by Thomas Gallatin: On Monday, President Donald Trump botched a joke while honoring famed World War II veterans from the Native American Navajo Code Talkers at a White House ceremony. Trump, as he is wont to do, went ad lib, saying as he looked to the veterans, “And I just want to thank you because you’re very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in Congress who, they say, was here a long time ago. They call her ‘Pocahontas.’” Trump was referencing Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA), who falsely claimed Native American ancestry to secure special treatment in her career at Harvard. dinky-Warren’s joke moniker among conservatives is actually “Fauxcahontas.” But it wasn’t the botched punch line that bothered the mainstream media. Trump calling dinky-Warren Pocahontas was somehow “racist.” Like dinky-Warren, the Leftmedia decided to make up a claim out of whole cloth — that the name “Pocahontas” was a racial slur. CNN even sanctimoniously lectured that “Pocahontas was a historical figure from the 17th Century and using her name in an intentionally disparaging way insults native peoples and degrades their cultures.” CNN then pivoted and sought to excuse dinky-Warren’s false claims, reporting, “dinky-Warren says she is, in fact, part Native American, citing ‘family stories’ passed down through generations of her family.” Well then…
Attempting to whip up more “evidence” for its “Trump is a racist” narrative, the Leftmedia hammered White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over Trump’s use of this “racial slur” — which just happened to be how dinky-Warren herself framed it. Sanders appropriately and pointedly responded, “I think that’s a ridiculous response. … Look, I think that Senator dinky-Warren was very offensive when she lied about something specifically to advance her career. I don’t understand why no one is asking about that question and why that isn’t constantly covered.” Good question. Why isn’t the MSM all over dinky-Warren for her racist “sin” of “cultural appropriation”? ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52618
by Jordan Candler: In an op-ed this past weekend, the American Enterprise Institute’s Hoff Sommers warns, “We’re at imminent risk of turning this #metoo moment into a frenzied rush to blame all men.” Sexual assault is a serious problem, no doubt, but the danger, Sommers explains, is that needless panic and a refusal to recognize the facts — like a General Social Survey which found that the percentage of women who claim to have been sexually harassed is actually down from 2002 — “could ruin this #metoo moment.” Indeed, the #metoo movement unfairly disparages most men by methodically labeling them as molesters and predators. Not only is this untrue, it also risks covering up the good deed of guys like Johnny Bobbit Jr. The Marine motto is Semper Fidelis, which means “always faithful.” And this homeless ex-Marine in Philadelphia showed what it’s like to be always faithful when recently he sacrificed the precious little he had to ensure a woman named Kate McClure made it home safely. Here’s how McClure described the situation:
Driving into Philly one night, I made the mistake of thinking that I would be able to make it all the way down I-95 with my gas light on. Needless to say, I was wrong. I never ran out of gas before, and my heart was beating out of my chest. I pulled over as far as I could, and got out of the car to head to the nearest gas station. That’s when I met Johnny. Johnny sits on the side of the road every day, holding a sign. He saw me pull over and knew something was wrong. He told me to get back in the car and lock the doors. A few minutes later, he comes back with a red gas can. Using his last 20 dollars to make sure I could get home safe. [Emphasis hers].
Bobbit’s benevolence was rewarded more than he could ever imagine. Afterward, McClure organized a Go Fund Me campaign both to express gratitude and to extend a helping hand. The $10,000 she hoped to raise would have been impressive enough, but as of this writing, 13,545 people had contributed a whopping $380,452. The moral of the story? Not all men are boorish louts. In fact, some are willing to sacrifice every tangible thing they possess. Interestingly, it often comes from people who have the least. As Hoff Sommers points out, “Most of the sensational harassment cases in the media involved high-profile men working in unusual environments with little or no accountability. That suggests they are atypical.”
Bobbit is the personification of a real gentlemen. It goes without saying that you reap what you sow. And when you sow altruism, the rewards are literally off-the-charts good. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52604
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