{"id":63879,"date":"2018-10-16T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63879"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:58:42","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-october-15th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=63879","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, October 15th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, October 15th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, a quick bit of commentary occasioned by a recent conversation with our good friend G. Trevor Vietor.\u00a0 The two of us were discussing the Dimocrats&#8217; increasingly divisive politics and disregard for the rule of law, as well as the double standard employed in the reporting of any race-related crimes where the perpetrators were Black and the victims White, and vice-versa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The discussion brought to mind an incident some six years back in Norfolk, VA, when a pair of White reporters for <em>The Virginian-Pilot<\/em>, the local Liberal rag, one male, one female, were set upon while stopped at a red light and severely beaten by a mob of Black assailants.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnation.com\/vfr\/archives\/022329.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You may recall the incident<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a>, which was significant not only because of the unprovoked nature of the assault, but because the reporters&#8217; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>own paper<\/em><\/span> declined to report the mob attack until it was made public by other sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trevor didn&#8217;t remember the incident, and when we used\u00a0<em>Google<\/em>\u00a0to find an article about it to forward, imagine our surprise when a rather specific search turned up&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.27.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.27.44-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.27.44-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.27.44-AM-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;nary a link; not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>ONE<\/em><\/span>!\u00a0 Despite rephrasing the search a number of different ways, the results were the same: zero&#8230;nada&#8230;a big, fat goose egg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our curiosity piqued, we turned to <em>Bing<\/em>, and turned up not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>one<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.25.21-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.25.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.25.21-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-11.25.21-AM-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>multiple<\/em><\/span> links detailing the assault using the same search wording we&#8217;d initially tried on <em>Google<\/em>.\u00a0 At which point we realized, we&#8217;d just experienced the internet equivalent of Progressives&#8217; deliberate dumbing-down of our system of public education: if links to an inconvenient happening, inconvenient because its circumstances don&#8217;t fit with the latest Liberal narrative, don&#8217;t show up on an internet search, did it ever actually happen?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holy <em>1984<\/em>, Batman!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just as Quint&#8217;s surviving the sinking of the U.S.S. <em>Indianapolis<\/em>\u00a0led him to conclude&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9vpeAXO3K0?start=194\" 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>&#8230;in the future, we&#8217;ll never trust the results of a <em>Google<\/em> search.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s <em>The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, courtesy of\u00a0<em>The Daily Wire<\/em>, Ben Shapiro suggests&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"f-3-s f-1-l mb-2 mt--1-l\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/37066\/may-be-looniest-anti-male-op-ed-ever-written-and-ben-shapiro\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; text-decoration: underline;\">This May Be The Looniest Anti-Male Op-Ed Ever Written. And The Washington Post Just Published It<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399;\">.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/height.182.no_border.width_.320.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/height.182.no_border.width_.320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/height.182.no_border.width_.320.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/height.182.no_border.width_.320-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;On Friday,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Washington Post\u00a0<\/span>ran what could easily rank as the single looniest op-d they\u2019ve ever run: a piece from Victoria Bissell Brown, retired history professor at Grinnell College, <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>arguing that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">men are incapable of being good<\/span>, even if they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">oppose sexism<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Men are, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>by nature<\/em><\/span>, vile and terrible, and <em>can\u2019t fix anything by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">listening<\/span> to women<\/em> \u2013 <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">instead<\/span>, they must change <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">from within<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Sadly, though, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they\u2019re not capable of such change<\/em><\/span>, which begs the question: <em>what the hell are men <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">supposed to do<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">aside from die<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brown begins by talking about screaming at her husband. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Really<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>I yelled at my husband last night. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Not pick-up-your-socks yell.<\/span> Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This was real yelling.<\/span> This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Really small<\/span>. <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><em> I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">blew<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hard and fast.<\/span> And it terrified me. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I\u2019m still terrified by what I felt and what I said.<\/span> I am almost 70 years old. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I am a grandmother.<\/span> Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If one of my grandchildren yelled something that ridiculous, I\u2019d have to stifle a laugh.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>But she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>didn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> stifle a laugh. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Instead, she <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>doubles down<\/em><\/span> in the pages of\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forgetting her uncontrollable paroxysms of anger, Ms. Brown&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>uninviting visage<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/878959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/878959.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/878959.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/878959-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;not only brings to mind Winston Churchill&#8217;s celebrated rejoinder to Lady Nancy Astor&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/quote-lady-nancy-astor-winston-if-you-were-my-husband-i-d-poison-your-tea-churchill-nancy-winston-churchill-45-55-71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/quote-lady-nancy-astor-winston-if-you-were-my-husband-i-d-poison-your-tea-churchill-nancy-winston-churchill-45-55-71.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/quote-lady-nancy-astor-winston-if-you-were-my-husband-i-d-poison-your-tea-churchill-nancy-winston-churchill-45-55-71.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/quote-lady-nancy-astor-winston-if-you-were-my-husband-i-d-poison-your-tea-churchill-nancy-winston-churchill-45-55-71-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;it leads us to believe, like Meatloaf in <em>Paradise by the Dashboard Light<\/em>, her husband&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C11MzbEcHlw?start=458\" 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>In a related item, writing at <em>NRO<\/em>, Kyle Smith observes Victoria Bissel Brown&#8217;s righteous indignation might not serve to save her from her own, as, at least in politically-correct Progressive circles&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2018<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/white-women-becomes-a-disparaging-term\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-10-14&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">White Women\u2019 Becomes a Disparaging Term<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/white-women-becomes-a-disparaging-term\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-10-14&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Left is lumping white women together into a giant bloc subject to absurdly broad stereotyping and vitriolic condemnation<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k471k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k471k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k471k.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k471k-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>U<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>sing \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white men<\/em><\/span>\u201d as a putdown is no longer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>extreme enough for the Left<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Now<\/em><\/span> it is moving on to doing the same for \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>white women<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>How rapidly this transpired<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>It was less than two years ago that the approximately 98.7 percent of white women working in media who were openly rooting for Hillary Clinton saw their hopes dashed on Election Day. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The first murmurs of betrayal began. <\/span>Exit polls showed 52 percent of white women backed Donald Trump, and much sorrowful tsk-tsking ensued. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sorrow<\/span> turned to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">disbelief<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Disbelief<\/span> turned to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rage<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Today, white women are being lumped together into a giant bloc subject to absurdly broad stereotyping and vitriolic condemnation.<\/span> They\u2019re being told to step back and know their place by writers in the<em>\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cwhite women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain\u201d),\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cdespite the enduring legacy of testimony by black women, white women have often played the protagonists in the history of sexual violence, and black women have been relegated to the supporting cast\u201d) and NBC News (\u201cwhite women who voted for Trump&#8230;clearly have no issue with the president\u2019s openly misogynistic behavior, his demeaning of female reporters and his mocking of [Christine Blasey] Ford\u201d).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>A writer for\u00a0<em>The Root<\/em>\u00a0castigated Taylor Swift because \u201clike some white women, she uses her privilege to not be involved until she\u2019s directly affected.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Talia Lavin, the\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0fact-checker who resigned in June after erroneously suggesting that an ICE agent (who turned out to be a combat-wounded Marine Corps veteran) had a Nazi tattoo, continues to contribute to\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0and tells her 51,000 Twitter followers, \u201cpatriarchy won\u2019t protect you no matter how hard white women fight for it.\u201d<\/span> \u201cWhite women use strategic tears to silence women of colour,\u201d ran a headline in the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On the basis of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>five phone calls<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>plus<\/em><\/span> the story of what happened to Emmett Till <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in 1955<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0published an essay entitled, \u201cWhy White Women Keep Calling the Police on Black People,\u201d blaming <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>them<\/em><\/span> for \u201ca new 21st century version of Jim Crow.\u201d<\/span> <em>It wouldn\u2019t be terribly difficult, in a nation of 300 million, to come up with five examples of black men who had murdered white women, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">but if you wrote an essay entitled \u201cWhy Black Men Keep Murdering White Women\u201d you would rightly be barred from writing for just about any reputable journalistic outfit<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">intellectual error<\/span> of making invidious generalizations about large groups of people based on superficial characteristics <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is obvious<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>So is the moral error<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But what can one expect from a political party, which as Derek Hunter details at <em>Townhall.com<\/em>, is dependent upon mob rule?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2018\/10\/14\/of-course-the-liberal-mob-is-real-n2528230\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Of Course The Liberal Mob Is Real<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2yf0egWiRA\" 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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nSQrM3R-0HA\" 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 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>There are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">few things<\/span> that get liberals riled up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">like exposing them for exactly who and what they are<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hate it<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>almost as much<\/em><\/span> as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they hate people who don\u2019t fall in lockstep with their every demand<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> So when President Trump started talking about the \u201cmob\u201d liberals have become, \u201cjournalists\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>leapt<\/em><\/span> to their defense, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>naturally<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">But there is no defense from the truth; no matter how earnestly a CNN or MSNBC personality insists the Sun rises in the west, that doesn\u2019t make it so.<\/span> <em>The Democratic Party <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> the party of the mob<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It wasn\u2019t that long ago that the fringe of the political left was just that \u2013 a fringe.<\/span> They\u2019d used mommy and daddy\u2019s credit card or their trust fund money to congregate at a G7 summit or meeting of the International Monetary Fund, then go back to whatever college town they refused to grow up in. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Now there is no afghan of the party left, <em>it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> fringe<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>used to be ignored<\/em><\/span> as it smashed the windows of a Starbucks and set trashcans on fire in the streets every couple of years <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is now what the Democrats are counting on to deliver them a majority in the House of Representatives<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>So where <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>did<\/em><\/span> this mob <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>come from<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">simple answer<\/span> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they\u2019ve always been there<\/span>, only they\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">emboldened now<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which prompts <em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Andy McCarthy to wonder&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/who-will-save-democrats-from-their-leaders\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-10-14&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Who Will Save Democrats from Their Leaders<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"article-header__title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/who-will-save-democrats-from-their-leaders\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202018-10-14&amp;utm_term=VDHM\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">In a better time, we would be talking not about Eric Holder but about real Democratic leaders<\/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\/10\/Eric-Holder-Race-Card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Eric-Holder-Race-Card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Eric-Holder-Race-Card.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Eric-Holder-Race-Card-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"drop\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8216;<em>W<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>hen they <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">go low<\/span><\/em>&#8216;&#8230;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">that\u2019s<\/span> where they are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sure to find Eric Holder<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Sometimes, the former attorney general is excusing<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/pardon-attorney-blasts-eric-holder-clintons-shameful-1999-terrorist-pardons-andrew-c\/\">hard-Left, unrepentant, anti-American FALN separatists<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">by helping a Democratic president spring them from imprisonment for their terrorist crimes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Sometimes, he is helping a Democratic president\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/terrorist-pardons-weather-underground-rosenberg\/\">commute the sentences of hard-Left terrorists<\/a><\/em><\/span> whose only regret was their failure to shoot it out against police who interrupted another bombing spree in their war against the United States.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Sometimes, he is volunteering his legal services and his status as a former top Justice Department official to file a \u201cfriend of the court\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2011\/05\/holder-vs-holder-andrew-c-mccarthy\/\">brief on behalf of the al Qaeda jihadist<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">who was apprehended while plotting a second wave of 9\/11 mass-murder attacks.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Sometimes, he is\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2011\/10\/holders-dubious-history-andrew-c-mccarthy\/\">defying congressional committees<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0investigating his Justice Department\u2019s reckless, politically driven \u201cgun-walking\u201d scheme gone awry \u2014 the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/01\/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal\/\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fast and Furious \u201cinvestigation<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0that armed murderous Mexican drug gangs and got a border-patrol officer killed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Sometimes, he is<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2012\/04\/holder-meets-sharpton-andrew-c-mccarthy\/\">sharing a podium with his friend Al Sharpton<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">, who is threatening to incite mayhem \u2014<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-posts-al-sharpton-profile-leaves-out-much-of-the-revs-past\">as Sharpton is wont to do<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2014 if police fail to trump up a racially charged case rather than let the evidence determine whether to indict.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Monitors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Monitors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Monitors.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Monitors-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Sometimes, he is trying to keep his story straight about that time when, as a Columbia undergrad, he proudly\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/09\/30\/as-college-sophomore-eric-holder-participated-in-armed-takeover-of-former-columbia-university-rotc-office\/\" class=\"broken_link\">joined other campus radicals<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0in occupying a building and the dean\u2019s office \u2014 forcible intimidation to extort political concessions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">And sometimes, Holder is just engaged in old-fashioned political corruption:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2009\/01\/unpardonable-holders-marc-rich-shuffle-andrew-c-mccarthy\/\">helping a Democratic president circumvent the Justice Department<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">in carrying out the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/01\/17\/after-pardoning-criminal-marc-rich-clintons-made-millions-off-friends\/\">pay-to-play pardon of a notorious fugitive<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But if there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span> who knows about \u201cgoing low,\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it is Mr. Holder<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">He <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span>, after all, the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2012\/roll441.xml\">f<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>irst attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And low is exactly where Holder \u2014 along with<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/you-cannot-be-civil-1539211192\">Hillary \u201cNo Civility Unless We Win\u201d Clinton<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and the rest of the social-justice arri\u00e9re-garde \u2014 has taken a once-great political party.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>better time<\/em><\/span>, we would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not be talking<\/em><\/span> about Eric Holder.<\/span> He would be dismissed as a fringe radical who\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/eric-holder-when-republicans-go-low-we-kick-them\">endorses forcible, extortionist tactics against political adversaries<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0(and then, in familiar Holder fashion, spends the next day\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/eric-holder-im-obviously-not-advocating-violence\">pretending he didn\u2019t say what he said<\/a><\/em><\/span>). <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>better time<\/em><\/span>, we would be <em>asking why anyone would care <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what<\/span> Eric Holder says, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">about anything<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder_obama_prison_buddy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder_obama_prison_buddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder_obama_prison_buddy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder_obama_prison_buddy-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>today<\/em><\/span>, Holder <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is important<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Today<\/em><\/span>, he is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mainstream Democratic leader<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Today<\/em><\/span>, his antics <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>illustrate two things we fail to bear in mind at our peril<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>First, <em>the high-minded airs put on by the hard left <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are a fraud<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a dangerous one<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;That brings us to the second point Eric Holder\u2019s incitements should clarify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The latest regression to the 1970s \u201cany means necessary\u201d politics that today\u2019s Democrats have reincarnated was triggered by Judge Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the Supreme Court. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>But don\u2019t be confused<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>The fact that Kavanaugh was the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">occasion<\/span>\u00a0for Democratic anarchy does not mean he was the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cause<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">This was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> about Brett Kavanaugh.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This was about power<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>The character assassination heaped on Kavanaugh <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">would have been used against any President Trump nominee poised to shift the Supreme Court rightward<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> <em>Remarkably, Democrats now <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">kick themselves<\/span> for not attacking the nominee <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">even more viciously<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Doesn\u2019t matter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who<\/em><\/span> the nominee was.<\/span> <em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">real objective<\/span> was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not to destroy Kavanaugh<\/span> but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to convey what Democrats have in store for any conservative who seeks high public office<\/span><\/em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\">If you don\u2019t grasp that, you\u2019re not paying attention<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Given one bullet and our choice of target, these two would leave us truly torn&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder-obama630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder-obama630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder-obama630.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/holder-obama630-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;unless one or the other would move a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>leetle bit<\/em><\/span> to the left or right.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of those guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Kimberly Strassel asks if you know&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-is-michael-sussman-1539299003\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Who Is Michael Sussmann<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/who-is-michael-sussman-1539299003\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The FBI\u2019s general counsel met with a Clinton lawyer in September 2016<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k47ra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k47ra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k47ra.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2k47ra-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>When <em>Fox News<\/em> anchor Bret Baier asked about the origin of the infamous Trump dossier, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>James Comey brushed off most of the questions<\/em><\/span>.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> The former Federal Bureau of Investigations director said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>someone<\/em><\/span> on his \u201csenior staff\u201d\u2014<em>he couldn\u2019t remember <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">who<\/span><\/em>\u2014had \u201cbriefed\u201d him on the dossier \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>sometime<\/em><\/span> in the fall\u201d of 2016.<\/span> Mr. Comey had been told it came \u201cfrom a reliable source.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">He insisted he \u201cnever knew exactly which Democrats had funded\u201d it.<\/span> He then continued on about his book, which meditated on the importance of \u201ctruth.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That interview<\/em><\/span>, in April 2018, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is relevant in light of a recent report from the Hill\u2019s John Solomon that James Baker, the FBI\u2019s general counsel from 2014-17, met \u201cweeks before the 2016 election\u201d with a lawyer from Perkins Coie<\/em><\/span><\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That\u2019s the firm that hired Fusion GPS to compile the dossier on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My sources <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>confirm<\/em><\/span> that the Perkins partner who bent Mr. Baker\u2019s ear and handed over documents was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Michael Sussmann<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>point man for the firm\u2019s DNC and Clinton campaign accounts<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> They also confirm the subject of the meeting was Russian interference in the election, including hacking and supposed ties to Donald Trump. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Much of this comes from an interview House investigators conducted last week with Mr. Baker.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The significance of this revelation is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enormous<\/em> <em>for everything from FBI investigatory malpractice, to its dishonesty, to its current fight with the White House over document disclosure<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>That the FBI\u2019s general counsel was even meeting with a top lawyer for the Clinton campaign shortly before the election <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is proof of that the bureau strayed beyond obvious guardrails<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>alarming enough<\/em><\/span> that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the FBI felt free to open a counterintelligence investigation into an active presidential campaign<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">That it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>also felt free to gather information for that probe from the opposing campaign is mind-boggling<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> Team Clinton had the most powerful position on earth to gain from Mr. Trump\u2019s downfall. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>No conflict <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">right<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we&#8217;ve so often observed before,&#8230;like a whorehouse at low tide!\u00a0 Or, perhaps more accurately, like Sodom and Gomorrah, the stench of which reached even to up Heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning now to<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<em>The Lighter Side<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venom.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/venom-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb101218dAPR20181011114515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb101218dAPR20181011114515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb101218dAPR20181011114515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/afb101218dAPR20181011114515-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Civility20181011124743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Civility20181011124743.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Civility20181011124743.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Civility20181011124743-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181011c20181011123130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181011c20181011123130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181011c20181011123130.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mle181011c20181011123130-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mouths_lr20181011024807.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63782\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mouths_lr20181011024807.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mouths_lr20181011024807.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mouths_lr20181011024807-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blue_lr_10-11-1820181012120003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blue_lr_10-11-1820181012120003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blue_lr_10-11-1820181012120003.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Blue_lr_10-11-1820181012120003-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/haleys-shoes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/haleys-shoes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/haleys-shoes.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/haleys-shoes-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-5.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-1-5-300x248.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-9.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-9.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-9-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-5.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/download-2-5-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s these two bits of pointed humor forwarded by Shannon Wood and Brendan Clark, respectively:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1.jpeg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5759.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5759-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a wrap with another sordid story straight from the pages of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The Crime Blotter<\/em><\/span>, and this just in from the Volunteer State:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tennessee-man-loses-leg-after-his-son-ran-him-over-with-a-lawn-mower-when-he-attacked-him-with-a-chainsaw\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Tennessee man loses leg after his son ran him over with a lawn mower when he attacked him with a chainsaw<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ferguson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ferguson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ferguson.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ferguson-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Officers were called to a home in Bristol, Tennessee, on June 28 and found Douglas Ferguson, 76, bleeding from his head and leg, according to a press release from the Sullivan County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A preliminary investigation indicated that he tried to attack his son with a running chainsaw while his son mowed the yard. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">His son, who was not identified, ran over his father with the lawn mower as a way to defend himself,\u00a0the press release stated.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Detectives said the father and son had an ongoing feud<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To borrow a line from <em>Stripes<\/em>, &#8220;Doug Ferguson,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H89XiE7GWao?start=3\" 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>Thanksgiving dinner&#8230;we&#8217;re not so sure!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, October 15th, 2018&#8230;but before we begin, a quick bit of commentary occasioned by a recent conversation with our good friend G. Trevor Vietor.\u00a0 The two of us were discussing the Dimocrats&#8217; increasingly divisive politics and disregard for the rule of law, as well as the double standard employed in the reporting of any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879","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=63879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63880,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions\/63880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}