The week’s news that wasn’t

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Pow-wowing, praising, bicycling and communizing the dumbest, most revisionistic, unsportsmanlike and ham-handed fakeries in the week’s fake news.

The fall of Fauxcahontas

Having grown up in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, ancestral home to no fewer than 36 Indian tribes, I know a thing or two about phony Indians. At least nine of every 10 boys I encountered in my younger years claimed Native American ancestry, and most of them told tales of being direct descendants of some “great” but unnamed war chief, no matter how pale their skin or blond their hair. It was what all the cool kids did.

When we played cowboys and Indians there were always more Indians than cowboys, even though the cowboys got to shoot the cap guns and the Indians were stuck with throwing sticks as spears, using bows made from skinny tree limbs and kite string, and wielding rubber tomahawks (these were usually rich kids who visited the Smokey Mountains). Some of the lure was no doubt attributed to the prospect of getting to run around shirtless and barefooted and wearing shorts – always a good idea on an Alabama summer day – as opposed to having to wear long sleeves, a vest and a cowboy hat and, if you had them, cowboy boots. Alabama gets is name from the Albaamaha (Alabama) Indian tribe and many of the state’s towns, counties, rivers, lakes and streets bear Indian names.

In short, you can’t go anywhere in Alabama without being reminded of the state’s Indian influence. Tuscaloosa – home of the national champion Alabama Crimson Tide – is named after the Tuskaloosa Indians who were defeated by Hernando de Soto in 1540. That may be the last home defeat ever suffered in Tuscaloosa. The state also hosted Sequoyah, the Cherokee who created the Cherokee alphabet in the early 19th century, and for whom the beautiful Sequoyah Caverns were named. (Legend has it that Sequoyah lived in the caves while creating the alphabet.) The Creek Indians have a casino, so local television is inundated with advertisements about gambling at the Poarch Creek tribe’s Wind Creek gambling house.

This week, Communist Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (Lie-Awatha) embarrassed herself with what may go down as the dumbest political move in history when she released a DNA report to prove her long-tired tale of Cherokee heritage that showed she had exactly zero Cherokee heritage. In other words, those pale skinned blond Alabama kids I grew up with who claimed Indian ancestry had more Indian ancestry than Warren. The difference being, they told their tales in the backyard so they could run around half naked in the Alabama sun. Warren did it for special privileges and benefits. Like most leftists, she built her career on identity politics, but hers was based on a bald-faced lie and made up tales of racial discrimination.

Oh the horrors! Trump praised Robert E. Lee

In its never-ending quest to cast President Donald Trump in as negative a light as possible, NBC News showed to what depths it’ll sink to to create fake news and, at the same time, revealed just how propagandized and ignorant the American people are.

Speaking at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, Trump called Robert E. Lee a “great” general. Well, we know that the current bromide is that Trump is a white supremacist, so the notion that Trump may have been complimentary of the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was too delicious for NBC to resist. And in today’s world of perpetually offended history revisionist social justice warriors, NBC had to know what reaction such a comment would engender from brainwashed masses.

So NBC clipped the short segment from Trump’s speech and sent out a tweet with it:

It took 48 hours and massive Twitter backlash, but NBC finally sent out a “correction” that put Trump’s statement in context and noted that Trump was praising General Ulysses S. Grant, not Lee, in his speech. And Trump praised Grant bigly, calling him “general who was incredible,” who “went in and knocked the hell out of everyone” because he “was a great general.”

For starters, Trump’s notion that beating Lee made Grant “a great general” is a bit of revisionist history in and of itself. Grant won not with superior tactics but with a willingness to send thousands and thousands of soldiers into the meat grinder to overwhelm Confederate forces with sheer numbers and a decided materiel advantage. Grant had something Lee didn’t have – an unlimited supply of men and a massive industrial base capable of producing weapons of war by the box car load. So he threw wave after wave of them against the Confederates. Along with this, he had a willingness to order his generals, with Abraham Lincoln’s blessings, to make total war on the Southern people and do whatever it took to subjugate them. That included attacking noncombatants and destroying their crops and livestock.

But most disturbing is the implication that Lee doesn’t deserve being praised. He was not only a great military mind who, when he came into his own, outfoxed and outmaneuvered superior opposing forces in order to fight them under circumstances most advantageous to his own army, he was genteel, a gentleman, a Christian, and patriot who sacrificed everything in an effort to preserve the Founding Fathers’ view – or at least the Jeffersonian model – of the federal republic. Lee had the courage of his convictions and fought for a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” He was a hero who deserves our praise.

Phony woman beats real women in cycling championship

Men who can’t beat other men in sporting events, take note: You, too can be a “winner.” Just ask “Rachel” McKinnon, a dude who dresses like a woman but still looks “somewhat” like a man.

McKinnon showed just what kind of “man” he was when he went out and beat a field of women in the UCI Masters Track and Cycling World Championships in the women’s sprint 35-44 age bracket in Los Angeles, and then crowed about it on Twitter. McKinnon, who sidelines as an assistant professor in gender studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, then proceeded to call everyone a “transphobic bigot” who rightfully pointed out the he won the meet because he had an unfair physical and biological advantage over the real women he competed against.

But it turns out that McKinnon isn’t “all that” after all. Shortly after setting a world record in the 200 meter event, McKinnon’s record was beaten by a real girl. You go girl!

Hams for hands

Two men who obviously aren’t ready to join James O’Keefe at Project Veritas were caught red-handed trying to make a contribution to Arizona Democrat Representative Tom O’Halleran’s campaign while posing as members of the Northern Arizona University Communist Party.

Their ham-handed scheme involved them creating fake personas and walking into O’Halleran’s office with a stated desire to volunteer for the campaign and $39.68 in a money jar to donate. When they were sent to a staffer handling finances, the two were instructed to fill out paperwork. They identified themselves as communists and stated they needed a receipt.

When told they’d only get an emailed receipt, one of the two scratched out the email he’d originally given and wrote down another – an action that made the staffer suspicious.

Campaign finance director Lindsay Coleman, sensing a dirty trick, drove to the local Republican field office to return the money. While there she spotted one of the two “communist” men in the Republican office. The other was later identified as a field organizer for the Arizona Republican Party.

O’Halleran’s opponent, Wendy Rogers, denied knowledge of the “juvenile stunt.” At least one of the men was said to have been fired for his participation.

Making federal campaign contributions under a false identity is a federal crime. It’s also a stupid way to try and expose a Democrat as a communist. To do that, all you have to do is take a hidden camera and ask their staffers a few questions over drinks and then watch how they try and send agents of the state out to suppress the free press.

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Jay Baker

has been editorial director of Personal Liberty® and The Bob Livingston Letter™ since 2008. He previously worked as a reporter and editor for several newspapers — including Alabama’s largest daily, The Birmingham News — and as editor of a business magazine. Jay also served stints as marketing and public relations director in the healthcare, banking and construction industries. This experience makes him especially adept at digging through the lies, doublespeak and folderol emanating from places of power.