Wednesday, August 22, 2018
The DNC Promised Answers On Keith Ellison's Domestic Abuse Allegations -- They're Doing The Exact Opposite
- One week after pledging to review domestic abuse allegations against Rep. Keith Ellison, the DNC has yet to provide any answers to the public on where it stands.
- Ellison is the deputy chair of the DNC and the Democratic Party’s nominee for Minnesota attorney general.
- One of Ellison’s former primary opponents on Monday called law enforcement to investigate the Ellison allegations.
- Karen Monahan claims to have video proving Ellison’s abuse but has yet to make it public.
Ellison, the deputy chair of the DNC, is accused of physically and emotionally abusing his ex-girlfriend, liberal Sierra Club activist Karen Monahan. Ellison has vehemently denied Monahan’s allegations.
The DNC released a statement Aug. 14, just hours before Ellison locked up the party’s nomination for Minnesota attorney general, pledging to review the Ellison allegations, which the committee said “should be taken seriously.”
“These allegations recently came to light and we are reviewing them,” the DNC said in a statement, after initially remaining silent for 72 hours after the allegations came to light. “All allegations of domestic abuse are disturbing and should be taken seriously.”
But one week later, the DNC has yet to provide the public with any updates on its review, raising questions about just how seriously the committee is about addressing the controversy. The DNC did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for an update on the Ellison allegations.
Adding to those questions is DNC chairman Tom Perez’s relaxed attitude toward the Ellison allegations.
Perez dismissed the notion that Democrats’ electoral chances would suffer as a result of the domestic abuse allegations against the Democratic Party’s number two official — allegations at which Perez assured reporters the DNC is “absolutely taking a careful look.”
One of Ellison’s former Democratic primary opponents, Tom Foley, argued in an op-ed Monday that the Ellison allegations “deserve a serious investigation by local law enforcement as well as by the DFL Party and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).”
Foley noted that the allegations — and Democrats’ timid response to them — could seriously the Democratic Party’s claims to take sexual and domestic abuse seriously.
“Will Democrats, quietly hoping the abuse video does not exist or other possible victims never step forward, risk wearing heavily the crown of hypocrisy by applying a double standard because the alleged abuser is one of ‘our’ guys? Will this affect DFL efforts to become the majority in the state House? Will the integrity of the attorney general’s office be undermined if...
Washington Post Hits Trump For ‘Strong-Arming’ Erdogan Over Imprisoned Pastor, Praises Erdogan as ‘Unbowed’
The news staff had to find cause to ding Trump, and support Erdogan.
What kind of world are we living in when the media in America can’t even side with the safety of a wrongly imprisoned Christian pastor, over that of a brutal Muslim dictator?
As Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch wrote:
Washington Post Hits Trump For ‘Strong-Arming’ Erdogan Over Imprisoned Pastor, Praises Erdogan as ‘Unbowed’
The Post also wrote: “But Erdogan’s ability to benefit from the crisis has raised questions about whether Trump underestimated the Turkish leader, a ‘nimble tactician’ who is convinced that Western powers are bent on crippling Turkey because of its status as a strong Muslim nation.”
It doesn’t matter to the Post that Erdogan is busy dismantling Turkish secularism, or that he had Turkish mosques call for jihad as his military moved against the Kurds. They don’t care that he has laid claim to the lands once ruled by the Ottoman Empire. They don’t care how repressive or aggressive he is. He is against Trump, and that makes him the Washington Post’s friend, no matter what.
“WaPo Says Trump ‘Strong-Arming’ Turkish Islamist President Erdogan. Then It Offers This Description Of Erdogan,” by Hank Berrien, Daily Wire, August 20, 2018:
The Washington Post, in a seeming effort to undermine President Trump, published a story on Sunday night in which Trump’s efforts to get Turkey to release a detained American pastor were referred to as “strong-arming,” while Turkish Islamist President Recip [sic] Erdogan’s resistance was limned as heroically “unbowed.”
The Post wrote Trump initiated “market-rattling economic sanctions and humiliating public rebukes” but “Erdogan, for the moment, appears unbowed.”
The Post opines that Erdogan has used Trump’s aggressive posture to rally domestic support to his side, thus vitiating the anger against him for Turkey’s failing economy. The Post delightedly quotes Erdogan huffing that Turkey “will not surrender to ...
Facebook Is Ranking Users’ Trustworthiness Without Telling Them
A Facebook product manager, Tessa Lyons, explained to The Post that Facebook’s new reputation ranking is to help crack down on people who report news stories as being fake because they disagree with them politically.
She explained that it is “not uncommon for people to tell us something is false simply because they disagree with the premise of a story or they’re intentionally trying to target a particular publisher.” The score is reportedly one of “thousands” of different behaviors Facebook takes into account to determine whether an account is maliciously flagging behavior.
“I like to make the joke that, if people only reported things that were false, this job would be so easy!” Lyons explained. “People often report things that they just disagree with.”
The Post put the new revelations about Facebook’s ranking system into the context of the recent actions the site, and its competitor Twitter, took against Alex Jones:
The system Facebook built for users to flag potentially unacceptable content has in many ways become a battleground. The activist Twitter account Sleeping Giants called on followers to take technology companies to task over the conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site, leading to a flood of reports about hate speech that resulted in him and Infowars being banned from Facebook and other tech companies’ services. At the time, executives at the company questioned whether the mass reporting of Jones’s content was part of an effort to trick Facebook’s systems.
The Post also asserted “experts” claim people on the right coordinate “harassment campaigns” through mass reporting.
To assuage fears about the ranking system, Lyons said that the system is not an “absolute indicator of a person’s credibility,” according to the paper’s assessment of the situation.
Explaining the concept more, Lyons said, “[...] if someone previously gave us feedback that an article was false and the article was confirmed false by a fact-checker, then we might weight that person’s future false-news feedback more than someone who indiscriminately provides false-news feedback on lots of articles, including ones that end up being rated as true.”
Facebook is cautious about telling reporters how its behavioral signals are...
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