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The Patriot Post Digest 8-22-2016
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But it’s not as if Obama has been completely dedicated to his vacation, despite playing his eighth round of golf in 12 days at tony places like the Vineyard Golf Club, the nation’s first “organic” golf course that commands an initiation fee of $350,000. As an editorial20 in the Advocate noted, “if the president can interrupt his vacation for a swanky fundraiser for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, as he did on Monday, then surely he can make time to show up for a catastrophe that’s displaced thousands.”
No, he can’t. “The president can’t be everywhere,” rationalized Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson last Friday. When pressed why Obama couldn’t give up golfing while people were dying, Johnson doubled down, insisting the president is “very much on top of the situation.”
Fox News reported, “So far, there have been no mainstream media outlets criticizing Obama’s apparent lack of response, nor have there been any celebrities claiming Obama doesn’t care about the people on the ground.”
And there won’t be. Nor will the actual chain of events21 that occurred during Katrina ever be made widely available to a public fed a Leftmedia-revised history that lays the majority of blame for the Katrina disaster on a Republican administration, while conspicuously ignoring the culpability of Democrat Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin. Neither called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, even after National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield pleaded with them to do so — after an NOAA buoy 240 miles to the south had recorded 68 foot waves before it was destroyed.
Louisiana is not the only disaster for which the president refuses to cancel a tee time. While Milwaukee endured two days of racist rioting — as in black thugs attacking22 innocent white people in cars and on the street — the First Golfer was also playing one of the more than 300 rounds23 of golf he has played since becoming president, after which he attended24 a late night social event. Forget showing up. He didn’t even have anything to say about the 14 people arrested, the six businesses lit on fire, the torched squad cars or the seven deputies who were wounded by rock-throwing “protesters.”
And once again, with CNN leading the way, the media were up to the task of revising the story. Following the shooting of a gun-toting Sylville Smith by a black police officer wearing a camera that corroborated the officer’s version of the event — and simultaneously eviscerated the racist narrative that engendered the rioting — CNN utterly mischaracterized a message by Smith’s sister, Sherelle Smith. “Burnin down s— ain’t going to help nothin! Y'all burnin' down s— we need in our community,” Smith raged. “Take that s— to the suburbs. Burn that s— down! We need our s—! We need our weaves. I don’t wear it. But we need it. Don’t bring the violence here and the ignorance here.”
What CNN initially showed its audience? “Don’t bring the violence here and the ignorance here.” And on both its website and its Monday CNN Newsroom broadcast, the network framed25 Smith’s statement as “calling for peace.”
When they were outed, it got worse26. “An earlier version of this story mischaracterized what the victim’s sister was trying to convey,” the network explained. “She was calling for peace in her community, urging the protesters to go elsewhere.” That is, to riot and loot white neighborhoods in the suburbs.
Mischaracterization? Editing video, and making choices about what to disseminate — and what not to disseminate — does not happen by itself. And the efforts by media source WJLA to even suggest27 the possibility that media “ethics experts” theorize the editing “might have been done due to time limitations or it could have been entirely unintentional” is as believable as Washington Post columnist/Obama apologist Chris Cillizza laughably insisting28 Obama won’t visit Louisiana because he detests “theatrical politics.”
Like Greek columns29 at a campaign event, Chris? Obama will visit Louisiana on Tuesday — after his vacation.
Unlike Obama, or Clinton — who was also in Martha’s Vineyard fundraising30 this past weekend — Donald Trump showed up in Louisiana Friday to console the flood victims when it mattered. And while he remains a flawed presidential candidate, people might consider that a Clinton victory would not only keep the despicable ruling class status quo in Washington, DC intact, it would further embolden a Leftmedia that, as CNN’s Chris Cuomo admitted, “couldn’t help her any more than we have.”
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
The Gold for American Patriotism31 — An Army reservist stops mid-competition for the national anthem.
A Bad Lip Reading of the DNC32 — Somehow, this nonsense makes more sense than what they really said.
Bathroom Rules and Renovations33 — Another Obama transgender decree. And Target kind of gets the message.
Obama’s Not-Ransom Ransom34 — The administration admits it paid for hostages, but still rejects that it was a ransom.
Racism Comes to Michigan35 — Court rules that having to vote for each individual will cause “confusion.”
A Confederacy of Dunces36 — Vanderbilt bows to political correctness.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Burt Prelutsky: “To this day, the committee that decides which city will get to host the [Olympic] Games is one of the most corrupt groups of individuals to be found anywhere. In fact, if corruption was an Olympic event, the committee would give a good accounting of itself even if it meant competing with the Mafia, Iran, the NCAA and the Democratic Party. It’s not even a secret that the real competition to host is determined by the size of the bribes offered to the members of the Olympic committee. The mystery, though, is why anyone would want to host the Games. After all, one city after another has taken a financial shellacking after building all the necessary venues that become obsolete the second the Games end. … Inasmuch as most of the news coming out of Rio involves the sewage that includes human waste and even human body parts floating in the ocean, the terrible accommodations, the rampant thievery and the Zika virus, you might have assumed that Rio had wound up hosting the Olympics by picking the shortest straw, not by paying the biggest bribes.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “Any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we’re always ‘against,’ never ‘for’ anything.”
You didn’t build that! “It’s time for the wealthiest Americans, whoever you are, as well as corporations and Wall Street to pay your fair share in taxes. You have been successful in this country because of everything this country represents.” —Hillary Clinton
Upright: “America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. Hillary Clinton would rather provide a job to a refugee from overseas than to give that job to unemployed African-American youth in cities like Detroit who have become refugees in their own country.” —Donald Trump
For the record: “The truth is she was using [her personal email] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did [during my term as secretary of state]. Her people have been trying to pin it on me.” —Colin Powell on Hillary Clinton blaming him for her private email system
Doh! “Trump wants GOP to court black voters — then slams voting rights for felons.” —CNN headline
And last… “Crass stereotyping has hurt young men, especially some young teens, but the answer is to confront the crass, not to detonate gender norms. Physical weakness is not a virtue. Voluntary weakness is a vice. And, yes, a man has an obligation to be strong.” —David French
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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