Candace Owens Crushes Dishonest Democrat; Ted Lieu. Democrat. California.

Speaking of Ted Lieu. Democrat. California.  . . . "He purposely wanted to give you a cutup similar to what they do to Donald Trump to create a differentiate narrative. That was unbelievably dishonest."

Rush Limbaugh  "RUSH: Now, audio sound bites. I have to tell you there was an exchange yesterday in Washington, Capitol Hill, House Judiciary Committee. C-SPAN has reported that a clip, a confrontation between Candace Owens and Ted Lieu, Democrat, California, has become the most viewed C-SPAN Twitter video from a House hearing ever, in 24 hours, 4.47 million viewers in less than 24 hours." . . .

. . . The House Judiciary Committee yesterday conducted a hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism. Candace Owens, director of communications for Turning Point USA, was one of those testifying. Congressman Ted Lieu, Democrat, California, was there. He’s a Twitter denizen. He regularly distorted and takes out of context everything conservatives say." . . .

"He’s a dishonest creep, and he did it to Candace Owens yesterday. He played a tape of Candace Owens yesterday totally out of context. He did not play the question she was asked. And in this bite, he’s attempting to convince people that Candace Owens supports white nationalism like Adolf Hitler did — and she ate him for lunch in response. Here’s Ted Lieu up first." . . .

But Owens soon made clear she felt Lieu had intentionally misrepresented her views to drive a false narrative not just against Owens, but also Trump and Republicans in general.  . . . "Turning to her 75-year old grandfather seated behind her, Owens remarked, “My grandfather grew up on a sharecropping farm in the segregated South. He grew up in an America where words like ‘racism’ and ‘white nationalism’ held real meaning.”

Leftist commenters had another version entirely

Stunned Democrats didn't know what hit them.
. . . Her grandfather, Owens said, “has also had experiences with the Democrat terrorist organization of that time, the Ku Klux Klan. They would regularly visit his home and they would shoot bullets into it.”

"Owens continued, “there isn’t a single adult today that in good conscience would make the argument that America is a more racist, more white nationalist society than it was when my grandfather was growing up, and yet we are hearing these terms center around today because what they want to say is that brown people need to be scared, which seems to be the narrative that we hear every four years right ahead of a presidential election.”

"The hearing, Owens said, “is not about white nationalism or hate crimes. It is about fear mongering, power and control. It is a preview of a Democrat 2020 election strategy.” According to Owens, “The biggest scandal in American politics is that Democrats have been conning minorities into the belief that we are perpetual victims, all but ensuring our failure. Racial division and class warfare are central to the Democrat party platform. They need blacks to hate whites, the rich to hate the poor. Soon enough it will be the tall hating the short.' ” . . .

By the way, Turning Point is the group that had a member punched by a bully on the Berkeley campus earlier this year. TD

Barr CONFIRMS Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump SPY Operation

Mollie Hemingway via- Socio-Political-Journal  "While it is important that the top law enforcement in the United States publicly acknowledged that the Obama administration and its intelligence agencies surveilled its domestic political opponents* during the heat of a presidential election, it is what he said next that was most startling: that the CIA and other federal agencies in addition to the FBI may have been involved. “I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly,” he said.

"The FBI, which has incredibly friendly relations with the media, has taken the brunt of the public outcry against the anti-Trump operation. That project included the use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, national security letters, human informants, and strategic leaking to craft a narrative of treasonous collusion with Russia to steal an election from Hillary Clinton. It even included leaks of classified records from former FBI director James Comey, which he said was done for the purpose of launching a special counsel investigation as retaliation for his firing.

"There have always been indications that the operation went far beyond the FBI, however. For example, former CIA director John Brennan, now an MSNBC contributor, separately briefed Sen. Harry Reid, (D-Nev.) about the operation. Reid understood that move was undertaken so he could publicize the Russia investigation to influence the ongoing presidential election campaign.

"Former director of national intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN contributor, admitted to discussions with media outlets about the investigation. The U.S. embassy in London was used contrary to established protocol to funnel hearsay that was used as a pretext to officially launch a wide-ranging investigation against the entire Trump orbit. Clinton-connected officials in the State Department were also used to disseminate unverified gossip and allegations about Trump throughout the federal government." . . .
Both emphases mine, TD

*Under the Obama IRS, Joe the Plumber's Records Were Improperly Searched  "The director of an Ohio human services agency has been suspended for a month without pay and faces review by a county prosecutor for using confidential state databases to find personal information on "Joe the Plumber." She will also face review for using her state e-mail address to help Barack Obama's fundraising by identifying potential contributors and offering her own $2,500 donation." . . .

CNN was right! Don Lemon's black hole does exist!

Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough

"Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects." . . .

Lemon's CNN viewers may want to look closely at the above photo for signs of that Malaysian airliner, as he discusses below:

Jon Stewart at The Daily Show has fun with CNN, Lemon, and other sources, including Fox.

Barack Obama: A Lifelong Story of Russian Collusion

Trevor Loudon at the Epoch Times

"Several U.S. presidents have genuinely colluded with Russia or the former Soviet Union, but none more so the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. It’s no exaggeration to say that Obama owes his entire career to Russian collusion.

"In March 2012, President Obama made his famous “off mic” remarks to then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev: “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” Medvedev replied, “I understand. I transmit this information to Vladimir.”

"Was this some innocent remark, or was it just as it seems: a friend passing a message to a friend?

"Obama has surrounded himself with pro-Moscow “friends” all his life. Why should he desert his friends just because he was president of the United States of America?

"Just after Obama’s election to the presidency on Nov. 15, 2008, Sam Webb, then chairman of the still pro-Moscow Communist Party USA, told his party comrades: “The left can and should advance its own views and disagree with the Obama administration without being disagreeable. Its tone should be respectful. We are speaking to a friend.' ” . . .

Why Democrats Are Messing with Voting Rights

Veronika Kyrylenko  "The right to vote is a cornerstone right that is essential to a well-functioning democracy.  This idea was enshrined both in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution and is protected by five separate amendments.

"But every single right comes with responsibilities, and the greater the right, the greater the responsibilities.  The outcomes of elections shape a political course for the nation and fundamentally affect the lives of every American.  That is why it is so troubling to hear Democrats' fallacious propositions to alter voting rights.

"Their main idea is to expand voting rights to new population groups.  Recently, they proposed to grant voting rights to 16-year-olds.  "I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16," speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said.  "I think it's really important to capture kids when they're in high school, when they're interested in all of this, when they're learning about government, to be able to vote."  Oh, sure, Nancy — you would like to capture them, all right.

"Have you ever wondered what the reason is for a long list of age-related legal restrictions?  All of them are based on the stages of physical and psychological development of a person, including the natural development of the human brain.  Undoubtedly, there are lots of smart teenagers out there scoring sky-high on SATs and ACTs.  The fact is, it doesn't matter when it comes to good judgment — it is something they can't excel in yet, because the rational part of the brain isn't fully developed until age 25 or so." . . .

Britain's Version Of 'Medicare For All' Is Struggling With Long Waits For Care; Isn't Central planning great?

Because of such hurdles and the risks of challenging them, countless great ideas have likely died in socialist countries while the defeated whispered, "Why bother?"  We are all likely worse off because of it.  Imagine where our world would be if the creative potential of the millions who toiled under socialist regimes in the 20th century had been unleashed. Chad Savage, M.D.

Forbes

"Nearly a quarter of a million British patients have been waiting more than six months to receive planned medical treatment from the National Health Service, according to a recent report from the Royal College of Surgeons. More than 36,000 have been in treatment queues for nine months or more.

"Long waits for care are endemic to government-run, single-payer systems like the NHS. Yet some U.S. lawmakers want to import that model from across the pond. That would be a massive blunder.

"Consider how long it takes to get care at the emergency room in Britain. Government data show that hospitals in England only saw 84.2% of patients within four hours in February. That's well below the country's goal of treating 95% of patients within four hours -- a target the NHS hasn't hit since 2015.

"Now, instead of cutting wait times, the NHS is looking to scrap the goal.

"Wait times for cancer treatment -- where timeliness can be a matter of life and death -- are also far too lengthy. According to January NHS England data, almost 25% of cancer patients didn't start treatment on time despite an urgent referral by their primary care doctor. That's the worst performance since records began in 2009.

"And keep in mind that "on time" for the NHS is already 62 days after referral.

"Unsurprisingly, British cancer patients fare worse than those in the United States. Only 81% of breast cancer patients in the United Kingdom live at least five years after diagnosis, compared to 89% in the United States. Just 83% of patients in the United Kingdom live five years after a prostate cancer diagnosis, versus 97% here in America."

Central planning destroys health care innovation   . . . "Being one of the doctors creating a new type of medical practice is unquestionably a difficult endeavor, but however challenging, I can't help but think how utterly impossible it would have been under a socialized health care system.  Under such a system, a doctor who wants to develop a new practice, innovative service, or a fancy new widget that could help patients wouldn't be able to do so relying on passion, talent, and hard work alone.  In a socialized model, innovation exists only if permission can be secured from that system's army of slow-moving, often uninvolved government bureaucrats and central planners, because individuals do not own the means of production in socialist systems." . . .

The demise of media objectivity

American media have come full circle. Newspapers, among the only media in Colonial times, were highly partisan, and truth was not a priority.  Today, newspaper and TV media have returned to that point.

CNN plus some MSNBC

 American Thinker  . . . "In the meantime, objectivity steadily had lost ground, which unquestionably was a contributing factor.  In 2016, the media dropped all pretense of it, for the most part, and have been on a rampage since then.  Several networks such as CNN and MSNBC conduct a virtual 24/7 rant against the president — and with him capitalism, conservatism, Christianity, and other aspects of traditional American culture, no matter the cost in viewership.

"Fortunately, the social media gave people more opportunity to express their own opinions and reach millions, cutting into the media monopoly.

"But as the media giants consolidate, and objectivity shrinks, the same concerns that arose 75 years ago are being revived.

"Those in the media might want to consider the warning from the Hutchins Commission:

No democracy will indefinitely tolerate concentration of private power, irresponsible and strong enough to thwart the democratic aspirations of the people.  If these giant agencies of communication are irresponsible, not even the First Amendment will protect their freedom from government control.  The Amendment will be amended.

"When you hear talk today of curbs on the media, consider this background.  It is largely a self-imposed problem."

I thought the NYTimes couldn't get worse, but it has

Phyllis Chesler

The Times is only one example - and a thoroughly reprehensible one - of the rampant, toxic anti-Semitism sweeping the entire world.

"Anti-Semitism has toxically penetrated and infiltrated the world’s every nook and cranny. Blood Libel propaganda is now far more dangerous than it was in Hitler’s time. Today’s barrage of genocidally intentioned propaganda against the Jews is intense, brazen, and increasingly being normalized on university campuses, in national and international government bodies, in the media, and in demonstrations—and in every language on earth 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- courtesy of the internet and the airwaves.

"Nearly twenty years ago, I wrote that that Anti-Zionism was, in part, now the “new” and acceptable anti-Semitism; it’s also what I believed almost fifty years ago, when I first began collecting signatures to oppose the Zionism=Racism resolution at the United Nations. As Daniel Pearl’s father, Judea, has said: “Zionism does not =Racism—Anti-Zionism=Racism.”

"The very Homeland to which Jews returned in flight from persecution in Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and European countries has, in the 21st century, rather diabolically become the excuse for again persecuting Jews both around the world and in Israel."

Leftist silliness April 9, 2019

Gender Studies Professor Says ‘White People Own Time’: ‘If Time Had a Race, It Would Be White’  . . . "When a person – “usually” a white person, according to Cooper –  accuses black people of being “stuck in the past,” they are evidencing the racial foundations of time." (Photo, right)

Welcome to Democrats 2020: “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg Regrets Saying “All Lives Matter”  . . . "On Thursday, after speaking to the largely African American audience, Buttigieg told reporters he didn’t initially realize how the phrase “all lives matter” was used to undercut and “devalue” the Black Lives Matter movement. “Since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, I stopped using it,” the mayor said." . . .

I’m not sure what’s more appalling here. That Beto O’Rourke lied in the manner he did, by invoking Nazi Germany, or the fact that the mainstream media by and large will give him a pass on every bit of it.  . . . Apparently this is the week 2020 presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke has chosen to veer off even further to the left.

"On Wednesday, the former El Paso Congressman kissed Rev. Al Sharpton’s ring while eagerly declaring (newfound) support for reparations. And on Thursday in Iowa, O’Rourke unequivocally compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler, taking a page straight out of the far left’s 2020 “take back the White House” playbook."

White Vermont Schools Display Black Lives Matter Flags  . . . "Thus, Vermont awaits a new school curriculum for pre-K through 12 that will incorporate the previously unrecognized contributions of queer, questioning, and transgender colonial pioneers, Civil War heroes, and 19th-century orators.  This unchallenged legislation is as vague as BLM's platform, cloaked in the magic race card." . . . There, that should put to rest all the guilt trips.

CNN: Yes, Obama Separated Families, But ‘It Was For Their Own Protection’ "You can’t even parody the nonsense they say, it’s already parody.
"Do they have an excuse for Obama turning kids over to human traffickers, a practice that Trump was able to stop after he came in?"

Rashida Tlaib Attacks President Of Pro-Israel Group. He Flattens Her.

. . . "Tlaib should be ashamed of herself," Klein concluded. "Tlaib falsely accuses Jews of dual loyalty while she wraps herself in the flag of an enemy of the United States, the flag of the terrorist Palestinian authority, on the day she was sworn into office." . . .

Hirono At Hearing On Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Should Focus On People “Here Already” So shut up, men!

Still waiting for the Democrat clown car to lose some clowns

Rep. Eric Swalwell joins the clown car posse of Democrats running for president  
"The Bay area has produced some wacky, wild, and entertaining members of Congress.  Unfortunately for Swalwell, he ain't one of them.  He is about as obscure, as vanilla as your average Democrat can get.

"He pushed the Russian collusion narrative so forcefully that it became painfully obvious he wanted to ride that pony all the way to the White House.  With collusion fading in the rearview mirror, just what is it that Swalwell thinks he can offer?" . . .

. . . "Swalwell is an angry young man, and with most of the voters upset with someone or something, if he can tap into that anger, he could surprise.  But Bernie Sanders does the angry old man bit a lot better, and Elizabeth Warren plays the angry woman card adeptly. 

"So in the end, Swalwell will fade away and return to the obscurity he so richly deserves."

Will Elizabeth Warren be the first to be thrown from the Democrat clown car? . . . "She's a walking argument against any affirmative action privileges at all, showing how easily they can be abused by ambitious whites desperate to get a leg up on other whites, as well as Native Americans." . . .

Gillibrand announced presidential bid during appearance on 'Colbert' show. It looked awkward.

Democrats’ Clown Car of Candidates  

. . . "The Democrat 2020 Presidential candidate line-up is a race to the bottom.
"Other well known clowns who have announced their candidacy for the nation’s highest office are California Senator Kamala Harris and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. These two were an obnoxious disgrace during the Justice Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Harris bullied Kavanaugh relentlessly, even going so far as to release a heavily edited video of the then-Supreme Court nominee in an attempt to smear him. Harris deceitfully posted on her Twitter account an edited video of Kavanaugh answering a question that Texas Senator Ted Cruz asked him regarding his dissent in the case Priests for Life vs. Health and Human Services. In her tweet under the doctored video, Harris wrote that Kavanaugh was “going after birth control” and his nomination was about “punishing women”.  In Democrat World, anyone who is not in favor of killing a baby is punishing women.

. . . So, if Harris does become the first female president of the United States, it’s a comfort to know that she slept her way to the top rather than earn her positions through hard work, skill, knowledge, ethics and integrity." . . .

All the Progressive Plotters

No reporter seems to care that Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to work with other foreign nationals to sabotage, first, her opponent’s campaign, then his transition and his presidency, along with the wink and nod help from key Obama officials at the Department of Justice, State Department, National Security Council, FBI and CIA.

Victor Davis Hanson  "Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House.

"When that did not work, B-list Hollywood celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors in Trump-won states into not voting for the president-elect during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016. Their idea was that select morally superior electors should reject their constitutional directives and throw the election into the House of Representatives where even more morally superior NeverTrump Republicans might join with even much more morally superior Democrats to find the perfect morally superior NeverTrump alternative.

"When that did not work, more than 60 Democratic House members voted to bring up Trump’s impeachment for vote. Trump had only been in office a few weeks. Then San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer toured the country and lavished millions on advertisements demanding Trump’s removal by impeachment—and was sorely disappointed when he discovered that billion-dollar-fueled virtue-signaling proved utterly bankrupt virtue-signaling.

"When that did not work, celebrities and politicians hit social media and the airwaves to so demonize Trump that culturally it would become taboo even to voice prior support for the elected president. Their chief tool was a strange new sort of presidential assassination chic, as Madonna, David Crosby, Robert de Niro, Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, and a host of others linguistically vied with one another in finding the most appropriately violent end of Trump—blowing him up, burning him up, beating him up, shooting him up, caging him up, or decapitating him. Apparently, the aim—aside from careerist chest-thumping among the entertainment elite—was to lower the bar of Trump disparagement and insidiously delegitimize his presidency." . . .

"When that did not work . . ." "When that did not work . . ." "When that did not work . . ."....And so on and on...

The World Doesn’t Care About Groupthink

Victor Davis Hanson

Among the political classes, both being slurred or slurring others of like kind in disgusting fashion is no big deal. Apparently, it is just the usual foul water that such kindred fish always swim in.

Saint-to-Sinner Silicon Valley  

. . . "In turn, Democrats gave up their suspicions of big money, as they canonized liberal Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. Their wealth was okay, since the creators of it were progressives and dressed like Woodstock hipsters as they spread their billions freely among progressive think tanks, foundations, and political campaigns. 

From Too Little to Too Much Oil  

" Less than 15 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that we’d reached “peak oil,” or that the U.S., and indeed the world at large, had already extracted more petroleum than what remained beneath the ground.

"Then, in unheralded fashion and quite silently, American frackers and horizontal drillers made such a term entirely obsolete. The U.S. went from a superpower hobbled by an insatiable need for imported oil to the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world and, soon, the likely largest exporter of fossil fuels. In the same vein, the Middle East and especially the Persian Gulf transmogrified from being the nexus of American foreign policy to nearly irrelevant in U.S. strategic thinking. If Saudi Arabia was once accused of virtually running American foreign policy, it is now seen at the other extreme as a minor medieval bother. A few thousand people in obscurity in the fracking industry, without government grants and without the media fawning over them as they had green legends such as Al Gore, literally changed the lives of millions of Americans at home and their country’s status abroad." . . . (Emphasis mine, TD)  

The Old New Nazi Slur  

Antifa on the campuses, it appears.

"Between 2006 and 2008, George W. Bush was reduced by the anti-war Left left to a veritable Nazi. Op-eds, documentaries, plays, and novels fantasized without apology about his assassination. Mainstream politicians including Senators Robert Byrd, John Glenn, and Al Gore compared the Bush administration to Brownshirts, Fascists, and Nazis. Indeed, so hated was Bush by his critics that that they stooped to accuse him of plotting near genocide during the government’s often incompetent response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005 that virtually destroyed large swaths of New Orleans. No slur or smear was too low to throw against the president.
"Now this world of Nazi boilerplate has been turned upside down. In the age of Trump, Bush has been rehabilitated as a sober and judicious centrist by even his left-wing critics, in part to use him as an establishment club to batter the sometimes crass Donald Trump." . . .