Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press

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CBS  "The mood in the Washington press corps is bleak, and deservedly so.

"It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump’s victory. More than that and more importantly, we also missed the story, after having spent months mocking the people who had a better sense of what was going on.

"This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.
. . . 
"As a direct result, we get it wrong with greater frequency. Out on the road, we forget to ask the right questions. We can’t even imagine the right question. We go into assignments too certain that what we find will serve to justify our biases. The public’s estimation of the press declines even further -- fewer than one-in-three Americans trust the press, per Gallup -- which starts the cycle anew."

The List of Executive Orders that Trump Will Dispose of Immediately

Justin Holcomb  "Barack Obama has spent years using his authoritative pen to sign executive orders into law because Congress constantly prevented him from approving his particular set of rules.  To date, Obama has singed 235 executive orders dealing with every issue from climate change to national security.

"The interesting thing about executive orders is that they are built on faulty foundations.  They are more theoretical than factual.  An executive order can be ripped out from under itself just as quickly as it was signed.  

"On day one of his presidency, Donald Trump will be able to shred and dispose of any executive order that Obama signed into law, making them 100 percent invalid.  

"Here is a list of orders we can expect to see Trump handle immediately:" . . .

SHOCK VIDEO: BLACK MOB VICIOUSLY BEATS WHITE TRUMP VOTER (Encouraging update)

"If the roles had been reversed, and Trump supporters had been caught on tape viciously beating a black Hillary voter, this would be a national news story right now.  As it is, you won’t see this on CNN any time soon."

Infowars  (Video) "You voted Trump? You gonna pay for that s**t!"

. . . "The clip shows the thugs repeatedly screaming, “you voted Donald Trump” as they assault the victim from every angle while others steal his belongings.

“ 'You voted Trump,” the mob screams, “You gonna pay for that sh*t.”

"Another woman shouts “beat his ass,” while another man is heard laughing before remarking, “Don’t vote Trump.”

"A second video of the incident which is dubbed with the “F**k Donald Trump” song, a phrase now being chanted by “protesters” across the country, shows one of the attackers driving away in the man’s vehicle while his hand is still stuck in the window as the car drags him down the street." . . .

New California Senator Kamala Harris supports BLM, but I'm cannot guess what she would say about this incident. Has Mr. or Mrs. Obama commented yet? Rev Wright lives there; perhaps he or Rev. Al will come out against this.

Obama is angry his legacy doesn't last, but I'm afraid this bit of his legacy will be with us forever. He may hope there will be enough racial turmoil during the Trump presidency that we will vote in a Democrat congress next election in hops of having some peace.

How ironic to see Obama, considered blameless for the racial conflict these past years, hoping (I'm sure) for riots and turmoil these next years to be blamed on President Trump.  The Tunnel Dweller.

On the positive sign of this issue:
UPDATE: ‘Stacy On The Right’: “We Won. It’s Not A White Thing. It’s Not A Black Thing. It’s An American Thing”
"Stop blaming white people for Trump's win last night. America voted for actual change." Stacy Washington:

These Are The Celebrities Who Vowed To Leave America If Trump Wins

Zero Hedge "Used to dramatic theatrics even if many of them sounded dead serious, dozens of celebs vowed over the last few months to depart the US if Donald Trump won the White House, saying they’d buy a one way ticket to everywhere from Canada to Jupiter. And perhaps some of them planned on carrying through on their threat: overnight Canada’s immigration website crashed from heavy traffic after it became clear that Trump would win.

"The question, however, now is how many of these provocateurs will be true to their word, especially in a world in which long-held conventions just got slammed overnight: how many of these so-called starts will make good on their promise?

"So, for the sake of convenience, here is a list of celebrities who claimed they would move out of the U.S. under a Trump administration, courtesy of the Hill, should anyone decide to hold them accountable." . . .

Oh, here's one of them now:

Chelsea Handler said she already made contingency plans months ago. 

“I did buy a house in another country just in case,” the comedian and talk show host said during an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Michael” in May. “So all these people that threaten to leave the country and then don’t — I actually will leave that country.”

Ooh! This one is too good to be true:

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton told a reporter earlier this year that he’s “reserving my ticket out of here if [Trump] wins.” 

Hillary Clinton Destroyed Her Own Campaign

The Daily Beast

"Despite all the odds being in her favor, Clinton managed to sabotage her quest for the White House."

. . . "Controversies surrounding the Clinton Foundation also didn’t do her any favors. The fact that the organization took contributions from foreign governments while Clinton was secretary of State—violating its own commitment, as well as State Department protocol—fueled the perception that big corporations could influence Clinton’s decisions at State by giving to the group. And though evidence of direct quid pro quos never emerged, there were plenty of examples of corporations finding favor with the State Department after giving to the foundation. 

"Those liabilities became nuclear when WikiLeaks, the hacking group, started releasing troves of emails it says it hacked from Podesta’s Gmail account. The Clinton campaign never confirmed or denied the validity of those emails. And the emails revealed that Chelsea Clinton worried the Clinton Foundation had made serious ethical missteps, and that Doug Band—a top aide to Bill Clinton—thought the former president himself had conflicts of interest involving the foundation’s corporate backers." . . .

Tuesday's Biggest Loser

 

Forget Hillary and Trump. The biggest loser Tuesday night was Barack Obama.

Weekly Standard . . . "President Obama's 
record on foreign and domestic policy is dismal, to say the least. His withdrawal of American power from the world coincided with the rise of ISIS, the ravaging of Syria and a series of successful terror attacks both in the heart of Europe and here on American soil. Would there have been a Brexit, or victories for anti-immigration parties in Europe without the failure of Obama's leadership in the Middle East and North Africa? 

"President Obama's domestic-policy record is even worse: The weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression; a record number of Americans on food stamps and for the longest time; a stimulus plan that was an economic joke even before "Cash for Clunkers" became a punchline; and a doubling of the national debt in eight short years. And then there's Obamacare.

"On election night Democratic operative James Carville announced "Obamacare is dead." He's right, but that was true whether Trump or Clinton won.

"Obamacare didn't die in the ballot box, it died in the mail box: Millions of Americans getting letters announcing premium increases of 50, 60, even 100 percent. And that's on top of huge deductibles that made their "insurance" little more than a reverse lottery ticket against medical catastrophe." . . .

A Trump presidency literally means Obama’s legacy, as sad as it is, will be erased.
CNN racebaiter calls Trump win a "whitelash"

Bill And Hillary Clinton’s Victims Respond To Trump Victory: “TEARS OF JOY”

AmericanLookout

"No one is more excited about a Trump victory than Bill and Hillary Clinton’s sexual assault victims.

"Juanita Broaddrick was allegedly raped by Bill Clinton. Kathy Shelton was raped as a child and Hillary got her rapist off. Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones were both allegedly sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton.

"They all responded with gratitude and relief to Trump’s victory.

"They are all grateful that Trump will be the next President of the United States.

Read their tweets here

"These women fought so hard to keep the Clintons out of the White House. All they did is deeply appreciated by all of the Deplorables!

"These women have suffered too long. They were intimidated by the Clintons too long.

"Now, their nightmare is over.

"Now, they have a friend in the White House."

Combing through the wreckage of Tuesday's election

Drudge: VA Gov gives 60,000 felons the vote, Hillary wins state by 60,000  . . . "Results are in.

"Virgina tilted Left. Just like they planned.

"By… as reported by Drudge at this point… something like 60,000 votes.

"Let that sink in.

"The swing vote in the swing state were the newly-minted ‘non’-felons ‘born’ at the 11th hour by a stroke of the autopen of the Democrat Governor of and major Clinton Fundraiser…

"(And he was also guy who gave BIG cash to the FBI deputy director’s wife.)"

Maureen Dowd: Absorbing the Impossible via Instapundit: "Plus: “The Clintons remind me of the Universal horror movies where you thought the monster was dead and then the monster would show up in a bad sequel. I’m glad now that they’re finally gone."

Yeah but we will continue to have this guy:

Could Obama's last act as president be pardoning Hillary?

. . . "Though Clinton hasn't been charged with a crime, there have been numerous reports that federal authorities are investigating the Clinton Foundation.

"On Wednesday, during press secretary Josh Earnest's briefing, he was asked whether the president had considered using his executive power in favor of the former secretary of state. 

" 'The president has offered clemency to a substantial number of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons,' Earnest said. "

Media disgrace themselves once again

Jay Michaels  . . . "When it became clear what was happening, we were instructed ad nauseam about “uneducated white males,” “white men without a college education,” and “angry white men.”  (It had never been “angry Hispanics” earlier.)  Then, for a while, we were lectured about the betrayal of the “suburban women” who had apparently voted en masse for Trump, inexplicably.  The men lived in mill towns and on farms, but their wives lived in the suburbs.

"Then came a slew of dark references to Putin.

"The mea culpas were exclusively about the polls underestimating the angry whites.  But they had been less than candid with interviewers.

"I was switching among the four MSM sleeping giants (skipping the Clinton News Network and MSNBC), so it’s possible I missed something, but I heard literally no references to the following:

"A corrupt and dishonest media

"The Clinton Foundation

"Hillary’s deleted emails and her successive lies about the private server

"Benghazi" . . .

One Anecdote That Helps Explain the “Rage” Our Liberal Masters Don’t Understand:

ACE OF SPADES:

Donald Trump’s Big Bet on Less Educated Whites

NY Times

By FORD FESSENDEN NOV. 7, 2016

A potential victory for Donald J. Trump may hinge on one important (and large) group of Americans: whites who did not attend college.

Polls have shown a deep division between whites of different education levels and economic circumstances. A lot rides on how large these groups will be on Election Day: All pollsters have their own assessment of who will show up, and their predictions rely on these evaluations.

Here’s what the American voting-age population looked like in 2012.

Voting-age population, in millions

White, no college

White, some college

White, college degree

Black

Hispanic

Other

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10

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The largest bloc is whites who have no college degree, and the voting-age population of this group is as large as that of voting-age blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans combined. Mitt Romney won this group over Barack Obama by 26 percentage points, and Ronald Reagan by 31 points in 1984. But Bill Clinton won this bloc of voters both times he ran. In this year’s political polls, this group favors Mr. Trump by large margins over Hillary Clinton.

White, no

college

degree

White,

college

degree

Black

Hispanic

Clinton

Trump

57

43

37

82

75

29

6

20

Education questions from Fox News poll, Oct. 26; Black and Hispanic from Economist/You Gov Poll, Nov. 1

However, the voting electorate — the people who actually go to the polls — could look substantially different from the voting-age population. Here’s how the population of actual voters broke down in the last presidential election. Only about half of whites with no college degree voted, leaving about 29 million votes on the table in an election decided by five million votes.

Voting-age population, in millions

Voted

Did not vote

White, no college

White, some college

White, college degree

Black

Hispanic

Other

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20

30

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50

First thoughts on the election

Rich Terrell

Students riot over Trump victory  . . .  I am very familiar with the modus operandi of the hard leftsists in the East Bay where apparently the biggest riot took place, and last night’s riot was quite typical, but a bit understated if anything. I have seen the script play out many times.  They marched down Telegraph Avenue from Berkeley to downtown Oakland, lit some garbage on fire in the street, smashed a few shop windows, and generally acted out like spoiled children.

"Given the eliminationist rhetoric that has been bandied about, further outbreaks of violence can be anticipated.  Hillary Clinton should speak to this, as should President Obama."

Not Just a Rejection of Washington, a Rejection of Obama’s Washington  "If Democrats are stunned by the anger at Washington, maybe it would have been mitigated if President Obama had fired some high-level, recognizable figure over Fast and Furious. Or the IRS scandal. Or the $2 billion spent building Healthcare.gov. Or the Veterans Administration letting veterans die waiting for care. Or the Office of Personnel Management hacking. Or the dishonest explanations about Bowe Berghdahl deal. 
"Maybe when the country witnessed horrible shootings, President Obama shouldn’t have rushed to the cameras to contend that those who opposed to his preferred gun-control laws bore some of the responsibility." . . . Read more

Hillary stiffs her supporters and doesn’t address crowd at NY party

"Hillary Clinton broke tradition and did not address the thousands of supporters gathered at New York’s Javits Center for a victory party. No thanking them for their efforts. No acknowledging their discomfort, and no call for national unity. Instead, campaign chairman and prolific emailer John Podesta was given the job of facing the disappointed throngs and telling them to go home because the race is -- cough – “too close to call.' ”

Obama to make statement on Wednesday, meet with Trump on Thursday  . . . "Earnest said that Obama will make a statement on Wednesday at the White House to discuss the results of the election and "what steps we can take as a country to come together after this hard-fought election season.' " 

Trump campaign: 'Undercover' supporters helped deliver upset victory "The common thread among these voters, she said, was they wanted the country taken in a “new and different direction,” they had an unfavorable view of Clinton and they shared certain concerns – about everything from ObamaCare premium increases to the decline of manufacturing jobs to the threat of terrorism." . . .

"The depth of the divide between the predictions and the outcome in Tuesday’s election will be studied for years. But in terms of the on-the-ground strategy, Conway noted that the campaign committed itself to winning Pennsylvania after seeing their message fit with the beliefs of so many people in the state." . . .

Amid Trump’s victory, Republicans also were projected to hold onto their majority in the House and Senate, improving Trump’s chances of advancing his agenda in office.

Japanese people have reacted with shock and disbelief at the outcome of the US presidential election

President-Elect Trump   . . . "His liberal history and his evident lack of interest in these issues created doubts among many conservatives. We hope he now proves us doubters wrong. To do that he will have to show a self-control that was not uniformly present during his campaign but that characterized his most successful moments of it. Congressional Republicans, who retained a majority in both chambers, should do what they can to reinforce Trump’s better instincts."  NR Editors
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