Photo Of Man Using Body To Shield Stranger From Vegas Shooter Went Viral, Then We Learn His Identity

American Overlook

. . . "Cobos did what he was trained to do – protect innocent Americans from terrorists like Paddock. As the murderer shot thousands of rounds of ammunition upon the crowd of 22,000 music lovers, he had little regard for human life.

"Cobos on the other hand still had hope. And as he shielded the young woman from the bullets, he kept her eyes covered. He didn’t want her to have nightmares from all the dead bodies and blood around them.

"Moments after the photo was taken, Cobos led the woman behind a nearby car where they sought protection from Paddock’s bullets.

"After rescuing the woman, Cobos then used his belt as a tourniquet to help curb the bleeding other victims had. Beyond that, he also used his fingers to block bullet holes and prevent bleeding. He was a true hero when duty called.

"Since the nightmarish country concert, Cobos has told his close relatives and friends that he heard bullets ricocheting off the ground. Paddock was aiming for him, but the Army soldier managed to evade the murderer’s bullets.

"As you can imagine, this image has stirred up a lot of emotions for people across the internet. Here were a few shared on MailOnline.

“To him and anyone else who showed bravery of the highest level that night, medals of honor should be given. And knowing Trump, I bet he will be happy to do it.”
“I only hope I would display the courage this man did – kudos!!!!!!!” . . .

FISA-gate Is Scarier than Watergate; "The press used to uncover government wrongdoing. Today’s press is defending it"

American Thinker cartoons

National Review  "The Watergate scandal of 1972–74 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration’s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though illegal, political break-in. 

"In the Iran-Contra affair of 1985–87, the media and liberal activists uncovered wrongdoing by some rogue members of the Reagan government. They warned of government overreach and of using the “Deep State” to subvert the law for political purposes.

"We are now in the midst of a third great modern scandal. Members of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice sought court approval for the surveillance of Carter Page, allegedly for colluding with Russian interests, and extended the surveillance three times.

" But none of these government officials told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the warrant requests were based on an unverified dossier that had originated as a hit piece funded in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Donald Trump during the current 2016 campaign. 

"Nor did these officials reveal that the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, had already been dropped as a reliable source by the FBI for leaking to the press." . . .

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456183/fisa-memo-scarier-watergate

Obama Knew About Details of Clinton Email Probe

"Keep this in mind: During the timeframe of the worst of the [IRS] scandal, then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman visited the Obama White House 157 times."

Pelosi celebrates her grandson's racial self-hatred in marathon House speech

Thomas Lifson  "It was inevitable that when speaking for 8 straight hours on the House floor, Nancy Pelosi would spout some crazy nonsense. But I was not prepared for what only can be called a depraved celebration of racial self-hatred. The muddled state of her thinking was on display when she spoke praise of her grandson wishing he were not white. Tucker Carlson captured the pathetic nature of her celebration of racial self-hatred when she said:" . . .

I’m reminded of my own grandson. He had a very close friend whose name is Antonio, is he from Guatemala. And he has beautiful, tan skin, beautiful brown eyes. And the rest. And this was such a proud day for me because when my grandson blew out the candles on his cake, they said did you make a wish? And he said yes, I made a wish.
I said what is your wish? He said I wish I had brown skin and brown eyes like Antonio. So beautiful. So beautiful. The beauty is in the mix.

. . . "Applying the same logic to her sample of one, Pelosi ought to conclude that the last several decades of nonstop idealization of nonwhites and denigration of Caucasians has had harmful effects on her grandson. Unfortunately for her, the impetus behind that racism is her own party’s drive for power by means of the left’s creating and then exploiting racial resentment among minorities, who then give their loyalty to Democrats as their presumed protectors from the evil Caucasoids around them." . . .

Pelosi urges no budget deal without protection for Dreamers

Chris Matthews: Republicans Attack Pelosi Because She’s an ‘Ethnic’ Person   "When did Pelosi become an ethnic person? It’s not as if she’s a Native American like Elizabeth Warren."

Black Caucus Members Refuse To Denounce Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan

Daily Caller

"Twenty-one members of the Congressional Black Caucus facing questions about their ties to Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan have all refused to condemn the hate group leader.

"The CBC, it was recently revealed, held a secret meeting with Farrakhan in 2005 but hid it from the public to avoid controversy. Twenty-one members of the caucus today were part of the caucus at the time of the secret Farrakhan meeting. All 21 declined to denounce Farrakhan when asked by The Daily Caller.

"The Nation of Islam is so extreme that even the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes it as a hate group, citing the group’s “theology of innate black superiority over whites and the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders.”

"Farrakhan has praised Hitler, claimed Jews are “Satantic” and said that white people “deserve to die,” among other racist and anti-Semitic statements." . . .

 (RELATED: John Lewis Claims Trump’s’‘DNA’ Makes Him Racist [VIDEO])

New FBI Texts Implicate Obama. You can tell you've struck his nerve when he says........

Rush Limbaugh  "RUSH: We now have more evidence via the text messages from Strzok and Lisa Page that this is all about Obama. That everything here is about protecting Obama, not just Hillary, in order to protect Obama. And I’m talking about the corruption that was the Obama presidency and specifically the corruption of the intelligence agencies and the FBI, well, the entire DOJ.

"And I think one of the primary reasons they all wanted Hillary to win was to make sure we never knew any of what we now do know. That was the primary goal of having Hillary Clinton win was to be able to continue to mask and cover up and hide what Obama and his administration had been doing."

Chris Wallace is interviewing Obama. Question: “Some people are worried that the decision how to handle the case…” This is the Clinton email story. “Some people are worried that the decision how to handle the case will be made on political grounds, not legal grounds. Can you guarantee to the American people, Mr. Obama…? Can you direct the Justice Department to say Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence goes. She will not be in any way protected?”
OBAMA: I can guarantee that. And I can guarantee that not because I give, uh, Attorney General Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line, uh, and always have maintained it through this, previous presidents.
WALLACE: So just to button this up —
OBAMA: I guarantee it.
WALLACE: You?

OBAMA: I guarantee you that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case.

WALLACE: And she will be —
OBAMA: Full stop! Period!
WALLACE: And she will be treated no differently?
OBAMA: Guaranteed. Full stop. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department because nobody is above the law.
WALLACE: Even if she ends up as the Democratic nom —
OBAMA: How many times do I have to say it, Chris?* Guaranteed.
RUSH: Right. How many times did he say it? All right. Now let’s go to the next bite. Same show, April 10, 2016, Wallace says, “Last October, you said that Hillary Clinton’s private email server did not jeopardize national secrets. Since then we’ve learned that over 2,000 of her emails contain classified material. Twenty-two of the emails contained top secret information. Can you still say flatly that she did not jeopardize America’s secrets?”
OBAMA: Here’s what I know: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state.
. . . 
OBAMA: She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.
. . . 
OBAMA: And what I also know because I handle a lot of classified information, uh, is that there’s classified and then there’s classified. There’s stuff that is really top secret top secret —
. . . 
OBAMA: — and there’s stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom, uh, or, you know, going out over the wire but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.

"RUSH: Okay. So let’s put this all together. Strzok texts, her to him, “We gotta get Comey fully up to speed because POTUS wants to know everything.” Meanwhile, Obama said, “Nah! There’s never, never any crossover. I never tell the DOJ what to do. I don’t care! I never interfere. There’s a line that we don’t cross. Guaranteed we don’t cross it. We never do cross it. I never tell Lynch; I never do anything.” But yet Lisa Page tells Strzok, “We gotta be thorough. POTUS wants to know everything.' ”

All text above from The Rush Limbaugh Show

 *Obama does not like to be challenged. One tell he has when an interviewer irritates him is to begin his answer with "Look......" 

Tony Branco

Also here: Newly-released Strzok-Page lovebird text messages: 'potus wants to know everything we're doing'  By Thomas Lifson.

Up until the present moment, Barack Obama has been missing in all the discussions of surveillance misbehavior. And most curiously, Obama has been almost invisible, staying quiet, and not using his expensive Washington, DC mansion (shared with [Valerie] Jarrett) as a base for leading the opposition to President Trump, as many of us expected him to do. 

Are progressives really smarter, as Jimmy Kimmel claims?

Steve Deace

"Newly appointed progressive prophet Jimmy Kimmel said this week, “It just so happens that almost every talk show host is a liberal and that’s because it requires a level of intelligence.”

"Want to test that theory? Is it true that being a progressive makes you smarter, as Kimmel claims? Fair enough. By their fruits you will know them.

"So let’s look at their fruits.

"*Comedian Sarah Silverman said during a telethon to support abortions — hosted by something called Lady Parts Justice — that a pro-life conscience law “would make her want to eat an aborted fetus.” Such a MENSA-level comment was made during a super smart game called “abortion charades,” which featured a woman wearing a vagina costume. Because apparently cannibalism is the new four-dimensional chess.

"*MSNBC “reporter” Katy Tur made it condescendingly clear that “choice” is a theory you only get to use for killing babies, not having them. " . . .

"*A man dressed as woman harassed a woman who was defending sexual assault victims, and the weird dude was awarded the win from the SJW cult. Actress Rose McGowan, who helped call out Harvey Weinstein, was speaking about her new book when a trans-splainer interrupted her and told her that wearing a dress when you have a penis is a much tougher cross to bear than being raped.  . . .

New Evidence Suggests Coordinated Effort Between Clinton Camp, State Dept on Dossier

Fox News Insider  Video at the link. "New reports show there may have been a circle of contact involving the Clinton campaign, Obama state department and figures involved in the Trump-Russia dossier.

"Martha MacCallum and Ed Henry reported that a foreign source gave information in the dossier to an unnamed Clinton associate, who gave it to the Obama administration, who passed it on to Steele, and "around and around."

"Judge Andrew Napolitano said he keyed-into an otherwise unremarkable reference in the FISA Memo, which referred to former MI6 Agent Christopher Steele as a "longtime FBI asset."

"Steele, the former British spy who is said to have compiled the Trump-Russia dossier, could have an "interesting problem," according to Napolitano.

"Napolitano said that at that time, the FBI was "conducting a fraudulent and deceptive investigation" of Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified emails." . . .

Gonzo Overkill

Why does every silver lining have a cloud in front of it?

Michael Ramirez

Newly-released Strzok-Page lovebird text messages: 'potus wants to know everything we're doing'. Plus the punking of Adam Schiff.

After this, what could possibly stop liberals from feeling shame over their party's actions? If President Trump became polite and tender toward them, would that make any difference to Democrats? TD

Thomas Lifson  "Tick, tick, tick… we’re getting closer and closer to the “What did the president know and when did he know it?” moment in the biggest political scandal in American history. What looks like a sitting president authorizing the use of the vast spy apparatus of the federal government on the opposing party candidate for president would, if proven, be far bigger than Watergate – a mere burglary intended to spy on the opposition. Pay attention because you may want to tell your children or grandchildren what it was like watching this all unfold in 2018.

"Up until the present moment, Barack Obama has been missing in all the discussions of surveillance misbehavior. And most curiously, Obama has been almost invisible, staying quiet, and not using his expensive Washington, DC mansion (shared with Valeire Jarrett) as a base for leading the opposition to President Trump, as many of us expected him to do. He is the only president I can remember who didn’t get out of DC when his term in office expired, yet he has been as invisible as if he were Truman retired to Independence or Eisenhower retired to Gettysburg. He hasn’t even spoken out about the opposition to his presidential monument planned for public park land in Chicago, My optimistic guess is that he realizes his peril and is dummying up.

"In a move calculated to infuriate the Democrats, the latest batch of text messages between senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page was leaked to Fox News first, and there are some striking revelations." . . .

Schiff Photo added, TD

Adam Schiff, gullible fool  "The easiest marks are the desperate ones, the ones who want something so bad it they lose their common sense, becoming putty in the hands of their manipulators.

"So here we have Rep. Adam Schiff, easy mark for a phone prank tailored especially for him by Russian comedians, pushing all his right buttons. Here is the audio, and man is it stupid. According to Roll Call:

Audio of Russian radio comedians prank-calling Democrat Rep.Adam Schiff shows the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee asking for details about the naked photos of President Donald Trump they were offering.

"It sounds like something out of the old Saturday Night Live, with Schiff joining the Czechoslovakian brothers in the great quest for ... naked photos. Schiff's got egg all over his face now, and more to the point, has now exposed the double standards of Democrats out to Get Trump." . . .

Gulag Bound has it's own take on this: Adam Schiff Gets Punked By Russians Who Told Him They Had Naked Pics Of Trump  . . . "The was made a year ago. Two Russian comedians nicknamed ‘Vovan’ and ‘Lexus’, who have spoofed other Democrats, were the pranksters here. They are famous for making phony phone calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities, including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John. Juvenile… yep. Telling… even more, yep. This was first dug up by The Atlantic, but they didn’t disclose how Schiff’s staff member went about pursuing the information after the call. Schiff’s office said the congressman suspected the call was ‘bogus’ from the beginning and reported it to authorities afterward. Really? Because it sure doesn’t look that way. In a recording of the eight-minute conversation, Schiff seemed to take the call seriously – or at least played along convincingly – and emails from the Democrat’s staff to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it ‘productive’. "
Photos, video and story at the UK Daily Mail.

Book Review: Fake News Follies of 2017

Legal Insurrection

"West Virginia’s prognosticating pundit Don Surber offers the first in what is likely to be his 8-edition series!"

. . . "Surber, a recovering journalist with over 30 years of experience, has been cataloging the #FakeNews that has been regularly offered as serious analysis of President Donald Trump’s actions, policies, and opinions. He has brought his enormous collection together in the longest, most serious book he has yet written: Fake News Follies 2017.

"Surber’s detailed look at the continuing media meltdown over Trump’s victory begins with the definition of “Fake News”.

In 2017, the media and Democratic Party officials defined Fake News as websites that look like news sites but disseminate information that is false or misleading. They included satirical sites.

President Trump and his supporters defined Fake News as news organizations that deliberately disseminated false stories. They did not include satirical sites. I define Fake News as the fog of war.

In 2017, much of the political media chose to go to war with Donald John Trump. They did not choose wisely.

"Surber’s clarity and wit make the study of the media’s blatant misrepresentations engaging and informative. He hits many #FakeNews gems that have been nearly forgotten the the avalanche of more recent, specious coverage of the memo release and immigration battle.

"Some chestnuts that he dusted off include:

• The spate of hate-crime hoaxes staged to smear Trump.
• The wild speculation passed of as in-the-know analysis of Trump’s likely cabinet picks (e.g. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) as Energy Secretary.
• The wacky theories about whether Melania Trump would actually be the acting First Lady.
• The fraudulent “fact-checkers”, Snopes  and PolitiFact.
• A prescient chapter on the real “wire-tapping” of Donald Trump, true news that the media ignores of obfuscates.

"One, particularly fascinating aspect of Fake News Follies 2017 is the background of Jeff Zucker, the President of CNN. Surber deftly details why Zucker has had his team focus the destruction of President Trump…when they aren’t wondering about black holes.

"I suspect CNN will remain a leading source of Surber’s upcoming editions of Fake News Follies.

"In conclusion: If you like a great, informative read that offers hard data blended in with crisp analysis, Surber’s book is a must-have. For those of us who follow the American press, it will be a wonderful reference to own.

"I can’t believe how much #FakeNews I had already forgotten!"

Plus these gems from a previous post in the Tunnel Wall:  The Media; always speaking nonsense to power

Democrats and the SOTU

Chris Matthews: Republicans Attack Nancy Pelosi Because She’s An ‘Ethnic Sort Of Person’

American Lookout  "Is Nancy Pelosi an ethnic person? MSNBC’s Chris Matthews seems to think so. He recently claimed on the air that this is the reason why Republicans attack her. Does Matthews know something the rest of us don’t?

"Truth Revolt reports:

"Chris Matthews: GOP Picking on Nancy Pelosi Because She’s an ‘Ethnic Person’

"Matthews and his panel were discussing the pushback from the GOP and President Trump against the California Democrat for having such a sour face during the State of the Union as well as her jabs at the tax reform bill. Instead of brushing it off as politics as usual, Matthews one-upped even himself by finding a far more nefarious reason Pelosi is being attacked:“ 'Picking on somebody from one of the coasts, usually ethnic, and making them the poster person of the Democratic Party is old business for the Republicans. They did it with — way back — to some guy from the Bronx back in the 40s; they did it with Bella Abzug from the west side of New York City; they did it to Tip O’Neil; they did it to Teddy… Kennedy, and now they do it after Nancy Pelosi. They love to get an ethnic sort of person from one of the coasts and make them the bad person.' ”