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The Patriot Post Digest 1-21-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jan. 21, 2019 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/60677-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/60674-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Predictably, Pelosi rebuffed Trump’s offer of a DACA/wall compromise.1
Yet again, the Leftmedia put the Narrative™ above the facts.2
Daily Features: On the Web3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Memes6, Cartoons7, Opinion in Brief8, and Short Cuts9.
FEATURED ANALYSIS
The Border Wall Standoff: What Do Latinos and Hispanics Think?10
Mark Alexander
Donald Trump11 upped the ante Saturday in the poker standoff with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her gang of Democrat obstructionists.
In my analysis on the partial government shutdown showdown over the border12 three weeks ago, I predicted that Trump would seek “some concession from Democrats by using Barack Obama’s illegal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals13 (DACA) deceit as a bargaining chip.” That could come by offering green cards to the children of illegal immigrants already in the U.S., but not a path to citizenship.
In exchange for the $5.7 billion he has requested for border security14, Trump formally put that DACA offer on the table, offering a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children and protected from deportation under the Obama DACA political play. He also included an extension of protection for 300,000 aliens who have been granted Temporary Protected Status — those who can’t safely return to their home countries.
Endeavoring to corner Democrats, Trump noted, “Our immigration system should be a source of pride, not a source of shame as it is all over the world. … If we are successful in this effort, we will have the best chance in a long time at real, bipartisan immigration reform. And it won’t stop here; it will keep going until we do it all.”
Amid some protests from Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump had offered a “bold solution,” adding, “Compromise in divided government means that everyone can’t get everything they want every time. The President’s proposal reflects that. It strikes a fair compromise by incorporating priorities from both sides of the aisle.”
Predictably, Pelosi rebuffed the offer15, noting, “It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter.” She then, in effect, provided a counteroffer, saying, “For one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports.” House Democrats plan to pass six bills to reopen government operations this week, which Pelosi insists Trump must sign before any further debate: “I am ready to sit down at any time after the government is opened and work to resolve all outstanding issues.”
According to Pew Research, the standoff has created the sharpest partisan divide16 on record. According to the survey, 88% of border-wall opponents “say it would not be acceptable to pass a bill that includes Trump’s request for wall funding, if that is the only way to end the shutdown,” while 72% of border-security supporters “say a bill to end the shutdown would be unacceptable if it does not include Trump’s funding request.”
But there is another poll from a reputable source that caught my attention last week. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll17 found that Hispanic and Latino approval of Trump surged 19 points in just one month18 and is now at 50%.
This finding seems counterintuitive. But Democrats, who are in effect advocating for open borders, hoping to appease their Hispanic and Latino constituencies while creating a future-voter pipeline, have run into a problem. A growing number of those constituents don’t want the deflationary job and wage competition from more illegals flooding in from Mexico and Central America. In December, the employment rate for Hispanics and Latinos fell to a record low. Democrats say they support a “living wage” but then advocate, in effect, an open border, which ensures that millions of working men and women will never break free of the minimum wage.
https://patriotpost.us/alexander/60672-the-border-wall-standoff-what-do-latinos-and-hispanics-think
Media Badly Botches Story on Catholic Boys and Native American19
Thomas Gallatin
The Bible admonishes people to “be quick to listen and slow to speak” and to get the full story before judging a matter. Proverbs 18:17 observes, “The first to state his case seems right until another comes forward and examines him.” This past weekend demonstrated the wisdom of this warning, a lesson many within the mainstream media would do well to learn.
On the heels of the media biting on an uncorroborated anti-Trump BuzzFeed story20 only to have it reputed by none other than Robert Mueller, the MSM again swallowed another anti-Trump story hook, line, and sinker. On Saturday, many news outlets ran headlines similar to the Chicago Tribune’s, which stated21, “Catholic high school students in ‘MAGA’ hats mock Native American after D.C. rally, could face expulsion.” The Reuters headline read22, “Students in Trump hats mock Native American; school apologizes.”
Included in the reporting was an image of a young white man wearing a red MAGA hat and smiling while standing face to face with an old Native American man, who stands staring back at him while beating on a drum mere inches from his face. This, we are told, is “evidence” of both racism and bigotry on the part of the young white man. The MSM went on to report that a group of high-school boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky had just attended the March for Life23 and while waiting for their bus at the Lincoln Memorial approached, surrounded, and mocked a group of Native Americans who were gathered there singing and drumming.
The Native American in the picture is Nathan Phillips, who says he’s a Marine veteran of Vietnam. Speaking about the incident, Phillips alleged, “I heard them saying, ‘Build that wall, build that wall.’” And that version of events was uncritically reported across the country, primarily because it fits the broader MSM Narrative™ that President Donald Trump is responsible for fomenting racism and bigotry in his supporters.
The trouble is that the story as it was originally reported quickly fell apart after two-plus hours of additional video footage of the event in question came out. First, the reporting that the high-school boys were the aggressors is patently false. The group of Native Americans confronted the boys, at first walking into their midst in such a way that the boys clearly did not understand what was occurring. Second, the widely reported narrative that the boys were chanting “Build that wall” is not evidenced by any of the video footage. Third, the charge that the boys were hurling various racist epithets is not borne out in the video footage, either, and in fact it was the boys who were themselves the recipients of abusive, vulgar, and racist taunts and insults. As Robby Soave from Reason writes24, “This is shaping up to be one of the biggest major media misfires in quite some time.”
Following the MSM’s reckless reporting, these young men, who as video evidence demonstrates behaved rather honorably given the verbal abuse they endured, have been branded as racist bigots and now may even face expulsion from their school.
The young man in the infamous photograph, Nick Sandmann, recently released a statement24 explaining his side, and the video footage clearly backs his account.
If Leftmedia pontificators wonder why so many Americans increasing question the accuracy of their news coverage, they need look no further than this ridiculous circus.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/60673-media-badly-botches-story-on-catholic-boys-and-native-american |
