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Via NJ Com:

The campaign for GOP candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional district, Assemblyman Jay Webber, R-Morris, said Wednesday that a threat against him and his seven children was delivered to his office in Whippany yesterday.

A note sent to Webber’s office warned Webber “You better hope you don’t win! Or else.” and then asked, “How many kids do you have…7? Unlucky 7.”

Webber has frequently incorporated his wife Johanna and their seven children into his campaign, featuring them in campaign ads.

The threat, which arrived with a cut up Webber for Congress sign, has been referred to the state police for investigation, according to Ronica Cleary, a spokesperson for the campaign.

The race for New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, which includes Morris and Essex Counties, is hotly contested and closely watched. U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-11, held the seat for decades never winning by less than 19 points, but Hillary Clinton lost the district by a single point in 2016. National Democrats view it as a key district in their goal to gain control of the House of Representatives.

An Oct. 9th poll by Monmouth University has Webber’s rival, Democrat Mikie Sherrill, ahead in the race by four points, 48 percent to 44 percent, but within the margin of error.[…]

The threat arrived by US Mail at Webber’s Whippany law office a day after Webber’s campaign tweeted that his opposition on the political left was “unhinged” and posted a video showing torn up and defaced Webber campaign quotes intercut with renowned Democrats like former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton advocating direct action by voters.

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Anthrax terror mailings, NPR, and the Blame Righty crowd: A history lesson

Remember when @NPR baselessly smeared and blamed the Traditional Values Coalition for the 2001 anthrax mailings? I do. The Blame Righty crowd never learns and thrives on public amnesia ==> https://t.co/tR0BuEFZLL

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 25, 2018

“Democrats and CNN executives have wasted no time blaming President Trump, Republicans, and conservative media for the mail bombs or bomb-like devices received this week by high-profile liberals.”

Watch more @MichelleMalkin 👓:https://t.co/WI1yxKYb1e pic.twitter.com/JsRsuJAzhk

— CRTV (@CRTV) October 25, 2018

Democrats and CNN executives have wasted no time blaming President Trump, Republicans, and conservative media for the mail bombs or bomb-like devices received this week by high-profile liberals.

There’s no question these are acts of domestic terrorism. But to assume partisan political motivation is to forget several incidents where such assumptions made asses out of the assumers.

Do you remember what happened the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax mailing attacks – which are still unsolved?

Letters laced with anthrax were sent to the NYPost and NBC News a week after 9/11. Two more letters, postmarked October 9, 2001, were sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Pat Leahy with even more refined (“weaponized”) anthrax. Five people died, 22 were infected. Government scientist Steven Hatfill was unjustly defamed as a suspect by the New York Times and others. And National Public Radio recklessly and baselessly implied that the conservative Traditional Values Coalition might be under investigation for targeting Daschle and Leahy.

The NPR story suggested that the conservative Christian group “fit the profile” of groups that might have been responsible for those types of letters and targeted the group because it had complained about Daschle and Leahy’s efforts to remove the phrase “So help me God” from the senatorial oath. Only after public pressure from Christian activists did NPR acknowledge the slanderous story was “inappropriate.” NPR issued a hollow apology and urged critics to “move on.”

Liberal journalists have indeed moved on, refusing to learn their lesson. We have no idea what the motivations of the person or entity behind this week’s latest terror mailings are. Yet, Blame Righty is the knee-jerk impulse and non-stop message of the day by shameless opportunists who never let a crisis go to waste.

Liberal activist organizations seem to have plenty of leverage with social media and tech companies these days.

According to a letter sent from Breitbart’s attorney to lefty group Sleeping Giants, Google must have taken the liberal activist group’s complaints about Breitbart pretty seriously. Sleeping Giants, headed by Matt Rivitz, labelled Breitbart as an “anti-Semitic site” and pushed advertisers, networks, and Google to remove ads. In the letter, Breitbart threatened “potential legal action” and accused Sleeping Giants of “deceiving the public, and in particular, purchasers of online advertising.”

Over a two month span in 2017, Breitbart lost 90% of its advertisers, who were being placed on the website by Google Ads. By pushing the concept that Breitbart was an “anti-Semitic site” that promotes “Neo-Nazism,” Sleeping Giants was successful in making most companies feel uncomfortable and lobby for the removal of their ads from the site. The letter points out that the accusation made by Sleeping Giants is ridiculous, since the site is “staunchly pro-Israel” and was “founded by two Jewish men.” Breitbart also argued that its site promoted “women and minorities.”

According to the Daily Beast, “hundreds of companies ended up “blacklisting” Breitbart from running their ads.” Breitbart fired back that the accusations from Sleeping Giants were not based in reality. Instead, the letter said, “As you well know, Breitbart News is none of those things. It is the 48th most trafficked website in the United States (according to Amazon-owned Alexa), the 3rd most trafficked news site,and the 15 highest engagement Facebook publisher in the World (according to NewsWhip). According to NPR, it is read every morning by the White house Chief of Staff.”

Google Ads must have worked with these companies as well as Sleeping Giants in some way, since the algorithm was putting the ads on Breitbart pages at random. Breitbart asked Sleeping Giants to preserve all its emails exchanged with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon for a potential lawsuit.

In early 2017, Sleeping Giants made a complaint against Amazon, saying that the site was not taking down its ads from Breitbart. Amazon apparently was one of the few companies that kept ads on Breitbart’s site.

 

BY: Alex Griswold Follow
@HashtagGriswold

October 25, 2018 4:23 pm

A New York Times columnist went after President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of making a false statement that he didn’t actually make.

In her Wednesday column “Trump Gets Terrible,” Gail Collins voiced her hope that Trump would avoid violent or divisive rhetoric when he spoke at rallies ahead of the 2020 election. Instead, she wrote, “All we can do is hope he sticks to his less dangerous form of awfulness.”

“We want the Donald Trump who yowls about wildly overestimated crowd sizes and nonexistent achievements. For instance, on Monday in Houston he bragged about Brett Kavanaugh and gave the audience a primer on Supreme Court appointments…” she wrote.

Here’s how Collins summarized Trump’s remarks:

Who — who appointed the highest percentage of judges? No, no, no, it wasn’t Hillary Clinton. No, she didn’t make it, remember? She didn’t make it. No, you know who it is? You’ll never guess. It’s called George Washington. And we’re after George Washington. So, a very big thing, no, George Washington, why? Because he just started. He did 100 percent. Nobody’s ever going to break that record. Nobody’s ever going to break the record of George Washington.

Collins correctly pointed out that Trump is nowhere near the highest percentage of Supreme Court nominations. “In actual reality, Trump is not after George Washington. Franklin Delano Roosevelt placed eight justices on the Supreme Court and Ronald Reagan got four. Trump has gotten two, the same number as George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.”

But Collins left off part of Trump’s remarks that make it clear he wasn’t talking only about “Supreme Court appointments,” like she claimed. Trump prefaced his remarks with the following [emphasis added]:

I’ve been there less than two years and I already have two of them cause we also have a fantastic new justice in Neil Gorsuch. We had him just approved, he was just confirmed and we have a record number of circuit court judges for the time that we’ve been in office. And that we fully expect to go to the all-time record. Percentage-wise it’s right up there and we’ve only been here a short — okay ready, here’s a question: Percentage-wise, who has more justices, federal judges appointed percentage-wise than any other president? Who is it?

In context, Trump was clearly speaking about all federal judges, not just his two Supreme Court nominations. The Republican president has had a higher-than-average 84 judges confirmed 21 months into his presidency.

Collins would have been on solid ground if she followed in the steps of an Associated Press fact-check that ruled Trump “over-reached” in his remarks. While “we’re after George Washington” implies his administration had the second-highest percentage of judges confirmed, Trump also trails the percentages of Democrats John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton at this point in their presidencies.

Even Collins’ fact-check of the claim Trump didn’t make was initially incorrect. “A previous version of this article misstated the number of justices placed on the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” reads a Thursday correction. “He appointed eight justices, not nine.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders knows how to fight back.

In the aftermath of this week’s spate of suspicious packages that targeted top Democrats in multiple locations, as well as CNN’s New York City headquarters, the media outlet issued a statement attacking President Donald Trump and Sanders, essentially blaming the incidents on the Trump administration.

A statement from CNN’s president, Jeff Zucker, was released to the public on Twitter.

Issued through CNN’s PR department, it criticized a “total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media.”

Statement from CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker: pic.twitter.com/OXyIT6oSLT

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) October 24, 2018

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But Sanders is not easily intimidated. She took Zucker to task, pointing out that in the aftermath of the devices being discovered, Trump had addressed the matter of everyone, including CNN, being targeted, and Sanders had, as well.

In a Twitter post directed to CNN, she made no bones about who “chose to attack and divide” Americans — and it was CNN, not the Trump White House.

.@realDonaldTrump asked Americans “to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the USA” Yet you chose to attack and divide. America should unite against all political violence. https://t.co/Dlo3xwHyKi

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 25, 2018

Trump, she wrote, “asked Americans ‘to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the USA’ Yet you chose to attack and divide. America should unite against all political violence.”

This is evidenced by timestamps on tweets sent out by Sanders the day before. The news about a suspicious package being delivered to CNN’s office in New York broke about 10 a.m. EDT. Sanders was issuing a response a little more than an hour later:

Statement on suspicious packages: pic.twitter.com/pYSbDvCvuk

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 24, 2018

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This is an ongoing situation that President Trump and his admin are monitoring closely. Our condemnation of these dispicable acts certainly includes threats made to CNN as well as current or former public servants. These cowardly acts are unacceptable and wont be tolerated. https://t.co/YbMbCUWMPC

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 24, 2018

In his one of his own tweets Thursday morning, Trump made a point of stressing the role media outlets have played in fostering the country’s current political atmosphere.

A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

The devices, reported to have been sent to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State HIllary Clinton, billionaire George Soros, CNN, actor Robert De Niro and former Vice President Joe Biden, were undeniably an unacceptable act done by someone for reasons that are irrelevant. It is never OK to threaten, terrorize or harm others.

Such behavior has been seen one-thousand fold not only acted out by the left, but actually even called for and encouraged by the left. Things such as comedian Kathy Griffin’s decapitated Trump head photo shoot have been applauded rather than decried.

Continually, leftists call those on the right names such as “racist,” “fascist,” “white supremacist,” “Nazi,” “deranged,” “deplorables,” and the “dregs of society.” Americans on the right are continually vilified by media and leftists, whether in government, Hollywood, or some other realm of power and influence.

The tracked count of documented attacks of harassment and violence against people on the right by people on the left has reached over 600, according to Breitbart News.

When conservatives did not like election results of 2008, they organized in 2009 and went to the ballot box in 2010 to resolve it. The left, by contrast, has been throwing what amounts to a two-year-long temper tantrum that has escalated over time.

And why has it escalated rather than die down as would normally happen in American political life? Some point to Democratic leadership and the establishment media for keeping political turmoil fueled with lies, misleading information and flat-out calls to be hateful toward those with whom leftists disagree.

And that appears to be the point Sanders, Trump and others are making. While some on the left cry for “unity” and “civility” they do nothing to condemn the violence and harassment from their own side, blaming Trump and others for the actions their side takes.

In the case of the devices that turned up this week, whoever sent them is responsible. Period.

Right now, who did it, why it was done, etc. are still unknown. But that has not stopped the political blame-game from being pushed, full-force, further fueling a hate-filled political climate.

And like Trump, while there is pressure for the right to be timid and roll over to the left’s hypocritical calls for “civility, Sanders has not backed down or played timid.

She has called out the baloney and held to account those who are fueling the incivility overtaking America.

And she has the guts to fight back.

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