The Blaze and CRTV join forces: But where's Cary Katz in this mix?

The Blaze and CRTV are joining forces, but what about Katz? 

Is this about dodging Mark Steyn's judgment?

The Hill: CRTV and the Blaze merge!

Mark Steyn: Last Call

I am so proud of the investigative journalism I did for #CRTV -- so many heroes, so many compelling stories. I will not be continuing with the company, but wish my colleagues all the best.

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 4, 2018

EBL: Mark Steyn Verdict, Mark Steyn Needs Our Help, and is Katz going to collapse CRTV?

But the Katz came back the very next day 

The Katz came back, they knew he was a grifter 

But the Katz came back, he was just going to sue away!

Mark Steyn: Katz & CRTV vs. Steyn: A Cut Out'n'Keep Guide and The Great Patriot?

If @CRTV founder/owner #carykatz had two brain cells to rub together he'd pay @MarkSteynOnline his money and move on. But this dummy, along with henchmen, want to keep this thing alive https://t.co/Cya05JvNaq This won't be good for business @EWErickson @marklevinshow @scrowder

— Tim Boggs (@TFBoggs) August 7, 2018

Mark Steyn: Oh Happy Day and We Are The Champions

Instapundit: Michelle Malkin departs CRTV

AoSHQ: Morning Report 12.04.18

Who Leaked About Tomi Lahren's Butt Pads? Update: Lawsuit with Beck Settled

Problems only girls with flat butts understand...

Update: Legal Insurrection: Lawsuit with Glenn Beck settled

Twitchy: Tomi Lahren's legal team search for leaks about her alleged butt pads...

We have to get to the bottom of who leaked this story!

She is thin, so it is believable about the butt pads. There is a wide selection of butt pads on Amazon. 

Instapundit: It has come to this (maybe a Pulitzer next year) and Hillary still looking for the leaker

RedState: Beat Daily Caller about the butt warmer, but also raises that Dana Loesch is leaving...

Pro Tip: If Tomi does use butt pads, she should warm her own.  

Daily Caller: How Tomi Lahren flamed out at the Blaze

TMZ: Intollerant left tried to beat Tomi's *ss

TOM: Tampa Teacher LGBT Agenda

EBL: Tomi Lahren Rule 5

Rule 5 and FMJRA

A collection of sites known for Rule 5 appreciation:

TOTUS 
Theo Spark
Daily Gator
Pirate's Cove
Woodsterman
Proof Positive
RULE 5 SITES
The Right Way
MissK's World...
American Power
Guns and Bikinis
SayanythingBlog
Doubletroubletwo
Angrymikes hood
The Last Tradition
Adrienne's Corner
The Feral Irishman
Camp of the Saints
Maggie's Notebook
The Classic Liberal
Randy's Roundtable
A Nod To The Gods 
Political Clown Parade
The Vulgar Curmudgeon
A View From The Beach
Diogenes' Middle Finger
Your Crazy Uncle Bubba
Old Retired Petty Officer
 Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Knuckledraggin My Life Away
In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD

Glenn Beck: Christmas Holiday Emotional Trump Derangement Syndrome Asshat of the Day

AoSHQ and Hot Air sum up Beck's problem well.  

I generally like Glenn Beck--even if he is an emotional train wreck a lot of the time. Glenn means well. He is a patriot.  

While I often disagree with Beck, he is not a mendoucheous #NeverTrump thug like Neil Stevens, a hyperbolic #NeverTrumper like Evan McMullin, a lying rat bastard like Kurt Echinwald, an intellectually crippled man-child like Matt Yglesias, a hypocritical smug tool like Julia Ioffe or Suzanne Malveaux, a partisan fanatic like Paul Krugman, or a completely delusional  batshitcrazy loon like Keith Olbermann. 

Glenn is more like the annoying emotional #NeverTrump relative who you care about, but you can only take in limited amounts. Still, for this Samantha Bee alliance nonsense, Glenn gets Asshat of the Day.  

I was ecstatic over the result of the election, mainly because I am #NeverHillary.  The thought that Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States gives me a tingly Christmas Glow of good cheer and optimism. It is like having a mug of cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon cocoa with a  big heaping double shot of Irish whiskey and whip cream. It is just delicious. Especially when I sit around with friends over a mug and discuss the dismantling and end of Obamacare.  

Sorry Glenn, you can't have my special cocoa. You can have a sugar plum.  

I am taking a wait and see approach with President Elect Trump. I went in with low expectations. So far I have been mostly pleasantly surprised and I am increasingly hopeful his administration might actually get some things done and roll back the disaster that has been the Obama Administration.  

Instapundit: Trump Derangement Syndrome (no, it is not a recognized criminal defense, yet), Psycho Double Standard

TOM: Male Feminist, A predictable breed

Regular Right Guy: Is Trump's inexperience already showing?

EBL: Glenn, Trump is not the person(s) you need to worry about

The Lid: Keith Olbermann finally goes full on fruit cake with extra nuts

The Gorilla Question: Donald Trump Answers Questions Harambe the Gorilla and Hillary Aide Dodges Questions About Her Boss

Actually a pretty good statement from Donald Trump

(although it's absolutely not a POTUS issue)

Of course, Hillary Clinton's assistant Cheryl Mills (through her attorney) refused to answer questions about Hillary Clinton's emails. You would think that such a story involving the Democrat Party presumptive nominee would get more media attention in a Presidential Election year than a tragic zoo incident, but you would be wrong. Still, #CrookedHillary is not going away.  

If Clinton was a Republican, she would have been long indicted and probably convicted by now. That is how strong this case against her is. But the question is can even the Clintons with the media backing her keep dodging this issue?  Especially with her allies being investigated too? 

So of course I can't avoid gorilla metaphors and analogies:  

Is that Donald Trump and Melania? 

Or is it Johnny Depp and Amber Heard?

Or does that old pin up depict Donald Trump and America? 

Or is it Bill Clinton with any young woman he comes across (consensual or not)?

I don't think Brad Thor and Glenn Beck really meant to literally take out Trump like Harambe the Gorilla, especially given Bill Kristol is attempting to do that through different means. 

I like David French a lot (he is a patriot, hero and scholar), while I would much prefer voting for David French over someone like Gary Johnson, I am not sure the advantage to conservatives to run a spoiler candidate (to help election Hillary Clinton) when French has little chance of winning. While I am not inclined to vote for Trump, I would rather he win over Hillary. I do consider Hillary Clinton worse, which makes me #NeverHillary. But I would love it if a candidate like David French could become a contender.  

Rumor Has it Mr. French Will Run Third Party https://t.co/mV3z9PvFSo pic.twitter.com/6WE5JG91gQ

— Mike aka Proof (@ProofBlog) June 1, 2016

Instapundit: Just in case you missed it about Hillary and her emails and is a Torricelli Solution in the works? (the Democrats are not going to let Hillary Clinton shenanigans endanger their next four years--they are the party of choice and they will use it).  

Michelle Malkin suggests some gorilla questions that CNN can ask of Hillary and Sanders!

EBL: The Gal and Gorilla Rule 5 and Harambe the Gorllia RIP

Wombat: Protein Wisdom: #NeverTrump can't fail

Legal Insurrection: The French President

Wombat: Pam Geller: RedState: The Dali Lama does not want Europe to become more Arab? and JWF: A creative excuse from Team Clinton

Hot Air: Are the police really going to press charges? Probably not, but remember this is Ohio.

SooperMexican: The Best Gorilla Debate Ever

Rush Limbaugh: Harambe the Gorilla: Liberals have no sense of humor

Missouri Tea Party People come out to help Ferguson businesses damaged in riots

Tea Party Buycott: People helping People

h/t Darleen at Protein Wisdom

Were the Brothers Tsarnaev double agents who went rogue and turned on their handlers?

This is coming from Debka.  Is this what Glenn Beck was alluding to?  I will leave it at that for now because that is all I have.  Draw your own conclusions.

Did Dzhokhar Tsarnaev kill his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev?

Update:
FBI now hunting 12 man sleeper cell in connection with the Brothers Tsarnaev?  More from Instapundit. More from Breitbart.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev thrown out of his mosque for rage fueled rant against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
The younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was totally calm and normal acting after the bombing on Monday.
Could you imagine the outrage of the media if the FBI dropped the ball like this on GWB's watch? 
The Brothers Tsarnaev had illegal guns.
How to keep Muslim youth from becoming murderous terrorists?  
Pat Dollard on this story...
What we know and what we don't know...
TOM:  Calling BS on the "12 man sleeper cell..."
So how was this missed?

Understand here. A person somewhere in the bureaucracy, under orders from above (probably lawyer to lawyer- they are the bane of our society) redefined the official understanding of what terrorism is.
How does that affect the guy who is assigned to investigate the Tsarnaev brothers? He can be the best agent on the planet. He could make Jack Bauer look like a high school social studies teacher. He could eat hand grenades and chew nails. But once inside the system he is neutered. He could look at the Tsarnaev brother see bomber all over him and still would be thwarted BY POLICY to say so in a report. Worse, his boss will remind him he can’t do that….now. In 2005 yes, in 2011 no. It is really that simple. So all the agents, and their supervisors, will all sign off- under the new understanding and definition of terrorism (CAIR /Liberal/Obama/egghead Harvard State Department staff’s version of the new reality)- that the two brothers and now apparently the twelve man cell they operated within aren’t terrorists.
Until of course, they blow the shit out of something.

The New Feminism:  Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be converts...
Compare and Contrast...
Why did the Brothers Tsarnaev do it?  Bush made them do it!  No wonder they voted Democrat and for Obama!
Now they are blaming boxing?
Who is Misha? 

I am generally not big on conspiracy theories.  Obviously take Debka with a very big grain of salt (like Dead Sea big):

@msebl Debka is basically an Israeli version of infowars... might as well come from Alex Jones himself.
— AG (@AG_Conservative) April 21, 2013

@msebl Yeah, except Debka is wrong most of the time. @ampowerblog
— Bob Belvedere (@BobBelvedere) April 21, 2013

In response to AG Conservative and BobB, I would say very true, but I never would have thought Fast & Furious or Benghazi were possible either.  And we had had operatives turn on us in the war on terror. And there is something very strange with the United States government getting a tip off from (presumably) the Russians and the FBI clearing Tamerlan (given his radical jihad website and trips to Chechnya).

 
Obviously this double agent theory involving Brothers Tsarnaev is (at this point) nothing more than a theory/rumor.

Glenn Beck wants to build free market "Bartertown"

Glenn Beck plans self sustaining city and theme park?

This comment made me laugh out loud:

Adjoran • 15 hours ago

• −

While I have sometimes smiled at Glenn Beck's sudden discoveries of ideas and principles I knew forty years or more ago, much in the way a child's wonder pleases me, the idea that he could so much as bring the "Vision thing" to a project to build a "self-sustaining city and theme park hybrid" - whatever that even means - is laughable.

He talks about "freedom" and "American dreams" but no colleges or GAP stores allowed, and the "free" citizens will be funding "learning" centers for public officials from around the country.

Mr. Beck, you keep using that word "freedom." I do not think it means what you think it means.

One area not addressed in the article linked is the financing. I'm guessing he is at least $1.999 billion short of his goal so far, and doubt the pledges he does have are firm.

I would suggest Mr. Beck read Island at the Center of the World. It chronicles the rise of the New Holland colony in America and how the free market attitudes of New Amsterdam had a profound influence on the economic philosophy of the other American colonies.  The Puritans in New England had planned communities.  They failed.  While the British may have eventually taken over the Dutch colony, its culture survived (although Nanny Bloomberg is doing about all he can to drown it like a dolphin trapped in the Gowanus canal).  

h/t to Smitty and Wombat Socho

President Obama backs off his statement that Egypt is no longer an ally (political translation): Mr. Obama needs to determine which position helps him the most politically in the up coming election.

Maybe next time Barack Obama can check with Joe "The Intellectual" Biden first!  Sounds like President Obama was the one shooting from the hip!

As NRO's Corner reported: In an interview yesterday with Telemundo, President Obama responded to a question about whether he considers Egypt an ally. He explained, “I don’t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy. They’re a new government that is trying to find its way.”

There has got to be a way to blame Romney or Bush for this...

Apparently today, President Obama did not like the way that statement was playing out so the White House offered this clarification: President Barack Obama didn't intend to signal any change in the U.S.-Egypt relationship last night when he said Egypt is not an "ally," the White House told The Cable today.

Barack Obama is the guy who is such an expert on foreign policy?  There was an attack on the U.S. Benghazi consulate in June and no security upgrades were implemented.    Obama does not seem that popular with the mobs that attacked Americans. The buck stops with President Obama:  President Obama has grossly underestimated the danger of this and as a result four Americans were brutally murdered.  Nancy Pelosi confirmed that she will support sending $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt.  So exactly what did we gain with the Arab Spring? And the media is going after Mitt Romney? Why?

Update:
John Podhoretz on the Media and Mitt Romney...
What the White House said also makes no sense since Egypt is in fact a Non-NATO ally:

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

GAFFE: Obama Shoots First, Aims Later: White House clarifies Obama’s statement that Egypt is not an ‘ally.’“President Barack Obama didn’t intend to signal any change in the U.S.-Egypt relationship last night when he said Egypt is not an ‘ally,’ the White House told The Cable today. . . . That comment had Egypt watchers scratching their heads, especially since technically, Egypt was designated as a Major Non-NATO Ally in 1989 when Congress first passed the law creating that status, which gives them special privileges in cooperating with the United States, especially in the security and technology areas.”
They’re scratching their heads, Obama’s in over his head. This must be more of that “smart diplomacy” we were promised.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 2:21 pm

Driscoll and Levin:  Are all media all MSNBC all the time now?  Are all the media outlets in the bag for Obama?  

Making the bus monitor cry: a sad statement of societal breakdown

The Blaze.  Allahpundit has more on this story.  This is incredibly sad.  On the bright side, people have raised over $30,000 for Karen the Bus Monitor (she makes $15,000 a year).  Update:  Fund up to $290,000!  And here is video of Karen getting the good news! 

That school districts allow this sort of behavior (and this is hardly an isolated circumstance, such bullying among kids happens all the time) is deplorable and unacceptable.

Update:  And we wonder why people are losing faith in public schools?

The Left's War on Women: It is open season on conservative women

Photoshopped Fake Image:  So why aren't feminist groups defending S.E. Cupp
from this sort of attack by Hustler Magazine and Larry Flynt?
Hey President Obama?  Any phonecalls?

Michelle Malkin outlines the four steps of the left abusing conservative women.
5 Hustler Lawsuits:  A history
Vodkapundit has more.
So does Ed Driscoll
Hot Air:  Fluke and Planned Parenthood denounce Hustler

Glenn Beck and Rick Santorum discuss libertarians and Ron Paul

Glenn Beck is trying to help Rick Santorum here...
I am not a fan of Ron Paul's foreign policy either.  I also lean more George Washington than Thomas Paine.  This is an interesting exchange.  Rick is much better in this setting than in debates. 


But it goes back to the advice of Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin.  We want to keep Ron Paul from running third party.  We want his supporters to support the GOP nominee.  There are also Ron Paul positions on fiscal matters that the GOP absolutely should adopt.  And while Ron Paul is a libertarian, not all libertarians are Ron Paul supporters.  So when Rick Santorum criticizes Ron Paul by using the term libertarian, he is alienating himself from those other libertarians.
I am not the only one who has noticed this.  


Meanwhile are Ron Paul and Mitt Romney working some sort of deal out?  Or is this the explanation for Ron Paul's assistance to Mitt Romney in the debate the other day?  Hint:  If you are trying to debunk a conspiracy theory involving Mitt Romney, it might be a good idea not to have Hugh Hewitt or Jennifer Rubin make the pitch.


Update:  Mark Levin has a "no gotcha" interview with Rick Santorum.