September 2, 2026

TODDLER MODE: Journalists Fume, Pout Over Accurate Headline That Makes Democrat Look Bad.

Employees accused [Bari] Weiss of tweaking the story’s headline—a brazen display of editorial activism that would never happen in a proper newsroom. It was a “shameful” breach of norms, they complained, not to mention overtly Islamophobic. Only an inexperienced and racist moron could think the deleted posts “were scandalous enough to report on,” the Daily Beast implied.

“They took a small nugget of news, forced it into something much larger,” a CBS News staffer told Darcy.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because that’s exactly how the media have reported on Republicans for decades. Mitt Romney’s binders full of women (and other gaffes). Pete Hegseth’s Christian tattoos. Calling Tom Cotton a racist for opposing riots, or suggesting COVID might have leaked from a Chinese lab. Casually dismissing stories about Joe Biden’s non-functioning brain as right-wing “disinformation.” The list goes on.

Weiss, the LGBTQ+ icon, has merely upended this longstanding tradition of prioritizing stories that make Republicans look bad while ignoring or downplaying the ones that make Democrats look bad.

Most journalists find this rather confusing, so naturally they’re lashing out.

Bless their hearts, the poor things.

To be fair, that’s an exceedingly new development at CBS News, which for about 70 years now has been exclusively a house organ for Democrats, so I can understand why Weiss’s underlings are in shock. Not to mention, the sheer chutzpah of an editor actually doing some, err, editing:

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL:

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ANN COULTER: Lindsay Clancy Democrats — A Girl for Luigi.

I guess the Lindsay Clancy trial has put an end to that whole thing about a woman being president. Clancy has become a feminist hero for slaughtering her three children, whose names, in case anyone cares, were Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.

For that brave response to “postpartum depression,” she’s attracted hundreds of female admirers, who stand petulantly outside the courthouse in pink T-shirts, demanding her acquittal.

When Muslims pull this crap, blaming their gang rapes on the trauma of being asylum seekers, we’re not as understanding. But when women claim mental anguish from giving birth, we’re supposed to treat it as if it’s a disease as real as cancer and blame the doctors for not dispensing a magic pill to cure the batty lady.

Whether Lindsay has postpartum psychosis, is bipolar or a witch, to quote another witch, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” She still twisted an exercise band around the neck of her 3-year-old, his little legs kicking, then strangled her 5-year-old daughter until she went limp, before proceeding to garrote her 8-month-old baby.

A woman’s work is never done!

The pink ladies seem to think that if enough of them say, That could have been me, everyone will shout in unison, LET THAT POOR WOMAN GO! as opposed to, No. Woman. President. Ever. Thus, the organizer of the pink ladies, Renee Kimball, said of Clancy, “Any one of us could be sitting in her chair.” Okay, fine. But then none of you should ever be sitting in a chair at the Resolute Desk.

Earlier, from Nick Freitas: “I honestly don’t think that women understand what a catalyst moment this is. There’s been a lot of conditions set for young men to just be fed up. This is the one where I don’t think they realize you could look back in 20 years and be like, ‘Oh, this is where we lost the right to vote.’”

UPDATE: Mister, we could use a man like Norm Macdonald again:

Posted at 4:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE SPICE MUST FLOW:

Oil Flowing Through the Strait.The Trump administration has been saying for a while that as many as nine million barrels of oil a day are traversing the Strait of Hormuz. That claim has been “fact checked” and derided by just about everyone. Politico is one of many instances: “Trump’s rosy Hormuz claims collide with tanker data.”
…
Only – oops – it turns out that President Trump and Secretary Wright, one of his cabinet’s most impressive members, were right all along, as Kpler now confirms.

If only the correction were as big as the original report.

Actually, any correction at all would be nice — I couldn’t find one at Politico.

Posted at 4:52 pm by Stephen Green

AL-JAZEERA ON THE HUDSON VS. REALITY:

Posted at 4:44 pm by David Bernstein

DEVELOPING:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: U. Maryland lab begs students to sign up for class on ‘Indigenous Feminism’ and ‘monsters.’

Only six students were signed up for the 21-seat class “Indigenous Feminisms 101” with Professor Shelbi Meissner as of Monday afternoon, the first day of classes at the public university, according to the Office of the Registrar website.

This is despite the Instagram account for the UMD Indigenous Futures Lab, which Meissner runs, promoting the class several times in mid-August.

One post read: “sign up for Shelbi’s class please it’s really fun we make monsters and learn stuff about Indigenous Feminisms.”

Maybe the kids are starting to wise up.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

IF THEY’LL MURDER THE RICH AND POWERFUL…:

…it’s easy to guess what they’d do to people who are neither.

UPDATE (From Ed): What is a Tuey-Rodriguez charge? Judge gives instruction to deadlocked Lindsay Clancy jury.

Posted at 3:45 pm by Stephen Green

PROFILES IN COWARDICE: House Passes Gov’t Funding Bill That Does Nothing To Fix Debt Crisis. “The national debt surpassed $40 trillion on Aug. 20 and the deficit reached $2 trillion in the 2026 fiscal year. The 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a 19-year high due to the soaring government debt, prompting the Department of Treasury to double the size of its long-dated Treasury buybacks from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation.”

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” the wise man once said.

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

THIS IS CNN: Is Capitalism Tied to White Supremacy?

Asian Americans graduate high school at close to 99 percent. Black Americans graduate at closer to 81 percent (though it has been climbing). About 26 percent of black Americans have a college degree. For Asian Americans that figure is 70 percent. U.S. Census data shows that a family with parents who have college degrees are likely to earn about double what a family with parents who just finished high school earn and more than triple what a family of people who didn’t finish high school earn.

So getting married and graduating high school (and college) makes a huge difference in financial outcomes and home ownership. There are exceptions to every rule but for the most part these are things that correlate with success. And obviously there are a lot of personal choices connected to all of the factors I’m bringing up. If you choose to drop out of high school and choose to never marry, your likelihood of success is pretty slim compared to people who make the opposite choices. That’s why group differences in these areas make a big difference in group outcomes financially.

When you say that capitalism isn’t working for people today because of white supremacy, you actually need to make the case that these other obvious factors either don’t matter or are themselves products of white supremacy. That’s not so easy to do precisely because personal choices are involved. I don’t think Jemele Hill was remotely prepared to make that case nor was Leigh McGowan.

Finally, it’s worth noting that Jemele Hill is married and a college graduate and used to make $1 million a year working for ESPN (though that was before she got married). I’m sure she’s still doing pretty well for herself now.

It’s hard out there for a Neiman Marxist:

 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: KFC Debuts An Oreo-Flavored Chicken Sandwich, And Fast Food Lovers Are Horrified.

Starting August 28, KFC locations in China will debut an Oreo-flavored chicken sandwich. The Oreo Original Recipe Chicken Burger starts with a breaded chicken thigh and lettuce…and devolves from there.

Instead of the chain’s typical bread, this sandwich comes with Oreo-flavored buns that are tinted black and stamped with an image of the cookie. Inside the burger, KFC is adding a layer of mashed potatoes coated in crushed Oreo pieces.

On Chinese social media platforms like RedNote, initial reviews of the salty-sweet sandwich are positive. But on the other side of the world, people are horrified.

“KFC scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should,” one Reddit user said. Another added, “That sounds beyond terrible.”

Kill it with fire — or a flood:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW’S THAT POST-RACIAL SOUTH AFRICA COMING ALONG? Plan for a ‘white tax’ in South Africa.

Lamberti said that there is an increasing proliferation of transformation funds requiring businesses to pay into them.

“This represents a whole new offshoot of BEE. This could be a manifestation of the latest phase of BEE or of the direction the policy is generally moving.”

He said this shifts the transformation to where, instead of structuring equity deals, businesses just put money into a big government slush fund through equity equivalents.

“So, you just pay the money. Just pay the ‘white tax’, so you can pay to play. Once you’ve paid the tax, you’re allowed to participate,” he said.

Lamberti said that there are several problems with the transformation funds, which are essentially a white tax.

“Beyond the ethical issue, it still represents a considerable cost. This cost can easily be ratcheted higher at the government’s discretion,” he said.

Related: The Creeping Tide: South Africa’s Race Law Index Updated – More Laws, More Concerns.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE:

As Mark Steyn wrote in 2005, “With hindsight, the defining encounter of the age was not between Mohammed Atta’s jet and the World Trade Center on 9/11, but that between Mohammed Atta and Johnelle Bryant a year earlier:”

Ms Bryant is an official with the US department of agriculture in Florida, and the late Mr Atta had gone to see her about getting a $650,000 government loan to convert a plane into the world’s largest crop-duster. A novel idea.

The meeting got off to a rocky start when Mr Atta refused to deal with Ms Bryant because she was “but a woman”. But, after this unpleasantness had been smoothed out, things went swimmingly.

When it was explained to him that, alas, he wouldn’t get the 650 grand in cash that day, Mr Atta threatened to cut Ms Bryant’s throat. He then pointed to a picture behind her desk showing an aerial view of downtown Washington – the White House, the Pentagon, etc – and asked, “How would America like it if another country destroyed that city and some of the monuments in it?”

Fortunately, Ms Bryant had been on the training course and knows an opportunity for multicultural outreach when she sees one. “I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from,” she recalled. “I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation into our country as easy for him as I could.”

In less than ten days, “2001 Live,” a rather sedate 25th anniversary-oriented Twitter/X account is about to go into hyperdrive:

Tweet concludes, “One student, Zacarias Moussaoui, keeps asking how to fly a plane, but insists that he doesn’t need to know how to take off and land. Moussaoui is arrested.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

HOW MILO OWNED HIMSELF:

Did Trump write a secret executive order decreeing that angry D-list British attention whores must be returned to their nation of origin? First, Prince Harry and his American wife mysteriously hightailed it out of their Montecito mansion for the Cotswolds, and now Milo Yiannopoulos gets deported back to the United Kingdom as well? We have enough undesirables entering the country without adding these shameless grifters. Hasn’t the UK suffered enough?

Apparently not. On Friday, Yiannopoulos – who just last year was calling for ‘on the spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally’ – was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans and sent back to his native England for overstaying his visa.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll