Does the Media want Trump to be Killed? It would be good for ratings!

Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert cartoons and explainer of Trump) on the media and killing Trump.

In May 1997 he predicted ...

In the future, the media will kill famous people to generate news that people will care about. – The Dilbert Future (May 1997)

Three months later, the media chased Princess Di into a tunnel and created a dangerous situation that killed her but was terrific for television news ratings. The media didn’t plot to kill anyone, but they created a situation that made it likely someone important would die because of the way their business model works. That was the basis for my prediction.

Fast-forward to today and we see the media priming the public to try to kill Trump, or at least create some photogenic mayhem at a public event. Again, no one is sitting in a room plotting Trump’s death, but – let’s be honest – at least half of the media believes Trump is the next Hitler, and a Hitler assassination would be morally justified. Also great for ratings. The media would not be charged with any crime for triggering some nut to act. There would be no smoking gun. No guilt. No repercussions. Just better ratings and bonuses all around.

His post was picked up by Ann Althouse who got this response in a comment:

The media has been building the narrative that angry Republicans are dangerous for quite a while.

McCain rallies, Palin rallies were both deemed very dangerous. "Terrorist!" "Kill Him!"-- remember the reporters saying they heard that? There was such a dangerous level of anger.

The Tea Party protests were labeled racist. Sitting Congressmen lied about being spit on, and hearing the N word hurled at them.

It was reported as fact.

And now, here we are again, hearing yet again about how dangerous angry conservatives are.

Yet....people were arrested before the 2008 elections for hoarding buckets of urine they were planning to pour on Republicans. GWB had oranges thrown at his limo in his first inauguration. Occupy wasn't peaceful, and it was worldwide. Wisconsin's capitol was overtaken for days.  Ferguson wan't peaceful. BLM shuts down streets and stores. Baltimore burned down buildings. Young people here in Chicago are thrilled they were able to shut down a legitimate political rally.

I mean...it seems only one side is allowed to have "righteous" anger. And that, in turn, feeds the Trump phenomenon.

.... it seems only one side is allowed to have "righteous" anger.

The trouble with Dzhokhar

The Wall Street Journal reports that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was indistinguishable from any other young man in the Boston area.

After a month of intensive investigation, authorities, according to people involved in the case, have yet to find any actions by Mr. Tsarnaev before last month's attack that would have stood out as alarming—no frequent visits to jihadi websites, no violent rhetoric, no suspicious purchases.

Friends described Dzhokhar as a jokey teenager who seemed to genuinely enjoy his life in America. At his college, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the worst that fellow students would say about him was that he was a lackluster student.

Nabil Siddiqi, a recent UMass Dartmouth graduate who remains involved in the Muslim Student Association, recalled a time in January when Dzhokhar and several friends from Kazakhstan showed up at a weekly study circle, giggling and disturbing the discussion.

His freshman-year roommate, Jason Rowe, said Dzhokhar wore jeans and hoodies, liked hip-hop music and late-night Taco Bell. He didn't talk much about his family and was excited when he became a U.S. citizen.

Mr. Rowe saw no signs Dzhokhar held any extremist views. Mr. Rowe walked into the room once to find his roommate praying, but "other than that he didn't talk about religion." Added Mr. Rowe, 19: "He seemed very Americanized."

Dzhokhar was as American as any Occupy Wall Streeter.

The most disturbing thing about the facts brought out in this article is that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is perfectly normal for a young college student in the Boston Area. Authorities tell us that there’s nothing that would make him stand out. Perfectly willing to plant bombs and kill people if there are people around him who will take the initiative. Could it be that he’s a pretty good example of what the culture and educational system is producing? "He seemed very Americanized." That’s troubling.

Occupy Unmasked

Obama White House told GSA to 'stand-down' on Occupy protesters

Documents obtained by Judicial Watch confirm that somebody in the White House told officials with the General Services Administration (GSA) to "stand down" and not arrest Occupy Portland protestors who may have broken the law last year.

Team Obama and the state controlled media created, promoted and feted the OWS hooliogans last year. They accomplished one objectrive: the creation of the meme that the nation is divided between the 1% and the 99%. That remains after the filth has been washed away.

Proof that young people are so frickin' stupid!

Jonah Goldberg makes the point that "young people are so frickin' stupid"   As if determined to prove his point beyond parody, they organize a march on Rush Limbaugh's office ... in Chicago!

A crowd of Occupy protesters in Chicago descended on Rush Limbaughs “office” Thursday to air their grievances about the conservative radio host.

The problem? Despite their references to “Rush’s office building” and “Rush Limbaugh’s studio,” they weren’t in the right place — not by more than 1,000 miles.

Anyone who has ever listened to Rush Limbaugh knows that he lives and broadcasts from Florida.

Which brings up two points that Rush made on Friday:

•  Most people who hate him have never listened to him.
•  People who listen to him should ask those who hate him why they have an opinion on something they know nothing about.

The OWS crowd is so stupid that they organize a march without the first inkling of a clue that the object of their uninformed hate is not within a thousand miles of their destination.

A legitimate political movement

I keep hearing people say that Occupy Wall Street is a legitimate political movement…

The violent acts are from a handful of “bad apples”.

Read (and see) the rest.

A Cher Wanna Be!

I saw this picture at Zombie along with a collection of other pictures taken at an "Occupy" rally in Los Angeles and immediately thought of Cher.

Montgomery College forced to revamp 'Occupy' class

From the Washington Examiner:

Montgomery College is revising plans to offer a summer class on the Occupy Wall Street movement -- geared toward high school students -- after residents complained that the class is promoting the Occupy movement's agenda to students.

The course in question, part of a summer program for students in grades 9 through 12, is called "Occupy MoCo!" (which, coincidentally, is also the Twitter handle of what appears to be a branch of the Occupy movement based in Montgomery County).

The course description asks students if they're "ready to join the movement for justice" and adds that "young people have the power to change their community, their schools, their future."

Montgomery College spokeswoman Elizabeth Homan is quoted as saying that

"It wasn't advocating or taking any stance on the Occupy movement. It's taking a current events subject that all the students have either read about or heard on the news and using it as a pivot point to talk about what's happening historically."

I sent Ms. Homan the following message:

Many people are curious about the content of the course which emphasizes an overwhelmingly Left-wing movement when not that long ago we saw hundreds of thousand of people in the streets under the Tea Party banner. A movement, moreover that has had a profound and proven impact on American politics in terms of getting people elected. The OWS movement by contrast was small, sometimes violent, attracted criminals and has thus far helped elect no-one. Can you explain why your college has chosen the latter rather than the former for your educational model?

I will add her reply when I receive it.

"Occupy" uses Nazi Images ... Media Turns a Blind Eye

Thanks to the Internet, we see the stories that the MSM gatekeepers don't want us to see.  From American Power:

Are people so afraid to stand up against the hatred, public hatred broadcast for the entire world to see? The image of the octopus has been used in attacks on the Jews for over a century.

It's not "the people" it's the media, and they are not afraid, they agree with the OWS crowd and do everything they can to build it up and airbrush it's flaws. Flaws like

"Thousands of arrests, rapes, rape tents, murders, arson, Jew-hatred -- the stuff of left wing lunatic love."

“NYU To Offer Class On Occupy Wall Street”

Protein Wisdom

I’m tempted to talk about the irony of kids taking out student loans to enroll in a class that will “study” why irate college grads who can’t get jobs are camped out in tents complaining about the amount they owe on student loans, but then I think ....

This “Occupy” Movement Baffles Me

"We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything.” I don’t even know where to start with these people. ...

I’ll tell you some of the things that the 99% are getting. A comfortable suburban existence, a car, a digital camera, an internet connection, TV, enough food to make them fat, cigarettes, liquor, and enough free time to whine about all of this on the internet.

I mean, seriously guys, that’s a pretty remarkable definition of nothing.

EVERYTHING’S AMAZING AND NOBODY’S HAPPY

The end of capitalism? "Maybe we need some time when we're walking around with a donkey with pots hanging on to the sides."

And that’s what I saw at the Occupy Movement.

Tina Trent tells us what the future will be like if the OWSers ever take over.

Next, two unlikable, anorectic-looking people wearing urban motley and ominously bearing a flipboard and magic markers (not magic like the apple, just regular magic) made everyone gather in an ampitheatre-ish shape. The meeting was supposed to be non-hierarchical but ended up being much more hierarchical than any real meeting because we were all forced to endure a long and repetitive lecture from Thing One and Thing Two about how they weren’t acting as “leaders” but as “leaderless facilitators” before proceeding to run the meeting with their iron (actually, hennaed and grubby) fists.

That, my friends, is the pure essence of thought-control: being forced to participate in the illusion that someone isn’t doing precisely what they are doing to you as they keep doing it while demanding that you repeatedly agree that they are not.

And this is what the future will really look like, if, by some colossal societal fail, the Occupiers ever get their way. The future will look like a giant human resources meeting where the usual petty cubicle fascists control the whiteboard and waste your time while telling you they are doing so for your self-improvement.

Sort of like real human resource meetings. Only, at these future Occupy human resources meetings, nobody will be allowed to zone out into the deep inviting pool of their Starbucks, contemplating the work piling up on their desks, or that hot guy in accounting whose mid-morning shadow makes your spine-crushing control-top pantyhose entirely worth the pain — there will be none of that, because boredom and whimsy are just two of humorless collectivism’s many enemies.

Instead, at dystopian future Occupy human resources meetings, everyone will be forced to participate continuously in the expression of their views, so long, that is, as their expressions are the same expressions expressed by the whiteboard-wielding, iron-fisted, anti-hierarchical movement non-leaders.

Also, after the Occupy human resources meetings, nobody will be getting back to work because there will be no more jobs, only more human resource meetings.

Have you ever been in a meeting where your assent was demanded from someone who claimed that you were free to dissent?

Feminism-induced single motherhood and OWS

And you thought that single motherhood had no consequences? 

What were we expecting the scourge of single motherhood and debased family structures to look like? How were we expecting it to play out?

There was never any thought given to the consequnces of changing one of the foundation stones of society.

It is my hypothesis that a measurable part of the anger emanating out of OWS (the Leftist element of it) is the result of single motherhood and the dismantled family.

There still isn't.

Wall Street's Message to OWS

Via Jim Treacher:

We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, it’s not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.

Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.

Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work until 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.

For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime, and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.

So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.

The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.

We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”

"And Glenn Beck is the Crazy One?"

Here's Occupy Wall Street planner Malcolm Harris: 

That’s one side of what people want, right, cause that’s not the only thing people want. they also want to take the bank out of his fucking tower and string him up in the public square.. That’s not that’s not just the crazy left, that’s everyday folks talking about their experiences.

And here's Mediaite making fun of Glenn Beck:

In case you hadn’t heard, Glenn Beck isn’t a fan of the Occupy Wall Street protests. However, unlike some others in the media he isn’t just laughing them off as silly hippies. On the contrary, the protesters should be comforted to know that Beck respects them a great deal. In fact, he respects them enough to think that they’re this close to dragging rich people into the street and murdering them.

Now, whether the OWS gangs will actually hang bankers from lamp posts is still an open question and it looks as if the police are finally hearing from the neighbors and enough video is showing up on the Internet to show people just how how radical, how hateful, how despicable (and for the most part how stupid)these people are. But it's not for the lack of will and its not for the hatred that's exhibited by the core of the people who are responsible for organizing these rallies.

Just once I would like the media clowns with their multi-million dollar contracts and their compounds in the Hamptons who rhapsodize about the OWS gang get surrounded by the mobs, their precious necks fitted for nooses and their feet leave the ground, hung from a tree limb or a lamp post. That's how the French Revolution proceeded; the revolution always eats its young.

"Recovering from amoebic dysentery will be part of your education."

Via small dead animals, Bill Whittle 

"These kids are upset because the $100,000  of debt they took on to get a degree in bitterness studies isn't paying off with a six figure job and a car and full benefits at an organic farm collective."

Scratch an anti-capitalist, and a Jew-hater bleeds.

The Other McCain: #OWS and the Socialism of Fools

To the Leftists who occupy Wall Street and the other town squares its always the Jooooos!

The HONDAs (hypertensive, obese, non-compliant, diabetic, alcoholics)

PJ Tatler discusses the OWS "poor." Except they're not poor.

These are poor.

These are not: 

Neither are these  fit, bejeweled and spiritual at OWS

But in a peculiar way, those non-starving, non-homeless, non-refugee young people playing at being poor in cities across America have a point. They represent some very specific — and sad — types of poverty.

To begin with, there’s the sense of poverty created by utterly ludicrous expectations. We promised these kids that they were all “good enough, smart enough and, gosh darn it!, that everyone would like them.” We promised them that they were all number one, and that they would never need to make any actual effort to achieve that blue ribbon status. We taught them, through MTV and computer games, that a 3 minute attention span is sufficiently long to be awesomely cool and win the game. And, God help us, we taught them that a Womyn’s Studies, or Africana Studies, or GLBT Studies, or Oppressed People’s degree from some big name university would assure them the kind of job that would enable them to pay off $25,000 or $100,000 or even $250,000 in student loans. We, the older generation, created this wealth of stupidity.

They have been sold a bill of goods by a Liberal society, a Liberal educational system, a Liberal media and now they are coming face to face with reality and they have no way of coping. Instead they spout slogans that they have heard repeated in one college class after another by professors who took their money and cheated them of an education they thought they were getting.

But they are dangerous because they can be made violent by the same groups that deprived them of education and morality. 

“It’s amazing to see that the ‘occupiers’ of Wall Street are basically white kids, and they’re dressed fairly well — there are some out there who are kinda scruffy — but I don’t see the media bringing up the fact that there are no black folks in it,”