The hyper righteousness, holier-than-thou sermonizing, insane comparisons to Nazi Germany, and other democrat and media commentary on illegal immigrant separation from children on arrest, is directly related to the senate and house hearings with the IG and the corruption and bias in the Obama FBI/DOJ/CIA. It is intended to misdirect, confuse, and otherwise shift the media narrative from the IG report to immigration.
Journalists or Democratic Operatives With Bylines
Six Days in June: Nets Flood Broadcasts With 176 Minutes of Separated Kids Coverage
“…Outraged anchors and correspondents at ABC, CBS and NBC attacked the Trump administration for separating children from parents at the border as they overwhelmed their Monday morning and evening news programs with a massive 94 minutes of coverage on the detainment policy.
Overall, in just six days of coverage (June 13 through June 18) the nets have flooded their broadcasts with almost three hours (176 minutes) of emotional segments that included pictures of crying children and accompanying anger from correspondents and pundits alike…”
Catholic Bishops Gear Up to Beat Trump in 2020
They’ve proven themselves unable to maintain a community of faith in the U.S., so I guess they need to import a bunch of Catholic immigrants from Mexico and Central America to make up the difference.
Deal Hudson:
“…Trump/Pence won 52 percent of all Catholic votes and 56 percent of mass-attending Catholics. In the election aftermath, the weeping and wailing at the USCCB must have matched that of Hollywood, the EU, and the mass media…”
The Compassion is Selective
The democrat/media emotional fit over separating children from incarcerated illegal aliens achieves a new height of political hypocrisy. I congratulate them.
The intensity of the immigration debate on the left across many western countries, not just the U.S., can be explained by the observation that existing voters won’t give the left the power it wants, so they are attempting to import new voters. There is also the distraction affect that causes U.S. voters to loose focus on the IG report and political bias in the Obama FBI/DOJ/CIA. Left media can report on the monster Trump separating children instead of bias in government.
Paul Bedard:
“…Over 20,000 children a year are put into foster care because their American parents are taken to jail, 10 times the number of those separated when illegal immigrant parents try to sneak into the U.S. but are caught, according to a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. However, unlike the congressional outcry over President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy targeting illegal immigration, there has been no mass protest of or investigation into the separation of children from those in jail…”
Brief Summary of IG Report
Liz Sheld:
“…The elevator pitch version of the IG report can be summarized as follows: the investigation found there was mind-blowing bias among senior officials in the FBI/DOJ against Trump and his moron supporters but the officials claimed it didn’t affect any of their investigations so it’s all good. Move along now…”
Indictment or Whitewash? Both
Kurt Schlichter:
“The IG report, simultaneously a devastating indictment of elite misconduct and a total whitewash, is a symptom of the moral leprosy infecting our elite. It is rotting away our institutions, and the foundations of the United States as we knew it. But the elite can’t, or won’t, even admit to itself what we all see.”
Moonset Over Mt. Baldwin
Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Mt. Baldwin Roof Pendant. The McGee Creek Terminal Moraine is in the foreground.
Racism is Wrong Even When Harvard Does It
Political correctness in higher education is out of control and leads to poor decisions and “preferred” minority groups with different acceptance criteria based on race and ethnicity. Hard to believe—or maybe not.
Glenn Reynolds:
“…I wrote four years ago that it looked as if Asian applicants to Harvard were getting the ‘Jewish treatment‘ — that is, being subjected to quotas, and rated down on “soft” qualifications, so as to keep their numbers lower than their objective qualifications would warrant. This is what Ivy League schools did to Jewish applicants for much of the 20th century, because Jewish applicants were seen as boring grinds who studied too hard, and whose parents weren’t rich enough or connected enough to contribute to the schools’ flourishing…”
Grocery store and filling station in the high plains. Dawson County, Texas.
Finest Hour
Winston Churchill, on this day in 1940, delivers his “Finest Hour” speech:
“…What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.’…”
Satisfaction With U.S. Direction Reaches 12-Year High
Gallup:
- Satisfaction rate of 38% is highest since September 2005
- Second month in a row above 35%, also for the first time since 2005
- Satisfaction rises among Republicans and independents, not among Democrats
Tioga Pass
Watch Journalists Mock Trump’s Announcement as a Candidate for President
Too good!
If America’s so evil, why does the left think immigrants keep coming?
Heather Mac Donald:
“…In coming to the US, if you believe the dominant feminist narrative, the female aliens would simply be exchanging their local violent patriarchy for a new one. Indeed, it should be a mystery to these committed progressives why any Third World resident would seek to enter the US.
Not only is rape culture pervasive in the US, but the very lifeblood of America is the destruction of “black bodies,” in the words of media star Ta-Nehesi Coates. Surely, a Third World person of color would be better off staying in his home country, where he is free from genocidal whiteness and the murderous legacy of Western civilization and Enlightenment values…”
Obama’s silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation
John Kass:
“…Of all the silky lies being told in Washington over the findings of the FBI’s inspector general on the biased culture of those investigating Hillary Clinton’s email server, one lie seems to be ignored:
It’s the silky lie told by then-President Barack Obama.
It may have set the tone for the smarmy intrigue detailed in the FBI inspector general’s damning 500-page report on the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
And Washington is revealed once again as our modern Versailles, a place of courtiers and lickspittles who’d use the Ministry of Justice to serve their ambitions.
Obama told his silky lie when his chosen successor was Hillary Clinton.
Clinton had endangered top secret information by using an unsecured, home-brew email server when she was U.S. secretary of state. Any other American who dared risk top government secrets on a basement server would have faced federal prosecution and prison.
Obama’s lie was told in 2015, when Obama was asked by CBS’ Bill Plante when he learned Mrs. Clinton had used an unsecured email server.
“The same time everybody else learned it, through news reports,” Obama said. He was so silky that you couldn’t even hear his tongue rustling along his teeth.
He waxed on about how his administration was all about “transparency.”
But Obama did not learn about Clinton’s home-brew server like “everybody else.”
According to the inspector general’s report, Obama was in fact one of 13 top government officials communicating with Clinton on her private email server, even as Clinton’s server was targeted by foreign intelligence services.
According to the IG report, before former (and fired) FBI Director James Comey took it upon himself to publicly criticize Clinton (and exonerate her from a criminal charge), a draft of his public address was heavily edited.
It was edited for Hillary Clinton’s benefit, to buttress the case that what she did wasn’t prosecutable.
But Comey’s comments were also edited to protect someone else. The IG report discusses a key paragraph in Comey’s statement summarizing the FBI’s thinking that “hostile actors” had accessed Clinton’s server.
The paragraph, the report said, “referenced Clinton’s use of her private email for an exchange with then President Obama while in the territory of a foreign adversary. This reference was later changed to ‘another senior government official,’ and ultimately was omitted.”
Obama cut his political teeth in Chicago. And Chicago Democrats are asking taxpayers to help build a great Temple of Love and Fealty to honor that “senior government official.”
And they’ll honor him by name.
Just chew on this apiece: How could Hillary Clinton ever be prosecuted without implicating Obama, who emailed her using a pseudonym?
Obama might have been portrayed as a victim of her use of a private server. She used that server to hide her dealings with the controversial Clinton Foundation from congressional inquiry. She should have been prosecuted.
But then, two things would have happened.
Her campaign would have fallen apart immediately, and along with it, Obama’s legacy.
The Obama White House, the senior pro-Obama bosses of the FBI and just about all the political suits thought Clinton would be our next president.
And who wants to anger the next ruler? Careers were at stake, promotions, perks, power, just as it was back in the day, in old Versailles…”
Tenaya Lake
Thunderbolts
Four A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft fly next to a KC-135 Stratotanker during Saber Strike 18, June 8, 2018.
Mt. Dana
11 Quick Things To Know About The Inspector General’s Report
Mollie Hemingway does great work and this article is one of the best I’ve read on the DOJ IG report. Click on the link for more.
The IG’s Report May Be Half-Baked
Andrew McCarthy levels devastating criticism on the DOJ IG report. The FBI is in a bad situation. If by some chance you, or another regular citizen, were caught up in a criminal matter there is no way in hell you be given the same deference, the same latitude, the same benefit of the doubt that the IG gives to the FBI agents in the Clinton e-mail probe. Click on the link for the article.