Posted on 10/20/2021 4:50:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the sad news broke that Gen. Colin Powell had died of complications from COVID-19, much of the coverage was reverent of his decades of public service and his status as the first black national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state.
Colleagues such as former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted warmly about Powell's upbeat demeanor: "Always laughing, always happy, always kind." The leftists on Twitter brought out the usual "war criminal" goon talk, complaining about his testimony from intelligence sources that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
The most annoying part of Powell remembrances was the media Democrats dragging the Republican Party into it. At CNN.com, Chris Cillizza quickly wrote a piece, "The Colin Powell Republican no longer exists in the Republican Party." This neatly fits the constant CNN narrative that the GOP is now a den of extremists. Cillizza wrote, "in an acknowledgment of how far the party had moved away from his views, Powell no longer considered himself a Republican," noting he said this to CNN's Fareed Zakaria in January.
In 2008, Powell endorsed Barack Obama over Republican maverick John McCain, a fellow Vietnam veteran. Cillizza didn't try to explain why Powell would do that as a "moderate Republican." Powell then endorsed Obama over moderate Mitt Romney, and then endorsed the Democrat against Donald Trump twice. At that point, he should be considered a Democrat. But each and every time, the liberal media treated this endorsement as an immensely valuable possession.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell tried to claim Powell turned to Obama because the GOP was filled with racial resentment, booing a speech at the 2000 Republican convention where he talked up "affirmative action." But we found a video of the speech. All you see is wild cheering for Powell.
Within an hour of the news of Powell's death breaking, NPR "Morning Edition" anchor Steve Inskeep remembered with Mara Liasson how Powell's endorsements were treated as "big media moments," with people "hanging on his every word" for the Obama endorsement. "It seemed like a big moment at the time."
Liasson said maybe it was a no-brainer that the first black secretary of state would back the first black president. But it was "a kind of establishment, good-housekeeping seal of approval." That's what the liberal media loved about it. Obama had next to no experience, no military service, and seemed exotic and global (which they loved). Powell made him more plausibly mainstream and American.
Like Cillizza, Inskeep tried to pretend Powell should still be considered a Republican after 2008, just like the "Republican" Trump haters who populate CNN and MSNBC. He asked Liasson, "How did Colin Powell for, really, the last decade or so represent a particular wing of the Republican Party? I guess we could say an internationalist wing, a national security wing." Liasson agreed. It was "a wing of the Republican Party that believed that America stood for an idea, for values that were defined as a nation not by blood and soil or ethnicity, but by the values that we represent," as opposed to "Trumpism."
This pretends that today's conservatives and Republicans don't believe in traditional American values in foreign policy, like the promotion of an American way -- just in some form of badly disguised racism and xenophobia.
The Democrats in our media would never let a Democrat endorse a Republican in four presidential cycles and keep suggesting he or she was a Democrat, or represented an admirable fraction of Democrats. But Powell's endorsements always allowed them to troll the Republicans.
... and nary a syllable about the uselessness of a “vaccine” for flu that would be survivable .... as long as you don’t volunteer for an RNA remake.
“Gen. Colin Powell had died of complications from COVID-19”
Not to mention that pesky cancer.
He was 84 and had a blood cancer...for all you know, the vaccine kept him alive longer than otherwise.
Article failed to mention that he was a good friend of Louis Farrakhan (http://globalhoodnews.blogspot.com/2012/08/minister-farrakhan-and-colin-powell.html)
bbbwwwwaaaahhhh!!! Another war criminal dead!! cant wait for bush to go
The COVID shot reduces a persons immunity, so whatever your body is fighting advances, the second shot reduces it even more. This is an extermination event planned and carried our by our rulers. We live in tyranny and there is only one way out.
How long have you practiced medicine?
Would an MD's care to set this person straight?
Says the noobie who joint exactly eight month and one month today!!!
At 84, our immuno systems are pretty much compromised ... God established 3 score and ten but allows if we're strong, 4 score and ten.
Bless his little heart. He was black and voted black.
I suppose the only way to avoid the virus in the first place is to practice quarantine if you know what I mean.
My dad had the Flu, but he didn’t die from the Flu. He bled to death and he was only 62.
Free Republic: where I come to hear about how vaccines are poisonous and Trump shouldn’t run in ‘24. This place can be very “uplifting”
Good idea. Let’s get an “MD to set this guy straight”. 1st. Finding one you trust. 2nd. Finding one that will tell the truth (if he knows it) and risk losing his license and worse. Time will tell what the experimental, 0 liability, money making, so good that it has to be forced on us shot accomplishes.
Colin Powell provedhis Republican bona fides by voting for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Covid shots…..
Are NOT vaccines. Simple. So they don’t work like vaccines either.
If Covid infection doesn’t kill you, then you have the immunity you are looking for.
That is why there are so many “breakthrough “ cases, because They Are NOT Vaccines.
First, Powell had blood cancer and was 84. Second, leftists of all stripes hated his damn guts until he endorsed the commie Barry because of skin color.
Scooter Libby begs to differ about the reputation of “king” Colon Powell. Meanwhile Richard Armitage laughs his ass off while living in the lap of luxury on his estate.
(Old info...)In an interview on San Diego radio station KFMB-AM last Tuesday, Belafonte compared Powell to a plantation slave who moves into the slave owner’s house and says only things that will please his master. “There’s an old saying,” Belafonte said in that interview. “In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and there were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Source CNN
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