{"id":59976,"date":"2018-06-03T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=59976"},"modified":"2018-06-03T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:14:18","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-june-1st-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=59976","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, June 1st, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, June 1st, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, as\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Keith Koffler recently noted at his <em>White House Dossier<\/em>, if we can believe the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehousedossier.com\/2018\/05\/29\/netflix-chief-obama-network\/?awt_l=6Oa_r&amp;awt_m=3iE6VK_hszTM1Od\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Netflix Chief: \u201cIt\u2019s Not the Obama Network<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moochie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moochie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moochie.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moochie-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah,&#8230;and <em>Pravda<\/em>, <em>Izvestia<\/em> and <em>Tass<\/em>\u00a0were <em>independent<\/em> &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>news<\/em><\/span>&#8221; organizations!\u00a0 After all, doesn&#8217;t EVERY streaming service sign $50,000,000 contracts to &#8220;produce&#8221; content with couples <em>possessing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no prior production experience whatsoever<\/span><\/em>?!?\u00a0 This is <em>NBC<\/em> hiring Chelsea Clinton for over $600,000\/year for who knows <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what<\/em><\/span>\u00a0on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hemorrhoids<\/em><\/span>&#8230;er,&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>steroids<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As <em>CNN premeditatively\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">misstated<\/span><\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Obamas want to highlight positive stories about people making a difference, <em>they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do not<\/span> want to use it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as a platform to take on President Trump<\/span> (at least <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">directly<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IOfMKv5fxgQ?start=19\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, a retiring Republican Representative recently offered these rather intriguing observations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2018\/05\/29\/donald-trump-russia-probe-gowdy-says-he-should-be-upset-democrats-obama-not-fbi\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gowdy on Trump&#8217;s Spy Claims: I&#8217;m &#8216;Convinced&#8217; FBI Did What Americans Would Want Them to Do<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subheadline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2018\/05\/29\/donald-trump-russia-probe-gowdy-says-he-should-be-upset-democrats-obama-not-fbi\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Says Trump &#8216;was never the target<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hqdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59905\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hqdefault.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Never&#8221;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>NEVER<\/em><\/span>?!?\u00a0 Inquiring minds who&#8217;ve long wondered why Lois Lerner was never incarcerated in the House jail, let alone remains unindicted, wonder no longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Kim Strassel offers a second opinion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">The Curious Case of Mr. Downer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI\u2019s into question<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-16.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-16.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-16.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-16-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hey, if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trey Gowdy<\/span> believes it, it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MUST<\/span> be true&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> in the best interest of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">America<\/span>!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, <em>its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">comes down to a foreign tip about a 28-year-old fourth-tier Trump adviser, George Papadopoulos<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The FBI\u2019s media scribes have dutifully reported the bare facts of that \u201cintel.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <strong>We are told the infamous tip came from Alexander Downer, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at the time the Australian ambassador to the U.K<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mr. Downer invited Mr. Papadopoulos for a drink<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>WHY<\/em><\/span><em>?!? How would Alexander Downer have the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">faintest clue<\/span> as to who or what Papadopoulos was?!?<\/em>)<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">in early May 2016, where the aide told the ambassador the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton.<\/span><\/span> Word of this encounter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at some point<\/em><\/span> reached the FBI, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>inspiring it to launch its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>Notably<\/em> (nay, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>suspiciously<\/em><\/span>) <em>absent or muddled are the details of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how and when<\/span> that information made its way to the FBI, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what exactly was transmitted<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> A December 2017 New York Times story vaguely explains that the Australians passed the info to \u201cAmerican counterparts\u201d about \u201ctwo months later,\u201d and that once it \u201creached the FBI,\u201d the bureau acted. Even the Times admits it\u2019s \u201cnot clear\u201d why it took the Aussies so long to flip such a supposedly smoking tip.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>The story meanwhile slyly leads readers to believe that Mr. Papadopoulos told Mr. Downer that Moscow had \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>thousands of emails<\/em><\/span>,\u201d <em>but read it closely and the Times in fact never specifies <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what<\/span> the Trump aide said, beyond \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dirt<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When Mr. Downer ended his service in the U.K. this April, he sat for an interview with the Australian, a national newspaper, and \u201cspoke for the first time\u201d about the Papadopoulos event. Mr. Downer said he officially reported the Papadopoulos meeting back to Australia \u201cthe following day or a day or two after,\u201d as it \u201cseemed quite interesting.\u201d<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <strong>The story nonchalantly notes that \u201cafter a period of time, Australia\u2019s ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, passed the information on to Washington.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>My reporting indicates otherwise<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A diplomatic source tells me <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mr. Hockey neither transmitted any information to the FBI nor was approached by the U.S. about the tip<\/em><\/span>. <\/span>Rather, it was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mr. Downer<\/em><\/span> who at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>some point<\/em><\/span> decided to convey his information\u2014<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>to the U.S. Embassy in London<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That matters<\/span> because it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> how things <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are normally done<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Trey Gowdy&#8217;s contention to the contrary notwithstanding.\u00a0 And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the rest<\/em><\/span>, as they say, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is history<\/em><\/span>, courtesy of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Jeff Sessions<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the man whose only notable achievement as Attorney General has been his principled opposition to the irresistible tide of marijuana legalization, as\u00a0<em>NRO<\/em>\u00a0reports, The Donald has nomination remorse:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/link.nationalreview.com\/click\/13401289.47808\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0aW9uYWxyZXZpZXcuY29tL25ld3MvamVmZi1zZXNzaW9ucy10cnVtcC13aXNoZXMtcGlja2VkLWRpZmZlcmVudC1hdHRvcm5leS1nZW5lcmFsLw\/547fd4393b35d0210c8dec30C97958e9e\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trump: \u2018I Wish I Did\u2019 Not Pick Jeff Sessions for Attorney General<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2bdlua.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2bdlua.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2bdlua.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2bdlua-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We second <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> emotion, as if he hadn&#8217;t, America would still have two Republican senators representing Alabama and deservedly consigned Robert Mueller to the dustbin of history.\u00a0 Trump has been highly (<em>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rightly<\/span><\/em>!) critical of Sessions ever since his cowardly recusal, blasting the former senator for not launching full-blown investigations into Hillary&#8217;s email, Uranium One, James Comey and Andrew McCabe&#8230;not to mention Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and the rest of the Commie cast of Hillary-Hur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, again courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, David French disseminates&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header article-header--full\" data-component=\"articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/fbi-active-shooter-data-shows-importance-of-armed-citizens\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New FBI Data on Active Shooters Shows the Importance of Armed Citizens<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\" style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/fbi-active-shooter-data-shows-importance-of-armed-citizens\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The millions of Americans who are ready, willing, and able to defend themselves and others should carry a gun in public<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RTS1Q1BB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RTS1Q1BB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RTS1Q1BB.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/RTS1Q1BB-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;A<\/span>fter reading the FBI\u2019s\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/active-shooter-incidents-us-2016-2017.pdf\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest report<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>on active-shooter incidents in the United States, two things are increasingly clear.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> First, the United States has a growing problem with actual or attempted spree killers.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">And second, armed and alert citizens <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can<\/em><\/span> be\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>part<\/em><\/span>\u00a0of the solution.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Let\u2019s begin with the problem.<\/strong> <\/span>The FBI defines an \u201cactive shooter\u201d as \u201cone or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.\u201d In many ways, it\u2019s a better metric for our nation\u2019s mass-shooting problem because it includes attempts, not just completed mass killings (which the FBI defines as \u201cthree or more killings in a single incident\u201d).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Make no mistake, active shooters are on the rise.<\/strong><\/span> In 2016 and 2017 there were a total of 50 active-shooter situations, 20 in 2016, and 30 in 2017. These shooters inflicted a total of 943 casualties, with 221 people killed. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Let\u2019s contrast this with previous years.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In 2014 and 2015, there were<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/activeshooterincidentsus_2014-2015.pdf\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 active-shooter incidents<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>(20 each year), which inflicted a total of 231 casualties, with 92 fatalities.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Extending the analysis even farther, we find that\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/active-shooter-study-2000-2013-1.pdf\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">between 2000 and 2013<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>there were an average 11.4 incidents per year, with a low of just one in 2000 and a high of 26 in 2010.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>14 years<\/em><\/span> between 2000 and 2013, there were 20 or more active-shooting incidents <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>only twice<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">There have been 20 or more incidents\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every year\u00a0since<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> In other words: <em>America, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we have a problem<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">As I wrote right after the Santa Fe school massacre, the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/why-do-mass-shootings-happen-best-explanation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best explanation<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">for the rise in active shooters is the least comforting.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>That explanation comes from Malcolm Gladwell in a<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/10\/19\/thresholds-of-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seminal 2015 essay<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>for the\u00a0<em>New Yorker\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>As featured in an earlier edition of The Gouge.<\/em>)<\/span>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In essence, we are in the midst of a slow-motion \u201criot\u201d of mass shootings, with each shooting lowering the threshold for the next.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Any <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sophisticated<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>&#8220;sophisticated&#8221;: spelled &#8220;i-n-t-e-l-l-i-g-e-n-t&#8221; or &#8220;r-e-a-s-o-n-e-d&#8221;<\/em>)<\/span>\u00a0approach to a problem involves discussing potential solutions both left of boom (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>before<\/em><\/span> the shooting) and right of boom (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>after<\/em><\/span> the shooting starts). <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Gun control is a classic left-of-boom approach, designed to prevent attacks before they can happen.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Even Gladwell is skeptical of its effectiveness<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">While <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he\u2019s said<\/em><\/span> that gun control \u201c<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has its place<\/span><\/em>,\u201d he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also<\/em><\/span> says, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Let\u2019s not kid ourselves that if we passed the strictest gun control in the world that we would end this particular kind of behavior<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In fact, as the\u00a0<em>Washington Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Glenn Kessler<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2015\/12\/10\/marco-rubios-claim-that-no-recent-mass-shootings-would-have-been-prevented-by-gun-laws\/?utm_term=.0890b3aa7e95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">found in a now-famous fact check<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no recent mass shooting would have been prevented by any of the conventional gun restrictions progressives often propose<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But this isn\u2019t a left-of-boom essay. <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Let\u2019s talk about what happens <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>when<\/em><\/span> the shooting starts.<\/span> Here, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the FBI provides extremely helpful data<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">How do shootings <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>end<\/em><\/span>?<\/span> The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>most common<\/em><\/span> ways are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>exactly what you\u2019d expect<\/em><\/span>: The shooters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>kill themselves<\/em><\/span> or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>flee<\/em><\/span>, or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the police exchange gunfire with the shooter and\/or apprehend him<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> But a surprising amount of the time <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>surprising at least to the uninformed or willfully blind<\/em>)<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>citizens<\/em><\/span> stop the killer, <em>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">an increasing percentage<\/span> of those citizens <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are armed<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good news for John Q. Average Citizen, bad news for the knee-jerk anti-gun narrative of the mindless Left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of knee-jerk reactions from the mindless Left, courtesy of\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>, Brian Flood relates yet another&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/05\/29\/embarrassment-for-new-york-times-as-top-editor-falls-for-old-photo-amid-weekend-misleading-anti-trump-tweets.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Embarrassment for New York Times as top editor falls for old photo amid weekend of misleading anti-Trump tweets<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jake.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jake.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/jake-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incorrectly shared Obama-era pictures of children sleeping in enclosed cages to take a swipe at the Trump administration<\/em><\/span> \u2013 <em>and that was only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one<\/span> of<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> several<\/span> Twitter stumbles by anti-Trump public figures over the holiday weekend<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">It turned out the photographs were published by<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/immigration\/2014\/06\/18\/arizona-immigrant-children-holding-area-tour\/10780449\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Arizona Republic<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in 2014<\/em><\/span> after authorities detained over 1,000 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and placed them in a detention facility.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u201cAll of these photos are disturbing, but the first two are especially awful,\u201d Silverstein wrote in the tweet, along with a link headlined, \u201cFirst glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Silverstein was widely criticized for the blunder and his \u201ccorrection\u201d received over 1,400 responses ranging from followers referring to the Times as \u201cfake news\u201d to followers criticizing the editor for blaming his family.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fake.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59866\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fake.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fake-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Next he&#8217;s going to blame Ambien!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This is what happens when you throw away your journalistic standards in favor of political bias<\/em><\/span>,\u201d one user responded while another wrote, \u201cWe could have done without the excuse.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">CNN reporter Hadas Gold\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1000909585111134208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">also shared the Obama-era image<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">, prompting White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to\u00a0ask a CNN reporter about the situation\u00a0on Tuesday:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>\u201cYour CNN colleague retweeted two migrant children, I suppose, laying in a cage to make the point against this president. <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">It happened under President Obama\u2019s watch and then [she] deleted the tweet because it didn\u2019t fit the narrative,\u201d Conway said when approached by a CNN staffer at the White House before asking, \u201cDo you or do you not care about the migrant children?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Gold eventually deleted her tweet and wrote, \u201cDeleted previous tweet because gave impression of recent photos (they\u2019re from 2014),\u201d but hundreds of responses\u00a0ripped the CNN reporter\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>deservedly!<\/em>)<\/span> for the misleading tweet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hadass.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59867\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hadass.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hadass.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hadass-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No<\/em><\/span> you did not \u2018<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>give the impression<\/em><\/span>.\u2019<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>You flat out said it<\/em><\/span>,\u201d\u00a0one user wrote\u00a0while another\u00a0said, \u201c<em>Don&#8217;t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">delete<\/span> it. You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">could&#8217;ve<\/span>\u00a0said \u2018Correction: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">These were children detained under the Obama administration<\/span><\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/jon-favreau-twitter-fail-obama-media-narratives\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em>David French notes at NRO<\/em><\/span><\/a>, &#8220;This is what happens when narratives trump truth.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on the subject of narratives trumping truth, we turn to this commentary from\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Julie Kelly writing at\u00a0<em>American Greatness<\/em>\u00a0as forwarded by G. Trevor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title fusion-post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-fontsize=\"30\" data-lineheight=\"42\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/05\/30\/dear-ex-friends-in-the-resistance\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Dear Ex-Friends in #TheResistance<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-921996448.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59880\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-921996448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-921996448.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GettyImages-921996448-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">&#8220;H<\/span>ey, what\u2019s up. Long time no talk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>I think the last civil conversations we had occurred just days before November 8, 2016. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">You were supremely confident Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election; <em>you voted for her <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">with glee<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> As a lifelong Republican, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I bit down hard<\/em><\/span> and cast my vote for Donald Trump. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Then the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unimaginable<\/em><\/span> happened.<\/span> <em>He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won<\/span><\/em>. <em>And <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\">lost your fucking minds<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I knew you would take the loss hard\u2014and personally\u2014since all of you were super jacked-up to elect the first woman president.<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong> But I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did not imagine<\/em><\/span> you would become <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>totally deranged<\/em><\/span>, attacking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span> who <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>voted<\/em><\/span> for Trump <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or<\/em><\/span> supported his presidency a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>s a racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic Nazi-sympathizer<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>The weirdness started on social media late on Election Night, <em>as it became <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">clear<\/span> Hillary was going to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">lose<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">A few of you actually admitted that you were cradling your sleeping children, weeping, wondering what to tell your kindergartner the next morning about Trump\u2019s victory.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<em>Which leaves us wondering what you would have told them in the wake of the revelation Bill Clinton whacked off into door jamb of the Oral Orifice!<\/em>)\u00a0<\/span>It continued over the next several days. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Some of you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seriously<\/em><\/span> expressed fear about modern-day concentration camps. <\/span>Despite living a privileged lifestyle, you were suddenly a casualty of the white patriarchy. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Your daughters were future victims; your sons were predators-in-waiting.<\/span> You threatened to leave Facebook <em>because you could no longer enjoy the family photos or vacation posts from people who, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">once friends<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">became Literal Hitlers to you on November 8 because they voted for Donald Trump<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>I admit I was a little hurt at first. <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/12\/scientific-community-2016-election-anti-donald-trump-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">attacks<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0against us Trump voters were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so<\/em><\/span> personal and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so<\/em><\/span> vicious that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I did not think it could be sustained<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> I thought <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>maybe<\/em><\/span> you would regain your sanity after some turkey and egg nog.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><em>But you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did not<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>You got <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">worse<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> And I went from <em>sad<\/em> to <em>angry<\/em> to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>where I am today<\/em><\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Amused<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a case in point via Joe Wulfsohn writing at\u00a0<em>Mediaite.com<\/em>, who is honest enough to highlight MSM hypocrisy of the rankest variety, as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/jim-acosta-trashes-kim-kardashians-prison-reform-efforts-as-not-serious-after-taking-john-legends-seriously-in-2015\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; text-decoration: underline;\">Jim Acosta Trashes Kim Kardashian\u2019s Prison Reform Efforts As Not \u2018Serious\u2019 After Taking John Legend\u2019s Seriously in 2015<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNN-Drama-Queen-Jim-Acosta-Embarrasses-Himself-AGAIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNN-Drama-Queen-Jim-Acosta-Embarrasses-Himself-AGAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNN-Drama-Queen-Jim-Acosta-Embarrasses-Himself-AGAIN.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNN-Drama-Queen-Jim-Acosta-Embarrasses-Himself-AGAIN-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Acosta said Kim Kardashian \u201cshouldn\u2019t be here talking about prison reform,\u201d <em>something he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">never said<\/span> about John Legend <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in 2015<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Let\u2019s give him the benefit of the doubt that sexism isn\u2019t a factor. So what is? <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Perhaps it\u2019s his disdain for Donald Trump, a president who he essentially admitted doesn\u2019t take seriously.<\/strong><\/span> If that\u2019s his position, fine. But specifically on prison reform,\u00a0the House just passed a bipartisan bill\u00a0that Kushner personally had a major role in constructing. And Kardashian has put a spotlight on\u00a0Alice Marie Johnson\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mic\/status\/922495751296499712\">heartbreaking story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0since last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Between President Trump, Jared Kushner, Kim Kardashian, and even Congress, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>everyone<\/em><\/span> seems to be taking prison reform <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>seriously<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>Well, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everyone except Jim Acosta<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The carriage driver in <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> had Acosta <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>pegged<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sZ76ckSPSGE\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>And a lying, hypocritical a*shole&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2be68b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2be68b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2be68b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2be68b-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on the subject of lying, hypocritical sphincters,\u00a0<em>FOX News<\/em>\u00a0records the righteous&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline head1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/05\/31\/samantha-bee-calls-ivanka-trump-feckless-c-and-says-should-put-on-something-tight-and-low-cut.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">Outrage as Samantha Bee calls Ivanka Trump a &#8216;feckless c&#8212;,&#8217; says she should &#8216;put on something tight and low cut<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ivanka.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ivanka.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ivanka.png 325w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ivanka-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though both Bee and <em>TBS<\/em> have since &#8220;apologized&#8221;, we recall Roseanne &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/05\/31\/roseanne-says-begged-abc-like-40-motherf-s-to-let-her-make-amends-before-show-was-axed.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>apologized<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8221; as well.\u00a0 Yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>her<\/em><\/span> show&#8217;s still cancelled while <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Bee<\/em><\/span>&#8216;s remains on the air.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/05\/31\/samantha-bee-may-have-apologized-but-kathy-griffin-sally-field-other-hollywood-liberals-standing-by-her.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Sally Field, Kathy Griffin and any other Leftist defending Bee&#8217;s vulgarity<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2Hgj3hDM5w\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1ou7bc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1ou7bc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1ou7bc.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1ou7bc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1ou7bc-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg053118dAPC20180531124505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg053118dAPC20180531124505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg053118dAPC20180531124505.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg053118dAPC20180531124505-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb053018dAPR20180531124506.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb053018dAPR20180531124506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb053018dAPR20180531124506.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/cb053018dAPR20180531124506-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roseanne.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roseanne.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roseanne.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/roseanne-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aria_c15777220180529120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aria_c15777220180529120100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aria_c15777220180529120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/aria_c15777220180529120100-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052918dAPR20180529024509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052918dAPR20180529024509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052918dAPR20180529024509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bg052918dAPR20180529024509-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sk052818dAPR20180528044509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59862\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sk052818dAPR20180528044509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sk052818dAPR20180528044509.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sk052818dAPR20180528044509-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Planet-of-the-Japes-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Planet-of-the-Japes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Planet-of-the-Japes-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Planet-of-the-Japes-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Deja-Virtue-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Deja-Virtue-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Deja-Virtue-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Deja-Virtue-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-29-18-at-8.10-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59863\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-29-18-at-8.10-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-29-18-at-8.10-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-29-18-at-8.10-AM-300x218.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-31-18-at-8.19-AM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-31-18-at-8.19-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-31-18-at-8.19-AM.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Image-5-31-18-at-8.19-AM-278x300.jpeg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-9.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-1-9-300x256.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-10.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-10.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-2-10-300x248.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-15.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-15.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-15-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we wrap up the last offering of May with another sordid story straight from the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Sh*t Locker<\/em><\/span>, as <em>FOX News<\/em> informs us<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/2018\/05\/31\/plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-passengers-vomit-faint-from-unbearable-smell-unwashed-man-onboard.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993300;\">Plane makes emergency landing after passengers vomit, faint from &#8216;unbearable&#8217; smell of &#8216;unwashed&#8217; man onboard<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527800145389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527800145389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527800145389.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1527800145389-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;A Transavia flight to the Spanish island of Gran Canaria was forced to make an emergency landing in Portugal when several passengers reportedly became ill by the \u201cunbearable\u201d smell of an \u201cunwashed\u201d man onboard.<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong> The male passenger allegedly smelled so bad that others on the flight began fainting and vomiting once the plane took off from Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. <span style=\"color: #339966;\">One <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Belgian<\/em><\/span> passenger, Piet van Haut,\u00a0told Express\u00a0the man smelled like he had not bathed in \u201cseveral weeks.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>&#8220;It was like he hadn&#8217;t washed himself for several weeks. <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Several passengers got sick and had to puke,\u201d van Haut said.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>According to the publication, airline crew members tried to keep the man contained in the airplane bathroom while the pilot diverted the flight.<\/strong><\/span> The plane landed in Faro in Portugal where the man was removed from the Boeing 737 and placed on a bus by medical personnel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>In a statement to Express from Transavia, the airliner <span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>great grammar<\/em><\/span><em>!<\/em>)<\/span> confirmed the emergency landing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>was<\/em> <\/span>due to \u201cmedical reasons.\u201d &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\">The aeroplane diverted <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because of medical reasons<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but<\/em><\/span> it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>indeed right<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he smelled quite a bit<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; a Transavia spokesperson told the news site.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>It is unknown <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>what<\/em><\/span> medical condition \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>if any<\/em><\/span> \u2013 the man suffered from<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports the man suffered from Edzachary Disease (i.e., his armpits smelled edzachary like his a*s!) remain unconfirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, June 1st, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, as\u00a0Keith Koffler recently noted at his White House Dossier, if we can believe the&#8230; Netflix Chief: \u201cIt\u2019s Not the Obama Network\u201d &nbsp; Yeah,&#8230;and Pravda, Izvestia and Tass\u00a0were independent &#8220;news&#8221; organizations!\u00a0 After all, doesn&#8217;t EVERY streaming service sign $50,000,000 contracts to &#8220;produce&#8221; content with couples possessing no prior 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