{"id":34069,"date":"2015-11-25T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=34069"},"modified":"2015-11-25T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T04:40:40","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-november-25th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=34069","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, November 25th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 25th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, a quick quote and a brief video well worth remembering. \u00a0First, courtesy of <em>Hope n&#8217; Change<\/em>, the quote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>There is no power on Earth<\/em> &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>certainly not radical Islam<\/em><\/span> &#8211; <em>which can bring down our nation as long as we believe in ourselves and each other, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and reinstitute a most American institution<\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the melting pot which simultaneously celebrates ethnic, national, and religious diversity while bonding our citizenry in a proud, singular, and unifying culture<\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This<\/span> is what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">America&#8217;s greatest enemy has focused his attentions on destroying<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 An enemy who, ironically, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">was never thoroughly vetted<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/706-obama-laughing-512x248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34045\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/706-obama-laughing-512x248.jpg\" alt=\"706-obama-laughing-512x248\" width=\"400\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/706-obama-laughing-512x248.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/706-obama-laughing-512x248-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, the video, brought to us by Tom Bakke and <em>C-SPAN;\u00a0<\/em>we report, you decide&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/standalone\/?c4560477\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;but that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sure as hell<\/em><\/span> sounded like the inclusive &#8220;we&#8221; to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span><\/em>&#8230;particularly coming from a huckster who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never<\/em><\/span> answers a question which hasn&#8217;t been prescreened, or gives a speech without multiple rehearsals&#8230;not to mention the constant presence of a teleprompter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leading off the mid-week edition, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Morning Jolt<\/em>, Jim Geraghty calls attention to a list of names The Obamao and his MSM sycophants would rather have kept anonymous:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"middle\">\n<h1 class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>The Americans Slain by ISIS That You Haven\u2019t Heard About Yet<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"p3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Barack-Obomber-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Barack-Obomber-1.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obomber 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Barack-Obomber-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Barack-Obomber-1-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Courtesy of Hope n&#8217; Change, we present Barack Obomber!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">A week ago, Wednesday:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span class=\"s1\">Three Dearborn residents, including a mother of four who had returned to her native Lebanon in a quest to bring her family to the U.S., were among at least 43 slain Thursday in twin terrorist bombings in Lebanon . . . Also killed was Leila Mazloum, who recently became a permanent resident of the U.S., and had moved to Dearborn in the past year.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span class=\"s4\"><em>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">week<\/span> ago Thursday Obama said ISIS was <\/em><span class=\"s5\"><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">contained<\/span>\u201d and said it was \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">premature<\/span>\u201d to say that ISIS is \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the greatest terror threat in the world<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">A week ago, <span class=\"s6\">Friday<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span class=\"s1\">A 23-year-old California State University, Long Beach student was killed in the Paris terror attacks, the school announced Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Nohemi Gonzalez, an El Monte resident, was a junior studying interior design. She was in Paris attending the Strate College of Design as part of a semester abroad program.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">Last Monday:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span class=\"s1\">ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Jordanian police training facility that left two Americans dead &#8212; an attack Jordan says had no links to terrorist groups.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">In addition to the two Americans, one South African trainer and two Jordanian translators were also killed.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">Thursday<\/span><span class=\"s4\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span class=\"s1\">An 18-year-old U.S. citizen was among three people killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"><em>Ezra Schwartz, an 18-year-old resident of Sharon, Massachusetts, was a recent graduate of the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">Friday<\/span><span class=\"s4\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em><span class=\"s1\">Anita Ashok Datar, an American aid worker of Indian-origin was among the 27 victims of the terrorist massacre in Bamako, Mali, the Obama administration confirmed on Friday, even as world powers closed ranks at the United Nations to defeat the terrorist group ISIS.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image0011.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"400\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image0011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image0011-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><em>ISIS and its affiliates or related Islamist groups have had a really good month for killing Americans<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(A total of nine!)<\/span>\u00a0<em>They\u2019ve done it on three continents.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>In a related item, <em>PJMedia<\/em>&#8216;s Patrick Poole highlights yet another abject error in judgment you won&#8217;t read or hear mentioned anywhere in the MSM, let alone the actual source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/homeland-security\/2015\/11\/24\/msnbcs-no-fly-list-is-islamophobia-poster-boy-arrested-in-turkey-as-part-of-isis-cell\">MSNBC&#8217;s &#8216;No-Fly List Is Islamophobia&#8217; Poster Boy Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Chris-Hayes-Saadiq-Long.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34046\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Chris-Hayes-Saadiq-Long.jpg\" alt=\"Chris-Hayes-Saadiq-Long\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Chris-Hayes-Saadiq-Long.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Chris-Hayes-Saadiq-Long-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A man, who just two years ago was the poster boy for the far-Left media&#8217;s attacks against the U.S. government&#8217;s no-fly list for &#8220;unfairly&#8221; targeting Muslims, finds himself and several family members sitting in a Turkish prison &#8212; arrested earlier this month near the Turkey-Syria border as members of an ISIS cell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It&#8217;s a long way from 2013 when Saadiq Long&#8217;s cause was being championed by MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes, Glenn Greenwald, and <em>Mother Jones<\/em>, and was being represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) terror front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>His story got considerable media attention when his CAIR media representatives here pushed the story that Long wanted to return to his native Oklahoma from his current home in Qatar to visit his ailing mother but couldn&#8217;t because he was on the TSA&#8217;s no-fly list. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">They said his case represented institutional &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;U.S. and Turkish officials confirmed Long&#8217;s arrest to PJ Media, saying that he was arrested along with eight others operating along the Turkish-Syrian border. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So far, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no U.S. media outlet has reported on his arrest<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;I have emailed Long&#8217;s CAIR handler, Adam Soltani, asking for comment. An email to his attorney Gadeir Abbas was returned as undeliverable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Consider this graphic forwarded by Chris Giberson&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0021.png\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0021.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0021-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;then ask yourself, how many of the hypocrites castigating those calling for caution would let <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>their<\/em> <em>children<\/em> or <em>grandchildren<\/em><\/span> eat&#8230;particularly when the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>real<\/em><\/span>\u00a0number of poisoned M&amp;Ms isn&#8217;t <em>10<\/em>, but far closer to<em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1,000<\/span><\/em>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately, the Syrian refugee misdirection is just the tip of the iceberg. \u00a0For as Victor Davis Hanson notes at <em>NRO<\/em>, despite having only 14 more months in office&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/427522\/obamas-most-dangerous-year?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Jolt11242015&amp;utm_term=Jolt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Obama Has Just Begun<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/427522\/obamas-most-dangerous-year?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Jolt11242015&amp;utm_term=Jolt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How much damage can he do in his last year in office<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKHUGvde7KU?start=4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Insidiously and inadvertently, Barack Obama is alienating the people and moving the country to the right. If he keeps it up, by 2017 it will be a reactionary nation. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But, counterintuitive as it seems, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that is fine with Obama<\/span>: <em>Apr\u00e8s nous le d\u00e9luge<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;A lot of ambitious and dangerous powers are watching Obama assume a fetal position, and may well as a consequence act foolishly and recklessly this next year. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Not only Russia, China, and North Korea, but also Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, ISIS, and assorted rogue states <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>may take chances in the next 14 months that they would otherwise never have entertained<\/em><\/span> (given that America is innately strong and they are mostly in comparison far weaker) \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>on the premise that such adventurism offers tangible advantages without likely negative consequences and that the chance for such opportunities will not present itself again for decades to come<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At home, Obama feels liberated now that he is free from further elections. He thinks he has a legitimate right to be a bit vindictive and vent his own frustrations and pique, heretofore repressed over the last seven years because of the exigencies of Democratic electioneering. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Obama can now vent and strike back at his opponents, caricaturing them from abroad, questioning their patriotism, slandering them for sport, and trying to figure out which emblematic executive orders and extra-legal bureaucratic directives will most infuriate them and repay them for their supposed culpability for his failed <em>vero possumus<\/em> presidency.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(It ain&#8217;t like Mitch McConnell&#8217;s going to do anything to stop him!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The more contrarian he becomes, and the more he opposes the wishes of the vast majority of the American people, <em>all the more Obama envisions himself speaking truth to power and becoming iconic of something <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rather than the reality that he is becoming proof of nothing<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Hold on.<\/span> <em>We haven\u2019t seen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">anything<\/span> yet<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, courtesy of the <em>Daily Caller<\/em>, the latest from the creature whose election could only further the advancement of The Obamao&#8217;s particular brand of Communism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff00ff;\"><a style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/11\/22\/backfire-hillary-tweets-all-sexual-abuse-accusers-deserve-to-be-believed-is-reminded-of-her-husband\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Backfire: Hillary Tweets All Sexual Abuse Accusers Deserve To Be \u2018Believed,\u2019 Is Reminded Of Her Husband<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hillary-Hypocrisy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hillary-Hypocrisy.png\" alt=\"Hillary Hypocrisy\" width=\"503\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hillary-Hypocrisy.png 503w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Hillary-Hypocrisy-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUd8O_mUYAInCZ0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUd8O_mUYAInCZ0.jpg\" alt=\"CUd8O_mUYAInCZ0\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUd8O_mUYAInCZ0.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CUd8O_mUYAInCZ0-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, don&#8217;t wait to catch an honest analysis of Hillary&#8217;s rank hypocrisy on the evening news.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the undeniably Liberal bias of the modern Fourth Estate, writing at\u00a0<\/b><strong><em>Best of the Web<\/em>, James Taranto reveals the reality behind Progressive protestations of even the possibility of a prejudiced Press:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u2018Of Course I Have a Bias\u2019<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Smith-College-sit-in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Smith-College-sit-in.jpg\" alt=\"Smith-College-sit-in\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Smith-College-sit-in.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Smith-College-sit-in-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the annals of campus madness, this item from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican was enough to raise objections even from some liberal reporters:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In an effort to create a safe space free from potential insensitivity from the news media, activists at Smith College barred reporters from covering a sit-in Wednesday that drew 300 to 500 students.<\/span>\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Alyssa Mata-Flores, a 21-year-old Smith College senior and one of the sit-in\u2019s organizers, explained that the rule was born from \u201cthe way that media has historically painted radical black movements as violent and aggressive.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We are asking that any journalists or press that cover our story participate and articulate their solidarity with black students and students of color<\/span>,\u201d she told MassLive in the Student Center Wednesday. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">By taking a neutral stance, journalists and media are being complacent in our fight<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Washington Post expressed incredulity: \u201cThese College Protesters Are Demanding the Media Who Cover Them Support Their Cause. Really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Just wow, right. The. Post. Has. No. Words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But. Wait. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Where did these young totalitarians get the idea that journalists should be partial to their cause?<\/span> Maybe <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>here<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Replied the reporter [to a reader complaining of bias]: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cThe reason that legitimate media outlets routinely cover gays is because it is the civil rights issue of our time. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Journalism, at its core, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is about justice and fairness<\/span>, and that\u2019s the \u2018view of the world\u2019 that we espouse; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">therefore, journalists are going to cover the segment of society that is still not treated equally under the law<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>The reader: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cContrary to what you say, the mission of journalism is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> justice. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Defining justice is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">political<\/span> matter, not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">journalistic<\/span>.<\/span> Journalism should be about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">accuracy<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fairness<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>\u201cGood journalism also means not demeaning conservatives as \u2018haters.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>The reporter: \u201cAs for accuracy, should the media make room for racists, i.e. those people who believe that black people shouldn\u2019t marry white people? Any story on African-Americans wouldn\u2019t be wholly accurate without the opinion of a racist, right?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cOf course I have a bias. I have a bias toward fairness,\u201d the reporter continued.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cThe true conservative would have the same bias. The true conservative would want the government out of people\u2019s bedrooms, and religion out of government.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That was from a 2013 column by Patrick Pexton, ombudsman for\u2014get ready\u2014the Washington Post. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Pexton sided with the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>reader<\/em><\/span>: \u201cThe Post should do a better job of understanding and conveying to readers, with detachment and objectivity, the beliefs and the fears of social conservatives.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>But Pexton no longer works at the Post, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>which has abolished the ombudsman position<\/em><\/span>. As for the reporter who defended biased coverage\u2014well, who knows? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Pexton did not tell readers who it was.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Total the number of reporters working at the <em>WaPo<\/em>, and THAT&#8217;S your list of possible suspects.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, another Educated Idiot weighs in on the impact of anthropogenic global warming:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1448315625617_1193\" class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/britains-prince-charles-climate-change-root-cause-syrian-092031663--business.html\">Climate change root cause of Syrian war: Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/charles1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34049\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/charles1.jpg\" alt=\"charles1\" width=\"372\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/charles1.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/charles1-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Tweedledum and Tweedledummer!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1448315625617_1207\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Britain&#8217;s Prince Charles has pointed to the world&#8217;s failure to tackle climate change as a root cause of the civil war in Syria, terrorism and the consequent refugee crisis engulfing Europe.\u00a0The heir to the British throne is due to give a keynote speech at the opening of a global climate summit in Paris next week where 118 leaders will gather to try to nail down a deal to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The prince said in an interview with Sky News, to be aired on Monday and recorded before the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, that such symptoms were a &#8220;classic case of not dealing with the problem&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>&#8220;Some of us were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn&#8217;t tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and the accumulating effect of climate change which means that people have to move<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;And in fact there&#8217;s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>funnily enough<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land but increasingly they came into the cities<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And here <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>we<\/em><\/span> thought the mass exodus from Syria was due (a) to the tyranny of Bashar al-Assad, the mass-murderer <em>Hillary<\/em>\u00a0referred to as a &#8220;reformer&#8221;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/GTY_bashar_al_assad_balcony_tk_130829_16x9_608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/GTY_bashar_al_assad_balcony_tk_130829_16x9_608.jpg\" alt=\"GTY_bashar_al_assad_balcony_tk_130829_16x9_608\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/GTY_bashar_al_assad_balcony_tk_130829_16x9_608.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/GTY_bashar_al_assad_balcony_tk_130829_16x9_608-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8230;(b) the barbarous brutality of the Islamic extremists <em>B. Hussein<\/em> termed the &#8220;junior varsity&#8221;&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jordanpilot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jordanpilot.jpg\" alt=\"jordanpilot\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jordanpilot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jordanpilot-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8230;and (c) the feckless foreign policy&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lunch_c0-64-1024-660_s561x327.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34052\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lunch_c0-64-1024-660_s561x327.jpg\" alt=\"lunch_c0-64-1024-660_s561x327\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lunch_c0-64-1024-660_s561x327.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lunch_c0-64-1024-660_s561x327-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8230;the two of them <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>co-authored<\/em><\/span>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earth to Charles: Syria&#8217;s average annual rainfall is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>14&#8243;<\/em><\/span>; it&#8217;s a friggin&#8217; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>DESERT<\/em><\/span>, you pompous royal ass! \u00a0It&#8217;s been a desert as long as the House of Windsor&#8217;s been living the good life on the backs of the Britains! \u00a0Then again, what should one expect from an inbred half-wit who traded in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MI-Princess-Diana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MI-Princess-Diana.jpg\" alt=\"MI+Princess+Diana\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MI-Princess-Diana.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/MI-Princess-Diana-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/camilla_1832419c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/camilla_1832419c.jpg\" alt=\"camilla_1832419c\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/camilla_1832419c.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/camilla_1832419c-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Any questions?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMF800clr-112515-not-IBD-C.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/RAMF800clr-112515-not-IBD-C.gif\" alt=\"RAMF800clr-112515-not-IBD-C\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kn112415dAPR20151122104512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34035\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kn112415dAPR20151122104512.jpg\" alt=\"kn112415dAPR20151122104512\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kn112415dAPR20151122104512.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kn112415dAPR20151122104512-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112015dAPR20151120084657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112015dAPR20151120084657.jpg\" alt=\"cb112015dAPR20151120084657\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112015dAPR20151120084657.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112015dAPR20151120084657-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gmc13693920151120034300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gmc13693920151120034300.jpg\" alt=\"gmc13693920151120034300\" width=\"462\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gmc13693920151120034300.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gmc13693920151120034300-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bg112315dBP20151123044533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bg112315dBP20151123044533.jpg\" alt=\"bg112315dBP20151123044533\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bg112315dBP20151123044533.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bg112315dBP20151123044533-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112315dAPC20151124123538.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112315dAPC20151124123538.jpg\" alt=\"cb112315dAPC20151124123538\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112315dAPC20151124123538.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cb112315dAPC20151124123538-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-17.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-17.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-17.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-17-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-23.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-23.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-23.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download-23-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download10.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download10.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/download10-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, in the Sports Section, <\/strong><strong>when is an &#8220;apology&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> an apology? \u00a0When the apologizer expresses, by his own admission, zero remorse for his offense. \u00a0To whit, Ezekiel Elliot of Ohio State University, after blaming a coach who&#8217;s only won <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>3 national championships<\/em><\/span> for not giving him the ball more, despite only gaining 33 yards on 12 carries:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>I am sorry for all those offended by the statements made by me Saturday after OUR loss. <span style=\"color: #999999;\">My intentions were not to point fingers at anyone for OUR failures.<\/span> I was caught up in emotions.<span style=\"color: #999999;\"> I hope everyone can understand how strongly I love this team and this university and how much I wanted to win that game <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but I do not regret anything I said<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #999999;\">.<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><b>What a douche! \u00a0Best of luck in the NFL, Zeke; break a leg!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, November 25th, 2015&#8230;but before we begin, a quick quote and a brief video well worth remembering. \u00a0First, courtesy of Hope n&#8217; Change, the quote: &#8220;There is no power on Earth &#8211; certainly not radical Islam &#8211; which can bring down our nation as long as we believe in ourselves and each other, and [&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-34069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069","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=34069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions\/34070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}