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The Patriot Post Digest 8-29-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Aug. 29, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/65140-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/65139-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
MSNBC’s fake news “blockbuster” on Trump’s Russia collusion fizzles.1
NYT libels American Patriots as angry racists.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
MSNBC Forced to Retract Latest Anti-Trump Fake News10
In the latest high-profile instance of the Leftmedia peddling anti-Trump fake news, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell claimed Tuesday evening on Rachel Maddow’s show that he had a new Trump-colluded-with-Russia bombshell. O'Donnell breathlessly reported that he had information revealing that President Donald Trump had obtained loans cosigned by Russian oligarchs. Wow, finally! O'Donnell has the smoking gun behind the whole Russia-collusion conspiracy. As O'Donnell bloviated, “That would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin.” Except for the fact that O'Donnell’s “information” was phony hearsay.
Trump was quick to respond to the slanderous claim, as his personal attorney sent NBC a letter demanding an immediate retraction of the report. “These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging,” wrote Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder. He then demanded that O'Donnell and NBC “immediately and prominently retract, correct and apologize for the aforementioned false and defamatory statements.”
On Wednesday, NBC capitulated. O'Donnell ruefully admitted on air, “Last night, I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air.” O'Donnell then offered this back-handed apology: “We don’t know whether the information is inaccurate. The fact is we do know it wasn’t ready for broadcast, and for that I apologize.”
Trump’s statement following this last Leftmedia attack perfectly sums up why so many Americans are fed up and have lost all trust in the mainstream media: “The totally inaccurate reporting by Lawrence O'Donnell, for which he has been forced by NBC to apologize, is NO DIFFERENT than the horrible, corrupt and fraudulent Fake News that I (and many millions of GREAT supporters) have had to put up with for years. So bad for the USA!” Indeed, Trump was also right last year when he called Fake News and the Leftmedia’s gross bias “the true enemy of the people11.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65128-msnbc-forced-to-retract-latest-anti-trump-fake-news
NYT Labels Grassroots Patriots ‘Angry,’ ‘Racist’12
“The Tea Party Didn’t Get What It Wanted, but It Did Unleash the Politics of Anger.” That’s the title of the latest effort by the racist13 New York Times to try to bolster its revisionist narrative14 that America — and especially its president15 — is racist.
There’s a small catch. The original Times story about the Tea Party didn’t mention racism. “A fundamental flaw in this analysis is there is no mention of race and how much racism drove the Tea Party movement,” ABC’s Matthew Dowd complained. “You can’t talk about the rage politics and leave out race.” Other criticism in the same vein followed, and the Times quickly came to heel, adding a post-publication line about how the Tea Party movement was really about “giving cover and a voice to those who wanted to attack the first black president — people who in some cases showed up at rallies waving signs with racist caricatures and references.”
The box was now checked, however false the smear may have been. And Times “economist” Paul Krugman concurs: “It was always, from the beginning, about racial anger.”
Arguably, the Tea Party as an “entity” hasn’t been a unified political force since Republicans retook the Senate in 2014. Republicans never followed through on most of the Tea Party’s demands. For example, ObamaCare is here to stay — unless it’s replaced by Medicare for All. President Donald Trump, whose status-quo-smashing victory was the result of the GOP’s failed record, won tax cuts and cut regulations, but federal spending and debt are worse than ever under his leadership. In fact, Trump happily signed the latest spending bill that includes permanently eliminating the Tea Party’s hard-won budget cuts from 2011 on the way to trillion-dollar deficits. Both tax and regulation success and deficit failure illustrate some of the reasons for division among conservatives over supporting him in 2015 and 2016.
But what the coastal leftist elites at the Times really mean to do is malign grassroots Americans. Those “who have signed the Tea Party’s death certificate overlook one way it continues to define the country today,” the Times tells us. “It ignited a revival of the politics of outrage and mistrust in government, breathing new life into the populist passions that continue to threaten the stability of both political parties. Even if the Tea Party’s ideas are dead, its attitude lives on.”
(If that sounds familiar, it’s because Barack Obama mocked the “angry mob” of the Tea Party for “waving their little tea bags.”)
Why can’t we all get along? the Times wonders. Because of those angry, racist Tea Party mobs.
No violence, no riots, and no terrorism came from the Tea Party. Those are all hallmarks of the Left — from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to antifa.
In any case, as Mark Alexander wrote in 201116, “American Patriotism refers to the steadfast devotion for the First Principles of our nation’s Founding, individual Liberty innately and inherently endowed by our Creator, and the extension of that legacy to our posterity.” There’s nothing angry or racist about that.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65129-nyt-labels-grassroots-patriots-angry-racist
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Cultivated Hopelessness: Americans Lose Faith, Patriotism17 — A recent survey of Millennials and Generation Z reveals troubling cultural trends.
Rigging the SAT in a Different Way18 — Is the College Board going to drop the “adversity score” from the test? Not really.
American Spirit: Virginia Hunters Raise $17K to Feed the Hungry19 — Generosity provided “more than 27.7 million servings of venison provided to date.”
Video: Ilhan Omar Allegedly a Corrupt Home-Wrecker20 — Anthony Brian Logan looks at the evidence against Omar in the divorce of an alleged lover.
Video: Obama Netflix Debut to Undermine Trump21 — Barack and Michelle Obama debut “American Factory,” a documentary about alleged prosperity.
Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column
Read The Biggest Threat to ‘Free and Fair’ Elections: BIG Tech22. Facebook and Google are actively undermining the integrity of national, state, and local elections.
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TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
COMEY EXPOSED: Former FBI Director James Comey, whose Trump Derangement Syndrome motivated him to leak a memo, has managed to remain legally unscathed. But his luck just might be running out. The Justice Department inspector general today revealed, “We conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement.” Furthermore, “Comey is also a possible target of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse,” according to the Washington Examiner25. “He signed three of the four FISA applications targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page before being fired by Trump. Horowitz’s report is expected to be released after Labor Day.” Put another way, Dorian might not be the only storm wreaking havoc over the coming weeks and months. |
