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Truthgate
by Mordechai Schiller
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by Thomas Gallatin: On Sunday, violence erupted again in Berkeley, California, when around 100 masked, black-clad antifa members jumped a police barrier and attacked a small group of peacefully protesting Donald Trump supporters. The violence resulted in 13 arrests and injuries to six people. Joey Gibson, the Japanese-American leader of Patriot Prayer, one of the pro-Trump protest groups, called out Democrat leaders for their failure to speak against the violence perpetrated by leftist groups like antifa, even as they eagerly condemn the violence of white supremacists. Gibson said, “I’m asking Mayor [Ed] Lee and I’m asking Nancy Pulosi to speak against this violence and speak against this hatred, and be consistent with your message.”
Antifa Is Anti-America
by Thomas Gallatin: On Sunday, violence erupted again in Berkeley, California, when around 100 masked, black-clad antifa members jumped a police barrier and attacked a small group of peacefully protesting Donald Trump supporters. The violence resulted in 13 arrests and injuries to six people. Joey Gibson, the Japanese-American leader of Patriot Prayer, one of the pro-Trump protest groups, called out Democrat leaders for their failure to speak against the violence perpetrated by leftist groups like antifa, even as they eagerly condemn the violence of white supremacists. Gibson said, “I’m asking Mayor [Ed] Lee and I’m asking Nancy Pulosi to speak against this violence and speak against this hatred, and be consistent with your message.”
Even as Republicans and Trump spoke out against the violence perpetrated in Charlottesville, and condemned racism specifically, the reality is that many Democrat leaders have failed to disavow and reject the violence and violent rhetoric espoused by groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter. At the violent protest in Berkeley, antifa members were heard chanting, “No Trump! No Wall! No USA at all!”
Frank Somerville, a news anchor in the San Francisco Bay area, witnessed the Berkeley
violence and wrote, “I have experienced hate firsthand today. It came from these people
violence and wrote, “I have experienced hate firsthand today. It came from these people
dressed in all black at a protest in Berkeley. Ironically they were all chanting about no hate.” Somerville continued, “It’s one thing to read about hate. It’s another thing to be right next to it. In my opinion, these people dressed in black are just as hateful and intolerant as the people they are protesting.”
The real threat to American freedom isn’t coming from small fringe racist groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis but from those who are actively seeking to silence the free speech rights of others through violence. It’s coming from the intolerance espoused by leftists who fail to guard — and in many cases flatly reject — America’s most foundational and cherished constitutional rights. Antifa does not seek to promote the U.S. and the freedoms Americans hold dear, rather these hoodlums seek to destroy our nation based on the false premise that the U.S. is an oppressive and racist nation. The irony is that the real oppressors are those masked, black-clad thugs who seek through violence to silence those with whom they disagree. ~The Patriot Post
Trump Holding His Ground On
Wall As Squishy RINOs Surround Him
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Is anyone ready for a fight with the anti-American left? Millions of conservative Americans are... We’re so past being tired of the never-ending capitulation and surrendering by our supposed representatives in the DC Swamp. We elected President Trump to put an end to it and on many points, such as the fulfillment of the “lock her up” campaign promises, are still waiting. He’s been strong in spots and it’s looking like lately he’s finally remembered what he’s supposed to be doing, who his friends are and perhaps given up on the fantasy of pleasing liberals. President Trump stood strong on Monday on his vow that he would let the Democrats shut down the government before he would surrender on the border wall. Democrats have threatened to block funding for the wall and in the process, significant, non-critical portions of the federal government would shut down as well.... http://rickwells.us/trump-holding-ground-wall-squishy-rinos-surround/.
{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected American demands that he stop using foreign financial aid to pay stipends and salaries to the families of jailed Palestinian terrorists... Abbas met last week with US envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to restart Middle East peace talks. According to Israeli journalists present at the meeting, Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, reiterated the long-standing demand that the Palestinian Authority not reward terrorism with financial gain...Then why are we giving Palestinian leaders aid money? This needs to stop. http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/32275/Default.aspx
Abbas Tells Trump He Won't
Stop Giving American Money to Terrorists
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Former Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka
Exposes liar-nObama Leftovers As Leakers
by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Former White House deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka quit his job with the Trump Administration last Friday. And he’s wasting no time making waves outside the Oval Office... Known for his bombastic television appearances, Gorka went on Fox News this morning and broke some huge news. The question on everyone’s mind in the White House is: Who is leaking information to the press? Gorka has the answer. And while it’s not totally unexpected, you have to wonder when President Trump is finally going to shut these people up for good... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/sebastian-gorka-obama-leakers/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_29_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-29-17-morning&utm_medium=email
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Rep. Ron DeSantis Presents
Amendment To End Mueller Investigation
'by Wayne
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ As the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia heats up, and Mueller continues to dig into the president’s business history, one GOP lawmaker is taking steps to end this witch-hunt once and for all... Rep. Ron DeSantis is sick of the ongoing investigation. And he’s introducing an amendment to end funding of the Mueller investigation after 180 days. The amendment from Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) would also prevent special counsel Robert Mueller from probing “matters occurring before June 2015,” which is the month Trump announced his presidential bid. The amendment was submitted as part of the upcoming spending package the lower chamber is expected to weigh after the congressional recess... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/desantis-mueller-amendmnet/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_29_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-29-17-morning&utm_medium=email.
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012 and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank... Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by liar-Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including liar-Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-do-you-say-whoops-in-russian-podesta-group-retroactively-files-more-doj-disclosures-for-pro-putin-work/article/2632538
How do you say 'whoops' in Russian? Podesta
Group retroactively files more DOJ
disclosures for pro-Putin work
by Emily Jashinsky
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012 and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank... Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by liar-Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including liar-Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-do-you-say-whoops-in-russian-podesta-group-retroactively-files-more-doj-disclosures-for-pro-putin-work/article/2632538
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Truthgate
by Mordechai Schiller
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "Fake News" reminds me of a holy story . . . about an unholy act
“The Truth is Hard.”
So began a recent advertising campaign for The New York Times. In a self-righteous display of chest-thumping, The Times asserted:
“Our journalistic values are deeply held and unimpeachable. The principles by which our reporters work are steadfast and non-negotiable: consistently going the distance, uncovering truth with unmatched tenacity, telling the story in whatever form it demands — all to help our readers.”
Does the name Jayson Blair ring a bell? In 2003, trying to get ahead of the story in a journalistic fraud scandal, The Times published their own version, with a banner headline:
“CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception”
I should explain that the phrase “get ahead of the story” is different from “get ahead of one’s self,” which means to act prematurely. “Get ahead of the story” is a tactical maneuver for managing a PR crisis. It means to give the impression of total transparency by coming out and telling your version of the story … before other media get a chance to report it. It’s damage control. Not true confessions.
As the Times disclosed:
“A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times journalists has found. The widespread fabrication and plagiarism represent a profound betrayal of trust and a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper.”
I can think of lower points in the history of The Times. But that’s not for here and now.
The fifth paragraph begins, “Mr. Blair, who has resigned from the paper, was a reporter at The Times for nearly four years, and he was prolific.”
Four years. … It took nearly four years for The Times to acknowledge that their readers and, ostensibly, their editors were being bamboozled. I have to wonder whether the copywriter who wrote the “Truth” ad did any fact checking. Let’s read this again: “The principles by which our reporters work are steadfast and non-negotiable: consistently going the distance, uncovering truth with unmatched tenacity.”
When misinformation becomes disinformation, the medium massages the truth.
George Orwell got it right. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth. Just substitute “paper” for “Party”:
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
But why now? Why did The Times suddenly feel a need to rebuild their brand?
Could this truth-serum-flavored Kool-Aid fest have something to do with the man in the White House? And could it be that The Times — and other mainstream media — are desperately attempting to control the past and the future … so as to unelect him?
I am reminded of another story. A holy story … about an unholy act.
The Torah tells the story of Zimri — a righteous leader gone astray — who committed a heinous crime, setting off a plague. Pinchas, defending the honor of God, killed Zimri, thus ending the plague.
There is a fascinating expression in the Talmud (Sotah 22b) warning to beware of hypocrites who “sin like Zimri, and expect a reward like Pinchas.”
You have to wonder sometimes. Do the media believe their own lies? Or are they as cynical as Ben Rhodes, former President liar-nObama’s media hit man? Rhodes boasted to The Times that he put together a team of “experts” who “became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. … We created an echo chamber.”
“Echo chamber” refers to an environment where people hear and read only opinions that coincide with their own.
“We knew the tactics that worked.” Rhodes said about his selling the Iran deal to the American public. We were sold … down the river.
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Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year for 2016 was “post-truth.” They defined it as: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”
But there’s nothing new under the sun. Pre-post-truth, there was doublespeak. As William Lutz, author of The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Anymore, put it, doublespeak is “language that pretends to communicate but really doesn’t. It is language that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, the unpleasant appear attractive or at least tolerable.”
Doublespeak doesn’t stink. It merely “exceeds the odor threshold.” A cousin to doublespeak is spinglish, a spin on English meant to fleece the acluistic: the “clueless, and … extraordinarily clue-resistant” from Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language, by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.
Back in the ’50s before polyester became common, a character in a Pogo cartoon fended off a con artist:
“The wool you’re trying to pull over my eyes is fifty percent cotton.”
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "Fake News" reminds me of a holy story . . . about an unholy act
“The Truth is Hard.”
So began a recent advertising campaign for The New York Times. In a self-righteous display of chest-thumping, The Times asserted:
“Our journalistic values are deeply held and unimpeachable. The principles by which our reporters work are steadfast and non-negotiable: consistently going the distance, uncovering truth with unmatched tenacity, telling the story in whatever form it demands — all to help our readers.”
Does the name Jayson Blair ring a bell? In 2003, trying to get ahead of the story in a journalistic fraud scandal, The Times published their own version, with a banner headline:
“CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception”
I should explain that the phrase “get ahead of the story” is different from “get ahead of one’s self,” which means to act prematurely. “Get ahead of the story” is a tactical maneuver for managing a PR crisis. It means to give the impression of total transparency by coming out and telling your version of the story … before other media get a chance to report it. It’s damage control. Not true confessions.
As the Times disclosed:
“A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times journalists has found. The widespread fabrication and plagiarism represent a profound betrayal of trust and a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper.”
I can think of lower points in the history of The Times. But that’s not for here and now.
The fifth paragraph begins, “Mr. Blair, who has resigned from the paper, was a reporter at The Times for nearly four years, and he was prolific.”
Four years. … It took nearly four years for The Times to acknowledge that their readers and, ostensibly, their editors were being bamboozled. I have to wonder whether the copywriter who wrote the “Truth” ad did any fact checking. Let’s read this again: “The principles by which our reporters work are steadfast and non-negotiable: consistently going the distance, uncovering truth with unmatched tenacity.”
When misinformation becomes disinformation, the medium massages the truth.
George Orwell got it right. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth. Just substitute “paper” for “Party”:
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
But why now? Why did The Times suddenly feel a need to rebuild their brand?
Could this truth-serum-flavored Kool-Aid fest have something to do with the man in the White House? And could it be that The Times — and other mainstream media — are desperately attempting to control the past and the future … so as to unelect him?
I am reminded of another story. A holy story … about an unholy act.
The Torah tells the story of Zimri — a righteous leader gone astray — who committed a heinous crime, setting off a plague. Pinchas, defending the honor of God, killed Zimri, thus ending the plague.
There is a fascinating expression in the Talmud (Sotah 22b) warning to beware of hypocrites who “sin like Zimri, and expect a reward like Pinchas.”
You have to wonder sometimes. Do the media believe their own lies? Or are they as cynical as Ben Rhodes, former President liar-nObama’s media hit man? Rhodes boasted to The Times that he put together a team of “experts” who “became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. … We created an echo chamber.”
“Echo chamber” refers to an environment where people hear and read only opinions that coincide with their own.
“We knew the tactics that worked.” Rhodes said about his selling the Iran deal to the American public. We were sold … down the river.
***
Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year for 2016 was “post-truth.” They defined it as: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”
But there’s nothing new under the sun. Pre-post-truth, there was doublespeak. As William Lutz, author of The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Anymore, put it, doublespeak is “language that pretends to communicate but really doesn’t. It is language that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, the unpleasant appear attractive or at least tolerable.”
Doublespeak doesn’t stink. It merely “exceeds the odor threshold.” A cousin to doublespeak is spinglish, a spin on English meant to fleece the acluistic: the “clueless, and … extraordinarily clue-resistant” from Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language, by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.
Back in the ’50s before polyester became common, a character in a Pogo cartoon fended off a con artist:
“The wool you’re trying to pull over my eyes is fifty percent cotton.”
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