That Would Actually Explain a Lot

According to Fox News, he also told members of the House Intelligence Committee to look for "a wide-ranging, multi-faceted Russian conspiracy that included the infiltration of the NRA." [More]

I guess it's possible, but as long as we're speculating, I'm still leaning toward being compromised in a different way.

UPDATE: Looks like more fake news, or in this case, Faux News.

[Via Jess]

Paul Campaign: Make Lemons Out of Lemonade

We talked about this in passing here.

Now it looks like Ron Paul will be allowed to participate in the ABC debates.

"Fair and Balanced" and "conservative" Faux News will not allow him to appear, even though he finished in Iowa far ahead of Sean Hannity darling Rudy Giuliani, who is invited, and is polling far ahead of Fred Thompson, also an invitee, in New Hampshire.

You shouldn't need to be a Paul supporter to be outraged by this manipulation of the electorate by corporate media special interests. There are two things his supporters are encouraging us to do:

Leave a comment for the Faux propagandists at their "You Decide '08" page, and visit the "Protest Fox" webpage and learn how to send an email or two.

These are both good actions, and I will do them this weekend, but it's also time for some real creative and outside the box thinking from the Paul campaign team--immediate action. If negotiations are unsuccessful at getting their candidate in at the last minute, they should do three things--they should be starting on them now:

1. Use a portion of that $20M they've raised to buy a 1-minute ad for Ron to be aired immediately before the debate--if not on Fox, then on their competitor CNN. The content of the ad should be to call attention to his exclusion, to provide an overview of his message, and to direct viewers to #2,

2. Have Ron live on the Internet at the same time as the debate, answering all questions posed to the candidates on the Fox program. This could actually work to his advantage, as there'd be no distractions from other candidates, no questions intentionally leaving him out, and no misrepresentations of his positions or statements by the other candidates. It could also draw a significant portion of the audience away from Fox.

3. Publicize the hell out of this. Issue press releases to get it into the news. Use the unprecedented Internet network Paul supporters have established.

I have no real hopes that this will be done as I have no real influence with the Paul campaign. But I think if he did this, the wave of publicity and curiosity and potential for getting his message out could be tremendous. But if they're going to do it, they need to do it NOW, because the debate is tomorrow.

If you agree, contact the Paul campaign and tell them so. If they want to make this happen, nobody's going to go to bed tonight.

Meanwhile, Over at 'Conservative' Faux News...

 “Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said in announcing the hire. [More]

Not all. 

Sorry, but no amount of pandering with virtue signals will keep the left from portraying you as Nazis, fascists, racists, haters...

That's something the Republicans in general seem incapable of learning.

Uncritical Thinking

The Faux News announcer positively gushes over one of the more useless "smart gun" designs, blissfully unaware of how ignorant he sounds to those who actually know what they're talking about. [Watch]

It's not even news -- this kid's story has been around for years.

This is just MSNBC-level shameful, it's so bad.

Lou Dobbs on Olofson

The conviction of a Wisconsin gun owner has people saying the case threatens their right to bear arms.

If you missed the segments from the past two nights, here is the first one, from Wednesday.

They've done a hell of a job summarizing things.

I made this argument with my little wading excursion at The New York Times and I'll make it again here: If mainstream media outlets perceive a market demand for RKBA-related stories, they will feature them. If they don't, they won't.

That means, if you find out they are featuring something like this, you need to not only watch it, but spread the word. Likewise, I now urge you to watch and spread the word for the video clip the title to this post links to.

Plain and simple: If they know it's being watched, their incentive to do it again increases. Plus it's pretty evident Lou Dobbs is both interested and sympathetic. I know it's easy to dismiss CNN as the "Communist News Network," but I've seen more truth coming out of Dobbs than I ever did from those sterile queen bee frauds O'Reilly and Hannity over at Faux News.

I also encourage you to do one other thing: When they do something right, let them know you appreciate it.

Look at how easy it is to do--and it only took a few seconds:


I'll post the second segment when it becomes available. It was even better than the first, with a very interesting development I'll talk about when I post it, and Len Savage does a fine job representing out position, that is, the truth.

Such a Nice Young Man

Teixeira was physically removed from the courtroom twice. He threatened the prosector's wife and then, upon his return, shouted out a second time about the death of his victim. "Want to know his last words?" he yelled, referring to Dr. Field. [More] *

For some reason, the new, improved, less "conservative" Fox News left out this piece of information:

Bampumim Teixeira, an immigrant from West Africa...

It must not be important to the story. Besides, it may stir up the wrong feelings about this.

* UPDATE: I see Faux News is still denying access from Blogger, but I felt it was important to use their story to demonstrate a point. Feel free to right-click the link and open in a new tab to see it.

Meanwhile, Over at Faux News

See, if you continually make someone an "unperson", the public that relies on TV for their news will never know about him, and you can self-fulfill the "he'll never win" prophecy. At the party level, I'll not be surprised.

I wonder how they'll ignore him when he's drafted to run as an independent?

I'm also amused by all the "pro-gun" sites making excuses for drinking the GOP Kool-Aid. Guess what, guys--they'll never win with all the pissed off activists out there. The numbers will pan out and you'll see.

Then you can either rail against naive traitors like me who are "throwing away our vote," or you can come to the realization thast the only way to keep a dem out is to abandon the criminal rino gang that long ago abandoned us, and truly "Vote Freedom First." Otherwise, it'll be you throwing away your vote.

I hope my hijacking scenario comes true. Meet our demands or feel our pain.

Oh--but then we'll lose our Second Amendment rights.

Any coward who says that has already surrendered them.

"According to Rasmussen Reports"

Once again Faux News is silently sabotaging the Ron Paul campaign through omission.

I guess if you can pick your standard, as opposed to how the candidates have actually performed to date, you can justify Rudy being there as a "leading candidate" but Paul not being one...

That they felt they needed to qualify their presentation shows they know exactly what they're doing. They should have and could have posted all the candidates without qualifiers. It's obvious they just don't want their viewers to see the name "Ron Paul," so they are intentionally suppressing it. And by letting everyone who might notice know he's not "leading," why, there's a bit of discouragement tainting as well.

That's some "news" organization, manipulating the electorate under the guise of reporting facts.

"Fair and balanced" my left knee..."You Decide"-- based on what we choose to tell you.

Even if you're not for Ron Paul, I'd think having the information gatekeepers pull this crap should be enough to make you wonder what the establishment is so afraid of. It should certainly tell you why I have devoted a category on this blog warning about the dangers of "Authorized Journalists."

Doing What They Do Best?

Macron Stretches Lead As French Presidential Campaign Enters Final Day [More]

They had a choice and it looks like they're rejecting it. We can hope the polls are wrong, and the establishment has been fooled before (!!!), but unless the lead is completely fabricated, it does not look good.

As an aside, I've been seeing people pointing to One America News Network as a potential alternative once the Murdokinders trash Faux News. But adopting "Authorized Journalist" conventions like "far right" to describe someone who believes in sane border and immigration policies, and "centrist" to describe an Obama endorsee makes me wonder.

And profiling Miley Cyrus getting over her nipple pastie phase hardly fills me with confidence.

At least I get no hits there searching for "botched gun sting."

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UPDATE: Won't this be interesting if it pans out...?

Persona Non Grata

I laughed out loud when the Fox News Booker lady called me back that time and said, "I'm really sorry for the confusion. I didn't know that you're on the Banned list." [More]

I guess Patrick Howley's priorities aren't the direction Baby Murdoch wants "conservative" Faux News to go.

I wonder how much longer Tucker has.

My Faux Cleveland

Ron Paul Democrat

And they've been running this self-promoting commercial about how extensive their political coverage will be ad nauseum.

"Authorized Journalists."

Tell me no one noticed, or a management decision wasn't made that they don't want to spend the money to re-do this bit and provide correct information to the electorate.

Besides, it's not like Faux News hasn't done what it can to derail the Paul campaign every step of the way--and it's not like they still have any public trust left to betray.

We distort, you decide.

The conduct of this organization has been nothing short of subversive throughout this entire campaign. Anyone still believing they represent a "conservative" voice either knows better and would rather be in denial, or is oblivious.

BREAKING: SOME PEOPLE WHO RELY ON TELEVISION FOR THEIR INFORMATION ARE INFLUENCED BY IT!

 Fox​ viewers are less likely to believe lies after being paid to watch CNN for 30 days: study [More]

As if people who rely solely on Faux News to form their political opinions aren't gullible in their own right. And as if lab rats don't respond favorably to rewards.

Hey, to draw any applicable conclusions, wouldn't they need to reverse the experiment?

Curious-- does anybody have a link to the "study" and who paid for it?  Not that I'd ever question the integrity of CNN, the motivations of all the establishment media parroting this narrative, or the gospel of "settled science"...

Nope, no DSM gaslighting going on here...

[Via bondmen]

Would You Like an Apple Pie with That?

Burger King manager filmed screaming at customer for taking too long to order

The only place I can find this story is from Faux News, which -- as longtime readers know and for reasons of its own -- denies access to links from Blogger. Paste the preview quote into a search engine and it'll come up.

Or cut our the middleman and go straight to the video post on Facebook.

OK, but what the hell does any of this have to do with anything relevant?  Scroll down through the handful of comments to this one:

Jeez, real sympathetic and tolerant, George. Real excusing of unconscionable behavior. Real understanding of the dynamics of  having kids in the car. What would you have done to this pregnant woman and her children? What would the most of her problems have looked like had you been behind her road... uh ... drive-through raging?

In short, what kind of big man are you?

This kind:

Scrolling through his other posts, his banner art makes sense. If a screaming lunatic came up to her car, she'd have been perfectly justified in making him back off -- with a gun, if necessary.

Ding! Fries are done.

Donald Trump’s Gun-Free Zones

The three they list as “gun-free zones” are all in Democrat-controlled bastions with histories of extremely restrictive gun laws: Chicago, Hawaii and Los Angeles. [More]

Good luck even getting a "permit" in those last two places.

In terms of his hotels, the real test would be Las Vegas. I can't find any evidence the place is posted. If you know different, edumacate the rest of us.

What it looks like is the guy's continued rise in popularity, despite the best efforts of GOP lackeys at Faux News, is scaring the hell out of Establishment Democrats, too, so they're giving the smear campaign a boost -- kind of like the way Pelosi helps Boehner when the chips are down.

As I've shown many times, I'm no Trumpeter, but I am enjoying the hell out of the way this wild card who ignores their rules has got all the other phonies sputtering. And Erick Ericson, Red State and his Comment Nazi moderator just forfeited all credibility and relevance.

Here's a turnabout's-fair-play question for the other Republican candidates: If Trump is the nominee, will you support him?

Rasmussen Reports Ron Tied for Third in NH

And Faux News won't include him in tonight's debate why again...?

We know this is immoral. I'm wondering if it's legal...

Gaining Ground?

Clinton gains ground over Trump in two new national polls [More]

I don't believe it. Especially not after Brexit.

Hey, aren't I the guy who cites polls to make my case on "pathway to citizenship" cultural terraforming?  What gives?

I can't access the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, but I note the WaPo/ABC poll is of "registered voters" as opposed to "high propensity voters."

I also note media pushing this, including Faux News, a.k.a. the Murdoch Family Trust, is all out for more "legal" immigration and amnesty for the illegals.

I see this as an attempt to inject an unelectabilty / foregone defeatist conclusion into any who would oppose Hillary, primarily to dampen enthusiasm, derail momentum and discourage turnout.  And the not-so-silent partners in this are the establishment Republicans, desperate to regain control from the rebels, and viewing helping with their rout and blaming their rebellion against "experienced counsel" as the best way to drive them humbled back into the fold.

[Access denied?]

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

"They said they were a jury and were going to try us because we had come to offend them," Mata said. He said they accused the journalists of breaking mourning over the deaths of the missing students by using the awards event to promote politicians. [More]

Our domestic Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists trying to undermine our rights and abet lawless rule by a monopoly of violence need to understand, as Mike has observed on occasion, "the rule of law as crafted by the Founders protects THEM from us far more than it protects US from them."

Speaking of Mike, he was interviewed by Ben Shapiro, and smeared by Faux News Radio, which lazily just parroted Bolsheviks for the Totalitarian Way. Oh, it's "Colmes Quarters"-- a "Fair and Balanced-Free Zone."

We're the Only Ones Making Home Deliveries Enough

Clayton County police are looking for two assault rifles stolen from a police squad car late Thursday night.

And what's this?

The two submachine guns were taken from the trunk, she said.

Really?

Ah, our good "right wing" friends at Faux News clarify:

High-powered assault weapons were stolen from police cars and a U.S. Army soldier's vehicle...

According to the police report, missing are a MP5 machine gun, a Bushmaster XM15 machine gun...

Right. "Authorized Journalists."

Still, this seems to be happening a lot lately.

Oh look, here's another one. And another...

It's almost like some "Only Ones" are starting to sense something disconcerting in the wind. Either that or...

[Via Harvey]

Where, Indeed?

Chris Horton notes CBS has adopted the standards of Faux News, which, incidentally, is still avoiding highlighting Ron Paul every step of the way:

I guess he's not in the battle.

See, if you give all the other candidates exposure except one, and you have the power of the national media, you can create a self-fulfilling prophecy. And while I join those who are disappointed at Dr. Paul's showing in Florida, it's hard to make the argument that he hasn't beaten Rudy Giuliani on the whole thus far, and there's been no shortage of coverage for "America's Mayor" (if for no other reason than to see what time the comet's leaving...)

A Hypothetical Match-Up

The people want Kasich!!! [More]

The people want more Islamist refugees and amnesty for illegal aliens! And fewer jobs! And "gun control"!

And what we REALLY want is a heartbeat-away-from-the-presidency Democrat running mate!

Feel that fire in your belly flaming up yet...?

What's "reality" got to do with it? Faux News said it, I believe  it, that settles it.

And one thing about about political polls:  There's a difference between "registered voters" and "high propensity voters." Curious, that for such potentially game-changing results, this one polled the former.