Claim: Obama Scared to go all in on Ocasio-Cortez

The Federalist Papers

"Former President Barack Obama snubbed Democratic-Socialist Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last week, by leaving her off of his endorsement list for the 2018 midterms.

“ 'Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been jilted by President Obama,” Liz Peek wrote in a Fox News Op-ed. “The former president recently announced 81 endorsements of candidates running in the midterm elections. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, toast of the progressive movement, did not make the cut.” . . . 

"Obama tweeted out a list of candidates he was backing this November and Ocasio-Cortez’s name was visibly absent."

Trumping the press

Rich Terrell

The First Fake Media-Induced Mental Illness  . . . Turning the Clock Back on Women's Rights "The hysterical caterwauling over President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court is only going to get shriller the closer we come to his confirmation hearings.  Sadly for everyone suffering from Fake Media Derangement Syndrome, the media are getting a loathsome assist from their Democratic political allies, who are helping to bring the pain to those they purport to care for.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement, "The President's selection is a clear and disrespectful assault on the fundamental rights of women and on the quality, affordable health care of the American people[.]"

"Failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Rodham Clinton said while speaking to the American Federation of Teachers, "You know, I used to worry that they wanted to turn the clock back to the 1950s, now I worry they want to turn it back to the 1850s" – implying that Trump's nominee would take us all the way back to not just back-alley abortions, but the days of slavery.

Both the Democrats and the fake media are doing everything they possibly can do to manufacture unfathomable anxiety in their voting base to get them out to the polls for the November midterms. " . . .

"Trump ducks the media after assault on 'dangerous & sick' journalists and claims about California's wildfires and Democratic collusion with Russians"  

"A Democrat is within striking distance of winning a congressional race in Ohio on Tuesday for an open seat that has been reliably Republican for more than three decades. Both national parties are focusing on the contest for clues to whether Democrats will retake the U.S. House in November.Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have campaigned in support of the GOP candidate over the past week. Polls taken by Emerson College and Monmouth University before Saturday’s Trump event in suburban Columbus showed the race neck-and-neck." . . 

The soft bigotry of the New York Times

Washington Examiner  (Language)

"If l’affaire Jeong has taught us one thing, it’s that the people who claim most vociferously to be anti-racist are nothing of the sort. On the contrary, they’re obsessed with race, seeing almost everything through the prism of ethnicity. They’re in favor of categorizing people according to racial criteria. What they object to is not racial discrimination, but racial discrimination against the wrong groups.

"Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was hired by the New York Times last week as an editorial writer. As has now become traditional, her social media history was pored over (or, as Donald Trump might put it, “poured over”). Some pungent Tweets showed up. Those that have attracted the most attention are the straightforwardly racist ones — “white people are bullshit,” “#CancelWhitePeople,” and so on — though, to my mind, her assertion that free speech is a conservative dog whistle is far more alarming in a journalist than any of these. " . . .

Here comes the Hitler card again

When socialists let us know what they really believe

Rick Moran  "Santa Barbara's city government recently criminalized the use of plastic straws.  This is a minor annoyance, something we're all used to from nanny-state politicians.

"But one city councilman, Jesse Dominguez, had a totally honest explanation for why the council thought it necessary to micro-manage our lives: "Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people's lives."

"As Steven [Hayward] points out at Powerline, the statement "expresses the core impulse of liberalism today."

Dominguez, perhaps realizing he had said too much, tried to walk back the statement" " . . .