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The Patriot Post Digest 7-11-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jul. 11, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/64220-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” —Benjamin Franklin (1735)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/64219-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Democrats are still fighting over just how far left they should go.1
The president’s social-media summit bothers Leftmedia gatekeepers.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
EDITOR’S NOTE
Via his favorite “official” platform, President Donald Trump announced this morning that there would be a “News Conference on the Census and Citizenship” this afternoon. A White House official intimated that he intends executive action related to the 2020 census. The road to getting a question about citizenship on the census has been a long and winding one full of roadblocks10. So stay tuned…
IN BRIEF
Pelosi vs. Ocasio-Cortez11
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the very definition of the old guard. At age 79 and in Congress since 1987, to many, Pelosi represents “yesterday’s party.” Sure, she led Democrats to victory in the House in 2008, shoved ObamaCare down America’s throat in spite of the political cost, and then once again assumed the speakership after last year’s midterm win. But she’s increasingly having trouble reining in a few outspoken freshman Democrats who view themselves as the future. She even admonished the entire Democrat caucus in a closed-door meeting Wednesday for publicly airing grievances.
The most prominent among the newcomers is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the loudmouth former bartending Millennial socialist from the Bronx. The ubiquitous Leftmedia overload12 on “AOC” is mind-numbing, but pundits hang on her every word. The Right largely sees her as a poster child for everything foolish and idiotic about socialism.
At least publicly, Pelosi gives off the same vibe. In February, she dismissed the Green New Deal13 as “the green dream, or whatever they call it,” knowing full well what they call it. This week, she derided Ocasio-Cortez and her cohorts, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, saying, “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following” in the House. Indeed, these sorts of comments are becoming regular for Pelosi, who seems to disdain the way AOC and her pals think they’re “the boss.”
“I have no regrets about anything,” Pelosi said when asked about her remarks. “Regrets is not what I do.”
In response, Ocasio-Cortez pulled out the race card, claiming it’s “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
Perhaps this represents a true rift14 in the Democrat Party. For Pelosi and the old guard, the way to get things done is through rigid unity of the caucus. Keep squabbles private, and when push comes to shove, fall in line and vote to advance an achievable agenda. That’s how they accomplished the radical takeover of one-sixth of the economy through ObamaCare. To “progressives” a decade later, however, that’s already old policy needing to be replaced by single-payer health care via Medicare for All.
The extreme Left is vying for control of the Democrat Party — indeed, it already does dictate most of the agenda. But Pelosi isn’t taking kindly to being pushed faster or farther than she wants to go. “If the Left doesn’t think I’m left enough, so be it,” she said. It will bear watching how this Democrat “civil war15” plays out.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64211-pelosi-vs-ocasio-cortez
Leftmedia Mocks Trump’s Social-Media Summit16
President Donald Trump is hosting his White House Social Media Summit today, an invitation-only event billed by the president as addressing the subject of “the tremendous dishonesty, bias, discrimination and suppression practiced by certain companies.” Those companies are assumed to be Big Tech — Alphabet (which owns Google and YouTube), Facebook, and Twitter — all of whom many conservatives and other non-mainstream news organizations have called out for anti-free-speech censorship practices.
The list of invites includes social-media personalities such as citizen-journalist Tim Pool, Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, and Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk, as well as representatives from organizations like Prager University, Media Research Center, The Heritage Foundation, and several others.
In what has become standard practice, Leftmedia activists masquerading as journalists reported on the story by labeling the list of invitees as nothing but a bunch of “right-wing extremists,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “far-right agitators.” No wonder so many Americans are sympathetic to Trump’s calling the mainstream media what it is: “fake news17.”
The fact of the matter is that mounting evidence supporting the accusation that Big Tech is intentionally censoring conservative content is undeniable. However, in the same way that the MSM has claimed its own reporting is not impacted by bias, both the media and the tech companies assert that the charges of censorship are little more than the hyperbolic rambling of right-wing conspiracy theorists. MSM pontificators see themselves as the only legitimate arbiters of “news” and “journalism”18 and are loathe to acknowledge the legitimacy of any new media citizen-journalist whose reporting and viewpoints don’t comport with their own leftist worldview. Thus, the very fact that Trump would deign to take seriously and listen to the complaints of censorship voiced by various members of the new media induces only scorn and ridicule from the mainstream press.
Fortunately, Trump is not beholden to the whims of the mainstream-media establishment. Indeed, he relishes calling out the Leftmedia over its biased “fake news.” It will be interesting to see what comes of this summit today, although it is unlikely that any immediate action would be expected.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/64217-leftmedia-mocks-trumps-social-media-summit
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Holocaust ‘Neutrality’ Equals Educational Bankruptcy19 — “We have let our public education fall into the hands of people with frightening agendas.”
Conservatism Healthier Than Beltway Pundits Believe20 — The majority of the most popular governors just happen to be Republican governors.
American Spirit: Boy Raises Nearly $90k for Bulletproof Vests for Police Dogs21 — “He hopes to provide as many vests as he can to K9 officers and that one day they will all have one.”
Video: Taxing the Rich Won’t Pay for the Left’s Agenda22 — Politicians claim that’s how they’ll pay for the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and other stuff.
Video: Joe Biden: A Life of Platitudes23 — Compiling the evolution and meaningless pronouncements of the Democrat frontrunner.
Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column
Read The Self-Appointed Digital Arbiters of Truth18. As the power of media censors rises, who will rate the media raters?
If you’d like to receive Alexander’s Column by email every Wednesday, update your subscription here24.
TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
STRIKE TWO: “A second U.S. judge has rejected a Department of Justice request to replace its legal team in cases on the 2020 census as the Trump administration tries to add a contentious citizenship question.” (Reuters26)
COMING DOWN THE PIKE: “Immigration raids that will target thousands of undocumented immigrants in cities across the US are scheduled to begin on Sunday, [The New York Times] said Thursday. The raids, which are backed by President Trump, will target families who recently crossed into the US and who have been ordered deported.” (New York Post27) |
