Posted on 07/21/2021 1:29:37 PM PDT by rktman
Lott told me on the Adult in the Room podcast that he’d never heard of a dress rehearsal for a graduation– and he’s spoken at more than a few graduations. He offered to give them his talking points by phone, but they insisted that he be there in person because “there would be thousands of people [at the graduation], it’s just really important that everything go smoothly.” They also wanted him to change his rah, rah graduation speech to take on a decidedly more political tone. They asked him to include a discussion of Madison’s Second Amendment and criminal background checks for gun buyers. He thought it was weird, but since he wanted to “help out the school” he went along with reluctance. He drove to the event (a trip fraught with problems) and arrived to find a production worthy of the Olympics. The chairs, they intoned, represented the “lost class” of 3,044 students who died this year due to gun violence. Lott, the numbers cruncher, says those numbers don’t comport with reality. He might know a thing or two about those numbers since he’s the former – all together now – “Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs for the U.S. Department of Justice and then the Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Legal Policy for the U.S. Department of Justice.” He told me that as horrible as it is, there were nowhere near that number. He has no idea where they came up with the number. Rachel Maddow and others lauded the hoax. How clever. How fresh, they cooed.
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OK, I read the article, and it appears that how that went was that Lott was completely pwned.
that is a very impressive hoax
A wrap up smear as Nanzi would call it.
How much carbon went into the atmosphere over this hoax?
How many hungry children could they have fed with the same effort?
How many children died from lack of clean water while they were setting up chairs?
Sounds like Lott has a lawsuit to win.
Think how many chairs would be empty from abortions. That’s all he needs to say.
“A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.”
later
Bfl.
Is he suing? That is outrageous.
If Lott had any sense, he would do the exact. same. thing. to them at this event.
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