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Far-left Democrats have made their general disdain for Christianity very well known. It’s no secret to anyone who has even remotely kept up with their narrative in recent years.

Despite that, leftists like to bring up Christianity as some sort of barometer when criticizing conservatives — and especially when criticizing anyone who supports President Donald Trump.

To the surprise of nobody, many liberals and Democrats only seems to applaud the merits of Christianity when the faith can be used to attack conservatives and Republicans.

In fairness, that line of liberal thinking has certainly befuddled some Christians. Do devout Christians sometimes struggle with supporting an organization or person who can at times do or say un-Christian things?

While that can certainly be hard for some to answer, it was no problem for White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. In fact, it may be the best response I’ve ever heard.

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In a recently published interview with the New Yorker, Sanders perfectly responded to any and all critics who claim Christians can’t work in or support the Trump administration.

“Frankly, if people of faith don’t get involved in the dirty process, then you’re missing the entire point of what we’re called to do,” Sanders said.

Honestly, had Sanders simply stopped right there, it would have been a simply great answer. Of course, she elaborated on the issue to further cement her point.

The New Yorker cited Trump’s alleged sexual encounter with a porn star as one of the reasons why many outsiders condemned Christians who hold high positions in the Trump administration. Sanders again had the perfect response.

“I’m not going to my office expecting it to be my church,” she said. Again, this is a very valid point. For many Americans and Christians, work is a wholly separate place from church.

Even if work involves unsavory accusations, Sanders is 100 percent correct to say that believing in Christianity means she should be wanting to go into work to spread the good word.

“You’re not called to go into the places where everyone already thinks like you and is a believer — you have to go onto a stage where they’re not,” Sanders said.

Sanders did clarify that she was not speaking directly about the White House, but rather her mission as a Christian in general.

“You have to take that message into the darkest places, and the dirtiest places, and the most tainted and dysfunctional places. If you can influence even one person, that’s what you’re supposed to do,” she added.

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When the New Yorker writer Paige Williams pointed out that she thought Trump specifically needed the most help, Sanders didn’t miss a beat.

“We all need help,” Sanders responded. “That’s the whole basis of Christianity. No one is perfect. We are all sinners.”

That, in particular, seems to be the biggest point the media is missing.

Nobody is perfect, and Sanders clearly realizes that.

The mainstream media that’s so intent on attacking the Trump administration that it seems blind to its own flaws ought to remind itself of that every once in a while.

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BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Follow
@jeffcimmino

November 5, 2018 5:42 pm

A lecturer at the State University of New York at New Paltz was caught on video stealing Republican yard signs in New York.

Laura Ebert, who is an economics lecturer, has been charged with misdemeanor larceny for stealing signs endorsing Rep. John Faso (R., N.Y.) for Congress and Marc Molinaro, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York. Video shows Ebert pulling up to a woman’s front yard, getting out, and putting the political signs in her pickup truck.

My lawn signs for #NY19
@JohnFasoNy and @marcmolinaro we’re just stolen from my front lawn 😡 pic.twitter.com/4IWbzojLIA

— 🇺🇸 Lisa McMerica🍀🇺🇸 Vote Red 🇺🇸 (@LisaMcGov) November 1, 2018

The police report names a Laura C. Ebert, born on Oct. 23, 1964, as the perpetrator of the crime. The Facebook page for a Laura Ebert, who is an economics lecturer at SUNY New Paltz, has Oct. 23 as her birthday. Furthermore, the Facebook page says she graduated from Bard College in 1986, consistent with a birth year of 1964.

Ebert is listed as a lecturer in economics on the university’s website.

According to the police report, Ebert apologized for stealing the signs.

“Based off my observation of the security footage, I patrolled to the residence and made contact with Ms Ebert and she was subsequently taken into custody for petit larceny,” the report reads. “Ms Ebert stated that she was ‘sorry’ and that she had disposed of the signs.”

Last month, Rep. Mimi Walters (R., Calif.) called out her opponent’s supporters for stealing and destroying yard signs. A few weeks ago, Minnesota state representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm after seeing a man destroying Republican yard signs.

Faso is engaged in a competitive race against Antonio Delgado in New York’s 19th Congressional District. Recent polls have shown a back-and-forth battle for the lead. Molinaro is running against incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) who holds a 13-point edge according to the most recent survey.

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan led a chant of “Death to America!” on a solidarity visit to Iran this weekend, according to Iranian news sources. He also led a chant of “Death to Israel!”

Farrakhan visited Iran ahead of the renewal of U.S. sanctions against the regime at midnight on November 5. The renewed sanctions are the result of the American withdrawal from the agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, which purported to prevent Iran’s development of nuclear weapons but merely delated it.

The Algemeiner, a Jewish community newspaper based in the U.S., reported on Farrakhan’s visit, citing reports in the Iranian media.

The “semi-official state news agency” Mehr reported:

Louis Farrakhan made the remarks in a meeting with the Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei in Tehran on Sunday, during which he also called the United States a big liar.

Farrakhan expressed happiness with his visit to Iran, saying the goal of his visit is to demonstrate real friendship with Iran.

Meanwhile, he said that the Americans have always been plotting against Iran and are seeking to create an internal enemy in Iran.

“I understand how the enemies have plotted against the Iranian people and I would like to stay alongside you to stop their plots,” he asserted.

Mehr also reported that Farrakhan criticized the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia and the U.S.-led war on the Ghadafi regime in Libya in 2011.

The Algemeiner also cited the IRIB news outlet, whose report is available through Google Translate. According to IRIB, Farrakhan delivered remarks to students at the University of Tehran:

Pointing to women’s freedoms in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Muslim Muslim leader said: “In the Islamic Revolution of Iran, men are alongside women and women are free to reach the ultimate level of their talent.”

…

He said that the United States and Israel are one of the most feared countries in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and if we do not resist them, we will leave nothing but death and destruction for our children.

The Muslim leader of the United States, in the end, stressed: Make a promise of self-striving to strengthen the interest of Muslims.

He then spoke the phrase “Death to America” ​​in Farsi, and a number of students also accompanied him.

Video of Farrakhan’s appearance circulated on social media:

Here is video of @LouisFarrakhan in Iran saying “Death to Israel!” in Farsi with a smile on his face.pic.twitter.com/VFoosQUmTt

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) November 5, 2018

The Jerusalem Post also cited Farrakhan as comparing President Donald Trump to Satan during his Iran visit.

In 2005, the Congressional Black Caucus met with Farrakhan — whose racist and antisemitic views have been well known for decades. At that meeting, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) interacted with Farrakhan and posed for a photograph with him. The photograph (above) was deliberately suppressed until 2018 to avoid damaging Obama’s political career.

Last month, Farrakhan posted a video of a recent sermon to Twitter in which he referred to Jews as “termites.” Leaders of the Women’s March, an anti-Trump organization aligned with the Democratic Party, are unapologetic about their ties to Farrakhan.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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BY: Mikhael Smits Follow
@mikhaelsmits

November 4, 2018 10:22 am

A handicapped Texas man took to Facebook Tuesday to express frustration with a NBC News crew that had blocked the only handicap parking spots at his polling place.

James Berrie, who has multiple sclerosis, was driving to the Bayland Community Center for early voting. WTSP reports that the NBC crew was set up across two handicap parking spots. Berrie said the crew initially agreed to move, but said they needed a few minutes because the shot was live.

Berrie said that he eventually found a parking spot in a back lot far removed from the building entrance, but lowering the ramp to exit his car was difficult without the extra space a handicap spot provides.

In a Facebook post, Berrie recounts returning to the handicap spot after voting, and the crew was still just setting up. The crew had claimed the shot was live, preventing them from moving. “We’ll move in like three minutes. We’re going live. We’ve got a shot. We’re going live in like three minutes. We gotta do this,” Berrie recounts them saying. The move upset local voters, including Berrie’s wife and firefighters, who walked in the way of the shot to protest. Those protesting stayed in place until the NBC crew packed up its van and left.

“This is suppression,” Berrie said. “If I couldn’t park I couldn’t vote. Their van had no handicap placards.”

After his post went viral, Mariana Atencio, the MSNBC correspondent who had stood in the handicap spot, took to Twitter to apologize. “We made the wrong call,” she said.

We made the wrong call today by using a disabled parking spot for our live shot in TX. There’s no excuse. I apologize to the two people who were on their way to vote as it’s one of the most important parts of our democracy; we’d never want to jeopardize anyone’s ability to do so

— Mariana Atencio (@marianaatencio) October 30, 2018

Berrie called for media accountability between now and election day. “News will be out in force, now and until the general,” he said. “The media needs to be aware. Call them out if you see this.”

Have you noticed a certain silence among not only Democratic candidates but their supporters in the streets and their enablers on cable news and in newspapers? Oh, they’re all still making plenty of noise, but there’s one thing you’re not hearing. The calls to “Abolish ICE!” which dominated the majority of the summer months have been replaced by the sound of crickets. So stark is the contrast over only a ten or so week period that even NBC News was forced to take note of it.

With just days to go before the midterm elections, the “Abolish ICE” issue has all but vanished from the radar.

The topic, which had initially been forecast by some politicos as a hot new issue for Democrats, and a possible litmus test for candidates seeking support from the progressive wing of the party for 2020, is largely gone from rallies and speeches. That’s due to what experts say is its failure to resonate with mainstream Democratic voters, a misplacing of blame for the nation’s immigration crisis and a successful counter-attack from Republicans, including President Donald Trump.

The biggest factor in the Democrats’ abandonment of the issue, Democratic strategists said, was that it deflected blame from those who they believe are responsible for creating a wave of new, harsh and divisive immigration policies.

Those are about the best excuses NBC News could hope to come up with, I suppose. The call to abolish our primary immigration enforcement agency “didnt’ resonate” with mainstream Democratic voters. And it “shifted the blame” away from the real culprit. (That, of course, would be Donald J. Trump.) If those explanations don’t make any sense to you, give yourself a cookie. You’ve cracked the code.

The real reason is that they knew they were tanking their chances at winning an election. After hammering away at the message for most of the summer with the full support of most of the mainstream media, the end of August brought some bad news. Polling showed that they hadn’t moved the needle a bit. Less than a quarter of voters (including a similar percentage of Democrats) were willing to consider abolishing the agency. They were losing the battle for hearts and minds badly.

As recently as that period in the final week of August, the New York Times was running an opinion piece literally titled, “The Power of Abolish Ice.” In it, they praised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her “bravery” in endorsing this policy and credited her stand on the subject for not only propelling her into the lead but pushing the party further to the left. How enlightening, eh?

But no matter how much they claimed it was an important moral stand to take, once the numbers sank in the Democrats folded their hands and walked. Almost as if it was a coordinated effort, you stopped hearing virtually anything about it on CNN or MSNBC. The Washington Post suddenly didn’t seem so interested in covering the subject. And now they’ve all fallen silent. That’s some real dedication to principles for you.

But here’s something to keep in mind: just because they’ve stopped talking about it doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. It’s just gone into the category of “things we don’t talk about until we get elected.” You can bet that if the Democrats take the House they’ll be trying to significantly defund ICE at a minimum when budget negotiation time comes around. They may not be able to “abolish” ICE, but they can certainly try to hogtie it.

Entitled media.

Via Daily Wire:

A disabled Air Force veteran says an MSNBC news crew blocked his way into a polling site in Houston when it parked in a handicapped parking spot.

“Went to vote, and found this waiting for us,” James Berrie, who has multiple sclerosis, wrote on Facebook. “The only van accessible spot and they’re filming in it. We asked them to move, pointed out how it was wrong, then went to vote, because it takes time to load up. But came out and still there. Not even packing up, still getting ready for their shot.”

They claimed they had a live shot, so Sarah walked into the shot. They cut the feed and got pissed. Fortunately other people joined in, plus firefighters who where there for Prop B. We finally left once their van was loaded. But there were plenty of witnesses and pictures/video taken by others.

This is suppression. If I couldn’t park I couldn’t vote. Their van had no handicap placards. And this happens all the time. Handicap spots are not loading zones for gear and equipment. Figure something else out. Especially at a public event where people are going to need the spots. This is not ok, and the station needs to be made aware. All of them.

EDIT: This is a very big election this year. News will be out in force, now and until the general. The media needs to be aware. Call them out if you see this.

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