You're Not Imagining It: The Media Really Is Biased About Impeaching Donald Trump

PJ Media  "Media watchdog NewsBusters breaks it down for us. In a study released this week, NewsBusters reports that major networks gave dozens of hours of coverage to the impeachment hearings against President Trump, but in 1998 they gave a fraction of that amount of coverage to Ken Starr's impeachment presentation against President Clinton:

Broadcast networks NBC, CBS, and ABC have donated 75 hours of free air time to Democrats’ impeachment hearings, despite notably poor (and consistently shrinking) ratings. Yet during President Clinton’s impeachment, these same networks could not be bothered to carry more than a few hours of independent counsel Ken Starr’s one-day presentation of the evidence against Clinton on November 19, 1998.

By contrast back in November of 1998, NBC aired a paltry 26 percent (194 minutes) of Starr’s 12.5 hours of testimony on Capitol Hill. CBS covered 42 percent of the hearing (314 minutes), while ABC broadcast 36 percent (272 minutes).

"One wonders what motivates the alphabet networks, given the pathetic ratings achieved. Perhaps they've misread their consumers once again? In another report, NewsBusters dove into the ratings and showed that despite tremendous buildup and anticipation, the first few days of impeachment hearings achieved a fraction of the coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in 2018: . . ."

Schiff and Nadler, the hanging judges

Rich Terrell

Schiff for President  . . . "The only thing they want is to Get Trump.

"The one guy who's helping along on that front, Rep. Adam Schiff, whose dank basement hearings have yielded a rushed "report," is now a rising star." . . .

Impeachment witness list loaded with Trump critics . . . "A fourth witness listed by Democrats, but possibly requested by the GOP, is George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, who has criticized how Democrats have handled the impeachment process." . . .

BARR: House Democrat Impeachment Rules Are Made For A Lynch Mob, Not A Legitimate Proceeding . . . "Notwithstanding the change in venue, the proceedings are still a farce. They bear only surface resemblance to those in which I (and Nadler) participated 21 years ago." . . .

Trump lawyers to Jerry Nadler: We won’t participate in your sham Wednesday law professor hearing  . . . "The impeachment torch is about to be passed from Adam Schiff (House Intelligence Committee) to Jerry Nadler (House Judiciary Committee).

"Nadler scheduled a “hearing” for Wednesday, but it’s not an evidentiary hearing and the witnesses (as of this writing) are unknown.

"What is known it that there will be three pro-impeachment law professors called by Democrats to opine on what constitutes an impeachable offense. (Spoiler — if Democrats are calling the law professors, they will opine that anything and everything Trump did is an impeachable offense). Republicans will be allowed one legal expert to say the opposite.

"In other words, it’s a show hearing, meant to give the pro-impeachment mainstream media a news cycle dominated (by numbers) by pro-impeachment opinions.

"Trump’s lawyers sent a letter tonight to Nadler rejecting the premise and procedure of the hearing, and refusing to participate. Politico reports:

The White House informed House Democrats on Sunday that it will not participate in the Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing, excoriating Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as a “baseless” and “partisan” exercise in scathing five-page letter to the panel’s chairman.…

Are You Ready For Presidential Candidate Adam Schiff?

Hot Air

"It’s not going to happen this election cycle, however, there is speculation California Congressman Adam Schiff is looking towards higher office. The only question is how high. A new report from The Hill suggests Schiff has his eyes on either the Senate or a future residency in the White House.

Some Democrats see him as the natural heir to 86-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); others say the 19-year Southern California congressman is a House guy through and through and could one day run to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), his close ally. One of his House colleagues from the Golden State said she saw a president in the making as Schiff led the televised hearings these past two weeks.“When we look at the characteristics of what we want to see in a president, it is somebody who is not going to lose composure because he’s been poked. And we’re seeing that on display from Adam Schiff every single day,” said the California Democratic lawmaker. “He’s not too vanilla. But I kind of want that now after Trump. We need boring; boring is good.”

"Schiff obviously isn’t boring but someone who appears to be doing his best to be a Very Serious Politician when he’s far from it. He proved it last week in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper where he spoke from both sides of his mouth on the impeachment question. Tapper asked Schiff directly if he believed President Donald Trump should be impeached and the answer was, “I want to discuss this with my constituents and my colleagues before I make a final judgment on it.' ” . . .

Joe Biden ramps up the 'ick' factor with his latest leg-hair story

Monica Showalter
"Is Joe Biden in an early stage of dementia?  How does anyone explain this?"

Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop https://trib.al/kQXNjmm 

. . . 

"Coming on the heels of his recent "finger-biting" episode, one really wonders whether this guy is in his right mind.  It sure explains why President Obama isn't endorsing him.

No filter here.

"It sounds as though he's growing demented.  People who work in nursing homes say the very aged with dementia issues often speak to staff with "no filters," as their mental affliction can affect their social judgment.
"That's what Biden sounds like now.  Nobody talks like that who's in a sound state of mind.  Trump would probably have a hard time making fun of him at this point because it looks as though he's simply unfit to be president.  
This leg-hair incident shows that this guy isn't just gaffe-prone and generally creepy to start, but actually needs to get help."

Biden-Ryan debate

Bumbling Biden’s Bunches of Malarkey  . . . "Joe’s main draw is comfort — plain and simple. People know him. He’s a familiar face to all age groups. The man knows Washington like the back of a woman’s shoulders, boasting five decades of D.C. experience. He is a reset button for (relatively) moderate Democrats. These merely non-radical voters pine for the Obama era, and Biden is their relic. He knows this, hence the frequent, strategic references to his partnership with 44 -- “my friend, Barack.” Thus, while Biden’s debate performances have been mediocre at best, this Obamastalgia may shield him just enough to survive the swipes of the hard Left. "
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Iranian revolt exposes Obama's mistakes

L. Todd Wood - - Thursday, August 2, 2018

. . . "These protests are real. They are the product of genuine discontent from the people of Iran, not fomented by outside groups. They are happening without the support of American troops. In other words, the people of Iran want to take care of this themselves.

"What these brave Iranians do need is our moral support — and continued financial pressure on the regime. If President Trump and his administration can take away the ability of the mullahs to enrich themselves and steal from the Iranian people, he will have done the Iranian people a great service. Shutting down Iranian oil exports and removing Iran’s ability to use the global banking system will create the conditions for regime change from within Iran.

"The Obama administration, betting on engagement over confrontation with the mullahs, knew very well the power of U.S. economic pressure. It knew the regime could not handle long-term financial sanctions that Congress was determined to impose. That is why Mr. Obama worked so hard to get a deal — any deal — that would provide sanctions relief for Tehran.

"Now there is a new sheriff in town".  . . .  Not a new sheriff; there is a sheriff in town now.

Iranian activist says unrest is 'totally different' from past protests against regime
"Iranian activist and journalist Masih Alinejad appeared on "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Monday to discuss the unrest in Iran and the hundreds of protesters killed by the government's brutal crackdown, saying the movement opposing Tehran's authoritarian regime could topple the country's theocratic regime." . . .
"Alinejad told MacCallum "more than 500 people" were killed.
"The activist also described the protest scenes in Iran, saying a 27-year-old protester was filming one demonstration when he was shot in the head in front of his mother. Alinejad also became emotional as MacCallum played a video of her brother telling her to continue highlighting the protest movement in Iran.
"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other Iranian leaders have blamed the United States for the protests, something Alinejad disputed.
" 'Why don't we hear any single slogan against America in the streets of Iran and across Iran?" Alinejad said. "So that is why I have to say that people are suffering from corruption. People actually are witnessing that.' " . . .

Iranian Women Fight for Freedom

• "The Islamic Republic authorities say 'compulsory hijab' is the law and must be obeyed. However, bad laws must be challenged and changed." — Masih Alinejad, Iranian-American journalist and award-winning activist.
• "The basis of this tyranny is the religious law that the government has been enforcing since the 1979 revolution. Women are second-class citizens, and essentially slaves in Iran. The international community needs to have the courage to delegitimize religious law and call it out for its tyrannical nature. Just as the free world delegitimized communism during the Cold War, it should do the same to religious law." — Nasrin Mohammadi, author of Ideas and Lashes: The Prison Diary of Akbar Mohammadi, about the torture and death in prison of her late brother; to Gatestone Institute.

Kellyanne Conway Just Made Adam Schiff an Offer on Impeachment Testimony

Katie Pavlich

"Speaking to reporters from the White House Monday morning, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway offered to testify as a witness in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry if House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff does the same." . . . 
. . . 

"The White House replied on deadline and will not be sending any participants. 

"Before leaving for the NATO Summit in in London Monday morning, President Trump called the impeachment inquiry a "hoax." 

" 'The whole thing is a hoax. Everybody knows it. All you have to do is look at the words of the Ukrainian president that he just issued, and you know it's a hoax. It's an absolute disgrace what they're doing to our country," he said." . . .

Jerry Nadler and company were not happy

. . . "As Cipollone explained, there are a few problems. In his letter to Nadler, the White House counsel rejected the Democrats’ argument that their impeachment inquiry is affording President Trump the same due process that President Clinton got during his impeachment proceedings. For instance, during that 1990s scandal, the Judiciary Committee allowed committee members two and a half weeks to prepare their questions. As Cipollone points out, the hearing was scheduled for only five days out from the day they received Nadler’s latest invitation.
“ 'Today, by contrast, you have afforded the president no scheduling input, no meaningful information, and so little time to prepare that you have effectively denied the Administration a fair opportunity to participate,” Cipollone notes." . . .

Revealed: Six of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan's fellow Stock Exhange bomb plotters have also been freed from prison since 2012

. . . " and another was freed only to be re-jailed after plotting a Lee Rigby-style attack

UK Daily Mail  "Six of the eight terrorist plotters who were jailed along with London Bridge attacker Usman Khan in 2012 have also been freed from prison, it has emerged. 

London Bridge terrorist: Usman
 Khan (pictured) carried out the
 atrocity on  Friday a  year after
 he was released  on licence 

"The nine jihadists were members of an al-Qaeda-inspired cell which plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange and kill Boris Johnson. 
"One is still in prison, another was convicted for a further terror plot and Khan is dead - leaving six back on the streets, it is believed. 
"Three of the nine - Khan, Mohammad Shahjahan and Nazam Hussein - were initially handed indefinite prison terms, but the trio won an appeal in 2013 which changed them to fixed sentences.
"Allowing their appeal, former press inquiry chair Lord Justice Leveson found they had been 'wrongly characterised' as more dangerous than the others. 

"Khan was released in December 2018 after serving half of his fixed sentence - and the other two have also been freed, The Sun on Sunday reported." . . .
. . . "That meant Khan left prison in December 2018, apparently feigning rehabilitation, but committed the London Bridge atrocity only 12 months later. " . . . 

Will There Really Be a 2020 Landslide for Trump?

Confidence is necessary, and we should expect to win big.  Hubris, however, is the cardinal sin in sales and winning elections.  We have an opportunity to win 35–40 states, but only if we convince ourselves that we're losing 35–40 states. 

Remember Hillary's 2016 fireworks celebration?

Queen Hillary Has Already PAID for her Giant “Victory Celebration”

Rich Logis  "As we head into the most consequential election in our republic's history, you can listen to what you want to hear or what you need to hear.
"Hillary Clinton was far closer to winning than most realize, and whatever liar or crazy Democrats nominate for 2020 will have the identical advantages Clinton enjoyed.  Furthermore, much of the rhetoric espoused by our Trump nationalist side is almost verbatim what Democrats circa 2016 said; as Yogi Berra once quipped, it's déjà vu all over again. 
"Democrats three years ago:
"Make history; shatter the glass ceiling; there are more of us than of you (Republicans); 50-state landslide; we'll win Texas; Republicans will vote for Clinton.
"Republicans in 2019:

"There are more of us than of you (Democrats); we'll win 480 electoral votes; we got this; majority of minority voters will President Trump; what time is the buy-one-get-one early bird dinner special?  . . .

. . . "Confidence is necessary, and we should expect to win big.  Hubris, however, is the cardinal sin in sales and winning elections.  We have an opportunity to win 35–40 states, but only if we convince ourselves that we're losing 35–40 states.  I've asked dozens and dozens of Republicans to show me the pathway to a landslide, and none has been able to.  Winning teams always play scared, urgent with a sense of urgency.  It's not that Democrats are merely motivated; they're in a trance-like state of hatred toward us and Trump.  I see a president who recognizes that politics is sales (promises made, promises kept) and understands innately that nothing is guaranteed and that every win is hard fought.  Clinton actually believed that the landslide balderdash that came out of her mouth and the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex).  On the bright side, at least our side isn't publicly asking why we aren't 50 points ahead." . . .

Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show, at TheRichLogisShow.com, and author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat.

It’s real! A third poll reveals 33% nonwhite support for Trump

Thomas Lifson "This seems almost too good to be true….

"A few days ago, two respected polls—Rasmussen and Emerson -- came out showing that black approval for Trump had reached 34%. Now comes confirmation from another respected poll NPR/PBS Marist, this time aggregating blacks with other racial minorities, and finding an almost identical rate of support of 33%. Sundance provides the results of the poll in a chart:

. . . See the poll here

"As he notes, “…the Marist poll was 1,224 voters with a 26 percent minority (black and Hispanic) share of the poll – so that’s a significant poll of minority voters.

"While the Trump economy has dramatically improved wages and employment opportunities for minorities who are disproportionately found in lower-wage occupations, that has been true for at least a couple of years. Why are three polls now showing a dramatically higher level of support than polls only a few months ago?

"One possible answer that occurs to me is that the spectacle of the kangaroo court House hearings aimed at impeaching President Trump has resonated with blacks and other minorities who feel that the criminal justice system is biased against them, generating sympathy for a man they see being railroaded by “the system” (in this case House Democrats).

"Whatever the cause in the surge of approval for Trump, this may be part of a historic realignment, one that could destroy the coalition that has kept the Democrats viable at a national level." . . .

Mask off: Greta Thunberg comes out full Marxist

Monica Showalter "Surely you didn't think climate change was the only thing Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg had in mind, did you?

"Nope, she's now got bigger ideas:

. . . 

"In a Soros-linked Project Syndicate op-ed she likely didn't write, given the sophistication of its fanatical exhortations, she says:

On the next two Fridays, we will again take to the streets: worldwide on November 29, and in Madrid, Santiago, and many other places on December 6 during the UN climate conference. Schoolchildren, young people, and adults all over the world will stand together, demanding that our leaders take action – not because we want them to, but because the science demands it.

That action must be powerful and wide-ranging. After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities.

..."and...

Collective action works; we have proved that. But to change everything, we need everyone. Each and every one of us must participate in the climate resistance movement. We cannot just say we care; we must show it.

"Collective action? That's Marxist. That's straight from the playbook of Vladimir Lenin, who always projected that particular 'act now' line, the words of a single-minded fanatic appealing to bored youth, while all along, plotting absolute power for himself, all in the name of "the people.'"  . . .

Photoshop, I'm sure

"Dimwitted dingbat gives the game away"

Patriot Retort

"Appearing on CNN last night the dimwitted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accidentally exposed the reason Democrats are rushing through this crime-free shampeachment."
. . . 
If you, like so many, cannot stand listening to this moron’s aimless twaddle, I have taken the bullet for you and dutifully transcribed the pertinent part:

“We have to move quite quickly because we’re talking about the potential compromise of the 2020 election. And so this is not just about something that has occurred, this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”

"You got that?
"Apparently the one High Crime Donald Trump is committing is being such a successful President he’ll be reelected. Therefore, it would compromise the 2020 election to have him on the ballot. And by “compromise,” this dimwitted dingbat means “The Democrat nominee will lose in a landslide.”
"Now you understand why they’re moving ahead with Schiffy’s Impeachment Porn despite the absence of any impeachable offenses." . . .

Heaven forbid the voters “compromise” the 2020 election by actually, you know, reelecting Trump.

49 Conservative Leaders Urge Chick-Fil-A to ‘Reverse Course’ on Pro-Family Charities

The Daily Signal

"Leaders of pro-family, pro-life, and other conservative organizations have sent a letter to Chick-fil-A asking the fast-food chicken company to reconsider its decision to no longer financially support the Salvation Army.
“ 'We are tremendously disappointed at your company’s complicity in defaming the mission and intent of the Salvation Army, one of America’s oldest and most accomplished charitable organizations,” the conservative leaders write to Dan Cathy, chairman and CEO of Chick-fil-A, in a letter dated Tuesday.
“ 'We urge you to immediately reverse course and reconfirm your commitment to America’s families,” they add.
"Among the 49 signers of the letter were Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America; Kay Coles James, president of The Heritage Foundation; Aaron Baer, president of Citizens for Community Values; Brent L. Bozell, founder and CEO of the Media Research Center; Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel; and Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of First Liberty Institute.
"Chick-fil-A announced Nov. 18 that, under new giving plans, it would not renew multiyear donations to the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, both organizations known for their support of traditional marriage.
"Conservative leaders apparently prepared the letter before Townhall broke the news Tuesday that tax records show Chick-fil-A donated $2,500 to the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2017." . . .