op ed review 3/18
House Intel committee releases verdict in Russia probe: No
collusion
Mainstream Networks Give Less than a Minute to House
Committee’s ‘No Collusion’ Findings
Sessions fires McCabe before he can retire.
Channel surfing after the announcement was like being yanked
into the Twilight Zone. On Fox, Laura Ingraham addressed the firing calmly from
all sides along with her guests Sara Carter, Alan Dershowitz, Harmeet Dhillon
and Jonathan Turley. Switch to CNN and one would be told that it was Trump who
did the firing, that Sessions did it to keep his job. Barely mentioned was the
fact that the recommendation to fire McCabe came from the FBI´s own Office of
Personal Responsibility (OPR), an almost unprecedented event.
Republican loses special congressional race in
Pennsylvania…..???? Paul Ryan SuperPAC
sent a mailer to Pennsylvania CD-18 voters touting Democrat Lamb’s favorable
position on gun ownership rights.
While viciously attacking Republicans for opposing gun
control, Democrats are celebrating the victory of gun-loving Conor Lamb in the
Pennsylvania special election. What would those student gun control protestors
say if they knew about that?
CNN’s Bizarre Blackout On Democrats’ Farrakhan Scandal
ICE Director Fires Back at Nancy Pelosi: ´How Dare You´ Call
ICE Agents ´Cowardly´
The Obama presidential campaign hired a company you may
recognize, Fusion GPS, in 2012, to dig up dirt on Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney.
How Democrats do politics:
Joe Biden’s Son’s Company Struck Billion-Dollar Deal with the Chinese
Government 10 Days After Biden Trip to China
Without wall, illegal crossings expected to spike 70% in
2018
Palm Beach teenage jihadist who stabbed three people and
killed one had extensive FBI monitoring… “FBI was mirroring his social media in
real time; they knew he had contacts with ISIS; they knew he was behind
international threats; the FBI was ‘actively‘ monitoring him; and all
the officials met several times to discuss the likelihood his unstable behavior
might lead to much worse. But they didn’t want to take action, because he
was a minor, and preferred “redirection” or diversionary
programs to change his behavior.”
Collapsed FIU Bridge Was Funded by Obama Economic Stimulus
Program Criticized for Shoddy, Politicized Review Process
Deplorables II: Clinton
tells India conference that “White Women Voted for Trump Because Their Husbands
Told Them To”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Brent Bozell
A User's Guide To Media Coverage Of Political Protests
The
leftist-organized wave of school walkouts on March 14 to protest gun violence
is a classic example of the way protests are categorized by our news and
entertainment media.
1.
Liberal protests are authentic cries from the grass roots; conservative
protests are "AstroTurf." How homegrown were these liberal walkouts?
They were organized weeks ago by the Women's March on Washington leftists.
Liberal parents forced school administrators to knuckle under and allow the
walkouts without punishment. They were supported by passionate media coverage
and media conglomerates like Viacom, which dedicated 17 minutes of airtime to show
solidarity.
So,
was this organized political activism? Helaine Olen at The Washington Post
noted a bunch of this activity and then claimed that the idea that
students were being "manipulated by greater adult left-wing forces"
is "conspiracy theorizing" and "absurd."
1a.
This week's corollary: Liberal protests by children, organized and promoted by
adults, are to be celebrated as child-generated. But conservative children
going to a protest are uneducated robots influenced by their ministers or
parents.
Who
are these kids anyway? The Washington Post celebrated the walkouts with the
front-page headline "We're the Next Generation." Liberals represent everybody.
We are the world and all that.
But
when tens of thousands of teenagers attend the March for Life across the
country, the national media ignore them — unless it's to expose the nefarious
nature of those Christian zealots. In 2017, the media site Vocativ found
Catholic young adults who felt they had been used. "I was in 5th grade
when I started going to the march," Miranda O'Shea complained. "At
that time we barely even knew what an abortion was, let alone the real meanings
behind it." Another woman said: "I really feel for the kids under 18
that get bussed in. I don't really think they should go to the event until
they've reached a point where they can decide if they want to go."
2.
Liberal protests are newsworthy because they're disruptive; conservative
protests are too orderly to be worth discussing. The news angle with the gun
protests was the disobedience
involved in walking out, something to be celebrated. Leftist protests demand
police activity because leftists break stuff, and they demand to be arrested
because it somehow makes them heroic. One hundred thousand conservatives could
show up on the National Mall in our nation's capital and not leave behind so
much as a candy wrapper on the ground. Bo-ring.
3.
Finally, liberal protests are somehow not political. When co-host Meghan McCain
stated the facts on these marches on "The View" — a show that
advocates passing gun control legislation and sticking it to the National Rifle
Association — Whoopi Goldberg was outraged. She said: "Let's stick to what
this particular march is today. ... It's not political." What will Whoopi
claim next? That "The View" isn't political either?
The
Women's March organizers of this walkout wanted to protest not just gun
violence but also racism, police brutality and how "the United States has
exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other
nations." That's superpolitical.
This
whole process — liberal reporting followed by liberal protests — is one
organized political campaign. The media start the outrage machine, demanding a
liberal course of action, and the protests are organized to keep the story
fresh by taking the demand for action to the streets.
Any
political analysis of this modus operandi leads liberals to make bizarre
arguments, as if the protesters represent the entire public and their agenda is
so universally supported it's no longer political. This gaseous bubble must be
popped by conservatives for what it is: "fake news," not facts.
Also worth a read: “Man
of Steel”
___________________________________________________________________
FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Ironically, [Hillary Clinton speaking in India] claimed that
Trump’s voters wouldn’t want an Indian getting ahead. But it was Republican
voters in Louisiana and South Carolina who elected Indian-Americans as
governors, Donald Trump who appointed an Indian-American as UN Ambassador, and
it was Clinton allies who opposed and savaged both Bobby Jindal and Nikki
Haley.”
-Erick
Erickson
“Waiting for liberals to celebrate Gina Haspel as first
female CIA chief… Oh no, wait… liberals can’t celebrate her accomplishments.
She’s a REPUBLICAN.”
-Liz
Wheeler
__________________________________________________________________
ARTICLES
K-12: The War on Boys and Men
Dennis Prager: “America
Is the Best Place in History for Racial Minorities” But never good enough for the Left….
Why We Must Be Bold on Welfare Reform
________________________________________________________________________
WISE
WORDS
“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”
-Benjamin
Franklin
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