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Fact Check: Jim Acosta’s Phony Claim He Did Not Insult Trump Voters

Fact Check: Jim Acosta’s Phony Claim He Did Not Insult Trump Voters

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by John Nolte26 Apr 20180



Jim Acosta, the anti-Trump activist who serves as White House correspondent for the far-left CNN, is hurling fake news in the hopes of explaining away comments he made this week insulting Trump supporters.

Acosta was hit with criticism after a self-aggrandizing interview with him was published at the left-wing entertainment site Variety.

The interview, which also featured Acosta’s CNN colleague and fellow Trump antagonist April Ryan, was really only notable for Acosta’s attacks on the intelligence of everyday Americans. Among other things, he said, “They don’t have all their faculties and in some cases their elevator might not hit all floors.”

In a piece titled, “Jim Acosta says voters too stupid to grasp Trump ‘act’: ‘Their elevator might not hit all floors,’” the Washington Times reported it this way:

Mr. Acosta then lamented what he perceives as a large-scale intellectual void afflicting the population.

“The problem is that people around the country don’t know it’s an act,” the reporter said. “They’re not in on the act, and they take what he says very seriously, and they take attacks from [former White House press secretary] Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously. They don’t have all their faculties in some cases — their elevator might not hit all floors. My concern is that a journalist is going to be hurt one of these days.”

In a defensive and dishonest  tweet published Wednesday, the embattled Acosta said that his comments have been “twisted” and that “As you can plainly see, I’m not referring to Trump supporters. I am talking about people who threaten journalists.”

He then posts a copy of what he says is a transcript of his remarks:

Here is the relevant part of the transcript:

But the problem is that people around the country don’t know it’s an act, they’re not in on the act and they take what he [Trump]  says very seriously and they take attacks from Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders, and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously … they don’t have all their faculties and in some cases their elevator might not his all floors. My concern is that a journalist is going to get hurt[.]

Let’s break down the Acosta quote into logic-sized pieces:

“The problem is that people around the country don’t know it’s an act, they’re not in on the act and they take what he says very seriously…”

Well, that is very clearly an attack on “people around the country,” whom Acosta is claiming are too dumb to “know it’s an act” — meaning “people around the country” are too stupid and unsophisticated to grasp what Acosta is sophisticated enough to grasp. There is no way for Acosta to get around that one.

“…and they take attacks from Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders, and what they do to us on a daily basis, very seriously”

In this bit above, Acosta’s “they” has clearly not changed. “They” is still “people around the country,” and now “people around the country,” according to Acosta, “take the attacks” from Spicer and Sanders “very seriously.”

“they don’t have all their faculties and in some cases their elevator might not hit all floors.”

Acosta’s “they” has still not changed. The “they” is still very clearly “people around the country” who he is saying “don’t have all their faculties” and who “in some cases their elevator might not hit all floors.”

Then Acosta says…

“My concern is that a journalist is going to get hurt[.]”

The only way to read that is the way Acosta put. He is expressing his concern that one of “they,” one of those unsophisticated “people around the country” who “don’t have all their faculties” might someday hurt a journalist.

According to his own transcript, Acosta’s  claim that he is talking about “people who threaten journalists,” is simply not true.

If Acosta wants to claim he misspoke at the end, fine. Even so, there is no getting around the fact that he opens this part of the interview clearly insulting “people around the country” as rubes who can’t see through Trump’s act.

Regardless, Acosta trying to gaslight us with this arrogant nonsense about it being “plain” to “see” that he was not insulting the American people is yet another heaping helping of Jim Acosta’s fake news.

 

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Kanye West Vows to ‘Stand My Ground’ After John Legend Says He ‘Betrayed’ His Fans

Kanye West Vows to ‘Stand My Ground’ After John Legend Says He ‘Betrayed’ His Fans

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by Dylan Gwinn26 Apr 20180



Kanye West revealed a private conversation between himself and longtime collaborator and friend John Legend that revealed the rapper explaining that he’s not backing down from supporting President Donald Trump.

Legend, who also criticized West publicly on Twitter, sent a text message to the hip-hop mogul on Thursday telling him how many of West’s fans feel “betrayed” by his support for President Trump, because they know the “harm that Trump’s policies cause, especially to people of color.”

West posted Legend’s text on Twitter, along with his response:

West also posted Legend’s follow-up text:

After calling Legend’s appeal to his fans an attempt to use “fear” to control and manipulate his “free thought,” West proceeded to address Legend’s call for “empathy and context:”

On Wednesday, West tweeted that “the mob” could not make him “not love” Trump. The hip-hop star then asserted that while he doesn’t “agree with everything anyone does,” he will maintain his “right to independent thought:”

That tweet, and others, brought forth a torrent of scorn and criticism from Hollywood elites. Former View co-host Rosie O’Donnell ripped West for his support of independent thought, telling him that President Trump is “a fucking moron” and warning him to “wake from the illusion.”

In response to a tweet where President Trump lauded West for his “signed” Make America Great Again hat, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn called West a “complete freaking lunatic:”

In addition, singer John Legend made what appeared to be references to West’s tweets about President Trump:

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PODCAST — Sonnie Johnson: Kanye Was Already a Conservative

PODCAST — Sonnie Johnson: Kanye Was Already a Conservative

by Breitbart Podcasts26 Apr 20180



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Birthday Tweets Express Love, Admiration for First Lady Melania Trump

Birthday Tweets Express Love, Admiration for First Lady Melania Trump

by Penny Starr26 Apr 20180



First lady Melania Trump celebrated her 48th birthday on Thursday. Twitter was flooded with birthday wishes for Trump, complimenting her style and grace.

Melania Knauss was born on April 26, 1970, in the city Novo Mesto in Slovenia and grew up in the Slovenian city of Sevnica. She worked as a professional model in Milan and Paris and moved to New York City in 1996.

She married Donald Trump in 2005 and became first lady of the United States when he was elected president in 2016.

Trump is also mother to 12-year-old son Barron Trump.

 

 

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Academics Find ‘Climate Change’ Not Responsible for Displacement, Conflict in Africa

Academics Find ‘Climate Change’ Not Responsible for Displacement, Conflict in Africa

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by Virginia Hale26 Apr 20180



Academics at University College London (UCL) have said there is little basis to justify terms like ‘climate refugee’ after finding that the majority of conflict in Africa and forced migration has been as a result of rapid population growth.

Published in Palgrave Communications, a major new study examining the causes of conflict and human displacement across East Africa over the last 50 years found that climate variations including drought and global temperature had little impact.

“Terms such as climate migrants and climate wars have increasingly been used to describe displacement and conflict, however these terms imply that climate change is the main cause,” said Mark Maslin, a professor of geography and leading expert on past regional and global climate change.

“Our research suggests that socio-political factors are the primary cause while climate change is a threat multiplier,” he said.

Using a database which identifies significant episodes of political violence and unrest in East Africa and details human displacement, researchers examined the information alongside global temperatures throughout the period as well as data regarding factors such as population size and GDP per capita.

Having analysed the data to find out whether climate change affected the risk of displacement and violence in East Africa between 1953 and 2014, the authors of the study concluded that population growth was behind 8o per cent of the conflict seen in the region and was also impacted by political stability and the rate of economic growth.

In addition, modelling suggested that population growth and economic growth from ten years earlier was able to predict 70 per cent of human displacement.

“The question remains as to whether drought would have exacerbated the refugee situation in East Africa had there been slower expansion of population, positive economic growth and more stable political regimes in the region,” said Erin Owain, first author of the study.

Professor Maslin added: “Our research suggests that the fundamental cause of conflict and displacement of large numbers of people is the failure of political systems to support and protect their people.”

During the election campaign last year in France, the now-President Emmanuel Macron declared that the world was entering an age of mass migration which will see massive population transfers to Europe much larger than anything seen before as a result of climate change.

Stating that France is partly to blame for what he called “climate migrations” in its failure to tackle so-called climate change, the “centrist” leader said the nation must “reconcile” with taking in astronomic numbers of third world migrants.

In recent years the globalist media, NGOs and figures including UN chief António Guterres have increasingly made the claim that borders across the globe will crumble in the face of between 150 and 300 million refugees displaced from their homes by global warming by 2050.

This mass movement of “climate refugees” will have resulted from carbon emissions, according to those pushing this prediction, many of whom argue the bulk of migrants should be settled in the West so that rich nations are  “taking responsibility” for their emissions level.

The majority of reports on the issue stress the inevitability of mass migration in the coming decades alongside highlighting the urgency with which carbon emissions must be reduced in order to solve the problem.

However, conservative blogger Steve Sailer has pointed out that the mass migration of people from poor countries to rich is completely incompatible with tackling greenhouse emissions.

Pointing out how the carbon emissions per capita of third world nations are magnitudes lower than those of rich Western nations, he writes: “The logic is very simple: If immigrants from poor countries successfully assimilate to American norms of earning and consuming, they, and their descendants, will emit vastly more carbon than if they stayed home.”

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Trey Gowdy rips into James Comey for his denial that he leaked – here’s why

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) criticized James Comey heavily for his denial that he didn’t leak confidential information from his time as the director of the FBI before he was fired by President Trump.

Here’s what Gowdy said

Gowdy was speaking with Tucker Carlson on Fox News about the interview Comey had with Bret Baier earlier Thursday when he added that what Comey calls a leak is what everyone else calls a felony.

“The other thing that I will tell you,” Gowdy said, “Tucker, that I learned tonight is Jim Comey has a definition of the word ‘leak’ that no on else has.”

“What he says is a leak is what the rest of us call a felony,” he added dramatically.

“Leaking is disclosing a confidential conversation which is exactly what he did,” he explained.

“He came off as much oilier in this interview,” Carlson agreed.

Gowdy attacked other elements of Comey’s accounts of what happened during his tenure as the director of the FBI.

Here’s the video of Gowdy’s comments

An anti-Trump double standard

Gowdy said that Comey was using a double standard to exonerate Clinton and others while criticizing Trump much too harshly.

“And the double standard that he’s has for the last couple of weeks still exists,” he said. “You know, Clinton can lie and she oughta be president, McCabe can lie and he’s still a stand up guy, but Trump, boy if he tells any lies at all, then impeachment is too good a remedy for him.”

He also criticized Comey’s inability to explain what he knew about the source of the “Trump dossier,” which appeared to stun Bret Baier during the interview.

Carlson asked him if Comey’s comments were plausible, and Gowdy responded, “No, because he knew that Republicans paid for it, even though that’s inaccurate, so if he learned about it in the Fall of 2016, then it was already known that the Democrats had picked up on that work.”

“So whoever briefed him, why would you just say the Republicans started it but not also include the Democrats finished it?” he asked.

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Paul Ryan calls for House chaplain’s resignation

House Speaker Paul Ryan reportedly asked the House chaplain, Father Pat Conroy, to resign earlier this month. The Jesuit priest complied, but says he does not know why he was asked to leave his post.

Conroy said that he was blindsided by the request, saying, “I was asked to resign, that is clear. I certainly wasn’t given anything in writing. Catholic members on both sides are furious.”

Ryan’s chief of staff delivered the news, according to Conroy. The priest’s last day of service to the House will be May 24.

In his resignation letter to Mr. Ryan, Conroy wrote, “As you have requested, I hereby offer my resignation as the 60th chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. I wish all the best of the House of Representatives, and for your upcoming search for a worthy successor in the office of the chaplain.”

The priest was nominated by former House Speaker John Boehner, and has served in his position since 2011.

But Rev. Conroy did speculate on what might have prompted the call for his resignation. During the tax cut debates in November, he gave a prayer on the House floor, saying: “May all members be mindful that the institutions and structures of our great nation guarantee the opportunities that have allowed some to achieve great success, while others continue to struggle. May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans.”

Later, the speaker’s office let him know that his prayer has ruffled some feathers. When Father Conroy ran into the Speaker in person, Ryan told him, “Padre, you just got to stay out of politics.”

Conroy said, “That’s what I’ve been trying to do for seven years.”

Ryan’s office said no specific prayer led to the request for the chaplain’s resignation. But some House members are demanding answers, including Republican Walter Jones of North Carolina, who said, “I’m very upset. If this is true about the prayer, and we have freedom of religion in America, how about freedom of religion on the floor of the House?”

 

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Delingpole: Earth in ‘Greatest Two-Year Cooling Event in a Century’ Shock

Delingpole: Earth in ‘Greatest Two-Year Cooling Event in a Century’ Shock

by James Delingpole26 Apr 20180



Our planet has just experienced the most extreme two-year cooling event in a century. But where have you seen this reported anywhere in the mainstream media?

You haven’t, even though the figures are pretty spectacular. As Aaron Brown reports here at Real Clear Markets:

From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era. All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (dataset accessed 2018-04-11 at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures.

The 2016-18 Big Chill was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average. February 2018 was colder than February 1998.

To put this temperature drop in context, consider that this is enough to offset by more than half the entirety of the global warming the planet has experienced since the end of the 19th century.

Since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1880s, the planet has warmed by about 0.8 degrees C. You might think that was not a particularly drastic rate of warming to worry about. You might also note that such a rate of warming is well precedented in periods throughout history, such as during the Minoan, Roman and Medieval warming periods. Nonetheless this 0.8 degrees C rise – 0.9 degrees C, at a push – is the terrible climatic event the alarmist establishment has been assuring these last few decades is the worst thing ever and something that should worry us awfully.

So is this sudden cooling an even-worse thing? Not necessarily. As Brown goes on to explain in his piece, you can’t extrapolate trends from such a short time scale. Well, not unless you’re a climate alarmist… As we know from long experience, if it had been the other way round – if the planet had warmed by 0.56 degrees C rather than cooled, the media would have been all over it.

My point is that statistical cooling outliers garner no media attention. The global average temperature numbers come out monthly. If they show a new hottest year on record, that’s a big story. If they show a big increase over the previous month, or the same month in the previous year, that’s a story. If they represent a sequence of warming months or years, that’s a story. When they show cooling of any sort—and there have been more cooling months than warming months since anthropogenic warming began—there’s no story.

Meanwhile a study by Judith Curry and Nic Lewis – also largely unreported by the mainstream media – confirms what skeptics have been saying for years: that the computer models used by the alarmist establishment to predict global warming are running too hot.

According to Investors Business Daily:

In the study, authors Nic Lewis and Judith Curry looked at actual temperature records and compared them with climate change computer models. What they found is that the planet has shown itself to be far less sensitive to increases in CO2 than the climate models say. As a result, they say, the planet will warm less than the models predict, even if we continue pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

As Lewis explains: “Our results imply that, for any future emissions scenario, future warming is likely to be substantially lower than the central computer model-simulated level projected by the (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and highly unlikely to exceed that level.

This brings projected “global warming” from being potentially dangerous to being easily manageable. Which is why, of course, it is unlikely to get much attention from a scientific establishment and a complicit media that much prefers to ramp up the global warming scare – even when the evidence doesn’t support it.

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Judge Says Conservative Student Groups Can Sue UC Berkeley over Speech Restrictions

Judge Says Conservative Student Groups Can Sue UC Berkeley over Speech Restrictions

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by Tom Ciccotta26 Apr 20180



A U.S. District Judge ruled this week that conservative student groups will be able to proceed with their First Amendment lawsuit against UC Berkeley.

According to a report from SFGate, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney of Oakland decided on Wednesday that UC Berkeley’s recent speech restrictions were motivated by security concerns rather than partisan bias. Despite this, Chesney said that conservative student groups at UC Berkeley will be permitted to proceed with their lawsuit, which claims that the university violated their First Amendment rights by placing unusual restrictions and astronomical security fees on visits by guest speakers.

The Berkeley College Republicans have hosted a number of high-profile conservative guests such as David Horowitz and Ann Coulter. Coulter canceled her appearance after the university required the group to host the event during class hours and far from the center of campus.

The student groups allege that UC Berkeley adopted an unwritten “high-profile speaker” policy that allowed administrators to subjectively determine restrictions for conservative guest speaker events.

The group’s attorney, Harmeet Dhillon, claims that she is satisfied with the judge’s ruling. “It means the case will go forward,” she said.

Much has been written about the issue of a heckler’s veto at UC Berkeley. A heckler’s veto refers to when the government suppresses speech due to a fear of a potential violence from protesters. Public universities across the country are currently forced to convince their students that restrictions placed on partisan political events are not the result of preemptive intimidation by potential protesters.

Breitbart News has written extensively about the concept of “security fee censorship.” A direct descendant of the “heckler’s veto,” security fee censorship refers to the notion that universities can get away with shutting down partisan political events by charging extremely high security fees that student groups can’t afford.

 

 

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Cory Booker Votes Against Gay Trump Nominee After Posturing as Gay Rights Champion

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) had positioned himself as a champion of gay rights in his opposition to Mike Pompeo to become secretary of state, then on Thursday he voted against Richard Grenell, the Trump administration’s first prominent openly-gay nominee, for U.S. ambassador to Germany.

Grenell’s nomination was confirmed by the Senate anyway, in a 56 to 42 vote, making him the highest-ranking openly gay official in a Republican administration ever.

During Pompeo’s confirmation hearing earlier this month, Booker attacked him over his position that gay persons should not be married, despite Pompeo telling them that as CIA director he treated married gay couples at the agency the same as anyone and believed they should be treated equally.

Booker launched the attack on Pompeo despite having endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for president in 2008, even though Obama held the same view on gay marriage as Pompeo at the time.

“You’re going to be representing this country and their values abroad in nations where gay individuals are under untold persecution, untold violence,” Booker lectured Pompeo at the hearing on April 12.

“And I do not necessarily concur that you are performing the values of our nation when you can’t even — when you believe that there are people in our country that are — are — are perverse,” he said.

The exchange was covered in the press, where Booker was portrayed as tough. He is widely considered to be a presidential aspirant for the Democratic Party.

Earlier this year, Booker went on what some outlets characterized as a rant against Kirstjen Nielson, Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He claimed he had “tears of rage” after Trump allegedly referred to some nations as “sh-thole” nations.

But Booker’s hypocrisy was on full display on Thursday, after he opposed Pompeo’s confirmation based on his gay marriage views, and then opposed the confirmation of Richard Grenell as U.S. ambassador to Germany.

As an ambassador, Grenell would be doing exactly what Booker stated was so important — representing America at a time of “untold persecution.”

Booker had opposed Grenell’s nomination twice in Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meetings — once in October, and another time in January, but made no public statement on doing so.

On Thursday, Booker voted against Grenell’s confirmation, along with 41 other Democrats and Independents.

The opposition came despite Grenell’s extensive foreign policy experience.

Grenell served as the former spokesman for National Security Adviser John Bolton, when he was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush.

He has also served as a political adviser and spokesman for Republican politicians and campaigns, including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during his 2000 presidential bid and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s bid in 2012.

Only red state Democrats, including some facing tough reelection fights, crossed the aisle and voted to confirm Grenell. That included Sens. Joe Donnelly (IN), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Doug Jones (AL), Joe Manchin (WV), Claire McCaskill (MO), and Jon Tester (MT).

Gregory T. Angelo, the president of Log Cabin Republicans, who called Democratic senators to secure support for Grenell, said some Democrats were posturing for future presidential runs.

“There’s really no reason for Democrats to continue to stand in the way of his nomination,” he told Metro Weekly, Washington, D.C.’s premier LGBTQ publication on Wednesday.

“There are Democratic senators who have informed me and our office that they would be opposing Grenell. Most of them are grandstanding Democrats with quixotic intentions of challenging Donald Trump for the presidency in 2020,” he said.

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