In 2018 I saw this assessment of news sources in a Ventura, CA school handout. TD
Thomas Lifson"Something extraordinary happened yesterday: CNN’s fact-checkers called out lies by Democrat Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Veronica Escobar, twofer victim class members as female and minorities. Compounding the shock, the lies were about President Trump and aimed at impeaching the mother****r, as their Democrat colleague Rashida Tlaib put it so memorably following her election.
Brian Stelter
"Bronson Stocking of Townhall noticed the break with CNN’s existing editorial orientation:
In order to impeach the president, Democrats have to lie about the facts. It has now come to the point where even CNN is calling the Democrats out on their lies.
Two Democratic representatives from Texas, Veronica Escobar and Sheila Jackson Lee, both lied during debate on articles of impeachment on Thursday about what President Trump said during his phone call to the president of Ukraine.
Rep. Escobar said President Trump told President Zelensky, "I want you to do me a favor though."
Rep. Jackson Lee quoted Trump saying, "I would like you to do a favor though."
What Trump actually said was "I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot." The full quote makes it clear that Trump was asking the president of Ukraine to do "our country" a favor.
"Keep in mind that CNN has meticulously kept its viewers ignorant of most things that would cast an unfavorable light on the efforts to impeach (or even say something positive about) President Trump. The network did not carry IG Horowitz’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, for instance.
"So, this bit of fact-checking is worth noticing, even if it didn’t happen on-air, but rather in CNN’s online Fact check:" . . .
Is CNN management finally starting to realize that they are committing slow motion suicide with their biased news coverage? Implicitly, the network has been counting on impeachment coverage to lift its ratings out the cellar, but it isn’t working out that way, but rather exactly the opposite.
No matter as long as these people are there at CNN. Their intentions and motives must be always in suspect.
The Fate of Secular Saint Greta Thunberg "After seeing the cover for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” award, who can still pretend the Left is irreligious? It is clear Time has officially sainted Thunberg. After all, the magazine proclaims, “By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.”
"Thunberg -- for now at least -- has become the secular equivalent of Joan of Arc, whose portraits and statues are depicted with a similar expression denoting transcendent holiness.
"One suspects that in a very short time, St. Greta will invite St. Joan's fate. No, she won't suffer a literal execution, but she will be "executed" nonetheless; and by the same crowd that currently is elevating her to sainthood." . . .
. . . "Eventually, the now maniacally devoted followers who presently adore her will become diverted by other Pied Pipers and begin to wander away, leaving her alone with only her abstractions for company." . . .
A series of new bills working their way through state legislatures in New York, California, Oregon, Hawaii, and several other progressive states will require you to listen to a Greta Thunberg lecture before purchasing gasoline.
. . . "Unfortunately, they cut down way more trees than needed for Time's waning readership. But it was worth it to send this powerful message to the patriarchy, white supremacists, Donald Trump, and capitalists. Oh, yeah, and to communicate the climate change thing." . . .
“After watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, that was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen. Now, we have this impeachment crap. My party has now made me a Democrat for Trump,” Jason said over the phone in a C-SPAN program released on Dec. 11."
. . . "He then stated that he would support President Donald Trump and that when the time was right he would also vote for the Republican candidate. "As the discredited impeachment process against Trump progresses, more and more people become outraged, as can be seen in the comments added under the video tweeted by @CalebJHull about Jason’s call, and they say Democrats let them down." . . . What do other Democrats consider when they learn things like this? 14yr Old Boy VICIOUSLY Attacked on School Bus Because He Supports Trump
"Behold the offspring of the tolerant Left… 🙄 This 14 yr old boy, Tyler, was viciously attacked because he wore a Trump hat to school, where earlier in the day these MONSTERS poured milk on his head.
"Watch it again understand that according to Tyler’s mother (@AmericanDiaries) it’s only 21 secs of a longer video, but more importantly the pure rage coming from these unhinged violent Leftist kids. They didn’t learn to behave like this on their own, they learned it and are encouraged by their parents as well as those they “look up to”. Seeing this kind of rage is all too common, being committed by unhinged violent Leftists* YOUNG or OLD. You NEVER see videos like this of conservatives ganging up on a Leftist adult let alone a kid." . . .
We hope Maxine Waters and Rashida Tlaib can be reached for comment.
"News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:"
NEW YORK, NY—At a special ceremony Thursday, Planned Parenthood posthumously awarded Herod the Great with its highest honor, the organization’s coveted PPFA Margaret Sanger Award.
Planned Parenthood gives the award out to individuals who advance the pro-abortion agenda, and baby-murdering King Herod was the obvious choice.
“Herod fought bravely for women’s rights by slaughtering all the male babies under two years old,” said a Planned Parenthood spokesperson. “He was thousands of years ahead of his time, realizing the progressive value of destroying our kids the moment they become inconvenient millennia before it was popular. Yes, we do wish he had slaughtered the daughters too, but we’re willing to overlook that as this brave women’s rights warrior advanced the pro-abortion agenda significantly.”
King Herod was not available to accept the award, as he is dead. But his ideological successor, Alyssa Milano, accepted it in his honor. “If Herod were here, I know exactly what he would say,” Milano said in her acceptance speech. “He would remind us all that it was his kingdom, his choice.”
"Go hereto read the rest. Herod of course is a piker to Planned Parenthood. They exceed his body toll on their slowest day of the year."
Weasel Zippers"How completely unhinged Democrats have become in this Impeachment hearing? "Member of the Judiciary Committee Hank Johnson (D-GA) just said Impeachment is justified because: "Trump taller than Prez. Zelensky" Plus this witty comment: "Trump had Zelensky's daughter "in the basement duck taped'" "WHAT!" Video here Pictured: Trump's bigger chair
Rep. Johnson's previous interrogation about Guam base being enlarged:
His defense of Kaepernick: . . . "When asked further, he suggested that Congress might do something about the situation. “ 'I think it’s merited … you’ve got a league-wide ban on Kaepernick back over the last three years” because he protested during the national anthem before games.
Rashida Tlaib: Blames Jersey City Terror on ‘White Supremacy’ Before Deleting Tweet. . . "Tlaib deleted the tweet, but not before a number of quick-eyed reporters had caught screenshots of the faux pas. "The Congresswoman was photographed this past January with Abbas Hamideh, a supporter of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Just three months ago she also posed for a photo with the Palestine Youth Movement, which advocates violence against Israel and strongly supports the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) economic war against the Jewish State." . . .This profane video was made while the victims still lay in their own blood
Another person said to the Jewish support representative, “It was your kind that did it here, right? … Four of ya’ll dead, right? Four of your people that were dead, right? That’s great. If they was dead, they got shot dead. That’s great. Get them damn Jews the f****k out of here. Get these f*****g Jews. Get the Jews out of Jersey City.”
. . . "The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of bullets as two members of the racist black nationalist hate group opened fire in the JC Supermarket. Despite initial claims by the media and the authorities that the Jewish market had not been targeted, David Anderson and Francine Graham ignored passerby on Martin Luther King Dr, to get to the store and kill as many Jewish people as they could.
"When the shooting had ended, Moshe Hersh Deutsch, a yeshiva student who was known for helping distribute food packages to the needy, Mrs Leah Mindel Ferencz, a mother of 3 who helped her husband run the grocery store, and Miguel Jason Rodriguez, the father of an 11-year-old daughter and a parishioner at an Assemblies of God church, were all dead."
. . . "The media whitewash of the racist Black Israelites had come during the Covington Catholic case when the Washington Post, among other papers, had falsely blamed the pro-life students for a confrontation that actually began when members of the nationalist hate group had begun calling them, “crackers,” “faggots,” and “pedophiles.” An African-American pro-life student was called the ‘n-word’.
"Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has her own history of racism and anti-Semitism, falsely claimed that the Covington Catholic students were “taunting 5 black men.' ” . . .
"On Wednesday, the South Carolina Republican Party’s conclusion to not hold a 2020 Presidential primary has been confirmed and upheld. "This will make it even more difficult for less prominent candidates who are pushing to win against Trump. "The resolution was upheld by Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman, who said the law “does not give Plaintiffs a legal right to a presidential preference primary, and the Court will not substitute its own judgment for that of the General Assembly or the SCGOP.” "Bob Inglis, former South Carolina congressmen sued state Republicans, claiming this decision to skip the primary, strips him and other likely candidates “of the ability to vote for the candidate of their choice in South Carolina’s famous (and particularly influential) ‘First in the South’ primary.” "More from NBC News:" . . .
The Street Artist returns"Street artist Sabo has returned to troll the Democrats with an anti-smoking-themed poster illustrating the absurdity at the heart of whatever impeachment hoax the party chooses to make the cause celebre of the moment. Take a look:
"Erected at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Kelton near the 405 freeway in Los Angeles, California, Sabo and his merry band of trolls appropriated an American Lung Association billboard displaying the number of smoking-related deaths this year. As the photos will show, the original sign read, “Smoking Deaths This Year: 415, 949 and counting”; once Sabo had his way with it, however, the sign then read, “Impeachment Hoaxes This Year: 415, 949 and counting,” which was then followed by the explosive caption, “Adam Schiff is cancer.” . . .
"I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice."
. . . "Kelly Mehlenbacher, a state operations director with the Harris campaign wrote in her November 11th resignation letter that was obtained by the New York Times, “…the treatment of the staff over the last two weeks was the final straw in this very difficult decision.” . . . "Mehlenbacher said the Harris campaign encouraged people to move to the Washington, D.C./Baltimore area and then laid them off without notice and without thoughtful consideration of their personal consequences or the consequences of their absence on the staff who remained with the campaign."
I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached.
"Harris isn’t the only Mean Girl in search of the Oval Office. "Remember Amy Klobuchar’s staffer who claimed that she mistreats her staff? . . .The story goes that the airline which Klobuchar was traveling did not have any utensils on board, so the resourceful senator ate her salad with her own comb. Ick! After she finished eating her salad, she ordered the staffer to clean off the comb. "Employees spoke on the condition of anonymity about the toxic environment at Klobuchar’s offices, which included demeaning emails, throwing office supplies and requesting staff to perform degrading personal chores for the senator. In fact, she is so mean to the people who work for her that even former senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had to rebuke Klobuchar for the mistreatment of her staff. You know Klobuchar’s behavior had to be bad when someone as nasty as Reid had to give her a talking to." She had to get a niceness tutorial from Harry Reid?
Power LineEveryone who plays poker is familiar with the “tell,” that is, a nervous tic or subtle mannerism that betrays when a player has a strong or bluff hand. I think the Democrats’ behavior this week includes several “tells” that their impeachment hand is weak, and might cause them to lose the whole political pot next year. "The first is the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that John notes immediately below. It was a big surprise Tuesday when Speaker Pelosi said the House was now ready to take up and presumably approve the new agreement, after months of delay. It may be true that the Trump Administration has made significant concessions for various special interests to gain support, but its passage will still be a large political win for Trump heading into the election campaign. "The second “tell” of the week are the two articles of impeachment themselves. As Andy McCarthy notes, they are exceedingly weak: an improper use of power in his Ukraine phone call, and obstruction of the congressional investigation. That’s it? That’s all they got? Why only two? Why not throw in the obstruction of justice vibe of the Mueller Report? Why not an emoluments allegation, or something else? Previous presidential impeachment drives (Nixon and Clinton) involved at least four possible articles. "My hunch is that additional articles of impeachment would allow for more House Democrats from marginal districts to cover themselves by voting against one or two or them, and Pelosi needs to hold her caucus together to get a successful vote. There are several House Democrats who have indicated their lack of enthusiasm for the whole thing, and some calling for a mere resolution of censure instead. (The Constitution does not provide for censure against another branch, however, though it still might be politically effective for Democrats to charge next fall that Trump is “the only president ever censured by Congress.” Also, it should be added that the Judiciary Committee didn’t really devote sufficient time to backing up additional charges: they’re putting all their impeachment eggs into the Ukraine basket.)
The common denominator of all this petulance from Trump’s enemies is exasperation over the inability to derail him.
"Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. "But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year effort to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. "Do we remember the effort to subvert the Electoral College to prevent Trump from assuming office? "The first impeachment try during his initial week in office? "Attempts to remove Trump using the ossified Logan Act or the emoluments clause of the Constitution?" "The idea of declaring Trump unhinged, subject to removal by invoking the 25th Amendment? "Special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month, $35 million investigation, which failed to find Trump guilty of collusion with Russia in the 2016 election and failed to find actionable obstruction of justice pertaining to the non-crime of collusion?" "The constant endeavors to subpoena Trump’s tax returns and to investigate his family, lawyers and friends?" . . .
Althouse"The news isn't "only a handful" — it's that there are defections." . . . "So... Politico says "no more than a half-dozen" and WaPo has 2 sources who say that and one who says "could be higher.' " . . .
House Democrats brace for some defections among moderates on impeachment of Trump. . . "The House Judiciary Committee is poised to vote Thursday on one article charging Trump with abuse of power for pressuring Ukraine to help his reelection chances in 2020 and another on obstruction of Congress for blocking testimony from witnesses and ignoring requests for documents in the impeachment inquiry. The full House would vote next week. “I’m still thinking it over,” said Rep. Susie Lee, a centrist who hails from a GOP-leaning Nevada district Trump carried in 2016. “This is a very grave decision. . . . I’m hearing all sides of it. . . . It’s mixed, it’s very mixed.' ” . . . Lloyd Marcus:Our Outrage Over the Dems' Impeachment Farce. . . "This whole impeachment scam reminds me of the 1938 Disney movie, Snow White. As a child, I could not understand why the wicked queen's hatred for Snow White was so great that she was willing to sacrifice her beauty and even her life to destroy Snow White. We are witnessing the same obsession with Democrats irrationally moving forward with impeaching Trump." . . .
