Leave It to Hapless Brian Stelter to Make CNN's 'Toobin Problem' Even More Embarrassing

CNN being CNN. It doesn’t get any better. That whole “Most Trusted Name in News” thing has become a joke that CNN caricatures on a daily basis. Maybe something like The Most Distrusted Name in Dumpster Fires™ would be more appropriate.

"I don't always masturbate with my

computer camera on, but when I do

I always make sure I am in a Zoom

work meeting."

 RedState  "CNN’s headache began — this headache, that is; CNN has more headaches than, as my dad used to say, you can shake a stick at — on Monday when news broke that its chief legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, was exposed (pun intended) for engaging in a particularly graphic “Anthony Weiner moment” during a Zoom meeting with coworkers.

"As I reported in an article titled CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin ‘Takes Some Time Off’ After ‘Going Anthony Weiner’ on Zoom Call, Toobin, who also writes for the New Yorker, was suspended by the magazine on Monday for masturbating on a Zoom video chat between members of the New Yorker and WNYC radio last week.

Stelter

"Later on Monday, CNN said Toobin had “asked for some time off” from his analyst role on the network.

“ 'Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” the network said in a statement.

"Memes immediately sprung up on Twitter, among them #Toobin. Here’s one of the “milder” tweets." . . .

. . . "Problem is, rather than lamenting Toobin’s disgusting behavior, the Trump-loathing Stelter instead lamented Toobin being “sidelined at a pivotal moment in a run-up to the election,” seemingly dismissing the creepy reason his pal was put on the shelf." . . .

Democrats Lost More Than a Supreme Court Seat This Week

"Will voters now want to turn the Senate over to these fools?" 

Nation and State  "The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that Democrats hoped would thwart Amy Coney Barrett’s path to the Supreme Court instead threaten to squash a greater hope of Senate Democrats: a majority.

"Cory Booker of New Jersey asked the adoptive mother of two Haitian children, “You condemn white supremacy, correct?”

If the hearings did not galvanize demoralized conservatives, then why did CNN keep cutting away to below-the-fold matters?

"Sen. Mazie Hirono asked the question on nobody’s mind: “Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors, or committed any physical or verbal harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”

"Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s presentation Tuesday drew comparisons by Sen. Ben Sasse to the fevered thinking portrayed in A Beautiful Mind. It more closely resembled the big basement meeting in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Sure, Whitehouse never actually uttered, “Is there something you could share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?” But his 30-minute remarks, relying heavily on breathy conspiracy theories and intricate flow charts, left room, just like Pee-wee’s three-hour presentation, for not a single question." . . .

Whitehouse . . . just got relentlessly mocked for his silliness.

The juxtaposition between the brilliant Barrett and her dim Democratic interlocutors subtly conveyed the stakes this November. Amid their monotonous speeches occasionally disguised as questions, mind-wandering viewers asked a question to themselves: Do we really want to elect more of these buffoons in three weeks so they can control the Senate?

Democrats can’t ‘Kavanaugh’ unflappable Justice-to-be Amy Coney Barrett: Goodwin . . . "In that context, the separation-of-powers discussion is crucial because it is one of the defining differences of the two main political parties. Dems have used the courts as a kind of super legislature to win rulings on measures they can’t get through Congress and statehouses. Republicans generally want judges to stay in their lane and not be activists who stick their fingers in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing." . . .

REPORT: "Adam Schiff is a . . . Liar". (Their words)

 Legal Insurrection 

“The FBI and DOJ concur with DNI Ratcliffe’s assessment that Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails in question were not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”

"In case that wasn’t obvious enough already…

"When the Hunter Biden story became an actual story despite attempts of social media behemoths to squash the story, infamous Russiagate conspiracy theorist, Rep. Adam Schiff, yet again blamed Russia. And I’m sure you’ll be shocked to know that recent reports indicate Schiff if once again, totally full of it. 

"At this point, does *anyone* disagree with Trump here?

“It’s just crazy. I saw Shifty Schiff get up yesterday and say this is Russia,” Trump exclaimed, using his favorite nickname for Schiff. “He’s a sick man. He is so sick. We went through two and a half years of that, plus. This guy, he ought to be put away, or he ought to be, you know, something should happen with him.' ”

 

Hunter Biden's hard drive allegedly shows he had a thing about underage girls

Not only did Biden do nothing to stop an ongoing blackmailing risk, but he also continued to use Hunter as his bagman.  It's an open secret that Joe Biden managed to maneuver his family members into receiving huge financial benefits wherever Joe's political power took him.  

Biden hands out ‘Courage Awards’ for #MeToo — despite handsy history with women, kids

Andrea Widburg  "Hunter Biden's hard drive, which the FBI has now verified as legitimate, allegedly has images of him misbehaving with underage girls.  The current information makes Hunter sound more like Anthony Weiner than Jeffrey Epstein, but it's still awful (and there may be worse to come).  The serious problem for Joe Biden — again, assuming the new information is accurate — is that he knew about this stuff.  Indeed, one gets the sense that, at least in some ways, Hunter is a chip off the old block.

"The first thing to note here is that the FBI has confirmed that it has Hunter Biden's hard drive, and it is legitimate.  Rudy Giuliani, who has reviewed the contents of this verified hard drive, states that it contains many pictures of "underage" girls.  In a Newsmax interview, Giuliani implied that Hunter appears in the same pictures as the girls themselves.  Because the images are disturbing and may be illegal, Giuliani turned the evidence over to the Delaware State Police.

"All of that is sordid, disgusting, and sad.  None of that, though, makes Hunter's Weinerish predilections politically interesting.

"What is politically interesting is that, again according to Giuliani, Joe Biden knew about what was going on because Hunter told him.  Giuliani read from one such alleged conversation and shared a screen grab of the message:" . . .

Like father, like son?  And keep in mind Biden's inability to keep his hands off little girls.  Even if that public fondling is the worst that Biden does, it's highly inappropriate and an unconscionable violation of the girls' personal space.

Two Bidens and a Toobin: Could Trump have scripted these last two weeks any better?

Bookworm Room

"We are in the third act of an epic morality play, and the Bidens and their ally Toobin stand exposed as corrupt, sexually perverse people.

"Starting with the 2016 election, Scott Adams said that Donald Trump is the ultimate showman, and that he understands how to create a narrative. Adams is correct and I knew that, in 2020, it was always going to be Trump who controlled the October surprise. After all, since they subjected Trump to a daily colonoscopy for the last four years, the Democrats have no arrows left in their quiver.

"Even the Wuhan virus is proving to be a failure when it comes to destroying Trump. The economy is rebounding; voters understand that China, not Trump, is to blame; Americans have been repulsed by the Democrats’ embrace of covid despotism, and Trump’s own bout with the virus shows that we’re coming to the end of the pandemic.

"Additionally, as Americans watch Europe again collapse under the weight of the virus, despite ostensibly doing everything right compared to Trump’s doing everything wrong, they’re realizing that, in fact, Trump didn’t do anything wrong terribly wrong. He responded swiftly to events based on the best information available. No matter how one approaches the Wuhan virus, some people (sadly) will die.

"When it came to whichever Democrat primary candidate became the Democrat presidential candidate, I always assumed that Trump would be able to pull a rabbit out of his hat. I also assumed, once Biden was the anointed one, that there would be lots of rabbits. When I envisioned those rabbits, though, I imagined that they would have Russian accents.

"Thus, I had faith that, despite the Democrats using the Wuhan virus to slow down the Durham investigation, there would still be red meat regarding Biden’s involvement in the Russia hoax. Even when I learned that Durham would say nothing before the election, I told myself, “That’s okay. He probably can’t get a D.C. Grand Jury to indict anyone. And if he can get a D.C. Grand Jury to indict, it’ll be a year, at least, before there’s a trial. And in that year, all that the media will show are statements from the defendants’ attorneys saying that they’re innocent. I’m sure that Trump’s plan is to put the documents before the American people and let them make up their minds.' ” . . .

Vote Biden-Harris or we're comin' for you! UPDATED

 

mage by entropyrider

Robert Reich vows purges and show trials of conservatives if Biden is elected  "Is the average American voter really thinking about all the ways to get back at voters who voted for President Trump?" . . .

. . . "And it makes sense. Socialism has failed everywhere it's ever been tried, every time, every place, every place it's ever been practiced, people are poorer, unfreerer and less advanced than in places with capitalism. They've got a 100% record on failure for that. But where they don't have a record of failure is on a reign of terror, where neighbor spies on neighbor for a secret police, thought crimes are punished, mass imprisonment and re-education camps are a way of life, show trials appear where groveling people stand before people's commissars and profess to love what they hate and hate what they love, and the yin and yang of violence to reinforce lies and lies to cover up violence. There are also party purges to keep everyone in a state of fear.

"That's what socialists are good at.

"And sure enough, that's what Reich is calling for." . . .

Revenge on Trump Supporters Sought by Democrats  "Democrats are quick to pick up and echo the same talking point. Deja vu of the Journolist scandal, the newest coordination of message is drooling over how to exact revenge on Trump supporters with an Orwellian named Truth and Reconciliation Commission."

"Bobby Reich [an appropriate last name, eh?] has for years demonstrated his basic contempt of fellow Americans. There is nothing sorrowful in his tweet; indeed, it drips with a lust equal to Madame Defarge. Chris Hayes had earlier used the same phrase, but obviously Reich missed the ratio and felt it necessary to nudge the suggestion ahead.

"What do these Jacobian Democrats want? Hysteric Jennifer Rubin sure gives a few clues.

They should think more about atoning for the betrayal of their country than trying to escape the consequences of enabling a liar, racist and wannabe authoritarian. There are practical reasons for employers outside the right-wing bubble to reject not only those who were the face of the administration but also those who labored behind the scenes.

"Are you now, or have you ever been, a supporter of President Trump and his policies?

(Trump administration) Employees who obstructed justice, misrepresented facts to courts or lied to Congress must be held responsible under criminal statutes and professional rules of conduct. State bar authorities will need to step up to identify behavior, which, if allowed to go unpunished, would bring disrepute on the profession and set a bad example for others. If elected, former vice president Joe Biden will need to decide how to clean house, which might involve investigating and holding departed Trump officials responsible.

"Democrats will hunt down and destroy the careers of anyone connected with the Trump administration. It doesn’t matter if any of those people actually did anything illegal, the process of endless investigation will be the punishment, from keeping people under a permanent cloud and publicly identified to leave them at the mercy of the Leftwing mobs.

"Hyperbole? Hardly. There were enough Leftist Democrats who were frustrated in their revenge efforts to have President Chimpy McHitlerBush and his administration jailed for “war crimes” after Obama was elected that their long fermented bile and hatred towards Americans who disagree with them that they will never accept a Biden refusal to act against Republicans. For months we’ve witnessed the Leftist riots and looting with little-to-no consequences for the perps. A Biden election will increase that violence. Not just Trump administration employees, but donor lists will be researched for targets to culturally cancel. Remember Brendan Eich?

"Jennifer refuses to accept anything less than public confession and humiliation." . . .

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AOC Attacks Home Owners, Squad Pushes Bill To Strip Property From Owners To Make Things ‘Fair’

News Thud

"Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked “homeowners” saying that they are hurting people that can’t afford to own land. Her rant comes as the crooked congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar proposed a bill that would strip property owners of their property if the federal government deems it necessary.

“ 'It makes no sense that we are squeezing people that already cannot afford to purchase their own home for more money than a person who already owns land and is a land-owning member or a home-owning member of our economy,” said a video posted by the Congresswoman on Twitter." . . . 

"Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota at the same time introduced a bill that would strip property rights from Americans; it’s called the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act, which is a socialist dream.

"The bill would cancel all rent and mortgage payments regardless of income or employment throughout the duration of the pandemic." . .  .

"A Trump second term is imperative."

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 Do the Chinese Own Joe Biden?   "Americans will need to come to grips with a mounting, deadly serious crisis.  The Democrat nominee for the presidency appears saturated with corruption, and worse -- yes, there’s a worse here -- he’s compromised himself to foreign powers, one of which -- the People’s Republic of China (PRC) -- is rightly regarded as an enemy of the U.S.  Sly Vlad Putin and whoever runs the Ukraine owns Joe Biden, too.  Russia and the Ukraine having the goods on Biden is bad enough, but China is the U.S.’s principal rival for global dominance.  The blackmailing of a President Joe Biden is a chilling prospect.  Biden as president imperils the nation in ways never experienced before." . . .

This nightmare scenario of a Biden presidency need not materialize.  Though an estimated 23.5 million votes have been cast to date, many tens of millions more votes have yet to be made.  The Hunter Biden laptop discoveries are evidentiary.  Joe Biden and his family have long been alleged to be as crooked as the day is long.  A Biden presidency is an unprecedented risk to U.S. national security.  Reelecting Donald Trump is the prevention.  A Trump second term is imperative.

 Chinese group was hosted at Obama White House by man now serving as a Biden transition team co-chair   "Jeff Zients, who is helping to lead Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's transition team, hosted the Chinese Entrepreneur Club (CEC) for a 2011 White House meeting when he was serving as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.

"Breitbart reported that, according to Obama administration records, the group toured the White House and met with John Bryson who at that point was serving as the Commerce Secretary. The outlet also said that according to group members the party got a private meeting with Vice President Joe Biden."

Big Time China Whore Bailed Out Biden in Iowa  "Hunter Biden’s business associates used the term “China Inc.” as a generic term to describe the Chinese system of enterprise that holds the door open for Americans with useful knowledge or influence. As is becoming more and more obvious, Hunter Biden was peddling influence.

"If China Inc. has an all-time MVP, however, that award belongs to a man who came to China rich with knowledge and traded that knowledge for major dollars. In January 2020 that same man gave some of those dollars to a struggling Joe Biden. As the Politico headline phrased it, Bernard Schwartz was one of “the big donors bankrolling Biden onslaught in Iowa.”

"Chairman of BLS Investments, the “Democratic megadonor” Schwartz made a six-figure donation to the super PAC, Unite the Country. That PAC went on to spend $5 million just in Iowa. Its goal was to convince Democrats “skeptical of Biden’s weak fundraising in the presidential race” that Biden could win." . . .

Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to keep her Jeffrey Epstein testimony from public view

 Just The News

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell's testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein can be made public.

"A federal appeals court on Monday issued a ruling upholding a U.S. District Judge's earlier decision to make public Ghislaine Maxwell's testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein.

"The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued the ruling that upheld a previous decision by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska to permit the release of documents related to a 2015 lawsuit from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre. The lawsuit was settled in 2017.

"Jeffrey Epstein was discovered dead in jail 2019. His death was ruled a suicide." . . .

Lefty Pundit Suggests a 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' for Political Dissidents; A "Star Chamber", If You Will

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid.  The official Truth and Reconciliation Commission Website.

 Townhall  "MSNBC host Chris Hayes suggested on Monday night that those who have not agreed with his own personal opinions about mask mandates during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic should be subjected to a "truth and reconciliation commission" if we even "survive" the disease. 

"In response to American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp won
dering what masks were for if not to protect others from a COVID-infected individual, Hayes suggested: "The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission." . . .

. . . "And fear is what the left wants. They rejected the president's message to not fear the coronavirus, instead insisting that we all stay very afraid and dependent on the Democrats to deliver us from the doom of disease. 

To Hayes, he is part of the movement of COVID-19 purity of thought and any dissent from their ideology, which changes every day, should be subject to punishment. Holding and expressing a different opinion to the radical faction of the left-wing media isn't simply an exercise of free speech, it's an actual crime

Chris Hayes, MSNBC:

The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission.

National Review:  What a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ Would Actually Look Like;  Democrats Haven’t Thought Through a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission,’ Have They?   . . . "Former secretary of labor Robert Reich garnered some attention this weekend for a tweet calling for a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to be established “when this nightmare is over” — presumably he means after Trump is defeated in the upcoming election and when Joe Biden is president. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes made similar comments earlier this month.  

"This isn’t Reich being short-tempered or flying off the handle in a moment of passion; some on the left have been calling for this idea for years. In May 2018, Kevin Baker wrote an extremely lengthy cover piece in The New Republic calling for one after the Trump era, but at least he acknowledged that the election of a president who drove one side of the aisle crazy with outrage was not the traditional situation that required this kind of commission:" . . .

Chris Hayes Floats ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Deal With’ Those Who Question COVID-19 Protocols    . . . "Twitter users responded to Hayes’ tweet with both praise and denunciation. 

"Writer, producer, and self-described “passionate libtard” Gerry Conway tweeted, “I’d settle for marching them off a pier. That’s the truth and reconciliation they deserve. (But, seriously, in our reality-denying country, would any of Trump’s people *acknowledge* the truth, never mind reconcile to it?)' ”  The hate for us is palpable and is even displayed in this Bill Kristol tweet:

“How about truth and no reconciliation?”
USA Today broached this subject back in June. It appears to be a condemnation of police  killing blacks, ignoring police killed by rioters, including the massacre of police in Dallas and destruction by anti-police and anti-white rioters. One has to fear a "star chamber" retribution with the accused class being much more than those first considered culpable.

Trust the left; the commission will never be used for evil, but only for niceness. TD

Journalism dies, but propaganda lives on

Tony Branco

 Even More Proof of the Final Debate Moderator's Anti-Trump Nature Have Surfaced  . . . According to a new report from the New York Post, Welker is a long-time Democrat with heavy ties to both the Democratic National Committee and various big wigs in the party, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. "Not only did the Welkers donate to various Democrats but they also celebrated Christmas at the White House with President Barack Obama." . . . 

NBC’s Mitchell: Hunter Biden Scandal Must Be a Russian Plot!  . . . "CBS has repeatedly promoted the same wild claims without evidence and multiple media outlets rushed to immediately reject the news."

Facebook Suspends User Jamie Allman’s Account After He Posts Video of Hundreds of Black Trump Supporters Chanting “We Love Trump!” in Washington DC

On Saturday hundreds of black Donald Trump supporters marched in the Freedom Rally and March in Washington DC. It was a major blow to the “Trump is a racist” lie. Radio host Jamie Allman emceed the 1776 Freedom Tour March in Washington DC. 

Hundreds of Trump supporters attended the event and march from the National Monument to the White House. Most of the attendees were black or minority. 

Jamie Allman heavily documented the event on Facebook. One video went viral — It showed the Freedom Marchers going by Black Lives Matter Park. The black protesters were chanting, “We love Trump!” as they passed by BLM park. 

The video shows the stunned BLM demonstrators most of whom were white . Now Facebook is making conservative talk host Jamie Allman pay for exposing it. The video has received more than 21,000 views. 

On his flight home to St. Louis Allman discovered he’d been locked out of his account for “bullying and harassment.“

Analysis: Kristen Welker, next debate's moderator, got busted tipping off Team Hillary in 2016

Given the tenor of the recent debates, anyone short of Cincinnatus as moderator would likely raise some eyebrows. After Chris Wallace's disastrous outing during the first exchange, we had l'affaire Scully and then the dueling town halls, where NBC's Savannah Guthrie was apparently under the impression that "moderator" and "prosecutor" were synonyms while Joe Biden was given questions only slightly more difficult than what his favorite movie was. (That'd be "Chariots of Fire", by the way, just in case you needed more evidence the Democratic nominee couldn't be more basic.)

WND  . . . "According to CNN, Scully issued an apology last week, saying he'd made "errors in judgment." He's currently on "administrative leave," meaning he won't be fielding prank calls on "Washington Journal," much less moderating any debates.

"Next up to the plate when it comes to debate moderators is Kristen Welker, an NBC News White House correspondent. Welker is in charge of questioning during this week's debate, scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Thursday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

"Now, remember, Steve Scully -- a soporific non-entity for the oatmeal of cable political channels, a man even C-SPAN watchers could only probably identify after they were told he's the one that kind of looks like Lindsey Graham if you squint -- turned out to be a biased mess. Welker is a reporter for the most left-leaning of the major broadcast networks in an era where White House correspondents are expected to behave in the combative mold of Jim Acosta. What are the odds she turns out to be less partisan?

"Probably not great, but she'd prefer you not know that. Welker, famous for tipping off Hillary Clinton's spokeswoman on camera about a question she would ask during an interview, briefly deactivated her Twitter account in the wake of Scully's scandal." . . .