Establishment Media Bias Blames Its Victims

Tony Branco

The American Spectator  Increasingly the public sees through the media’s arrogance and double-dealing.

"Liberals love victims… except those of establishment media bias. The American public astutely recognizes the bias, even as the establishment media adamantly refuses to acknowledge it. This ironic role reversal — from publicizer to perpetuator — reveals the true goal in the left’s love of victims and the establishment media’s role in advancing it.

"No group exalts victimhood like the left. In its view, there is no greater sin than to “blame the victim.” Yet, this is precisely what the establishment media does to those who dare confront its evident bias.

"Those with the temerity to expose the obvious are immediately labeled for relegation — haters, racists, misogynists, xenophobes, homophobes, traitors to their group, ignorant, or themselves biased — simply fill in the blank. To rephrase Shakespeare: The fault lies in themselves, not in their media stars.

"This increasingly occurs as evidence of establishment media bias grows. The proof comes from the public the professes to serve. Americans see the establishment media as biased — particularly against conservatives.

"Just before the election (10/25), Rasmussen released a poll showing 56 percent of Americans thought reporters were trying to influence the election when they wrote about a congressional race — and by 4-1, they were perceived as trying to help the Democrat. Just days later, Morning Consult wrote that 64 percent of voters said the press had done more to divide the country than had President Trump (56 percent).

"An internet search provides countless confirmation of this perceived bias. No wonder. Only those sharing the same anti-conservative bias cannot see the establishment media’s. Ignoring larger liberal failings and harping on — if not concocting — even picayune conservative ones were obvious through the Obama administration, the 2016 presidential campaign, and the Trump administration’s first two years.

"The establishment media’s treatment of the public it claims to serve starkly exposes what the left does with power once it actually attains it. Despite professing a desire to sow fairness and harvest harmony, liberals beat any plowshare into a sword as soon as they get it." . . .

Well, at least Hollywood still loves the Clintons

Is the Clinton stadium tour going to be canceled?  "So far, half of the events scheduled for the stadium tour of Bill and Hillary Clinton have been canceled.  Even worse, both of the two out of four events canceled were in the United States, and the two conversations delivered to audiences were both in Canada.

"Advance ticket sales for last night's scheduled event in Sugarland, Texas, a suburb of Houston, were so dismal that prices were slashed by 90% for the cheapest seats.  But even that level of discounting apparently didn't prevent another prospective sea of empty seats, such as the 83% empty arena in Toronto that had to be humiliating for the fading former first family." . . .

The contract between the Clintons and the tour-promoter, Live Nation, a publicly owned New York Stock Exchange-listed company with over ten billion dollars a year in sales, is confidential, so I don't know if the Clintons have a guaranteed minimum compensation.  But it is a pretty safe guess that poor attendance and deep discounts for ticket prices mean that the tour is losing money for Live Nation with each poorly attended show.  It is not cheap to rent stadiums, hire staff, provide security, and charter jets for the Clintons.How much money would a publicly owned company be willing to lose in order to save face for the Cintons, now that they are unlikely ever to regain use of the Oval Office?

 Full article here.

The Clintons Are Now The 'Spinal Tap' Of The Political World  . . . "At one point in the movie "This Is Spinal Tap"— a "rockumentary" about a fictitious aging British heavy metal band on tour in America — documentarian Marty DiBergi asks the band's manager, Ian Faith, about the band's waning popularity.

Marty: The last time Tap toured America, they were, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas, and 15,000 seat venues, and it seems that now, on their current tour they're being booked into 1,200 seat arenas, 1,500 seat arenas, and uh I was just wondering, does this mean uh ... the popularity of the group is waning?Ian: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no ... no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the ... uh ... their appeal is becoming more selective.

"Based on the first leg of their big 13-city cross-country tour, the Clintons' appeal is becoming very selective, indeed." . . .

Source: Lucianne

 Does SNL's kate McKinnon still think of Hillary as her "dreamboat"?

Russia’s Not the Biggest Threat to Our REPUBLIC, California Is

Independent Sentinel  "The politicians are so very worried about Russia corrupting elections, so please tell me why they aren’t worried about California. Communists and Socialists are stealing elections. In the California system, no one can or will check for voter fraud. It’s literally impossible.
"Orange County, a conservative area of California, turned deep blue this mid-term. Much of the change resulted from ballot harvesting, but there is so much more to know. For instance, according to the tallies, every Democrat voted in Orange County and one district had 120 percent show up to vote.
"Ballot harvesting accounted in part for the loss of Orange County and districts elsewhere in the United States. Thanks to a new bill signed in 2016 by former (leftist) Governor Jerry Brown, ballot harvesting is now in place in California and it greatly facilitates rampant voter fraud.
"California’s AB 1921 allows voters to give any third party — not just a relative or someone living in the same household, as was previously the law — to collect and turn in anyone else’s completed ballot." . . .

Turns out this was the banner year that EVERYONE is mailed a ballot and you can vote anywhere #CitizenAudit One voting location:

These ballot drop-off locations reported on in the article, and the areas voting for Gavin Newsome over Cox.

Oh, by the way...If You’re Looking For The Documented Evidence Of Voter Fraud In Broward County, Here It Is  "So, there have been a lot of reports about the fiasco that took place during the midterm elections across the nation as several states experienced what can only be explained as clear voter fraud, and some are still facing it.  However, Broward County, as usual, became one of the highlighted areas of voter fraud in Florida.  Now, we are no longer speculating about voter fraud, we have documented evidence of it." . . .

Angry French middle-class rioters and clueless liberals in America

It is hard to visualize Californians rioting over things like this; they're too mellow. Unless of course, someone opposes illegal immigration or gay marriage, then it's Katy, bar the door (Millennials may have to Google that term). TD

The French flinch: French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced Tuesday that the government is suspending a gas tax that roiled the country in widespread violence and chaos.

No leftist introspection so far. After Paris riots and green tax retreat, warmists at yet another UN Meeting escalate rhetoric, warn of the end of 'civilization'

. . . "And never mind the decline in global temperatures the last two years.  There are models that can rationalize that away.Trust the experts!Meanwhile, watch what the warmists do, not what they say.Here is what Bernie Sanders says about global warming: . . .

. . . "Glenn Reynolds, law professor and proprietor of Instapundit, has it exactly right when he says: "I'll believe global warming is a crisis when the people telling me it is a crisis start acting like it is a crisis!"

"Here we were able to elect a man whom the elites loathe – but who is making our government act again (as it used to and as it was designed to) on our behalf."

. . . "The trigger was a grossly high tax on gasoline, this to satisfy the green lobby – one designed to "wean" the French people off fossil fuels."But who uses such fuels?  Who depends on automobiles to get around?"Not the elites making the decision.  They live in cities such as Paris.  No, it was the nobodies who live in the sticks."

 Protesters chanted "We want Trump!"  . . . "If people cannot afford to drive their vehicles and possibly heat their homes, climate change is going to be of little significance to them. Climate change is a failed science predicated on money, money and profit for the wealthy industrialists and governments that push this propaganda.
"Oh, and lets not forget former presidents, like Barack Obama who said climate change is not being “fixed” because – “We could reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent, and it’s not like we would all have to go back to caves and live off fire … The reason we don’t do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, [and] mommy issues.”
"Climate change also has other insidious aspects to it, climate change is:" . . . Read on...
"Mommy issues"?

Criminals and partisans, accusing others of criminality and partisanship

Victor Davis Hanson "Robert Mueller’s legal team may write a damning report on Trump’s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump’s and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences.

"So far, we know that the U.S. government decided to intervene in a political campaign to help one candidate and to smear the other — under the pretext of Russian “collusion.” And so it hired or made use of spies and informants including Hank Greenberg, Stefan Halper, Felix Sater, and others to contact Trump campaign officials to catch them in supposed collusion traps. It enlisted the help of foreign intelligence agencies, specifically the British and Australians. It misled FISA courts into granting warrants to spy on Americans and, post factum, threatened long prisons sentences with those surveilled and interviewed. And as a result, it has so far found no collusion but may well find some misleading statements in hundreds of hours of testimonies from the likes of Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and perhaps Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone. 

"Mueller cannot fulfill the hype of the past 18 months, which forecast that the “all-stars,” the “dream-team,” and the Mueller “army” would make short work of the supposedly buffoonish Trump by proving that he colluded with Russia to swing an election. Collusion, remember, was hyped as doing what the Logan Act, the emoluments clause, the 25th Amendment, impeachment, media frenzy, and assassination-chic rhetoric had not. By indicting a number of minor characters on charges that so far have nothing to do with collusion — for purported crimes mostly committed after the special-counsel appointment — Mueller has emphasized the quantity rather than the quality of indictments." . . .

CNN . . . falsely reported a number of damaging Trump stories: that transition official Anthony Scaramucci had colluded with a Russian financial official about easing sanctions; that Donald Trump knew in advance of a meeting that his son had agreed to with a Russian operator; that Trump Jr. knew in advance of the contents of the WikiLeaks Podesta trove; and that James Comey would testify to Congress that he never had assured Trump he was not under investigation.

Tony Branco

Coming to California soon! French Middle Class Riots Against Macron’s Carbon Tax

Rush Limbaugh  "Now, I want to move to what’s happening in France. Have you seen at all in the last week any video out of France, what’s happening over there? Just a few seconds, huh? Here’s the thing about this. Isn’t Europe utopia? Isn’t Europe showing us the way? Don’t our elites tell us that our future is emulating Europe, from trains to climate change to immigration, the Europeans are doing it right. The Europeans have got it down pat, right?

"Well, in this case, the Europeans, the French, are doing exactly what the global climate change political movement wants done! This young little whippersnapper president has put a massive tax on carbon, which has driven the price of gasoline to over seven bucks a gone. Now, they want you to believe, to the extent that they’re reporting this, that interestingly the media wants you to believe, that it’s extreme leftists that are wearing the yellow vests and are protesting. That’s not who’s protesting."  . . .    

. . . You know, I’m wondering why this is isn’t a bigger story in the Drive-By Media. Riots in utopian Europe over fuel taxes. Yeah, yeah, don’t let that become a thing. See, fuel taxes like this are part and parcel of saving the planet. Fuel taxes, carbon tax, gasoline prices way over seven bucks. That’s what we have to do, folks, to save the planet. That’s what these global climate change, global warming people are after.

Bay Area exodus: Here are the companies that have moved headquarters or opened offices out of California

San Francisco Business Times  "Every week brings news of yet another Bay Area company that plans to move its headquarters out of the region — essentially saying enough is enough.

"Enough with drug-users shooting up across from Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. Enough with walking by someone defecating in the street in the city’s Financial District, enough with avoiding confrontations with the homeless who appear mentally ill.

"Those quality of life issues are on top of the escalating housing costs, growing traffic congestion and higher taxes that are likely to only get worse as President Trump’s tax overhaul means many of the Bay Area’s most successful residents will be paying more to the IRS." . . .

Here are just a few of the companies leaving the area. Many others are listed at this link.

Company Name	Bay Area HQ	New HQ Location	Satellite office/ HQ2 location
Bechtel	San Francisco	Reston, Virginia
Charles Schwab	San Francisco		New or expanded offices in Denver, Dallas and El Paso
Jamba Juice	Emeryville	Dallas, Texas
McKesson	San Francisco	Dallas, Texas
Pandora	Oakland		Atlanta, Georgia
			Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Ca.

Business Exodus From California Is More Troubling Than Sanctuary Policies

ChiefExecutive

. . . “I moved for three reasons – taxes, regulations and quality-of-life,” said Joseph Vranich, president of the boutique consulting firm. “First, I’ll have greater freedom in my business now that I’m free of California’s notorious regulatory environment and threats of frivolous lawsuits that hurt small businesses like mine,” he said. . . .

Nestle and others in California quietly admit that they are overtaxed and over-regulated, and elected officials treat them not as honored members of the community but as rapacious pirates. Apart from having higher taxes, absurd housing costs and more regulations than nearly any other state, says IBD, California’s wacky laws have turned the Golden State into a venue of choice for activist groups to file costly class action lawsuits — or to launch anti-corporate PR campaigns against big, wealthy targets like Nestle.  (vexatious litigants)

"California is facing a bigger issue than its tussle with the Federal government over sanctuary cities. According to a November report from the U.S Census Bureau, the Golden State has had 142,932 more residents exit to live in other states than people arriving from other states. This domestic outmigration was the second largest outflow in the U.S. behind New York and New Jersey. It was up 11 percent (13,699 net departures) compared to 2015.

Added by TD

"The state’s net outmigration has been continuing for over two decades, yet the state’s population continues to grow owing to foreign immigration. According to  census numbers  some 108,301, or 0.3 percent immigrants came to California as new residents from other countries. That and more births than deaths contributed to limited population growth. To everyone else the state has become a hard sell to people who presently live elsewhere in the country.

"What is more serious is the number of California-based companies that have left or signaled their intention to leave the state. Last year marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s a symbol for what’s become a stream of businesses that have quit California. What was once an almost quiet exodus of companies now looks more like a stampede." . . . (Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Ca.)

The dead-broke Clintons need your help

Steyn on Clintons: They 'Raked in Big Bucks from Kazakh Oligarchs, But Can't Get People to Give Them $10'  . . . "Steyn said the Clintons are a "contrast" to the late President George H.W. Bush, who was lying in state at the Capitol rotunda on a split-screen.
"He called Bush a "model of a dignified political life" and praised the late Republican's choice to remain largely out of the spotlight during his successors terms.
"The Clintons, Steyn said, were the opposite: "They're on a perpetual hamster wheel.' "

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s National Tour Features Seas of Empty Seats
"No one is exactly sure why the Clintons have decided to do a national tour. They’re not running for anything that anyone knows of, and they certainly don’t need the money. The optics aren’t great for them, either. They’re playing to lots of empty seats." . . .

Clintons on sale: 90% off  . . . "When the tour was announced two months ago, the cheapest seats were $70.

"Now, $6 gets you in.
"The cheapest Cleveland Cavaliers ticket is $24 -- and that's without LeBron James on the team." . . .

"They have receded from a power couple to a couple of the powerless.

"I am sure they got paid upfront. My hope is whoever put this wingding together loses money. Bigly." . . .

If the ladies in this choir showed up in support of Hillary, perhaps the crowd would double:

Snowflakes' Effect on American Culture

Liberals suck every ounce of pleasure out of any room

Women Now Claim This Popular DISNEY Song Promotes Sexual Assault "An all-male a cappella group at a prestigious university will no longer sing one well-known Disney song because some audience members — and one sophomore who wrote an article about it for the student newspaper — found it to be “uncomfortable.”  
"Of course, this is all happening at an Ivy League college: Princeton University."

Phrases like 'bring home the bacon' and 'take the bull by the horns' will go out of fashion to avoid offending rising numbers of vegans, academic claims  . . . "Dr Hamzah said the influence of veganism will raise awareness of animal cruelty and push people towards using less meaty metaphors." . . .

Vegan scolds go Orwellian with proposal to eliminate meat metaphors




‘Whiteness’ Forum Denounces The Christian Cartoon ‘VeggieTales’ As Racist

How they look without their white sheets and hoods

. . . According to The College Fix, Cal State San Marcos held a so-called “Whiteness Forum” last Thursday where a variety of topics pertaining to America’s systemic racism was discussed. The two-hour event featured more than a dozen poster board projects critiquing various aspects of society. On top of lambasting the NFL and white women for perpetuating racism, the cartoon where talking vegetables perform biblical stories for children somehow found its way into the discussion, with speakers alleging it portrays racial stereotypes.
“ 'The Christian cartoon ‘VeggieTales’ is racist because the villains are vegetables of color,” The College Fix reports the forum as saying.

"A female student who worked on the forum told The College Fix that the villains in “VeggieTales” have ethnic accents, such as Latino, while the heroic characters sound white.

“ 'When kids see the good white character triumph over the bad person of color character, they are taught that white is right and minorities are the source of evil,” the project stated. – READ MORE

CNN Panel Trashes Trump After He Goes To Capitol To Quietly Visit And Honor George H.W. Bush

Another reason why I protested to our local McDonalds about CNN being their constant station. Last time I was in there they had a home improvement show on.

Weasel Zippers  "When everyone is putting politics aside, watch CNN try to be divisive, yet again. Trump gave a very nice statement, sent the plane to bring him to Washington, D.C. and tries to quietly pay his respects, but it’s never enough for these folks.

"Via Fox News:

A CNN panel blasted President Donald Trump on Monday immediately following his visit to the U.S. Capitol where he paid his respects to former President George H.W. Bush.

Before President Trump and first lady Melania Trump appeared in the rotunda, CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel began by insisting that the celebration of Bush’s life “sends a message” to Trump that “this is how it’s done.”

“Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, two Democrats- they called Bush 41 a gentleman, total class. This is the embodiment of just how different it can be,” Gangel told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. “And that’s a message to Trump.”

Gangel criticized the current president moments after he stepped out of the rotunda, saying he doesn’t “mend fences” in the wake of the open hostility that took place between Trump and the Bush family.

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Dick’s Sales Continue To Plummet As Company Promotes Anti-Gun Message

The Common Constitutionalist  "I hear Dick’s Sporting Goods is branching out. Now that they sell virtually no guns anymore at their “Sporting Goods” stores, they’ve decided to fill those empty shelves with scented candles, potpourri and dream catchers, in addition to camping and fishing equipment. And with every purchase during this holiday season, of $50 or more, the patron receives a free Michael Bloomberg, gun control bobblehead. Well…that’s what I heard!
"Obviously, this is nonsense. I mean the scented candles, potpourri, dream catchersand bobbleheads, not the fact that Dick’s Sporting Goods is yanking virtually every gun and all ammunition off their shelves.
"Yes, Ed Stack, CEO of Dick’s, and his fellow corporate executives have decided they will no longer be the purveyors of any instruments of death.
"But it’s not just that. Oh no – it goes much further than merely refusing to sell guns anymore.
"If you recall, I chronicled Dick’s original decision to pull just the “scary” weapons, like the AR-15, off their shelves in February this year, and worse, even hired anti-gun lobbyists last April.
"This all came about when CEO Stack claimed he was so moved by the outcry for stricter gun control after the Parkland school shootings. It was revealed that the murderer, Nikolas Cruz, had purchased a firearm from one of their stores. Of course, Cruz didn’t use the Dick’s weapon during his rampage, but he could have. This was the logic and impetuous for Stack’s decision." . . .