The Execrable Adam Schiff
News item: “The censure resolution, coming a day after Mr. Trump was arraigned in a federal court on 37 criminal counts related to his mishandling of classified documents and efforts to obstruct federal investigators, was the latest bid by Republicans to retaliate against Democrats for their treatment of the former president.”
If you liked the paragraph, the authoress has also written an equally dismissible book about impeachment, of which she was once in favor.
We offer the above New York Times quote verbatim for two reasons. First, because in its rush to bury its own lead, America’s propaganda rag of record quashes the data upon which its story is premised, and second, because it simultaneously emphasizes a misconception rampant not only among liberals, but widespread on the conservative right as well.
NYT newshound Karoun Demirjian with unidentified fellow journalist.
Amazingly, the Times could not clearly articulate the details of the House’s failure to censure even so malodorous a specimen as Adam Schiff without losing itself in the weeds. The main distraction bogging down Karoun Demirjian’s reportage (take that, Edwin Neumann) is, of course, Donald Trump. Not that Trump isn’t pertinent to the miscreancies of Schiff, which he most certainly is, but rather because Demirjian ignores that pertinence and veers into a slavish rehashing of Trump’s presumed offenses against humanity. Doggedly repeating the total of these citations, i.e.,”37 criminal counts,” seems irresistible to the likes of Demirjian and her news-skewing clones; almost as though the ritualistic recitation of that number girds them self-hypnotically.
Errant hogwash (FILE COPY)
Not a word is wasted on Schiff’s manifold calumnies, so eager is the author to drive home her second misapprehension, namely that congressional efforts to censure the reprobate from Golden State constitute “the latest bid by Republicans to retaliate against Democrats for their treatment of the former president.” But this analysis is achingly superficial–in fact it is errant hogwash of the sort conservative thinkers ought to eschew. Understandably, many in our ranks seem enamored of this sophistry, but spreading it is defocusing.
The sins of Adam…
We knew it–the left eye is peeking!
Besides the fact that vengeance, however condign, is morally inferior to justice as a motivating principle, the careless logic advanced in Karoun Demirjian’s opening paragraph buries not only her lead, but also the magnitude of the sins of Adam Schiff. The Tmes‘ characterization of congressional displeasure with Schiff’s anticsw as “retaliation” handily ignores the gravity of Schiff’s offenses. It has nothing to do with the host of legal bugaboos currently facing Donald Trumps, and entirely to do with Adam Schiff’s transgressions against the American Republic.
The un-censuring of a jackass…
Perhaps readers recently returned from camping trips, relaxing at sea, or whose attention was momentarily diverted by other worldly clamors, may require a compact update. The editors will first attempt a synopsis of recent events culminating in an embarrassing misfiring (a nounal construct we employ almost literally), even as we encourage such readers to buck up and persist, inasmuch as a happier conclusion awaits.
How it started...
Anna Paulina Luna, (R-FL) Looks harmless enough, right?
With the arrival of the Republican majority in congress came Anna Paulina Luna of Florida’s 13th district. Readers will recognize her as one of a handful of conservative tigresses whom mainstream news anchors waste considerable time snickering about and discounting as ditzy. This is because the mainstream is terrified of these ladies’ brashness, candor, and right-wing ardor. Also, it has not a little to do with the fact that these congressmen are all uppity women. (One of the shared maladjustments of leftwing-news nimrods is their almost universal–if largely unreported–uneasiness with the concept of feminine equality–but this is a topic for another time.)
The significance of Representative Luna’s arrival so far as we are immediately concerned is her outspoken determination to run the likes of Adam Schiff out of town, at least figuratively and, if at all possible, literally. Toward this end she submitted a measure calling for Schiff to be censured and fined $16 million, pending a probe by the ethics committee confirming the knave’s serial offenses. Enlisting the assistance of majority-leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), Luna awaited an advantageous time to present the bill on the House floor. The winds of retribution seemed favorable to Luna’s cause.
Joe Biden’s wonderfully diverse corner of the Deep State.
Again, media taradiddle aside, no part of any effort to censure, fine, or expel Adam Schiff had anything whatsoever to do with distracting the public from those depredations visited upon Donald Trump by functionaries of the Deep State. It is the sophistical style of the political Left to impute its own motives and wrongdoings to those affected by them. In this manner, the unconstitutional kerfuffle concocted to obstruct Trump from opposing Biden in 2024 is granted putative legitimacy. At the same time, all salients against the regime are treated as desperate efforts to distract Americans from the actual distraction–the cavalcade of hokey indictments gushing from Biden’s corral of sinistral shysters. Once this foolishness is set aside, the standalone nature of Schiff’s villainy is starkly apparent.
Functionaries of the Deep State (FILE COPY).
Luna’s Schiff List…
Luna pointed out that Schiff “lied to the American people. He used his position on House intelligence to push a lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and abused the trust placed in him as chairman. He is a dishonor to the House of Representatives. The Durham report makes clear that the Russian collusion was a lie from day one and Schiff knowingly used his position in an attempt to divide our country.” In the words of the Bard: Right on!
Trump runs amok?
With characteristic guile and gall, Schiff retorted, “When Republicans lacked the courage to stand up to the most unethical president in history, [by which, ironically, he meant the former one] they consoled themselves by attacking those who did. I’m not backing down.” What a mensch. Apparently nobody was supposed to be bothered by the fact that the record of Trump’s unethical comportment (at least as cited by Schiff) was entirely Schiff’s invention, except for the parts invented by Hillary, Steele, and the FBI.
James Commie making stuff up.
Schiff in a SCIF…
SCIF (pronounced “skiff”–rhymes with Schiff) is a sensitive compartmented information
facility– a secure government room especially proofed against even the most sophisticated forms of electronic snooping where government officials may safely review secret information and discuss highly classified operations. And nobody learned more during SCIF conferences than Adam Schiff. Every time his committee held a session, he scampered out during breaks to breathlessly update CNN on the shocking news flashes to which he had just became privy– although, of course, national security prevented patriotic Schiff from leaking the shocking details.
The walls are closing in!
He promised the purring anchor babes that once he made his information public it would “add up to a smoking gun,” and be “bigger than Watergate” (which nowadays would seem unremarkable even if true). Corroboration would ensue, Schiff insisted, but meanwhile, mainstream pundits repeated his baseless predictions with undisguised delight. “The walls are closing in on Donald Trump,” they chorused. The “clues are everywhere,” Schiff told them. He assured The View’s Meghan McCain that proof of “a seditious and clandestine conspiracy” lay within “plain sight.”
It is also unsubstantiated that Adam Schiff learned the secrets of Pai Mei’s 5-finger death touch while in a SCIF.
But Schiff never needed to know anything, really. And he didn’t. His credulous media enablers lavished him with air time and colored in all the negative spaces for him, speculating excitedly about his latest adumbrations.
Christopher Steele, man of intrigues.l..
But the only proof Schiff could possibly have possessed was the infamously phony Steele Dossier, a work of salacious fiction assembled at the behest of Hillary Clinton. To his credit, Christopher Steele managed to sell this demonstrable flapdoodle not only to Clinton, but also to Comey’s FBI, and Senator John McCain’s Senate office. No one seemed bothered by the document’s patently fraudulent origins–least of all Adam Schiff.
“I love you too, Volodymyr…sheesh!”
“The perfect phone call..”
But Schiff grew overconfident. He pushed his luck too far when he affected to read aloud his “transcript” of what Schiff assured reporters was Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Listeners were understandably appalled. Trump, according to Schiff, berated the Ukrainian leader, made bilious demands, threatened him with dire consequences if he didn’t produce evidence against Joe Biden, threatened to hang up in seconds if he didn’t get his way, and at one point bellowed, “If you don’t understand me, I’m going to say it seven more times!” In short, Trump showed himself an abject brute. Schiff assured journalists that his copy of the dialogue (as he’d recreated it) comprised “the essence of what the president had said during the call.” But no; it was total bullschiff, and it was the proverbial bridge too far..
“Another problem!”
Another witty Adam Schiff parody? No problem!
When the Trump administration released the tape of the actual phone call, it transpired to be entirely pleasant–a mutually convivial ‘bromance’ during which no demands were registered and gushy compliments flew back and forth between the two leaders. What version had Adam Schiff been quoting? Perhaps something Truman Capote imagined on LSD?
Schiff was eventually asked to justify the extent to which his fictive dialogue contrasted with the revealed text. Worse, he was asked this by a mainstream reporter (who may well be unemployed by now, in consequence). Why, she inquired, was Schiff’s transcript so diametrically different from the administration’s tape? “Well,” croaked Schiff, “it was a parody–and if people didn’t understand that it was a parody, then that’s another problem!” But no, there was only one problem: Adam Bennett Schiff.
Lies and consequences…
Matt Gaetz–liberals can’t stand him, so we think he’s probably okay.
By January of this year, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced measures to restrict Schiff’s access to classified information owing to his “baseless claims of collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Kremlin.” Speaker McCarthy moved to debar the California Democrat from access to classified information, and called for his investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
On the Ethics Committee Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, (R-Fla.), whom we’ve already met, introduced her resolution to censure Schiff and fine him. Luna explained the $16 million fine as “about half of the cost of the federal investigation into the alleged Trump-Russia collusion,” which was disproved by special counsel reports from Robert Mueller and John Durham. Luna further (and accurately) charged that “by repeatedly telling these falsehoods, Representative Schiff purposely deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people.”
Robert Mueller, evidently tackling a math problem during his testimony.
George Santos, who is evidently insane, trying to remember whether he spent the week demanding censure, or acquittal.
All signs pointed to a speedy passage, but when the effort to censure Schiff came to the floor, a very Republican event transpired. Twenty of the House’s most egregious RINOs (whom we at WOOF call CURs*) huddled uncertainly and then bolted for the tall grass, or as the Washington Post put it, “Twenty Republicans voted with Democrats to table the measure — effectively killing it — in a vote of 225-196. Two Republicans and five Democrats voted present.” (In fact, one Republican who voted “present” was the congenitally mendacious and evidently insane George Santos. who’d spent the previous week demanding Schiff’s censure.) The Post, incidentally, went on to claim that Luna’s efforts were essentially intended to distract everyone from Trump’s “mishandling of classified documents,” the gist of which they pretty much copied from the Times, which bilge we quoted earlier.
Luna rallying GOP unity at the crucial moment!
*Conservatives until re-elected.
But just as the myriad troughs of liberal media proceeded to call Trump’s Townhall success a disgraceful flop (except that at CNN, only Anderson Cooper actually apologized for the ratings boost), so the coverage of the Oversight Committee’s multiple Biden bombshells was skewed to portray the report as a nothingburger. In this category, the award for most baldfacedly flouting reality surely goes to Yahoo! News, which exclaimed: “Republicans try to distract from the Trump and Santos debacle [sic] with a Biden nothingburger.” Really? But in defence of the author, MSNBC writer Eric Garcia, it must be said that he was hardly unique in missing the bulk of the evidence against the Biden crime family. It is almost as though the “nothingburger” scenario were agreed upon at
The Oversight Committee presented thousands of pages of financial records revealing the Biden family and associates’ complicated network of “companies” set up during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. These records are further complicated by the fact that none of the cutout Biden companies was an actual businesses. The Bidens do not operate any business, and never have. The millions the Bidens received from international sources appear as complicated transactions structured to hide payments received by the Bidens from foreign nationals, chiefly the Chinese Communists. The Committee report links many of these otherwise illogical “payments” to CCP-linked associates, and points to clearly identifiable instances of corresponding influence peddling during Vice President Biden’s tenure, as well as during his presidency. 
Meanwhile, the Bidens were busy in Romania, where Biden Family activities indicate additional influence peddling. “The Biden family and associates’ activities in Romania bear clear indications of a scheme to peddle influence from 2015 to 2017. In other words, while Joe Biden lectured Romania on corruption and ethics, the Bidens received over a million dollars from a company controlled by a Romanian named Gabriel Popoviciu. Popoviciu is currently accused of corruption in Romania, but his payments to the Bidens were completed via “a Biden family associate.”
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