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When she ran six years ago, Ellmers joined the bus tour hosted by the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity that traveled the country railing against Obamacare. Now, AFP and other conservative groups are trying to oust her on Tuesday.
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Take note, European pussies. :DDD our kebab removal battalions will land on your shores shortly if you don't. :^)
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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES I am sorry, but there is nothing else to call this. The Wall Street Journal ($) has just released an interview with Donald Trump in which Trump explains his repeated and continued attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the judge assigned to the Trump University case. Curiel’s decision to release records related to the case in response to a public interest | Read More »
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To counter vicious leftist anti-Trump protests on Thursday night, CNN’s Don Lemon brought on liberals who made excuses for it or blamed Trump. Democrat pundit Bob Beckel blamed Trump: “It reflects badly on people who are against Trump but you'll get that kind of thing when you get inflammatory statements like Trump makes and you're going to find people in any group of protesters, you're going to have a percentage of people who are just very angry and out of control.” Trump backer Kayleigh McEnany was on hand to disagree, but CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin protested “Let’s not get carried away” in denouncing the protests, so what if one guy got his hat knocked off? “One person getting hurt is unacceptable, but it's one person.”
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Leaders who should know better have fallen in line behind him.
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The most transparent administration ever, right?
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The strategist for George W. Bush’s presidential elections and influential Republican fund-raiser had referred to Mr. Trump as “graceless and divisive.”
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Sheila Gunn Reid reports that new Freedom of Information documents reveal the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Revenant, received a $5 million grant from the Alb...
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A local official reportedly told firefighters in Rhode Island that they should not fly the American flag from their trucks.
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Senators agreed Thursday to a proposal aimed at prohibiting abortions performed because the fetus has a genetic abnormality, rejecting concerns such a ban would lead Louisiana to a court battle it cannot win.
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“I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,” said Trump.
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Missouri transgender teen Lila Perry wanted to change clothes in the girls' locker room. Many in Hillsboro, Missouri, don't know what to make of that.
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Nigeria: Muslim mob beheads Christian woman for
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Germany: 3 Muslims arrested for Islamic State jihad suicide plot BBC religion chief states
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Thousands of Americans participated in that most benign of civic rituals in San Jose, California, on Thursday night: seeing a presidential candidate speak. Of course, that candidate was Donald Trump, so as these engaged citizens streamed out of the arena, they were subjected to astonishing levels of violence. An angry mob pelted eggs, tomatoes, and bottles at the spectators—as well as the police, who tried (and failed) to maintain some semblance of order. Other Trump supporters were set upon and punched. One was left with blood streaming down his face. (See representative video below.)
The mayor of San Jose, Democrat Sam Liccardo, reacted angrily to the events. Not that he was particularly upset at the violent mob that attacked innocent Americans, of course. No, his ire was directed at Mr. Trump. At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign, the mayor said. Apparently it was downright irresponsible of Trump to even set foot in California's third largest city.
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Obama's de facto 'no admittance' policy for Christian and Yazidi refugees from Syria.
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“WATCH: Mexican males celebrating the criminal assault of a female Trump Supporter
Choose a side America
#SanJose https://t.co/CJP48ii13M”
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A mob of protesters outside the Donald Trump campaign rally in San Jose, California physically assaulted a female Trump supporter.
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper blasted the State Department on Thursday, saying it's "not acceptable" to leave alone what even the department's own spokesman John Kirby admitted was "deliberate" editing of a damning admission by former spokeswoman Jen Psaki on the status of U.S nuclear talks with Iran. ...
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In light of one of Steve's most recent uploads, one which was responded to by many fellow youtuber's. I thought id give my 2 cents on Steve and the death of ...
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That was a “major national-security address”? Hillary Clinton’s folks billed her San Diego speech Thursday as a big deal. And it certainly was a prime opportunity to lay out her views on foreign po…
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Climate change can be countered and the environment saved, but not if the hair spray-obsessed, science-denying Donald Trump is elected.
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In these days of news cycles measured in minutes, if not seconds, the Katie Couric scandal may seem almost as stale as Katie Couric herself. But bear with me. It’s a big deal, and not just because she lied. But let’s begin with the lie.
#ad#Serving as host and executive producer for an anti-gun “news” documentary, Under the Gun, Couric held a focus group with members of a gun-rights group called the Virginia Citizens Defense League.
She asked the attendees, “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?”
In reality the group had any number of immediate and thoughtful responses (whether you agree with them or not).
But what ended up in the final video was something very different. For eight very long seconds, Couric’s question hung in the air as the members of the focus group were depicted as dumbstruck, some with their heads hanging low, as if this question was not only unanswerable, but exposed something shameful.
Couric and her team achieved this through simple video editing. By taking footage from elsewhere in the session and splicing it after the question, they made it seem like the group was struck mute by the brilliance and moral power of the question.
The problem is that the camera and the microphone are very often less objective than the pen or the keyboard.
The simplest way to illustrate the nature of this lie is to imagine if a print reporter had been there instead of a camera. Let’s say I’m that reporter, watching the focus group in real time from a corner of the room. Now imagine that in my account of the meeting, instead of reporting that the group answered immediately and energetically, I reported: “When Couric asked her question about background checks, a long and shamefaced collective silence fell over the whole group. Not one of these purported gun-rights activists knew how to respond.”
There is simply no way a reasonable person can deny that would be a lie.
This incident is being cited by many on the right as a perfect example of media bias — and it is. Couric is a partisan hypocrite. She criticized the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives talking about selling baby parts as deceptively edited, even though their editing was tame compared to Couric’s (and the Center for Medical Progress had released the raw video of their interviews as well).
But there’s something else worth noting here: TV itself is a biased medium. In the early days of television — and before that, radio — the hope was that technology could take out the middleman-journalist and provide “objective” reporting. Just place a microphone or a camera at the heart of the action, and the audience will get that You Are There feeling. The problem is that the camera and the microphone are very often less objective than the pen or the keyboard. Worse, electronic journalists often hide behind the facade of technology and the sensory immersion of the audience, as a way to fake immediacy and intimacy.
Writing requires reflection; the writer must balance competing and often contradictory facts and opinions. It demands of the reader active judgment as well. Lord knows it’s not perfect, but in many respects it’s more honest than journalism that pretends to let you see and hear the truth with your own eyes and ears.
You Are There, by the way, was a radio and then TV series (which was hosted by Walter Cronkite) put out by CBS News from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. It was dedicated to re-enacting important moments in American history, as if they had been covered by TV journalists. But one thing the audience knew: It was a re-enactment.
Today, all of reality TV is at least as fake as You Are There — arguably more so, since at least You Are There tried to stick to established historical facts. Reality TV, on the other hand, makes up facts and pretends they are real. In this it is perhaps the medium’s most authentic form: It’s just “real-ish” enough to make the fakery more emotionally compelling.
This is the more lasting lesson of the Couric scandal: Reality TV has conquered all. As a society, we want to be entertained far more than we want to be informed, which is why these scandals vanish the instant they become boring. It’s also why Katie Couric is more a reality-TV star than a real journalist.
— Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. You can write to him by e-mail at [email protected], or via Twitter @JonahNRO. © 2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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Obama Cites Scripture To Defend School Bathrooms Rule
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Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study published in the Journal of Hymenoptera finds that Australian bee populations expanded with the end of the last ice age, then plateaued around 6000 years ago. Th…