The Pitters' Place

There's no hiring bias against women, they just suck at interviews.

The solution to online 'harassment' is simple: women should log off.

Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.

These women cut to the heart of the progressive narrative. You know, that's why there are the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement. That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn't be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools [note - this refers to the highly ranked traditional women's universities of the northeastern U.S.] in New England. That drives the left insane and that's why they hate these women.

Given that men built the internet, along with the rest of modern civilization, I think it's only fair that they get to keep it.

He elsewhere said that feminists were all angry lesbians trying to trick women into getting fat so that their boyfriends and husbands would leave them.

Give Steve Bannon a chance. It's not like he's literally Joseph Goebbels.
By Alexandra Petri

Listen, what proof do you have that this dead lizard wrapped in the Confederate flag will not make an excellent chief strategist and senior counselor to the president of the United States?

I, for one, believe that everyone deserves a chance.

You're not wrong that this appears to be a pig's head slowly rotting on a stake, grotesque insinuations pouring from its mouth as flies buzz around it in the island heat, but I would need to learn more about it, honestly. I'm no expert.

You say that this man just painted a swastika on a church but — couldn't it be a plus sign? We don't know. Some people are better at drawing plus signs than others. I wouldn't read anything into it. Maybe he just loves churches.

Yes, okay, this rabid opossum bit me on the ankle, then handed me an Islamophobic pamphlet, but we have no proof it wrote the pamphlet. This is America, where we give the benefit of the doubt.

You say, “potato enthusiastically supported by the Ku Klux Klan's David Duke"; I say, “controversial potato."

Just because something attracts anti-Semites and racists doesn't mean that it, itself, is either of those things. It doesn't mean that it supports their views. Who knows why anyone is attracted to anything? Weird coincidences happen all the time.

Listen, when we need to denounce an actual racist, anti-Semite, white supremacist, Islamophobe, you name it, I will be there. I promise. I will not hesitate to do that, when the time comes, clearly and appropriately labeled. I have yet to see one, but when I do, boy, I will light into him! It will be something to see.

This is not that.

I have no doubt that a real racist sexist chauvinist white supremacist will be easy to spot. “I am coming for minorities now," he will say. “I am an actual racist. I am, literally, Hitler, or at the very least Goebbels."

In fact, I recently read an article that pointed out, quite astutely, that we are not talking about LITERAL JOSEPH GOEBBELS here, and it reassured me a great deal. (When I think of positive things to say about people, the first place I go to is negative comparisons to Hitler's inner circle. That was what I said at my best friend's wedding during the maid-of-honor speech. “We don't know for a fact," I said, “that Emily is one of history's greatest monsters." If that is not a resounding endorsement of someone's character, I can't think what is.)

So I say, as many courageous members of Congress have said with me, what evidence do we have that Breitbart's Steve Bannon will be anything but a fine chief strategist and counselor to President Donald Trump?

We have no proof that he is threatening, other than his words and actions, the voices that he has given a platform to, and the ugly philosophy he has allowed to spread. We cannot possibly know what is in his heart. So, you know. Who knows.

There is no need to denounce him. We should wait and see. Hear him out.

But when something really counts, you bet I'll stand up and say something.

Anakin McFly wrote:Latest John Oliver episode is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv06XdjbVIM

@Cash - I think that one was more likely just lazy reporting, since other sites specified that those were headlines published under Bannon's editorship rather than by him, and reblogs probably misunderstood. There's a recent study going round where they analyzed articles from some of the most popular partisan pages on FB and found that right-affiliated pages posted about 38% fake/misleading news vs 19% on the left. The study itself might have been biased, but given how the right is less educated on average it would make sense that false articles spread more easily.

CashRules wrote:One of the most common false claims from the left has been the one that Trump once gave an interview saying he was going to someday run for President as a Republican because he knew he could fool the stupid people into voting for him. It never happened.