Democratic Party sets rules for criticizing Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris
Media organizations have just been warned by the Democratic Party machine that they better be very, very careful with how they cover Joe Biden’s vice presidential choice — just revealed to be Kamala Harris.
Any criticism of the expected woman will be considered racist and sexist, we are told. Oh, they wrap up that threat in a word salad, but that’s the bottom line: There should be second and even third thoughts about any criticism of Mr. Biden’s VP pick.
An actual memo went out from an ad hoc group of Democratic operatives (pretending to be advocates for women) to media organizations with orders on how to proceed with their coverage. The fact that they expected this partisan missive to be accepted and adhered to by media entities tells you all you need to know about the problem with today’s legacy media…
Hiding Mr. Biden in a basement has been absurdly accepted by the media. Unable to toss Ms. Harris into a literal basement, they’re now trying to construct a virtual bunker for her.
Do you know why Democrats are really concerned? It’s because they remember how they treated a certain Republican woman back in 2008.
The Ghost Of Sarah Palin Will Haunt The Media This Election Cycle
In the coming months, a phalanx of mainstream media outlets and leftist women’s groups will be deployed to defend Sen. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick, by labeling any and all criticism of her as sexist and possibly racist. (It remains unclear what we’re to make of Harris’s own charges against Biden of racism and sexism—and sexual assault—in the primaries earlier this year.)
Groups like Emily’s List, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and others recently sent a letter to news outlets that they’ll be monitoring coverage of Biden’s VP pick by “popping up rapid response teams tasked with tracking and calling out sexism and racism in real-time,” according to NBC News…
We’re going to hear a lot of that sort thing this election cycle. Because the double standard that’s about to be applied to Harris is so appallingly obvious even to corporate media, we’re also going to hear a lot of retroactive and transparently insincere sympathy for Palin.
Democrats and the media treated Sarah Palin ruthlessly.
Three days after pressure from conservatives, CNN finally covered the alleged brutal execution-style murder of five-year-old North Carolina boy Cannon Hinnant in a 218-word blurb posted early Friday morning.
On Sunday night, 25-year-old Darius Sessoms allegedly ran up to Cannon while the boy was playing on his bike in his front yard and shot him in the head while his two sisters, aged seven and eight, looked on.
According to a report Thursday night on Fox News, it’s suspected that Sessoms, who lives next door to the victim’s father, was upset that Cannon rode his bike on his lawn earlier in the day.
Medical attention could not save the child and Cannon was pronounced dead at a nearby medical center.
Sessoms was apprehended on Monday and has been charged with first-degree murder.
As noted by The Daily Wire, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and MSNBC had all neglected to cover the attack as of Thursday.
Fox News was one of the only mainstream outlets to cover the tragic news.
This prompted prominent conservatives to question the mainstream media blackout on Cannon’s murder, sparking a #SayHisName hashtag.
Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh and author Ryan Girdusky were among the first conservatives to draw attention to the case and media blackout.
In a viral tweet on Tuesday, Walsh wrote, “Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters.”
“Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month,” Walsh posited.
Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike. The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters. Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month pic.twitter.com/5V72YhAOlI
Three days later, CNN reported on the murder early in the morning via CNN.com and CNN International.
Police have charged a 25-year-old man with first-degree murder after they say he shot and killed a 5-year-old boy last week in Wilson, North Carolina. https://t.co/luzzN139lM
“Police have charged a 25-year-old man with first-degree murder after they say he shot and killed a 5-year-old boy last week in Wilson, North Carolina,” the report said.
“Austin Hinnant told CNN affiliate WRAL he was inside the home when his son, Cannon, was playing outside and was shot,” CNN added. “Hinnant says he ran outside and scooped up the injured child and held him in his arms. ‘I screamed ‘somebody help me, please help me save my son,’ he said.”
“I was looking at him as I was picking up Cannon, and I was so full of rage, but I could not leave my son’s side,” Mr. Hinnant recalled. “I just wanted to be with my son.”
As of Friday morning, NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and MSNBC have all yet to cover the shooting of young Cannon.
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If you are in the unfortunate habit of relying on the national media for your news and information, you probably didn’t hear about the brutal assault of a Macy’s employee a few months ago. The assailant, 18-year-old Damire Palmer, attacked the unnamed employee at the Genesee Valley Mall in Michigan on June 15 while his brother filmed the crime and later posted it to social media.
The brother told the always credulous (at least when it comes to these kinds of issues) media that the employee, who is white, called him and his brother, who are black, the N-word. It was obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that this story was a fabrication, but it shouldn’t matter anyway. No bad word could possibly justify felony assault. Apparently the local prosecutor, David Leyton, wasn’t so sure. It took him over ten days to finally charge Palmer with a crime.
BREAKING: This afternoon, a Genesee County prosecutor charged 18 year old Damire Palmer with assault to do great bodily harm less than murder – a maximum 10 year sentence – after this brutal attack on a Macy’s store employee that took place 2 weeks ago.pic.twitter.com/k8izEiL9Zo
When announcing the charges, Leyton called the alleged slur “vile” and “provoking” yet expressed doubt that the employee had actually said it.
Now, according to MLive.com, the rather unsurprising truth has come out. No slur was ever used. It was a lie.
Proving there is no honor among people who randomly assault retail workers, Damire Palmer pointed the finger at his brother in court, claiming that his brother told him that the word was said. He claims he acted out of mistaken wrath and vengeance.
According to a local media report, the assistant prosecutor Patrick McCombs assured Palmer that “he understands the anger that would fuel the assault.” Perhaps that’s why Palmer may escape with probation and no criminal record.
Palmer pleaded guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm, but McCombs says that he will be sentenced under something called the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. The Michigan law allows offenders — “trainees,” they’re called now — between the ages of 17 and 24 to have their criminal record wiped clean after a probationary period. What this means is that Palmer, after he serves out a sentence that could be as light as probation, will have his charges dismissed and his criminal history magically erased.
Official sentencing isn’t until September. Technically, Palmer could still be given up to 10 years in prison, but signs seem to be pointing to extreme leniency. Indeed, Leyton says: “Nobody’s looking to hang felonies on young men. I never have and never will.”
Yes, nobody is looking to randomly hang felonies on young men, but what if young men actually commit felonies? Apparently we are supposed to just pretend it never happened.
We should note that the victim in this case has consented to the lenient sentence. But that hardly seems relevant. He’s already been attacked once before. He may not want to come out and demand stiffer penalties. Perhaps that’s because he’s feeling generous, or perhaps it’s self-preservation. Whatever the reason, it doesn’t excuse the injustice being done here.
A few additional points:
First, why has the court focused so much on whether the bad word was said or not? Who cares? It is most definitely not understandable for an adult to commit felony assault in response to a word. The implication from the way this sentencing is working out is that felony assault is essentially legal — or at least not very illegal — if the assailant even so much as believes a racial slur was uttered.
Second, I am sounding like a broken record but here we have another incident that, with races reversed, would not only be headline news but the assailant would almost certainly be looking at hard time behind bars on federal hate crime charges. I personally don’t think the hate crime designation should exist at all, but if we are going to have the category, it ought to be evenly applied. And by any coherent definition, this was a hate crime.
In fact, Damire Palmer’s admission makes clear that it was a racially motivated attack. He claims he assaulted the store clerk because he thought the clerk had said a word. We can reasonably assume that Palmer would not have assaulted a black man for saying the word. So it’s not just that the employee allegedly said a word, but that he was a white man allegedly saying it. This is not an argument that the word is the same when used by white people as by black people. Rather it’s an argument that this assault was motivated by the combination of the alleged word and the race of the person who allegedly said it. That, it would seem to me, makes this a racially motivated assault, and thus a hate crime.
Thirdly, this case again serves to highlight the type of “criminal justice reform” that is actually needed in this country. The justice system in Michigan, home to one of the most violent cities in America, considers violent and dangerous criminals of a particular age to be “trainees” and will release them back into the community without providing any indication or warning that they are violent and dangerous. This is an outrageous failure to protect society, and the failure is on two levels. First they unleash the dangerous people on society, and then they refuse to tell anyone that they are dangerous.
I do not think we have a large scale problem in this country of the justice system coming down too hard on the bad guys. There are no doubt some examples of that sort of thing, but there are many more examples of the justice system doling out slaps on the wrist when it should be throwing the book. This is just the latest example. The streets of our cities are overrun by violent people who are known to the system and yet are permitted to stay out on the street, until they have finally done something so remarkably heinous that even the most useless prosecutor has no choice but to respond accordingly. I hope that Damire Palmer’s story doesn’t go in that direction, but I am not very confident.
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President Donald Trump described Sen. Kamala Harris as a “bad version” of failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“She’s a bad version of Hillary,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post. “She’s a person that will say whatever is necessary and in the end in [sic] gets her in trouble.”
The president described Harris’s record as “terrible,” pointing to ratings proving she is the most liberal senator in Congress.
“Yet the progressives hate her,” Trump mused.
Trump’s comments echoed attacks from his campaign, which immediately branded Harris as a “phony.”
“I think she changes her policy, she changes her tune, for every race, depending on who she needs,” Trump said. “She’s a user and she’s not a talented politician.”
Trump already described Harris as “sort of a madwoman” who is “going to be a big failure” as Biden’s vice presidential nominee.
He also criticized her for mistreating his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, during his confirmation hearings, describing her as “extraordinarily nasty.”
“She was the meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful than anybody in the U.S. Senate,” Trump said.
More and more Americans are being forced out of denial to face the reality that their country is on verge of being lost, with the barbarians not only inside the gates, but driving policy for the rest of us. When Democrat mayor after mayor bends to the demands of Black Lives Matter (BLM) to defund their police in the aftermath of violent protests, property destruction and looting, locals freak out knowing that bad actors will be emboldened and violence will escalate. BLM doesn’t even try to hide that its leaders are Marxists and that it has effectively become a paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party. BLM has received millions of dollars through the Act Blue online fundraising interface, the same portal used by the Democrat Party.
Bill Clinton will be given a prominent speaking slot at the Democrat convention in Milwaukee this month. Bill Clinton was listed on Epstein’s Lolita Express flight logs 27 times.
Just last week Bill Clinton was named in a court document release. An Epstein witness interview revealed Bill Clinton was at Epstein’s pedophile island with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and “2 young girls.”
But party leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not slotted on the speaking list according to reports until this week.
The party’s thought leader will only get 60 seconds to speak at the convention next week!
Evidently, Democrat moderates still think they control the party.
Progressives blasted the Democratic National Committee for allotting only 60 seconds at next week’s convention to “Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., while giving larger platforms to former Republican Gov. John Kasich and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Ocasio-Cortez has become an icon among the left since being sworn into Congress in 2018, but she is set to give a one-minute pre-recorded address at the convention, which she acknowledged on Twitter quoting the poem “God’s Minute” by the late civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin E. Mays.
“I only have a minute. Sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, I did not choose it, But I know that I must use it,” Ocasio-Cortez cited the poem on Wednesday. “Give account if I abuse it. Suffer if I lose it. Only a tiny little minute, But eternity is in it.”
USPS Mail-Sorting Machines Are Mysteriously Being Deactivated Ahead Of Election Tyler Durden
Fri, 08/14/2020 – 10:35
Democrats are furious with President Trump this week after he rejected demands to fund the United States Postal Service (USPS) ahead of the upcoming 2020 election. The president spoke about withholding funds from the government-run mail service during an interview Thursday with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. On the same day, Vice News’ Motherboard published a report outlining how mail sorting machines, the same ones used for sorting mail-in ballots, were being dismantled across the country for unknown reasons.
"They [the Democrats] want three and a half-billion dollars for something that’ll turn out to be fraudulent — that’s election money basically. They want $25 billion for the post office," President Trump said.
"Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. Now, in the meantime, they aren’t getting there. But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it."
President Trump has been on a crusade, criticizing the fraud behind mail-in voting, calling it "rigged" and the "scandal of our times." Last month, he even suggested the presidential election should be delayed due to the virus pandemic and the prospect of mail-in voting.
Motherboard said the dismantling of sorting machines was widespread, and there was no clear answer behind their removal from processing facilities.
Motherboard identified 19 mail sorting machines from five processing facilities across the U.S. that either have already been removed or are scheduled to be in the near future. But the Postal Service operates hundreds of distribution facilities around the country, so it is not clear precisely how many machines are getting removed and for what purpose.
Even to local union officials, USPS has not announced any policy, explained why they are doing this, what will happen to the machines and the workers who use them. Nor has management provided a rationale for dismantling and removing the machines from the facility rather than merely not operating them when they’re not needed. -Motherboard
Motherboard spoke with USPS employees about the elimination of sorting machines and found no one had an explanation nor could point to any internal policy.
"I’m not sure you’re going to find an answer for why [the machines being removed] makes sense," said Iowa Postal Workers Union President Kimberly Karol, "because we haven’t figured that out either."
USPS spokesperson David Partenheimer told Motherboard the remove of the machines is ‘routine’:
"The Postal Service routinely moves equipment around its network as necessary to match changing mail and package volumes. Package volume is up, but mail volume continues to decline. Adapting our processing infrastructure to the current volumes will ensure more efficient, cost-effective operations and better service for our customers."
Democrats have denounced the president and longtime Republican fundraiser and GOP donor Louis DeJoy, who was recently appointed as Postmaster General.
Democrats allege the president and DeJoy are plotting to "sabotage" the mail service ahead of the election by causing massive bottlenecks in sorting during the time an influx of mail-in ballots flood processing facilities during or around November’s election.
While the consequence of the president’s stance to withhold billions of dollars in funding from the USPS and DeJoy’s initiative to dismantle sorting machines ahead of the election is mostly unclear, though it suggests the Trump administration could be trying everything in their power to prevent mail-in voting by Democrats from stealing the election.
A band of armed jihadists stormed the Lion of Judah Christian church in Azikoro, southern Nigeria, last week, shooting four of the faithful dead.
During their raid, the Islamists vandalized church property and also torched an automobile and a nearby building, according to a statement by state police spokesman Asinim Butswat.
Mr. Butswat said that police currently believe that the attack may have been an act of retaliation for pressure on the Islamists by “Operation Puff Adder,” a special task force launched in 2019 to combat violent crimes in the country, especially banditry and kidnapping.
“The agents of operation Puff Adder had previously traced the radicals to their hideouts in the bush, dislodging them and burning their camp,” he said in the statement. “It is believed to be a retaliatory attack by the presumed sectarians.”
“In the meantime, two suspects have been arrested and are cooperating with the police in the investigation,” he said.
Butswat said that the State Police Commissioner of Bayesla, Mike Okoli, had visited the scene, reassuring community members of police protection and ordering a full investigation into the attack.
Three weeks ago, two thieves were shot dead in a church in South Africa. The men had held up the congregation who were present for services but were foiled in the attempted robbery by one of the faithful, Pieter van der Westhuizen, who was also armed and gunned the men down.
More and more Americans are being forced out of denial to face the reality that their country is on verge of being lost, with the barbarians not only inside the gates, but driving policy for the rest of us. When Democrat mayor after mayor bends to the demands of Black Lives Matter (BLM) to defund their police in the aftermath of violent protests, property destruction and looting, locals freak out knowing that bad actors will be emboldened and violence will escalate. BLM doesn’t even try to hide that its leaders are Marxists and that it has effectively become a paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party. BLM has received millions of dollars through the Act Blue online fundraising interface, the same portal used by the Democrat Party.
