Where did debate moderators learn Journalism?

 Who can forget Ted Cruz's takedown of the MSNBC moderators in 2016 and the pleased look on moderator Carl Quintanilla's face as he oddly enjoyed the moment:

EPIC: Watch Ted Cruz Completely Dismantle CNBC’s Debate Moderators

The debate was barely 30 minutes in, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) stole the show when he went directly after CNBC’s Republican primary debate moderators, who had spent a good portion of the debate using their questions as an excuse to attack the Republican candidates on stage.

Trump-Biden Debates: 3 Matchups, With Solo Moderators

"Chris Wallace of Fox News, Steve Scully of C-SPAN and Kristen Welker of NBC News will run the televised proceedings." . . .

‘Thought Wallace was biased?’ Trump supporters call out 2nd debate moderator Steve Scully’s Biden links, including an internship   

Even more concerning for critics are some of Scully’s past tweets, one of which includes him being pictured with Biden in 2016 at a party. 

“Gotta love the @VP at the Biden Beach Bash '16,” Scully tweeted along with the photo. 

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What happens after Trump leaves?

"Whatever the law is, we will obey it; whatever the work is, we will do it; whatever the rules are, we will follow them. But, for the love of God, stop ordering us around! "

Mr. President! Don’t Leave Us!

  Christopher Chantrill   . . . "It is that, without President Trump, we non-wokies are naked before our enemies. Don’t leave us, Mr. President! Not yet! We need you!

"No doubt the president will make a swift recovery with the help of the knowledge that six months of the epidemic has given us.

"But it makes you think. What happens after Trump leaves? Will the Republican Party continue his populist nationalism? Or will it sink back into the Swamp? Will people that violate wokie norms be able to get jobs? Will Google’s hate speech algorithm, that dumped me for a moment last week for using a forbidden word in my blog post “My ‘1584 Project,’” be improved enough when the next Democratic president takes office that it can analyze all political speech on the internet in microseconds to detect and delete forbidden ideas?

"Yes. All I was doing was saying that, if you want to talk about the first slave ship arriving in North America in 1619, Nikole Hannah-Jones, how about the first ship bringing the “waste population” of England to the white trash heap in the Roanoke Colony in 1584? Then I listed all the pejoratives that have been used over the centuries to describe these waste people -- as concocted by a presumably tenured professor of gender, Nancy Isenberg, in her White Trash. The 400-year Untold History of Class in America.

Hollywood divided over Trump

Actress Kirstie Alley issues blistering attack on Democrats: 'Accomplished NOTHING' except 'Devising ways to take TRUMP DOWN'  . . . "The Cheers actress has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, including in March when she thanked him for his coronavirus response.

“ 'Dear Mr. President, @realDonaldTrump. I wanted to thank you for ur recent decorum, sincerity, & care towards us. You’re taking charge & leading in a manner needed & wanted for this country. I highly commend you for ur boundless energy & willingness to solve problems. Thank you,” she tweeted.

"She has also been critical of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, saying this summer that his handlers essentially admitted that Biden “can’t hold his own in a debate with Trump.”

“ 'It’s pretty sad that Dems don’t want Biden to Debate Trump. It’s like saying ‘we know he can’t hold his own in a debate with Trump but could hold his own with world leaders and making monumental decisions for this country,’” she tweeted." . . .

37 Hollywood Stars for Donald Trump

Hollywood Celebrities Triggered by Trump Surprise Visit to Fans Outside Walter Reed: ‘Impeach Him,’ ‘F**king Sociopath’   "Hollywood celebrities experienced a massive conniption when President Donald Trump paid a surprise visit Sunday to his supporters who were rallying outside Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington.

"The president’s drive-by visit, during which he wore a mask and never left his vehicle, prompted stars including Bette Midler, Jim Carrey, Patton Oswalt, and Michael Moore to express their rage and disbelief on social media.

"Many of those stars claimed that President Trump was endangering the lives of the Secret Service agents assigned to ride along with him. The White House said that the president’s drive was approved by medical officials and that the necessary safety precautions were taken.

"Jim Carrey was among the Hollywood elites who accused the president of putting government lives in danger by taking “the Secret Service for a dangerous ride.”

No mention of the ride to the hospital aboard Marine One

Nick Danger  opined on Jim Carrey:

Sick of these Hollywood pigs. They need the living crap kicked out their sick self-important a s s e s.

Also sick of these girlly boys thinking they have to preface their idiotic statements with the "F" word to sound tough. They aren't tough, they aren't enlightened... They are crude, undisciplined bratty children that don't deserve to be in the U.S.A.

Someone please kick Carrey's sick and twisted butt back to Canada.

Hollywood Celebs Erupt with Rage over Trump Leaving Walter Reed: ‘Faking Recovery!’ Doctors ‘Lying for a Mass Murderer’

Josh Gad: Jews Who Support Trump Are Siding with Nazis

. . . "The photo — as a quick Google Images search confirms — was from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, not 2020. It shows participants in the “Unite the Right” rally, which hijacked a local protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. President Donald Trump said that the neo-Nazis and white supremacists involved should be “condemned totally.”

"Gad retweeted the photo, and added the comment: “Any of my fellow Jews who support Trump, just know that you are standing alongside these folks and this flag. You may tell yourself you support him for different reasons but at the end of the day, his message resonates with NAZIS. That should be enough to walk away.”

"Richard Spencer, a neo-Nazi who was one of the organizers of the Charlottesville rally, has endorsed Joe Biden for president. " . . .

Kamala Harris featured on cover of Elle ahead of vice presidential debate

 Washington Examiner via Conservative Review

"Hours ahead of the vice presidential debate between California Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, Elle released a cover story on the Democratic vice presidential nominee's optimism and "the fight for justice and freedom she's been waging since birth."

"Part of the magazine's Women in Politics series, the interview grounds Harris's political life in her childhood as she grew up as a black and Indian American child — following her path from growing up in Oakland to becoming a prosecutor, a senator, and now, the Democratic vice presidential nominee.

"The story documents her "get things done" attitude — whether that was getting a hold of former White House chief of staff John Kelly in the first months of her tenure in the Senate or getting white people to "fight harder against racist systems and actions" by showing them "how racism also hurts them.' " . . .

25 Questions Kamala Harris Should Be Asked in the Debate  "Wednesday’s vice presidential debate provides an opportunity for the American public to get answers from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). 

"The Democratic vice presidential nominee should be asked the following 25 questions. This list is by no means exhaustive.

"Many of these questions were suggested by this author last month, but because they remain unanswered, I offer them again in the hope that the debate moderator will see fit to get answers from the California senator who, if elected, will be one heart beat away from the presidency." To wit:

8. Last June, you encouraged your Twitter followers to donate to a bail fund to assist protesters arrested in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, riots. Are you aware that in July this bail fund sprang from jail a man who was accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl? In August, the fund posted bail for a man accused of assaulting a 71-year-old woman whose home he had burglarized. In June, the fund helped bail out a man accused of stomping and robbing a victim in Minneapolis on the same day George Floyd died. Between June and August, the fund helped bail out six men who were accused of domestic violence, including two who were accused of strangling women in their homes. Do you have any words for the victims of these crimes?

Is there a more loathsome group of people than the White House press corps?

They would rather see a mentally compromised man be elected president of the U.S. than let the best president in decades be re-elected because his outsider status, his blunt talk, and his successes offend them.  The "why" of their offense at Trump's existence is a mystery. 

God bless Kayleigh McEnany for suffering these fools daily

Patricia McCarthy  "Well, there is Antifa, the violent arm of BLM, the Muslim Brotherhood, et al., but for what is supposed to be an assemblage of professional, objective journalists, this White House press corps is about as mature as a clique of mean girls in any middle school.

"They are as politically deluded as Baghdad Bob, pathetically self-important, ridiculously overly impressed with their own positions of power and influence, and as malicious as Shakespeare's Iago.  When they do not get their way, they act out like toddlers in the throes of a tantrum.  This has all been true since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president.  In their view, so presumptuous was his foolish attempt to be president that they set out to sabotage him from moment one, to utterly destroy him by any means necessary.

"The long list of their failures in this endeavor is legion and would be humorous if it were a Dickens novel, but it is the White House press corps!  While their glee at the news that Trump had contracted COVID was shameful, their hysteria over his brief ride in The Beast to wave to supporters outside the hospital, their abject fury at his being released from Walter Reed today, was beyond redemption.  These people are seriously mentally ill.  They wanted him to die, and he didn't.". . . 

 The mainstream media has actually been the enemy of the people for many years but the damage they do has escalated and become institutionalized. It became downright Sovietized during the Obama administration. It fell in with Obama's race-baiting anti-Americanism, his determination to "transform" this nation into something very unlike the Founders' vision, and more. Obama hated our Constitution. For the media, Obama could do no wrong while in fact he was doing terrible damage to the country on numerous levels. But he hypnotized our submissive media and made them his own propaganda machine. Hillary counted on their continued loyalty which she would have had and does have; they report nothing about her devising the Russia hoax to derail Trump. She belongs in prison for treason but they will

protect her to the bitter end and her end will be bitter despite the fawning media. President Trump has done us all favor. His fearlessness has exposed the media for who and what they are, a childish cabal of petty thugs who whine when they don't get the answers they want from the President or his staff. They will one day reap what they have sown, the opprobrium they deserve.

The Media Coverage Of Trump’s Covid Diagnosis Was A Disgrace "Yes, there were some people who straight up wished the president, his wife and others affected at the White House would jut die already, but most responses were more muted, along the lines of “we all hope the best for the first family, but …”

CNN’s Brian Stelter Claims Trump ‘Recommends Getting Sick’ In Latest Health Update

Rescued from the memory hole: The disgrace that caused Biden to withdraw and slink away from running for president in 1988

There is no reason why Joe Biden should be tolerated as a presidential candidate when he proved himself to be such an untrustworthy scoundrel that he withdrew in shame.

Syracuse.com

Thomas Lifson  "This video from 1988 is well worth 4+ minutes of your time for several reasons.

"The Joe Biden of 32 years ago is a stark contrast to the doddering old man we see today.  It is really startling to see how animated and emphatic he was back then.  The extent of his mental deterioration is made vividly clear.

"Equally vivid is the extent of his perfidiousness, his utter lack of character and willingness to lie about his life.  Because he continues to lie about himself today, it is clear that he has not changed a bit from the defects of character that caused him to withdraw in shame from the quest for the nation's highest office.

"This segment from Connie Chung's CBS Evening News, back when the MSM were not mindless propaganda outlets for the Democrats, shows Biden delivering lines stolen from British left-wing Labor politician Neil Kinnock, followed by Kinnock delivering those same lines before Biden stole them.  It is quietly hilarious." . . .

Rush Talks to Conrad Black About President Trump

RUSH: We rarely on this program have guests, but we do make exceptions. Today is such an exception. We are happy to welcome back Conrad Black, who is a noted columnist, author, broadcast and media baron now residing in Canada and author of a new book, a paperback version update of a book he published two years ago, it’s called A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America.

Rush Limbaugh and Conrad Black on the press . . . Lord "I think they feel that he is threatening their influence in the political life of the country and they don’t like it. Now, add to that most of them tend to be leftish and snobbish. And leftists and snobs don’t much care for Donald Trump because he is not a man of the left, although he’s certainly not a reactionary, either. He’s a man of the people, but not the left. And they are of course not the same thing. And he is informal and straight talking and politically incorrect. And that tends to incite stupefying levels of snobbery.

"And he is the victim of that, but he’s also the beneficiary of that because as all the polls indicate, the media are in a uniquely low repute in the country. And incidentally, you haven’t raised this, but I will if (unintelligible), I think that that whole state of affairs is worrisome because we have to have a free press to have a functioning democracy, and we can’t have any one government or anyone else tampering with it. But we have a very inferior press, not only the United States, but it’s a problem throughout the advanced western countries.

"And when the public disdains the press, I believe that is eventually dangerous situation. We have to have a free press that is respected. But it can only be respected if it earns that respect. And as you said a minute ago, the conduct of the media at this election campaign has been absolutely scandalous. They are full of malice, and they are liars. And one hesitates to use such inflammatory phrases, but I cannot take issue with the president when he said they are enemies of the people. To the extent that they deliberately misinform the public, that’s what they are, enemies." . . .

Will Democrats try to ‘Bork’ or ‘Kavanaugh’ SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett? (Reader Poll)

 Legal Insurrection  "Republican Supreme Court nominees repeatedly have been attacked at a personal level not directed at Democrat nominees.

"The term to “Bork” a nominee grew out of the Democrat treatment of Reagan nominee Robert Bork, and we all saw how Brett Kavanaugh was mistreated just two years ago.

"What does it mean to be Borked or Kavanaughed? We’ll know it when we see it.

"Will Amy Coney Barrett receive the “Bork” and “Kavanaugh” treatment?

"So far, there was an initial burst of venom directed at her, including questioning her adoption of two children from Haiti, and of course the anti-Catholic bigotry she faced when she was nominated for the Court of Appeals in 2017. The hysterics also have centered around Obamacare and Roe v. Wade. But so far, it’s kid stuff compared to what Bork and Kavanaugh (and Thomas, and Alito, and Estrada, etc.) have gone through.

"The hearings start October 12, with two more days of questioning, then a floor vote on October 22. So Democrats have some time. Remember, with Kavanaugh the fake sexual assault allegations came out after the committee hearings were over. So the end of the hearings is not the end of the threat. Until the floor vote, she is vulnerable.

"Right now, there is no doubt they are digging into her childhood, teen years, and college years, hopring to find someone to accuse her of something. They also not doubt are scouring her friends, family, and her husband’s connections also. These are really bad people, they will do anything if they think they can get away with it.

"So, the poll is: Will Democrats try to ‘Bork’ or ‘Kavanaugh’ SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett?" . . .

McConnell Suspends Senate Floor Proceedings, Judge Barrett’s Hearings Remain on Schedule

Republicans are almost certain to confirm an outstanding judge. But a simmering anti-Catholicism threatens to break through.  "The Democrats have essentially given up on blocking the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This does not imply, however, that they will fail to turn her hearings into a nasty farce of smears of the nominee as an adherent to a voodoo-like religious devotion, and a passionate seeker of an America with no assisted healthcare and back-alley abortions. " . . .

No, Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Won’t Necessarily End Roe v. Wade 

A close look at Amy Coney Barrett's legal writings indicates deep respect for the precedent set by landmark Supreme Court cases.

Dangerous Talk From Stupid People

Townhall   "Understand that when someone tells you he wants you dead, he wants you dead.     

 "And that’s a very dangerous thing to want, because the intended victim gets a say, and he may start saying the same thing about you. I could talk about walking through the wrecked villages of Kosovo – villages that had mostly belonged to the Serbs who started the civil war then lost it – but that is probably going to be lost on the pampered and parochial left. History, be it modern Balkans or ancient, such as the cautionary tale that was the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, is something they are too smart to bother studying. They know what they think and what they want and they can’t be bothered with pests nagging them about how their paucity of wisdom could very well set into motion events they cannot control and that are unlikely to turn out in the way they hope. 

"We saw a lot of it – a lot of it – in response to the president’s pangolin pandemic diagnosis. Wishing that your opponent dies of a disease is pretty bad, but some go beyond the passive voice when hoping for our deaths. They seek to do it. Exhibit A is tech overlord Dick Costolo, a former Twitter CEO apparently, who tweeted on September 30 th , “Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution. I'll happily provide video commentary.” So Dick, which by coincidence also happens to also be your name, you want to play horsey, huh?

. . . 

"One challenge for the dilettantes of death is to find the people who would actually commit political murder for them, but money and institutional inertia make that possible. As we have seen, woke zillionaires can fund their own lil’ revolutionaries. They are the ones behind Antifa, and if Donald Trump is reelected, we will likely see the DoJ (once Trump rids himself of the worse than useless FBI Director Christopher Wray, who never met self-serving establishment narrative he didn’t eagerly hump like a horny dog rubbing on the nearest leg) forced by Bill Barr to concede that this is an Astroturfed RICO conspiracy paid for by rich leftists. Yet, Antifa is not a combat organization (unless you are one person surrounded by a dozen of these brownshirts) but an information operation asset." . . .

Victor Davis Hanson on The Full Crowley

Tony Branco

In other words, [CNN's Candy] Crowley became a real-time, partisan fact-checker, rather than a moderator—but of a peculiar sort that did not fully assume her new role until Obama himself was desperate for a bailout. 

Victor Davis Hanson  "In the second presidential election debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering. 

"Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama Administration had inadequately prepared the American mission in Benghazi for likely terrorist attacks. And such laxity resulted in a horrific attack and the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. 

"Yet in the wake of the attacks, Team Obama denied that the killing of four Americans was indeed an act of terror. Instead, it fed the public a transparently but politically correct false narrative of a spontaneous riot in reaction to a video posted by a purported right-wing Egyptian residing on American soil. 

"Yet in the debate, Obama retorted: “The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we’re going to hunt down those who committed this crime.” 

"Romney pounced: “You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror? It was not a spontaneous demonstration—is that what you’re saying? I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.”  

"Romney was correct. Obama took two weeks before he eventually jettisoned his administration’s concocted “spontaneous demonstrations” party line that his subordinates—Susan Rice in particular, to her eternal embarrassment—had been peddling to the American people. 

"Yet in the debate, Obama flailed with a weak, “Get the transcript.” 

"In truth, Obama in his comments after the attack had simply offered, “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for”—a deliberate effort not to name Benghazi specifically in the context of a terrorist act.   

Tony Branco

Speculation mounts about the source of President Trump’s illness

"If you read one thing today it should be this". Lucianne.

 Deborah Franklin  "The dramatic events of the last week will be studied for decades, and much information remains unknown. In the early morning of Friday, October 2nd, President Trump tweeted that he and the First Lady had tested positive for COVID. That evening, after reports that the President was running a fever, he checked in to Walter Reed National Medical Center for treatment. Immediately, speculation began about how he caught the virus and the nature of its severity.

"However, as numerous Republicans in key positions also tested positive, the nature of the speculation began to change. The issue shifted from whether or not the president wore a mask to why so many important Republicans simultaneously got the virus. Among those testing positive were Trump’s campaign manager, the Chair of the Republican National Committee, the President’s senior counselor, and two Senators on the Judiciary Committee who will vote on the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.

"Lin Wood, a high-profile lawyer representing Nick Sandman and Kyle Rittenhouse, tweeted, “Many leaders in administration of @realDonaldTrump are quarantined by what almost appears to almost be targeted strike of Covid-19.” He later tweeted, “There are no coincidences. Zero. None. Hard stop.” Deanna Lorraine, who ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, also picked up the theme of a “targeted strike” in her tweet, “Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?” 

Seven months before the train crash, a gunman opened fire on members of the Republican congressional baseball team, severely wounding Steve Scalise, who was then serving as House Majority Whip. NBC reported: “Witnesses told investigators that when the gunman arrived at the ballfield, he asked people, “Are these the Republicans or the Democrats?”

 In the almost four years since Trump has become president, Republicans have suffered three potentially mass fatality events. The coming months may finally bring some answers about these incidents. It’s time for the American people to understand what’s happening to them. 

Tucker: The left's shocking reaction to Trump's diagnosis  "Wasn't Pelosi the one that said it was safe to go out when she was walking down the street in China Town."

Eric Garcetti Flip-Flops on DA; Switches Endorsement to Soros-Backed George Gascon

 Breitbart

"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti switched his endorsement in the race for Los Angeles County District Attorney from incumbent Jackie Lacey, the first African American to hold the post, to George Soros-backed challenger George Gascon.

"In 2018, as Breitbart News reported at the time, Soros spent heavily on left-wing candidates for district attorney posts around the nation, often backing “progressive” candidates against establishment Democrats. He spent nearly $4 million in total.

"The results are evident in a wave of politicized prosecutions — or, in the case of Chicago’s Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax, non-prosecutions. Soros-backed prosecutors have backed the Black Lives Matter movement, selectively enforcing the law.

"In Los Angeles, the movement targeted Lacey. As Breitbart News noted: “[Protesters] accuse her of being too tough on crime. In March, Black Lives Matter activists marched to Lacey’s door in the wee hours of the morning — and Lacey’s husband confronted them with a gun and told them to leave. He now faces criminal charges in that incident.”

"In August, Gov. Gavin Newsom backed Gascon. As Breitbart News noted:

Gascón is a left-wing prosecutor with a controversial history. He previously served as district attorney in San Francisco, as Politico notes, working with then-Mayor Newsom to roll back policing — but leaving a city synonymous with vagrancy today, and backing Proposition 47, which put more convicted criminals back on the streets:  . . .