Tuesday Was a Very Good Trumpday at Tikvah Tablet The Scroll (6/12)
David Shasha
Insurrection Central: Tikvah Tablet The Scroll is On Fire After SHAVUOS!
Indeed, Tuesday was a banner day for Alana Newhouse and crew to Troll Biden and the Libs.
https://thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/june-7-2022?s=r
Here are the highlights:
Gun Control Against the Libs
A staggering number of shootings across the country this past weekend pushed the issue of public safety to the top of many voters’ minds as they headed to the polls Tuesday for primary elections in seven states. Since Friday alone, 300 shootings have left 124 dead and 325 wounded across the United States, including a Phoenix strip-mall shooting in which a 14-year-old girl died and eight others were wounded, and a gun fight Saturday night on Philadelphia’s bustling South Street that left three dead and 11 wounded. While the string of shootings has forced candidates on the campaign trail to stake positions on state-level gun reform legislation, surging violence in cities in particular has become a problem with no easy solution for several progressive district attorneys who were once the faces of criminal justice reform. Homicide rates in the United States, which hit their highest level in 25 years in 2020, according to data from the CDC, have continued rising. In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner’s tenure could end after his current term if a new Pennsylvania state law limiting the Philadelphia DA’s tenures to two terms is passed this year. Similarly in California, where two contests have become referendums on public safety. In San Francisco, District Attorney Chesa Boudin—who, like Krasner, came to office with funding from political activists, including George Soros—faces a recall effort led by Brooke Jenkins, a prosecutor who used to work in Boudin’s office and left because of what she and others in the city argue is a dereliction of the DA’s core responsibilities to prosecute repeat offenders and temper rising crime and homicides. Two recent polls found that 56% of likely voters support the recall. “Many people subscribe to the same sort of overarching goals that Chesa has,” said Jenkins, who identifies as progressive but sees Boudin as disconnected from the realities of San Francisco. “People have said, ‘Wait a minute. What we didn’t sign up for is rampant crime.’”
Read it here: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/teacher-14-year-old-among-hundreds-americans-hit-by-gunfire-over-weekend-2022-06-06/
COVID Vaccine Schedenfreude
BY THE NUMBERS: At least 82 million COVID-19 vaccine doses—roughly 11% of the number of doses distributed by the government since December 2020—have been thrown away. The inefficiency of the vaccine rollout was due in part to a bungled distribution at the community level, with a quarter of all of those doses getting tossed out by CVS and Walmart.
Put Drones in Schools!
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In brief, non-lethal drones can be installed in schools and other venues and play the same role that sprinklers and other fire-suppression tools do for firefighters: preventing a catastrophic event, or at least mitigating its worst effects.”
Put Tasers in Schools!
From Axon’s press release announcing its pilot program to bring together the righteous power of Tasers, which the company created, and drones. Such a technology, Axon said last week, could help stop school shootings; after nine members of its ethics board resigned in protest, Axon announced that it would be pausing the program.
Read the resignation letter here: https://www.policingproject.org/statement-of-resigning-axon-ai-ethics-board-members
Support Netanyahu Before He Goes to Jail!
Israel’s ruling coalition, a union of convenience of right-wing, left-wing, centrist, and Arab parties, failed to pass a routine bill extending Israeli law to settlers living in the West Bank on Monday after former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu organized the opposition against the bill’s passage in a bid to humiliate the sitting government and its prime minister, Naftali Bennett. “Bennett—go home. It’s over,” the Likud Party, which supports Netanyahu, posted on Facebook. “The time has come to return the country to the right.” It has been less than a year since Bennett took office, and this power play from Netanyahu signals that a recall election might be close at hand. Some members of the ruling coalition, however, opposed passing the bill on principled grounds. Voted on every five years, the bill extends Israeli law to those Israeli citizens living in the occupied territories, which are not legally part of Israel and where the Palestinian population is subject to military law. The creation of this unequal legal system inspired a member of the Arab Ra’am party and the left-wing Meretz party to vote against the bill.
Hate Government!
The public faith in government is hitting record lows, according to a new PEW study. Just 29% of Democrats surveyed said they trust the government most of the time, while only 9% of Republicans felt the same way—the lowest level of faith in the federal government for Republicans in six decades. Faith in elected officials isn’t much better, with 50% of Americans saying that most if not all people who pursue elected office do so to serve their own personal benefit. Regardless of their political party, just 19% of Americans believe that Washington, D.C., officials do what is right “most of the time.”
Ignore the 1/6 Committee Public Hearings on TV!
We had already been alerted by Tikvah Tablet’s preferred media outlet FOX News would not be carrying the hearings live:
https://deadline.com/2022/06/january-6th-commitee-hearings-broadcast-coverage-1235039193/
Tikvah Tablet The Scroll is on board with that!
As if the creation of the Jan. 6 commission were not already enough of a politicized pseudo-event, the group has now brought in TV executives to choreograph a show trial. According to reporting from Axios and the New York Post, the committee’s televised hearings, set to begin on Thursday, will be a made-for-TV event with the help of the former president of ABC News, hired to turn the committee’s findings into “compelling” viewing, as the Post put it. The miniseries still seeks an ending, though, with the committee divided over what takeaway proposals it wants to endorse. Axios reports that some members, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), want to call to abolish the electoral college; others, led by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), seek more modest changes to the college than its wholesale abolition and worry that such dramatic policy proposals will undermine the committee’s legitimacy.
There is more Neo-Con Trump genuflecting garbage, which you are free to read on your own time.
The key here is how, once again, we see the internal machinations of The Tikvah Fund media empire and how it remains tied to the Lysol Protocols.
It is the Bari Weiss echo-chamber, where open-mindedness is the Law!
Addendum: Phil Bump’s Attack on FOX News for Refusing to Air the 1/6 Committee Public Hearings
In a case of true Tikvah Trumpscum WOKE Intersectionality, this week’s Bari Weiss notes presents her attack on The Washington Post as being “Middle School Antics”!
That means her readers – which presumably includes the Tikvah Tablet The Scroll hermetic echo-chamber – where everyone has an Open Mind and where no one ever gets Cancelled! – will not be reading the following attack on FOX News by Philip Bump:
So, just to make sure that the article penetrates that closed echo-chamber, here is it is in full, as it stands in opposition to Trumpworld ignorance and degeneracy; the way Tikvah Tablet wants it:
Of course Fox News isn’t airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings
By: Philip Bump
The Republican Party made a decision early last year that it would rather use the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a cudgel against Democrats than engage in the sort of self-reflection that an honest assessment of the causes of that riot might demand. It was easier — easy, even — simply to cast any probe of the attack as partisan and let slide Donald Trump’s insistences that the real problem was the 2020 election than to take on the former president and his enthusiastic base of support.
In part, that was easier because of Fox News. From the first hours after the riot, Fox News’s opinion hosts were spinning the riot as something other than it was — although they’d just sent text messages to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, asking him to get Trump to take a firmer hand against the violence. Over the past 17 months, Fox News’s hosts (particularly Tucker Carlson) have been at the forefront of casting doubt on the riot and depicting efforts to investigate what happened as partisan. There is a news side at Fox, but it sits under the shadow of the late-night hosts. The effect is that Fox News has unique power to influence Republican politics and the Republican electorate.
So of course the network is not going to carry hearings run by the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack.
On Monday, I looked at the way in which two diverging narratives have emerged around the aftermath of the 2020 election. In reality, Trump’s self-serving insistence that he could have lost only because of fraud, combined with his desire to retain power, led to his demanding that fervent supporters show up in Washington on Jan. 6, all of which created a demand economy that Trump’s allies and Fox News sought to leverage. But many on the right see Trump as unfairly targeted as he simply sought to question a flawed electoral system — a narrative that itself got sympathetic treatment on Trump’s favorite cable-news network.
The result is that Fox News has been distinctly less likely to cover Jan. 6-related stories than its two competitors, CNN and MSNBC. It is, of course, not the case that Fox News should have to cover what its competitors do — which we’ll come back to — but it is nonetheless revealing about how Fox considers the subject.
For example, here’s how often each network mentioned “January 6” during any week since the attack at the Capitol. Each network’s weekly mentions of the date are shown in overlap; notice that Fox News’s columns are regularly lower than its competitors’. At right is the average over the entire period. It shows that Fox News mentioned the date less often.
More dramatic is the comparison of mentions of the House select committee itself. CNN has mentioned the committee more than four times as often as has Fox News on average; MSNBC has mentioned it five times as much on average.
A similar pattern emerges for mentions of the attack at the Capitol itself. Fox News simply doesn’t talk about it that much.
Earlier this year, a team of researchers published a study showing the way in which Fox News influences its viewers’ perceptions through what it chooses to cover. Participants were paid to watch CNN instead of Fox News and, at the end of a month, were less likely to agree with political framing that was amplified by Fox’s coverage. In other words, there was a demonstrable effect from Fox News’s coverage.
So consider what it means that Fox News has spent almost no time covering either the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, two of the extremist groups that took leading roles in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, and members of both, who have faced charges of seditious conspiracy. CNN mentioned the Proud Boys seven times as often as Fox News on average over this period; they mentioned the Oath Keepers 34 times as often.
There have been subjects on which other networks have been outliers, as with MSNBC’s focus on the alternative slates of electors submitted by Trump allies before Jan. 6 in hopes that they might disrupt the electoral-vote-counting process that day.
But on subjects like those text messages sent to Mark Meadows — messages that depict not only who had access to the White House on Jan. 6 but which have also broadened our understanding of the effort to subvert President Biden’s election — Fox News has again been an outlier. (No average for the period is shown since the messages emerged only late last year.)
Where Fox News did stand out was in its mentions of “antifa” in the weeks after the attack. You’ll recall that hours after the attack occurred, network hosts raised the idea that antifa, a loose-knit group of far-left activists, was involved in the riot.
This all speaks to a pattern: Fox News has not been interested in covering new developments in the investigation into the Capitol riot. For that reason alone, it is not surprising that the network won’t carrying the hearings.
There’s another pattern at play, too. Fox News aired hearings during the first impeachment of Donald Trump, but often simply showed the proceedings silently while its hosts engaged in discussions. During the second impeachment, the one focused on the Jan. 6 attack, the network cut away at key points.
This has not always been its approach to investigations. Media Matters determined that the network had run 1,100 segments on the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 by the time a select committee was formed to probe those events — and to question presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. When Clinton herself testified, though, Fox News did cut away from the hearing, something that The Post’s media columnist speculated might have been because the network was “hesitant to expose its viewers to the live-on-the-spot unraveling of many Benghazi themes that it has pushed on air.”
In fairness, there is one more reason that Fox News might not want to air the Jan. 6 committee hearings. After all, imagine if one of the speakers casually mention Meadows’s text messages or the role of the Oath Keepers. Those Fox News viewers would be left trying to play catch up, wondering what was meant by these bizarre references to things that their preferred network had mentioned only occasionally or only in passing.
From The Washington Post, June 7, 2022
David Shasha