Chicago Cubs are being forced to give up their World Series title.
Cleveland Indians fans have rioted across the country in protest of the 2016 World Series. Despite knowing the rules of the game prior to playing, they were unhappy they lost and demanded the outcome to be changed. They could be heard chanting “Not Our World Series Champion” all across America.
Even though the Cubs won 4 games and the Indians only won 3, since the Indians scored more total runs throughout all 7 games, they are being declared World Co-Champions.
When questioned, Commissioner Manfred stated, “We felt as though it was the right thing to do for the nation. What kind of example would Major League Baseball be setting if we expected the adults who play this game, and their fans, to gracefully accept defeat? Instead of creating a bigger divide between the Cubs and Indians, MLB is confident that the Cubs will gladly share their victory with the Indians.
The editor of my book, Dennis Copson, Major, USMC (Ret) , a regular contributor to this blog, and an Ezine Expert Author — to whom I spoke to in the wee hours of this morning as Donald was being lauded for his win when PA went into his column, sent me this via email. It’s disgusting and should be of interest to anyone that watched TV News. They should carry a disclaimer up front stating: ” Caution For Entertainment Only.” Considering all the Hollywood types, self-professed celebrities, elected types from both sides of aisle, pollsters, and all the MSM, including TV, radio, and print — she LOST! But, it still “ain’t” over, the fat lady’s not struck up a tune yet, and maybe she never will. From what I saw on TV today, the liberals have no intention of coming to the middle aisle and shaking hands.; they still don’t get it. and I wonder if they ever will. “The Don” may have to lead with a big stick!
Liberal journalists are biggest losers in Trump victory
To most journalists, the election of Donald Trump is Mourning in America. Trump won despite a massive effort by the liberal media establishment to discredit and destroy him, and they were still at it early Wednesday morning, even as it became obvious that they’d utterly failed to derail his candidacy.
On CBS, Slate columnist Jamelle Bouie painted the anti-Washington wave that carried Trump to victory as a racist “push-back against the advancement of African-Americans, of Hispanics, of women, of Muslim-Americans.”
On MSNBC, co-anchor Rachel Maddow also played the race card: “I’m thinking about President Obama too. I mean, to have the first African American President succeeded by a guy who was endorsed by the KKK….it’s a big deal.”
The networks spent far more airtime airing the details of Trump’s controversies than trying to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for her scandals. The GOP nominee was slammed as embodying “the politics of fear,” a “dangerous” and “vulgar” “misogynistic bully” who had insulted vast swaths of the American electorate. Reporters also bluntly called out Trump for lying in his public remarks in a way they never did with Clinton, despite her own robust record of false statements.
It wasn’t just TV of course; this anti-Trump attitude permeated elite journalistic circles. Go back to May 4, when Trump clinched the GOP nomination by knocking off Ted Cruz and John Kasich in the Indiana primary. The gang on CBS This Morning greeted RNC chairman Reince Preibus with a copy of the New York Daily News; co-host Charlie Rose laughingly read him the headline: “It says, ‘Republican Party 1854-2016; Dearly beloved, we’re gathered here today to mourn the GOP. A once great political party killed by epidemic of Trump.’”
Co-host Gayle King helpfully added: “There’s an elephant, Reince, in a coffin, just to make the picture really clear for you.”
Over the next six months, the Trump bashing reached epic levels. On MSNBC, host Lawrence O’Donnell derided Trump as an “imbecile candidate,” while NPR’s Bob Garfield slammed him for “racism, xenophobia, misogyny, incitement, breathtaking ignorance on issues, both foreign and domestic, and a nuclear recklessness, reminiscent of a raving meth head with a machete on an episode of Cops.”
CBS Sunday Morning contributor Nancy Giles, on MSNBC in June, speculated that Trump was “clinically insane.” MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski floated the same smear in late August: “It’s time to hear from somebody in the mental health community…There’s not anybody at this table who doesn’t think he has some sort of problem.”
ABC permitted left-wing author and MSNBC analyst Michael Eric Dyson to appear on This Week in June to claim Trump’s “nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism that wreaks terror on the American democratic experiment.” Over on CNN, journalist Carl Bernstein agreed that Trump’s coalition “includes an awful lot of bigots and nativist and a lot of hateful people.”
“What’s the worst-case scenario for America if he [Donald Trump] wins?” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow mused to Rolling Stone, just days before co-anchoring her network’s coverage of the GOP convention. “I’ve been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor….I think that’s possibly where we are.”
The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik, appearing on HBO’s Real Time in September, suggested the end of American democracy: “American democracy will be in greater danger than it’s been since 1860, if Donald Trump were elected president.”
On CBS following the second presidential debate, ex-Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer was disdainful: “I just hope to God I don’t see another campaign like this one. America can do better than what we have seen here tonight. This was just disgraceful….This was WrestleMania, this wasn’t about presidential politics….I think Donald Trump gets most of the blame here.”
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation on October 16, former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham sneered: “To paraphrase Henry Adams, the movement from George H. W. Bush to Donald Trump disproves Darwin.”
The anti-Trump venom was welcomed by a number of leading journalists, who openly lobbied their brethren to drop any pretense of objectivity and become full-throated anti-Trump partisans.
Back on August 8, in an obvious signal to campaign journalists, the New York Times published a front-page “news analysis” by media writer Jim Rutenberg suggesting objectivity was impossible if reporters believed “Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes.”
Rutenberg offered a conscience-clearing get-out-of-jail free card for reporters who wanted to tilt the scales: “It is journalism’s job to be true to the readers and viewers, and true to the facts, in a way that will stand up to history’s judgment. To do anything less would be untenable.”
In a piece for Time.com, Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos echoed Rutenberg: “If a candidate is making racist and sexist remarks, we cannot hide in the principle of neutrality. That’s a false equivalence.”
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank agreed: “In an ordinary presidential campaign, press neutrality is essential. But in Trump….attempting neutrality legitimized the illegitimate.”
You don’t have to be a Trump fan to see this kind of thinking as a dangerous corruption of the news media’s role in our system. Reporters are supposed to supply honest and balanced information about both candidates, and then voters get to decide which is the better choice. Throwing those rules away means either that journalists have no faith in voters to select the “correct” candidate, or arrogantly presume to make the choice themselves.
Journalism’s own credibility appears to be the final casualty of reporters’ over-the-top campaign bias. According to a USA Today poll released October 26: “By nearly 10-1, all those surveyed say the news media, including major newspapers and TV stations, would like to see Clinton rather than Trump elected. That includes 82 percent of Trump supporters and 74 percent of Clinton supporters.”
An Associated Press poll found the same 10-to-1 perception of an anti-Trump bias in the media: “Overall, 56 percent of likely voters say the media is biased against Trump, just 5 percent say it’s biased in his favor.”
Now that Trump has won, journalists need to recognize that their unprecedented attempt to destroy a presidential candidate has resulted in serious, perhaps permanent damage to their credibility.
Rich Noyes, is research director for the Media Research Center.
As he does every year at this time, Bob Parsons produces a tribute to our beloved Corps on her birthday, and to members of all the other services in honor of the day after, Veterans Day! Sit back and enjoy!
While the MSM provided zip for coverage of this event, it was significant for several reasons, not the least of which is where it took place. After all, Gettysburg is the site at which the Civil War then took a winning course. That location, or hallowed ground, then serves as the historical basis for Republicanism and what that means to the Republic. The idea was that, just as Lincoln, Trump could stake out and mark his platform as the cornerstone of his forthcoming Administration just as those who historically admire Lincoln could point to Gettysburg as his turning point.
What a shame the MSM gave it little attention, even FOX let it go. My assumption is that the idiots running the MSM could not put two and two together and come up with four. Historians they are not!
You can’t get it more plain than this:
DONALD J. TRUMP CONTRACT WITH THE AMERICAN VOTER
What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between myself and the American voter – and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington
Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:
FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);
THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;
FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service;
FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
On the same day, I will begin taking the following 7 actions to protect American workers: ·FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205 ·SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership ·THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator ·FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately ·FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. ·SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward ·SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure
Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law: ·FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama ·SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States ·THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities ·FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back ·FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.
Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:
Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.
End The Offshoring Act Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.
American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.
School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to gives parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local
communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.
Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.
Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-site childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.
End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.
Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.
Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values
Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.
On November 8th, Americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.
This is my pledge to you. And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by, and for the people.
OMG, you have to feel sorry for our neighbors to the north.
The flood of Trump-fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week. The Republican presidential campaign is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray, pay taxes, and live according to the Constitution.
Canadian border residents say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, liberal arts majors, global-warming activists, and “green” energy proponents crossing their fields at night.
“I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn,” said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. “He was cold, exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn’t have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?”
In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just stuck their fingers in their ears and kept coming. Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals just south of the border, pack them into electric cars, and drive them across the border, where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.
“A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions,” an Alberta border patrolman said. “I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier water, or any gemelli with shrimp and arugula. All they had was a nice little Napa Valley Cabernet and some kale chips. When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often wailing that they fear persecution from Trump high-hairers.
Rumors are circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer, study the Constitution, and find jobs that actually contribute to the economy.
In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the ’50s.
“If they can’t identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age,” an official said.
Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, are buying up all the Barbara Streisand CD’s, and are overloading the internet while downloading jazzercise apps to their cell phones.
“I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can’t support them,” an Ottawa resident said. “After all, how many art-history majors does one country need?
