Picking over the debris of the Presidential election
The hindsight heroes have taken to autopsying the failed Clinton campaign. With protesters in the streets demanding that the Congress shred the US Constitution, dingy Harry Reid, the draft dodger, throws fuel on the fire from the comfort of his Capital Hill office on Veterans’ Day;
“White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.
They may be “wracked with fear” but that hasn’t stopped them from being lawless in the streets.
The New York Times reports that Clinton herself, blames F.B.I. director, James B. Comey for her failure to win the election.
“There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, “our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.”
Mrs. Clinton said a second letter from Mr. Comey, clearing her once again, which came two days before Election Day, had been even more damaging.
Odd, that she doesn’t blame the fact that she was using private email to avoid scrutiny of her time in the State Department to begin with. The Clintons have always been more concerned with their legacies than the truth. They sent Sandy Berger into the bowels of the National Archives to alter their record in regards to fighting terrorism virtually guaranteeing the failure of the 9-11 Commission to arrive at accurate conclusions in order to improve our national security. The Hillary Clinton private email server was supposed to rectify the situation for her.
For their part, the New York Times blames their own prejudices in the election for those results, according to the Times competitor, the New York Post;
Bad or sloppy journalism doesn’t fully capture the Times sins. Not after it announced that it was breaking it rules of coverage because Trump didn’t deserve fairness.
As media columnist Jim Rutenberg put it in August, most Times reporters saw Trump “as an abnormal and potentially dangerous candidate” and thus couldn’t be even-handed.
That wasn’t one reporter talking — it was policy. The standards, developed over decades to force reporters and editors to be fair and to build public trust, were effectively eliminated as too restrictive for the Trump phenomenon.
The man responsible for that rash decision, top editor Dean Baquet, later said the Rutenberg piece “nailed” his thinking, and went on to insist that Trump “challenged our language” and that, “He will have changed journalism.”
Baquet also said of the struggle for fairness, “I think that Trump has ended that struggle,” adding: “we now say stuff. We fact-check him. We write it more powerfully that it’s false.”
Baquet was wrong. Trump indeed was challenging, but it was Baquet who changed journalism.
Now, the Times is begging it’s subscribers to come back and promising to “rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor.”
Yeah, well, the media gave us Trump – they gave him all of the attention through the primaries virtually ignoring the other dozen or so candidates thinking that he couldn’t win the popular election.
The Democrats, for their part, ignored some candidates, namely Jim Webb, who could have brought it home for them. Instead, they stuck to identity politics thinking that no one could vote against the first woman, despite the fact that she brought more baggage to the campaign than most Presidents leave the White House with after eight years.
More importantly, maybe Republicans learned to stop nominating people who they think the Democrats voters will elect.
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Good article, Jonn.
And very true.
The pundits are beside themselves over this.
But in the end, Trump won. And virtually destroyed the Democratic Party in the process.
Trump didn’t destroy the Democratic Party, Bill and Hillary did. Think of 2330 eastern standard time as the final scene of ‘Thelma and Louise’ as Bill and Hillary drove the party of FDR,Truman, and JFK off the cliff to satisfy their megalomania.”The long national nightmare,” that began with Bubba and enabled every fringe moonbat, and race baiter to get what they wanted, damn the cost to the American people ended in the tears of Chris Mattews, Rachel Maddow, et al. Time for the non public sector union worker and leadership to stand up and kick the silly fringe out, and rebuild the Democratic Party as the representative voice of the American working (and I might add Enlisted) man and woman, not the purple haired transgendered freaks that have hijacked our voice in government.
“More importantly, maybe Republicans learned to stop nominating people who they think the Democrats voters will elect.” Zactly. When the Dems win, it’s “FY! We won and elections have consequences!” When the Reps wins, it’s a demand for bipartisanship from the Dems and an okie-dokie from the Reps. Well, as the water people say, “Now hear this. FY Harry Reid, Bernie Sanders, all of the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, Hollywood, Mass Media, and the Progressive agenda.”
Agreed, but the man they chose is hardly a right wing conservative standing on principle. The man they chose is a master of compromise, a master of selling an idea to make a profit. Trump is a regular sort of guy who speaks his mind regardless of what most think and doesn’t speak much like a politician.
That’s what energized the 47.5% of those who voted to vote for him…it’s good to remember that number. It’s also good to remember that he lost the popular vote.
There’s no mandate for a Trump presidency, he will have to be Trump the negotiator, Trump the master of compromise if he intends to last 8 years and accomplish anything. If it looks like he’s doing something crazy the mid-terms will put the House and Senate against him and he’ll be gone in 4….
I personally don’t like the term mandate because it assumes that a victor has carte blanche to do what he will. Until each policy decision, foreign and domestic, as well as myriad other matters, appear on a ballot, no one has a “mandate” from the American People. As for Trump, he could raise both middle fingers to the People just as he did to the Establishment and the current regime. I certainly get that. As I said more than once here, we don’t know what Trump will do but we damn sure knew what Wide Load would do so she had to be stopped. From here on out, we’ll learn about Trump. I can wait.
Agreed on the term mandate, but everyone once in a while someone captures the imagination of the people so well they win in overwhelming fashion and in those instances “mandate” means 70% of the voters think your vision is the right one at that moment.
Trump’s appeal was never more than 50% nationwide and as we’ve seen that’s not even the final tally which was less.
I can wait as well, I’m watching to see who he appoints and where he appoints them before I can really figure out which way he’s going to govern. It will be interesting, and yes better than Clinton without question or hesitation in my thought process.
Harry Reid is a partisan hack who’s nearly as “ethically challenged” as the Clintoons. No one in their right mind takes anything he has to say seriously.
What he can’t admit is that Americans are fed up with 8 years of socialist economic mismanagement that has caused the US economy to tank, bottoming 3 years ago employment-wise – and stay there ever since. Any political party that oversees such a sustained economic debacle deserves to be thrown out on its ear.
Harry Reid? Fahk’heem. Enjoy retirement, you irrelevant and asinine jackass.
All I want for Christmas is for whoever smashed Harry Reid’s fucking face in (Mormon Mafia?) comes back and finish the job…
(Disclaimer for the litigious: the above is what’s called a “joke”, not an actual incitement to violence…)
I merely wish that Harry Reid would simply finish drying up and blow away in a cloud of dust.
I would never hurt Harry. But neither would I piss on him if he were burning!
Isn’t that old gasbag retiring soon, or something? Or is he so dumb that he can’t even leave with what little dignity he can muster?
After going through numbers twice a day, yesterday had the writing on the wall
Their is nothing close about the numbers, the Dem’s seem to be stuck in third gear like the republicans
You take out New York and California and Trump beat the crap out of Hillary in the popular vote too
Talk about a beat down it wasn’t even close blame who ever you want…
People are and have been feed up. People hear to blame is nothing more then the DNC
talk about putting all your eggs in one basket.
Eliminate the fraudulent votes in urban areas as well and Trump won in a landslide, let’s not forget that CA’s moonbat Governor signed a bill allowing ILLEGAL ALIENS to vote.
Illegals can’t vote. http://www.snopes.com/california-motor-voter-act/
Whether they can legally is irrelevant, that fact that they did is.
Any proof from someone not named Alex Jones? Trump won in a legal and fair election, and the sooner the sore losers (and winners, apparently) accept it, the better off we’ll be.
Neither in general can convicted felons in most states, D.
Ask two guys named Coleman and Franken if that mattered very much in Minnesota in 2008.
Well, ask Coleman. I doubt Franken would answer the question honestly.
Yeah, Franken thought he was good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, he had a big enough platoon of lawyers to keep suing and steal the election!
Wonder how many of MacAuliffe’s felons helped carry Virginia?
He reportedly qualified at least 60K plus who were previously barred by their felony convictions.
AFAIK that didn’t make much of a difference, as only around 21k actually bothered to go to the polls. Living in the SW part of the state, I doubt many of them voted for Hillary either.
You don’t need those two states removed, Skippy. Remove two freaking counties from consideration – LA County, CA, and Cook County, IL – from the national totals and Trump is more than 1M ahead in the popular vote total.
Those two counties EACH gave a plurality of votes to Clintoon of over 1M votes out of somewhat more than 2M total votes cast.
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/
I’m reasonably sure NYC did the same or more as well – I’d guess Clintoon’s margin over Trump in NYC was probably closer to 2M votes. However, I haven’t been able to find the appropriate data for NYC yet.
At least one of those two locations (Cook County) is well-known for corrupt elections – as I recall, the phrase “vote early, vote often” was coined about Chicago voting. And in LA County, as I wrote in an earlier article there are documented instances of blatant attempted voter fraud – as in over 80 “mail in ballots”, all for different individuals, being sent to the address of a small apartment where only one individual lived.
I don’t know if we have 1M fraudulent votes nationwide or not. But I wouldn’t be shocked to find that the true total of outright fraudulent and/or questionably legit votes was in that range nationwide. LBJ proved in 1948 that “manufacturing” 35,000 or more votes was do-able in South Texas alone. So an organized effort nationwide could quite possibly IMO yield 30x that many.
Numbers (with a lot of rounding):
61 percent of Americans voted
Half of them voted Hillary (really less then half, but I am rounding)
So 30.5 percent of voters voted for Hillary.
Which means over 2 thirds of Americans did not want or vote for her.
So how the dems think she was wanted by “most” of Americans I can not figure.
Then again I am one of those uneducated white men; so what do I know?
Last time I checked, 47.5% doesn’t even count as “most” of the votes cast for POTUS. Most means “more than half”.
As usual, Clintoon’s supporters are “bending the truth”. Yet again.
it looks like Trump won the “popular vote” after all is counted.
It was a thrashing.
The day after the election, my wife asked me if I was happy Trump won. I answered: “No. But I’m ecstatic Hillary lost.”
And that pretty much sums up my feelings. Trump wasn’t my first choice, or second, or twelfth. I had many concerns about his fitness for office, and still do. But in ending the vile Hillary Clinton’s political career he has performed a genuine public service.
I hope Trump surprises me and turns out to be a better president than I expected. Whatever the case, I will simply continue serving my country as best I can, which I’ve been doing in one form or another for pretty much my entire adult life.
If your patriotism and love of country are contingent on which candidate won the most recent election or which party occupies the White House, then you’re not really a patriot at all. You’re just a partisan hack.
^^^^^ This^^^^^
^^^Yes!!!^^^
Are you saying Michelle 0bama is a partisan hack?
How dare you?
To the gulag!
HEAR, HEAR!!
And the recriminations, fear-mongering, and general bullshit continues unabated on the left. How hard is it for them to look at voter participation numbers? How many voters (not *participating* voters, *total* voters) voted for her? Something like 30% or less.
The reason Das Hildabeast lost is quite simple: the overwhelming majority of Americans, including democrat voters (unless there really are far fewer of them than we’ve been led to believe) don’t want that evil bitch to be their president.
The same is true of Trump, of course. Roughly 100 million American voters didn’t want either of them. Anyone ignoring that number is an idiot.
Nobody won the popular vote. Nobody even came close. The greatest consensus was “None of the above.” Trump won according to the rules. He will be the 45th President. Personally, I can think of at least a dozen candidates I’d rather see being sworn in to the highest office, but they didn’t win. The best of them didn’t even run. But at least we’re spared the disaster of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
TOW. I guess I’m an idiot, then, because I don’t see that 100 million registered voters didn’t want either one so they didn’t vote. Many were too lazy to get their dead asses out and vote. There were other candidates and issues on the ballot than the choice of president. Also, some folks, believing the polls and media, either said, “My girl Hillary will win. I don’t have to vote for her” or “That POS Clinton will win so why vote for Trump?”
My point is that voter turnout was exceptionally low. That doesn’t happen with popular candidates. You’re certainly right about some being too lazy, and third-parties always take a few votes, but many looked at the election and said “Fuck ’em both.”
Consider the huge turnout everyone saw at the polls, yet remarkably few votes cast in the presidential election. I’m guessing there’s a sizable number of people who cast their vote in other races this time around, but refused to check a box in the POTUS column.
Trump may pleasantly surprise me yet, but I don’t have high hopes.
Voter turnout wasn’t off that much, TOW. In fact, in absolute terms more people voted this year for POTUS than in 2012 – though not enough to account for population growth.
Nate Silver’s 538 site has a good article and graphic on the matter. As of approx 3PM on Fri, 11 Nov, US voter turnout (percentage of eligible voters that voted) was approx 57%. That’s lower than in the past 3 elections – but per the chart he includes with his article, it’s higher than in 6 out of the previous 10 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1996). And the recent peak voter turnout in a Presidential election year (2008} was far below the 1800s historical highs (over 80% in several elections during the 1800s), and was even lower than the turnout in 3 consecutive elections roughly 50 years ago (1960/64/68 all had higher turnout than 2008).
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/voter-turnout-fell-especially-in-states-that-clinton-won/
Bottom line: voter turnout in the US over time waxes and wanes. And giving Silver’s chart a quick “eyeball trendline” check, the trend over the past 100 years seems to have been roughly flat – with about what we saw this year for turnout (around 57%) representing the 100-year trend.
~ 121.3 million voted in the presidential election. That’s about 5.5 million fewer than 2012 when ~ 126.8 million voted at a 54.9% turnout. In backwards order from 2012, turnout has been: 54.9%, 58.2%, 56.7%, 51.2%, 49.0%, 55.2%, 50.2%, 53.3%, 52.6%.
The last two are Reagan’s elections, with 1980 @ 52.6% and 1984 @ 53.3%. The highest participation level was Obama’s 2008 win @ 58.2%.
Some slightly different figures here.
Historically the turnout has hovered between 50% and 55% since the 1972 election with 2008 the greatest exception. It would appear that this year’s election was within the historical norm.
Food for thought.
While around 122 M voted for either Trump or Clintoon in this election, another 7+ M voted for other candidates. The vote total for POTUS this year is approaching 130M, and the complete tally still hasn’t been reached.
I read somewhere before I left for work tonight that Trump now has passed Hillary in total votes across the country. Haven’t had the chance to check that claim out yet.
“But in ending the vile Hillary Clinton’s political career he has performed a genuine public service.” Excellent way to put it. I’m using that.
Indeed
Forgot Gannet who owns the Dallas morning news and the AZ Republic has taken a epic bearing in readership and advertising. Nobody to blame but themselves and they seem HELL bent on continuing
The same sloppy reporting.. this would be a good reason why you don’t let 300 plus news papers become one. They become a mouth piece for failed bankrupt ideas
Beating and not bearing
Nothing but nothing will dampen my absolute joy at having seen Wide Load stopped cold, beaten, defeated. The additional pleasure I take in reading the reactions of the horrified Left really ought to be illegal. It’s that good.
It could get better, if all of her donors who thought they were buying access start demanding their money back.
Think of it, BJ and Wideload in a double wide, Chelsea having to survive on any money her husband could make. Chelsea having to sell off the $10 Million apartment.
You mean Chelsea suddenly LOSING her what, $600K job she got right out of college and making what the average grad in that degree makes? OH, THE schadenfreude!!!
This election means that there will be a West Virginia for at least four more years. Coal. It’s not just for stockings any more.
Sorry to go on a rant here, but…
Look, my heart goes out to all the miners, but it’s really time to take old coal out behind the shed and put it out of its misery. Artificially trying to keep it alive through government intervention will do more harm than good in the long run. Personally, I’m all for nuclear, but at the moment natural gas is all the rage and probably will be for the foreseeable future. essentially bailing out coal, like trump wants to, would just devalue gas and cost jobs on that side of the market.
Agreed, sir!
Po Hillary, she gets blamed for everything she does.
Sooner or later, teflon gets scratched…
And it doesn’t get repaired. It get thrown out.
Even scratched, Teflon deserves more respect than Hillary.
Harry Reid is a dickless ass hat. The Democratic Party will never be the same and that is good for several reasons. Neither will the Republican party and that is also good.
“Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America.”
I am white but not a racist or misogynist. The tears of fear they are shedding is because they fear they will no longer be able to shove their own turds down America’s throat, unopposed. People who have been silent, will hopefully start calling bullshit on them and their half witted ideas without their own fear of being labeled as whatever label is offered for not eating the shit served up to them.
If this election does anything for this nation, I pray it will bring the death kneel for the social justice warriors who hold themselves as the enlightened elite and the dictators of all that we should believe, accept and kowtow to. Or face their wrath. It is time for sanity and common sense to have their day again.
I hope Trump will be a good President but I guarantee, the worst he might do will be better than the best Hillary Clinton had planned for us.
“All of this disproves the idea, which we and everyone else have espoused early and often, that Trump’s path to victory was narrow. It wasn’t. It was broad. We were wrong. The polls were wrong. We fundamentally misunderstood this election. We thought Hillary Clinton might be winning red states. But Donald Trump won blue states.” Washington Post.
Notice the wording, “which we and everyone else espoused….” Everyone? They still don’t get it. They never will get it.
To them, ‘everyone’ means the other LSM and democrats. The rest of us don’t meet the ‘standard’ they set to be included in ‘everyone’. But there were more of us in the US than there were of ‘everyone’.
I found this article written on another blog, an article which takes a deeper look at what drove people to NOT elect Clinton and NOT kneel down to politics-as-usual.
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231656
I grew up in small town America, in the middle of farmland. While the author of the article emphasized the loss of many of the very things that form the more general voting population, he focused on the simple fact that small town America is viewed with enormous disdain, and has been for some time, by the media. The ‘flyover’country somehow does not count for anything. As he says, if you look at the state maps, the RED counties far outnumber the blue, even in states that have a ‘blue’/DEM total.
And he’s right. I do not agree, however, that they have lost their voice in the process of the election itself. It’s that they have been ignored, that jobs once counted on have vanished, that the very thing we used to call the ‘backbone of America’ has been tossed aside to focus on only urban-dwelling populations.
The disconnect between the Democrats and people who might otherwise have supported them developed a chink some time back, maybe during the Clinton years, and the crack has widened.
It’s not even about the popular vote. It’s about being ignored as inconsequential, not offering any solutions to grinding unemployment, and not emphasizing what Trump addressed, because – well, I guess it was just SO 1950s or something.
Trump did address those things. Hillary just made grand statements and then went off in her jet.
Years ago, I worked for a colonel who told me that the scariest words in the English language are, “Well, I may be just a dumb country boy, but…”
The arrogant urbanites ignore and disdain “flyover country” at their own risk. Especially now that the elites can’t control and spoon feed information to the populace.
The internet did one very, very revolutionary and wonderful thing. It exploded the information dam. Now, the boys and girls in New York and LA can’t decide (through the evening news) what’s “important” for the country to hear.
They may still be able to try and bullshit and lie, but with much less success than before.
They cannot do that now…thank the Lord. Making my colonel’s fearsome phrase even more frightening.
With that in mind, I saw part of the 60 Minutes interview with Trump tonight. Leslie Stahl asked Trump if he would continue to use twitter. Trump talked about using Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as part of his campaign this year. Slightly tongue in cheek, he said he would when the media didn’t report the news factually. I almost think I heard a shudder in the newsrooms and stations around the country as they realized he had a very quick way to go directly to the people and bypass the media, and that he would call them on it when they reported BS.
Awesome.
I firmly believe that Trump is going to surprise the hell out of EVERYBODY. He’ll probably piss a lot of people off, but he’s going to get shit DONE.
His opponents will be like Steve McQueen’s character at the end of “The Sand Pebbles.” “What the hell happened?!”
Some would mark that “chink” as NAFTA.
“Hillary just made grand statements and then went off in her jet.”
Flying into the sunset, singing, “Happy Trails to me, until we meet again …”
I’d bet money that Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton will face off in 2020.
MMA?
Pistols at 2 feet.
FRAGS at 2 feet. It’s the only way to be sure …
If this is for one of those tiger-cage, death-match, no-holds-barred things, I’m in. Put me down for $20 on the Mooch.
And Elizabeth Warren
Please god make it so.
Personally, I think the first woman President should be a Republican, not another Democrat.
I still like Carly Fiorina. She is a scrapper.
Me, too.
Chelsea would not have a chance against Michelle. Obama would wipe the floor with her.
The local talking heads here are already making statements of how they are looking forward to Moochelle running in 2020. I have not heard Chelsea’s name mentioned, yet. Neither have they mentioned Liawatha.
Ultimate Surrender?
?
Welcome to Thunderdome.
God help us if we as a country go that low
Speaking of West “By God” Virginia, I see that Senatora Manchin has taken Reid to task for his idiotic reaction to the election. You know, Joe. He endorsed Clinton. His endorsement made a difference: Trump got a few more votes in WV because of it. He was a pro-2nd A guy. Shot a rifle on a TV commercial to prove it. After he won election, he co-sponsored another gun-control bill and opposed West Virginia’s recognition of a constitutional right to carry a concealed firearm w/o first getting a permit to exercise that right. So, Joe is trying to score some points now that he sees what the hell happened. It won’t work.
Manchin also made noises about leaving the Democrats if they lost the Senate again.
Lemme guess: that noise sounded very much like the bass staccato after eating a healthy bowl of beans.
Reid is a lame duck, so it’s an easy time to fire away at the “prince of darkness”. Normally, Senate Dems are so frightened of Reid, that they don’t even dare to squeak out a fart w/o his permission.
Latest two-liner joke I just read on-line.
Still laughing my azz off.
“You’re telling me that I’m losing my job because Donald Trump won the election? WHY, BECAUSE I’M BLACK?!”
“Mister President, we’ve been over this…”
I was with many here in that I had an ABC (Anyone But Clinton) mindset and was shocked about teh Donald winning. I figure that he has two years to get things turning around, until the 2018 midterms – if things go good, the majorities in the House and Senate stay or increase, if not then the door opens for the donks/commicrats to regain power in both.
BTW – Sid Vicious is spewing his hate again via a conspiracy – and he doesn’t understand the meaning of a coup d’etat:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/sidney-blumenthal-right-wing-fbi-agents-took-down-hillary-in-a-coup-detat-video/
John:
You scare me….
We need to sit down and have a beer one day. Solve the world problems or at least laugh at our stories…
V/R
MMCM(SW)
The Clinton campaign simply screwed up. They went for the blow out instead of focusing on a strategy to win 270. Their message was Trump is unsuitable over and over instead of realizing that’s not important or believable to those the govt turned their backs on over the last eight years. The basket of deplorables was Clintons ‘47% don’t pay taxes’ moment.
The idiots stopped running in ads in PA, VA and other states; and then scrambled to catch up in the final week when they realized Trump was gaining momentum. And I’m happy they were so incompetent.
They now cry about the emails, but Trump had the videos, tax returns and other baggage as well. Fact is, they simply lost the election due to piss poor planning and execution. One pundit may have been most accurate in saying the Dems nominated the only candidate Donald Trump could beat.
“(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/10/16) – The Council on American-Islamic-Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on President-elect Donald Trump to repudiate alleged attacks on Muslim students at universities in Louisiana and California reportedly by some of his supporters.
A Muslim student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette was attacked two men, one of whom was wearing a hat emblazoned with “Trump.”
In California, a student who was wearing an Islamic head scarf (hijab) was confronted by two men who made comments about President-elect Trump and Muslims.”
That’s still up on CAIR’s website, despite the fact that the first story is unadulterated bullshit, completely fabricated. As for the second, tough shit. Someone allegedly made comments? Give me an ever-lovin’ break. Oh, and the Muslim Brotherhood is not happy that Wide Load failed, was beaten, defeated.
“Oh, and the Muslim Brotherhood is not happy that Wide Load failed, was beaten, defeated”. Rumor has it that Ant’ney Weiner and his bride, Huma Abedin, are in hiding. Perhaps they’re looking to get into the Witness Protection Program?
A recent observation about the New York Times by somebody who worked there is that it’s unlike other major papers in how stories are handled. At the Los Angeles Times, for example, reporters are sent out to cover a story and build a narrative from the facts gathered. At the NYT, there’s apparently more of a tendency among editors to decide on the narrative, and then have reporters gather facts to support it.
Hillary is going to be the first woman president, go find out why that is true.
Something interesting to consider is that just after the end of Obama’s first term is when the Hillary 2016 campaign started to get traction. It also happens to be the time when Jill Abramson was the first woman Executive Editor of the NYT, and somebody who wanted the paper to become more “cosmopolitan.” If the Hillary narrative was established then, it might have been hard to change direction once it got going.
My Priest opened this can this morning and I was wondering if I was going to have to walk out. Nooooo! Without mentioning names he clearly voted for Trump because of abortion, lies, national security, and more. He then took on the protests saying that they could protest all they want but if they touch the flag, then it is game on because he was an AF vet and then pointed out other vets in the congregation and then started the Pledge of Allegiance in the middle of his homily! He got a standing ovation!
Catholic congregations are usually Lib and this one is not an exception. Homily’s are usually staid and his are always are. Not today…it was more tent revival. I was overwhelmed by this. He didn’t have a word written down but I hope it was recorded.
Here’s the short list of everything the democrats have blamed losing the election on:
FBI Director Comey
Facebook/ Mark Zuckerberg
White People
Black People
Hispanic People
White Women
Independents
Jill Stein
Gary Johnson
Bernie Sanders
and that’s just to name a few. If you Google it, you can find headlines from the left-leaning media blaming every single one of these.
Where’s Weiner on that list?
Yeah.
Clinton’s emails on a pedophiles’ computer, who, by the way, was married to her top aide.
Gee – looks like they blamed everything except their nominee, who (1) was carrying more ethical baggage than a 747 does luggage, and (2) wanted to continue the inane, failed economic policies of the last 8 years. But of course, neither of those could possibly be part of the problem.
There’s a video going around on facebook of a British journalist who absolutely nails it. I couldn’t find it on youtube, but I’ll post it to the TAH fb page.
http://www.chicksontheright.com/you-must-watch-this-british-journalist-go-off-on-bewildered-leftists-surprised-by-trump/
The video is in the link. Absolutely correct!
Disclaimer: NSFW!!!
Way, way, way Not Safe For Work!
Awesome.
“…(1) was carrying more ethical baggage than a 747 does luggage,…”
More like “…carrying more ethical baggage than a C5 does cargo and personnel…”
They forgot the infamous Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Hillary has been banging on about for over 20 years now.
Democrat party will forever be the party of firsts after Obama. They will run a gay candidate in 4 years. If you don’t agree you are once again a bigot, homophobe, racist, sexist, hate filled, deplorable, etc.
MSM is dead to me. I’ll never believe them again or give them my attention. That also includes Fox News which did the same thing as all of other cable news networks purposefully campaign against trump and smear him. I will never forget.
I fear for Trump’s life. It’s been him against the world and I don’t think they won’t try something.
So many people didn’t like either candidate that a dead gorilla got 15,000 votes
Ah, the Supreme Court. There’s the Justice Scalia seat to be filled. After that, it’s a waiting game. Ginsburg, although she looks like she was born during the Spanish-American war, will be 84 next birthday. Breyer will be 79. Kennedy will be 81. That’s some age. I’m hoping at least one of them will retire sooner than later. If not, well, there are two other ways to vacate a seat and one of the two is highly unlikely.
I’ll just leave this here. Perhaps by Christmas, they’ll get a grip on reality. There can be only one winner, and their candidate lost.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-victory-sparks-mental-health-crisis-among-dejected-dems/
Someone let me know when they grow up. I simply can’t pay attention to them any more. I have stuff to do.