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Actress Melissa Gilbert continues to taint her legacy with a head-shakingly naive defense of her now disgraced husband Timothy Busfield, who now faces sexual abuse charges in New Mexico:

Timothy Busfield’s wife Melissa Gilbert is asking a judge to keep her husband “safe” as he remains in New Mexico facing charges of child sex abuse.

The West Wing actor was booked by Albuquerque police on charges of child sex abuse, stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in the state.

He faces two counts of criminal sexual contact of a child under 13 and one count of child abuse.

Busfield is currently being held without bail, according to jail records. A judge will hold a detention hearing on Tuesday to determine whether Busfield will remain in jail.

In a new filing, obtained by People, 75 letters of support for the actor were included from family, colleagues and friends.

In Gilbert’s letter, she wrote, “The reality is that Tim Busfield is my love, my rock, my partner in business and life. He is my comfort and my council. His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life. Tim is, quite simply, the beating heart of our wild and wonderful extended family.”

“I can tell you, and anyone, that I know Tim better and more intimately than anything in his life ever has. Conversely, he knows me in the same way,” she continued. “Tim has the strongest moral compass of any human I have ever known. He has dedicated his spiritual self to always being of service to others. He starts every day with kindness and compassion.”

She wrote that on “every single set where Tim is working,” she’s had people tell her that Busfield is “their favorite director ever.”

“Actually, people say that to me in restaurants, on red carpets and in grocery stores too. His former students, tell me he was their favorite teacher ever. I cannot tell you how it has warmed my heart over and over again to hear people, from so many different walks of life, tell me they encountered my husband in some way and he is their favorite. He is my favorite,” she wrote.

Seriously? Because the following article suggests otherwise:

But her approach is not appreciated by her friends and family.

”People are having a really hard time with this right now and stepping back from Melissa,” one insider told me.

Friends would like to support her but can’t understand why she is backing her husband when he has been accused “several times” of something so abhorrent.

“No one with kids will go near them right now.”

Sister Sara Gilbert ‘grossed out’

And her sister, Sara Gilbert, is also said to be “grossed out”. The two have never been described as close, but Melissa supported Sara when she came out as a lesbian in the early 2000s.

”I always kinda knew,” Melissa told Sara on “The Talk” in 2011.

“People can get over a lot of things — but not this,” one friend said. “Everyone is appalled.”

When a lesbian's the one who's a realist, that's saying something. And who in the right frame of mind can allow the couple near their children based on what's been reported so far?

Equally appalling is that Gilbert's mom is also siding with Busfield, as are at least a few of his co-stars on Thirtysomething. I guess they're that worried about losing their residuals for reruns of what was otherwise a left-leaning drama, huh? As plenty may expect, it won't be surprising if reruns are taken off the air along with a number of other films and TV shows that Busfield acted/directed/produced. This is yet another sad discovery of what goes on in the sewers of Hollywood, and another performer's destroyed his legacy by acting as though being a Tinseltowner means never having to say he's sorry. But, as we see here, he's learning that there will come a heavy price, and now he's paying it. And Gilbert, lest we forget, is making things worse along with a number of other veterans by defending such a repugnant person.

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Robert Spencer is let down that POTUS Donald Trump backed away from taking serious military action against Iran's totalitarians so far:

The Iranian people trusted him. They kept protesting, even as the inhuman guardians of the Islamic Republic mowed them down in ever-increasing numbers, as many as 20,000. They renamed streets after him. They knew that he would send the help he promised. They knew he would help them see the end of the bloodthirsty and demonic regime that has murdered so very many Iranians since 1979. They knew they finally had someone who heard their cries. Someone they could count on.

Yet by Wednesday afternoon, something had changed. Trump said: “We have been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, it’s stopped, it is stopping. And, uh, there’s no plan for executions, or ex— an execution, or executions. So I’ve been told that on good authority, we’ll find out about it.”

There was no reason to believe this, and it was unclear whether or not Trump himself believed it. The Islamic Republic is built on terror and preserves itself through terror, for as an Islamic government, it follows the Qur’an’s guidance for how to deal with its opponents: “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60). The Islamic Republic will keep killing protesters as long as there is an Islamic Republic. [...]

Unless this is a strategic feint, as many have claimed, and the promised attack is still in the works, apparently the Islamic Republic will continue as well, hiding its murders behind closed doors instead of parading them before the world. Trump’s promise of help has so far proven hollow. His encouragement of the protesters only ended up getting 20,000 of them killed.

Even worse, there are reports that Trump called off an attack at the last minute at the behest of Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three Sunni states that have long counted the Shi’ite Islamic Republic of Iran as an enemy, but whose solicitude for the well-being of the United States should not be taken for granted.

Although it may be strategic, of course it's not good if Trump's hesitating. If the 2nd world war had been literally handled this way, it would never have been won.

Now, recent reports note that Texas senator Ted Cruz supports military action as a last resort, and the USA military does seem to be making preparations for war, as they no doubt realize they can't just back away now. Even so, issuing statements that don't get followed through as quickly as assumed is not a good idea, and only damages morale.

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While information is difficult to obtain with Iran having shut down their internet connections, some information that has come through indicates their Islamofascist forces have committed acts similar to October 7, 2023:

As the information blackout in Iran persists, a grim picture is emerging from the few reports slipping through the regime's deliberate digital blackout. Heavy weaponry, typically reserved for war zones, has been turned against the citizenry, with heartbreaking accounts of families torn apart by state-sponsored violence now coming to light

Basij (paramilitary volunteer militia) forces and IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) operatives have flooded Iran's city centers, creating scenes that look eerily familiar to many Israelis from the atrocities of Oct. 7: Hundreds of gunmen wielding machine guns have been seen on pickup trucks and armored vehicles across the country, with images surfacing through the trickle of information escaping the blockade.

Social media users who managed to bypass the blackout reported that armored vehicles had taken up positions near public institutions in Tehran and Mashhad. Meanwhile, the mayor of Tehran alleged that at least 16 mosques in the capital were torched and damaged during the popular uprising. Human rights organizations have reported continued arrests of citizens who participated in protests or publicly criticized the regime. In the city of Fuladshahr, the Basij arrested three members of a single family, taking them to an undisclosed location.

In Sanandaj, the Revolutionary Guards arrested Kia Moradi, a young woman, after she participated in a protest organized by the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement. Moradi is just 18 years old, and her family fears for her life following her transfer to an unknown facility.

There's more, but this information here says all you need to know this is a most repulsive totalitarian regime we're dealing with here, and it must be brought down, period. We can only hope that by the end of the year, it will be.

Labels: communications, dhimmitude, iran, islam, jihad, misogyny, political corruption, sexual violence, terrorism

The playwrights who developed a theater show about October 7, 2023 will soon be bringing it to the Kennedy Center, which Donald Trump made efforts to renovate for the better:

Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, producers of the Breitbart movie My Son Hunter, will soon be bringing their acclaimed play about the horrific October 7 terrorist attacks to the Kennedy Center this year.

“The play, which the New York Post has described as ‘spellbinding… powerful and a sanctuary for truth,’ will be the first controversial play to be performed in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since the Trump administration took it over,” said the announcement from Phelim McAleer.

[...] The play ran for six weeks during its 2024 run in New York City and reportedly “required a permanent police presence” due to its sensitive subject matter. Theater Scene called it “incredibly powerful” while Stage and Cinema hailed it as “a snapshot in time, as remembered by eyewitnesses,” insisting that audiences “see what is there in the moment.”

Speaking with Breitbart News prior to its release, writer Phelim McAleer said the world must not forget the tragedy of October 7.

“The progressive elites seem to want the world to forget about October 7 and what happened that day. And they are being successful,” McAleer told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement. We were in Ireland on October 7 and right away. People started talking about the need for a cease-fire and how terrible it was that they were ‘Turning off the electricity in Gaza.’”

“Everyone wanted to move on from October 7 but there would be no War in Gaza if it wasn’t for October 7,” he added.

What was especially disgraceful is how violence was being incited outside a theater by repulsive creeps who obviously didn't want anybody to be informed. The same movements involved doubtlessly oppose any such play about September 11, 2001. Of course, ever since Zohran Mamdani was elected NYC mayor, that's added insult to injury. I'm glad the Kennedy Center's running this play now, as it definitely needs to be run in many more venues, even overseas.

Labels: anti-americanism, anti-semitism, islam, Israel, jihad, misogyny, Moonbattery, New York, racism, sexual violence, showbiz, terrorism, United States, war on terror

A Muslim dentist in east Jerusalem was arrested for supporting Hamas:

A dentist from east Jerusalem was arrested on Thursday for social media posts praising Hamas and inciting violence, Israel Police announced.

Police began their investigation after the suspect made a post on social media featuring the slogan "This is jihad - victory or martyrdom." Over the course of their investigation, they discovered other materials supporting terrorism and inciting violence, shared by the suspect on social media or saved on his mobile phone.

The suspect, age 45, was arrested by police detectives on Thursday and brought to the station. He was then taken to the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on Friday, where his detention was extended until January 12 for continued investigation.

Creeps like that cannot continue to remain in the medical industry, and more serious efforts are needed in order to vet applicants and ensure few will be able to get through to jobs they don't deserve.

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The sexual abuse scandal of actor/director Timothy Busfield's gotten worse. While he's finally turned himself in after it looked like he may have tried to commit flight from arrest (USA marshals were searching for him), now he's been accused of sexually assaulting another teen girl a number of years ago:

Actor Timothy Busfield, known for his turn as Elliot on TV’s Thirtysomething and Mark in the baseball movie classic Field of Dreams, has been accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl after turning himself into authorities for two other sex crime charges.

As Breitbart News reported this week, Busfield turned himself into authorities in New Mexico after a warrant was issued for his arrest last week “on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse.”

Innovative Artists, which is based in Los Angeles and New York, has subsequently released the 68-year-old actor and director as a client, Deadline reported.

As reported here, the family of the third girl who was preyed upon by Busfield has spoken out against him:

Timothy Busfield has been accused of sexual abuse involving a third alleged victim.

The embattled actor, 68, was accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl “several years ago” in Sacramento, California, by prosecutors in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, in a motion filed on Jan. 14.

Colin Swift, the alleged victim’s father, reported the incident to investigators on Jan. 13, according to the motion, which was filed to request pretrial detention and was obtained by The Post. Busfield has not been charged in connection with the 16-year-old’s claim. [...]

Busfield allegedly “begged the family” not to report the purported incident to law enforcement “if he received therapy,” per the motion.

The motion says Swift, who himself is a therapist, agreed “that was the best thing to do” at the time. [...]

Gilbert, who married Busfield in 2013, released a statement to say that she is standing by her husband amid the allegations against him on Tuesday. Gilbert is not accused of any wrongdoing.

Well, Busfield has definitely stepped in it, and it's a shame the parents of the girl didn't go straight to the police at the time. As for Gilbert, even if she didn't commit any criminal offenses herself, that she'd stand by Busfield, not unlike how Hilary Clinton remained with Bill C. even after the sexual assault accusations against him (and the late author Alice Munro stayed with her monstrous husband even after it turned out he was a child rapist), is disturbing and appalling, and is bound to taint her Little House on the Prairie legacy for a long time. Gilbert later canceled a planned conference, and it's not hard to guess why.

Busfield's been ordered to be incarcerated without bail, and based on the severity of his offenses, the authorities are wise to prevent him from walking around publicly.

Update: according to this news:

Meanwhile, Busfield has long been known in Sacramento for his role in founding B Street Theatre in Midtown Sacramento, CBS Sacramento reported. As of Wednesday, he was listed on the company’s website as an emeritus board member. According to the theater’s history, Busfield launched the organization in 1986 as the Theatre for Children, Inc., initially focusing on touring productions for young audiences.

In 1991, Busfield and his brother, Buck Busfield launched the operation as the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, producing plays that included world, national and regional premieres. It currently operates out of The Sofia, a 49,000-square-foot facility that opened in 2018.

The organization also added the B Street Theatre Family Series in 2002, a program designed to introduce children and families to live professional theater. The theater’s website said the family series has reached more than 500,000 children and their families over the past two decades.

Based on what's been learned so far, it's offensive in the extreme a man who committed sexual assault would give that kind of a name to his theater operation. Busfield's humiliated the whole concept of theater performance for children, and if the company is still in business now, nobody should attend.

Update 2: here's more news notes at People and the Mirror US.

Labels: misogyny, Moonbattery, sexual violence, showbiz, United States

In an arrest involving an incident I'd read about in the past decade or so, ICE took custody an Afghan jihadist who tried to honor murder his sister in Rochester:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an Afghan immigrant who attempted to murder his sister nearly a decade ago for being a “bad Muslim girl.”

On January 1, ICE agents in Rochester, New York, arrested 39-year-old Waheed Allah Mohammad, who legally immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan in May 2004.

According to his conviction for attempted murder, in 2008, Mohammad tried to murder his then 19-year-old sister, whom he considered a “bad Muslim girl” for dressing immodestly and going to nightclubs, by repeatedly stabbing her.

The following year, Mohammad was convicted of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault and sentenced to 10 years in a New York prison as well as five years of supervised release.

However, he was placed on a deportation listing, and now, he'll hopefully be thrown out. It's to be hoped his sister is okay, and will now find a much safer life as a non-Muslim. Also notice that the Afghan monster "immigrated" during the Bush administration, and that's certainly telling as well.

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A veteran actor who appeared on the West Wing, which was quite a leftist concoction to begin with, has now been accused of sexually assaulting minors:

Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant Friday for director and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sex abuse charge.

An investigator with the Albuquerque Police Department filed a criminal complaint in support of the charge, which says a child reported that Busfield touched him inappropriately. The acts allegedly occurred on the set of “The Cleaning Lady,” a TV series Busfield directed and acted in. [...]

According to the complaint, the child, which it identifies only by his initials, has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. A social worker documented him saying he has had nightmares about Busfield touching him and woken up scared.

Busfield was also a prominent cast member of Thirtysomething during 1987-91, which also featured some early examples of leftist pandering like LGBT ideology, since there was a male homosexual couple featured there. It may have been set in Philadelphia, but with that kind of propaganda, it's no big loss for anybody who admires film and TV productions set within the city.

Years before this current scandal, Busfield was accused of at least 2 other acts of sexual offenses:

"First allegation occurred in 1994. A seventeen-year-old extra on Little Big League sued in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming Busfield assaulted her, served her alcohol, groped her, atempted [sic] sex in a trailer," the officer wrote. Per the warrant, Busfield denied the allegations and counter sued for extortion. That dispute settled, and his later "defamation bid against her lawyers got tossed, leaving him to foot nearly one hundred fity thousand dollars in costs. No charges filed." (After Busfield appealed the costs award, the parties settled the case.)

The warrant also lists a second allegation, this one dating from March 18, 2012. "A twenty-eight-year-old woman accused Busfield of battery in an LA movie theater—alleging he slipped hands under clothes, touched genitals for four minutes," per the arrest warrant. There was no lawsuit filed and prosecutors "passed due to slim evidence," the warrant states, adding that Busfield "called it consensual."

It appears Busfield is quite a disgusting person who has no respect for women and children. A shame he wasn't caught earlier, but now, he certainly is facing consequences.

Busfield's married to actress Melissa Gilbert, who's quite a leftist activist, and this is clearly having an embarrassing impact on her career and reputation as well, based on the following news:

Melissa Gilbert has deactivated her social media accounts after New Mexico authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of her husband, West Wing actor Timothy Busfield.

As of Sunday, the Little House on the Prairie alum's official Instagram and Threads pages are unavailable. The Instagram account for Gilbert's lifestyle brand, Modern Prairie, remains active.

This latest update comes after Albuquerque police issued a warrant for Busfield's arrest, citing two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse. [...]

Weeks before the warrant was issued, Gilbert addressed the subject of child sexual abuse while condemning Megyn Kelly's incendiary comments about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Responding to the #IWasFifteen social media trend, Gilbert shared photos of herself on the Little House set and wrote, "I debated posting this, but I feel compelled to share. After seeing many women's posts with the hashtags #iwasfifteen #imfifteen #iwasachild, I decided to Google-search myself at that age and see what came up. And this is some of what I found."

Gilbert, who began playing the role of Laura Ingalls Wilder on the show at the age of 10, drew attention to several photos of her embracing and kissing another cast member who was eight years older when they starred as love interests; he was 23 and Gilbert was 15.

"I am actually nauseated," Gilbert continued. "The girl on vacation in Hawaii with her family is the same girl who was expected to 'fall in love with' and kiss a man on film who was several years older than she was. Through the lens of today, this is shocking. I have no words other than to say, 'I WAS A CHILD. I WAS FIFTEEN.'"

She added, "Thank God my mom and [my costar] Michael [Landon] and so many others were there to make sure I was safe."

If she knew about the accusations made against Busfield earlier, it makes her alleged concerns look very hypocritical, and what's now in the news definitely doesn't help her cause. But, it reminds me that when another left-wing performer, Wil Wheaton, was a co-star in Star Trek: The Next Generation, there was a story in season 2's tenth episode ("The Dauphin") where his character, Wesley Crusher, has a brief but unsuccessful affair with a shape-shifting alien girl, played by an actress who was about a decade older than him, and yes, they kissed too. Does that concern folks like Gilbert, or do the worries only apply when its an older man and younger girl? If it's just the latter, that's more leftist hypocrisy in motion right there.

This new scandal doesn't sound like it'll bode well for Busfield, and it won't help Gilbert's credibility either. We must hope he'll be imprisoned this time.

Labels: lgbt cultism, misogyny, Moonbattery, sexual violence, showbiz, United States

Jihad Watch points to something very disgusting about Lauren Booth, the Muslim convert sister-in-law of former UK prime minister Tony Blair:

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law calls the October 7th massacre in Israel a “legendary” day.

Lauren Booth said the massacre, where 1,200 people were slaughtered, would help millions of people “accept Islam because of this.”

H/T @NatalieLisbona

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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 9, 2026

Blair was one of the worst premiers of Britain over 2 decades ago, and this just compounds all that can be seen as wrong with his relatives as well. All that aside, when a woman converts to Islam, it's a definite tragedy.

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