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- How Soon They Forget
- Poll finds Trump’s hold on Republicans strong but weakening
- The war on standards, knife fight edition
- Fake news, NY Post style
- Coronavirus in one state (158)
| Posted: 28 Apr 2021 04:15 PM PDT (John Hinderaker) Over the years, I have followed the New York Times Corrections section, on and off, as a window into the ignorance of our journalist class. The howlers the Times has printed have often caused me to wonder whether that paper actually employs editors. The current selection illustrates how quickly formerly well-known people and events are receding into history. From today’s Times:
People used to know that. Not just journalists, but everyone. Then there is this: World War I, World War II, who can tell the difference? They were both so long ago:
Miss Faithfull in 1964, clearly not left over from WWI:
STEVE adds: It’s even worse than you think, John. Stan Evans recalled seeing a local news broadcast where the anchor, reading from the Teleprompter, remarked on the “anniversary of the end of World War Eleven.” “You’d think will all these Super Bowls people would at least know their Roman numerals,” Stan commented, “but apparently not.”     |
| Poll finds Trump’s hold on Republicans strong but weakening Posted: 28 Apr 2021 03:39 PM PDT (Paul Mirengoff) A new NBC poll finds (at page 19) that 50 percent of Republicans say they consider themselves mainly supporters of the GOP, while 44 percent say them consider themselves mainly supporters of Donald Trump. That’s an extraordinarily high number for Trump, to be sure. However, as Rich Lowry notes, it represents a decline. In January, respondents split evenly, 46-46. In October, it was 54 for Trump and only 38 for the GOP. I hope the trend continues. After all, whatever might be the case in 2024, Trump will not be on the ballot in 2022. The Republican party will be. If the GOP is to regain control of the Senate and the House, it will be helpful, and perhaps imperative, that Republicans identify with their party strongly, and to a greater extent than they identify with an individual who has an agenda of his own. In January, we saw in Georgia what can happen when a great many Republicans don’t feel that way.   |
| The war on standards, knife fight edition Posted: 28 Apr 2021 10:32 AM PDT (Paul Mirengoff) When I began my “war on standards” series many years ago, I recognized that the left was trying to tear down core standards of behavior and merit for no other reason than the fact that one racial group was failing, disproportionately, to meet them. I expected the rot to spread far and wide, and it has — to the detriment of society. However, I never thought it would spread to an attack on the standard against knife fights. Yet, that now has happened, following the fatal shooting of a black teenage girl who attacked another black teenage girl with a knife. John Kass reports:
Kass points out that the Bryant incident wasn’t a knife fight. The girl Bryant attacked was unarmed, from all that appears. It also seems clear that the only way to prevent Bryant from stabbing the victim was to shoot the perpetrator (and not in the leg). But the larger point is that (1) knife fights shouldn’t be deemed business as usual among teenagers, such that the police must refrain from doing what’s necessary to prevent stabbings and (2) Jarrett and Newsome wouldn’t be arguing that they should be if Bryant had been a white girl attacking a black girl (or, indeed, if both Bryant and her potential victim were white). Conservatives have responded to this line of argument primarily with parody. That’s probably the best response, given the obvious idiocy of what Jarrett and Newsome have said. One shouldn’t have to demonstrate, as Kass does, that stabbings can very easily be fatal. But it’s no laughing matter that the war on standards has taken us to the point where teenage knife fights are viewed by some on the left as “girls being girls.” At this point, I can’t help but wonder if any standard that Blacks disproportionately fail to meet, no matter how self-evidently justified the standard, is safe from attack from the increasingly influential Black/left coalition.   |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2021 08:25 AM PDT (Scott Johnson) I took the New York Post cover story by Laura Italiano that ran with the tabloid headline “Kam on in” at face value. I have treated the Post as a trusted source, but it turns out that this story appears to be fake news. The following correction is now appended both to Italiano’s original story and to a follow-up story by Mark Moore:
Italiano has resigned from the Post and reported via Twitter that she was ordered to write the story (below). The Post owes its readers an explanation that goes well beyond the editor’s note. Speaking on my own behalf to Power Line readers, I regret having followed the Post down this blind alley.
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| Coronavirus in one state (158) Posted: 28 Apr 2021 05:30 AM PDT (Scott Johnson) Governor Tim “tear down this” Walz continues to wage the war on Covid. He clings to the temporary emergency powers he has exercised under state law in order to control the “dials” of our lives. It’s a long way to temporary. However, the war is over. There is no emergency. This series should come to an end. With the assistance of Kevin Roche, I continue to submit questions to the Minnesota Department of Health. So long as the “emergency” persists, they are obligated to answer them. If there is anything to be made of MDH’s answers, Kevin comments at Healthy Skeptic. I have published my questions and MDH’s answers over the past months for illustrative purposes. The answers mostly illustrate the evasions and misrepresentations on which the “emergency” is predicated. My inquiry into cases traced to tribal casinos gave life to the cliché about pulling teeth. The point has been made many times over. I have discontinued the publication of the questions and answers in this series. War is over if you want it, and I do. In the latest example of the misrepresentations on which the “emergency” has been predicated, consider the limitations on youth sports Walz promulgated late last year. We have been afforded an illuminating glimpse into the “science” — i.e., politics — supporting Walz’s temporary shutdown. In this case the politics dictated a scapegoat for Walz’s failures with long-term care facilities. At Alpha News Anthony Gockowski has an excellent story on the emails showing the panicked search for a rationale to support Walz’s edict: “Prior to youth sports pause, state officials admitted to lack of evidence, emails suggest.” Compare and contrast Gockowski’s straight news account with Jeremy Olson’s Star Tribune story “Youth sports groups question Minnesota COVID-19 restrictions.” Subhead: “Internal e-mails show state leaders concerned last fall about how to present an unpopular pause on high school and club athletics.” Olson’s story passes judgment on the allegedly “odd time” to delve into the issue insofar as the war is over, or ending, to borrow my metaphor here. The “odd time” results from the Walz administration’s stonewalling to delay production of the emails. And if the time is “odd,” as Olson asserts, why the continuing “emergency”? The stonewalling is a phenomenon I have personally experienced and documented repeatedly in this series. It’s not the story that is of interest to Olson, but it’s a story and in fact it’s the story here. Olson’s story is illustrative in its own way. It illustrates the Star Tribune’s continuing support for the twists and turns of the DFL authorities who continue to exercise control over our daily lives.   |
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