The Media Freak-Out

Rich Lowry at NR

"Now that they realize Clinton is hardly a shoo-in, the liberal media is panicking at the prospect of President Trump."

. . . “This is not normal,” you’ll hear it said over and over about Trump (often correctly). But did anyone think it was normal when Trump said Ted Cruz was ineligible to run for president? Or questioned Ben Carson’s faith? Nonetheless, according to an analysis by the Shorenstein Center, most coverage of Trump in the first half of 2016 was “positive or neutral in tone.” 

"There have been two seminal events in the freak-out. The first was the absurdly over-the-top criticism of Matt Lauer for not being tough enough on Trump at an NBC national-security forum. Lauer couldn’t have satisfied his critics short of slapping Trump in the face and demanding, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”" . . .

Obama administration backed lifting sanctions on Iranian banks as part of hostage ransom

Another Day, Another Secret Obama Side Deal with Iran  "According to a September 30 Wall Street Journal article, the Obama administration signed a secret agreement with Iran to lift U.N. sanctions from two Iranian banks — Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah International — that helped finance Iran’s ballistic-missile program. U.S. and Iranian officials signed this deal on January 17, 2016, the same day Iran released four U.S. prisoners." . . .

"  . . .former hostage Saeed Abedeni’s recent statement concerning the actions of Iranians at the airfield is enough to question whether or not that is still our stance.

“I just remember the night at the airport sitting for hours and hours there, and I asked police, ‘Why are you not letting us go?’ ” Abedini said. “He said, ‘We are waiting for another plane so if that plane doesn’t come, we never let [you] go.’ ”  

Rick Moran  "The Wall Street Journal has a shocking report that adds fuel to the fire over the $1.7 billion in cash paid to the Iranians to get the hostages released.

On the same day the cash payment arrived in Tehran, the U.S. secretly agreed to back a U.N. effort to lift sanctions on two Iranian banks accused of assisting Iran's ballistic missile program. 

The Obama administration agreed to back the lifting of United Nations sanctions on two Iranian state banks blacklisted for financing Iran’s ballistic-missile program on the same day in January that Tehran released four American citizens from prison, according to U.S. officials and congressional staff briefed on the deliberations.

The U.N. sanctions on the two banks weren’t initially to be lifted until 2023, under a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers that went into effect on Jan. 16.

"Just how much of this nuclear agreement with Iran was real?  We learned after the deal went into effect that restrictions on Iran's centrifuge technology were a sham and that despite assurances from the White House, the deal did not prevent Iran from testing its ballistic missiles (separate U.N. resolutions were supposed to restrict the missile program)." . . . 

Military Drills Obama at Fort Lee

BarbWire

. . . "For the military, the townhall was a unique opportunity to get some things off their chests. The real shame, however, is that the president didn’t start listening to his troops sooner. If there’s one thing we can all agree on: the next president is inheriting a huge mess on military readiness and national defense. FRC’s Lt. General Jerry Boykin (U.S. Army-Ret.) spent 36 years in the military and says, “Morale is lower than I have ever seen it due to the social experiments and the assault on religious liberty. Good people are leaving and quality young men and women are discouraged from entering the services as they see what our armed forces have become and how they would be treated.” For these reasons, he writes, “I have very grave concerns about Hillary Clinton as the next commander-in-chief.”

Tony Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council. He is a former member of the Louisiana legislature where he served for eight years, and he is recognized as a legislative pioneer for authoring measures like the nation’s first Covenant Marriage law. 

Emphasis added, TD

Hillary Clinton and Alicia Machado: Sisterhood of the travelling getaway car

"But I think I know why Hillary may feel a common bond with this gangster bimbo.  Alicia, you see, was accused of driving a getaway car for her gangster boyfriend in a killing in Venezuela but escaped prosecution for lack of witnesses.  Don’t you think Hillary must admire Alicia for that?  After all, in a symbolic sense, isn’t that what Hillary Clinton has always done for Bill in all his extensive history of sexual predation: drive his getaway car?" 

Russ Vaughn  "Democrats have been high-fiving and deliriously jiving since their candidate introduced the voluptuous Venezuelan vigilante upon Donald Trump during Monday night’s debate.  The Dems would have you believe that this luscious Latina was used and abused by that cruel capitalist in a manner that should totally disqualify him from ever serving as president.  Apparently as her boss, a business owner who hired her and signed her to a contract that required her to maintain her lovely person in a physical state so as to be able to gracefully and gorgeously represent the public persona of Miss Universe, her mean old plantation master castigated the poor, pretty thing for ignoring those specific terms of her contract and becoming a very non-contractual fatty." . . .

Obama's Peres eulogy: It's all about him

Rick Moran  "President Obama spoke at the funeral of Shimon Peres, calling him a "dear friend" and, as usual, made the great occassion all about himself.

"You have to wonder what the assembled guests thought of a speech that placed Obama on the same historical plane as Ghandi, Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela.

“I could somehow see myself in his story and he could see himself in mine,” Obama said, delivering the final eulogy for Peres Friday morning in Jerusalem, calling the former Israeli prime minister and president in Hebrew “dear friend,” and lingering for a moment with his hand on the coffin as he left the stage. Peres died Wednesday at the age of 93.

"As Carrie Hart notes in her report on the funeral, President Obama said some nice things about Peres and Israel.  But then there was his effort to portray himself as a Peres intimate:

"It was so surprising to see the two of us, where we had started, talking together in the White House, meeting here in Israel," he said. "I think both of us understood that we were here only because in some way we reflected the magnificent story of our nations."

"I sincerely doubt that Peres thought of himself in any way as Obama's "equal" or that the president occupied the same historical space as Peres.  But Obama sees himself as a world-historical figure like Mandela, Peres, and even Queen Elizabeth despite the leaders that really matter in the world – Netanyahu, Putin, Merkel, Xi – holding him in contempt.

"Once a narcissist, always a narcissist."

It is a pattern, you know:

"Egomaniac President Thinks Americans Are “Not Inspired” To Vote This Year Because “Barack and Michelle Are Not On The Ballot This Time”…"

"Barack Obama Marks Death Of Golfing Legend Arnold Palmer With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obama…"

U Of Michigan’s ‘Pronoun Committee’ Instructs You In ‘Designated Pronouns’…

Legal Insurrection: U. Michigan Profs Told to Use Students’ Preferred Pronouns  "The absurdity of gender neutral pronouns has reached the campus of the University of Michigan and professors are being told to comply.

"FOX News reports:

University of Michigan professors instructed to stick to ‘preferred pronouns’

Weasel Zippers

Obama operatives stripped Judical Watch of ‘media’ status, overcharged for FOIA requests

"The regime continues its sleazy tactics. Thank God for Judicial Watch and the yeoman’s work they do to expose them."  Weasel Zippers

All photos added by TD

Washington Times 
Waiting for the outcry from the press...Still waiting...any minute now.

"Political operatives within the Obama administration wrongly punished conservative legal group Judicial Watch, stripping it of “media” status and trying to force it to pay higher fees for its open records requests, the General Services Administration inspector general said in a letter released Thursday.

"The GSA botched several high-profile open records requests, delaying them for months while political appointees got involved, Inspector General Carol F. Ochoa said. The findings were released while the administration was facing charges of slow-walking open records requests for Hillary Clinton’s emails, as well as other requests.

"In the case of Judicial Watch, the order to strip it of media status came from political operatives with long ties to Democratic causes — and even from theWhite House.

"The inspector general said the decision came at the behest of Gregory Mecher, a former Democratic campaign fundraiser who at the time was liaison to theWhite House. He is married to Jen Psaki, a longtime spokeswoman with the Obama administration and its election campaigns." . . .

When facts, logic and history don’t matter

"Indeed, one of the more remarkable features of this campaign is how brazenly candidates deny having said things that have been captured on tape, such as Clinton denying she ever said the Trans-Pacific Partnership was the gold standard of trade deals."The only thing more amazing is how easily they get away with it."

Charles Krauthammer

"And now, less than six weeks from the election, what is the main event of the day? A fight between the GOP presidential nominee and a former Miss Universe, whom he had 20 years ago called Miss Piggy and other choice pejoratives. Just a few weeks earlier, we were seized by a transient hysteria over a minor Hillary Clinton lung infection hyped to near-mortal status. The latest curiosity is Donald Trump’s 37 sniffles during the first presidential debate. (People count this sort of thing.) Dr. Howard Dean has suggested a possible cocaine addiction.

"In a man who doesn’t even drink coffee? This campaign is sinking to somewhere between zany and totally insane. Is there a bottom?

"Take the most striking — and overlooked — moment of Trump’s GOP convention speech. He actually promised that under him, “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon — come to an end.”

"Not “be reduced.” End." . . .

Juanita Broaddrick fears for her life: ‘I don’t feel safe anymore’

The American Mirror  via Drudge:

“ 'I have my home up for sale now because I live alone in a huge home on 23 acres. It’s just an absolutely gorgeous place,” Broaddrick says.

“ 'I’ve loved it all these years but I just don’t feel safe anymore.”

"Broaddrick says she will be building a home on her son’s property.

"She adds she will fear for her life even more if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

“ 'Especially if she does become president, I’ll fear even more the retribution I might suffer,” Broaddrick said.

"She has been vocal during the presidential campaign and has been speaking out about the role Hillary played in silencing her.

"According to Broaddrick, her first encounter with Hillary was in 1978, shortly after the alleged rape, she told The American Mirror in March." . . ..

. .  . “ 'And so I just tried to relax as she came over to me but after she changed her tone and grabbed my hand, I just wanted to get out of there. It scared the heck out of me.

“ 'All she did was let me know she knew and I better stay quiet. That’s the essence of what I got out of that.”

"And she says it affected her life because “I kept quiet, up until 1998,” when she met with attorneys for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr."