A Bad Day for Preferred Narratives, (Democrats)

Commentary Magazine ^ | Jan 8, 2016 | Noah Rothman

[KeyLargo]

A Bad Day for Preferred Narratives

Noah Rothman

Everything was going as planned at President Barack Obama's Thursday evening town hall on gun control when the unexpected occurred. A woman, a mother, a victim of sexual assault in college, someone who according to the overly simplistic center-left perspective should be sympathetic both to Democrats and stricter gun laws, stood up and defended firearm ownership. It was a moment that demonstrated the fragility of narratives and stereotyping. It exposed just how rapidly worldviews predicated on a naïve and one-dimensional typecasting - a trap into which political demographers easily fall - can collapse. As it turns out, it was the beginning of a very bad 24-hour period for the consecrated and unfalsifiable belief structures preferred by the left.

Just as anyone with nothing to hide would do, the State Department released another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's private and poorly secured state department just before two a.m. on Friday. Included in that tranche were a variety of emails with classified or sensitive information included in the body, raising the number of such emails Clinton said never existed to well over 1,000. Exposing Clinton's claim that "there is no classified material" in her private "homebrew" email server is no longer shocking. What was remarkable in this particular batch of emails was one communication from Clinton in which she informed her aide, Jake Sullivan, to disregard sending sensitive information via "secure fax." Instead, she requested that a document in question be turned "into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure."

The content of the document that was supposed to be sent securely but was instead stripped of the markings that would identify it as sensitive and sent via non-secure transmissions remains unknown, and the State Department is dragging its feet.

[KeyLargo]

"Unfortunately, this was not the only incident on Friday related to ISIS-inspired radical terrorism or jihadist attacks inside the United States. Late Thursday night, a Philadelphia police officer was attacked by a gunman and shot three times. On Friday, the city's police revealed that the attack had been carried out by a radical Islamist extremist who had pledged allegiance to ISIS. The suspect in custody contended that he performed this act of attempted murder "in the name of Islam," but what does he know? After all, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, speaking for the alleged assailant, insisted that the act had nothing to do with "being a Muslim or the Islamic faith."

[hillarys cankles]

Not too mention the terrorist arrests here in Sacramento.

[KeyLargo]

"Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, speaking for the alleged assailant, insisted that the act had nothing to do with "being a Muslim or the Islamic faith."

[maddog55]

Obama's response:

By the way, that's one ear plug...

http://the3tards.com/beetle.htm

[PAR35]

The content of the document that was supposed to be sent securely but was instead stripped of the markings that would identify it as sensitive and sent via non-secure transmissions remains unknown, and the State Department is dragging its feet.

My guess is that the TPs referred to in that exchange were 'talking points', and that this may be a red herring planted by the State Department.

[henkster]

I could be a red herring and as of now I don’t think it’s the “smoking gun” either. If they are “Talking Points,” then their whole purpose is to be disseminated publicly. Ergo, they are not secret or sensitive. This has all the signs of being a “technical violation” that could easily backfire, with Clinton claiming that the whole prosecution is much ado about nothing, and politically motivated. She gets to play the victim.

Unless you can link the email to the TPs themselves, and show that they were not intended for public dissemination, this is a booby trap.

[RatRipper]

Can't use the "if I had a son, he'd look like. . . " line on this guy. In the words of Shug Avery in The Color Purple, "you sho is ugly".

[maddog55]

Racist to some I’m sure that’s why I posted it for one and the link..

Guys name is Beetlejuice, the world’s most famous little person. He makes fun of himself all the time and the actual caption under the photo was.. That’s one earplug.

[fella]

That woman is going to have her taxes examined all the way back until 9 months before she was born and maybe further.

[Suz in AZ]

I thought TPs = Toilet Paper softness