I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Robert DeNiro, giving speech in Dubai, calls U.S. a “backward country.” And the group of wealthy jackasses he was addressing, sitting there in the United Arab Emirates where only Muslims have full rights and some people still ride camels to work, laughed. Here’s a message from IHTM to Mr. DeNiro: stay there where you think it’s civilized, Bobby–we won’t miss you.

Comey bashes release of Nunes memo: ‘That’s it?’ Apparently J. Edgar Comey doesn’t think there is anything untoward about the government conspiring to rig an election and, when that failed, overturn it. No doubt that is why these crimes against our democracy occurred on his watch.

How The Media Buried Two Huge FBI Stories Yesterday. And people wonder why we hate the liberal media.

Confirmed: Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal helped spread Russia collusion fever before the election. Yes another rat working for Hillary’s cheese. Looks like he’s doing his Jack Benny imitation below.

Dumbest analysis of a Bible story ever? “Rabbi” Tamara Kolton, in a magazine for Jewish socialists called The Forward, says God abused Eve just like Dr. Larry Nassar abused little girls.

White House seeks revisions to Dems’ FISA rebuttal memo, halting release. It looks like Trump is masterfully trolling the Democrats again. Such fun.

Bitches can’t catch a break. Dog owners are complaining the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is stacked against females, with the proof being that twice as many males win “Best in Show.” And, in the spirit of fairness for which IHTM is famous, let us point out that not once has the top prize gone to a transgender dog.

Gender pay gap in modelling industry sees women earn 75% more than men: Or, more likely, the women are 75% more productive than the men are. Which means that the discrepancy is only nominal. In real terms they are paid the same. We know this is likely true because if firms could move the same amount of product with 75% lower model labor costs, simply by hiring only men, every female model on the planet would be in an unemployment line.

High school cancels musical after white student lands lead role:

Protests of the production began when an African-American student quit Ithaca High School’s musical production due to the role of Esmeralda being given to a white classmate.

“It shows you that theater wasn’t made for you,” the student told the Ithaca Journal. “And it shows you that, if you can’t get the parts that are written for you, what parts are you going to get?”

But wait, there’s more!

“At best, this is cultural appropriation,” the student group wrote, alleging racial bias within the Performing Arts Program at IHS, and “at worst, it is whitewashing, a racist casting practice which has its roots in minstrelsy.”

If only there were a place where students could be taught about history and literature and culture they might not assume that their African ancestry entitles them to the part of a French Gypsy.

#MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations. This reads like a bad script to a porno flick. Of course she’s a Democrat.

“She came back and was whispering real close and I could smell the booze and see she was pretty far gone,’’ he said. “She looked at me for a second and said, “I’ve set a goal for myself to fuck you.”

At that point, Garcia “stepped in front of me and reaches out and is grabbing for my crotch,’’ he said. That was “the line in the sand,” according to the lobbyist, and he stopped her. “I was four inches from her, eyeball to eyeball — and I said, ‘That ain’t gonna happen.’”

San Francisco Bay Area Experiences Mass Exodus Of Residents. It’s getting so bad that the inmates are escaping the loony bin.

“I loved it here when I first got here. I really loved it here. But it’s just not the same,” Dabak said.

“We don’t like it here anymore. You know, we don’t like this sanctuary state status and just the politics,” she said.

Uranium One informant makes Clinton allegations in testimony. Great, except it appears that “Bill Clinton’s charitable efforts” involve Bill, Hillary and Chelsea.

An FBI informant connected to the Uranium One controversy told three congressional committees in written testimony that Moscow routed millions of dollars to America with the expectation it would be used to benefit Bill Clinton’s charitable efforts while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quarterbacked a “reset” in US-Russian relations.

How stupid is Adam Schiff? Well, that might be an unanswerable question, like “How many stars are there?” but we do know he spent eight minutes talking to two Ukrainian comedians who claimed they had info about Trump doing bizarre things with a Russian porn actress, and after the phone call Mr. Schiff was so impressed, and still so completely fooled, that he sent follow-up emails telling them how productive the call was. Should someone this dumb be on the House Intelligence Committee?

Chris Matthews labels Nancy Pelosi an “ethnic sort of person.” Chrissy was desperately trying to defend Pelosi and he no longer has that thrill going up his leg to guide his words so this is the result.

Weekly Thread 2/6-2/13/18. What’s FUBAR these days besides Washington, DC?

Judge Rules Bakeshop Owner Doesn’t Have To Bake Wedding Cake For Gay Couple. You can damn well bet the ACLU is judge shopping as we type.

Shitstorm at Winter Olympics. South Korea pulled 1,200 security personnel and replaced them with military personnel after an outbreak of norovirus linked to suspected bad water. North Korea, never a country to point fingers and cast blame, is preparing a statement of love and support for their neighbor, we are sure.

Super Bowl Ratings Plummet to 8-Year Low – Breitbart. Read ’em and weep NFL. Keep on kneeling.

If NBC drew a 47.4 overnight rating for the Super Bowl, that's down only 3% from last year (48.8 for Pats-Falcons on Fox). Not a dramatic drop. But lowest overnight for a Super Bowl since 2010 though (46.4 for Saints-Colts on CBS in 2010).

— Austin Karp (@AustinKarp) February 5, 2018

ICE looks to private sector to help hire nearly 6,600 workers to support the 10,000 new agents Trump wants. If anyone’s looking for a nice government job where you can say ‘hasta la vista baby’ here you go.

Women’s March sides with man. Rose McGowan has been the heroine of the Me Too movement but last week a man-who-thinks-he’s-a-woman confronted her at a book signing and they ended up in a shouting match. Turns out the man-who-thinks-he’s-a-woman has been accused of preying on 13-year-old girls but, nevertheless, the Women’s March has rebuked McGowan for being “transphobic.”

ACLU: Fingerprint Background Checks Are “Flawed and Unreliable.” The logical extension of this theory of theirs is that all fingerprint evidence is ‘flawed and unreliable.” Of course they’ll ignore this in cases where guns are involved in crime.

FBI agents, sheriff named in civil lawsuit by LaVoy Finicum’s passengers. We say go for it. The entire fiasco was a ridiculous show of force. They could have quietly been arrested when they showed up at the public meeting they were going to speak at.

The 18-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Portland alleges that they were the victims of an “armed ambush, excessive-force seizure, conspiracy, battery and assault” and seeks a “common law jury” to award damages of up to $1 million per count.

The complaint also seeks to ensure that the defendants don’t hold public office because of their “Bad Behavior” and for “dishonoring” the U.S. Constitution.

Father Of Abused Girls Tries To Tackle Larry Nassar. We don’t blame him. We do think the bailiffs reacted too fast. They could have given dad a shot or two at this pervert.

Yearly Super Bowl Thread. Will the ratings tank? Will Janet Jackson expose one of her hooters? Who’s going to win?

White House worried FBI director could quit over Nunes memo release. Here’s a classic example of CNN reporting trying what appears to be an effort to make the memo sound bad to provide cover for Democrats/Deep State. Could this could be a record for statments made by who the hell knows who? Or perhaps Pinocchio?

1. Headline: “White House worried”
2. First Sentence: “Top White House aids worried”
3. Paragraph 3: “one source familiar with the matter said”
4. Paragraph: 5 “senior officials inside the White House”
5. Paragraph 6: “Multiple White House officials declined to comment. The FBI declined to comment.
6. Paragraph 7: “One person briefed on the matter”
7. Paragraph 7: “according to other officials”
8. Paragraph 8: “White House aids”
9. Paragraph 8: “a White House official”
10. Paragraph 8: “a lawmaker”
11. Paragraph 9: “Another person familiar with discussions”
12. Paragraph 10: “Agents inside the bureau”
13. Paragraph 11: “said one person inside the FBI”
14. Paragraph 12: “Top officials inside the bureau”