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Time for Trump makeover of NPR and PBS
by MICHELLE MALKIN
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Friday Top Headlines
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Congress votes to avert shutdown, sends Donald Trump stopgap spending bill (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Donald Trump leaves White House unannounced to visit wounded warriors for Christmas (The Daily Wire)
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Trump administration considering to separate families who illegally cross U.S.-Mexico border (Fox News)
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Kallstrom – Something Big Is About
To Happen At FBI To Expose Rotted Head
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom tells Stuart Varney about the politicization of the FBI... He says that he believes the Comey team, both inside the FBI and at DOJ have exposed themselves to charges of obstruction of justice charges. He notes that “The FBI is not in the business of planning to destroy a President of the United States and it’s clear to him that that is what they were up to. He says, “I think they were trying. I think they were way above their capability.” He says they were obviously in Andrew McCabe’s office plotting some kind of thing, what he believes was “what we’re seeing right now.” Kallstrom describes it as “This facade and the phony challenge to Trump about collusion and Russia, which nothing could be further from the truth.”... https://rickwells.us/kallstrom-something-happen-fbi/.
Voter Fraud Investigation Launched
Into Alabama Senate Special Election
by AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO
{dailywire.com} ~ Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has launched an investigation into voter fraud accusations from last week's Senate special election... in which Democrat Doug Jones was declared the winner over his Republican opponent, embattled Judge Roy Moore. Moore has yet to officially concede. The investigation was triggered by a viral video of a Jones supporter telling Fox10 reporter Kati Weis that he and others had traveled "from different parts of the country" to "vote" for their candidate, Jones. “We came here all the way from different parts of the country as part of our fellowship, and all of us pitched in to vote and canvas together, and we got our boy elected!" said the unidentified man... https://www.dailywire.com/news/24911/voter-fraud-investigation-launched-alabama-senate-amanda-prestigiacomo#.
Sen. clown-Schumer Steps In Major Pile
Of Political Doggy-Do After Tax Bill Passes
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Senate minority leader Chuck clown-Schumer ever met a GOP program he liked... I do believe if President Trump found a way to end all war, clown-Schumer would complain that not enough people were dying and the earth was getting too crowded. Most of the time he flies off the handle to criticize a bill, speech or policy before it’s been written. He’s been a big opponent the tax plan going with the standard liberal argument that every tax cut ever done favors the rich and doesn’t help the economy. Of course, he is ignoring the tax cut pushed by John F. Kennedy and the one by Ronald Reagan, each brought a period of prosperity to the economy. As his usual habit, immediately after the House voted a second time to approve the tax bill, he didn’t wait to start criticizing. And that was his big mistake... https://lidblog.com/sen-chuck-schumer-steps-doggy/.
Trump threatens U.N. nations
rejecting Jerusalem declaration
by CHELSEA SCHILLING
{wnd.com} ~ U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is taking a bold stand for President Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel... warning that she will be “taking names” of nations that reject the president’s decision in a General Assembly vote scheduled for Thursday. President Trump is threatening to cut off aid to the countries in Haley’s list of names that call for him to withdraw his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” President Trump said at the White House Wednesday... http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/trump-issues-bold-warning-to-u-n-nations-rejecting-jerusalem-declaration/.
McConnell Nails Crybaby clown-Schumer,
Reporter Repeating Dem Talking Points
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ With Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) involved in some heavy-duty cleanup work behind him... Senator Mitch McConnell takes reporters’ questions after the passage of the Tax Bill. McConnell said, “Chairman Murkowski, all the people you see behind us, have all worked together as a team. And as you notice, at the end, there was not a single Democrat who thought this was a good idea.” He says, “And so we’re going to take this message to the American people also a year from now. A libtard reporter asks, “The legislative victory obviously important, but you’ve gotten a lot of criticism for the process, the fact that the substitute amendment wasn’t out until 8:30pm, the fact that things were written in the margins, is this how you envisioned passing such a large legislative accomplishment?”... https://rickwells.us/mcconnell-schumer-talking-points/.
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Time for Trump makeover of NPR and PBS
by MICHELLE MALKIN
{wnd.com} ~ At the close of 2017, no less than seven prominent male hosts and editors of influential government-sponsored radio and television shows are out of work amid claims of sexual harassment.
According to their accusers, the alleged Malevolent Seven are powerful pervs and creeps who’ve been running wild at NPR and PBS for decades, sponsored and subsidized by taxpayers and corporate donors.
In August, award-winning broadcast and radio host John Hockenberry departed from his public radio program “The Takeaway” on New York City’s NPR affiliate, which garnered a peak audience of nearly 3 million weekly listeners on more than 270 stations. Female producers and interns accused him of harassment and bullying before and after he deployed his golden parachute. Hockenberry says he’s “horrified” by the allegations.
In October, NPR’s former editorial director and senior vice president of news, Michael Oreskes, was ousted from his perch after several women claimed he forcibly kissed them in the 1990s while seeking jobs at his previous employer, the New York Times.
That same month, NPR launched an investigation of veteran Minnesota Public Radio host Garrison Keillor, creator of “A Prairie Home Companion.” The liberal icon penned a column defending fellow sexual harassment suspect Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., in late November; the next day, NPR fired him for inappropriate behavior involving at least one female co-worker. Keillor says the only incident he recalls involves inadvertently slipping his hand up the bare back of a “friend.”
Also on the Thanksgiving holiday chopping block: PBS fixture and CBS morning news star Charlie Rose, who reportedly groped, grabbed, phone-harassed and exposed himself to upwards of eight female employees, interns and job applicants dating back to the 1990s
At the end of November, NPR canned Chief News Editor David Sweeney following an internal review after four of the public radio network’s female employees lodged formal complaints involving unwanted kisses, attention and gifts.
In mid-December, Boston-based Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s “On Point” live morning show broadcast on 290 NPR affiliates stations for the past 16 years, was suspended after young women alleged he gave “creepy” sex talks, hugs and back rubs in the studio. Ashbrook says he was “stunned” to learn of the charges.
And last week, PBS suspended weeknight host Tavis Smiley, whose interview show airs in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Southern California and nationwide – with major corporate underwriting from Wal-Mart. He also hosted a podcast on NPR. Smiley has waged an aggressive campaign defending himself against his employer’s witch hunt “gone too far.”
I can’t tell you who’s lying and who’s telling the truth, but I know with absolute certitude that all seven of these men are left-leaning journalists and pundits encrusted in the public broadcasting establishment.
This is a golden opportunity for President Donald Trump to drain the elitist media swamps and inject true intellectual diversity in the newsrooms of NPR and PBS. Liberal bias at these Beltway institutions is notorious – from NPR legal analyst Nina Totenberg wishing AIDS upon Sen. Jesse Helms and his grandchildren as “retributive justice,” to “Sesame Street’s” Oscar the Grouch mocking Fox News on PBS, to top NPR executives slamming the tea party movement as “scary” and “racist” to the undercover journalists of Project Veritas.
If pushover Republicans can’t bring themselves to fully defund NPR and PBS, can’t they at least step up and advocate for hosts and editors who keep their hands to themselves and refrain from insulting the people in flyover country who keep their rackets afloat?
What better time, in the wake of liberal hypocrisy and sexual harassment self-implosions, to bring real balance to government-sponsored programming?
So far, the moment is being squandered. The replacements announced for Charlie Rose on PBS are BBC correspondent Katty Kay and former CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour.
That’s right. Two liberal British female journalists.
Come on, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Do better, D.C.
All things considered, we could use a little more “America First” and a little less globaloney and groupthink from NPR and PBS. I can think of a conservative female journalist or 12 up to the task.
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