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While You Weren’t Looking, the Democrat–Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed
national review ^ | March 6, 2917 | ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

Posted on 03/06/2017 10:43:47 PM PST by bitt

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To: jazminerose

On that note where is Hillary? And obama?! In hiding?


81 posted on 03/07/2017 5:33:59 AM PST by Stopthethreat
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To: Helicondelta
Flynn called the Russian ambassador from the Trump tower and the press has a transcript of the call.

I was watching Bill O last night when Newt laid this out for Bill. At first O'Reilly tried to argue but then, the lightbulb went off in his head! Was fun when O'Reilly acknowledged that Newt was right then used this against his next Dim guest.

82 posted on 03/07/2017 5:35:34 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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To: Qiviut

WOW Pray for the Trump team’s safety.


83 posted on 03/07/2017 5:36:17 AM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: mbrfl

Yes, he (McCarthy) and co-nevertrump Levin are quickly attempting to climb aboard the Trump train.

Your comment is spot on.


84 posted on 03/07/2017 5:39:37 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Qiviut

Were those posts from Bannon’s official/verified account?


85 posted on 03/07/2017 5:42:18 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bitt
In short, the media and Democrats have been playing with fire for months. The use of law-enforcement and national-security assets to investigate one’s political opponents during a heated election campaign has always been a potentially explosive story. Let’s not kid ourselves: If the roles were reversed, and a Republican administration had investigated officials tied to the campaign of the Democrats’ nominee, we would be drowning in a sea of Watergate 2.0 coverage.

Worth repeating. Again. And again. And AGAIN!

86 posted on 03/07/2017 6:00:38 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: bitt

NeverTrumper Andy still dances all around the true reality: That Trump’s team KNEW they were bugged early on, either through private security sweeps or Secret Service sweeps; that there WAS “hacking” of the DNC and Clinton; and that Trump’s charge didn’t come because he “blew up” or got angry because he has known this for a time.

It came because he saw ZEro was NOT going to honor his statement in the White House to effect an orderly transition and was in fact running a shadow government. I suspect Trump delayed coming to that conclusion as long as possible out of respect for the OFFICE.

Once he decided this was war, HIS STATEMENT LEAPFROGGED MONTHS of Zero’s leaks that were designed to undercut and immobilize Trump. It’s amazing that still McCarthy and Hayes (another neverTrumper who never quite ‘gets there’ with his analysis because of his blind hatred) don’t understand how smart Trump is and that 99% of the things he does are deliberate or so perfectly instinctive that I guess it makes them jealous.


87 posted on 03/07/2017 6:01:00 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It was brilliant on several levels.


88 posted on 03/07/2017 6:01:39 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Qiviut

That’s Bannon’s face, and ABSOLUTELY Bannon’s sentiments. But I don’t know if it’s a legit page. I doubt he would be allowed to post that, but you never know.


89 posted on 03/07/2017 6:02:49 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Gene Eric

Index of Podesta’s emails: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgwLHAC5mk9Ghblc6O7AXzxX5dNLlMg0hHUn-D_Ay7I/htmlview?usp=sharing&sdfsdfsdf&sle=true


90 posted on 03/07/2017 6:04:23 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: bitt

Never-Trumper Andy trying tutu stay relevant.


91 posted on 03/07/2017 6:08:39 AM PST by moovova
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To: Jane Long; LS

It does not appear to be an official/verified account (darn it!!), from what I can tell. I don’t see one that is “official/verified” for Bannon when I did a FB search for it. Somebody posted a link to this one on another thread which is how I got onto it. If not Bannon, whoever is doing the FB account is doing a good job with what they’re posting as far as articles, topics, etc.


92 posted on 03/07/2017 6:12:36 AM PST by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: bitt
Well, this weekend, the potentially explosive story detonated. It happened in the now familiar way: jaw-dropping tweets by President Trump.

Given the abundance of indications that the Obama Justice Department scrutinized his campaign, or at least his associates, it was odd that the president chose to tweet the one allegation in the whole mess that appears insupportable — viz., that President Obama had had candidate Trump wiretapped. To my knowledge, no such suggestion has ever been publicly reported. At most, it has been reported (but not proved) that there was a FISA application in June that “named Trump” – but, as I’ve pointed out, saying someone was named in an application does not mean that person was targeted for eavesdropping. And, in any event, the reporting tells us that if there was such an application, the FISA court denied it. Thus, I know of no basis to believe that Trump himself was wiretapped; and if the president’s objective was to sensationalize the story, it would surely have been enough to tweet out a colorable fear that surveillance of him — as a Russian agent — had been proposed.

But was the overstatement slyly intentional? Was Trump trying to make a point?

Maybe not. It is certainly possible that the president was angry and the tweets result from a fit of pique. On the other hand, though, how much crazier is it for Trump to contend that Obama ordered spying on Trump than for the media and Democrats to have contended, for month upon month, that Trump’s campaign conspired with the Putin regime to steal the American presidential election and turn the Oval Office into occupied Kremlin territory?

Great article overall but McCarthy, like the rest of his NR cohorts still underestimate the President.

A fit of pique? Hardly. The President's tweet on Saturday morning was a stroke of genius. He turned the whole Russia narrative on it's head. With one little tweet! I'm convinced the man is brilliant.

93 posted on 03/07/2017 6:13:13 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Red Steel

Good clip.


94 posted on 03/07/2017 6:15:35 AM PST by moovova
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To: Qiviut

Knowing Steve, this is exactly what he would say if he were free to do so.


95 posted on 03/07/2017 6:18:23 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; LS

This is what LS said on another thread.


96 posted on 03/07/2017 6:19:34 AM PST by firebrand
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To: LS

Agreed. And if one isn’t free to do so another way to get your message out is by surrogates through an unverified account. Not saying this is what has been done but the comments are interesting regardless who is posting them.


97 posted on 03/07/2017 6:23:27 AM PST by I want to know
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To: Qiviut

Yes, they are doing a good job with posts and yes, there seems to be some discrepancies on whether it is actually the REAL Bannon, or not.

After FB faked Drudge’s page, you NEVER know!!


98 posted on 03/07/2017 6:24:31 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bitt

I’ve decided that Trump-Russia connections were the ongoing purchase of caviar for his hotels.


99 posted on 03/07/2017 6:27:34 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: COBOL2Java
What if it was done instead by GCHQ? Then, via cooperation with the Obama Administration, it was shared with the USA.

You're suggesting that it isn't about Trump conspiring with the Russians to take down Hillary Clinton; it was really Obama conspiring with the British to take down Donald Trump?

-PJ

100 posted on 03/07/2017 6:29:48 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the first question.)
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