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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Local News Anchor Suspended After Cursing Out Kellyanne Conway
[FREEBEACON] Mike Jerrick, a Philadelphia-based television anchor, has been suspended after he used a curse word on air Monday to describe Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
"Good Day Philadelphia," a morning show that Jerrick co-hosts, was holding a panel discussion about Trump’s inauguration and the crowd size comparison that occurred after White House front man Sean Spicer adamantly argued that it was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.

During the morning show, a clip was played of Conway appearing Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press," where she said that Spicer was using "alternative facts" to describe the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd.

"Alternative facts, is that going to be a new one in fake news?" Jerrick asked after the clip was played. Another guest on the panel defended Conway, saying that she is good at communicating Trump’s message to the media.

"She’s good at bullshit!" Jerrick interjected. The panel erupted in laughter as Jerrick quickly realized that he had just sworn on live television and apologized right after his statement.

For his outburst, Jerrick will be suspended for a period of time, according to the Daily Mail.

Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "She’s good at bullshit!" Jerrick interjected.

Another Democratic party *operative* outed by his own actions.

When will Americans demand better?
Posted by: Crusader || 01/28/2017 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  No bias there.... move along now...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/28/2017 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  If you want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor - No BS there, right?

No boots on the ground - No BS there, right?

It's a little late in the game playing 'alternate facts'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2017 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Originally a typo...Spicer meant alternative fonts
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2017 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  was the most watched inauguration when you include TV and internet figures.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2017 11:51 Comments || Top||

#6  These jobs are shovel ready.
Posted by: Omomort Cheager7040 || 01/28/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/28/2017 20:28 Comments || Top||


NBC’s Chuck Todd: Media knew how ‘hated’ Hillary was in heartland
[WASHINGTONTIMES] NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing "sexist."

What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."

"Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as news hounds and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland," the "Meet the Press" host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the "1947" podcast.

"And I think it was a fear of, ’Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’" he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous "Hillary for Prison" signs adorning the front yards of rural America.

"I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears," Mr. Todd said. "No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.
Unless it's Rethuglicans...
"If we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that’s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, she’s not well-liked in some places in this country in ways that’s times 10 when it comes to Trump," he said
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Its not "news" that those pretending to provide "news" have no stomach for actually providing "news" to those who tune expecting to watch "news".
Posted by: Crusader || 01/28/2017 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, if you live in a corporate social experiment with platoons of lobotomized parrots, you begin to sound like them too.


Besides, mocking your own Countrymen is much better than having a cheeseburger in middle America, if only to act like you care.

YOU ARE FIRED.
We shall reform the Media, and have the ability to do so.

Posted by: newc || 01/28/2017 3:38 Comments || Top||

#3  They have no idea. They could could have asked but they did not want to hear.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/28/2017 5:13 Comments || Top||

#4  It was not political correctness that prevented the media from telling the real story of how Heartland Americans felt about Hillary. They really feared the liberal coastal sheeple watching the news and beginning to wonder if they should join the group think.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/28/2017 6:33 Comments || Top||

#5  > fear of appearing "sexist."

I don't believe you. It never happens when you attack masculinity.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2017 7:08 Comments || Top||

#6  NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton

In other news, water is wet.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 01/28/2017 7:57 Comments || Top||

#7  but don't you dare call them partisan
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2017 8:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Your cowardice, Chuck, aggravated the split in America.

But I haven't watched MSM news on TV since the invasion of Iraq 'quagmire' remark.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/28/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

#9  "We told the stories of coastal Americans"

...in addition we told alot urban stories. And come to think of it we told alot of minority, climate change, and LBGT stories as well. So you can see why I reject the Liberal bias allegation
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/28/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm a "Coastal American", as is Ebbang and Abu. They didn't tell our stories
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2017 13:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Never announced this yet but Ebbang and Abu are the same guy with two separate computers. But I got rid of the Ebbang computer so now it's just Abu. But you're right, Chuck Todd never interviewed me and he certainly never told my story. Hillary and Soros wouldn't have liked it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2017 13:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Somebody ought to tell Mr. Todd that there's a difference between 'hated' and 'despised'.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/28/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#13  I would have told him about Richard Nixon, Sam Hayakawa, Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson and how Hillary's husband let all the illegal aliens into my state so guys like that can never get elected again.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Nice that he didn't bring this up right after the election when the Dems were trying to sell the myth the Russians stole it.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/28/2017 13:57 Comments || Top||

#15  What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."

You misspelled 'refused', Chuckie, ya lying sack of wet shit...
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#16  Sorry Abu, but I do miss Ebbang's views.
Posted by: Snack Claitch2138 || 01/28/2017 17:23 Comments || Top||


Britain
Shocking rate of electoral fraud reported in islamic colony of London
[Express] NEARLY half of all voter fraud reported in London in the past five years took place in Tower Hamlets, it has been revealed.

The stark figures from the City Hall’s police and crime committee, showed that out of the 455 allegations of electoral fraud that were reported to Scotland Yard, 224 came from the borough.

A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said that it could not confirm how many of the reports had led to prosecutions or charges.

However, Peter Golds, a Conservative councillor for Tower Hamlets, slammed the lack of prosecutions saying that police had clearly “ignored evidence of fraud”.

He also accused police of “malpractice" and doing "a tick-box exercise without taking any action".

Tower Hamlets is an extremely ethnically diverse borough. In 2011, 32 per cent of the population were Bangladeshi, 31 per cent white British, 12 per cent other white, four per cent black African and two per cent black Caribbean.
That adds up to 81%. What about the remaining 19%?
Scotland Yard passed at least 13 files on to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to last year’s EU referendum and London mayor election. However, since 2014, just three people have been convicted, two received cautions, and one a court conviction. A further 23 people were interviewed under caution, eight got “warning letters,” and 25 were given “words of advice".

It means just one percent of the complaints led to convictions.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2017 08:24 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Its an English paper.
They didn't count the White Irish.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
NAACP Pledges to 'Resist' Trump Voter Fraud Investigation
[PJMEDIA] We knew that.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What we don't know is how they can pretend to do so in any meaningful way.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/28/2017 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  People have to ask - why do they want to resist it if there is no fraud going on???
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/28/2017 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Resistance from these people only verifies the need for an investigation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2017 5:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Tell me about it. Not to mention the recount finding in Detroit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  All resistors do is produce heat. Then when you turn off the power they just sit there and do nothing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/28/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  because NAACP organises voter fraud?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2017 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 - Heh
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Please see Portland.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#9  "Resist we much!"
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||


Dems Won’t Rule Out Endangered Species Act Suits To Block Trump’s Wall
[DAILYCALLER] President Trump’s political opponents may use existing federal laws designed to protect endangered species to stop him from building a border wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants colonists coming from Mexico.

Environmentalists say Trump’s proposed border wall would hinder the movement of endangered species migrating through their natural, cross-border habitats, and activists aren’t above filing suit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to stop the wall.

"We’ll of course closely review Trump’s proposal," Margie Kelly, a spokeswoman for the National Resources Defense Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Litigation is just one tool in our advocacy work, and we take nothing off the table," she said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/28/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So rescind it.
Posted by: KBK || 01/28/2017 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The Endangered Species Act has destroyed entire Industries (like the NW logging Industry). Besides some species *need* to go extinct - its entirely natural for them to do so.

Time to make the ESA extinct.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/28/2017 0:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, the ESA gave us back the Bald Eagles.

But also killed off DDT, which enables malaria and Zika.

Somebody's gotta report the second part.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/28/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Back in the early 60's if two critters could mate and create a viable offspring, that was a specie. Today some coloring or altered bone structure makes it a unique species. So, I guess we don't have human 'races' but rather different species by the newer biological definition.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/28/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  All this talk about walls and borders, apartheid, separation of peoples, etc. What is the reasoning, the common denominator? Protection against VIOLENCE and MAYHEM, that is wat!

A common myth amongst many is that they think that before the white man came to Afrika, non-whites lived in peace and harmony with nature and with each other in some sort of tribal, hunter-gatherer utopia.

Of course if you believe the common myth, you will also accept the resultant legacy and never ending scourge of colonialism as the reason for failure and poverty. Both myths center on blame and feed one another.

My apologies. Appears you've heard the song before.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#6  What about the endangered white guys in California? We're being pushed out of our habitat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#7  ...would hinder the movement of endangered species migrating through their natural, cross-border habitats,

Like Mexicans, Costa Ricans, Guatemalans...
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2017 14:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Well the lefties and the greenies wrap them themselves in Darwin. Now I ask you, if survival of the fittest and selective adaptation are settled science, then some species will naturally die out because they are at an evolutionary dead end and will no matter what.

Sort of stops the ESA in its tracks.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/28/2017 14:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Apart from birds and some flying insects, which a wall won't hinder, hardly any species migrate.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/28/2017 18:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Of numbers & mendacity
...Here is an example of journalistic fraud, more egregious than usual, but not by much. The CNN television network juxtaposed two aerial photographs from the same angle, one showing the National Mall full of people, the other showing most of it empty. They explained that Picture A showed the crowd for Obama’s first inauguration, Picture B for Trump’s. They didn’t mention that Picture A was taken while Obama was being sworn in, Picture B three hours before Trump was. It was the "proof" that Obama had outdrawn Trump, picked up and enthusiastically hustled by all other liberal media -- and a knowing misrepresentation. Not one in a hundred who saw it will ever learn that they were had.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/28/2017 15:40 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Attributed to Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain:

Figures don't lie, liars figure.


This is an incredibly stupid example
Posted by: AlanC || 01/28/2017 18:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Re: #1 That's supposed to be

An incredible example of stupidity.




Shouldn't comment while drinking wine with dinner.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/28/2017 19:01 Comments || Top||



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  90 ISIS bodies found in southwest of Sirte
Fri 2017-01-27
  Yemen’s Rebels Seize 3 Trucks Carrying Aid to Al-Bayda
Thu 2017-01-26
  Libyan Army captures Ganfouda district
Wed 2017-01-25
  Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (Nusra) expels Jund Al-Aqsa from its ranks
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Mon 2017-01-23
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Sat 2017-01-21
  Over 100 Al Qaeda fighters killed in 'major' US air strike in Syria
Fri 2017-01-20
  Over 80 IS Fighters Killed in U.S. Strikes in Libya
Thu 2017-01-19
  Suicide blast kills 33 at north Mali military camp
Wed 2017-01-18
  US Air Force kills high ranking Al-Qaeda leader in Syria
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  Obama Releases 10 More GITMO Detainees Just Before Leaving Office
Mon 2017-01-16
  Noor Salman, wife of Orlando bomber, now jugged by FBI
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