April 8, 2025

MARK JUDGE: Jonathan Capehart’s WaPo Hissy Fit.

Finally, there is a contentious meeting with journalist and editorial board member Karen Tumulty:

“There have been multiple misunderstandings or whatever,” she began. She then said, “I’m sorry.” I don’t recall the words immediately after that because of what came in the next breath. “But I do think use of the word ‘hyperbolic’ is defensible.” In that moment, I thought for sure I was being punked. But that wasn’t even the worst of it. Tumulty then made a pronouncement. “I have a rule: No one should be called a Nazi unless they were an actual Nazi,” she told me. “So for President Biden to call the Georgia voter law ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ well that’s an insult to people who lived through Jim Crow.”

I sat frozen, gripping the armrests of my chair as I stared at her in disbelief. With that one comment, Tumulty took an incident where I felt ignored and compounded the insult by robbing me of my humanity. She either couldn’t or wouldn’t see that I was Black, that I came to the conversation with knowledge and history she could never have, that my worldview, albeit it different from hers, was equally valid.

I sat in stunned, unblinking silence for what seemed like ten minutes after Tumulty removed herself from my office. My mind reeled with what had just happened. In a time when people, especially white people, are so careful not to make racial situations worse, Tumulty seemed to have done just that.

Karen Tumulty made the mistake of treating Jonathan Capehart like an adult. She made the mistake of assuming he could rationally follow facts to their proper conclusions, and that he could act like a grown man if he disagreed with an editorial. She refused to genuflect before the dapper black ambassador between the races, to bow and scrape before the Little Lord Fauntleroy of the Fourth Estate.

Jeff Bezos is trying to save The Washington Post, which is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year and has lost all credibility. The departure of Jonathan Capehart can only help that process.

Note that Capehart can be rather selective about when he chooses to play the race card. In order to keep the withered husk of Biden propped up a year ago, he chose to keep that card firmly in the deck:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll 28

THAT’S BIG MONEY: $200B in Damages: Conservative Group Gears Up to Sue in Response After SPLC Tried to ‘Bankrupt Us’ With ‘Frivolous Lawsuit.’

The case traces back to a custody dispute between a mother and her former lesbian partner. Virginia resident Lisa Miller started a relationship with Jenkins, moved to Vermont, and entered a civil union with her in the early 2000s (Vermont was the first state in the country to legalize civil unions in 2000). Miller was artificially inseminated and gave birth to a daughter in 2002.

Miller converted to Christianity, rejected her previous lesbian lifestyle, and moved back to Virginia with her daughter. Vermont courts ruled that Jenkins had legal rights as the girl’s parent, but Virginia courts ruled that Vermont had no jurisdiction in the matter. Virginia had passed a constitutional amendment banning civil unions and same-sex marriage.

Liberty Counsel started representing Miller in the custody dispute.

Suddenly, Miller disappeared. Liberty Counsel attempted to contact her, to no avail.

Later, the Obama administration tracked Miller to Nicaragua, where she had fled with her daughter.

From there, things got weird.

Posted at 7:33 am by Stephen Green 7

ALL QUIET ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE FRONT:

AOC has spent her entire tenure as a congresswoman with this mindset in mind; January 6th 2020 was the equivalent of  ‘Serving in War.’ As Kevin Wiliamson wrote in his 2019 article headlined “Sandy’s War:”

Meow [the Moral Equivalent of War] has many cynical political uses: If every political opponent is the moral equivalent of Adolf Hitler, if every political initiative tantamount to D-Day, then there is much that can be excused in the way of underhandedness, rhetorical excess, demagoguery, and the like. As [Jonah] Goldberg reminds us, war and war alone has been the great champion of socialism, because it provides an emergency pretext for the authoritarian project of reorganizing an organic society in accordance with the necessarily synthetic model decocted from ideology, bias, bigotry, eccentricity, and the self-interest, always unavoidable, of the planners empowered with drawing up the blueprints of this or that brave new world or utopia.

In 2021, in order to get some fresh headlines from her stillborn Green Nude Eel of 2019, AOC played the Moral Equivalent Card yet again: Move over Marine Corps, AOC’s pushing for 1.5M-strong ‘Climate Corps.’

The moral equivalent of war has been the organizing principle of the left since the start of the 20th century, trapping them in the moral equivalent of a quagmire, with no sign of an exit strategy in sight. In 2019, Australia’s Tim Blair finally wargamed its conclusion: If radical environmentalism is refighting WWII, “Fair enough. Nuking Hiroshima it is, then.”

As Blair’s quip highlights, progress during the real WWII was of course much faster than the left’s imaginary “moral equivalent:” Marines stormed Iwo Jima in March of 1945, only a few months before finishing off Japan. Original “Progressive” philosopher William James coined the phrase “the moral equivalent of war” to justify lefty power grabs in 1910. Al Gore envisioned the planet’s woes as the equivalent of Kristalnacht in 1989; Time magazine’s imaginary eco-warriors raised a tree on Mount Suribachi in 2008, and as the Columbia University press release inadvertently highlights above, this quagmire of moral equivalency mindlessly rages on.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll 21

THEY LECTURED THE RIGHT ON “STOCHASTIC TERRORISM” WHILE REFINING IT FOR THEMSELVES:

Posted at 7:11 am by Glenn Reynolds 19

TRUSTING THE PARTY THAT CAN’T IDENTIFY A WOMAN TO CELEBRATE, PROTECT, OR ACKNOWLEDGE WOMEN IS A FOOL’S GAME:  Celebrating Women… or Not.

Posted at 3:33 am by Sarah Hoyt 3