Another Reason Why Hollywood Elitism Sucks

by Kim D.

I don't know about you, but social media has killed my appreciation for Hollywood and the elites that dominate the entertainment industry. Example - I grew up loving Cher and her music but over the last couple of years, her moonbat tweets have demolished this appreciation and the ability to listen. What once made me hum and sing along now sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. That's also the way I feel about what I watch on television and on the big screen.

Take, for instance, an idiotic tweet by Mark Ruffalo whose claim to Hollywood fame is starring as Bruce Banner, the Hulk.:

Sign the petition: Tell @MSNBC @NBCNews to stop the white conservative hiring spree https://t.co/CQGV7zRHWr via @CREDOMobile #p2

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) June 10, 2017

To be fair, Ruffalo isn't being original in his racism. He lazily copied the title of a petition that argues when Obama moved into the White House, Fox News didn't hire a bunch of black progressives so MSNBC should not hire white conservatives. According to the think tank of Credo Mobile,

Andrew Lack, the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, aims to make them more “centrist,” by which he means bringing in conservative voices. Just look at the recent hires:4,5,6

• Nicole Wallace, a former spokesperson for President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, will get her own show.
• George Will, the conservative columnist, climate denier and campus rape apologist, signed a lucrative contributor contract.
• Hugh Hewitt, the right-wing talk radio host who recently defended Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, will get his own show.
• Megyn Kelly and Greta Van Susteren, both conservative former FOX News hosts, have been given daytime TV shows.

I can see the bitch here but will cut MSNBC some slack for trying to be more "fair and balanced." As for Ruffalo and other Hollywood elites who mindlessly tweet progressive ideals I don't have much sympathy. The more they tweet the more I want to switch the channel.  I think congressional troll and parody Rep. Steven Smith said it best:

If I sign this, will you agree to stop making crappy movies?

— Rep. Steven Smith (@RepStevenSmith) June 13, 2017

I'd go for that.

Righting on the Wall is Moving

By Ecklebob Chiselfritz

We are changing our url due to unwarranted and continuing harassment from the social justice warriors at the helm of Twitter.

They have targeted and labeled me, Kim and our blog as being unsafe to the general public.

We may be dangerous to their delicate Liberal Progressive sensibilities, but we are not unsafe.

Please visit us at our new location on the innerwebz  Righting on the Wall

4 Easy Steps to Writing Misleading and Highly Spun Columns

by Angela Durden

Memo to the newsroom: Sit and be a zombie

by Mouser The King Cat

First they banned journalism from newsrooms in favor of advocacy (apparently). Now the York Daily Record’s publisher wants to ban profanity. Publisher Sara Glines doesn’t want to hear it, even when the computer system crashes on deadline. Her memo:

I’ve heard some troubling conversations recently, so I want to remind all employees that cursing is not appropriate in the work environment. … I know that newspapers have had a salty history and culture. And I know that we all will slip from time to time. Still, I believe we can express ourselves adequately without the use of profanity. Let’s clean up our language and make this a workplace that anyone can feel comfortable in.

WTF? Is this sh** for real? Swear words have been tossed around newsrooms forever, but in this era they almost always come from women. (Hey Angela, a gang of longshoremen just came through on a tour; I think they were offended by your language. You kiss your boyfriend with that mouth?)

Anyway, that memo from January 2015 (I know it’s old, just saw it) wound up on the website of Jim Romenesko, who has covered newsroom doings for nearly as long as they have been declining. With it was a companion memo from Ms. Glines about the banning of Mountain Dew and Snickers bars from vending machines.

The twin memos inspired a string of comments, including this from Brian O’Connor of the Detroit News: 

Good thing she’s not a micro-managing fusspot. And I imagine her paper must be rolling in the profits and pulling in the Pulitizers if this is how she spends her time. Of course, most of the cursing is likely reserved for the poor readers who are asking "WTF?!" when greeted with hard-hitting local news such as: "Teams demonstrate old logging techniques at Farm Show."

A quick check of Ms. Glines’ career shows she is moving up the ladder, having just been appointed president and publisher of The News & Observer of Raleigh. She takes over today. Staffers there are advised stock up on candy bars. Soon there may be a black market.

Hot Damn! It's #Debate Night!

Take Me Down To The Infirmary

By Ecklebob Chiselfritz

I pulled lower back muscles mowing the lawn yesterday.
Now a cold is trying to take hold and kick my ass.
I'm thinking about sticking a fork in the toaster to complete the trifecta.

Clock Strikes Ten (Live)

A Girl Like You (Live)

It's Drink O'Clock: Joe's Garage

Four easy steps to writing your own misleading and highly spun column

By Angela Durden

Graphic By by Angela K. Durden

It's Cartoon Time: Pigs in a Polka

Gotta Keep A Runnin'

Ecklebob Chiselfritz - I'm done. Twitter has locked my account...again

This is ridiculous. I have done nothing to warrant the harassment I have received from Twitter. I'm done with Twitter. I will concentrate on blogging for the forseeable future. I hope y'all continue to visit us here at Righting On The Wall and interact with us in our comment section.

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It's Drink O'Clock: Laredo (Live)

RadioActivity: Granby's Green Acres "Granby Quits His Job" (Audition Program)

Original Air Date: March 30, 1950

Is the horribly run Twitter up for sale?

The progressive liberal social justice warriors at the helm have done nothing except lose billions of dollars for shareholders in every quarter since day one of becoming a publicly traded company.


Of course Twitters founders and the investment bankers who rolled out the initial public offering made billions of dollars.

Shadowbanning sucks! It's Rather Orwellian

by Kim D. 

Are you feeling neglected on Twitter? Did your followers stop chatting with you? If so, you might be shadowbanned.

@PastorFrisbie @JHolmsted pic.twitter.com/9PMov4l9nT

— Kim (Not a Bot) (@JBaileysMom) September 23, 2016

According to the article "Twitter Meets Orwell," 

Twitter has introduced a brave new way of screwing with users, which some have taken to calling shadowbanning.

Basically, this acts like a gag: you can send normal tweets normally, but people Following you won’t see them on their timeline. (However, people reading your profile will see them.)

The following restrictions also apply:

• Your tweets won’t show up in certain hashtags (which and why is unknown).
• Your tweets won’t show up in Search, either by keyword or by account name.

Take consolation in the fact that you certainly aren't alone in your Twitter ostracization. It's nothing personal - you probably are rooting for the wrong team in Election 2016 or appear to be doing so by a hyper-tweeked algorithm.

Don't get too upset by shadowbanning, says Daddy Warpig, who claims it usually is temporary punishment, but how do you know for certain if this had happened to your Twitter account?

Because fewer people are seeing your tweets, your Twitter stats (under “Your Tweet activity”) will likely drop. Several people have first noticed a ban when their number of Impressions, for example, fell off sharply. (People with low Follower counts might not notice a significant difference, though.)

Sometimes people who Follow you will notice you haven’t shown up in Search or in their timeline, and will contact you. (This is more likely to happen if you’re a consistent, high volume tweeter, of course.)

The easiest way to tell, though, is to just test. DM someone who Follows you. Ask them to check their timeline (under the Home tab) for recent tweets of yours, or tweet out a test tweet without @ them. If they see it, you’re okay. If not, you might be shadowbanned.

The insidious thing about a shadowban is that, short of logging in under another account, there is no way for you to tell if you’ve been banned. You tweet as normal, assuming thing are working per usual, while behind the scenes Twitter has decided to unperson you.

[This is likely the reason the two obtrusive features (see Evolution of the Shadowban, below) were removed: Twitter doesn’t want users to know when they’re being censored.]

What stinks is that there is no way to reach out to Twitter to rectify this problem unless you are on Jack's good side or are a verified account with some clout:

If you’ve been shadowbanned, there is no known way to either appeal or evade the restrictions. Since the ban usually lasts about 24 hours, all you can do is wait.

However, if you suspect someone else has caught a ban, add them to a List. Lists are not (as of this writing) subject to the restrictions of the ban: a shadowbanned person’s tweets still show up. Lists will allow you to read them normally, and are recommended in any case.

Also, some alternative Twitter clients, notably Tweetdeck (according to several reports), are notsusceptible to being spoofed by a shadowban. The banned person’s tweets show up normally.

If you don’t want Twitter to censor other people’s tweets from your timeline, use Tweetdeck.

At present time, no one knows for sure how one catches a temporary case of the shadowban bug. And, if you cannot see my tweets or view our blog, you might not even see this information, but in case you should happen to break through this Orwellian barrier, here are some tips to avoid this Twitter hell:

No one knows exactly what causes a shadowban, but it’s likely some combination of spam or harassment reports trigger it, either automatically or by hand. During the summer Twitter stated it would begin “defusing” confrontations in hashtags by punishing people who spam a tag with unrelated or abusive tweets; it is likely shadowbanning is one such tool.

If shadowbanned, you will never know why it happened and you cannot ever know for sure that it really happened. Again, Orwellian and Kafkaesque.

In general, it’s good to avoid any behavior that can trigger a spam report. Check Twitter’s online Help system for details.

Good luck out there in the Twittersphere. With the new rules, suspiciously creeping in as we are 40-some days from a pivotal election, you will need it.  Either that or just start posting cat memes.

Ecklebob Chiselfritz -Twitter has unlocked my account

So after I send a couple of emails Twitter admits it made a mistake...

BUT they continue to malign our blog Righting On The Wall...

@Instapundit Is Free

by Kim D.

Twitter has unblocked my account on condition of deleting the offending tweet. I've done so, but it's here:: https://t.co/DDkZd2el6Y

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) September 22, 2016

In case you missed it, Glenn Reynolds (aka Instapundit) was temporarily suspended for tweeting about the riots in Charlotte. He made the suggestion (sarcastic joke really) that if one were trapped in their car and threatened by rioters, one should simply "Run them down."  Evidently this advice crossed the line and he was punished until he removed the offensive tweet.

This is another reminder that Big Brother is always watching and Twitter has joined the Gestapo using its power to silence.

Ecklebob Chiselfritz - Twitter has locked me out

Twitter has locked me out of my account. They claim I am an automated bot and they need to protect other users from spam.

They also claim our little blog here is dangerous to whatever device you are accessing the internet with.

They say Righting On The Wall might be a source of malware, chicken pox, measles, Hillary Clinton's kennel cough, 'taters and whatnot.

They are doing this under the guise of claiming "suspicious activity" on my Twitter account. The only thing suspicious about my account is my horrible spelling and atrocious grammar.

My Twitter account has never been hacked.

This blog site has never been hacked.

Please look at my Twitter time line.
I am not a serial tweeter much less a spam bot.
Some people even tell me they enjoy reading the sentences I manage to string together.
 
I am careful in what I post so as to not to violate Twitters terms of service policy.
  
Please scroll thru Righting On The Wall and read what we post.
We ask for no money. We don't even run ads.
We ask for no personal information.
We respect anonymity.

If I were a paranoid individual I might believe I'm being targeted by Twitter solely for posting my Conservative views/opinions.

I'm not a paranoid individual.

But a little voice in my head is telling me...