BALTIMORE, Maryland October 29, 2015 - For so long, people who understood what was happening wondered if the GOP would ever wake up and, well, defend themselves as they were raked over the proverbial coals by the Democrats and their surrogates in the mainstream media. Today, that willingness to fight back against your tormentors is called "pushing back." The mainstream media - meaning the three "old" television networks (CBS, NBC and ABC), the major daily papers (New York Times, New York Daily News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Charlotte News-Observer, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun), plus CNN and MSNBC and Time.- have spent so long framing life in America as revolving around the Democratic Party, and vigorously laying to waste anybody or anything that stood against that so-called reality, that it was hard to imagine life in America without those so-cool Democrats being at the center of it, at least in Washington. It was hard to believe the GOP would ever start acting like a real opposition party. It was widely beiieved that the members of the GOP wanted to be treated like the Dems were treated in Washington, meaning that they wanted to be invited to all of the A-list cocktail parties, chased around by all of the important lobbyists who spent the big money on the Democrats, and other such social niceties.
And then, suddenly, last night at the third GOP Debate, Sen. Ted Crews actually, really, strongly, believably, vigorously, pushed back. Marco Rubio joined in. So did Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee. It was a beautiful thing. A push back that looked like a push back, sounded like a push back, and really was a push back.
It is an amazing thing in America these days. The GOP, especially the Conservative wing of the party, is in league with most Americans on virtually every major issue. But unless you know that from closely following the day in and day out goings on in Washington, you would be ignorant of that. Instead, you'd think the Democrats were tuned in to America. That is how profoundly biased and distorting the reporting of the mainstream media is. Am I right? I am, at least about this. What are the issues and what do Americans think of those issues? Most Americans - an overwhelming percentage of Americans - want the Southern Border locked tight. Which political party supports that view? Not the Democrats. They want to act, literally, as if there were no border. Federal border patrol people have told interviewers that illegal immigrants are so brazen that they walk right past a uniformed officer and wave. Why? Because that is what Obama tells Border Agents they must do. The GOP as a party isn't that far away from the Democrats. Jeb Bush is for so-called amnesty; that is, allowing illegal immigrants who have come here over the last decade to stay here. So is John Kasich. Only conservative Republians agree with the majority of citizens on closing the Southern Border. But the mainstream media does not report this. CBS, ABC and NBC all report that Americans want what Obama wants, or, in most cases, they report nothing at all about immigration and the Southern Border. It's the same with the major newspapers. Now even Fox is a mixed bag. Their so-called straight news folk - in most cases the closest thing TV has to real reporting - no longer report straight up on the Southern Border issue. You might be able to piece that reality together over a one week period. But you'd never know that conservative Republicans and most of America have the same views on such a hot-button issue if you only watched NBC or read the New York Times.
Take another issue: take the political group known as "Black Lives Matter." Most Americans view Black Lives Matter as a group of Leftwing Racists who believe shooting police officers is a good idea. The Democrats have endorsed Black Lives Matter and have not spoken out even quietly about their propensity for marching down the mainstreets in racially charged areas of the country while shouting “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon!”. If you've only been watching the three networks and their so-called newscasts you should know that Black Lives Matters really does march about shouting, in unison, the pigs in a blanket phrase.
According to the moderate internet news site, Breitbart, "The phrase “pigs in a blanket” refers to police officers in body bags and has been used overtly by a Black Lives Matter-influenced activist who murdered two police officers.
In Minnesota, recently, the group marched at the state fair using the chant printed here. As they marched and chanted, they had a police escort.
The GOP has been largely silent about Black Lives Matter. Conservatives endorse the group's right to say anything they want, but conservatives and only conservatives have condemned the subject matter of the speech and spoken out strongly in favor of police. This is precisely what most Americans believe: the group's first amendment rights are to be protected, but protecting the right to say anything does not require agreement. In fact, any sane American would condemn the idea that there is anything positive to the idea of shooting police officers. If you watched NBC or ABC, you would never see Black Lives Matter chanting this racially-charged phrase. But you would be told that this group is fighting for racial justice and has been strongly endorsed by the Democrats. You would be given the impression that the GOP opposes racial justice, as if what Black Lives Matter says has anything to do with racial justice. In fact, how can murder promote racial justice?
Let me give one more example. Take the situation in the Middle East. These are the facts: In Syria, the government of long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad and the country's army have been fighting a civil war with various rebel factions. This horrid war has lasted years and is involving more and more disparate Middle East factions. The Islamic Extremists calling themselves ISIS or ISIL is one of these factions. It is a blood-thirsty, profoundly evil, profoundly anti-woman group of murderous thugs which routinely round-up and execute Christians, even Christian children. But the Assad government is pretty bad, also. It has used poison gas and other weapons strongly condemned by most international groups. Obama told Assad - after first learning of his use of poison gas - that if he used it again the USA would enter the war on the side of the rebels. The USA has tried to back one group of rebels, but the policy has been, even in Obama's estimation, a disaster. When it was discovered that Assad had used poison gas and other chemical weapons in spite of Obama's threats, Obama backed down and did not enter the war. The cost os backing down has been tremendous and directly because of it and his weak, tepid response to Russian agression in Ukraine, he has come to be viewed as very weak and afraid by the Putins and Iranians of the world. The USA has run air strikes and drone strikes against Assad and ISIS, but they have had no affect against ISIS and have done little against Assad.
In the last month, things have worsened dramatically. First, millions of so-called refugees have spilled out of the Middle East and into Europe. But instead of the expected majority of women and children and the elderly, these refugees are almost all fighting-aged single men, almost all of whom are Islamic. Germany has led the way in accepting these peoplle, even though a majority of its citizens have announced their opposition. Obama says he will allow around 200,00 to 250,000 to come to the USA and some are already here. Many of these people are very demanding, insisting on contributions from the host countries of money, high-quality food, computers and internet access and other luxuries. Riots have erupted when the hosts are slow to accomadate the refugees. There have been repeated battles between the majority of Islamic refugees and the few Christians that are intermingled with them. Several eastern European nations, notably Hungry and Greece, have refused to allow them to come in. Other nations have allowed them to pass through. Most Middle Eastern nations not involved in the civil war have not offered to take any refugees. Most notable among this latter group is Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. Many believe that the aim of the refugees is to make the host countries majority-Islamic as soon as possible. If you watched ABC or NBC, or read the Washington Post, would you know any of this? Certainly not from the TV networks, which ignore the story, despite its overwhelming importance. If you read only the Post, you would not grasp the danger of allowing so many Islamics into western nations. In fact, you would believe it is wrong to oppose the coming of the Islamics. The GOP is opposed to the immigration of so many Islamics. The GOP believes that Christians are being butchered without the international community doing anything to stop it or even slow it down. But the mainstream media is not reporting any of this. You would not know that many Conservative leaders have spoken out about any of this. You would have no idea of how many Christian massacres have occurred.
Besides the so-called refugee crises, the Russians and Chinese have entered the war in support of Assad. Russian planes have been running air strikes in support of Assad, although they claim, almost facetiously, that the strikes are only against ISIS. The Pentagon has not bought into it and says that the Russians are helping Assad. The USA had struggled, successfully, for decades to keep the Russians out of the MIddle East. But Obama has let them in and started taking orders from them. Meanwhile, the Chinese are also on the ground in the Middle East. They are helping Iran get their oil fields up and running now that Obama has lifted sanctions, for the most part, as part of his Iranian Nuclear Treaty. The Chinese are also said to be active in the right in favor of the Assad government. But the mainstream media has downplayed the fact that the Russians are helping Assad and ordering Obama around. Obama and his current Secretary of State, John Kerry, say the Russians are welcome to take an active role in the fight against ISIS. Neither has said how they will get the Russians out of the MIddle East.
This brings me back to the GOP debate. The three people who were serving as moderators - Becky Quick, John Harwood and Carl Quintanilla - asked no questions about any of this. Not one. A story that is easily the most important of the last generation is skipped, and in its place they ask questions about the internet site, "Fan Duel." and other similarly mundane topics. Nor do the moderators touch upon the idea that the two leading Democratic candidates are an admitted socialist (Bernie Sanders) and a woman who toured the world asking for and receiving millions of dollars which is given by nations seeking influence over her should she be elected. This would be Hillary Clinton, who is also being investigated by the FBI for illegal use of a private email server that directly led to the disclosure of hundreds of USA State secrets to its sworn enemies. The night would have passed, in fact, without any of this being talked about, had Ted Crews not taken the bull by the horns and pushed back, not just lightly, but vigorously and with lots of gusto. He said the obvious: that the ideas and credentials of the eleven GOP candidates are far superior to those of the two leading Democrats. Crews also said directly to the three moderators that they were openly preferring the two Democrats and had no intention of ever voting for a Republican. The moderators did not deny any of this. The moderators, and the rest of the mainstream media, are hell-bent on concealing the fact that the conservative Republicans have the same political and world views as do most Americans. The obvious truth is that the mainstream media is hell-bent on concealing this from the American public.
The media wants Americans to think that the Democrats think like most Americans do, and are in favor of policies that most Americans are also in favor of. But it just is not true, not even slightly. The Democrats, taken as a whole, are against almost every policy that most Americans favor, and the two Democratic front-runners are for policies that most Americans vehemently oppose. It is very obvious that this is true. It is very obvious that the media will not report this.
Amazingly, on Twitter last night even left-leaning media types were put off by the acid-like rancor being pushed by the three CNBC moderators. They were not asking questions but instead were making anti-GOP political comments and tacking on a question mark at the end. But when Ted Crews laid into the three, and the crowd cheered wildly, things did change. Oh, the questions were still pretty bad, but the candiddates suddenly were not being brow-beat into capitulating. Instead, they began to talk back to their tormentors. Chris Christie was a new man when he laid into the moderator who asked what he'd do about Fan Duel. He recounted the human suffering inflicted by ISIS and other hot button issues and asked the questioner why she or he would ask a question about Fan Duel instead of the really important things that are going on. Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee joined in. Donald Trump was on board.
Was this a seminal event? Will the GOP as a whole start acting like an opposition party? Will the media's efforts at concealing and distorting the reality that the conservative wing of the GOP is talking the same policies as those favored by most Americans? Will the Democrats finally be outed as hard-core uber Leftists?
It is a a series of really hard questions. It will take gumption and willpower on the part of many people for the truth to finally emerge. It will demand actual vigor and determination. The mainstream media will do everything they can to keep it from happening. Obama will get surley and, if it looks like it is coming to pass, will get extraordinarily devious. Watch out for really weird executive orders.
But it will be fun to watch.
One final note: Veteran CBS and Public Television Host Charlie Rose is said to have come unglued at the thought that two GOP candidates actually called Hillary Clinton a liar. "Why would they do that?" he is said to have exclaimed several times.
It is hard for me to believe Mr. Rose has trouble fathoming that Mrs. Clinton is a liar. She lies very very often, and often in an almost instinctive way. Most people expect her to lie. It explains why national polls declare her "untrustworthy" and "not to be trusted." These results are not just by a few people, buy by a majority of Americans.
And don't forget that it was Mr. Rose, on his public TV show on a night, just prior to the 2008 election when his guest was Tom Brokaw, that he and Mr. Brokaw exclaimed that both of them knew virtually nothing about Barack Obama.
Gentlemen, that would be because the mainstream media did not vet Mr. Obama because they knew, if they did, they would have to report all manner of negative facts. And heaven forbid!
It is just being reported that the GOP has now cancelled an upcoming debate on NBC. Shawn Hannity is stating now that he expects the Wednesday debate to have longterm effects on how debates are conducted on TV.
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