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First the NFL rejected a print ad from a veterans group asking Super Bowl
attendees to stand for the national anthem. Now, the league and NBC, the
network broadcasting the game Sunday, have rejected a TV ad from AML BitCoin for being “too political,” according to the company.
The ad mocks North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, with an actor portraying
the despot as angry his hackers can’t steal their crypto-currency.
“We have been informed by our media buyers that the network carrying the
NFL’s Super Bowl game, NBC, will not accept our television ad ‘North Korea
Can’t Steal AML BitCoin’ for placement during the broadcast.” AML Bitcoin
president Marcus Andrade wrote in a letter to NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell, of which The Daily Caller obtained a copy.
“An ad taking Kim Jong-un, dictator of North Korea, to task in a humorous
and biting way should not be offensive to anyone,” the letter continues. “Our
ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong-un and his army of hackers have been
stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past
few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting
efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior. And our ad points
out that, unlike the other digital currencies, the AML BitCoin has been
designed with features that prevent his army from stealing it.”
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/first-they-attacked-veterans-now-the-nfl-defends-kim-jong-un#0JRglv7pLyOtw7OK.99
A Democratic politician and public school teacher used his classroom to smear U.S. soldiers as “dumbsh—s” and the “lowest of our low.”
But he’s still being paid to “teach,” he’s still on city council, and his friends on the school board told parents who objected to shut up.
President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, retired General John Kelly, was not going to be shut up — this four-star general slammed the ignorant teacher for his belittling attack.
It all began when two students wore shirts with the Marines logo to El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, a little town just outside Los Angeles.
That triggered their teacher, Gregory Salcido, who launched into a profanity-laced tirade in the middle of class.
One of the students, who recorded the whole thing on his cell phone, said serving in the military is a “family tradition.”
But Salcido, who teaches history and government, insulted the kid’s family – and every single soldier protecting America in the War on Terror.
“Think about the people who you know who are over there – your freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever,” he said. “They’re dumbsh–s.”
“They’re not, like, high-level thinkers,” he continued.
“They’re not academic people, they’re not intellectual people. They’re the freakin’ lowest of our low,” he ranted.
The only reason people join the military, Salcido said, was “because you had no other options,” because “you didn’t take care of business academically”…and “because your parents didn’t love you enough.”
Watch this obnoxious rant here —
The video went viral after a friend of his mother’s posted it on Facebook – and Salcido got slapped down by one of the highest-ranking generals serving in the U.S. government.
Kelly, did not mince words.
“I think the guy ought to go to Hell, I just hope he enjoys the liberties and the lifestyles that we fought for.” he said.
The city’s mayor has also condemned Salcido’s words and removed him from all council committees.
But the school district has circled the wagons around Salcido – and told outraged parents who wanted some answers that they can sit down and shut up!
The El Rancho Unified School District put Salcido on administrative leave – which means he’s paid to stay at home and do nothing.
Then school board members refused to listen to comments from veterans and flag-carrying patriots in the community who demanded Salcido be sent packing at their last meeting.
“We will not entertain public comments that are not part of the agenda,” said the school district president on Tuesday night. Conveniently, Salcido wasn’t on the agenda.
When the parents started to rumble, she told them, “As your elected officials, you need to give us an opportunity to talk.”
No, as their elected servants, you need to shut up and listen.
But the school board president shares the same radical left-wing politics as Salcido. She’s praised people who made “Donald Trump piñatas.”
The problem is, she’s not just protecting Salcido’s taxpayer-funded propaganda. Sometimes, Salcido’s hate speech bleeds over into action.
The school suspended him twice before, when he threatened to kill a teenage girl for talking – and when he hit a 15-year-old boy in the back of the head for dozing off in his class. He admits both acts but says they were overblown.
Salcido’s power and position probably didn’t hurt, either. He’s been a member of city council for 19 years and served as mayor three times.
He also ran for Congress in 2002 – as a Democrat. Surprise, surprise.
His insulting, ignorant view of our military is shared by the most powerful figures in the Democrat Party. At the height of the Iraq War, John Kerry said that people who don’t do well in school would “get stuck in Iraq.”
Only idiots, beggars, and losers serve in the military, according to them. But Kerry, Salcido and their buddies are dead wrong about the people who serve in the U.S. armed forces.
92 percent of enlisted military personnel have completed high school and some college. That’s way higher than 60 percent national average, according to Pew Research.
As a matter of fact, people, from the poorest neighborhoods are actually less likely to join the military than people from the best neighborhoods. Most recruits come from the middle class.
And almost 90 percent of soldiers say they joined for one reason: to serve and protect their country. The least we can give them is our respect.
Call the El Rancho Unified School District at (562) 801-7300 (or e-mail them), and tell them Gregory Salcido has no business teaching young, impressionable children.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”
The Democratic National Committee had a rough 2017, plagued by leadership troubles, internal squabbling, and unflattering reports. To top it off, the party ended the year "dead broke," says The Intercept's Ryan Grim.
The Democratic Party is carrying more than $6 million in debt, according to year-end filings — and has just $6.5 million in the bank. Do the math, and the party is working with just over $400,000 overall. Meanwhile, the Republicans are swimming in pools of money. The Republican National Committee had raised $132 million by the end of 2017 — about twice as much as the DNC — and entered 2018 with almost $40 million to spare, with not a penny of debt.
The DNC's rebuttal, The Washington Post reports, is that they raised more money in 2017 than they have in previous non-election years and were operating at something of a disadvantage given the "rebuilding job" undertaken by first-year chairman Tom Perez. While the DNC claims it is not borrowing money to pay the bills, Grim notes that the party would be operating at a financial loss if not for its borrowing.
If there is any cause for Democratic optimism, it's that individual Democratic candidates seem to be doing well for themselves even as the national party apparatus struggles. NBC News reported Thursday that nearly 50 non-incumbent Democrats running for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections outraised their Republican opponents in the last quarter of 2017. Kelly O'Meara Morales
President Trump said on Twitter Saturday morning the controversial memocompiled under Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on the House Intelligence Committee and published without redaction Friday proves his innocence of election meddling collusion with Russia:
This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
Most other analyses have concluded the memo does not contain much of significance.
The president also boasted of more favorable poll numbers following his State of the Union address Tuesday:
Rasmussen just announced that my approval rating jumped to 49%, a far better number than I had in winning the Election, and higher than certain “sacred cows.” Other Trump polls are way up also. So why does the media refuse to write this? Oh well, someday!
Immediately prior to making that tweet, he retweeted twoposts from one of his sons, Eric Trump, linking to media reports about the polling bump. Bonnie Kristian
