Monday, October 28, 2024

Backlash after comedian at Trump rally calls Puerto Rico 'island of garbage'


BBC  
"This is not the first time some of his comments have made headlines for their offensive nature. In 2021, he used a racial slur when referring to American-Chinese comedian Peng Deng during a comedy set and refused to apologise."

"A comedian at a Donald Trump rally called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage", sparking fury from Republicans and Democrats and accusations of racism.

"The comic, Tony Hinchcliffe, was among the speakers at the Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday. He also made a series of jokes that leant on racist stereotypes.

"A Trump adviser distanced the former president from the Puerto Rico joke, which was also denounced by Trump's Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. Harris herself was the target of another Trump warm-up speaker who also sparked controversy.

"The furore came as one of the world's top Latin celebrities, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, endorsed Harris for president.

"In his joke, Hinchcliffe, known for his comedy podcast Kill Tony, said: "There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico."

"The line appeared to meet a mixed reception. Two Republicans in the state of Florida, which has a prominent Puerto Rican population, were among those who called out the joke.

"US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was "disgusted" by the "racist comment". She said on X that it did not "reflect the GOP values", referring to the Republican Party, and noted thousands of Puerto Ricans served in the military.

"US Senator Rick Scott said: "The joke bombed for a reason. It's not funny and it's not true." He added that "Puerto Ricans are amazing people and amazing Americans".

"Puerto Rico is a US island territory in the Caribbean. Its residents are unable to vote in US presidential elections, but there is a large diaspora across the US who can.

"Hinchcliffe also suggested Latinos "loved making babies".

"He drew on racist tropes about black people and watermelons, which prompted groans from the audience - and he called Palestinians rock-throwers while in the same sentence suggested Jews would not spend money - invoking an antisemitic trope." . . .

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Israel at War: What You Need To Know

American Jewish Committee

Gantz calls for passage of two bills that would shut down UNRWA - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post   . . ."“UNRWA chose to make itself an inseparable component of Hamas’s mechanism – and now is the time to detach ourselves entirely from it,” Gantz said Tuesday.

“Instead of fulfilling its purpose and improving the lives of refugees, UNRWA does the opposite and perpetuates their victimization,” he said.

“Worse than that – some of its workers have become integral parts of the Hamas mechanism and even played an active role in the October 7 massacre,” he said.

"Other international agencies could be brought in to provide humanitarian services, he said, as he attacked the main organization that provides relief to displaced Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, east Jerusalem, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan." . . . 


"Eden Yerushalmi should have turned 25-years-old today. But she was brutally murdered by Hamas after being held hostage for nearly eleven months.

"Her sister said: “Thank you, Eden, for the time we had together and the incredible bond we formed... You are the most important person in my life.”
"Our thoughts are with Eden’s family on this day that should have been one of celebration. Her light will never be forgotten.
"We must bring the remaining hostages home now!"



Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might've given order to kill hostages - The Jerusalem Post  
“A moment of doom because there are rumors that Sinwar instructed people holding hostages that, should he be killed, they should kill their hostages,” Baskin told The Telegraph. He added that although the rumors are not confirmed, they should be taken “seriously” in light of recent incidents where hostages were killed. In August, Hamas killed six Israeli hostages in Rafah after the IDF approached the tunnel in Gaza where they were being held.


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Democrats In North Carolina’s Helene Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations

 The Federalist   

"Democrats blocking the early voting sites gives credence to concerns that the left is trying to suppress the vote in the deep-red area."


"The havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina brought disaster to homes and families, but that has not stopped Democrats from blocking the approval of emergency early voting sites in the heavily Republican area. The refusal to act forced the GOP-led state legislature to intervene.

"Democrat-run local elections boards in McDowell and Henderson counties have failed to approve additional early voting sites in the disaster-stricken area, despite increasing calls for more access to voting. Both counties voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

“ 'Ensuring the right to vote is upheld for western NC citizens devastated by Hurricane Helene should be a non-partisan issue,” western North Carolina native Clay McCreary said, according to The Carolina Journal. McReary is North Carolina political director of Restoration of America, an organization that has been advocating for additional voting opportunities in the disaster area. “We simply cannot allow the people of western North Carolina who have lost so much to lose their voice in the political process.”

"Meanwhile, Democrats in nearby deep-blue Buncombe County, home to Asheville, have already given the go-ahead for new voting locations to replace the ones damaged by Helene, bringing the county’s total to 10.

"Despite being mostly out of the news cycle, destruction in western North Carolina is still extreme, and the area has not yet recovered.

"Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled General Assembly are now being forced to compel the two counties to open up more voting locations so that the people affected by Helene are not being disenfranchised by the Democrats in power.

"The new law will require counties to open one early voting site per 30,000 registered voters in the Helene-affected region, and must be operational from Oct. 29 to Nov. 3. Henderson represents western North Carolina’s second-largest population next to Buncombe." . . .

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Stop Everything and Watch the Most Powerful Trump Ad You've Ever Seen

 

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Stop Everything and Watch the Most Powerful Trump Ad You've Ever Seen   "It was after church, and we were at our local Mexican restaurant sipping Victorias, indulging in some carne asada, and waiting for the NFL game to come back on the big screen when our attention became riveted by a commercial of a kind we'd never seen before. 

"I love a good commercial. That's why I usually watch the "big game" in February. It is far more difficult to fit a clever and compelling message into a compacted moment than to make a documentary. Any writer can tell you that writing shorter pieces is more difficult than longer ones. Every time. 

"But the message of this two-minute-long commercial, "Never Quit," was that Donald Trump will never quit trying to make America great again. This commercial demands the viewer give it attention, realize what he's watching, and understand the message. 

"The well-compacted message comprised unforgettable images, large movie blockbuster-like font, and a calm-sounding Donald Trump telling the story of his political life starting at the White House in 2017. It was breathtaking and stirring, even if you don't like the guy." . . .


. . ."So, let's go over Trump's closing argument to America:

  • A three-hour-long free-wheeling, unscripted interview with Joe Rogan.
  • Dropping this commercial on NFL fans shows the former president is as tough as any of these players on the gridiron. 
  • Filling Madison Square Garden in Blue New York City. 
  • "I never quit"
Does not MSNBC and the "ladies" of "The View" seem to be the poorest of a bad lot now?

"Critics even went so far as to accuse the network of “incitement.' ”

The hate distorted faces I will always remember from this election will be those of Joe Biden's three disgusting speeches attacking Donald Trump, Joy Reid, Morning Joe and all the cast of MSNBC, and Hillary. TD

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Fetterman's Clarity

Power Line Blog 

"Unfortunately, tragically, because Daddy was a member of Hezbollah. He brought that danger and evil into their home. And that’s what tragically resulted in that poor child’s death. And that’s what’s so terrible. She paid the price because her father was a terrorist for Hezbollah." . . . 

John Fetterman’s Move to the Right on Israel | The New Yorker

"John Fetterman is the Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania who suffered a serious stroke in the course of his campaign. If he is not at the limit of his recovery he is still recovering. Yet a brain-damaged John Fetterman has distinguished himself from the Democrat pack with his undiluted support of Israel and a clearer understanding of Israel’s current ordeal than some of the speakers at President Trump’s rally last night, to take just one example close at hand. (John wrote about them in the adjacent post.)

"Fetterman not only cuts through the fog, he expresses himself with admirable concision, as in his interview with the left-wing writer Lulu Garcia-Navarro published here by the New York Times last week. The entire interview is worth reading. Below I have excerpted several of her questions and his answers on Israel’s defense of itself in the war. Ms. Garcia-Navarro began this part of the interview with a question about the rationale of Fetterman’s support of Israel. His answer is immediately below, with her questions following in bold.

"Quotable quote: “There isn’t any nuance.' ”. . .

. . ."You think that the price that’s been paid is fair?

"Fetterman: The price is terrible. It’s awful. That’s history. And that’s war. And Israel was forced to fight an enemy that are cowardly. They hide in tunnels. They hide in schools and in refugee camps. And they’re in those kinds of places and that forces them to reach them. They have to go through these civilians. That’s why they’re so evil. And that’s why that’s designed. The death and destruction and the misery was designed by Hamas. They understood that that’s going to happen. They don’t care. So we can both agree that the misery and the deaths in Gaza is terrible. And, you know, some people blame Israel. Well, I blame Hamas.

"As you mentioned, you visited Israel for the first time in June. You met with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who thanked you for your courage and your support of Israel. How do you see his leadership during this conflict?

"Fetterman: I thought it was really curious that Democrats felt like they needed politically to criticize Israel, but that would be difficult, so they found that, well, we’re going to just focus on Netanyahu. And you can think he’s a bad leader or a bad person or anything, but that happens to be the democratically [elected] leader of Israel. And he’s on our side. That’s our ally. And if you had to pick who you want to criticize, you should be criticizing Hamas. You should be calling out Iran, or you should be calling out Hezbollah. Certainly not, you know, our ally. I think it was incredibly unhelpful." . . .

Pittsburgh Steel: Senator John Fetterman Stands Tall as Israel’s Ironclad Defender - Mishpacha Magazine

"In the moral morass of post-October 7 politics, as American lawmakers were silenced by the mob baying for Israel’s blood, one politician stood tall. At 6’8”, John Fetterman, the once progressive junior senator from Pennsylvania, has emerged as a man of steely conviction in a party whose left flank has moved to embrace the Hamas narrative, a surprising yet steadfast defender of the Jewish state in its darkest hour" . . .

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Much to Democrats' Chagrin, No Nazis Were Found at Trump's MAGA Square Garden Rally

In 2001, (two months before 9-11) my wife and I attended Michael Flatley and his Irish dancers at MSG. Had I only known we were supporting Nazis we would have kept away, but we had no clue what Hillary would have thought about it. TD

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

For a supposedly fascist, racist, Nazi rally, something has gone horribly wrong. The comparison between Trump's MSG rally and a 1939 Nazi Party rally started with, you guessed it, the Hildebeast: former Secretary of State and loser presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. My colleague Mike Miller reported her egregious words:  . . . 

Proof! Yes! Michael Flatley, the entire cast of Riverdance, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, et. al.
 are all Nazis.

 "But when former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton declares that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden Rally on Sunday will be "reenacting" the infamous 1939 Nazi rally at MSG, the TDS-riddled left is a clear and present danger to America and its freedom-loving people."

"This isn't a First Amendment issue; it's dangerous hate speech that continues to rip this country apart.

"On Sunday, former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump transformed Madison Square Garden into MAGA Square Garden, as the crowd reached capacity of reportedly over 19,000 people. In attendance was the melting pot of New York: Whites, Italians, Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, all the colors on the spectrum and then some.  

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Why the Rabid Hatred?

 Mr. Biden, locked in my memory are images of your hate-filled face in speeches at the dark red-lit Freedom Hall in Philadelphia, your State Of The Union "Address", and your DNC speech, all easily taken to be a call for someone to kill Mr. Trump. If indeed that does happen, I hope the images of your hate-filled face will be coupled with that of President Trump's family standing around his grave. The Tunnel Dweller.  From Oct 23.

Rajan Laad  

Perhaps it is overconsumption of the propaganda peddled by MSNBC, CNN, NYT, and WaPo [and "The View"]. One would assume she is old enough to not be brainwashed by propaganda. But age is no guarantee of wisdom. 


. . ."However, there is also another category of individuals whose rage against Trump has a reason.

"These are establishment figures or swamp dwellers who see Trump as a threat to their monopoly. These are the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, etc. They fear Trump could dismantle the self-serving, self-preserving D.C. Democrat establishment that has enabled them to acquire power and wealth. Trump's defiance also enrages them.

"Most people aspiring for power are desperate for approval from the establishment. They also fear reprisals or attacks from the establishment and their proxies and with good reason. We remember how Biden was ruthlessly dethroned by the establishment. 

"Trump, on the other hand, was elected in 2016, despite challenging the establishment. 

"Despite being persecuted on many fronts, Trump continues have public support. He is personally unaffected and even mocks them unsparingly and relentlessly. He is likely to be re-elected in November.

"This causes further hatred.

"A common enemy, i.e. President Trump, has caused the baseless haters and the establishment haters to join hands.

"Quite often, experts and even Trump supporters such as Laura Ingraham claim that someone with Trump’s policies, but without Trump personality and 'baggage' will be preferable. They assert that this mythical individual wouldn't receive such hate from the media, the establishment and loons such as the ranting woman.

"Ingraham and others must understand it's not Trump's 'baggage' or personality but his principled defiance and policies that causes hatred from the establishment. 

"In fact, the relentless hate from the establishment is proof that Trump is the perfect candidate for the Presidency."

There’s almost nothing that Donald Trump likes better than throwing his adversaries off their game; he likes to be unpredictable, confusing and in charge. It gives him an edge in achieving his goals.   "He's kept his adversaries guessing to the extent that he will pay them back for their lawfare and deep-state machinations, and not surprisingly, they expect the worst. Yet he has said repeatedly that victory in the election will be his revenge. They don't know what to make of it."

Letter from Michigan: “No one I know is voting for Kamala Harris”  (Hat tip to Andrea Widberg) . . . "Here’s a new entry in the American Thinker occasional podcast series.

"This video/podcast discusses a leftist European writer’s accurate—and depressing—take on the state of America under Harris and Biden, the fraud against Israel that’s taking place on Wikipedia, and the wonderful NY Times article that’s meant to dissuade people from supporting Trump but that reads like the perfect Trump campaign promotional material."

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Despite Israel's Feckless Allies: The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu

Victor Davis Hanson   Netanyahu's actions have neutralized more Western adversaries responsible for decades of bloodshed than NATO, the CIA, FBI, or Interpol, combined, yet he’s often met with rebuke rather than gratitude.


Ordeal: "After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021.

"The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when he would be forced out of office.

"Western leaders and the Israeli left, and indeed even the Israeli non-left, as well as American and European pundits, claimed that the laxity of the Netanyahu government was entirely to blame for the grotesque massacre of October 7.

"Indeed, last fall, there arose almost a competition of critics to assert all the ways in which Netanyahu was played by Hamas.

"Accordingly, Netanyahu’s sweeping Supreme Court reforms had supposedly needlessly split the country, demoralizing the military and eroding Israeli deterrence in the eyes of Palestinian terrorists. Or his purported strategy of playing off the more lethal and toxic Hamas against the Palestinian Authority was supposedly proof of his reckless naivete.

"Still, other opponents argued that his 16 years as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and his age of 75 made him a Joe Biden-like relic of the past, simply too old and too familiar to be any longer effective. He was told it was well past time to step down and let a new generation break out of the old toxic Middle East mindsets.

"And indeed, after October 7, Netanyahu faced a bleak regional and global landscape—analogous to what a 65-year-old Churchill faced in June 1940 when all of Western Europe was in the hands of the Nazis and a lonely Britain was without a single wartime ally—with a sympathetic America still hesitant to commit to ensuring its existence." . . .

Triumph: . . ."And what of Iran itself, the hub to the spokes of such terrorism?

"We were told that it would soon become nuclear and might strike against the proverbial “one-bomb” state. In the mullahs’ eyes, poor Israel was a divine gift to the theocracy of assembling half the world’s Jewry into one easy target.

"Did not Iran export deadly drones and missiles to new staunch allies like Russia and China and develop missiles nearly comparable to any in the West?

"And yet somehow an embattled Netanyahu, shunned by the Biden administration, demonized by the European Union, and smeared and slandered by the UN, saw opportunity where all others saw only doom.

"He understood that the sheer depravity of October 7 gave Israel, at least for a brief window, the moral authority to wage all-out war on its enemies, terrorists whose reputations he sensed were exaggerated, and their leaders’ bloodcurdling threats thus mostly empty." . . .

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Good riddance to Joe Biden, one of America’s most disastrous presidents

UK Telegraph

What a contrast with Biden. His deplorable withdrawal from Afghanistan handed the territory to terrorists and sent our enemies the message that the US does not stand by its allies; all you need to do is wait it out and grind the superpower down, and you will be handed your victory on a platter. A direct line can be drawn from that debacle to the Ukraine war.

Tony Branco

"On Monday night, Biden took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to bid an emotional farewell.

"Outside there had been significant unrest, with hundreds of keffiyeh-clad Gaza activists marching downtown to accuse Kamala Harris of “genocide” in Gaza.

"Four people had been detained by the police when they managed to break through a security perimeter that had been set up around the venue. In one snapshot, a tall thug wearing women’s clothing was filmed berating police officers in an unusually deep voice.

"Quite obviously, this was not just about Gaza. This was a clash of worldviews, with Western values of freedom and liberal democracy being assailed by the trendy new radicalism, a mélange of old-fashioned socialism and woke fundamentalism. It all put me in mind of Ronald Reagan’s battles with the Left.

"As Biden departs weeping from the stage, it is natural to consider his legacy. Perhaps that was part of the reason for his tears. Whereas Reagan inherited a divided country but successfully united it through the force of his charisma and solid values, Biden inherited a divided country from Donald Trump, promised to unify it, and left it more divided than ever before, with an orange sun rising once again on the horizon. It is hard to look upon his period in office as an untrammelled success.

"Partly, this has been because the 46th president has allowed himself to be pulled hither and thither by the increasingly militant progressive wing of his party, which has attempted to dictate policy on issues ranging from foreign affairs to rent controls. Biden dithered, capitulated, and triangulated, losing both his values and his overseas allies in the process – all for him to lose his chance at a second term, pushed out without so much as a how’s your father by a Democratic machine still heavily influenced by the Obamas." . . .

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Sunday, October 27, 2024

The war with Iran; Yesterday's Israeli strikes revealed a new strategy that's now beginning to unfold

 Melanie Phillips: Substack

"According to Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, head of the Israel Defence and Security Forum (a group composed of robust Israeli military and security analysts), the US election on November 5 is a crucial factor in Israel’s next moves."       (Emphasis mine. TD)


"This morning, people have been trying to work out the significance of the Israeli strikes on Iran that were carried out in the early hours of yesterday.

"Given that Israel didn’t strike Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, oil terminals or members of the Iranian regime, in line with the enormous American pressure to limit such an attack, some people have leapt to the conclusion that although this was a tactical success it was a strategic failure in not striking a decisive blow against Tehran. 

"Such an assessment is distinctly premature.

"First, it’s important to register the scale of the achievement. Israel openly attacked Iran in a complex operation involving 100 fighter jets over a distance which presents significant challenges. Iran’s air defences were simply brushed aside and then crippled along with its missile and drone production capabilities. Iran has now been shown to be widely exposed to Israeli attack and its capacity for retaliation has been diminished.

"Although Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated that the US didn’t dictate Israel’s targets, the Israel Air Force operated entirely within the red lines set down by the Biden administration. 

"Yet Israel may have achieved what it needed to do at this stage, given a range of factors that have a direct bearing on the urgency of neutralising the threat from Tehran while minimising the likelihood of acute damage to Israeli lives in any possible Iranian response. 

"The targets struck by the Israel Air Force were far from negligible. The New York Times, quoting three Iranian and three senior Israeli defence officials, reports that targets for attack included defences at the Bandar Imam Khomeini petrochemical complex in Khuzestan Province, at the major economic port Bandar Imam Khomeini, and at the Abadan oil refinery. Air-defence systems were also struck in Ilam Province, at the Tange Bijar gas refinery.

"Such strategic targeting, which reportedly shocked Iran, carries a double message: first, as a deterrent against further Iranian aggression, and second, as the essential precursor to a far more significant attack.

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Michelle, do you recall how this country elected Barack, pampered you all, celebrated you, and pretty much spoiled you rotten?

Legal Insurrection

"And how have those Democratic "grown-ups" in the White House worked out? Not very well, to our great chagrin, which is why people want to vote them out." 

Toon added by TD

"Michelle Obama is another one who just cannot accept the fact that VP Kamala Harris sucks.

"I really think the Obamas think she’s great. Therefore, racism and sexism have to be the reason why she’s not demolishing former President Donald Trump:

I got to ask myself, “Well, why on earth is this race even close?” I lay awake at night wondering what in the world is going on. And it’s clear to me that the question isn’t whether Kamala is ready for this moment because by every measure, she has demonstrated that she’s ready.

The real question is, as a country, are we ready for this moment?

"Lady, get over yourself."

In the next few days we expect to take this schtick to "The View", Colbert, and MSNBC. TD

Obama said they were ready to turn the page on the politics of division when they have been the chief proponents of such politics

"Now it's Michelle Obama's turn. Once again, just like her husband, what you got was someone who was angry, preaching at you, and telling a fantasyland of falsehoods about her "dear friend," Kamala Harris."

. . ." This is the person who hid herself and wouldn't do an interview for weeks. She hasn't faced her "harshest critics." She's concealed herself behind fawning or softball interviews, with the exception of one Fox interview where she tried to filibuster and ended up stumbling all over herself. Meanwhile, Trump has been doing interviews with everyone, including interviews Harris is ducking like the "Joe Rogan Experience." She's not seeking out Republicans to find common ground. No, she's finding "Republicans" like Liz Cheney, who have already thrown in with the Dems, who have been rejected by other Republicans and/or voted out." . . .


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Americans’ Justified Media Mistrust

"Such blatant bias from the media suggests a once respected institution has little if any standing left."

 J.T. Young  

"America’s establishment media loves to hide behind the First Amendment. However, there can be no freedom of the press if there is no freedom in the press.  No greater blow is being struck for such a freedom than Americans’ tuning out of the establishment media."

 "Recent polling shows Americans’ mistrust of establishment media at an all-time high. The only surprise is that it isn’t higher. America’s establishment media bias is so consistent that they clearly no longer just cover the news from one side, but for one side.

"Gallup recently released a poll (10/14) showing that “trust in the fourth estate — the mass media — is at a new low.” Less than one-third of Americans (31%) expressed “‘a great deal’ or ‘fair amount’ of confidence in the media to report the news ‘fully, accurately and fairly.’” In contrast, almost seven in ten Americans have “no trust at all in the media” (36%) or “not very much” confidence (33%) in the media.

"Gallup’s question was not a new one. Back in the 1970s, America’s confidence in the media was 68%-72%.  Even in the late 1990s and early 2000s, trust ranged between 51-55%. Today, Gallup finds “the news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic political institutions.”

"Far from being merely a perception problem, the establishment media’s faults run far deeper. The Media Research Center has long cited numerous polls finding “journalists are much more liberal than rest of America” and that this liberal advantage is growing. These journalists report the way they lean with “most of the journalistic elite offering reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine.”

"A 2022 Syracuse University survey showed that only 3.4 percent of American journalists say they are Republicans. And this summer, the Media Research Center found media coverage of Kamala Harris had been 84 percent positive, while Trump’s had been 89 percent negative.

"Certainly, Americans don’t need polls to tell them about establishment media bias; case after case exists.  There was the Russian dossier that was breathlessly reported on and used for extensive investigations by Congress. It turned out the FBI should never have undertaken a Trump-Russia probe.  Then there was case of Hunter Biden’s laptop that was treated as a hoax; only to turn out to be true and a key piece of evidence in his trial — in which he was convicted on all three charges." . . .

J.T. Young is the author of the new book, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing and has over three decades’ experience working in Congress, Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.

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