MSNBC is moving reverend and talk-show host Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation to Sundays, network president Phil Griffin said in a memo on Wednesday. Its last weekday airing will be on Sept. 4.
“After four terrific years – or as Reverend Sharpton said, ‘a full first term’ – PoliticsNation is ready for its next chapter. Beginning on Sunday, October 4, the show will move to Sunday mornings at 8:00 am,” Griffin wrote.
The show has aired at 6 pm ET on weekdays and will now move from five days a week to one day a week.
Even those who aren’t going to church are not watching TV at 8 a.m. on Sunday.
We all thought Carly did a great job the first time around and deserved to be in the top tier for the next debate. The lib media and Republican establishment think otherwise.
They’re both determined to make Bush the nominee, but for different reasons.
“The deputy campaign manager of Carly Fiorina’s presidential effort said she feels “very confident” that CNN and the Republican National Committee will keep the former Hewlett-Packard CEO off the debate stage on September 16 despite her rising popularity.
“I think CNN and the RNC have made it very clear that they have every intention of doing that,” the staffer, Sarah Isgur Flores, told Bloomberg Wednesday. “I feel very confident that they’re going to do that.”
Flores, a former RNC aide, also wrote in an entry on Fiorina’s Medium account Wednesday that “the political establishment is still rigging the game to keep Carly off the main debate stage next month” because CNN will use polls from before the Republican field’s first debates on August 6 to determine who qualifies for its debate.
Fiorina’s widely praised performance in a “candidate forum” that night helped propel her polling numbers, but the inclusion of the earlier polls and the paucity of more recent polls could keep the only woman in the 17-candidate Republican field from appearing on the debate stage.”
“The first GOP presidential candidate to go to war publicly with the Republican National Committee is not Donald Trump. It’s Carly Fiorina.
Faced with the very real possibility that she will again be relegated to a lower-tier debate, Fiorina’s campaign is going after the RNC and the news organization the committee picked to host the next debate, CNN.
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What has ensued is a tense back-and-forth, with Fiorina’s camp charging that the RNC should be doing more to ensure that the debate stage represents the true top 10 candidates, and the RNC saying tough luck, the rules are set.
Fiorina, the only female candidate in the GOP field, has surged in the polls since a widely praised performance in the “happy hour” debate earlier this month. But she has a problem: There haven’t been enough polls to catapult Fiorina from 14th place, where she stood going into that debate, into the top 10 ranking for CNN’s Sept. 16 debate.”
“That’s because CNN — unlike Fox News, which used only the final five polls released before its debate — outlined criteria this spring in which it said it would average the results of polls released between July 16 and Sept. 10. And of the 10 polls that currently qualify for inclusion in CNN’s average, eight were conducted before the first debate.”
Good piece on what happened at Trump’s news conference yesterday. I’m old school and can’t stand it when political activists try to pass as journalists. This guy obviously has his own political agenda to push, he couldn’t care less about doing the work of a real journalist.
That said, and as insufferable and rude as he was/is, Trump was right to let him back into the conference later.
” … Ramos has a history of combativeness. In an interview last year, he told President Obama that ‘you have destroyed families’ by not easing deportations sooner and that the president was known as the deporter-in-chief. Does that sound like a journalist or an advocate?
“At a House presser that year, Ramos demanded to know why John Boehner was ‘blocking’ action on immigration reform and urged him to call a vote, saying: ‘You can do it, Mr. Speaker.’ Journalist or advocate?”
“Jorge Ramos may be the award-winning celebrity anchor of Univision’s premier news broadcast, but “the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic News” long ago revealed himself to be less a journalist than another perpetually indignant immigration activist. His devolution into outright heckler was only a matter of time.
It would be difficult to overstate Ramos’s immigration radicalism. When Central American children were pouring over the border last summer, Ramos announced as a solution, “First, we treat children like children, as if they were our own.” When, in their 2012 interview, Newt Gingrich told Ramos, “I’m not going to let you define what ‘immigration reform’ is,” Ramos replied, “It’s very simple: to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants.” And when, last November, President Obama lawlessly granted amnesty to some 5 million of those immigrants, Ramos touted the measure as “a triumph for the Latino community.”
Since coming to the United States in the early 1980s, immigration has been Ramos’s pet cause. “It’s personal,” he has said. Indeed. The development of Ramos’s career has been largely the playing out on national television of his own immigration monomania.
Mingled with Ramos’s open contempt for the rule of law (he rejects any effort to secure the border as “right-wing”) is the self-righteousness of the professional partisan. “Don’t be neutral,” Ramos advised University of Southern California graduates in May. “Neutrality is for referees in a football game.” He encouraged them to be “fighters,” something he himself has taken to heart: “The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war,” he told Politico’s Dylan Byers. “I get the sense that we’ve forgotten that here in the United States.” Thus, to the Los Angeles Times: “My only weapon is the question.”
So much fatuous self-congratulation would be easier to endure were it not complemented by so much disingenuousness. For example, to Time’s Michael Scherer last November: “I am a registered Independent. I would never say [for] whom I vote. I would never pressure anyone to vote for one party or another. That would be way too much.” That level of fraud takes cojones.”
“One out of about every twelve newborns in the United States is an anchor baby, or the U.S.-born child of illegal migrants, according to a Pew Research Center study.
This means that one anchor baby is delivered every 93 seconds, based on the 2008 census data analyzed by the Pew.
The huge number of foreign children born on U.S. soil– roughly 340,000 per year— is also an economic imposition on Americans, who pay taxes to help raise, feed, and educate those children of illegal migrants.
Eventually, those 340,000 U.S.-born foreign children can join the U.S. workforce and compete for wages against the roughly four million children of U.S. parents that enter the slow-growing U.S. economy each year.
Only 28 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that children born to illegal migrants in this country should automatically be American citizens, according to a 2011 Rasmussen Reports survey. In fact, the proposal is so unpopular that even Jeb Bush, who favors large-scale immigration, has criticized pregnant foreigners who grab citizenship for their kids by flying into the country posing as tourists. Bush described the practice as “fraud,” and asserted that, “Frankly, it’s more related to Asian people coming into our country — having children in that organized effort, taking advantage of a noble concept, which is birthright citizenship”
The growing industry of “birth tourism” is so large that even California’s government recently cracked down on the illegal — but rarely suppressed— trade.”
Bush is inevitable? You sound like my neighbor who is convinced the “next” president (a female, she is convinced) already has been secretly chosen by the powers that be who determine these things all behind the scenes. I’m not quite that cynical yet. Primary season still looms, remember. .
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August 27, 2015: By focusing so much on the candidates, consultants, and donors in political coverage, it’s easy to overlook the most important element in the political process—the voters. And at a time when Washington has prospered but much of the country has struggled, it’s easy to forget just how disaffected the American electorate is. For nearly all of the past decade, Americans have consistently believed that the country was headed in the wrong direction and have grown alienated from their elected leaders. …
“So it’s no surprise that this year’s presidential campaign has been as unpredictable as ever. That happens when voters feel that government isn’t working for them, and they’ve been feeling that way for nearly 10 straight years. In past elections during times of voter alienation, the unexpected happens …
“This is why the expectations of a Jeb Bush-Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential election never made much sense—it couldn’t be more disconnected with voter sentiment. Bush’s candidacy still hasn’t captured the imagination of most GOP voters, and the Democrats’ unification behind a Clinton campaign was as much a reaction to the lack of younger, up-and-coming successors to Obama as it was to genuine grassroots enthusiasm for the former secretary of State. At a time when anti-Washington, antiestablishment feelings are near all-time highs, why would both parties nominate candidates with political bloodlines who’ve benefited from their family connections? All the campaign money in the world can’t change fundamental vulnerabilities. It shouldn’t be too surprising that Donald Trump—not to mention all the outsider candidates, such as Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina—are surging in national polls. …”
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Bush, despite all his $$$$, is not doing well with so-called ‘moderate,’ rank-and-file Republicans OR with independents. That could change, but it seems unlikely to me. Voters want to move on from the past. And the caucuses and primaries will still determine the eventual nominees for both parties.
The American college Chevalier is back in California–where he appeared wearing a dress shirt and tie yesterday as he was given a hockey shirt. Turns out his father is the pastor of a church in Sacramento. The National Guard soldier is a member of a Lutheran church in Oregon and he met the Airman hero at a Christian elementary school.
michelle, I heard the dad interviewed by phone on a cable news show several days ago and he mentioned God’s sovereignty. Don’t hear that too often.
On the activist/reporter: I heard him being interviewed last night on Kelly’s show and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. He wasn’t – isn’t a reporter at all, he’s an activist who is blinded by his own cause and trying to push it where ever he goes.
As much as possible, reporters should leave their own biases and viewpoints at the door when they’re at work. We will all see things through a different lens (and ask different questions and emphasize different points as a result). But we’re there to report the news, to report what’s being said — not to push whatever might be our own pet causes.
Wandering Views 
I haven’t even heard the news on the radio yet.
So? Everything is right with the world.
So far.
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Drudge’s headline for this is “Obama era ending:”
MSNBC is moving reverend and talk-show host Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation to Sundays, network president Phil Griffin said in a memo on Wednesday. Its last weekday airing will be on Sept. 4.
“After four terrific years – or as Reverend Sharpton said, ‘a full first term’ – PoliticsNation is ready for its next chapter. Beginning on Sunday, October 4, the show will move to Sunday mornings at 8:00 am,” Griffin wrote.
The show has aired at 6 pm ET on weekdays and will now move from five days a week to one day a week.
Even those who aren’t going to church are not watching TV at 8 a.m. on Sunday.
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The gang that can’t shoot straight strikes again.
We all thought Carly did a great job the first time around and deserved to be in the top tier for the next debate. The lib media and Republican establishment think otherwise.
They’re both determined to make Bush the nominee, but for different reasons.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-26/fiorina-aide-decries-cnn-debate-rules-this-is-ridiculous-
“The deputy campaign manager of Carly Fiorina’s presidential effort said she feels “very confident” that CNN and the Republican National Committee will keep the former Hewlett-Packard CEO off the debate stage on September 16 despite her rising popularity.
“I think CNN and the RNC have made it very clear that they have every intention of doing that,” the staffer, Sarah Isgur Flores, told Bloomberg Wednesday. “I feel very confident that they’re going to do that.”
Flores, a former RNC aide, also wrote in an entry on Fiorina’s Medium account Wednesday that “the political establishment is still rigging the game to keep Carly off the main debate stage next month” because CNN will use polls from before the Republican field’s first debates on August 6 to determine who qualifies for its debate.
Fiorina’s widely praised performance in a “candidate forum” that night helped propel her polling numbers, but the inclusion of the earlier polls and the paucity of more recent polls could keep the only woman in the 17-candidate Republican field from appearing on the debate stage.”
Let the “war on women” comments commence….
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More….
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/carly-fiorina-debate-second-tier-rnc-main-debate-cnn-121757.html
“The first GOP presidential candidate to go to war publicly with the Republican National Committee is not Donald Trump. It’s Carly Fiorina.
Faced with the very real possibility that she will again be relegated to a lower-tier debate, Fiorina’s campaign is going after the RNC and the news organization the committee picked to host the next debate, CNN.
Story Continued Below
What has ensued is a tense back-and-forth, with Fiorina’s camp charging that the RNC should be doing more to ensure that the debate stage represents the true top 10 candidates, and the RNC saying tough luck, the rules are set.
Fiorina, the only female candidate in the GOP field, has surged in the polls since a widely praised performance in the “happy hour” debate earlier this month. But she has a problem: There haven’t been enough polls to catapult Fiorina from 14th place, where she stood going into that debate, into the top 10 ranking for CNN’s Sept. 16 debate.”
“That’s because CNN — unlike Fox News, which used only the final five polls released before its debate — outlined criteria this spring in which it said it would average the results of polls released between July 16 and Sept. 10. And of the 10 polls that currently qualify for inclusion in CNN’s average, eight were conducted before the first debate.”
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Yes, let’s see to it the blandest and most moderate candidate gets the nomination. That always works.
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Good piece on what happened at Trump’s news conference yesterday. I’m old school and can’t stand it when political activists try to pass as journalists. This guy obviously has his own political agenda to push, he couldn’t care less about doing the work of a real journalist.
That said, and as insufferable and rude as he was/is, Trump was right to let him back into the conference later.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/27/why-jorge-ramos-crossed-line-in-confronting-donald-trump/?intcmp=hpbt1
” … Ramos has a history of combativeness. In an interview last year, he told President Obama that ‘you have destroyed families’ by not easing deportations sooner and that the president was known as the deporter-in-chief. Does that sound like a journalist or an advocate?
“At a House presser that year, Ramos demanded to know why John Boehner was ‘blocking’ action on immigration reform and urged him to call a vote, saying: ‘You can do it, Mr. Speaker.’ Journalist or advocate?”
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Donna’s right, Ramos is an illegal immigration activist posing as a reporter.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423134/jorge-ramos-donald-trump-immigration-univision
“Jorge Ramos may be the award-winning celebrity anchor of Univision’s premier news broadcast, but “the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic News” long ago revealed himself to be less a journalist than another perpetually indignant immigration activist. His devolution into outright heckler was only a matter of time.
It would be difficult to overstate Ramos’s immigration radicalism. When Central American children were pouring over the border last summer, Ramos announced as a solution, “First, we treat children like children, as if they were our own.” When, in their 2012 interview, Newt Gingrich told Ramos, “I’m not going to let you define what ‘immigration reform’ is,” Ramos replied, “It’s very simple: to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants.” And when, last November, President Obama lawlessly granted amnesty to some 5 million of those immigrants, Ramos touted the measure as “a triumph for the Latino community.”
Since coming to the United States in the early 1980s, immigration has been Ramos’s pet cause. “It’s personal,” he has said. Indeed. The development of Ramos’s career has been largely the playing out on national television of his own immigration monomania.
Mingled with Ramos’s open contempt for the rule of law (he rejects any effort to secure the border as “right-wing”) is the self-righteousness of the professional partisan. “Don’t be neutral,” Ramos advised University of Southern California graduates in May. “Neutrality is for referees in a football game.” He encouraged them to be “fighters,” something he himself has taken to heart: “The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war,” he told Politico’s Dylan Byers. “I get the sense that we’ve forgotten that here in the United States.” Thus, to the Los Angeles Times: “My only weapon is the question.”
So much fatuous self-congratulation would be easier to endure were it not complemented by so much disingenuousness. For example, to Time’s Michael Scherer last November: “I am a registered Independent. I would never say [for] whom I vote. I would never pressure anyone to vote for one party or another. That would be way too much.” That level of fraud takes cojones.”
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This is the reason why they allow them to stay. Because they keep cranking out more. Send ’em back, the kids too. When they turn 18 they can return.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/25/census-anchor-baby-delivered-every-93-seconds/
“One out of about every twelve newborns in the United States is an anchor baby, or the U.S.-born child of illegal migrants, according to a Pew Research Center study.
This means that one anchor baby is delivered every 93 seconds, based on the 2008 census data analyzed by the Pew.
The huge number of foreign children born on U.S. soil– roughly 340,000 per year— is also an economic imposition on Americans, who pay taxes to help raise, feed, and educate those children of illegal migrants.
Eventually, those 340,000 U.S.-born foreign children can join the U.S. workforce and compete for wages against the roughly four million children of U.S. parents that enter the slow-growing U.S. economy each year.
Only 28 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that children born to illegal migrants in this country should automatically be American citizens, according to a 2011 Rasmussen Reports survey. In fact, the proposal is so unpopular that even Jeb Bush, who favors large-scale immigration, has criticized pregnant foreigners who grab citizenship for their kids by flying into the country posing as tourists. Bush described the practice as “fraud,” and asserted that, “Frankly, it’s more related to Asian people coming into our country — having children in that organized effort, taking advantage of a noble concept, which is birthright citizenship”
The growing industry of “birth tourism” is so large that even California’s government recently cracked down on the illegal — but rarely suppressed— trade.”
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Bush is inevitable? You sound like my neighbor who is convinced the “next” president (a female, she is convinced) already has been secretly chosen by the powers that be who determine these things all behind the scenes. I’m not quite that cynical yet. Primary season still looms, remember. .
http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/still-think-jeb-bush-vs-hillary-clinton-is-happening-20150827
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August 27, 2015: By focusing so much on the candidates, consultants, and donors in political coverage, it’s easy to overlook the most important element in the political process—the voters. And at a time when Washington has prospered but much of the country has struggled, it’s easy to forget just how disaffected the American electorate is. For nearly all of the past decade, Americans have consistently believed that the country was headed in the wrong direction and have grown alienated from their elected leaders. …
“So it’s no surprise that this year’s presidential campaign has been as unpredictable as ever. That happens when voters feel that government isn’t working for them, and they’ve been feeling that way for nearly 10 straight years. In past elections during times of voter alienation, the unexpected happens …
“This is why the expectations of a Jeb Bush-Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential election never made much sense—it couldn’t be more disconnected with voter sentiment. Bush’s candidacy still hasn’t captured the imagination of most GOP voters, and the Democrats’ unification behind a Clinton campaign was as much a reaction to the lack of younger, up-and-coming successors to Obama as it was to genuine grassroots enthusiasm for the former secretary of State. At a time when anti-Washington, antiestablishment feelings are near all-time highs, why would both parties nominate candidates with political bloodlines who’ve benefited from their family connections? All the campaign money in the world can’t change fundamental vulnerabilities. It shouldn’t be too surprising that Donald Trump—not to mention all the outsider candidates, such as Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina—are surging in national polls. …”
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Bush, despite all his $$$$, is not doing well with so-called ‘moderate,’ rank-and-file Republicans OR with independents. That could change, but it seems unlikely to me. Voters want to move on from the past. And the caucuses and primaries will still determine the eventual nominees for both parties.
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The American college Chevalier is back in California–where he appeared wearing a dress shirt and tie yesterday as he was given a hockey shirt. Turns out his father is the pastor of a church in Sacramento. The National Guard soldier is a member of a Lutheran church in Oregon and he met the Airman hero at a Christian elementary school.
Just sayin’. FYI
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michelle, I heard the dad interviewed by phone on a cable news show several days ago and he mentioned God’s sovereignty. Don’t hear that too often.
On the activist/reporter: I heard him being interviewed last night on Kelly’s show and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. He wasn’t – isn’t a reporter at all, he’s an activist who is blinded by his own cause and trying to push it where ever he goes.
As much as possible, reporters should leave their own biases and viewpoints at the door when they’re at work. We will all see things through a different lens (and ask different questions and emphasize different points as a result). But we’re there to report the news, to report what’s being said — not to push whatever might be our own pet causes.
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Paraphrasing something I heard Rush say today.
A gay black man kills two white television people.
Hillary and Barack blame it on the gun.
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