Note: Kerry Ezell is an old high school friend. After Trump’s obscene sexual assault confession/brag, Kerry’s wife began an Arnold Weaver-like campaign for him. It has received a good response.
If the Republican candidate had been a little less self-destructive, the embarassing Wikileaks provided by Russia might have made a difference. In hindsight, remember that Putin did his best to keep Hillary out of the White House. Republican primary voters did their worst.
The hubris of this guy is amazing. Every public official should understand that the camera is always on him. Hillary was no more reverent than Trump, but she knew what to do.
“Pride goeth before a fall.”
No. I’m still voting for him. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Hillary.
This really hurts.
If he cared about our country, he would step down today and let Pence run on his own. A lot of people would shift from the Democratic camp to vote for anyone reasonable. I have several friends who are voting for Pence and hoping Trump will be impeached once in office.
I have to ask myself, do either one of these candidates hold the nation as more important than themselves? “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” sounds mighty good to me right now.
Obama doubled the national debt.
The thing that bothers me most is that we have nothing to show for it.
Hillary talks about rebuking the infrastructure.
With that kind of money gone, we still have infrastructure problems?
NOTHING!
We have nothing to show for it. No new planes or ships. The smallest military we’ve had since WW II.
NOTHING.
But the Clinton foundation is flourishing.
It is bad. Really bad.
Where is all that money? Has anyone ever asked that?
I just posted this over on Our Daily Thread, but thought it would be appropriate here, too. . .
“The biggest myth sold to the pro-life movement is that Republican presidents appointing Conservative justices are crucial in the fight against abortion. And yet, both Roe vs. Wade AND Planned Parenthood vs. Casey were decided with a conservative majority. Not only that, but over the last 45 years, we’ve had 9 Republican House majorities, 10 Senate majorities, and 5 Republican Presidents, none of which have been successful in ending abortion. Furthermore, time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, legislation restricting abortion was either found unconstitutional or failed to make it to law.”
(The “time after time, after time”, etc. were links to examples of what he was referring to.)
… Nature magazine, of all unlikely places, has a good article out this week about the methodological problems with polls. Among other things, the Nature article makes clear that most political polling, both here and in the UK, skew toward the left. Hence the calls for “unskewing” the polls are not fanciful:
“… As the US presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to improve their methods and avoid another embarrassing mistake. Their job is getting harder. Until as recently as ten years ago, polling organizations were able to tap into public opinion simply by calling people at home. But large segments of the population in developed countries have given up their landlines for mobile phones. That is making them more difficult for pollsters to reach because people will often not answer calls from unfamiliar numbers. …”
… Stay tuned. My expectation is that Trump will close strong, and the race will be closer than the current Oval Office drape measurers think.
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I solve problems for a living, and I have treated our political situation as a problem to be solved. That was wrong.
At the present time, nothing is half as important as prayer.
To the extent we are called to work, let it be spiritual work. My ancestors were all lower class, but they heard the Gospel in churches funded primarily by those wealthier than they were. People of all classes were welcomed and included at First Baptist of Lamesa.
Upper-middle class and upper class American Christians have lately retreated too often to safe suburbs and upper class churches. I don’t think Charles Murray is yet a Christian but he called on the upper class to “preach what they practice”.
A spiritual revival will solve most political and economic problems.
That’s one of the reasons I left the Republican party, Kizzie, that and their abominable behavior toward a Democratic quadriplegic candidate in Georgia who lost his limbs fighting in VietNam. The Republicans declared him “non patriotic” because he didn’t support something or other and I said, “enough,” almost 20 years ago.
I’ve voted for the sake of the judges for years and other than a few, they have disappointed. I no longer trust in chariots or horses, I can only depend on the Lord God.
Kizzie, even Justice Scalia’s disagreement with Roe Vs. Wade centred on a Constitutional technicality. His opinion was that the Supreme Court could not tell states that they couldn’t ban abortion, but he also said that meant that the Supreme Court could not tell states that they had to ban abortion: http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/02/antonin-scalia-on-roe-v-wade/
Scalia says
“My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.
“Some states prohibited it, some states didn’t. What Roe v. Wade — Wade said was that no state can prohibit it. That is simply not in the Constitution. It was one of those many things — most things in the world — left to democratic choice. And — and the court does — does not do democracy a favor when it takes an issue out of democratic choice [Morgan interrupts, but the rest of Scalia’s answer is] simply because it thinks it should not be there.”
Third, Morgan, as is his annoying custom, frontloads his question about the impact of Scalia’s Catholic faith on his jurisprudence by attempting to presuppose/preempt Scalia’s answer.
“But how — how do you, as a conservative Catholic, how do you not bring your personal sense of what is right and wrong to that kind of decision? Because clearly, as a conservative Catholic, you’re going to be fundamentally against abortion.
Scalia answered
“Just as the pro-choice people say the Constitution prohibits the banning of abortion, so, also, the pro-life people say the opposite. They say that the Constitution requires the banning of abortion, because you’re depriving someone of life without due process of law.
“I reject that argument just as I reject the other one. The Constitution, in fact, says nothing at all about the subject. It is left to democratic choice.
“Now, regardless of what my views as a Catholic are, the Constitution says nothing about it.”
As highly respected as Scalia was by the pro-life movement, he seemed to think that the laws of the U.S. would not extend far enough to rule that abortion was the same as committing murder, since the Supreme Court would have the jurisdiction to tell a state who was allowing murders to stop it.
I would like to see the video the prayer photo was taken from. It is possible that this was taken from the very end or the very beginning of the prayer and Trump was the last to close his eyes or first to open his eyes. As an ex-video editor I know what you can do with a little video. It is also possible to find that one or two frames when Trump looked up for a second.
I just read a very thoughtful essay on Reddit.. It’s very well written and doesn’t have much that I disagree with (some, but not much).
Why I Have Decided to Vote for Donald Trump
In elections past, you would not have gotten an essay like this from me. I’m a little surprised that I’m writing it even now. Let’s just say that I have long been a skeptic of the American political process and the 2-party super-bowl-style extravaganza that accompanies it, wherein everybody picks a favorite team … er, candidate … and then follows him (or her) through the election season, maybe turning occasionally to some commentary via SportsCenter … er, the nightly news … then into the playoffs … er, debates … and finally to Super Sunday … er, Tuesday.
The illusion of a liberal choice (for those who want to see themselves as “with it” and enlightened) and a conservative choice (for those who want to see themselves as responsible and upright citizens) has always been demotivating to me. Typically, I go to the voting station and without any hope of victory, check the box next to the Constitution Party candidate. Sometimes I don’t even know the guy’s name until I see it on the ballot. The reason I do this is because that party’s platform is actually conservative in the sense that it binds itself to a document—The Constitution—and holds its positions accountable to that specific vision of the Founding Fathers.
Understand, I am no fan of the Founding Fathers. Most of them were Freemasons, and their refusal to found an expressly Christian state (as opposed to a vaguely deist state) explains much about how the American experiment has finally degenerated into its present ghoulish array. But that is a topic for another essay. My point here is that The Constitution, for all its flaws, places a welcome and objective restraint on the unequivocally globalist bent of the corporate oligarchy that has seized control of the United States Government. For at least the last several decades, neither Democrat nor Republican politicians, who are merely the bought puppets of this ruling elite, have exercised any kind of similar restraint—constitutional or otherwise—against the steady march to a New World Order….
A couple of my ultra-conservative Facebook friends have posted a couple things saying that Hillary mentioned our nuclear response time during the debate, putting our national security at risk. Is that true, or just one of the many lies or exaggerations, from both sides, going around?
“Starr reported that the Pentagon would not officially comment on Clinton’s remarks since they occurred during a political campaign. However, many officials who spoke to Starr off-camera said they were not happy with Clinton’s comments due to the secure nature of what she was discussing.
“We went to the military this morning and asked them. A military spokesman told us that they do not discuss operational timelines for launching nuclear weapons,” Starr said. “This is some of the most classified information. I asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter at a press conference earlier today. He declined to answer the question because it involved politics.”
“Is it really classified? There’s a lot of open-source information about, you know, publicly available information on the internet about what is involved in launching nuclear weapons, and when we asked the Clinton campaign, they sent us a number of citations of that publicly available information,” Starr said.
“But here is the bottom line: the U.S. military does not discuss the precise specifics of the time frames of launching nuclear weapons that, by all accounts, is extremely classified,” Starr continued. “And if you know information to be classified and you’re a government official, even if it’s in the open source, even if it’s on the internet, you are not supposed to disclose it.”
Starr mentioned how unhappy the military is about Clinton’s comment.”
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I’ve been pointing this out to my neighbors for months. Hillary runs an ad here in PA that provides even more details, and somehow it’s even filmed at a silo and shows some of our equipment.. I’d love to know who signed off on that. Here’s the ad.
So it’s known by some, and a whole lot more thanks to Clinton.
And that first link also thoroughly debunks Hillary’s claims in her ad above on the matter. The idea that Trump could simply push a button on a whim is just hyperbole on their part, as most of us know.
But I also notice that your link didn’t go so far as to include shots from inside a silo and the equipment used either. Hillary’s ad does. And I’d like to know how exactly permission was given to use that stuff in her ad. It’s clearly a no-no to use govt. resources in a candidates political ads. You know that. The link and Hillary’s ad are apples and oranges.
I agree with you that Hannity and his ilk gave us Trump. However, there had to be something wrong in our souls for that to happen. Hannity just isn’t that smart.
I remember our bet from last time which you won. This time I bet a bag of dog food (for candidate Arnold Weaver) with a high school friend who sadly has turned into a Trumpkin. I am giving him 4% on the overall national vote.
Aj is correct about using government resources for political purposes. We weren’t permitted to talk politics on the job. And wearing a political button, or some such wasn’t wise.
That doesn’t mean that we couldn’t express a like/dislike for a politician. Just no overt political worik.
Actually Hannity made a point of remaining uncommitted until after the primaries. And it was the left wing of the media who wanted and gave us Trump. He hardly had to spend a dime during the primary. I personally think he is a protest against political correctness, media bias and double standards. It surprised people to see someone rich and powerful enough to fight back. But he lost me when he went after McCain and Kelly. Trying to destroy someone for disagreeing with you is such a lefty thing to do. Eric Bolling was the only FOX person who I can remember being all for Trump from the start. Y’all don’t remember what it was like before the likes of FOX and Brietbart. With out them we would be Canada now.
K Bells, I do remember. We read National Review, The American Spectator and Human Events. We always read every article on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page. We read columns in our newspapers from intelligent conservative columnists including William F. Buckley, William Murchison, James J. Kilpatrick, Mona Charen, Bill Kristol, Thomas Sowell, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Fred Barnes, Patrick Buchanan, Joseph Sobran and others.
Talk radio, Breitbart and Fox reach a broader audience and part of that programming is quite good. Mark Levin is brilliant and Brit Hume and Bret Baier are solid conservative newsmen. I haven’t been in a position to listen to Limbaugh in years, but I always found him to be very funny. However, Limbaugh is our Michael Moore. He makes us laugh, but can not be relied upon to actually inform us.
Hannity, O’Reilly, much of Breitbart and some other talk radio hosts actually do harm when they:
A. Focus attention on minor issues while ignoring more important ones.
B. Fail to deal with serious and complex issues such as health care, the budget, and trade agreements in a serious way.
Hannity is a personal friend of Trump. Hannity and his ilk helped Trump by
1. Giving him billions of dollars worth of free airtime to the exclusion of decent, intelligent, conservative candidates in the primaries.
2. Presenting Trump as a viable conservative alternative to their gullible listeners/viewers.
3. Failing to vet Trump. As I said months ago, the main stream media was never going to vet Trump in the primaries. They wanted him to get the nomination so that Hillary could win the election. Of course, they were going to wait until now to come after him.
Wandering Views 
As discussed yesterday, Republicans are in the process of rejecting Paul Ryan and conservatism in favor of this:
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My wife comments:
Note: Kerry Ezell is an old high school friend. After Trump’s obscene sexual assault confession/brag, Kerry’s wife began an Arnold Weaver-like campaign for him. It has received a good response.
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Bill and Hillary never do business with Putin… naw, never.
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Speaking of Putin, he is really enjoying himself.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/20/amid-rigged-election-charges-russia-wants-monitor-us-vote/92456558/
If the Republican candidate had been a little less self-destructive, the embarassing Wikileaks provided by Russia might have made a difference. In hindsight, remember that Putin did his best to keep Hillary out of the White House. Republican primary voters did their worst.
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The hubris of this guy is amazing. Every public official should understand that the camera is always on him. Hillary was no more reverent than Trump, but she knew what to do.
“Pride goeth before a fall.”
No. I’m still voting for him. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Hillary.
This really hurts.
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If he cared about our country, he would step down today and let Pence run on his own. A lot of people would shift from the Democratic camp to vote for anyone reasonable. I have several friends who are voting for Pence and hoping Trump will be impeached once in office.
I have to ask myself, do either one of these candidates hold the nation as more important than themselves? “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” sounds mighty good to me right now.
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Obama doubled the national debt.
The thing that bothers me most is that we have nothing to show for it.
Hillary talks about rebuking the infrastructure.
With that kind of money gone, we still have infrastructure problems?
NOTHING!
We have nothing to show for it. No new planes or ships. The smallest military we’ve had since WW II.
NOTHING.
But the Clinton foundation is flourishing.
It is bad. Really bad.
Where is all that money? Has anyone ever asked that?
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I was thinking about that last night, Michelle — what if Trump just suddenly stepped out and we could vote for Pence? Sigh.
Krauthammer last night wrote that he’s writing in either Paul Ryan or Ben Sasse for president.
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I just posted this over on Our Daily Thread, but thought it would be appropriate here, too. . .
“The biggest myth sold to the pro-life movement is that Republican presidents appointing Conservative justices are crucial in the fight against abortion. And yet, both Roe vs. Wade AND Planned Parenthood vs. Casey were decided with a conservative majority. Not only that, but over the last 45 years, we’ve had 9 Republican House majorities, 10 Senate majorities, and 5 Republican Presidents, none of which have been successful in ending abortion. Furthermore, time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, legislation restricting abortion was either found unconstitutional or failed to make it to law.”
(The “time after time, after time”, etc. were links to examples of what he was referring to.)
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/themackerelsnapper/2016/09/06/im-prolife-and-i-dont-care-about-the-supreme-court/
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And about those polls:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/10/whats-up-with-the-polls.php
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… Nature magazine, of all unlikely places, has a good article out this week about the methodological problems with polls. Among other things, the Nature article makes clear that most political polling, both here and in the UK, skew toward the left. Hence the calls for “unskewing” the polls are not fanciful:
“… As the US presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to improve their methods and avoid another embarrassing mistake. Their job is getting harder. Until as recently as ten years ago, polling organizations were able to tap into public opinion simply by calling people at home. But large segments of the population in developed countries have given up their landlines for mobile phones. That is making them more difficult for pollsters to reach because people will often not answer calls from unfamiliar numbers. …”
… Stay tuned. My expectation is that Trump will close strong, and the race will be closer than the current Oval Office drape measurers think.
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God convicted me this morning.
I solve problems for a living, and I have treated our political situation as a problem to be solved. That was wrong.
At the present time, nothing is half as important as prayer.
To the extent we are called to work, let it be spiritual work. My ancestors were all lower class, but they heard the Gospel in churches funded primarily by those wealthier than they were. People of all classes were welcomed and included at First Baptist of Lamesa.
Upper-middle class and upper class American Christians have lately retreated too often to safe suburbs and upper class churches. I don’t think Charles Murray is yet a Christian but he called on the upper class to “preach what they practice”.
A spiritual revival will solve most political and economic problems.
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I’m on the road in Bridgeport, so General Lee is Anonymous.
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That’s one of the reasons I left the Republican party, Kizzie, that and their abominable behavior toward a Democratic quadriplegic candidate in Georgia who lost his limbs fighting in VietNam. The Republicans declared him “non patriotic” because he didn’t support something or other and I said, “enough,” almost 20 years ago.
I’ve voted for the sake of the judges for years and other than a few, they have disappointed. I no longer trust in chariots or horses, I can only depend on the Lord God.
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Kizzie, even Justice Scalia’s disagreement with Roe Vs. Wade centred on a Constitutional technicality. His opinion was that the Supreme Court could not tell states that they couldn’t ban abortion, but he also said that meant that the Supreme Court could not tell states that they had to ban abortion: http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2016/02/antonin-scalia-on-roe-v-wade/
As highly respected as Scalia was by the pro-life movement, he seemed to think that the laws of the U.S. would not extend far enough to rule that abortion was the same as committing murder, since the Supreme Court would have the jurisdiction to tell a state who was allowing murders to stop it.
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I would like to see the video the prayer photo was taken from. It is possible that this was taken from the very end or the very beginning of the prayer and Trump was the last to close his eyes or first to open his eyes. As an ex-video editor I know what you can do with a little video. It is also possible to find that one or two frames when Trump looked up for a second.
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I just read a very thoughtful essay on Reddit.. It’s very well written and doesn’t have much that I disagree with (some, but not much).
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58p2hj/apologia_pro_trump_from_a_friend/?st=iuk5ynqk&sh=67908618
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Sorry guys. I didn’t mean to post the whole thing. :–(
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A couple of my ultra-conservative Facebook friends have posted a couple things saying that Hillary mentioned our nuclear response time during the debate, putting our national security at risk. Is that true, or just one of the many lies or exaggerations, from both sides, going around?
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Kizzie, your question reminded me of this scene:
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Kizzie,
Yes, it’s true.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cnn-military-not-happy-clinton-talking-about-nuclear-launch-times/
“Starr reported that the Pentagon would not officially comment on Clinton’s remarks since they occurred during a political campaign. However, many officials who spoke to Starr off-camera said they were not happy with Clinton’s comments due to the secure nature of what she was discussing.
“We went to the military this morning and asked them. A military spokesman told us that they do not discuss operational timelines for launching nuclear weapons,” Starr said. “This is some of the most classified information. I asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter at a press conference earlier today. He declined to answer the question because it involved politics.”
“Is it really classified? There’s a lot of open-source information about, you know, publicly available information on the internet about what is involved in launching nuclear weapons, and when we asked the Clinton campaign, they sent us a number of citations of that publicly available information,” Starr said.
“But here is the bottom line: the U.S. military does not discuss the precise specifics of the time frames of launching nuclear weapons that, by all accounts, is extremely classified,” Starr continued. “And if you know information to be classified and you’re a government official, even if it’s in the open source, even if it’s on the internet, you are not supposed to disclose it.”
Starr mentioned how unhappy the military is about Clinton’s comment.”
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I’ve been pointing this out to my neighbors for months. Hillary runs an ad here in PA that provides even more details, and somehow it’s even filmed at a silo and shows some of our equipment.. I’d love to know who signed off on that. Here’s the ad.
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The nuclear response time … see https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-nuclear-weapon-launch/ published on Sept. 7. This is pretty widely known knowledge.
Clinton Foundation: https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/01/fact-checking-clinton-foundation-controversy/ I know these fly in the face of Breitbart and Daily Caller, so most of you will probably dismiss as “liberal” bias. If only you could apply the same rigor to Hannity and Caller and Breitbart and the conservative media machine that has a way of failing to use factual information and report opinions as fact. This as much as anything gave us Trump. Thanks conservatives.
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Hi CB,
Your comment was in the SPAM filter. Sorry about that. 🙂
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It was because there’s 3 links in it. The filter flags anything with more than 2. Just post them in 2 posts next time and you’ll be good to go.
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CB,
So it’s known by some, and a whole lot more thanks to Clinton.
And that first link also thoroughly debunks Hillary’s claims in her ad above on the matter. The idea that Trump could simply push a button on a whim is just hyperbole on their part, as most of us know.
But I also notice that your link didn’t go so far as to include shots from inside a silo and the equipment used either. Hillary’s ad does. And I’d like to know how exactly permission was given to use that stuff in her ad. It’s clearly a no-no to use govt. resources in a candidates political ads. You know that. The link and Hillary’s ad are apples and oranges.
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Hello, CB!
I agree with you that Hannity and his ilk gave us Trump. However, there had to be something wrong in our souls for that to happen. Hannity just isn’t that smart.
I remember our bet from last time which you won. This time I bet a bag of dog food (for candidate Arnold Weaver) with a high school friend who sadly has turned into a Trumpkin. I am giving him 4% on the overall national vote.
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Aj is correct about using government resources for political purposes. We weren’t permitted to talk politics on the job. And wearing a political button, or some such wasn’t wise.
That doesn’t mean that we couldn’t express a like/dislike for a politician. Just no overt political worik.
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Aaahhhh! Coyote Blue is back! 🙂
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Actually Hannity made a point of remaining uncommitted until after the primaries. And it was the left wing of the media who wanted and gave us Trump. He hardly had to spend a dime during the primary. I personally think he is a protest against political correctness, media bias and double standards. It surprised people to see someone rich and powerful enough to fight back. But he lost me when he went after McCain and Kelly. Trying to destroy someone for disagreeing with you is such a lefty thing to do. Eric Bolling was the only FOX person who I can remember being all for Trump from the start. Y’all don’t remember what it was like before the likes of FOX and Brietbart. With out them we would be Canada now.
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Oh and hey, CB. Welcome back.
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K Bells, I do remember. We read National Review, The American Spectator and Human Events. We always read every article on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page. We read columns in our newspapers from intelligent conservative columnists including William F. Buckley, William Murchison, James J. Kilpatrick, Mona Charen, Bill Kristol, Thomas Sowell, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Fred Barnes, Patrick Buchanan, Joseph Sobran and others.
Talk radio, Breitbart and Fox reach a broader audience and part of that programming is quite good. Mark Levin is brilliant and Brit Hume and Bret Baier are solid conservative newsmen. I haven’t been in a position to listen to Limbaugh in years, but I always found him to be very funny. However, Limbaugh is our Michael Moore. He makes us laugh, but can not be relied upon to actually inform us.
Hannity, O’Reilly, much of Breitbart and some other talk radio hosts actually do harm when they:
A. Focus attention on minor issues while ignoring more important ones.
B. Fail to deal with serious and complex issues such as health care, the budget, and trade agreements in a serious way.
Hannity is a personal friend of Trump. Hannity and his ilk helped Trump by
1. Giving him billions of dollars worth of free airtime to the exclusion of decent, intelligent, conservative candidates in the primaries.
2. Presenting Trump as a viable conservative alternative to their gullible listeners/viewers.
3. Failing to vet Trump. As I said months ago, the main stream media was never going to vet Trump in the primaries. They wanted him to get the nomination so that Hillary could win the election. Of course, they were going to wait until now to come after him.
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