The Roundup: Week Ending August 20, 2022

The RoundUp collects the most recent news, listens and observations that caught my attention. This entry highlights:

• In light of the FBI raiding President Trump’s Florida home, one writer tracks some other disturbing cases.
• Policy changes at the CDC for COVID
• Do you remember when we did this…? A video that highlights some of the crazy things that happened during COVID.
• More shakeups at CNN
• Billy Graham’s four “rules”
• A feminist pushes back on the sexual revolution

What’s with the FBI?

Tristan Justice has a sobering piece over on The Federalist where he documents 25 disturbingly botched examples from the FBI:¹

1. FISA Warrants
2. Misleading Congress, DOJ Leaders, Trump
3. Michael Flynn
4. Andrew McCabe
5. Clinton Emails
6. Weiner Laptop
7. Roger Stone
8. Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
9. Kamala Harris on Jan. 6
10. March 4, 2021
11. Hunter Biden Suppression
12. Gretchen Whitmer Plot
13. Ralph Northam Plot
14. Sen. Ted Stevens’ Conviction
15. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s Conviction
16. Pulse Nightclub Shooting
17. Texas Synagogue Attack
18. Congressional Baseball Shooter
19. Inflating Extremism Cases
20. Ignoring Larry Nassar Abuse
21. Kyle Rittenhouse
22. Demonizing James Rosen
23. Deadly Wrongful Conviction
24. Martha Stewart
25. Mar-a-Lago Raid

Changing COVID Policies at the CDC

After last week’s two-years-late policy changes at the CDC regarding COVID,² Ian Miller over at Unmasked goes scorched earth taking the CDC, Dr. Fauci and school districts to task:

Three key factions continue to work together in conjunction to prolong the pandemic.

1. “Experts” like Dr. Fauci, whose massive ego led to a bewildering claim to stand for “truth,” have helped contribute legitimacy to school administrators incapable of moving past their politically motivated restrictions.
2. The CDC, whose guidance that was much too late to fix the damage caused by their incompetence and who still haven’t ended the unscientific ban on unvaccinated travelers.
3. And school administrators who appeal to authority to justify their inability to move past politically motivated restrictions.³

Brian Stelter is out at CNN

CNN has been on a firing spree for numerous reasons in the past year. Brian Stelter was the latest anchor to be fired. Stelter didn’t have a stellar record while at CNN. Watch Review of CNN’s Fake News Claims During Brian Stelter’s Tenure:

In addition, CNN CEO Chris Licht reportedly told staffer during a Friday editorial meeting call, “I want to acknowledge that this is a time of significant change, and I know that many of you are unsettled. There will be more changes, and you might not understand it or like it.”⁴

Billy Graham’s Four Rules

Billy Graham (and other ministers) were vilified afresh when Vice President Mike Pence announced in a March 2019 that he wouldn’t dine alone with a woman who wasn’t his wife. Here’s how The Grunge reported it:

Pence took a cue from another famous extremist, evangelical pastor and closeted anti-Semite Billy Graham, who had a similar rule himself.⁵

That was the “rule” that Billy Graham is most renown for. However, this helpful post highlights that it was one of four guidelines that Graham and his young 20-something team implemented waaaay back in their formative ministry days to seek to be above reproach.

1. They renounced the temptation to “wring as much money as possible out of an audience.”
2. Seek to “avoid any situation that would have even the appearance of compromise or suspicion” and so they didn’t travel, dine or meet alone with women who weren’t their wives.
3. They sought “to avoid an antichurch or anticlergy attitude.”
4. They renounced “the tendency among some evangelists… to exaggerate their successes or to claim higher attendance numbers than they really had.”⁶

The Failure of the Sexual Revolution

Louise Perry has a profound piece from the perspective of feminist about the absolute bankruptcy and failure of the sexual revolution of the 60s.

I used to believe the liberal narrative on the sexual revolution. As a younger woman, I held the same opinions as most other millennial urban graduates in the West. I conformed to the beliefs of my class.

I no longer believe any of this.

I’m not a religious conservative. I’m a feminist, and I’ve spent my entire professional life working on the issue of male violence against women—first in a rape crisis center, and later as a journalist and a media relations director for a legal campaign against sexual violence.

It’s precisely because I’m a feminist that I’ve changed my mind on sexual liberalism. It’s an ideology premised on the false belief that the physical and psychological differences between men and women are trivial, and that any restrictions placed on sexual behavior must therefore have been motivated by malice, stupidity or ignorance.⁷

And that’s The Roundup for the week ending August 20, 2022. What caught your attention the most?

1. Think The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? This Laundry List Of Corruption Should Make You Think Again – By Tristan Justice, The Federalist, August 19, 2022[↩]
2. CDC updates its COVID-19 guidelines in sweeping overhaul By Alexander Tin, CBS News, August 11, 2022[↩]
3. COVID Policy is a Story of Ego, Incompetence and Unending Commitment to Failure – By Ian Miller, Unmasked, August 17, 2022[↩]
4. New CNN CEO’s Bleak Message For Employees At Far-Left Network: You ‘Might Not’ Like What’s Coming by By Ryan Saavedra, The Daily Wire, August 20, 2022[↩]
5. Mike Pence Won’t Dine Alone With Women. Here’s Why. By Cody Copeland, The Grunge, October 6, 2020[↩]
6. Other Billy Graham ‘Rules’? The Modesto Proposal. By David Mathis, Desiring God, August 19, 2022[↩]
7. I’m 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation. By Louise Perry, Common Sense, August 20, 2022[↩]