Time to apply the Obama standard to George Santos
As an aspiring senator in 2004, the greatest bamboozler of them all punched his ticket into the club, telling America in his
breakthrough speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, “My parents shared not only an improbable love. They shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.” Not a word of this was true.
At the 2008 Democratic convention, Sen. Barack Obama once again mined the apocryphal family saga. “Four years ago,” he told his audience, “I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.”
Obama knew he was living a lie, but he had no choice other than to persist. He had built a highly successful campaign around what biographer David Remnick called his “signature appeal: the use of the details of his own life as a reflection of a kind of multicultural ideal.” The details, however, were manufactured.
What Would MLK Think of the Imprisonment of Thomas Lane?
The reader cannot be faulted for asking, “Who is Thomas Lane?” For the record, Lane, who is white, is the most anonymous of the four lambs sacrificed to appease the bloodlust of the mobs incited by a video snippet of George Floyd’s last minutes on earth.
On a day like today, it would seem a fitting time to heed the words of another man who was unfairly imprisoned. In his justly famed letter from the Birmingham jail, it was Martin Luther King, Jr. who reminded us, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” In recent memory, I would argue, no man has suffered more flagrant injustice than Thomas Lane.
The former Minneapolis police officer was already serving a 2-1/2-year sentence on federal charges for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights, when he was sentenced in September to three years on state charges for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. In their great mercy, Judge Peter Cahill and the prosecutors will allow him to serve that penalty at the same time as his federal sentence.
In watching Sean Hibbeler and Maryam Henein’s powerful new documentary about the death of George Floyd, The Real Timeline, I found myself drawn to Lane’s case even above that of his three colleagues, none of whom belongs in prison.
Bold new documentary exposes truth of George Floyd’s undoing
Maryam Henein is one brave woman. Henein has written, directed, narrated and, with Sean Hibbeler, produced an eye-opening new documentary about the death of George Floyd titled, “The Real Timeline.”
As all the world knows, the 46-year-old Floyd died in police custody on May 25, 2020. A 17-year-old bystander captured a limited perspective on the last few minutes of Floyd’s life, time enough to cause a $2 billion upheaval that took a dozen lives, fueled a hundreds scams and forced a thousand dishonest “conversations” about race.
“Half truths are dangerous enough to topple a nation,” says Henein, and right she is. By piecing together the available video imagery, especially the police body cams, Henein gets much closer to the truth than did the major media or the Minnesota courts, neither of which bothered to try.
’60 Minutes’ showcases world’s worst futurist
Paul Ehrlich and fellow futurists toast coming apocalypse
On the positive side, Stanford University professor emeritus Paul Ehrlich looks good for 90. That is one of the advantages, I suppose, of living in a well-subsidized, stress-free bubble where catastrophic errors are quickly forgiven and forgotten.
Ehrlich was one of the doomsday celebrities Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” interviewed to remind us that we are in the midst of an alleged extinction crisis as a result of which, “Humanity is not sustainable.”
No, what is not sustainable is the media-environmental complex. If fake media and fake science continue their perverse collaboration, we could all be living in caves by – what’s a good date for doomsday? – yea, May 29, 2032, Ehrlich’s 100th birthday.
Jewish women wage war on the woke
However defined, there seems to be a pandemic of chutzpah in play among solid right or right-tilting Jewish females. I thought
Naomi Wolf, one of the red-pilled warriors against the woke.
of my friend Shoula when I watched Tucker Carlson’s interview with Chaya Raichik, the heretofore anonymous founder of the popular and influential site, “The Libs of TikTok.”An orthodox Jew from Los Angeles, Raichik fought off the boredom of the COVID lockdown by gathering the narcissistic musings of various teachers and doctors boasting on TikTok of their efforts to subvert the gender identity of their students or patients.
Raichik simply presented these musings with little or no editorial on her own site. Bounced from Twitter and finally reinstated, The Libs of TikTok now has 1.7 million followers on Twitter alone. What makes Raichik’s story so impressive is that, like Shoula, she conceived the idea and set up the site without any institutional support.
The Euro Media Welcomed Benedict XVI the Way Ours Did Trump
Interviewing then Cardinal Ratzinger, Rome, 1998.
I was in the cathedral no more than 30 seconds when the image on the screen switched from a French talking head to the balcony of the Vatican. There it was announced that a new Pope had been selected, and it was German Cardinal Josef Ratzinger. Upon hearing the news, the faithful stood as one and cheered, and I shouted out impulsively, “I know that guy!”
In fact, in 1998 I had interviewed Cardinal Ratzinger for a documentary we had done on the revival of the traditional movement within the Catholic Church, a revival that Cardinal Ratzinger had encouraged and that inspired me to return to Catholicism. Not everyone was pleased with the choice. An American woman standing next to me blurted out, “This is a terrible day for women!” As I learned, the media were not too pleased either.
