Now There’s an Eyewitness to Don Lemon’s Alleged Assault (Plus a Great Tweet at the End)

JIM TREACHER:

“…The other day I wrote about the guy who’s suing Don Lemon for assault, and I pretty much treated it like a joke. I was skeptical that it actually happened, and I made jokes about it because I think Don Lemon is a jerk. But now there’s a witness. Now it doesn’t seem so funny.

Brian Flood, Fox News:

The former boss of a bartender who earlier this week filed an explosive lawsuit against CNN host Don Lemon, accusing the newsman of a strange, sexually charged assault, told Fox News he witnessed the incident and corroborated his onetime employee’s claim.

In an exclusive interview, George Gounelas, who managed Dustin Hice at the Old Stove Pub in July of 2018, detailed what allegedly occurred on the night of the bizarre encounter at Murf’s Backstreet Tavern, which is located in the prestigious Hamptons area east of New York City. Gounelas is named in the suit filed by Hice…

Gounelas’ version of the story is the same as Hice’s: Hice offered to buy Lemon a drink, and Lemon declined. A few minutes later, Lemon came up to Hice, put his hand down his own shorts and rubbed his fingers on his genitals, and then shoved his fingers under Hice’s nose and uttered that now-immortal phrase: “Do you like pu*sy or di*k?”

That’s what Gounelas says happened too. And then he sums up my sneaking suspicion about this story:

“As his boss, I was kind of making fun. I feel bad now,” Gounelas said.

#MeToo. At first I just thought it was funny, if it even happened at all. But now Hice has a witness, and it sounds like the incident really hurt him.

What say you, libs? Anything to add, #TimesUp? Either we view unwanted sexual advances as a serious problem or we don’t. Is there a particular reason Don Lemon should be exempt? Don’t the rules apply to him as well?…

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U.S.–U.K. Pact Could Revive Free Trade

I think this is outstanding.

Deroy Murdock:

“…These political and personal factors bode well for an Anglo-American free-trade pact. Optimists speak of concluding an accord that would commence on November 1, the day after the U.K. will leave the European Union, as Johnson promises — an amicable exit, if possible, otherwise through a divorce as frightful as Halloween itself.

“I’m sure a new free-trade agreement, with Boris and your excellent ambassador in London, Woody Johnson, pushing it, will come quickly,” predicts Lord Borwick of Hawkshead, a Conservative member of the House of Lords and frequent visitor to America. He expects that U.S. ranchers and farmers will savor the result.

“European rules prohibit the importation of good American beef, but I’ve never seen an English Beefeater refuse a Texan steak in the States,” Lord Borwick tells me. “Similarly, the Europeans prohibit American chickens because they are washed in chlorinated water, even though we wash our children in chlorinated water in every British swimming pool, and I never have seen an English tourist refuse to enter a Kentucky Fried Chicken shop.”

Lord Borwick hopes an Anglo-American bargain remains simple. He says: “If we make anything legal in the States legal in the U.K., and vice versa, as Dan Hannan MEP has proposed before, and Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has proposed for U.S. pharmaceuticals, then we have a free-trade agreement that can be summarized in one sentence that everyone can understand.”

Daniel Hannan, a Tory member of the European Parliament, is considered the Father of Brexit. Like Ted Cruz, he is a thoughtful and magnificently eloquent advocate of conservative ideas. Hannan argues that both sides should “emphasize the open nature of a U.S.–U.K. deal, to underline that it is about mutual recognition instead of standardization. This mutual recognition should apply to goods, services, and professional qualifications.”…”

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Don Lemon Sued for Highly Unusual Dive Bar Interview Technique

JIM TREACHER:

“…This is a bad week to be a prime-time anchor on CNN. First Fredo Cuomo went impazzire and became a national laughingstock, and now the guy he hands off to every night is accused of some pretty ballsy behavior.

Aidan McLaughlin, Mediaite:

A man is suing Don Lemon, claiming the CNN host attacked him at a Hamptons bar last summer…

Dustin Hice claims that Lemon attacked him at Sag Harbor dive bar Murf’s in July 2018…

“Mr. Lemon, who was wearing a pair of shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt, put his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers in Plaintiff’s moustache and under Plaintiff’s nose,” the suit says.

Hice said Lemon repeatedly shoved his fingers in his face and asked, “Do you like pu*sy or di*k?”

Well, keep in mind that asking questions is a big part of Don’s job. And besides, what’s zestier than Lemon rind?

CNN is claiming that Mr. Hice “previously displayed a pattern of contempt for CNN on his social media accounts,” and that he demanded Lemon give him $1.5 million not to file the lawsuit. Which might be true, even though CNN is reporting it…”

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The White Supremacy Hoax

Best estimates are that true White Nationalists number about 100,000 or less in the United States. The left has a new boogeyman and will redirect financial resources and emotional outbursts to quash the new monster. It is a fabricated political maneuver. I support normal police activities to limit the illegal actions of White Nationalists as I support similar practices for any other group that may pose a danger to society. I don’t support politically motivated, emotional nonsense.

Angelo Codevilla:

“…The specter of white supremacy haunts America. Let us empower the government to crush it.

Just yesterday, “the deplorables” were to be deplored because they were “racist, sexist, homophobic,” clingers to “God and guns,” and Russian dupes to boot. Today, the agility and unanimity with which our politicians and media—heck, the ruling class—have shifted to indicting roughly 72 percent of the population as white supremacists, likely violent, would fill with envy their homologues in China, Cuba, North Korea, and other tyrannical places. By comparison, Joseph Goebbels had sloppy message discipline. Not even the Soviets in their salad days were so “on message!”

One may suppose that our ruling class merely intends to energize its constituencies and cower the opposition in the 2020 elections. But this is no game. Their proposals would impose pre-punishment for pre-crimes on persons accused or “suspected” of being a “white supremacist.” By whom? On the basis of what?

In practice, a “white supremacist” is anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him. Who would accept being outlawed at will? Our ruling class plays with matches in a house drenched in gasoline.

Here is the latest. The Wall Street Journal on Saturday featured an essay by one Clint Watts, formerly of the FBI and West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center. Watts makes those proposals using the word “white” 16 times in 18 paragraphs. The sociopolitical ideas rife among white people are the main matrix of terrorism in America, Watts contends. Racial profiling, anyone?

Bemoaning the fact that U.S. law now restricts surveillance of, never mind restrictions on, U.S. persons to those who have committed or may be about to commit crimes, Watts proposes legislation that would permit designating persons associated with what the government may identify as “white supremacist ideology” as subject to surveillance to “preemptively assess whether these white supremacists are taking a radical turn toward violence.”

Watts also proposes “red flag” laws, that would allow the government to take away weapons from someone so designated. Loss of weapons would be the least of burdens imposed on anyone so “red-flagged.” Career, reputation, possibly family, would be gone because someone in the notoriously impartial FBI so decided, perhaps with the agreement of the highly scrupulous FISA court, subsequent to ex parte, secret proceedings.

This has become ruling-class conventional wisdom. Desire to wage war on ordinary Americans—to disadvantage them and even to kill them—had long been bubbling in the ruling class’s basements. The countless, nearly identical pronouncements from on high in recent days can be taken as an announcement that the ruling class has raised them into its forceful mainstream…”

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