Tea at Trianon: Harris Agrees to Interview...with Walz, & "Dangerous" Speech Crackdown

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, August 16, 2024

Harris Agrees to Interview...with Walz, & "Dangerous" Speech Crackdown

It's long but it's worth a listen if you have time. From The Megyn Kelly Show:

Megyn Kelly is joined by Maureen Callahan, author of "Ask Not," to discuss the media’s push to make the Harris-Walz ticket seem “relatable” and “just like the rest of us,” VP Kamala Harris finally agreeing to an interview but with her VP pick Gov. Tim Walz, Harris' new tactic of copying Trump and his policies, Harris' lies about her life story, the media coddling her for now but not forever, her attempt to portray herself as everything to everyone,the damage pro-Hamas and anti-Israel rioters caused in New York City in an attempt to disrupt a Democratic event, the riots likely coming in Chicago at next week's DNC, breaking news about five people charged in Matthew Perry's death, the doctors and assistant that were involved in a Ketamine drug ring, how Perry's fame led to this accountability but so many others don't get it, and more Then Laurence Fox and Father Calvin Robinson join to discuss the riots in the U.K., how Muslim protesters are attacking media and civilians, the false spin that this issue comes from the “far right," the media propaganda about what's happening in the U.K., the immigration patterns in Europe and how the government is handling it, people like Douglas Murray threatened over “dangerous” speech, threats and censorship for speaking the truth, the attacks on masculinity, and more. (Read more.)