The Patriot Post Digest 11-15-2019

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The Patriot Post Digest 11-15-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest

Nov. 15, 2019

https://patriotpost.us/digests/66819-mid-day-digest-2019-11-15

THE FOUNDATION

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” —Alexander Hamilton (1787)

https://patriotpost.us/fqd/66818-founders-quote-daily-2019-11-15

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Pelosi disingenuously hides behind the Constitution.1
Disney’s “woke” warnings about its old movies.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.

IN BRIEF

‘Schiff Show’ Roundup: Pelosi, Clinton, and Yovanovitch10

Whenever Democrats lecture about defending the Constitution, you know they’re up to no good. The very basis of the Democrat Party is to violate the Constitution wherever possible — tax policy, income redistribution, taking over vast swaths of the economy, and the very impeachment charade House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims is to uphold their oaths.

Pelosi has used the Constitution to explain impeachment before, but she added to it Thursday. “The devastating testimony [Wednesday] corroborated evidence of bribery uncovered in the inquiry,” Pelosi insisted, adding that “the president abused his power and violated his oath by threatening to withhold military aid and a White House meeting in exchange for an investigation into his political rival — a clear attempt by the president to give himself an advantage in the 2020 election.” She later explained, “The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections. That’s bribery.”

Two things. First, Pelosi was referring to testimony Wednesday in the first public hearings to date. It was hardly “devastating.”11 Second, Pelosi is solidifying the Democrats’ shift from screaming about a quid pro quo to claiming that President Donald Trump’s actions with Ukraine amount to “bribery.” That’s strategic, because that language is specific to Article II of the Constitution and it will, Dems and The New York Times hope, “resonate with the public.” It’s all about messaging and narrative.

Today features testimony from former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. She was appointed to the position by Barack Obama (though she has served under previous Republican presidents), but Trump fired her in May — two months before the supposedly impeachable phone call with the Ukrainian president. The Washington Post laughably describes her as “one of the first victims of the politicization of the State Department under Trump.” Evidently, the partisans at the Post would like you to forget who ran the State Department for the previous eight years — that would be Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, two of the most politicizing individuals in Washington.

Democrats aim to accomplish two things with Yovanovitch’s testimony: Show Republicans attacking a woman and prove that Trump’s removal of her was corrupt and political. But while officials may not agree with the president, he has a right to set foreign policy with the people of his choosing. End of story.

Finally, Trump has received some important advice on impeachment from, of all people, Bill Clinton. The former impeached president said, “My message [to Donald Trump] would be — look, you got hired to do a job. You don’t get to — every day’s an opportunity to make something good happen. And I would say, ‘I’ve got lawyers and staff people handling this impeachment inquiry and they should just have at it. Meanwhile, I’m going to work for the American people.’ That’s what I would do.” Of course, Clinton was actually on video in 1998 committing perjury, whereas Democrats have yet to actually prove an impeachable offense on Trump’s part. But what’s a detail like that among friends?

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66814-schiff-show-roundup-pelosi-clinton-and-yovanovitch-2019-11-15

Rewriting Disney’s ‘Woke’ Wrongs12

It’s still sort of a big deal when Disney re-releases one of its classic animated movies. In years past, the parents of the six-year-olds who loved “Frozen” swooned over “The Lion King,” while their own parents were likely taken in by “The Jungle Book.” Yet in introducing its new streaming service, the Disney conglomerate has caved to political correctness by running a disclaimer13 at the beginning of many of its classic movies and warning us that they may contain “outdated cultural depictions.”

But some people are never satisfied. Those who complain that “The Lion King” had “racist hyenas”14 and “The Jungle Book” was full of its own racial coding15 don’t think Disney went far enough. Naturally, they’ve taken to Twitter16 and are comparing Disney’s disclaimer to a stronger one17 issued by Warner Brothers for its “Looney Tunes” cartoons a few years ago — a warning that the animated depictions were “wrong then and they are wrong today.”

On the surface, it’s surprising just how reasonable Disney’s disclaimer is given how quickly it’s running to placate the Rainbow Mafia with scenes of same-sex kisses18 and kids “coming out”19 on the Disney Channel. But the movie studio that brought us Mickey Mouse has already sanitized a significant portion20 of its history, editing out a character in “Fantasia” and essentially forever erasing21 the “Song of the South,” with only its classic “Zippity-Do-Dah” tune still in circulation. Disney apparently believes these parts of its past are just too offensive for the sensibilities of today’s audiences. We suppose the company is right.

One thing Disney doesn’t reveal with its disclaimer, though, is just which “outdated cultural depictions” are the trigger within these movies. In that respect, it can be argued (and eventually believed) that the entire movie is an “outdated cultural depiction.” So what happens when the hero is a white, straight male who gets the girl in the end? Is that outdated because today’s heroine must be a woman of color with a same-sex partner?

The other problem is that Disney’s disclaimer implies that the cultural norms of our past — which included things like the nuclear family, faith in our Creator, and a strong work ethic — are now somehow suspect. And in a society that’s theoretically more colorblind than ever, some of these “outdated cultural depictions” might well pass unnoticed by younger audiences that were never exposed to those stereotypes.

Perhaps we should hang onto all those old Disney titles on VHS, because It’s a Woke World, After All.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66815-rewriting-disneys-woke-wrongs-2019-11-15

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