Thoughts on tonight's debate

Tony Branco

Byron York: Before debate, Clinton works refs, asks for special treatment   . . . "Well, I think Donald Trump's special," Mook said. "We haven't seen anything like this…So we're saying this is a special circumstance, a special debate, and Hillary should be given some time to actually talk about what she wants to do to make a difference in people's lives. She shouldn't have to spend the whole debate correcting the record."

"Other Clinton officials made a similar case in the days leading up to the debate. On Friday, Team Clinton held a conference call for reporters, urging Holt to factcheck Trump on the fly. "This is the role of the moderator…to call out those lies, and do it in real time," top campaign official Jennifer Palmieri said. "To not do that is to give Donald Trump a very unfair advantage.' " . . .

Rick Moran: Clinton wants debate moderator to 'fact-check' the candidates  . . . " 'Fact-checking" is a losing issue for Clinton.  If Holt weighs in, it will only help Trump."

The Battle for the Undecided Millennial Generation Begins at Hofstra  . . . "The wild card for this debate may involve the FBI 2000-page document dump on Friday afternoon." . . .

Debate Details Revealed: Clinton Gets First Question . . . "The 90-minute debate will be broken into six, 15 minute "pods," the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Sunday." . . .


Nine things you need to know about tonight's debate  . . .  "The public decided on Hillary years ago, and while I struggle to understand her attraction, she has her ardent supporters. Divide the country in three and you have Always Hillary, Never Hillary, and those who say they wish they had someone else but will settle for her.

"That third group is Trump's to win." . . 
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Pre-Debate: Trump needs to convince people he’s not Hitler, Hillary needs to show she’s not Hillary  "If I see one more story about what Trump/Hillary needs to do tonight, I’m going to ….

"So really, what do Trump and Hillary need to do tonight?"

Exclusive: DNC Accepts Donation In Memory Of Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

"Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. They were instrumental in the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, speeding his development of Soviet nuclear weapons programs."

Weasel Zippers photo

Daily Caller  "The Democratic National Committee last week cashed a check for $28.13 made in memory of convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

"Speculation is not journalism but it’s hard to figure out which of these likely scenarios are more troubling: The DNC does not bother to do due diligence on donors. For all we know somebody from CAIR donated in honor of Bobby Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan.

"Or ISIS members could be donating so they could get invited to exclusive fundraisers. Maybe foreigners are illegally donating to gain influence with Hillary Clinton after the election since Clinton Foundation payola schemes are probably harder to pull off in light of all the negative publicity.

"The other possibility is that somebody did check and really didn’t care that the Rosenbergs were convicted of treason and executed in 1953."

"After all, Democratic Party acting chair Donna Brazile and Hillary campaign chair John Podesta have both refused to disavow the Democratic nominee’s endorsement by the Communist Party USA, which was a Soviet spy apparatus.

"Of course, if asked, Podesta, who initially purposed to not have heard of the Communist Party when asked about the endorsement, may very well feign ignorance of the Rosenbergs as well."

The racism of the anti-racists

"So unjust were those systems that a measure of over-reaction was inevitable. If a dose of political correctness is the price we pay for the end of Jim Crow and the overthrow of South Africa's race laws, I'd say it's worth paying."

Dan Hannan

"Here's a shocking story. A student, active in white racial politics, gets cross because he sees a black student filming him. He knocks the smartphone out of the black student's hand and then posts on Facebook: "I wish I'd actually not been a good law abiding citizen & whupped the black sass out of the bastard".

"The same student had earlier boasted of reducing a waitress to "black tears" after refusing to tip her. Yet, curiously, he has a following in the media and even in politics.. . . 

"Actually, I just played a little trick on you. I swapped the colors. The student in question is Ntokozo Qwabe, whom I wrote about in this column a while back as the chap who wanted to tear down a statue of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford." . . .

. . . "Oddly, the people most obsessed with making everything racial often call themselves anti-racists. This is because anti-racism has become the highest card in the leftist deck." . . .

Cascade Mall Shooter Captured – Suspect Turkish Muslim Arcan Cetin – a Hillary Supporter

Gateway Pundit
"The Cascade Mall is a gun-free zone." Meaning everywhere he went in the mall, people were unarmed.

Not Hispanic.

A black sergeant brings Obama and Black Lives Matter to justice

Sgt. Pennie and Freedom Watch have filed a federal lawsuit that names and shames the black and white backers of anti-police violence from Black Lives Matter to Barack Obama, from George Soros to Al Sharpton, from Farrakhan to Hillary Clinton. The lawsuit targets major anti-police organizations, naming Black Lives Matter and six of its leaders, including Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and DeRay McKesson, Sharpton’s National Action Network, Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party.

Frontpage

“Obama has conspired to incite violence, looting, arson, assault against law enforcement.”

" 'Obama has conspired with all Defendants and others to incite violence, looting, arson, assault against law enforcement and helpless communities with the purpose of making a new 'fundamentally transformed America' appear preferable to the crime waves and chaos they themselves are creating.”

"These words come from a shocking lawsuit filed by an African-American police sergeant.

"Obama’s war on cops has cast a fearful shadow over police forces across the country, but no single force has suffered as much as the Dallas Police Department which buried five of its own. Now a lawsuit takes on not only the racists and bigots of Black Lives Matter but their backers all the way to the top.

"On a hot night in July, five police officers were murdered at a Black Lives Matter anti-police rally." . . . 

"But the whitewashing of Black Lives Matter began before the bodies of its latest victims were even cold.

"The media fussed over the impact on the hate group and a “backlash” against the “shell-shocked Black Lives Matter community in Dallas”. It wasn’t as concerned about the “shell-shocked” Dallas police officers who were targeted for death by this racist “community” of racists and left-wing radicals.

"At the memorial, Obama spent more time praising Black Lives Matter than its victims. The bodies were buried and the racist agitators got back to their business of inciting the murder of more police officers backed by $130 million in left-wing cash from big bucks leftists like Soros and the Ford Foundation.' "

Kathleen Willey: Bill Clinton Alleged Sex Victims ‘Could Fill The Entire Audience’ At Presidential Debate

2016 : THE RACE

. . . "Stated Willey:

Most of us are well known and our stories have been repeated several times over the years, but what concerns me the most are the voices of my sisters who are still afraid to come out of the darkness. I have communicated with a number of them and they are still terrified of publicly sharing their experiences with the Clintons.

The real story here is not one of our presence in the front row at any of these debates, but the unhindered lust for power that the Clintons have displayed for decades. Hillary Clinton has lied, cheated and stolen our lives from us. People have died in her wake of deceit.

We could fill the entire audience. I would like to see the day when these women can step into the light and share their stories of brutality, terror and intimidation without the kind of fear of intimidation and recrimination that we have experienced for far too many years.

"Regarding whether she would attended the debate if asked, Willey decided, “I would refrain for now. Let her do herself in on her own.' ”

STATESMANSHIP: OBAMA VERSUS BIBI

" Bibi is a practicing realist who has succeeded where Obama failed. Bibi has a practical relationship with Putin; they work together where their interests permit and where their interests clash, Putin respects Bibi’s red lines."

Power Line   "Walter Russell Mead assesses the statesmanship of Barack Obama versus that of Benjamin Netanyahu in the American Interest post “The real Middle East.” The subhead provides this précis: “Precisely because he has a colder view of international affairs than Obama, Netanyahu’s leadership has made Israel stronger than ever.” In the heart of this post he writes:

There is perhaps only one thing harder for the American mind to process than the fact that President Obama has been a terrible foreign policy president, and that is that Bibi Netanyahu is an extraordinarily successful Israeli Prime Minister. In Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, Israel’s diplomacy is moving from strength to strength. Virtually every Arab and Middle Eastern leader thinks that Bibi is smarter and stronger than President Obama, and as American prestige across the Middle East has waned under Obama, Israel’s prestige — even among people who hate it — has grown. Bibi’s reset with

Russia, unlike Obama’s, actually worked. His pivot to Asia has been more successful than Obama’s. He has had far more success building bridges to Sunni Muslims than President Obama, and both Russia and Iran take Bibi and his red lines much more seriously than they take Obama’s expostulations and pious hopes.

Clinton supporters in the news

Rick Moran: Jesse Jackson refuses to condemn Charlotte violence

"The Rev. Jesse Jackson never met a race riot he didn't like and proved it again in an interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto.

"Jackson was asked repeatedly by Cavuto to condemn the violence in Charlotte outright and never answered. Instead, he appeared to give it his blessing by saying that "a riot is the language of the unheard."

Washington Free Beacon: . . .

Jackson's response is little different from that given by Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. There is the pious insistence that he is for "peaceful protest" while giving a wink and a nod to the violence by trying to justify it as a response to racism.

Clarice Feldman:  The Mark of Soros: Charlotte, North Carolina
. . . "Reports are in of stealing and looting on a significantly large scale, hijacking cars and trucks and terrifying their occupants, blocking streets and threatening to spread the mayhem outside the city limits. BLM would in a lawful society be subject to criminal racketeering and conspiracy charges, Instead, Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended the demonstrators as people exercising their constitutional rights to peaceful protest to create change. “We hear your voices and we feel your pain.' " . . .

The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.

Hey America! Clinton Campaign Manager Won’t Deny Hillary Supports Sanctuary Cities  . . . "Sanctuary cities were initially set up by liberal organizations and municipalities to secure future liberal voters and increase the welfare base, so anyone trying to blame the Republican legislative policies on this travesty is off the map.

"Clinton’s campaign manager Robbie Mook, who has to be one of the worst ones in my generation looked rather stupid and ridiculous with his haphazard answers and found the right thing to say instead of telling the truth."

Let’s face it, these aren’t protests, they’re animals using any excuse to run wild. Obama’s America in 2016.  To get more of this, elect Hillary

Charlie Crist says Hillary is honest. Hilarity ensues.

Hillary Clinton Would Rather Blame Free Speech than Islam for Terrorism

NRO

"The words of our politicians are not the cause of terrorism."

"It’s one thing to watch liberals euphemize “Islamic terrorism” into a vacuous, politically correct word salad. It’s quite another to hear them blame free expression for Islamists’ actions. And they do it often. When Hillary Clinton accuses Donald Trump of giving “aid and comfort” to ISIS and other extremists because of his crude rhetoric about Muslim

immigration, that’s exactly what she’s doing. And she’s not the only one. 

"For one thing, the idea that an average Muslim can be driven to purchase a pressure cooker and blow up Chelsea in Manhattan, or massacre infidel children, because a U.S. candidate says unkind things about Muslims, inadvertently concedes a terrible truth about the state of Islam today. 

"Moreover, this thinking dangerously underestimates the power of ideology and religion in the world. It’s hard to quantify the depth of self-importance it must take to believe that your patronizing words are more powerful than someone’s faith. This trivialization of the problem is reflected when the administration offers an idea as simplistic as “When it comes to ISIL, we are in a fight, a narrative fight with them, a narrative battle.' ” . . .

New rumor? Bill Clinton sexual harassment accuser Paula Jones and 'rape' victim Juanita Broaddrick want to come to presidential debate

UK Mail  "Hearing that Bill Clinton's ex-mistress Gennifer Flowers* might attend Monday night's presidential debate, Juanita Broaddrick, who has accused the ex-president of rape, and Paula Jones, who sued Clinton for sexual harassment, want to attend the confab too. 
 *Refuted: Trump won't bring us Flowers anymore

" 'Sure I would like to be at such an epic event just to look Hillary in the face,' Broaddrick said in an interview with The Daily Mirror, published Sunday, as Trump's campaign manager and running mate made clear that Flowers would not be attending Monday's event as a guest of the Trump campaign. 

"Jones, who was encouraged to go to the debate by Trump supporters on Twitter, said she wished she could say she was going, 'but I haven't been invited.' 

"She later tweeted that she thought Trump should invite the families of Benghazi victims as well." . . . 

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" 'I can't believe how easily baited the Clinton campaign was,' Conway said. 'Basically Mr. Trump was saying if Mark Cuban is going to send out these texts, "the humbling at Hofstra" or "this is his big downfall," than Mr. Trump was putting them on notice that we could certainly invite guests that may get into the head of Hillary Clinton.' "

"The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham"

Observer Politics

"From the moment the EmailGate scandal went public more than a year ago, it was obvious that the Federal Bureau of Investigation never had much enthusiasm for prosecuting Hillary Clinton or her friends. Under President Obama, the FBI grew so politicized that it became impossible for the Bureau to do its job – at least where high-ranking Democrats are concerned.

"As I observed in early July, when Director James Comey announced that the FBI would not be seeking prosecution of anyone on Team Clinton over EmailGate, the Bureau had turned its back on its own traditions of floating above partisan politics in the pursuit of justice. “Malfeasance by the FBI, its bending to political winds, is a matter that should concern all Americans, regardless of their politics,” I stated, noting that it’s never a healthy turn of events in a democracy when your secret police force gets tarnished by politics.

"Just how much Comey and his Bureau punted on EmailGate has become painfully obvious since then. Redacted FBI documents from that investigation, dumped on the Friday afternoon before the long Labor Day weekend, revealed that Hillary Clinton either willfully lied to the Bureau, repeatedly, about her email habits as secretary of state, or she is far too dumb to be our commander-in-chief." . . .

Former Clinton Mistress Gennifer Flowers Accepts . . . Wait! UPDATE: No, she won't be there!

UPDATE:  No, Gennifer Flowers Will Not Be Going To The Debate…

. . . “ 'We have not invited her formally and we don’t expect her to be there as a guest of the Trump campaign,” added Trump campaign chair Kellyanne Conway on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The Donald suggested he’d put Flowers in the front row at the Hofstra University faceoff Monday night after Hillary Clinton invited billionaire Mike Cuban, a vocal Trump critic.

“If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!” Trump tweeted Saturday.

Flowers, whom Clinton admitted an affair, publicly said she’d attend.

But on Sunday, Team Trump said she was never invited and blamed Clinton for “trying to play games with front row seats,” Pence said."

Truthfeed

"BREAKING : Former Clinton Mistress Gennifer Flowers Accepts Trump’s Invitation to sit FRONT ROW at the Debate!

"Hillary Clinton thought she was being “slick” when she gave Mark Cuban a front-row seat to Monday night’s debate.

"Cuban, being the desperate and sad “media whore” that he is, taunted Trump."

Gennifer Flowers‏

Hi Donald. You know I'm in your corner and will definitely be at the debate!...