Consider it an addendum to today's Iraq snapshot, but that is the reality: The Left Circle Jerk Doesn't Like Women. They will find a momentary token -- in the '00s, it was Jessica Valenti (that's not a slam on her), then it became a questionable woman, then Abby Martin, now it's been Rania Khalek.
As they slobber over one another's knobs in their endless circle jerk, they'll find one woman to hold up as a token and pretend that they're not sexist pigs. They'll start a new publication, say THE INTERCEPT, and pretend like, "Golly, gee, we're progressives and we started this site from scratch so don't you dare ask us why, when we started this in the 21st century, started this ourselves, we went with old White men over and over! Isn't a White gay middle-aged man enough diversity!!!!"
No, it's not.
I'm bringing this up for a reason. I noticed something a few weeks ago that was disgusting and didn't have time for it. Then forgot. Today, we were speaking and a young woman brought it up.
You could subtitle this: The Left Circle Jerk Wishes Harm On Girls and Women because that is the reality.
I don't need to be liked, as I noted in the snapshot today. I don't need to be linked to. I'm not whoring for the attention of others and that's why I can and have made the difficult calls.
While the bois of the Circle Jerk have looked the other way -- often as they sent me private e-mails saying they wished they could speak out -- I've called out the pervs.
If you never got how meaningless #MeToo is to lefty men, let me say two words: Scott Ritter.
Pig boy's back and the Circel Jerk Boys have him.
I spent the mid '00s calling out Pig Boy.
Suddenly, they're embracing him again.
If you don't know, Scott Ritter was arrested twice when Bully Boy Bush was occupying the White House.
Don't applaud -- this wasn't like Jane Fonda getting arrested to draw attention to climate change.
No, he was arrested because he's a disgusting perv trying to sleep with underage girls.
I didn't know this. I knew something had happened but I didn't know what. We had noted him -- in 2004 or 2005 -- and a friend, a producer at CNN, called and told me why Scott was no longer an on air for the network.
Scott was caught in April 2001 and in June 2001 trying to find young girls to have sex with online. He thought an undercover police officer was a young girl. He was arrested both times.
Pay attention here if you weren't an adult back then: Before #MeToo, things like this were regularly tolerated and swept aside. A year before that, a CNN guest -- frequent guest -- thought he would get away with raping a young woman.
Before #MeToo, we had our own way of handling it when society or employers wouldn't. And we made sure that this person who sometimes gets confused with Jeffrey Epstein -- yes, community members know who I mean -- got pulled from CNN, got pulled from everything to do with the Democratic Party because a number of us just weren't going to sit back and let the rapist have the thriving career that he was supposed to have had. So good looking, so charming, the system was going to look the other way for another White man who attacked women. That's what they thought would happen. But he's been blackballed from the Democratic Party and he's been blackballed from cable news. And that's what women do when we're working together. It's not a Circle Jerk, we get things done.
Now back to Scott Ritter. After being informed of what he'd done, I did do my part as did other women. We managed to, for example, shame a woman (Katrina vanden Heuvel) into dropping him from THE NATION.
But we were so mean to call him out -- or that's what people said. Because I called him out here repeatedly.
And the response was it never happened (he never tried to have sex with underage females), the response was it didn't matter if he did.
No, the Laura Flanders continued to put him on their radio shows and promote him -- and, yes, I'm calling you out, Laura -- don't e-mail me, this is nothing new, I called you out in real time including after you spent a night of THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW griping that someone was using Gary Glitter's song -- I'm not a fan, I don't remember what song -- and Gary was a pedophile.
As I pointed out in real time, Laura, Scott's a pedophile too and worse than playing his song you presented him on your show as an expert, someone to listen to. As I pointed out you and Amy Goodman, if Scott continued his ways -- and most pedophiles do -- better be prepared to own it if some young girl gets hurt because you were saying to the world that this was someone to listen to.
Seymour Hersh decided to tour with Scott Ritter during this. We were the only ones to call that out. And I actually was on good terms with Sy at that time. Before the call out.
The Circle Jerk Bois wanted the world to know that these were lies -- what I was posting here were lies. Scott was innocent. This was an an effort to discredit Scott Ritter. Bully Boy Bush and others were behind it to silence him.
Then Barack was president. And it was 2009. And Scott was arrested for the same thing yet again. It was November 2009. Scott was trolling online to find a girl -- underage -- to hook up with for sex. He had his cam on, he exposed his penis to what he thought was a 15-year-old girl but it was a police officer and he got busted again. In 2011, he was sentenced to up to five years in prison but he was released in the fall of 2014.
Now TRUTHDIG and others are posting him again.
Are we that desperate? We need to embrace a pedophile?
Where's #MeToo? Where's Alyssa Milano or anyone calling this out?
Three times arrested for trying to have sex with underage girls, He was convicted of this and served time.
Why are we listening to him?
Why are we publishing his opinions? When you do that, you're saying to the world -- including teenage boys and girls who are trying to follow the news -- that this is someone to listen to. He's not. He's a threat to underage females. And when TRUTHDIG or INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE or whomever else makes the point to publish him, they're backing him.
Rick Karlin (TIMES-UNION) reported in December 2014:
Under the terms of his parole, Ritter can't possess weapons, must
refrain from alcohol, and has agreed to drug testing and "outpatient sex
offender treatment."
He can't have contact with anyone younger than 18 without approval from parole officials.
There's no need to publish him. There's nothing he has to offer. And if you're publishing him, are you ensuring that he's not in web contact with anyone under 18 that's seeing his writing at your sites where you are publishing him?
533. That's the number of words in the online bio TRUTHDIG provides for their contributor Scott Ritter. Yet, somehow, not one of those 533 words notes his conviction or that he's a predator. There's no warning or heads up. They just list his honors or 'honors' and, in doing so, endorse him.
There's no excuse for that.
B-b-b-but War on Iran!
I believe he was telling the world that was happening any day now . . . back in 2007. It didn't happen then.
He's a convicted predator who has been arrested for trying to have sex with underage girls three times now. When will TRUTHDIG, INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE, GLOBAL RESEARCH and all the others take this seriously?
Oh, that's right. When the victim is female, the Bois of The Circle Jerk just don't care. Why? Women don't matter to some of them -- we saw that in Journo-list when some of it got published -- and there's also the whole lottery thing.
Some people don't demand economic justice because they think some day they may be holding the winning lottery ticket. They can envision that happening because they want it to. Some men on the left? They can envision being in Scott Ritter's place some day -- forcing themselves on underage girls -- and they don't want to give up that 'lotto ticket.'
What's happening is disgusting.
It needs to be called out.
THE INTERCEPT keeps promoting him in print -- including two days ago in an article about Joe Biden. Strangely, they never note that the 58-year-old man was three times arrested for attempting to have sex with an underage girl or that he was convicted of it and served time in prison for it.
Kind of a key detail.
Glenn Greenwald pretends a lot, doesn't he? He pretended when he had his roll dog too, remember? The one who coproduced the film Bryan Singer harassed young men and boys on, had them strip when no one was around to protect them? I guess that's a 'credit' to be proud of?
The Circle Jerk on the Left was always toxic. While COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW promoted it, we called it out. We also pointed out that the CJR staff promoting it? They were part of the Circle Jerk and 'forgot' to disclose that in their writing or to their employer CJR.
A lot of men are working overtime to promote one another (there's a reason it's always been called "the boys club") and to protect one another. Strange though, I want to protect the innocents. The Circle Jerk looks at three time loser, convicted pedophile Scott Ritter and that's who they want to protect.
Again, The Left Circle Jerk Doesn't Like Women.
