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RedState Weekly Briefing: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers, Russian Frigate Aflame, and Neutering the Woke

May 14, 2022 by Susie Moore Leave a Comment

Welcome to the RedState Review — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Grab a cup of coffee and sit down with this 21st Century version of the Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication!

A woman wears blue surgical gloves while depositing ballots in a ballot drop box in Fulton County, GA, in December, 2020. SOURCE: 2000 Mules movie, screenshot

#1 –  Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Debunking AP’s “2000 Mules” Hit Piece – by Jennifer Van Laar

Of course, AP has no comment as to why one would be out in the middle of the night placing numerous ballots in the drop box. I’m sure they will claim that it’s simply a hard-working person who just got off their night shift job and are dutifully taking all of their elderly relatives’ ballots to the drop box. But, of course, that hard-working person also would have visited at least 10 other ballot drop boxes and made five visits to the identified nonprofit organizations alleged to have served as stash houses.

Sounds totally legit.

Chet Hanks refuses to apologize for supposed cultural appropriation. Credit: Twitter

#2 – Tom Hanks’ Son Gives Absolutely Choice Answer After Being Accused of Cultural Appropriation – by Bonchie

Look, far be it from me to suggest there’s much to learn from a white rapper who appears on reality TV shows and feeds off his father’s fame. But in this case, I think his response is actually instructive. Do you want to drive the woke social-justice warriors nuts? All you have to do is tell them to pound sand. All their power is derived from being able to bring to heel others through outrage and pressure campaigns. When you ignore them and don’t apologize, you neuter their ability to do anything but whine into the void.

Dave Chappelle
Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

#3 – Netflix Goes Scorched Earth on Woke Employees – by Bonchie

When you go woke, you run the risk of going broke, and apparently, Netflix is pulling the ripcord before the streaming giant good and fully faceplants.

Following a financial report that saw its stock price plummet 37 percent in late April, Netflix is now moving to adjust its culture and reengage its frustrated audience. A new “culture memo” dealing with “artistic expression” has been sent out, and it’s clearly a shot at the woke staffers who have been sandbagging the company.

A woman deposits ballots at a drop box in Fulton County, GA. CREDIT: True the Vote, 2000 Mules/Screenshot

#4 – After 2000 Mules Premiere, True the Vote Promises to “Pull the Ripcord” and Release ALL the Data – by Jennifer Van Laar

The film’s findings are based a review of more than 4 million minutes of ballot drop box surveillance film obtained via public records requests and analysis of a large trove of cell phone geotracking data. True the Vote, a nonprofit organization focused on election integrity issues, obtained the data and retained an investigator, Gregg Phillips, to oversee the analysis. Likely knowing that the fact checkers were going to be out in force immediately to attack the credibility of the film and the data presented therein, Engelbrecht set up a plan to have investigator Phillips perform a massive data dump they’ve code-named “ripcord” so all of the information True the Vote has will be publicly accessible.

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#5 – Russian Frigate Reported on Fire as the Intelligence Community Tries to Convince Us They Know What They Are Doing – by Streiff

The notion that you can provide intelligence on the movements of the Russian flagship and not think that at some point someone is going to do more than move pins on a map isn’t the least plausible.

Thursday, I posted on a New York Times story about US intelligence providing targeting information on Russian generals and how that has created Eastern Front levels of lethality for Russian flag officers (see Intelligence Community Claims Responsibility for Killing Russian Generals Because It Didn’t Happen Unless You Know They Did It). My overarching point was that even though Russia “knows” we are providing this sort of intelligence, to me, it seems dysfunctional to hoot-and-holler about how you are doing it. By way of analogy, I’ve known several couples where the husband was engaged in horndoggery, and his wife knew, but she could pretend she didn’t know and keep the marriage going. Where things broke down was when the adultery became known to others, and she could no longer avert her eyes. Then the nasty, vicious divorce lawyers got involved.

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Filed Under: <![CDATA[2000 mules]]>, <![CDATA[AP]]>, <![CDATA[Chet Hanks]]>, <![CDATA[dave chappelle]]>, <![CDATA[fact checkers]]>, <![CDATA[frigate]]>, <![CDATA[List Service]]>, <![CDATA[Netflix]]>, <![CDATA[Russia]]>, <![CDATA[Top 5]]>, <![CDATA[True the Vote]]>, <![CDATA[Ukraine]]>, <![CDATA[woke]]>, News, Red State

Netflix Goes Scorched Earth on Woke Employees

May 13, 2022 by Bonchie Leave a Comment

When you go woke, you run the risk of going broke, and apparently, Netflix is pulling the ripcord before the streaming giant good and fully faceplants.

Following a financial report that saw its stock price plummet 37 percent in late April, Netflix is now moving to adjust its culture and reengage its frustrated audience. A new “culture memo” dealing with “artistic expression” has been sent out, and it’s clearly a shot at the woke staffers who have been sandbagging the company.

Excerpts come via The Daily Wire.

“If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you,” the memo states, later adding that employees may be required to work on projects that they “perceive to be harmful” and that if they have a hard time accepting their work assignment, they might want to consider working somewhere else.

“Entertaining the world is an amazing opportunity and also a challenge because viewers have very different tastes and points of view. So we offer a wide variety of TV shows and movies, some of which can be provocative,” the new section reads, later adding, “we support the artistic expression of the creators we choose to work with” and that “we let viewers decide what’s appropriate for them, versus having Netflix censor specific artists or voices.”

Most of this appears to center on the controversy over a comedy special by Dave Chappelle that Netflix put out. In it, he made a few relatively mundane transgender jokes. Of course, he also made Jewish jokes and took a variety of other shots are other demographics. That’s what comedy is, and the idea that certain groups are off-limits is not something Chappelle is ever going to abide by.

But the trans jokes led to a “trans walkout” and other protestations from Netflix employees. At the time, the CEO came out and defended Chappelle before bending the knee, attempting to coddle the woke employees that were lashing out by seeking an ill-advised middle ground. Once that financial collapse happened, though, it looks like a sudden change in direction happened. You can imagine that the board of directors and the shareholders were none too happy with seeing their company burn to the ground in order to make a small minority of far-left activists happy.

I believe the physical attack on Chappelle was the last straw, though. A man with a knife (hidden in a fake gun muzzle for some reason) tackled the comedian on stage and came out far worse for it. Netflix obviously said enough is enough and wanted to make it clear that they will not have any more internal incitement toward those that actually make the company successful.

The new hardline isn’t just in words, either. The employee who led that walkout has been fired. Further, the recommendation for those who object to Netflix’s work to find another job is about as tough of a line as I’ve seen from a company on this issue. It’s heartening to see that perhaps, just maybe, we might see a return to sanity, at least on some fronts.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Comedy]]>, <![CDATA[Conservatism]]>, <![CDATA[Culture Memo]]>, <![CDATA[dave chappelle]]>, <![CDATA[Finances]]>, <![CDATA[Netflix]]>, <![CDATA[Stock Price]]>, <![CDATA[woke]]>, News, Red State

Netflix Weighs In After Attack on Dave Chappelle Leaves Attacker Battered and Bruised

May 5, 2022 by Brandon Morse Leave a Comment

While outrage mobs may wish for the worst for comedian Dave Chappelle, it would appear that Netflix is siding with the comedian after an attempted attack by a Los Angeles man.

As RedState previously reported, Chappelle was attacked on stage during his bit while performing at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles during the “Netflix is a Joke” festival. A young man can be seen climbing onto the stage and attempting to tackle Chappelle. Security, as well as a few fellow celebrities, ran down the man as he tried to escape and proceeded to beat him until he was battered and bruised with his right arm sticking out in an odd direction.

(WATCH: Dave Chappelle Attacked on Stage, Jamie Foxx Comes to His Aid)

TMZ with the clearest view of Dave Chappelle incident.. lol he basically ate that tackle and then ran over to get his licks (kicks) in pic.twitter.com/VspQ1oxWYI

— Glock Topickz (@Glock_Topickz) May 4, 2022

Chappelle made the joke that it was a trans man after going backstage and getting his licks in himself. The comment prompted more outrage from the online mobs but as for everyone else, they thought the man got his just desserts. The man was also charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon on top of all his injuries.

Netflix seems to be unfazed by the mobs as well as it proceeded to release a statement regarding the attack, and they’re clearly siding with Chappelle.

“We care deeply about the safety of creators and we strongly defend the right of stand-up comedians to perform on stage without fear of violence,” said a Netflix spokesperson according to Variety.

A bit neutral and dry, but it is missing a typical corporate element.

It’s interesting that the “we respect all people of all races, creeds, and genders” corporate speak was left out of the statement. It would appear that Netflix doesn’t seem to see the need to prostrate itself before the altar of transgenderism after a transgender walkout resulted in nothing but a handful of employees standing outside the building and some media attention that went almost nowhere.

To be fair, an actual attack on a beloved comedian might be a step too far. It’s also still not entirely clear why Chappelle’s attacker, Isaiah Lee, tried to harm the comedian, though it’s likely the transgender activist mob ginned up enough anger for this to happen.

Chappelle is cooperating with authorities on its investigation and we will likely know soon enough what the motive behind Lee’s attack was.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[attack]]>, <![CDATA[Chris Rock]]>, <![CDATA[Comedy]]>, <![CDATA[dave chappelle]]>, <![CDATA[Jamie Foxx]]>, <![CDATA[Netflix]]>, <![CDATA[transgender]]>, <![CDATA[Violence]]>, News, Red State

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