The following is satirical.
American journalists and other pitiful misuses of the miracle of human life are engaged in searching what archaeologists say may once have been their souls in the wake of Michael Avenatti’s conviction on charges of fraud and extortion.
The lawyer Avenatti had made frequent appearances on CNN, MSNBC and other mainstream news outlets despite some early hints that he was sleazy and dishonest, like his frequent appearances on CNN, MSNBC and other mainstream news outlets.
CNN’s Brian Stelter, who calls his show &#8220;Reliable Sources&#8221; with a straight face, says he can’t understand how he got it so wrong. Addressing the CNN audience as the audience was about to board his flight to Tacoma, Stelter said, “I ask myself if perhaps my flagrant bias in favor of Democrats combined with my deceptive presentation of myself as objective had left me so dishonest and corrupt that I had to admire Avenatti’s dishonesty and corruption lest I be forced to confront my own. But then I think, ‘Nah, it was probably something else.’”
Commentator Ana Navarro who, speaking on ABC, once compared Avenatti to the Holy Spirit, said she now feels the comparison may not have been a hundred percent accurate. The 1980’s immigrant from Nicaragua issued a statement in her native Communist, saying, “There were, in fact, many similarities between Avenatti and the Third Person of the Trinity. For instance, the Holy Spirit is the Lord and Giver of Life who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and Avenatti rips off strippers before extorting sneaker companies while swindling his clients. So it was an easy mistake to make.”
Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin says he felt “snookered” by Avenatti, because Avenatti pretended to be a corrupt lowlife but turned out to be an incredibly corrupt lowlife and Toobin fell for it hook, line and sinker.
All the leftist journalists said they would continue to examine their consciences for another hour or so, and then go back to doing exactly what they were doing before.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-a-look-back-at-all-the-media-praise-for-michael-avenatti">WATCH: A Look Back At All The Media Praise For Michael Avenatti</a>

Michael Avenatti

Journalists Search Their ‘Souls’ To Find Out How They Confused Michael Avenatti With The Holy Spirit [Satire]

Ana Navarro

Brian Stelter

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Satire

Over the past few years, the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association took so much grief for hiring comedians who hate President Trump that last year the WHCA opted to choose as its &#8220;entertainment&#8221; one of the most eminent biographers of American presidents and statesmen, Ron Chernow.
But that was last year.
This year, the WHCA is bringing in not one but two longtime Trump critics to entertain the mostly liberal pack of journalists and politicos who cram into a posh ballroom at a Washington, D.C., hotel.
Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured cast member of “Saturday Night Live&#8221; with 17 seasons under his belt, will serve as the master of ceremony for this year’s dinner on April 25. Hasan Minhaj, the former “Daily Host” personality and current host of “Patriot Act” on Netflix, will also appear. Minhaj performed a hate-filled set when he was the lone entertainer at the 2017 dinner.
The entertainers were picked by Jonathan Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News and currently president of the WHCA.
“Kenan and Hasan are two of the most engaged and engaging entertainers in America. I’m thrilled they’ll help us celebrate the role of a free press in our democracy,” Karl said in a statement. “We’re looking forward to a lively evening honoring the most important political journalism of the past year.”
Before Trump, who has never attended the dinner, presidents attended every year. The annual dinners got increasingly vicious during President George W. Bush&#8217;s two terms, but the liberal comics brought in during Barack Obama&#8217;s tenure typically went easy on the former president, turning them into liberal lovefests.
But the vitriol returned when a Republican moved back into the White House. In 2018, comedian Michelle Wolf was roundly criticized for a disgusting attack on then-White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, which prompted the change in entertainment last year. After that debacle, Trump ordered administration officials not to attend the correspondents’ dinner.
In 2017, Minhaj did 20 minutes of mostly unfunny material, at one point calling Trump the &#8220;liar in chief.&#8221;
“We gotta address the elephant that’s not in the room. The leader of our country is not here, and that’s because he lives in Moscow. It’s a very long flight. It’d be hard for Vlad to make it&#8230; As for the other guy, I think he’s in Pennsylvania ’cause he can’t take a joke,&#8221; Minhaj said. Trump held a massive rally in Pennsylvania that evening.
Minhaj hit Trump children Ivanka and Donald Jr., then attacked White House staffers and members of the administration.
“Mike Pence wanted to be here tonight, but his wife wouldn’t let him because apparently one of you ladies is ovulating. So, good job, ladies.”
Meanwhile, Thompson is often in skits on SNL that bash Trump. He also portrays the if-President Trump-were-black character on the show. In one skit, Thompson, wearing a blond wig, talks with Chris Redd, playing a Donald Trump Jr.-type character.
&#8220;You think your State of the Union is going to set all them haters straight?&#8221; Redd asks.
&#8220;Of course it is, son. Now let&#8217;s get up to the Capitol so I can do what I do and sauce on these hoes,&#8221; Thompson says. &#8220;I know how to deal with Mueller,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;I keep my white boys on a leash.&#8221;
Thompson also boasted about walking out on Kanye West when the rapper went on a pro-Trump rant on SNL in 2018.
But Karl says the evening will just be about fun.
“The dinner has a serious message, but we also believe it is as important as ever to be able to laugh — at ourselves, as well as at the people we cover,” Karl told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner-kenan-thompson.html">New York Times</a>. “I’d argue that humor is more important now than ever.”

Saturday Night Live &#8211; Season 45

Two Trump Critics To Headline White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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There is a lot of misinformation surrounding the coronavirus outbreak in China and elsewhere, mostly thanks to the communist nation’s crackdown on letting real information out.
The American media, however, is more concerned with dunking on Republicans and “fact checking” them to bolster claims they’re liars than with actual information regarding the coronavirus. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has said multiple times that we currently don’t know where exactly the coronavirus has originated (he said China’s explanation that it originated in a fish market is untrue). Cotton has also said that just miles away from that food market is a Chinese super lab that studies human infectious diseases.
Cue media fact checkers. The fact checkers point to “experts” who have “debunked” Cotton’s claims. Except they have “debunked” things Cotton never said.
The Washington Post is the most recent to “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotton-coronavirus-conspiracy/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main">fact check</a>” Cotton, quoting him saying one thing and experts talking about something else. The Post included two quotes from Cotton.
“We don’t know where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that,” Cotton said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China’s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.”
During that same interview, Cotton acknowledged that the U.S. needs more information from China about where the disease originated.
“Now, we don’t have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says,” Cotton said. “And China right now is not giving any evidence on that question at all.”
Nowhere in those interviews does Cotton suggest China hand-made the disease in those labs, yet that is what the “fact checkers” are debunking. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html">The New York Times</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-tom-cotton-flogs-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-dismissed-by-actual-scientists">The Daily Beast</a> also “debunked” Cotton’s claims.
Richard Ebright, chemical biology professor at Rutgers University, told the Post “There’s absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered.
“The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded,” he added.
Except, Cotton didn’t suggest it was manmade. He said the lab “researches” human infectious diseases. He didn’t say they engineered them. Ebright’s other point also can’t be “firmly excluded” just because the virus may not have been human engineered. Surely the Post edited his remarks.
Vipin Narang, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came the closest to “debunking” what Cotton said, by saying it was “highly unlikely” the virus infected the general population due to an accident at the lab. That’s more in line with what Cotton was saying.
Narang then went sideways by debunking something Cotton didn’t say.
“It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” Narang said.
Yes, it is a skip in logic. One Cotton didn’t make.
Cotton responded to media outlets “debunking” claims he didn’t make on Twitter.
“Let me debunk the debunkers. <a href="https://twitter.com/paulina_milla">@paulina_milla</a> and her ‘experts’ wrongly jump straight to the claim that the coronavirus is an engineered bioweapon. That’s not what I’ve said. There’s at least four hypotheses about the origin of the virus:” Cotton said. He then outlined the four hypotheses, which he said are not “theories,” but “hypotheses that ought to be studied in light of the evidence, if the Chinese Communist Party would provide it.”
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Let me debunk the debunkers. <a href="https://twitter.com/paulina_milla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@paulina_milla</a> and her “experts” wrongly jump straight to the claim that the coronavirus is an engineered bioweapon. That’s not what I’ve said. There’s at least four hypotheses about the origin of the virus: <a href="https://t.co/536ygN1gC7">https://t.co/536ygN1gC7</a>
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202134048133126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The first, which Cotton said is the most likely, is that the virus came from natural causes. The second hypothesis is that the virus was accidentally released from the lab. The third is that it is an engineered-bioweapon with an accidental release, and the fourth hypothesis is that it was a deliberate release.
Cotton listed these hypotheses after the “debunkers” started jumping to conclusions to fact check him.

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Media Claims Tom Cotton Coronavirus Claims Debunked, Fail To Debunk What He Actually Said

Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti was found guilty Friday on three counts of attempting to extort $25 million from Nike.
Avenatti rose to prominence years ago when he worked as the attorney for Stormy Daniels, a porn star who sued President Donald Trump over an alleged affair. Left-wing media outlets celebrated Avenatti and pumped him up for a potential presidential run against Trump in 2020. With Avenatti’s conviction in New York, it’s time to look back at all the media outlets who bought the attorney’s claims over the years.
The Washington Free Beacon put together a supercut of various media personalities fawning over Avenatti. The video opens with Bill Maher calling Avenatti “Trump’s worst nightmare” to roaring applause. Later, “The View” host Joy Behar tells Avenatti he’s “out saving the country.” Another CNN contributor called him the “savior of the republic,” while Maher is again shown calling the disgraced attorney “a folk hero.”
The video has an entire segment showing pundits giddy over the possibility that Avenatti might “take down Donald Trump,” as Maher put it. He’s called a “beast.” MSBNC host Lawrence O’Donnell says Trump “is afraid to mention [Avenatti’s] name” and is “terrified” of him. Late night host Stephen Colbert called him the “existential threat to the Trump presidency.”
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-attorney-michael-avenatti-found-guilty-of-trying-to-extort-nike">reported</a> Friday, Avenatti faces up to 42 years in prison for attempting to extort Nike. While he was convicted in New York, the disgraced attorney still faces charges of stealing money from clients in Los Angeles, California. He has been accused of stealing Stormy Daniels’ book advance and millions from a mentally ill paraplegic man whom Avenatti represented. The man, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, won a $4 million settlement, which was wired to Avenatti, who then kept it from Johnson for years. If Avenatti is also convicted in California, he would face up to 335 years in prison for his crimes.
In addition to his legal troubles in New York and California, Avenatti was also referred for criminal investigation to the Department of Justice after he represented a woman, Julie Swetnick, who made obviously false allegations against then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh had been accused by Christine Blasey Ford of allegedly groping her when the two were in high school. Though there were serious questions with Ford’s claims and the motivation behind them, Democrats and their media counterparts presented her accusations as “credible” and she was even allowed to testify before the senate. While the media circus surrounding Kavanaugh was taking place, NBC hosted an interview with Swetnick, who was the third woman to claim Kavanaugh sexually assaulted women. Swetnick claimed in a sworn affidavit that Kavanaugh helped spike punch and lead gang rape parties while he was a high school student. The ludicrous claims didn’t stop NBC from interviewing her, where she walked back her most salacious claims. It later turned out NBC was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-sat-information-undermined-brett-kavanaugh-ashe-schow">well aware</a> of the issues with her claims, but put her on the air anyway as part of its vendetta against Trump and Republicans.

WATCH: A Look Back At All The Media Praise For Michael Avenatti

As is so often the case, left-leaning media outlets only cover news that makes the Left look bad from the angle of Republican reaction. Often, these headlines use words like “seize” or “pounce” to indicate that Republicans are responding to something that should be its own news story.
Typically, the original news story gets little to no coverage on its own. The latest example comes from Politico, which did not report on a van purposefully ramming a GOP tent full of volunteers, but did see fit to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-man-deliberately-rams-vehicle-into-gop-tent-full-of-volunteers-trump-responds">cover</a> the Republican response to the attack. The headline for the article reads, “Republicans vow ‘revenge’ at ballot box after volunteers nearly hit by van.”
“Revenge,” is doing a lot of work in the title, making it appear as though the GOP wants violence in response to violence. Politico’s article takes extra care to downplay the attack and emphasize how the Republican Party of Florida has reacted to the event.
“During a press conference in Jacksonville, they described how Timm nearly hit people, made an obscene gesture, and started recording the incident on his phone. They used the event to make a plea for donations to the party,” the outlet reported.
The outlet noted that the man driving the van, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, was arrested and charged with “aggravated assault, criminal mischief and driving with a suspended license.” Then the outlet again downplays the attack and even questions whether it was politically motivated.
“No one was injured in the attack, but Republicans say their volunteers jumped out of the way to avoid the van,” the outlet reported. “Local authorities are looking into whether the attack was politically motivated.”
The attack on Republican volunteers was largely ignored by mainstream media outlets, leading pundit Stephen Miller to speculate how a similar incident would be treated if someone drove a van into Democrat volunteers.
“Going out on a limb and suggesting if a MAGA hat wearing yokel drove a van through a Warren or Sanders voter registration tent, it would be the only thing journalists &amp; major news outlets would be talking about right now,” Miller tweeted on Sunday.
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Going out on a limb and suggesting if a MAGA hat wearing yokel drove a van through a Warren or Sanders voter registration tent, it would be the only thing journalists &amp; major news outlets would be talking about right now.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1226500089809473536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“They would be clearing graphite off the roof at CNN right now,” he continued. “There would be Charlottesville comparisons. Jim Acosta would chain himself to the [White House] Fence. [Jake] Tapper would be demanding Kelkyanne [sic] Conway personally accept responsibility and Fredo [Chris Cuomo] would be quote tweeting people with 12 followers.”
“There would be 5 NY Times OP-Eds about Trump’s SOTU speech was the motivation. NBC reporters would be scouring 4Chan. Wash Post front page would read TERROR IN JACKSONVILLE. Candidates would be gathering for candlelight vigils,” Miller continued.
“Jacksonville and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefeatHate?src=hashtag_click">#DefeatHate</a> would be top trends on Twitter. Every celebrity with a political following would be making Hitler comparisons. Stelter &amp; Darcy would be blaming some Fox &amp; Friends segment because that’s what Media Matters would be doing. There would be marches,” he added.
“But of course there’s none of that, and you don’t have to like Trump to notice this. You just have to have a pulse,” Miller concluded.

Accusing

Politico Covers Truck Hitting Republican Volunteers – But Only From Angle Of GOP Reaction

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The following is satirical.
The news media is tremendously unhappy about Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate on charges he did something or other that was very bad for some reason.
At The Washington Post, where Democracy dies in darkness after Post editors throw it downstairs where Post reporters kick it until it stops moving, editorialists waxed eloquent on the tragic consequences that will follow Trump’s acquittal as surely as Ted Knight follows Doris Day.
Post Editorialist Nimrod Blankley wrote, “After Bill Clinton was impeached, he apologized for committing adultery, then perjury, then lying about committing adultery then perjury, then letting Bin Laden get away because he was so busy committing adultery then perjury then lying about it, but not once has Donald Trump apologized for any of those things, proving he’s a much worse person than that Democrat president we all remember so fondly because he helped create an economy almost half as good as this one.”
At The New York Times, a former newspaper, Editor-in-Chief Blithering Prevarication the Third, wrote, “Once a President can do whatever Trump is accused of doing with impunity, we are living in Nazi Germany and I myself am being carted away to what would be a concentration camp if it didn’t have stuffed armchairs and an excellent Cabernet Sauvignon and happen to be my apartment.”
At CNN, Anchorwoman Shapely Nudnick put on her Very Serious Face in order to deliver her Very Serious Opinion to the CNN audience, who was running to catch his connection to Wichita. Miss Nudnick said, “Who told the Democrats they should go off half-cocked and impeach Trump without even charging him with a real crime? Okay, it was me, but why did they listen? I mean, look at me. Do you think I got this job because of my brains? Don’t be absurd.”
Many commentators feel Trump’s acquittal will cause even more deaths than Global Warming which, they say, is surely going to destroy the planet in five years ago.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-demands-twitter-facebook-pull-viral-speech-ripping-video-turning-point-usa-responds">Pelosi Demands Twitter, Facebook Pull Viral ‘Speech Ripping’ Video; Group Behind It Responds</a>

President Elect Trump Continues His &#8220;Thank You Tour&#8221; In Grand Rapids, Michigan

Commentators Say Trump’s Acquittal May Cause Even More Deaths Than Net Neutrality [Satire]

Impeachment

Rarely do we see businesses, small or large, voluntarily abandon a tax credit. When those tax credits are used to help low-income and inner-city kids escape failing schools and find a pathway to success, it’s even more surprising.
Several days before President Donald Trump called on Congress during his State of the Union Address to pass legislation providing a million students with an opportunity scholarships, the Orlando Sentinel published a lengthy investigative <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/os-ne-voucher-schools-lgbtq-discriminate-20200123-s5ue4nvqybcgrbrxov5hcb46a4-htmlstory.html">article</a> detailing how corporations support these low-income families by way of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. Pushing more of an ideological agenda than straight reporting, the Sentinel suggests that the use of these funds by many religious schools is meant to be “anti-gay.”
I went to one of the school (whose mascot, ironically, happens to share a name with the Sentinel) on the list. My parents sent me to Christian school because they believed no education was complete without a thorough understanding of the Bible. If you’ve never been to one of the schools on the list, let me tell you what you will find there.
First, you will see students from every corner of America represented: Black, white, Hispanic, rich, poor, middle income. As a fifth grader, when I started attending Evangelical Christian School in Fort Myers, Florida, it struck me as completely ordinary that my classmates looked pretty much the same as any room I ever entered in America. Selma, my friend of Indian-American descent, was just Selma. We played football together during recess and tried not to get in trouble during lunchtime.
My school was very disciplined, growing out of a religious conservative tradition that valued respect for elders and one another. We stood to answer questions when called upon. We did not talk during the lunch hour or in the hallways. We wore uniforms. Mrs. Dunn, the headmistress, was feared by all, but it was clear she cared for her students.
And there was chapel and prayer and Bible study. In fact, by the time I got to high school, we had an entire class period dedicated to Bible. It was insightful: We studied not only the Scriptures that formed the basis of our faith, but also learned to appreciate and respect the differences of our faith with that of others&#8217; faith.
Of course, we also studied math, science, literature, and the rest. Each class had a distinctive approach of not only mastering the subject at hand, but evaluating what our Christian worldview had to say about it. Before every baseball practice, Coach Kieffer would lead the team in a brief devotion drawn from the Bible and pray for us. I respected that man for his commitment to “the Man in the chair,” an empty chair meant to remind us that God is ever present, a help in time of need.
Florida’s tax scholarship program came about after I was out of school. Thanks to the Sentinel (the newspaper, not our mascot), I know that my alma mater receives scholarships through the Florida Tax Credit program to assist students to attend school. I believe there are families who have always wished to send their kids to a school that unashamedly teaches according to the Christian tradition but, for financial reasons, never could afford to do so.
But because of this newspaper article, fewer low-income families will have that choice. Wells Fargo, Wyndham Vacation Properties, Fifth Third Bank, and others <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/third-company-pulls-florida-voucher-donations-over-anti-gay-school-n1126686">pulled their funding</a>. (Fifth Third, perhaps realizing the error, <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/02/07/fifth-third-continue-funding-scholarships-anti-lbgtq-florida-schools/4691279002/">reversed that decision</a>). Activists are hard at work trying to convince Waste Management, and others, to do the same.
Rather than let inner-city kids or low-income families from the rural areas of Acadia and Belle Glade pursue private education that meets the needs of their children, they would cancel their scholarship to score “woke” points with the Left. It’s a shame.
In 2018-19, over 104,000 students received scholarships because of this program.  The typical <a href="https://www.stepupforstudents.org/research-and-reports/">student</a> receiving the scholarship lives at the poverty line (roughly $29,000), has only one parent in the home, and struggles academically. Sixty-eight percent of them are Africa-American or Hispanic.
Wells Fargo, Wyndham, and others are literally taking money away from poverty-stricken, minority children and the Left is praising them for doing so. Why? In their mind (and that of the Sentinel), it is less risky to a child’s future to live in poverty, with one parent in the home, and continue to struggle academically than attend a Christian school.
Such hostility toward religion should have no place in Florida, the news room, or a corner office. Businesses are welcome to forgo whatever tax credits they want. If they want to pay more in taxes, I suppose we cannot stop them. Still, they should understand that the price of appeasing the Sentinel and other ideologues is a low-income child’s future.
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Jeremy Dys (<a href="https://twitter.com/jeremydys">@JeremyDys</a>) is Special Counsel for Litigation and Communications for First Liberty Institute, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending religious freedom for all Americans. Read more at <a href="https://firstliberty.org">FirstLiberty.org</a>.

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DYS: Pulling Scholarship Funds Punishes Low-Income Children

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Leftist CNN commentator John Harwood and a panel of other left-wing commentators at CNN unloaded on President Donald Trump late this week after he gave his post-impeachment acquittal speech in the White House.
&#8220;Look, this was a very disturbing tableau for the country,&#8221; Harwood said. &#8220;It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark. This is someone who is in deep psychological distress right now, self-pitying, insecure, angry.&#8221;
Harwood later continued by mocking the president, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t recognize abstract concepts like right and wrong, like morality or immorality, like true or false.&#8221;
Leftist Axios reporter Alexi McCammond claimed that Trump was trying to play on “the inherent tribalism that I think a lot of people feel since President Trump was elected.”
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<blockquote>BRIANNA KEILAR: To hear Mitt Romney explain, it really comes from a genuine place of conviction where he searched his searched his soul, he said essentially that he was looking for a reason to convict. But he couldn’t and that was because he had really an oath to God that he couldn’t move past that without feeling like he was breaking that to acquit the President. I was struck by just what a dark place this was in this speech. Other speeches in history strike a somber tone, strike a conciliatory tone, strike a forward looking tone. This was so dark, Nia.
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: Yeah, and surprising. I mean, not surprising that the President can be vindictive, can be petty, can be, you know, frame himself as the victim and want to air grievances all the time, but it felt like this was a real moment, right, where he could have some focus on a forward-looking message for the country, borrow from some of the themes in the hope from the State of the Union, Republicans certainly received that very well, but here he was talking about Bill Clinton, talking — or Hillary Clinton, talking about the FBI agents, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. So it was very, very bizarre, in some ways a missed opportunity. Look, he spent a lot of time yesterday having to look at Mitt Romney on screen all day and give that very passionate address where he talked about his faith and really, in some ways, dismantled the Republicans arguments against impeachment and removing the President from office. So here this was just a long and rambling speech. You know, I was watching it and this was sort of like a session with your therapist, right, where you&#8217;re sitting on the couch and you&#8217;re kinda talking about the internal emotions that you&#8217;re having cause that’s what it sounded like and listen, he&#8217;s not going to get over the Mitt Romney thing. That was very deep-wounding to him. He very much prize — prizes the fact that he&#8217;s been able to keep Republicans together, and the fact that Mitt Romney has strayed away from the Republican pack in aligning, you know, not aligning himself with the President. I think this is not something he&#8217;s going to forgive.
KEILAR: I might argue it’s more a dear diary or certainly you’re not getting your money’s worth because a therapist might interject in the middle of that and this was more of like a — this was more just a monologue. John Harwood, you cover him day in and day out. What struck you?
JOHN HARWOOD: Look, this was a very disturbing tableau for the country. It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark. This is someone who is in deep psychological distress right now, self-pitying, insecure, angry. He almost said plaintively at the end when he was reading a text from Strzok to Page, where he said I’m a good — I&#8217;m not a bad person. He was sort of imploring people to accept that view of him. When Kaitlan and Alexi said, he thinks I did nothing wrong, that sentence stops with the word “I” because, with Donald Trump, if he did it, it’s not wrong. He doesn&#8217;t recognize abstract concepts like right and wrong, like morality or immorality, like true or false. He recognizes what is good for him in the moment and what has happened, what Mitt Romney has done by casting that vote, what Nancy — Pelosi has done has felt very, very unpleasant to him. He said impeachment is a very ugly. By going after Romney, the other part of it that I think is striking is that the entire Republican Party reduced to sitting applauding this rambling, disordered set of remarks, and one of the reasons why it is an uncomfortable moment for them is that Mitt Romney, when he gave that speech, said, I&#8217;ve looked at the facts. I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion and I can&#8217;t avoid this. He stripped naked the rationalizations that they have used for their votes. Remember they started off saying, look, the whistleblower broke. They started out saying, well, it would be terrible if there was a quid pro quo, but there’s no evidence of a quick. Now, when we got to the end of the process, Ted Cruz told the White House lawyers well, we all know it’s a quid pro quo and what they’re saying is, yes, it was a quid pro quo. They approved that case but it&#8217;s not that big a deal. They were starting from the end point of — of protecting this President and Romney has shown that the — the calculations behind that are pretty hollow.
GLORIA BORGER: He is the victim here.
KEILAR: Yeah.
BORGER: There — this is how he sees himself. He is the victim in all of this. He has done nothing wrong, and as you point out, John, lots of Republicans are now saying, well, the call was inappropriate — he thinks — but not impeachable. He said there is nothing wrong with it, he is the good guy, they are the bad guy, and this is the way this campaign is going to be run. Make no mistake about it. No matter who his opponent is, the world will be divided into good and evil and most of the country, I don&#8217;t think, is in the good and evil thing. I think the country looks at politicians and says, well, there are some good things he says, there are some bad things she says. I don’t — you know —
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HARWOOD: Most of the country is against it.
BORGER: That’s right. That’s right. But people don&#8217;t see people as black and white.
ALEXI MCCAMMOND: And he&#8217;s playing on the inherent tribalism that I think a lot of people feel since President Trump was elected and clearly that a lot of people were feeling —
BORGER: Absolutely
MCCAMMOND: — bubble up, you know, when Obama was President.</blockquote>

President Trump Speaks On Impeachment Acquittal At The White House

CNN Melts Down Over Trump’s Acquittal Speech: ‘His Mind Is Dark’, ‘Angry’, ‘Disturbing’

The Democratic Party has spent the past four years cooking up anything they can to use as grist with which to impeach President Donald Trump. Now that Trump has been acquitted by the Senate, the mainstream media are clutching their pearls over the president&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-victory-lap/index.html">vindictive impeachment victory lap</a>.&#8221;
Writing at CNN, Kevin Liptak lamented how President Trump gave a victory speech on Thursday that was &#8220;vindictive and angry.&#8221;
&#8220;There was no indication he planned to adopt a new approach following the ordeal. Instead, Trump spent more than an hour bouncing between disparate injustices and angry asides,&#8221; lamented Liptak.
&#8220;The formal White House event was meant to be the final word on the impeachment saga. But few expect the ordeal to fade from view; Trump is stung and angry at being impeached by the House and his allies say it&#8217;s unlikely he&#8217;ll let it go anytime soon,&#8221; he later added.
Speaking in the White House East Room, President Trump rightly minced no words in the wake of the Democratic Party&#8217;s failed attempt to forcefully remove him from office, denouncing the leading Democrats as &#8220;dirty cops&#8221; who enacted a plan that was both &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;corrupt.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been going through this now for over three years,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars. And this should never, ever happen to another president, ever.&#8221;
On CNN, Brianna Keilar referred to the president&#8217;s remarks as &#8220;unscripted&#8221; and &#8220;vindictive,&#8221; adding that it was &#8220;at times profane&#8221; and &#8220;angry.&#8221;
&#8220;An avalanche of grievances &#8230; It was vindictive &#8230; it was mean-spirited, it was poisonous, it was spiteful,&#8221; said Gloria Borger. Take a look:
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Keiler, &quot;You have been watching the President &#8230;. with an unscripted, vindictive, at times profane, angry, rambling response to his impeachment acquittal.
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Also at CNN, John Harwood <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-john-harwood-and-panel-stunned-by-dark-trump-speech-hes-in-deep-psychological-distress/">fretted over the darkness</a> of Trump&#8217;s speech, asserting that it offered a glimpse into the dark depths of his mind.
“This was a very disturbing tableau for the country. It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark,” said Harwood. “This is somebody in deep psychological distress right now. Self-pitying, insecure, angry.”
“With Donald Trump, if he did it, it’s not wrong. He doesn’t recognize abstract concepts like right and wrong, like morality or immorality, like true or false, he recognizes what is good for him in the moment,” Harwood continued. “And what has happened … what Mitt Romney has done by casting that vote, what Nancy Pelosi has done, has felt very, very unpleasant to him.”
Marina Fang of <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-impeachment-acquittal-speech_n_5e3c25cdc5b6bb0ffc0c7210">HuffPost</a> referred to the moment as a &#8220;horror show in the East Room,&#8221; lamenting the president&#8217;s &#8220;improvisational ramblings that appeared more like fascist propaganda than a White House event.&#8221;
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&#8220;As the former reality television host walked to his lectern, he received a standing ovation while &#8216;Hail to the Chief&#8217; played, before launching into an unhinged riff targeting some of his favorite and most frequently mentioned subjects, listing them off in a Mad Libs-like frenzy,&#8221; wrote Fang. &#8220;The speech, which resembled his ad-libbed campaign rallies, was held in the East Room, typically reserved for more measured and sometimes somber official White House events.&#8221;
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WATCH: Media Triggered Over Trump’s ‘Vindictive Impeachment Victory Lap’

Media

On the eve of the big impeachment vote in the Senate, in which President Trump was ultimately acquitted on both of the Democrats&#8217; articles, Trump invited some of the nation&#8217;s top television news anchors to the White House for lunch, and, according to the Daily Beast, &#8220;ate them alive.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump served various television news personalities a lunch described by one White House guest as soup and filet of sole Tuesday — but soon the assembled anchorpeople were eating out of his hand,&#8221; Daily Beast Editor-at-Large Lloyd Grove <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-had-americas-top-tv-news-anchors-over-for-lunch-and-ate-them-alive">reported</a> Tuesday.
Among the big names invited to the presidential luncheon were some of the news media&#8217;s most high-profile figures, including &#8220;NBC’s Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC’s David Muir and George Stephanopoulos, and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan,&#8221; Grove notes.
A notable omission was anyone at all from CNN, the network Trump has made painfully clear in the past is his least favorite. But if the folks over at CNN were hoping that any of their peers would speak up on their behalf, Grove says that they&#8217;ll be gravely disappointed — because &#8220;nobody at the long table&#8221; even &#8220;bothered to ask&#8221; why Trump had made sure to exclude them.
Also missing at the lunch was anyone from MSNBC, a network the president made a point of jabbing, as Grove reports:
<blockquote>“MSDNC isn’t here as well,” Trump quipped — to polite chuckles but zero protests (not even by Meet the Press and MSNBC anchor Todd) from his captive audience, who were there ostensibly for a briefing on tonight’s State of the Union address but instead were treated to a lot of presidential boasting about his poll numbers and the “through-the-roof” stock market, and a lot of gloating about the “fiasco” of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses and the general disarray in the out-of-power party.</blockquote>
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So how did the event go? Well, Trump found the usually highly critical media personalities strangely subdued. The president, meanwhile, was not the ranting and raving autocrat left-leaning outlets would have the American public believe. As one guest told Grove, Trump was &#8220;chill&#8221; and notably &#8220;confident&#8221; ahead of the State of the Union speech and the big Senate vote.
&#8220;He wasn’t angry at all,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;He was friendly, outgoing, and relaxed. He was confident that he’ll be re-elected.&#8221;
The &#8220;chill&#8221; Trump answered questions — apparently none of them as confrontational and biased as the reporting on him generally is — and by the end, Grove writes, &#8220;a good time was had by all.&#8221; (<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-had-americas-top-tv-news-anchors-over-for-lunch-and-ate-them-alive">Read Grove&#8217;s full report here</a>.)
As for the State of the Union, Trump&#8217;s speech did indeed exude the &#8220;confidence&#8221; noted by those at the lunch earlier that day. One of the reasons for that confidence, no doubt, was Trump&#8217;s certainty that he was on the verge of being acquitted by the Republican-majority Senate.
On Wednesday, amid a flood of reports on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-pelosi-ripping-up-his-speech-pushes-new-hashtag-buries-her-in-retweets">ripping up Trump&#8217;s speech</a> Tuesday night for all the world to see, the Senate held <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-acquitted-from-democrats-partisan-articles-of-impeachment">the vote</a> on the two articles of impeachment, passed by the Democrats in the House without a single Republican vote. The first article, &#8220;Abuse of Power,&#8221; ended up managing to pull one lone Republican vote, from frequent Trump-critic Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, but went down in flames 52-48. The second article, &#8220;Obstruction of Congress,&#8221; failed to get even Romney to buy in, failing 53-47. And with that, the &#8220;forever&#8221;-impeached president was likewise &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-trolls-democrats-with-video-following-impeachment">forever</a>&#8221; acquitted, as Trump has made sure to point out to his political enemies.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-trolls-democrats-with-video-following-impeachment">Trump Trolls Democrats With Video Following Impeachment</a>
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Report: Trump Invited Top News Anchors For Lunch, Didn’t Invite CNN, And No One Complained

When left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was recovering from lung cancer treatment, right-wing media figures as a whole showed compassion by sending her well wishes and prayers, but religious scholar Reza Aslan, formerly of CNN, seems to have a different idea on how to publicly react to another fellow human being&#8217;s cancer diagnosis.
In a tweet, Aslan wondered aloud if the world would, in fact, be a &#8220;better place&#8221; if conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer — a disease he announced to be suffering from during his radio show on Monday.
&#8220;Ask yourself this simple question: Is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?&#8221; Aslan openly pontificated.
Though some of Aslan&#8217;s followers piled on to this grotesque display of impropriety, others were notably enraged by it. Later, Aslan doubled down on his question by openly declaring Limbaugh a &#8220;curse upon this nation&#8221; who has caused &#8220;mass suffering.&#8221;
&#8220;I am not &#8216;celebrating&#8217; anyone’s diagnosis. I’m posing an important philosophical question,&#8221; said Aslan. &#8220;Rush is not &#8216;my adversary&#8217; — he is a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people.&#8221;
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Ask yourself this simple question: is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?
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1. I am not “celebrating” anyone’s diagnosis. I’m posing an important philosophical question 2. Rush is not “my adversary” &#8211; he is a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people. <a href="https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF">https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF</a>
&mdash; Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1224476896227778561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Aslan is far from alone in his glee over Limbaugh&#8217;s diagnosis. None other than far-left activist Tariq Nasheed <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1224443800791109636?s=20">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Rush Limbaugh has spent decades spewing dangerous anti-Black racism. Now he has cancer. &#8230; I know we shouldn&#8217;t celebrate one&#8217;s misfortunes. &#8230; but #PartyOverHere.&#8221;
In fairness, other left-wing advocates wished Limbaugh a speedy recovery.
&#8220;I wish Rush Limbaugh a safe and rapid recovery; which also includes a secret Empathy Transplant. May his pre-existing condition, and the pre-existing conditions of all the Americans he fights to keep from being covered for pre-existing conditions, never return,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1224453032194134019?s=20">tweeted</a> John Fugelsang.
&#8220;No one should ever have to suffer from cancer. I can only hope Rush Limbaugh makes a speedy recovery and dedicates himself to advocating for cancer research and affordable health care for all people, not just those who can afford it in our current system,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1224428363235938304?s=20">tweeted</a> Charlotte Clymer.
&#8220;As a liberal Democrat, I oppose Rush Limbaugh with every fiber of my being. But as a physician, I don’t wish advanced lung cancer on anybody. We must have compassion and empathy for suffering human beings—even for our political enemies. I wish him the most time with his family,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1224441421156904961?s=20">tweeted</a> Eugene Gu.
While Reza Aslan speaks on the subject of human suffering, it can be noted here that pro-life religious conservatives largely believe abortion to be tantamount to murder. Despite that, however, here&#8217;s what some prominent conservatives said when left-wing, pro-abortion rights Justice Ginsburg underwent treatment after she broke her ribs in a fall:
&#8220;I understand a lot of conservatives don’t like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg because of her politics, but her friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia was beautiful. It should serve as an example to our country to stop demonizing those who you disagree with,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1060573798670299136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060573798670299136&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Kassy Dillon.
&#8220;Keeping Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in our prayers and wishing her a speedy recovery!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpStudents/status/1060536121334087680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060536121334087680&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Students for Trump.
&#8220;Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, breaks ribs in fall. Best wishes for a quick recovery!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1060539340336648192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060539340336648192&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Tom Fitton.
&#8220;I sincerely hope that Justice Ginsburg heals from this fall. And if she must retire from the bench because of it, then I hope Donald Trump can name a 3rd pro-life justice to SCOTUS,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/patrickmadrid/status/1060548002409054208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060548002409054208&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpeople-offer-their-ribs-organs-save-ruth-bader-paul-bois">tweeted</a> Patrick Madrid.

Celebrities Visit Build &#8211; November 14, 2019

Former Host Of CNN’s ‘Believer’ Reza Aslan Asks If The World Is Better Off Without Rush Limbaugh

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Donald Trump Jr. slammed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, as well as the biased way that the media has treated the Trump family, during a Fox News interview on Monday morning.
&#8220;Well listen, obviously, there&#8217;s the part where you&#8217;re watching this stuff go down to your father. But, look at me, for example, I mean, I&#8217;ve done 30 hours of testimony regarding a 20-minute unsolicited meeting, right?&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is taking millions, is literally the start of the entire Ukraine hoax and they don&#8217;t even consider calling him. I mean, think about it, 30 hours in front of the House and Senate. I had senators on TV saying that this man committed treason, he must go to jail for life.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, this isn&#8217;t even hyperbole anymore. The impeachment hoax started the day my father won the election, OK? It started — the articles were written before — during the inauguration, they were typing them, right,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;The Washington Post made the case for impeachment literally 20 minutes after the inauguration. This is what the Democrats have been doing from moment one, OK? When they were pushing the Russia hoax, my father was renegotiating NAFTA and he got that done.&#8221;
Later in the interview, Trump slammed Joe Biden over his struggles on the campaign trail, saying that if he can&#8217;t handle small crowds, then he will get steam rolled by his father, President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I mean, I sort of want to have Donald Trump go up against Joe Biden one-on-one for five months,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I mean, I see Joe Biden in front of a teleprompter speaking to 20 people. He confuses which state he is in at least 50% of the time.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, this is not a one-time anomaly that they would destroy Trump for,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;This is a recurring theme that’s happening over and over again. So I mean, one-on-one with Trump, you can’t hide the same way. So I’d sort of love to go up against him.&#8221;
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<blockquote>STEVE DOOCY, FOX NEWS HOST: Very unfair to his family. You know what? We&#8217;ve got a member of his family right here.
AINSLEY EARHARDT, FOX NEWS HOST: We do. Let&#8217;s bring in Donald Trump, Jr., Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and the son of our president. Good morning to you.
DONALD TRUMP, JR., EXECUTIVE VP OF TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Good morning, guys, how are you?
EARHARDT: We&#8217;re good.
DOOCY: Good.
EARHARDT: So, can you elaborate on that? In what way did you &#8212; was your family affected?
TRUMP JR.: Well listen, obviously, there&#8217;s the part where you&#8217;re watching this stuff go down to your father. But, look at me for example, I mean, I&#8217;ve done 30 hours of testimony regarding a 20-minute unsolicited meeting, right?
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is taking millions, is literally the start of the entire Ukraine hoax and they don&#8217;t even consider calling him. I mean, think about it, 30 hours in front of the House and Senate. I had senators on TV saying that, this man committed treason, he must go to jail for life.
I mean, this isn&#8217;t even hyperbole anymore. The impeachment hoax started the day my father won the election, OK? It started — the articles were written before — during the inauguration, they were typing them, right.
“The Washington Post&#8221; made the case for impeachment literally 20 minutes after the inauguration. This is what the Democrats have been doing from moment one, OK? When they were pushing the Russia hoax, my father was renegotiating NAFTA and he got that done.
When they&#8217;re signing the articles of impeachment, my father signs a historic trade deal with China. That&#8217;s the difference between the do-nothing Democrats and my father. He’s actually getting things done, but he’s getting things done despite their unprecedented incoming, despite their unprecedented obstruction.
BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX NEWS HOST: Right.
TRUMP JR.: They’re not doing anything for the American people, and he’s getting it done and he’s going through his checklist one-by-one.
DOOCY: Well, you know how it works. Because the Democrats — Nancy Pelosi didn’t want to do it, but she had her super progressive —
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TRUMP JR.: Yes.
DOOCY: — left flank demanding an impeachment. She delivered on that, otherwise, you know, all sorts of members of her caucus would have been primaried by much more progressive people.
Now fast forward, she’s going to say he’s been impeached forever, but the reality is he’s going to be acquitted at four o’clock on Wednesday.
TRUMP JR.: Well, 100%, and that was it. You could see in the press conference — no, no, no, impeachment, it’s forever, it’s forever — because that’s all they got, guys. That’s literally all they got. That’s their little consolation prize because they needed that to do the things.
You know, you talk about Schiff earlier. I have no regrets. Oh really, you have no regrets? You were trying to call witnesses three days ago. What are you talking about? You blew it when you had it because you never had a case. You just had a media that was willing to accentuate your talking points, that was willing to do this as they’ve done with Adam Schiff for the last few years.
Again, I was a part of three or four of those major outrage cycles over the last three years where a CNN type, look, we got him this time because Donald Trump Jr. did this, because they got a leak from Schiff’s office as I was testifying, right?
These things were happening time and time again. There’s never a correction for the record. The intent is not to actually win. The intent is just try to manipulate the news cycle in hopes that the average American won’t do the research, in hopes that the average American won’t see through the lies. But honestly after three years of lies, you know, it’s a little bit of the boy who cried wolf with them at this point.
I’d like to see them start working with my father, get infrastructure done, lower healthcare costs, lower, you know, prescription drug pricing. All of these things that my father continues to try to work on despite their obstruction.
But I don’t think they’re capable of it, guys, because they’ve seen that Donald Trump, an outsider, can come in, can deliver, can go through the checklist of promises and deliver for the American people, and that scares these establishment-side people because they’ve never done that. They’ve had decades to do that.
That’s Joe Biden’s whole career talking about I’ve been doing this for 50 years. And what have you done? The average American can’t name a single accomplishment, but they can go through Trump’s checklist very easily.
KILMEADE: So it’s going — finally it’s going to be official. We’re going to get a result instead of speculation about reelection. 2020 begins officially today, Iowa caucus.
TRUMP JR.: Correct.
KILMEADE: The president speaking to Sean Hannity last night on the Democrats. Watch.
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SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: I’m just going to throw out a name. Whatever comes to your mind.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: OK.
HANNITY: We’ll start with Joe Biden.
TRUMP: I just think of sleepy.
HANNITY: Hunter Biden.
TRUMP: Where’s Hunter?
HANNITY: Bernie Sanders.
TRUMP: Well, I think he’s a communist. You mentioned now Elizabeth Warren. She’s not true to it. I call her fairytale because everything’s a fairytale. That’s how Pocahontas got started. Everything’s a fairytale. This woman can’t tell the truth.
HANNITY: Michael Bloomberg.
TRUMP: Very little. I just think of little.
HANNITY: Hillary.
TRUMP: I think of email.
HANNITY: Pelosi.
TRUMP: I think she’s a very confused, very nervous woman. It’s — her worst nightmare has happened. I don’t think she’s going to be there too long either.
I think the radical left is going to take over.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KILMEADE: Well, the Pelosi aside, the others, let’s just look at the field. The word is that the &#8212; that the Trump team wants Bernie Sanders. Is that true?
TRUMP JR.: You know, honestly, guys, I don’t know that it matters. I can think of plusses or minuses —
(CROSSTALK)
KILMEADE: But he’s so different.
TRUMP JR.: — for all of them. I mean, you know, I think — I — look — I kind of want to run against a communist in Bernie, but he’s also got a very, you know, motivated base. He’s got people that are showing up —
(CROSSTALK)
DOOCY: Very.
TRUMP JR.: — for his rallies, right? There’s a viral effect sort of like what Trump had when they said we couldn’t win, so I don’t base things on that.
I mean, I sort of want to have Donald Trump go up against Joe Biden one-on-one for five months. I mean, I see Joe Biden in front of a teleprompter speaking to 20 people. He confuses which state he is in at least 50% of the time.
You know, this is not a one-time anomaly that they would destroy Trump for. This is a recurring theme that’s happening over and over again. So I mean, one-on-one with Trump, you can’t hide the same way. So I’d sort of love to go up against him.
DOOCY: Sure.
TRUMP JR.: You know and &#8212; you know, Elizabeth Warren, he’s right. I mean, her entire career, her entire life is based on a lie, whether that was school, tenure, law, you know, the universities where she’s making half a million dollars to teach a class, I mean, all based on a lie. I mean, I’d sort of like to run against that, and I’d say most of the rest of them are probably irrelevant.
DOOCY: Well, you were right about Bernie’s crowd, because they are very motivated. And again, he had the biggest crowd this weekend. They had Vampire Weekend performing and there was beer, which always brings out a crowd.
Donald Trump, Jr., we thank you very much for joining us live from West Palm Beach.
EARHARDT: Thank you.
TRUMP JR.: Thank you, guys. See you in Iowa.
DOOCY: You bet.</blockquote>

Donlad Trump Jr

WATCH: Donald Trump Jr. Shreds Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Media

Donald Trump Jr.

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Hunter Biden

Joe Biden

Quick, guess the movie under review here:
<blockquote>What makes it memorable is its portrait of a woman with an exceptional intellect, to be sure, but also a lifelong capacity for staggering amounts of minutely detailed, unswervingly purposeful work. – The Wall Street Journal</blockquote>
And here:
<blockquote>It gives viewers a deep and multi-layered sense of the times in which the subject lived and the cultural forces that she had to struggle against to achieve what she did. – The Baltimore Sun</blockquote>
And here:
<blockquote>With the #MeToo movement occupying our culture, it&#8217;s easy to say that this is the perfect time for a detailed, thorough film on [Blank]. But frankly, anytime would have been a good time. – AP</blockquote>
Give up? It’s “RBG,” the 2018 documentary about liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Critics fawned over the film, giving it a <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rbg/">95 percent “fresh” rating</a> at <a href="http://RottenTomatoes.com">RottenTomatoes.com</a>.
Why bring up a two year old film today? It’s worth comparing the tone, the adulation, afforded Justice Ginsburg compared to the reception for “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words.”
The new documentary finds the reserved judge narrating his remarkable life story, from enduring an impoverished childhood to becoming, at 43, the successor to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Justice Thomas, of course, is a conservative. Which means the critical knives are out for the film, in limited release this weekend.
Thomas, like Ginsburg, powered past significant obstacles in his youth. He faced direct discrimination early in life. Later, in a supposedly more evolved America, the bigoted attacks came from media outlets and Hollywood. These justices are so very different in style and ideology, yet each rose above discrimination in powerful ways.
You wouldn’t glean that connection after reading reviews for both films. For example, critics are obsessing over the funding behind “Created Equal,” as well as the cozy nature of the storytellers in question.
Consider <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/created-equal-clarence-thomas-his-own-words-1274926">The Hollywood Reporter’s review</a> of “Created Equal.”
<blockquote>If you&#8217;re wondering why Thomas is finally breaking his vow of silence, it may be due to the fact that he felt comfortable cooperating with Pack, a conservative filmmaker who&#8217;s collaborated with Steve Bannon and was nominated by President Trump for the position of chief executive officer of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. So it&#8217;s not like he was walking into the lion&#8217;s den.</blockquote>
Does anyone think “RBG” directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen plotted a hit piece on the elderly justice? Many reviews described that film as a hagiography. So, why snark about a “lion’s den” at all?
The THR review mirrors the media’s attacks of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his own contentious confirmation hearing.
<blockquote>What comes through loud and clear during the documentary is that Thomas has lost none of the anger and bitterness he displayed during that time.</blockquote>
Reporters mocked Kavanaugh for getting emotional when absurd charge after absurd charge smeared his good name and threatened the most consequential gig of his life. The THR critic offers up a similar line against Justice Thomas and what the conservative famously dubbed a “high-tech lynching.”
Is there an expiration date on the fury one feels for being dubbed a sexual predator for all to see?
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/movies/created-equal-clarence-thomas-in-own-words-review.html">The New York Times’ review</a> name checks the “friendly filmmakers” meme at the top of the critique, too.
The critic also pings the film for mirroring much of the content from Thomas’ 2007 autobiography. Should he have re-written his life story for the big screen? Or isn’t it obvious that most people haven’t read that book, and documentaries reach entirely different audiences?
Once again, the Times critic notes the funders behind the film, a tactic rarely (if ever) done when critics consider a liberal documentary.
Who funded “RBG?” Or, more recently, who passed the hat for Hulu’s multi-part Hillary Clinton documentary or <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/miss-americana-critics-taylor-swift/">the woke Taylor Swift film</a> “Miss Americana?”
Do critics even care? If not, why now all of a sudden?
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/clarence-thomas-speaks-but-leaves-many-questions-unanswered-in-documentary/2020/01/27/fb6a22bc-411a-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html?arc404=true">critic isn’t impressed by “Created Equal,” either</a>. What’s interesting about what the Post critic ignored, along with his peers, is the racist media attacks on Justice Thomas included in the film.
The political cartoons shown in “Created Equal” are so over the top they seem like parodies, but of course they’re not. The critics’ reviews also forgot to address an infamous “In Living Color” sketch included in the documentary. The clip showedd David Alan Grier portraying Justice Thomas as a lazy clone of his peers.
It’s unfair, inaccurate, and degrading.
What’s clear from reading reviews of both “RBG” and “Created Equal” is how mainstream movie reviewers hold right-leaning documentaries to a different standard than their liberal peers.

Justice Clarence Thomas.

TOTO: Critical Reviews of Clarence Thomas Doc Show Media Bias in Action

Clarence Thomas

Hollywood

The national narrators of our politics love brandishing the word &#8220;historic&#8221; to describe the Trump impeachment process. But by now it feels unexceptional, more like Chapter 27 of the Same Old Saga. In their overdramatic Trump narrative, the president is always a democracy-killing villain who is about to get his comeuppance.
Month after month, network evening-news coverage of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency has been notable mostly for its perpetual negativity. The Senate impeachment trial isn&#8217;t the slightest bit different. They spent more than two years &#8220;reporting&#8221; that a Russian collusion conspiracy would be exposed and prematurely end the Trump presidency. Now we&#8217;re nine months from Election Day, and Trump is still in charge &#8230; which means the beatings must continue.
Nicholas Fondacaro of the Media Research Center reported that in the first week of trial coverage, the anchors and reporters of ABC, CBS and NBC offered 34 statements on the merits of the pro-Trump and anti-Trump sides. Twenty of the 21 statements made about the Democratic House managers were positive. All 13 evaluations of Trump&#8217;s defense team were negative.
The editorializing is all in the adjectives and adverbs. On Jan. 23, NBC anchorman Lester Holt touted the &#8220;Democratic prosecutors&#8221; who are &#8220;painting a damning portrait of the president, who they say abused his power.&#8221; NBC&#8217;s Peter Alexander robotically added, &#8220;House prosecutors strongly defended the actions of both Joe and Hunter Biden, saying they did nothing wrong.&#8221;
They think Trump&#8217;s calling his conversation with the Ukrainian president &#8220;perfect&#8221; is ludicrous bombast but that claiming Joe and Hunter Biden &#8220;did nothing wrong&#8221; is stone-cold-sober analysis.
On Jan. 26, ABC reporter Kyra Phillips sounded upset. &#8220;Tonight, President Trump&#8217;s legal team didn&#8217;t even warm up, opening their defense straight to the point,&#8221; she announced, &#8220;even getting personal, attacking lead House manager Adam Schiff, going after his summary of the president&#8217;s phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the center of it all.&#8221;
Wait. Schiff and the Democrats can&#8217;t be described as &#8220;getting personal&#8221; as they seek to get Trump fired? Why is it somehow treacherous and objectionable for Trump&#8217;s defenders to attempt to take apart Schiff&#8217;s case? This is how the dominant media talk.
Then there&#8217;s the complete imbalance in time allotted. The networks reported on the Democratic managers for nearly 25 minutes and gave Trump&#8217;s defense team 11 and a half minutes. &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; was the most imbalanced, giving 7 minutes and 42 seconds to Democrats and skimping on the Trump team with 2 minutes and 26 seconds, a difference of more than 3 to 1. NBC&#8217;s gap was more than 2 to 1.
This overwhelming tilt is only the bias demonstrated during the traditional evening-news hours. Spread that notion across hours of live coverage, unspooling it on broadcast news and cable news, and the unfairness multiplies.
The American people should point and laugh at the idea that the networks would argue it is essential for the Senate jurors to be nonpartisan in their weighing of the evidence. Our media elites are never objective. The stakes are always too high for evenhandedness. The damsel of democracy is always tied to the railroad tracks, and it would be irresponsible not to do everything to save her from her distress.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

President Trump.

BOZELL & GRAHAM: Turn the Page On Impeachment

Shortly before a White House briefing call for the press on President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Saturday, Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley laid out the rules for media participants.
“The ground rules are as follows: Information on the call is on background and can be attributable to ‘sources on the president’s legal team.’ ‘Sources on the president’s legal team.’ And the call is also embargoed — the content on the call, rather — is embargoed until the conclusion of the call.”
Then he added: “As a reminder, you — by participating, you are agreeing to the ground rules. And with that, I’ll turn the call over to [sources on the president’s legal team].”
That’s how things work in Washington.
Reporters and the people they report on often — almost always — set out the terms of their interviews and phone calls beforehand. Big players like, say, a secretary of state, will insist on having some control over what’s for publication and what’s not. Usually, being able to move freely between on-the-record and off-the-record makes for a more open conversation.
That agreement is ironclad. Breaking the pact — for a reporter — means they’ve violated their word and their sources can no longer trust them. It’s the worst transgression a reporter can commit, and those who do it don’t stay in the business long. Word gets around quickly in Washington, D.C.
Which brings us to the bizarre tale of reporter Mary Louise Kelly, who works for the publicly funded National Public Radio.
Kelly sat down on Friday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Before their interview, the reporter and her subject discussed the ground rules.
In a post-interview conversation, which garnered much press coverage, Kelly claimed, “I was taken to the secretary’s private living room, where he was waiting and where he shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself. He was not happy to have been questioned about Ukraine. He asked, ‘Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?’ He used the F-word in that sentence and many others. He asked if I could find Ukraine on a map. I said yes, and he called out for aides to bring us a map of the world with no writing. I pointed to Ukraine. He put the map away. He said, ‘People will hear about this.’”
But that’s not what happened, at least according to Pompeo.
In his own statement the next day, Pompeo said Kelly repeatedly lied to him about the parameters for the interview, and, by the way, wrongly identified Ukraine, instead pointing to Bangladesh on the map in question.
“NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly lied to me, twice,” Pompeo said. “First, last month, in setting up our interview and, then again yesterday, in agreeing to have our post-interview conversation off the record. It is shameful that this reporter chose to violate the basic rules of journalism and decency.&#8221;
“This is another example of how unhinged the media has become in its quest to hurt President Trump and this administration. It is no wonder that the American people distrust many in the media when they so consistently demonstrate their agenda and their absence of integrity,” he wrote.
It’s worth noting, he added, that “Bangladesh is NOT Ukraine.”
A transcript showed Kelly insisting on asking about Ukraine and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was fired by Trump. In terms agreed to before the interview, the subject was to be solely Iran, Pompeo said.
“Change of subject. Ukraine. Do you owe Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch an apology?” Kelly said in the interview.
“You know, I agreed to come on your show today to talk about Iran. That’s what I intend to do,” Pompeo said.
The two then had a contentious exchange. Kelly claimed “people who work for you in your department” say Pompeo has not defended his staff.
“I don’t know who these unnamed sources are you’re referring to. I can tell you this. When I talked to my team here — ” Pompeo began.
“These are not unnamed sources,” Kelly interrupted.
It all went downhill from there.
Jason Rezaian, an opinion writer for The Washington Post and a CNN contributor, blasted Pompeo.
“The statement released this morning by [Secretary Pompeo] attacking [Kelly] is a shameful assault on #PressFreedom. Americans deserve a secretary of state, that is diplomatic, can answer foreign policy questions honestly, upholds our values and respects the press. This one doesn’t,” he tweeted.
But Andrew Surabian, a former special assistant to Trump turned political strategist, laid out a completely different view, and got it exactly right.
“In what universe is complaining about a reporter breaking an off the record agreement an ‘assault on press freedom?’ If [Kelly] did indeed break an off the record agreement, she should be fired [and] her colleagues should be condemning her, not holding her up as a resistance hero,” he tweeted.
Today’s journalists don’t even know the No. 1 rule of journalism: Honor your oaths. And they won&#8217;t last long in this town if they keep violating it.
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*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

President Trump Departs White House For Florida

CURL: Today’s ‘Journalists’ Don’t Even Know The No. 1 Rule Of Journalism

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Marie Yovanovitch

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Ukraine

Over the weekend, CNN host Don Lemon, joined by far-left CNN contributor Wajahat Ali and NeverTrump Republican Rick Wilson, mocked conservative Americans as ignorant rubes who can&#8217;t read and don&#8217;t understand maps.
Notably, Mr. Lemon, who&#8217;s currently tangled in a &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-don-lemon-assault-accuser-metoo">sexually charged assault</a>&#8221; allegation, uncontrollably laughed during the clip.
&#8220;Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it,&#8221; Wilson said during the segment. &#8220;He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump’s a smart one, and y’all — y’all elitists are dumb.&#8221;
Ali interjected, &#8220;You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling even though—&#8221;
&#8220;Your math, your reading,&#8221; Wilson mocked.
&#8220;Yes, your reading, you know. Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte,&#8221; said Ali.
Lemon, laughing throughout the exchange and buckling over to catch his breath, ended the segment: &#8220;Sorry, hold on. Wait, wait. Give me a second. Hold on. Hold on. That was good. Sorry. Rick, that was a good one. I needed that.&#8221;
WATCH:
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The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.
If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href="https://t.co/8kQ6zN9AZV">pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV</a>
&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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After the clip went viral on Monday, backlash grew against Lemon and the rest of his network, which is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-ratings-plummet-lowest-three-years">struggling for ratings</a>.
President Trump reacted to the clip by simply calling Lemon &#8220;the dumbest man on television.&#8221;
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Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!). <a href="https://t.co/iQXCc7lvCt">https://t.co/iQXCc7lvCt</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1222028267865223170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Eldest Trump daughter and Senior White House Advisor Ivanka Trump captioned the clip, &#8220;You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided.&#8221;
&#8220;The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting,&#8221; she added.
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You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. 
The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s">https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s</a>
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1222126462347681793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Wondering if [CNN] is going to acknowledge (apologize) for this arrogant &amp; divisive view of our country. There’s a reason trust in our media is at an all time low,&#8221; posted White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.
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Wondering if <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a> is going to acknowledge (apologize) for this arrogant &amp; divisive view of our country. There’s a reason trust in our media is at an all time low. <a href="https://t.co/1nGfb6g3i0">https://t.co/1nGfb6g3i0</a>
&mdash; Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1222141792319045632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Former digital producer at CNN and opinion writer Steve Krakauer commented, &#8220;The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.&#8221;
&#8220;If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened,&#8221; Krakauer said.
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The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.
If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href="https://t.co/8kQ6zN9AZV">pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV</a>
&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;My God,&#8221; wrote New York Post writer Sohrab Ahmari. &#8220;They learned nothing from 2016 and its aftermath. Nothing from Brexit and its aftermath.&#8221;
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My God. They learned nothing from 2016 and its aftermath. Nothing from Brexit and its aftermath. <a href="https://t.co/fGwJPHgshT">https://t.co/fGwJPHgshT</a>
&mdash; Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) <a href="https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1222132205507567616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Don Lemon at the end, &#8216;oooo, that was good.&#8217; They&#8217;re not laughing because they&#8217;re happy. They&#8217;re laughing because they&#8217;re miserable, and misery loves company,&#8221; radio host Annie Frey said. 
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Don Lemon at the end, &quot;oooo, that was good.&quot; They&#39;re not laughing because they&#39;re happy. They&#39;re laughing because they&#39;re miserable, and misery loves company. <a href="https://t.co/yRnDkFLD05">https://t.co/yRnDkFLD05</a>
&mdash; Annie Frey (@anniefreyshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/anniefreyshow/status/1222009471712595968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Podcast host Stephen Miller mocked, &#8220;The most telling thing about the Don Lemon segment is no one commented on it when it aired. No one watched it.&#8221;
(The segment was first aired on Saturday night, and did not go viral until Monday morning when conservative media picked it up.)
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The most telling thing about the Don Lemon segment is no one commented on it when it aired. No one watched it.
&mdash; Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1222065921625247744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Jessica Fletcher called the segment a &#8220;MUST WATCH.&#8221;
&#8220;[Don Lemon] and his guests trash conservatives as illiterate hillbillies who can&#8217;t figure out a map. Never forget, THIS is what the liberal &#8216;elites&#8217; think of you,&#8221; she added.
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This is a MUST WATCH clip. <a href="https://twitter.com/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@donlemon</a> and his guests trash conservatives as illiterate hillbillies who can&#39;t figure out a map. 
Never forget, THIS is what the liberal &quot;elites&quot; think of you. <a href="https://t.co/dN6wu4eEIg">pic.twitter.com/dN6wu4eEIg</a>
&mdash; Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) <a href="https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1221999261874868227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-cnn-mocking-trump-supporters-goes-viral-trump-responds-by-swatting-don-lemon">Video Of CNN Mocking Trump Supporters Goes Viral; Trump Fires Back</a>
This article has been revised to clarify that Lemon is being sued for a &#8220;sexually charged assault,&#8221; rather than a sexual assault.

Don Lemon And Ivanka Trump

‘Arrogance’: CNN Ripped Over Don Lemon Segment Trashing Trump Supporters As Illiterate, Ignorant Rubes

Don Lemon

On Friday evening, former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was the featured guest on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
During the segment, Kelly and host Bill Maher covered multiple topics, including sexual harassment at Fox, how the media is “broken,” honesty in reporting, and cancel culture.
Regarding the movie “Bombshell,” which depicted the alleged sexual harassment faced by female Fox News employees under late CEO Roger Ailes, Kelly said the she sees the film as a “force for good because it helps shine a light on how it&#8217;s done,” and “how women who may not be that well connected” like herself and Gretchen Carlson, faced the same issue.
Maher interjected: “You had that in common. You both had to twirl for Roger Ailes.”
Kelly explained that the “twirl,” as well as “worse things” that happened to her, aren’t necessarily about the acts themselves, but about being demeaned and controlled.
Maher moved on to media, asking Kelly what she means when she says that the “media is broken.”
Kelly replied:
<blockquote>You know it&#8217;s true, right? The media is so messed up. It’s disheartening to me, and I&#8217;ve felt this way for a long time – not just since Trump. And I know Trump&#8217;s rhetoric is too strong – “enemy of the people” and all that, and I know why he says it. There [are] still amazing journalists out there doing great work, but the media is completely biased.</blockquote>
At this point, Maher tried to claim that the media isn’t really politically biased because Fox News exists, to which Kelly noted that the reason Fox grew in popularity was because it was the singular outlet that represented “the other side of the coin.”
Maher then claimed that the media is truly biased toward “money and conflict because that’s what sells.” He then cited the alleged disappointment he saw in the media when the recent Second Amendment rally in Virginia turned out to be peaceful.
“That’s what I think the media bias is, more than politics,” Maher said.
Kelly shot back, saying that even though she believes that there was a “liberal slant in the media” prior to President Trump, it has developed into something much greater since he took office:
<blockquote>Take CNN – he came in there and said, “CNN is completely biased to the left, they’re lefties, they&#8217;re completely against me,” and my take on it was in the beginning, he was wrong. CNN wasn&#8217;t that way. I used to watch CNN all the time when I was at Fox. When I was getting ready for the “Kelly File,” I&#8217;d have on CNN, and I&#8217;d watch a lot of their shows, and I liked a lot of the anchors over there.</blockquote>
However, suggested Kelly, CNN has now become “the thing Trump said they were,” and are “indistinguishable from MSNBC.”
Maher pushed back, saying it’s “very hard to cover a guy like Trump who does awful things.” Kelly agreed, but then Maher added that such coverage would make anchors or networks “look left-wing.”
Kelly disagreed, telling Maher that one can remain journalistically non-biased even in the face of a difficult president:
<blockquote>I totally disagree with you. When I was doing “The Kelly File” at primetime 9 p.m. on Fox News, he was attacking me for nine months straight, right? Saying outrageous things. It took everything in me to go out on the set night after night and not make it personal, and not have a vendetta against him, and not be overly harsh on him because of what he was doing to me and my family – but I did it. It’s doable. You just have to remember, it&#8217;s not about you! It’s about the audience and the truth.</blockquote>
Later in the segment, the two spoke about political correctness and “cancel culture.”
“I was angry for you, honestly,” Maher said of NBC firing Kelly after her comments about blackface. “Because this cancel culture – it&#8217;s so funny, when they do polls, they find like 80% to 90% of the people in this county hate this s***.”
Maher asked: “Who are these perfect people who have never made any mistake?”
Kelly replied:
<blockquote>I mean, my own take on it is, the country&#8217;s going through something right now, you know? Marginalized groups are rising up and trying to find positions at the table, equal positions, and that’s a good thing. The difference is in approach. How do we do it? And I understand this fight because as a woman and somebody who&#8217;s, you know, been in the position I was in that we talked about, I have also felt marginalized at times, and like I don&#8217;t have an equal footing, but the question is, do we do it with grace and humanity and understanding that people make mistakes and that we&#8217;re all imperfect and we&#8217;re gonna screw up &#8230; and kindness and an understanding that we&#8217;re all only here for a limited time and we can&#8217;t expect a perfect score?</blockquote>
“What’s galling is that the people who hate bullying are always bullying,” Maher said. “If you even talk about this, it’ll only make it worse. That&#8217;s bullying. The people who love diversity, except of opinion. There’s only one true opinion.”
Kelly noted that “the Right” has been saying the same thing about ideological diversity, to which Maher said that the Right engages in the snowflakery as well.
Speaking of the “woke” group, Maher stated: “They&#8217;re gross because all they care about is getting a scalp on the wall. They don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re really a racist, which you&#8217;re not. They don&#8217;t care about a million things &#8230; and they always want to find the worst version of what any person is.”
Kelly agreed, adding that the way it used to be was younger generations taught older generations to see the world in a new way instead of having the older generations “cancelled because they didn&#8217;t immediately agree or start talking about the issues in the way they wanted.”
“We have to get back to talking to each other so there&#8217;s buy-in, so people feel heard, and we allow for disagreement, respectful, kindness,” Kelly concluded.
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Thursday night delivered his latest speech in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, and the media predictably loved it.
The New York Times called it “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/politics/adam-schiff-closing-remarks.html">emotional</a>” and “fiery.” Newsweek called it “<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/adam-schiff-respect-trends-powerful-closing-speech-1483998">powerful</a>.” The Daily Beast had <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-schiff-stands-up-and-speaks-the-truth-at-mitch-mcconnells-upside-down-stalinist-show-trial">a headline</a> that read: “Adam Schiff Stands Up and Speaks the Truth at Mitch McConnell’s Upside-Down Stalinist Show Trial.” The Washington Post called the speech “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/because-in-america-right-matters-watch-schiffs-passionate-closing-remarks-in-senate-trial/2020/01/24/46438c59-4cec-49d9-bba8-c08c251e79a3_video.html">passionate</a>.”
Schiff claimed Thursday night that Democrats “believe that we will have made the case overwhelmingly of the president’s guilt,” adding that Trump withheld money from Ukraine to “coerce” it into starting “political investigations.” Schiff then asked repeatedly whether this means Trump should be removed from office (the answer of course, to the California Democrat, is yes):
<blockquote>And this is why he needs to be removed. Donald Trump chose Rudy Giuliani over his own intelligence agencies. He chose Rudy Giuliani over his own FBI Director. He chose Rudy Giuliani over his own National Security Advisors. When all of them were telling him this Ukraine 2016 stuff is kooky, crazy Russian propaganda. He chose not to believe them. He chose to believe Rudy Giuliani. That makes him dangerous to us, to our country. That was Donald Trump’s choice. Now, why would Donald Trump believe a man like Rudy Giuliani over a man like Christopher Wray? Okay. Why would anyone in their right mind believe Rudy Giuliani over Christopher Wray?</blockquote>
Say what you want about Giuliani, but the FBI has proven itself to be a mess of an organization that is either politically motivated to go after those who disagree with its workforce or a bureau full of incompetent employees who can’t do anything right, and Wray doesn’t appear to be the man who can fix the agency.
Schiff also proposed hypotheticals to impugn Trump, suggesting that if Russian hackers released information related to Burisma, the Ukraine energy company that inexplicably employed former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, Trump would do nothing about it.
“Can you have the least bit of confidence that Donald Trump will stand up to them and protect our national interest over his own personal interest? You know you can’t, which makes him dangerous to this country. You know you can’t. You know you can’t count on him. None of us can. None of us can,” Schiff said.
Schiff continued on in this matter, bringing up Russia and Trump’s joke in 2016 about the country hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails. Despite the hypotheticals and grandstanding, the media and the Left are trying to suggest Schiff’s speech “will go down in history.”
As a reminder, while Schiff spoke at length about unrelated matters, it took Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="v">just one minute</a> to shred Schiff’s credibility:
<blockquote>We’re supposed to believe Adam Schiff today and everything he’s saying? This is the guy who said, ‘We have more than circumstantial evidence that there was coordination between Trump and Russia, and Russia influenced the election.’ That turned out to be false. Adam Schiff said that the Nunes memo was false. Michael Horowitz told us no it wasn’t; it was exactly right. Adam Schiff said you can trust the FISA court. Michael Horowitz told us last month that no, you can’t; they lied to the FISA court 17 times. Adam Schiff told us we look forward to hearing from the whistleblower. Adam Schiff said we’ve had no contact with the whistleblower.
Then just yesterday, the story where he misrepresents to all of you to Chairman [Jerry] Nadler and most importantly to the White House counsel that Mr. Z is Mr. Zelensky, when in fact it was Mr. Zlochevsky. But today we’re supposed to believe him? He just talked for two hours and 15 minutes, and we’re supposed to believe everything he said today, in spite of that history, where seven important things he had exactly wrong? … That’s the kind of game that they’re playing here, and, again, I think that the American people see through it all.</blockquote>

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Media Predictably Praise Adam Schiff’s Opinion-Filled Speech: ‘You Know You Can’t Trust This President To Do What’s Right For This Country’

Our media elites arrogantly lecture about our democracy being undermined by robotic propaganda, but do they ever listen to themselves talk about the Democrats? Somehow, they think their robotic propaganda is just the &#8220;truth.&#8221; The press came to witness the Senate impeachment trial, and Rep. Adam Schiff had them at hello.
No member of Congress has been more dramatically partisan in this war on the Trump presidency than Schiff. Did you know he&#8217;s the second coming of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg? Check out this list of the media&#8217;s responses to his opening statement at the trial.
1.&#8221;I think it&#8217;ll go down as one of the great performances &#8230; He just shreds the other side every time he gets up,&#8221; claimed MSNBC&#8217;s Jonathan Alter.
2. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer declared it was &#8220;a very, very powerful and forceful speech &#8230; a very, very strong case from Adam Schiff.&#8221;
3. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called it &#8220;dazzling &#8230; really remarkable&#8221; and said, &#8220;It was the second-best courtroom address, since it&#8217;s like a courtroom, that I ever heard.&#8221;
4. On Twitter, Washington Post reporter Greg Miller oozed, &#8220;the way he has handled impeachment will leave a mark on history, exceeding nearly all contemporaries.&#8221;
5. Washington Post writer Jennifer Rubin wrote a valentine to Schiff&#8217;s &#8220;grand slam&#8221; with the headline &#8220;Adam Schiff&#8217;s Brilliant Presentation Is Knocking Down Excuses to Acquit.&#8221;
6. ABC&#8217;s Terry Moran said: &#8220;It was meticulous and well-organized. It was grounded in evidence, which he recited and arranged &#8230; in a comprehensive narrative. At times, he tried to rise to a level of eloquence and stir a sense of responsibility for the Senate.&#8221;
7. MSNBC&#8217;s Jason Johnson insisted Schiff wasn&#8217;t just talking to senators: &#8220;He was speaking to 100 years in the future. This is a speech that kids are going to be giving in 2060 &#8230; at university projects.&#8221;
8. CNN&#8217;s Paul Begala seconded that emotion: &#8220;I believe what Adam Schiff said yesterday is going to be studied 40 or 50 years from now.&#8221;
9. MSNBC lovebirds Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski echoed each other in adoring Schiff&#8217;s &#8220;virtuoso performance.&#8221;
Then these people wonder why Americans watch Fox News instead! To love Schiff&#8217;s case, you have to believe that a single phone call from the president to the Ukrainian president is somehow an impeachable offense on the level of abuse of power and obstruction of the House.
What&#8217;s entirely missing from this tsunami of saccharine sentiments is an important counterargument. Schiff has lied and manipulated this entire process. Schiff&#8217;s staff was working with the &#8220;whistleblower&#8221; in August, before his complaint was filed. But then Schiff lied shamelessly on MSNBC on Sept. 17, saying, &#8220;We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower.&#8221; Two days later, he lied again when he thanked Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, without whom he &#8220;might not have even known there was a whistleblower complaint.&#8221;
The &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; actually tagged Schiff on this, but how serious was their evaluation? Consider this: PolitiFact was founded in 2007, and this was the first time it has ever found an error in his statements. Since 2012, Sen. Ted Cruz has been subjected to 143 fact-checks, while Schiff has two.
The dishonesty of Schiff emerged again during the trial, as when he mischaracterized text messages from Ukraine-scandal figure Lev Parnas to Trump&#8217;s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. As usual, the Schiff-adoring networks skipped right over his lies.
But they lecture us about the integrity of democracy.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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