Posted on 06/03/2019 6:52:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Fox News town hall with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) went south on Sunday when the presidential hopeful started attacking the network over its abortion coverage.
Her rant against Fox began after a former pediatric nurse asked about her position on late-term abortions.
Instead of offering a response to the question, Gillibrand blamed Fox for talking about the “red herring” of infanticide, devoting more than six hours to covering the abortion debate.
"What we have created, unfortunately, is a false choice and a false narrative," she said. "And Chris, I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this because it's a problem. I can tell you before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide."
"Infanticide doesn't exist," she said, before host Chris Wallace interrupted.
"Senator, I just want to say, we've brought you here for an hour," he said. "We've treated you very fairly. I understand that maybe to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News you want to attack us. I'm not sure it's frankly very polite when we've invited you to be here."
I'll do it in a polite way," Gillibrand replied.
“Instead of talking about Fox News why don’t you answer Susan’s question,” Wallace said.
Kirsten Gillibrand is asked if she supports late-term abortion
She responds by blaming Fox News for talking about infanticide after Ralph Northam's remarks
Chris Wallace shuts down her attacks
Gillibrand is again asked about her position, she replies w/she supports Roe v. Wade pic.twitter.com/u0nKVTPrZC— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 3, 2019
Gillibrand, a fervent supporter of abortion rights, has previously vowed to only nominate federal court judges who support Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the nation. She repeated that position during Sunday night's event at the University of Dubuque.
Does that mean that you're okay with other presidents having their own litmus tests?" Wallace asked her. "Maybe a pro-life president might say 'I'll only appoint people who will overturn Roe v Wade.' Because the tradition in this country has been [the] independence of the judiciary and the idea that a judge, once appointed, will judge each case on its merits and not on the basis of a promise made, a political promise to get that position."
"I think it's changed. That's the way it used to be before President Trump," Gillibrand responded. "President Trump said he would only appoint judges that would overturn Roe v. Wade."
"He already did and he's doing it," she said. "The rules have changed." (FoxNews.com)
Gillibrand is only polling at 1 percent and hasn’t reached the 65,000 individual donor campaign contribution threshold to qualify for the primary debates in late June and July.
There is ample evidence that president wannabe Sen Gillibrand's father worked for the NXIVM sex cult in Albany, NY.
Gillibrand's father, Doug Rutnik, was NXIVM's attorney for four months in 2004, paid $25,000 per month.
In 2004 Gillibrand left her NYC law firm to work in his Albany office, the period her father was working for NXIVM.
Watta coincidence?
Gillibrand endorsed Eric Schneiderman for NYAG. Schneiderman later investigated Nxivm.......
then he suddenly closed the case BUT nobody knows what happened to the evidence collected.
Was there a Gillibrand/Schneiderman quid pro quo deal?
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UPDATE Schneiderman was ousted as NYAG b/c women came forward, said he slapped,
choked and spat at them in his bedroom. The "tolerant and compassionate" liberal
called a woman of color his "brown slave" and threatened to tap one women's phone.
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Keep this on the front burner. Schneiderman had better have some answers.....or else.
BACKSTORY As the NYAG, Schneiderman (then a full blown sex deviate behind closed doors)
suddenly announced he had suspended his investigations into Albany's NXIVM sex cult.
Despite an admission that he had accumulated tons of evidence, Schneiderman decided to look the other way.
WE HEREBY DEMAND TO KNOW: What did Schneiderman do with all the sex cult evidence?
U.S. Department of Justice
Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Switchboard: 202-514-2000
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AND THIS: NXIVM Sex Cult Had Schumer’s Financial Records and Hillary’s Emails
Big League Politics ^ | 5/15/2019 | PATRICK HOWLEY / FR Posted by bitt
With prosecutors in the trial of cult leader Keith Raniere planning to introduce evidence on the NXIVM sex cult’s deep oppposition research files on its political enemies including Roger Stone, documents from the archives are shedding light on how the sex cult stored data on top politicians including Chuck Schumer — whom the cult viewed as a “friendly” ally according to ex-employee Frank Parlato — and Hillary Clinton.
The Albany Times-Union noted in 2015: “A former close confidant of Keith Raniere, founder of the NXIVM corporation, claims top officials in the secretive organization used a Canadian investigative firm or other means to sift the financial records of six federal judges and U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., according to court records. The former NXIVM insider, Kristin M. Keeffe, said that Seagrams heiress Clare W. Bronfman, who oversees NXIVM’s operations, ordered the financial probes at the direction of Raniere, 55. The six judges whose financial records Keeffe alleges were analyzed have all presided over cases involving NXIVM or its perceived adversaries and critics…The allegations by Keeffe, 45, are outlined in emails attributed to her that were filed recently in Albany County Court…Keeffe broke away from NXIVM in February 2014 and is in hiding, according to correspondence and conversations attributed to her in court records filed in Albany County…...." (Excerpt) Read more at bigleaguepolitics.com ...
I tried to watch but her voice drives me nuts. She whines and sounds like a 12 year old
He never shut her down. Fake news. He never rubbed her face in her $hit as she tried to explain her hypocrisy. He showed himself to be a coward when push came to shove.
Jelly-brain is beyond pathetic.
When she complained that people called her “porky” or some such, I realized we are dealing with a child in an adult’s body.
She is wholly incapable of linear thinking and is as thin skinned as she is lily white.
You don’t have to win the nomination to profit mightily - both financially and otherwise - from running for President.
Why do you think so many of them are doing it?
Dumb Democrat attacks a friend.
One real piece of semi-useful information from that interview...
The rats won’t put up a smoke screen of bulls-—+ about “judicial independence” or “politically neutral” for anyone they nominate to the court once they are able to do so again. They will claim that since DJT explicitly stated that pro-life was the only way he was going in nominations that somehow, this magically opened some kind of door that makes it OK for them “to change the rules”. In this fantasyland, dems ‘might’ have nominated a pro-life judge in the past (nope) or at some point in the future (yeah, right) if the bad orange man had not “changed the rules”.
No senator, DJT did not change the rules. He did what he has done since his campaign started; make honest statements about what he wants and how he wants to get it, without packaging it in a bunch of empty, deceitful words like the rest of DC. You see senator, we all “knew” that bathhouse Barry wouldn’t even speak with a judge that thought abortion was wrong or even that Roe v. Wade was crappy jurisprudence that could use some re-evaluation. He just lied to us about it, saying that we were getting the best possible judge when he put up the non-entity of the “wise latina” that has done nothing on the court but vote with the progressive judges.
Hypothetically, let’s say my wife is an awful cook (she’s not). Let’s further say that I am frequently told about my wife’s cooking expertise, assured that she is the finest cook possible, and that I will be getting fed gourmet meals regularly. What I actually get is never ending series of burned and awful messes for dinner, with none of them being actually GOOD to eat.
This creates for me two problems; the crappy cooking AND the bulls-—+. If she had told me every night “this is gonna awful dear, I’m sorry”, the bull-—+ is no longer an issue and the overall situation is now better. DJT is at least honest about about what he intends to cook for us.
He got spanked. Shes screaming ‘kill babies’ red-faced, and he doesnt know she means HIM and his children, ridiculous!
He would only do that with a Democrat candidate he knew was not already “chosen”. Otherwise, he would give free reign to the leading, pre-approved candidates.
Ha haaaaa!!! That’s what you get when you strive to be fair and balanced instead of honest and accurate.
Don’t care about either person. I love Rush but it really bugs me that the called Wallace a close friend recently.
Wallace just defending the hand that feeds him. He’s still a lefty not worth watching. For Fox to have a town hall for Gillibrand who is going nowhere is despicable. Where is she....at 1% or less.
Faux is so dumb.
RATS won’t watch Faux and the GOP Base is tired of Faux doing PMSNBC-Lite.
Need more popcorn.
but 3 Orc is so tolkeinesk
I will never waste my time watching one of these Democrat town is the whether on Fox or on another network. I think Fox is wasting their time chasing after the Democrats. I wonder what the ratings are?
Someone needs to check her ass to see if she’s branded
“I don’t know why Fox News wastes its time to show the Townhall meetings of the rats.”
Perhaps it’s because nothing destroys a bad product like advertising. In a fair and balanced way.
The ratings are terrible. The only good one was the first one with Bernie Sanders, the official number of TV viewers was 2,600,000 (Hannity normally gets about 3,000,000-4,000,000 TV viewers every night). After that the numbers went into the Garbage dump.
Democrat, Klobuchar about 600,000 TV viewers, Buttigieg about 900,000 TV viewers and the estimates for last night Democrat, Gillibrand were estimated at 400,000-500,000 TV viewers. Bottom line: the American voters could care less about any of the Democrat Party POTUS, announced Candidates...period!!! Case closed.
Fox News Channel is wasting their money on all the Democrats losers and low lifes!!!
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