By Jonathan E.P. Moore
HILLARY'S SOCIALIST CARD HAS BEEN 'TRUMPED,' AND WITH HER HAVING A SEPERATE 'PUBLIC AND PRIVATE' OPPINION ON ALL ISSUES, I WOULD SAY GAME OVER!
Hillary Clinton has finally told the truth, but it took close to 30 years for that to happen, and with her riding off into the sunset after this election, is probably going to be her last opportunity to do so!
THE ONLY QUESTION LEFT IS IF SHE WINS, AND HAS THE NUCLEAR CODES, WHICH PUBLIC OR PRIVATE VOICE IS SHE GOING TO LISTEN TO WHEN THE NEED ARISES?
HILLARY SAYS SHE INTENDS TO SPEND ‘OTHER’ PEOPLE’S MONEY TO FUND HER ECONOMIC PLAN AND CONTINUE TO USE TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO FUND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND SYRIAN REFUGEES, BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SHE RUNS OUT OF ‘OTHER’ PEOPLE’S MONEY?
How can anybody vote for a Presidential candidate who should be in prison, or at least banned from running for public office for the rest of her life for her betrayal of trust of America’s top
secret information, but because of the crooked justice department and FBI leaders, has been given a free pass? The only reason I can possibly see this free ride is that Soros’s lose lips are not only profound, but insightful about the voter fraud ‘fix’ that is more than likely coming down the road on election day and even before through early voting!
George Soros literally says Trump will win popular vote but it’s already been decided that Clinton will be the POTUS!
GEORGE SOROS SPILLING THE 'FIX' BEANS!
How does George Soros know the outcome of this election, and with his voting machines in 16 states in 307 voting districts, you should be concerned! With the voter fraud that was exposed after the fact in 2012 of how Obama won through voter fraud over Mitt Romney, why wouldn’t you, like Trump, challenge the system and at least question the results when it’s almost impossible, with Hillary’s socialist agenda, attacks on the Second Amendment, her comments about how the first Amendment has some room for regulation, and don’t forget how she has a different private and public messages for all issues, so how would and could anyone vote for her, and allow her to win?
The only way voter fraud works is if the polls are too close to call to justify either outcome for either candidate, but as we have seen, the ‘Paid to Report’ Media is living up to their commitment to the cause, and at all costs, to make it feel closer than it actually is, intentionally!
What? Trump like 8 liberals can't question the election outcome? I guess the double standard used by this administration and Hillary, and protected by the 'Paid to Report' Media is still OK'd by the 'Will' of the American People?
8 Times Cry Baby Liberals Claimed An Election Was Stolen Or Rigged!
Can we really know what Hillary said last night is anywhere near the truth, or just another one of Hillary Clinton’s political 'public or private position' on the issues?
Do you remember during the last debate ABC correspondent and debate moderator Martha Raddatz asked the Democratic presidential nominee about a statement she'd made in a speech saying "you need both a public and a private position" on issues?
"Is it ok for politicians to be two-faced? Is it acceptable for a politician to have a private stance on issues?"
The truth of the matter is that our elected officials from both sides of the aisles can’t afford a Trump victory, they can’t afford to have Trump discover what has been going on for years behind those Capitol Hill closed doors, and can’t afford to have Trey Gowdy appoint special prosecutors to investigate all the cast members, on both sides of the aisles who intentionally violated the laws of the land and the Constitution for personal power and wealth!
Hillary said that 17 of America’s security agencies that the Russians are the ones trying to influence our election, but if that’s the case why hasn’t President Obama, and those 17 agencies do anything about it, especially if they knew?
If it weren’t for Wikileaks, and the discovery of Hillary’s ‘Public and Private’ messaging, and adding her anti Catholic, Evangelical, and Latino’s to her basket of deplorables, which already include all Americans with an emphasis on Trump supporters being "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it!" So by her saying “You name it” she’s conceding that everyone else in America could be on that list also!
What did we learn after the third and final debate?
We learned that Hillary’s claims of not raising the National Debt one dime was because of her fair share campaign against the ones that ‘butter her bread’ already, corporate America! Her plan is self-destructing, and it has been, as witnessed in other Socialist countries, to implode over and over again! How do you take money through taxing from the creators of jobs, which by the way causes the elimination of jobs and new hires in those companies? Hillary will be over taxing and regulating to finance her open borders, supporting unvetted refugees, and her EPA overregulated coal industry, etc.?
We have witnessed Obama’s failure with his ‘green’ agenda and the incentivized programs and companies that have cost Billions of taxpayers’ dollars, failed and out of business today! We watched Obamacare build a website using a Canadian company whose CEO(?) was a buddy of Michelle’s at college! We’ve witnessed, but not reported on by the ‘Paid to Report’ Media, Hillary’s State Dept. missing or misplacing $6Billion dollars at the same time ISIS was in its infancy, and then we have the WH acknowledging that Hillary accidently gave ISIS $400 Million in weaponry!
We learned that Hillary has offered nothing new and will continue to follow in the footsteps of her fellow Alinskyite, Barack Obama!
Hillary intends on leaving the borders wide open but vetting the 550% additional Syrian refugees she’s proposing after her homeland security advisors have told the American People that they couldn’t thoroughly vet Obama’s original 10,000!
Hillary continues to play Trump’s anti-woman card in the hopes that the American women are too stupid to realize that they come from the greatest country in the world that gives every woman the best chance of achieving their perceived and personal American Dream if they work hard and are determined, and like it has always been!
Hillary along with the help of the Globalist backed ‘Paid to Report’ Media are throwing everything but the kitchen sink, and then the kitchen sink, at Trump! Wikileaks is just proving what every honest American was already thinking about Hillary, and that she lies, continues to lie, and can’t be allowed to get her hands on that “Pen and Phone’ that Obama used, and she will continue to use, to bypass Congress, undermine and eliminate our constitution, use interpretation and intent instead of the letter of the law to put into place unconstitutional Executive Orders and Presidential Memorandums!
I heard nothing from Hillary about her personnel changes if she wins the White House. Do Obama’s regulation Czars remain? Does she intend to fire/ask to step down the crooked Justice Department’s lapdog’s, AG Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey who have together, along with the precedent setting Eric Holder before, have violated their oath of office, betrayed the job’s requirements and expectations and the definitions of the responsibilities of the job, and last but not least failed our justice system through fraud and deception for the sole purpose of protecting the anointed one from the mandatory laws that would disqualify her from possibly being president of the United States of America!
As the old saying goes: “Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you,” and with Alinskyite Obama shaming us all the first time, Alinskyite Hillary will not get that 2nd chance!
Trump stands for “making America great again,” and what makes that happen is the continuation of what has made America first in the world, and that’s capitalism, and even though capitalism isn’t perfect, but won’t bankrupt the country and it doesn’t reward failure and it can’t control you like socialism. To the contrary, in a capitalist system, businesses benefit from voluntary transactions. Do you want to get rich in a capitalist system? Find a way to give people what they want. If you’re just okay at it, you can make a decent salary. If you’re as good at it as Henry Ford or Bill Gates, you can become rich beyond imagination.
Do you want to get rich in a socialist system? Be well connected. Make friends or just pay off people who can give you government contracts. Make contributions to politicians so they’ll change the laws to help you and hurt your competitors. Get the government to take money from other people and give it to you as part of a bailout.
Which sounds more admirable? Which sounds healthier for our country? When you give the government unlimited power to create “equality,” you also give it the power to tilt the playing field towards corrupt businesses that have every incentive to try to take advantage of it.
At the end of the day, socialism is for slaves who are willing to give up their freedom for promises that they’ll be given some minimal level of support no matter what. On the other hand, capitalism is for people who want the freedom to rise or fall based on their own effort. If you know which type of person you are, then you know whether you should be a capitalist or a socialist.
Has the media ever been as rotten as it is now? Of course, the media is part of society and defends the current system. But within limits, there has been room for probing, investigative journalism. Today’s news stories, however, are dominated by repetitious, unchecked stories usually in the cynical service of political spin and naked profit.
The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins!
As reporters focus on Trump, they miss new details on Clinton’s rotten record.
If average voters turned on the TV for five minutes this week, chances are they know that Donald Trump made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.
But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of. It comes from hacked emails dumped by WikiLeaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and accounts from FBI insiders. The media has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages to the Trump story. So let’s review what amounts to a devastating case against a Clinton presidency.
Start with a June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn. Ms. Rottenberg wrote that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to
review them and delete documents.” She added: “It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.”
A few months later, in a September 2015 email, a Clinton confidante fretted that Mrs. Clinton was too bullheaded to acknowledge she’d done wrong. “Everyone wants her to apologize,” wrote Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress. “And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles’ heel.”
Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them. The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation (they are separate) and lay it all off as a Republican plot.
A senior FBI official involved with the Clinton investigation told Fox News this week that the “vast majority” of career agents and prosecutors working the case “felt she should be prosecuted” and that giving her a pass was “a top-down decision.”
The Obama administration—the federal government, supported by tax dollars—was working as an extension of the Clinton campaign. The State Department coordinated with her staff in responding to the email scandal, and the Justice Department kept her team informed about developments in the court case.
Worse, Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, took special care of donors to the Clinton Foundation. In a series of 2010 emails, a senior aide to Mrs. Clinton asked a foundation official to let her know which groups offering assistance with the Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs). Those who made the cut appear to have been teed up for contracts. Those who weren’t? Routed to a standard government website.
The leaks show that the foundation was indeed the nexus of influence and money. The head of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Ira Magaziner, suggested in a 2011 email that Bill Clinton call Sheikh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia to thank him for offering the use of a plane. In response, a top Clinton Foundation official wrote: “Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.”
The entire progressive apparatus—the Clinton campaign and boosters at the Center for American Progress—appears to view voters as stupid and tiresome, segregated into groups that must either be cajoled into support or demeaned into silence. We read that Republicans are attracted to Catholicism’s “severely backwards gender relations” and only join the faith to “sound sophisticated”; that Democratic leaders such as Bill Richardson are “needy Latinos”; that Bernie Sanders supporters are “self-righteous”; that the only people who watch Miss America “are from the confederacy”; and that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is “a terrorist.”
The leaks also show that the press is in Mrs. Clinton’s pocket. Donna Brazile, a former Clinton staffer and a TV pundit, sent the exact wording of a coming CNN town hall question to the campaign in advance of the event. Other media allowed the Clinton camp to veto which quotes
they used from interviews, worked to maximize her press events and offered campaign advice.
Mrs.. Clinton has been exposed to have no core, to be someone who constantly changes her position to maximize political gain. Leaked speeches prove that she has two positions (public and private) on banks; two positions on the wealthy; two positions on borders; two positions on energy. Her team had endless discussions about what positions she should adopt to appease “the Red Army”—i.e. “the base of the Democratic Party.”
Voters might not know any of this, because while both presidential candidates have plenty to answer for, the press has focused solely on taking out Mr. Trump. And the press is doing a diligent job of it. ~~By Kimberley A. Strassel
Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.
The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand in hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America!
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.
Liberal bias in journalism is often baked into the cake. The traditional ethos of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable leads to demands that government solve every problem. Favoring big government, then, becomes routine among most journalists, especially young ones.
I know because I was one of them. I started at the Times while the Vietnam War and civil rights movement raged, and was full of certainty about right and wrong.
My editors were, too, though in a different way. Our boss of bosses, the legendary Abe Rosenthal, knew his reporters leaned left, so he leaned right to “keep the paper straight.”
That meant the Times, except for the opinion pages, was scrubbed free of reporters’ political views, an edict that was enforced by giving the opinion and news operations separate editors. The church-and-state structure was one reason the Times was considered the flagship of journalism.
Those days are gone. The Times now is so out of the closet as a Clinton shill that it is giving itself permission to violate any semblance of evenhandedness in its news pages as well as its opinion pages.
A recent article by its media reporter, Jim Rutenberg, whom I know and like, began this way: “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”
Whoa, Nellie. The clear assumption is that many reporters see Trump that way, and it is noteworthy that no similar question is raised about Clinton, whose scandals are deserving only of “scrutiny.” Rutenberg approvingly cites a leftist journalist who calls one candidate “normal” and the other ¬ “abnormal.”
Clinton is hardly “normal” to the 68 percent of Americans who
find her dishonest and untrustworthy, though apparently not a single one of those people writes for the Times. Statistically, that makes the Times “abnormal.”
Also, you don’t need to be a detective to hear echoes in that first paragraph of Clinton speeches and ads, including those featured prominently on the Times’ website. In effect, the paper has seamlessly adopted Clinton’s view as its own, then tries to justify its coverage.
It’s an impossible task, and Rutenberg fails because he must. Any reporter who agrees with Clinton about Trump has no business covering either candidate.
It’s pure bias, which the Times fancies itself an expert in detecting in others, but is blissfully tolerant of in itself. And with the top political editor quoted in the story as approving the one-sided coverage as necessary and deserving, the prejudice is now official policy.
It’s a historic mistake and a complete break with the paper’s own traditions. Instead of dropping its standards, the Times should bend over backwards to enforce them, even while acknowledging that Trump is a rare breed. That’s the whole point of standards — they are designed to guide decisions not just in easy cases, but in all cases, to preserve trust.
The Times, of course, is not alone in becoming unhinged over Trump, but that’s also the point. It used to be unique because of its adherence to fairness.
Now it’s only standard is a double standard, one that it proudly confesses. Shame would be more appropriate. ~~By Michael Goodwin
HILLARY'S SOCIALIST CARD HAS BEEN 'TRUMPED,' AND WITH HER HAVING A SEPERATE 'PUBLIC AND PRIVATE' OPPINION ON ALL ISSUES, I WOULD SAY GAME OVER!
Hillary Clinton has finally told the truth, but it took close to 30 years for that to happen, and with her riding off into the sunset after this election, is probably going to be her last opportunity to do so!
THE ONLY QUESTION LEFT IS IF SHE WINS, AND HAS THE NUCLEAR CODES, WHICH PUBLIC OR PRIVATE VOICE IS SHE GOING TO LISTEN TO WHEN THE NEED ARISES?
HILLARY SAYS SHE INTENDS TO SPEND ‘OTHER’ PEOPLE’S MONEY TO FUND HER ECONOMIC PLAN AND CONTINUE TO USE TAXPAYER'S MONEY TO FUND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND SYRIAN REFUGEES, BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SHE RUNS OUT OF ‘OTHER’ PEOPLE’S MONEY?
How can anybody vote for a Presidential candidate who should be in prison, or at least banned from running for public office for the rest of her life for her betrayal of trust of America’s top
secret information, but because of the crooked justice department and FBI leaders, has been given a free pass? The only reason I can possibly see this free ride is that Soros’s lose lips are not only profound, but insightful about the voter fraud ‘fix’ that is more than likely coming down the road on election day and even before through early voting!
George Soros literally says Trump will win popular vote but it’s already been decided that Clinton will be the POTUS!
GEORGE SOROS SPILLING THE 'FIX' BEANS!
How does George Soros know the outcome of this election, and with his voting machines in 16 states in 307 voting districts, you should be concerned! With the voter fraud that was exposed after the fact in 2012 of how Obama won through voter fraud over Mitt Romney, why wouldn’t you, like Trump, challenge the system and at least question the results when it’s almost impossible, with Hillary’s socialist agenda, attacks on the Second Amendment, her comments about how the first Amendment has some room for regulation, and don’t forget how she has a different private and public messages for all issues, so how would and could anyone vote for her, and allow her to win?
The only way voter fraud works is if the polls are too close to call to justify either outcome for either candidate, but as we have seen, the ‘Paid to Report’ Media is living up to their commitment to the cause, and at all costs, to make it feel closer than it actually is, intentionally!
What? Trump like 8 liberals can't question the election outcome? I guess the double standard used by this administration and Hillary, and protected by the 'Paid to Report' Media is still OK'd by the 'Will' of the American People?
8 Times Cry Baby Liberals Claimed An Election Was Stolen Or Rigged!
Can we really know what Hillary said last night is anywhere near the truth, or just another one of Hillary Clinton’s political 'public or private position' on the issues?
Do you remember during the last debate ABC correspondent and debate moderator Martha Raddatz asked the Democratic presidential nominee about a statement she'd made in a speech saying "you need both a public and a private position" on issues?
"Is it ok for politicians to be two-faced? Is it acceptable for a politician to have a private stance on issues?"
The truth of the matter is that our elected officials from both sides of the aisles can’t afford a Trump victory, they can’t afford to have Trump discover what has been going on for years behind those Capitol Hill closed doors, and can’t afford to have Trey Gowdy appoint special prosecutors to investigate all the cast members, on both sides of the aisles who intentionally violated the laws of the land and the Constitution for personal power and wealth!
Hillary said that 17 of America’s security agencies that the Russians are the ones trying to influence our election, but if that’s the case why hasn’t President Obama, and those 17 agencies do anything about it, especially if they knew?
If it weren’t for Wikileaks, and the discovery of Hillary’s ‘Public and Private’ messaging, and adding her anti Catholic, Evangelical, and Latino’s to her basket of deplorables, which already include all Americans with an emphasis on Trump supporters being "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it!" So by her saying “You name it” she’s conceding that everyone else in America could be on that list also!
What did we learn after the third and final debate?
We learned that Hillary’s claims of not raising the National Debt one dime was because of her fair share campaign against the ones that ‘butter her bread’ already, corporate America! Her plan is self-destructing, and it has been, as witnessed in other Socialist countries, to implode over and over again! How do you take money through taxing from the creators of jobs, which by the way causes the elimination of jobs and new hires in those companies? Hillary will be over taxing and regulating to finance her open borders, supporting unvetted refugees, and her EPA overregulated coal industry, etc.?
We have witnessed Obama’s failure with his ‘green’ agenda and the incentivized programs and companies that have cost Billions of taxpayers’ dollars, failed and out of business today! We watched Obamacare build a website using a Canadian company whose CEO(?) was a buddy of Michelle’s at college! We’ve witnessed, but not reported on by the ‘Paid to Report’ Media, Hillary’s State Dept. missing or misplacing $6Billion dollars at the same time ISIS was in its infancy, and then we have the WH acknowledging that Hillary accidently gave ISIS $400 Million in weaponry!
We learned that Hillary has offered nothing new and will continue to follow in the footsteps of her fellow Alinskyite, Barack Obama!
Hillary intends on leaving the borders wide open but vetting the 550% additional Syrian refugees she’s proposing after her homeland security advisors have told the American People that they couldn’t thoroughly vet Obama’s original 10,000!
Hillary continues to play Trump’s anti-woman card in the hopes that the American women are too stupid to realize that they come from the greatest country in the world that gives every woman the best chance of achieving their perceived and personal American Dream if they work hard and are determined, and like it has always been!
Hillary along with the help of the Globalist backed ‘Paid to Report’ Media are throwing everything but the kitchen sink, and then the kitchen sink, at Trump! Wikileaks is just proving what every honest American was already thinking about Hillary, and that she lies, continues to lie, and can’t be allowed to get her hands on that “Pen and Phone’ that Obama used, and she will continue to use, to bypass Congress, undermine and eliminate our constitution, use interpretation and intent instead of the letter of the law to put into place unconstitutional Executive Orders and Presidential Memorandums!
I heard nothing from Hillary about her personnel changes if she wins the White House. Do Obama’s regulation Czars remain? Does she intend to fire/ask to step down the crooked Justice Department’s lapdog’s, AG Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey who have together, along with the precedent setting Eric Holder before, have violated their oath of office, betrayed the job’s requirements and expectations and the definitions of the responsibilities of the job, and last but not least failed our justice system through fraud and deception for the sole purpose of protecting the anointed one from the mandatory laws that would disqualify her from possibly being president of the United States of America!
As the old saying goes: “Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you,” and with Alinskyite Obama shaming us all the first time, Alinskyite Hillary will not get that 2nd chance!
Trump stands for “making America great again,” and what makes that happen is the continuation of what has made America first in the world, and that’s capitalism, and even though capitalism isn’t perfect, but won’t bankrupt the country and it doesn’t reward failure and it can’t control you like socialism. To the contrary, in a capitalist system, businesses benefit from voluntary transactions. Do you want to get rich in a capitalist system? Find a way to give people what they want. If you’re just okay at it, you can make a decent salary. If you’re as good at it as Henry Ford or Bill Gates, you can become rich beyond imagination.
Do you want to get rich in a socialist system? Be well connected. Make friends or just pay off people who can give you government contracts. Make contributions to politicians so they’ll change the laws to help you and hurt your competitors. Get the government to take money from other people and give it to you as part of a bailout.
Which sounds more admirable? Which sounds healthier for our country? When you give the government unlimited power to create “equality,” you also give it the power to tilt the playing field towards corrupt businesses that have every incentive to try to take advantage of it.
At the end of the day, socialism is for slaves who are willing to give up their freedom for promises that they’ll be given some minimal level of support no matter what. On the other hand, capitalism is for people who want the freedom to rise or fall based on their own effort. If you know which type of person you are, then you know whether you should be a capitalist or a socialist.
Has the media ever been as rotten as it is now? Of course, the media is part of society and defends the current system. But within limits, there has been room for probing, investigative journalism. Today’s news stories, however, are dominated by repetitious, unchecked stories usually in the cynical service of political spin and naked profit.
The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins!
As reporters focus on Trump, they miss new details on Clinton’s rotten record.
If average voters turned on the TV for five minutes this week, chances are they know that Donald Trump made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.
But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of. It comes from hacked emails dumped by WikiLeaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and accounts from FBI insiders. The media has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages to the Trump story. So let’s review what amounts to a devastating case against a Clinton presidency.
Start with a June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn. Ms. Rottenberg wrote that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to
review them and delete documents.” She added: “It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.”
A few months later, in a September 2015 email, a Clinton confidante fretted that Mrs. Clinton was too bullheaded to acknowledge she’d done wrong. “Everyone wants her to apologize,” wrote Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress. “And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles’ heel.”
Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them. The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation (they are separate) and lay it all off as a Republican plot.
A senior FBI official involved with the Clinton investigation told Fox News this week that the “vast majority” of career agents and prosecutors working the case “felt she should be prosecuted” and that giving her a pass was “a top-down decision.”
The Obama administration—the federal government, supported by tax dollars—was working as an extension of the Clinton campaign. The State Department coordinated with her staff in responding to the email scandal, and the Justice Department kept her team informed about developments in the court case.
Worse, Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, took special care of donors to the Clinton Foundation. In a series of 2010 emails, a senior aide to Mrs. Clinton asked a foundation official to let her know which groups offering assistance with the Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs). Those who made the cut appear to have been teed up for contracts. Those who weren’t? Routed to a standard government website.
The leaks show that the foundation was indeed the nexus of influence and money. The head of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Ira Magaziner, suggested in a 2011 email that Bill Clinton call Sheikh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia to thank him for offering the use of a plane. In response, a top Clinton Foundation official wrote: “Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.”
The entire progressive apparatus—the Clinton campaign and boosters at the Center for American Progress—appears to view voters as stupid and tiresome, segregated into groups that must either be cajoled into support or demeaned into silence. We read that Republicans are attracted to Catholicism’s “severely backwards gender relations” and only join the faith to “sound sophisticated”; that Democratic leaders such as Bill Richardson are “needy Latinos”; that Bernie Sanders supporters are “self-righteous”; that the only people who watch Miss America “are from the confederacy”; and that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is “a terrorist.”
The leaks also show that the press is in Mrs. Clinton’s pocket. Donna Brazile, a former Clinton staffer and a TV pundit, sent the exact wording of a coming CNN town hall question to the campaign in advance of the event. Other media allowed the Clinton camp to veto which quotes
they used from interviews, worked to maximize her press events and offered campaign advice.
Mrs.. Clinton has been exposed to have no core, to be someone who constantly changes her position to maximize political gain. Leaked speeches prove that she has two positions (public and private) on banks; two positions on the wealthy; two positions on borders; two positions on energy. Her team had endless discussions about what positions she should adopt to appease “the Red Army”—i.e. “the base of the Democratic Party.”
Voters might not know any of this, because while both presidential candidates have plenty to answer for, the press has focused solely on taking out Mr. Trump. And the press is doing a diligent job of it. ~~By Kimberley A. Strassel
Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.
The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand in hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America!
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.
Liberal bias in journalism is often baked into the cake. The traditional ethos of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable leads to demands that government solve every problem. Favoring big government, then, becomes routine among most journalists, especially young ones.
I know because I was one of them. I started at the Times while the Vietnam War and civil rights movement raged, and was full of certainty about right and wrong.
My editors were, too, though in a different way. Our boss of bosses, the legendary Abe Rosenthal, knew his reporters leaned left, so he leaned right to “keep the paper straight.”
That meant the Times, except for the opinion pages, was scrubbed free of reporters’ political views, an edict that was enforced by giving the opinion and news operations separate editors. The church-and-state structure was one reason the Times was considered the flagship of journalism.
Those days are gone. The Times now is so out of the closet as a Clinton shill that it is giving itself permission to violate any semblance of evenhandedness in its news pages as well as its opinion pages.
A recent article by its media reporter, Jim Rutenberg, whom I know and like, began this way: “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”
Whoa, Nellie. The clear assumption is that many reporters see Trump that way, and it is noteworthy that no similar question is raised about Clinton, whose scandals are deserving only of “scrutiny.” Rutenberg approvingly cites a leftist journalist who calls one candidate “normal” and the other ¬ “abnormal.”
Clinton is hardly “normal” to the 68 percent of Americans who
find her dishonest and untrustworthy, though apparently not a single one of those people writes for the Times. Statistically, that makes the Times “abnormal.”
Also, you don’t need to be a detective to hear echoes in that first paragraph of Clinton speeches and ads, including those featured prominently on the Times’ website. In effect, the paper has seamlessly adopted Clinton’s view as its own, then tries to justify its coverage.
It’s an impossible task, and Rutenberg fails because he must. Any reporter who agrees with Clinton about Trump has no business covering either candidate.
It’s pure bias, which the Times fancies itself an expert in detecting in others, but is blissfully tolerant of in itself. And with the top political editor quoted in the story as approving the one-sided coverage as necessary and deserving, the prejudice is now official policy.
It’s a historic mistake and a complete break with the paper’s own traditions. Instead of dropping its standards, the Times should bend over backwards to enforce them, even while acknowledging that Trump is a rare breed. That’s the whole point of standards — they are designed to guide decisions not just in easy cases, but in all cases, to preserve trust.
The Times, of course, is not alone in becoming unhinged over Trump, but that’s also the point. It used to be unique because of its adherence to fairness.
Now it’s only standard is a double standard, one that it proudly confesses. Shame would be more appropriate. ~~By Michael Goodwin
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