Trump Big Winner Over Three Opponents (Updates)

We are assembling more articles on the debate, but this one on Trump and the media should suffice for the moment. As always, cartoons added. TD

Update: Media Bias is Real: Docs Reveal Relationships Between Team Hillary and “Journalists” "In an exclusive report, The Intercept
 has published a series of documents that show how Hillary and her team worked closely with the media in order to coordinate messaging and showing Hillary in a positive light." . . .

"Hillary’s “reliable surrogates” in the media and in the Obama administration.  The Intercept reveals a list of those in the media and other “good progressive helpers”:  The list is here.

"Glitzy messaging parties for “friendly journalists” and “good progressive helpers' ”  "The Clinton campaign likes to use glitzy, intimate, completely off-the-recordparties between top campaign aides and leading media personalities. One of the most elaborately planned get-togethers was described in an April, 2015, memo — produced, according to the document metadata, by deputy press secretary Jesse Ferguson — to take place shortly before Clinton’s official announcement of her candidacy. The event was an April 10 cocktail party for leading news figures and top-level Clinton staff at the Upper East Side home of Clinton strategist Joel Benenson, a fully-off-the-record gathering designed to impart the campaign’s messaging:" . . .

Martha Raddatz called "worst moderator ever" by social media
"Martha Raddatz, who attended Obama’s wedding was a blatant pro-Hillary plant who made a complete fool of herself with her blatant bias and taking the place of Hillary on occasion and debating Trump herself."

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American Thinker  "Trump was smart to trust his instinct to fight and not follow the advice of all the pundits who said he had to grovel and not bring up the Bubba card. Trump brought four of Bill’s victims who were attacked and smeared by Hillary as part of the cover-up of “bimbo eruptions”. Trump also brought the woman who was the 12-year-old rape victim of a 41-year-old man represented by Hillary, who laughed about how she got the rape charge reduced.

"The presence of the women victims forced Hillary’s cheerleaders, the MSM, to acknowledge that these were victims of rape and sexual harassment, not “infidelities”, and that these were real people, not abstractions.

"It also forced Hillary to hesitate and act defensively. Bill did not look too well. The MSM wanted to talk about the Billy Bush (cousin of Jeb and GWB) tape but Trump took control by bringing Clinton’s victims to the debate, and by going on the attack about Hillary’s record. It was clear that Hillary is not used to being challenged vigorously.

"Trump apologized, but then went on the attack about Bill abusing women and Hillary abusing the women victims. This shook Hillary. She turned defensive and repeated her canned lines. Trump got to her when he said he would appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate her emails scandal, and that she would be in jail if he was in charge.

"Finally, we saw a Republican nominee who fights to win, and trusted his instincts instead of the advice of those who were never in the ring. We had Romney, who refused to challenge Candy Crowley when she stepped in to help Obama on Benghazi. We had McCain, who refused to use the Reverend Wright issue and even attacked his own supporters for using the name Barack Hussein Obama.

"The moderators were the usual MSM types that interrupted and argued with Trump. Trump did not back off, challenging both Raddatz and Cooper about why they interrupted him but not Hillary, and asking them why they did not ask Hillary about the emails.

"The bottom line is that Trump took control by bringing Clinton’s victims to the debate so that everyone could see that there are actual victims of Bill and Hillary.

"Trump apologized for his crude language, but did not grovel.  He set the tone and tempo, and clearly won against his three opponents."

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Gang member suspected of killing two Palm Springs police officers - including a new mom and father-of-eight veteran just two months from retirement

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. . . "Sadly, these are the same people that wish to praise terrorist groups like the BLM while they crap on police and create chaos, but not everyone agrees with their message. “Today Palm Springs lost two brave officers,” Reyes said. “They go out every day and put their boots on the ground for everybody in this community. They gave it all for you.” This is why we respect our police officers. This is why they deserve our attention."

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John Felix: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

UK Daily Mail

". . . John Felix, 26, a known gang member, was taken into custody at around 12:50 a.m. Sunday morning after a 12-hour standoff with police." . . .

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Joe Newby: CNN: Fix is in — First question to Hillary will be about Trump tape . . . "On Sunday, CNN let the cat out of the bag, announcing that the very first question in Sunday’s debate will be about the tape of lewd comments made by GOP nominee Donald Trump 11 years ago — and the question will go to Democrat Hillary Clinton."
. . . "Will anyone ask Hillary anything about her decades-long career of lying and scheming her way to the top or her many lies?  I doubt it."

"Note: If you are offended by vulgar language, do not read this."
If you think Donald Trump’s comments are vulgar, check out Hillary’s potty mouth  From Truthfeed via American Thinker

Michael Barone: Will Trump Make a Race of It in the Debates?  . . . "Trump has boasted that he doesn’t bother with debate prep, but surely someone who has his attention has pointed out that it’s not to his advantage to respond to Clinton’s goads like an out-of-control bull. He might have taken the same lesson from watching Mike Pence deflecting Tim Kaine’s jabs or from reviewing the first 20 minutes of his own performance September 26."

If this is peace, why fear war?

Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

. . . "Mr. Obama has still not learned the lesson taught by the poet Bobby Burns, to see himself as others see him, a president engaged in more wars big and small than his predecessor. He should apologize to George W. He has pulled more than 100,000 soldiers out of Iraq, enabling the success of ISIS in taking vast territory for its so-called Islamic State, and now he has to begin the painful and embarrassing task of sending some of them back. He abhors conventional war, but dispatches drones to kill the guilty and innocent alike.

"He assisted in the invention of a crisis over “climate change,” as if the climate hasn’t been changing since the first thunderstorm ruined Eve’s garden party in Eden. He rewarded Fidel Castro and the old men of the Cuban revolution, eager for the comforts of capitalism as they lie dying, but he is unable to do anything but draw imaginary red lines in the sand, like a child with his coloring book, to prevent the destruction of the Syrians.

"But the president’s peacemaking legacy will be the sweetheart deal he made with the mullahs in Iran, preserving their dream of an Islamic bomb, which the mullahs promise to use to make a second Holocaust of Israel. Mr. Obama said in 2012 that he would give the mullahs an opportunity to “take the diplomatic route and end their nuclear program” or face an American president with lots of options. The world learned that the options were a stream of concessions to keep the Iranian nuclear-weapons program alive and on the way to the bomb." . . .

The Republican White Togas at Work for the Queen of Sleaze

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Clarice Feldman  "Years ago I wrote of my contempt for the white togaed squishes of the right who flee the grounds of the forum when jackals attack their allies in order to keep their garb free of stain. This week in the lead up to the second presidential debate tonight, they’re at it again.
"Just as evidence of the Clinton corruption is once again made manifest in the release of more of her emails and a closer look at the late revised Clinton foundation filings, they flee Trump because of a suspiciously timed tape of an eleven-year-old conversation with GHW Bush’s nephew, Billy Bush. If, like a toddler, you are easily distracted by shining objects. you’ll fall for it. If you’re a grownup who realizes the fate of the world and this country depend on your vote you won’t." . . .

Here is the overview of Ms. Feldman's column warning us of the price we would pay in rejecting the Republican ticket.

1. How Hillary Broke the Law and Destabilized North Africa, creating a Refugee Crisis and a catastrophe in Libya and Syria

Ignoring the advice of the secretary of defense and lawyers in her own department, Secretary Clinton allowed 18 shipments of arms from Qatar to Libyan jihadis who were on the State Department’s own list of foreign terrorists, . . .

 2. Hillary’s speeches to Big Donors Reveal clearly her Deceptive nature and her view of Trump and Sanders supporters

Hacked audio of a conversation between Hillary Clinton and donors during a February fundraising event shows the Democrat nominee describing Bernie Sanders supporters as "children of the Great Recession" who are "living in their parents’ basement."

The article strangely omits item #3 

4. Mud Slung and Squishes Run

In any event, GW Bush admitted he and his dad used the same sort of talk in private, and Vernon Jordan said when they were golfing he and Bill Clinton did, too.

5. Meantime, following Obama’s disengagement of America in the world and his destruction of U.S. military power, the world is getting more and more dangerous

Obama purges the officer corps, cuts our nuclear arsenal, and directs the military to focus on diversity appointments and transgender training. He strips veterans benefits and overlooks the shockingly bad care provided in VA hospitals while providing funds for transgender surgery for the troops, and generous benefits to illegal aliens and unvetted Syrian immigrants. In the meantime, Russia flexes its muscles in Syria, the Far East and Eastern Europe.

. . .  "I doubt that Americans are so addlepated as to pick an incompetent, thoroughly corrupt globalist over an often-vulgar man who loves his country and has accomplished a great deal. I think this leak came so early in the month because Clinton and her allies fear this is true."

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Bookworm Room: Donald Trump, vulgarian, versus Hillary Clinton, corrupt incompetent

. . . "If anybody needs to be reminded what I’m talking about, here’s a little rundown of things Hillary has said and done:

"While in Little Rock, allegedly turned $1,000 into $100,000 trading in cattle futures . . . in just ten months, having never traded before.

"While in Little Rock, was a lawyer for and investor in the corrupt Whitewater real estate dealings — and then destroyed and/or hid legal records to hide that work.

"While in the White House, in an effort to pass taxpayer money to friends, fired the entire non-partisan White House travel office, accused them of financial misdealings, and effectively destroyed the life of the head of the travel office.

"When leaving the White House, attempted to steal White House property, which she was then forced to return to the American people."

BROADDRICK: Hillary’s actions speak louder than Trump’s words (Video)

The American Mirror  "Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick is weighing in on Donald Trump’s controversial comments from 2005 that are mysteriously resurfacing just hours before the second debate and weeks before the general election.

“ 'How many times must it be said,” she tweeted Saturday morning.

“ 'Actions speak louder than words. (Donald Trump) said bad things! (Hillary Clinton) threatened me after (Bill Clinton) raped me.”

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How many times must it be said? Actions speak louder than words. DT said bad things!HRC threatened me after BC raped me.

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"Broaddrick’s dose of perspective comes as the mainstream media has been silent and uninterested in the ongoing accusations against Bill Clinton and Hillary’s attempts to silence his accusers.

"But in the last 24 hours, they’ve reported ad nauseam about Trump’s 2005 locker room talk caught on a hot mic." . . .

Hillary and the Marines

How ironic if Hillary had become a Marine and had to hold an umbrella over President Obama during one of his Rose Garden addresses. Or bussed tables for a White House dinner. 

Maureen Dowd,1994: Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine  . . . "She told the group gathered for lunch in the Dirksen Office Building, according to The Associated Press, that she became interested in the military in 1975, the year she married Bill Clinton and the year she was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school in Fayetteville.

"She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. 'Not Very Encouraging'

" 'You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman," Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. "Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying.

" 'It was not a very encouraging conversation," she said. "I decided maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country.' " . . .

Phony news? Goldman Sachs Transcripts: Hillary Calls Left “Bucket of Losers”

That “Bucket Of Losers” Clinton Speech Transcript Is Totally Fake
(This site brands it a fake and the source one of satire.)

"Hillary Clinton did not say that in a speech at Goldman Sachs. It’s from a fake news website."

"A fake transcript that purports to be from a paid speech Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs is circulating on Twitter and has been picked up by at least one conservative website.

"More than 2,000 emails belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podestawere released by WikiLeaks on Friday. In that cache of documents were details of paid speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs and other financial firms. But they were not full transcripts.

"Within hours of those documents going online, though, a fake transcript began making the rounds. It includes a section where Clinton supposedly refers to “a collection of generally under-represented, low social capital individuals” as a “bucket of losers.' ”

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Ben & Jerry’s Faces Boycott After Endorsing Black Lives Matter

Breitbart Hollywood

"Socially conscious ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s faces calls for a boycott after the company announced its support for the Black Lives Matter protest movement this week.

“ 'Systemic and institutionalized racism are the defining civil rights and social justice issues of our time,” the Vermont-based company said in a statement posted on benjerry.com. “We’ve come to understand that to be silent about the violence and threats to the lives and well-being of black people is to be complicit in that violence and those threats.”

"Sending a pointed message to its detractors, Ben and Jerry’s said: “All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until black lives matter.”

"The company posted its support for Black Lives Matter on Facebook and Twitter." . . .

KELLYANNE CONWAY’S POLITICAL MACHINATIONS: Can the first woman to run a Republican Presidential campaign reform Donald Trump?

The New Yorker  . . . "When Conway took over, the campaign was foundering, owing to Trump’s repeated insults to the parents of Humayun Khan, a soldier killed in action in Iraq. Polls showed that Trump was losing to Hillary Clinton by up to ten points. By the time of the Chester speech, four days before the candidates’first debate, Conway and her
team had brought the race to a near-tie.Trump, reading from a teleprompter, sounded almost like a conventional politician as he spoke about “breaking up the special-interest monopoly”  brought the race to a near-tie.Trump, reading from a teleprompter, sounded almost like a conventional politician as he spoke about “breaking up the special-interest monopoly” and described America as “a nation of strivers, dreamers, and believers.” Conway was being lauded as the “Trump whisperer”—the only person who could persuade him to prepare for his crucial showdown with Clinton.

"For the first twenty minutes of the debate, held at Hofstra University, on Long Island, on September 26th, Conway seemed to have succeeded." . . .

Trump vs. Clinton: you knew these were coming, didn't you?

Pretty much of a "lesser of two evils" compilation.

"Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump over what she called his past disrespectful treatment of women. She’s one to talk. If Hillary wins, America will be in safe hands if she commits to going after the nation’s enemies with the same ferocity she displayed going after the women Bill slept with." Comedian Argus Hamilton

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I’m Shocked, Shocked at Trump’s naughty words"  . . . "Big Dog Clinton actually groped, actually touched, actually had affairs and molestation buffets with women mostly unwilling and subsequently punished by Ms. Hillary Rodham for the effrontery of having been chosen for handwork not including embroidery, cigar-jobbing and dress malingering on a variety of handy damsels in his purview, the most unfortunate of whom were profusely worked over  by the missus. Tires slashed. Pets killed. Fired from jobs. Mocked in public and maligned as “trailer trash” and similar assorted negatives.  All carried out by the “bimbo eruption” teams set upon these hapless victims of WJC’s lustful heart." . . .Marion DS Dreyfus

Trump’s Dirty Talk versus Hillary’s Corruption  . . . "I have heard the CBS radio news a few times since the tape came out and they mention the tape prominently. Somehow, they have not mentioned the Wikileaks documents that came out within a few hours of the Trump Tape. It must be as accidental as all the selective editing that is done by the supposed fact tellers in the media. In the leaked documents Hillary essentially kisses up to Investment Bankers and others who are paying her $250,000 per speech. She also says absolutely that she is for open borders and open global trade. Hillary and Kaine are campaigning on the lie that she is for more secure borders and very strict trade agreements." . . .Jack Hellner

A Tale of Two Campaigns  . . . "Two different campaigns are rushing to the gutter. Will either decide that it is time to pick up the discussion and decorum? Whichever side decides to do this will win the election. With 30 days remaining time is running out. Maybe another Friday dump of material will decide the winner, but the stench of the gutter is proving to be more unbearable than the populace can take." Howard J. Warner

Media FREAKS Over Trump Sex Tape But Not Bill’s RAPES & Mrs. Bill’s Destruction Of Rape Victims  . . . "So we know Hillary has a ridiculous double standard. Transcripts say her husband owes favors to a billionaire pedophile (convicted). Where does that fit on your moral hierarchy?"

Liberal Vox: A Donald Trump presidency would bring shame on this country. And Hillary would bring us respect?

Donald Trump, Then and Now  “ 'I consider myself too perfect and have no faults.”  — Donald Trump, on Twitter in 2014. 

“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not.” — Trump, . . . in his video apology.

Donald Trump Apologizes. . . . In the message, he deeply apologizes for his comments before lashing out at Bill Clinton’s sexual abuse of women and Hillary’s bullying of the victims.

“ 'There’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women.”  

"In the first Presidential debate, Trump demurred from dragging Hillary’s husband into the discussion because his daughter was in the audience. If this video is any indication, the gloves are off." . . .The transcript of The Apology

Is Trump’s Campaign Over?  "Politico: “It’s fitting that the election of Hillary Clinton as the first female president might have been sealed by Donald Trump’s treatment of women as subordinate, interchangeable, pliable playthings.”

“Trump — a compulsively public politician who has mouthed some of the most hilarious (intentionally or otherwise), offensive, fact-allergic and misogynistic statements by anyone competing in the public arena — might be ultimately undone by a private admission about a woman he wanted to have sex with.”

"However, a Politico poll of GOP insiders finds that 54% think Trump can overcome these comments while 46% say his chances are doomed."

Sen. Mike Lee wants Trump to quit “ 'one of very few Republican senators who never endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, called tonight for the nominee to ‘step aside’ and asked conservatives to find a new candidate,” the Washington Post reports."

The Coming Trump vs. Clinton Sex Scandal Showdown  "The odds that Donald Trump will bring up Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes in Sunday night's presidential debate just increased." . . .