disservice to history and the memory of notable historical figures.For most of his professional life, John Wayne became the face of America — strong, independent, incorruptible, and willing to die to do what was right. He treated women with respect, defending their honor and their children. And he was willing to face evil, though he be outnumbered and outgunned, usually triumphing in the end. His personae defined American for tens of millions of people around the world for decades.Oh, yes...and he loved America.That's what seems to be the bug up the arse of this writer. John Wayne was an unabashed patriot. His love of country was uncomplicated. That's why, toward the end of his life, he was vilified and hated by leftists around the world — not for who he was, but for whom he played on screen. They knew that the masses loved The Duke, and to advance their political agenda, they needed to tear him down, discredit him, and discredit what he stood for.That they succeeded at all is a shame. America could do a lot worse than have icons like John Wayne represent us to the rest of the world.
From one sodomite to another...
I am at a loss for words... what exactly are you saying here @donlemon?Are you saying that if Jussie would have played it differently and had better advisors, he could have gotten away with a hate crime hoax? Am I hearing this right?
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) February 21, 2019
This could turn out to be quite interesting
AOC insists she DOES live in the Bronx after accusations that neighbors have never met her and mail piles up at her apartment for months
She may be America’s most famous freshman congresswoman, but in New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a virtual ghost.
She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state’s three other freshman members.
And it’s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise — even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district.
Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father’s Bronx condo on her voter registration since 2012, and even posed in the one-bedroom Bronx flat for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in a Vogue magazine profile after her stunning November election. But The Post could find little indication she continues to live there.
The Post e-mailed the Ocasio-Cortez’ spokesman, Corbin Trent, four times with specific questions — they were all ignored. On Saturday, The Post reached Corbin by phone.
“We will not be commenting,” he said. Among the queries he refused to answer: Where does the congresswoman live?
On Saturday night, a staffer promised a Post reporter that Ocasio-Cortez would talk to him after a speaking event in Corona.
During the event, two staffers were seen reading an early edition of this story on their phones.
“Come downstairs, I have to take a picture quick,” the congresswoman then told the reporter after the event, instructing him to wait for her. Twenty minutes later, she ducked out a back door, jumped into a chauffeured SUV, and zoomed off.
The Post was unable to confirm that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still lives in the Parkchester building listed on her voter registration.
Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays — yet she was not seen coming or going from her Parkchester pad either day.
Her apartment’s next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez. Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the congresswoman’s apartment for the last 40 years, said he’d never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.
“I would have remembered,” said the neighbor when shown a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez.
Workers at Jerry’s Pizzeria, less than a block from her building, and at the local grocery store said she had never patronized their businesses — and a server at a nearby taqueria said the congresswoman had only come in to be filmed by news crews.
A postal worker who delivers mail to the building said that in the last 10 years he has only seen Ocasio-Cortez intermittently and that several months’ worth of mail regularly accumulates in the mailbox before anyone bothers to collect it. The worker said that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were the only ones getting mail at the address.
“Just because their names are on the box doesn’t mean they live there,” he said.
And in 2017, when Ocasio-Cortez first filed paperwork to become a congressional candidate, she didn’t even know what district she lived in,
mistakenly declaring plans to run for neighboring District 15 before correcting the error days later.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Ocasio-Cortez has rented a pad in a luxe building in the chic Navy Yard neighborhood, where studios start at $1,840 a month, according to the Washington Examiner.
Her new digs feature gold-plated amenities like a rooftop infinity pool, a cycling studio with a dozen pricey Pelotons, men’s and women’s saunas, and a golf simulation lounge — but no affordable units for low-income residents, in spite of a local law that requires them, the news site reported.
In the eight months since Ocasio-Cortez’s dramatic defeat of the long-serving Crowley in June’s Democratic primary — a victory that all but guaranteed a general election win in the heavily Democratic District 14 — the congresswoman has failed to open a local office.
Ocasio-Cortez has made four trips to the city since she was inducted to Congress on Jan. 3, according to a Post review of published reports and social media. Those excursions featured five public events in her district — and three high-profile Manhattan appearances, including a Jan. 21 guest slot on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
A district office “makes government immediately responsible and accountable to the citizens,” said Jadan Horyn of Reclaim New York, a government watchdog group.
“Constituents need to know their representatives are working for them, and not for national prominence.
The space slated for Ocasio-Cortez’s constituent office is in a new building in Jackson Heights.
Suites in the building at 74-09 37th Avenue rent for about $40 per square foot. Ocasio-Cortez’s office, on the third floor, is just under 5,000 square feet, which would bring the annual undiscounted rental price to $200,000 or nearly $17,000 a month.
In January, Ocasio-Cortez sought to blame the delay on a stubborn landlord at a different building where her predecessor Crowley maintained one of his two district offices.
“Although we attempted to take over our predecessor’s lease, the landlord wanted to almost double rent” from $7,800 to $15,000 per month, she tweeted Jan. 22 — without specifying which of Crowley’s spaces she had hoped to inherit.
“That spike would have meant less caseworkers for our community,” she posted. “Instead, we’re making a new space with a family business!”
But Ocasio-Cortez neglected to mention that her rent would end up likely topping the cost of Crowley’s former digs.
When The Post visited last week, the congresswoman’s office was still under construction, with workers building interior walls and installing drywall. A carpenter there said the work would probably take several more weeks to complete. A staffer said at a community board meeting that it would open March 4.
It’s unknown if taxpayers or the landlord is paying for the extensive renovations.
A spokesman for Cow Bay Contracting, the Nassau County construction company working on the office space, refused comment. Ocasio-Cortez’s office refused to answer the question.
In the absence of a district office, and with no way to contact the rookie congresswoman, voters have resorted to desperate measures.
“Constituents come here and leave notes on the door,” said the postal worker at her Parkchester apartment building last weekend. “But it’s a waste of time.”
Saturday, February 23, 2019
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