And The Moderators For The 2016 Presidential Debates Are…

Joe Cunningham   . . . "Yesterday, it was announced that Matt Lauer would moderate a joint candidate forum next week, setting off criticisms that there is virtually no way any Republican (much less Trump) could get a fair deal out of the debates. Today, we've learned the names of the moderators of the debates themselves.

This year's three presidential debates will be moderated by NBC's Lester Holt, CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Martha Raddatz, and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.

The vice presidential debate moderator is Elaine Quijana of CBS News.

Holt, the anchor of the NBC Nightly News, will lead the first debate, which is set to take place at Hofstra University on September 26.

Cooper and Raddatz will co-moderate the second debate, which will be a town-hall style event in St. Louis, Missouri.

. . . "Hillary will undoubtedly be in friendly territory for the first two debates, however, not as friendly as it once was. The media is also upset with her for refusing to give them access to her campaign." . . .

In the 2012 debate, Martha Raddatz Was Horrible.

Remember Biden's repulsive, demeaning manner toward Paul Ryan?

While her friends and colleagues in the media rally around her, let the record state she was, in reality, atrocious. But she had to feel right at home in the war zone that was Joe Biden's flashing teeth.

 

". . .she spent the rest of the debate pressing Ryan on point after point without demanding the same specificity of Biden. She would let Biden run, allowing him to interrupt at whim, while interrupting Ryan to shift topics even within subject areas. "

What Women Voters Need to Know About Hillary and Huma Abedin

President Obama has already taken the unique and bizarre viewpoint that schools should allow boys and girls to decide what gender they are, and that boys and men should be allowed to use women’s’ bathrooms.  Obama is catering to a tiny group of people and politicizes the idea that their sexual preferences are more important than the concerns of mothers for the safety of their sons and daughters.

Michael Bargo, Jr.  "A few days ago it was revealed that Anthony D. Weiner of New York was sexting a woman on Twitter.  In 2011 he had to resign from Congress after it was proven that he was sending lewd photos of himself to women on the internet.  This creepy behavior has another, deeper, more disturbing layer:  Weiner is married to Huma Abedin who is Hillary Clinton’s closest aide.

"Women voters need to think about this; that both Hillary and Huma Abedin are married to men who aggressively seek out anonymous women.   Both of their husbands are sexual predators; and what is more disturbing is that both of these women know their husbands are sexual predators and did not divorce them, did not distance themselves from them, did not aggressively condemn their behavior."

. . . 

No one expected Obama to make the announcement that gender identity is a matter of personal choice and that public schools will be forced to make bathroom changes.  Young boys and girls spend their entire day in public schools.  Women voters, knowing that Hillary doesn’t care about sexual predation and workplace sexual harassment, should stop and realize what values Hillary will bring to the public school system, and if they want their daughters and sons to hear them.  Once Hillary issues an edict her message, like Obama’s, will be forced upon students in every public school in the nation.  By then, parents will have no choice.  Their only opportunity to make a choice is in November.  They know what Hillary’s marriage values are, and what changes Obama has forced on schools.  And as Obama’s trend has shown, things will only get worse. 

This is not my father's Democrat Party. 

American Silliness: gender insanity rules as colleges begin a new academic year

"Gender fluidity"?  We're doomed.

Photo from Breitbart

Carol Brown  "Universities across America fall off the cliff into an abyss of insanity on a daily basis. Unfortunately, it’s not just school administrators who do so. Our educational institutions take our young people over the cliff with them.

"One among countless issues these institutions of (cough) higher education obsess about is gender. Or lack thereof. Or change thereof. Or renaming thereof. Or fluidity thereof. As Breitbart reports:

"In an effort to increase campus inclusivity, administrators at Champlain College in Vermont distributed gender pronoun pins to incoming freshman to establish the wearer’s preferred gender pronouns.

Zazzle

Danielle Berube, Champlain’s Director of Residential Life, claimed that the college has a portion of students whose genders don’t adhere to the traditional male-female gender binary. “We have a number of students who identify as transgender or on the non-binary spectrum, and about a week before orientation while we were pulling together materials, the idea just kind of came out of the air,” Berube said. “It just seemed like a no-brainer — a very easy way to make the first day of college for a number of our students maybe a little bit easier.”

Champlain students were also given the option of claiming that their gender is fluid, which denotes that an individual’s gender is malleable and changing. Although there is little science on this topic, some trans-advocates argue that genderfluidity is a form of gender expression rather than a static gender identity.

"Theater of the absurd.

"My name is Carol, and my pronoun is “your highness.”

"(And as a side note, it’s not just colleges and universities where this is happening. It’s in our public schools and has become pervasive throughout our society. See here, here, here, and here.)"

NFL Allows Anti-Cop Socks, but Outlaws Pro-Cop Decals; Todd Starnes posts

Todd Starnes  "Last month San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick showed up at a pre-season camp wearing socks that featured cartoon pigs wearing police hats, USA Today reports.

"The embattled second-rate quarterback defended his anti-police apparel on Instagram. 

" 'I wore those socks, in the past, because the rogue cops that are allowed to hold positions in police departments, not only put the community in danger, but also put the cops that have the right intentions in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust," he wrote.

" 'Kaepernick apparently despises the police more than he despises the national anthem. 

"The latest twist in the anti-American Kaepernick saga reveals an ugly double standard in the National Football League.

"Last month, the NFL rejected a request from the Dallas Cowboys to wear decals honoring the memory of five assassinated police officers.

"So why is it okay for players to wear anti-cop socks, but not

pro-cop decals?

“ 'It’s just ridiculous that the same league that prohibits the Dallas (Cowboys) football club from honoring the slain officers in their community with their uniforms stands silent when Kaepernick is dishonoring police officers with what he’s wearing on the field," Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, told USA Today."

Hey NFL - Meet a Public School that Loves America


Homeowner told to remove "noxious & offensive" pro-police flag . . . "It turns out that someone had complained about the pro-police flag and it had to come down. They accused him of violating a covenant.

“ 'No noxious or offensive activity shall be undertaken on the property, and nothing shall be done which is or may become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood,” they wrote in bold letters.

He was given explicit instructions: “Please remove the altered American flag from your property and store out of public view.' ”  Not California: Corinth, Texas!

On the Trump immigration speech and policy

Highlights Of Trump Immigration Speech: Our Greatest Compassion Has To Be For American Citizens

Trump Returns to 'Law and Order' Script on Immigration  . . . "Immigration is often discussed in Washington in an economic context—in terms of guest-worker programs, importing lucrative brainpower, and the cost and flow of labor, for example."

"Trump made only brief references to such issues Wednesday. The first eight points of his ten-point immigration proposal were firmly about security, whether the focus was the southern border with Mexico or denying visas to individuals from "any place where screening cannot occur". His stances have been described as hardline and his tone harsh. But all aspects of his presentation were familiar, including the substance and stated intentions he has had for the country for months. And the anticipated softening of his proposal wasn't there." . . .

NY Times on Trump's immigration plan

Another member of Trump’s Hispanic advisory council withdraws his support over last night’s immigration speech  . . . "But as for courting Latinos, [Ari] Fleischer said, “I’m afraid it’s too late. He likely has already made too many Hispanics think he doesn’t want them in the country. They’re not listening to his next sentence. He’s already lost too much support that his words now won’t make any meaningful difference.”

Trump says final deportation decisions come at a 'later date' and promises 'quite a bit of softening' hours after tough-talk immigration speech   "A day after he gave a tough speech on immigration in Phoenix where he vowed to kick out 'the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens,' Republican Donald Trump told a conservative radio host there was indeed a 'softening' in his position.

" 'Oh, there's softening,' Trump told radio host Laura Ingraham Thursday.

'Look, we do it in a very humane way, and we're going to see with the people that are in the country,' he said, referencing deportations of undocumented immigrants. 

"'Obviously I want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, I want to get the drug dealers out. We've got a lot of people in this country that you can't have, and those people we'll get out,' he said, in comments reported by Politico." . . .

Not unrelated posts: 
The Terrorist Threat from the Southern ‘Border’   "Donald J. Trump met today with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and later flies to Arizona for a much- anticipated speech on immigration. On these and similar occasions, it would behoove the Republican presidential nominee to go beyond the usual concerns about Mexican and Central American migrants crossing America’s southern “border.” Trump should focus, privately and publicly, on what U.S. officials call “Other Than Mexicans.”

Illegal Alien Driver Crashes Bus In Louisiana "Even using the sanitized term “undocumented worker” can’t paper over the serious nature of what happened.
. . . "A New York Daily News headline glossed over all of this saying, “Bus full of Louisiana flood workers crashes, killing 2, including fire chief, over 30 injured.” The number of injuries has since risen to 41.

"The bus was full of flood workers, many of them also illegal aliens.

A Gem in Chicago

Thomas Sowell  . .  . "By contrast with many other colleges and universities where speech codes restrict what students can and cannot say, freshmen students entering the University of Chicago have been informed by a letter from the Dean of Students that "freedom of expression" is one of that institution's "defining characteristics." 

"The Dean of Students spelled it out: "Members of our community are encouraged to speak, write, listen, challenge and learn, without fear of censorship. Civility and mutual respect are vital to all of us, and freedom of expression does not mean the freedom to harass or threaten others." 

"That such things need to be said is a painful commentary on the academic world in general. It is doubtful if any such declaration or policy could be made at any of the Ivy League universities, which are bastions of political correctness. 

"At Harvard, not only have invited speakers been shouted down and sometimes assaulted, even a Harvard professor's classroom was invaded by disruptive students who didn't like what he was teaching. Such things have also happened at Berkeley and other elite institutions across the country, as well as at less renowned institutions. " . . .

Trump's gamble in Mexico

Love or loathe it, Donald Trump is setting the agenda again
When a news story begins with the words "love it or hate it", it has always meant they hate it. Or him.
"Wednesday was a good day for Donald Trump, a reminder of why we shouldn’t underestimate him. It’s not that he did or said anything particularly different – he just did his old thing in a more effective way." . . .
Trump's Mexico trip: ‘Hasty’ or ‘nimble’?  . . . "If Trump can win that war against the elites of both parties and their media abettors, he will have proven himself to be more than nimble.  He will have prove himself a leader whom all who want to hold back America's return to greatness will have to reckon with."

Krauthammer: After Trump’s Mexico Visit, It’s Not ‘Hard To Imagine Him As President’

MSNBC's Morning Joe Rips Trump Mex Trip: ‘Flip-Flop, Nonsensical, Sociopath’

Roger L. Simon at PJ Media opines: Trump Does Brilliantly in Mexico

"Ever since Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon have joined the campaign, Trump has performed nearly flawlessly. This can't be entirely accidental.

"The next step will his immigration speech tonight.  We'll be listening."

A Great Day for Trump   "If history still matters, August 31, 2016 will mark the turning point in Donald Trump’s march to the White House. Hugh Hewitt, as objective a Trump observer as the right has to offer, spoke with real authority to a stunned MSNBC audience. Thanks, by the way, to Media Matters for transcribing the quote below from last night:" . . .

Ambassador John Bolton thought Trump was a gamble that paid off:

"There were certainly upsides to its potential, but there were risks, as well, and that it was something daring and dramatic, which you will never see from Hillary Clinton.”  "He noted Trump took this gamble “at a time when his campaign was behind Clinton, in polls all across the country and in battleground states.' ”

New depth plumbed in how far the media go to stop Trump

Thomas Lifson   "Headline News, the sister network of CNN, is willing to make itself look ridiculous in order to avoid broadcasting anything that reflects well on Donald Trump.  We have seen sophisticates like Jim Rutenberg of the New York Timesrationalize anti-Trump bias and make himself look ridiculous, too, but in order to appreciate the humor, one has to actually read and comprehend an article that has numbers of multi-syllabic words.

"But thanks to HLN, we have a dramatic graphic representation of extreme media bias, and as a bonus, it is laugh-out-loud funny.  Big Fur Hat of iOTWReport spotted the obsessive lengths to which HLN will go:

Clinton Network News affiliate HLN interviewed a man who saved a baby from a hot car.

HLN wouldn’t allow the man’s Trump shirt to get on the air.

 
"Donald Trump has a huge opportunity to make the media’s bias against him an asset.  He should have a blowup of the screen grab made and have someone bring it out and ridicule the blurring of his name.  Most people hate and distrust the media.  The criticism of him can be turned back against the critics, who continually makes asses of themselves over Trump."

Clinton News Network From 2006, even!
"The candidates answered the questions far more directly than Democrats ever have in their debates, but, overall, we witnessed a barely disguised CNN propaganda spectacle."

Hillary: her health as well as her competence in question

Hillary at Bay  "The sicker Hillary Clinton looks on the campaign trail, the more the Media Left tells us to deny the evidence of our eyes.  Mrs. Clinton has suffered two strokes near, if not inside, her brain; but strokes are seldom localized affairs, and behind the scenes her doctors must be telling her to stop any physically demanding campaign activities.

"Hillary is in effect suspending her active campaigning to do almost exclusively fundraisers."

. . .

"We are seeing a woman who should be checking into Walter Reed Hospital to take full-time rest and recovery under intensive medical care, but who has to be physically propped up at some public appearances. "

"Her email setup was an open invitation to major hacks, which have now done immense damage to the Government, the DNC, and even to Gyorgyi Soros, the Hungarian Machiavellian personality who controls much of the core Democratic Party. Wikileaks is brimming over with leaks, but it isn't funny: The chickens have indeed come back to roost, but they are now a clear and present danger to national security. This is very dangerous."

. . . 

"Crucial government servants are being exposed to blackmail by foreign regimes, including Jihadists, the Chinese, and various tinpot dictators who can buy into what must be a flourishing black market in American national security secrets. The Ship of State is badly holed under the water line, and Obama's team has shown absolutely no capacity to even grasp the emergency, much less to do anything about it."

Obama’s former doctor recommends neurological testing for Hillary Clinton   "During a recent interview with Erin Burnett on CNN, Obama’s former physician, David Scheiner, recommended that Hillary Clinton have a “thorough neurologic exam,” stating that the two-page doctor letter Clinton provided attesting to her good health is not sufficient"

Pelosi Hack: Memo To DCCC Staff On Black Lives Matter: Don’t Say “All Lives Matter” Or “Black-On-Black Crime”

Weasel Zippers

"Docs leaked by Guccifer 2.0 include this little nugget from the hack of Nancy Pelosi."

"Most notable is advising Democrats not to say ‘All lives matter’ or to talk about ‘black-on-black crime’ as this is the ‘worst thing’ to say to Black Lives Matter activists.

"It describes BLM as “radical”, which is pretty accurate and notes that it extends beyond questions of police brutality to “criminal justice reform”. What they leave out is they don’t want reform, they want eliminate prisons and police.

"Notice also it advises: “Don’t offer support for concrete policy positions”. In other words, listen and pretend you care, while offering nothing."

What a wonderful government we have, eh?

Obama Sabotages Obamacare

Galen Institute  "The ACA and the administration’s whack-a-mole regulations are responsible for double-digit premium increases and for the exodus of insurers from selling individual policies in the ObamaCare exchanges.

"As health insurers head for the exits, Americans who have been whipsawed by ObamaCare may get whacked again this fall:  First, they were thrown off private plans that were declared illegal, then they were forced into the ObamaCare exchanges, and now they could face the prospect of being shut out of coverage through their exchanges entirely for 2017.

"In Arizona’s Pinal County, for example, no insurers are offering coverage through the exchange. While decisions won’t be final until next month, people in other counties could face a similar fate.

"Elsewhere, millions of Americans will have a “choice” of just one carrier, especially in rural areas. It’s likely that Alabama, Alaska, and Oklahoma will have only one health insurer selling individual coverage on their exchanges next year. South Carolina and most of North Carolina could join that list as well.

"Nearly one-third of the nation’s counties are likely to have just one insurer offering health plans on the exchanges next year: Last year, 50 Texas counties had only one insurer offering individual plans, according to data from the Texas Department of Insurance. Next year, Texans in 57 counties will have only one choice.  Exchange customers in many Florida counties will be offered only the Blues plans.

"United Healthcare, Humana, and some Blues plans were the first start the exodus from the ObamaCare exchanges.  But when Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini announced in mid-August that his company will dramatically reduce its individual public exchange participation to just four states, it created an earthquake." . . .

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on free-market ideas for health reform. www.galen.org.  Read the article in Forbes

Coulter: "MEDIA INVENTED LIE ABOUT TRUMP MOCKING DISABLED REPORTER"

Ann Coulter  "Just when you think the media could not possibly become more loathsome, the Fourth Estate bullies prove you wrong again. The Washington Post's latest ugliness was to exploit the disability of a newspaper reporter in order to smear the Republican nominee for president. Then -- and this is the least surprising part of the story -- the Post lied about it. 

"Other than the subject of that paragraph -- which I slyly switched from Trump to the media -- that is an exact paraphrase of the Post's opening lines from an editorial hawking the media's most successful lie about Donald Trump: that he mocked a man for being disabled. 

"I have a chapter on that lie in my new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!, It was perfectly obvious that Trump was not mimicking any disability that Serge has, but I didn't have the smoking gun to prove that the media were lying and knew they were lying. Now we have it. 

"A group called Catholics 4 Trump has posted a video clip of another part of that same speech, in which Trump imitates a flustered general. Guess what? He does the exact same arm flailing. 

"In another speech, Trump pretended to be a timorous Ted Cruz. Again, he does the exact same arm flailing. You can see the videos here: www.catholics4trump.com/the-true-story-donald-trump-did-not-mock-a-reporters-disability 

""Neither the general nor Cruz is disabled. " . . .
. . . 
Washington Post Deletes Video Evidence Showing Trump Didn’t Mock Reporter’s Disability  

. . . "Of course, one of the actions the poll asked people to rate was “Trump’s criticism of a reporter that was seen as mocking the reporter’s physical disability.” Note “that was seen as…” Don’t you love it? Who saw it that way? People who watched the video of Trump with the media caption “Trump mocks disabled reporter” plastered on it? The media created the impression that Trump was mocking the reporter’s disability when in fact this was not the case as we have shown:" . . .