Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) slammed Alabama Head Football Coach Nick Saban on Thursday in response to Saban signing onto a letter trying to pressure Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) into voting for Democrats’ left-wing voting agenda.
&#8220;They use that term on purpose, &#8216;voting rights,&#8217; because who could possibly be against voting rights?&#8221; Roy began. &#8220;For example, allow me to quote from acclaimed election history and law experts Jerry West, Nick Saban, Paul Tagliabue and company, quote, &#8216;in the last year, some 20 states have enacted dozens of laws that restrict voting access and allow local officials or state legislatures to interfere inappropriately with federal election outcomes, motivated by the unanticipated outcomes of recent close elections conducted with integrity,&#8217; they say, &#8216;these state laws seek to secure partisan advantage by eliminating reliable practices with proven safeguards and substituting practices ripe for manipulation.'&#8221;
&#8220;No doubt these famed election law experts spent the weekend reading the federal legislation for which they were lobbying, because, I mean, I got the 700 page bill at 11:30 last Thursday night before voting on it on Friday,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I assume they read it thoroughly over the weekend as my staff stayed up into the middle of the night doing to actually see what was in the bill. I assumed too, that they know, for example, that the bill would lead to completely outlawing or eliminating voter identification.&#8221;
&#8220;Do they know that four in five Americans, 80 percent, support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I know my colleagues are sure fine with everybody having to show a voter identification with vax cards all across this country, including the nation&#8217;s capital.&#8221;
&#8220;Do they know that Delaware and Connecticut require photo or non-photo ID?&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;And more, I&#8217;m certain that they have studied the intricacies of Texas law before disparaging it. I&#8217;m sure they spent time looking at that. Or, say, studied the Georgia election law, at least a little better than studying the University of Georgia&#8217;s, say, defense. Do they know that Georgia has 17 days of early voting and that President Biden&#8217;s home state of Delaware only has 10 dates? Are we looking at Delaware?&#8221;
Saban&#8217;s team lost to the University of Georgia in the College Football Playoff National Championship earlier this month.
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Boss roasting Nick Saban: ✅ 
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<blockquote>REP. CHIP ROY (R-TX): They use that term on purpose, &#8216;voting rights,&#8217; because who could possibly be against voting rights? For example, allow me to quote from acclaimed election history and law experts Jerry West, Nick Saban, Paul Tagliabue and company, quote, &#8216;in the last year, some 20 states have enacted dozens of laws that restrict voting access and allow local officials or state legislatures to interfere inappropriately with federal election outcomes, motivated by the unanticipated outcomes of recent close elections conducted with integrity,&#8217; they say, &#8216;these state laws seek to secure partisan advantage by eliminating reliable practices with proven safeguards and substituting practices ripe for manipulation.&#8217;
No doubt these famed election law experts spent the weekend reading the federal legislation for which they were lobbying, because, I mean, I got the 700 page bill at 11:30 last Thursday night before voting on it on Friday. Right before we got the rule. I assume they read it thoroughly over the weekend as my staff stayed up into the middle of the night doing to actually see what was in the bill. I assumed too, that they know, for example, that the bill would lead to completely outlawing or eliminating voter identification.
Do they know that four in five Americans, 80 percent, support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot? I know my colleagues are sure fine with everybody having to show a voter identification with vax cards all across this country, including the nation&#8217;s capital.
Do they know that Delaware and Connecticut require photo or non-photo ID? And more, I&#8217;m certain that they have studied the intricacies of Texas law before disparaging it. I&#8217;m sure they spent time looking at that. Or, say, studied the Georgia election law, at least a little better than studying the University of Georgia&#8217;s, say, defense. Do they know that Georgia has 17 days of early voting and that President Biden&#8217;s home state of Delaware only has 10 dates? Are we looking at Delaware?</blockquote>
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Nick Saban Chip Roy

Chip Roy Levels Nick Saban: Should’ve Studied Georgia’s Laws Better Than He Did Georgia’s Defense

Chip Roy

Joe Manchin

Nick Saban

PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor was mocked online following President Joe Biden&#8217;s press conference on Wednesday for her lavish praise of Biden&#8217;s performance while he was widely criticized by many others.
Alcindor&#8217;s remarks come after Biden faced backlash over remarks that he made about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-has-to-issue-statement-cleaning-up-bidens-disastrous-remarks-on-russia-ukraine">Russia and Ukraine</a>, his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-his-struggles-in-office-i-didnt-over-promise-but-i-have-probably-outperformed">alleged accomplishments</a> in office, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-appears-lose-cool-reporters-question-divisiveness-go-back-read-what-i-said">snapping</a> at a reporter, his widely criticized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-his-disastrous-pullout-from-afghanistan-i-make-no-apologies-for-what-i-did">pullout from Afghanistan</a>, his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-grilled-over-if-hes-mentally-fit-for-office-ex-obama-doc-demands-immediate-cognitive-test">mental fitness</a> for office, and his claim that elections <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-elections-might-not-be-legitimate-if-my-leftist-voting-rights-agenda-is-not-passed">might not be legitimate</a> if his voting agenda is not passed.
&#8220;Pres Biden, in the longest news conference in presidential history,&#8221; she claimed, &#8220;made news, pushed back on critics, called out lies, took responsibility for mistakes he believes he made, expressed surprise at GOP, talked foreign policy and didn&#8217;t lash out on reporters. Quite the change.&#8221;
&#8220;There is so much to say about Pres Biden&#8217;s presser,&#8221; she continued. The thing that sticks w/ me is that he took responsibility for mistakes he believes he made, expressed genuine frustration w/ COVID &amp; his agenda being stalled by GOP and Democrats &amp; took hard questions without insulting folks.&#8221;
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Pres Biden, in the longest news conference in presidential history, made news, pushed back on critics, called out lies, took responsibility for mistakes he believes he made, expressed surprise at GOP, talked foreign policy and didn&#39;t lash out on reporters. 
Quite the change.
&mdash; Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1483946716256735234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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There is so much to say about Pres Biden&#39;s presser. 
The thing that sticks w/ me is that he took responsibility for mistakes he believes he made, expressed genuine frustration w/ COVID &amp; his agenda being stalled by GOP and Democrats &amp; took hard questions without insulting folks.
&mdash; Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1483947465191858181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Alcindor received mockery from right-wing, centrist, and left-wing journalists and political commentators over the tweets.
<ul>
<li>Glenn Greenwald, journalist: &#8220;Not even Jen Psaki would be willing to write something so gushing and propagandistic. As I said when she was hired by NBC, the more out in the open they are about their absolute loyalty to the Democratic Party, the better: the more people will see what their real function is.&#8221;</li>
<li>Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist: &#8220;The debasement and brazen lies of the corrupt propagandists of the White House press corps on full display. Take a bow, Yamiche.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dan O&#8217;Donnell, radio host: &#8220;Yamiche, you are truly the best White House Press Secretary ever! You brilliantly speak for the President and make him sound spectacular. What’s that? You’re not the Press Secretary? You’re what? An objective reporter? Oh…&#8221;</li>
<li>Tom Shattuck, radio host: &#8220;A real reporter would be concerned that the lashing out had stopped.&#8221;</li>
<li>Jeryl Bier, journalist: &#8220;Quite the change from&#8230;? He&#8217;s been president for a year now.&#8221;</li>
<li>David Reaboi, political commentator: &#8220;He’s not gonna sleep with you. In fact, he’s already asleep.&#8221;</li>
<li>Jerry Dunleavy, The Washington Examiner: &#8220;A Mona Lisa-esque tweet ruined only by the glaring lack of an Oxford comma.&#8221;</li>
<li>Nate Hochman, National Review: &#8220;I would love to hear a coherent argument for why we should continue to fund PBS when Yamiche Alcindor is the face of their news department lol.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
The press conference comes as Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-approval-rating-crashes-dips-toward-20s-in-mainstream-poll">seen</a> his poll numbers sink in recent weeks to as low as 33% in a left-of-center mainstream poll.
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Meet the Press – Season 72

Yamiche Alcindor Blasted Over Lavish Praise Of Biden Press Conference: Bigger ‘Propagandist’ Than Psaki

Joe Biden

Yamiche Alcindor

President Joe Biden was widely criticized online on Wednesday following his about two-hour press conference, the first press conference that he&#8217;s given in months, over his responses to a variety of questions.
Biden suggested during the press conference that a &#8220;minor incursion&#8221; by Russia into Ukraine might not elicit the same response from the U.S. as a full-scale invasion.
When asked about his struggles in office and whether he overpromised on the campaign trail, Biden responded, &#8220;I didn’t over-promise, but I have probably outperformed what anyone thought would happen.&#8221;
The following are some of the notable responses to Biden&#8217;s press conference:
<ul>
<li>Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire: &#8220;Biden saying that we might not respond disproportionately to a &#8216;minor incursion&#8217; by Putin in Ukraine is the worst foreign policy blunder since&#8230;Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban and got 13 Americans killed and left hundreds more behind. So yeah, he sucks at this.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dan McLaughlin, National Review: &#8220;Biden is attacking the legitimacy of American elections while signaling Putin to try a &#8216;minor incursion&#8217; in Ukraine. None of this is normal. None of this is OK.&#8221;</li>
<li>Lisa Boothe, Fox News: &#8220;Did no one in Biden’s life love him enough to try to stop him from running? This is just embarrassing. He’s not fit for office.&#8221;</li>
<li>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA): &#8220;Biden has spent 1/4 of his presidency in Delaware and 2 hours today deflecting blame for the crises he created. One year on the job with Democrats in full control. That&#8217;s more than enough time for Americans to recognize that he has failed at his job.&#8221;</li>
<li>Jesse Kelly, radio host: &#8220;All ideologies aside, this Biden presser should serve as an example to all of the danger of living in a bubble and surrounding yourself with people who live in that same bubble. This is an administration that seems to have no idea what people are going through.&#8221;</li>
<li>Kayleigh McEnany, former White House press secretary: &#8220;If Trump said half of what Biden is saying right now, reporters would be screaming. But it&#8217;s Biden, so they don&#8217;t even bother to follow up.&#8221;</li>
<li>Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics: &#8220;Wow. Biden refuses to say midterm elections will be free and fair if his voting rights bill doesn&#8217;t pass.&#8221;</li>
<li>Noah Rotham, Commentary: &#8220;Biden clarifies that he didn’t call opponents of the voting rights bill racists. He said that you’re on the side of racists. Big difference.&#8221;</li>
<li>Kevin Sorbo, actor: &#8220;Guys Biden said the grocery stores aren’t empty and out of food, so clearly that’s correct, your eyes deceive you.&#8221;</li>
<li>Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigations: &#8220;This is embarrassing. The media is transparently pressuring Biden from the left on political issues, instead of using this rare opportunity to extract useful information.&#8221;</li>
<li>Caleb Hull, media strategist: &#8220;So Biden has now complained that elections are rigged, polls are fake, and that news coverage is wrong. Isn&#8217;t this everything that made Trump literally Hitler?&#8221;</li>
<li>Guy Benson, Fox News: &#8220;Biden admits he didn’t reach out to any Republicans ahead of his push to totally re-write the nation’s election laws.&#8221;</li>
<li>Matthew Continetti, AEI: &#8220;Today is a reminder of why Biden does so few press conferences.&#8221;</li>
<li>Clay Travis, OutKick: &#8220;This is an incredibly embarrassing press conference for Joe Biden. He’s reading from a pre-approved list of questioners on a list given to him. Is he incapable of calling on reporters himself? Because that’s the only explanation most people watching, including me, take from this.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dana Loesch, radio host: &#8220;Biden now yelling at reporters over Bull Connor in case you wondered how the presser was going.&#8221;</li>
<li>Joe Concha, The Hill: &#8220;Biden now claiming he hasn&#8217;t attacked anyone publicly while defending divisive speech in Georgia.&#8221;</li>
<li>Rory Cooper, Purple Strategies: &#8220;Joe Biden is upset we&#8217;re focused on the schools that are closed and not the ones that are open. The ones that are open are in spite of his allies, the ones that are closed are thanks to them. So, yeah.&#8221;</li>
<li>Laura Ingraham, Fox News: &#8220;Reminder: Biden was coached for days for this performance.&#8221;</li>
<li>Stephen Miller, former Trump adviser: &#8220;Today’s press conference from Joe Biden focused on the wrong border. He wants to uphold Ukraine’s territorial boundaries while relentlessly demolishing our own.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dagen McDowell, Fox Business: &#8220;Biden…Bragging about record job creation? The country is still 3.6 million jobs short of pre-pandemic employment. Oh and wages fell -2.4% last year after adjusting for the near 40-year high inflation.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dave Reaboi, political commentator: &#8220;I’m tempted to call the Biden presidency &#8216;elder abuse,&#8217; but the guy’s just such a vile piece of s**t.&#8221;</li>
<li>Joel Pollak, Breitbart News: &#8220;This press conference marks the effective end of the Biden presidency. Let the 25th Amendment discussions begin.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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President Biden Holds A Press Conference At The White House

Biden Slammed Over ‘Embarrassing’ Press Conference: ‘Let The 25th Amendment Discussions Begin’

MSNBC anchor Kendis Gibson is leaving the far-left network for a local news station, CBS’ Miami station, because he no longer wanted to be part of a &#8220;hyper-partisan&#8221; news environment.
Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kendis-gibson-msnbc-cbs-miami-anchor-1235155928/?dg">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The move shows ViacomCBS bringing in new local staffers under Wendy McMahon, co-president of the company’s news and stations unit, and Gibson says he welcomed the chance to take on a wider range of reporting than he was able to do at MSNBC, where he was anchoring early mornings on weekends.</blockquote>
“I wanted to get away from working in the hyper-partisan 24/7 political news space,” Gibson said. “This is a good chance to anchor a newscast that covers the full gamut of the news cycle which I love, including world news, entertainment news, human interest stories and stories important to local communities — and in an awesome city with a big commitment to local news from the top down.”
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-producer-quits-this-cancer-stokes-national-division-facts-too-cumbersome-for-audience">reported</a> on a former MSNBC producer who wrote an open letter back in August 2020 explaining why she left the network the previous week, saying that they are a “cancer” that is “stoking national division” by amplifying “fringe voices” and forcing “journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”
The letter was written by Ariana Pekary, whom Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-producer-ariana-pekary-letter">noted</a> described herself as an “integral member” of MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.”
Pekary began her letter by sharing quotes of what people said to her over the last couple of years as she pondered leaving the network due to the detrimental effect that it is having on society.
“July 24th was my last day at MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore,” Pekary wrote. “My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”
Pekary said that at MSNBC it was “practically baked in to the editorial process” that decisions on what and who give coverage to were based on what would generate the most ratings for the network. She said that behind closed doors “industry leaders will admit the damage that’s being done.”
A high profile TV veteran reportedly told her, “We are a cancer and there is no cure. But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”
“As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis,” Pekary said. “The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.”
“Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience,” Pekary later added. “There may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) – but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that. They could contemplate more creative methods for captivating an audience. Just about anything would improve the current process, which can be pretty rudimentary (think basing today’s content on whatever rated well yesterday, or look to see what’s trending online today).”
Pekary said that she had heard colleagues “deny their role as journalists,” and claimed that a “senior producer” told her, “Our viewers don’t really consider us the news. They come to us for comfort.”
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Philadelphia Prepares To Host Democratic National Convention

Veteran MSNBC Anchor Leaves ‘Hyper-Partisan’ News Environment To Go To Local News Station

MSNBC

CNN was widely mocked online on Tuesday afternoon after one of its top editors announced that the left-wing news network was creating a team dedicated to &#8220;covering misinformation.&#8221;
CNN Business Managing Editor Alex Koppelman made the announcement on Twitter, writing: &#8220;I&#8217;m hiring 3 people for a new CNN team dedicated to covering misinformation.&#8221;
&#8220;What do we mean by covering misinformation?&#8221; He continued. &#8220;Really it&#8217;s about covering reality: The uses, abuses, and distortions of it, the people twisting it, and the effect that has on all of us. We already do a lot of important work on this; we want to do more.&#8221;
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What do we mean by covering misinformation? Really it&#39;s about covering reality: The uses, abuses, and distortions of it, the people twisting it, and the effect that has on all of us. We already do a lot of important work on this; we want to do more.
&mdash; Alex Koppelman (@AlexKoppelman) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKoppelman/status/1483544292429897728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Koppelman later wrote the following about the reporters that CNN is seeking for the position: &#8220;Do you feel like you have to jump down every rabbit hole you see? Do you get mad when you see liars taking advantage of people? Do you spend more time on the internet than anyone really should? This might be the job for you!&#8221;
Notable responses to CNN included:
<ul>
<li>Buck Sexton, radio host: &#8220;Beyond parody.&#8221;</li>
<li>Candace Owens, The Daily Wire: &#8220;CNN to create a team dedicated to covering CNN.&#8221;</li>
<li>Monica Crowley, former Trump official: &#8220;The call is coming from INSIDE the house!&#8221;</li>
<li>Max Abrahms, professor: &#8220;Are you going to re-cover the Steele dossier, Hunter’s laptop, the Russian bounties, ISIS’ Air Force in Syria and all the other tales CNN told?&#8221;</li>
<li>Steve Deace, The Blaze: &#8220;Wow, impressed that CNN is investing real resources into internal accountability.&#8221;</li>
<li>Ram Prasad, entrepreneur: &#8220;This team will have to mostly cover the CNN anchors.&#8221;</li>
<li>Jeffrey A Dove Jr., former political candidate: &#8220;So a team dedicated to covering themselves. Seems a bit much @CNN.&#8221;</li>
<li>Seth Dillon, The Babylon Bee: &#8220;CNN creates team dedicated to covering CNN.&#8221;</li>
<li>Daniel Horowitz, The Blaze: &#8220;They will need at least one staffer per reporter they have to properly shadow.&#8221;</li>
<li>Drew Berquist, radio host: &#8220;Now this is going to be amazing! Can&#8217;t wait. Hope Brian Stelter is involved.&#8221;</li>
<li>Adel Meyer, political commentator: &#8220;The propaganda is going into overdrive now. Just when we thought 2022 couldn&#8217;t get any worse&#8230;&#8221;</li>
<li>Lee Williams, reporter: &#8220;Are you going to assign a reporter to cover Brian Stelter full time? He’s a walking, talking disinformation source.&#8221;</li>
<li>Sean Davis, The Federalist: &#8220;Pretty sure the entire network is already devoted to misinformation.&#8221;</li>
<li>Drew Holden, media critic: &#8220;They’ve finally found a description for CNN+?&#8221;</li>
<li>Steve Cortes, political commentator: &#8220;May I suggest they begin with the Charlottesville #FinePeopleHoax, a damnable calumny that CNN has propagated for years 5 years now? My repudiation of their role in spreading that myth led, in fact, to my departure from broadcasting for CNN.&#8221;</li>
<li>Jason Rantz, radio host: &#8220;This is rather surprising. You don’t normally hear of left-wing networks hiring staff to call out its fellow anchors, reporters and analysts for spreading nonsense. Kudos to CNN for finally looking in a mirror to call out their misinformation and disingenuous takes.&#8221;</li>
<li>Glenn Greenwald, blogger: &#8220;Along with NBC, the New Yorker, the Atlantic and NYT, Ground Zero for the insane Trump-is-Putin&#8217;s-blackmail-pawn conspiracy theory was CNN. They were led around by CIA to spread the most unhinged conspiracy. Now they really believe they fight, rather than spread, &#8216;misinformation.'&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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CNN World Headquarters

CNN Mocked After Announcing New Team ‘Dedicated To Covering Misinformation’: Must Be ‘Covering CNN’

CNN contributor and Democratic strategist Paul Begala appeared to slam the Democrats&#8217; base during a CNN segment on Monday, saying that the party had &#8220;bad followers.&#8221;
Begala made the remarks in response to comments from Arndrea Waters King, daughter-in-law to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-paul-begala-democrats-bad-followers">suggested</a> to Politico that Biden was not putting the &#8220;same power and passion&#8221; behind voting rights that he did in getting the infrastructure bill passed.
&#8220;Do you think that&#8217;s fair criticism?&#8221; CNN anchor Poppy Harlow asked. &#8220;Did President Biden put more effort into getting infrastructure passed, for example?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, he got infrastructure passed and that’s a good thing because success can breed success,&#8221; Begala responded. &#8220;He is putting the full force of the presidency behind it. I think the problem for the Democrats right now is not that they have bad leaders. They have bad followers, okay?&#8221;
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Democratic strategist <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulBegala?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PaulBegala</a>: &quot;I think the problem for the Democrats right now is not that they have bad leaders. They have bad followers.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/gAXuDc1IYi">pic.twitter.com/gAXuDc1IYi</a>
&mdash; Mediaite (@Mediaite) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1483194036521422852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Paul Begala

CNN Democratic Strategist: Democrats Don’t Have ‘Bad Leaders, They Have Bad Followers’

Democrats

President Joe Biden faced backlash on Sunday over remarks that he made in response to the hostage situation that unfolded on Saturday at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
Biden&#8217;s remarks came after a suspect took several Jews hostage at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue and demanded the release of a convicted terrorist. The suspect was later killed and the hostages were freed, unharmed.
Biden spoke to reporters briefly about the matter on Sunday and was asked if he knew why the suspect targeted the synagogue.
&#8220;Well, no, I don’t,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We don’t have — I don’t think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue or why he insisted on the release of someone who’s been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged — why he was using antisemitic and anti-Israeli comments.  I, I — we just don’t have enough facts.&#8221;
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We don’t know why he wanted the release of Lady Al Qaeda terrorist, huh? Ask CAIR, because they’ve spent the last year doing the same. <a href="https://t.co/3ZdI2Cxi6z">pic.twitter.com/3ZdI2Cxi6z</a>
&mdash; David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1482856683248443395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Notable responses to Biden&#8217;s remarks included:
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<li>Dave Reaboi, political commentator: &#8220;We don’t know why he wanted the release of Lady Al Qaeda terrorist, huh? Ask CAIR, because they’ve spent the last year doing the same.&#8221;</li>
<li>Chris Stigall, radio host: &#8220;This is a real quote. I actually thought it was sarcasm by @TPostMillennial . Nope, actual quote.&#8221;</li>
<li>Gerry Callahan, radio host: &#8220;If you are in favor of voter ID, you are Bull Connor, Jefferson Davis, George Wallace. It is Jim Crow 2.0. If you take Jews hostage in a synagogue and demand the release of a Muslim terrorist, Joe is gonna withhold judgment. He just doesn&#8217;t have enough facts.&#8221;</li>
<li>Foster, political commentator: &#8220;This is so effed up. And it&#8217;s worth noting even on pure cynical political grounds that you can still demagogue on right wing domestic terrorism **without** pretending that stuff like this doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;</li>
<li>Donald Trump Jr.: &#8220;Don’t worry Brandon everyone with an IQ above 6 knows exactly why, but it surprises no one that you don’t!&#8221;</li>
<li>Noah Pollak, political commentator: &#8220;If you oppose Biden&#8217;s legislative agenda you&#8217;re a racist but if you take a synagogue hostage on shabbat while screaming anti-Semitic jihadist slogans Biden isn&#8217;t sure what to call you.&#8221;</li>
<li>Mike Petchenik, commentator: &#8220;I’ll solve that mystery for you: He’s a radical anti-Semite. That’s why. Amazing how we tiptoe around the truth.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
FULL TRANSCRIPT PROVIDED VIA THE WHITE HOUSE:
<blockquote>THE PRESIDENT:  Hey, folks.  With regard to Texas and the synagogue, I spoke this morning with the Attorney General and — to get a rundown.  He said there’s overwhelming cooperation with the local authorities and the FBI, and they did one hell of a job. 
This was an act of terror.  This was an act of terror.  And it not only was related to someone who had been arrested, I might add, 15 years ago and been in jail for 10 years — the idea that it was something new. 
And they did just a great job. 
I also told him that I wanted to make sure we got the word out to synagogues and places of worship that we’re not going to tolerate this, that we have this capacity to deal with the assaults on particularly the antisemitism that has grown up. 
And so — and I’ll be talking with — I put a call into the rabbi.  We missed one another on the way up here.  And — but they should rest assured that we are focused.  We are focused.  The Attorney General is focused.  I’m making sure that we deal with these kinds of acts. 
And thank God — thank God we have such a professional FBI, as well as — the local cooperation, I was told, was incredible.  It was seamless.  So, I just wanted to let you know that. 
Okay?
Q    Mr. President, how could this gentl- — how could this man have gotten weapons?  There’s reports that he’s only been in the country for a couple of —
THE PRESIDENT:  Well —
Q    — weeks. 
THE PRESIDENT:  — allegedly — I — we — I don’t have all the facts, nor does the Attorney General.  But, allegedly, the assertion was he got the weapons on the street.  He purchased them when he landed. 
And — and it turns out there apparently were no bombs that we know of.  That — you know, he said that there are bombs he has as well. 
But he — apparently, he spent the first night in a homeless shelter.  I don’t have all the detail yet, so I’m reluctant to go into more — much more detail. 
But — and, allegedly, he purchased it on the street.  Now what that means, I don’t know.  Whether he purchased it from an individual in a homeless shelter or a homeless community, or whether — because that’s where he said he was — it’s hard to tell.  I just don’t know.
Q    (Inaudible) ramifications for the push to — on — to ensure that guns are not available?
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, no — well, it does but it also doesn’t.  The guns are — we should be — the idea of background checks are critical.  But you can’t stop something like this if someone is on the street buying something from somebody else on the street.  Except that there’s too — there’s so many guns that have been sold of late; it’s just ridiculous. 
And it’s because of the failure of us to focus as hard as we should and as consistent as we should on gun purchases, gun sales, ghost guns, and a whole range of things that I’m trying to do.
Q    Mr. President, do you know more about the motivations of the person? 
THE PRESIDENT:  No, I don’t.  I — there’s speculation, but I’m not going to get into that.  I will — I’m going to have a press conference on Wednesday, and I’ll be happy to go into detail of what I know in detail at that time. 
Q    Do you know why he targeted that specific synagogue, Mr. President?
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, no, I don’t.  We don’t have — I don’t think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue or why he insisted on the release of someone who’s been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged — why he was using antisemitic and anti-Israeli comments.  I, I — we just don’t have enough facts. </blockquote>
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Biden Slammed Over Remarks On Texas Synagogue Situation: ‘This Is So Effed Up’

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Top Democratic strategist James Carville took a shot at his own party during an NBC News interview on Sunday, saying that they needed to quit whining about things that they did not get, and focus instead on fighting for the American people.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve got a situation right now. The Biden coalition &#8212; nobody&#8217;s happy,&#8221; NBC News host Chuck Todd said. &#8220;Progressives aren&#8217;t happy right now with how Build Back Better has gone. African American activists are not happy about how voting rights has gone. And if you look at the polling, the – honestly, the thing that&#8217;s cratering the most are independents. You know, the folks that just wanted the temperature turned down. You&#8217;re the president. What do you fix first?&#8221;
&#8220;Now, I think a lot of the Democratic base has not been told or informed of the things that President Biden and this Congress has accomplished,&#8221; Carville claimed. &#8220;But to me, those are the things that, if I&#8217;m a Democrat, I much more care about that than some word in a dictionary &#8212; that children are going to bed with a full stomach and a warm, you know, a warm house. I care that somebody, an hourly worker, is not sitting there working away at $7.25 an hour. And I see these signs all over, even in Louisiana and south Mississippi, $700 signing bonus. Those are real accomplishments.&#8221;
&#8220;And it&#8217;s something that you can run on. And again, you don&#8217;t talk about what you didn&#8217;t get,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s what these &#8212; Democrats whine too much, Chuck. Just quit being a whiny party. And get out there and fight, and tell people what you did. And tell people the exact truth. The Republican Party stands for nothing other than, &#8216;Let&#8217;s relitigate the 2020 election,&#8217; or, &#8216;Let&#8217;s get back at Jamie Raskin.&#8217; That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the entire platform.&#8221;
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WATCH: &quot;Democrats whine too much,&quot; Democratic strategist <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesCarville?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesCarville</a> said on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTP</a> as independents drift away from the party in polling.
&quot;You don&#39;t talk about what you didn&#39;t get. &#8230; Quit being a whiny party and get out there and fight and tell people what you did.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/YWE2H1twyd">pic.twitter.com/YWE2H1twyd</a>
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CHUCK TODD, NBC HOST: You&#8217;ve got a situation right now. The Biden coalition &#8212; nobody&#8217;s happy. Progressives aren&#8217;t happy right now with how Build Back Better has gone. African American activists are not happy about how voting rights has gone. And if you look at the polling, the – honestly, the thing that&#8217;s cratering the most are independents. You know, the folks that just wanted the temperature turned down. You&#8217;re the president. What do you fix first?
JAMES CARVILLE: Well, first of all, I agree with my friend, Jim Clyburn. There&#8217;s an expression that I love. It&#8217;s called &#8220;soldier on,&#8221; right? And I don&#8217;t think we have sufficiently &#8212; if you&#8217;re a part of the Democratic base and you don&#8217;t care about child poverty, and you don&#8217;t care about hourly workers, then you&#8217;re really not a Democrat, right? Now, I think a lot of the Democratic base has not been told or informed of the things that President Biden and this Congress has accomplished. But to me, those are the things that, if I&#8217;m a Democratic, I much more care about that than some word in a dictionary &#8212; that children are going to bed with a full stomach and a warm, you know, a warm house. I care that somebody, an hourly worker, is not sitting there working away at $7.25 an hour. And I see these signs all over, even in Louisiana and south Mississippi, $700 signing bonus. Those are real accomplishments. And it&#8217;s something that you can run on. And again, you don&#8217;t talk about what you didn&#8217;t get. That&#8217;s what these &#8212; Democrats whine too much, Chuck. Just quit being a whiny party. And get out there and fight, and tell people what you did. And tell people the exact truth. The Republican Party stands for nothing other than, &#8220;Let&#8217;s relitigate the 2020 election,&#8221; or, &#8220;Let&#8217;s get back at Jamie Raskin.&#8221; That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the entire platform.
CHUCK TODD: Is there something Joe Biden can learn about the experience you helped Bill Clinton get through after &#8217;94?
JAMES CARVILLE: Soldier on. You know, you had a bad week, but you had a good year. People going &#8212; people at the end of the day, are going to judge you on your year and not your week. And this is a tough, hard business. And you&#8217;ve got ups and downs. You got, you get bruised, you get beat up. But every president goes through this. I think President Biden to have &#8212; compared his record on what&#8217;s been told is a huge differential. And I think that they&#8217;re trying. I saw they were doing &#8212; you know, I&#8217;ve been talking about infrastructure since Eisenhower built the interstate highway system. Now, we&#8217;ve got a trillion dollars&#8217; worth of infrastructure coming up. The children that are not living in poverty today are going to ride on better roads, have better broadband, cross better bridges. I mean, this is something we ought to be really proud of as Americans and we ought to talk about it, we ought to brag about it, we ought to tell people about it. If we do those kinds of things, we&#8217;ll end up with a better outcome, I promise you.
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Top Democratic Strategist Rips His Own Party: ‘Democrats Whine Too Much,’ ‘Quit Being A Whiny Party’

James Carville

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN on Sunday that the hostage situation that unfolded on Saturday at a synagogue in Texas has turned into an international investigation that there was &#8220;something more&#8221; to the events that happened.
&#8220;First of all, this is a disturbing case that demonstrates that anti-Semitism is unfortunately alive and well,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;I think they chose this synagogue because she, Siddiqui, the Lady al Qaeda, they call her, is being detained in a Fort Worth prison facility. To answer your question, I know the FBI has now fanned their investigation out to London and Tel Aviv. So this has now turned into an international investigation. So there&#8217;s something more here. And the fact he&#8217;s calling for Lady al Qaeda&#8217;s release from prison has been, as you said, in the jihadist world kind of a cause celebre.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I think we&#8217;re going to find out a lot more in the next 24, 48 hours. He is British. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he&#8217;s Pakistani, just like Siddiqui. And we need to get to the bottom of this,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen one of these radicalized attacks in a few years now, and it is disturbing to see it raise its ugly head again.&#8221;
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&quot;Ukraine is a breadbasket of Russia. Putin wants to restore the glory of the old Soviet empire,&quot; says Rep. Michael McCaul.
&quot;They&#39;re very aggressive in the timetable. I think you&#39;re going to see this play out very quickly&#8230; [the United States] ought to be providing deterrents.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/J9DNx9BGh3">pic.twitter.com/J9DNx9BGh3</a>
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: I do want to first get your reaction to the situation yesterday in your home state of Texas, where a gunman, an anti-Semite apparently, held four Jews hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, outside Fort Worth.
The FBI has not released the name of the suspect. He demanded that the U.S. free Aafia Siddiqui. She&#8217;s a Pakistani neuroscientist convicted of attacking American troops. She&#8217;s in jail not far from Fort Worth.
That&#8217;s a frequent cause for Islamic terrorists worldwide, the freeing of this woman? Have you seen any evidence that what happened at the synagogue in Texas yesterday was part of any sort of larger international plot?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TX): Well, the hostage-taker did &#8212; first of all, this is a disturbing case that demonstrates that anti-Semitism is unfortunately alive and well.
I think they chose this synagogue because she, Siddiqui, the Lady al Qaeda, they call her, is being detained in a Fort Worth prison facility.
To answer your question, I know the FBI has now fanned their investigation out to London and Tel Aviv. So this has now turned into an international investigation. So there&#8217;s something more here. And the fact he&#8217;s calling for Lady al Qaeda&#8217;s release from prison has been, as you said, in the jihadist world kind of a cause celebre.
And so I think we&#8217;re going to find out a lot more in the next 24, 48 hours. He is British. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he&#8217;s Pakistani, just like Siddiqui. And we need to get to the bottom of this.
We haven&#8217;t seen one of these radicalized attacks in a few years now, and it is disturbing to see it raise its ugly head again.
TAPPER: Indeed.
Let&#8217;s turn back to Russia and the United States. Talks between the two countries continued &#8212; concluded this week without any resolution to the tension over what seems an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. A top U.S. official warned &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;The drumbeat of war is sounding loud.&#8221;
What do you think, if anything, more that Joe Biden and American allies can do to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine, or do you think it&#8217;s inevitable at this point?
MCCAUL: Well, I think the key here is deterrence. If Putin sees deterrence coming back from the United States and our NATO allies, he may second-guess his calculation to invade Ukraine.
Now, Ukraine is the breadbasket of Russia. Putin wants to restore the glory of the old Soviet empire. He&#8217;s been wanting to do this for quite some time. He invaded Crimea right next to &#8212; with a land bridge. He would like the Port of Odessa to control the Black Sea.
But I&#8217;m not seeing a lot of deterrence. I&#8217;m seeing some tough rhetoric, but not a lot of action. I would recommend &#8212; I talked to Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman prior to her negotiations &#8212; that you have to put things on the table like sanctions. You have to talk about more arms sales, weapon sales to Ukraine.
And this Nord Stream 2, the idea that the president waived congressionally mandatory sanctions on Putin&#8217;s pipeline, I don&#8217;t know how that&#8217;s in the national interests of the United States. And it just emboldened and empowered Putin to start completing his pipeline.
And I think, most importantly, Jake, as you and I talked about Afghanistan over the summer, last summer, I think people, our foreign adversaries, like Putin, President Xi in China, the ayatollah, and Kim Jong-un, all view that as a moment of weakness.
So we are not projecting strength, as Reagan talked about, but, rather, projecting weakness, which, historically, going back to Hitler and Chamberlain, always invites aggression.
TAPPER: Yes.
MCCAUL: And I think you&#8217;re going to see a lot more of it.
TAPPER: Russian President Putin previously warned of a complete rupture of U.S.-Russia ties if the Biden administration were to retaliate against any military action they take against Ukraine.
Russia has also hinted they could take more direct action against the U.S., whether through cyberattacks on the U.S., by taking steps to move nuclear weapons closer to North America.
Is that just bluster? Or do you think that is a real threat from Putin?
MCCAUL: I think it&#8217;s a real threat. They put this — they have a cyberattack on the Ukrainian government Web page basically saying, be afraid and expect the worst. That&#8217;s pretty straightforward. And the false flag operation that you talked about, I do credit the
administration for calling that to the international community&#8217;s attention, false flag being known to have killers go in and have a hoax-like operation against their own troops, then justifying an invasion into Ukraine.
Jake, I have seen the plans in the classified space as well. They&#8217;re very specific, the most specific I have ever seen with Ukraine, and they&#8217;re very aggressive in the timetable.
I think you&#8217;re going to see this play out very quickly. And rather than &#8212; rather than threatening after an invasion takes place, we ought to be providing deterrence before an invasion takes place. That&#8217;s my biggest criticism of the administration.
TAPPER: Do you think we are in a new Cold War with Russia?
MCCAUL: I do. I do, because I think Putin, again, smells weakness here. He knows, if he&#8217;s ever going to invade Ukraine, now&#8217;s the time. I hope he doesn&#8217;t make that miscalculation.
But the fact is, if he does invade Ukraine, what is the United States, what is our commander in chief prepared to do to stop it? I&#8217;m not seeing a lot of details or action that could deter him from that critical step.
This would be the largest invasion in Europe since World War II. That&#8217;s how big of a deal this is.
TAPPER: Before you go, sir, the Beijing Olympics begin in just a few weeks.
You have criticized the International Olympic Committee for letting China host, despite its horrific record on human rights abuses. You have called for the Games to be moved. You also support the Biden administration&#8217;s diplomatic boycott. No government officials are going to go there, though American athletes are going to be allowed to participate and compete.
Do you think it&#8217;s a mistake for NBC to even air these Olympics, given the human rights record of China? Does that still give China the propaganda win that it so desperately wants?
MCCAUL: Yes, I mean, it does give them the propaganda victory.
I would hope that a corporate responsibility would come into play here and point out the abuses, human rights violations taking place in the Xinjiang province, where the Chinese commit genocide.
My bill passed the House almost unanimously condemning the CCP for what is taking place, and that is genocide in China. And I would hope that the networks would actually have some responsibility and call attention to that. I think the athletes may actually start talking about this.
I did agree with the boycott diplomatically. I asked that IOC move the Olympics. That is not going to happen. I don&#8217;t think we should punish the athletes. But I do think the athletes are going to stand up in solidarity, hopefully, against these human rights violations.
And I hope they take home the gold too and, just like Jesse Owens showed Hitler the Aryan nation was not superior, show the Chinese that we&#8217;re going to take on the gold, and not them.</blockquote>
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Congressman On Synagogue Hostage Situation: Now ‘An International Investigation,’ ‘There’s Something More Here’

Jake Tapper

Michael McCaul

The FBI faced backlash late on Saturday evening and into Sunday morning in response to remarks that it made about a man who held several people hostage at a synagogue in Texas.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno &#8220;said the hostage taker was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community and there was no immediate indication that the man had was part of any broader plan, but DeSarno said the agency’s investigation &#8216;will have global reach,'&#8221; the Associated Press reported.
The suspect was dead by the end of the night and all the hostages were released and were safe. The FBI did not answer questions about who shot the man.
Numerous journalists, media personalities, and other notable figures responded to a tweet from the Associated Press that stated, &#8220;The FBI says the Texas synagogue hostage taker&#8217;s demands were specifically focused on issue not connected to the Jewish community.&#8221;
Notable responses included:
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<li>Seth Mandel, Washington Examiner: &#8220;He took a shul hostage and demanded to free a notorious antisemite and forced one rabbi to call another rabbi in NY to help with this. Motive is likely indigestion, though we can&#8217;t rule out &#8216;lost a bet.'&#8221;</li>
<li>Dan McLaughlin, National Review: &#8220;Hitler was mad about the Treaty of Versailles, which wasn&#8217;t Jews&#8217; fault, either.&#8221;</li>
<li>Alberto Miguel Fernandez, retired U.S. diplomat: &#8220;Such a bizarre take by the FBI.&#8221;</li>
<li>Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist: &#8220;Just a coincidence that he targeted a house of worship used by this one particular religious minority, a coincidence that seems to happen an awful lot throughout history.&#8221;</li>
<li>Kyle Orton, researcher: &#8220;This is absolutely absurd from @AP . In an era when the most micro-identities receive excess coverage and the most innocent slight can be interpreted as evidence of bias, even a hostage-taking at a synagogue doesn&#8217;t qualify as hostility to Jews.&#8221;</li>
<li>Josh Hammer, Newsweek: &#8220;These people defy parody.&#8221;</li>
<li>John Cardillo, political commentator: &#8220;The Bureau is in a race with itself to destroy whatever microscopic fraction of credibility it might have left.&#8221;</li>
<li>Kurt Schlichter, attorney: &#8220;I’m just shocked the FBI didn’t know about him beforehand like it knew about all those other terrorists. It didn’t, right? Right?&#8221;</li>
<li>Benjamin Weingarten, RealClearInvestigations: &#8220;Obama is fully back.&#8221;</li>
<li>Michael Berry, radio host: &#8220;It wasn’t related to religion? Oh, ok, FBI.&#8221;</li>
<li>Isaac Schorr, National Review: &#8220;For all we know, the guy might have chosen a synagogue because he wanted to spend his last day on Earth hanging out with Jews.&#8221;</li>
<li>Michael Scott Doran, analyst: &#8220;The FBI worries more about kowtowing to the progressive cult than about remaining legitimate in the eyes of the American people.&#8221;</li>
<li>Stephen L. Miller, political commentator: &#8220;Parents at school board meetings are instantly labeled domestic terrorists in writing on official DOJ letterhead. Armed guy takes Jewish hostages at synagogue during religious services demanding the release of an anti-Semitic convicted terrorist is a mystery they can&#8217;t solve.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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Police Respond To Hostage Situation At Texas Synagogue

FBI Slammed For Claiming Suspect Who Held Hostages At Synagogue Was Not Focused On Jewish Community

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) slammed President Joe Biden during a Fox News interview on Friday night, saying that Biden is doing the exact opposite of what he promised on the campaign trail.
Gabbard made the remarks in reference to a speech that Biden gave this week in Atlanta that was criticized by many, including some Democrats, as being too divisive.
&#8220;I think there were so many people across the country, those who voted for Joe Biden, those who did not vote for Joe Biden, who had high hopes that he would carry out his promise that he would be the president for all Americans, showing respect for those who agreed with him or disagreed with him,&#8221; Gabbard said. &#8220;And unfortunately, the opposite is true. Not only has he not carried out on that promise, he is literally doing the exact opposite, rapidly carrying our country in the wrong direction, tearing us apart, pouring fuel on the flames of divisiveness. And it just, it really makes me wonder how we can go through three more years of this and still come out the other end with the possibility of being able to come together, again as Americans as the United States of America.&#8221;
Gabbard said that it is easy to see why Americans are angry at the state of things in the country because &#8220;our government is failing us.&#8221;
&#8220;And one of the most disturbing things that I see coming out of this administration is how President Joe Biden has his attorney general, targeting Americans as domestic terrorists for being quote unquote, &#8216;anti-authority&#8217;,&#8221; Gabbard said. &#8220;And what is so extremely dangerous about this, Sean, is that the President United States is the authority here in America. And so if our president is targeting Americans for being quote, unquote, &#8216;anti-authority,&#8217; what they&#8217;re really saying is, you are an enemy of the state, if you are against the President or his policies. This is the foundation of authoritarianism. And it&#8217;s, the message that is received by people at home is if you&#8217;re going to target me for being against your policies as the president, there will be consequences and therefore what are people to do? Shut up, step back, and fall in line and this this is unacceptable in our democracy, and must not go unchecked.&#8221;
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<blockquote>SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: All right, so today Joe delivered a speech about building bridges after the speech he gave earlier in the week, Tuesday comparing all of his political opponents to Bull Connor, George Wallace, Jefferson Davis, while also referring to tens of millions of Americans as domestic enemies. Wow, take a look.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT: I know where I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend the right to vote, our democracy against all enemies — foreign and, yes, domestic. &#8230; So, I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered? At consequential moments in history, they present a choice: Do you want to be the on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis? This is the moment to decide.
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HANNITY: Those remarks was so unhinged that even Joe&#8217;s fellow Democrats, they were put off, even Dick Durbin said that Biden went too far. Nancy Pelosi criticized Joe for evoking Bull Connor and Strom Thurmond and former Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard tweeted quote, &#8216;Hillary calling tens of millions of Americans deplorables was divisive and disgusting. Biden has gone further calling those that disagree with his actions and policies domestic enemies, traitors, racists, and Biden did promise to unite us but he is doing all he can to divide us.&#8217; Now tonight it appears that the only way Joe Biden is uniting Americans is against Joe Biden. And former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard joins us with more. Just give me your overall perception of not only the speech, but this week, and this year, we&#8217;re just a few days away from the one year anniversary since he was inaugurated.
FORMER REP. TULSI GABBARD (D-HI): Yeah Sean, you know, I think there were so many people across the country, those who voted for Joe Biden, those who did not vote for Joe Biden, who had high hopes that he would carry out his promise that he would be the president for all Americans, showing respect for those who agreed with him or disagreed with him. And unfortunately, the opposite is true. Not only has he not carried out on that promise, he is literally doing the exact opposite, rapidly carrying our country in the wrong direction, tearing us apart, pouring fuel on the flames of divisiveness. And it just, it really makes me wonder how we can go through three more years of this and still come out the other end with the possibility of being able to come together, again as Americans as the United States of America.
HANNITY: Look, when you look at, for example, we ran out of tests, we ran out of monoclonal antibodies, we ran out of antivirals, inflation a 40-year high, energy at $85 a barrel, he&#8217;s begging OPEC and Russia to produce more, he inherited energy independence, his vaccine mandate fell apart. The average American now, the inflation of every American family is about $5,000 per family. It is impacting everybody, almost [$1.50] more a gallon for gas, $1,000 more to heat your home this year. In everything we buy in every store is costing more, although Bare Shelves Biden is trending because it&#8217;s everywhere. Do you see as a Democrat are any of these policies working? Am I missing something that successful?
GABBARD: Well, what I see is people are struggling. And you can understand how people are frustrated and even angry at the fact that our government is failing us. And one of the most disturbing things that I see coming out of this administration is how President Joe Biden has his attorney general, targeting Americans as domestic terrorists for being quote unquote, &#8216;anti-authority&#8217;. And what is so extremely dangerous about this, Sean, is that the President United States is the authority here in America. And so if our president is targeting Americans for being quote, unquote, &#8216;anti-authority,&#8217; what they&#8217;re really saying is, you are an enemy of the state, if you are against the President or his policies. This is the foundation of authoritarianism. And it&#8217;s, the message that is received by people at home is if you&#8217;re going to target me for being against your policies as the president, there will be consequences and therefore what are people to do? Shut up, step back, and fall in line and this this is unacceptable in our democracy, and must not go unchecked.
HANNITY: The one thing he&#8217;s never allowed Republicans even in the room, Republicans were never included and Build Back Better. Republicans were never included in voter integrity measures. My measures I&#8217;d like to see so we can have confidence in results and integrity in the process are simple, voter ID, signature verification, I think chain of custody controls so we make sure nobody can tamper with mail in ballots, I think we need updated voter rolls, and I think we need partisan observers, all sides get to watch the vote count up close start to finish. And I think we&#8217;ll have more confidence and results. I don&#8217;t think illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote either. Is there anything wrong with any of those measures in your view that I mentioned? Or would you include some or or take some away?
GABBARD: I think the point there, Sean, is that the fact that there were not leaders, members of both parties in the room crafting this legislation is exactly the problem. So there should be no surprise why there is partisan opposition to it. Whether or not everybody would agree on all of those things, or even hey, I think there&#8217;s opportunity to come to agreement on 80% of those things, and still be able to move us forward as a country, but that&#8217;s the problem and there are many different examples unfortunately under this administration where they&#8217;ve chosen to take a very partisan approach and then even though they&#8217;re leaving out Republicans from the the crafting table, the negotiating table, then they say well how dare you not support our bill that we wrote without any of your input, any discussion, any respect or consideration. And I mean, this is this is transparent, this is transparent, the American people see what&#8217;s happening, I think, and again, are so dissatisfied by it.</blockquote>
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Larry Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton and director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama, warned in an interview this week that the U.S. is moving toward &#8220;higher entrenched inflation.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the data flow is saying what I&#8217;ve thought for quite some time that, yes, there are transitory elements in inflation, and very likely they will recede, but we are basically moving towards higher entrenched inflation,&#8221; Summers said. &#8220;It&#8217;s there in expectations, it&#8217;s there in wages, it&#8217;s there in labor shortages, it&#8217;s there in the pervasive pattern across many different prices.&#8221;
&#8220;And people try to excuse it by picking this figure and that figure from month to month, but we&#8217;ve got an overheated economy, and the Fed&#8217;s gonna have a very real challenge of cooling that economy off and doing it in a controlled way,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That has not been done very successfully in the past. So it&#8217;s going to be a very challenging year for macroeconomic policy.&#8221;
When asked if top White House officials were right in saying that the inflation problem was a result of &#8220;a supply side problem,&#8221; Summers responded, &#8220;No, he&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;We have a massive, overheated labor market,&#8221; Summers continued. &#8220;We have the highest ratio of vacancies to unemployment in the country&#8217;s history, by a large margin. We have shortages of labor, in everything from psychotherapy, to McDonalds, in everything from investment analysts to gardeners, that suggests a surfeit of purchasing power and demand relative to the capacity of the economy to produce and unless we bring those things into balance, we&#8217;re going to have not just higher inflation, but possibly even accelerating inflation. And we need to recognize that we have an overheated economy that we are going to need to cool off.&#8221;
Summers later <a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/amp/onweb/summers-says-u-s-risks-recession-by-blaming-inflation-on-greed">added</a>, “Every time a Washington policy maker suggests that this is caused by corporate greed or some such, they are delaying the date at which we will achieve the credibility necessary to bring down inflation with stable employment.”
Summers also said with respect to President Joe Biden&#8217;s picks for three openings on the Fed&#8217;s Board of Governors that what the Fed decides to focus on is going to make or break its credibility and that could cause further problems.
“If a sense develops that there’s a desire to politicize the Fed by focusing it towards other issues &#8212; beyond the crucial issues of financial stability &#8212; I think that could be problematic for the Fed’s credibility,&#8221; Summers said. &#8220;And so it will be very important for the nominees, who have distinguished track records in different areas in the past, to present their views to Congress and for Congress to very seriously consider those views.”
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