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President Donald Trump on Monday lambasted Democrats for being soft on crime and said a wave of Democratic midterm election victories would only lead to more crime.
He centered his criticism on Democrats’ lack of support and even hostility toward law enforcement, specifically Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol. Holding a White House event to honor federal immigration officials, Trump said law and order is popular and will lead to Republican victories in November.
"I think we’re going to do very well in the midterms, and this is one of the very big reasons. The fact is, people respect law and order, and they love our law enforcement," Trump said. "I think we’re going to have much more of a red wave than what you’re going to see as a phony blue wave. Blue wave means crime, it means open borders. Not good."
As Democrats such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for ICE to be abolished, Trump described the idea as shameful and dangerous. He went after "radical" Democrats and their "campaign to abolish ICE, in other words they want to abolish America’s borders."
He called out New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) by referring to his comment last week that America "was never that great," which he later reversed after negative publicity.
"Any politician that puts criminal aliens before American citizens should find a new line of work," Trump said, to applause. "And any politicians that get up and say that our country was never great–you heard that? I think that’s the end of that career."
He criticized Democratic members of Congress as well for not voting for a resolution supporting ICE.
"Last month, House Democrats even boycotted a resolution supporting our brave ICE officers and agents, but I will say this, the Republicans were with you all the way."
Trump also criticized the notion that it serves social justice to oppose secure borders, saying Democrats’ policies in that direction only create more injustice.
"Their radical policies are the ultimate injustice, hurting innocent Americans and spilling innocent blood," he said. "People are dying because of their either lack of knowledge, lack of understanding, or just plain stupidity."
The president also called it "shameful" that Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler ordered local law enforcement to stand down in the face of anti-ICE protesters who successfully shut down a local ICE office due to security concerns. Although Wheeler acknowledged the protesters’ unruly behavior, federal agents wrote a cease-and-desist letter in which they accused the mayor of having cops not follow up on 911 calls.
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They often say that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Whoever “they” are, Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters must not have met them.
While far-left hysteria has manifested in the fruitless but drawn-out Mueller investigation, the cries that Trump engaged in some shady collusion activities with Russia to help him win the 2016 election have not ceased.
If anything — and this might just be me — it seems the far-left is screaming about Russian collusion louder and louder as Mueller’s investigation continues to not yield anything concrete pinning Trump.
But perhaps the far-left might want to use their indoor voices regarding Russian collusion.
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Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president, went on Fox News and dropped a scathing bit of rhetoric that Clinton supporters will not want to hear.
.@TomFitton: “The only person who got money directly from Russia as far as I could tell running for office in 2016 was @HillaryClinton.” #SundayFutures @MariaBartiromo pic.twitter.com/QU04GhzMPd
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Judicial Watch, currently embroiled in a lawsuit to uncover critical documents regarding embattled former CIA director John Brennan, is “a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, (promoting) transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.”
Fitton, who is also author of NY Times best selling book “Cleaning House: Exposing Our Government’s Secrets and Lies,” is the president of Judicial Watch, and as such, is privy to documents that most normal people would never see.
And according to what Fitton has seen, there was only one 2016 presidential nominee that had dealings with Russia and it wasn’t the Republican one.
“The only person who got money directly from Russia as far as I could tell running for office in 2016 was Hillary Clinton,” Fitton said during an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Fitton went on to describe the wide web of alleged corruption and conflict linking the Clinton camp and Russia.
“Her husband (Bill Clinton) made a speech in Russia for $500,000 to a firm that was a front for the Russians and (A now-Russian and Canadian run uranium mining company) Uranium One. They reportedly received millions as part of an effort to get a good result on that Uranium One decision,” Fitton described.
Those are some alarming numbers. If true, the clandestine dealings between the Clinton camp and the Russians are clearly mutually beneficial. The Russians get uranium and the Clintons get gobs of money.
That sounds a lot more damning than a presidential candidate using whatever means possible to find some political dirt on their opponent.
Fitton and Fox News host Maria Bartiromo went on to describe the rampant conflict of interest in the Clinton investigations. It’s been bad enough where at least five prominent members of the intelligence community have come under fire for potentially showing favor to Clinton over Trump.
Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Sally Yates, Peter Strzok and Bruce Ohr have all been fired, demoted or put under investigation. That’s a major problem for what should be impartial and just members of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
That’s five major cases of favoritism which some might also describe as collusion. And there’s hard evidence to back up those claims considering their respective fates.
Trump may have colluded with Russians. The same way Bigfoot may be real.
But for now, the concrete evidence is all pointing to one camp that is rife with conflict of interest and shady dealings. And it’s not Trump’s.
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According to how American leftists talk, socialism is the greatest thing ever invented and all prior failed attempts at creating a socialist Utopia were simply due to it being improperly implemented, and “this time we’ll get it right.”
One of those failed attempts at creating a socialist Utopia is the once-prosperous South American nation of Venzuela, which is now a miserable and impoverished hellhole from which millions of Venezuelans are attempting to flee.
So many Venezuelans are exiting their own country right now that neighboring nations are feeling overwhelmed at the flood of migrants and have begun to implement policies intended to stem the tide, such as requiring passports for entry, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.
Two of those nations are Ecuador and Peru, which don’t share a border with Venezuela but are separated only by the nation of Colombia. through which the Venezuelan migrants are transiting.
Ecuador was the first to announce that Venezuelans would be required to provide an official passport to gain entry into the country, followed shortly by Peru announcing similar requirements. The only problem is, it is exceptionally difficult for Venezuelans to obtain a passport.
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Unsurprisingly, Colombia was less than pleased at the new policies implemented by their neighbors — even though they have their own similar but oft-ignored passport requirement — as the fleeing Venezuelans who can’t reach Ecuador or Peru typically end up staying in Colombia.
Incredibly, Ecuadorian authorities estimate that an astounding 4,000-plus Venezuelans attempted to enter the nation every single day in the first few weeks of August, traversing across the main entry point of the Rumichaca International Bridge.
Colombian officials are concerned that the new policy will create a bottleneck at the important bridge and add to the already extensive congestion. “We are immensely worried about the consequences this might present,” stated Colombian Migration Director Christian Krueger.
The United Nations has estimated that at least 2.4 million Venezuelans have fled the socialist hellhole since 2014 in order to escape the tyrannical government, insane hyperinflation of their currency and widespread shortages of food, medicine and all sorts of staple goods … including even the ink and paper required to produce passports.
“The exodus of Venezuelans from the country is one of Latin America’s largest mass-population movements in history,” stated William Spindler, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, earlier this month.
It has been further estimated that about 1 million of those migrating Venezuelans have passed through or settled in Colombia in search of asylum and jobs in just the past two years alone. Even though Colombia implemented their own passport requirement for Venezuelans earlier this year, it is not strictly enforced and tens of thousands of Venezuelans enter the country illegally through the porous 1,370-mile border the two nations share.
For their part, Peruvian officials maintain that the passport requirement is simply to ensure orderly migration into the country and to weed out “bad apples” that are mixed in with the “decent people” who are just looking for a better life. They estimate that there are upwards of 25,000 Venezuelans poised along Ecuador’s southern border who are preparing to cross into Peru, some of whom intend to proceed further south to Argentina or Chile.
The new passport policy will take effect on August 25, but Colombian official Krueger said it would have little effect on stemming the flow of Venezuelan migrants and suggested all of the neighboring nations work together to deal with the growing crisis.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Venezuelans have also been fleeing their country toward the south, entering into Brazil through the border town of Pacaraima and causing unrest among the local Brazilian residents, especially after a group of Venezuelan migrants were suspected of beating and stabbing a local store owner, according to Reuters.
That attack prompted the local residents to form an angry mob and chase roughly 1,200 Venezuelans back across the border into their socialist hellhole. The Brazilian government was forced to dispatch additional military troops to the checkpoint to try and calm the tense situation.
If socialism is so great, as American leftists are so quick to assure us, why are so many Venezuelans so desperate to leave their veritable socialist Utopia and risk getting stuck in migrant camps along borders as neighboring nations refuse to allow them in without passports, which they can’t get from their awesome socialist government?
We won’t hold our breath waiting for an answer to that question.
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Writing in the 1930s, George Orwell once pointed out that the worst advertisement for socialism was the physical appearance of socialists.
Orwell, himself a socialist, albeit a critical one, cited the example of two socialists who shared a bus with the writer while wearing shorts that were too small for their bottoms.
But today, an environmentalist who is protesting the completion of an oil pipeline in Louisiana has made Orwell’s socialists look like the height of responsibility.
Traveling into the headquarters of the protesters, an alligator and snake-infested swamp called the Louisiana Atchafalaya Basin, the biggest swamp in America, The Daily Caller encountered bizarre figures.
Instead of being “tree huggers,” the environmentalists lived in tree houses.
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There, along with their comrades living in tents, they use water jugs to urinate in.
But the most bizarre of the figures protesting the Bayou Bridge pipeline — which is 85 percent finished — was a dress-wearing male calling himself “Baby Face.”
Completing “Babyface’s” cross-dressing ensemble were a pair of snake boots.
“Babyface” refused to provide his true identity, being “a little wary about telling my story. I don’t trust reporters.”
They might sound dumb, but they’re a literate lot, apparently. As The Daily Caller reported: “It also appeared the protesters passed the time by reading teenage fan-fiction — several ‘Twilight’ novels were lying around.” (Bet “Babyface” is on Team Jacob.)
The tactics used by “Babyface” and his comrades, some of whom have lived in the swamp for months now, involve impeding the completion of the pipeline by obstructing workers.
They assert that the bridge will harm the environment while they litter the swamp with trash. (Much as some of the same protesters made a garbage dump of the North Dakota site where they tried to stop the Keystone XL pipeline.)
Other tactics involved in halting the completion of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline involve lawsuits filed by the Sierra Club, the Waterkeeper Alliance and Earth Justice.
Meanwhile, the sane people Heartland America have further reasons for being repelled by environmentalists.
It is a measure of how conflicted the Democrats are in appealing to constituencies that they are forced to choose between environmentalists and the white working class voters who largely elected Donald Trump.
A prime example of this conundrum occurred with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In an attempt to court environmentalists, as Business Insider recounted, she vowed to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
It was a stance that alienated much of America.
Thus, Democrats are presented with the task of putting environmentalists who clash with white working class Americans, and vice versa into the same “big tent.”
All they have to do is make Middle America start to like folks llike “Babyface.”
Good luck with that.
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These being the only two editorials I read, I have to imagine that many more of the roughly 400 protesting newsrooms engaged in some variation on the reductio ad Hitlerum theme. Even if all 400 did, no halfway sentient adult can take this self-indulgence seriously.
Here is why. Since President Trump’s election, every major magazine, every major social media outlet, every major newspaper, just about all of Hollywood and Broadway, and every major TV network save for Fox News have conspired to destroy the president.
During this time, these “journalists” have treated their audiences to an endless stream of anti-Trump propaganda only marginally rooted in the truth, and not a one of them has seen a pink slip, let alone a gas chamber.
If these media outposts have no cause for alarm, Alex Jones does. So does every other right-of-center voice in America. An exchange on comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show Friday suggests why the reductio ad Hitlerum in the title of this essay, if a stretch, is still more justified than those ululated by America’s newspapers.
When Maher explained to his audience that Apple, Google, Facebook, and Spotify colluded to boot Jones and InfoWars from their platforms, most in the audience applauded enthusiastically. More troubling, guest Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, shouted, “Thank God.”
To his credit, the contrarian Maher scolded the audience. “If you’re a liberal you’re supposed to be for free speech,” he said. “That’s free speech for the speech you hate.” He made little headway with the audience or his guests. If any other prominent liberal voice in the media protested Jones’s exile, he or she or ‘zhe’ has done so sotto voce.
One can argue that the media platforms that evicted Jones were private concerns, but the collusion among them was symptomatic of the nearly universal urge on the left to suppress speech that challenges the left/liberal agenda.
The private enterprise argument cannot be made in the four cases that follow. In these cases, the media conspired with the government to punish individuals whose media efforts threatened Democrats in power. I have met the individuals profiled here in the course of my own work. I am sure there are many more that I have not met who have suffered similar or worse fates.
In 1996, investigative reporter James Sanders was introduced to TWA 747 pilot and manager Terry Stacey by Sanders’s wife Elizabeth, a TWA trainer. Stacey was working on the investigation of TWA 800, the plane that blew up off the coast of Long Island months earlier. “What he told me over those first hours,” said Sanders of his meeting with Stacey, “was one thing — ‘I know there’s a cover-up in progress.’”
To confirm his suspicion, Stacey Fedexed Sanders a pinch of foam rubber from a seat back to have it tested for missile residue. Sanders submitted half of it to a west coast lab and gave the other half to a producer at CBS News, Kristina Borjesson, for CBS to test. Borjesson prodded her superiors to review Sanders’s evidence for a missile strike. They refused and returned the foam rubber to the FBI, killing Borjesson’s CBS career in the process.
Eventually the FBI arrested Stacey and both the Sanders on the absurd charge of conspiracy to steal airplane parts. At the time of their trial, it stunned Sanders that none among the media managed to frame even one First Amendment question.
One reporter asked Sanders why he did not immediately return the foam rubber and turn Stacey in to the FBI. Another argued the government line, namely that Sanders was not a journalist entitled to First Amendment protection.
In fact, Sanders had written two previous books of investigative journalism, both successful, but on this case his journalism threatened a sitting Democratic president. That threat turned Sanders from a journalist into a “conspiracy theorist.” He spent five years on federal probation, his wife Elizabeth three.
As with Sanders, the major media have refused to concede that James O’Keefe of Project Veritas is a journalist, this despite the fact that at the time of O’Keefe’s arrest his undercover reporting had just brought down ACORN, a corrupt $2 billion leftist organization.
In 2010, shortly after the ACORN bust, O’Keefe and three colleagues attempted to investigate whether Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans was blocking calls from Tea Party activists.
Although the four showed their actual driver’s licenses to get into a federal building, the Feds arrested them and charged them with a misdeanor “entry by false pretenses.” O’Keefe spent a night in jail and three years on restrictive federal probation, specifically for telling the Landrieu staffers he was waiting for someone when he wasn’t.
The national media were gleeful. They called the O’Keefe affair the “Louisiana Watergate” and “Watergate Jr.” The New York Times and Washington Post both put the arrest on the front page. The Post headline read, “ACORN Foe Charged in Alleged Plot to Wiretap Landrieu.” Retractions followed — the four knew nothing about wiretapping — but who reads retractions.
Even more shameful was the media’s treatment of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in 2012. Needing to blame something other than her own incompetence for the assault on the Benghazi consulate, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a memo the night of the attack indicting some “inflammatory material posted on the Internet.” Nakoula, an American citizen, produced the video that allegedly did the inflaming.
Nakoula was vulnerable. He had been arrested years earlier for a check-kiting scheme and cooperated quietly with the feds. To protect him, the feds sealed the document. After Benghazi, the Obama DoJ promptly unsealed it and leaked it to the New York Times.
The Times reported on Nakoula’s earlier conviction just three days after the smoke had cleared in Benghazi. The release of this information exposed Nakoula to harassment by the media and reprisal from the ringleader of the check-kiting operation.
Once he was identified, the Times and the other media camped out in front of Nakoula’s California house, not to protect him from the death threats he was facing, but to join in the manhunt. To assure their readers they had tracked the right man, the Times’ reporters pointed out the similarities between Nakoula’s front door and the front door of a house used in the video.
Still on probation and feeling like he had little choice, Nakoula pled guilty to unauthorized use of the Internet in his uploading of the video. He was sentenced to one year in prison and four years of supervised release.
Some months after his arrest I tracked Nakoula down to La Tuna, a federal prison in the westernmost tip of Texas. I was the first person in the media to contact him. As with Sanders and O’Keefe, the media ignored his imprisonment or cheered it.
For more than a year, 20-something David Daleiden and his group, Center for Medical Progress, recorded undercover videos of several Planned Parenthood clinics that trafficked in baby parts. The videos had to potential to shake up the 2016 election. Even Hillary Clinton called them “disturbing.”
The major media, of course, refused to show the videos. When Planned Parenthood’s Democratic allies in Texas and California had Daleiden arrested on charges even more trumped up than O’Keefe’s in New Orleans, the media turned their collective back. Into the void stepped Planned Parenthood spokespeople, now confidently dismissing this damning evidence as “faked criminal videos,” a charge the media reinforced.
To be called ‘an enemy of the people,’ even by the president, carries no known risk. To become an enemy of the media, however, comes with considerable risk — even for liberals who may have thought themselves immune.
Molly Norris, once a cartoonist for the liberal Seattle Weekly, learned this new reality the hard way. In 2010, upset by Muslim threats against the creators of the TV show “South Park,” Norris conceived the nicely mischievous new holiday, “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day.”
“Do your part to both water down the pool of targets,” wrote Norris bravely, “and, oh yeah, defend a little something our country is famous for… the first amendment.”
Norris apparently had not gotten the DNC memo. The national left had absorbed Muslims into the multicultural rainbow and elevated their sensitivities over any quaint notion of free speech. Her cartoon in the Seattle Weekly announcing the event quickly went viral, and just as quickly, Islamic firebrands went postal.
Norris came under increasing pressure and quickly backed off. Not satisfied with Norris’s surrender, Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki insisted she be made “a prime target of assassination.” The FBI took the threat seriously enough to recommend that Norris “go ghost.” In other words, Norris had to scrub her identity and disappear on her own dime.
No one of note in the liberal media, not even her friends at the Seattle Weekly, came to her defense. One colleague informed the readers that “depictions of the prophet are considered sacrilege by many Muslims” as if to suggest that Norris deserved her fate.
Norris went ghost in July 2010 and has not surfaced since. Unlike her former colleagues, it is not President Trump who worries her. To become an enemy of the media is to risk one’s career, one’s freedom, even one’s life.
This past week, the nation’s newspapers took collective umbrage at being called “the enemy of the people” by President Trump.
“That is what Nazis called Jews,” gasped the editors of the Kansas City Star. “A form even appeared in Nazi Germany, when Jewish people were called an ‘enemy of the state,’” fretted the editors of the Topeka Capital-Journal.
These being the only two editorials I read, I have to imagine that many more of the roughly 400 protesting newsrooms engaged in some variation on the reductio ad Hitlerum theme. Even if all 400 did, no halfway sentient adult can take this self-indulgence seriously.
Here is why. Since President Trump’s election, every major magazine, every major social media outlet, every major newspaper, just about all of Hollywood and Broadway, and every major TV network save for Fox News have conspired to destroy the president.
During this time, these “journalists” have treated their audiences to an endless stream of anti-Trump propaganda only marginally rooted in the truth, and not a one of them has seen a pink slip, let alone a gas chamber.
If these media outposts have no cause for alarm, Alex Jones does. So does every other right-of-center voice in America. An exchange on comedian Bill Maher’s HBO show Friday suggests why the reductio ad Hitlerum in the title of this essay, if a stretch, is still more justified than those ululated by America’s newspapers.
When Maher explained to his audience that Apple, Google, Facebook, and Spotify colluded to boot Jones and InfoWars from their platforms, most in the audience applauded enthusiastically. More troubling, guest Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor, shouted, “Thank God.”
To his credit, the contrarian Maher scolded the audience. “If you’re a liberal you’re supposed to be for free speech,” he said. “That’s free speech for the speech you hate.” He made little headway with the audience or his guests. If any other prominent liberal voice in the media protested Jones’s exile, he or she or ‘zhe’ has done so sotto voce.
One can argue that the media platforms that evicted Jones were private concerns, but the collusion among them was symptomatic of the nearly universal urge on the left to suppress speech that challenges the left/liberal agenda.
The private enterprise argument cannot be made in the four cases that follow. In these cases, the media conspired with the government to punish individuals whose media efforts threatened Democrats in power. I have met the individuals profiled here in the course of my own work. I am sure there are many more that I have not met who have suffered similar or worse fates.
In 1996, investigative reporter James Sanders was introduced to TWA 747 pilot and manager Terry Stacey by Sanders’s wife Elizabeth, a TWA trainer. Stacey was working on the investigation of TWA 800, the plane that blew up off the coast of Long Island months earlier. “What he told me over those first hours,” said Sanders of his meeting with Stacey, “was one thing — ‘I know there’s a cover-up in progress.’”
To confirm his suspicion, Stacey Fedexed Sanders a pinch of foam rubber from a seat back to have it tested for missile residue. Sanders submitted half of it to a west coast lab and gave the other half to a producer at CBS News, Kristina Borjesson, for CBS to test. Borjesson prodded her superiors to review Sanders’s evidence for a missile strike. They refused and returned the foam rubber to the FBI, killing Borjesson’s CBS career in the process.
Eventually the FBI arrested Stacey and both the Sanders on the absurd charge of conspiracy to steal airplane parts. At the time of their trial, it stunned Sanders that none among the media managed to frame even one First Amendment question.
One reporter asked Sanders why he did not immediately return the foam rubber and turn Stacey in to the FBI. Another argued the government line, namely that Sanders was not a journalist entitled to First Amendment protection.
In fact, Sanders had written two previous books of investigative journalism, both successful, but on this case his journalism threatened a sitting Democratic president. That threat turned Sanders from a journalist into a “conspiracy theorist.” He spent five years on federal probation, his wife Elizabeth three.
As with Sanders, the major media have refused to concede that James O’Keefe of Project Veritas is a journalist, this despite the fact that at the time of O’Keefe’s arrest his undercover reporting had just brought down ACORN, a corrupt $2 billion leftist organization.
In 2010, shortly after the ACORN bust, O’Keefe and three colleagues attempted to investigate whether Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans was blocking calls from Tea Party activists.
Although the four showed their actual driver’s licenses to get into a federal building, the Feds arrested them and charged them with a misdeanor “entry by false pretenses.” O’Keefe spent a night in jail and three years on restrictive federal probation, specifically for telling the Landrieu staffers he was waiting for someone when he wasn’t.
The national media were gleeful. They called the O’Keefe affair the “Louisiana Watergate” and “Watergate Jr.” The New York Times and Washington Post both put the arrest on the front page. The Post headline read, “ACORN Foe Charged in Alleged Plot to Wiretap Landrieu.” Retractions followed — the four knew nothing about wiretapping — but who reads retractions.
Even more shameful was the media’s treatment of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in 2012. Needing to blame something other than her own incompetence for the assault on the Benghazi consulate, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a memo the night of the attack indicting some “inflammatory material posted on the Internet.” Nakoula, an American citizen, produced the video that allegedly did the inflaming.
Nakoula was vulnerable. He had been arrested years earlier for a check-kiting scheme and cooperated quietly with the feds. To protect him, the feds sealed the document. After Benghazi, the Obama DoJ promptly unsealed it and leaked it to the New York Times.
The Times reported on Nakoula’s earlier conviction just three days after the smoke had cleared in Benghazi. The release of this information exposed Nakoula to harassment by the media and reprisal from the ringleader of the check-kiting operation.
Once he was identified, the Times and the other media camped out in front of Nakoula’s California house, not to protect him from the death threats he was facing, but to join in the manhunt. To assure their readers they had tracked the right man, the Times’ reporters pointed out the similarities between Nakoula’s front door and the front door of a house used in the video.
Still on probation and feeling like he had little choice, Nakoula pled guilty to unauthorized use of the Internet in his uploading of the video. He was sentenced to one year in prison and four years of supervised release.
Some months after his arrest I tracked Nakoula down to La Tuna, a federal prison in the westernmost tip of Texas. I was the first person in the media to contact him. As with Sanders and O’Keefe, the media ignored his imprisonment or cheered it.
For more than a year, 20-something David Daleiden and his group, Center for Medical Progress, recorded undercover videos of several Planned Parenthood clinics that trafficked in baby parts. The videos had to potential to shake up the 2016 election. Even Hillary Clinton called them “disturbing.”
The major media, of course, refused to show the videos. When Planned Parenthood’s Democratic allies in Texas and California had Daleiden arrested on charges even more trumped up than O’Keefe’s in New Orleans, the media turned their collective back. Into the void stepped Planned Parenthood spokespeople, now confidently dismissing this damning evidence as “faked criminal videos,” a charge the media reinforced.
To be called ‘an enemy of the people,’ even by the president, carries no known risk. To become an enemy of the media, however, comes with considerable risk — even for liberals who may have thought themselves immune.
Molly Norris, once a cartoonist for the liberal Seattle Weekly, learned this new reality the hard way. In 2010, upset by Muslim threats against the creators of the TV show “South Park,” Norris conceived the nicely mischievous new holiday, “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day.”
“Do your part to both water down the pool of targets,” wrote Norris bravely, “and, oh yeah, defend a little something our country is famous for… the first amendment.”
Norris apparently had not gotten the DNC memo. The national left had absorbed Muslims into the multicultural rainbow and elevated their sensitivities over any quaint notion of free speech. Her cartoon in the Seattle Weekly announcing the event quickly went viral, and just as quickly, Islamic firebrands went postal.
Norris came under increasing pressure and quickly backed off. Not satisfied with Norris’s surrender, Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki insisted she be made “a prime target of assassination.” The FBI took the threat seriously enough to recommend that Norris “go ghost.” In other words, Norris had to scrub her identity and disappear on her own dime.
No one of note in the liberal media, not even her friends at the Seattle Weekly, came to her defense. One colleague informed the readers that “depictions of the prophet are considered sacrilege by many Muslims” as if to suggest that Norris deserved her fate.
Norris went ghost in July 2010 and has not surfaced since. Unlike her former colleagues, it is not President Trump who worries her. To become an enemy of the media is to risk one’s career, one’s freedom, even one’s life.
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“Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his whole group of Angry Democrat Thugs spent over 30 hours with the White House Councel, only with my approval, for purposes of transparency,” the president said.
The president commented in response to the New York Times report that Trump’s White House lawyer Don McGahn met with Mueller for over 30 hours during the course of the investigation, giving him more details about the president’s actions than necessary.
“Anybody needing that much time when they know there is no Russian Collusion is just someone looking for trouble,” Trump wrote, accusing the special counsel group of “enjoying running people’s lives.”
Trump first dismissed the New York Times story on Sunday as “fake news,” blaming the reporters for suggesting that McGahn had actually turned on the president in the interviews with Mueller.
“The Failing New York Times wrote a story that made it seem like the White House Councel had TURNED on the President, when in fact it is just the opposite – & the two Fake reporters knew this,” Trump wrote. “This is why the Fake News Media has become the Enemy of the People.”
On Monday, Trump complained that Mueller’s team was filled with angry Democrats that wanted to influence the election by dragging the investigation out.
“They are a National Disgrace!” he wrote, denying that there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians denying that the White House was guilty of obstructing justice.
Trump continued to signal exasperation with the ongoing saga.
“If you FIGHT BACK or say anything bad about the Rigged Witch Hunt, they scream Obstruction!” he said.
Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his whole group of Angry Democrat Thugs spent over 30 hours with the White House Councel, only with my approval, for purposes of transparency. Anybody needing that much time when they know there is no Russian Collusion is just someone….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2018
….looking for trouble. They are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side – the lies, the firings, the deleted Emails and soooo much more! Mueller’s Angry Dems are looking to impact the election. They are a National Disgrace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2018
Where’s the Collusion? They made up a phony crime called Collusion, and when there was no Collusion they say there was Obstruction (of a phony crime that never existed). If you FIGHT BACK or say anything bad about the Rigged Witch Hunt, they scream Obstruction!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2018
The Failing New York Times wrote a story that made it seem like the White House Councel had TURNED on the President, when in fact it is just the opposite – & the two Fake reporters knew this. This is why the Fake News Media has become the Enemy of the People. So bad for America!
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For the second weekend this month shootings in Chicago topped 60 despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new plan to curb a deadly streak of violence that has rocked the city since the beginning of the summer.
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Even by Chicago standards, this was a bad weekend. Various outlets have various tallies. Fox News reports 54 were shot. CNN puts the number at 58. But ABC 7 in Chicago says 59 were shot and six were killed, including two teenagers:
Since 5 p.m. Friday, a total of 59 people were shot, leaving six killed and 53 wounded.
In the latest incident, two teenagers who had been reported missing were found shot to death in a field on the Far South Side.
The two teenagers, just 16 and 17 year old, were found dead at about 11:57 p.m. in a field on East 131st Street between Eberhart and Rhodes avenues after being reported missing days ago…
Chicago police held a Monday morning news conference discussing another violent weekend and the need for more community involvement.
“These individuals that keep pulling these triggers just feel like they can continue to do it because they are getting away with it,” said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
As for the shooters feeling they can get away with it, the ABC 7 article suggests that may be the case again this weekend:
The first fatal shooting occurred Saturday night in the Englewood neighborhood…
No one is in custody…
Sunday, a 19-year-old man who was fatally shot at about 3:30 p.m. while leaning against a parked vehicle in the 4000-block of South Calumet, police said…
No one was in custody and Area Central detectives are investigating.
What’s really disturbing is that this weekend’s carnage comes just a couple weeks after a fresh attempt to get a handle on the violence. Two weeks ago, Jazz wrote about an especially bloody weekend in which 66 people were shot and 12 were killed. After that, Chicago deployed an additional 600 cops onto the streets. From CNN:
Stung by the level of violence last weekend, Chicago officials pledged Tuesday to deploy more officers in neighborhoods that have seen a surge in shootings.
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters an additional 430 officers are being put on street duty, with 200 more to be on patrol over the weekend.
It seems safe to say those extra uniforms didn’t make much difference at all. So what is it going to take?
It’s not really fair to blame the police when there are probably plenty of people who know who was involved in each of the shootings this weekend. In fact, that was the point Superintendent Johnson was making above, i.e. police need some help from the community if they’re going to take the killers off the streets. The problem is that the people who might know something won’t talk to police because a) they’ll get shot for being snitches or b) they plan to handle it themselves. Chicago is a city that lives in fear and it’s tough to ask regular people to put themselves into the line of fire, especially when police seem unable to stop the violence.
Back in 2016, I wrote about an excellent BBC video showing what it is really like for teenagers living in Chicago. As I noted at the time, the pervasive theme was fear. Everyone was afraid of being shot or killed so everyone was ready to shoot back. But there was also a certain dark glamour to the gangster lifestyle, which never seems very far from the violence itself. Is it reflecting it or encouraging it. It’s actually hard to tell. Here’s the clip again in case you missed it.
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Sunday during an interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said his company does not discriminate against any political viewpoint.
When asked about so-called “shadow-banning,” Dorsey said, “I think the real question behind the question is, are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints? We are not. Period. We do not look at content with regards to political viewpoint or ideology. We look at behavior.”
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