Michelle Obama is taking a starring role in a new &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; campaign to encourage Americans to register to vote and make sure they cast a ballot in November.
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/397832-michelle-obama-joins-stars-in-launch-of-voter-registration-push">The Hill reports that Obama</a> is joining forces with a cast of celebrities &#8212; all of whom happen to be Democratic donors and activists &#8212; &#8220;in a public service announcement to promote a get-out-the-vote push.&#8221;
The video stars Tom Hanks, Lin Manuel Miranda (of &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; fame), Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Janele Monae alongside the former First Lady. Obama &#8220;places calls&#8221; to her celebrity friends to remind them that the presidential election isn&#8217;t the only election that matters.
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&#8220;If we really want our voices to be heard, we need to vote in every election. Not just for president, but for every office: school board, statehouse, Senate &#8212; all of them,&#8221; Obama tells Miranda.
&#8220;When we vote, we prove that we are a democracy. We&#8217;re a government of the people and by the people,&#8221; Hanks adds.
Michelle Obama rounds out the PSA by announcing the creation of a &#8220;When We All Vote&#8221; non-profit. &#8220;It&#8217;s time. Our nation requires it. Our democracy and the country we love requires our attention, voice, and participation.&#8221;
All the celebrities who appear in the video, including Obama, will serve as co-chairs on the &#8220;When We All Vote&#8221; campaign.

Michelle Obama Launches Voter Registration Push With Tom Hanks, Lin Manuel Miranda

Hamilton

Michelle Obama

The Musical

Tom Hanks

Voting Rights

When Tom Hanks said that his movie &#8220;The Post&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24961/tom-hanks-do-not-screen-post-white-house-paul-bois">should not be screened at the White House</a> and that he would boycott such an event, he probably didn&#8217;t anticipate that the White House would actually request a screening.
Well, the joke&#8217;s on Tom Hanks.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trump-white-house-asks-screen-steven-spielbergs-post-1071684">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, &#8220;President Donald Trump&#8217;s team has requested, and been granted, access to the 20th Century Fox political drama for both 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and Camp David, where the president is scheduled to host a summit on Saturday and Sunday with top GOP lawmakers.&#8221;
All throughout promoting &#8220;The Post,&#8221; stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, as well as director Steven Spielberg, have touted the film&#8217;s &#8220;timeliness&#8221; in reference to the Trump administration; now, the very &#8220;power&#8221; they fancied themselves speaking truth to has requested a screening.
Running up to its release, Spielberg even boasted rushing to make the movie as a response to the Trump administration&#8217;s war on the media to remind Americans of their First Amendment rights. All three stars seem vaguely unaware of the fact they enthusiastically supported a regime that led a full-frontal assault on religious liberty for eight years.
And now that we&#8217;ve mentioned the religious liberty thing, Hanks&#8217; suggestion that the White House should be denied a screening of &#8220;The Post&#8221; implies a belief that businesses can deny services to other people based on ideological convictions. The talent behind &#8220;The Post&#8221; seems to have a real problem with hypocrisy. Good thing they have Meryl Streep in their camp to save-face . . . <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25000/poll-public-turns-meryl-streep-after-claims-she-paul-bois">Then again, maybe not</a>.
Amy Pascal, who produced the film with Spielberg, said support for the movie in Washington D.C. has been largely bi-partisan. A recent screening in the nation&#8217;s capital hosted several top Republicans, including Kellyanne Conway, special counselor to President Trump.
&#8220;They completely loved the movie, because the movie is about America and the movie is about the truth. This movie is for everyone. Kellyanne loved it, too, and danced all night with [Post co-writer] Josh Singer,&#8221; Pascal told THR earlier this week.
&#8220;I think it has been an unspoken truth in Hollywood that people are scared to make movies about politics. The Post is proof that this isn&#8217;t true,&#8221; said Pascal. &#8220;And the idea of a woman finding her voice is as relevant as politics in the movie.&#8221;

The Joke&#8217;s On Tom Hanks: White House Asks To Screen Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;The Post&#8217;

Hollywood

Trump Administration

Actor Tom Hanks has warned against screening his upcoming Oscar-bait film &#8220;The Post&#8221; at the White House in protest of President Trump.
&#8220;The Post,&#8221; directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, will tackle a variety of leftist causes, from feminism to the Vietnam war to the absurd notion that mainstream journalists are objective crusaders of truth.
Hoping to supplant &#8220;All The Presidents Men&#8221; as the standard for heroic journalists movies, &#8220;The Post&#8221; tells the story of The Washington Post&#8217;s Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), America&#8217;s first female publisher, and Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), and their hard-fought quest to publish the Pentagon Papers that detailed the United States&#8217; covert activities during the Vietnam conflict going all the way back to the Eisenhower administration.
Sitting down with <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-hanks-wouldnt-screen-post-at-white-house-decries-attacks-first-amendment-1066846">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, the veteran actor said that Spielberg&#8217;s film carries a &#8220;timely&#8221; message meant for the Trump administration, saying there are eerie parallels between him and President Nixon, who threatened The Washington Post with charges of treason for publishing the papers.
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There used to be this concept, [as the later Senator] Daniel Moynihan used to say: &#8216;You&#8217;re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts;&#8221; Facts are irrefutable. Well, it turns out people are saying: &#8216;No, facts are not irrefutable. We can decide whatever facts that we want, that we would like.&#8217; Right now, without a doubt, there are people in power trying to &#8212; if not quash or stop the right to publication, [then at least] denigrate it to the point [where] they are saying there is no truth to it whatsoever. And there are stories out there that are the truth, [in] organs of the Fourth Estate like the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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To protest Trump, Hanks says that his movie should not be screened at the White House and that he would avoid such a screening if it did.
<blockquote>
That&#8217;s an interesting question. I don&#8217;t think I would. Because I think that at some point &#8212; look, I didn&#8217;t think things were going to be this way last November. I would not have been able to imagine that we would be living in a country where neo-Nazis are doing torchlight parades in Charlottesville [Va.] and jokes about Pocahontas are being made in front of the Navajo code talkers. And individually we have to decide when we take to the ramparts. You don&#8217;t take to the ramparts necessarily right away, but you do have to start weighing things. You may think: &#8220;You know what? I think now is the time.&#8217; This is the moment where, in some ways, our personal choices are going to have to reflect our opinions. We have to start voting, actually, before the election. So, I would probably vote not to go.
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It is doubtful that Spielberg&#8217;s movie will commemorate the two million Vietnamese people that fled their country as a result of the Communist takeover when the United States withdrew from the region in 1975, not to mention the three million people murdered by Communist dictator Pol Pot in neighboring Cambodia.
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Tom Hanks: Do Not Screen &#8216;The Post&#8217; At White House

Media Bias

Steven Spielberg

It was bound to happen. One of America&#8217;s most beloved actors &#8212; a modern day Jimmy Stewart &#8212; has decided to go all political, alienating half the people who love him.
Yes, America is pretty much evenly divided, has been for years, decades even. So actors and singers and athletes and performers of every kind necessarily risk displeasing half their fans when they take a political stance. And yet they do it every day.
Except for Tom Hanks. The two-time Academy Award winner has, for much of his career, steered clear of politics. Even when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Hanks said: &#8220;We&#8217;ll all be OK,&#8221; and &#8220;I hope the president-elect does such a great job that I vote for his reelection in four years.&#8221;
&#8220;We are going to be all right because we constantly get to tell the world who we are. We constantly get to define ourselves as Americans. We do have the greatest country in the world. We move at a slow pace. We have the greatest country in the world because we are always moving towards a more perfect union,&#8221; he said shortly after the election.
But that was all before he was hawking his new movie about The Washington Post, called, smartly, &#8220;The Post,&#8221; which opens December 22. The movie depicts journalists from The Post and The New York Times working to expose a cover-up that spanned four U.S. presidents by publishing the Pentagon Papers, which dealt with U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Hanks stars as editor Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep plays publisher Katherine Graham.
Now, suddenly, Hanks is an expert on American history and an outspoken opponent of All Things Trump &#8212; even comparing him to Richard Nixon.
In an interview on Thursday, journalist Howard Kurtz asked the actor, &#8220;Do you see parallels between the Nixon panels in this film and the current climate? You&#8217;ve talked about President Trump&#8217;s insidious campaign against the media and monkeying around with the Constitution?&#8221;
Hanks said, &#8220;I believe that the Nixon administration at the time did a full frontal assault on the First Amendment by trying to keep, literally trying to stop the press from publishing. I don&#8217;t know. You can&#8217;t do that and still have the United States of America. I think the current administration and their like-minded allies are waging a guerrilla war on the First Amendment.
&#8220;Not quite as overt, but by deluding the job they do in order to establish what the truth is you when you, sort of, raise the legitimacy of those people who are not interested in the truth whatsoever and are putting forth a specific sort of agenda,&#8221; he said.
Huh. Hanks doesn&#8217;t mention the &#8220;specific sort of agenda&#8221; being pushed by the liberal media. Oh well.
The actor has been on a tear of late, teaching an impromptu course on American politics and the Constitution. In a CNN interview December 5 on CNN &#8212; interviewed by David Axelrod, a former adviser to Barack Obama &#8212; Hanks decried Trump&#8217;s use of the term &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
&#8220;As an American, it concerns me, because it&#8217;s monkeying around with our Constitution. It&#8217;s relatively obvious, I think, as what is trying to go forward. When you tear down these institutions to a level and say you can&#8217;t believe anything that is in any of them, that raises the stock of those agenda-filled other institutions and whatnot so that if you can&#8217;t believe them, well that means you get to believe some of the other stuff that is in these and so what is happening is that dilution, the dilution of the great &#8230; they&#8217;re throwing dirt and oil into a bucket of water. So it all becomes undrinkable after a while. &#8230;
&#8220;I think what the current administration is doing &#8212; I don&#8217;t know that they&#8217;re saying, &#8216;We have to shut them down so they don&#8217;t publish anymore.&#8217; What is happening is something that is more subtle and more insidious,&#8221; he said. &#8220;&#8220;Other governments in the past who have said, &#8216;Look, we can&#8217;t shut them down because that will cause outrage, but we can denigrate them. We can call them names. We can tell people that those are not the facts.&#8217; That&#8217;s what he is saying,&#8221; Hanks said of Trump.
Hollywood and the liberal elite have been pressing the notion for more than a year that Trump is exactly like Nixon, and that the supposed collusion with Russia during the election is exactly like Watergate. It isn&#8217;t, but Hanks is now selling a movie, so why not cash in on the liberal angst and just say so?
Steven Spielberg, director of &#8220;The Post,&#8221; is also pushing the idea.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of excitement when you talk about stolen papers and government secrets and an administration attacking the press to stop the truth from being told,&#8221; Spielberg told The Hollywood Reporter at Washington&#8217;s Newseum. &#8220;That all happened in 1971, but it&#8217;s kind of kind of evocative of things that are also part of the current landscape. And so we thought that was a story that couldn&#8217;t wait to be told.&#8221;
What&#8217;s truly frightening is how Hollywood &#8212; and now, Hanks himself &#8212; is rewriting history to fit its narrow, and completely false, vision of American politics.
And Hanks doesn&#8217;t know it yet, but he might&#8217;ve just lost half his fans.

Why Won&#8217;t Tom Hanks Just Shut Up?

Interviewed by former Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod on CNN, actor Tom Hanks offered his sage wisdom regarding President Trump&#8217;s labeling of left-wing media institutions as &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
Axelrod commented, &#8220;&#8230; the president has targeted news organizations that have printed things that he finds inconvenient, unflattering &#8212; &#8220;
Hanks interrupted, &#8220;I believe he called CNN &#8216;fake news.&#8217;&#8221;
Axelrod concurred: &#8220;He did indeed. And The Washington Post.&#8221;
Hanks, echoing: &#8220;And The Washington Post.&#8221;
Axelrod: &#8220;And other news organizations as well. How much does that concern you?&#8221;
Hanks, noted Constitutional expert:
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Well, as an American, it concerns me, because it&#8217;s monkeying around with our Constitution. It&#8217;s relatively obvious, I think, as what is trying to go forward. When you tear down these institutions to a level and say you can&#8217;t believe anything that is in any of them, that raises the stock of those agenda-filled other institutions and what not so that if you can&#8217;t believe them, well that means you get to believe some of the other stuff that is in these and so what is happening is that dilution, the dilution of the great &#8230; they&#8217;re throwing dirt and oil into a bucket of water. So it all becomes undrinkable after a while.
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Of course, in positing that the claims of &#8220;fake news&#8221; were utilized so that that other media would gain credibility at major media&#8217;s expense, Hanks was ignoring examples like these:
ABC News&#8217; Brian Ross <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/24235/crackdown-abc-suspends-brian-ross-fake-news-report-ryan-saavedra">alleging incorrectly</a> that Donald Trump &#8220;as a candidate&#8221; directed Michael Flynn to reach out to the Russians; Joe Scarborough <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/24314/fake-news-joe-scarborough-tweets-misleading-quote-ryan-saavedra">tweeting a misleading quote</a> from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT); the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/24053/fake-news-no-senate-tax-reform-bill-doesnt-raise-ben-shapiro">media trumpeting</a> that poor Americans will be hurt by higher taxes from the GOP tax reform plan; MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/23517/fake-news-msnbcs-joy-reid-spreads-debunked-talking-ryan-saavedra">falsely claiming</a> that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies claimed that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections, and TIME <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/23274/fake-news-time-magazine-claims-trump-made-it-tyler-dahnke">claiming</a> Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns.
But then, if you&#8217;re on the Left, everything from left-wing media sites seems on the up-and-up.
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Tom Hanks: Trump&#8217;s Claims Of &#8216;Fake News&#8217; Meant To Bolster Less Reputable News Sites

Donald Trump

Fake News

The love affair between leftist Hollywood and the mainstream media will soon produce another child.
This time the product of the love affair will be a movie tentatively titled The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, that lauds The Washington Post&#8217;s efforts to publish the Pentagon Papers.
The Pentagon Papers were a <a href="http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/February%202007/0207pentagon.aspx">compendium of documents</a> delineating how the U.S. government had handled the situation in Vietnam from the time of the Truman Administration through the Johnson Administration. The papers were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the project. The Nixon Administration was not mentioned in the papers, as they were compiled under the direction of LBJ&#8217;s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. There was speculation that McNamara had turned against the war and wanted the project to aid his friend Robert F. Kennedy, who was thinking of challenging LBJ for the presidential nomination.
President Nixon initially thought the release of the papers should be unchallenged but was convinced by his national security advisor Henry Kissinger to act on &#8220;this wholesale theft and unauthorized disclosure.&#8221; Kissinger later acknowledged in his memoirs, &#8220;The massive hemorrhage of state secrets was bound to raise doubts about our reliability in the minds of other governments, friend or foe, and indeed about the stability of our political system.&#8221;
The New York Times had published three installments of the papers when Attorney General John Mitchell and Nixon obtained a federal court injunction forcing the Times to cease publication. That prompted the case New York Times Co. v. United States.
The Post then began publishing its own series of articles, prompting Assistant U.S. Attorney General William Rehnquist (later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) to ask the Post to cease publication. When the Post refused, Rehnquist sought an injunction in U.S. district court, which was denied. The government appealed the decision. The Supreme Court then agreed to hear that case jointly with the New York Times case, ultimately ruling for the newspapers.
A Post editorial said at the time, &#8220;The story that unfolds is not new in its essence&#8212;the calculated misleading of the public, the purposeful manipulation of public opinion, the stunning discrepancies between public pronouncements and private plans&#8212;we had bits and pieces of all that before. But not in such incredibly damning form, not with such irrefutable documentation.&#8221;
Spielberg&#8217;s movie will be the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/meryl-streep-tom-hanks-steven-spielberg-pentagon-papers_us_58bdc7b7e4b09ab537d5b91c?ylubnvqzo549m5cdi&amp;ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009">first time</a> Streep and Hanks have starred in a film together. Streep will play Post publisher Kay Graham, and Hanks will play editor Ben Bradlee.
Streep has been attacking President Trump for his criticism of the press for months; she <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/meryl-streep-donald-trump-golden-globes-speech_us_5872fcf4e4b043ad97e41347?42sd1i122quuwhfr">said</a> at the Golden Globes in January, &#8220;We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That&#8217;s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we&#8217;re going to need them going forward. And they&#8217;ll need us to safeguard the truth.&#8221;
Hanks has donated an espresso machine to the White House press corps three times; once during George W. Bush&#8217;s administration, replacing it in 2010, then a third time at the end of February with an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american-hero-tom-hanks-gives-white-house-press-corps-a-coffee-machine_us_58b8629ce4b0a8ded67b3a88">attached note</a> reading, &#8220;Keep up the good fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Especially the Truth part.&#8221;

Streep And Hanks To Star In ANOTHER Movie About How Great The Media Are

Meryl Streep

New York Times

Vietnam

Washington Post

Thursday, the White House YouTube channel uploaded a video in which citizens and celebrities talk about their favorite moments from Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency. The video is filled to the brim with saccharine nostalgia, but three moments stood out.
Tom Hanks on Cuban Relations
Actor Tom Hanks said: &#8220;When he just changed all the rules on the table in regards to Cuba with the most succinct motivation imaginable, which is, &#8216;What we&#8217;ve been doing hasn&#8217;t worked,&#8217; which made all the sense in the world.&#8221;
What Hanks forgets to mention is that Obama&#8217;s normalizing of relations did nothing for Cuban dissidents. According to an August, 2016, piece in <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-betrayed-cubas-dissidents-1471211018">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
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&#8220;Independent groups that monitor civil liberties on the island say conditions have deteriorated in the 20 months since the Obama decision to normalize relations and ease Cuba trade and travel restrictions for Americans. Many dissident groups opposed any U.S. thaw without human-rights conditions attached and say they feel abandoned by the U.S., which they had long relied on for moral support.&#8221;
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In March 2016, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/20/cuba-dissidents-protesters-arrested-president-obama-visit/82048950/">USA Today</a> reported:
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&#8220;Just hours before President Obama landed Sunday in Cuba for his historic visit to the communist island, Cuban authorities arrested more than 50 dissidents who were marching to demand improved human rights.&#8221;
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Tom Hanks thinks Obama did a good job. The dissidents being imprisoned and tortured might disagree, but you can&#8217;t please everyone.
Leonardo DiCaprio on Climate Change
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio said: &#8220;When I was at the UN, and I heard our president say that climate change is the most important issue facing not only this generation, but all future generations, it was inspiring.&#8221;
Anthropogenic climate change is one of the Left&#8217;s magic bullets. The earth is dying; we care enough to save it; vote for us. What many progressives fail to mention is that a growing number of scientists disagree with the idea that man is causing climate change, and that man can do anything to stop it.
Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer write in <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136">The</a><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136"> Wall Street Journal</a>:
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&#8220;Of the various petitions on global warming circulated for signatures by scientists, the one by the Petition Project, a group of physicists and physical chemists based in La Jolla, Calif., has by far the most signatures&#8212;more than 31,000 (more than 9,000 with a Ph.D.). It was most recently published in 2009, and most signers were added or reaffirmed since 2007. The petition states that &#8220;there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of . . . carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth&#8217;s climate.'&#8221;
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The WSJ piece also routs the 97% consensus myth.
Much of what proponents of the theory of Anthropogenic climate change believe is being challenged by evidence. The Heartland Institute&#8217;s H. Sterling Burnett, PhD, <a href="http://blog.heartland.org/2017/01/climate-change-101-the-evidence-humans-arent-destroying-the-climate/">writes</a>:
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&#8220;Anthropogenic warming theorists&#8217; climate models assume temperatures should climb alongside rising carbon-dioxide levels, yet temperatures fell from the 1940s through the 1970s, even while emissions were rising dramatically. For the past two decades, carbon-dioxide levels have continued to increase, but global satellites have recorded no significant temperature increase for 18 years.&#8221;
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He adds that despite Arctic ice melting, Antarctic ice is thriving:
<blockquote>
&#8220;Contradicting climate models once again, Antarctica is gaining tens of thousands of tons of ice each year, even as some ice-shelves collapse. In addition, in the past few years, despite a warmer world, sea-ice extent in Antarctica has repeatedly grown at a rapid pace, smashing previous records several times.&#8221;
</blockquote>
Many progressives want Americans to believe that the science is settled, and that man is causing the earth to warm. The science is far from settled.
Samuel L. Jackson on Obamacare
Actor Samuel L. Jackson said: &#8220;The moment that, you know, we got the Affordable Care act passed, because I have relatives that, you know, can&#8217;t afford health insurance. So, it was really a great thing to know that if something happened to them, they&#8217;d get cared for.&#8221;
What Jackson fails to mention is the fact that the Affordable Care Act has been an unmitigated disaster. Premiums and deductibles have skyrocketed; millions of Americans have been rolled onto the already bloated Medicaid system; marketplaces have collapsed in many states, leaving only one or two insurers to provide coverage; and millions are still uninsured. Additionally, as <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12223/republicans-open-door-criticism-if-they-repeal-frank-camp">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported: &#8220;&#8230;the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the number of uninsured will increase to 26-28 million over the next ten years as more employers opt to stop offering insurance plans.&#8221;
What a legacy!
What this video shows is not what Obama has accomplished, but what people believe he&#8217;s accomplished. There&#8217;s a vital difference between good policy and policy that looks good. President Obama has pleased a great many people with good-looking policy. Unfortunately, the results of those policies have been almost uniformly terrible.
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WATCH: Celebrities Mourn Obama Leaving White House

Barack Obama

Climate Change

Cuba

Leonardo DiCaprio

Obamacare

Democrats should run &#8220;beloved&#8221; figures such as Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey in the future as presidential candidates, said neo-Marxist filmmaker Michael Moore in a Sunday-aired interview with left-wing CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper.
Implicitly describing Hillary Clinton as unlikable, Moore called for a celebrity Democrat response to Trump in the next presidential election: 
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&#8220;Frankly, Democrats would be better off if they ran Oprah or Tom Hanks, or, why don&#8217;t we run beloved people? We have so many of them. The Republicans do this. They run Reagan and The Terminator, and other people. Why don&#8217;t we run somebody that the American people love, that they are really draw to? And they are smart, and have good politics, and all that. Why don&#8217;t Democrats do that?&#8221;
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The Democrat Party, according to Moore, was insufficiently left-wing. He called for a more &#8220;progressive&#8221; party platform:
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&#8220;My sincere hope is that DNC, that there is a clean sweep in this party. They all have to go, and they have to make room for the progressive Democrats who are gonna come in here, they&#8217;re gonna be needed to fight the things that Trump is going to do to the people of this country and the world. And we need young people, and women, and others who are going to really be the voice of this party. Not the same old same old.&#8221;
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Moore implied that Trump&#8217;s supporters were not motivated by the president-elect&#8217;s policy proposals, dismissing their support as superficially grounded in a nebulous desire for &#8220;change.&#8221;
He claimed that &#8220;Trump people&#8221; he spoke with in New York City told him they would have voted for a socialist like Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT).
<div>&#8220;They were just mad at the system,&#8221; said Moore of Trump supporters he claimed to have spoken to, implying that the president-elect&#8217;s base of support was not grounded in substantive agreement on policies.</div>
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Moore: Democrats Should Run Oprah Winfrey/Tom Hanks

Hillary Clinton

Jake Tapper

Michael Moore

Oprah Winfrey

State of the Union

A genuine problem has sprung up: a mother named Laura DiMichele-Ross shared a photo in a Facebook group called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ReasonsMySonCry/photos/a.161597380672040.1073741828.160356534129458/172075349624243/?type=3&amp;theater">Reasons My Son Is Crying</a> back in 2013.Here&#8217;s the problem: people are going crasy trying to figure out if the picture is of Tom Hanks or Bill Murray. 
This is Tom Hanks:
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And this is Bill Murray:
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So who the hell is this? Which one is it?
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Not to keep you in suspense, but if we told you right away, that wouldn&#8217;t be much fun would it? Therefore, in the interest of piquing your interest, here are a few clues about the actor you see in this picture:
1. He is 66 years old.
2. He was born in Evanston, Illinois.
3. He is 6&#8217;2&#8243;.
4. He has been married twice.
5. He has six children.
6. He has never won an Academy Award.
By now, it should be clear. The actor in the picture is . . . . . . . . Bill Murray.

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