Author: Jack Marshall

Epstein Ethics Train Wreck Update: Dershowitz Blows Up the Narrative, Ethically and Unethically

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A threshold question: Harvard law professor emeritus and former Jeffrey Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz issued the definitive debunking of the stupid Jeffrey Epstein “client list” myth that the Axis of Unethical Conduct has been clinging to lately four days ago. Why wasn’t this major news, especially since the same paper it was published in, the Wall Street Journal, was getting Axis-wide babble over their far less substantive story about how Donald Trump penned a risque birthday card long ago in a galaxy far away?

Well, we know why, don’t we? The Dershowitz column undermines the “Get Trump!” effort, so it isn’t news that’s fit to print. Despicable.

In “The Inside Scoop on Jeffrey Epstein: I was his lawyer. I know things that court orders won’t allow me to disclose,” the Dersch reveals…

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Addendum to “On the Damning Birthday Doodle….”

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I was going to add this to the previous post, but decided that it deserved a special highlight. Red-pilled former Axis pundit Matt Taibbi is exercised over the apparent documentation showing the the whole Obama administration, including Barack, deliberately promoted the Russian collusion hoax as a way to cripple the incoming Trump Administration. That is part of an angry tweet sent his way.

Note the attempted equivalencies: on one hand we have a high level government conspiracy by Democrats to violate the Constitution while framing a President of the United States, and on the other, at worst, a raunchy gag birthday greeting from two decades ago.

This is how unhinged from reality, proportionality, sanity and common sense the American Left has become. That poor fool who tweeted Taibbi is not an isolated instance: I bet most of my Facebook friends would agree with that tweet. It really is beyond unethical to pathological.

On the Damning Birthday Doodle….

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I just woke up and feel like I’m going to barf. Almost certainly this is because I knew when I finally hit the sack last night that I was going to have to write about this new low in Axis “Get Trump!” shenanigans—oh, I’m sure there will be even lower ones to come—this morning.

You see, it seems that a long time ago, eventually-to-be-President Donald Trump wrote a bawdy birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein as part of Ghislaine Maxwell’s project to create a leather notebook filled with such cards from his friends. It seems that Trump cooperated with the project, which means that he had criminal sex with under-age girls. Or it means that he would have liked to have sex with under-aged girls. Or that he’s evil and needs to be destroyed by any means necessary, of which this smoking doodle evidence is one….but the Trump Deranged lunatics who are fulminating over this “scandal” already know that, or think they do, so again we find ourselves asking, “What’s going on here?“

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Ethics Quote of the Week: Citizen Free Press

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“Bwaaahaha, perhaps you should have cut out the bias, bitches.”

—Citizen Free Press, on all the whining and breast-beating from public television and radio talent and execss over NPR and PBS finally losing taxpayer support.

Citizen Free Press is the successor to the Drudge Report as the go-to conservative news aggregator. It’s a bit too unprofessional for me most of the time, with links headlined “Nancy Pelosi should have shut her pie hole!” and such, but this time, its colloquialism hit the mark.

The arrogance of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been offensive for decades. It has been a hard left propaganda machine, the automatic foe of Republican Presidents and the reliable enabler of Democrats since anyone can remember. NPR’s Supreme Court commentator Nina Totenberg was a buddy of the late progressive SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a clear conflict of interest, but she didn’t care and neither did NPR: after all, the idea was to bash the conservative decisions anyway. Ken Burns disgracefully turned his documentary on the Jews and the Holocaust into a Trump-bashing screed, and PBS just nodded its metaphorical head in agreement. There are too many examples of both networks spinning reality to support Woke goals and narratives to tote up.

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Friday Open Forum, But First I Have To Get THIS Out…

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Nobody else has to write about this asshole here—it is an open forum, after all—but I want to get my ethics call on the announcement that CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” out of the way lest it fester and turn into a fatal brain tumor.

That ethics call is “GOOD! It’s about damn time!” Never mind that I don’t find Colbert funny and never have; my opinion of his smug style of humor is irrelevant. But he has been for more than a decade a divisive force in American culture, exacerbating political divisions and intolerance, misleading people foolish enough to take his partisan talking points as fact, and one of many Axis of Unethical Conduct allies who have been deliberately ripping at the connective tissue that holds the nation together. He’s an ethics villain.

Naturally, the Axis is upset and, as usual, lying. “CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump — a deal that looks like bribery,” Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on social media from her tee-pee. “America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.” It was cancelled because CBS decided that a an expensive late night TV show with pretty miserable ratings that was dedicated to insulting and denigrating half of the country was probably not a smart investment, and was never an ethical one. Warren, a lawyer, former professor and U.S. Senator apparently doesn’t even know what “bribe” means. No, come to think of it, she’s just calculating that enough citizens don’t know what the word means to mislead them.

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Another Bonkers Question To “Social Q’s”

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Who are these people?

A mere summary won’t do the full craziness of this question to the NYT’s manners advice column full justice, so here’s the whole, ugly thing:

My husband’s brother, mid-60s, has always been single. Before his parents died, he lived with them. While attending a violent political rally that my husband and I opposed early in the pandemic, he contracted Covid, then infected his mother and behaved irresponsibly in managing her care. She died soon after. We have had no real relationship with him in years. Still, he emails suggestions of gifts he would like for birthdays and Christmas. We send them, and he responds with thank-you notes. When he asks what we would like, we respond that we don’t want any gifts. He sends them anyway, and we donate them to charity. We do not acknowledge them, which we normally would do. Recently, he expressed a desire for acknowledgment of his gifts. How should we handle this?

I’m not going to read columnist Phillip Galanes’s answer to this one because I declared him an irredeemable woke bigot quite a while ago. I’m insulted that he thinks any reader worthy of human association would be interested in such a family’s pathology. Shunning a family member is an extreme move that had better be justifiable; shunning him without letting him know he’s being shunned is not just cruel, it’s weird.

Considerations:

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Unethical Quote of the Month: NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher

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“As far as the accusations that we’re biased, I’d stand up and say, ‘Please show me a story that concerns you.’”

The infuriatingly dishonest, smug and biased Katherine Maher, head of NPR, on CNN yesterday.

Social media and others, like Senator John Kennedy and Instapundit, are going wild picking obvious examples. Hell, I have a lot of them; here’s one you may have forgotten (I had).

If Congress doesn’t finally strip public funding from NPR and PBS, there is no reason to trust those people to do anything. The Democrats love them because they are permanent propaganda mouthpieces for their party, but what’s the Republicans’ excuse?

Goodbye, Connie…

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Connie Francis just died. I guess I just feel that attention should be paid.

She had a tragic life off the stage and out of the recording studio. Her Old Country father ended her romance with the man she believed was the love of her life; she was raped; she had serious emotional traumas. But I felt she was the greatest of all female pop singers, country singers, rock singers—hell, the woman could just sing. And that sob in her voice! I confess, every time I hear “Where the Boys Are” or its sequel, “Follow the Boys,” I get a pang.

I would have loved to hear Connie and Linda Ronstadt in their primes have a sing-off.

Neil Sedaka is quoted today in the Times as observing, “What struck me was the purity of the voice, the emotion, the perfect pitch and intonation, It was clear, concise, beautiful. When she sang ballads, they just soared.”

They just soared. Connie Francis never found love: her two marriages were to manipulative jerks, and both ended in less than a year. Like so many great artists, her own life was often miserable but her art made life a little better for millions, including me.

Connie Francis could sing in many languages, but none suited her style better than Italian: her real name was Concetta Franconero, and she grew up in Newark’s Italian section. I first heard that version of “Where the Boys Are” this year, on Pat Boone’s Fifties radio show. Wow.

Goodbye Connie, and thanks.

You were loved!

[And as a curtain call, “Follow the Boys…”]

Will the Unethical Appeals To Emotion Rationalizing Illegal Immigration Never Cease?

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The metaphorically tear-flecked column in the Times screams, “We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty.” [Gift link here!]

You know what the “venomous cruelty” is? Sending people who are in the U.S. illegally back to where they never should have left in the first place.

The author is Linda Greenhouse, a dyed-through-and through progressive who warps students at Yale Law School. She’s a legal journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize once, the Times tells us, not that this should mean anything after the Post and Times won awards for their false coverage of the Russian Collusion non-story and after “The 1619 Project’s” fake historian was rewarded for that political fantasy.

Greenhouse isn’t stupid, or at least shouldn’t be, with degrees from Harvard University, Yale University, Yale Law School, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Yet here she is, writing things like

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Unethical Website of the Month: “Crowds on Demand” [Corrected]

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This used to be a monthly feature on the old, now defunct, Ethics Scoreboard. I haven’t done many here: the last one was—let’s see—appeared in December 2024! Yet the fake demonstration site “Crowds on Demand” is an easy choice. It’s business is lying by proxy.

“Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR stunts, crowds for hire and corporate events. Services available nationwide,” we are told. Ah. Impactful advocacy campaigns that don’t have as many advocates as they pretend to have. Terrific.

“Are you looking to create a buzz anywhere in the United States? At Crowds on Demand, we provide our clients with impactful advocacy campaigns and events. We are best known for organizing passionate demonstrations, rallies, flash-mobs, corporate PR events, and light-hearted events such as paparazzi, brand ambassadors, and PR stunts. We also have virtual capabilities including letter-writing, social proof, and phone-banking campaigns. We can create turn-key advocacy groups complete with qualified passionate leaders to staff them all on relatively short notice.”

All lies. And when your mob for hire starts a riot, “Crowds on Demand” will send in fake National Guard members in to beat them up and get sympathy for your group! OK, I made that up. But it wouldn’t surprise me. “Crowds on Demand came under fire from supporters of President Donald Trump for allegedly supplying paid protesters for the anti-ICE and “No Kings” protests that cropped up across the nation,” I am reading. More recently, the company’s CEO claimed he was offered $20 million to recruit people to participate in the planned anti-Trump protests set to take place tomorrow. Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, told the host that organizers of the planned “Good Trouble Lives On” protests scheduled for Thursday tried to hire his company to bolster the size of the demonstration. His reason was that he didn’t think the protests would be effective, and it would make his company look bad.

But you see, the company is bad, whether it promotes that fraudulent demonstration or another one.