‘…It is, of course, ironic that Rep. Wild would instruct our graduating class on being righteous lawyers by making a demonstrably false allegation against one of their professors [i.e., Turley]. Her attack on use of the law for “wrongful ends” is clearly based on her disagreement with my views. However, rather than simply disagree with those views in a respectful and factual way, she made false public allegations against my character and academic integrity.
‘I hope that Rep. Wild will now have the integrity to make an equally public apology for her false statements.”…’
Good luck with that…
…since character assassination is a Democratic Party forte.
Usually—if not always—it is the ONLY case they have.
I wish Prof. Turley luck in his attempt to get that liar to be “respectful and factual” and to apologize for her outrageous lies-based smear, delivered in public; at the university were Turley teaches; while he was not even able to attend.
(Wouldn’t hold my breath though if I were him…since this is how these creeps operate.)
Is Prof. Turley’s civil request for a public apology a precursor to a lawsuit for defamation if Rep. Wild fails to apologize?
The hosting service has been having intermittent problems again. I apologize for the annoyance. Until the last couple of days, they’ve been excellent for a couple of years, so I hope this is a fluke.
I’ve had trouble for the last half hour reaching your site; it also swallowed one of my comments.
It is good that US defamation law is less threatening to free expression than the law in many other countries (Kaiser Wilhelm II remarked in his memoirs that he wished HE had had laws available for prevention of ‘misinformation’ (not exactly the term he used) as powerful as those in the UK)…but there is a lot of genuine defamation going which can reasonably be classed as such under US law, I think, and more actions need to be brought in such cases. Is claiming that someone is a ‘fascist’, for example, just a protected expression of opinion, or is it an assertion of fact which can be shown to be false and damaging?
The question would be, what’s a “fascist,” and since the term is widely misused, that probably wouldn’t be a good court case. In Turley’s case, the speaker clearly misstated what his public testimony was.
Good piece from Byron York on the NBC polling data. 75% say country on wrong track.
Would be nice if Pelosi, McConnell and the rest would remember who their actual constituents are but that may be too much to ask what with all their trips to Ukraine.
Priorities.
I thought this was an Open thread
A picture of the current economic conditions seems to belay that
Mythx,
I assume you are referring to me so it’s an ‘Open Thread’ but not about what I wrote but is the topic Barry Meislin brought up OK in the ‘Open Thread’?
I’ve always thought ‘Open Thread’ meant bring up whatever you want but maybe I’ve been wrong.
We’re going to fix Ukraine right after we fix Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington DC.
This clip of the Chief Propagandist answering a question from Doocy on how raising taxes helps with inflation is a sight to behold.
No I was actually talking about the picture on the front of the page. Looks like a sewer run off area. Which is an apt metaphor for the current economy.
Apparently sarcasm does not do nearly as well on the written word
mythx,
Apologies. Honestly I didn’t even get the point of the picture at the top so I couldn’t find anything that looked economy related other than my comment right above yours.
Again, my apologies.
I couldn’t tell what the photo is: A Publicly Owned Treatment Works Permitted Discharge Point (an outfall of offal)?
Let’s not stirr up effluent? 🙂
Nature; as messily offensive, as it is exquisite in its grandeur.
Griffin,
“Good piece from Byron York on the NBC polling data. 75% say country on wrong track.
Inflation number one issue.”
Inflation is rightfully a concern. But if it’s the primary determinate for whether the country is on the wrong track, then their moral compass is badly skewed.
Geoffrey,
I agree but I don’t think that is what the poll said. The right track/ wrong track was a separate question which got a 16/75 response and then a separate question asked what people’s top issue is right now and inflation was the most popular response.
That is right now and what is hitting people the most directly but there are other bigger picture things that may be more concerning but those things don’t cause you to miss paying your bills this month.
om; Mythx:
A pier.
I thought it was obvious, but then again I’ve seen a lot of piers.
A tidal pier at that.
I thought it was a metaphor for how the evil of Trump’s Supremacists Continued Obstruction of Last Best Hope Biden’s compassionate and effective policies has led to The Racist Slaughter of Buffalo along with the Baby Formula Shortage.
A pier it appears. Don’t pile on!
I couldn’t tell.
Griffin,
No worries. My failures to communicate were obvious when I re-read it.
Everyone have a great week!
Neo-
Now that you point it out. The wooden mooring on the right now makes that obvious.
But then I am not a water person. Do not care much for boats etc.
It does not help a close friend has repeatedly tried to get me to sail with him. And has suffered every catastrophe possible, including capsizing,running aground, and a sinking (all separate instances).
His view is that he has it all out of his system now. He is better! I see it more akin to the ending of a Greek poem.
Michael Brendan Dougherty has informed the world that Jennifer Psaki is the ‘best [press secretary] in our lifetimes. Sorry’. (Dougherty was born in 1982). I’ve got the formula NR uses: hire people who are decaying intellectually as they career into middle age.
In a way it’s correct that Psaki was the best. She had an impossible task: to explain and defend Biden and others in his administration. And yet she lied with incredible snark and even some flair, never seeming to have a pang of conscience. I was actually rather in awe of her ability to do that, and I wonder whether her successor might not have as strong a stomach for the enterprise.
For what it’s worth, I assumed the photo was of a pier or dock and guessed salt water, but that was mostly a guess.
She comes from moveon and the sanders campaign she will be fine defending the indefensible
One should have a pang of guilt a twinge of regret thats not their bag
Doughterty comes up with these notions that elide the tufnel line between clever and stupid. We shouldnt reward liars and cheats about fundamental issues
One is more insane, more bizarro than the next.
Domino theory? (Or just a sub-section of Murphy’s Law?)
Meanwhile ‘Groper Joe’ is creeping up on and may eventually overtake ‘Pedo Joe’ as the most apt nickname for the creepiest groping creep of all time.
But this guy has some serious credibility issues.
He’d be more believable had he said “…in order to secure another ‘election’ ‘victory’…”
What’s more, he’s quoted as saying, “No one should make that kind of statement without providing the assumptions behind that number….”
Sheesh. Anyone who can say that about “Biden” most likely hasn’t come within a thousand miles of “him”….
Yikes! Another “reason” why “Biden” won’t be able to hold national elections at any point in the future…?
“Congress holds historic public UFO hearing, as military struggles to understand ‘mystery’ flying phenomena;
“Congress is holding a hearing on the possible national security threat of UFOs for the first time in 50 years” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-intelligence-committee-ufo-hearing
Not quite the same level of “national security threat” as DONALD J. TRUMP (and his Deplorable Minions!)…but it shor sounds pretty serious!!!!
Pretty sure Cheney’s doing it just for kicks.
Just to get a rise.
(Truly inspired by the Great Man’s sense of humor…)
Remember the lies one found intolerable from hacky psaki this is more of that
And yet she lied with incredible snark and even some flair, never seeming to have a pang of conscience.
I’m going to point out that Ron Nessen was asked if he’d ever lied to reporters (and he faced a media which was, in comparison to that which Psaki faced, amply-funded, influential on all sectors of the population, and hostile). Note, that Nessen was hired by Gerald Ford off the staff of NBC News. He had never been employed by a political operation before. After the administration left office, he was offered a position with a firm called Rogers & Cowen doing movie promotions and then landed a position with Mutual Broadcasting System. He never worked for politicians again. His reply was that there were two instances in which he’d misled reporters. In both cases, pro-forma meet-and-greet events had been set up with local politicians (one in Florida and one somewhere else). Nessen said he left the impression that Ford took the opportunity to play at local golf courses while he was in town, when what had happened was that the advance office had set up BS events in these places because Ford wanted to play golf there. (One of the meet and greet events was held near where the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Tournament was being held; the other I forget). That’s what counted as lying to the press in 1976.
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and
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201206/do-you-know-someone-i-can-never-be-wrong-syndrome
By the way, partisan Democrats work themselves in a rage at anyone who is inconvenient to them:
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/16/the-gw-commencement-controversy-a-response-to-rep-susan-wild/#more-188745
‘…It is, of course, ironic that Rep. Wild would instruct our graduating class on being righteous lawyers by making a demonstrably false allegation against one of their professors [i.e., Turley]. Her attack on use of the law for “wrongful ends” is clearly based on her disagreement with my views. However, rather than simply disagree with those views in a respectful and factual way, she made false public allegations against my character and academic integrity.
‘I hope that Rep. Wild will now have the integrity to make an equally public apology for her false statements.”…’
Good luck with that…
…since character assassination is a Democratic Party forte.
Usually—if not always—it is the ONLY case they have.
I wish Prof. Turley luck in his attempt to get that liar to be “respectful and factual” and to apologize for her outrageous lies-based smear, delivered in public; at the university were Turley teaches; while he was not even able to attend.
(Wouldn’t hold my breath though if I were him…since this is how these creeps operate.)
Is Prof. Turley’s civil request for a public apology a precursor to a lawsuit for defamation if Rep. Wild fails to apologize?
The hosting service has been having intermittent problems again. I apologize for the annoyance. Until the last couple of days, they’ve been excellent for a couple of years, so I hope this is a fluke.
I’ve had trouble for the last half hour reaching your site; it also swallowed one of my comments.
It is good that US defamation law is less threatening to free expression than the law in many other countries (Kaiser Wilhelm II remarked in his memoirs that he wished HE had had laws available for prevention of ‘misinformation’ (not exactly the term he used) as powerful as those in the UK)…but there is a lot of genuine defamation going which can reasonably be classed as such under US law, I think, and more actions need to be brought in such cases. Is claiming that someone is a ‘fascist’, for example, just a protected expression of opinion, or is it an assertion of fact which can be shown to be false and damaging?
The question would be, what’s a “fascist,” and since the term is widely misused, that probably wouldn’t be a good court case. In Turley’s case, the speaker clearly misstated what his public testimony was.
Good piece from Byron York on the NBC polling data. 75% say country on wrong track.
Inflation number one issue.
Ukraine 7th.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-if-democrats-had-made-the-economy-even-worse
Would be nice if Pelosi, McConnell and the rest would remember who their actual constituents are but that may be too much to ask what with all their trips to Ukraine.
Priorities.
I thought this was an Open thread
A picture of the current economic conditions seems to belay that
Mythx,
I assume you are referring to me so it’s an ‘Open Thread’ but not about what I wrote but is the topic Barry Meislin brought up OK in the ‘Open Thread’?
I’ve always thought ‘Open Thread’ meant bring up whatever you want but maybe I’ve been wrong.
We’re going to fix Ukraine right after we fix Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington DC.
This clip of the Chief Propagandist answering a question from Doocy on how raising taxes helps with inflation is a sight to behold.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1526298239699492864
Griffin,
No I was actually talking about the picture on the front of the page. Looks like a sewer run off area. Which is an apt metaphor for the current economy.
Apparently sarcasm does not do nearly as well on the written word
mythx,
Apologies. Honestly I didn’t even get the point of the picture at the top so I couldn’t find anything that looked economy related other than my comment right above yours.
Again, my apologies.
I couldn’t tell what the photo is: A Publicly Owned Treatment Works Permitted Discharge Point (an outfall of offal)?
Let’s not stirr up effluent? 🙂
Nature; as messily offensive, as it is exquisite in its grandeur.
Griffin,
“Good piece from Byron York on the NBC polling data. 75% say country on wrong track.
Inflation number one issue.”
Inflation is rightfully a concern. But if it’s the primary determinate for whether the country is on the wrong track, then their moral compass is badly skewed.
Geoffrey,
I agree but I don’t think that is what the poll said. The right track/ wrong track was a separate question which got a 16/75 response and then a separate question asked what people’s top issue is right now and inflation was the most popular response.
That is right now and what is hitting people the most directly but there are other bigger picture things that may be more concerning but those things don’t cause you to miss paying your bills this month.
om; Mythx:
A pier.
I thought it was obvious, but then again I’ve seen a lot of piers.
A tidal pier at that.
I thought it was a metaphor for how the evil of Trump’s Supremacists Continued Obstruction of Last Best Hope Biden’s compassionate and effective policies has led to The Racist Slaughter of Buffalo along with the Baby Formula Shortage.
A pier it appears. Don’t pile on!
I couldn’t tell.
Griffin,
No worries. My failures to communicate were obvious when I re-read it.
Everyone have a great week!
Neo-
Now that you point it out. The wooden mooring on the right now makes that obvious.
But then I am not a water person. Do not care much for boats etc.
It does not help a close friend has repeatedly tried to get me to sail with him. And has suffered every catastrophe possible, including capsizing,running aground, and a sinking (all separate instances).
His view is that he has it all out of his system now. He is better! I see it more akin to the ending of a Greek poem.
https://twitter.com/michaelbd
Michael Brendan Dougherty has informed the world that Jennifer Psaki is the ‘best [press secretary] in our lifetimes. Sorry’. (Dougherty was born in 1982). I’ve got the formula NR uses: hire people who are decaying intellectually as they career into middle age.
OTOH, maybe it’s been going on a while.
https://medium.com/the-awl/dear-conservative-movement-stop-ruining-my-life-by-michael-brendan-dougherty-31856606d051
Mythx, like so?
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-05-12-at-5.49.49-PM.png?resize=768%2C935&ssl=1
It looks like a pier in a tidal area, to me.
Art Deco:
In a way it’s correct that Psaki was the best. She had an impossible task: to explain and defend Biden and others in his administration. And yet she lied with incredible snark and even some flair, never seeming to have a pang of conscience. I was actually rather in awe of her ability to do that, and I wonder whether her successor might not have as strong a stomach for the enterprise.
For what it’s worth, I assumed the photo was of a pier or dock and guessed salt water, but that was mostly a guess.
She comes from moveon and the sanders campaign she will be fine defending the indefensible
One should have a pang of guilt a twinge of regret thats not their bag
Doughterty comes up with these notions that elide the tufnel line between clever and stupid. We shouldnt reward liars and cheats about fundamental issues
One is more insane, more bizarro than the next.
Domino theory? (Or just a sub-section of Murphy’s Law?)
Meanwhile ‘Groper Joe’ is creeping up on and may eventually overtake ‘Pedo Joe’ as the most apt nickname for the creepiest groping creep of all time.
Well, as they say, “a hands-on president…”
Here’s an “interesting” one:
“Former Biden COVID adviser warns long-term virus modeling ‘based on pixie dust’;
“Osterholm said the White House may have predicted massive COVID case numbers in order to secure more pandemic relief funding”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/former-biden-covid-advisor-warns-long-term-virus-modeling-based-pixie-dust
But this guy has some serious credibility issues.
He’d be more believable had he said “…in order to secure another ‘election’ ‘victory’…”
What’s more, he’s quoted as saying, “No one should make that kind of statement without providing the assumptions behind that number….”
Sheesh. Anyone who can say that about “Biden” most likely hasn’t come within a thousand miles of “him”….
Yikes! Another “reason” why “Biden” won’t be able to hold national elections at any point in the future…?
“Congress holds historic public UFO hearing, as military struggles to understand ‘mystery’ flying phenomena;
“Congress is holding a hearing on the possible national security threat of UFOs for the first time in 50 years”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-intelligence-committee-ufo-hearing
Not quite the same level of “national security threat” as DONALD J. TRUMP (and his Deplorable Minions!)…but it shor sounds pretty serious!!!!
File under: Keep those crises acomin’…
“Biden”‘s “Dream Team” is salivating in anticipation….
“Could It Happen Here? 200 Dead, as Sri Lanka Literally Runs Out of Gas”—
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/05/16/what-happens-when-a-country-goes-all-in-on-the-green-agenda-200-dead-as-sri-lanka-literally-runs-out-of-gas-n1598311
H/T Instapundit.
Yep
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/16/tucker-carlson-responds-to-charges-he-inspired-buffalo-shooter-makes-his-critics-look-like-childish-ghouls-n565725
The aliens are already here, see stargate or first wave
Actually, I’m still trying to wrap my feeble mind around Genesis 6:1-4…
The giants seem an unlikely part
Oh sure
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/05/16/liz-cheney-house-gop-leadership-has-enabled-white-nationalism-white-supremacy-and-anti-semitism-n1598246
Pretty sure Cheney’s doing it just for kicks.
Just to get a rise.
(Truly inspired by the Great Man’s sense of humor…)
Remember the lies one found intolerable from hacky psaki this is more of that
And yet she lied with incredible snark and even some flair, never seeming to have a pang of conscience.
I’m going to point out that Ron Nessen was asked if he’d ever lied to reporters (and he faced a media which was, in comparison to that which Psaki faced, amply-funded, influential on all sectors of the population, and hostile). Note, that Nessen was hired by Gerald Ford off the staff of NBC News. He had never been employed by a political operation before. After the administration left office, he was offered a position with a firm called Rogers & Cowen doing movie promotions and then landed a position with Mutual Broadcasting System. He never worked for politicians again. His reply was that there were two instances in which he’d misled reporters. In both cases, pro-forma meet-and-greet events had been set up with local politicians (one in Florida and one somewhere else). Nessen said he left the impression that Ford took the opportunity to play at local golf courses while he was in town, when what had happened was that the advance office had set up BS events in these places because Ford wanted to play golf there. (One of the meet and greet events was held near where the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Tournament was being held; the other I forget). That’s what counted as lying to the press in 1976.