 Enemy of the people Are the mainstream media an enemy of the people? Donald Trump sure thinks so; the "fake news" media anyway, which is what he calls the "failing" New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN.  Bob Livingston has made a case that they are, writing: [I]f the media are covering over these things for the Deep State — whether actively or passively — they are an enemy of the people; as is the FBI, which is even now being uncovered as having attempted — with other aspects of the Deep State — a coup against a lawfully elected president. Those outlets Trump mentioned have certainly had no qualms about accusing Trump of being "an enemy of the people." Their standard trope is that Trump is operating for Russia or on behalf of or at the instruction of Vladimir Putin — claims which have yet to be substantiated. The crywhineys in the MSM — and that includes you, Jim Acosta — are in a constant lather trying to defend their "honor" over Trump's attacks on them. They've even gone so far as to show they are colluding against Trump, engaging in a group-think pushback yesterday in which hundreds of anti-Trump media sites editorialized against Trump and efforted to regain their sacrificed legitimacy. And reporters like Acosta regularly claim to fear for their lives when covering Trump rallies. But we note that while there is no documented case that we're aware of of a Trump supporter doing anything more than calling Acosta (and a few other anti-Trump journalists) bad names and giving them middle finger salutes, there are documented — and recent — cases of leftists attacking the media. And they've gotten very little media attention. At Saturday's demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, marking the one-year anniversary of violent protests and outright thuggery between the fascist Antifa terrorist group and white supremacist agitators that left Heather Heyer dead, Antifa goons pushed on and swatted NBC reporter Cal Perry's camera. Antifa also clashed with police and journalists at "Sunday's Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington, D.C., throwing eggs and water bottles and shooting fireworks at them. The left-wing news outlet Vox reported that "a few left-wing 'antifa' (short for 'anti-fascist') counterprotesters did engage in violence, throwing eggs and water bottles and shooting fireworks at police officers and some journalists who were covering the demonstrations... This weekend in Charlottesville and DC, though, it wasn't neo-Nazis and white supremacists the antifa attacked. It was police who were there to help keep the peace among all the demonstrators and journalists who were there to cover the events." Perry tweeted a video from the event, saying that "Protesters (were) very aggressive with media."  Vox's reporting on the Antifa violence drew the ire of the HuffPost's "hate and extremism reporter" Christopher Mathias, who tweeted about it, "This is a bad article & a good example of how not to cover white supremacy," with a link to the Vox article.  In other words, the reporter at HuffPost doesn't think reporters should report that the Antifa fascist are acting like fascists. And the rest of the fake media don't think violent attacks on the press warrant coverage because the attackers aren't Trump-supporting "deplorables." So Trump has a point. CNN and 'fake news' are becoming synonymous In the wake of a Pew survey that seemed to show that some Trump voters are souring on him, CNN put together a completely unbiased and legitimate panel of "Trump voters" which proved that not only are "some" Trump voters souring on him, but half of all Trump voters think he's a monster and everyone who voted for him — themselves included — are "idiots" for having done so. However, it turns out that one of the panelists (at least), didn't sour on Trump after the election. He soured on him long before. The supposed Trump voter-turned-panelist Jeremy Montanez told CNN's Alisyn Camerota that he turned on Trump when he "heard what was going on at the southern border." But in fact, Montanez has a YouTube channel on which he posted a video stating, "It makes me disgusted at the majority of this country but then what can I expect anything less from, you know, a majority of half the population nominating a person like Donald Trump." Montanez's social media accounts show him to be a communist-sympathizing supporter of the crazy-eyed socialist wunderkind nincompoop Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. On a side note: Montanez bristled at NewsBusters' account that questioned his Trump-voting bonafides and told them, "[Y]es I am a socialist yes I am a die-hard liberal but I did support this President and you can't prove otherwise." Right... Honesty compels us here to point out that CNN is not the only media outlet known to put together phony panels stuffed with phony panelists in order to push a phony narrative and label it as organic and unscripted. It just seems that CNN — the network that gave its favored gal the debate questions ahead of time — is the worst at finding panelists that haven't already discredited themselves. Politico's heartstring-plucking gobbledygook Seeking to further stir the pot regarding Trump's policies aimed at slowing down illegal immigration into the U.S., the website Politico ran a diatribe by a physician named David S. Glosser who claims to be the uncle of Trump immigration policy adviser Stephen Miller. Glosser tells the story about how his forebears fled their village in Belarus at the turn of the 20th century to escape "violent anti-Jewish pogrom and forced childhood conscription in the czar's army" and boarded a ship bound for America. Wolf-Leib Glosser entered through Ellis Island, New York, and began working in sweatshops and peddling on street corners in order to earn enough money to bring his family to the United States. Later, that immigrant family built several businesses including a chain of supermarkets and discount department stores that would be listed on the American Stock Exchange. Glosser weaves his tale through the family tree until he comes to his and Miller's place in it, then proceeds to condemn Miller for helping Trump craft an immigration policy that reflects Miller is "numb to the resultant human tragedy and blind to the hypocrisy of their policy decisions." It's a heartwarming story, but Glosser is engaged in propaganda, or what we'd call fake news. He sophistically writes:
I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses— the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants — been in effect when Wolf-…
There's a vast difference between incarcerating illegals caught sneaking across the border and assimilating immigrants who entered legally through America's main point of entry and declared themselves as refugees at Ellis Island. Glosser is a highly educated and accomplished man and is certainly aware there's a difference. He — and Politico — is counting on you not knowing it. I'll bet the next family reunion's going to be fun. Fabricating 'hate crimes' What is it with restaurant workers in Texas where it seems fabricated hate crimes are becoming all the rage these days? We recently told you about the Facebook pile-on that was based on a phony message scrawled on a restaurant receipt in Texas. A photo of the receipt with the message, "I don't tip terrorists" was posted by Khalil Cavil, who later recanted his story. Now we learn of another social media wildfire over alleged racist comments, this time in Waco. As KWTX-TV reports:
Freestone County Sheriff Jeremy Shipley is livid over a widely circulated social media post in which a waitress at a Waco restaurant falsely claimed that one of his employees scrawled a racial slur against Hispanics on a receipt. "The character and integrity of this employee and my office has been a…
Well I'm certain they have. Nothing gets the social media social just warriors and cultural Marxists off their butts and into their Twitter and Facebook accounts faster than some perceived racial slight. And it's especially motivating for them if the "offender" is a "racist cop." According to the story, the Hispanic waitress at a Japanese steakhouse — we're sure there's a joke in there somewhere — received the receipt back with a "racist remark... against the Hispanic community" written on it. It's unclear from the photo what the "racist remark" was, but it appears to say: Worts attendance here Ever! ____ Mexicans! The word before "Mexicans" was blurred out so we have to take their word for it that it's "racist." It's clear that English is not the first language of whoever wrote the message, so it could have been a cop, I guess. (If you've ever read a police report you'll know what I mean.) But after police watched surveillance video and compared handwriting samples the unnamed waitress caved under questioning and confessed to writing the message herself. "My employee did not deserve this, nor does my office or any law enforcement agency in this state or across America. This is a perfect time to remind people that just because it's on social media doesn't make it true," Shipley said. |
Carter Page FISA docs posted here, 412 pages, partly redacted. int.nyt.com/data/documenth… pic.twitter.com/F89vKZ8Psn
From the FISA App: "The FBI believes that the Russian Government's efforts are being coordinated with (Carter) Page."
If there is no evidence of collusion currently, there was no evidence of collusion when the FBI made this statement. pic.twitter.com/DVq76EacJd
The FISA app cites the media's speculation - which was wholly unsubstantiated and based on zero evidence - about why Trump might be friendly to Russia. pic.twitter.com/RD4lJyc07d
