Like most artists that sample music, Bieber could have licensed my song for use in "Sorry." But he chose not to contact me. You can hear it-according to Daniel-in Bieber's Skrillex-produced 2015 megahit Sorry: Singer Casey Daniel accused Skrillex and Justin Bieber of using a sample of her voice without permission, but the targets of her lawsuit seem to have a good defense: the sample was of another singer entirely, and Skrillex posted video showing how he produced it.ĭaniel's 2014 song Ring The Bell opens with a distinctive whooping cry from Daniel, repeated throughout: I do hope French is in on the joke, the poor bastard. It really speaks to the yawning cluelessness with which these guys are wandering the burning Roger Corman castle of conservatism, and it speaks of dark days ahead for all. So when David French was in Iraq, he wouldn't let his wife e-mail men or use Facebook. But he's also fabulously insecure, as noted by Politico's Kevin Robillard, insisting that his wife not communicate with men by phone or email lest she encounter the "ghosts of boyfriends past." "To say that he would be a better and a more responsible president than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump," Kristol recently wrote of French, "is to state a truth that would become self-evident as more Americans got to know him."įrench's obscurity is matched by the bland neoconservatism of his positions: if you're gay, feminist, think Black lives matter or simply a millennial, he's probably got a negative thing or two to say about you.
He once contributed to a New York Times best-selling book about fighting ISIS. He lives in solid-red Tennessee with his wife and three kids. He does, however, fit the fan-fiction archetype of a Bill Kristol candidate.Īccording to his bio, French is a constitutional lawyer who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. A conservative thinker with such strong name recognition he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Move over, Mittens! David French is the man to lead true conservatism to vict–wait, who? Daily Beast explains a pick so offbeat one almost assumes he must be the rumor's source.Īnd so, as Bloomberg Politics reported Tuesday evening, he appears to be going with the most devastating pick of all: National Review blogger David French. If you're surprised that such a light-hearted product could result in such a ruthless, cutthroat business, enjoy the great Ice Cream Wars of Glasgow. "Let me tell you about this business," Adam Vega, a thickly muscled, heavily tattooed Mister Softee man who works the upper reaches of the Upper East Side and East Harlem, said on Wednesday. (A lawyer for Mister Softee, Jeffrey Zucker, said that while he had not heard about the 2012 allegations, "a franchisee could lose his or her Mister Softee franchise for engaging in that type of criminal activity.") In 2012, a frozen yogurt vendor said that a Softee duo snapped his brakes with a crowbar, and the founder of the Van Leeuwen ice cream company said he had gotten death threats from Softee drivers. The New York Times' feature about ice cream trucks in the city is packed with fantastic details and quotes from those who operate "bell-jingling fleets of pleasure craft festooned with pictures of perfectly swirled desserts and beaming children." It's brutal out there, and Mister Softee has just been muscled out of Midtown.