"The Democratic Debates: A Televised Waste of Time"

A PBS host was interviewing the Chairwoman of the American Communist Party about why the Communists weren’t fielding a candidate in 2016. Shocking, only to the unenlightened, the Chairwoman replied candidly: “Because the Communist Party believes our goals are well represented in the Democrat Party platform this year.”  

People's Pundit  "There are many reasons why not to waste your time watching the Democratic debates, only a few of which I’ll enumerate here. Paramount among the reasons is that debates are irrelevant anachronisms.

"As a winning political campaign consultant, I’ve even advised my candidates to skip attending debates altogether, knowing there would be no consequence as long as the campaign was attending to the work that really matters.

"Those candidates all won, by the way.

"Alarmingly-precise voter data-targeting, the ability to instantaneously place political “info-bytes” into people’s hands digitally, and countless modern voter-contact techniques have rendered televised debates “a thing of the past” for impacting election outcomes.     

"In truth, debates haven’t been pivotal to campaign outcomes for decades.  Today, debates “ratify” existing viewpoints, they don’t change them.  Fact:  If a particular candidate is deemed to have “won” a debate, it results in a very small polling “bump.” which dissipates a few days later.

"In short, they have no impact.

"So, why do TV networks still host them? And why do candidates still attend them?

"Answer: The TV cable channels want sound-bites for their news shows, and hoped-for ratings to help sell advertising. The candidates believe they can increase their name identification, with the hope it translates into better fundraising opportunities, or a Cabinet appointment. 

"But edifying voters is not a real goal of the debate process or of the candidates." . . .

Cartoons from The Week added by TD

Exposed: The CNN hatefest

PowerLine Blog  "If you’ve caught CNN at a random moment during the Trump administration — voluntarily or involuntarily — you know that the network has turned itself into a perpetual Trump hatefest in its political coverage. It is not exactly earth-shattering news that a whistleblower has stepped forward to reveal that the hatefest is run from the top of the executive ranks — CNN President Jeff Zucker — to the troops below. It is nevertheless noteworthy.

"Eric Spracklin has posted part 1 of the exposé at the Project Veritas site and James O’Keefe has disseminated the lead video via Twitter (below). The Federalist’s Chrissy Clark has a brief report here. Brian Flood has more here at FOX News."

Commentaries on the CNN/ Democrat debate, 0ct 15, 2019

After CNN Debate, Warren Is The Democrat To Beat In Campaign’s Final 90 Days

"In Fourth Dem Debate, Warren Maintains Her Health Care Evasion"

That one little question the moderators all forgot to ask at that long fourth Democratic debate  . . . "So they had questions galore, going all the way down to Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bush sitting together at a ballgame, but somehow didn't quite think the voters needed to know about their positions on illegals.

"It's not as though the debate moderators and their Democratic Party bosses were trying to not repeat themselves.  Questions about gun control, taxing the rich, and health care were already asked ad nauseam at earlier debates, and these got asked again, which is why little new information came of this one, but nobody wanted a replay of that first debate, when all hands went up when asked if illegals should be entitled to free taxpayer-paid health care." . . .

And another: Dem Debate Moderators Fail to Ask a Question about China, Despite NBA Scandal  "The CNN and New York Times journalists who moderated Tuesday night’s Democratic-primary debate didn’t ask a single question about China during the foreign-policy segment of the evening, despite the ongoing scandal involving the NBA’s response to Chinese censorship." . . .

Last night's Democrat debate: A cluster of tyrannical fantasists . . . "Each of those candidates on the stage seemed oblivious to the reality of the last three years — the fabulous economy, lowest unemployment in decades, international trade renegotiated to our benefit, millions no longer on food stamps.  Our military, eviscerated by Obama, is being repaired.  Manufacturing has been revitalized, and the border, despite the intransigence of the Democrats, is slowly being better controlled.  The wall is being built.  Everything Trump has done since being elected has been effective; he has tried to keep his campaign promises despite the Democrats' vow to see him impeached from day one.  And no matter how vicious the Left is, those candidates on stage last night continue to opt for mindless delusion that he can be removed from office in order to prevent his re-election." .  . .

Drunkblogging the October Democratic Debate: "We're all acknowledging that we have to reach across the aisle to get things done."
"Biden took a nice question and turned it into a screaming Orange Man Bad rant."
How about "come together"?

How Can We Fix Debate in America?  . . . "Debate done correctly can open minds rather than close them.  Debate can solve the spiral of silence that can afflict a society too divided by partisanship." . . . 


Kamala Harris’s Debate Performance Was Pathetic  . . . "It’s hard to imagine Harris helped herself at Tuesday night’s debate in Ohio. Given the chance to confront co-frontrunner Elizabeth Warren, Harris aggressively challenged the Massachusetts senator to … call on Twitter to delete Donald Trump’s account. Really." . . .

The candidates debate impeachment...kind of  . . . "It can't be pointed out often enough that the plotters had to strike swiftly, accurately, and hard to succeed.  They have done none of these things, and their impeachment effort, as a result, is in a state of collapse." . . .

Anderson Cooper Asks Biden Why Trump ‘Falsely Accused’ His ‘Son Of Doing Something Wrong’

5 Top Moments Of The Fourth Democratic Presidential Debate

1. Elizabeth Warren Comes Under Fire

2. Buttigieg to Beto: I Don’t Need Lessons From You About Courage

3. Kamala Harris Continues Crusade To Crush Trump’s Twitter

4. Biden Screams At Warren, Who Responds By Thanking Barack Obama 

5. Bernie Sanders: I’m Feeling Great, And I’m Not On Marijuana

National Review versus The Circus of Liars  . . . "It’s very easy to write that the Democrats have assembled a bunch of idiots. But only a Mark Krikorian can spell out how the candidates don’t know the basics of our current immigration policy, or how they’re calling for the creation of programs that already exist. When Beto O’Rourke called for gun confiscation, our Charlie Cooke instantly recognized and explained how Beto’s debate-stage rallying cry undid decades of work by the gun-control movement. Madeleine Kearns laid out how the Democratic candidates’ discussion of gender reflects a “tirade of alphabet activism.” Kevin Williamson notes how often progressive voices lament polarization as if it just came out of nowhere from entirely natural sources, like a hurricane — absolving themselves of any responsibility and ignoring their own role as anti-constitutional provocateurs and culture war aggressors.

"And the most recent issue features eleven — eleven! — writers dissecting the uninspiring record, extreme proposals, and implausible promises of Elizabeth Warren." . . .

For being Dr. Strange, "Beto" O'Rourke may be the most commented-on politician in America.

A view from the left yet: "Beto O’Rourke is a philosophical psychopath. Let me explain"   . . . What we need to hear from the left in full, for instance, about inequality, racism, reparations, and all those other barely palatable but genuinely radical ideas, Beto O’Rourke simply mines for votes. As ideas, they were never his, nor could they ever be. Overprivileged, he can’t help but be an exploiter of the left, an ambitious opportunist as I said. Not radical enough, not radical at all, this is the flaw in the man as well as the candidate. And, no matter how much we may need to find a better president than the one we’ve currently got, O’Rourke promises little but chaos of a different sort.

Blazingcatfur

Beto's War on Religious Liberty  . . . "Beto O’Rourke wants to restore that oppressive vision of a society without true religious liberty. President Trump believes otherwise. We cannot allow the federal government to strip away the religious conscience of a nation founded by those who believed our unalienable rights came from God and not government."

Beto O’Rourke: If You Don’t Hand over Your AR-15 We’ll Take It  . . . " 'Cooper then followed up by asking what O’Rourke plans to do if Americans do not comply. 
"O’Rourke said, “If someone does not turn an AR-15 or an AK-47, one of these weapons of war, or brings it out in public and brandishes it, in an attempt to intimidate…then that weapon will be taken from them. If they persist, there will be other consequences from law enforcement.' ”. That has always worked well in Chicago.

Pete Buttigieg blasts Beto O’Rourke: ‘I don’t need lessons from you on courage, political or personal’

'You expect mass shooters to follow the law?': Watch CNN host rip into Beto O'Rourke on gun plan  (Watch the video)  And CNN was a big supporter of O'Rourke when running against Ted Cruz. How else do you think he came so close to beating Sen. Cruz?

Grasper From El Paso  The "undistinguished former congressman from El Paso, Texas", "Beto O’Rourke’s bigoted, anti-Christian proposal has hurt his party and our country."

National Review: O’Rourke’s America  "Imagine one vast airport that you cannot leave. 

 "With apologies to Margaret Atwood and a thousand other dystopian novelists, we do not have to theorize about what an American police state would look like — because we know what it looks like: the airport, that familiar totalitarian environment where Americans are disarmed, stripped of their privacy, divested of their freedom of speech, herded around like livestock, and bullied by bovine agents of “security” in a theatrical process that has an 85 percent failure rate because it isn’t designed as a security-screening protocol at all but as a jobs program for otherwise unemployable morons."Now, when I hear the words “otherwise unemployable morons,” I think of Robert Francis O’Rourke and his sad little presidential campaign, which suffered a little setback on Tuesday night when the gentleman who advertises himself as “Beto” tried out some tough-guy shtick on Pete Buttigieg, who is, whatever else you can say about him, a veteran of the Afghanistan campaign, one who rightly pointed out that he doesn’t have to prove his “courage” to the idiot son of a well-connected El Paso political family who has done almost nothing with his life other than show himself a reasonably effective fundraiser in the family business." . . . (Emphasis mine, TD)

Will LeBron James begin kneeling for the US National Anthem like, well.....

Football great Herschel Walker asks, “During Summer Olympics Will the NBA Play for USA or China?”

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Lebron James has done us a favor  . . . "The United States has been losing ground to communist ideologues for generations and ironically, it has taken a pro-China, multimillionaire basketball player with a desire to protect his financial interests, to inadvertently lift the curtain on a system that oppresses its own people and has killed hundreds of millions." . . .

Will O'Toons

Rush Limbaugh: We Maleducated Young Americans Like LeBron on Communism’s Evil  . . . "Most of the people on the left who are out there espousing communism, supporting communism, defending communism have simply been poisoned. They’ve not been properly educated. And it’s a problem. When Thomas Jefferson becomes a bigger problem in America than Hugo Chavez was in Venezuela, we’ve got a problem. That has not been something that every generation assumed growing up in America, but there are young people today who believe that Thomas Jefferson is a scourge on the United States, and we need leaders more like Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or, you name it.
"Now we’ve got people defending the most repressive, punitive, brutal regime on the planet, the communist Chinese. And they think that they are being valorous. They think that they are doing the Lord’s work. They think they are defending honor. They’re defending their back pockets and their bank accounts, obviously. But it goes beyond just people being loyal to money.

"They have been mistaught. It’s not that they’re uneducated. It’s that the people we consider the best and brightest or the elites don’t know anything that is correct.  They have been taught over the course of their lives a bunch of gibberish. And because they are elites, and because they are from the upper strata of society, what they think is given some weight. And it’s never examined in a fact-based analytical way. . . .

Chip Bok

LeBron James reportedly pressured the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to punish Rockets’ General Manager Daryl Morey for posting a tweet in support of the Hong Kong democracy protesters.  "The Daily Caller reported:  'NBA star LeBron James reportedly pressured the NBA to punish the Rockets’ General Manager Daryl Morey after he tweeted support for Hong Kong.'  . . ."

"Hong Kong Protesters Torch Jerseys of Commie-Lover Lebron James, Sing US National Anthem"

Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, are you noticing the respect for Trump and America coming from the people of Communist China?

Contrast this:  

Man Who Slammed Trump for ‘Racist’ Immigration Policies Killed by Illegal Immigrant

Daily Politics  "A man who criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in the name of progressive Christianity was killed last week by an undocumented immigrant who avoided deportation by hiding in a local “sanctuary church.”
"Sean Buchanan, a father of five from Colorado Springs, was driving his motorcycle on Highway 83 when Miguel Ramirez Valiente swerved into his lane and killed him. The immigrant was charged with reckless driving with a revoked license.
"Ramirez Valiente received national media coverage in January when he sought sanctuary in All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Buchanan’s hometown. Speaking from the pulpit, he told assembled reporters that he had fled gang violence in El Salvador in 2005. He said he wanted to stay in the United States to care for his wife and three children even though his asylum application was denied.
"In a sympathetic report at the time, CNN said Ramirez Valiente was one of about 50 immigrants who had tried to avoid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a church.
"However, when he killed Buchanan, Ramirez Valiente was driving with a suspended license thanks to a 2018 DUI. He was also arrested for reckless endangerment in 2011 and domestic violence in 2016. A district attorney dismissed both charges.
"After the crash, a close female acquaintance anonymously told ABC 7 Denver that Ramirez Valiente is “an alcoholic and an abuser.”  . . .

More...

Destroying America’s History One Icon at a Time

Americans need to recognize these attacks on America’s history for their intended purpose.  A made-up Indigenous People’s Day is not intended to honor American Indians.  It is just one more front in the war to destroy America.   

Fletch Daniels  "Columbus Day brought a refreshing reminder that leftists are effectively erasing America’s heritage as an important step in transforming America into a socialist state. 

"As I look, “Happy Indigenous Peoples” day is approaching 100K tweets, which is simply advancing the narrative that was already set in motion by leftists across America. 

"A teacher posted some of the proud pictures from her propagandized little ones with sayings like “Christopher Columbus didn’t find America,” and “Christopher Columbus is a really mean man.”  How charming. 

"A Christopher Columbus statue was torn down in Los Angeles in 2018 and several others were vandalized this year. 

Tools in the hands of the left.

"Americans were furious in 2001 when they saw that the Taliban had destroyed Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan.  The prevailing cultural zeitgeist at the time ran clearly against toppling statues.  Don’t these third-world barbarians know that they are destroying world culture?  It helped elevate the Taliban’s evil in the eyes of the world. 

"Murderous Islamist thugs harboring terrorists?  That’s pretty bad.  Destroyers of world culture?  Call in the Marines!  Even the liberal American media were outraged.

"Less than twenty years later, destroying monuments is becoming a national sport in America with little outcry and support from the media.  Leftists have become the Taliban, which is no surprise since the goals are similar.  When attempting to force a twisted worldview on society, overthrowing perceived enemies and any connection to a different past is essential.  

"When a 200-year old monument of Christopher Columbus was smashed in Baltimore a couple years back, a sign was hung on it that read, “The future is racial and economic justice.”  In case anyone thought this was just America’s youth acting out as opposed to Marxist-inspired destruction, the act was narrated on YouTube and referenced “capitalist exploitation of labor.” 

"The leftists started with Confederate monuments, which made a good test to see what kind of resistance they would face. . . ."

Iran’s Ayatollah’s Speech: Barack Obama Was a Weak Leader of a Weakened Nation

Jim-Kouri  "Speaking candidly and openly to a number of high-level Iranians in both public and private sectors, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, in a speech, claimed the United States under President Barack Obama’s leadership no longer possesses the might and awe it once enjoyed, according to a report from a New York police detective assigned to an intelligence task force in the Middle East.

"Det. Stanley Carmichael provided Conservative Base with information gleaned from a 2016 meeting of top military, weapons, nuclear and aviation experts that was totally ignored by not only the entire Obama White House and administration, but also the Democratic Party’s news media puppets who wished to paint President Barack Obama as a successful peacemaker rather than the failure he and Secretary of State John Kerry hoisted onto the United States.

Speaking during a meeting of Iran’s Assembly of Experts in Tehran, the Ayatollah promised that the current “world order” will be replaced with a new world order that is already emerging not only in the Middle East but also in the West.

“ 'The realities in the region and the world show a serious uncertainty in the [America’s] principles of power and might; therefore, we should understand the realities correctly to prevent wrong analyses,” Khamenei said." . . .Full article

Jim Kouri, CPP, is founder and CEO of Kouri Associates, a homeland security, public safety and political consulting firm. He's formerly Fifth Vice-President, now a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, a columnist, and a contributor to the nationally syndicated talk-radio program, the Chuck Wilder Show.. He's former chief of police at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at St. Peter's University and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.

Part 2: CNN Leadership and Staffers Reveal True Sentiments; Network Picks Favorites Among Democratic Candidates on Eve of Debate

Project Veritas intends to continue its investigation into corruption in the Mainstream Media. We encourage brave insiders at these organizations to come forward with any information they have, so that the public knows what is really going on within these media companies.

Project Veritas "CNN Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez Says, ‘Joe Biden Has a Problem’ Because of his Son’s Foreign Business Dealings; “It Looks Bad. It Smells Bad.”

"CNN President Jeff Zucker Pushes Kamala Harris’ Demand to Take Down Trump’s Twitter Account; “I Think it’s a Good Segment…Not Going to Happen, But it’s a Good Talking – it’s a Good Segment.”
"Zucker on Harris: “She is Also Retooling Her Struggling Campaign.”
"CNN Media Coordinator Christian Sierra Says Network is Less Fair to Andrew Yang and Amy Klobuchar, “They’re Pro-Top Contenders.”
"Sierra: “I Think They Like Warren a Lot” “…They Don’t Like Tulsi Gabbard”
"CNN Media Coordinator Nick Neville Says “People Would Change the Channel” if Network Broadcasted a Biden Rally.
"CNN VP and Political Director David Chalian Believes That Andrew Yang Will Not Become the Democratic Nominee for President.
"CNN Insider Cary Poarch: “I Actually Came to CNN a Registered Democrat. I Campaigned and Voted for Bernie in the Primaries of the 16’ election;” “…All That I Thought I Knew and Hoped to be at CNN Was False.”
"Poarch: “It’s an Unwritten Rule That if You Are Center, Center Right, or Heaven Forbid, Full Right Republican Trump Supporter, Then You Are Not Welcome at CNN.”
"Insider Cary Poarch Wants ‘Free and Fair Election’ and Not ‘Some Ideology Shoved Down My Throat;’ Wants CNN to ‘Get Back to the Facts and Get Back to Reporting the News.’ "

CNN Insider: “Who does CNN like ”  Christian Sierra, CNN Media Coordinator: “I think they like Warren a lot. CNN doesn't like Tulsi Gabbard.

Political correctness versus common sense

Good article!

Political correctness versus common sense  . . . "For example, consider the explosion of so-called gender identities."  In 2016, New York City released a list of 31 genders approved by the city's Commission on Human Rights.  While writing my book Reclaiming Common Sense, I consulted Google to find out how many genders there were then and was told that the answer was 63.  Today, while writing this article, I re-Googled that question, and it was revealed to me that the latest number is 112." . . .
. . . "Consider the names given the genders officially approved by New York City's Commission on Human Rights.  The names include "drag king," "drag queen," "butch," "femme queen," "gender fluid," "gender blender," "gender gifted," "gender bender," and "femme person of transgender experience."  Talk about rubbing our noses in it!  The commissioners have gone out of their way to be outrageously transgressive.  This is not accidental.  They are making it abundantly clear they are ridiculing normal people and the world of common sense — the more outrageous, the better." . . .
Robert Curry serves on the Board of Directors of the Claremont Institute.  He is the author of Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea and Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World. 

Trump Considers Lawsuit Against CNN After Project Veritas Exposes Bias

Leah Barkoukis  . . . "Project Veritas worked with a source within CNN to expose the network’s biases against the president, publishing undercover recordings from CNN employees who ranged from “media coordinator to high-ranking executives.”

CNN president Jeff Zucker directed staff to focus heavily on impeachment, even at the expense of other news." . . .
. . . "As Matt [Vespa] explained, the expose is just confirmation of what everyone knew all along—that CNN is basically “one massive propaganda machine for the Democratic Party.”
. . . "Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said exposing CNN would be a multi-part series. Monday’s segment was just the first video and featured whistleblower Cary Poarch, who explained that his dream job quickly turning into a nightmare over the bias. " . . .
. . . "O'Keefe said the next video will feature another CNN journalist." . . .

CNN Says No One in Project Veritas’s #ExposeCNN ‘Sting’ Is a CNN Journalist

. . . "The CNN spokesperson said that Neville was only a junior employee at the network, not a journalist, and would not have had access to Zucker or knowledge of the topics in which he was speaking about. Neville did not immediately respond to a request for comment." . . .

But the voice you heard was CNN head man Zucker stating their purpose was Trump's impeachment. You can't get more insider than that. As always, never trust anything said by CNN." . . .

Case in point: Project Veritas Video: CNN’s Jeff Zucker Directing Employees To Push Impeachment

Legal Insurrection: #ExposeCNN Part 1 – CNN President Zucker Has Vendetta Against Trump, is Pushing Impeachment  "James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released the first part of their new #ExposeCNN project. If you have been paying attention to CNN for the last few years, you may not be surprised by what is revealed in their report.

"The insider is Cary Poarch, who worked at CNN’s Washington, DC bureau. His recordings suggest that CNN is on a mission to end Trump’s presidency.

"Network President Jeff Zucker is heard holding a daily editorial phone call with employees, during which he makes it clear that CNN is pushing the impeachment narrative. Other CNN employees claim that Zucker hates Trump, and has harbored a personal vendetta against him since they were both at NBC during the days of “The Apprentice.' ” . . .

One fascinating aspect of the report is that it reinforces the obvious contempt CNN has for FOX News. If you’ve ever watched CNN’s media reporter Brian Stelter, you know that he talks about FOX News almost obsessively. That makes perfect sense when you hear the way his boss speaks about the rival network. More from Veritas: . . .

From The Federalist:  Zucker also encouraged CNN employees to report on Fox News as if it were a conspiracy outlet.

Project Veritas: “Yeah, so I just want to say on the Lindsey Graham front, I know that there’s a lot of people at CNN that are friendly with Lindsey Graham. It’s time to knock that off and it’s time to call him out.”

Townhall

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill requiring UC and CSU schools provide students with free chemical abortions.

Via Weasel Zippers, wording its headline this way: California Moonbat Governor Signs Law Mandating Colleges Offer ‘Free’ Abortions…  The main article is below.

Campus Reform  "California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed a bill requiring all University of California and California State University campuses to offer chemical abortion to students for free. 

"Senate Bill 24 – the “College Student Right to Access Act” – passed the California Legislature in September, giving Newsom about one month to either sign or veto the bill. Prior to Friday, when Newsom signed the bill into law, every indicator was that he would sign it. According to the most recent enrollment data, 481,210 students are enrolled at CSU and 280,380 students are enrolled on UC campuses- a total of 761,590 students. Of those, 272,779 females were enrolled at CSU schools while 147,131 female students were enrolled at UC schools- a total of 419,910 students who would be covered by the new law.

"California Campus Correspondent Fiona Moriarty-McLaughlin asked students at UC-Santa Barbara their thoughts.:

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