The Patriot Post Digest 10-22-2019

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The Patriot Post Digest 10-22-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 22, 2019

https://patriotpost.us/digests/66273-mid-day-digest-2019-10-22

THE FOUNDATION

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” —Thomas Jefferson (1800)

https://patriotpost.us/fqd/66268-founders-quote-daily-2019-10-22

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Pelosi attacks Trump with distorted facts.1
CNN is Democrat propaganda, admits CNN analyst.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.

IN BRIEF

Pelosi’s Fact-Free Sheet on Impeachment10

Whenever a Democrat talks about upholding the oath to “support and defend11” the U.S. Constitution, there are two appropriate responses: outrage and/or laughter. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has elicited cause for either one with her “fact sheet12” laying out the case for the Democrats’ impeachment coup13 because President Donald Trump “has betrayed his oath of office.”

Not surprisingly, Pelosi’s distort-the-facts sheet fails to actually make that case. She points to the July 25 phone call14 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and subsequent “cover up” as “evidence” of Trump’s offenses, and she quotes the whistleblower complaint15 to allege that Trump “is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”

In other words, Pelosi’s big splash is nothing new. And it’s not even evidence; it’s skewing the facts of the matter to sell a narrative. The key fact here is that Trump asked for Ukrainian assistance investigating what happened in the 2016 election. Whatever benefits to his 2020 campaign there may be are incidental to the 2016 questions and U.S. foreign-policy interests, however careless and sloppy Trump is when he speaks.

So, where does this impeachment charade go from here? Well, Pelosi hasn’t even held a House vote yet, though she says Democrats are proceeding “solemnly.” Right.

From a broader perspective, however, Andrew McCarthy, author of Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obamas Impeachment, says Democrats have made a mockery of a solemn process. “Our constitutional system will be damaged because impeachment will be discredited,” he writes16. “That will not make it any less indispensable than [James] Madison judged it to be. Yet its invocation will be even less likely in some grievous future instance, when a presidential abuse of power actually does imperil the nation. We will have a virtually omnipotent president.” And that, he adds, “is not a prescription for the preservation of liberty.”

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66266-pelosis-fact-free-sheet-on-impeachment-2019-10-22

CNN: A Case Study in Hypocrisy17

Project Veritas recently exposed18 the fact that the gross anti-Trump bias espoused by CNN on a 24/7 basis stems from directives issued by CEO Jeff Zucker. However, CNN’s bias problem doesn’t merely stem from the management. On Monday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin apologized for his part in covering Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Following the news Friday that the Justice Department had concluded its investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails while she was secretary of state, determining that there was no “deliberate” mishandling of classified information, Toobin blamed the mainstream media and himself for making a story out of “a big nothing.” Toobin opined, “I think I paid too much attention to them, and I regret that.”

Furthermore, Toobin lamented, “Hillary Clinton likely lost the election because of it, and I think I should have been talking about other issues, not about emails.” It appears Toobin has an outsized view of his own political influence, but more significant is Toobin’s ridiculous assertion that Clinton’s email scandal was “a big nothing.” While the State Department couldn’t seem to find a deliberate intention to mishandle classified information (give us a break), that didn’t mean the investigation found no wrongdoing. In fact, the investigation found more than 600 security violations by 38 State Department employees during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. Moreover, the entire point of her email secrecy was to hide the way she used the State Department as a pay-to-play arm of the Clinton Foundation.

This was a massive story as the evidence of violations demonstrates, and Toobin’s notion that the story should have been ignored by the news media only highlights the fact that he’s committed not to practicing good journalism but to political activism. The Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams observes19, “A real journalist would not apologize for covering a legitimate news story, including one that involves an FBI investigation and a secretary of state-turned-presidential candidate who had been ‘extremely careless’ with classified intelligence.”

So, does Toobin offer a similar apology for CNN’s fake news on the Trump/Russia collusion hoax? Nope. In fact, Toobin claims, “Comparing Donald Trump’s record of ethical problems with Hillary’s emails lent a misleading impression. And I have to say, I am determined not to do that again to the extent that I can. I am going to try to look at corruption and ethics issues each on their own rather than trying to create some sort of equivalence that isn’t there.” Toobin’s statements serve to cement the fact that CNN has become the de facto propaganda wing of the Democrat Party.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66265-cnn-a-case-study-in-hypocrisy

ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY

Featured Analysis: Who Makes the Decisions in America?20 — Is it the elected officials, or is it the bureaucrats? The answer is a big problem.
The United Nations’ UN-acceptable Corruption21 — Venezuela secured a seat on the Human Rights Council, which reveals the fraud.
Dems’ Impossible Dream: Gun-Confiscation22 — How would it work to use force to take away Americans’ guns? It wouldn’t.
American Spirit: High-School Coach Disarms Suicidal Student With Hug23 — The coach noted, “A lot of times… you don’t realize what you’re doing until it’s over.”
Video: Mad Dog Bites Back24 — Gen. James Mattis jokes about the president after Donald Trump’s general insults.
Video: Evolution — Bacteria to Beethoven25 — Darwin’s theory of evolution has been as unquestioned as Newton’s theory of gravity.

TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

POLITICAL FUTURES: Supreme Court throws out Michigan gerrymandering ruling in win for GOP (National Review27)

IRAQ REBUFFS: Iraq says U.S. forces withdrawing from Syria have no approval to stay (Reuters28)

TRUDEAU’S POTPOURRI: Canada’s Justin Trudeau wins second term but loses majority (Associated Press29)

NETANYAHU YIELDS: Israel’s long-standing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he cannot form a government, handing the opportunity to his political rival (BBC News30)

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Democrat congresswoman allegedly has affair with young female staffer. Media completely ignores. (The Daily Wire31)