This you will remember although it happened fifteen years ago [!!!] because the news reporting went on for days at the highest level of intensity. And she was 19 at the time so in any sensible country there would have been nothing illegal about it. And the effects of grass are much greater than the effects of drink, specially on young children. But that’s not the point. It is what is reported and turned into scandal and what is not. And it is not so much “what” as “who”.
Donald Trump suggests that political pressure could be applied to a President Clinton on the selection of supreme court justices in relation to the 2nd amendment and every unhinged journalist goes off the deep end accusing him of advocating violence. The story: Trump: Maybe ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Stop Clinton From Picking Judges.
Trump said at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday that if Clinton gets to pick federal judges as president, there is nothing that can be done to protect the right to bear arms.
But then he adds without elaboration that maybe supporters of the Second Amendment could figure out a way. . . .
Like, say, through the Senate rejecting a nominee, maybe. Anyway, here he is:
Trump himself seemed unaware of the controversy in an interview shortly after the rally, but he repeated that his point was that Second Amendment advocates are a powerful lobby. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani also came to Trump’s defense.
“I think you are talking about — I’m not sure because I haven’t’ heard this question — but I think you’re talking about the power of people that are in favor of the Second Amendment, and they have tremendous political power,” he said.
When asked about Democrats’ statements equating the remark to condoning violence, Trump said: Oh no, no. This is political power.”
Giuliani added, “I mean, this is the Clinton trick book that you fall for all the time.”
Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller told CBS News’ Major Garrett the accusations the GOP nominee was calling for violence are “completely ridiculous.”
“Donald Trump was obviously talking about American voters who are passionate about their Second Amendment rights and advocating they use that power at the ballot box,” Miller told CBS News. “The Clinton campaign is desperate and is obviously throwing all sorts of outrageous charges. I am surprised so many reporters are falling hook-line-and-sinker for what is obviously a ridiculous charge.”
I’m not surprised, of course, but who can be so disciplined in everything they say so that nothing cannot be twisted to make it seem anything you like.
The Australian – a Murdoch paper – has a supplement on the American Election. Not all that neutral, as you can see by clicking the link. But in case you cannot be bothered, here is what you see right after the intro:
President Obama said Republican nominee Donald Trump is “unfit” to be president and questioned why top GOP lawmakers continued to endorse Trump for the White House while denouncing his actions.
Which comes with the following video:
The power of self-deception within the media class is extraordinary. They pass off their shallow and subjective valuations as deeply considered objective truths. This from The New York Times is almost beyond parody: Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism. That the media fail this test in every single election is neither here nor there. That they believe they are objective is the true idiocy. Let me quote:
If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?
Because if you believe all of those things, you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career. If you view a Trump presidency as something that’s potentially dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional. That’s uncomfortable and uncharted territory for every mainstream, nonopinion journalist I’ve ever known, and by normal standards, untenable.
Uncharted territory!!! What a bunch of self-deluded bozos these media people are.
See if you can guess. The Australian – a Murdoch paper – has a supplement on the American Election. Not all that neutral, as you can see by clicking the link. But in case you cannot be bothered, here is what you see right after the intro:
President Obama said Republican nominee Donald Trump is “unfit” to be president and questioned why top GOP lawmakers continued to endorse Trump for the White House while denouncing his actions.
Which comes with the following video:
The Oz also went for Turnbull which shows you how out to lunch these people are. Really absolute fools.
Talking American politics with anyone who does not look at various right-of-centre blogs is a depressing experience. The picture is from this blog: SHOCK PHOTO: Multiple staffers help unstable Hillary up stairs where it was found on Drudge which carries the story further.
Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday.
How many other policy disasters have followed from every foreign government having immediate access to everything Hillary illegally wrote as Secretary of State on her private email accounts. Ah well. What you don’t know can’t hurt you, I suppose. Or at least not right away.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan,” Saeed Abedini, one of the four hostages released from Iran back in January, stated that on the night he was freed, his captors told him they were waiting on another plane to arrive before letting him go.
Abedini said, “I just remember the night that we’d been in a[n] airport, just take hours and hours there. And I asked one of the…police that was with us, that, why are you not letting us to go to the…plane? And he told me we are waiting for another plane, and if that plane take off, then we’re going to let you go.”
He added, “[T]hey told us you’re going to be there for 20 minutes. But it took like hours and hours. We slept at the airport, and when I asked them why you don’t let us go, because the plane was there, pilot was there, everyone was ready that we leave the country, they said we are waiting for another plane, and until that plane doesn’t come, we never let you go.”
Abedini was then asked, “Were they effectively waiting for the money to come in before they then let you take off?” He answered, “Yeah. They didn’t talk about money. They just told us about the — they told me about the plane. … So, the reason that they said you’re here in the airport is — was just because we are waiting for another plane.”
Abedini was also asked if he believed a ransom was paid, to which he stated he was grateful for his freedom, but there are others still left behind in Iran.
AND A BIT MORE ON OBAMA’S CHOSEN SUCCESSOR: From a quite compelling article by Darly McCann at Quadrant Online: The Audacity of Crooked Hillary. From which, but you owe it to yourself to read the whole thing:
The corrupt cabal that currently rules – and betrays – America and the entire West is not going anywhere. Hillary Clinton magnanimously invited the supporters of Sanders to put aside their acrimony and get with the strength. Bernie, who had always been too gentlemanly – or should we say too PC? – to confront Clinton on the meaning of the private server and the deleted 30,000 emails, now meekly submitted. Hillary Clinton has not participated in a proper news conference for over nine months and yet over and over again, during the televised Democratic debates, Bernie Sanders passed up the opportunity to address the record of the woman in the spotlight immediately adjacent to him. His faint-heartedness, we could conclude, amounts to a form of complicity.
Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is a searing, powerful and persuasive exposé on the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton. Just like in America: Imagine the World Without Her, director Dinesh D’Souza re-examines American history and highlights the facts that should make you horrified and alarmed if you’re a critically-thinking individual. Yes, you might find yourself in denial at first, but denial is a crucial and natural step in the process of coming to terms with a harsh truth. D’Souza includes some re-enactments and archival footage which help to enliven the film so that it’s not just a bunch of talking heads. The fact that D’Souza remains calm and collected, unlike Michael Moore, throughout the film, is a testament to his strengths as a documentarian and investigator. Did you know that it was actually the Democratic Party was racist the Civil War? Or that the “hood” or “ghettos” are essentially the modern versions of plantations? In other words, the Democratic Party is still just as racist now as it was back in the Civil War, but Democrats, will, of course, deny their racism. Did you know that the KKK originated from the Democratic Party and its members were Democrats themselves? Or how about that Planned Parenthood is mostly found in areas where minorities can be found is a form of eugenics started by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood? Hillary Clinton just so happens to consider Margaret Sanger to be a role model. D’Souza explains something that you ought to know about Hillary: her mentor was writer Saul Alinksy who began scamming people early on in his college days by ripping off his school’s cafeteria while convincing others to take part in the scams as well. That scam serves as a microcosm of what Hillary Clinton plans to do in our country.
And on it goes. The 95% who hate this film are Democrat Operatives with Bylines, and these are merely film critics. The political commentators are worse. Whether we end up seeing it in Australia, it is worth noting that Box Office: Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘Hillary’s America’ Becomes Top Grossing Doc of 2016. Fighting the left is a continuous ongoing uphill battle.
This is from Hot Air’s Live Blog of the second day of the Democrat National Convention.
9:58pm Ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for Bill Clinton: “We need a leader with the experience and judgment to keep America safe…When Hillary served as Secretary of State I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country’s reputation around the world. She fought terrorism. She stopped the spread of nuclear weapons…Smart power in every corner of the world…
“She knows that safeguarding freedom and security is not like hosting a TV reality show. It is a complex, round-the-clock job that demands not only a steady hand and a cool hand but also a big heart.”
Hillary Clinton became the first woman to earn a major party’s presidential nomination on Tuesday evening as Democratic delegates officially gave her the votes she needed to win the election.
‘History,’ was what she tweeted with a photo of herself on stage at a rally.
Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance and moved to have Clinton named the nominee by acclimation after she had more than enough votes to win.
He joined his home state of Vermont, which passed the first time around in the roll call vote, for the history-making moment.
‘I move that all votes, all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record, and I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States,’ he said.
The gesture was to be a signal of unity and reconciliation during the fractured Democratic Convention.
His delegates, on the hand, were not so moved to accept the result of the vote. A group of them walked out in protest after Clinton officially won the nomination.
Reading the puppet columnists at The Australian – you know the ones, for example, who went after Tony Abbott on orders from their boss – is a trial that too often starts the day on the wrong foot. Here we have that empty vessel, Greg Sheridan going after Melania Trump’s speech writer for cribbing a passage from Michelle Obama. At least it wasn’t the passage where Michelle had said she was for the first time proud to be an American. So as we decide the fate of Western civilisation, this is what Sheridan writes: US Republican race: Donald Trump circus adds plagiarism to act. From which:
There were the rowdy demonstrations from anti-Trump Republicans, the powerful theme of Make America Safe Again, a stage entry from The Donald himself straight out of World Championship Wrestling, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani doing his version of “I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Gunna Take It Anymore”, and Melania Trump plagiarising her cliches from Michelle Obama. I didn’t know that anyone would bother to plagiarise cliches. After all, they’re cliches, right?
Given that Sheridan is repeating the identical meme from the left-media in the US, you can see how useless his analysis is going to be for the rest of the American presidential election. Nothing on Guiliani, for example. So for your interest, here is his speech which you will learn nothing about from reading The Oz.
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