Intelligencer Does Puff Piece Praising Dem Senators Who Made Kavanaugh ‘Hysterical’

Weasel Zippers

"Via Twitchy:

New York Magazine’s Intelligencer section is presenting a feature on women and power, focusing on the four female senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee who asked the questions that made now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh hysterical.

There’s always time for a photo shoot, isn’t there?

Dianne Feinstein … isn’t she the one who sat on Christine Blasey Ford’s letter for a month and a half before using it as a Hail Mary when it looked like Kavanaugh’s confirmation was a done deal? Let’s never let that be forgotten whenever the story of the Kavanaugh confirmation is told

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Ex-CIA officer claims he’s flooded with requests from Democrats on how to take Trump down: ‘They’re going after him with a hatchet’

Raw Story  "Appearing on CNN on Friday morning to address Donald Trump’s defense of the Saudi cover-up of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an intelligence and security analyst said Democratic House members are ready to come after the president over possible financial entanglements with the Middle Eastern nation.

"Speaking with host Jim Sciutto, former CIA case officer Robert Baer said he is already being flooded with calls from the newly empowered Democrats who will chair and hold majority positions of the House committees with the power to investigate Trump.

“ 'The Saudi foreign minister already parroted back the president’s doubts about the CIA assessment [of the murder],” Sciutto began. “We are in a different situation because you have Democrats taking over the House.”

“ 'That gives Democrats powerful chairmanships of committees, and we have Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) now who will be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee saying, among the things, that he wants the committee to investigate is whether Trump Organization has financial ties in Saudi Arabia that is influencing the president’s decision here,” the CNN host continued. “How impactful could an investigation like that be?”

“ 'Oh, Jim, it’s going to be huge,” Baer enthused. “I have already gotten e-mails this morning from Congress asking who should they put in front of committees.' ” . . .

Maybe they can investigate this Democrat. Naaaah.

The state of liberal media

Saint Michelle Cashes in, Big Time  "Michelle Obama has a new memoir out called "Becoming." Add two words: "Very Wealthy." The Obamas struck a $65 million book deal for his-and-hers memoirs, and next to it is their $50 million production deal with Netflix. They are set to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. One outlet has called them a "billion-dollar brand." None of their media sycophants find this the tiniest bit controversial. They are the royal family. They cannot possibly be compensated enough. 

"(President Trump's wealth? Wealth generated by a lifetime of work in the private sector? Unacceptable.) 

"Mrs. Obama's interviews -- entirely with women, and mostly black women -- are servile in every "objective news" venue and even worse during TV promotional pit stops. Ellen DeGeneres aired a sappy tribute video stuffed with adoration and proclaimed that Obama is "a human being that we all look up to." She said, "you inspire all of us. So, we put together a little something for you to just show you how amazing you are."

"No one asks about any Obama scandal, like the 2012 Benghazi attack. No one asks about her controversial, heavy-handed school lunch rules, which Trump thankfully threw out. And no one asks about greed. She has a 10-city stadium tour charging $300 a ticket or more for the superfans to hear her speak. Is it appropriate to cash in on her FLOTUS status this way? How much, if any, has gone to charity? These kinds of questions are unacceptable. This is Michelle Obama." . . .

6 Memorable Clashes at Presidential News Conferences

Welcome to Thanksgiving: 'The Neighborhood' Equates ‘Conservative’ with ‘Racist’

MRC  "On Monday night, The Neighborhood on CBS had a special racist Thanksgiving episode.

In the episode, titled “Welcome to Thanksgiving,” Dave Johnson (Max Greenfield) invites his next-door neighbors, the Butlers, over for Thanksgiving. Both families are excited until Dave finds out that his mother, Paula (Marilu Henner), is coming from Michigan. Upon learning the news he
decides he has to uninvite the Butlers because he's worried his mom will say something offensive or embarrassing. "Remember when she went off on that lady about how we need to 'Build the wall?'" he asks his wife.

"According to Dave, "she can be pretty conservative"… but to the Butlers, that is a synonym for racist." . . .

One Anita Hill moment was enough, voters say

Noemie Emery  "Did Dianne Feinstein lose the Senate for Democrats by trying to turn the battle of Justice Brett Kavanaugh into a second Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas fight? The answer is most likely yes.

"Sen. Feinstein, D-Calif., didn’t intend this when she made the calculated decision to create the fiasco. But decide she did. She sat for more than two months on the letter that Christine Blasey Ford sent her. She released it only when Kavanaugh’s hearings were over, so that a new, stand-alone hearing would have to take place. She refused Ford’s request that she be allowed to testify in private and in California, as was her preference, making her instead come to Washington to participate in a day-long, nationally televised he-said-she-said extravaganza.

"Was it because Feinstein wanted this to have the same look and feel as the Hill-Thomas hearing, which she saw as a win for her side and her party, and which also had made her a star?

"If the Republicans won in the sense that Justice Clarence Thomas has served and still serves on the Supreme Court, a case can be made that the Democrats won even more. Liberal rage at the outcome made 1992 the Year of the Woman; empowered former President Bill Clinton and his lovely wife, Hillary; gave a rebirth and reboot to the feminist movement; gave the Democrats an issue to run on in perpetuity (or at least until 1998 and the Monica problem); and, last but not least, brought in four new female senators, Feinstein among them. Two of them are still in the Senate today, and three of them stayed a very long time.

"No wonder Feinstein remembered the experience as something good for her party and worth reliving.

"But although the script and the players both appeared similar, the conditions around them had become very different. Feinstein thought that the court fight would swell the blue wave and make it unstoppable. In fact, it was stopped in its tracks.

"The rule in politics is to unite and excite your own party members while using wedge issues against your opponents that split their own people. But in using the courts, Feinstein had found the one issue that binds all Republicans together. Democrats were already so incensed by President Trump that they could add little more to their rage. Polls on engagement, which favored Democrats by double digits when the hearings started, had evened out by the time they closed." . . .

Left dumps Clinton for Paula Jones

Hess wrote, "Clinton’s advisers trashed her on television. Carville said this: 'If you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.' George Stephanopoulos compared Jones to Tonya Harding: just another woman seeking cash for telling a tabloid tale."

Don Surber  . . . "America's left is purging itself of the House of Clinton, and embracing Paula Jones 20 years after the fact.

"There are several reasons for the left turning its back on Bill and Hill, not the least of which is they lost which makes them losers. I would argue they were the biggest losers in presidential history given their advantages in money and media. 

"The 20th anniversary of the impeachment of him is as good an excuse as any to dump the American Ceaușescus.

"A and E have a six-part series on the scandal, which is the best we can do as David Frost, alas, is not here to give a Nixon Interview to Wee Willie Clinton.

"The series and the publicity surrounding it teach a new generation that Clinton deserved impeachment. The New York Times had Amanda Hess, a 20-something writer, review the series. Much of her review reads like the conservative version of the story (aka, the truth).

"Hess is woke.
. . . 

"'Much of the buzz around the A and E series has focused on the participation of Monica Lewinsky. Though the filmmakers — the director Blair Foster and the producer Alex Gibney — interviewed more than 50 subjects, including James Carville and David Brock, the one boldfaced name in the network’s news release is hers. This prime-time appearance caps her comeback. After spending a decade and a half out of the public eye, she has returned with a perch at Vanity Fair, a TED Talk and an anti-bullying cause. She has called herself  Patient Zero of online shaming. She has emerged from years of media torture as an unexpected darling of the press," Hess wrote." . . .

Frankly, the Clintons bore me. Once she lost, we all laughed, and then laughed again at the tears of the clowns who worshiped her.

Bill and Hill stayed on the stage too long. Other presidents usually serve and go home. Jimmy Carter busied himself with a worthy charity building houses for the poor.

But for 16 years, Hillary stayed on stage in DC.

The penalty for not going away is severe.

Let that be a warning to the House of Obama.

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Did Chief Justice Roberts just urinate on my leg?

Discussing the Ninth Circuit Court in California

John Dietrich  Chief Justice John Roberts recently wrote, "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."  

"The chief justice knows that this is not true, and I find it extremely insulting that he believes that I am stupid enough to believe it.  As he relieved himself on my leg, he told me it was raining.  Roberts's statement was a response to President Trump's criticism of "Obama judges" who ruled against the administration.

"The president replied, "Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have 'Obama judges,' and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an 'independent judiciary'[.]"

"Dov Fischer at the American Spectator claimed, "[I]t sounds ridiculous – even borderline delusional – to deny that today's federal judiciary is chock-full of Obama judges and Clinton judges on a mission to stop President Trump's agenda."  

"Justice Roberts is not delusional.

"Justices do not have the name of the president who nominated them in their titles.  In this respect only, Justice Roberts is correct.  However, they generally reflect the philosophy of the president who nominated them.  Robert Barnes of the Washington Post remarked, "[S]tudies show there are clear ideological differences between judges nominated by presidents of different parties."  Do we actually need studies to illustrate this?  . . . 

Kellyanne Conway’s attorney husband went toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump on Thursday, this time defending the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Thomas Lifson: Chief Justice Roberts is wrong in two distinct ways in criticizing Trump

Roberts has remained silent as a series of outrageous decisions from federal district judges has substituted a single judge's decision on what the POTUS should do for the authority granted to the chief executive by the Constitution.
Another time that the chief justice remained silent happened in the 2010 State of the Union Address, when President Obama explicitly attacked the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United, and his colleague, Justice Alito, mouthed "Not true," only to be rebuked by many commentators.

Facebook Purge: Here is The List Of Pages Deleted by Facebook

WJ Media Watch  "As reported by The Western Journal, in what many are calling the “Facebook purge,” Facebook announced on Thursday that it removed over 559 political pages and 251 accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company calls “inauthentic behavior” in the lead-up to the midterm elections next month.

Facebook did not release the full list of pages impacted by this action. Upon being asked, Facebook refused to disclose the full list.

"The following is a list of 219 pages that are currently unpublished on Facebook. Some of these have been confirmed by the owners as having been unpublished by Facebook as part of Thursday’s mass purge of pages, while others are currently unconfirmed as being part of the purge. However, all of these pages were still indexed by Google on October 12, 2018, which suggests they were recently active and thus removed recently.

"This list of pages purged by Facebook contains nearly 61 million followers in total. Fan totals were recorded from the cache stored by Google.

"To create this list, The Western Journal started with pages that had been confirmed as unpublished by Facebook, took the domains most often shared by those pages, and used Google search to find additional Facebook pages sharing those same domains. When new unpublished pages were found, the process was repeated until this list was generated." . . .
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