The late Rush Limbaugh, who passed away last month, famously honored Andrew Breitbart on the day of his passing, March 1, 2012. Professor William Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection blog noted Rush’s tribute Monday, on the ninth anniversary of Breitbart’s death. Video and transcript, via American Rhetoric , follow: A few words about Andrew Breitbart. I’ve known Andrew Breitbart since the 1990s when he was working with Matt Drudge to help produce that page, the Drudge Report, each and every day. He grew up in West Los Angeles, surrounded by liberals, father-in-law Orson Bean, the comedian. Sometime during the 1990s, the early 90s, Breitbart had an awakening. He was constantly questioning what was all around him, which was really extreme liberalism, and he became, as many of you in the audience know, a bulldog. He literally was an indefatigable bulldog for the conservative cause. He did things that nobody else has done on the Internet where there are a lot of players. He accomplished quite a lot, much more than a lot of people. A lot of people get into the business for a number of reasons. His was to effect change. He really sought to affect change above everything else. A lot of people get into it to make a name for themselves. He was about that, too, of course, but he really was about affecting change, and he did on numerous occasions with ACORN, Anthony Weiner, Shirley Sherrod, just to name three of his most famous examples. But he was a bulldog. He was walking outside his home in his neighborhood in Brentwood just after midnight, keeled over. People had talked to him two hours prior, he sounded perfectly fine. They’re shocked. Family’s stunned. I mean there were some reports of health problems, but there was no indication of this. So everybody’s in a state of shock today trying to make sense of it. And when something like this happens to somebody a lot of people know at a very young age, you could say he died too young by half, he’s 43, life ...
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6 Dr. Seuss Books Will No Longer Be Published Due To Racist Images
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Six D r. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday. “These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday. READ MORE: 'Gown Giveaway': Brides Across America Extends Wedding Dress Donations To Health Care Workers “Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” it said. The other books affected are “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!,” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.” The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company said in the statement. “Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles,” it said. Books by Dr. Seuss — who was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904 —- have been translated into dozens of languages as well as in braille and are sold in more than 100 countries. He died in 1991. He remains popular, earning an estimated $33 million before taxes in 2020, up from just $9.5 million five years ago, the company said. Forbes listed him No. 2 on its highest-paid dead celebrities of 2020, behind only the late pop star Michael Jackson. As adored as Dr. Seuss is by millions around the world for the positive values in many of his works, including environmentalism and tolerance, there has been increasing criticism in recent years over the way Blacks, Asians and others are ...
Dan Campbell On Roster Decisions: ‘A True Alpha Knows When It’s Time To Concede’
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell continued to be a content machine Tuesday with another glorious quote. According to Stacey Dales, Campbell was talking about who would make final roster decisions between him and GM Brad Holmes, and he said, “A true alpha knows when it’s time to concede.” (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) #Lions new HC Dan Campbell when asked about final roster decisions between he and GM Brad Holmes: “A true alpha knows when it’s time to concede.” — StaceyDales (@StaceyDales) March 2, 2021 Dan Campbell has exceeded all expectations in Detroit, and we haven’t even made it to the draft yet. When we hired him, we knew we were getting a guy with some great views on being tough and being a competitor. However, I never expected him to be this kind of content machine . Dan Campbell is what would exist if you asked me to write my dream fictional coach. The man is so aggressive that he probably takes the brakes off of a car as soon as he buys. He’s 100% the kind of guy I want in my foxhole. WELCOME TO THE MCDC ERA DETROIT pic.twitter.com/80TFcWwSHa — Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) January 21, 2021 I can’t wait to follow Campbell into battle. Godspeed, Coach. Godspeed! We’re all riding with you! ...
FNC’s Carlson: The Party that Runs Baltimore, East St. Louis Is ‘Going to Make the Middle East a Much Better Place’
Monday, FNC “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson opened his program criticizing President Joe Biden’s so-called “counterterrorism” approach to Middle East foreign policy, which recently included airstrikes on Syria. Carlson noted the phraseology used to describe the act, which still left a lot of unanswered questions. Transcript as follows: CARLSON: Just 36 days into a new administration, and already, Joe Biden has fulfilled a major campaign promise. If you didn’t vote for him, it might be hard to admit this, but don’t worry, this is nothing that’s going to improve your life or the life of the United States. It’s nothing that’s going to make you freer or happier, help you drop 20 pounds or bring you closer to your family. It’s nothing you can use to buy dinner. You’re not getting a stimulus check this week. Your kids are not going back to school. You’re not getting a raise. You thought you might be, back on the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised low-wage workers will bump to 15 bucks an hour. Remember that? Sorry, not happening, not because hiking the minimum wage might eliminate jobs. That is a real argument, but it’s not relevant to what just happened. The minimum wage isn’t going to 15 bucks because the Senate Parliamentarian wouldn’t allow it. Raising the minimum wage to that level would violate established procedure, the Parliamentarian said, and of course, the White House wanted no point, no part of violating procedure. As Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain put it, quote: “We’re going to honor the rules of the Senate and work within the system.” Okay. Keep that in mind when they try to eliminate the filibuster or pack the Supreme Court or making D.C. a state. In the meantime, though, no living wage for you. That’s one campaign promise that Joe Biden appears to have forgotten. But the promise he remembered wasn’t made to you in the first place or to the country. It was made to defense contractors and neocon think tanks in ...
Turkey-Iran Tensions Rise as Ankara Expands Operations in Iraq
ISTANBUL - Turkish-Iranian tensions are rising over Turkey's ongoing military operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. The regional rivals are engaged in increasingly bitter diplomatic sparring as Ankara threatens to expand its Iraqi operations to a strategically important region used by an Iranian-backed militia. "We do not accept at all, be it Turkey or any other country, to intervene in Iraq militarily or advance or have a military presence in Iraq," Iran's ambassador to Iraq, Iraj Masjedi, was quoted as saying in an interview broadcast Saturday. Turkey's Iraq envoy, Fatih Yildiz, shot back in a tweet, "[Masjedi is] the last person to lecture Turkey" about respecting Iraq's borders. According to Turkish media reports, the Turkish foreign office summoned Iran's ambassador, Mohammad Farazmand, to tell him that Turkey expected Iran to back Turkey's "fight against terrorism." Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu provoked Tehran's anger claiming Sunday, Iran was harboring "525 terrorists." Turkey's ambassador to Iran, Derya Ors, was then summoned by the Iranian foreign ministry to receive an official protest and denial that Iran offers any support to terrorist groups and is serious in fighting terrorism. Turkey's ongoing military operations into Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are at the center of the increasingly bitter diplomatic sparring between Tehran and Ankara. The PKK is waging a decades-long insurgency against Turkey from bases across the border in northern Iraq. The United States and the European Union both designate the PKK as a terrorist organization. Analysts say Tehran sees Turkey's widening presence in Iraq as encroaching on its sphere of influence. "The military presence of Turkey in Northern Iraq is a fact that does not make Iran happy," said Zaur Gasimov, a regional expert at Bonn University. But Ankara is vowing to expand its Iraqi operations after 13 Turkish citizens being held hostage by the PKK were ...
