Pink Floyd rocker <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/pink-floyds-roger-waters-tells-super-bowl-hank-berrien/">Roger Waters</a> unloaded on President Joe Biden during a Saturday interview on CNN, accusing the Democratic president of &#8220;fueling the fire&#8221; in <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-sending-5-5-billion-more-in-aid-to-ukraine/">Ukraine</a> and claiming that the United States had &#8220;no role as liberators&#8221; when it came to the Eastern European nation&#8217;s war against neighboring Russia.
The aging British rocker spoke with CNN anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/smerconish-cnn-respected-worldwide-robert-kraychik/">Michael Smerconish</a> about his willingness to continue to engage in political discussions from the stage while on tour — and in addition to calling out President Biden, he suggested that the United States was &#8220;lucky&#8221; the Russians had already crippled Nazi Germany before American troops arrived during World War II.
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Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters accuses President Joe Biden of &quot;fueling the fire&quot; in Ukraine — and suggests Russia did the heavy lifting in World War II before the Americans even arrived. <a href="https://t.co/FmaJpYjjEe">pic.twitter.com/FmaJpYjjEe</a>
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Smerconish noted that Waters has actually increased his political commentary while on tour — going so far as to announce at the beginning of a show that anyone who loved Pink Floyd but hated Waters&#8217; politics could &#8220;f*** off to the bar right now&#8221; — and included a photo of the Democratic president among others he considered to be war criminals.
&#8220;Well, [Biden] is fueling the fire in Ukraine for a start. That’s a huge crime,&#8221; Waters explained. &#8220;Why won’t the United States of America encourage Zelensky, the president, to negotiate; obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war?&#8221;
&#8220;You’re blaming the party that got invaded. Come on, you’ve got it reversed,&#8221; Smerconish pushed back.
Waters argued that the war between Russia and Ukraine was the predictable result of NATO encroaching upon Russia&#8217;s borders rather than a unilateral invasion at the whim of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He described it as &#8220;the actions and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do when Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR from the whole of Eastern Europe.&#8221;
&#8220;What about our role as liberators?&#8221; Smerconish asked.
&#8220;You have no role as liberators!&#8221; Waters shot back, prompting Smerconish to bring up the United States&#8217; role in World War II.
But Waters was apparently not convinced that the American troops had been liberators even then — and suggested that it was really the Russians who had won the war before the United States even had boots on the ground.
&#8220;Thank God the Russians had already won the bloody war almost by then,&#8221; Waters said, noting that the U.S. hadn&#8217;t even officially entered the war until after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. &#8220;Don’t forget 23 million Russians died protecting you and me from the Nazi menace.&#8221;
Waters went on to defend China later in the interview, arguing that reports of human rights abuses in Communist China were just &#8220;propaganda.&#8221;
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Roger Waters: The Chinese didn’t invade Iraq and kill a million people in 2003. In fact, as far as I can recall, hang on a minute, who have the Chinese invaded and murdered, slaughtered? Smerconish: Their own.. RW: Bollocks, that’s absolute nonsense. Complete nonsense. <a href="https://t.co/XHRPpPN84B">pic.twitter.com/XHRPpPN84B</a>
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&#8220;The Chinese didn’t invade Iraq and kill a million people in 2003. In fact, as far as I can recall, hang on a minute, who have the Chinese invaded and murdered, slaughtered?&#8221; Waters asked, appearing to suggest that American involvement in Iraq was a better example of human rights abuses.
&#8220;Their own. Their own,&#8221; Smerconish replied.
&#8220;Bollocks, that’s absolute nonsense. Complete nonsense,&#8221; Waters dismissed the idea out of hand.

&quot;Roger Waters Us + Them&quot; Red Carpet Arrivals – The 76th Venice Film Festival

‘You Have No Role As Liberators!’: Pink Floyd Rocker Trashes Biden For ‘Fueling The Fire’ In Ukraine

Pink Floyd Rocker Roger Waters Trashes Biden For 'Fueling The Fire' In Ukraine

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A CNN host is concerned that letting Americans vote for a state-wide office threatens democracy, and is flogging Republicans for suggesting that the office be elected after it spent years ignoring George Soros&#8217; attempt to control it.
Filling in Tuesday night for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-out-at-siriusxm-radio-show">recently fired Chris Cuomo</a> on the abruptly renamed “CNN Prime Time,” guest host Michael Smerconish twice warned that Trump voters in his home state have launched a dark conspiracy to overturn elections by having a statewide officeholder elected by the people instead of appointed by the governor.
And despite his concern over Republicans running for the office of secretary of state, which oversees election laws in each respective state, CNN apparently never mentioned the most concerted effort to capture this office: George Soros’ “Secretary of State Project.”
Michael Smerconish brought the subject up during the now-abbreviated handoff with Don Lemon at 10 p.m., after Lemon said he questioned the integrity of people who support election integrity. “I&#8217;m not sure if that really matters if they want to believe [in voter fraud] or they actually do believe it,” he said.
“Well, they are taking action on it,” replied Smerconish. He said the fact that a sizable percentage of Republicans’ constituents harbor doubts about the 2020 election “gives them the power to go in a state like Pennsylvania and say, ‘You know that secretary of state position? Let&#8217;s make it an elected gig, instead of an appointed job.’”
Smerconish did not explain how holding more elections would thwart the democratic process. He had raised the topic earlier in the show with David Leonhardt of The New York Times. Leonhardt warned that Republicans are seeking ways “to make it easier … for them to overturn an election result after it happens.”
“For example, my home state, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, there&#8217;s a move afoot to make the Secretary of State, an elected official,” said Smerconish. “That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re talking about?”
“Yes,“ replied Leonhardt, although he immediately walked his statement back, noting “the mere fact of making the Secretary of State an elected position is not in itself threatening to democracy. There are many places where it is an elected position.”
Voters democratically elect the secretary of state in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Secretary_of_State_(state_executive_office)">35 states</a>, including California, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
Leonhardt also said that limiting mail-in balloting is not a “radical” stance, and that assuring ballot integrity by passing voter ID laws is “a legitimate thing for the government to do.”
Despite the CNN host&#8217;s concern over the partisan leanings of state election officials, the network seems to have dedicated no coverage whatever to George Soros’ campaign to elect Democrat-friendly candidates as secretary of state in swing states.
After the narrow 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, a coalition of left-wing donors known as the Democracy Alliance, including George Soros, began a 527 group called the Secretary of State Project (or SoS Project) aimed at electing progressives as the top election officials in states the Republican candidate won by less than 120,000 votes.
“Democrats have built an administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most important battleground states,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/11/secretaries-of-state-give-dem-firewall-015105">reported</a> Politico in a story about the SoS Project just before the 2008 election. “The bulwark consists of control of secretary of state offices in five key states — Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio.”
“With a Democrat now in charge of the offices, which oversee and administer their state’s elections, the party is better positioned than in the previous elections to advance traditional Democratic interests … rather than Republican priorities such as stamping out voter fraud,” Politico noted.
Despite the group’s financial might and stated intention of controlling election law in swing states for partisan advantage, CNN appears not to have covered the Secretary of State Project a single time.
A comprehensive search of the network’s transcripts, and a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=%22secretary+of+state+project%22+site%3Acnn.com&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">Google search</a> of its website, for stories on the topic yielded no results.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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CNN Host: Holding Elections Threatens Our Democracy

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Prosecutors should consider arresting former President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to initiate an “administrative coup, if not a bloody coup” and “acting like an Adolf Hitler,” said CNN’s Jim Acosta on Wednesday night’s episode of “Cuomo Prime Time.”
“I think, arguably, Donald Trump committed crimes on the way to January 6th,” Acosta told host Chris Cuomo. “Is anything going to be done about it? Why have we not had this conversation in this country?”
“I think it&#8217;s a critical question, Chris, whether or not the former president of the United States belongs in the slammer for what he did between the election and January 6th,” Acosta said.
The former White House correspondent provided his analysis after Cuomo <a href="https://twitter.com/CuomoPrimeTime/status/1415482309340508160">read</a> an excerpt from the new book I Alone Can Fix It by The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker. The excerpt did not allege the president had engaged in any criminal behavior. The book’s revelations consist entirely of the reported fears, suspicions, and concerns of Trump administration officials and others inside the Beltway.
Cuomo later admitted, “Nothing ever happened to confirm these suspicions. And that&#8217;s I think one of the suggestions that this book is going to have to deal with.”
Yet Acosta said, “Donald Trump was behaving like an Adolf Hitler, who was potentially looking to overthrow the government.”
“The question becomes Chris, what do we do about this information?” Acosta asked.
Acosta’s fellow panelist, Michael Smerconish, tamped down the allegations, saying there is “much we still don&#8217;t know about the events of January 6.”
But Acosta, who has long viewed President Trump as his personal bête noire, said the poison pen book “aligns with a lot of what we were reporting around the time of the election and then the” D.C. riot.
“I talked to a source close to Trump, around the time of the [D.C. riot], who said that Trump had lost his mind, that he had lost it, and he was essentially trying everything by hook, or by crook, to overturn the election results at that time,” Acosta continued. “I will tell you, I’ve talked to two former senior White House officials, who have told me that Trump is quote, ‘insane.’ They have both used that word, ‘insane.’&#8221;
Attempting to force President Trump from office by citing concerns over his mental health became so common that the American Psychiatric Association issued a statement in 2018 saying that it’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-psychiatric-association-calls-end-joseph-curl">unethical</a>” to diagnose someone as mentally ill without examining him or her personally. “We at the APA call for an end to psychiatrists providing professional opinions in the media about public figures whom they have not examined, whether it be on cable news appearances, books, or in social media. Armchair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical,” it said.
Cuomo attempted to hype President Trump’s alleged indifference to constitutional norms by quoting an alleged conversation Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had with General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
<blockquote>Pelosi told the [g]eneral, she was deeply concerned that a &#8220;crazy,&#8221; &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and &#8220;maniac&#8221; Trump might use nuclear weapons during his final days.
&#8220;Ma&#8217;am, I guarantee you these processes are very good,&#8221; Milley reassured her. &#8220;There&#8217;s not going to be an accidental firing of nuclear weapons.”</blockquote>
Cuomo later asked CNN correspondent Phil Mudd, “Isn’t the real question, ‘Did they have any reason to feel this way?’” Mudd responded that if these thoughts occurred to “someone like General Milley,” they “can’t simply be paranoia.”
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The time between when former President Trump lost the election and President Biden’s inauguration was “worse than we knew,” says <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCuomo</a> on troubling new revelations in the book “I Alone Can Fix It.” <a href="https://t.co/KxKLzI5VCF">https://t.co/KxKLzI5VCF</a> <a href="https://t.co/TBejmzQvqv">pic.twitter.com/TBejmzQvqv</a>
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General Milley is best known for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/highest-ranking-u-s-military-official-defends-teaching-crt">viral defense of Critical Race Theory</a>, saying the Marxist-tied ideology sheds necessary light on “white rage.” At President Biden’s inauguration, General Milley <a href="https://abc11.com/trump-coup-general-mark-milley-i-alone-can-fix-it-book-joint-chiefs/10888924/">told</a> Michelle Obama, “No one has a bigger smile today than I do. You can’t see it under my mask, but I do.”
Meanwhile, the book’s authors, Leonnig and Rucker, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-writers-claim-trump-called-military-leaders-dopes-and-babies">faced questions</a> about the veracity of their previous book, A Very Stable Genius, which relied heavily on anonymous sources. Rucker deflected criticism last January, <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/28/cnnt.01.html">telling</a> CNN’s Don Lemon that Trump’s criticism of the media “fits a pattern” of “authoritarian impulses.”
“We’re not at war with the administration,” Leonnig added.
That summer, Rucker <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-racism-white-nationalism-republicans/2020/07/04/2b0aebe6-bbaf-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html">wrote</a> that Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore was part of “President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination,” since “amplifying racism and stoking culture wars have been mainstays of Trump’s public identity for decades.”

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Donald Trump Is ‘Acting Like Adolf Hitler,’ According To Jim Acosta

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Actor and former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called upon Joe Biden to combat voter suppression.
Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Michael Smerconish on Saturday, the former &#8220;Terminator&#8221; star said that he will be investing his own money into opening up new polling places and hoped that Biden would help to create a new Voting Rights Act.
&#8220;I felt very strongly that I should invest in our democracy, and that means that I was — I recognize the fact that we had closed so many polling stations since 2013, since the Supreme Court made that decision, that we don&#8217;t really need the Voting Rights Act anymore,&#8221; said Schwarzenegger. &#8220;And since then, they closed 1,600 polling stations. And that really has an effect that I felt, that was, you know, kind of unjustifiable. That minorities in the South weren&#8217;t able to vote exactly the same way as we were voting everywhere else.&#8221;
Schwarzenegger noted how ridiculous Europeans might find the idea of him investing money into democracy.
&#8220;Look, my friends in Europe, they were laughing about the fact that I had to put in my own money in order to fight for democracy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They said, you have the oldest democracy there is in the history, so how can you brag about that when you don&#8217;t really have the financial means to open up polling places and you don&#8217;t have laws in place so that there&#8217;s [no] voter suppression going on especially in the South?&#8221;
Later in the interview, Schwarzenegger set his sights on President Donald Trump and said that he did not get re-elected because he did not perform as a leader.
&#8220;I think with Trump it was very simply, you know, four years ago, they voted for Trump because he promised them a certain amount of things,&#8221; said Schwarzenegger. &#8220;I think the second time, when you get re-elected or want to get re-elected it&#8217;s more about what promises did you keep. And how did you perform as the leader. And I think that&#8217;s where, obviously, he fell short. So, this is why he was voted out.&#8221;
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Schwarzenegger and Trump have been sparring ever since the 2016 election when the action star was tapped to head “The Apprentice” in the real-estate mogul’s absence. As the show’s ratings quickly dwindled, Trump made sure to put the blame on Schwarzenegger.
“Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show,” Trump wrote on Twitter at the time.
Schwarzenegger did not take the insults lying down and immediately shot back with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14613/watch-schwarzenegger-escalates-feud-trump-james-barrett">troll video</a> of his own when Trump’s approval ratings dipped into the 30s in 2017.
“Oh, Donald, the ratings are in, and you got swamped. Wow. Now you’re in the 30s?” said Schwarzenegger at the time. “But what do you expect? I mean when you take away after school programs for children and meals on wheels for the poor people, that’s not what you call ‘making America great again.’ Come on! I mean, who is advising you? Let me give you some advice: go to a middle school — the Hart Middle School, right in Washington, six miles away from the White House. I’ll take you there, so you can see the fantastic work that they’re doing for these children. Let’s do it, huh?”

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On Tuesday, the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took issue with President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent use of federal officers to quell riots in Portland, Oregon, and said he would resist unilateral action from the White House if he were still a governor.
Tom Ridge, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to head DHS after it was created in the wake of 9/11, <a href="https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/a9914a41-78d6-4402-8150-b8f14a44945b/715571de-a566-4492-ba13-bbe09f516300" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told radio host Michael Smerconish</a>, &#8220;The department was established to protect America from the ever-present threat of global terrorism. It was not established to be the president’s personal militia.&#8221;
The former two-time governor of Pennsylvania also conceded he would &#8220;welcome the opportunity to work with any federal agency to reduce crime or lawlessness in the cities&#8221; if he were still in that office, but said &#8220;it would be a cold day in hell before I would consent to an uninvited, unilateral intervention into one of my cities.&#8221;
Saying he reached his point of view based on his experience both as a former governor and former DHS secretary, Ridge continued:
<blockquote>Either way, I don’t care for it at all. DHS wasn’t designed for that purpose. And as governor, working in concert with the federal government to address these problems, I’d say that would greatly enhance the possibility of a positive outcome. But when you work unilaterally, and perhaps even against the work that’s going on in the states and the communities, I think it’s counterproductive and it sends the wrong signal. Frankly, I also think it sends a horrible signal globally that we’re just going to send in uninvited federal agents to deal with a state and local problem.</blockquote>
Federal troops from DHS&#8217;s Customs and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit, as well as the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group, allegedly began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-begins-feds-in-camo-nab-suspects-in-portland-drive-off-in-unmarked-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">whisking suspected rioters away</a> in unmarked vans, footage of which has circulated on social media, sparking outrage.
Ridge&#8217;s criticism is comparatively muted next to the Democratic politicians who have likened federal officers to Nazis and secret police.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on Monday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beginning-of-the-ending-of-this-democracy-jim-clyburn-accuses-trump-and-barr-of-imposing-gestapo-activities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">accused</a> Trump and Attorney General William Barr of implementing tactics reminiscent of the Third Reich, saying, &#8220;That kind of activity is the activity of a police state, and this president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities in local communities, and that is what I have been warning about for a long time.&#8221;
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) echoed Clyburn&#8217;s comparison when she tweeted last Friday, &#8220;Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti. These are not the actions of a democratic republic. [DHS]&#8217;s actions in Portland undermine its mission. Trump &amp; his stormtroopers must be stopped.&#8221;
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Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti.
These are not the actions of a democratic republic.<a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a>’s actions in Portland undermine its mission.
Trump &amp; his stormtroopers must be stopped.
&mdash; Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1284294427654197248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during Tuesday&#8217;s press briefing, “By any objective standard, the violence, chaos, and anarchy in Portland is unacceptable. Yet Democrats continue to put politics above peace while this president seeks to restore law and order.”
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DHS Is Not ‘The President’s Personal Militia,’ Tom Ridge Says

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&#8220;[CNN] is viewed and respected worldwide, including by foreign leaders,&#8221; said CNN&#8217;s Michael Smerconish on his eponymous Saturday morning program.

President Donald Trump&#8217;s criticisms of CNN will damage the president&#8217;s credibility as a function of CNN&#8217;s broadly positive global reputation, alleged Smerconish.

Trump&#8217;s comedic tweet of a meme beating Vince McMahon with a superimposed CNN logo over the WWE Chairman&#8217;s head furthered an &#8220;ugly American&#8221; stereotype, said Smerconish:

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&#8220;Last week in London, all my efforts [to dispel a false &#8216;ugly American&#8217; stereotype] seemed an exercise in futility. No amount of person-to-person encounters this summer travel season can offset the recent actions of our president.&#8221;
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Smerconish attempted to connect Trump to misogyny and anti-Semitism:

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&#8220;Prior to my departure, the president sent a vulgar tweet commenting on a female cable news host&#8217;s plastic surgery. By the time I had landed overseas, he&#8217;d tweeted an internet meme which showed him bodyslamming CNN. His impulsivity apparently wasn&#8217;t slowed by the fact that the meme originated on Reddit via someone whose online identityy is HanA**holeSolo. Nor was the president deterred by this individual&#8217;s prior listing of CNN personalities next to Stars of David; an anti-Semitic suggestion of overrepresentation in the media.&#8221;
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View Smerconish&#8217;s comments below.

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Smerconish hosts a daily radio show on Sirius XM&#8217;s POTUS channel, in which he presents himself as a politically balanced and objective news media figure without partisan biases. CNN similarly markets itself as &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News.&#8221;

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&#8220;Middle-class white folks&#8221; and &#8220;working class whites&#8221; are &#8220;culturally under assault,&#8221; said Pat Buchanan on Saturday, speaking with left-wing CNN&#8217;s Michael Smerconish on the anchor&#8217;s eponymous show.

Speaking about an<a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/great-white-hope-125286"> article</a> he published last Thursday, Buchanan headline &#8220;The Great White Hope&#8221; described Donald Trump as appealing to the aforementioned whites as he said President Barack Obama appeals to blacks.

&#8220;<a href="http://www.metrolyrics.com/are-the-good-times-really-over-lyrics-merle-haggard.html">Are the good times really over?</a>&#8221; was being answered in the affirmative by disillusioned white voters, aid Buchanan.

Pointing to Trump&#8217;s<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/twelve-thirty-seven/2016/04/donald-trump-popular-vote-record-222510"> record-breaking volume of total votes</a> in the Republican presidential nomination process, Buchanan said the majority of the increase was driven by the whites he identified.

&#8220;Nationalism and populism,&#8221; aid Buchanan, were primary drivers of Trump&#8217;s base of white supporters.

&#8220;Are you helping or hurting [Trump] when you cast his campaign in those terms?&#8221; asked Smerconish about the racial element of Buchanan&#8217;s analysis, a question not asked of Democrat appeals to racial, ethnic, gender, and other identity politics.

&#8220;But isn&#8217;t Donald Trump stirring that base by pointing in the direction of the others, and laying off the blame on them for what&#8217;s going on among this core constituency?&#8221; asked Smerconish.

Building a wall along the America-Mexico for border security, said Buchanan, was not &#8220;anti-Mexican&#8221; but an attempt to &#8220;preserve the character and laws of the United States&#8221; which he said &#8220;are under assault.&#8221;

Adding &#8220;40 or 50 million&#8221; new immigrants to the United States since 1965, in addition to millions of illegal immigrants, said Buchanan, depresses wages by increasing the supply of labor. &#8220;Real wages have been stagnant for American workers and American families of the working and middle class&#8221; since 1974, added Buchanan, lamenting the outsourcing of manufacturing operations.

&#8220;Are demographics not destiny?&#8221; asked Smerconish, wondering is Buchanan&#8217;s analysis &#8211; if correct &#8211; meant doom for the GOP&#8217;s future.

The Republican Party is under a demographic death sentence,&#8221; said Buchanan. &#8220;Even if you get, say, 60 to 65 percent of the white vote &#8211; which Nixon got and Reagan got, both of them winning 49-state landslides &#8211; when the white vote diminishes, it&#8217;s not about 72 percent of the electorate &#8211; 63 percent of the population &#8211; as it goes down further and further, you&#8217;re gonna have to get Hispanic votes, you&#8217;re going to have get some more African-American votes, and you gotta get more Asian-American votes, or quite frankly the Republican Party&#8217;s gonna go the way of the Whigs,&#8221; concluded Buchanan.

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Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Michael Smerconish in Saturday, Sean Spicer, the RNC&#8217;s Chief Strategist and Communications Director, said, &#8220;I think, by and large, CNN does a great job of covering the news.&#8221; He also said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a great relationship with a lot of the folks at CNN.&#8221;
Given Spicer&#8217;s title as Chief Strategist and Communications Director, it was revealing that he told Smerconish, &#8220;I really haven&#8217;t kept track of the tick-tock&#8221; between CNN and Ben Carson when invited to speak about this very issue. Spicer was wholly unprepared to directly respond to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/954/watch-cnn-assaults-carson-over-past-carson-fights-robert-kraychik">CNN&#8217;s &#8220;investigation&#8221; of Carson&#8217;s childhood</a> or to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/960/no-ben-carson-didnt-lie-about-west-point-its-ben-shapiro">Politico&#8217;s yellow journalism</a>. He also stated that he has not communicated with Carson&#8217;s campaign about the week&#8217;s events.
In other words, the GOP&#8217;s top media strategist hasn&#8217;t been watching the informally-coordinated attacks on his party&#8217;s current front runner, and hasn&#8217;t talked to him or his campaign about it.
Spicer noted the double standard in the treatment of Republicans and Democrats by most of the media. He also explained part of the reason for the alternative media&#8217;s ascendance, rooted in its coverage of stories mostly ignored by the &#8220;mainstream media.&#8221;
Smerconish essentially demanded that the GOP play nice with CNN and like-minded left-wing media outfits. He said, &#8220;A Fox-only constituency cannot get your man or your woman elected.&#8221; Given the<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/792/media-cabal-circles-wagons-shield-cnbc-robert-kraychik"> increased scrutiny placed on left-wing media</a> resulting from the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/760/debate-grades-cruz-rubio-score-big-jeb-down-count-ben-shapiro">debacle that was the CNBC debate</a>, Smerconish was understandably doing his part to close ranks and shield his business from challenges to its faux pretense of objectivity. He then asked in a rhetorical manner whether or not the eventual GOP nominee &#8220;can get elected playing only in the Fox sandbox during the nomination process.&#8221;
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Smerconish then parroted the conventional wisdom of the necessity of winning over independents in general elections. Admonishing the GOP to relax its newfound intransigence toward left-wing media, Smerconish said, &#8220;The take-on-the-media mentality&#8230; bodes poorly when you&#8217;re trying to win over independents in a general election.&#8221; Yet <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-romney-independent-vote-polls-moderates-election-2012-11">Mitt Romney won independents</a> in 2012 while losing to the incumbent President Barack Obama, yielding the latter&#8217;s second presidential term.
In July, Spicer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efhh0UveH0">failed to dismantle CNN&#8217;s narrative</a> of Mike Huckabee&#8217;s Holocaust invocation &#8220;crossing a line&#8221; when pressed by Kate Bolduan.
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