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March 28, 2014

The Press is Very Suspicious of the Koch's Motives, But Not Interested At All in Yeeland Lee's
— Ace

Good piece by Jonah Goldberg noting the press' studious lack of interest in the motives of Democratic malefactors.

[S]o far no reporter has raised the possibility that Yee supported tighter restrictions on guns in order to keep gun prices high and his own services in demand....
Now I sincerely doubt that Yee was that clever. The more likely explanation is that he believes in gun control and heÂ’s a greedy hypocrite (and maybe not too bright either). The fact that gun-control policies are to his advantage is just a happy coincidence.
WhatÂ’s interesting Â— and vexing Â— to me is that this sort of analysis is all the rage when it comes to conservatives and Republicans, and utterly incomprehensible to most journalists when it comes to liberals and Democrats.
...
Meanwhile, many media outlets are all too willing to take their cues from Democratic talking points. For instance, the Washington Post recently ran a shockingly shabby story insinuating that the Kochs have a lot to gain from the Keystone pipeline....
I have no problem with journalistic skepticism or the search for ulterior motives. I just object to the idea that only Republicans might have them.
Al Gore reportedly left government with a net worth of less than $2 million; heÂ’s now worth more than $200 million, in part by profiting from climate policies he lobbies for. Gore surely believes in those policies, but why does he get the benefit of the doubt?
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The irony is that itÂ’d be in the mediaÂ’s business interest to report on the seedy underbelly of liberal politics, too. But they donÂ’t, because they actually do put their liberal principles before profits.

And the Yee story certainly is "good copy," as Goldberg says.

Crazy, vicious corrupt old brokedown machine politician crook.

What?

Nevermind. Just some random words that popped into my head.

But speaking of Harry Reid, Matthew Continetti has a good piece about the Reid Family Fortune.

The fact that Harry ReidÂ’s political and influence operation includes his five children has been established for some time. A few weeks ago, when I first heard Reid accuse private citizens of being un-American, I dredged up a Los Angeles Times article from 2003 with the headline, Â“In Nevada, the Name to Know Is Reid.Â” Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. CooperÂ’s meticulously researched and reported article begins with the story of the Â“Clark County Conservation of Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002,Â” a land bill of the sort that puts people to sleep. Â“What Reid did not explainÂ” when he introduced the bill in the Senate, Neubauer and Cooper wrote, Â“was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations, and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sonsÂ’ and son-in-lawÂ’s firms.Â” I wonder why he left that part out.
Firms tied to the Reid family, the Los Angeles Times reported, earned more than $2 million from 1998 to 2002 Â“from special interests that were represented by the kids and helped by the senator in Washington.Â” How much more have they earned in the 11 years since this article was published? Land, energy, water, gaming, and miningÂ—the Reids manage a diversified portfolio. They are not financial investors but political ones. ReidÂ’s four sons are lawyers, as is his son-in-law. They make their money furthering the interests of paying clients, clients operating businesses in the state represented by Reid.
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Reid and his family appear to work within the confines of the law, which should not be surprising, because Reid writes that law, and illegal activity hurts the bottom line. Others are not so careful. Last year one of ReidÂ’s longtime donors, Nevada lobbyist Harvey Whittemore, was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of violating campaign finance laws. Whittemore used associates as Â“straw donorsÂ” to run around donation limits, giving more than $130,000 in dirty money to ReidÂ’s campaign. His sentence is delayed pending appeal.

It's worth reading in full.

Posted by: Ace at 03:51 PM | Comments (150)
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1 The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 03:53 PM (N8MbR)

2 There's not much worse out there than Harry Reid.

Posted by: EC at March 28, 2014 03:55 PM (doBIb)

3 "Good piece by Jonah Goldberg noting the press' studious lack of interest in the motives of Democratic malefactors." Ace I love that you are just a badger on this. But brother, a leftie could murder his mother and 20 children on the white house lawn and the story would be under the White Sox box score.

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 03:55 PM (x3YFz)

4 Plus ca change, plus le meme chose

Posted by: Pierre, avec les Francais at March 28, 2014 03:56 PM (omBWL)

5 No gun for you round eye. But hey, if you want rocket launcher meet me out back in 10 minutes.

Posted by: Yeeland Lee at March 28, 2014 03:56 PM (Aif/5)

6
The MSM always contends there isn't a partisan bias. It is just that some things make for good news and others don't. They always say that they report plane crashes, but not successful landings. It isn't partisan you kooky conservatives!!

Yeah, this story here pretty much calls utter bullshit on that.

This guy's story could be a movie. Mr "Big Shrimp" mafia guy? Are you kidding me?

It is partisan bias, case closed.

Posted by: dan-O at March 28, 2014 03:56 PM (D0bIN)

7 if a blog steps on its dick in a thread does it make a noise?

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 03:57 PM (rDidD)

8
There's not much worse out there than Harry Reid.
Posted by: EC at March 28, 2014 07:55 PM (doBIb)

heeey.

Posted by: Alan Grayson at March 28, 2014 03:57 PM (mETGQ)

9 Meanwhile, another California Dem senator wants everyone to know that gun running was not covered in CA's senate ethics training: http://tinyurl.com/ofqx6nu

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 03:58 PM (N8MbR)

10 So how long before one of Reid's kids runs for office?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 28, 2014 03:58 PM (GEICT)

11 Um Ace, isn't his name Leeland Yee? So why does it read at the top Yeeland Lee?

Just trying to help with the layers of superior fact checking the Moron Horde is capable of.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 03:58 PM (IHAZk)

12
How did you stupid, smelly people figure out the interwebs?

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 28, 2014 03:58 PM (mETGQ)

His full name is 'Yeeland'?

Why do people call him 'Yee'?

Posted by: wheatie at March 28, 2014 03:59 PM (6mUZW)

14 no one ever followed a corgi anywhere, chased a lot of em though.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 03:59 PM (rDidD)

15 Jonah reminds me of Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol in Battlestar Galactica. But, he writes like the Admiral. Good stuff.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 28, 2014 03:59 PM (IXrOn)

16 It's Leland with one "e".

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 28, 2014 03:59 PM (WdbF7)

17 Guns for Yee but not for thee!

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 03:59 PM (vVSOO)

18 >>So how long before one of Reid's kids runs for office? Already done. Rory Reid lost a governor's race in Nevada.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (g1DWB)

19 BCochran, Harry's son Rory ran for governor of NV. The corruption stench does not fall far on the Reid tree.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/06/rory-reids-house-cards-crumbles/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (IHAZk)

20 he spells it leeland but pronounces it yeeland

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (rDidD)

21 It's Leland Yee Ace.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (oFCZn)

22 >>>So how long before one of Reid's kids runs for office? It think his already did in '10 or '12.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (6NGyP)

23 Koch is just a bookend to Rush in their library of hate targets. They know if they even brushed past Soros, they would be pushing up daisies.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (IXrOn)

24 Yee always was just a greedy, dishonest, lying POS who tirelessly worked the system. He's a Type, and many Dems are essentially the same

Harry Reid is Yee 2.0 ( Las Vegas Version )

Posted by: Rocky Racoon at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (omBWL)

25 When, oh when, will the MSM get wise to the string of "youth hostels" that the Searchlight Strangler erected and owns across Nevada?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (gmtFW)

26 So how long before one of Reid's kids runs for office? Rory Reid.

Posted by: EC at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (doBIb)

18 Guns for Yee but not for thee!

Hear yee, hear yee....I declare a Thread Winner!

Posted by: wheatie at March 28, 2014 04:00 PM (6mUZW)

28 14 Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. I like the sound of that. Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 28, 2014 07:59 PM (oGrEy) "Inmate" just has such a better ring to it.

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 04:01 PM (x3YFz)

29 At All in Yeeland Lee's

Ace, I'm beginning to think you are lexdysic.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at March 28, 2014 04:01 PM (AA6QE)

30 Of course he did. Of course. He'll try again. Or another spawn will. They've made their livelihood by having an inside man pulling levers. That won't stop.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 28, 2014 04:01 PM (GEICT)

31 Um Ace, isn't his name Leeland Yee? So why does it read at the top Yeeland Lee?

Just trying to help with the layers of superior fact checking the Moron Horde is capable of.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 07:58 PM (IHAZk)

New material!

Posted by: Stephen Colbert at March 28, 2014 04:01 PM (mETGQ)

32 Tell me about these "shrimp" guns, how ~~young~~ small are they? And can you get me quantity.

Posted by: Harry (leching) Reid[/i][/b][/s] at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (DL2i+)

33 *beep * beep* Starting right now on MeTV is Star Trek: The Menagerie 2-hour episode.

Posted by: Soothsayer as The Villain at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (47IEJ)

34 23 >>>So how long before one of Reid's kids runs for office? It think his already did in '10 or '12. Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 08:00 PM (6NGyP) His kid lost to Sandoval for NV Governor.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (gmtFW)

35 Man I hate it when you're walking around and like four or five guns fall out of your pockets.

Posted by: Leland Yee at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (oFCZn)

36 Harry Reid is the perfect symbol of America today and of how far we have drifted from the Founder's concept of legitimate government.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (o3MSL)

37 Yee's birth name is Wie Tu Low--parents changed it after coming to America

Posted by: Rocky Racoon at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (omBWL)

38 35 23 >>>So how long before one of Reid's kids runs for office? It think his already did in '10 or '12. Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 08:00 PM (6NGyP) His kid lost to Sandoval for NV Governor. Rory looks just like Harry, sickly.

Posted by: EC at March 28, 2014 04:02 PM (doBIb)

39
CalGuns is having some fun with Yee.

http://tinyurl.com/ne42v3f

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2014 04:03 PM (TIIx5)

40 These are the ones getting caught. Imagine what hasn't been uncovered.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 28, 2014 04:03 PM (IXrOn)

41 "Inmate" just has such a better ring to it.

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 08:01 PM (x3YFz)

"Long-term inmate" would be even better.

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 04:04 PM (o3MSL)

42 His name is actually pronounced "Reerand Ree Ching-Chong Ding-Dong"

Posted by: Stephen Colbert at March 28, 2014 04:04 PM (3a584)

43 Yee wasn't just after fully automatic weapons, he was after shoulder fired missiles. And just who was he willing to sell those to, Hmmmm?

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 04:04 PM (vVSOO)

44 Ace, I'm beginning to think you are lexdysic. Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2014 08:01 PM (AA6QE) /scratches out "lysdexic"

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 04:04 PM (x3YFz)

45 Yeeland Lee has a certain... ring to it, does it not?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:05 PM (gmtFW)

46 SE Pa Moron: "Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

I like the sound of that."

Nevada Department of Corrections Inmate #655321 would sound a lot better.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 04:05 PM (1CroS)

47 yee should be brought up on treason charges for importing automatic weapons and rockets.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:05 PM (rDidD)

48 Slashdot had a story on Yee. They focused on his hypocrisy of being a gunrunner who is ... anti-game violence.

Several commenters pointed out that he was anti-gun too, and that most of the articles on him didn't identify his party. And they were shouted down by people pointing out that California Democrats are generically mentioned in several stories. But Yee himself, nope, no party affiliation.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 28, 2014 04:05 PM (IoTdl)

49 Is this a gun in my pocket or am I happy to see you? Man, I kill myself.

Posted by: Leland Yee at March 28, 2014 04:05 PM (oFCZn)

50 Is the MFM a cause or a symptom?
Which will die 1st MFM or America?

Stay tuned next week when it will all be the Tea Party's fault.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 28, 2014 04:06 PM (DL2i+)

51 Yes what a beatific thought - Harry and Rory making car tags. For once doing honest labor.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 04:06 PM (IHAZk)

52 three democrat california senators have already gotten in trouble this year. That's 3 out of 28 in office right now.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 28, 2014 04:06 PM (WdbF7)

53 Surely the desserts to be served to Yeeland Lee will be just.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:06 PM (gmtFW)

54 Imagine what hasn't been uncovered. Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 28, 2014 08:03 PM (IXrOn) I refuse to jump at the low hanging fruit!

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 04:07 PM (x3YFz)

55 "But speaking of Harry Reid, Matthew Continetti has a good piece about the Reid Family Fortune."

Continetti keeps knocking them over the fence. Ace is right, don't miss this one.

As for Yee: he played at antigun politics because there are a couple of issues that are sure winners in the ultraliberal SF Bay Area, and that's one of them. It's like backing ethanol in Iowa. The thing that you do.

A long beloved outdoor firing range in Yee's district, after decades of perfectly safe operation, got closed down by the politicos a few years ago. Because bullets were found lying nearby outside the range perimeter, and OMG THINK OF THE INNOCENT CHILLUNS who were going to die horribly from stray gunfire.

Then after the deed was done, some of the local antigun activist crowd got caught openly bragging that they had planted the evidence.

They weren't ever punished. It's just that kind of a place. Simply endless Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs lefty nonsense. Never stops. Do not expect for Yee to be replaced by anyone other than another corrupt liberal loon. Perhaps a slightly more discreet one. That's all.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 28, 2014 04:07 PM (noWW6)

56 I thought Tom Daschle was a jerk, but hairy Reed really takes the cake.

Posted by: Ronster at March 28, 2014 04:07 PM (puNd6)

57 gwyneth paltrow will be in a new kim kardashian feature by july.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:07 PM (rDidD)

58
Yee wasn't just after fully automatic weapons, he was after shoulder fired missiles. And just who was he willing to sell those to, Hmmmm?

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 08:04 PM (vVSOO)

Hell, he should have just gone to one of those evil gun shows with a pocketful of cash and bought all he wanted through that loophole. I'm reliably informed by the Dems and the Brady's that full auto guns, RPGs and silencers are easily available there.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2014 04:07 PM (TIIx5)

59 harry reid's pledge name was cat tail.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:08 PM (rDidD)

60 I know what some on this thread are thinking. Damn, he got busted before I could get a fully automatic AK. Before anyone gets all H8Y on me, you know you want one. Well, at least I would. And a shoulder fired missile would be kind of cool, you know, for the burning times.

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 04:08 PM (vVSOO)

61 52 Yes what a beatific thought - Harry and Rory making car tags. For once doing honest labor. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 08:06 PM (IHAZk) They'd spell your license plate wrong.

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 04:08 PM (x3YFz)

62 ABC does a third of their nightly news on a five month old story about a NJ bridge. Black democrat mayor, probably ghey, get's caught TWO days ago taking bribes and resigns? Not a story.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 04:09 PM (0FSuD)

63 Hawwy and Reeland Sittin' in the pen. Tried to plead to five, Instead were given ten!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:09 PM (gmtFW)

64 61 I know what some on this thread are thinking. Damn, he got busted before I could get a fully automatic AK. Before anyone gets all H8Y on me, you know you want one. Well, at least I would. And a shoulder fired missile would be kind of cool, you know, for the burning times. Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 08:08 PM (vVSOO) Hey my friend, I give you good price!

Posted by: Swarthy Russian at March 28, 2014 04:09 PM (doBIb)

65 Well-connected lawyers don't go to prison. That's for the little people.

Posted by: kartoffel at March 28, 2014 04:09 PM (sWwJZ)

66 the fact that this yeeland creep gets busted for gun-running is ritz to me. and i'm super cereal.

Posted by: concrete girl at March 28, 2014 04:09 PM (YBmqo)

67 Anything going on in the NCAA? I'm outside with a fire going (in the fire pit this time!) and a good rye and some hippie music on pandora.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 04:09 PM (6NGyP)

68 Let's not forget the Black Assemblyman from Queens caught taking bribes. Story? Not.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 04:10 PM (0FSuD)

69 So did Leland Yee have anything in the Malaysian Mystery jet's cargo hold?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 04:10 PM (IHAZk)

70 What I wouldn't give to see Harry caught in a bear trap...

Posted by: gewa76 at March 28, 2014 04:10 PM (k8m83)

71 if lee is smart he will start taking hormones before he goes to the big house.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:11 PM (rDidD)

72 A scumbag, hypocritical, crooked politician? Ho Lee Fuk!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2014 04:12 PM (BeQRp)

73 70 So did Leland Yee have anything in the Malaysian Mystery jet's cargo hold?
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Why yes, yes he did. He had GMO's bound for the Philippines and lithium batteries. Why do you ask?

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 04:12 PM (vVSOO)

74 Anything going on in the NCAA? I'm outside with a fire going (in the fire pit this time!) and a good rye and some hippie music on pandora. Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 08:09 PM (6NGyP) UConn up by 10 over IA State at halftime, Michigan up by 11 over Tennessee near the end of the half.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 04:13 PM (N8MbR)

75 >>>Is this a gun in my pocket or am I happy to see you? <<<

And this gun is my favorite. I call it the "Porkchop Express."

Posted by: Lo Pan Yee at March 28, 2014 04:13 PM (oJUxt)

76 Hi, my name is Leland. As a staunch Republican and even staunchier supporter of the Second Amendment, I want to say how thankful we all should be for Obamacare.

Without Obamacare, when one of the rocket launchers I illegally supply to criminals blows off half your body, you won't have to worry about being denied health insurance due to preexisting conditions.

Thanks, Obamacare!

Posted by: Leland Yee at March 28, 2014 04:13 PM (08jH8)

77 I hear his chinese fortune teller told yee he is probably having a conscious uncoupling with his ass cheeks in the near future.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:13 PM (rDidD)

78 Shrimp Boy is a comin' His cell is in sight. Shrimp Boy is a comin' There's dancing tonight!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:14 PM (gmtFW)

79 >>>UConn up by 10 over IA State at halftime, Michigan up by 11 over Tennessee near the end of the half. Thanks! Glad I'm doing this instead. Although I do have a few Vols fans I should call and mock.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 04:15 PM (6NGyP)

80 Posted by: Leland Yee at March 28, 2014 08:13 PM (08jH

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Yeah, but if they lower your body temp to 32 degrees Celsius they might, might be able to pull you through as long as you're not in the control group.

Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 28, 2014 04:15 PM (vVSOO)

81 The Left has destroyed the nation. GOP and conservative movement are a joke that the LEFT laughs at. Hell, part of the so called movement wants amnesty and free shit too.

Posted by: Dan at March 28, 2014 04:16 PM (COpZ4)

82 68 Anything going on in the NCAA? I'm outside with a fire going (in the fire pit this time!) and a good rye and some hippie music on pandora. Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 08:09 PM (6NGyP) Shouldn't the hippies be in the fire?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2014 04:16 PM (BeQRp)

83 6 The MSM always contends there isn't a partisan bias. It is just that some things make for good news and others don't. They always say that they report plane crashes, but not successful landings. It isn't partisan you kooky conservatives!! Yeah, this story here pretty much calls utter bullshit on that. This guy's story could be a movie. Mr "Big Shrimp" mafia guy? Are you kidding me? Posted by: dan-O at March 28, 2014 07:56 PM (D0bIN) -------------------------------------- Yep. The same could be said about the Kermit Gosnell story. If that story hadn't cast a poor light on their sacred cow of abortion, it would have been on TV 24/7.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 28, 2014 04:16 PM (dfYL9)

84 The Koch/Keystone propaganda piece from the Washington Post was the diversionary, collusive, Emmanuel Goldstein hit piece to begin the 2014 election narrative in earnest.

Just like Sandra Fluke and the War on Women(TM) was the setup previously, Kock/Keystone and the War on Mother Nature(TM) is the setup now. Fortunately Powerline et al. were gnawing on this bone before the Democrat machine could fully engage the gears.

If we had an opposition party with the gonads to actually oppose, they'd be investigating and exploiting the MFM/DNC collusion. If.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 04:16 PM (1CroS)

85 The Koch/Keystone propaganda piece from the Washington Post was the diversionary, collusive, Emmanuel Goldstein hit piece to begin the 2014 election narrative in earnest. Just like Sandra Fluke and the War on Women(TM) was the setup previously, Kock/Keystone and the War on Mother Nature(TM) is the setup now. Fortunately Powerline et al. were gnawing on this bone before the Democrat machine could fully engage the gears. Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 08:16 PM (1CroS) But it will still show up in a campaign ad or two, with the WaPo article cite showing up in the small print.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 04:19 PM (N8MbR)

86 Lee watched too much SOA

Posted by: JB at March 28, 2014 04:19 PM (K/J3u)

87 Magic for dogs is mean!

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 28, 2014 04:19 PM (vFh9Q)

88 >>I thought Tom Daschle was a jerk, but hairy Reed really takes the cake. And anything else he can get his boney, corrupt fingers on.

Posted by: Aviator at March 28, 2014 04:19 PM (3rrMW)

89 Ten years in prison? More like... *clock nears midnight* "It's time Harry."

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 04:20 PM (oFCZn)

90 It's Leland Yee Ace.
That's a coincidence. Ace's first name is the same as the Dem's last name!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 28, 2014 04:21 PM (hn5v5)

91 This Yeeland Lee guy is a crook!

Posted by: Leland Yee at March 28, 2014 04:22 PM (GSIDW)

92 Someone check Andy Canuck's socks. One time he had a stash of gold coins.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 04:22 PM (IHAZk)

93 NCAA flogging Obama Care, with YOUR TAX DOLLARS!

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 04:24 PM (0FSuD)

94 >>>Shouldn't the hippies be in the fire? Nah, I like hippies. Not the activist Gaia-loving jackoffs, but the smoke grass and don't bother me types I'm fine with. More libertarian hippies out there than one would expect. The type that go shooting in the morning, rock climbing midday, and drink whiskey and smoke ganja at night while the steaks are grilling. I can't hate on that too much.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 04:24 PM (6NGyP)

95 @94 Wonder who got the tickets to the games for the Obama Care ad buy?? Hmmm

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 04:25 PM (0FSuD)

96 Just the tip. Pinky swear.

Posted by: The Kochs at March 28, 2014 04:26 PM (bitz6)

97 regarding the chicom grenade fail in the right hand column, here is my favorite flashbang fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tCyAHc8bk

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:27 PM (rDidD)

98 >>>Um Ace, isn't his name Leeland Yee? So why does it read at the top Yeeland Lee? thanks... I guess I did a, do they call it a spoonerism?

Posted by: ace at March 28, 2014 04:27 PM (/FnUH)

99 Werr Prayed Misetew Ace, Werr prayed.

Posted by: Reerand Ree at March 28, 2014 04:27 PM (bXdYS)

100 "Do you have anything to say, Harry" "Kochs!!!!!" *Nods to guard, steps back from the chair*

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 04:27 PM (oFCZn)

101 Leland Yee? Never heard of him.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at March 28, 2014 04:27 PM (UwtI5)

102 More libertarian hippies out there than one would expect. They sound industrious...as consumers.

Posted by: Structurally Unemployable at March 28, 2014 04:28 PM (wu/TK)

103 Your ranna here deck de hars?

Posted by: Reerand Ree at March 28, 2014 04:28 PM (bXdYS)

104 Someone check Andy Canuck's socks. One time he had a stash of gold coins.
I buried them on my Flickr page in old coffee cans. No one will find them there EVAH!!! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! EVAH! EVAH!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 28, 2014 04:28 PM (hn5v5)

105 So another thought regarding the gun politics of Commiefornia:

The per capita violent crime rate in the state has fallen steadily for a while now.

Liberal politicos in CA have seized on this and said, "Look! The system works! You don't need guns. The police are doing a perfectly adequate job of protecting the public."

Hold on a second. Let's look at the actual political history of crime in the state. To wit, at the following:

-- "Use a gun in a crime, go to prison" laws. Inspired by NRA. Enacted in the 1980s under a Republican governor (back when CA had such things). A counterreaction to the weak criminal justice of the 1970s under liberal then-Governor (and now-Governor again) Jerry Brown.

-- "Three strikes you're out" laws. Enacted in the 1990s under another Republican governor. After it became clear that some violent felons were skating past hard time because they hadn't used guns in the commission of their particular violent crimes. Perfectly possible to commit battery or murder with a knife or with fists.

So this crime reduction about which liberals crow was actually brought about by conservative policies!

And, the success of those laws in keeping violent felons in prison and off the streets is about to come to a screeching halt. The prisons in CA are now absolutely stuffed full. So much so that tens of thousands of felons are being released from stir under a federal consent decree (imposed by three Jimmy Carter judges).

Meanwhile, liberals are pushing to pull the teeth of the tough sentencing laws. Their constituents are going to prison! Can't have that!

So it's pretty much guaranteed that the trend towards lower violent crime in CA is about to go into reverse. Whether this will result in a popular clamor for something like the shall-issue laws which have been legislatively installed in other states, is too early to say, but the times they are a changin'.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 28, 2014 04:29 PM (noWW6)

106 Harry Reid? Isn't he the ...naw, drawing a blank. His story must be covered on the cables.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at March 28, 2014 04:29 PM (UwtI5)

107 2 There's not much worse out there than Harry Reid.

Posted by: EC at March 28, 2014 07:55 PM (doBIb)

'Sup.

Posted by: Noam Chomsky at March 28, 2014 04:29 PM (M5T54)

108 Deck da Hars wif Smiff $ Resson....faa raa raa raa raa, ra ra rar.

Posted by: Reerand Ree at March 28, 2014 04:30 PM (bXdYS)

109 *koch* *koch* *koch*

Posted by: Liberal Heads Exploding at March 28, 2014 04:30 PM (Dwehj)

110 I'ma not complaining, mind you, but sitting / standing at an auction for nearly six hours is damn tiring...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at March 28, 2014 04:30 PM (gmtFW)

111 She loves my Koch.

Posted by: AC DC at March 28, 2014 04:31 PM (bitz6)

112 You right wing lunatics think you have found a chink in the armor of San Francisco Progressive society?

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 28, 2014 04:31 PM (UwtI5)

113 Meanwhile, liberals are pushing to pull the teeth of the tough sentencing laws. Their constituents are going to prison! Can't have that! So it's pretty much guaranteed that the trend towards lower violent crime in CA is about to go into reverse. Whether this will result in a popular clamor for something like the shall-issue laws which have been legislatively installed in other states, is too early to say, but the times they are a changin'. Posted by: torquewrench at March 28 kinda of a dilemma, if you leave the violent criminals out to run free, they kill your constituents and you lose votes, if you put em in jail you lose votes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:31 PM (rDidD)

114 On FB there have been an increasing amount of posts about the Koch bros. It's essentially the new Dick Cheney.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at March 28, 2014 04:31 PM (fP31B)

115 114 You lacist, loundeye.

Posted by: Wi Tu Low at March 28, 2014 04:32 PM (bitz6)

116 It looks like there are spoonerism generators online but they looked dodgy too me so I didn't try any of them out.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 28, 2014 04:32 PM (hn5v5)

117 Doh! ...to me...

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 28, 2014 04:32 PM (hn5v5)

118 94

Yea, but did they run the so special Roy Williams spot?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 28, 2014 04:33 PM (aUQgu)

119

(all meant more in despair and sorrow than with any negative sarcastic spirit)

Seems to me that the Volkische Beobachter and Der Sturmer are not giving Germany's Jewish community a fair shake. Also, they seem biased when it comes to certain foreign governments, and certain issues related to organizing the German society and economy.

(but really, folks ...... we long since passed "bias" in the "press" .... it's been wholesale, systematic distortion for a very long time, to include outright fabrication/mendacity, with nice doses of unbelievable irresponsibility and arrogance thrown in - SWIFT, internet surveillance, etc.)

Posted by: non-purist at March 28, 2014 04:33 PM (afQnV)

120 I don't think it is fair that Yee got off after dealing some arms via mooslem extremists and I would go to the state pen for the same thing. But, that is the breaks!

In San Fran nothing gets you in trouble other than ghey-bashing. Wanna walk into 7-11 nekkid as a jaybird and buy Funyuns and a Big Gulp? Go for it! Do you have a hankering for parading down Fulton Street in your leather chaps and nothing else! Welcome to the partay, say Sodom to Gomorrah with antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. HIV positive? Aren't we all? It is like gingivitis in that crowd. I plan never to return again if I can help it. pfft

Malkin nailed it: this is all show for the big GOP corruption reveal in October, then all will be forgotten.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Bossy Redneck Queen at March 28, 2014 04:33 PM (baL2B)

121 "John McCain; John McCain - WALMART CALLING!! Your meds are ready at the pharmacy counter. Please pick them up IMMEDIATELY - Your doctor says you're incoherent without them.... John McCain!...John McCain!...John McCain!... (Guess we must've lost the silly SOB)......Let's move on" ___________ "Mr. Obama; Mr. Obama - WALMART CALLING....

Posted by: Walmart Pharmacy at March 28, 2014 04:34 PM (V0j3u)

122 Funny thing is, the Chinese/Irish/Italian bosses/unions in San Francisco always tolerated the freaks, but kept the trains running on time. Today, the freaks run the show, and the bosses keep to their own business, under, or perhaps with the assistance of, the freak radar. My City has turned to crap. There are no children there! Public schools are closing for lack of demand, and the good private schools are majority out-of-city. It's like the kingdom in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Posted by: SI class of 80 something at March 28, 2014 04:35 PM (mTM2n)

123
Lee watched too much SOA

Posted by: JB at March 28, 2014 08:19 PM (K/J3u)

Not enough, apparently. The Chinese gang in SOA got themselves massacred last season.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 28, 2014 04:36 PM (TIIx5)

124 Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at March 28, 2014 08:31 PM (fP31B)

Sort of amazing that faux Republican intrigue (re Koch Bros) totally outweighs actually corruption, theft, etc. by elected Democrat politicians!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 04:36 PM (o3MSL)

125 I got something from Veterans Affairs wanting me to apply for VA Health coverage with an Obamacare Brochure. I hadn't heard from them in 22 years.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 28, 2014 04:39 PM (bitz6)

126 Michelle's theory sounds reasonable . Mine is that some of the lifers in Fed law enforcement have gotten tired of Obama and Holders people using them as a punching bag and have decided to show the grifters that they have some power too . But who the fuck knows ?

Posted by: awkward davies at March 28, 2014 04:39 PM (whqez)

127 You know who likes Coldplay? LaceyUnderalls. That's who.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 04:41 PM (+/r5v)

128 Tell Harry I said, "Have a Koch and a smile and STFU!"

Posted by: Eddie!!! at March 28, 2014 04:42 PM (lq3Ak)

129 Bathtub Boy is back in the sidebar.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 28, 2014 04:43 PM (bitz6)

130

@122 In San Fran nothing gets you in trouble other than ghey-bashing. Wanna walk into 7-11 nekkid as a jaybird and buy Funyuns and a Big Gulp? Go for it! Do you have a hankering for parading down Fulton Street in your leather chaps and nothing else! Welcome to the partay, say Sodom to Gomorrah with antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. HIV positive? Aren't we all? It is like gingivitis in that crowd. I plan never to return again if I can help it. pfft

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We are quickly approaching the day when having sex on a public street corner will be perfectly legal, but eating a burger on that same corner will get you arrested.

Posted by: junior at March 28, 2014 04:43 PM (UWFpX)

131 Why are we importing Chicken Nuggets from Canada?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 28, 2014 04:44 PM (bitz6)

132 I do understand that the Coke brothers have been found to have engaged in commerce that high level government officials have had questions about, as far as calling it "Un-American", and have associated themselves with some Republican types who are conducting an all out war on women.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at March 28, 2014 04:44 PM (UwtI5)

133 Good stuff today Ace. Â….looking forward to listening to you guys, some Chill Grooves and newly minted gunslinger Cooke at work during the overnight.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 28, 2014 04:45 PM (Yrj2p)

134 Why are we importing Chicken Nuggets from Canada? Posted by: Boss Moss at March 28, 2014 08:44 PM (bitz6) Be thankful it's Canada.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 04:45 PM (N8MbR)

135 Rory Reid 2010 was sacrificed in a scientific experiment to determine how large of margin of fraud could be generated between his and his father's electoral totals

Posted by: Beth at March 28, 2014 04:45 PM (kFxpe)

136 I Heard somewhere the Koch Brother's donated to Bill Clinton's Campaign.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 28, 2014 04:45 PM (bitz6)

137 The president did not give the Pope a recording of his speeches like he did the Queen. Instead, seeds. The president gave Francis a custom-made chest with a variety of fruit and vegetable seeds used in the White House Garden. I am sure the pope was impressed.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 04:46 PM (0FSuD)

138 NCAA update for DC in Towson: Michigan up by 21, UConn up by 14.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 04:46 PM (N8MbR)

139 GO WAHOOS!!

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 04:47 PM (0FSuD)

140 139 I wonder if these included bean seeds?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 28, 2014 04:47 PM (bitz6)

141 Oh, and the Koch Bros thing is pure Alinsky 101 Rules for Radicals. Â…..too bad that the MFM never heard of that timely little tomeÂ….

Posted by: ontherocks at March 28, 2014 04:48 PM (Yrj2p)

142

@139 Instead, seeds.

The president gave Francis a custom-made chest with a variety of fruit and vegetable seeds used in the White House Garden.

I am sure the pope was impressed.

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He might be, actually. There's a possibility that the stuff in the White House Garden is unique, and therefore valuable.

Though given the caliber of previous gifts from the current occupant of the White House, I wouldn't be surprised if they're not.

Posted by: junior at March 28, 2014 04:48 PM (UWFpX)

143 T-O-R-T-U-R-E PoW, Denton, dies. (See sock link.)

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 28, 2014 04:49 PM (hn5v5)

144 Democrat corruption?

Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at March 28, 2014 04:50 PM (cll/q)

145 We the press,
We play joke,
Protect our Leland Yee,
But not your Koch.

Posted by: MFM at March 28, 2014 04:50 PM (08jH8)

146 New thread is up.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 04:52 PM (N8MbR)

147 He might be, actually. There's a possibility that the stuff in the White House Garden is unique, and therefore valuable. Though given the caliber of previous gifts from the current occupant of the White House, I wouldn't be surprised if they're not. The chances of this are slim and NONE. Slim left town. Eisenhower tore out the garden in the 50's and installed a putting green. The seeds can not be over 53 years old when Jackie planted the rose garden in 1961.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:04 PM (0FSuD)

148 The Press is Very Suspicious of the Kochs' Motives, But Not Interested At All in Leeland Yee's I remember hearing on KCBS radio when it was first announced that Yee was indicted. Maybe it's just me, but I swear I could clearly hear a note of dejection in the voice of the newscaster as she reported the development.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at March 28, 2014 06:59 PM (rakCv)

149

Mr "Big Shrimp" mafia guy? Are we talking about Republican John McCain? Oh that right, he has figured out a way of getting a pass from the media.

Posted by: burt at March 29, 2014 06:18 AM (1+kJ5)

150 The press also doesn't care about Soros, Peter Lewis (now deceased), or organizations like the Tides Foundation. I guess if you contribute gobs of money to the political causes and parties that the press deems to be "correct" or "virtuous," than it's philanthropic, but if you donate money to causes with which the press-class doesn't agree, you are destroying democracy. Well, you can't have it both ways, guys. It would be nice to have a separation of business and state, but that wouldn't serve democratic leftist causes very well - it would dry up the gravy train - so it would never happen. The bottom line is this: our country is already lost, so if you care at all about real liberal democratic ideals, it's probably time to leave the country. Of course, where is there to go? America is over. R.I.P.

Posted by: MistressOverdone at March 29, 2014 06:24 PM (2/oBD)

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