It’s been a rule of thumb for some time, and even more so since Jan. 20: By the time I learn enough about a news story to realize I don’t care, it turns out to be a bunch of crap anyway.
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch founded and led a student group called the ‘Fascism Forever Club’ at his elite high school, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The club was set up to rally against the ‘left-wing tendencies’ of his professors while attending a Jesuit all-boys preparatory high school near Washington D.C.
Oh my goodness. “Fascism Forever”? This is big news! Quick, everybody tweet it out as quickly as possible. Warp speed, Mr. Sulu!
The Daily Mail reports that Gorsuch founded a "Facism Forever" club while in high school. Quite disturbing if true. https://t.co/NQHyfBucmo
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) February 2, 2017
Just one problem. It’s not true.
Michael O’Loughlin, America Magazine:
As a student at the tony, Jesuit-run Georgetown Preparatory School, Neil Gorsuch, the son of a Reagan administration official, was known as something of a conservative firebrand among the mostly center-left student body and faculty…
When it came time to write his senior biography for the yearbook, he would make light of the divide between his conservative political beliefs and those of the more liberal faculty and students.
He wrote that he founded and led the “Fascism Forever Club,” though those with knowledge of the school back in the 1980s say there was no such club. The mention of it in the yearbook was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to poke fun at liberal peers who teased him about his fierce conservatism.
Known to be fiercely conservative at Georgetown Prep School, #Gorsuch joked in yearbook he founded and led "Fascism Forever Club" pic.twitter.com/zrZZ53iP4I
— Michael J O'Loughlin (@MikeOLoughlin) February 1, 2017
It was a joke. There was never any “Fascism Forever Club.” Gorsuch took the stupid insult that was slung at him, “fascist,” and turned it around on his critics. He beat them at their own game.
And now, 30 years later, people still throw around the word “fascist” without having any idea what it means. They scream at “fascists” while employing fascist tactics to keep people from speaking, as we just saw in Berkeley. Anything and anyone they don’t like is “fascist.”
And their targets are invariably smarter and funnier than they are, which only stokes their rage even more. So they bumble around like imbeciles, breathlessly repeating every rumor, no matter how silly it is. Over and over and over.
Media reporting in Trump era: Misreport in morning. Spread online hysteria all day. Corrections arrive late afternoon. Repeat every day. pic.twitter.com/ApH0o2bN0I
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) February 2, 2017
I can’t wait to watch Neil Gorsuch get sworn in. It’ll be great to have a funny guy on the Supreme Court. And it’ll be even greater to watch all the lefties weep!