Teenager Killed While Sticking Head Out of Roof Hatch on 'Sweet 16' Party Bus — Hit Head on Highway Underpass Near George Washington Bridge

I wonder if the kid was decapitated. It's bad all around, but to see the kid's lifeless body like that, headless ... that would be a life-scarring event for some of the kids on board, 65 in all, en route to a "Sweet 16" birthday party.

At the New York Times, "Teenager Dies After Sticking Head Through Bus Hatch and Striking Underpass."

Jason Biggs, 'American Pie' Star and Voice of Leonardo on Nickelodeon's 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', Deletes Vile Sexual Assault Tweets Without Apology

This story's been going on for a few days, and folks have been sending their outraged responses to Nickelodeon on Twitter.

At Twitchy, "American Weasel: Jason Biggs quietly deletes vile tweets about Ann Romney and Janna Ryan."

Nickelodeon's Twitter feed is here.

More at Twitchy, "Pressure mounting for Nickelodeon to throw the pie at American idiot Jason Biggs."

Well, if he gets fired, perhaps he'll be able to find a job as a Democrat congressional or White House staffer.

Donny Ray Williams, Jr. — Ex-Obama Staffer Accused of Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Women

And let's just stipulate, okay: The dude's a big black mofo.

At London's Daily Mail, "Ex-Democrat staffer who briefly worked for Obama administration 'drugged, sexually assaulted and threatened women'."

And from Daniel Halper at Weekly Standard, "Former Dem. Hill Staffer and Obama Admin. Official Accused of Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Women."

The initial report is at the Washington Post and Memeorandum.

And Halper adds:

"And though the Washington Post story fails to mention it: The staffer has worked only for Democrats, including: Senator Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Rep. Jan Schakowskay of Illinois, Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, and Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, among others."

Plus, Jammie snarks:

"Maybe Donny Ray Williams is available to speak at the DNC."

No doubt.

They're a bunch radical homosexual-enabling criminals as it is. Throw in a few Democrat congressional rapists and then folks will really be going to town.

MORE: At PJ Media, "Accused Democrat Sex Predator: ‘If it can be done on the Hill, I’ve done it’."

Ellen 'I Love Everybody…Except U Right-Wing Fuckin' Morons' Barkin: Clint Eastwood Wants to Kill President Obama

At Twitchy, "Ellen 'I Love Everybody…Except You Right-Wing Fuckin' Morons' Barkin: Clint Eastwood Wants to Kill President Obama."

Barking Ellen Barkin tweeted:

"Been unable 2 watch any RNC convention "speeches"...but did Clint Eastwood really make the slitting throat motion...meant for our POTUS???"

And then all the progressive douchebags yammer, "He did, he did. Call the Secret Service!"

And there's more: "Ellen Barkin: Is Twitchy defending Clint Eastwood’s ‘death threat’ against Obama?"

"Wow Is Twitchy defending Eastwood gesture..."as he revealed his secret disire to kill the POTUS" ? No violence/death threat there, right?"

Secret desire. Okay.

Ellen Barkin's a gasbag. What a progressive gay-enabling loser.

PREVIOUSLY: "Ryan Killed It, Romney Rocked It, and Clint Eastwood Hammered the Living Shit Out of Barack Hussein."

Lean Forward Bend Over: How MSNBC Became the Most Blatantly Dishonest Network on Cable News

Every time I watch the hacks on MSNBC I'm impressed by how shamelessly they lie. They lie about everything, and then they forget their own lies. A few months back I posted on Rachel Maddow's Fast and Furious lies, then debunked them with programming from her own earlier episodes. If you've ever had the misfortune of knowing a pathological liar, then you've already experienced what it's like to watch MSNBC.

In any case, Alessandra Stanley, at the New York Times, perhaps thinks she's clever with the comparison to Fox News at her article on the self-identified socialist network, "How MSNBC Became Fox’s Liberal Evil Twin." The end result, however, is to ridiculously impugn the conservative network with the comparison. MSNBC's ratings have improved, sure. But that's because progressives will swallow anything they're told. Not only that, Stanley gets some of the basics of the story wrong, for example:

Both Fox News and MSNBC have experienced reporters in the field who stay neutral even when their anchors let loose. The NBC network’s anchors keep their opinions to themselves, and so do its star reporters, like Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd, who appear on both cable and network shows, and somehow skillfully navigate past the rockier shoals.

Umm, no.

You can't count the number of times that Andrea Mitchell's been hammered for her bias by the conservative blogosphere. For example, when Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitchell made the disgusting comment that Ryan wouldn't appeal to suburban women. Ericka Johnson, for one, reported on that at Hot Air, "MSNBC’s Mitchell: Ryan “not a pick for women”." And see NewsBusters as well, also calling out Stanley's huge errors in reporting, "NYT Admits MSNBC's Liberal Bent, But Falsely Claims NBC's Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell Stay Neutral."

That said, Stanley does tear into the hopelessly stupid hacks at the network, especially Chris Matthews, who outdid himself with this week's convention coverage:

MSNBC has a growing cast of anchor-bloviators — hosts like Martin Bashir, Tamron Hall and, of course, Al Sharpton, who rant and then invite like-minded guest commentators to assure them that they are right.

Chris Matthews, who hosts a Sunday talk show syndicated by NBC and a daily MSNBC show, seemed determined during this convention to outflank his most outspoken rivals, including Mr. Sharpton.

He started with a bruising harangue against Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee Chairman, that made even his hosts on “Morning Joe” wince. Mr. Matthews looked almost thuggish on Wednesday night when the Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, 67, speaking from the din of the convention floor, complained she couldn’t hear his question.

“You can’t hear me?” he said. “Well, that’s convenient.”

On Thursday, Mr. Matthews fulminated against Paul Ryan’s — admittedly misleading — assertion that Mr. Obama did nothing to prevent the closing of a GM plant in 2008. Then Fox News attacked media figures who attacked Mr. Ryan. CNN took the harder course of parsing the entire issue: The correspondent Tom Foreman gave a long, industrious analysis that explained where and how Mr. Ryan finessed the facts.

MSNBC talk shows are to network newscasts what blogs are to newspaper columns, shaggier and often less considered. And increasingly, viewers, like readers, have a hard time distinguishing one from the other. But it’s all that attitude on MSNBC that raises eyebrows.

Read it all at the link.

PREVIOUSLY: "The Jacobin: Chris Hayes of MSNBC."

RELATED: At The Other McCain, "When It Comes to ‘Brazen Lies,’Nobody Excels Joan Walsh." That's the brazen liar Walsh appearing at the clip on Matthews' show.

Three Violent Incidents Rekindle Debate on Use-of-Force at LAPD

At the Los Angeles Times, "Violence in 3 recent LAPD incidents rekindles use-of-force debate."

Three violent altercations caught on tape involving Los Angeles Police Department officers have rekindled the long-running debate about LAPD use of force and are shaping up to be a significant test for Chief Charlie Beck.

All three incidents occurred during seemingly routine calls and inexplicably turned violent.

Several weeks ago, a cellphone video showed four police officers tackling a 20-year-old Venice skateboarder they said was resisting arrest. One officer hit him in the face.

This week, videotape emerged in which two LAPD officers in the San Fernando Valley were shown slamming a handcuffed woman to the ground before appearing to give one another fist bumps. The woman, a nurse who was pulled over for holding a cellphone while driving, suffered large bruises to her face and body.

But the most serious incident came to light late Thursday, when LAPD officials revealed that a woman had died during a confrontation in July outside her South Los Angeles home. Police said the woman had gone to a police station to drop off her children because she said she could not take care of them. Police returned to her house to arrest her on suspicion of child endangerment.

"Each incident is disturbing," said Police Commission member Richard E. Drooyan on Friday. "In each of these cases, we are talking about different places in the department with different races and genders involved."

Beck spent Thursday night moving through the city and talking to officers about the incidents.

"I was in the field last night and visited half a dozen police stations," he said. "I looked hundreds of police officers in the eye as I discussed their responsibilities. I have faith in them."

More at that top link.

Sean Hannity Interview With Mia Love

We need more women like this in politics, way more.

See also, "Rockin' Conservative Mia Love Sets GOP Convention on Fire."

The Death of the Left

From Michael Ledeen, at PJ Media (via Instapundit):

Hegel would have well understood one of the most interesting contemporary developments:  the old liberal establishment is shrinking, both in numbers and in confidence, and their political/ideological opponents are growing.  Several smart people have noticed the extraordinary depth of the conservative political team, many of whose members were on display in Tampa this week.  The Ryans and the Romneys, the Christies and the Haleys, the Loves and the Rubios, the Brewers and the Walkers, on and on.  They have a much clearer vision of the real world, and they accordingly have more realistic political approaches than those on the left, who are trapped in a world that no longer exists.

Here’s another way to grasp the dialectical process:  look at Wisconsin.  Long considered one of the wackier leftist places in America, it is now the cradle of creative conservatives. The Progressive mission known as the “Wisconsin Idea” is politically and intellectually dead and buried.  Wisconsin now votes for Paul Ryan and Scott Walker (and probably Tommy Thompson in a couple of months).

If you’re one of those leftists, unable to sort out how the world works nowadays, and unable to win an honest debate with your political and intellectual opponents, it makes you very angry, and you lash out at them with a violence that often surprises observers who are less engaged in the political or intellectual wars.  The left has died as an intellectual force worth taking seriously.  Its mission belongs to another time.   It is reduced to fighting for political power alone, and its weapons are what we recently called “the politics of personal destruction.”  It’s the only way they can hope to win.  None of us should be surprised when the leftists accuse the righties of pushing old women off of cliffs, or murdering cancer-afflicted employees, or waging war on women, and so forth.  They have to destroy their opponents one by one.  They no longer have a “movement” of any significance.

That’s what happens when you become an anachronism...

Victoria's Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes in 'Amazing' Photo Shoot in New York City (VIDEO)

Before you know we'll be having the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and I'll have all the reporting on that.

Until then, enjoy Doutzen Kroes:

FLASHBACK: "Victoria's Secret 2011 Fashion Show Will Air Tuesday, November 29, On CBS."

The Left's Racial Code Words

This is funny:

Michelle developed this theme earlier, "RNC Derangement Syndrome."

Mitt Romney, His Family, and Life (VIDEO)

Via Marathon Pundit:

Sheldon Adelson's Daughter Manhandles Male 'Democracy Now' Producer...

From Dan Riehl, "Video: Sheldon Adelson’s Daughter Manhandles Male ‘Democracy Now’ Producer, He Promptly Soils His Shorts."

South Africa Charges Miners in Deaths of Striking Miners

South Africa, the banana republic.

At the New York Times, "In Police Shooting of Miners, South Africa Charges Miners":

Several thousand workers at a platinum mine, in the town of Marikana, northwest of Johannesburg, went on strike this month, demanding a raise. The mine is owned by Lonmin, a company based in London. The men were members of a radical, breakaway union whose leaders were trying to drum up membership and had urged workers to strike to get higher pay and better working conditions. They occupied a rocky hill, armed themselves with machetes, spears and clubs, and chanted war songs and anthems from the struggle against apartheid.

For days, the authorities watched warily as the crowd grew more militant. Two police officers were hacked to death, and eight other people were killed in violent clashes. On Aug. 16, the police were given the order to move in. The police said that they tried to chase away the miners with rubber bullets and stun grenades, but that they were forced to resort to live ammunition when the miners surged at them. The police said they retrieved six guns from the scene, including one that belonged to one of the dead police officers.

The bloodshed, so reminiscent of the horror of the apartheid-era police force’s firing on protesters, stunned the nation. The government, trade unions and the opposition roundly condemned the violence, and President Jacob Zuma set up an independent commission to investigate the killings and gave it broad powers to subpoena testimony.

The police involved in the shooting could still face criminal charges as well. The inquiry set up by Mr. Zuma has the power to refer cases for prosecution, and it is expected to deliver a report in five months.

RTWT.

PREVIOUSLY: "South African Police Open Fire on Striking Miners (VIDEO)."

Ryan Killed It, Romney Rocked It, and Clint Eastwood Hammered the Living Shit Out of Barack Hussein

I commented previously on this, "Clint Eastwood's Throat-Slashing Speech to the Republican National Convention." And Mitt here and Paul Ryan here.

But seriously. Have people lost their minds?

Eastwood pulled off an extremely interesting impromptu speech performance that certainly packed enough punch to elicit a very insecure response from the president. According to reports, Clint's speech was indeed improvised --- he asked for a chair to be placed on stage at the last minute. That is the complete opposite of widespread political expectations. These conventions are buttoned-down, totally managed with 100 percent scripted presidential endorsements. Eastwood caught people off guard, and the crowd was roaring. Oh sure, no doubt many a Republican strategist winced as the 82-year-old actor drew a finger across his throat to signal that Barack's days are numbered. But again, seriously. We now have the Los Angeles Times suggesting that 12 minutes on that stage in Tampa tarnished an entire film career? Yes we do: "Did Clint Eastwood tarnish his film legacy?" Well, for crying out loud. Only the ensconced media elite would mount such a relentless attack. I mean, an icon of Hollywood not down with the approved Hollywood narrative? Heaven forbid. And the political pundits? They're calling it a "disaster," what else? They're clueless Beltway bitches, mostly at MSNBC, represented below by Andrea Mitchell and Brian Williams, wound up tighter than Roseanne Barr in a shrunken bikini:

So let's be honest: The Republican National Convention rocked. Both Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney raised the roof. The roster of speakers was so diverse and dynamic that MSNBC literally censored parts of the proceedings lest the American people get a glimpse of what true diversity looks like. And the message after three days was upbeat and genuinely progressive --- conservatives are looking ahead to restoring our country and reviving the American dream. "We can do this," in the words of the veep nominee.

Robert Stacy McCain has more, "How Awesome Was Clint Eastwood?" And from Bridget Johnson, at PJ Media, "Eastwood Turns in a Performance to Remember at RNC."

Australia Stunned by Deaths of Five Soldiers in Afghanistan

At the New York Times, "5 Soldiers' Deaths in Afghanistan Mark Australia's Worst Toll Yet."

Jennifer Lopez Rocks Yellow Bikini in Miami, Florida

Here's a little bikini hotness to lighten things up a bit.

At Egotastic, "Jennifer Lopez Bikini Pictures for a Bit of Veteran Saucy Pool Drop."

And London's Daily Mail, "She's going straight to the bottom! Curvy J-Lo takes a leap of faith as she jumps into swimming pool in teeny yellow bikini."

Clint Eastwood's Throat-Slashing Speech to the Republican National Convention

Don't let the deranged progressive spin fool you.

Clint Eastwood gave a phenomenal speech at the RNC last night.

Early evidence of this can be seen at the initial headline at ABC News, "Clint Eastwood Electrifies RNC Crowd, Interviews Invisible 'Obama'."

Sure, there were a few awkward moments, perhaps a little too unscripted for that venue, but overall the effect was devastating to the White House. And I mean f-king devastating! Throat-slashing gestures! How dare you disrepect "The One"?!!

William Jacobson has that, "This is not the tweet of a confident man," on President Obama's response to Eastwood on Twitter. And at Nice Deb, "The Narcissist in Chief Strikes Again."

And check over at Lonely Conservative, "Video: The Clint Eastwood RNC Speech Everyone is Talking About." And Maggie's Notebook, "This will go down in history as the best political speech EVER!"

In his quirky, completely spontaneous way, Clintwood has thrown the left into a frenzy of apoplectic fits. See John Nolte at Big Hollywood, "MEDIA STRIKES BACK AFTER DIRTY HARRY DARES TO MOCK OBAMA" (via Memeorandum):

Newsflash: Obama can't take a joke. But we already knew that.

For four long years we've waited, hoped and prayed that some young comic would break free of the politically correct demands of The State and mock Obama the way all presidents and all people in power should be mocked. But for four long years (with a few exceptions) all we've seen instead are cowardly toadies of The State: Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Chris Rock, the cast of "Saturday Night Live"…

Who would've ever thought that one of the men who would display enough backbone and "edge" to finally take it to Obama with wicked mockery on about 30 million live television screens would be 82 year-old Clint Eastwood? ...

Yeah, that's about it.

You gotta love it. More at Memeorandum.

The Left Responds to Mitt Romney's Acceptance Speech

William Jacobson notes how the progs at MSNBC about f-king popped at Romney's key line about how Obama pledged to save the earth. See, "About last night":

Immediately after Romney spoke I switched over to MSNBC. Heads exploding hardly begins to describe the reaction from Chris Matthews. Romney’s mocking Obama’s promise to halt the rise of the oceans really got under their skin...

Daily Kos has a progressive roundup, and Matthew Yglesias pokes his ugly mug out with a boilerplate progressive screed about how conservatives harm women, "Mitt Romney's Incoherent View of Mothers." (Via Memeorandum.)

I'm still reading around the horn.

Folks are wiggin' over Clint Eastwood's speech so look for an update on that.

Mitt Romney's Speech to the Republican National Convention

It thought it was fine speech. Romney was confident and warm. He again showed his love for family, his own and the institution itself, which he wants to restore at the foundation of the political culture of individualism and self-reliance. That's key to bringing this country back from the failed interregnum of the nearly four years of the Obama administration.

The New York Times reports, "Romney Vows to Deliver Country From Economic Travails." And the transcript, "Romney’s Speech to the Republican Convention."

RNC Derangement Syndrome

At Michelle's, "RNC Derangement Syndrome and the demise/dementia of the neutrality posers":

The media crazy train is standing room only.

As the GOP and the Right have gotten better and better at telling their stories and pushing back against progressive narratives, the gate-keepers who once held a monopoly on controlling the airwaves and printing presses have become more than unhinged.

They’ve become completely untethered from rationality:

- sloshing on the whitewash in a desperate attempt to stifle minority Republican voices;
- invoking RAAAAAAACIISSSM at every turn;
- circling their biased wagons for their hapless colleagues;
- dripping with open contempt; and
- spinning like tropical storms while posing as neutral fact-checkers.

2012 is the year that MSM “fact checker” officially became a punch line.

We’ve been heading towards this moment for some time, of course. For two decades in my newspaper column and nearly a decade on this website, we and the growing Right Media have chronicled the demise and dementia of the objectivity posers from Rathergate to the attempted media crucification of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party and all points in between.

This year, more than ever thanks to social media (including an army of Twitter conservatives and a weaponized generation of citizen journalists/fact-reclaimers inspired by Andrew Breitbart), the lapdogs’ insanity and pretenses have been met with effective exposure, resistance, mockery, and disarmament.

R.I.P.

More at the link.

And ICYMI, Guy Benson had the best piece pushing back against the left's bullsh*t "Paul Ryan lied" meme. See, "Obama Camp Melts Down Over Ryan's Speech."

More later.

I'll be embedding some of tonight's speeches from the convention. Mitt's going to rock it!