News and commentary: progress in work
When sanctimonious Get Up co-host Michelle Beadle on Thursday grandstanded/virtue-signalled about no longer watching football in the aftermath of the Urban Meyer scandal, the NFL-centric ESPN obviously had already decided to send her back to Los Angeles (did she keep her apartment and put her furniture in a storage unit?) to increase her role in NBA coverage. She also supposedly leveraged a contract extension out of the schedule reshuffle.
A recent column in the Tampa Bay Times seems to provide yet another example why ordinary consumers have grown disillusioned with the pretentious, virtue-signalling mainstream or legacy media. Who knows — It might even be a “teachable moment.”
With an estimated 18 million visitors a year, and up to 300,000 tourists and residents on hand during any given night in the relatively small heart of the city, Amsterdam in the Netherlands is probably one of the best people-watching venues that you might visit, as others have noted. Most locals are friendly and speak English.
There was all sorts of breaking news while this blog was on hiatus for a vacation trip to Paris and Amsterdam which occurred during a European heat wave.
The data seems to confirm that dogs are in tune with their owners’ emotional state and can read social cues, perhaps giving a new meaning to puppy love.
Kimberly Guilfoyle officially announced on Twitter earlier today that she has left the Fox News Channel to take the position of vice chairwoman of the America First political action committee.
News broke on Friday that the network star and FNC were abruptly parting ways despite a contract extension that she signed in June 2017.
In that role, she will be campaigning across the country for the Trump MAGA agenda especially in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
Former @FoxNews host @kimguilfoyle announced her new role as the Vice Chairwoman of nonprofit organization America First after leaving the conservative news outlet last week.https://t.co/I3c5i8g60w pic.twitter.com/3WyuqCsN9V
Richland County, S.C., Deputy Sheriff Kevin Lawrence has received a promotion to a less-public investigator position, and thus he will no longer appear on Live PD as a uniformed officer.
“K-Law” is the second Richland fan favorite who was promoted off the show, having been preceded by Chris Mastrianni.
The Richland cops featured on Live PD still includes charismatic Deputies Addy Perez, Mark Laureano, Garo Brown (the bodybuilder with the huge “guns,”), and Lt. Danny Brown, who have become TV personalities in their own right.
Live PD is the hit ride-along show on the A&E Network with videographers embedded with officers on real-time (or near real-time) night patrol in about eight different jurisdictions around the country.
Fresh, three-hour episodes air on Friday and Saturday evenings at 9 p.m. Eastern and perhaps are among the last remaining vestiges of appointment TV. Live PD reruns are also in heavy rotation on A&E.
Deputy Lawrence became a Live PD Nation favorite because of his sense of humor and his ability to relate to citizens that he encountered on his shift.
“His levelheadedness, quick wit and no-nonsense personality made Lawrence a hit among fans, who dubbed him ‘Mr. Cool’ and ‘K-Law,'” The State explained.
Starting off #LivePD right with the OG @K_Law124 of @RCSD. We are wishing him well on his future endeavors as a criminal investigator 🚔 🔍 #LivePDNation pic.twitter.com/c9hZoMUsF9
Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle is leaving the Fox News Channel according to various news outlets. There is some question as to whether it is voluntary or involuntary, however.
The popular and charismatic co-host of The Five, where she occupies the so-called leg chair, Kimberly Guilfoye is set to join a pro-President Trump political action committee.
This is a big loss for the network if the reports are accurate, but so far, no one has gone on the record with any official confirmation. A separation package is supposedly being negotiated.
The feisty Guilfoyle, a former California prosecutor who worked at ABC News, Court TV, and CNN before joining FNC in January 2006, was rumored to be under consideration as President Trump’s press secretary, but she signed a longtime contract with the network in June 2017.
In addition to supporting his agenda, Guilfoyle seems to share the president’s love of fast food, as regular Five viewers are aware.
Sources familiar with plan tell me Kimberly Guilfoyle expected to take a role with America First – super PAC that supports Trump agenda https://t.co/NHE5Abrhd5
Any non-liberal invited on The View to discuss politics is almost guaranteed to be abused and shouted down. For Judge Jeanine Pirro, the show even added an additional interlocutor, CNN’s Never Trump zealot Ana Navarro, as part of the ambush.
Mainstream influencers on the right have from time to time also seen their accounts suspended for transgressions pursuant to standards that don’t seem to apply to their left-wing counterparts.
Parenthetically, Big Social lined up behind the now-repealed net neutrality but as far as content neutrality, not so much.
A study of 50 online publishers released in March by The Western Journal concluded that modifications to Facebook’s news feeds sent conservative publishers’ reader engagement into a nose dive far more than liberals. The Outline came up with similar findings after Facebook apparently adjusted the news feeds to de-emphasize content from news outlets.
A recent Pew Research Center poll indicates that a majority of Americans across the ideological spectrum perceive that the big tech platforms are censoring political views with which they disagree.
While praising Facebook as a key to the Trump presidential election victory, digital guru and 2020 Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale explained the following to the Bloomberg news agency.
“Facebook is a liberal company…that has an inherent bias…that is based in a place that is probably extremely biased…their employees have biases, and those decisions probably go into every line of code they write and everything they do…I think the inherent bias in those companies is significant.”
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale says Facebook and Twitter have liberal biases https://t.co/ghSmZiVITF pic.twitter.com/903HTmQsJd
— Bloomberg (@business) July 17, 2018
In the interview with a Russia-obsessed Bloomberg reporter (is there another kind of journalist these days?), Parscale also implied that unlike the other platforms, he thinks that Facebook is trying to take steps to eliminate liberal bias and that he intends to hold all the major tech firms accountable for fairness.
Parscale has sat down with Facebook officials personally to discuss various issues including the application programming interface. Watch the interview clip below.
In recent Capitol Hill testimony, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Silicon Valley is an extremely very left-leaning place, but denied that his company is censoring conservatives.
Apart from Trump’s twitter feed, Parscale implied that Twitter is inconsequential as a persuasion vehicle.
This may be the result of Twitter being dominated by a far-left social justice thought-police cohort ready to pounce on any opinion that doesn’t fit within the progressive agenda.
Parscale also revealed that Google-owned YouTube will play a bigger role in the 2020 Trump reelection campaign than int 2016. As Parscale noted in the interview, YouTube has, however, also come under criticism for liberal bias in terms of of the way it indexes conservative-leaning videos.
Yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Aspen Security Forum that China (not Russia) is the most significant threat to the U.S. in terms of economic espionage as well as traditional espionage.
In a Capitol Hill hearing about online content filtering on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) asked three robotic, talking-points-memorizing Facebook, Google, and Twitter officials about nations other than Russia that might have meddled in U.S. elections. See clip below.
At that hearing, a Facebook official admitted “that Russian election interference was limited to ‘a few thousand’ of two billion posts analyzed, Breitbart News reported.
You may recall that Gohmert blew up the Peter Strzok hearing last week when he alluded to the witness’s extra-curricular activities.
“This is intolerable harassment of a witness!”
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