In the Final Debate, the Candidates Ought to Answer Questions about Ideas

National Review  "What if we had a meaningful and civil exchange of ideas in tonight’s debate?

"No doubt tonight’s third and final presidential debate will make for good television. But there is a marked difference between entertainment and substance. We can expect this debate to once again be dominated by talk of Trump’s (or Bill Clinton’s) treatment of women, Hillary Clinton’s (or Trump’s) duplicity, plus the usual barbs and insults. Yet, the next president will have to do more than not be his or her opponent. There are real issues out there, and it would be nice if the candidates actually mentioned them. 

"With that in mind, might I suggest a few questions that I’d like to hear answered." . . .

Enough Sideshows, Let's Have a Debate About the Presidency

"When was the last time you saw a healthy stretch of media coverage about actual issues pertaining to the presidency? When was the last week that featured detailed national conversations about the issues Donald Trump rode to the Republican nomination?

"When he became the presumptive nominee in May, I was among the voices claiming that if the election focuses on the issues, he wins. He wins on borders, wins on the Supreme Court, wins on taxes, wins on blasting through the political correctness that threatens our liberty and safety.

"That race did not happen."   Mark Davis. 

Victor Davis Hanson On The Case For Trump

National Review

. . . "Those who are soured on Trump certainly can cite lots of understandable reasons for their distaste — well beyond his sometimes grating reality-television personality. In over-dramatic fashion, some Against Trumpers invoke William F. Buckley Jr.’s ostracism of John Birchers from conservative circles as a model for dealing with perceived Trump vulgarity. . ."

"Would it have been worth it for John McCain to go after Obama’s personal mentor and pastor, the racist, anti-American, and anti-Semitic Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in 2008, to preempt an agenda that led to the passage of the Affordable Care Act? Or, in the second presidential debate of 2012, should Romney have . . . grabbed the hijacked mic back from the moderator and “fact-checker” Candy Crowley, if that dramatic act might have meant his election would have warded off the looming Iran deal? . . . 

"Questioning NATO’s pro forma way of doing business led to furor, but also to renewed promises from NATO allies to fight terror, pony up defense funds, and coordinate more effectively. Deploring unfair trade deals suddenly made Hillary Clinton renounce her prior zealous support of the “gold standard” Trans-Pacific Partnership deal." . . .

"Obama reminded us that approval from abroad is usually synonymous with thanks for weakening America and making us more like them than them us. Should we be more terrified that the socialist and largely pacifist European Union is afraid of Trump, or that it welcomes even more of Barack Obama’s type of leadership? Is not the present course of projecting weakness while insulting Vladimir Putin — the Russian reset of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — the inverse of speaking softly while carrying a big stick?"

Have you noticed what seems to be the major story today?

#Election2016 Omen? Clinton Campaign Bus Dumps Sewage on Georgia Street

Rick Moran: DNC campaign bus caught dumping human waste in storm drain

Breitbart: DNC Campaign Bus Dumps Human Waste into Georgia Street

Daily Caller    . . . "According to Robins, a hazardous materials crew responded to the location and collected the waste to keep more of it from entering the storm drain.
" 'I don't care who you are. I don't care if you're Hillary Clinton. I don't care if you're Donald Trump. I don't care who you are, you don't throw human waste down a storm drain," said Robins. "Waste water just dumping all out in the street, poured out in the storm drain, and at this time I've got my cell phone out and I'm taking pictures because I don't care who you are. That's just wrong."

Godfather/ Eagle Rising  . . . "Anyone else illegally dumping human waste in a storm drain would go to jail. My guess is that the DNC will get a pass.
"According to CBS46, “Gwinnett County’s storm water department is now involved in the investigation along with the State Environment Protection Division.' ”

PJ Media  . .  . "What kind of foul, disgusting human being did the DNC hire to drive their campaign bus? Everyone who owns an RV knows not to do something like this. There are dump stations all over the place. You can get an app for your phone that tells you where the nearest one is. The Hillary campaign is swimming in dough -- they don't even need to go out of their way to find a free dump station." . . .

Red State: Hillary’s Bus Is The Perfect Symbol For This Election
Heat Street: Clinton Campaign Bus Dumps Human Waste on Small-Town Georgia Road  . . . “ 'It says ‘Hillary and Kaine,’ has their pictures on the side. I was going to go out and take a picture when a guy got out of the bus, walked midway, pushed a lever, and right before I knew it, they were dumping all their raw sewage.' ” . . .

That should be enough for now...

Media's Trump Derangement Syndrome Incites Violence

Investors Business Daily  "The media's crusade to elect Hillary Clinton president is obvious. They deny their bias — they truly protesteth too much — but it's there and it's been confirmed by leaked emails.

"But this election year, the bias is more than favoritism for the Democratic candidate. The media are going to great lengths to instigate a public hatred toward the Republican candidate.

"Consider the remarks from Jonathan Allen of Roll Call, who called Donald Trump a "subhuman" who has a "blackened soul." It's too easy for someone on the edge to take those remarks and decide that something has to be done about such a person.

"Meanwhile, the New Republic seems to suggest that Trump firebombed his own North Carolina campaign headquarters, presumably to use it as a means to obtain power. If it were true, wouldn't that make him the new Hitler, and therefore deserving of any and all the violence visited upon him? Instapundit Glenn Reynolds told the New Republic "you went full Reichstag, man. Never go full Reichstag." But it did — all part of the effort to incite voters against Trump. And if any crazies get the wrong idea, well, that's not the media's fault." . . .

Josh Rogin: “General Cartwright is paying the price for Hillary Clinton’s sins.”

Power Line  "The FBI and the Department of Justice seem to think that they have restored some of the credibility they lost giving Hillary Clinton a pass in the Clinton email investigation. They think they have helped themselves by investigating former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman General James E. Cartwright (President Obama’s favorite general) and securing a guilty plea from him for making false statements to the FBI in a Stuxnet-related leak investigation.

On Monday the Department of Justice issued this press release. The press release includes this quote from the prosecutor:

People who gain access to classified information after promising not to disclose it must be held accountable when they willfully violate that promise,” said U.S. Attorney Rosenstein. “We conducted a thorough and independent investigation included collecting tens of thousands of documents through subpoenas, search warrants and document requests, and interviewing scores of current and former government employees. The evidence showed that General Cartwright disclosed classified information without authorization to two reporters and lied to federal investigators. As a result, he stands convicted of a federal felony offense and faces a potential prison sentence.”

. . . "Rogin quotes Cartwright’s statement taking responsibility for lying to the FBI: “My only goal in talking to the reporters was to protect American interests and lives; I love my country and continue to this day to do everything I can to defend it.” Invoking two other relevant cases for purposes of comparison, Rogin asks: “Can Clinton or Petraeus plausibly make the same claim regarding their indiscretions?' ”

FBI Agents Say Comey ‘Stood In The Way’ Of Clinton Email Investigation  . . . “ 'Comey was never an investigator or special agent. The special agents are trained investigators and they are insulted that Comey included them in ‘collective we’ statements in his testimony to imply that the SAs agreed that there was nothing there to prosecute,” the second agent said. “All the trained investigators agree that there is a lot to prosecuted but he stood in the way.' ”

The Victims Speak: This Is What Hillary Did

"Look what Wikileaks just released about Hillary Clinton's campaign trying to figure out how to control what I was saying.  She is not an advocate for all women, but is only an advocate for one woman: herself.  Even her daughter Chelsea, after the debate, called what happened 'her father's trivial sexual misdeeds.'  I feel that her saying that is an injustice to the women he committed crimes against, and she is old enough to know that.' "

Elise Cooper . . . "Why did the feminist organizations and Gloria Allred not stand beside Juanita and Kathy?  Jackson told American Thinker, "It does not matter who the victim is on the other side, because they refuse to abandon their political allies like the Clintons.  It does not matter, the trail of victims Hillary Clinton left in her wake.  They look the other way because of an obvious political agenda.  Her entire life has been a construction of picking issues she thinks will get her ahead politically instead of genuine passion for these causes."

"Now her vice presidential pick, Senator Kaine, calls her a victim.  Really?

"This is after she defamed Bill Clinton's accusers of sexual assault, laughed at getting a rapist off, and had her surrogate Gloria Steinem say the only reason female Millennials were voting for Bernie Sanders was because they needed a date.  Then Michelle Obama in an ad stated, "We cannot allow the shocking, hurtful, hateful rhetoric about women[.] … [L]et's elect Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who share our values and can be role models for our children."  No parent should ever want the Clintons to be role models." 

Robert Creamer, caught on camera talking about provoking violence at Trump events, visited the Obama White House 340 times

"There is a dark organization behind the left, and we are getting a glimpse of some of its key practitioners who have operated in the shadows too long."

Thomas Lifson  "The shocking video by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas Action has so far not been screened on the mainstream networks, but cannot be totally embargoed in the age of social media. It shows Robert [Creame] discussing provoking mayhem at Trump events. The Democrats are trying to distance themselves, with Donna Brazile, interim head of the Democratic National Committee, called Creamer a “temporary regional sub-contractor,” a term that is literally true but highly misleading.

"In fact, he is married to Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, and has a long history as a henchman for the left, going back all the way the Midwest Academy, an Alinskyite training institution on whose board he now sits. 

"Then there is the matter of his 340 visits to the Obama White House:


Zero Hedge: Why Did Vote-Rigging Robert Creamer Visit The White House Over 200 Times During The Obama Admin

. . . "But voter fraud isn't Creamer's only criminal specialty.  A quick look at Wikipedia reveals that Creamer spent 5 months in federal prison back in 2006 for a "$2.3 million bank fraud in relation to his operation of public interest groups in the 1990s."

"So, with that kind of history, you can imagine our surprise when we discovered that a Mr. Robert Creamer showed up on the White House visitor logs 340 times beginning in 2009 when Obama took office and culminating with his latest visit in June 2016.  Moreover, in 45 of those instances, Creamer was scheduled to meet with POTUS himself.  Perhaps this is just two old Chicago "community organizers" hanging out?" . . .

Emphases in the original.

Weasel Zippers corroborates the story  . . . "47 of those visits were direct visits with Obama. Several of those visits included Michelle Obama." . . .

"Just exactly what was he discussing at the White House and with Obama all those times?"

“Wherever Trump and Pence are gonna be we have events,” Creamer said.

New Bill Clinton Sexual Assault Accuser Goes Public for the First Time

Big Government

"Speaking publicly for the first time in a Breitbart News video exclusive interview, a former local television news reporter from Arkansas claims she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton on three separate occasions in 1980.

"Leslie Millwee says that on two of the alleged occasions, Clinton groped her while he rubbed himself against her and reached climax.

"After these alleged sexual assaults, Millwee claims, Clinton showed up at her apartment and knocked on her door for several minutes while trying to talk his way inside.  She says that Clinton departed after she purportedly refused to respond." . . .Video at the link.

And to think, it's the Koch brothers that Harry Reid obsesses over!

Aftermath

Trey Gowdy is back at it. He gives the media a piece of his mind and dishes out facts.

Facebook  "Watch Trey Gowdy shock the media and walk off."

Clinton is Stalking Your Facebook Feed: She Uses Sophisticated iPhone App to Get Access to Lists of Friends

Weasel Zippers

"Via Daily Mail:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is winning the tech-off against Donald Trump, with an update to its iPhone app that allows users to find potential supporters among their Facebook friends and message them directly.

The app, simply called Hillary 2016, takes advantage of how Facebook’s iPhone app syncs with users’ cell phone contact lists, allowing supporters to use Facebook as a guide, but text messaging to reach out and ask friends if they’d be interested in making calls for Clinton or traveling to battleground states.

Politico first reported this tweak, noting how President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign used Facebook to access supporters’ friends lists, before the social network yanked the tool two years ago, citing privacy concerns.

Now, the Clinton campaign has figured out a work-around with just 22 days to go before Election Day. Facebook had no comment to Politico, about the Clinton campaign’s move.

The way the app works is that supporters download it and they’re immediately asked for permission to connect to Facebook. They’re also asked to type in their cell phone number.

Then it shows them a personal Hillary Clinton campaign HQ, in cartoon form, on screen. They’re told to turn on the headquarters’ lights and explore various challenges, including committing that they’re voting for Clinton and sharing that image – one of several ‘Team Hillary’ badges – with friends. In exploring the headquarters, supporters are asked to ‘reach out to friends.’

The US media LIES and CHEATS on behalf of Democrats & Leftists

This is a companion piece to go with the one that is following: O'Keefe Gets the Goods: Democrat Rent-A-Mobs Incite Violence at Trump Rallies  . . . "Guess what? Here is the link to Wikileaks, ladies and gentlemen. Peruse to your heart’s content. To hell with CNN."

Washington Times says Democrats admitting they hire agitators for Trump events

"A yearlong undercover investigation by the conservative group Project Veritas Action shows Democratic strategists discussing how they hire agitators — including union members, homeless people and the mentally ill — to incite violence by provoking Trump supporters on camera at campaign stops." . . .

Ecuador ordered Assange’s internet cut off to tilt election toward Clinton, experts say

Bloviating Zeppelin  also Here . . . "As Mr O’Keefe says, “truth is dangerous.”

"The TV broadcasters who had lined up to air his videos pulled out at the last moment — including Fox News — as they fear retaliation by a Hillary Clinton administration should she step into the Spite House. Look at the IRS and various conservative groups, for example. At the extreme, look at Vince Foster or Seth Rich. Then ask yourself: do you wonder that Hillary Clinton wants to conduct a drone strike on Julian Assange? Not just idle talk, you see. With that, do you wonder why Assange — a Leftist himself — in turn orchestrated the HRC email dump on Wikileaks? I’d call that motivation enough.

"And yet, you see before your eyes, my eyes, that the system is corrupt and it is systemic, from the massively-biased journalists who shield the powerful and the venal to the education system and, soon, SCOTUS should HRC be elected.

“ 'For the want of a handful of stalwart, non-corruptible DC politicians the nation was lost.”

"The American Media Maggots lie, cheat, cover-up, purposely obfuscate with an absolutely unbridled and naked abandon. Even caught, they continue to lie." . . .

Rigged Media: Politico’s Chief Political Correspondent Glenn Thrush Identifies Himself as ‘Hack’ for Podesta  ". . . the chief political correspondent for Politico, told John Podesta that he was a “hack” for sending an entire section of an article pertaining to Podesta for approval before publication. To conceal his lack of journalistic integrity, Thrush asks  Podesta to “Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this.”  "The exchange between Thrush and Podesta was revealed by Wikileaks (Podesta Email 12681)."
Jill Stein also claims corporate media props up Clinton If only this came from someone less, well, zany.

James O’Keefe: If Media Covered Project Veritas Like They Covered Trump Tape, ‘I Guarantee You Trump Would Win the Election’

. . . “That’s it. All you have left are the citizen-journalists in this country,” he warned. “That’s all we have left. Here’s what I’m going to do today: I’m going to activate our army, and I’m going to flood the inboxes of these journalists. I’m going to shame them. If nothing else, they’ll respond to the tweets and come up with some excuse.”

“ 'Brit Hume tweeted at me, from Fox, yesterday, and he said, ‘We need to look through this.’ And I tweeted him back, and I said, ‘Brit, I reached out to Fox one week ago. I emailed your reporters. You can come to my office. I can come to your office. I can show you the raw tapes if you’d like. You can vet it. But don’t give me the excuse that you gotta look at it. You guys aired for a week, for a week, you aired the hidden camera sex audio,’” he recalled, referring to the tape of Donald Trump making lewd comments more than a decade ago." . . .