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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 15 January 2017
Various driveby media television networks ^ | 15 January 2017 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 01/15/2017 4:44:01 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

p>The Talk Shows



Jan 15th, 2017

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Vice President-elect Mike Pence; CIA Director John Brennan.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reince Priebus, incoming chief of staff to President-elect Donald Trump; Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif.; Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Pence; Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Preibus; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Denis McDonough, chief of staff to President Barack Obama; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
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As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.
1 posted on 01/15/2017 4:44:02 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: acapesket; A.Hun; aligncare; Bender2; Bernard; bray; BreezyDog; Calpublican; cajungirl; Carley; ...
This is the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread Ping List! If you want to be on it, reply to this post or FReepmail me (in case I miss it). If you want to be taken off, simply send me a FReepmail.

C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.

2 posted on 01/15/2017 4:44:39 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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Here are the email addresses or web pages for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)

Face the Nation ftn@cbsnews.com

Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com

ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com

CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments)

3 posted on 01/15/2017 4:45:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: All; bray

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1

The Three Pillars of Propaganda (Academia, Media and the DNC) are trying to convince America that President Trump is not legitimate. They would like to abort this Presidency. The problem with this argument is their primary basis for being is completely out of power nationwide. This is the weakest the DNC has been in a century and they are saying President Trump is illegitimate? How can someone who won the election by nearly a hundred electoral votes be anything but legitimate?

The problem with Marxists is this is their religion rather than their Country and like all cultists believe they are right and the rest of mankind is wrong. They are so invested in the cult through their lives they cannot accept any other worldview. These are the more evolved people in their world so for them to have to acquiesce to commoners or sub-humans is beyond their ability to cope.

A liberal belongs to the church of liberalism and so do all the self-proclaimed cool people on TV. They belong to the church of science where all the smart people exist so everything they believe is more defined than simple folk like Tea Partiers or Southerners. Since they are atheistic evolutionists they believe that man is the top of the evolutionary chain and the only thing superior to man is a group of more evolved men like you would see in academia or gummit; no really!

Since liberals believe the highest form of knowledge is science or academia then they can point to science as the judiciary of any of their Marxist beliefs. This is why you see the Three Pillars pointing to settled science over Global Warming or Climate Change to eliminate any dissent or skepticism to the most extreme case of Attorney General Lynch wanting to punish anyone who questioned it. Never mind there is no proof of any kind it is happening and so much showing it is not, academia/science says it is a cataclysmic event so that is all that needs to be said. It is as if their Pope makes a decree and so it is. California is having record snows which the Warmists said could never happen proving them wrong yet they will ignore it or declare it proof of Warming.

Never mind the Global Warming scientists have been caught falsifying their data and results, they are scientists so above scrutiny. Now science promotes a fraud like they did with the fake election polls and the entire world has to believe it or be virtually burned at the stake for heresy. They are using the same tactic to call Trump’s election illegitimate by saying the fake polls were true and the actual vote was false and not valid.

What the scientists are saying is the polls were right and Hillary actually had a five to ten point lead and should be the winner of the election. Never mind the polls were off by up to fifteen percent in the primaries always favoring Harpy and shorting Trump, these polls are now gospel. She had the election won and because the Russians released Podesta emails she was cheated out of a fair election. Nobody can question this since the scientists are going to call this settled science so their agenda can be moved forward and dissent will be ridiculed.

The problem with their argument is not all the polls showed her having a lead and the exit polls showed with a bigger lead than the worst polls. If she was damaged why did the LA/USC polls show no movement and how did the exit polls show her with a bigger lead in all the battleground states if she was damaged by the Russians or FBI Director Comey days before? Does anyone really believe she won GA, AL, OH or FL? Trump’s message reached America and the Rust Belt and her’s did not. What is her excuse for basically losing to Sanders if she were robbed of an election which looks like the same race? She was a terrible candidate and Trump ran a flawless campaign so she lost end of story.

Once the decree is declared then the Three Pillars will broadcast it to the world and will be magnified by the media in NY/DC and HomoWood. They will be mocking President Trump 24/7/365 as illegitimate and he will have to fight them every day of the week. While he is fighting back he needs to educate those who have been harmed by the Marxist agenda and begin to bring them to his side. As they begin to understand the value of freedom and free markets there will be a tide moving his direction and swamping those still stuck in the cult.

There is no greater Commandment within the cult than tolerance and no greater sin than intolerance. Never mind they have no curiosity whatsoever for those who voted for Trump, they believe they are all sinners and apostates. Not only are they sinners they are guilty of the unforgivable sin of racism making them sub-human.
There is no tolerance allowed for the intolerant. Since the intolerants are sub-human they are not capable of running liberals’ lives and must be destroyed for the good of the world. They cannot fathom a world run by non-evolved people let alone all three branches of their Mecca.

This is beyond their comprehension especially after science and the Three Pillars guaranteed they would stay in power. Most have never been alive when they did not have the House and/or Sinate to stop anything the Capitalists wanted to accomplish. Many have only been alive since Clinton and have no concept what Conservatism is and have been brainwashed into believing it is the same as Nazism so they believe it is their moral obligation to stop it. They have no concept that less tax and regulation leads to more freedom and really do not believe freedom is that good of an idea.

Liberals believe you need Gummit to regulate people and especially the non-humans. This is why this entire doxology is about to fall apart. They are used to the Three Pillars working and this is the first time in history that it did not thanks to Trump winning ugly, and now the main Pillar, the DNC is irrelevant. Nothing works unless the DNC controls the dialogue and protects their militant groups like BLM or the abortionists so the other two Pillars have nothing to hold up. They are now holding up sand in the desert while America has a window of opportunity to show what it can become.

The Three Pillars are being exposed and defeated as they attempt more and more extreme attacks. We are even seeing academics coming down from their Ivory Towers and making fools of themselves showing their overeducated idiocy. If the Marxists can be defeated once and they have nothing to offer other than lies, hate and name calling then they can be beaten again with issues, truth and freedom.

Our Forefathers were inspired and guided by the one true God and his Bible which became the Bill of Rights. They put together a form of government which needs open transparency and was the envy of the world. We are witnessing Lady Liberty’s torch flickering above the corruption of their Three Pillars. On Jan 20th we will see the Founder’s sub-humans throwing Tea into the Potomac to declare their independence from a Marxist dictatorship. Our Forefathers fought with guns and blood to give every American an equal vote. They reached up from their graves to protect their beloved Country once again.

Pray for President Trump

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.


4 posted on 01/15/2017 4:46:23 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Whoops!

Looks like I conflated two posts here... The CSAPN radio lineup should have been it’s own post, sorry!!!


5 posted on 01/15/2017 4:47:48 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

John Lewis...softball questions only...message of Trump racism will be the unchallenged mantra.


6 posted on 01/15/2017 4:56:04 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I’m sure Chuck Todd will have a box of tissues for him, too.

“Did that mean old Mr. Trump say bad things about your legacy, Mr. Civil Rights Champion? Here, have a tissue and a hug.”


7 posted on 01/15/2017 5:05:45 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Thanks for the thread bud.Lots going on this week.Hard to tell where to start.

I guess with the fake news.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/the_trump_dossier_puts_the_deep_state_in_deep_doodoo_comments.html#disqus_thread

Clarice Feldman does her usual excellent job of telling what is really going on with the Jeb Bush paid lackey britt former MI6 loser, Christopher Steele, who made up all the golden shower crap about Trump.

Turns out it was crap all along. Not really newsy to those of us here who have a penchant for smoking out "fake news."

Probblem is if you combine the golden shower fable with the BS Podesta hit attributed to the ruskies which got Seth Rich killed and then add in the regime's plans to start WWIII the day Trump takes office you get inquiring minds working overtime. The big question: is there an op going on that we don't know about?

The answer quite possibly.

Add up all three ops and you get a well know rogue govt. agency who from it's inception has created worldwide chaos and may well be behind the ops above. Wouldn't be the first time.

...............

Then there's LC and their take on whether or not a hit is on for Trump.

http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2017/01/butboi.html As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

By the evidence it appears from sources in Tucker Carlson and Kristinn Taylor, that there is a coup being engaged in by the #NeverTrumpers and it is radicalizing directly out of Langley in the CIA, and that image Obama has become involved in removing the head of the National Guard, which is the outer zone protective shield of President Trump after he is sworn in. The removal is slated for 12:01 PM on Inauguration Day.

maj-gen-errol-r-schwartz

The memo firing Maj. Gen. Schwartz was obtained by the Washington Post. Schwartz said his orders came from the Pentagon but that he doesn’t know who made the decision, nor is he told why he was asked to step down.

Steele - Donald Trump’s Future…

Over Reince Priebus’ Dead Body

CIA Planning To Take Out 'That Traitor Trump'

Will The Wahabi Muslim Led CIA Assassinate Trump?

It Certainly Looks Like That May Very Well Happen

Trump Faces Dallas Rerun - Obama Axes DC

National Guard Head 12:01 Inauguration Day

Tucker Carlson - Deep State War On Trump

Ex-Spook Hints At Murder Of DonaldTrump

For the sake of President Trump, the Secretary of Defense Maddis must immediately move to secure Washington DC, as this has become a danger zone of a coup, from Bill Kristol stating that the President hates black liberals and loves white Putins to the head of Secret Service protecting rioters for their "free speech" rights which do not exist.

I(LC) explicitly accuse Reince Priebus of betraying Donald Trump by sacrificing the protection of Donald Trump and the longer-term healing of the country to Preibus's own vested interests in protecting the short-term triumph of the Republican Party, and the pedophile Establishment of which Preibus is at a minimum an enabler and protector if not an actual participant, not only in relation to the nation-wide pedophilia cabal, but the Wisconsin-based coven that will show the Franklin Scandal in Nebraska to be the teaser that it was.

Robert David Steele ex CIA

The security of the President of these United States is paramount. The United States will not allow John Lewis to express sedition to the #NeverTrumpers now racially slurring Russians and President Trump in homopobia with the degrading term butboi.

There must be a widespread security action in the United States to remove these undesirables to provide for them a more productive and healthy future, as none of this is protected by the Constitution and it is a crime to remove the head of President Trump's National Guard perimeter security just as Mr. Trump becomes President.

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ANd all that is just getting started!

8 posted on 01/15/2017 5:12:32 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America: home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Week just passed


Let us begin with my most favored of actresses, a lady I have admired ever since she saved me and mine from alar in the apples. Remember Meryl Streep testifying before congress, almost destroying the apple business when there was no danger in this alar stuff, which didn’t even exist?

Or how she gave pedophile Roman Polanski a standing ovation, creep can’t even come back to America for his crimes?

And now she’s going to lecture ME, a genuine and proud-of-it deplorable, on the president I and my fellow deplorables elected?

A zero, a real genuine zero.

I did, in fact, watch the hearings of Jeff Sessions and heh, saw Senator Leahey ask Sessions if a man grabbing a woman’s genitals is a crime.

Lord spare me. Isn’t Leahey the guy who shared a “waitress sandwich” with that horrible Ted Kennedy?

And Donald Trump did never grab an unwilling woman’s genitals…..why do these dumbbells keep making themselves look so stupid?

Oh, and that thing about Trump and the prostitutes urinating on the bed….this top secret revelation aided by our very loyal John McCain?

Dear Lord I been reading all about this folks, in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and….well first of all, please let’s get rid of this horrible McCain person.

Second….in 2013, a year when I am quite sure Trump was considering a presidency run, we are to believe he hired a bunch of prostitutes to pee upon a bed Michelle and Barack allegedly slept upon? In Moscow no less, a city known for its surveillance cameras? We are to believe Trump is THAT stupid?

Of course we all know it’s false. The bigger story here is John McCain’s participation in obtaining this piece of crap.

Finally, we have Civil rights legend, a man with no character whatsoever, John Lewis, a nothing-burger that once crossed a bridge, fifty years ago. Now he’s a big loser, sold his soul, not attending Trump’s inauguration as he claims Trump is illegitimate.

A zero….throwing any good he ever did in his sad life, along with Corey Booker who publicly betrayed Jeff Sessions.

Zeroes…..selling their souls.

On a Personal Note


So here, at this time, I am going to reveal….insert drumroll here….TADA!

For the first time….my bucket list!

No, I am not going to die anytime soon. But I do believe I am only going to live ten more years and hey, I am happy to have them.

My sister suffered horrible stroke at two years younger than I am now. Father died age 65, mother died age 73, all siblings get sick around my age…..sludge for blood, heart bypasses, the whole nine yards.

If I am to live ten more years in what I now have is reasonably good health (so it hurts when I walk, I can live with that) then I intend to fulfill my bucket list.

Frankly I think my idea is so good that everyone should sit down, calculate their life span per the statistics, and make your own bucket list.

Some items might take longer than a few days,….or months.

Below, my bucket list!

1.-Yes at number one I do want to be a good person. Do not bestow halos upon me. I am being very selfish here. For when I go home to my Maker I want to be the best person I could have been. Not that I will achieve perfection but at least it will be on my mind.

2-GOING ON A CRUISE! Indeed I have NEVER been on a cruise and before I die (or lose my health) I want to go on a five day cruise.

3-I want some part of my life to become a Hallmark movie. So okay, I did binge-watch Hallmark over the recent holidays and I do so love those movies. I could write those stories but hey, just once I’d love for my daughter not to get bogus restraining orders, for my son-in-law not to accuse me of making my daughter crazy…..for a family that loves one another. I dunno, maybe a guy somewhere in there but I am still on the fence about men in my life.

4-Before I go I want to write everyone who I care enough about, who has influenced me in some way, a letter, leaving them with my thoughts. Writing is my strength after all and I think I could do it. Not sure yet about writing about the creeps in my life but considering it. What the hell, I’ll be dead so why not?

5-This probably doesn’t belong on my bucket list as it’s a job for God. But I’d really like for God to give me a miracle. Don’t know what or how but I’ll stick it on my bucket list and maybe it’ll happen.

6-Yes before I did I want to get back my reputation. I did NOT build a fence on anyone else’s land though the courts in Sussex county found me guilty and I got to pay those awful people from New Jersey five thousand bucks.

I never hurt my daughter, was never a danger to her, she’s crazy, yet she calls up radio stations and tells all the world I killed my husband.

Yes, horrible things have happened to me and it might take ten years for me to be vindicated. So it’s on my bucket list.

7-A SPIRAL PERM. Come on, I’m 66 years old and I want a damn spiral perm. I am trying to talk my beautician niece to do it but they always give me a hard time. Way I figured, for the right amount of money you can get anything so somewhere out there is a beautician who will give me a spiral perm, is that too much to ask?

8-Yes of course I intend to write the story of my life. I understand not a darn person will read it or care. But I tell you, if I could sit down and read a book about my mother or grandmother, any ancestor, I would be delighted. I do have a precious and beautiful granddaughter who might read it.

9-I want to do something for dogs. Tentatively I want to start a Blog to help locate and place rescue dogs. Got ten years to do this but it’s a definite plan.

10-Finally I want to have a grand pajama party. I want all my friends, I’d name names but y’all wouldn’t know any of them except maybe Diane Feinstein.

I want to open a bottle of vodka and I’m not against funny smelling smokes.

I want us to laugh, get drunk, high, talk about politics….a big pajama party for old ladies….that’s the ticket.

As an addendum…..of course I have every intention of writing my own eulogy.

Wish me luck guys.


9 posted on 01/15/2017 5:17:15 AM PST by Fishtalk
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To: Alas Babylon!

The only good thing about this Sunday is it is the last Sunday under the Worst President In American History, Barack Hussein Obama.

As I write this Chris Wall-ass is trashing Donald Trump on “Fox ‘n Friends.”


10 posted on 01/15/2017 5:18:36 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: bray; All

Great stuff as usual.Adn for those who dare oppose the regime and their liberal hollyweird followers nothing less that death is appropriate since even a blidn opeara singer Andrea Bocelli is subjet to the death penalty.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/14/blind-tenor-andrea-bocelli-backs-out-of-trump-inauguration-after-receiving-death-threats/
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After word broke that award-winning Broadway performer Jennifer Holliday had decided to back out of performing at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, it was reported Saturday that opera tenor Andrea Bocelli also decided against performing after receiving death threats and not because he feared boycotts as was originally reported.

The Daily Mail reports:

When blind tenor Bocelli announced he would not sing at this Friday’s celebration, it was widely reported it was because fans had said they would boycott his concerts and records.

But a source said the 58-year-old had been determined to ‘press ahead’ and sing but had pulled out on the advice of his security team after receiving threats to his life.

A source close to Bocelli, a friend of Trump’s, said: ‘Andrea is very sad to be missing the chance to sing at such a huge global event but he has been advised it is simply not worth the risk.’
Bocelli, who is blind, is a crossover Italian tenor who gained fame as an opera singer, but has also recorded pop albums. He has sold a total of 80 million records worldwide.

It was reported in December that Bocelli had decided against performing at the inauguration after approaching Trump and offering to perform. Trump, according to inaugural committee chairman Thomas J. Barrack Jr., told his friend it was not required and he would still be welcome at the White House.

Holliday pulled out after she received backlash online, particularly from her LGBT supporters.


11 posted on 01/15/2017 5:18:54 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America: home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: rodguy911

And all that is just getting started!
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RG..per usual, your post is poignant**infinity. Thanks...sobering.


12 posted on 01/15/2017 5:20:55 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
As you all listen to the ever-lying yellow journalists
and the pimping black racists
as they purport Mr. Trump is "illegimate" over about Russian hacking
Click on the REAL DEAL (below) and consider
that they know this is a lie and only is serving
as a deflection from THEIR sedition, THEIR treason,
THEIR support of al Qaeda and ISIS, and THEIR Pizzagate:

Steve Pieczenik Admits It Was Him Who Leaked Emails To Wikileaks NOT Russian Hackers

13 posted on 01/15/2017 5:27:29 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: rodguy911

I’m reading that DC Guard Chief Swartz submitted his resignation to the incoming President as is customary . Trump accepted it, but asked him to step down after ceremonies on the 20th and he refused. WAPO lied about most of this.


14 posted on 01/15/2017 5:31:26 AM PST by chiller (One from the Right - One for the Fight)
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To: Diogenesis
Great link and Piecznik pulls no punches and admits he fed the links to wiki.BUt what gets me is that those of us who thought that all this might be disinformation to hide allthe crap that was going on are now vindicated since thats what is going on.

Consider that they know this is a lie and only is serving as a deflection from THEIR sedition, THEIR treason, THEIR support of al Qaeda and ISIS, and THEIR Pizzagate:

Any of these issues sink the hard left. They don't dare let those of us who will and have already researched these issues get ny traction. Pizzagate,Benghazi,Lybia, Hillary's server all spell jail time for some really big lefties.

Great post Diogenesis!

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Kellyanne now on FNC explaining how the hard left works on issue after issue,shes great,looks really tired, but she's the best.

15 posted on 01/15/2017 5:39:51 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America: home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
THanks Cincy Rich lots going on this week and its all covered here on FR.The place for real news not Fake News.
16 posted on 01/15/2017 5:41:23 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America: home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: chiller

Exactly its at LC:

By the evidence it appears from sources in Tucker Carlson and Kristinn Taylor, that there is a coup being engaged in by the #NeverTrumpers and it is radicalizing directly out of Langley in the CIA, and that image Obama has become involved in removing the head of the National Guard, which is the outer zone protective shield of President Trump after he is sworn in. The removal is slated for 12:01 PM on Inauguration Day.


17 posted on 01/15/2017 5:43:59 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America: home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: rodguy911

Isn’t it nice for the Marxists to show their tolerance of dissent. Funny how Fake CNNews is not outraged by these death threats like they always are about our supposed threats.


18 posted on 01/15/2017 5:46:01 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Fishtalk
Isn’t Leahey the guy who shared a “waitress sandwich” with that horrible Ted Kennedy?

Not Leahy, but Christopher Dodd. I understand the confusion...both democrats, both scum bound for hell.

19 posted on 01/15/2017 5:47:31 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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Here’s more on the firing of the Nt. Guard General immediately after Trump takes office:very stragne:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/14/fake-news-wash-post-changes-story-on-trump-firing-d-c-natl-guard-general/

The Washington Post wrote on Friday that President-elect Donald J. Trump “fired” the commanding General of the D.C. National Guard who is heading up the military presence during the coming inaugural event — in the middle of the oath of office ceremony. Yet a second story on Saturday did not contain the claim.
The Post’s original report set off a wave of stories across the world, causing raised eyebrows over Trump’s “extremely unusual” decision to fire a general in the middle of the presidential oath of office ceremony, especially during these dangerous times.

The paper reported that Major General Errol R. Schwartz, who has commanded the D.C. National Guard since his appointment to the position by George W. Bush, was told to vacate his office the moment Trump says his “I dos” to the oath of office. The decision was presented to readers as unfathomable, if not dangerous, by a president who doesn’t know what he is doing.

In an interview, General Schwartz told the paper that his firing was strange. “The timing is extremely unusual,” the general said.

“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz continued. “I’ll see them off, but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” The general added he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

The paper went on to quote Democrat D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson as saying, “It doesn’t make sense to can the general in the middle of an active deployment.”

The paper concluded its speculation, saying, “Schwartz said that he has not been told why he was asked to step down. ‘I’m a soldier,’ he said, noting that he was following orders and has no regrets. ‘I’m a presidential appointee, therefore the president has the power to remove me.’”

An earlier version of the story can still be seen at Stars And Stripes.

The fact is, of course, that the commander of the D.C. National Guard serves at the pleasure of the president and is not put in place by the Pentagon or any of the federal branches of the military.

But the Post’s early reporting on the “firing” of General Schwartz contains no statements from the Trump transition office and also leaves out key points such as the fact that the general of the D.C. National Guard traditionally supplies his letter of resignation to every new president who is about to take office.

Subsequent to the publishing of the paper’s story making Trump appear incompetent, news emerged that the incoming Trump administration offered to let General Schwartz keep his position through inauguration day, but it was the general himself who refused the offer, preferring instead to quit at 12 noon on January 20, the hour Trump takes his oath of office.

The general then ran straight to the media to “argue his case in the press,” as a recent Fox News report noted.


20 posted on 01/15/2017 5:48:04 AM PST by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America: home of the free because of the brave.)
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