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Right Angle: Backstage (11-09-2021)

Scott Ott inadvertently watches CNN and requires a half-hour counseling session from Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

Right Angle: Backstage (11-09-2021)

Scott Ott inadvertently watches CNN and requires a half-hour counseling session from Bill Whittle and Stephen Green to process its jarring effect. This foreboding start of the weekly Right Angle Backstage pre-production meeting should be enough to discourage you, but our Members are a hearty lot, not easily dissuaded from plunging into danger. Thanks.

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47 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (11-09-2021)”

Mentioning here in case someone doesn’t know… but one thing missing from their discussion about the diary of the Biden is that it went missing last October and parts have been printed in a non-PV media. There were some questions about how they got it when PV said they gave it to “law enforcement” but someone must have taken pictures/scans of the whole thing.

There should be no physical evidence for anyone to destroy, and since the FBI already raided two offices a few days earlier if there was anything it would have been gone by the time the door went down anyway. I would go with Bill’s suggestion and this was purely a gestapo brush back pitch.

I have been wondering the same thing. I started noticing it a few years back. Always the blue checked shirt for the Back Stage, then the dark tee shirt for the Right Angles.

This has been brought up on Backstage a couple of times. Scott only wears these shirts for these shows. He rotates and washes as needed but just keeps these same two shirts available for tuesdays. It is a little OCD, but in a relatively benign way.
Steve apparently has more coffee mugs than Scott has shirts.

The show should have been shut down well before the crush happened. There is footage of people surging the gate and pushing over top of people. They didn’t even stop to see if someone was hurt. They just came on thru and kept going. That should have been a warning to the security as well as the organizers of the concert.

I love Scotty, but I think he’s being entirely too naive. Back in my day, (45+ years ago, on radio and TV) reporters were all over the political spectrum, but there was a good deal of disdain for those who couldn’t keep their political and social views out of their coverage. It was amateurish. That started coming to an end when college J-schools began churning out graduates who thought it was their mission to go out there and “make a difference,” around the mid-Eighties. Time was when the New York Times was, indeed, the country’s newspaper of record. NYT was always far left, but their reporting was reasonably balanced. But what’s the point of being the newspaper of record (and by extension to all of the major print and broadcast news outlets) if we can’t use that clout to start shaping public opinion (for the peoples’ own good, of course.) Any ethical guardrails against manipulating the news to fit the narrative went away 30 years ago. They genuinely hate the idea that at the end of each election cycle, they’re forced to wait and watch while the uneducated masses vote, instead of leaving such important matters to the the elite who know what’s best for the rest of us.
Those people honestly believe that civilization ends somewhere just west of the Hudson River (they’re not really sure just where; they rarely visit America except of occasional field trips to observe the peasant class in its natural habitat.)
Hard news, spot news, breaking news…earthquakes, disasters, fires, etc…generally have endings, but politics and social change can be flogged endlessly to fill every available minute or column-inch. They hate it when breaking hard news interrupts their pontificating, and they rush through it as quickly as they can so they can get back to the important stuff. And they’re nothing if not the best and most creative writers in the business…they can turn almost any hard news event into a white supremacist plot against, well, somebody. The network news people’s very first act of the day (after coffee) is to dive into the NYT to see what’s important. If it’s not in the Times, it’s not important. If the Times doesn’t cover it, then it’s the same as it didn’t happen. If the presses broke down and the Times didn’t publish, that evening’s network news would be about 3 minutes long.
The greatest lies of all contain nothing but the truth. The lie is in what they don’t tell you.
(Just as an aside – Austin isn’t Texas. Neither is Houston. Fact is, when O’Biden shut down the building of the border wall, there were a lot of us who felt that all that steel and concrete could have been put to very good use by building a wall around those two leftist enclaves. Refugees from California and New York inevitably find their way to those two places, and I’ve long proposed that Texas impose a 5-year quarantine on them…prohibited from voting in any state or local election until they’re lived there long enough to become acclimated and acculturated.)

Personally I think Scott sees the other side and tries to bring their reasons for doing what they do to light in a different way. He is right about both sides playing the same game. We see it all the time, but sometimes it is easier to see the mess in the other person’s yard than it is to see then one in our own.

From what I hear you wouldn’t really need a bomb, just drop something heavy and dense on it, Brian Stelter for instance…

I must take some issue with Scott’s point on censorship. I simply don’t believe that “we” would be doing what the progressives are doing if we had the power. There was a time when even the “left” of both US and British politics would be regarded as pretty right wing by today’s standards. There was censorship of sorts, mostly on decency grounds. Nevertheless, the inherently right-wing establishments of the early 20th century did not censor political opposition in anything like the way the progressives are trying to do today. Freedom of expression is an inbuilt part of what we believe in, that is simply not true for the progressives.

Can we take a moment to appreciate Scott’s correct pronunciation of Glasgow? In all the coverage I’ve seen of Con 26, (and by no means not just from the States, the BBC insist on making it sound like “cars go”), I don’t think I’ve seen anyone other than Scott get it right.

There is a wonderful little bar in Glasgow called The Pot Still. They have several hundred bottles of scotch and a staff that knows much about whisky. If you tell them what you are in the mood for they will pull a bottle off the shelf that you have never heard of and pour a dram and it will all be liquid gold.

You’ll be delighted to know that the Weegies have reacted to the presence of St Griselda Thunderbird amongst them with their usual style.

I had a vendor who was Glasweegian, it took me quite a while to be able to understand him well. Then he left that company and they hired a guy from Wales. Crap!

Hangs head in shame. Will have a Vodka cocktail tonight instead of whisky as penance. (Just the first one mind you. It’s not like I purposely watched CNN or something really bad!)

…And not any good vodka – we’re talking Kamchatka grade here, maybe Popov if we’re feeling charitable!

I have two types of vodka in my home: A bottle of Stoli in the freezer (it was all my mom would drink) and smirnoff in the cabinet. That’s it. So I went with stoli on the rocks with a twist of lime. Then a dram of Lag 16 to toast my godson the Marine on the Corp Birthday.

If you’re smart, Scott, you say no to that. You politely take the Agent’s card and inform him that your lawyer will contact him to arrange a meeting at a later date.
Do not talk to the cops.

Amen. If there were ever an era of not trusting law enforcement, this would be it.
Or at the very least, trust, but verify

I disagree Bill, re: the diary. There doesn’t have to be anything incriminating in it. Just things that the handlers know regular people, Democrats even, would find creepy and disturbing would be enough for the FBI to spring into action. That diary would be rock solid proof that our leaders are a bunch of deviant weirdos.
The FBI is no long an invesigative agency. They, figuratively, are the palace guard. They will protect emperors they do like. And they will assassinate the ones they don’t like. Figuratively.

Re: that Chinese satellite, How does that thing compare to our X-37. The space plane that’s maneuverable and can change altitudes. WE have two of them and send them up on 1-3 missions, have been since the 2000. No one knows what those space craft are doin up there.

One thing Marvel learned in the first iteration of the MCU, Hire no names and make them stars. Hiring known actors becomes expensive after the 2nd or 3rd move.

I kinda heard re: the disappearing white girl of the moment. Last I heard the BF and prime suspect turned up dead somewhere in FL. And the FBI now thinks they mistook the BFs mom for the BF when they were looking for the guy.

Broad shoulders and whisky heal all. But I have to go back tomorrow morning and there will be no Backstage to act as lubrication before hand. This is saddening, but the nectar of the gods awaits upon returning home. (Since you don’t imbibe, nectar of the gods is code for Lagavulin 16. Ask Steve, he knows. Or knew, he probably killed that brain cell recently) 😉

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