So claim you are emotionally distraught about some event somewhere and you get a pass on your criminal activities. I guess it also depends on whether the Portland DA personally agrees with your position on the issue for which you claim to be distraught.
Camping is often called America’s favorite outdoor activity. But camping and national parks have a complicated past when it comes to racial equality and equal access for all.
BLM Chicago Leader on the looting of stores: "That is reparations…. anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance…" pic.twitter.com/uB9GAGmkLu
Just a run of the mill thief. If these criminals do not suffer the consequences of their actions it will continue and get worse. We need a statement from the Mayor on this. Does she think that the looting classifies as reparations?
“…There are three groups of people that will vote for Trump: Those who supported Trump in 2016; those who have come to support Trump; and those who are so frightened of Biden and the Democrats that they’ll do anything to see Trump win. This has the potential to be a sizable voting bloc, one that may give Trump more than the 30 states he won in 2016…”
“…A recent landmark poll of 20,000 citizens undertaken by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that Americans’ hope for and trust in an objective media is all but lost. They see not only an ever-growing partisanship in news reporting but a determination by the mainstream media to push a political agenda instead of honestly disseminating the news. While generic faith in the media has been gradually declining over recent decades, the precipitous drop in trust and questions about what motivates the mainstream media can be traced to June 2015 and Donald Trump’s entry into the presidential sweepstakes.
This latest Gallup poll is the most devastating indictment of the media in polling history. Some highlights:
84% of surveyed Americans lay either a moderate or a great deal of the blame for today’s partisan hostility at the feet of the media.
Further, 82% believe news outlets are either deliberately “misrepresenting the facts” or are “making them up entirely”.
This is further amplified as 79% of those surveyed say media outlets are trying to persuade people to adopt a certain opinion about an issue or an individual.
Similarly, while the respondents in the poll believe that the media is “critical” or “very important” to democracy, 86% say they have witnessed either a fair amount or a great deal of bias in news reporting. Damningly, 78% feel that this bias is reflected in the spread of fake news which “is a major” problem” that exceeds all other in the mainstream media environment.
By contrast, in 2007 62% of respondents in a Pew Research poll claimed to have witnessed either a fair amount or a great deal of bias in news reporting; in another Pew Research poll in 2012, that result increased slightly to 67% as compared to 86% today. How did the mainstream media sink to this abysmal level of distrust and disdain?
Donald Trump’s entry into the presidential field in 2015…”
“…Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot protected the citizens of Chicago yesterday by arresting a 7-year-old having a birthday party.
The mayor reportedly jumped in her car and drove over toward the boy’s house, waving at looters, rioters, and murderers as she passed. Bricks, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades flew over her car as she hurtled down the streets of Chicago, careening down alleyways and ripping through parking lots to get to the illegal party.
“Drop the cake and put your hands behind your head,” Lightfoot said. “Nice and easy — you’re coming with me.”
“The streets are now safe,” Lightfoot said as she led the boy to a Chicago PD squad car…”
“…The Trump campaign has been making claims that rival candidate Joe Biden isn’t fit to debate, has been “hiding in his basement,” and may try to skip the debates so as not to embarrass himself. The Biden campaign has denied these charges and said that Biden is looking forward to the debates and a chance to confront Trump. They had some caveats, though.
“Because of the coronavirus concern, we will need to take extra precautions,” said Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon. “Biden will need to wear an extra safe face mask that will cover his entire face. And while wearing it, his voice might sound different — even have a different accent — but that’s just because of… the mask.”…”
Gettysburg is often called the high-water mark of the confederacy. Lee attempted a spoiling attack in Pennsylvania to relieve pressure applied by Grant to Confederate forces in Mississippi and especially Vicksburg. Lee’s attack failed. Grant’s attack was successful. The Confederacy was split at the Mississippi River. The Confederacy never recovered from these losses. Gettysburg is considered a great Union victory, though Meade failed to follow up and press Lee in retreat and further destroy the Army of Northern Virginia.
CNN's Jeremy Diamond claims without evidence that Trump might have his speech in Gettysburg because he loves the Confederacy: "This is a President who has consistently positions himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals." pic.twitter.com/cqKxbINsBx
In one of the most famous speeches ever delivered, Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. In that speech Lincoln proclaimed and defined the United States as:
“…a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…”
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was short, lasting only a few minutes. Photographers anticipated a much longer presentation and were not ready as Lincoln resumed his seat on the dias. The only photograph captured of Lincoln that day is below. The image is an enlargement to show the President. The President’s long time friend, Ward Hill Lamon, stands to his left in the top hat.
I used to know this speech by heart. It is dear to me.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Modern American media is a disgusting joke, with few exceptions.
Did The FBI Mislead The Senate Intelligence Committee On The Steele Dossier? The Media Is Not Interested
Jonathan Turley:
“…The point is not that this source is clearly telling the truth or that this proves a deep-state conspiracy. Rather, the question is why this document has received virtually no media attention — as with earlier declassified documents. It is at best misleading by omission and at worse intentionally false in its briefing of a congressional intelligence committee. The media spent years exploring every possible claim of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, which were found to be baseless. Yet, these recent documents raise serious questions of false statements to Congress to keep that investigation going. These serious allegations of false statements and false evidence in an investigation that targeted figures associated with the opposing party and its presidential campaign. Indeed, the recent documents show, in direct contradiction of prior statements, the FBI used briefings with Trump as part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The response from the media? Crickets. Nada. Not interested.
We should be interested. This is why I continue to support the investigation by John Durham and why former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has called for continuing these investigations. The problem is that there seems a virtual new blackout on the new evidence being declassified. After using tanker loads of ink on the unfounded collusion theories, the media seems unwilling to use a drop of ink on the evidence of misconduct in pursuing that investigation. In today’s echo-journalistic world, there is no place for such stories that challenge the prior narrative…”
