Month: December 2017

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Democrats’ Alabama Hopes Could be Gone With the Wind After Racist Flyer Enrages Blacks

The race for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat has taken on national proportions as the corrupt bipartisan political elite has spared no resources to destroy the character of Republican Roy Moore.

The former Alabama Supreme Court Justice is a local legend who was the victim of one of the dirtiest smear campaigns ever, a Washington Post story accused the judge of sexual misconduct nearly forty years ago – one incident allegedly with a 14-year-old girl.

The story was fishy all along and thanks to the Democrats’ own problems with sexual issues, has all but fizzled out except in the monologues of late-night comics reading DNC talking points off of their teleprompters.

So, the Democrats did what they do best, they played the race card.

There has been a massive push to register felons and big-name black Dems including Cory Booker are to visit the state to engage in some of that good old-fashioned race-baiting on the final weekend before voters go to the polls.

But it all might be for naught because the Doug Jones campaign was busted for sending out a sickeningly racist flyer that was quickly recognized by African-Americans as the exact sort of cheap pandering that the party always resorts to come election time.

It appears to have backfired as even black activist websites like The Root are calling bullshit on the Dems with one author penning a scathing column entitled “A Racist Flyer Might Cost Doug Jones the Election Because the Entire Democratic Party Is Trash” from which I excerpt the following:

Someone, probably a white man, thought that the image would resonate with black people and motivate them to get out the vote. It’s as if black people were considering voting for the child molester until some brilliant strategist posited, “What if he were black, though?” The flyer is reductive in its oversimplification of the black mind as only caring about black issues. While it might not be racist, it is certainly racist adjacent.

It is also the Democratic Party.

Part of the reason the Democratic Party has been marginalized as a party that only exists on the coasts and in urban areas is white-mannery like this. While the policies of the party may be more progressive and black-friendly, the Democratic leadership is often as prejudiced and shortsighted as its Republican counterparts, and next week’s Senate election is the perfect example.

The Democratic Party is trash. It is the reason Hillary Clinton lost. It is the reason Donald Trump is president.

The party only campaigns in already-Democratic strongholds for the scant few electoral votes during presidential elections, and the rest of the time it ignores them completely.

On the rare occasions when the Democratic Party does address black voters, it only talks about the “black issues”: policing, mass incarceration, civil rights, etc. For the party leadership, black people aren’t whole people who have the same concerns about taxes, job creation, education initiatives, international policy and economics as other voters. They are simply bodies collected in the coffers of the party’s ineffective longing for power.

Now that Dems think Doug Jones has a decent chance to pick up a Senate seat, they have turned to Alabama’s black electorate as if they were in the state the entire time.

AND

Trump will go to a Detroit church and try to change a few minds. The Democratic Party only competes where it knows it will win. Had Hillary Clinton not taken votes for granted in certain states, she might have won the Electoral College. (After you read that sentence, if you listen closely, you can hear a white woman say, “But she won the popular vote, though … ”)

Yet Democrats treat blacks in the South like stepchildren from a previous marriage: They’ll have us over for weekends and election holidays, smile and act nice, but they don’t really do shit for us. They treat the new kids better. The white ones.

That is from the freaking ROOT and when even one of their biased writers is giving grudging props to Trump for visiting a Detroit church then you know that the blue jackass party is badly losing the battle for hearts and minds.

That the Democrats don’t really give a tin shit about blacks can be seen in the poverty and crime-ridden districts of many of the members of the charlatans of the Congressional Black Caucus, keeping people desperate and resentful is the key to their longevity.

But it is ham-handed propaganda like the Doug Jones flyer that put an exclamation point on the cynical pandering to keep black people safely locked inside the Democrat plantation.

The hopes of counting on increased black turnout to vote for a cynical white con artist may have been greatly exaggerated, never underestimate the ability of Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot.

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New Poll Finds 92% of Democrats Uninformed, Ignorant and Easily Played

New Poll Finds 92% of Democrats Uninformed, Ignorant and Easily Played

December 8, 2017
by Jim Hoft

The far left #FakeNews media has been wrong all year.

The liberal mainstream media has pushed the conspiracy that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia during the 2016 election to defeat Hillary Clinton.

This was all a lie.
In fact, it was Hillary Clinton and the DNC who colluded to defeat Bernie Sanders in the primary and then colluded with Russia. Democrats and the Obama FBI paid cash for a fake Russian dossier so they could spy on Donald Trump at Trump tower.

But Democrat voters are ignorant.
And Democrats rely on the fact that they are stupid and easily played.

A new poll released this week by CBS News found that 92% of Democrats believe Trump advisors had improper dealings with Russia.

The poll claims 43% of Republicans believe the fairy tale… which is complete rubbish.

Of course, Republican voters are correct. After a year of screaming liberal media headlines and conspiracy theories there is NO EVIDENCE that any Trump official made improper contact with the Russians.

This was all a media lie to destroy Trump.

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Journalists Damn Demented Donald as Worse Than Bin Laden and Comparable to Charles Manson

Liberal reporters and hosts are closing out the year with a bang, spending the last month damning Donald Trump as an “unhinged” “sociopathic” mental case who was comparable to Charles Manson and Osama Bin Laden. 

Also, journalists like CNN’s Brian Stelter and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather continued to get on their high-horse as they proclaimed they were the “Pro-Truth” guardians against Trump’s “unrelenting campaign against the press.”

Excuses were also made for liberal Senator Al Franken, after he was accused of groping radio talk show host Leann Tweeden or as MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt called it a “mock” grope. 

And celebrities raged against Trump as Netflix host Chelsea Handler hoped to see Trump in handcuffs” and Hunger Games movie star Jennifer Lawrence boasted if she ever met the President she would greet him with “a martini to the face.” 

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The following is a collection of the worst journalist and celebrity outbursts from the past month:

Stelter Sermonizes: “We’re Pro-Truth”

 

 

“We’re not anti-Trump…We’re pro-truth. We’re pro-honesty. We’re pro-decency, and this is a tough moment in American history for people that support facts and decency.”
— Host Brian Stelter to Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway on CNN’s Reliable Sources, November 5.     

 
Time to Overthrow “Unhinged” Demented Trump?  

 

 

Co-host Joe Scarborough: “We are headed towards a nuclear showdown….We heard this months ago, that we are going to have a ground war in Korea. They’ve believed that inside the White House for a very long time. And yet, he [Donald Trump] is completely detached from reality. We had a New York Times and Washington Post piece saying so a couple of days ago. And the question is, Mika: If this is not what the 25th Amendment was drafted for.”
Co-host Mika Brzezinski: “Then what is it drafted for?”
Scarborough: “I would like the cabinet members serving America, not the President. Serving America….You don’t represent him. You represent 320 million people whose lives are literally in your hands and we are facing a showdown with a nuclear power and you have somebody inside the White House that the New York Daily News says is mentally unfit, that people close to him say is mentally unfit, that people close to him during the campaign told me had early stages of dementia.” 
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 30.

“Look at the New York Daily News this morning. A column calling the President a madman. Saying that he is truly unhinged….Eugene Robinson’s column in The Washington Post. People are saying we have to talk about his health now before it’s too late. Eugene Robinson saying: ‘How long are we going to pretend that President Trump is fully rational? How long are we going to ignore the signs he’s dangerously out of control?’ And here is MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough raising the same point…That’s the question. I’m going to ask you, Jeff Greenfield. Is now the time?”
— Host Brian Stelter on CNN’s Reliable Sources, December 3. 

 

“Sociopathic” Trump is “Stain” that Needs Removing

 

 

“Donald Trump is a deeply damaged human being. He is a sociopathic, malignant narcissist, and he happens to be the – you know, the electoral system, not the American people, but the Electoral College has sort of vomited this thing up and it landed in the Oval Office and it needs to be removed. It’s a stain. It’s a big glob on the carpet there. It needs to be removed and that means impeachment or the 25th Amendment. This man is a danger to the world.”
— Former MSNBC host Ron Reagan Jr. on MSNBC’s Hardball, October 25.

 

Trump Worse Than Bin Laden

 

 

Co-host Sunny Hostin: “A lot of people are frustrated by Trump’s reaction to the terror attack here in New York, but you said recently via tweet that Trump and his family have done more damage to America than [Osama] bin Laden and ISIS combined. 
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann: “Yes.”
Hostin: “Do you believe that?”
Olbermann: “Yeah.”
— ABC’s The View, November 3. 

 

When You Think About It, Charles Manson and Donald Trump Are Kind of Similar 

“Charles Manson wasn’t the inevitable outgrowth of the Sixties. If anything, he was a harbinger of today’s far right.” 
— November 20 tweet from the official New York Times opinion page account @nytopinion. 

“How Murderer Charles Manson and Donald Trump Used Language to Gain Followers” 
— Headline to November 20 Newsweek.com article. 

 

If an Adored Democrat Is Involved, It’s Just a “Mock” Grope and We Must Avoid “Slippery Slope”

 

 

“[Franken] took a picture, which his office now says was of a joke, that showed him potentially – not actually groping – but mock-groping her while she was asleep.” 
— Correspondent Kasie Hunt reporting on picture of Democratic Senator Al Franken groping former Fox Sports Network host Leann Tweeden on a 2006 USO tour as aired on MSNBC Live, November 16. 

“How slippery a slope is it? I mean, again, I’m just speaking as somebody who spent 15 years of her life working on Wall Street. But if we’re gonna start to go after everyone in every power industry for something like a butt slap, I’m worried that there’s going to be no one left running anything.”
— Host Stephanie Ruhle discussing Franken on MSNBC Live, November 20.

“I spent all weekend feeling guilty that I’d called for the sacrifice of an otherwise decent man [Sen. Al Franken] to make a political point….Even as I made the case for resignation, I was relieved that it seemed as if Franken might stick around, because I adore him as a public figure.”
— New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg in November 20 article “When Our Allies Are Accused of Harassment”

 

Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?

 

 

“Despite the kids’ demonstration, saving the world has been harder since the Trump administration announced its pullout from the Paris climate deal.”
— Correspondent Mark Phillips right after video of children chanting “Save the world!” at U.N. climate conference as aired on CBS Evening News, November 13. 

 

Trump Will Make You Sicker Than “Bad Oysters”                 

“We’ve never had one [president] that steadily, out of his own mouth, waged such an unrelenting campaign against the press. But this is something brand new in American history….It’s not normal. There is a campaign to convince people and I think particularly young people. ‘Oh well this is just the way presidencies go.’ That is not true….Look many things about the age of Trump will make the stomach sicker than bad oysters.”
— Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather on TBS’s Conan, December 4. 

 

Republicans Are “Domestic Terror Group”

 

 

“This is not a political party – this is a domestic terror group. And I think what the American people should consider when they ask themselves that question –  with a party that has done nothing to help the American people –  is to vote them out and consider possibly afterwards locking them up, Joy.”
— Pollster Fernand Armandi on MSNBC’s AM Joy, November 26. 

 

Only a “White Nationalist” Would Condemn Communism?

“‘Victims of Communism’ is a white nationalist talking point. Trump just made Nov 7 Natl Day for Vics of Communism.”
— November 7 tweet by Buzzfeed writer Blake Montgomery. Montgomery later deleted the tweet and apologized. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation tweeted in response “Wow. Tell that to the 100+ Million people killed by communist regimes.”

 

How Do You Call for the Death Penalty, When Criminal is Already Dead?

 

 

“There is a consistency in his response to these kind of situations, to terrorism when the terrorism appears to be carried out by somebody who’s from an Arab country, Muslim country, not from the United States. This is the rhetoric that we heard all throughout the campaign: the bloodthirst, the aggression, the retribution…He did not react this way when a white person shot dozens of people in Las Vegas. He did not come and say: well, we have to do an immediate policy change; we need to give this guy the death penalty.”
— Wall Street Journal White House reporter Eli Stokols discussing New York City shooter, and forgetting that Las Vegas shooter was killed, on MSNBC’s Deadline White House, November 2. 

 

Like Asking An Arsonist Advice on Putting Out a Fire?

Host Savannah Guthrie: “There’s a recent poll that said nearly half of people think the media make up stories. The media itself is under fire. And what do you think the media needs to do better to enhance its own credibility? And what do people need to understand about the value of the press?”…
Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather: “We need to do a better job, we need to do our job. Our job is to bear witness, to be honest brokers of information. To be as accurate and fair as we possibly can. So we need to do a better job….and heavens knows I’ve made my mistakes, have my open wounds from some self-inflicted wounds.”
— NBC’s Today, November 6. 

 

Nevermind That Shooting Was Helped Stopped by an NRA Good Guy with a Gun

“The @NRA is soaked and bathed in blood. How do its adherents sleep at night?”
— November 5 tweet by MSNBC host Joy Reid after Sutherland Springs, TX shooting.

“I’d like conservatives to point to a single instance – what is it, the Whiskey Rebellion, was it the Brinks robbery, other acts of political violence in the United States, where conservatives who are [sic] saying they used their guns to protect their liberties? You won’t find a single instance of that.”
— New York Times columnist Bret Stephens on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 6. Shooter was confronted and chased down by NRA member and instructor Stephen Willeford.

 

Reporters Revisit The Nightmare: One Year Later

“I felt so alone, I knew it was done. I was by myself on the floor. I started to cry. I was thinking everything from, ‘I’m gonna have to rewrite my piece’ to, ‘Can we stay in the U.S.?’ I texted my husband, ‘Tell Rosie to go to bed. I don’t want her to watch.’”
— New York magazine writer Rebecca Traister’s Election Day 2016 recollection as printed in November 5 Esquire article “The Untold Stories of Election Day 2016. ”

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, how terrible are we that it’s even this close?’ My wife stayed up and I went to sleep, then she woke me up around 1 or 2 in the morning bawling and told me that it was over. My poor, sweet wife. She wanted to hug and kiss me but I went into a panic attack and couldn’t breathe…You take your kids to school, you go to the store, you go to the post office, you’re looking around, and you’re thinking, ‘These people hate me.’”
— CNN host Reza Aslan’s Election Day 2016 recollection as printed in November 5 Esquire article “The Untold Stories of Election Day 2016. ”

 

Michael Flynn Plea Deal “Like Christmas”

 

 

Co-host Joy Behar: “ABC News Brian Ross is reporting ‘Michael Flynn promised full cooperation to the Mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians!’ Yes!”…On election night I had to wear a veil. I was in mourning. This is like the antithesis of that hideous night and that’s why I’m happy.”….
Co-host Sara Haines: “It’s not that it’s a happy day. It’s we need to figure out what went down here. Like, I can’t find myself cheering either.”
Behar: “Oh, no. It’s a happy day. Come on!” 
— ABC’s The View, December 1. ABC was forced to issue a “clarification” on report and correspondent Brian Ross was suspended four weeks without pay by the network.    

 

Hoping to See Trump in Handcuffs

Host Brian Stelter: “Would you say you’re on a mission to take him [Donald Trump] down?”
Netflix host Chelsea Handler: “I would like to see him brought down to the ground, preferably in handcuffs.”
— From CNN special Late Night In the Age of Trump, November 20. 

 

Blinded by Her Own Double Standard

“Imagine being molested by an older man. Then that man denies ever doing it and then goes on and gets elected to United States senate. What kind of message does that send to young girls everywhere? And men to all the men who abuse women?”
— November 12 tweet from Netflix host and comedian Chelsea Handler referring to accusations against GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore.

“Yeah, @chelseahandler I can imagine. I was raped by the Arkansas AG who then becomes Governor  & President and NBC held my interview explaining the rape until after his impeachment hearing. But I’m sure you don’t want to go there.”
— November 12 tweet by Bill Clinton accuser Juanita Broaddrick. 

 

Trump Winning Like O.J. Aquittal

“I never imagined [Trump] would be elected. The closest thing I can compare it to is when O.J. got acquitted. It never occurred to me that it might happen. There was so much overwhelming evidence that O.J. was guilty, and you believe in the American judicial system. You believe that, for the most part, if somebody did it, they’re going to prison for doing it. We’re in a similar situation: Everything Donald Trump is doing and undoing is bad, bad, bad, and it seems so obvious, and it’s happening anyway.”
— ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in article “Jimmy Kimmel: Suddenly, He’s Walter Cronkite” for the October 30/November 12 issue of New York magazine.

 

Masochistic Vote for Trump

“I think, where our country is at right now, we put our dick in the toaster, and we’re all waiting to see what happens. What the fuck, man?”
— Former Comedy Central The Daily Show host Jon Stewart at November 7 “Stand Up for Heroes” benefit in New York City.

 

“Madman” Trump Destroying “Every Aspect of Earth” 

 

 

“How is it we elected a predator-in-chief who was an open white supremacist and bragged about grabbing women’s genitals?…There’s no way that you can deny white supremacy now. There’s no way you can deny horrible sexism. There’s no way that you can deny that capitalism has failed….How are we going to live with a planet that we’ve destroyed? What are we going to do as we have this madman who is systematically destroying salmon and destroying every aspect of our Earth that we live on?”
— Playwright Eve Ensler on PBS’s Tavis Smiley, November 1.     

 

Worst Thanksgiving Dinner Guest Ever

“I grew up coloring pictures of pilgrims and indigenous people – we called them Indians when I was a child –  having this beautiful Thanksgiving together. The truth is, European invaders came to this land, took it from the indigenous people, raped, pillaged, gave them all sorts of diseases, called it their own, and desecrated a culture. It is one of the grossest examples of genocide in recent history and much as I don’t want to think about that, it’s really hard for me not to think about that when I think about Thanksgiving.”
— CBS’s Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik in a November 16 YouTube post “4 Reasons I Don’t Like Thanksgiving.”  

 

Secret Service Might Have Something to Say About That, Jennifer

Oprah Winfrey: “Have you met Trump?”
Actress Jennifer Lawrence: “No, never.”
Winfrey: “Do you want to?”
Lawrence: “I think so. I’ve got a pretty good speech. And it ends with a martini to the face.”.
— From December 6 The Hollywood Reporter article “The Jennifer Lawrence Interview, by Oprah Winfrey.” 

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Sheriff Joe: I Might Run For Senate In Arizona

On Thursday, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by President Trump after being held in criminal contempt by a court for refusing to stop law enforcement measures determined by the court to constitute racial profiling, announced he might run for Senate in Arizona. “I am seriously, seriously, seriously considering running for the U.S. Senate,” said Arpaio, “not the congressman’s seat.”

Arpaio is famous across the country for his hardline opposition to illegal immigration and his splashy move to make prisoners wear pink in order to humiliate them for their crimes. That made him a hero among Republicans, who largely believe that political correctness has hampered law enforcement’s efforts to fight crime. But Arpaio is much more than the headline: he’s also got an extraordinarily checkered past, ranging from his ardent birtherism to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office paying out a $3.5 million settlement to the Phoenix New Times for arresting reporters who exposed a grand jury subpoena.

Arpaio would have the advantage in any early Republican primary, if the nomination of Donald Trump nationally and Roy Moore in Alabama are any indicators. That’s because Republican candidates who are controversial for their hard-line positions have been targeted for those positions; the base therefore assumes that new media attacks aren’t factually based, but politically based. They hated Arpaio for his positions on illegal immigration, so if the media break news on any other awful thing he’s done, their motive is already clear. That’s the logic behind the conservatives who rally behind Roy Moore: the media attacked Moore for years because Moore wouldn’t bow to judicial supremacy on the Ten Commandments, and so further media attacks can be written off as more of the same, even if the attacks are based on horrifying fact patterns.

Furthermore, since the Republican base sees the media as the chief obstacle to conservative success over the past two decades – the same media that pilloried George W. Bush and Mitt Romney – they’re not sad to see the media beside themselves over Arpaio and Moore. In fact, there’s a certain glee to watching major media figures lament the base’s embrace of such figures – a feeling of “they used to control us, but they can’t anymore.”

That means that famous local right-wing politicians who have had run-ins with the press are immediately at an advantage in political primaries. Arpaio might not become a senator. But he’d have to be an early favorite to win the noinatinon based on this logic.

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Dad sees robber point gun at his children. Dad has a license to carry. Dad does what he has to do.

A family was eating dinner at a Texas fast-food restaurant Wednesday night when an armed man entered the Popeye’s in San Antonio and demanded money from the dad, KABB-TV reported.

Image source: KABB-TV video screenshot
Image source: KABB-TV video screenshot

The father said he wasn’t giving the man anything, Police Sgt. Roy Miller told the Express-News.

The robber, in his 20s, turned to the employees to try to rob them, and police told KSAT-TV the employees all ran out the back of the restaurant.

The dad asked the gunman if his family could leave, and when the robber agreed, the mom and two of their children exited the restaurant — but two of the family’s other children were still in the restroom, KABB-TV reported.

When the robber saw the two children walk out of the restroom, he pointed his gun at them, KABB reported.

But it turns out Dad had his own gun — and he pulled it out and shot the robber dead, KABB said.

“The citizen is a licensed carrier and did use his handgun to take down the robber,” Police Capt. Michael Starnes told the Express-News.

The robber’s body could be seen between the dining area and counter as investigators examined the scene, the paper reported. Police haven’t released the robber’s name, and no one else was injured, KSAT said.

Starnes added to the Express-News that the father isn’t facing any charges: “He really saved the day and protected a lot of people today.”

(H/T: Blue Lives Matter)

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Conservative Students Sue Minnesota High School After Students Dishonor War Vets on Veterans Day

There is hope, not all are social justice warriors in training.

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Attorneys for Minnesota’s Young Conservatives Club (YCC) filed a lawsuit Thursday against a high school, saying the school violated students’ rights to free expression by requiring students to respect peers who chose to dishonor the American flag.

The students filed the lawsuit against Edina High School, the principal and the school district. The lawsuit — “Edina High School Young Conservative Club et al v. Edina School District et al” — charges the school with violating students’ rights to freedom of speech, association and equal access. The suit alleges the school is trying to put a flag code above the First Amendment.

“The U.S. Flag Code preempts Edina High School’s requirement that students respect flag protesters—whatever that means,” YCC lawyer Erick Kaardal said in a press release. “This is a clear case of discrimination against students with conservative beliefs by a school whose policies have been documented as promoting an extreme ideological agenda.”

“Edina High School has essentially declared itself to be ‘big brother’ – to ensure that students ‘think correctly’ about the U.S. flag, political and social issues,” Kaardal added.

The lawsuit arises after a myriad of students refused to stand for the national anthem and “Taps” to honor fallen soldiers on Veterans Day. After YCC posted a video of the students disrespecting the flag onto social media with critical comments, the club received a slew of threats labeling the group’s members as racists and bigots.

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First Lady Tells Children in Hospital Her Favorite Christmas Carol Is ‘Oh, Holy Night’

On Thursday, first lady Melania Trump continued, in a more than 60-year first lady tradition, visiting Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC.

On her way to the hospital, Mrs. Trump asked for prayers for those struggling with health issues:

The first lady toured the neuroscience center where she visited with patients, families, doctors, nurses, and hospital staff.

Patients Alena Sydnor, 25, and Damian Contreras, 7, guided Mrs. Trump to the hospital’s main atrium where she was joined on a stage by Santa Claus.

Trump took questions from the children, answering that her favorite Christmas song is “Oh, Holy Night.” She answered 10-year-old Andy’s questions, saying that if she could spend her Christmas anywhere, it would be on a deserted tropical island with her family.

Another child asked the first lady what her favorite family Christmas traditions were. She replied that, on Christmas Eve, they have dinner, then they go either to midnight mass on Christmas Eve or mass on Christmas Day. They have another dinner on Christmas Day, Santa Claus visits on that day, and they open presents and spend family time together.

Young Olivia asked the first lady her favorite Christmas dinner food, to which she replied, “healthy food, and you feel very good after.” Sammy asked what the first lady asked Santa Claus for. “Oo, that’s a nice one,” she remarked before stating that she asked for “Peace on the world, health, love, and kindness.”

After taking questions, the first lady read from a favorite book that she called “very special” to her: The Polar Express.

“I was so grateful at the opportunity to spend time with the children and their families today, and want to thank the medical staff at Children’s National for their lifesaving work,” said first lady Melania Trump.

She continued:

The holidays are a time for hope, love, traditions and family, and it is my wish for everyone to be able to celebrate them in good health with their loved ones. Many of the patients and families I visited with today cannot spend the holidays at home this year, so I ask everyone to keep them in their thoughts and prayers as we hope for a speedy recovery and joyous New Year.

Children’s National Health System detailed the 60-plus-year history of first ladies visiting the hospital, “The tradition of First Lady visits to Children’s National dates back more than 60 years to First Lady Bess Truman. Mrs. Trump most recently visited Children’s National to celebrate the opening of the Bunny Mellon Healing Garden, which is dedicated to the First Ladies of the United States.”

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Trump Official LAUGHS OUT LOUD at Obama for Taking Credit for Trump Economic Boom! (VIDEO)

Trump Official LAUGHS OUT LOUD at Obama for Taking Credit for Trump Economic Boom! (VIDEO)

December 8, 2017
by Jim Hoft

It’s common knowledge that Barack Obama was the worst economic president since at least 1949.

Barack Obama was the only President to have not had even one year of 3% GDP growth.

Barack Obama has the worst GDP growth of any postwar president.

Barack Obama’s best year of GDP growth was 2.6 in 2015 (a year in which the stock market decreased in value).
2009 — -2.8
2010 — 2.5
2011 — 1.6
2012 — 2.2
2013 — 1.7
2014 — 2.4
2015 — 2.6
2016 — 1.5

President Trump has seen quarterly GDP rates of 1.2, 3.1 and 3.3.

The New York Federal Reserve revised its estimated fourth quarter GDP of 2017 to 3.93.

This will give President Trump an annual GDP rate of 2.9 in 2017 or possibly higher.
President Trump’s first year in office will beat Barack Obama’s best year ever.

But that won’t stop Barack Obama for taking credit for President Trump’s stunning results.

In a speech this week in Chicago Barack Obama took full credit for President Trump’s record economic numbers.

What a joke.

On Friday President Trump’s Director of the National Economic Council, Gary Cohn, was asked about Barack Obama’s comments from earlier this week on the Trump economy.

Gary Cohn laughed out loud.

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Photos: Melania Trump Visits Children’s Hospital in Winter Wonderland Style

Photos: Melania Trump Visits Children’s Hospital in Winter Wonderland Style

First lady Melania Trump accompanied by Santa Claus arrives to read The Polar Express to children at Children's National Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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by John Binder8 Dec 2017Washington, D.C.0



First Lady Melania Trump dazzled in a winter wonderland ensemble by Max Mara and Hervé Pierre as she made a pre-Christmas visit Thursday to Children’s National Hospital.

Melania draped a cozy, white wool Max Mara coat over her shoulders for the visit, pairing it with a ribbed, creme-colored Max Mara sweater. Melania chose a crisp, white leather high-waisted form-fitting Hervé Pierre skirt and topped off the outfit with pointed snakeskin stilettos.

First lady Melania Trump greets children at Children’s National Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

First lady Melania Trump smiles as she finishes readying “The Polar Express” to children at Children’s National Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

First lady Melania Trump, accompanied by Santa Claus, reads “The Polar Express” to children at Children’s National Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

First lady Melania Trump accompanied by Santa Claus arrives to read The Polar Express to children at Children’s National Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

First lady Melania Trump greets children at Children’s National Medical Center, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Hervé Pierre skirt is a favorite of Melania’s. She previously donned the same skirt, but in brown, during the pardoning of the Thanksgiving Turkey, Breitbart News reported.

Melania first wore the perfectly-fitted Hervé Pierre leather skirt when she departed for her first foreign trip with President Trump. During her walk towards Air Force One, Melania stunned in the rich, orange skirt, pairing it once again with a ribbed Max Mara sweater.

Hervé Pierre is not only Melania’s personal designer and stylist, but is also in the process of launching a 12-piece collection of luxury cocktail dresses and evening gowns, Breitbart News reported.

During an interview with fashion critic Suzy Menkes, Pierre, who wears a daisy on his lapels, said it was a “big, big honor” dressing and designing for Melania.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

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Kihuen Accuser Says She Reported Sexual Harassment to DCCC 20 Months Before Going to the Media

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The woman who accused Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D., Nev.) of sexual harassment says she provided the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee with information about the congressman’s alleged misconduct well over a year before recently sharing her story with BuzzFeed News, but her complaints were never addressed.

Samantha, who asked for her last name to be omitted, told a local CBS affiliate in Las Vegas that she reported her sexual harassment complaints to a mid-level staffer at the DCCC in April 2016, alleging that Kihuen, then a congressional candidate, repeatedly harassed and made sexual advances toward her.

Samantha, working as Kihuen’s campaign finance director at the time, said the candidate would touch her thigh without consent, ask her inappropriate questions like if she would ever cheat on her boyfriend, and said in a few instances he would “take me out if I didn’t work for him.”

Upon hearing this information, the DCCC staffer asked Samantha, who was 25 at the time, what she wanted him to do about it. She expressed concern that campaign employees could lose their jobs since their employment depended on the candidate but never said she did not want the matter handled internally.

Samantha, who said Kihuen was making her feel uncomfortable and wanted to leave the campaign by February, hoped the DCCC would investigate Kihuen, ask him to drop out of the race, and have him replaced with another candidate.

Samantha never heard back from the DCCC about her complaints, however, and she left the campaign that month.

Kihuen was elected to the House of Representatives in November 2016.

Samantha said she was empowered by women coming forward with sexual assault allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and wanted to help other victims who are too afraid to come forward, leading her to share her story with BuzzFeed.

After the BuzzFeed article was published last week, Kihuen released a statement apologizing if he made her uncomfortable, but also said that he does not recall the instances that the story discussed.

The investigative team at KLAS-TV Channel 8, the local CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, learned that the DCCC never conducted an investigation into Samantha’s claims against Kihuen. The station also reported that no one from the DCCC ever contacted Samantha, nor did the staffer who she says she contacted return its calls.

Some 20 months after receiving Samantha’s complaints, the DCCC called for Kihuen’s resignation after the BuzzFeed article was published.

“We have strengthened our protections for campaign employees,” the DCCC said in a statement.

A spokesman for Kihuen said that his office has no further comment to offer and he is still not resigning from Congress.

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