Garbage story: The press attack on Ted Cruz for flying to Cancun...The trashing of a good man.

During those California fires; "Where was Kamala? Nowhere. No statements, no nothing, I remember her silence and absence from the state at the time. She didn't even do senator-things, such as call for more aid or legislation. She was gone, California was on its own."...

  American Thinker  "The New York Times and pretty much all of the nets are having a grand old time ganging up on Ted Cruz for escaping the Texas cold with his family and flying to Mexico for vacation.

" 'How Ted Cruz Became the Least Sympathetic Politician in America," gloated the Times, thrilled to have finally Gotten Ted, now that there's no Trump to kick around. Their story uncharacteristically placed links to all of the pop press items bearing Ted insults and tabloid photos. Suddenly, they admit they read this stuff and are willing to link to them in deference to their superior news content.

"It's garbage, and on multiple fronts.

"At a time when Texas is under a cold weather disaster and thousands of residents lack heat, water and even food, Cruz came under attack for flying to Cancun, Mexico from Washington on long planned family vacation. Some creep in his inner circle leaked it to the press and some papparazzi types in the press managed to stalk and case Ted as a result, to get photos of Ted at the airport, Ted picking up his luggage, and Ted doing the normal stuff travelers without either VIP privileges or private jets do, same as the rest of us.

"Then they played it up as Ted living large while everyone in Texas is suffering. He was supposed to be down there emoting and Oprahfiying himself or something.

"Which was a crap narrative.

"Why, exactly, should Ted be in the cold with everyone else playing Chief Comforter for the cameras, and using valuable heating and water resources, which in a small way, would deplete the available supply for others?

"Pan-disasters like Texas's incredible cold wave are times when anyone who can get out should get out, the better to leave resources for others as the cold moves through. When I lived in Singapore, in 1997, I recall that managers at my workplace, Dow Jones & Co. at the time, encouraged employees to get the heck out of Singapore if they had vacation time, because jungle fires from Sumatra had caused a great haze to lower itself across Southeast Asia and it was creating respiratory problems. The haaaaze (as we called it) was so intense everyone had to wear a mask to keep from choking and it was literally impossible to see people across the street. You bet I got out of that. I spent a couple weeks in Sri Lanka, as one of many haze refugees I ran into in that country. Other people flew to northern Vietnam to get away from it, too.

"In bad disasters that affect everyone, it makes sense for everyone to get out who can get out.

The Times criticized Cruz for urging people on Twitter to stay home but even that was distorted reporting. Cruz was urging people to avoid unnecessay travel on black-ice roads and other dangerous highway travel conditions. Airline travel to a vacation destination is something else entirely, highways are not used except to get to the airport. The comparison there was dishonest." . . . More here.

 What's the Bigger Sin? Going on Vacation During an Ice Storm Or Being Responsible for the Deaths of 15,000 Seniors?   . . . "God may look at Cruz and chuckle about the dumb mistake that he made in exposing himself politically in such a way. But what will he say to Governor Cuomo, who not only initiated policies that led to mass death but then tried to evade responsibility for his stupidity by covering it up?" . . .

Hillary Clinton Dog Piles On Lie That Ted Cruz Abandoned His Poodle – Def-Con News

https://defconnews.com/2021/02/19/hillary-clinton-dog-piles-on-lie-that-ted-cruz-abandoned-his-poodle/

Hillary Clinton

@HillaryClinton  "Don't vote for anyone you wouldn't trust with your dog."

Or your child in some middle-East embassy

The Anti-Catholic Presidency to Come. Joe -"Crap, there's people of color! I just know I'm gonna say something dumb!"- Biden

Referring to the collision between Christianity and the Democrats’ invented “rights,” Biden has said that “there is no room for compromise.” That means forcing Christians to violate their consciences and ostracizing them from the federal government if they don’t. Biden will condition any interaction with the federal government on acceptance of the “woke” morality of the Left.

  The American Spectator . . . "Countless bishops told Catholics that they could vote for Biden in “good conscience,” and they did. Many bishops aligned with Pope Francis discouraged Catholics from focusing on differences between Trump and Biden on abortion. Don’t be “single issue” voters, they said.

"Now the bishops will reap what they have sown. In the first days of the Biden administration, we will see all of Trump’s pro-life executive orders vanish, along with the protections of religious freedom he extended to conscientious Christian doctors, nurses, and others. The Obama-era assault on the First Amendment will begin anew. The Left is already salivating at the prospect, celebrating the “pain” Christians will feel under a Biden presidency.

"Biden has said that he considers “religious freedom” a pretext for “discrimination” and will crush it wherever it conflicts with the goals of liberalism. Recall the corrosive philosophy of secularism that held sway during the Obama–Biden administration. Its commissars, such as Chai Feldblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, openly argued for religious discrimination in the name of advancing abortion and reproductive rights. Biden will flood his administration with figures like Feldblum.

"Biden’s use of the executive branch to discriminate against Christians will assume even more importance given the resistance he is likely to face in Congress. What he can’t advance legislatively, he will seek to advance through executive fiat and judicial picks. Here, too, Biden will borrow a page from Obama, who managed to stack the courts, in spite of a GOP-held Congress, with ACLU-style judges (Obama got around 350 judges confirmed)." . . .

Lucianne.com News Forum - The Anti-Catholic Presidency to Come

Kansas Archbishop Insists Biden Is Not A ‘Devout’ Catholic Based On Abortion Stance Archbishop Joseph Naumann also commended a priest who denied Communion to President Joe Biden two years ago.

Catholic author to Joe Biden: ‘Call off the woke online haters stalking your fellow Christians’  'Tell your progressive allies, and everyone else, that prejudice remains prejudice—even when it is aimed against people who did not vote for you'

Hilarious: The "New" Joe Biden Brutally Summed Up by 3 Cartoons

 The Federalist Papers "It seems like 2020 candidate former Vice President Joe Biden is coming up with a lot of “new” ideas lately.

"Ideas like “buy American,” “hire American,” and much much more.

"Weirdly it seems like we’ve seen a few of these ideas before but where? Who actually came up with those ideas?

"Hmm, think, think, think. Wait I know. They say a picture can be worth a thousand words so…"

Joe Manchin, a key Democratic senator, says he'll oppose Biden's nominee Neera Tanden

 Yahoo  "Manchin said in a statement after reviewing Neera Tanden's public statements and tweets that were "personally directed" toward his Senate colleagues, he would oppose her nomination to run the powerful office.

" 'I believe her overtly partisan statements will have a toxic and detrimental impact on the important working relationship between members of Congress and the next director of the Office of Management and Budget," he said.

"Although a final Senate vote on Tanden's nomination has yet been scheduled, Manchin's opposition could scuttle her confirmation because of the Senate's 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats. She would need to pick up at least one vote from a Republican and for Vice President Kamala Harris to break a potential tie to secure the simple majority needed for confirmation.

"The White House signaled it would press ahead with Tanden's confirmation." . . .

Manchin opposes Neera Tanden, endangering her OMB nomination (msn.com ..."There were vicious attacks made against progressives, people who I have worked with, me personally," he said. "Can you reflect a little bit about some of your decisions and some of the personal statements you have made in recent years?"...

Conservatives Release Memo to Oppose Neera Tanden to Head OMB (breitbart.com)   . . . "The coalition hopes to disseminate the memo across social media and other platforms to put pressure on Senators to oppose President Joe Biden nominating Tanden, who has a far-left policy record, including during her tenure as president of the left-wing Center for American Progress.

"The memo stated:

Conservatives strongly oppose the confirmation of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

It is critical that the OMB director lead the agency with sound judgment, as well as bipartisan civility. Tanden has shown neither.

A 2018 report found Tanden mishandled the personal details of a sexual harassment allegation at the Center for American Progress, the organization which she led. She is also accused of pushing or hitting a reporter during her tenure as a senior aide to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The worst people in the world? Those gleefully celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh -

 The View cohosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg are in an epic battle to see which one is the dumbest person on the show. The chickens are clucking with excitement that Joe Biden is suddenly the democratic party’s frontrunner again and there was lots of fantasies about who he should appoint to various positions. Whoopi thinks Biden should make his wife the Surgeon general because she thinks teacher Dr. Jill Biden is a medical doctor. Joy Behar thinks Biden should name AOC as VP because she doesn’t understand there is an age requirement for the position. It’s anyone’s game.  Def-Con News

American Thinker

"You are a little man. It's not that you're short. You're little, in the mind and in the heart. Tonight you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out ... you ever littler than you were before." —People Will Talk, 1951

"The untimely death of the great Rush Limbaugh has left an enormous void in the lives of his many millions of fans, people whose love of America he validated with sincere and robust relish.  He changed lives, brought many who happened upon his radio program who thought they were lifetime Democrats to conservatism with his wealth of knowledge about this nation's founding documents and principles.

"He never in his thirty-two years on the air uttered a racist word.  He did make fun of the worst excesses of feminism and was of course correct in his criticism.  The feminist movement did more harm to women and men than almost any other -ism except Nazism and communism.  But Rush was never a misogynist; everyone who listened to him knew he loved women in the best way, the way they want to be loved.  As many of those who for the last two days have been expressing their love for the man and the pain of losing him while he was still so young and vital knew well, the man was the titan of broadcasting who will never be replaced. 

"But the left is giddy at his passing, celebrating it with the most vile and vicious words of condemnation.  They are vilifying this great man, but we all know they never listened to him.  They didn't need to listen; they take their cues to assassinate his character from the lowest of the low, radical leftists who seek to impose Marxist communism on the American people.  Mark Wauck notes what people like Sunny Hostin of The View had to say (emphasis in original): 

"The liberal hosts of "The View" blasted conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the day after his death, saying Thursday that he "normalized hatred" for "people sitting in their trucks in the middle of America" and suggesting he was in Hell.

Biden kills pipelines at home but promotes them for the Taliban Washington Examiner

 Washington Examiner  "On his first day in office, President Biden canceled permits for the Keystone XL pipeline. Environmentalists and anti-fossil fuel activists should not have applauded his move.

"After all, Canada will not stop extracting oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta. Instead, it will simply export oil over existing pipelines or to the Pacific Ocean, where the damage from a potential spill would be harder to address. Biden’s cancellation cost jobs and pushes Canada toward greater economic cooperation with China. It also shakes confidence in U.S. business. Who would invest in the country if any future administration can simply renege on deals with the stroke of a pen? Especially, that is, when the investments involved here reach into the billions of dollars?"

"Biden’s move was both political theater and an indulgence of his liberal base. But his hypocrisy was stunning even for a politician who has spent a half-century in Washington. Consider that while the Biden administration is killing a pipeline from which the public could benefit, Biden is promoting a pipeline to enrich both one of the world’s worst dictatorships and a group responsible for thousands of U.S. deaths.

"The government has apparently brokered a meeting between the Turkmenistan government and the Taliban for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline to bring Turkmen gas across Afghanistan and Pakistan to India. If this scheme sounds familiar, it should: It was the same deal that now-Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad sought to make with the Taliban in the years before the Sept. 11 terror attacks when he was a consultant for the Unocal Corporation.

"Khalilzad’s scheme was bad policy two decades ago, and it is even worse now." . . .

Hollywood Celebrities Celebrate Rush Limbaugh Death

Al Goodwyn

Leftists Respond to Rush Limbaugh's Death with a Flood of Vile Insults  "Prominent leftists responded to the passing of radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh with a flurry of hateful tweets.

"The conservative icon had been battling advanced lung cancer for more than a year and died Wednesday at the age of 70.

"Soon after news of Limbaugh’s death broke, “rest in p–s” started trending on Twitter with many leftist writers and media figures joining in.

"WARNING: The following tweets contain vulgar language that some readers will find offensive.

“ 'RIP Rush Limbaugh, he got sucked down a toilet while shouting racial slurs,” Jason Gilbert, an employee of The Daily Show, tweeted." . . .

 Breitbart   "Left-wing Hollywood celebrities wasted little time in popping the champagne following news of Rush Limbaugh’s death. As Breitbart News reported, the 70-year-old conservative radio legend died Wednesday morning following a battle with advanced lung cancer, his wife, Kathryn Limbaugh, announced at the beginning of Wednesday’s radio program.

Ignoring any sense of taste or decorum, the stars piled on with nasty insults, including actress Amber Tamblyn, who wished Rush Limbaugh to “RIP” — “Rot In Purgatory,” and her husband, actor David Cross, who declared that “cancer killed the cancer.”

Other Hollywood elies who celebrated Limbaugh’s death include John Cusack, Marc Maron, Larry Charles, and Star Trek veteran George Takei.

David Cross and Amber Tamblyn led the Hollywood hate parade with matching his-and-her insults aimed at the late radio host." . . .

Rush Limbaugh dies: Bette Midler among celebrities celebrating | Daily Mail Online "Limbaugh, 70, died at home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday morning following a 12-month battle with lung cancer. His fourth wife Kathryn announced the news of his death on his radio show to his loyal fans. 

"But while conservatives across the nation mourned the loss of the larger-than-life broadcaster who laid waste to political correctness over his decades-long career, a cohort of celebrities took to social media to, as some put it, 'dance on his grave'." . . . 

 SmarterThan Most, Your Neighbor, United States, about 4 hours ago:   Hello. I am a 'celebrity'. I like to grab my crotch on stage. I can act. I pretend to be other people because I have no other skills. I can carry a tune while barely having a minimal reading comprehension level. But, I'm a celebrity so you listen to me.

Twitter liberals celebrate Rush Limbaugh's death: 'I'm glad' he lived long enough to 'get cancer and die' | Fox News

Godfather45

I am certain this has been written by many others on this post; if so, it still bears repeating. I suspect that many of the vituperative comments are entered by those who display yard signs stating "Love not Hate" with the clenched fist salute and numerous other yard signs proclaiming love of others. This "love" appears to be conditional, applying only to those who voice a similar political ideology. The correct approach, as difficult as it may be at times, is to love and pray for those with whom we disagree, not wish them evil or harm.

Finally, this came from OldretiredNCO: 

"If I had to say something positive I guess I’m glad Rush Limbaugh lived long enough to get cancer and die," comedian Paul F. Tompkins said. My God! What a terrible thing to say about anyone. I've seen stage four lung cancer up close and personal when my grandfather succumbed to it. I watched my mother's next door neighbor of more than 40 years die from it. As a pastor, I've sat up with the families of patients as their loved ones slowly died from this horrible affliction. To actually be glad that a person, ANYONE, would contract lung cancer, or any other type of cancer for that matter, or to wish cancer on someone, defies belief. The utter lack of decency, compassion and caring coming from the left over this is, in my opinion, evil. May God forgive them and spare them from having to live with the agony of cancer. And may God grant them the wisdom to understand just how horrific these type of sentiments are.

Biden withdraws Trump’s restoration of UN sanctions on Iran

Tony Branco

 Biden withdraws Trump's restoration of UN sanctions on Iran - Breitbart  "The Biden administration on Thursday rescinded former president Donald Trump’s restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran, an announcement that could help Washington move toward rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

"Acting U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council on behalf of President Joe Biden saying the United States “hereby withdraws” three letters from the Trump administration culminating in its Sept. 19 announcement that the United States had re-imposed U.N. sanctions on Tehran.

"Mills said in the letter obtained by The Associated Press that sanctions measures terminated in the 2015 council resolution endorsing the nuclear deal with six major powers, but restored by Trump in September, “remain terminated.”

"Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement, known as the Jointint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, in 2018, accusing Iran of serious violations.

"Biden has said the United States wants to rejoin the pact and the State Department said Thursday the U.S. would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement — Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran.

"The Trump administration’s decision to invoke a provision in the 2015 council resolution allowing the “snapback” of sanctions because Iran was in “significant non-performance” with its obligations under the accord was ignored by the rest of the Security Council and the world." . . .

Uncle Joe: We had no vaccines when I took office.

Straight truth from the mouth of Neil Kinnock

 Joe Biden Lies On CNN: Says We Didn't Have Vaccine When He Took Office (VIDEO) (americanlookout.com)  . . . "Joe Biden did a town hall event on CNN this week and actually said there was no vaccine when he took office. That is a flat out lie." . . .

Biden says there was no vaccine when he came into office. That is abjectly FALSE. President Trump brought about the fastest vaccine for a novel pathogen in history.How does Joe get away with this? pic.twitter.com/OcFeVbQ3At— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) February 17, 2021

Ben Shapiro steps in to help conservative actress canceled by Disney for wrongthink -

 And liberals accuse President Trump of hate!

Ethel C. Fenig  "Lucasfilm dumped wrongthinking conservative actress Gina Carano from her starring role in their popular franchise The Mandalorian, allegedly because of a tweet showing a picture of a German soldier who failed to give the Nazi salute and analyzing how clever dictators "other" those they dislike.  This indicated that she approved of such Nazi tactics, according to Lucasfillm bigwigs' reasoning, which was also anti Jewish. 

"However, Lucasfilm, which is part of Disney, is an important member of the same entertainment industry whose members encourage the trivialization of the evil of Nazism in comparisons as long as the target is former president Donald J. Trump (R).  Then it is laudable. 

"For instance, Alec Baldwin continues to sully the easily sulliable Saturday Night Live despite or because of tweets such as the following: " . . .

. . . "But Carano's intent was the opposite, so — begone!  Enter Ben Shapiro, a Jew who is so comfortable in his Jewishness and Judaism that he decamped from liberal Hollywood to Nashville, where he recently announced:

Gina Carano To Produce And Star In Upcoming Film For The Daily Wire

"They can't cancel us if we don't let them."

"Yes, that Gina Carano." . . .

Gina Carano To Produce And Star In Upcoming Film For The Daily Wire | The Daily Wire

Gina Carano Counterpunches: She'll Produce and Star in New Project With The Daily Wire – PJ Media   "Gina Carano has a new gig 24 hours after being fired by Lucasfilm from the hit show The Mandalorian on Disney+. Luckily for Carano, conservative upstarts at The Daily Wire are making their first forays into the entertainment space. Their first feature film, Run, Hide, Fight from producer Dallas Sonnier was released in January and received an audience rating of 93% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, even though critics tried to torpedo it.

"While no details are available on the project, Carano seems more than pleased with the new opportunity:

“The Daily Wire is helping make one of my dreams — to develop and produce my own film — come true. I cried out and my prayer was answered. I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob. I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them.”

"The new project is part of The Daily Wire’s partnership with Sonnier’s company Bonfire Legend. When he appeared on Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire interview show Sunday Special, Sonnier said he hopes to bring more movie production to Dallas, Texas, where his company is located. He is looking to bring fresh storylines to the screen that don’t conform to Hollywood’s preferred themes." . . .

Trump says Joe Biden 'lying' over Covid vaccine 'or mentally gone'

The Marxist Party Presidential Candidate 2020

 Daily Mail Online "Hear Mr. Trump on this Trumtweet: "Donald Trump has speculated that Joe Biden is either lying or 'mentally gone' after the president on Tuesday night said his administration arrived to find no COVID-19 vaccines available.

"Trump, who on Wednesday broke his silence to give a series of interviews marking the death of Rush Limbaugh, told Newsmax Biden made 'a very dumb statement' about the vaccines.

"The former president teased a possible 2024 run, boasting about his 'tremendous support', and said he would not be returning to Twitter - the platform from which he was banned last month." . . .

The left reacts to the passing of Rush Limbaugh

 Liberals Reacted As You Can Imagine To Rush Limbaugh’s Death, By Sneering And Celebrating | The Daily Caller   "Rush Limbaugh Did His Best to Ruin America - Rolling Stone  . . . "Rioting? Looting? Blue Lives lost? Uncle Rush was here to remind everyone that those are things that the left, especially the “anti-American” Black Lives Matter, does all the time. “They’ve burned down political federal courthouses, after barricading people inside of them. They’ve taken over freeways. They’ve taken over entire cities,” Limbaugh said. Contrast that with the harmless shenanigans at the Capitol." . . .

CNN’s Stelter: Rush Limbaugh’s 'Legacy Will Always Symbolize Division' The epitome of back-handed compliments.

Hollywood Celebrities Celebrate Rush Limbaugh Death: 'Cancer Killed the Cancer' "Ignoring any sense of taste or decorum, the stars piled on with nasty insults, including actress Amber Tamblyn, who wished Rush Limbaugh to “RIP” — “Rot In Purgatory,” and her husband, actor David Cross, who declared that “cancer killed the cancer.”  "Other Hollywood [elites] who celebrated Limbaugh’s death include John Cusack, Marc Maron, Larry Charles, and Star Trek veteran George Takei.  "David Cross and Amber Tamblyn led the Hollywood hate parade with matching his-and-her insults aimed at the late radio host." . . .

Hollywood Celebrities have plenty of venom to spread.  And do.

Media Bask in Passing of Rush Limbaugh: 'Bigoted King of Talk Radio' (breitbart.com)

The left-wing Daily Beast: Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Is Dead at 70 (thedailybeast.com)

Liberals Celebrate Rush Limbaugh's Death, 'Good Riddance' Trends on Twitter | National Review   "CBS News shared its obituary in a tweet asking if Limbaugh was a “conservative oracle or opportunist?' ”

"Liberals on Twitter celebrated the death of Conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday, with their messages of disdain for the 70-year-old media legend causing “Rest in Piss,” “Good Riddance,” and “Rot in Hell” to trend on the site."