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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
How The New Republican
Majority Can Succeed
by Charles Krauthammer
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The Leftmedia's Real Failure This Election
Allyne Caan: When Election Day arrived, The New York Times' online election forecaster gave liar-Hillary Clinton an 85% chance of winning; Trump, 15%. While the Times admitted a Trump victory was "possible," they deemed liar-Clinton's chances of losing "about the same as the probability that an N.F.L. kicker misses a 37-yard field goal." Kick — no good.
As results began coming in, though, the lines on the Times' liar-Clinton-Trump victory probability graph began closing in on each other. Then, the unthinkable happened: those lines crossed. Trump's odds bested liar-Clinton's, and hours before the race was called, the Times gave Trump a 95% chance of coming out on top.
While the big story is, of course, the election outcome, the story behind the story is media malpractice. It's not that the media and pollsters misread the opinions of the American electorate; it's that they were trying to dictate opinion to the American electorate — pollaganda — using polling as propaganda to influence public opinion rather than gage it.
Ironically, just a couple of months ago, NY Times columnist Jim Rutenberg argued on the Times' front page that journalists covering Trump had a responsibility to be biased — that they would "have to throw out the textbook." In fact, the Times' Senior Editor for Politics, Carolyn Ryan, called Trump's candidacy "extraordinary and precedent-shattering" and that "to pretend otherwise is to be disingenuous with readers." Thus the need for skewed coverage.
And yet, the media failed to see the real reason for Trump's looming victory: voter anger at the elite media establishment.
Faced with the fact of journalism's great failure, Rutenberg this week wrote, "All the dazzling technology, the big data and the sophisticated modeling that American newsrooms bring to the fundamentally human endeavor of presidential politics could not save American journalism from yet again being behind the story, behind the rest of the country. The news media by and large missed what was happening all around it. ... The numbers weren't just a poor guide for election night — they were an off-ramp away from what was actually happening."
The Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan echoed this observation: "To put it bluntly, the media missed the story. In the end, a huge number of American voters wanted something different. And although these voters shouted and screamed it, most journalists just weren't listening."
In other words, the media didn't want to believe Trump could win, so they looked the other way. "It would be too horrible," Sullivan wrote. "So, therefore, according to some kind of magical thinking, it couldn't happen." By her explanation, the media couldn't believe such a bigoted misogynist racist might win. Of course, this same media had no problem helping a traitor who jeopardized national security and left Americans to die while scapegoating a filmmaker.
In truth, journalists didn't take some sort of moral high ground by ignoring the possible; they became the bigots they claim to hate. As The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto writes, "It's not just that journalists were naïve or even ignorant, it's that their work was suffused with hostility, even bigotry. ... Motivated by prejudice, many in the media threw aside standards of fairness and balance and even the pretense thereof. That didn't prevent a Trump presidency and might even have helped bring it about."
We'd argue it definitely helped bring it about. Telling the electorate that liar-Hillary was right about them being "irredeemable" and a "basket of deplorables" created a predictable backlash.
The mainstream media has so enclosed itself in the bubble of liberal elitism that they think their world is the world. And they need their own "safe spaces" when their world is challenged.
It's little wonder, then, that after living so long in a state of denial, the media melted down over Trump's win. ABC's Terry Moran called it "a rejection of the neo-liberal world order that, uh, really has been the consensus of governments across the West and across the world for a generation." CNN's Van Jones said people are asking, "How do I explain this to my children?" and called the results a "whitelash against a black president." And MSNBC's ever classy Rachel Maddow told her viewers, "You're not dead and you haven't gone to hell. This is your life now." (As Mike Huckabee joked, "It's true. TVs in Hell only show MSNBC.")
In reality, the media missed the story not out of error or ineptitude but out of willful narrow-mindedness that simply couldn't admit there is a world out there that doesn't think like they do. It's called America. ~The Patriot Post
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Qatar's Shopping Spree to Buy
and Displace the West?
by Giulio Meotti
by Giulio Meotti
Qatar's Hamad bin Abdulaziz al Kawari receiving an honorary degree
from Rome's Tor Vergata University last month
from Rome's Tor Vergata University last month
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Soviet Union, during the Cold War, invested in propaganda operations in the West to subvert capitalism and democracy. Communism found precious allies in the so-called "useful idiots" who facilitated Soviet work in academia, newspapers and publishing houses... Political Islam has been using the same convenient outlets and mechanisms to spread Islamic sharia law in the West. The old role of Soviet propaganda has now been taken up by Islamic regimes. Qatar, for instance, is not only interested in buying large segments of Europe's economy (Hochtief, Volkswagen, Porsche, Canary Wharf and Deutsche Bank), but also in playing a key role in Europe's culture... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9243/qatar-unesco-west
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Heavy Water, and Why It Matters in Iran
by COUNTER JIHAD
by COUNTER JIHAD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Omri Ceren, a managing director at The Israel Project, in a factsheet distributed to journalists and others, points out that a clear violation of the terms of the Iran Nuclear Deal got lost in the coverage over the US election... It is clear enough that even the United Nations‘ monitoring agency, the IAEA, can see that it is definitely a violation. Ceren's remarks deserve to be quoted: The nuclear deal allows the Iranians to produce heavy water but forbids them from stockpiling more than 130 tones at any given time, for over a decade. liar-nObama administration officials had originally told Congress that any nuclear deal would prohibit Iran from heavy water work - the U.N. Security Council had made it illegal for Iran - but the Iranians demanded that the deal actually legalize those activities, first on a limited basis and then with no caps. The liar-nObama administration conceded. In February the Iranians violated the nuclear deal by going over the 130 tone cap...
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Trump is already working to
erase liar-nObama’s legacy from history
by Elysse Baumbach
{reviveusa.com} ~ President-elect Donald Trump was surprisingly gracious as he met President Barack liar-nObama in the Oval Office on Thursday but make no mistake... He is already working to erase major parts of liar-nObama’s legacy from the history books. Trump will be able to change some of liar-nObama’s policies with a quick stroke of the pen. Others will be much more difficult, requiring justification to pass legal hurdles or buy-in from lawmakers on Capitol Hill or foreign leaders. “He can make a big difference at the outset of his administration, but it will take him years and support from dubious congressional factions and allies overseas to get a lot of other things done,” said Charles Tiefer, former solicitor and deputy general counsel of the House of Representatives and now a professor at the University of Baltimore law school...
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Liberals Insist Donald Trump’s a Racist – After Trump’s NEW Appointment, Liberals’ Heads Are Exploding!
by Kosar
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Throughout the presidential campaign, liar-Hillary voters and media elites have called President-elect Donald Trump a racist... Labeling him mean and bigoted, liar-Hillary Clinton even gave speeches claiming Trump and his supporters are white supremacists. Now that Trump is our next President, he needs a serious transition team. That’s why for domestic policy appointments, he has former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell leading the effort! Blackwell, who was the first statewide officeholder elected in Ohio, is a social and fiscal conservative. He’s a Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council, on the board of the National Rifle Association, and is involved with the Club for Growth. Ken’s powerful role in the transition team will set the course for a Trump administration, ensuring that all political appointments believe in small government...
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Lou Dobbs – Familiar Names On Trump
Cabinet Picks Short List
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs details President-elect Trump’s activities for the day, most of which was spent in Washington, DC, beginning with a meeting with liar-nObama in the White House... It was the first time the two had ever met face to face and was originally slated to run for a safe fifteen minutes. As it turned out they extended it to an hour and a half, with liar-nObama describing the meeting as “excellent” and Trump offering up a similar account. From there Mr. Trump and his VP went to Capitol Hill for a meeting with Mitch McCon-nell and Paul Ryan. Mr. Dobbs describes them generously as “two establishment Republicans who were at best reluctant to get on the Trump train, at worst actively working to undermine his candidacy.” Dobbs quotes Ryan as saying “He’s excited to roll up his sleeves to get to work” and Trump as having “discussed immigration, health care and ‘big league jobs’ with McCon-nell... http://rickwells.us/lou-dobbs-familiar-names-trump-cabinet-picks-short-list/
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How The New Republican
Majority Can Succeed
by Charles Krauthammer
{freedomsback.com} ~ Donald Trump won fair and square and, as liar-Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives (like me) who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of Republican rule.
It begins by recognizing Trump’s remarkable political instincts. As Paul Ryan noted in his morning-after olive-branch news conference, Trump heard “a voice out in this country that no one else heard.” Trump spoke to and for a working class squeezed and ruined by rapid technological and economic transformation.
One of the principal tasks for the now-dominant GOP is to craft a governing agenda that actually alters their lives and prospects. In the end, it was this constituency of those left behind by the new globalized digital economy that delivered the presidency to Trump.
Nonetheless, this election was not just about the social/economic divide. It was also about the ideological divide between left and right. The most overlooked factor in the election is the continuing deep and widespread dissatisfaction with liar-nObamaism.
It tends to be overlooked because President liar-nObama remains personally popular (56 percent in the latest Gallup). As a charismatic campaigner, whenever his name is on the ballot, he wins. But when it’s not — 2010, 2014, now 2016 — the Democrats get shellacked.
The reason is no mystery. The problem was never with liar-nObama himself, but with his policies. Before each of those losing elections liar-nObama would campaign saying that his name wasn’t on the ballot but his policies — and now his legacy — were. The voters made clear what they thought of his policies and legacy.
Simply put, from the beginning of his presidency, liar-nObama overreached ideologically, most spectacularly with his signature legislative achievement — liar-nObamacare. The spike in liar-nObamacare premiums and deductibles just two weeks before Tuesday’s election proved a particularly damaging reminder of what liar-nObamaism had wrought.
Hence the other principal task for the now dominant GOP: Undo liar-nObamaism. Begin with canceling liar-nObama’s executive orders on everything from immigration to climate change. Then overturn his more elaborate legislative adventures into overweening liberalism, starting, of course, with liar-nObamacare.
The promise of a Trump presidency is that, if it can successfully work with a Republican Congress, it could turn liar-nObamaism into a historical parenthesis. Republicans would then have a chance to enact the Reaganite agenda that has been incubating while in exile from the White House.
For years Washington gridlock has been attributed to GOP obstructionism. On the contrary, serious legislation, such as Medicare reform passed by the GOP House, was either strangled in the Senate by Democratic leader Harry dinky-Reid or died by veto on President liar-nObama’s desk.
Beyond the undoing, there’s now the prospect of doing. Serious border enforcement, including a wall, for example. That’s not only a good in itself, it would offer leverage in a grand bargain that would include eventual legalization of resident illegal immigrants, an idea supported (according to the exit polls) by more than seven in 10 voters.
Another given is a reshaping of the currently rudderless Supreme Court with the nomination of a conservative justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
During the campaign, Trump’s populism often clashed with traditional Reaganism. The key to GOP success is to try to achieve an accommodation, if not a fusion. Two agendas: one ideological, one socioeconomic. They both need to be addressed. Onto the Reaganite core of smaller government and strict constitutionalism must be added a serious concern for the grievances of the constituency that animated the Trump insurgency, the long-suffering, long-neglected working class.
If Reaganite conservatives want to head off wrongheaded solutions — such as massive tariffs, mercantilist economics and trade wars — they must be prepared to accept such measures as federal wage subsidies and targeted restraints on trade. This involves giving up a measure of economic efficiency. But the purpose is to achieve a measure of social peace and restore dignity and security to a stressed and sliding working class. Some might even call it compassionate conservatism.
The key to success for a Trump presidency is for the Reaganite and populist elements in the party to be willing to advance each other’s goals even at the cost of ideological purity. This will require far-reaching negotiations between a Trump White House and a GOP Congress. The Republicans have gained control of all the political branches. They have the means to deliver. They now have to show that they can.
It begins by recognizing Trump’s remarkable political instincts. As Paul Ryan noted in his morning-after olive-branch news conference, Trump heard “a voice out in this country that no one else heard.” Trump spoke to and for a working class squeezed and ruined by rapid technological and economic transformation.
One of the principal tasks for the now-dominant GOP is to craft a governing agenda that actually alters their lives and prospects. In the end, it was this constituency of those left behind by the new globalized digital economy that delivered the presidency to Trump.
Nonetheless, this election was not just about the social/economic divide. It was also about the ideological divide between left and right. The most overlooked factor in the election is the continuing deep and widespread dissatisfaction with liar-nObamaism.
It tends to be overlooked because President liar-nObama remains personally popular (56 percent in the latest Gallup). As a charismatic campaigner, whenever his name is on the ballot, he wins. But when it’s not — 2010, 2014, now 2016 — the Democrats get shellacked.
The reason is no mystery. The problem was never with liar-nObama himself, but with his policies. Before each of those losing elections liar-nObama would campaign saying that his name wasn’t on the ballot but his policies — and now his legacy — were. The voters made clear what they thought of his policies and legacy.
Simply put, from the beginning of his presidency, liar-nObama overreached ideologically, most spectacularly with his signature legislative achievement — liar-nObamacare. The spike in liar-nObamacare premiums and deductibles just two weeks before Tuesday’s election proved a particularly damaging reminder of what liar-nObamaism had wrought.
Hence the other principal task for the now dominant GOP: Undo liar-nObamaism. Begin with canceling liar-nObama’s executive orders on everything from immigration to climate change. Then overturn his more elaborate legislative adventures into overweening liberalism, starting, of course, with liar-nObamacare.
The promise of a Trump presidency is that, if it can successfully work with a Republican Congress, it could turn liar-nObamaism into a historical parenthesis. Republicans would then have a chance to enact the Reaganite agenda that has been incubating while in exile from the White House.
For years Washington gridlock has been attributed to GOP obstructionism. On the contrary, serious legislation, such as Medicare reform passed by the GOP House, was either strangled in the Senate by Democratic leader Harry dinky-Reid or died by veto on President liar-nObama’s desk.
Beyond the undoing, there’s now the prospect of doing. Serious border enforcement, including a wall, for example. That’s not only a good in itself, it would offer leverage in a grand bargain that would include eventual legalization of resident illegal immigrants, an idea supported (according to the exit polls) by more than seven in 10 voters.
Another given is a reshaping of the currently rudderless Supreme Court with the nomination of a conservative justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
During the campaign, Trump’s populism often clashed with traditional Reaganism. The key to GOP success is to try to achieve an accommodation, if not a fusion. Two agendas: one ideological, one socioeconomic. They both need to be addressed. Onto the Reaganite core of smaller government and strict constitutionalism must be added a serious concern for the grievances of the constituency that animated the Trump insurgency, the long-suffering, long-neglected working class.
If Reaganite conservatives want to head off wrongheaded solutions — such as massive tariffs, mercantilist economics and trade wars — they must be prepared to accept such measures as federal wage subsidies and targeted restraints on trade. This involves giving up a measure of economic efficiency. But the purpose is to achieve a measure of social peace and restore dignity and security to a stressed and sliding working class. Some might even call it compassionate conservatism.
The key to success for a Trump presidency is for the Reaganite and populist elements in the party to be willing to advance each other’s goals even at the cost of ideological purity. This will require far-reaching negotiations between a Trump White House and a GOP Congress. The Republicans have gained control of all the political branches. They have the means to deliver. They now have to show that they can.
http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/how-the-new-republican-majority-can-succeed/
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