Pulitzer prizes were won for blaring utter fiction. Brit Hume – It was the worst journalistic fiasco I’ve seen in 50 some years in journalism. It was a disaster.

https://youtu.be/NeK0YU3f-sI

2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting citation to the New York Times and Washington Post Staffs on their Russia Collusion coverage:

“For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the Nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election…”

What a total joke. Journalists are a laughing stock. The profession has reached a new basement bottom, elevator pit low.

Republican wins in Wisconsin

Republican wins Wisconsin special election

WI-7 Special Election Results – 92% of precincts reporting

Tiffany (R): 57% (98,602 votes)
Zunker (D): 43% (74,837 votes)

This is to replace a retiring Republican

Great Obamagate meme, watch

Has hell frozen over?

Republican leading in California special election

This is to replace the 30 something congresswoman who had affairs with male and female staffers and posted nude photos on the interwebs. The Democrats in California have many tricks, like ballot harvesting, so it is not over until it is over.

The most transparent administration in history

Upholding the blatantly obvious

Encouraging Illegal Aliens To Remain In The US Is A Crime, Supreme Court Rules

It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal

New York Post Editorial Board:

“…RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?

It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.

Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.

Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who’d be staying on in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump.

It happened at an Oval Office meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, intel chiefs John Brennan and Jim Clapper and national security adviser Susan Rice, as well as FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

“From a national-security perspective,” Rice’s memo afterward put it, “President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

This even as then-President Obama also directed that as many people as possible across his administration be briefed on the (utterly unsubstantiated) allegations against Team Trump — and as Rice and others took unprecedented steps to “unmask” US citizens like Flynn whose conversations had been caught on federal wiretaps of foreigners.

Indeed, the Obama administration went on a full-scale leak offensive — handing the Washington Post, New York Times and others a nonstop torrent of “anonymous” allegations of Trumpite ties to Moscow. It suggested that the investigations were finding a ton of treasonous dirt on Team Trump — when in fact the investigators had come up dry.

Sadly, Comey’s FBI played along — sandbagging Flynn with the “friendly” interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he’d done nothing like collude with the Russians.

Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn’t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.

Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.

Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty…”

Original

Media

Late night hosts loved attacking Trump but haven’t said a word about Tara Reade

Nothing funny there, I guess?

Journalism

Meet the Press Mangles a William Barr Quote to Make Him Look Awful, and It Backfires

Related:

20 Minutes from Chuck Grassley on the Obamagate fiasco, worth watching

Preposterous nonsense

Biological Males in Women’s Sports Cannot Be Called ‘Males,’ Must Be Called ‘Transgender Females,’ Judge Says

There are real cases of cross-gendered people. It is a tragedy. I pray for them. I hope they can cobble together a good life for themselves. It is not something to be celebrated. The left are delusional.

Will There Be an Obamagate Reckoning?

Brian C. Joondeph:

“…Spygate has a new name under the trending Twitter hashtag #ObamaGate. It is being revealed to the public in a slow but systematic fashion, a treasonous plot to undermine a presidential election and subsequent presidency. When that failed, the plot twisted to destroying a duly elected president through leaks, innuendo, and outright lies.

This was not simply a few rogue FBI or DOJ agents taking justice into their own hands. Instead a plot of this magnitude had the blessing of the big boss, the capo di tutti capi, as the Mafia like to say, the boss of all bosses, President Barack Hussein Obama. Hence the name ObamaGate.

It seems that the Obama administration was spying not only on candidate Donald Trump, but a host of other political opponents using NSA “about” queries. These unauthorized searches of the NSA’s database of all electronic communications numbered in the thousands and were carried out by intelligence “contractors” until NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers shut it all down. Conservative Treehouse has a detailed description and timeline of this nefarious activity.

Failing to prevent the election of the inevitable Hillary Clinton, Obama and his goon squad set out to destroy Trump’s presidency. One might call this a “seditious conspiracy,” which 18 U.S. Code § 2384 describes, “If two or more persons in any State or Territory…conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States.”…”

Original

Epoch Times put this outstanding preliminary summary of the Spygate/Obamagate fiasco together, very good

It is enlargeable, go here

Bottom headline of the day

Brian Stelter triggered, ready to cry

Massive surveillance…that’s what’s been found

AG Barr responds to request from 2,000 former DOJ officials asking for his resignation

Obama Administration officials start to feel heat from recent document release

Newly declassified evidence undercuts former DNI Clapper’s testimony to Congress Newly released FBI records raise doubts about former intelligence community chief’s claim he never briefed Obama about Flynn-Kislyak calls.

“…Newly declassified evidence undermines James Clapper’s testimony to Congress, raising questions about whether the former Director of National Intelligence misled lawmakers about briefing former President Obama on former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s telephone conversations with a Russian diplomat…”

Great article on the underlying reason Flynn was targeted by the Obama Administration

The Real Reason for Flynn’s First Firing

This is a great piece by Jim Fanell. Go over and read it.

Liberal media may ignore it, but Obamagate will explode, and they can’t do a damn thing about it.

Why Did Obama Tell The FBI To Hide Its Activities From The Trump Administration?

Margot Cleveland doing yeoman’s work over at The Federalist. Worth clicking over.

“…In 1980, 15-year-old Amy Carter left a burnt cake in the oven of the White House’s family quarters in a reflex of childish revenge for her father’s landslide loss to Ronald Reagan. In 2017, Barack Obama and Joe Biden avenged Donald Trump’s surprise victory over Hillary Clinton by leaving what they claim was a Russian agent in the West Wing

That conclusion inevitably follows if one accepts as credible the FBI’s supposed predicates for launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign and the four related probes into George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn.

On July 31, 2016, the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, purportedly to learn if members of the Trump team were “coordinating or cooperating” with the Russian government to influence or interfere with the 2016 elections. By August 16, 2016, the FBI had opened four subsidiary investigations on individuals connected to the campaign, claiming their connections to Russian businesses, pro-Russian factions, or Russian-owned entities “reasonably indicated” they “may wittingly or unwittingly be involved in activity on behalf of the Russian Federation which may constitute a federal crime or threat to the national security.”

Let the ‘Russian Spy’ Keep Spying…”

Democrat who authored bill that damaged CA gig economy now sends message to last car maker in state

Car makers response:

My response to lawmaker:

You are a Democrat. That’s who you are.

Doug Santo