Considering the media's behavior, it's no wonder so many politicians are corrupt

"Dingy" Harry Reid honored by Biden and Obama at service

. . ."Basically, the media and other Democrats don't care about facts — only winning.

Harry Reid Gives Shameful Response to His Attack on Mitt Romney's Taxes' 

It's one thing to try to gain a political advantage by pointing out certain undesirable aspects of an opponent's background or record. But when a Senate democratic leader spreads baseless allegations without a shred of evidence, and uses the Senate floor to do so, that's one step too far.

When asked about it three years later, you would think Reid would apologize or at least show the proper level of contrition that matches the irresponsible and undignified act of using the Senate floor to spread false allegations about a politician from the opposing party.

But Reid has no regrets. "I don't regret that at all," he told CNN's Dana Bash on Tuesday in the interview clip above. "Romney didn't win did he?" 

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. . ." The media knew how dishonest and corrupt Reid was, but he was lauded when he died as a great man, just like how they lauded the former KKK leader who filibustered the Civil Rights Bill, Robert Byrd.

Corruption Scandals Led to Harry Reid’s Abrupt "Retirement"

Harry Reid honored by Biden and Obama at service

"Why are known liars like Brennan, Clapper, and Panetta still used by networks as news sources?  The answer is that the media don't give a damn about the truth — only power for leftists.

"When Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum was asked why they buried the Hunter Biden laptop story, she said it just wasn't interesting.  What a joke!  A story of corruption and bribes from foreign countries, drugs, sexual escapades with prostitutes, sharing kickbacks with Joe Biden, having a joint account with Joe Biden, and paying bills for Joe Biden, and then pretending it is not interesting?

"This from people who willingly spread lies about Russian collusion for years, based on a fictional dossier, paid for by the corrupt DNC and Hillary campaign, in order to destroy Trump. ". . .

Commentary: The Scandal Obama Still Won’t Acknowledge

 Tennessee Star

"Barack Obama has long bragged about his supposedly scandal-free presidency, a claim that conveniently ignores a host of ethical problems, from Hunter Biden profiting off access to Obama’s White House to the IRS harassing conservative activists. But the biggest scandal of Obama’s presidency is still coming into focus: his administration’s spying on a political opponent, Donald Trump, based on nothing more than a dirty trick deployed by Obama’s former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.

"On the speaking circuit these days, Obama lectures Americans on dangers to democracy. But he presided over the most significant one in recent memory: an utterly bogus investigation that hobbled Trump’s campaign and presidency. Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, had informed him by at least July of 2016 that Hillary was pushing a Trump-Russia collusion claim. Obama could have instructed his agencies to steer clear of this nonsense. But he didn’t.

"John Durham, the Justice Department special counsel who is examining this debacle, has shown in his filings the ease with which Hillary got friends in the Obama administration to investigate Trump. Christopher Steele, her chief opposition researcher, was peddling the Trump-Russia hoax across the Obama administration in the months before the election.

"Obama has never rebuked Hillary for prodding his administration to spy on her opponent. His surrogates still speak of it as a warranted investigation, even as more and more evidence accumulates to discredit it. The anti-Trump partisans at the FBI swallowed Steele’s lies whole, using them as the basis to secure FISA warrants on Trump officials. Trump has said that Obama “wiretapped” his campaign. Obama did. Those FISA warrants gave the Obama administration the power to intercept communications at Trump Tower.

"The collusion in the 2016 election was not between Trump and Russia but between Hillary and the United States government under Obama. The final Durham report will presumably detail the full extent of that collusion. In some cases, it can be plausibly argued that the Hillary campaign simply duped government officials. Durham, for example, has established convincingly that FBI counsel James Baker took a meeting with lawyer Michael Sussmann without knowledge of his work for Hillary’s campaign.". . .

BLM Founders’ Mansion Marxism

The attention and outrage prompted Cullors to blast those raising concerns as (big surprise) “racist and sexist.” She insists, “The fact that the right-wing media is trying to create hysteria around my spending is, frankly, racist and sexist.”

 

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Patrisse Cullors is yet another example of Marxist greed.

"The booty is enormous!”

"So savored Leon Trotsky, rubbing his covetous hands and salivating at the Russian Orthodox Church’s cache of “fabulous treasures.” He and Vladimir Lenin greedily eyed up the gems.

Lenin was furious when the Church wouldn’t give him and his minions its valuables.

"He instructed Trotsky and the Politburo to make sure that all churches were “cleansed.” By November 1922, the mass heist from the churches included 828,275 pounds of silver; 1,220 pounds of gold; 35,670 diamonds; and much, much more. Lenin grinned impishly at the “hundreds of millions” of rubles before him.

"Communism paid off handsomely for the comrades. They took whatever they could get their gluttonous hands on. The Party apparatchiks lined their pockets and grabbed properties from Moscow to the Black Sea. Vladimir Putin, trained by the KGB, knows the gig. When not killing Ukrainian men, women, and children, he’s floating on his $700 million mega-yacht moored off the coast of Italy, where he wines and dines with “crazy rich Russian” oligarchs.

"This was and is Marxist greed. It’s endemic to Marxists. They bitterly complain about wealth, capital, and property, but that’s obviously a mere projection of their own private feelings. As soon as they seize power, they greedily reward themselves and then attack anyone who criticizes their avarice.

"I thought about this when reading the latest report of abuses by the self-identified Marxist founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors. I’ve written about Cullors’s multiple purchases of expensive properties and her undisclosed financial disclosures. The current leadership of BLM remains furious with Cullors and has demanded investigations and even ousted her as executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

"I wrote about Cullors’s growing accumulation of cash in the fall 2021 print edition of The American Spectator. The New York Post has been hot on that trail, laying out in detail (with photos) the new homes grabbed by Cullors and her wife in the last few years — “a real estate buying binge, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone.” Cullors and her wife also had their eyes on a posh Bahamas beachfront resort, where their neighbors would be Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods. Not exactly the Proletariat.". . .

And remember, Patrisse Cullors and her BLM co-founder are proud Marxists. “We are trained Marxists,” says Cullors of herself and Alicia Garza. “We are super-versed [in] ideological theories.”

 Race obsession, all over - American Thinker   "It's become abundantly clear that the people most loudly accusing America of being a bastion of "systemic racism" are either ignorant or self-serving cowards.

"In the case of television personality Jon Stewart, it's a bit of both.

"Case in point is a recent episode of Stewart's show, The Problem with Jon Stewart.

Revealed: The monstrous Russian general behind the attack on a Ukrainian railway station that was branded a 'crime against humanity'. . .

 . . . after it killed at least 50 civilians - including five children - who were fleeing Kremlin's atrocities

Russian general linked with deadly railway station attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian civilians | Daily Mail Online   "A fearsome Russian general has been linked to the deadly railway station strike that killed dozens of fleeing civilians that was branded a 'crime against humanity' within the international community.

"Western officials believe Captain General Aleksandr Dvornikov, a Russian commander who oversaw devastation in Syria, is likely to have ordered yesterday’s fatal air strike on the station in Kramatorsk.

"Graphic images on Friday from the eastern Ukrainian city showed bodies strewn across the floor, lying amongst luggage and children's prams outside the city's busy station.

"Some had already been put into green body bags, while other photos showed smoke rising from the building as firefighters rushed to the scene. Ukraine claims around 300 were injured by the blast.

"The wreckage of the large Tochka-U missile was left lying on the grass outside the station showed white Russian text written down the side of its casing reading: 'For (our) Children' - a revenge message from the suspected pro-Moscow soldiers that launched it.". . .

. . ."It comes as France branded suspected Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian refugees at a railway station a 'crime against humanity' after at least 50 people including five children were killed in yet another atrocity that has sparked international condemnation.". . .

Obama: Hey, I warned you that Putin "was always ruthless"

 HotAir  "One of the advantages that clairvoyants and eminences grises have is the ability to remind us of the accuracy of their forecasts. Barack Obama took advantage of that Wednesday at the University of Chicago, discussing his prescient alarms over the threat that Vladimir Putin posed to world order. It’s a couple of days old but worth watching to recall his brilliance at the time:"

"Oh, wait — sorry, that wasn’t the correct clip, was it? My bad. I seem to have had a mix-up in my Official Barack Obama Brilliance Media Catalog. That was from 2012, when Obama lectured Mitt Romney on the dangers of al-Qaeda shortly after bailing out of Iraq and allowing the AQ affiliate there to turn into ISIS and necessitating a return of our military in 2014.

"Let me look again. I think this is the one where Obama explains how tough he was on Putin:"

Much more here, but catch the conclusion below:

. . .  For our last video, let’s recall the greeting that Obama’s administration gave Putin’s regime immediately upon assuming office, nine years after Chechnya and mere months after Putin invaded Georgia. This certainly tells a tale about Obama’s recognition of Putin’s ruthless and imperial nature, huh?"

‘Erased’ Hunter Biden Laptop Material to Be Released Soon

 ‘Erased’ Hunter Biden Laptop Material to Be Released Soon – PJ Media

Jack Maxey, the former co-host on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, says he plans to release thousands of deleted files that have been recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.

Maxey told the Daily Mail that his team recovered 80,000 images and videos and 450 gigabytes of “erased material,” including over 120,000 emails from the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at the Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. Maxey also revealed that he’s the source that has leaked copies of the hard drive to various media outlets.

Maxey has left the United States, fearing reprisal from the Biden administration. He claims he saw black SUVs outside his house after contacting the Daily Mail about Hunter’s laptop. So he’s gone to Switzerland to protect himself.

“I came here so that we could do a forensic examination of Hunter’s laptop safely in a country that still respects human liberty and the ideals of liberal democratic principles,” Maxey said. “I do not believe this would have been possible inside the United States. We had numerous attempts on us from trying to do a thing like this there.”

Maxey said that no major news outlet would review the laptop’s contents. He also says that he reached out to a former U.S. intelligence agency staffer friend, who advised him to release more material from the laptop or he would be “a dead man.”

“Very dear friends of mine, the sharp tip of the spear, were making welfare calls to me every day, basically to see if I was still alive,” Maxey told the Daily Mail.

"Maxey believes the U.S. government is “hunting down files from the laptop posted online and flagged them” to the file-sharing companies.

“There were five drop boxes: two in the United States, one in New Zealand, two in the U.K. All the same drop boxes in which they tell us child pornography is shared around the globe without any consequence because they can’t look at it,” Maxey said. “These are all Five Eyes countries, . . ."

Stop Talking About Ukraine, Republicans!

 Ann Coulter

. . ." perhaps some enterprising journalist could write an article explaining how our esteem for that country’s borders benefits a single American — other than President Joe Biden."

"Our own border has become a transmission belt for the third world, bringing in rapists, murderers, future welfare recipients and left-wing activists. The Democratic Party’s brilliant policy of defunding the police and emptying the prisons has, oddly enough, led to a breathtaking surge in violent crime. Our schools have been taken over by lunatics who teach white kids that they are evil — and probably transsexual.

"Inflation has hit a 40-year high.

"U.S. media: Whither Ukraine?

"Midterms must be coming!

'In 2020, Democratic data scientist David Shor advised his party: “Talk about the issues [voters] are with us on, and try really hard not to talk about the issues where we disagree. Which, in practice, means not talking about immigration.” (Emphasis mine.) After the election, he said that the main way the media’s COVID hysteria hurt Donald Trump was by preventing anyone from “talking about Hunter Biden or immigration.”

"Evidently, the only issue where voters don’t vehemently disagree with Democrats this year is the precise border of a country they’d never given a moment’s thought to until five minutes ago.

"What Republicans should be doing: talking about the issues Democrats are trying to avoid.

"What Republicans are doing: talking about Ukraine.

"Whenever you see any media talking about Ukraine, your Pavlovian response should be, Oh, I see. They don’t want me to think about immigration or crime.

"It’s not only the Democrats drawing benefits from the media’s sudden Ukraine obsession. There’s also the military-industrial complex.

"President Dwight Eisenhower led Allied troops in World War II, but in his farewell address from the White House, he warned of the “unwarranted influence” on the government by “the military-industrial complex.” In the 60 years since, these bloodsuckers have been bleeding our country dry, solely to make themselves rich.". . .

Obama: The most beloved Democrat of all

 Stephen Colbert gushes during Obama interview: 'I just want to take a moment to drink you in' - Washington Times   

“Can we just take a moment,” the host said. “I want to talk. I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment because I’m having to get used to looking at a president again. You know, I’ve gotten out of — I’ve gotten out of the habit. I have to warm up for Joe Biden. I don’t want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office.”

 Reminder: Barack Obama Is Un-American and Awful – PJ Media   . . ."Just a couple of days ago, we were going over the fact that he’s such a narcissistic tool that he couldn’t back off the ego and help his buddy Amtrak Joe with a photo opp boost. All he had to do was show up, smile, and let Biden be bathed in nostalgia and hope for the future. But, President Mom Jeans being President Mom Jeans, he had to remind everyone that he was the alpha male and his old pal Joe was the runt of the litter.". . .  Obama Backs 'Regulatory Measures' to Combat 'Disinformation' – PJ Media

Obama Brags About Obama, Claims He Forced Europe to Stand up to Russian Invasion of Crimea – RedState     . . .Same guy, by the way, who in 2012 ridiculously drew a “red line” in the Middle East, vowing that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would be a “game-changer.” Sure it was. Bottom line: Al-Assad proceeded to use chemical weapons against his own people, killing an estimated 1,500 men, women, and children. And Barack “Red Line” Obama? He folded up like a cheap suit.

"Even worse, as noted by Fox, Obama also in 2012 infamously ridiculed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (oh, hell — here come the random Romney blasts) for identifying Russia as America’s “number one geopolitical foe” — a valid claim in 2012.  During a presidential debate, Chicago Jesus Obama smirked:". . .

Obama: Same Old Narcissist as Always – PJ Media   "There is no one in this world that Barack Obama loves more than himself. The moment he walks into a room, everything is about him. He loves attention—he craves it.

"And when he returned to the White House on Tuesday, it’s no surprise that he couldn’t stop talking about himself in his speech.". . .

UPDATE: Ouch: Obama Snubbed Biden at the White House, and It’s the Saddest Thing You’ve Ever Seen – PJ Media  . . ."Seriously, have you ever seen anything sadder? Joe Biden thinks that because he’s the president (or at least pretending to be), he’s the coolest guy in the room, but no one cared about him. Instead, they were all basking in the glow of Obama, who so clearly was in love with himself and all the attention he was getting."

To Obama, Biden is nothing more than a useful idiot. Biden likes to make it out like they’re best friends, but Obama was clearly snubbing Biden like he was crop-dusting the room and trying to make an escape.

Goldberg: Barack Obama shows his vindictive side in shutdown fight - Newsday  . . ."What's unusual is the way Obama sees the government as a tool for his ideological agenda. During the fight over the sequester, Obama ordered the government to make the 2 percent budget cut as painful and scary as possible.

""It's going to be very painful for the flying public," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Americans.

"" 'The FAA's all-hands furloughs managed to convert a less than 4 percent FAA budget cut into a 10 percent air-traffic control cut that would delay 40 percent of flights," The Wall Street Journal noted at the time.

"The Department of Homeland Security announced it might not be able to protect the nation's borders, and in an effort to prove the point summarily released a couple thousand immigrant detainees, many of them with criminal records.

"Obama, the avowed problem solver, set out to create problems for the American people, just to prove how great government is and how crazy Republicans were for wanting to cut spending -- much of the money borrowed from China -- a little. But don't you dare call him an ideologue!

"Now, with the government shutdown and the looming fight over the debt ceiling, Obama's doubling down this ideologically perverse strategy.". . .

As the Biden gang’s corruption is exposed, the kingpin shouldn’t feel too secure in his seat of power.

 All the Big Guy’s Bag Men - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "Joe Biden makes up for lacking the gift of gab in his grift of graft.

"He may call a “salon” a “saloon” and describe his wife as the former vice president. But the Joe Biden who fails in letters passes numbers summa cum laude.

"“The least wealthy [Obama] administration figure is Vice President Joe Biden,” CBS News reported in 2009, “whose net worth is estimated at just $27,012.” Times change, and so did Middle Class Joe’s net worth, which now hovers around $8 million, according to Forbes.

"But Forbes possibly missed some of the president’s fortune.

"We know from the emails contained on the computer of Hunter Biden, the Pablo Picasso of the family, that he paid his father’s phone bills and allowed his father access to his Wells Fargo account for over a decade. His business partner bankrolled thousands of dollars in construction at Biden’s Delaware home. This week, we belatedly discover the involvement of Hunter, at the solicitation of Ron Klain who urged him to “keep it low key” to avoid “bad PR,” in a scheme to raise money for his father’s residence as vice president.

"This ranks as the small stuff for Biden, Inc.

"Biden, Inc., grabbed at least $31 million from the Chinese. The feds arrested one of the shady figures paying seven figures to Hunter Biden, Hong Kong businessman Patrick Ho, for money laundering and bribery in an unrelated case (Ho was convicted and served time). One group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party gave $65,000 a month to the president’s brother, James, atop $100,000 a month and a $500,000 retainer to Hunter. Biden’s son, boasting experience with crack pipes but not oil pipelines, somehow made $1 million a year from Burisma in Ukraine.

" 'It’s really hard,” Hunter wrote his daughter Naomi about the burdens of him serving as the clan’s breadwinner. “But don’t worry, unlike Pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

"Spiro Agnew fell for taking 5 percent. Joe Biden snatching 50 percent, and not from petty government construction projects but allegedly for matters of geopolitical concern in China, Ukraine, and beyond would make Agnew look like a piker.". . .Full article...

White House clings to Biden's ignorance of Hunter's deals despite mounting evidence - Washington Times  That is beginning to appear plausible. Of late.

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 More Hunter Biden Dirt: Jack Maxey Threatens to Post 450 Gigabytes of Deleted Data From Infamous Laptop (ibtimes.sg)    . ."Very dear friends of mine, the sharp tip of the spear, were making welfare calls to me every day, basically to see if I was still alive,' he added.

"Many revelations have emerged from Hunter's laptop such as his escapades with sex workers, drugs and close relationships with Chinese firms and individuals. He was also working with a Pentagon contractor who funded bioweapon labs at Ukraine's border with Russia."

Cartoons - American Thinker

Psaki Refuses To Say If Joe Biden Wrote Letter Of Recommendation For Son Of Hunter’s Chinese Business Partner… | Weasel Zippers Video 

Jim Jordan EXPOSES what Hunter Biden's secret laptop is REALLY about— this will give you CHILLS.

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— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 7, 2022

 Hunter Biden's "Laptop from Hell" Paged at a Major US Airport (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)    "A tweet from a couple of days ago shared the ‘laptop from hell’ being paged at West Palm Beach Airport in Florida."

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EXTORTION: 9-Year-Old Ohio Boy Denied Kidney Transplant Because Father Is Unvaccinated

 PJ Media

The decision has left the family scrambling for other options, including seeking out another hospital that will perform the transplant or perhaps even another state like Florida or Texas.

"Take the jab or the boy gets it. That’s essentially the message the Cleveland Clinic is sending to the parents of 9-year-old Tanner Donaldson, who will soon need a kidney transplant. He was born with a rare birth defect, posterior urethral valves (PUV), a condition that caused irreversible kidney damage in utero and resulted in stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD).

"Dane Donaldson, Tanner’s father, told PJ Media that his son’s kidney function is currently between 15-20%, but his numbers have been ticking up lately, so they feel he is nearing the time when a transplant will be necessary. They’ve known since birth that Tanner would eventually need the transplant and doctors have told the parents that they’ll continue monitoring Tanner’s health and, when the time comes, “they’ll be preemptive.” Donaldson told PJ Media that they won’t let his condition proceed to the point where he needs dialysis.

Related: Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19 After These Studies Is Insane

"Donaldson is a perfect match, but the Cleveland Clinic is refusing to do the transplant because Dane has not received the COVID-19 vaccination. The hospital requires that all living donors be fully vaccinated before they go under the knife for a transplant.

"Both parents are actually matches, but it was ultimately decided that Dane would be the one to donate a kidney to his son. He’s in good health, an avid CrossFitter, and is ready to have the surgery the moment it’s needed.

"In November, the family was blindsided by a letter from the Cleveland Clinic informing them that Dane would not qualify to be the kidney donor unless he agrees to take the COVID-19 vaccination.". . .

The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) has taken up Tanner’s cause. “Unfortunately, despite the Donaldsons’ pleas for the Hospital to make an exception, the Hospital has refused to budge – this despite the fact that Dane has natural immunity to COVID-19 which, as ICAN has repeatedly pointed out, is far superior to vaccine-induced immunity,” the organization said in a statement.