{"id":32528,"date":"2015-08-02T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32528"},"modified":"2015-08-02T19:10:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:10:06","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-july-31st-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32528","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, July 31st, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, July 31st, 2015&#8230;and here&#8217;s wishing our middle son Michael a very Happy 30th Birthday; enjoy the surf&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surfs-up.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surfs-up.png\" alt=\"surf's up\" width=\"315\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surfs-up.png 315w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/surfs-up-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;or better yet&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mike-and-Pebbles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mike-and-Pebbles.jpg\" alt=\"Mike and Pebbles\" width=\"315\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mike-and-Pebbles.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mike-and-Pebbles-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;a Pomeranian in your pants!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leading off the last edition of July, in the\u00a0<em>Yet Another Sign the Apocalypse is Upon Us<\/em>\u00a0segment, what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/07\/29\/restraining-order-issued-against-anti-abortion-group-video\/?intcmp=hpbt3\" class=\"broken_link\">Restraining order issued against anti-abortion group&#8217;s video<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMF800clr-072915-auction-I.gif\" alt=\"RAMF800clr-072915-auction-I\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Los Angeles Superior Court order issued Tuesday prohibits the Center for Medical Progress from releasing any video of three StemExpress officials taken at a restaurant in May<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>StemExpress is a Placerville, California-based company that provides human tissue, blood and other specimens to researchers. Planned Parenthood is one of the company&#8217;s providers of fetal tissue&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/index.ssf\/2015\/07\/protesters_at_st_johns_bridge.html#incart_big-photo\" class=\"broken_link\">Shell Oil icebreaker in dry dock as St. Johns Bridge protesters hang out<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/993289e9f3667e7e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/993289e9f3667e7e.jpg\" alt=\"-993289e9f3667e7e\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/993289e9f3667e7e.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/993289e9f3667e7e-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Saying they have enough supplies to last for days, Greenpeace protesters rappelled off the St. Johns Bridge over the Willamette River early Wednesday in an effort to block a Shell Oil Arctic icebreaker from leaving Portland<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Had the subjects of the videos been cigarette or oil executives, what are the odds the L.A. Superior Court would have even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>considered<\/em><\/span> a motion for a temporary restraining order?!?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/48727841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/48727841-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"48727841\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/48727841-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/48727841-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/48727841.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Utterly unconscionable doesn&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>begin<\/em><\/span> to describe Planned Parenthood&#8217;s vile and wretched trafficking in the bodies of the unborn. \u00a0Yet, as Rush Limbaugh so eloquently noted:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8230;<em>how in the world can you get teary-eyed and misty-eyed and sad over Cecil and, at the same time, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">participate in burying what&#8217;s happening at Planned Parenthood<\/span><\/em>?<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Easy&#8230;provided you&#8217;re a Progressive devoid of any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>shred<\/em><\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>of compassion, moral compass or common decency&#8230;not to mention common sense.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact is, we&#8217;re all sinners, saved only by the grace of God through his Son Jesus Christ; but when it comes to the proponents of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s wholesale slaughter of innocents, as the ghost of Jacob Marley observed to Scrooge&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGGohTPuOeQ?start=274\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;&#8217;tis <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed<\/em><\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ponderous<\/em><\/span> chain they&#8217;re forging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, here&#8217;s a real shocker from Rick Richman writing at\u00a0<em>Commentary Magazine<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Iran Deal is Not Verifiable <em>Now<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> <em>Later<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/John-Kerry-Sells-Out-Western-Civilization.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/John-Kerry-Sells-Out-Western-Civilization.jpg\" alt=\"John-Kerry-Sells-Out-Western-Civilization\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/John-Kerry-Sells-Out-Western-Civilization.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/John-Kerry-Sells-Out-Western-Civilization-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With 51 days left in the period for Congressional consideration of the Iran deal, the respected Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has released a report on \u201cVerification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,\u201d which concludes there are weaknesses that \u201cmust be remediated or compensated for if the agreement is to be verifiable,\u201d and that \u201cwithout stringent long-term limits on Iran\u2019s sensitive nuclear programs \u2026 these verification conditions \u2026 are unlikely to be sufficient.\u201d ISIS concludes that \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><strong><em>if<\/em><\/strong><\/span> the remediation or compensation occurs \u2013 the verification provisions will likely be adequate during the first 10-15 years of the agreement, \u201cbut will be inadequate afterwards if Iran implements its plan to expand its centrifuge program and possibly start a reprocessing program.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>In other words, the agreement as it stands is unverifiable without additional steps; and after it sunsets, the verification provisions will be inadequate.<\/strong><\/span><span id=\"more-899888\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here is what the ISIS reports concludes regarding the 24-day period for inspection of suspicious Iranian sites:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>What could Iran potentially hide or disguise in a 24-day time period? At ISIS, over the years, we have conducted several assessments on countries such as Iran, North Korea, and Iraq which have all cheated on their safeguards obligations. We have assessed the types and quantities of uranium releases from gas centrifuge plants as part of official safeguards studies and evaluated many cases where environmental sampling was used to uncover undeclared activities or failed to do so<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Based on this work, we assess that Iran could likely move and disguise many small scale nuclear and nuclear-weapon-related activities<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Secretary of State Kerry <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kerry-i-never-heard-anytime-anywhere-inspections-promise\/\">said recently<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span> that \u201canytime, anywhere\u201d inspections were \u201cnot on the table\u201d in the negotiations with Iran, and that he had \u201cnever heard the term in the four years that we were negotiating.\u201d According to Kerry, \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing in arms control as anytime, anywhere. There isn\u2019t any nation in the world, none that has an anytime, anywhere.\u201d But that position is flatly contradicted by the ISIS report:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>[S]mall-scale activities matter and this is one of the key reasons why inspectors want prompt, or anytime, anywhere access. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Inspectors had this type of access in Iraq in the 1990s and early 2000s<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> South Africa provided the IAEA anywhere, anytime access \u201cwithin reason,\u201d which was explained to one of the authors of this report as a request only to not ask to go to a site in the middle of the night. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In practice, the IAEA could get access to any South African facility soon after the request<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Back in April, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said the international community would have \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/ben-rhodes-didnt-tell-truth-about-anywhere-anytime-inspections-irans-nuclear-program_991244.html\" class=\"broken_link\">anywhere, anytime, 24\/7 access<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Now, it turns out the secretary of state<em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never heard of it<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never raised it<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">doesn\u2019t even know it exists<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Heckuva job<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The great Thomas Sowell speaks for us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"am-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials-on-the-right\/072015-762539-obama-makes-worst-political-error-in-history-with-iran-deal.htm?ntt=thomas%20sowell%20on%20iran%20deal&amp;p=full\" class=\"broken_link\">Obama&#8217;s Iran Blunder Presages A Catastrophe<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WakeUpOurGovernmentDoesNotRepresentUs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WakeUpOurGovernmentDoesNotRepresentUs.jpg\" alt=\"WakeUpOurGovernmentDoesNotRepresentUs\" width=\"400\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WakeUpOurGovernmentDoesNotRepresentUs.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WakeUpOurGovernmentDoesNotRepresentUs-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Some commentators have attributed Obama&#8217;s many foreign policy disasters to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incompetence<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But he has been politically savvy enough to repeatedly outmaneuver his opponents in America<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Which, with THIS clueless crew&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boehner_mcconnell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32491\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boehner_mcconnell.jpg\" alt=\"John Boehner\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boehner_mcconnell.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boehner_mcconnell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8230;ain&#8217;t sayin&#8217; a whole lot!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For example, the Constitution makes it necessary for the president to get a two-thirds majority in the Senate to make any treaty valid.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Yet he has maneuvered the Republican-controlled Congress <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Thank <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>YOU<\/em><\/span>, Bob Corker!)<\/span>\u00a0into a position where it will need a two-thirds majority in both Houses to prevent his unilaterally negotiated agreement from going into effect \u2014 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just by not calling it a treaty<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>If he is that savvy at home, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>why is he so apparently incompetent abroad<\/em><\/span>? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Answering that question <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may indeed<\/span> require us to &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">think the unthinkable<\/span><\/em>,&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that we have elected a man for whom America&#8217;s best interests are not his top priority<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not only are the nation&#8217;s best interests <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> his top priority, he&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>antithetically opposed<\/em><\/span> to very <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>concept<\/em><\/span> of America. \u00a0In other words&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-angry-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-angry-1.jpg\" alt=\"obama-angry-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-angry-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-angry-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230;that about covers it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of lying narcissists, courtesy of <em>Salon<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/07\/28\/camille_paglia_how_bill_clinton_is_like_bill_cosby\/\">Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Cosby-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Cosby-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Clinton-Cosby-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Cosby-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Cosby-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton\u2019s behavior because he was a Democrat. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">The Democratic president and administration <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>supported abortion rights<\/em><\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>therefore it didn\u2019t matter what his personal behavior was<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But we\u2019re living in a different time right now, and young women have absolutely no memory of Bill Clinton. It\u2019s like ancient history for them; there\u2019s no reservoir of accumulated good will. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And the actual facts of the matter are that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Bill Clinton was a serial abuser of working-class women<\/em><\/span>\u2013he had exploited that power differential even in Arkansas.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And then in the case of Monica Lewinsky\u2013I mean, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the failure on the part of Gloria Steinem and company to protect her was an absolute disgrace in feminist history<\/em><\/span>!<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>What bigger power differential could there be than between the president of the United States and this poor innocent girl<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span> Not only an intern but clearly a girl who had a kind of pleading, open look to her\u2013somebody who was looking for a father figure&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah&#8230;but he supported&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CKplCv9XAAQ9T4o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32492\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CKplCv9XAAQ9T4o.jpg\" alt=\"CKplCv9XAAQ9T4o\" width=\"400\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CKplCv9XAAQ9T4o.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CKplCv9XAAQ9T4o-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;baby killers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And speaking of frauds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"meebo-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Jon Stewart Secretly Met with Obama, Worked \u2018In Concert\u2019 with White House<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wcc07242015-600x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wcc07242015-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"wcc07242015-600x400\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wcc07242015-600x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wcc07242015-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The host of Comedy Central\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Daily Show\u00a0<\/em>Jon Stewart secretly met with President Barack Obama at the White House on at least two occasions, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which were\u00a0followed with on-air attacks on Obama\u2019s political enemies<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Politico\u2019s Darren Samuelsohn wrote his\u00a0paper\u2019s farewell to Stewart, who is set to retire from\u00a0<em>The Daily Show<\/em> next\u00a0Thursday. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>He notes that Stewart had an enormous effect on national politics, but sometimes \u201cthat effect took the form of either prodding, or working in concert with, the Obama administration.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stewart&#8217;s subterfuge brings to mind one of our favorite lines from <em>The Sting<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VYjyFQS3DWM?start=52\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>And Jon, you&#8217;re as gutless as they come.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning from the gutless to the gauche, the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Henninger places The Donald in the proper venue:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-in-river-city-1438210876\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Trump in River City<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-in-river-city-1438210876\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Donald Trump is the Prof. Harold Hill of the presidential election<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ED-AT916_WL0730_J_20150729172439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ED-AT916_WL0730_J_20150729172439.jpg\" alt=\"ED-AT916_WL0730_J_20150729172439\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ED-AT916_WL0730_J_20150729172439.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ED-AT916_WL0730_J_20150729172439-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Like Harold Hill, Donald Trump believes he can say anything and get away with it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>He said Mexico has an inferior culture, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and later claimed that he\u2019d win the Hispanic vote<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What he said about John McCain should have barred him from public life, but the Donald\u2019s enthusiasts said it was no big deal.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On the \u201cHannity\u201d show Monday night he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dvPHFJF7FQw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>attacked Scott Walker<\/strong> <\/a><\/em><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for not raising taxes<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cI looked into Wisconsin,\u201d Mr. Trump said. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cTheir roads are a disaster, they don\u2019t want to spend any money on roads because he doesn\u2019t want to raise taxes.\u201d<\/span> He accused the Wisconsin governor of being \u201cdivisive, because everyone there is fighting with each other.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>So the Donald would have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>raised taxes<\/em><\/span> on the people of Wisconsin, <em>and he thinks the Republican governor who defeated the public unions and survived a recall election is \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">divisive<\/span><\/em>.\u201d <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No matter<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> The people of River City are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>desperate<\/em><\/span> to believe, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and so the man who wrote \u201cThe Art of the Deal\u201d is leading in the national polls<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span> going on here <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other than clinical egomania<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This from a man whose judgement we trust&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unlike<\/em><\/span> The Donald&#8217;s!!! \u00a0To those out there who still view Trump as a legitimate candidate, sorry&#8230;you&#8217;ve been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>had<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Best of the Web reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cDonald Trump is not shy about stating his strengths as a candidate,\u201d observes Susan Jones of CNSNews.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>So when Fox News\u2019s Greta Van Susteren asked him, \u201cWhat\u2019s your weakness?\u201d on Tuesday night, Trump responded this way:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>\u201c<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Some people think I\u2019m not a nice person, and I actually am.<\/strong><\/span> I love people. You know I\u2019m a nice person. But some people think, maybe it\u2019s the \u2018you\u2019re fired\u2019 and \u2018The Apprentice.\u2019 Who knows? But some people think I\u2019m not a nice person.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>\u201cBut you know what I tell somebody that said that, that really wants me to win. He said, Mr. Trump, can you be nicer?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>\u201c<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I said, look, I don\u2019t think this election is going to be won by a nice person.<\/span><\/strong> I think people want competence for a change. We need compet\u2014we need really, really, smart, competent people. And if we don\u2019t get that kind of leader and leadership in particular at the level of the president, this country is in big trouble.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>According to Trump<\/em>, (1) <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he<\/span> is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nice person<\/span><\/em>, and (2) <em>a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nice person<\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> going to win the election<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">It follows logically that Trump does not believe he is going to win the election.<\/span> <em>Some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good<\/span> news for a change<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mzzrz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mzzrz-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"mzzrz\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mzzrz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mzzrz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mzzrz.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072815dAPR20150727104657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072815dAPR20150727104657.jpg\" alt=\"mrz072815dAPR20150727104657\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072815dAPR20150727104657.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072815dAPR20150727104657-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-073015-minion-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-073015-minion-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"RAMclr-073015-minion-IBD-COLOR-FINAL\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-073015-minion-IBD-COLOR-FINAL.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMclr-073015-minion-IBD-COLOR-FINAL-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Propped-NRD-6001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Propped-NRD-6001.jpg\" alt=\"Clinton-Propped-NRD-6001\" width=\"462\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Propped-NRD-6001.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Clinton-Propped-NRD-6001-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cTOON2_0729_800.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cTOON2_0729_800.gif\" alt=\"cTOON2_0729_800\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wreckage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wreckage.jpg\" alt=\"Wreckage\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wreckage.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Wreckage-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072715dAPR20150727084515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072715dAPR20150727084515.jpg\" alt=\"mrz072715dAPR20150727084515\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072715dAPR20150727084515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mrz072715dAPR20150727084515-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cb072715dAPR20150727104623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cb072715dAPR20150727104623.jpg\" alt=\"cb072715dAPR20150727104623\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cb072715dAPR20150727104623.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cb072715dAPR20150727104623-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/payn_c13387420150729120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/payn_c13387420150729120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c13387420150729120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/payn_c13387420150729120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/payn_c13387420150729120100-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DebbieLion-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DebbieLion-1.jpg\" alt=\"DebbieLion 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DebbieLion-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DebbieLion-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Lion-Heaven.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Lion-Heaven.gif\" alt=\"Lion Heaven\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download6.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"492\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download6.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download6-300x279.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download-14.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download-14.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download-14.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/download-14-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s this classic from Fielding Cocke:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11693994_10207561312333773_4621638758549368612_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11693994_10207561312333773_4621638758549368612_n.jpg\" alt=\"11693994_10207561312333773_4621638758549368612_n\" width=\"480\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11693994_10207561312333773_4621638758549368612_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11693994_10207561312333773_4621638758549368612_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11693994_10207561312333773_4621638758549368612_n-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a month with another example of Progressive prevarication, as recounted by James Taranto and <em>Best of the Web<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Other Than <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That<\/span><\/em>, the Story Was Accurate<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Williams-and-Clinton-Separated-at-Birth-Fabulists.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Williams-and-Clinton-Separated-at-Birth-Fabulists.png\" alt=\"Williams and Clinton Separated at Birth Fabulists\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Williams-and-Clinton-Separated-at-Birth-Fabulists.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Williams-and-Clinton-Separated-at-Birth-Fabulists-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;My next guests: Dan Rather and Jon Stewart!&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a Los Angeles Times blog post in May, cartoonist Ted Rall \u201cdescribed an incident in which he was stopped for jaywalking\u201d in 2001, Nicholas Goldberg, the Times\u2019s editorial page editor, recounts.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> \u201cRall said he was thrown up against a wall, handcuffed and roughed up by an LAPD motorcycle policeman who also threw his driver\u2019s license into the sewer.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rall also wrote that dozens of onlookers shouted in protest at the officer\u2019s conduct.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Goldberg explains the post did not withstand fact-checking:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Since then, the Los Angeles Police Department has provided records about the incident, including a complaint Rall filed at the time. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">An audiotape of the encounter recorded by the police officer does not back up Rall\u2019s assertions; it gives no indication that there was physical violence of any sort by the policeman or that Rall\u2019s license was thrown into the sewer or that he was handcuffed.<\/span> Nor is there any evidence on the recording of a crowd of shouting onlookers.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>In Rall\u2019s initial complaint to the LAPD, he describes the incident without mentioning any physical violence or handcuffing but says that the police officer was \u201cbelligerent and hostile\u201d and that he threw Rall\u2019s license into the \u201cgutter.\u201d The tape depicts a polite interaction.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>In addition, Rall wrote in his blog post that the LAPD dismissed his complaint without ever contacting him. Department records show that internal affairs investigators made repeated attempts to contact Rall, without success.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Asked to explain these inconsistencies, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rall said he stands by his blog post<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9DKb3XCcAEBdGA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9DKb3XCcAEBdGA-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"B9DKb3XCcAEBdGA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9DKb3XCcAEBdGA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/B9DKb3XCcAEBdGA.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Holy, &#8220;The story was fake, but accurate&#8221;, Batman!&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>As to why he didn\u2019t mention any physical abuse in his letter to the LAPD in 2001, Rall said he didn\u2019t want to make an enemy of the department, in part because he hosted a local radio talk show at the time. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">After listening to the tape, Rall noted that it was of poor quality and contained inaudible segments.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Goldberg now says \u201cthe piece should not have been published\u201d and Rall\u2019s work will no longer appear in the Times<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/left-gives-up-on-democracy-again.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Ted Rall<\/a><\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BeingTedRall.gif\" alt=\"BeingTedRall\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;like every other lying Liberal, he knows so much that isn&#8217;t so!<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 Color us nonplussed!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, July 31st, 2015&#8230;and here&#8217;s wishing our middle son Michael a very Happy 30th Birthday; enjoy the surf&#8230; &#8230;or better yet&#8230; &#8230;a Pomeranian in your pants! Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge! Leading off the last edition of July, in the\u00a0Yet Another Sign the Apocalypse is Upon Us\u00a0segment, what&#8217;s wrong with this picture?!? Restraining order issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32529,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions\/32529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}