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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Trump's Fake News Awards

2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. Studies have shown that over 90% of the media’s coverage of President Trump is negative.

Below are the winners of the 2017 Fake News Awards.

1. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.

2. ABC News' Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report.

3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks.

(via Fox News)

4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office.

5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in.

6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding.

7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci’s meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a “significant breakdown in process.”

(via washingtonpost.com)

8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump’s hand.

9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump’s claim that he was told he is not under investigation.

10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report.

(via WashingtonPost.com)

11. And last, but not least: "RUSSIA COLLUSION!" Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION!

While the media spent 90% of the time focused on negative coverage or fake news, the President has been getting results:

1. The economy has created nearly 2 million jobs and gained over $8 trillion in wealth since the President’s inauguration.

2. African Americans and Hispanics are enjoying the lowest unemployment rate in recorded history.

3. The President signed historic tax cuts and relief for hardworking Americans not seen since President Reagan.

4. President Trump’s plan to cut regulations has exceeded “2 out for every 1 in” mandate, issuing 22 deregulatory actions for every one new regulatory action.

5. The President has unleashed an American energy boom by ending Obama-era regulations, approving the Keystone pipeline, auctioning off millions of new acres for energy exploration, and opening up ANWR.

6. ISIS is in retreat, having been crushed in Iraq and Syria.

7. President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and instructed the State Department to begin to relocate the Embassy.

8. With President Trump’s encouragement, more member nations are paying their fair share for the common defense in the NATO alliance.

9. Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the VA to fire failing employees and establishes safeguards to protect whistleblowers.

10. President Trump kept his promise and appointed Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Left Should Keep Throwing Stupid, Unsubstantiated Claims At Trump. It Makes Them Look Like Hateful, Undisciplined Children

If The Left Wants Trump To Win, They Should Just Keep Overplaying Their Hand

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BY:

BEN SHAPIRO

JANUARY 18, 2017

This week, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., accused President-elect Donald Trump

of being an illegitimate president. He said: "I think the Russians participated

in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of

Hillary Clinton. ... When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just,

you have a moral obligation to do something."

Lewis wasn't the only person claiming that Trump had been elected
illegitimately. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who just last
week was preaching about why it's important to "(be) a mensch," wrote
that it is "an act of patriotism" to "declare the man about to move into
the White House illegitimate." Jehmu Greene, a Democratic National
Committee chair candidate, said that Trump was "allegedly elected."

In response, another DNC chair candidate, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.,
upped the ante. He said he wouldn't be attending the inauguration
because "(He) will not celebrate a man who preaches a politics of
division and hate." Ellison spent most of his career lauding the hateful
and divisive Nation of Islam.

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Meanwhile, Trump met with Martin Luther King III at Trump Tower; King
emerged in the lobby after the meeting and explained: "(Trump) said that
he is going to represent all Americans. ... I believe that's his intent, but I
think we also have to consistently engage with pressure, public pressure."
Trump also met with entertainer Steve Harvey; they discussed poverty and
incoming Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, and
Harvey then stated: "I found him in our meeting both congenial and sincere.
Trump wants to help with the situations in the inner cities. ... I walked away
feeling like I had just talked with a man who genuinely wants to make a
difference in this area."

So, do most Americans believe that Trump is a vicious racist, an illegitimate
president who must be treated with scorn and disdain? Of course not.
While Trump is highly unpopular for an incoming president -- he has the
lowest approval rating in modern history, at 40 percent -- nearly all
Americans think Trump was elected legitimately. A majority of them
don't think Trump is racist.

Yet the left continues to double down on fiction instead of banking on fact.

In the past, the media and the Democrats were able to peddle extreme
fictions because they had more powerful bullhorns than their targets.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney could safely be labeled a tax cheat by Sen. Harry
Reid, D-Nev., without fear of being blasted with a public relations tsunami;
Vice President Joe Biden could state that Romney wanted to put black
people back in chains; President Barack Obama could lie about the state
of U.S.-Russia relations; the media could trot out old, unsubstantiated
stories about Romney's supposed gay-bashing. And Romney couldn't do a thing.

That's not the case with Trump. Love him or hate him, Trump knows how
to get attention, and his 20 million followers on Twitter give him quicker
access to a wider audience than virtually any single media outlet or
personality. That means the media and the Democrats need to
button up their criticism rather than throw the kitchen sink.

But they're used to throwing the kitchen sink.

One problem: Trump has a public relations trebuchet, and he'll simply
launch every kitchen appliance available in response.

If the left wants to keep marginalizing itself, it ought to continue leveling
every radical allegation it can find against Trump. If the left wants to
defeat Trump, it should stick to the facts.

Given recent history, that seems highly unlikely.

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Democrats Who Continue To Bemoan Their Loss Are Damaging America.

Democrats Trashing Democracy Aren’t Just Hypocritical, They’re Unleashing A MONSTER

Who's the "sore loser" now?

Joe Saunders November 17, 2016 at 3:53pm

This is getting to be a pattern.

The last time a Democrat administration was turned out by a Republican after eight reckless years in the White House, liberals took to the streets, the courts and the halls of Congress to try to stain the George W. Bush presidency before it even got off the ground.

After Republican Donald Trump shocked the entire media and political establishment by defeating Hillary Clinton last week, they’re at it again – and it’s even more malevolent than before.

In other words, the most prestigious newspaper in the country — at least for now — boasts one of its most prestigious op-ed columnists who is now openly claiming the president-elect of the United States is, in effect, a Manchurian candidate foisted on the American people by a corrupted director of the country’s most prestigious law enforcement service? In cahoots with Kremlin-controlled puppets of Vladimir Putin?

This was the newspaper, remember, that less than as month ago was warning Donald Trump supporters of the sacred duty of American citizens to respect the results of an American election. When Trump refused to answer a question during the third presidential debate asking if he would accept the verdict of the American electorate, the Gray Lady reached for the smelling salts.

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In the closing paragraph of an Oct. 19 editorial titled “Donald Trump’s Contempt for Democracy,” the so-called “newspaper of record” warned:

Mr. Trump’s meltdown in the closing weeks could be dismissed as a sore loser’s bizarre attempt at rationalizing his likely defeat. But his trashing of the democratic process, in the service of his own ego, risks lasting damage to the country, and politicians from both parties should recoil from him and his cynical example.”

Bravo, New York Times. Long may your circulation flourish.

But can we introduce you to a fellow you might already know? He probably doesn’t get around the newspaper’s offices much, being a hotshot economist who no doubt emails his column in from Mount Olympus, but he sounds like just the sort of “sore loser” you’re condemning, right down to the “bizarre attempt at rationalizing” defeat.

The “Comey,” of course, is FBI Director James Comey, the man whose premature — and ultimately faulty — exoneration of Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton back in July sent liberals like Krugman into paroxysms of praise for the FBI’s adroit handling of the thorny Clinton email investigation.

In fact, it was The New York Times itself that explained in a July editorial titled “Legal, But Not Political, Clarity on the Clinton Emails” that said, “Led by Mr. Comey, who also served as deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush, the F.B.I. appears to have worked as comprehensively and expediently as it could to investigate a problem that is entirely of Mrs. Clinton’s making.”

Of course, that was back when the fix appeared to be in for the Democrats to steal the 2016 general election for Hillary Clinton, after the Democrat National Committee had succeeded in stealing the nomination for her in the primary campaign.

Now, that American voters, by a convincing Electoral College majority, have decided that the next president of the United States will be a political bomb-thrower named Donald Trump, the sanctity of American elections, and the credibility of the man who leads the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, are not only in doubt, but utterly worthless. So says Paul Krugman and others on the left, including Hillary herself.

And down this road lies madness.

See, the problem here is not just disgruntled, disoriented hypocrites like Krugman and his Times brethren, liberals to a man – or woman – and living an utter disconnect between their actions and the principles of American journalism.

It’s not just the late-night talk show hosts (like the pitiful Stephen Colbert) or even the broken-hearted Hollywood celebrities who swore Hillary Clinton was all that stood between America and barbarism.

The problem is the one The Times – however hypocritically – warned of in its Trump editorial: The “trashing of the democratic process risks lasting damage to the country.”

For once in a great, great while, The Times was absolutely correct about something, and that is that the corrosive effect of powerful forces continually attacking the underpinnings of American democracy is going to hurt the country badly in the years ahead.

Democrats of The Times bent have never worried much about “lasting damage to the country.” The raison d’etre for the newspaper and the politically liberal ruling class it considers its audience is too cosmopolitan for such concerns.

And opinion columnists like Krugman don’t worry about it at all. This is a guy, after all, who picked up $225,000 a year for a part-time job studying – you guessed it — income inequality (besides income he might get from speaking fees, book sales, and whatever The Times pays him for his drivel.)

Sixteen years ago, the Democrats chanted that George W. Bush was “selected not elected,” after a Supreme Court ruling threw Al Gore’s groundless election challenge into the trash. Today, liberals like Krugman are circulating dark rumors that the United States presidency is a pawn in the hands of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked behind the scenes with America’s adversary as it knowingly corrupted the electoral process to ensure Hillary Clinton’s defeat.

Groundless charges like that will inflame the Democrat partisans, of course, but they’re playing with fire for the United States. The ultimate currency of a country built on the rule of law is trust. And when Democrats have utterly debased that, they’re going to do more damage to its fiber than any Confederate flag ever could — even the ones that flew at Gettysburg and came down at Appomattox.

At the moment, the country is safe. Far from being ascendant, Democrats are at their lowest point politically since Woodrow Wilson’s regime. The presidency is in Republican hands, as are both houses of Congress, the majority of state governorships, and most state elective offices.

But the Democrats will come back one day, the pendulum of American democracy virtually guarantees it. And what lengths will they go to the next time they’re thrown out of power?

In the Hillary Clinton campaign, liberals marshaled every cultural force available to them — a slavish news media, the entertainment and academic worlds — and still they lost.

The increasingly hysterical reaction to Trump’s unexpected victory last week contains an ominous, dangerous warning: Chances are, they’re not going to take any chances the next time around.

The repeating pattern may become permanent.

What do you think?

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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Trump's Fake News Awards

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Left Should Keep Throwing Stupid, Unsubstantiated Claims At Trump. It Makes Them Look Like Hateful, Undisciplined Children

If The Left Wants Trump To Win, They Should Just Keep Overplaying Their Hand

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Democrats Who Continue To Bemoan Their Loss Are Damaging America.

Democrats Trashing Democracy Aren’t Just Hypocritical, They’re Unleashing A MONSTER

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