The Patriot Post Digest 7-27-2016

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Mid-Day Digest

Jul. 27, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” —George Washington (1796)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

DNC Lowlights, Day 21

As the few American flags actually present at the Democrat National Convention were burned outside the Wells Fargo Center2 Tuesday, Hillary Clinton officially won the party’s presidential nomination. Bernie Sanders supporters staged a walkout. So all in all it was a very typical night for Democrats.

The lineup of speakers included Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Eric Holder, Jimmy Carter and Cecile Richards. Here are the lowlights followed by our observations:

Bill Clinton3:

“In the spring of 1971 I met a girl… I’ve lived a long, full, blessed life. It really took off when I met and fell in love with that girl.”

    Clinton then spent an interminable amount of time recalling his “lifetime of memories” made with his “best friend” in a desperate and transparent attempt to humanize a woman nobody likes. Notably, of course, Bill’s trip down memory lane did not include his own personal war on women4 — numerous public accounts of his affairs, sexual assault and rape. Juanita Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Eileen Wellstone and Monica Lewinsky were all unavailable for comment.

Jimmy Carter (by video):

“At a moment when it has become more important than ever to lift people up — to offer hope and a roadmap to a brighter future — instead, we see a Republican presidential candidate who seems to violate some of the most important moral and ethical principles on which our nation was founded. We can and must do better. And fortunately, the Democratic nominee we’ll soon be choosing offers a stark contrast in both substance and style, and also competence and experience, to what the Republicans have chosen.”

    Carter knows a thing or two about incompetence. And we’d note that Hillary Clinton has no moral or ethical principles beyond getting elected.

Eric Holder:

“As the brother of a retired police officer, I am profoundly aware that an attack on a police officer anywhere is an attack on our entire society. So it is not enough for us to praise law enforcement after cops are killed. We must protect them, value them, and equip them with the right tools, tactics and training — while they are still alive. We must also come to realize that keeping our officers safe is not inconsistent with ensuring that those in law enforcement treat the people they are sworn to serve with dignity, respect and fairness. We must commit ourselves to both goals.”

    Holder has been at the forefront of the Left’s war on cops5, and the rest of his speech was a litany of racial grievances meant to throw red meat to Black Lives Matter.

    On a related note, the speakers included several mothers of black people killed in various altercations — though none of the moms who spoke was the mother of someone actually killed by police. Still, dubbed “Mothers of the Movement,” these women in their grief perpetuated the myth of the Black Lives Matter political agenda. And it all happened just before prosecutors finally dropped all charges against all six Baltimore police officers blamed for the death of criminal Freddie Gray. That was after the city settled for $6.4 million6 with Gray’s family, essentially admitting guilt before acquitting the officers. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gaveled in the convention, yet her malfeasance in this story is astounding.

Howard Dean:

“Guns [are] the ultimate public-health crisis.”

    It’s not guns, it’s the Democrat-run urban poverty plantations7.

“We need a president who will defend our interests around the world — not with ignorant bluster and bombast, but with toughness and resolve.”

    Like creating chaos in Libya, abandoning Americans there to die, and then lying about it?

“This race is going to be won on the ground. And it’s gonna be won in Colorado, and Iowa, and North Carolina, and Michigan, and Florida, and Pennsylvania, and then we’re going to the White House!”

    The reprisal of the infamous “Dean Scream” of 2004 was a nice touch.

Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood:

“Planned Parenthood was founded 100 years ago, giving women the care they need to live their lives and chase their dreams — no limits, no ceilings.”

    Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who aimed to breed out blacks and minorities. Richards omitted that little factoid.

“Hillary has always been in Planned Parenthood’s corner, because she knows women deserve someone in theirs. Women like Dayna Farris Fisher, a mom in Dallas who was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. Today, Dayna is cancer-free. She says she couldn’t have done it without Vivian, the Planned Parenthood clinician who stuck with her all the way through treatment.”

    The deceitful implication is, again, that Richards' abortion mill helps women with breast cancer screenings. But Planned Parenthood doesn’t have a single mammogram machine in any of its offices8. In any case, Democrats have clearly taken a radical turn9 on abortion.

Islamic Who?10

As day two of DNC convention came and went, what became increasingly apparent is just how lost Democrat leaders are in their own culture of political correctness. Speech after speech highlighted and celebrated the fact that Hillary Clinton is the first woman of any major American political party to be nominated for president. “Yay! She’s a woman!” was seemingly the most significant issue facing America. Oh, there was a passing reference to Hillary fighting terrorism listed among a litany of other “qualifications,” but no speeches mentioned the very real threat of radical Islamic terrorism facing America and the West. No speeches ringing the alarm even as news broke of yet another terrorist attack in France that left one Catholic priest murdered and another injured.

No, Democrats seem content to stick their collective heads in the sand over terrorism and instead focus on fighting “threats” to the planet such as fossil fuels, or calling for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment9 so Americans' tax dollars can be used to fund abortions, or expanding ObamaCare, or promoting the transgendered crusade to fundamentally “transform” America, or pushing for stricter “gun-control” laws, ad nauseum.

Don’t be surprised if the convention comes and goes with virtually no mention of the very real threat of Islamic terrorism. Why? Well, one need not look too hard to see what a dismal record Hillary has on the issue. In today’s politically correct climate, the idea that Islam promotes violence is just a bridge too far for Clinton and the Democrats to even consider crossing.

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Demos Ditch the Second Amendment11

While many Democrats usually preface their calls for greater gun control with a half-hearted sop toward the Second Amendment, we all know they’d simply rather confiscate all guns. So here’s a look at the current Democrat platform on the issue compared with the previous four. See a difference?

2000: “A shocking level of gun violence on our streets and in our schools has shown America the need to keep guns away from those who shouldn’t have them — in ways that respect the rights of hunters, sportsmen, and legitimate gun owners.”

2004: “We will protect Americans' Second Amendment right to own firearms.”

2008: “We recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans' Second Amendment right to own and use firearms.”

2012: “We recognize that the individual right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans' Second Amendment right to own and use firearms.”

2016: “While responsible gun ownership is part of the fabric of many communities, too many families in America have suffered from gun violence. We can respect the rights of responsible gun owners while keeping our communities safe.”

That’s right. This year’s platform doesn’t even bother to mention the words “Second Amendment,” hearkening back to 2000. Drafters opted instead for the meaningless tripe about how “gun ownership is a part of the fabric of many communities.” Fabric can be changed. Rights endowed by our Creator cannot.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: WikiLeaks Reveals Media Collusion12
    Ken Blackwell: Democratic Platform: Killing the Unborn Is Fine With Us13
    Joe Bastardi: Food for Thought on the Eve of the Real Hurricane Season14

For more, visit Right Opinion15.

TOP HEADLINES

    All Charges Against Baltimore Police Officers Dropped16
    Charges Against Planned Parenthood Filmmakers Dismissed17
    DNC Tried to Hide Clinton Money Grab18
    VW $14.7 Billion Diesel-Cheating Settlement Gets Go-Ahead19

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report20.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Russia Would Love a Third Obama Term21

By Arnold Ahlert

If one lives by the vulnerable server, one dies by the vulnerable server. As the week unfolds, America is witnessing the ultimate unmasking of the Democrat Party, an entity whose self-aggrandizing claims of unity, fairness and intellectual honesty have been revealed as utterly fraudulent by a flood of DNC emails released22 by WikiLeaks. Moreover, a stunning level of hypocrisy attends the entire exposure, as DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is sent packing for this breach of confidential party information, while Hillary Clinton, whose equally accessible private server contained far more critical top-secret information, officially became the party’s standard-bearer.

But not to worry, assured FBI Director James Comey, who insisted there was no direct evidence that Clinton’s server had been hacked by hostile actors — before adding it was possible that hostile actors “gained access” to Clinton’s accounts.

Clinton was equally adept at making semantical distinctions. “If you go by the evidence, there is no evidence that the system was breached or hacked successfully,” Clinton said. “And I think that what’s important here is follow the evidence. And there is no evidence. And that can’t be said about a lot of other systems, including government systems.”

New York Post columnist John Crudele obliterates23 the despicable word-parsing. “Clinton was so careless when using her BlackBerry that the Russians stole her password,” he writes. “All Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gang had to do was log into Clinton’s account and read whatever they wanted.”

When it comes to the DNC hack, “The Russians did it” is the theme-du-jour. Clinton campaign manager, Robby Mook stated Sunday that “experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, [and are] releasing these emails for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” The campaign itself echoed that assertion. “This is further evidence the Russian government is trying to influence the outcome of the election.”

The reliably leftist Politico — so far left that reporter Ken Vogel remains employed there despite sending a story to the DNC before he sent it to his own editor — is quite comfortable advancing that agenda, using it as a vehicle to buff up Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. “Former U.S. officials who worked on Russia policy with Clinton say that Putin was personally stung by Clinton’s December 2011 condemnation of Russia’s parliamentary elections, and had his anger communicated directly to President Barack Obama,” Politico reports24. “They say Putin and his advisers are also keenly aware that, even as she executed Obama’s ‘reset’ policy with Russia, Clinton took a harder line toward Moscow than others in the administration. And they say Putin sees Clinton as a forceful proponent of ‘regime change’ policies that the Russian leader considers a grave threat to his own survival.”

Yet even Politico is forced to admit the payback angle is “speculation,” and that some experts remain “unconvinced that Putin’s government engineered the DNC email hack or that it was meant to influence the election in Trump’s favor as opposed to embarrassing DNC officials for any number of reasons.”

Americans would also be wise to remain highly skeptical of this claim for any number of reasons. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asserts there is “there is no proof whatsoever” Russia is behind the hack and that “this is a diversion that’s being pushed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.” To be fair, Assange is a Russian sympathizer, and leftists aren’t the only ones attributing25 the hack to the Russians. The same FBI that gave Clinton a pass will be investigating the DNC hack, and at some point the bureau will reach a conclusion.

In the meantime, it might be worth considering that this smacks of a carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign similar to the one Clinton and several other Obama administration officials engineered with regard to Benghazi26. While Clinton was never held personally or legally accountable for the deaths of four Americans, it is beyond dispute that she lied unabashedly27 about a video causing the attack, while sending her daughter a damning email at 11:12 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012, admitting the administration knew “the attack had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest.”

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The theme of this coordinated narrative? Clinton campaign chair John Podesta referred Monday night to “a kind of bromance going on” between Putin and Trump. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook echoed that assertion, insisting the email dump comes on the heels of “changes to the Republican platform to make it more pro-Russian.”

The Leftmedia were equally obliging. “The theory that Moscow orchestrated the leaks to help Trump … is fast gaining currency within the Obama administration because of the timing of the leaks and Trump’s own connections to the Russian government,” reports28 the Daily Beast.

Other Leftmedia examples abound.

Ultimately, here’s the question: If the Russians could access the DNC server, they could certainly access Clinton’s unsecure server. And if they could access Clinton’s server, including the 33,000 emails she deleted (maybe some were about how the Clintons profited from selling Russia American uranium29), ask yourself who they’d rather have in the Oval Office: Donald Trump, who professed admiration for Putin but remains a highly unpredictable individual — or Hillary Clinton, who could be subjected to blackmail for as long as eight years?

Russia’s clear objective would be to have the weakest American leadership they can get. Blackmail aside, what would be weaker than an extension of Obama’s presidency?

Moreover, it is just as likely a number of the so-called “experts” as well as Clinton’s useful idiot media apparatchiks have considered the blackmail possibility and are trying to divert attention from it with a phony Trump connection story.

Democrats can theorize, complain and blame to their hearts' content, but none of it obscures the reality that the DNC — and by extension Hillary Clinton and the entire Democrat Party — are a conglomeration of morally bereft, utterly incompetent individuals wholly ill-equipped to handle internal security, much less national security. And they are aided and abetted by an equally corrupt media, more than willing to abide that potentially catastrophic reality as long as it gets a Democrat in the Oval Office.

WikiLeaks has promised30 additional dumps with be forthcoming. How much deeper Democrats sink is anyone’s guess.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

    ‘Hillary’s America’ — Less Free Speech31
    Democrats Take Radical Turn on Abortion9
    Evils Hearts and Benign Tools32
    So What?33

OPINION IN BRIEF

Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: “The radical leftist collective known as WikiLeaks tried to ruin the Democratic convention by posting a trove of Democratic National Committee emails that easily proved that party leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her staff shunned neutrality in favor of pushing Hillary Clinton’s nomination. The Bernie Sanders socialists were enraged, their suspicions confirmed. The media paid some attention to that, especially when Schultz was quickly ousted from her job. Guess what else was confirmed, which the media largely skipped over? The evidence in the emails that revealed great chumminess and coordination between Democrats and the supposedly ‘objective’ national press. … The primary reason the media would skip covering their own lack of independence is obvious. The public already believes they aggressively favor one side in our political debates. Why put a spotlight on your problem? Transparency is a media buzzword, but it never applies to their own partisan games.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.” —Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Upright: “Unveiling the Hillary we supposedly don’t know has been the perpetual, elusive goal of Clinton’s handlers for decades, with the Democratic convention in Philadelphia the latest stab at it. … Hillary has made more reintroductions than should be allowed for a person who has never gone away.” —Rich Lowry

Contrasts: “Sen. Ted Cruz got booed last week for declining to endorse his party’s presidential nominee. This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders got booed for endorsing his party’s inevitable nominee.” —James Taranto

Delusions: “I do not think there’s any fracture in the party.” —Joe Biden

Non Compos Mentis: “I think that, so many times … non-college-educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose.” —Nancy Pelosi

Braying Jenny: “Until we deal with gun violence in this country, we can’t claim ‘home of the brave.’” —singer Alicia Keys before performing at the DNC

Alpha Jackass: “There has been a steady [stream of Israeli settlers], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself. There has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming.” —Rep. Hank Johnson complaining about Jewish settlers on Palestinian land — he later apologized for his “poor choice of words,” but doubled down on the core criticism

Late-night humor: “Hillary Clinton’s main task this week is to divert attention from leaked DNC emails and other negative press. Hillary’s going to begin her speech with the rousing first line — ‘Hey, look, there’s a Pokémon!’” —Conan O'Brien

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