UPDATED: Prepare to Be Shocked: Mike Pence Is Christian Husband with Morals

What a disgusting display!

By Caleb Parke at Todd Starnes  "Behold, America, our vice president is a Christian husband with morals and values.

"The Washington Post did an in-depth look into Mike Pence's marriage with his wife, Karen Pence, his "prayer warrior," and "gut check and shield."

"What could've read as a puff piece about the Second Lady, ended up being a stealthy hit piece.

"The WaPo author, @AshleyRParker, tweeted out the article with this synopsis: "Mike Pence never dines alone w a woman not his wife, nor does he attends events w alcohol, w/o her by his side."

"So the crux of the article about Karen Pence was actually about Mike Pence? Yeah.

"After some pretty vile attacks from other "verified" journalists on Twitter (which I will spare you from), @AshleyRParker, tweets this: "In 1991, Karen Pence wrote a letter to the editor, outlining her views against homosexuality."

"Then she shares this conclusion about her article: "The whole point of the profile is that she is highly influential w her husband (incl on social issues)..."

"So this piece was essentially written to solidify the notion that Pence is anti-gay, backwards, and out of the mainstream.

"Aren't you glad we have journalists like @AshleyRParker to inform us how a good Christian couple serving our nation is actually colluding, or possibly canoodling, in backrooms, hiding their bigoted, backwards views.

"This article should be a newsflash everywhere for journalists all across America to befriend Christians and try to get to know them instead of vindictively attacking them in ink.

"Most Americans would be happy to know that our current vice president honors his marriage to his wife. We've had endless amounts of politicians on both sides of the aisle fail in this category.

"It's easy to criticize and tear down, but this one is especially rich.

"The family unit is the most basic unit and building block of society, from the union of Adam of Eve, until today, marriage has been a bedrock of society.

"Through strong marriages, future generations are given the most optimal upbringing. That's not a modern-day revelation, we've known this since the beginning of civilization, and societies and religions have tried to alter marriage to no avail.

"Science and Judeo-Christian values back this up, and this doesn't make it homophobic. It's just the way it is.

"When honoring marriage becomes a bad thing, we all lose.

"But maybe the author was just trying to reaffirm the time-tested truth: "behind every great man is a great woman.' " . . .

UPDATE:   Don’t You Dare Place Your Marriage Above Your Politics

"Place your wife in a station above all other women at your own peril"

Do Pence’s rules to avoid temptation to commit adultery

trammel women’s rights? | Opinion http://bit.ly/2n7S5oB 

. . . "The Atlantic dug in further and learned Pence routinely turned down cocktail invites from men just as frequently, but that doesn’t make sexy outrage bait.

The Hill article gives more context on how the Pences were thinking about this, at least back in 2002. Pence told the paper he often refused dinner or cocktail invitations from male colleagues, too: “It’s about building a zone around your marriage,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a predatory town, but I think you can inadvertently send the wrong message by being in [certain] situations.”

The 2002 article notes that Pence arrived in Congress a half decade after the 1994 “Republican revolution,” when Newt Gingrich was the speaker of the House. Several congressional marriages, including Gingrich’s, encountered difficulty that year. Pence seemed wary of this. “I’ve lost more elections than I’ve won,” he said. “I’ve seen friends lose their families. I’d rather lose an election.” He even said he gets fingers wagged in his face by concerned Indianans. “Little old ladies come and say, ‘Honey, whatever you need to do, keep your family together,’” he told The Hill.

Get Back in the Kitchen and Bake Me Another Petition!

“I’ve never seen a bunch of poor, oppressed feminists board a leaky boat in Miami in order to paddle their way to freedom in Castro Cuba. But I do have a few friends in South Florida who escaped from communism. They still have their boats. We’d be proud to give these Marxist feminists a lift to Havana any time.”

Mike Adams

"Dear UNC President Spellings: I am writing today to express my disgust with you over recent remarks you made about me to a “progressive” newspaper reporter. As you will recall, some feminists had started a petition, which was seeking my termination from employment in the UNC system. In order to bolster their case, they included a number of remarks I had made on social media, which they deemed to be “sexist.” When the reporter asked you about the petition, you characterized my views as both “abhorrent” and as “hate speech.” I am writing today to provide a rebuttal to your comments, which I view as both abhorrent and hateful. Please allow me to back up my claims with evidence. 

"Put simply, Margaret, it was both hateful and abhorrent for you to characterize my views in such a negative manner based on just a few out­of­context quotes. Had you exercised more self­control than the unhinged feminists calling for my termination, you could have made a better judgment about the nature of my speech based on a larger sample. Today, I write to provide a few other samples of my speech upon which you could have made a more informed assessment. Although inspired by many, these quotes are all my own: " . . .

The left: defending freedom of speech for decades

Image by Miguel Guanipa

Susan Rice is in the spotlight today

Today in American Thinker alone is a wealth of commentary on the Susan Rice involvement.

Claim: Susan Rice directed spy agencies to create ‘detailed spread sheets’ involving Trump  "Joseph diGenova is a former US Attorney and a man of impeccable honor. I don’t believe he would put out a false story, ala Susan Rice. The intrepid Richard Pollock of The Daily Caller reports:" . . .

Benghazi Liar Susan Rice's Treachery Continues "Call it the tale of two National Security Advisers, Michael Flynn and Susan Rice. As much as Flynn has taken fire as being an architect of unspecified "collusion" with the Russians, Susan Rice has been like the iceberg that sank the Titanic -- barely visible above water but dangerous enough to threaten the Trump administration’s ship of state.

"As reported by Circa News, Rice, while serving as Obama’s National Security Adviser, requested the unmasking of the names of Team Trump officials mentioned in the so-called “incidental” surveillance  of the Trump transition team:" . . .

Will Susan Rice be a ‘stand-up guy’ or the ‘fall guy’? . . . "Sooner or later, the Obama fan is going to get hit. The reality that an incumbent president used the national security surveillance apparatus to spy on his political enemies is so stinky that it cannot be brushed aside even with the mainstream media’s full court press pushing other narratives.

"At some moment the Obamas, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, and a few others will be gathered in the library (that’s my guess) of Obama mansion in DC, and they will play out their own version of the immortal scene created by Dashiell Hammett of a gang (all of whom have dirty hands)  finding their fall guy."  Thomas Lifson

Major media spiked scoops on Susan Rice’s role in unmasking Trump’s team

. . . "Sitting on a scoop like this only seems explainable by a desire to protect Obama & Co. They are propagandists that manage the flow of news for political objectives. The reporters may not be the ones who made the decisions here.

"And the rest of the MSM is ignoring the story.  As if that will make it go away.

"There is a bonfire underway, as the remaining shreds of MSM credibility ignite. 

"Update: Clarice Feldman writes from Washington, DC:

WaPo finally covers Rice story--page A 12 hidden in a story about yesterday's Spicer presser. Big front page stories are about a trip made after the election by a Blackstone guy to the ME and a sob story about a non-citizen Mexican with 10 kids who got a big sentence from a Texas jury for voting illegally."

Here’s Michelle’s RACE OBSESSED Thesis From Princeton . . .

 . . .  "Written In An ‘UNKNOWN LANGUAGE’"

She and her husband infected the nation with their anger to the detriment of racial harmony for the foreseeable future. Wasn't knowledge of Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright sufficient to warn America what was coming? The Tunnel Dweller.

Clash Daily  "Brace yourselves. This one’s a going to be bit rough.

"Michelle Obama wrote her Bachelor of Arts thesis on ‘Blackness’ at Princeton.

"No, we’re not making that up.

"The actual title is, ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’."

Michelle Obama's racial obsession is traceable to her semi-illiterate thesis on being black at Princeton, which Christopher Hitchens once noted "wasn't written in any known language."
What a devastating indictment Michelle's thesis is—of her, and of Princeton:bit.ly/ObamaThesis.

. . . " And here we see why things were so race-based under her husband’s Presidency:". .  

 

The Unmasking of Innocents: Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel

Bloomberg

"White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

"The pattern of Rice's requests was discovered in a National Security Council review of the government's policy on "unmasking" the identities of individuals in the U.S. who are not targets of electronic eavesdropping, but whose communications are collected incidentally. Normally those names are redacted from summaries of monitored conversations and appear in reports as something like "U.S. Person One.' " . . .

Unmasking Susan Rice and her NSC dead-enders

. . . "It's time to start investigating this arrogant abuse of power.  Comey has not stated whether he is investigating these people or not, and this is proper.  But with these dead-enders clearly threatening the Trump presidency, it's time to see a hard hand come out against these deep-staters who don't know when to leave office and who subscribe to the leftist situational ethics of "by any means necessary."  They are poison for our republic, and if they are not removed, they will destroy the Trump presidency."

Trump praises 'bombshell' report on 'unmasking and the crooked scheme against us' as fingers point to 'very senior' Obama administration official   . . . " 'Adam Housley did an incredible job with this information,' "Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade said Monday

" 'We heard germs of it, that it was beginning to take root during Friday's show. But right after Friday’s show, we were able to get a perspective on basically what President Trump thought a month ago when he went out and tweeted on Saturday morning. Man, I guess on some level he saw some things that only somebody surveilling his administration would know.'

"Co-host Steve Doocy added that 'what Trump was saying is turning out to be true.'

"On Sunday, the president tweeted that the 'real story turns out to be SURVEILLANCE and LEAKING!'

" 'Find the leakers,' he added." . . .   Read more.

Not So Cool Hand Chuck

Power Line Blog  "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on both FOX News Sunday and Meet the Press yesterday, mostly to address the prospective confirmation of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Senator McConnell spoke “with the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces” (to borrow Walter Blair’s misquotation of Mark Twain). He vowed that Judge Gorsuch would be confirmed and that Democrats would dictate the manner of his confirmation.

"McConnell noted that no Supreme Court nominee had ever been the subject of a partisan filibuster. He harked back to the confirmation of Clarence Thomas with 52 votes in 1991. He observed that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats had pioneered the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominees during the first term of the second President Bush. He laughed at Chuck Todd as Todd badgered him about Merrick Garland. I thought Senator McConnell was fantastic (video below).

The left-wing Politics USA claimed McConnell "fell apart and could only nervously laugh " when asked about this by Chuck Todd. Here's the interview; tell me if that was fake news or not.

In this video, Obama debates with himself on late-term justice nominees such as Merrick Garland. He has a tell when he is irritated by a question, his reply begins with "Look. . . "

"In a development that’s likely to cause fits for President Barack Obama, the Senate Democrats’ next leader, Sen. Charles Schumer told an 2007 audience — on video — that he wanted to block any Supreme Court nominations for the last 18 months of President George W. Bush’s presidency. That’s seven months longer than the amount of time remaining to Obama’s presidency."

Would the LA Times claim Obama tried to steal steal Alito's seat when they nominated Kagan and Sotomayor for Justice after filibustering the choice of President Bush?

As a senator from Illinois, Obama and 23 other senators attempted to stage a filibuster to block a confirmation vote on Alito, one of former President George W. Bush’s picks to serve on the bench. The filibuster bid failed and Alito was confirmed.Conservatives have seized on Obama’s filibuster vote to accuse him of hypocrisy for criticizing Republicans for saying the next president, and not Obama, should nominate Scalia’s successor. 

With bad polls for Trump, bring back Kellyanne Conway

"It's time for Trump to be the Big Dog once again. The people demand nothing less."

Monica Showalter  . . . "This is such sad news, given the meritlessness of the Russia "narrative" and the obstinacy and willingness to keep the status quo over compromise of the House Freedom Caucus.  What's more, Andrew Malcolm reports that the recriminations that have emerged in the wake of these snake-pit hissings is threatening the entire GOP agenda.

"The good news is that Trump can recover.  How do we know this?  Because he has, and he knows how.  Back during the 2016 presidential campaign, when all sorts of negative stories came out, Trump fought them off with vigor and energy by taking his case to the people.  That helped quite a bit.  But even more helpful, he re-steered the narrative back to substance and the issues.  That was the doing of campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

"She knew what would bring Trump back in the polls, and her victory on election night was the final vindication.  She's since been buried in the Trump White House somewhere and now needs to be brought out front and center, just as she had been before.  She knows how to steer the political white noise back to issues and to the substantial, which is what people care about, and leave the nesting vipers of the D.C. Swamp to eat each other.  For that, she should be given wide berth to get this job done. " . . .

When climate change warriors can’t keep their stories straight

Brian C. Joondeph  "Mark Twain, author of the now politically incorrect Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, once said, “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” Good advice, especially for those who play fast and loose with facts and truth. And relevant in the internet age when articles, headlines, words and photos are preserved in perpetuity.

"Lies, built upon lies, eventually become so tangled that the truth may be forever lost down the rabbit hole. Rather than starting with the truth, to avoid having to remember the labyrinthine path taken by each additional falsehood.

"CNN, the network famously referred to by President Trump as “fake news”, should heed the advice of Mark Twain. Otherwise they are likely to be tripped up over their own contradictory stories, in this case only a few years apart.

I"n 2015, CNN ran a story with the headline, “Did climate change cause California drought?” Less than two years later, CNN ran this headline, “California’s drought is almost over.” Is the irony of these two headlines lost on the journalistic mavens of CNN? Probably. But the internet remembers, happy to take CNN to task over their contradictions." . . .

After all, CNN totally missed the humor in a Sean Spicer quip during a recent White House press briefing. In response to reporters pestering him about mythical Trump-Russian collusion, Spicer responded, "If the President puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russia connection." CNN, missing Spicer’s joke just as they missed the irony of climate change causing then somehow stopping a drought, ran a fact checking story to tell us that Russian dressing isn’t really Russian. Thanks, intrepid journalists. Did CNN ever fact check Barack Obama’s claim to have campaigned in 57 states with a news report telling us that there aren’t really 57 states?

Marvel VP of Sales blames diversity for falling comic book sales

Independent  "Despite forming the basis for the multi-million dollar blockbusters that have recently overtaken Hollywood, Marvel comic book sales have been falling.

"Well, Marvel VP of Sales, David Gabriel, spoke about what they believe could possibly lead to the decline, putting the blame on diversity.

“ 'What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity,” Gabriel told ICv2 at the Marvel Retailer summit. “They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not.”

"H[e] continued: “I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we saw in sales. We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against." . . . 

The Superhero Movie Diversity Race Is Over — WB/DC Wins By a Mile
While Marvel and Sony dither about the diversity of their superhero lineups, DC Comics and Warner Bros. (in conjunction with New Line) punctured every Spandex ceiling on Wednesday when they announced an unprecedentedly diverse lineup of superhero movies.

Confirmed:  Ezra Miller, who self-identifies as queer, will play The Flash in 2018, the first time an openly gay actor will play a major superhero in a feature film. . . .

Superhero Comics Giving Classic Characters Race, Gender, Religion Swaps for Diversity  "Mainstream comic book superheroes — America’s modern mythology — have been redrawn from the stereotypical brown-haired, blue-eyed white male into a world of multicolored, multireligious and multigendered crusaders to reflect a greater diversity in their audience.

"Society has changed, so superheroes have to as well, said Axel Alonso, editor in chief at Marvel Comics, who in November debuted Captain America No. 1 with Samuel Wilson, the first African American superhero taking over Captain America’s red, white and blue uniform and shield.

“ 'Roles in society aren’t what they used to be. There’s far more diversity,” said Alonso, who has also shepherded a gay wedding in the X-Men, a gender change from male to female in Thor and the first mainstream female Muslim hero in Ms. Marvel.

"The change to a black Captain America is already having an impact outside of comics." . . .

I was fortunate to grow up when I did, able then to just enjoy comic book characters as a child should, characters who loved America and her ideals (usually unmet in the real world). But it would have been so much better if young African-American children then had their own superheroes to look up to as well, for their own sake as well as the sake of Jim Crow America.  But please...NOT like this (right)! ........................

A Beginner’s Guide to the Trump/Russia Controversy

Answering the most frequently asked questions about Trump, the Kremlin, 2016, and beyond

 

David French at NR   "The controversy over Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, suspicions of the Trump campaign’s involvement in that interference, and concerns about illegitimate and illegal “deep state” attacks on the Trump administration has become so complicated and saturated with twists and turns as to be almost impossible to follow. Herewith is a modest effort to provide context, assess where we are, and offer a few tentative conclusions — an explainer, if you will: 

"First, and most importantly, did Russia actually “hack” the 2016 presidential election?

"No, and the use of that term to describe what Russia did needs to stop. The Russians hacked a few computers, but they did not “hack” an election. The media’s persistent insinuations otherwise are leading millions of Americans to believe that the Russians actually meddled with the election process itself, including with voting machines. There is zero evidence that occurred. None. Zilch. Nada. 

"Well, if the Russians didn’t “hack” the election, what did they do?" . . .

 Read more.

Anti-Trump propaganda masquerading as journalism in the Chicago Tribune

Thomas Lifson "We are at an unprecedented moment in American history, with the Democratic Party and its media allies attempting to remove from office, through an unrelenting propaganda campaign, a president elected only months ago.  Even though there is no “fire” – as in actual evidence of anything wrong – propagandists have long known that enough “smoke” blown over the public time and time again is sufficient to embolden Democrat pols to take action (impeachment) eventually, especially if willing or weak-kneed dupes on the Republican side are cowed by the public’s perception of something wrong.

This Chicago Tribune article, titled “Chicago bank tangled up in intrigue over ex-Trump aide Manafort” and written by Betsey Yerak, is an excellent example of the propagandists’ black arts.

"David Kahn writes

This is what passes for news analysis in our current environment. This article is pregnant with the notion that Manafort and the bank did something wrong. But it doesn't even begin to suggest what. This is one of countless articles that are just rife with innuendo. The innuendo is that somebody who is associated with Trump, who knows somebody or worked with somebody who is Russian, or pro Russian, has done something illegal, immoral or otherwise wrong. But none of these articles suggest what it is or what evidence supports it. Except for this innuendo, none of this is newsworthy.

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