Tuesday, September 17, 2019

"American Pravda" CNN: Everything but the News

Victor Davis Hanson
Trump derangement, all the time: lies, smears, threats, and profanity. Viewers are noticing — and leaving.
"For a while, we thought MSNBC had temporarily usurped CNN as the font of fake news — although both networks had tied for the most negative coverage (93 percent of all their news reports) of President Trump’s first 100 days in office.
2'A cynic would argue that CNN had deliberately given Trump undue coverage during the Republican primary on the theory that he would be the weakest Republican in the general election and would therefore be the weakest challenger to Hillary Clinton. CNN president Jeffrey Zucker at one point had bragged that in the primaries, Trump made CNN money. Only later, after Trump’s nomination, did Zucker regret giving so much airtime to Trump and his boisterous rallies.
“ 'If we made any mistake last year, it’s that we probably did put too many of his campaign rallies in those early months and let them run,” the contrite Zucker conceded in October 2016, at a talk at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Yet Zucker admitted that Trump had been a “publicity magnet” as a primary candidate, and, more important, “Trump delivered on PR; he delivered on big ratings.”
"So CNN’s Zucker gave copious coverage to Apprentice-star Trump both to win ratings and to ensure the nomination of a candidate who was polling anemically against Hillary Clinton — with the intention of then reversing course and destroying Trump in the general election.
"The ratings gambit worked; the second aim, of aiding a Clinton victory, did not. And now CNN is focused on another strategy: to destroy the perceived Frankenstein monster that Dr. Zucker helped to create.
"Just recently, MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell broke a story based on a single unnamed source who said that Deutsche Bank documents (which the source had not seen) would soon prove that Russian oligarchs had co-signed a loan application for Donald Trump — O’Donnell was apparently trying to resurrect the Russian-collusion zombie. The story was discredited within 24 hours by denials from the bank — as O’Donnell did his part to destroy what was left of the credibility of progressive cable news." . . .
Tony Branco
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"CNN host Sally Kohn and her roundtable panel raised their hands on air to emulate the “hands up, don’t shoot” fake narrative that had followed the Ferguson shootings. However, an Obama Department of Justice investigation later found that Michael Brown neither stopped and put his hands up in the air, nor cried out “hands up, don’t shoot” but instead charged the Ferguson police officer with an intent to renew their earlier struggle. The CNN newsroom was perpetrating an inflammatory lie on the air — again with no consequences for their cheap street theater. . . .
"CNN anchor Don Lemon, currently being sued for allegedly making an obscene sexual advance to a bar patron, claimed on the air that “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men” — a false assertion given that Lemon conceded that more Americans have been killed in ideologically driven terrorist attacks by Islamists since 2001 than by “white men.” . . . 
What is strange about CNN is neither the incompetence nor the bias, but its sanctimoniousness and cluelessness about its own suicidal trajectory into oblivion. When Donald Trump at his rallies points to the media cameras and hoots, “Fake news,” often directly referencing CNN, many claim that his antics are a crude attack on the press that has repeatedly lied to destroy Trump, his family, and his presidency.
Perhaps. But the better question is whether CNN — which has ruined its reputation and profits in an Ahab-esque effort to destroy the Trump white whale — is any longer a media organization at all, or a failing entertainment channel, or a boring Orwellian Ministry of “Truth.”
American Pravda Part 3: CNN Selectively Edits, Hates Trump, and Think Voters Are Stupid
Tony Branco
Beto's Gun Grab and Constitution Day  
"Beto is becoming more clownish every day." Lucianne
. . . "Critics of the Second Amendment say that they are not going after guns used for legitimate activities such as hunting. But when the Founders wrote the Second Amendment, it was because the British were coming, not because it was the start of deer season. As Fox News contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano notes:" . . .  "Come and take them, O’Rourke -- from our cold dead hands."

Arizona Gun Store Offers ‘Beto Special’ On AR15s And AK47s – Sells Out In ONE DAY
As before with Obama, "Now Beto O’Rourke is getting in on that action. After Beto declared his intentions to confiscate guns at the last Democrat debate, one Arizona gun store decided to do a sale in his name."  "It worked out pretty well for them."
That was pretty unequivocal — and totally done at the spur of the moment. It’s not like it was something that was endlessly rehearsed or anything. And his campaign clearly wasn’t in on it.  Oh, wait, what was that?
"I’m hearing something in my rhetorical earpiece — ah yes, we’re going to go to Twitter, where we’ve seen reports of a new product in the Beto 2020 online store:"



Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15.
Buy your shirt now: https://store.betoorourke.com/hell-yes-were-going-to-unisex-womens-styles/ 

Cartoon Shows What Will Happen When Beto Comes For Your AR-15s  . . . "While the odds are “Beto” will never be elected President we believe any of the 2020 candidates would do the same thing, even if they don’t explicitly say so yet.
"So how will your average Joe react to someone showing up at the door to collect his AR-15 rifle?
"The cartoon below purports to answer that question with a brutal illustration of what might happen:

Democrats, have you no sense of decency? At long last have you no sense of decency?



Notice these accusations against the hard right? What similarities do you see today in the Democrat Party both in Congress and in Hollywood? Never forget the Democrat star chamber in their inquisition of Judge Kavanaugh and the media persecution of President Donald Trump. I'd love to go down the Democrat side of the Nadler Judiciary Committee and ask each one, "Have you no sense of decency? At long last, have you no sense of decency?". I would say no when recalling one Stephen Colbert writer declare of the Kavanaugh hearings, "I'm Just Glad We Ruined His Life"   The Tunnel Dweller

NYT Insider Reveals Who Drafted And Sent The Vile Tweet About Kavanaugh
. . . "The only supposedly new claim made in the book isn’t new and comes from Democrat attorney Max Stier, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s with whom he has a long and contentious history. In the words of the Yale Daily News, they were “pitted” against each other during the Whitewater investigation in the 1990s when Kavanaugh worked for Independent Counsel Ken Starr. Stier defended President Bill Clinton, whose legal troubles began when a woman accused him of exposing himself to her in [the] hotel room she had been brought to. " . . .

What seems clear is that Mr. Stier's claims were meant to buttress an allegation from another Yale woman, Deborah Ramirez, whose story was litigated at length in 2018:
. . . "Other 2020 Democrats, from Elizabeth Warren to Beto O'Rourke, have piled on this reckless, institution-undermining talking point. "Sham process," asserts Harris, whose own conduct during said process was appalling, and whose party sat on unsubstantiated allegations against the nominee until the initial hearings (including closed-door hearings for sensitive topics) were over.  This is despicable and demagogic; classic Harris." . . .


The Ongoing Smear Campaign against Brett Kavanaugh  . . . "The New York Times’s disgraceful weekend performance is a reminder that the media performed abysmally during the Kavanaugh confirmation process." . . .


Brit Hume Slams The New York Times For Trying To Smear Brett Kavanaugh Again: ‘They Are Corrupt’  
Shame, shame on The New York Times and its sweaty minions for abetting the revival of this grotesque calumny

Lindsey Graham, Start Fighting For Justice For Brett Kavanaugh  "Yes, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. But that isn’t justice. Justice requires consequences for those who tarnished the man and lied to Senate Judiciary investigators and committee members."
. . . "The left isn’t done. They aren’t nearly done. They will continue to hound Kavanaugh, either to twist him into a virtue-signaling pro-Roe vote, or to caution future conservative nominees to stay clear of the Supreme Court, or they’re coming for you." . . .


Trump Calls for Mass Resignation at NY Times

The print version of CNN.
Newsmax  "President Donald Trump is calling for the resignation of all journalists at The New York Times involved in the Brett Kavanaugh “SMEAR” story, claiming the reporting has ruined the “Old Grey Lady’s” reputation.

"The Times over the weekend published a story of a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh from his time as a student at Yale.

"The claim hinged on the recollection of a Yale classmate who the news outlet reported contacted the FBI and lawmakers during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. The essay was based on a forthcoming book written by two Times reporters.

"But in the book, "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh," the woman declined to be interviewed. Moreover, her friends said she did not recall the incident.

“ 'I call for the Resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story, and while you’re at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony! They’ve taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation,” Trump tweeted.

“ 'She can never recover, and will never return to Greatness, under current Management. The Times is DEAD, long live The New York Times!” he added.

"The Times issued an editors’ note on Sunday that reads: “An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book's account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.' ”
As Trump calls for resignations, NYT finger-pointing begins on deceptive Kavanaugh hit piece  . . . "The omission of the exculpatory evidence is inexcusable by any legitimate journalistic standard, and while the activist fanatics want to press onward, journalists know that the stink is going to permanently attach itself to someone.

"The authors of the book and op-ed, NYT reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, took to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s show to point fingers at their editor, claiming that their submission to the editor included the exculpatory evidence. Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller News Foundation:" . . .
What I may remember about an incident that may have happened  . . . "It should not matter that my memory of these possible events is hazy.  Nor should it matter that I have no evidence of them.  Nor should it matter that I am making the entire thing up — the technical term for which is lying.
"I should be believed.  Period.  End of story.  (Well, not yet.  There may be more.)"

Monday, September 16, 2019

Iran bombs Saudi oil refinery, aided by Barack Obama

Obama and Valerie Jarrett gave the Drone Technology to the Iranians. Now they have a "Clone Drone"

Jewish Press; Iran’s Stealth Drone that Penetrated Israel’s Border a Gift from the Obama Administration  . . . "President Obama acknowledged that the downed drone was his, and requested that Iran return it. We’re not kidding."



Obama asked Iran to return the drone. Iran is said to have produced drones based on the captured RQ-170. Got cleverly taunted by the Iranians
. . . "And the ministry spokesman, Mehmanparast, stated that "it seems he [Obama] has forgotten that Iran’s airspace was violated, spying operations were undertaken, international laws were violated and that Iran’s internal affairs were interfered with... . Instead of an official apology and admitting to this violation, they are making this request." 
"Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney criticized Obama's decisions on the drone, saying that, after the aircraft went down, the president should have ordered an air strike within Iran: "The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. You can do that from the air ... and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone." Instead, "he asked nicely for them to return it, and they aren't going to".[30]
"On 17 January 2012, an Iranian company said it would send miniature, pink, toy versions of the captured drone to President Obama as a response to the request for sending the drone back." . . .

California, are you aware of what your state leaders are up to?