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Monday, June 11, 2018

Hypocrisy and the left

Elise Cooper "Obstruction, resistance, and lewdness are the leftists' approach. No matter what President Trump does, he will always be criticized.

"The Democrats and mainstream media say President Trump is anti-women. Yet Samantha Bee calls Ivanka the "C"-word. The Democrats and mainstream media say they are in favor of diversity, yet late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel rolled footage of the first lady reading a children's book, and the audience laughed at her accent. When she read, "... ask lots of questions about this and that," the audience laughed louder. For further comic effect, Kimmel repeated, "About dees and dat."

Video added by TD

"The Democrats and mainstream media call President Trump a warmonger after his statement about North Korea being met with fire and fury; many had the attitude of Representative David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, who said in a tweet, "This is not a time for escalating rhetoric that threatens to bring the world to the brink of war." But now they criticize him for his diplomatic moves. Even Bill Maher argues against the liberal trashing of this meeting by cable news networks, quoting one of them as saying, "Well, we'll just be giving Kim the respect he and his family has [sic] always craved."

"Anyone who looks at the picture of Merkel and Trump being circulated by the left sees their insincerity. I wonder, if it was reversed, if people would accuse him of bullying her. The way she is leaning forward with a stern face, hands on the table, and Trump sitting down. I guess the Germans forgot that even though they were so brutal, the U.S. was still willing to help them to become an economic power. Why is she not being accused of bullying? President Trump only wanted a complete removal of the trade barriers and a fair playing ground. But when have the Germans ever been fair?

"It is all about hating President Trump and the first family. Hypocrisy seems to be the Democrats' and the leftist media's middle name. "

The author writes for American Thinker. She has done book reviews and author interviews and has written a number of national security, political, and foreign policy articles.

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Krauthammer Is Dying With Dignity While Liberals Are Living With None

Derek Hunter in Townhall

At the end of his life, Charles Krauthammer will leave this world with the grace and dignity few of us could show, even on our best day. It’s a shame that many on the other team don’t have a best day in them, or even a decent one.

"Some people die with bravery, grace, and dignity while others live with none of those attributes.

"This truth was on full display Friday when Washington Post columnist and Fox News star Charles Krauthammer announced to the world what I’d heard in whispers for a couple of weeks – he was dying, he only has a few weeks left to live. The outpouring of love and admiration that followed was, no doubt, comforting for him and his family in this awful time.

"But, as has become all too common in the social media age, some liberals couldn’t let a day, or even an hour pass with them simply acting like normal, decent human beings, or at least confining their vile nature to their heads and small circle of troll-like friends. Not one hour.

"Liberal writer Barrett Brown took the opportunity to plug an anti-Krauthammer piece he’d written in Vanity Fair back in 2009, because he thought the world needed to know. On Twitter he added, “Here’s a summary I wrote for Vanity Fair of Krauthammer’s ongoing failure, from 1998 on, to get a single thing right about the subject on which he was inexplicably deemed an “expert”. His impending death will make the world a safer, more competent place.”

"Brown then went on a justification spree, with each excuse more pathetic than the last. People confident in their actions aren’t compelled to explain them to strangers pointing out how inhuman they were.

"Not to be outdone, human dumpster fire Oliver Willis, who writes for something called Share Blue (which reads like the modern English language version of Der Stürmer), went on a tweet storm, complaining, “death doesnt (sic) make a very bad guy a good guy.”

"Share Blue was founded by the same person who founded Media Matters, Oliver’s previous employer, alleged cocaine aficionado David Brock. That means he does this for a living and, outside of fascistic progressive fever dream factories, he’s otherwise unemployable." . . . Full article...

Auntie Maxine assembly flops

Legal Insurrection "More evidence is streaming in that the anti-Trump Blue Wave may not be as big as predicted.

"Today’s data point comes from the social media stream of “Mad” Maxine Waters, the quasi-lucid, vitriolic Congresswoman from California. Last Sunday, she hosted an event targeted for millennials, which attracted a vast crowd of….11.

Young people have stayed away in droves from a tweet-a-thon with their ‘fearless champion Auntie Maxine’ in an embarrassing snub to the so-called ‘influencer’.

Maxine Waters, 79, organised a ‘Meet & Greet Tweet-a-thon’ in an attempt to show how popular, and in touch she is with millennials.

The event was billed as a ‘coming together to amplify congresswoman Walters’ voice and highlight her ‘many achievements throughout her career’.

Young people were asked to join ‘top social media influencers for a tweet-a-thon in support of Auntie Maxine… come energized and ready to get out the vote’.

But it was a lonely-looking Waters taking to the microphone at Sunday’s event, as a video posted on her Twitter account showed just 11 millennials in attendance.

Sarah Sanders To CNN Producer: Congratulations, Once Again, You’re Wrong

Daily Caller "White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called out a CNN producer for fake news about the G7 Summit on Saturday.

"The saga started when Dan Scavino, an assistant to the president, tweeted out a behind-the-scenes photo of “negotiations” at the annual summit.

"CNN producer Greg Hughes, apparently unhappy that the photo showed a number of world leaders gathering around President Trump, insisted that the photo was just “clever visual messaging” and claimed without evidence that the event was a “group signing.”

"Pretty clever visual messaging here from the White House — taking some kind of group signing event and framing it instead to show President Trump seemingly holding court,” Hughes tweeted.

Pretty clever visual messaging here from the White House — taking some kind of group signing event and framing it instead to show President Trump seemingly holding court, with the rest of the G7 leaders clustered in around him https://t.co/kKKsQGDYjL

— Greg Hughes (@newsbyhughes) June 9, 2018

"Sanders hit back hard at Hughes, tweeting, “Congratulations! Once again you are wrong.”

“There was no ‘some kind of group signing’ taking place,” she wrote. “It was all negotiations. We were there. You were not.”

"Sanders finished by asking if the CNN producer would retract his “‘clever’ and completely inaccurate tweet.” . . . Via Weasel Zippers

John McCain viciously undermines Trump to world leaders in absolutely inexcusable message to our allies

Senator, this is how you will be remembered.

BPR "Poor John McCain. The Arizona senator, who’s battling terminal brain cancer, thinks someone died and made him the leader of the free world.

"Proving that he’s determined to be a thorn in President Trump’s side even on his deathbed, McCain once again tried to undermine the billionaire by slamming the tariffs Trump slapped on China and Canada (you know, like the ones they charge on American goods).

"Senator McCain tweeted during the G7 Summit: “To our allies: bipartisan majorities of Americans remain pro-free trade, pro-globalization and supportive of alliances based on 70 years of shared values. Americans stand with you, even if our president doesn’t.”

"For the record, a senator does not make U.S. trade policy, nor does he speak for all Americans.

"McCain was reacting to President Trump’s controversial announcement that the U.S. will impose tariffs on some imports from Canada and China to make up for the decades-long trade deficit with the two countries.

"Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese president Xi Jinping responded by imposing retaliatory tariffs.

What If Liberal Journalists Decided To Dox You For Thoughts On Social Media They Don’t Like

Weasel Zippers
So far I have only seen this done by liberals. Conservatives, let's keep it that way. Although it seems very tempting to "DOX" someone who has done that to others. TD

"It happened to a woman on Twitter who had 220,000 followers. Was very supportive of Trump and critical of Islamic extremism. Because the Huff Po decided they didn’t like what she said they hunted her down, doxxed her, went to her husband’s job and got him fired, named her brother and where his family’s business was, all to sic a social media mob on her. Extremely scary and troubling stuff. Yet they still see nothing wrong with it and the Huff Po supports the reporter.

Via Fox News:

Doxing is bad, just ask journalists who … do doxing. Wired describes doxing as “the distribution of someone’s personal information across the internet against their will.” It’s become an awful tool of online combat. It can result in threats and job loss. It’s been used by extremists of almost every political stripe.

Lately, it’s become a tool of so-called journalism. The Daily Beast used it to target the daughters of conservative Pamela Geller. This time it was used both by and against HuffPost staff. Reporter Luke O’Brien went digging into the woman behind a popular Twitter account with about 220,000 followers.

O’Brien’s subsequent article didn’t just attack the author of the account. It went after her family. Here’s the unsubtle headline: “Trump’s Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec.” Only at the time he wasn’t “ousted.” . . .

The story mentioned the woman’s husband who worked for pro wrestling’s WWE by name. O’Brien didn’t stop at targeting the man’s wife. He went after the man’s employer, asking for comment about the Twitter account.

When will Colorado apologize to the owner of Masterpiece Cake?

In this case, the Court ruled that the government of Colorado's enforcement arm for civil rights was bigoted, unfair, and arbitrary. If that doesn't warrant an apology, what does?

Rick Moran "Will the state of Colorado apologize to Masterpiece Cake owner Jack Phillips for putting him through years of bureaucratic hell? The Colorado government has an obligation in this case to try and make right a tremendous wrong they visited upon one of their citizens. This is especially true given the narrow nature of the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

New York Sun:

The court may have ducked whether a religious baker has a First Amendment right to refuse to craft a custom cake for a same sex wedding. It did not shrink, though, from the question of whether Colorado provided the hapless Christian a fair hearing.

The court concluded that Colorado failed. Colorado, the justices asserted, owed the baker, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, “an adjudication in which religious hostility on the part of the State itself would not be a factor.” Yet, the justices determined, “When the Colorado Civil Rights Commission considered this case, it did not do so with the religious neutrality that the Constitution requires.” . . .

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Anthony Bourdain’s Haunting Tweet Weeks Before His Suicide About How Hillary Clinton’s Goons Harassed Him

True Pundit

CNN Host Who Was Bullied On Twitter By Clinton Staffer Hangs Self

"Back in October of 2017, CNN’s Bourdain made statements regarding Harvey Weinstein, suggesting Hillary Clinton had to know of his history of being a sexual predator. Bourdain’s girlfriend, actress Asia Argento, accused Weinstein of raping her.

"The tweet angered Hillary spokesman, Brian Fallon. He took to Twitter to tell Bourdain to “eat a scorpion.' ”

"It’s no secret that people who cross the Clinton’s wind up dead…mostly from suicide. Just this week, famous designer and Clinton Foundation member, Kate Spade reportedly killed herself. Are Spade’s and Bourdain’s deaths both coincidences, or are they added bodies to the list of folks who made the mistake of angering Hillary and Bill?"

Obama’s ‘Red Line’ Debacle From the Inside

James Taranto at the WSJ

"Ben Rhodes worked for eight full years as Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications and speechwriting, a White House position that was inaugurated the same day Mr. Obama was. “Like Obama, Rhodes is a storyteller who uses a writer’s tools to advance an agenda that is packaged as politics but is often quite personal,” journalist David Samuels wrote in a 2016 profile. “Even where the particulars of that story are true, the implications that readers and viewers are encouraged to take away from those particulars are often misleading or false.”

"Is it possible that Mr. Rhodes’s talent for telling tales has gotten the better of him? This week he published “The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House.” A chapter excerpted in the Atlantic magazine tells the story of the 2013 Syria debacle, in which Mr. Obama backed down from his 2012 warning to dictator Bashar Assad that using “a whole bunch of chemical weapons” would violate an American “red line.”

"Mr. Rhodes’s prose is engaging, and his Syria narrative, contrary to his slippery reputation, is astonishingly candid. We can attribute his honesty to a lack of self-awareness. He depicts himself, Mr. Obama and other members of the former president’s team as not only tragically indecisive and irresponsible but self-absorbed to the point of moral insensateness. Yet there is no indication Mr. Rhodes understands that his account is damning. He even writes a happy ending for Mr. Obama." . . .

More Israel Demonizing Likely at Upcoming Presbyterian Church USA’s General Assembly

Legal Insurrection

A shrinking Protestant denomination that’s still obsessed against Israel

"From June 16-23 the General Assembly (GA) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will meet in St. Louis where delegates will consider for passage at least eight Israel-related resolutions.

"By contrast, in terms of its Middle East coverage, the GA is slated to consider only one overture “responding to the current Syrian crisis” and one responding to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

"That the PCUSA will be allowing a “concentration of Israel-denunciatory time and energy” throughout its weeklong GA comes as no surprise. As we and others have documented, for nearly 15 years the church has engaged in this “biennial ritual” of obsessive anti-Israel delegitimization:

"As we highlighted, the GA (which takes place every even-numbered year) has long been a “regular scene of controversy” over the denomination’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"The problem has emerged on account of the PCUSA’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), a small but well-organized and highly vocal group of virulently anti-Israel activists who have managed to dominate the Middle East-related agenda at the GA. There, they’ve repeatedly pushed proposals targeting Israel for condemnation and advancing the goals of the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement." . . .

Can someone please tell John McCain he can resign now?

Ed Straker

McCain is refusing to resign. Out of spite, he's leaving the people of Arizona without full representation in the Senate. In a tight 51-49 GOP-controlled body, the absence of one senator is critical on many votes.
McCain apparently does not care.

"June 1 has come and passed. Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief.

"Under Arizona law, if John McCain had vacated office before June 1 ("vacated" meaning "died"), there would be a special election in November to replace him. But having passed this June deadline, if McCain resigns, he can be replaced by an appointee of the governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, a conservative Republican, and this appointee will serve until 2020.

"The problem is, McCain hasn't resigned.

"McCain has been so ill that he hasn't been seen in the Senate for months. He has missed countless votes. Arizona is without half its representation in the Senate, and that's only if you count Jeff Flake.

"So why hasn't McCain resigned?

"The answer is unclear, but it may boil down to one word: Cindy.

"McCain wants his wife, Cindy McCain, to take his place. McCain may feel that he is royalty and his Senate seat is like a throne that can be passed down to relatives.

One source close to the McCain family said supporters of the senator have quietly let Gov. Ducey know Cindy is the choice of "Team McCain." . . .

Why do we think of McCain as spiteful? Let us count the ways:

Senator McCain’s Spiteful Farewell "Someone should walk up and put in a copy of the Christopher Steele dossier to be with Senator McCain for eternity."

John McCain Shows Signs of Life With Spiteful Vote to Kill Bad Environmental Bill

Spiteful McCain Doesn’t Bother to Read ‘America First’ Policies . . . "Turns out, John McCain has not even read President Trump’s pro-America immigration reform." . . .

John McCain Bemoans Choosing Palin as Running Mate

"Bitter old man John McCain now says that he regrets picking Sarah Palin as his VP pick. Is he trying to burn every bridge that he has ever built?" said Chuck Woolery

And on and on...

Transgenders Take 1st And 2nd In Girls Track Competitions; One Sets New Time Record

The death of Western Civilization; we've become a silly, silly people and these are the things we bring about. Mr. Dupree is justifiably disturbed by the lack of resistance, but who will resist and face the loss of their career?
The coach who was so tolerant must have visualized his remarks being played on CNN and MSNBC and outrage from "journalists". TD*

Wayne Dupree Video address

"So many people if they agree this is wrong can push back on this type of cheating and stop it as a majority"

"I know how I feel but women today claim they can do whatever a man can do so I will digress and watch from afar. If the transgenders decide to destroy each woman’s track and field record from here to kingdom come, let them. They do not have the mindset to fight against it, and they complain that they don’t need a man to argue for them, so that lets me know it’s time to watch and stay put."

Yearwood won the Class M sprint titles last year; Miller competed on the boys’ team during the winter indoor season then joined the girls’ competition."Asked about the two girls who worked for years who got knocked out of the finals by Miller and Yearwood and the two girls who finished seventh and eighth in the finals who were denied a chance to compete in the New England championships, CIAC executive director Karissa Niehoff said, “We do feel for them. Fully agree it doesn’t feel good. The optic isn’t good. But we really do have to look at the bigger issues that speak to civil rights and the fact this is high school sports.”"Hillhouse coach Gary Moore told Hearst Connecticut Media that Miller should be able to compete, but the situation “wasn’t fair to the girls,” adding, something should be done to “level the playing field.” He stated, “I’ve been stopped by at least five coaches, all of them saying they really liked what I said in the paper. How come other coaches aren’t talking? This is a big issue a lot of coaches have, that we’ve got to do something, but how come you’re not saying anything? I’ve said what I needed to say. I’m getting a little annoyed with the coaches that we haven’t been able to get together and do what’s best for everybody.' ” . . .

And that would be what?

* Along these same lines:
Universities marking down students for using banned gender terms
"Gender madness is being enforced with the iron fist of bad grades at some of Australia's leading universities." . . .