Trump Brings Witnesses, Calls On Them To Prove Pelosi LIED About WH Meeting

Donald Trump had Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow and Mercedes Schlapp — all present at yesterday’s meeting — give their accounts of the event.

Conservative Flash  "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that President Donald Trump lost his mind and slammed his fist on the table during an infrastructure meeting at the White House on Wednesday.
"However, Trump not only set the record straight himself, he brought several witnesses with him to tell the media what really happened in the closed-door meeting.
"During an event on Thursday morning from the Oval Office, the president was announcing a $16 billion aid package for farmers.
"But when the topic changed to the meeting, Trump called on several of his top aides who were present at the meeting — White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Communications Director Mercedes Schlapp, Chief Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow, and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
"Trump called upon his aides to back him up by sharing their own recollections of what occurred and whether Pelosi was spreading fake news.
"“Very calm. No tamper tantrum,” Conway said of Trump’s demeanor during the meeting.
"Conway then mocked the “facts-first” media for the blatant “lie” they helped perpetuate that the president had raged at the Democrat leaders.
"Trump then turned to Schlapp and asked for her take on the meeting.
" 'You were very calm and you were very direct,” Schlapp said, noting that it was “discouraging” to see Pelosi make incendiary comments right before the meeting.
"Trump then turned to Kudlow and asked a similar question." . . .

Stilton's Place  (parody, or maybe plain sarcasm) "Just to make sure no one forgets their enthusiasm for fascism, House democrats like John Garamendi and Rashida Tlaib are now actively planning the logistics of grabbing "uncooperative" members of the Trump administration and throwing them into the House jail if they don't help with the ongoing coup attempt.

No More Pretense: Journalists, Dems Use Identical Talking Points on Impeachment

Newsbusters  "Television journalists these days sound so similar to Democrats on impeachment that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. Weeks before the impeachment inquiry was even announced, talking heads were passing off Democratic talking points as objective information about the President's alleged wrongdoing.

"What follows is a compilation video of some of the liberal media's greatest minds spouting DNC talking points. These journalists have not had their words taken out of context while attempting to summarize the Democrats’ position. Whether or not they they were intentionally regurgitating the words of Democrats, they did so without attributing their words to anyone. Watch below:

. . . 

" 'Journalists' also dutifully repeated Democrats’ allegations of a “coverup” by the Trump administration. For example, on October 4, CNN’s gray eminence Carl Bernstein assured the viewers of New Day: “Let’s be clear here; we are watching a cover-up. We are watching a cover-up by the President of the United States.”

"Later that evening, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sounded alarmingly similar to Adam Schiff when she theorized that “the investigation into the cover-up” might “end up being a whole, separate article of impeachment in terms of obstruction of justice.” That latter charge — obstruction of justice — also received considerable mileage on CNN and MSNBC.

"On the October 6 edition of New Day, CNN analyst April Ryan rattled off all of the above charges with the confidence of a Democratic operative: “[This] is obstruction of justice; it’s bribery; demeaning the oath of office; demeaning the office.' ”

'suggests"?

CNN Production Supervisor Wishing For Trump’s Death, ‘Hopefully He Dies Soon’

CNN boss Zucker should be beaming with pride. Watch CNN for coverage on this...any minute now.

Rich Terrell

A New Insight Into Media Bias  . . . "See how this works? It's the same with "climate change," abortion and many other issues. Anyone who goes against the faith of the secular-progressive culture is simply ignored, or ridiculed. In totalitarian societies it's called propaganda." . . .

Project Veritas  Scott Garber, Senior Field Engineer at CNN: “We used to cover news. We used to go out and do stories…But Trump is more important.”
"Adia Jacobs, CNN Technical Operations Supervisor: “When Zucker took over it wasn’t until Trump that we ended up being all Trump all the time.' "

O’Keefe Strikes Again! Undercover Video Shows CNN Production Supervisor Wishing For Trump’s Death, ‘Hopefully He Dies Soon’ 

Project Veritas
 . . . "Project Veritas unveiled Part 3 of its #ExposeCNN series on Thursday.

"CNN conceded on video they are “left leaning” but don’t want to openly admit it.

"O’Keefe also caught CNN Field Production Supervisor Gerald Sisnette wishing for President Trump’s death.

“ 'This is a story that’s not gonna go away,” Mr. Sisnette said.

“ 'Oh the Ukraine thing? Or just Trump in general?” the CNN whistleblower asked.

“ 'Trump in general. The only way this will go away is when he [Trump] dies. Hopefully soon,” Gerald Sisnette said. . . "

Project Veritas Scoop: Of Course We’re Leftists, CNN Manager Says  . . . "Will Zucker suffer any consequences for this? I’d doubt it, unless it starts impacting the ratings. Credibility’s great, but advertisers pay for eyeballs on TV and websites."

James O'Keefe‏ 

BREAKING: “When I got this job thirteen years ago, @CNN was nothing like this...They sold themselves to the devil. It’s, it’s sad.” - Floor Manager at CNN Mike Brevna #ExposeCNN

Project Veritas Scoop: Of Course We’re Leftists, CNN Manager Says  . . . "Will Zucker suffer any consequences for this? I’d doubt it, unless it starts impacting the ratings. Credibility’s great, but advertisers pay for eyeballs on TV and websites."

Pelosi and Schumer bolt from Syria meeting with Trump after ‘meltdown’

NY Post  "Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer stormed out of a White House sitdown on Syria with President Trump after he called Pelosi “ a third-rate politician” and a Communist sympathizer in what the House speaker termed “a meltdown.”
“ 'He was insulting, particularly to the speaker. She kept her cool completely. But he called her a third rate politician. He said that there are communists involved and you guys might like that,” Schumer said.
“ 'This was not a dialogue. It was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts, particularly the fact of how to curtail ISIS, a terrorist organization that aims to hurt the United States,” he said.
"Pelosi said Trump was shaken by an earlier House vote condemning his decision to pull troops from northern Syria."
. . . 
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blamed Pelosi, as did the White House.
“ 'To storm out of a meeting, which I’ve watched time before, during other crisis, is really not — the ability of a speaker, or the style of how a Speaker should carry herself,” McCarthy told reporters.
“ 'The president was measured, factual and decisive, while Speaker Pelosi’s decision to walk out was baffling, but not surprising. While Democratic leadership chose to storm out … everyone else in the meeting chose to stay in the room,” spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told PBS.
"Along with Trump and Esper, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin attended the meeting.
"Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Jack Reed, (D-RI), were also there, among other senators. A bi-partisan group of House members also attended."

Elijah Cummings, esteemed longtime Baltimore congressman, has died at 68

Cummings in 1973

CBS News  "Representative Elijah Cummings, of Baltimore, died early Thursday at the age of 68, his office said. Cummings passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 2:45 a.m. from "complications concerning longstanding health challenges," his office said.

"He hadn't returned to work after having a medical procedure that he said would only keep him away for about a week, The Baltimore Sun noted.

"Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party and Cummings' wife, said in a statement that Cummings was "an honorable man who proudly served his district and the nation with dignity, integrity, compassion and humility." . . .

Elijah Cummings through the years

Photo: Elijah Cummings attacked in the Selma, Alabama civil rights march.

Who is U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings?  "Cummings was born in 1951 and raised in Baltimore, where he still resides today, according to his congressional biography.
"He is one of seven children to parents Robert Cummings Sr. and Ruth Elma Cummings, née Cochran, both of whom worked as sharecroppers in South Carolina on land where their family’s ancestors were enslaved. The couple moved to Baltimore in the late 1940s. 
"As a child, Cummings struggled in elementary school and was assigned to special education courses. However, after showing promise in high school at City College, he won Phi Beta Kappa honors at Howard University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law and passed the state bar in 1976.
"According to his congressional biography, the congressman is an active member of New Psalmist Baptist Church and is married to Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who was elected chair of the Maryland Democratic Party in December." . . .

Cummings at his older brother's graduation

UK Daily Mail: A sharecropper's son, Cummings was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1982 and rose through the ranks before winning a US congressional seat in 1996.

From 2015: Congressman John Lewis was one of the many civil rights leaders who marched in Selma, Alabama 50 years ago today, and throughout the day, he has tweeted a dramatic recounting of the March and the horror of Bloody Sunday.
Not America's finest moment.

Elijah Cummings marching with the group.

Somehow our institutions are so much better than we have been; America had the image of Abraham Lincoln superseded by that of these angry police and the images of Dr. Martin Luther King and Elijah Cummings by Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters.  TD

Please, Please More Democratic Debates!

Vice President Joe Biden bragged that he was “the only one on this stage who has taken on the NRA and beat them, and beat them twice. We were able to get assault weapons off the streets ...” Yes, and in direct response to that assault weapons ban opposed by the NRA, Republicans swept Congress in the very next election, winning control of the House for the first time in nearly half a century. 

Ann Coulter  "With all the rancor in politics these days, the CNN/New York Times Democratic debate on Tuesday night delivered a rare moment of comity: Twelve Democrats agreed, apparently without compensation, to appear in a Donald Trump ad. Other points on which the Democrats came together in peace and harmony:

-- Trump should be impeached.
-- Abortion is great.
 -- Obamacare sucks.

" At least we’re all finally agreed on Obamacare!

"Obamacare has given us a system -- to quote Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont -- “which is dysfunctional, which is cruel, 87 million uninsured, 30,000 people dying every single year, 500,000 people going bankrupt for one reason, they came down with cancer.”

"None of the Democrats disagreed with Sanders’ description of health care in American today, although they have slightly different solutions.

"I don’t mean to be rude, but I thought Obamacare was supposed to fix health care.

"Millions of us were thrown off our health insurance plans by Obamacare, and now I find out that it didn’t even make things better for anyone else. The government intervenes, everything goes to hell, then Democrats cite the hell they created to demand another massive government intervention.

"The motto of all socialist schemes should be: “This time, it will be different.”  . . .

Why would anyone choose to watch CNN?

CNN Pretty Much Just Confirmed Project Veritas's Whistleblower Is Telling The Truth
. . . "One of Poarch's clips show that Zucker wants CNN to focus on impeachment all the time. He has a personal vendetta against Trump, and wants impeachment to take over the

Zucker

news cycle. He would never say this in public, but on weekly morning phone calls he makes sure that this is what his network is focusing on: . . ."

Oh, So That's Why CNN Doesn't Cover Shootings In Places Like Chicago  . . . And on top of that, cities are run by Democrats, this makes Democrats look bad, and therefore CNN would probably deep-six it. And yet, even with the spikes in violence in cities like Chicago, which has improved in their crime statistics for this year, violent crime across the country remains low, we’re safer than we’ve ever been, and schools are safer than they were during Columbine. We’re not a shooting gallery, but the insane amount of coverage CNN and other networks dole out for mass shooters makes you think we’re like the Bakara Market in Mogadishu. We’re not. But damn the facts if it means putting Trump, the GOP, and the NRA on their heels, or so that goes the logic."

Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out CNN For ‘Completely Despicable’ Lies During CNN-Hosted Debate  "Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was not given much time to speak during the fourth Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night but in her limited limelight she was able to expose South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s naivety on the ongoing military engagements the United States has in the Middle East . . .She also took time in her answer to call out CNN, the host of the debate, for “completely despicable” news and conspiracies they have peddled about her regarding her belief the U.S. should not be endlessly fighting. . . .
. . . 
"Gabbard pointed to specific examples—one of which occurred the Tuesday morning before the debate—of CNN referring to her as an “asset” or “puppet” helping Russia.
"BizPac Review reports Gabbard claimed CNN “smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime-change war,” as she has called for pulling the United States out of Syria and other countries in the Middle East.”This morning, a CNN commentator said on national television that I’m an asset of Russia,” Gabbard said. “Completely despicable.” . . .

This just in from Project Veritas:
CNN Media Coordinator states ‘Jeff Zucker goes into the control room while Jake Tapper is interviewing Kellyanne Conway’; tells Executive Producer to skip commercials, extend 7 minute interview to 25 minutes to “just f**king nail her”  . . . 
"Zucker personally ordered CNN host Jake Tapper to press Kellyanne Conway in a live TV interview.  Jake Tapper corroborated this information HERE."
"Is Zucker scripting TV interviews instead of allowing CNN hosts to  use their own judgement?
"This is the problem with today’s media. They are not interested in the facts.  Instead, it’s all about an agenda.
"Another video exposing CNN’s bias is coming out soon."

You Can't Spell 'Lieu' Without 'Lie'

Frontpage

A look at the disreputable political career of Congressman Ted Lieu.

"Rep. Ted Lieu contends that the recent “whistleblower” allegations against Donald Trump give evidence of impeachable “misconduct” by the President in his now-famous July 25th telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine: “Soliciting Ukraine to get dirt on Trump's political opponent [Joe Biden]: HIGH CRIME,” Lieu tweeted in promoting an allegation which has been utterly discredited by the now-public transcript of the phone conversation in question." . . .

. . . "Another conservative whom Lieu recently smeared was Candace Owens, a conservative black activist who has worked diligently to persuade African Americans to walk away from the Democratic Party. At an April 2019 House Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism, Lieu played a 30-second audio clip of comments that Owens had made about Adolf Hitler and nationalism four months earlier. In a truly obscene and deliberate misrepresentation of Owens's words, Lieu falsely characterized her remarks as an attempt “to legitimize Adolf Hitler” and then gave Owens no opportunity to respond to his charges. When a Republican congressman subsequently offered Owens a chance to reply to Lieu, she delivered one of the most devastating public humiliations ever inflicted on an American politician." . . . 

"Ted Lieu's current allegations regarding the “whistleblower” claims against Donald Trump are no more legitimate – and no more honest – than was his pathetic attempt to portray Candace Owens as a Nazi sympathizer. Lieu is an embarrassment to the United States Congress."

Democrat Ted Lieu Trashes Mike Pence’s Christian Faith; ‘It’s Just Hate’

. . . "Then the Daily Caller reported on it, stating:
“ 'In response to Lieu’s original tweet, a Twitter user referenced three of the apostle Paul’s epistles that reinforced the disapproval of homosexual behavior. Lieu dismissed these New Testament teachings as “not by Christ.”
"Immanuel Christian School’s parent agreement states that families must “acknowledge the importance of a family culture based on biblical principles and embrace biblical family values such as a healthy marriage between one man and one woman.”
"When it comes to leftists forcing their agenda upon everyone, they call anyone who disagrees an intolerant bigot. When it comes to Christians believing in their religion, without pushing it upon others, they are attacked by leftists who don’t see they’re living in a wicked double standard. In this case, the leftists are the intolerant bigots who refuse to accept the religion of others, just like many people refuse to accept that a six foot man in a dress is a woman." . . .

"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)