CNN's Jim Acosta blasted for interrupting Dr. Birx to attack Trump

Another Trump-hater with an ego to match that of Megan Rapinoe, the purple-haired flag-dragger of women's soccer

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CNN's Jim Acosta blasted for 'mansplaining' after interrupting Dr. Birx to attack Trump  . . . "Many took to social media to blast the reporter.
"Jim Acosta's interruption of Dr. Birx is an example of how CNN's echo-journalism model is destroying the media's credibility," George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley reacted. "Every question from Acosta is an effort to score points rather than elicit information. It is a press pandemic that continues to rage without relief." . . .
. . . "CNN did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
"Acosta has made a name for himself in the Trump era for his hostile exchanges with the president.
"However, he is even criticized among his White House press corps colleagues. In his new book, ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl knocked his CNN counterpart, accusing him of "playing into the explicit Trump strategy of portraying the press as the opposition party."
" 'The surest way to undermine the credibility of the White House press corps is to behave like the political opposition," Karl wrote. "Don't give speeches from the White House briefing room.' " . . .

Note to the Trump-hating media: Just shut up and say, 'Thank you'   . . . "Despite these advances on so many fronts, there are always several journalists in the crowd who come loaded only with gotcha questions.  Does your son-in-law know what he's doing?  Shouldn't you have reacted to this earlier?  It's the same questions, from the same folks, day after day.

"If he were more eloquent, he might drive home the point that New York is woefully short of ventilators because it chose to spend the state and city treasuries on other matters." . . .. . . "Perhaps I missed it, but not one of these highly paid gatherers of facts asked the governors of New York and Michigan why they had sharply limited the use of hydroxychloroquine or failed to stock sufficient quantities of ventilators." . . .

2019: A current CNN employee is shredding pseudo-journalist Jim Acosta just as the reporter’s forthcoming new book makes clear his anti-Trump bias. 

The second takeaway is how an employee of the very network Acosta works for told Fox News that insiders are pretty much embarrassed by Acosta.Shredding Private Acosta. The CNN employee stated that while Acosta is asking important questions, he tends to “grandstand” and make everything about himself. That’s the exact opposite organizations want from a reporter assigned to the White House.

2018: Jim Acosta Gets Bad News After What Cameras Caught Him Doing On D.C. Street  . . . "Perhaps the worst offender known to the American people right now is CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. Not only is he the biggest whiner ever to hold a seat in the White House press briefing room, but he’s also made it his personal mission to make President Donald Trump look bad in any way possible — even if that means spreading falsehoods.
"Too bad for Acosta, the American people are just about fed up with his nonsense. Proving just that, a citizen journalist recently approached him on the streets, but things probably didn’t go how he was expecting. In fact, the moment Acosta noticed that things were going sideways, he bolted, only for the other reporter to later notice that he was visibly furious.

"According to the video on her Twitter account, Laura Loomer approached Acosta and started off the exchange with a seemingly harmless question. However, with his guard was down, she hit him right between the eyes with the thing he hates most — being called fake news to his face." . . .
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Schiff Explodes After Trump Fires Intelligence IG Who Told Congress Of Ukraine Call

News Thud

"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff reacted to President Donald Trump’s firing of Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community who raised concerns with Congress about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine which led to his impeachment.
"In a letter dated Friday, Trump formally notified the intelligence committees of both the Senate and House.
"Schiff tweet posts Trump’s letter saying his actions “puts our country and national security at even greater risk.”
"“This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, effective 30 days from today,” the president wrote.
"“It is extremely important that we promote the economy, efficiency, and the effectiveness of Federal programs and activities.”
"“The Inspectors General have a critical role in the achievement of these goals,” the president continued." . . .

Home Depot Co-Founder Tells Maria: ‘Congress Should’ve Been Investigating Pandemic, Not Impeaching Trump’

News Thud

"Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus went on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” today and shamed the hysterics on the left side of the political aisle.
"He said the Democrats should have been investigating the outbreak in China and making preparations rather than waste the time for the fool’s errand of impeaching Trump.
"He also took a veiled shot at Adam Schiff who is already salivating over the investigations he plans to launch.
"“I think that look this president has been hit with something that no president has ever had to deal with. I just resent the people that are going after him now. They are already talking about another impeachment. I hate to tell you that, that Adam Schiff is already investigating this,” Bernie said.
"Bartiromo: “You are hitting on something that is really important because, for three years, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were looking for ghosts of Russia collusion. In doing so in terms of getting the country all crazy over the potential of collusion between the president and the Russians, they completely missed the bigger, much more dangerous actor, and that is China.' ” . . .

Is the bad and self-negating behavior of so many of Trump’s enemies setting him up for an even more impressive victory in the fall?

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Victor Davis Hanson  "As the coronavirus outbreak begins to reach its zenith, it remains unclear whether the measures taken to stem its tide will prove sufficient, insufficient, or an overreaction. What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated no capacity for leadership or usefulness in this moment.

"Nancy Pelosi: Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party’s cursus honorum.
"It does not matter whether her political and ethical decline was a result of her deep pathological hatred of Donald Trump. Who cares that her paranoia arose over the so-called “Squad” that might align with socialist Bernie Sanders to mesmerize Democrats to march over the cliff into McGovern-like oblivion? All concede that very few octogenarians have the stamina and clarity to put in the 16-hour work-days and transcontinental travel required by a Speaker of the House.
"Instead, all that matters is that for a nation in extremis she is now puerile, even unhinged—and increasingly dangerous." . . .

The sad state of what is called "journalism"

People in enemy-controlled Europe couldn't trust news sources there; they had to smuggle radios in to hear the BBC and Voice of America. But, unlike now, people knew who the enemy press was. TD

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Study: While CNN Bashes Trump, They Barely Covered Virus Outbreak  "CNN’s latest Trump-bashing narrative is something to the tune of: Everyone knew the coronavirus was a serious problem in January, and everyone was taking it immensely seriously except for President Trump and his incompetent administration. Yet a Media Research Center analysis finds CNN’s own coverage of the virus in January and early February was incredibly deficient, as the liberal cable network was reluctant to devote much time to anything unrelated to Trump’s impeachment." . . .

"It’s obvious CNN was too obsessed with impeachment to waste time on the outbreak in its early stages. The network relegated nearly all of its early coronavirus coverage to small news briefs, which generally were squeezed into the last few minutes of any show that bothered to cover it.

"Now that it’s become a massive crisis, CNN has taken every opportunity to pan the President’s supposed lack of seriousness at the beginning of the outbreak. Their hammering of this narrative is ironic, considering they were too engrossed in promoting the Democrats’ impeachment agenda in January to give this story the attention it deserved."

American media keep repeating China's coronavirus talking points  "It should not be this easy for Chinese Communist Party propaganda to make its way into major American newsrooms." . . .

Reporters Without Masks Grill Trump About Not Wearing a Mask

Brzezinski on Trump Pushing Hydroxychloroquine: ‘There’s Got to Be Some Sort of Financial Tie’  "Journalism" has devolved into rumor-gossip klatches. 

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For her to be so juvenile and petty during a time of crisis like this only hurts her credibility with the viewers. Even most regular Democrats that I talk to admit that Trump is handling this situation well. Maybe they'll finally open their eyes to the bias of the MSM.

The most useful phrase ever: "This, too shall pass"

Don Sucher  . . . "And then there is that ever-present fear. Fear for loved ones. Fear for our own selves and our futures as we expected them to unfold. Fears for society as a whole. A society that is changing before our eyes -- and with that, the possibly greater fear that the society which we loved, or at least in which we felt comfortably secure, may never return.

Wars, pestilence and famine have always brought these things; have always been a part of the human experience -- just as much as has been heat and cold and damp.

"But just as modern life has to a large degree shielded most of us from the effects of those things - that heat and cold and damp -- so most of us have to a remarkable degree been shielded, not only from the direct threat of wars, pestilences and famines, but even from the idea that such could be our lot.

"This morning missive shall not end with The Answer, for no such singular "answer" exists. But it does end with an admonition: That each of us -- you, me, our families, our neighbors, our communities our states, and our nation -- should work to make the best of these current realities. To learn from them. To equally be willing to lead and to follow. To put forth ideas, yes, but not to sneer at the ideas of others. To realize that while each of our lives is important -- central to us as living beings -- that there is also an overall "good" that must be kept keenly in mind. To realize and accept that the weak will now require extra help, and that those who are strong will have to use that strength - and possibly allow some of it to be stripped away -- for our common survival." . . .

All will pass, I suppose, except for Hollywood and media liberals. OK Go even made a video proclaiming this:

Anti-Trump School Assignment: “Republicans are using misleading names for the coronavirus that hurt Asian Americans”

Todd Starnes  . . . "The lesson focused on a story written by the Texas Tribune titled, “Asian Americans say some politicians stoking stigma with coronavirus.”
"Attached to the story was a quiz that included blatant anti-Trump and anti-Republican statements.
“ 'Read the following claim,” the lesson stated. “Republican leaders have used insensitive language based on unfounded rumors when referring to the coronavirus. Which sentence from the article provides the BEST support for the above statement?”

"Among the choices:

"His comment referenced a now-debunked myth that the outbreak began after a woman in China ate bat soup.

"Coryn later said that he meant to say that the Chinese government was to blame, not Chinese people or Chinese culture.Yet experts say that this kind of language encourages people to view the disease in simplistic geographic or racial terms.

"When the Ebola outbreak emerged in 2014, Africans were the primary target of bias.

Laney told me she could not believe the school would assign eighth graders such a politically-charged lesson.

“I was speechless and completely appalled that the school system would allow this kind of garbage to be brainwashed into our kids,” she said.

"She told me she called the school superintendent in Putnam County and was assured the lesson would be removed and the teacher would be spoken to." . . .

I saw this diagram myself in my niece's Ventura County middle school textbook, teaching the students where to get the best news source:

CNN?  Enquirer?

And in this corner, ladies and gentlemen....

Standing against these opponents.....

...we have:

Hidden history found beneath Alcatraz

BBC

"A team from Texas A&M University has gathered in the prison's recreation yard, where inmates would have spent as little as an hour a week away from the confines of the main block.

"The researchers are slowly dragging a bright yellow cart along the ground, pulling it up and down in straight lines.

"That's ground-penetrating radar," says Prof Mark Everett.

" 'The cart has a transmitter and a receiver - it sends an electromagnetic wave into the ground that then reflects off all the different structures underneath.

" 'Much like medical imaging would make a scan of the body, we are making a scan of the ground under the rec yard."

"Using this technique, the team has made a remarkable discovery: they have found the remains of a military fortress, which was thought to have been destroyed.

"Standing in the middle of the yard, which is still enclosed by 6m-high (20ft) walls, Prof Everett points to a spot where he has found evidence of a subterranean tunnel system." . . .

. . . 

"The biggest potential discovery so far is at the south of the island, lying beneath the prison's parade ground.

" 'This is an area that is of most historical significance to the park service. It is a very important part of the fortifications," says Prof Everett.

" 'It is called a caponier, and it is a large structure that juts out into the bay and provides defensive cover. We have seen it in the old photographs but it has completely disappeared from present view.' " . . .

. . . Hat tip to Jeff Hayden; Texas

‘Partisan Hogwash’: Tim Scott Rips Pelosi, Senate Dems for Coronavirus Distractions

Washington Free Beacon

Senate Democrats defeated the initial stimulus package on Sunday in a procedural vote after Pelosi announced her desire to push her own stimulus package. Pelosi's stimulus bill was 1,100 pages long, featured a wealth of progressive agenda items, and mentioned "diversity" 32 times.

"Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) on Tuesday criticized Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Senate Democrats for slowing down the progress on the coronavirus stimulus package for partisan reasons.

" 'For absolutely no reason, the speaker's passion for partisan hogwash started causing the type of delays that doesn't simply cripple our economy, but it imperils our health care response to people who are infected by the coronavirus," Scott said on the Senate floor.

" 'I honestly cannot believe we are still here not having already passed legislation that would make such a big difference in the lives of so many," he added. "Instead we had to waste time explaining to the speaker and to some of our friends on the other side that airline fuel emissions is not important in this legislation."

"He took aim at Senate Democrats for attempting to include their policy preferences, such as same-day voter registration, early voting, and diversity initiatives in their version of the stimulus package. He said the debates should be had at other times, but not in a moment of crisis.

" 'We all should be interested in diversity, but let's not hold up assistance from families because some folks like the speaker want to use this legislation as a way to bring diversity to boards," Scott said. "Listen, that is not the place for this debate. This conversation should be a conversation about our health care workers, about those infected, about those impacted. Not about partisan political gains."

"Senate Democrats defeated the initial stimulus package on Sunday in a procedural vote after Pelosi announced her desire to push her own stimulus package. Pelosi's stimulus bill was 1,100 pages long, featured a wealth of progressive agenda items, and mentioned "diversity" 32 times." . . .

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As president, Joe Biden would smash religious freedom with ‘Equality Act’; equality plan will allow LGBT ideology to re-shape our civil liberties.

Paula Rinehart

Former .V.P Joe Biden grows irritated while defending calling V.P. Mike Pence 'a decent guy.'

"As COVID-19 captures headlines, Joe Biden’s plan to promote equality at the expense of religious liberty has quietly slid under the media radar. His newly unveiled policy is called “The Plan to Address LGBTQ Equality in America and Around the World.” It has vast implications for people of faith.

"In his plan, Biden solidifies the Democratic Party’s lurch to the left, leaving behind moderate faith voters whose support he, conceivably, might have won. A quiet legion of faith voters whom Biden likely cannot see privately confess they could be wooed by his personality and winning smile.

"Before Christians jump on the Biden bandwagon, though, they should carefully consider what his equality policy would mean to their everyday lives — and those of their children. His plan profoundly undermines religious liberty, which is the right to live out religious convictions in the public square. It leaves scarcely any aspect of life untouched. 

"The centerpiece of Biden’s 7000-word plan is the passage of the Equality Act, which includes the goal of overturning Trump-era religious policies. The real rub is that sexual orientation and gender identity are granted special legal status with the power to trump religious convictions. Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies would not receive federal grants unless they agreed to place children in same-sex homes. Housing, employment, medical services — all would feel the impact of policies that label religious conviction as discrimination, with the power to sue in court. Some have called this “persecutory progressivism.' ” . . .

All the facts you ever need to know about ABORTION

Lifesite

"The very moment a male sperm cell penetrates a female egg cell, a new human life comes into being. This event, known as fertilization, forms a tiny, single-celled human distinct from his or her mother mother.

This little life is called a zygote, meaning “yoked or joined together.”1 It's the living seed that will be a newborn baby in nine months’ time.   

The zygote’s DNA has its own set of chromosomes and genetic blueprint with data such as whether it’s a boy or a girl, which parent she’ll resemble more, and what color her eyes will be. The information in this one cell is so vast it would take 1.5 million pages to write out!2

The new life is also so small - less than 1/15th the size of a pinhead3 - it can barely be seen by the naked eye. But it packs a punch: it will grow to one billion cells with 4,000 distinct anatomic structures in only 8 weeks.4

Days 4-12 - Embryo implants in mother's uterus

By day four the zygote has left the fallopian tube and entered the uterus, where it can benefit from the nutrients its mother will provide. 

Because the new life is so genetically distinct, it must release a special protein to prevent a defensive response by the mother’s immune system. Then the embryo can implant in the uterine lining,5 where the lifeline between mom and baby begins to form. This process is complete by day twelve after fertilization.6

The embryo also produces a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) about eight days after fertilization. This hormone brings the menstrual cycle to a halt, allowing the pregnancy to continue. Present in the mother’s blood and urine, hCG is the substance detected in most pregnancy tests." . . .

. . . Week 20-22 - Baby begins to respond to sound . . .

. . . Week 23 - Baby can learn and remember . . .

. . . "Third Trimester " . . . Able to hear before birth, the fetus becomes highly familiar with the sound of his mother’s voice. So much so that the newborn baby, studies demonstrate, prefers her voice to others. The newborn also prefers “female voices to male voices and familiar lullabies heard before birth to new lullabies after birth.”42