Some good news for a change. Iran releases American held prisoner for 3 years. [Mis. Hum.]

Untalented, joke-thieving social-promotion talk show host Lili Singh is terrible in all ways

Gay zealots attack Hillary Clinton's claim as having never even been "tempted" to be a lesbian not for being false, but for being... I don't know, insufficiently affirmative and validating of the gay orientation

Bendix, a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association told NBC News that she was “disappointed” by Hillary’s answer to the rumors. "It's so frustrating when public figures like Hillary feel the need to dispel lesbian rumors in a way that equates lesbianism or queerness with salaciousness," she claimed.
Bendix clarified that it was Hillary's use of the word "tempted” that really annoyed her, adding that it's unnecessarily "damaging to others." "I think there’s a way to refute untrue ideas about one's own identity without saying something damaging to others," she claimed.

Update your Rules: The only two acceptable answers when asked if you're gay are "You betcha!" or the Russell Ziskey special, "No, but I am willing to learn"

CNN panel decrees that media coverage of Kamala Harris campaign was unfair and racist and sexist; apparently this CNN panel on the media has not watched any media for the last year, in which Kamala Harris was praised for merely existing

Thread-Relevant Forgotten 80s Mystery Click
Hint: It's the only 80s song that talks about "toeing the line"

Say does anyone else remember three years ago when the liberal Rockefeller Republicans, now known as "NeverTrumpers," were scheming about how and who'd they'd purge from the party? How'd that work out for you gals?

National Review, an alleged "respectable," "professional" Conservatism, Inc. outlet, half-corrects Jonah Goldberg's ignorant, unresearched, just-riffing-straight-from-twitter errors
Oh well, close enough, Julie Kelly says
[Simpsons reference]
[Couch]
[Puppy picture]
[Star Trek reference]
["Boy I'm really pissing off KJL with my Star Trek references, aren't I just a big fat stinker?"]
Why didn't they fact-check this to start with, especially knowing this big fat duffer's lack of any scholarly discipline combined with over-the-top emotional histrionics about Orange Man Bad?

String quartet arrangement of "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin (Page/Bonham/Plant)
There's a long intro that is good but isn't really Kashmir before they get to the recognizable hook

Fat, corrupt toad Bill Kristol is back out defending his best friend best funder Paul Singer, but once again avoiding mentioning the name "Paul Singer," instead referring to the company Singer owns
"The Conservative Media" is actually cash-for-commentary. It's unacknowledged, undisclosed, unadmitted paid political advertising, laundered through AEI sometimes, other times direct cash payments for promotion/defenses, and yes, there ought to be a law -- if you're holding yourself out as an independent commentator, you should be required to disclose who's paying you for this "independent commentary."
It would be amusing watching the Washington Examiner and National Review react to such a law.

Fat Joe meets fat c***

The C***shed Axis is all in for Mayor Pete
You watch the Usual Suspect's twitter streams and every day it's a new agitation for Mayor Pete Bootieguage. I guess they've decided that Sundown Joe isn't going to make it physically or mentally, so they're recharacterizing another dyed-in-the-wool archprogressive as "The Thinking Man's Conservative" or whatever.

Jonah Goldberg is a lightweight in all ways except actual weight

Bleg: Does anyone have a link to Tucker Carlson's show from last night, specifically the segment about AEI being paid to flack for Purdue Pharma?

This cat thinks he's a southern belle

Babylon Bee: Nation Looking for Right Phrase to Describe Media That Behaves Like Some Kind of Opponent of the Citizenry

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature. Chinese experiment may have created unintended consequences. [Mis. Hum.]

Recommendation: "Peep Show," available on Amazon and free on Amazon Prime, is a British show plainly inspired by "Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Like Always Sunny, the show features a lot of awful behavior from its main characters and some very touchy subject matter. It's pretty good. A friend told me I had to get through the first four episodes or so before I would like it, but I liked it immediately, personally.
One thing, though: the show is all shot POV and they use very small cameras so that the actors can just put the cameras on their foreheads as they're interacting with their fellow actors. However, small cameras were terrible when the show first started, and you may well be put off by the very ugly and dark and primitive look of the show. It looks cheaper and shabbier than YouTube videos do now.
They did start using better cameras in season two, so if you can ignore the first season's very shoddy look, you'll be fine.
BTW, the stars of the show are these guys.
Here's a clip. The set-up is that the character has just read a book on the Battle of Stalingrad, and, like me, he now never shuts up about it, because he doesn't read many books. So now everything is just an excuse to drop some Fun Facts about Stalingrad and "the 'macht."

Someone linked David French's "French Press" column, and I wondered what a French Press was. Googling for a few minutes, I found this likely definition:
The French Press (La Presse Francaise) is a sex act in which a husband permits his wife to be held aloft by a strapping young stud. The wife (or other penetrated party) is thence raised and lowered on to the penetrating member.
Yeah that tracks. Thanks, Internet!!!
LOL, Presse Francaise

Ned Ryun will be on Tucker tonight to light up liberal vulture capitalist Paul Singer and his owned-and-operated pet Senator Ben Sasse.
Good rant on the Collusion Delusion foisted on us for three years from Tucker Carlson last night

EXCLUSIVE TO ACE OF SPADES: Brian Stelter is a "God-cursed chimptato hybrid," according to roving correspondent sock_rat_eez
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