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Sunday, July 31, 2016

If Republicans Or Trump Believed The Lame Stream Media Would Report The Conventions Without Bias, They Don't Understand The Media



GUESS WHO LET THEIR BIAS SHOW?

Networks rated for picking favorites at political conventions


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Networks over the last two weeks targeted one political party with 12 times as many negative portrayals as the other, according to a new report.
Need time to guess which?
The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes, in a posting on Newsbusters, reports ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC portrayed the GOP negatively 63 times, while there were only five such references regarding the Democrats.
The report said MSNBC in prime time interviewed five Democrats at the RNC but no members of the GOP at the DNC, and CNN aired 62 minutes of official party videos during the DNC but only 14 minutes during the RNC.
Noyes reported: “By a 12-to-1 margin, journalists spent far more time deriding the Republican convention for its negativity, even as their reactions to Democratic speakers were consistently positive and often enthusiastic. Cable news had its own unique biases: MSNBC carved out time on each night of the GOP convention for interviews with top Democratic officials, but – despite promises to the contrary – aired no such interviews with Republicans during the Democratic convention. Meanwhile, CNN devoted more than an hour of airtime during the Democratic convention to airing 18 party-produced videos, but only included three such videos during the GOP convention.”

As WND reported, according to unofficial early figures, the Republicans bested the Democrats on convention Day 4 in the TV ratings, with Trump’s acceptance speech in Cleveland July 21 drawing about 30.2 million viewers compared to Clinton’s 27.8 million Thursday night.
The DNC had beaten the RNC the first two days, but Day 3 on Wednesday began a downturn for the DNC despite headliners President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Noyes’ report said that CNN notably “skipped [GOP] videos on important topics such as the Benghazi attack and the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious scandal, instead airing journalist panel discussions.”
But it aired 18 Democrats’ videos, including “‘Funny or Die’ videos mocking Donald Trump’s policies and several ‘Trump In His Own Words’ videos criticizing the GOP candidate’s controversial statements.”
“In addition, CNN showed the party-produced videos introducing speakers including Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, President Obama, and the nearly 12-minute video for Hillary Clinton that aired on the final night of the convention,” Noyes reported.
His report continued: “While the media routinely attacked the Republicans during the GOP convention for negative attacks on Hillary Clinton, the Democrats’ attacks on Trump were given a pass. MRC studied ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC’s coverage from 9 p.m. to midnight during the first two nights of each convention. During the GOP convention, journalists scolded the Republicans for negativity 63 times; for the same time period during the Democratic convention, viewers heard only five such comments from reporters, a more than 12-to-1 disparity.”
And while networks described Trump’s speech as “more of a harangue” and “more vengeful than hopeful,” when Clinton spoke, she was “sturdy” and “steely” and stressed her “experience,” the report said.
“And, of course, President Obama sent thrills up journalists’ legs,” Noyes wrote. “‘I don’t think we’ve ever had a president, save Lincoln, who is as great a speechwriter as this man,’ NBC’s Andrea Mitchell oozed. ‘It was magnificent,’ MSNBC’s Matthews tingled, ‘a wonderful farewell address.'”


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We All Need To Be More Supportive Of Police Officers



BLUE LIGHTS FOR BLUE LIVES SWEEP NATION

From coast to coast, Americans buying up bulbs to support police


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WASHINGTON – It may have started with a 12-year-old boy, the son of a police officer, in Thornton, Colorado, earlier in July, after the tragic police assassinations in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
Alex Herrera got the idea to encourage neighbors in his town to switch out porch lights with blue bulbs letting passing officers know they are appreciated and supported.
“Every day they wake up, they’re risking their lives for a stranger that they don’t even know,” Alex said.
When Alex and his parents stopped by a local home-improvement store, the manager was so impressed with the idea, he donated 24 bulbs to the cause.
Since then, the idea has swept across the nation – from little towns like Imperial, Nebraska, to large cities like Chicago and seemingly from coast to coast.
“Police officer’s lives do matter,” said Alex Herrera. “Every life matters. Not just one. Every life.”

That spirit has exploded nationally over the last two weeks – completely under the radar screen of the major media.
An electrical utility in Nebraska is getting behind the movement. The Southwest Public Power District is giving away to its customers in several counties free blue lights to install in outdoor fixtures with the support of local sheriff’s departments.
“These men and their deputies are called upon 24/7/365 to perform all duties from stray dogs to homicides and other violent crimes,” said Colyn Suda, SWPPD customer service manager. “The board and the employees of Southwest Public Power District would like to express their support and appreciation for all law enforcement, but especially those in the communities we serve in Southwest Nebraska.”
In Tampa, Florida, residents have embraced the grass-roots movement as Dakota Davis organized an entire neighborhood to switch to blue lights. “We do care,” he said. “Maybe when it feels a little bit dark out there for them, and they might be scared, that they know that we do care.”
In Chicago, they’re not only installing blue lights, but placing blue ribbons on trees. “It sends a message home. It’s such a quick indicator, a very simple action, but there’s a lot of meaning behind it,” said Al Torres of Garfield Ridge. “And we certainly hope it catches on.”
Indeed it is – in Martin, Kentucky, and Lafayette, Louisiana, where a Notoco store in Baton Rouge donated blue bulbs to honor fallen officer Montrell Jackson.
They’re going blue in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Austin, Texas, where the “Back the Blue” motto is being used by homeowners to show their support. Five-hundred bulbs were donated to the cause by Home Depot and other area business.
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But, so far, the White House has resisted bathing the nation’s most prominent residence in blue.
Barack Obama has been fond of lighting up the White House in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in rainbow colors following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest steadfastly declared the White House would not show its respect for fallen police officers in such a manner. And earlier this month, Obama ignored a prime-time TV request from Texas’ Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to join the movement. Michelle Malkin and conservatives recently visited the White House in a demonstration using blue lights to underscore the point.
Besides that, the only thing that seems to be holding the national movement back is a shortage of blue lights.
Many local stores across the nation have consistently been sold out of blue light bulbs.
“People every day are looking for them since Mr. Matt’s funeral,” Charles Creed, an employee at a local Baton Rouge hardware store said, referring to Matthew Gerald, one of the officers killed in the police ambush that also killed Montrell Jackson and Brad Garafola, and injured two other officers. “We haven’t had them in about two weeks.”
“All of our suppliers and distributers are out,” Creed said. “They are definitely in high demand.”
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Obama's Economic Record--Worst Since 1949!!

Barack Obama Is On Track To Be The Only President In History To Never Have A Year Of 3% GDP Growth

 By Michael Snyder, on July 29th, 2016
Barack Obama Giving A Speech - Public DomainWe just got another extremely disappointing GDP number.  It was being projected that U.S. GDP would grow by 2.5 percent during the second quarter of 2016, but instead it only grew by just 1.2 percent.  In addition, the Census Bureau announced that GDP growth for the first quarter of 2016 had been revised down from 1.1 percent to 0.8 percent.  What this means is that the U.S. economy is just barely hanging on by its fingernails from falling into a recession.   As Zero Hedge has pointed out, the “average annual growth rate during the current business cycle remains the weakest of any expansion since at least 1949″.  This is not what a recovery looks like.
In addition, Barack Obama remains solidly on track to be the only president in all of U.S. history to never have a single year when the economy grew by at least 3 percent.  Every other president in American history, even the really bad ones, had at least one year when U.S. GDP grew by at least 3 percent.  But this has not happened under Obama even though he has had two terms in the White House.
The following are the yearly GDP growth numbers under Obama.  They come directly from the official website of the World Bank…
2009: -2.8 percent
2010: 2.5 percent
2011: 1.6 percent
2012: 2.2 percent
2013: 1.5 percent
2014: 2.4 percent
2015: 2.4 percent
Does that look like a “recovery” to you?
Of course not.
And many are anticipating that this latest extremely disappointing GDP number will discourage the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates any time in the near future…
The disappointing report could keep the Federal Reserve on hold longer as it considers another interest rate hike. The Fed lifted its key rate in December for the first time in nine years but has held it steady since.
According to the pundits in the mainstream media, this was supposed to be the year when the U.S. economy finally returned to “normal”, but that has not happened at all.  In fact, in recent days we have gotten a spate of bad news about the economy.  We just learned that the homeownership rate in the United States has hit the lowest level ever, and Gallup’s U.S. economic confidence index has fallen to the lowest level so far this year.
With the election coming up rapidly, this is the kind of news that Hillary Clintondefinitely does not need.  She needs to be able to sell the American people on the idea that the Obama years have been very good for the U.S. economy.  If things take a sharp turn down in the coming months, that may be enough to cost her the election.
So far, Hillary Clinton’s economic agenda has not received that much scrutiny, but the truth is that she hopes to increase taxes in a whole bunch of ways which would be very harmful for the economy.  The following comes from an excellent piece by John Kartch and Alexander Hendrie…
Hillary has endorsed several tax increases on middle income Americans, despite her pledge not to raise taxes on any American making less than $250,000. She has said she would be fine with apayroll tax hike on all Americans, she has endorsed a steepsoda tax, endorsed a 25% national gun tax, and most recently, her campaign manager John Podesta said she would be open to a carbon tax. It’s no wonder that when asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos if her pledge was a “rock-solid” promise, she slipped and said the pledge was merely a “goal.” In other words, she’s going to raise taxes on middle income Americans.
Hillary’s formally proposed $1 trillion net tax increase consists of the following:
Income Tax Increase – $350 Billion: Clinton has proposed a $350 billion income tax hike in the form of a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions.
Business Tax Increase — $275 Billion: Clinton has called for a tax hike of at least $275 billion through undefined business tax reform, as described in a Clinton campaign document.
“Fairness” Tax Increase — $400 Billion: According to her published plan, Clinton has called for a tax increase of “between $400 and $500 billion” by “restoring basic fairness to our tax code.” These proposals include a “fair share surcharge,” the taxing of carried interest capital gains as ordinary income, and a hike in the Death Tax.
Taxes tend to be a pet peeve of mine, so looking at that list of proposed taxes definitely makes me cringe.
If Donald Trump wants to hit the Democrats really hard on the economy, all he has to do is point out the fact that Barack Obama is going to be the only president in American history to never see 3 percent economic growth for an entire year, and he had two entire terms in which to try to turn things in a positive direction.
Sadly, things are very likely going to be worse for the economy no matter who wins the election.  Under Obama, our national debt, our trade deficit, and most of our other long-term economic problems have gotten much, much worse, and so the table is set for a major economic disaster during the next presidential administration.
And if what I have to share about the future of America in my new book is correct, we are definitely moving into a “perfect storm” that will not just be economic in nature.  The things that are coming are going to shake this nation to the very core, and I believe that we will soon face the consequences for decades of exceedingly foolish decisions.
So in the end, we may look back and long for the days of 1.2 percent economic growth, because what is on the horizon is going to make that look like a Sunday picnic.
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We Knew Sanders Was A Sellout. It's Worse Than We Thought

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Finally Exposed: Bernie was Bought Off by Hillary Clinton with THIS

For a short period of time in May, it seemed that the Democrats would be the ones heading into
a contested convention. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was very close to former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that he could have made a real mess of her coronation had he decided to do so.
But instead, Sanders gradually submitted to Clinton and paved way for her coronation. Many
 of his die-hard fans and supporters were extremely shocked and got dismayed by this. They
 wondered why Sanders’ vows to continue his political revolution to the convention floor
 simply vanished!
The answer to this question will shock you. According to Buzzfeed, a memo from the Sanders
 campaign showed just how much it cost to get him out of the election mix: just one airplane.
That’s right. The leader of the socialist revolution, an environmental activist who thinks
global warming is a greater threat to the world than terrorism and the man who people
 thought always stuck to his principles, sold out his millions of devoted for a big plane. Wow. Brietbartreported:
Sen. Bernie Sanders will back Hillary Clinton in exchange for speaking opportunities

at fall campaign rallies, a fully-funded campaign aircraft and a share of the credit for

her hoped-for election, according to a negotiating memo obtained by BuzzFeed

News and dated two days before the June 7 California primary. Request a plane

and staff for a series of fall rallies in battleground states … plane would be paid for

by the DNC,’ according the Sanders memo, titled ‘End Game 2016’ and addressed

to ‘Bernie 2016.
Brietbart also said that it had been unable to confirm the memo’s authenticity but also that
 Sanders campaign did not deny it. So it turns out that Sanders does not care about anything
other than his own political future. What a sell out!
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