Media Ignored Obama Telling Police: Risking Your Lives Is Part Of ‘Job You Signed Up For’

Ever notice when Obama was irritated by a question, he would begin his response with, "Look....." ?

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"Obama started the war on police.

"Via Daily Wire:

The media predictably exploded this week after a Democratic congresswoman attacked President Donald Trump for allegedly making insensitive remarks to the family of a fallen U.S. soldier — accusing the President of saying callously that the soldier “knew what he signed up for.”

While other Gold Star families had come out and said that President Trump was respectful when he called them — suggesting the media and Democrats were taking his remarks out of context — the media instead focused on portraying the President as a heartless monster.

What the media did not do was point out that former President Barack Obama said essentially the same thing to a graduating class of police officers in Columbus, Ohio in 2009:

The job you signed up for is not easy. It can mean long shifts and late nights. It demands focus, and determination, and great bravery in the face of unknown dangers. When you run into that building or chase down that suspect, you will be risking your own life in order to protect the lives of men and women you have never met, and some that you may never know.

But you knew all that when you joined the academy. You knew the risks involved, you knew the sacrifices required, and yet you stood up and said, “I’ll take that risk. I’ll make that sacrifice. I will do that job.”

During the Obama administration, many — including top police officials — blamed the president for creating a “war on cops,” often citing “systemic racism” in law enforcement while rarely urging people to support the police.

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The fall of higher education

Alan Fraser   "Parents who continue to send their children to college and alumni who continue to contribute to colleges should have their heads examined.  We've gone way beyond "this is embarrassing." 

1. "Northwestern doubles its programming on 'deconstructing masculinity'"
"The first event of this academic year in November will tackle 'toxic masculinity[.]' ... The program ... started in spring 2016 with a grant from the U.S. Justice Department." 

2. "Swarthmore students burn American flag on Columbus Day"

3. "Students storm library, shut down College Republicans meeting"

4. "Marquette University hosts 'Black Male Appreciation Luncheon'"

5. "Grizzly Bigotry At The University of Montana"

6. "200 pro-life posters torn down at Loyola Marymount University"

7. Marquette University, a Jesuit-run university, to host LGBT 'Pride Prom' in campus ballroom

8. "Columbia University Pledges $100 Million To Campus Staff 'Diversity'"

9. Eastern Illinois University's 'Lincoln Hall' eyed for name change

10. "Hillary Clinton in talks with Columbia University to take on professor role"

One option under discussion is an esteemed "University Professor" role that would allow Clinton to lecture across a range of schools and departments without the requirement of a strict course load, one source said.

11. "University Refuses Research On Growing Numbers Of Trans People Who Want 'To Go Back'"

12. "Students at Cambridge University are being warned that they may have to study books with upsetting content – the plays of William Shakespeare. Lecturers claim the advice is to protect undergraduates' mental health, even though several of the Bard's works are known for their depiction of sex and violence."

Bush and Kelly: Truth Tellers. We all have something to learn from the two speeches, not least Donald Trump.

Jonah Goldberg  "Former president George W. Bush gave an impassioned, eloquent speech on the current moral, civil, and political climate in the United States and across the West."John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, gave less formal, but arguably more powerful, remarks in the briefing room yesterday. Kelly scolded a Democratic congresswoman, Frederica Wilson, and, really, the entire country, much like a disappointed father or grandfather might.

"But it seems like almost everybody is only hearing what they want to hear. Liberals, the media, and — importantly — President Trump’s Amen Corner all heard the same thing in Bush’s remarks: “Blah, blah, blah, blah, Trump Bad.” 

"That’s why Bush is suddenly benefitting from a strange new respect from liberals and a strange new hatred from former supporters.

"Meanwhile, John Kelly is being hailed by most conservatives as a heroic champion of moral verities and a brilliantly effective defender of the president of the United States, while liberals — particularly of the piss-from-a-great-height MSNBC variety — are denouncing Kelly as, at best, an enabler of the president and, at worst, a racist.

"I’m disgusted with a great deal of this, but rather than argue against any of that, I want to ask you to entertain a thought experiment. Imagine, if just for a moment, that all of you who fall into one of these camps are entirely wrong.

"What if President Bush was aiming his fire at Democrats and liberals? What if Kelly was actually lecturing his boss?" . . .  Read more.

I'm sick of the media puppets

I continually ask leftists to list Obama's domestic and foreign policy achievements, and I have yet to see a list. They would probably list the Iran deal, the pretend Paris agreement, and Obamacare.  I believe that those are all unmitigated disasters. 

Jack Hellner  "I saw Nicole Wallace on The Today Show yesterday morning say it is Trump's fault that the news has been focused on the unverified phone call for five days. 

"I have heard Trump demand that reporters cover the massive corruption involved with the Russian uranium deal.  So why do Nicole and other supposed reporters not follow Trump on that?

"What I heard on CBS radio news yesterday morning was "The lead story is the phone call."

"Reporters somehow act as if they have no choice on what to cover – and they all cover exactly the same thing in the same manner.  They are essentially worthless puppets. 

"The Bush spokespeople say the speech wasn't about Trump, so why do they all cover it as though it was?  Don't they believe him?  When have the media ever respected what Bush said?

"After watching the FBI, Justice Department, and IRS the last eight years, why would anyone trust them?

"Reporters should be all over Mueller and Comey for being in charge of the FBI during the Russian uranium cover-up, but somehow they don't care.  They are out there every day seeking to destroy Trump, no matter what he does.  It makes me support Trump more and tells me the swamp is huge.

"Thank God, Trump won.  Hillary and Bill would have continued their massive corruption to make them and their friends rich."

"I continually ask leftists to list Obama's domestic and foreign policy achievements, and I have yet to see a list. They would probably list the Iran deal, the pretend Paris agreement, and Obamacare.  I believe that those are all unmitigated disasters. 

"When Hillary was running, we repeatedly heard from reporters that she was the most qualified person ever to run, and yet I never saw a list of foreign policy accomplishments of hers, either.  I guess she did get uranium to the Russians."

Does the left really think it can drag General Kelly into its mud?

General John Kelly Son Robert

Monica Showalter  "Maybe I spoke too soon. Far from recognizing the masterly statement of President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, in the wake of the brouhaha over President Trump's condolence call to the wife of a fallen serviceman, the left has doubled down on screeching attacks against Kelly, charging him with ever more outlandish epithets.

"The congresswoman who horned in on the moment and tried to score political hay from it, Rep. Fredericka Wilson of Florida, has started yelling racism, the last refuge of today's scoundrels. She claimed that Kelly's use of the term 'empty barrel' to describe the contents of her unhinged mind was the same as attacking the color of her skin. The White House, she added, was "full of white

supremacists."

"The press, meanwhile has focused on calling Kelly a liar, saying an unearthed tape of Wilson's 2015 speech is proof positive that she never crowed about securing the financing for the building that was named after two fallen FBI agents. Actually, it's not proof - no one knows what she was crowing about in the before and after times of it, off camera to officials such as Kelly. Kelly has not backed down from his charge and just the inside-politics nature of it suggests it was not made up. Who would have thought of such a thing if it hadn't happened. It would be far easier to say Wilson was spitting in the punchbowl if things were going to be made up. But this isn't stopping the media from calling it story-over and demanding Kelly apologize.

"Then there's Team Hillary, creativity-challenged in its Trump rage these days, calling General Kelly "odious," as former Hillary Clinton operative Brian Fallon declared on Twitter.

"The charges are crazier and crazier as the left congeals in its inability to accept the wisdom and realism of Kelly's slam-dunk statement. Instead of moving on, they're like a frenzied hooked fish, thrashing and flopping wildly on a deck, knowing they've been caught.

"It's a waste of time, as the Kelly statement speaks for itself. The Drudge Reporthas scraped the controversy off its website due to lack of reader interest. RealClearPolitics has largely moved the issue over to a side column. Fewer and fewer pieces are now coming out about it now. Game over. Yell as it likes, the left has lost."

Portland Deputies Investigated For… Cooperating With ICE

I’m sure you can find some of your officers who are guilty of actual wrongdoing to investigate rather than bringing down the hammer on the ones who are actually helping to enforce the law.

Hot Air

. . . "Well, I suppose it’s nice that the deputies won’t be losing their jobs over charges of doing their jobs. To fully understand the insanity of this investigation, we need to go back to the origins of the case. It cropped up back in February of this year and it all centers around Sheriff Mike Reese. He’s been, shall we say… rather enthusiastic in his defense of sanctuary city policies in his county. And when the local press turned up some emails indicating that deputies had responded to requests for information from immigration officials, Reese flew into action. (Portland Tribune).

. . . 

"So what sort of illegal aliens are we talking about? Apparently, some of them didn’t have any other “serious” charges against them. But in at least one case, that of Julio Montejo-Mex, the suspect had been charged with, “domestic violence crimes, including assault, strangulation and kidnapping.” And the Sheriff was upset that deputies gave some information on this guy to ICE?

"Excuse me, but even if you are the most open borders loving, Trump hating activist on the planet, aren’t those precisely the type of people we’re supposed to prioritize for detention and/or deportation?

Fellow Attorneys Look at Mueller’s Team With Skepticism Over History of Sketchy Tactics

The Sentinel  "Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel in the Trump-Russia collusion probe, has employed a slew of Democrats to investigate, half of whom donated to the Hillary campaign or her Foundation. He has allowed the leaking of information periodically which also happens to harm the Trump administration. Many believe it’s a witch hunt.

"Mueller’s team has most recently been criticized by fellow attorneys for questionable tactics in the past.

"Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney in Massachusetts, wrote an opinion piece accusing Mueller of once trying to entrap him when Mueller was acting U.S. attorney in Boston.

“I have known Mueller during key moments of his career as a federal prosecutor,” Silverglate wrote for WGBH News. “My experience has taught me to approach whatever he does in the Trump investigation with a requisite degree of skepticism or, at the very least, extreme caution.”

"Mueller tried to set him up, entrap him with drug charges." . . .

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