"Brit Hume delivers devastating slap-down to Trump-hating lefty Soledad O’Brien"

Thomas Lifson  "It is now an established practice in roughly 90% of the American media that anything that President Trump does is wrong, and usually an outrage. Thus, when he and Melania flew to Iraq and Germany for a post-Christmas visit to the troops deployed there, it had to be bad, a transparently craven reaction to criticisms that had started appearing in lefty media that he had not yet visited troops in a war zone – as all his recent predecessors had done -- as his first term in office neared its halfway point.

"Brit Hume, the senior commentator at Fox News, and a man who has seen it all in the DC swamp over the last several decades, was not an early Trump supporter, but over the last couple of years, seems to have had his fill of TDS-addled media figures hyperventilating about everything Trump does.

"Soledad O’Brien has not been around the media as long as Brit Hume, but her background includes stints at a number of the major Trump-hating broadcast outlets, including MSNBC, CNN (where she anchored the morning show Starting Point) and HBO. Now she runs a

company called Starfish Media Group, whose website describes its role as writing material for corporate and nonprofit clients to make them look good (my paraphrasing of this):

. . . Our clients rely on our journalism and storytelling to amplify their brand messages, and together, we create memorable campaigns.

 "[Cough!] If it is written at the behest of the subject who is paying you, it ain't properly called "journalism." The charitable term is "PR" and less charitable ones include "propaganda" and "flackery" among others. " . . .

Here is part of the Hume-O'Brien exchange from Don Surber:

O'Brien reverted to her CNN culture with this response to Hume:

"Sorry—let me spell it out more slowly so you can understand me: the President (according to cnn’s Barabar Starr*) prepped for this trip several weeks ago," O'Brien retorted in a tweet liked 860 times as of Thursday morning.
"The shaming seems to have worked," she added. "I hope you’re having a nice holiday. Try not to be such an a**hole in 2019."

* Barbara Starr (Misspelled by O'Brien)

Sharyl Attkisson: 63 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List

www.terrellaftermath.com/

Sharyl Attkisson  Ms. Attkisson has quite a list and the post here is, as you can see, the latest in a long compilation by her and relates to the Rich Terrell Aftermath illustration above.

63. Dec. 26, 2018

NBC reported that Trump was the first President since 2002 not to visit the troops at Christmastime. But he (and First Lady Melania) did. NBC added a note to its story but left the false headline in place.

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"Politicians are often fact-challenged. But for us in the media— our whole business is in facts. And we’ve played too fast and loose with our own." . . .

These Five Democrats sponsored HR7332 to prevent taxpayer funds from being used to build the border wall

Two are from California.

Their oath of office : “I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

Check out the nice, friendly name: H.R. 7332: Protect American Taxpayers and Secure Border Act  Some of the bill's content is here:

This Act may be cited as the Protect American Taxpayers and Secure Border Act.
2.Prohibitions and requirements relating to border security
(a)

In general

No taxpayer funds may be obligated or expended to build a wall or barrier intended to impede travel between Mexico and the United States.
(b)

Foreign payment required

Any wall or barrier described in subsection (a) that is proposed to be built shall be paid for using funds provided by the Government of Mexico.
(c)

Securing the southern border

The Secretary of Homeland Security shall take such actions as may be necessary to secure the southern border by making maximum effective utilization of technology and improved training of U.S. Custom and Border Protection agents and officers.
(d)

Increase in immigration judges

The Attorney General may appoint 100 additional immigration judges in addition to immigration judges currently serving as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
(e)

Humanitarian assistance

The Secretary of Homeland Security shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that humanitarian assistance is provided to immigrants, refugees, and other displaced persons who are in need of medical assistance and aid to sustain health and life.

It is time to consider Antifa a terrorist group.

Antifa Thugs Mace, Attack And Rob Marines In Brutal Assault

The Federalist Papers  "A Philadelphia based back of Antifa terrorist attacked Marine reservists and called them Nazis and they did it in the most cowardly way possible.

"Knowing there was no way they could take on Marine reservists in a fair fight they maced them first and then attacked, Philadelphia Magazine reported.

"And now the suspected ring leader is in custody.

"Investigators say that a group of men and women maced, punched, kicked, and robbed the reservists near Front and Chestnut streets on Saturday, November 17th, around 3:20 p.m., just down the street from the controversial “We the People” rally. The group allegedly called the reservists “Nazis” and “white supremacists.”
"According to police, [Tom] Keenan, a 33-year-old Mount Airy resident, turned himself last week.
"He has been charged with two counts each of criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, simple assault, and reckless endangerment. Keenan, who was not charged with robbery, was released on bail and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on December 6th." . . .

Philly Antifa Activist Tom Keenan Charged in Assault on Marines Police video
"In 2007, Keenan was arrested as one of the so-called “Love Park 4” after an incident involving a purported Ku Klux Klan rally in the well-known park near City Hall. He was charged with criminal conspiracy, institutional vandalism, resisting arrest, and criminal mischief, among other offenses, and eventually made a plea deal, pleading guilty to one summary offense of disorderly conduct, while all other charges were withdrawn." . . .
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How much sillier can Democrats become? Dem Senators To Judicial Appointee: Why Did You Join The Extremist … Knights Of Columbus?

May Heaven help America if the American public elects people like this to govern our country!

Hot Air

"Oh, and just for the record: I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Knights of Columbus. I dig the uniforms, though. All kidding aside, they’re a great group of men who do really good work in our communities. They deserve a lot better treatment than this. Hirono and Harris should be ashamed of themselves."

. . . Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised concerns about membership in the Knights of Columbus while the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed the candidacy of Brian C. Buescher, an Omaha-based lawyer nominated by President Trump to sit on the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.Senators also asked whether belonging to the Catholic charitable organization could prevent judges from hearing cases “fairly and impartially.”In written questions sent to Buescher by committee members Dec. 5, Sen. Hirono stated that “the Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions. For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage.”Hirono then asked Buescher if he would quit the group if he was confirmed “to avoid any appearance of bias.”

. . . "The Knights of Columbus are about as extremist as your average Rotary Club, as Paul Mirengoff noted last night. It’s a community service organization within the Catholic laity, whose forays into politics are in support of traditional Catholic teachings. Its individual members are probably likely to be regular Mass participants and more engaged in living those teachings as well. That, of course, is the point of social organizations in a church."

. . . "Ramesh Ponnuru sniffs out the scent of Know-Nothing anti-Catholicism, and a broader hostility to Christianity in general, in the letter from Hirono and Harris:" . . .

Captain KIRK Meets Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Published previously in 2016, edited here for 2018.

Ann Coulter

It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglika, " which he based on the philosophy of "Mein Kampf" -- and clueless public school teachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday. 

Amazon

. . . "Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves. 

"In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It's the same function MSNBC and CNN serve today.)

"By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect.

"Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. Although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers, they did not seek armed revolution.

"Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant.) " . . .

 "Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto the black community by the founder of a murderous black nationalist cult with the FBI's seal of approval. 
. . .  
"Sing to "Jingle Bells": 

Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday! 

"Only white liberals take Kwanzaa seriously. American Blacks celebrate Christmas. "

"Merry Christmas, fellow Christians! "

The Mueller Investigation Is Stirring Up More Trouble Than It’s Finding

Victor Davis Hanson

"Suspicion of collusion was the reason that Mueller was appointed in the first place.   "Add it all up, and we have reached the point where the Mueller team may be constructing more crimes than it is finding."

 "After 19 months, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has charged a number of targets with almost every conceivable sin — except collusion with Russia to throw an election. Yet suspicion of collusion was the reason that Mueller was appointed in the first place.
"President Trump’s former consigliere, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. But as part of his plea deal, Cohen also confessed to a superfluous charge of a campaign-finance violation.
"Cohen allegedly negotiated a nondisclosure agreement concerning a supposed past Trump liaison with porn star Stormy Daniels. Yet no one alleges that Trump used cash from his 2016 campaign account to buy Daniels’ silence.
"Instead, the accusation is that Cohen and Trump used Trump’s own money, but they did not report the payout as a “contribution” to his campaign. But Trump likely would have paid off Daniels anyway to protect his marriage, family, and reputation, regardless of whether he was running for office.
"If you take media-sensationalized sex out of the equation, Trump, like any other American, has the right to pay anyone whatever he wishes to keep quiet about past embarrassing behavior, whether that be secretly gulping down too many Big Macs or cheating on the golf course." . . .

Melania Trump, first lady and role model, rises above Democratic pettiness

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

In ‘Vice,’ lots of convenient lies about Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney

NY Post  

Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in “Vice”

"The initial warning is given before “Vice” even starts, in an onscreen note: It’s a “true story,” we’re told. But it’s hard to be strictly factually accurate, the note adds, because Dick Cheney is such a secretive bastard. So it’s really the former vice president’s fault if anything in the movie happens to be wrong.

"Yet at the end a character will break the fourth wall to assert that the whole thing is factual and to add, sarcastically: “Because I have the ability to understand facts, that makes me a liberal?” That sounds like an invitation to consider the facts and logic of “Vice.” I accept.

"Near the start, writer-director Adam McKay implies that Cheney’s father-in-law murdered his mother-in-law by drowning her in a lake*. Huh? What does this have to do with Cheney? Is there more evidence for this than is presented in the movie, which is none?

"After dropping some light murder innuendo, McKay just bustles on. Cheney (Christian Bale) is portrayed as a dirtbag who was kicked out of Yale for boozing and brawling. When he first arrives in Washington, he asks others what he is supposed to believe, because all he knows is that he wants to work for a charismatic White House official, Donald Rumsfeld (played as a sort of Machiavellian yokel by Steve Carell)." . . .

* You mean kinda like Kennedy and Chappaquiddick?

Argentinian President Claims Former Obama Official Asked The Country To Provide Iran With Nuclear Fuel

Forbes, written by Democrat spokesman Doug Schoen in 2015

President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addresses the
70th Session of the UN General Assembly.

"It felt like hours, but was only a mere 45 seconds.

"In perhaps the most moving moment of this weeks United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stared down the audience in a moment of silence that made all those there – and the rest of us watching on television – feel the weight of his message: The Iran deal makes war more likely.

"Netanyahu continued, “I refuse to be silent. The days when the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over.”

"Israel has always reserved the right to defend itself against its enemies, a point Netanyahu hammered home this week.

"Indeed, the nuclear agreement with Iran has been a hot topic in US politics, featuring prominently in the presidential campaign and across Congress. We now know that despite the fact that only 21% of Americans approve of the deal, the White House and Democrats have a bulletproof plan securing its passage.

"But it appears that we don’t know the whole story . . .

Melania Trump, first lady and role model, rises above Democratic pettiness

Washington Times  

"Despite the efforts of a miserable American media and liberal establishment to malign her, first lady Melania Trump continues on with work that endears her to the American public.

"Her agenda as first lady is expansive, focusing on children and the importance of all aspects of their lives, from self-esteem to education to health care. Our nation has a first lady who is smart, beautiful and a person of faith. She is committed to her family and to this nation.

"Her sense of self-worth is not reliant on whether or not she’s on the cover of Vogue or invited to certain cocktail parties. She is her own woman — strong, independent, and won’t be bullied.

"And for today’s liberals and Democrats, that is her crime.

"Mrs. Trump has suffered ignominious insults and attacks, first as candidate Donald Trump’s wife, but inexplicably even more so as the first lady. Yet, it is her reaction to the critics that sets her apart and highlights just exactly how ugly others become when jealousy and envy take root.

"For two Christmases now, we’ve enjoyed her sense of style, which has transformed the White House into a dazzling reminder of the beauty of the season." . . .