"Jim Acosta thinks this press conference is his very own talk show."

Chuck Todd labeled worse than CNN’s Jim Acosta by Jonathan Turley after airing out-of-context McEnany clip  . . . "The following day, Turley criticized CNN’s Jim Acosta for tweeting an out-of-context quote taken from McEnany’s comments. "The White House Press Secretary on Trump's push to reopen schools: 'The science should not stand in the way of this,'" Acosta wrote.
"Acosta was scolded on Twitter and even CNN’s Jake Tapper appeared to criticize his misleading tweet. But then Turley noticed that NBC News’ “Meet The Press” took it a step further and played the misleading clip." . . . 

Without directly addressing Acosta's tweet, Tapper slammed the spread of the distorted quote urging everyone to "read the ENTIRE McEnany comment." 

Former CNN Producer Dishes Dirt on “Narcissistic” Jim Acosta “His Only Goal is to be Famous”  . . .  [Former CNN producer-turned media watchdog Steve Krakauer] "then went on to say that Jim Acosta loves nothing more than Jim Acosta. “I’ve also half-joked that if we found out, years from now, that Acosta was actually a plant and was secretly working for the Trump re-election campaign, I wouldn’t be shocked,” he added." . . .

McEnany Destroys CNN's Jim Acosta for Asking Ridiculous Russia Question Using 'Unverified Intelligence' . . . "Look — when even Colin Powell is suggesting that maybe the media had a “hysterical” reaction to the Russian bounty intelligence, according to Fox News, perhaps this isn’t a narrative where everyone is on the same page.

"But that’s not going to stop Jim Acosta from pretending otherwise. This is his lilac bush, goshdarnit, and nobody’s going to tell him it’s not a marijuana plant."

Protesters Burn Bibles In Portland, Rip Protective Boarding Off Buildings

Daily Wire

Left-wing activists rioted in Portland on Friday night where they burned Bibles, set fires in the street, and tore protective boarding off of buildings.
"The riots had cooled off on Thursday night as “federal and state officers located inside the courthouse were not forced to leave the building during the course of the night,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.
"On Friday night, rioters burned American flags and bibles in the streets outside the federal Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse in Portland." . . .

Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland. pic.twitter.com/lYWY0x8n8P

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 1, 2020

No-class BO vs classy W

We saw the cruel vindictiveness of the man when he spent millions to fence off open-air memorials such as the open-air memorials and even their viewpoints!

Silvio Canto, Jr.  . . . " 'Pathetic" is all you can say.  Again, he must be scared about something.

"On the other hand, President Bush delivered a speech fitting for a funeral.  He remembered the man and did not go out of his way to insult anymore.

"We remind you that the late Representative Lewis was not exactly nice to President Bush.  He skipped his inaugurations and was never a voice of reason on issues like school choice, black on black crime, or the state of our inner cities.

"Let the world see what I saw:  Bitter Obama vs Gracious Bush.  It was clear to see unless you hate Trump so much that truth does not matter." . . .

Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also spoke during the funeral, and former President Jimmy Carter sent a letter that was read. Trump had no role in the ceremony, but he was clearly on Obama's mind.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece Slams Obama for Politicized John Lewis Eulogy  . . . “You know, actually President Trump is saying, ‘People, please pay attention. We do want you to vote. Use your absentee ballots. Go to the polls.’ He has even encouraged, you know, people to be poll watchers and poll workers and that kind of thing,” she said. 

“President Trump is not trying to suppress the vote,” she added.

"The former president also advocated for statehood for Washington, D.C. and for ending the Senate filibuster during the political eulogy."

Obama Graces Us with His Cynicism  Katie Pavlich  "This week the ugly, divisive, dishonest character of former President Barack Obama reminded us of the worst of his tenure in the White House." . . .

"As for the so-called "protests" Obama referred to, where is his condemnation of the destruction in inner-city America? Especially the places where black-owned businesses have been burned to the ground, leaving the lives of owners, employees and patrons marred forever. Does he have any concern the number one cause of death for young black men is homicide?" . . .

See also:  Vindictive Obama: “A Tale of Two Shutdowns”: Obama Closes War Memorials to Veterans; Trump Admin Keeps Them Open to Public  2013.

Vindictive Obama: “A Tale of Two Shutdowns”: Obama Closes War Memorials to Veterans; Trump Admin Keeps Them Open to Public

2013 Obama NPS: Park Ranger: “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can."  . . . "Team Obama is actively and deliberately trying to inflict as much pain on ordinary people as possible, hoping to stoke public outrage at Republicans over the impasse." . . . With the help of his subservient press.

What did these barriers cost?

Jordan Sekulow   . . . "In 2013, what President Obama did was nothing short of a political stunt. To make our veterans feel the pain of the shutdown, he weaponized our public lands. He actually had park officials working overtime to erect barricades and stand guard to deny access to open air memorials, which were normally open 24/7. Worse still, he did this knowing that groups of WWII veterans were planning once in a lifetime visits to the memorial erected in honor of their fight for freedom.

"I was there. I witnessed the tragic irony of elderly veterans who once fought for our freedom on the shores of Normandy and Iwo Jima having to fight once more through metal barricades, steel wire, and sandbags – erected with their tax dollars, during a time when the government was supposedly shut down – just to view the memorial built in their honor and on land they kept free.

"The Obama Administration forced those who paid the price for our freedom to pay the political price to drive a narrative. It made heroes feel the pain to win a political battle.

"It was repulsive to the core.

"After witnessing this injustice, I went back down to the memorial with a team of ACLJ

attorneys to demand answers. Once more the barriers were up, and we were denied access. We demanded answers. We prepared to take legal action, sent a demand letter to the Obama Administration, and filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to know why the Obama Administration used our veterans as political pawns.

"Only after our unceasing advocacy did the Obama Administration back down and reopen the monuments to First Amendment activity – a victory for heroes.

"Thankfully, this time, the Trump Administration did not repeat the unconstitutional and disgraceful mistakes of his predecessor." . . .

How spiteful is Obama? He blocked parking areas where monuments could be viewed from a distance!  "Not satisfied shutting the monument even though the State offered to pay to keep it open, the feds placed cones to block viewing areas in the distance.

"As bad as the Battle of the Barrycades is in Washington, D.C., forcing WWII Vets to have to push their way past barricades at the WWII Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, and Iwo Jima Memorial, what the feds did at Mount Rushmore has to be the most petty and insane of them all.

"The feds didn’t just shut the access roads — even though the state offered to pay to keep them open — it erected cones along a viewing road in the distance to prevent people from pulling over to view the presidential monument."

Strike Three: Major League Baseball’s Sordid Romance with Race-Baiting Politics

And to the sanctimonious mega-wealthy owners of professional baseball, football and basketball teams, I say this with all due contempt.  By providing aid and comfort to a Marxist organization loyal to the party that seeks to “fundamentally transform” this great country into the world’s latest socialist Utopia, you are betraying the very system that made you among the wealthiest people on earth.  As far as I’m concerned, you and the pampered ingrates who play for you can go pound sand.

John Eidson

. . . For 65 years, I was a major league fan of major league baseball.  But as of last week, that all changed, and I will never again follow the sport.  MLB’s woke owners drove me away.

I don’t watch baseball—or any sport—to have moralizing political lectures rammed down my throat.  Yet that is now the order of the day, not only in the NFL and the NBA, but in major league baseball as well, where filthy rich franchise owners are falling all over themselves kowtowing to Black Lives Matter, a Marxist political organization that hijacked the noble cause of racial justice as a fig leaf to disguise its profoundly un-American ideology.

"At the 2020 Season Opener between the Washington Nationals and the New York Yankees, every player and every coach was told to kneel prior to the National Anthem.

. . . 

"Slavery and Jim Crow will forever be a permanent stain on the legacy of an otherwise great nation, but those evil institutions no longer exist.  Mistakes of the past notwithstanding, it is indisputable that no nation in history has ever done more to correct wrongs once committed against an oppressed minority of its own citizens than this nation has.

"But despite the remarkable racial progress over the last half-century—no one can deny that—one of America’s major political parties throws gasoline and a match on race relations in advance of every election.  And that is why Black Lives Matter has used the killing of George Floyd as a convenient excuse to help incite nationwide rioting aimed at keeping racial tensions at a boiling point between now and November." . . .

Oregon’s U.S. Attorney Tells Media Their Distorted Portland Riots Coverage Is Part of the Problem

Legal Insurrection
“You’re choosing terms that sort of downplay the criminal activity, and what I’m suggesting is if there is an honest accounting of what this is, that helps build the reality check for how this can stop,” U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams told reporters.

"When it comes to setting the record straight on the anarchy and destruction happening in Portland, U.S. Attorney Billy Williams is not messing around.

"Williams, who is the chief federal law enforcement official for Oregon, recently gave an interview outside Portland’s battered Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse where he took the wind out of the sails of a few reporters who had an angle to push."

. . . 

"It was after that when things got really interesting. The reporter who brought up Wheelers’s alleged “leadership” then asked Williams if he believed the “the late night demonstrations” distracted “from the fight for racial justice” because apparently, it was essential to establish whether or not he was sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter cause.

"The reporter calling the riots a “late night demonstration” didn’t sit well with Williams. He proceeded to explain to her what was really going on and how the media’s distorted coverage of the Portland riots was part of the problem. Take particular note of how the reporter says, “some may argue” during this part of their exchange, as another reporter similarly did earlier. The translation for “some may argue” here is “the media and Democrats argue.” Keep that in mind as you read on:

WILLIAMS: These aren’t late night demonstrations. This is criminal activity. There’s a difference. What you have failed, and the media have failed to distinguish, between, you seem unwilling to call people engaged in criminal conduct, as criminals, as opposed to lawful protesting.

. . .
 "REPORTER 3: But I’m just saying, I’m not a police officer, I don’t get to distinguish that, that’s not my job.

"WILLIAMS: No, but you can call it out for what it is. You’re choosing terms that sort of downplay the criminal activity, and what I’m suggesting is if there is an honest accounting of what this is, that helps build the reality check for how this can stop. That’s my point." . . .

Why on earth are reporters not taken to task and made to defend their reporting? I feel they are no longer neutral observers that must be respected by anyone; they are active participants and defenders of the rioters. TD

Ghislaine Maxwell Documents Unsealed: Allegations Against Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Others — FBI Knew Had Evidence of the Crimes for Years

The Gateway Pundit
"Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers tried to keep x-rated evidence related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein from going public, but a judge denied the appeal and released damning docs on Thursday evening.

"A witness interview revealed Bill Clinton was at Epstein’s pedophile island with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and “2 young girls.”
"The documents discuss allegations that a minor girl was trafficked to Maxwell, Prince Andrew and Attorney Alan Dershowitz (although he has always denied these allegations).

Excerpts posted below:

"I swear on my honor as a former President of the United States!"

Bill Clinton Denies Giuffre Allegation He Went to 
Epstein's Island With 2 Young Girls: 'Never Been'

2019: Woke History Is Making Big Inroads in America's High Schools

Jewish, Armenian, Assyrian, Hellenic and other ethnic groups left out of the proposal are demanding their narratives be included as part of the curriculum. And critics also wonder why many ethnic groups are left out, but the LGBTQ community is included even though it is technically not an ethnicity.

RealClearInvestigations; how bad can it be now?    Like growing numbers of public high school students across the country, many California kids are receiving classroom instruction in how race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship status are tools of oppression, power and privilege. They are taught about colonialism, state violence, racism, intergenerational trauma, heteropatriarchy and the common thread that links them: “whiteness.” Students are then graded on how well they apply these concepts in writing assignments, performances and community organizing projects.
"At Santa Monica High School, for example, students organize and carry out “a systematized campaign” for social justice that can take the form of a protest, a leaflet, a workshop, play or research project. They demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter by teaching about social justice to middle school students.
"Students at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale are assigned to write a “breakup letter with a form of oppression,” such as toxic masculinity, heteronormativity, the Eurocentric curriculum or the Dakota Access Pipeline. Students are asked to “persuade their audience of the dehumanizing and damaging effects of their chosen topic.” 
"Students at schools in Anaheim, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are taught how to write a manifesto to school administrators listing “demands” for reforms. Some conduct a grand jury investigation to determine who was responsible for the genocide of the state’s Native Americans. And one class holds a mock trial to determine which party is most responsible for the deaths of millions of native Tainos: Christopher Columbus, the soldiers, the king and queen of Spain, or the entire European system of colonialism.

California’s Woke Hypocrisy

California’s failure to improve conditions for Latinos and blacks was evident even before the lockdowns and recent unrest. What the state’s minorities need is not less policing, or systematic looting of upscale neighborhoods, or steps to reimpose affirmative action, or kneeling politicians; they require policies that empower working-class citizens of all races to ascend into the middle class.

Mike Ramirez

 City Journal by Joel Kotkin

"Leaders offer platitudes and counterproductive policies rather than opportunities and better living standards for the state’s minorities."

"No state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California. The Golden State’s leaders believe that they lead a progressive paradise, ushering in what theorists Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca call “a new progressive era.” Others see California as deserving of nationhood; it reflects, as a New York Times columnist put it, “the shared values of our increasingly tolerant and pluralistic society.”

"In response to the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to defund the police—a move applauded by Senator Kamala Harris, a prospective Democratic vice presidential candidate, despite the city’s steep rise in homicides. San Francisco mayor London Breed wants to do the same in her increasingly crime-ridden, disordered city. This follows state attorney general Xavier Becerra’s numerous immigration-related lawsuits against the Trump administration, even as his state has become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants—complete with driver’s licenses for some 1 million and free health care.

"Despite these progressive intentions, Hispanics and African-Americans—some 45 percent of California’s total population—fare worse in the state than almost anywhere nationwide. Based on cost-of-living estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 28 percent of California’s African-Americans live in poverty, compared with 22 percent nationally. Fully one-third of Latinos, now the state’s largest ethnic group, live in poverty, compared with 21 percent outside the state. “For Latinos,” notes longtime political consultant Mike Madrid, “the California Dream is becoming an unattainable fantasy.' ” . . .

From the comments to the author of this post: 
Joel: Remember that you voted for this. You wrote article after article criticizing the judgment of President Trump (and Republicans in general), and encouraged every one of your readers to vote for liberal Democrats. Your exhortations are one of the reasons that California is a one-party state in substantial and rapid decline. (Personally, after living there for 38 years, I escaped to Texas in 2014. The best decision I ever made.)
So where are we now, Joel? You have in office the politicians that you actively promoted. Spare us the complaints and the recriminations. You are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
You got the government you wanted, Joel. Good and hard! Enjoy it.

I always thought the author was center-right. I never attributed him to being a mouthpiece for the morons that run California

Here’s a question I have about our next presidential election later this year: In spite of having Trump as president and Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education the left has still made great progress in using our schools to teach white kids to hate themselves for being white and to teach all children to hate white people. If they can do this with conservatives in charge of the federal government what will they do if they get control of the federal government, especially with the left in control of the msm which is simply their Pravda, their propaganda machine?

Physician behind ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’ says she was fired, warns attackers she’s hired attorney Lin Wood

As host Tucker Carlson noted, the video’s optimistic message about the treatment of the coronavirus “would hurt the Joe Biden for President campaign and so they pulled it off the internet and banned anyone from sharing it.”

BPR  Dr. Simone Gold, a Los Angeles-based physician and founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, said Thursday night she has been fired for expressing her medical opinion.
"Appearing Thursday night on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the doctor who appeared at a press conference Monday with other physicians during a “White Coat Summit” in Washington to tout the use of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients, confirmed that she lost her job.
" 'I’m a board-certified emergency physician for 20 years, and in fact, it seems like until five minutes ago I was considered a hero and people would be clapping and glad that I was doing what I was doing, and then the video came out and I was summarily fired for appearing in what was told to me is an embarrassing video,” Gold said." . . .

"Video of the press conference was quickly censored by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google, and the doctors were attacked across the board by the liberal media for pushing “unproven conspiracy theories.”
"In the video, Gold insisted that “the American people have not heard from all of the expertise that’s out there all across our country,” when it comes to treating the virus.
"According to HealthGrades.com, Dr. Gold is an emergency medicine specialist with more than 31 years of experience in the medical field, and is (or was) affiliated with Centinela Hospital Medical Center." . . .

Trader Joe’s Stands Up To The Cancel Mob: ‘We Do Not Make Decisions Based On Petitions’

The Federalist

"The woke mob, spurred on by Black Lives Matter following George Floyd’s death, has come not only for cities and statues but for people and brands. It came for the Washington Redskins — canceled. It came for police shows — canceled. It came for Aunt Jemima, Rice Crispies, Goya, Lady Antebellum — the list never ends. When it recently came for Trader Joe’s, the grocery company responded loud and clear: We don’t bow to the cancel mob.

“ 'A few weeks ago, an online petition was launched calling on us to ‘remove racist packaging from [our] products,’” Trader Joe’s said in a statement last week. “Following were inaccurate reports that the petition prompted us to take action. We want to be clear: we disagree that any of these labels are racist. We do not make decisions based on petitions.”

"The petition, circulating on Change.org, demands that the company “remove racist branding and packaging.” It reads, “The grocery chain labels some of its ethnic foods with modifications of ‘Joe’ that belies a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes. For example, ‘Trader Ming’s’ is used to brand the chain’s Chinese food, ‘Arabian Joe’ brands Middle Eastern foods, ‘Trader José’ brands Mexican foods, ‘Trader Giotto’s’ is for Italian food, and ‘Trader Joe San’ brands their Japanese cuisine.”

"The petition further bemoans the inception of Trader Joe’s, alleging it was inspired by a “racist book and a controversial theme park attraction” and saying it perpetuates “exoticism.”

"Trader Joe’s isn’t having any of it. " . . .

The New George Wallace: Barack Obama

American Spectator

Ex-president uses John Lewis funeral to play the race card. As once did George Wallace:

"And I say … segregation today … segregation tomorrow … segregation forever.”

"Fifty-seven years ago, the newly sworn-in Democrat governor of Alabama, George Wallace, delivered those words in his inaugural address.
"In other words: George Wallace, who was a product of a political party that built its political power by supporting every imaginable policy that divided Americans by race, was at it again. Using the momentary pulpit that was a governor’s inaugural to play the race card — again.

"Yesterday there was a new George Wallace. He appeared in an Atlanta church to eulogize the late Democratic Congressman John Lewis, Lewis a certifiable hero of the 1960s civil rights movement.

"There were, in fact, three former presidents there, including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. But it was former President Barack Obama and Obama alone who chose to use the literal pulpit to divide by race. Among things said by the former president were these gems:

George Wallace may be gone. But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators. 

We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in order to cast a ballot, but even as we sit here, there are those in power, who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision — even undermining the postal service in the run-up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.

Mr. Nakamura 

"Say what? First, the protests in question have hardly been peaceful. And vandalizing a federal building named for, as Karl Rove has pointed out over in the Wall Street Journal, a Japanese-American named William Kenzo Nakamura is a disgrace. Mr. Nakamura was sent to an internment camp in 1942 when he was 20 — with his family — at the direction of Democrat FDR’s internment policy. Race card playing to the max. Nakamura made a point of enlisting in the U.S. Army anyway, was sent to Europe, and lost his life at the hands of Nazi soldiers as he managed to destroy two enemy machine gun nests. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously.

As Rove quotes Brian Moran, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, those who broke into the Nakamura Courthouse and set a fire and spray-painted it with graffiti “are not protesting anything; they seek only to disrupt and destroy, and through their acts, they dishonor Private Nakamura’s memory and his extraordinary sacrifice for his country.” Exactly.

"Can you imagine if some Republican — Bush 43 in this instance — had stood up at the Lewis funeral and pushed the Republican agenda? Not to mention if he got up and played the race card?

"Yes, you can. All un-shirted hell would have broken loose." . . .

William Kenzo Nakamura Fed Courthouse 

The Democrats Surrender in Portland  . . . “Yes,” the governor acknowledged, “we’ve been very clear that Oregon state police will protect the federal courthouse.” That certainly sounds like a capitulation to us. Youtube has an exegesis by commentator Tim Pool. “It sounds like the Feds are getting everything they’ve asked for — in exchange for nothing,” is the way Mr. Pool puts it." . . .

George W. Bush Has More Class Than the Entire Democratic Party  . . . "Bush barely mentioned the political division between him and Lewis. “John and I had our disagreements of course,” Bush said. “But in the America John Lewis fought for, and the America I believe in, differences of opinion are inevitable elements and evidence of democracy in action.”

"If only Lewis’s opposition to Bush had truly been so noble.
"In addition to boycotting Bush’s inaugurations, Lewis supported impeaching Bush in 2005 over the NSA surveillance program, which pales in comparison to how Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, expanded warrantless surveillance, without Lewis supporting his impeachment. Lewis, like many others, was just another garden-variety partisan who pretty much hated Republicans, and blanketly accused them of being racist. John Lewis most certainly thought little of Bush, likely only viewing him as marginally better than Donald Trump—a man he absurdly compared to segregationist Democrat George Wallace. But Lewis seemed to assign claims of racism to any Republican nominee for president, at least in recent memory." . . .