Posted on 05/26/2024 4:59:43 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
May 26th, 2024
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.).
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.); and special guest Ryan Manion, Gold Star family member and an advocate for veterans. Panel: Stef Kight, politics reporter at Axios; Mollie Hemingway, editor in chief of The Federalist and a contributor for Fox News; author and host of Media Buzz on Fox News Howard Kurtz; and American attorney and foreign policy expert who worked in Iraq David Tafuri.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D-Mich.), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R-INO), Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt (R). Panel: Renee DiResta, who “investigates” (for democrats and Leftist pols) the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem; Polish-American journalist and historian Anne Applebaum; Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC; Former Obama Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Evelyn Farkas; Ben Ginsberg, former Republican lawyer and Never-Trumper; and co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour Amna Nawaz (D-Pakistan)—Same old Chuck Toad-level, easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash!
THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha Raddish?): Preempted by coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C); Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.); former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.). Panel: Conservative writer and commentator Scott Jennings; Rahna Epting, Executive Director of MoveOn; Shermichael Singleton, political adviser, writer, and commentator who worked on presidential campaigns and was fired by Trump; and White House Communications Director in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2023, Kate Bedingfield—Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of parrots!
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.); Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.); Alina Habba, lawyer for former President Trump; Greg Brown, Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO.
The thought that they didn't know what the jabs would do at some point is repulsive. At some point they had to realize that it wasn't covid that was the problem but the shots. ANd that's just doctors. Lawyers are likely no better.
Sotomayor is now bitching to the press about how she cries because of the “Conservative judges” opinions.
I think something good is going to come out of the SCOTUS regarding Trump. Presidential immunity will be upheld.
If they can, Team Trump needs to get the appeal to the federal court system. New York is violating Trump’s civil rights.
Trump resurrected and expanded a dying party. The GOP is now the party of the American worker and America First. Everything else in terms of policy is based on this foundation.
It’s been theorized FBI was looking to remove docs that incriminate Obama on earlier crimes...such as the border/guns/Holder imbroglio...
....but I doubt Prez. #1 is entitled to Prez #2’s docs.
You are right. Many so-called entertainment shows have become highly politicized, primarily in favor of the Dems. Fallon, Colbert, and Kimmel have become Dem infomercials.
Bannon has been saying that all of young people will be like Russian serfs and own nothing. Their masters say that will make them happy.
Treason Of The Intellectuals And Danger From Within
“The enemies from within are more dangerous to me than the enemies from the outside,” said Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump, at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024.
At a Springfield, Illinois, event, some 20 years before the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered a prophetic message to his fellow citizens: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
The speech is said to be the origin of the popular quote wrongly attributed to Lincoln: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
While these were not Lincoln’s exact words, most Americans understand that the 16th and 45th presidents of the United States were troubled by the same thing—the potential self-destruction of their nation.
History has demonstrated that internal discord can be as dangerous to a sovereign country as a foreign aggressor. A History of Betrayal
In 2013, American author Diana West published “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.” Her book initiated an important debate about the modern history of the American Republic.
Ms. West contended that Nov. 16, 1933, was the beginning of a long assault on the security of U.S. democracy. This was the date when Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to normalize relations with the murderous communist regime known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. FDR’s fateful decision opened America’s doors to an unprecedented invasion of Marxist militants, communist spies, and domestic fellow-travelers.
In the decades that followed, progressive academics, journalists, novelists, artists, and entertainers all celebrated the socialist ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution. According to Ms. West, even American businessmen were “eager to buy their rope from Lenin.”
Ms. West’s views about the influence of communist ideologues in American politics were ridiculed by some of the most notable literary figures in the United States and Canada.
Other courageous scholars came to her defense.
One was the late Vladimir Bukovsky, a Russian-born writer and human rights activist who spent 12 years in Soviet psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and labor camps during the Brezhnev era. Another was Pavel Stroilov, a Russian Christian exile who fled to the UK after his academic research put his life and liberty in jeopardy.
Writing for Breitbart News in November 2013, Mr. Bukovsky and Mr. Stroilov insisted that Diana West’s book would make history. Both agreed that, despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and the unraveling of the Warsaw Pact in 1989, the United States never really won the Cold War.
Like Ms. West, they asserted that the conflict between the United States and the USSR was more than a military stand-off.
“It was an ideological war waged by the totalitarian utopia of Socialism against our civilization; and on that level, the most optimistic view of it is that it still goes on. The Soviet Union is gone, but Russia is still governed by a junta of Gestapo officers; China is still governed by the Communist Party; and the Western world is governed by closet Marxists and Mensheviks, imposing on us yet another version of the same socialist utopia,” they wrote.
Drawing on copious research and experience, Ms. West, Mr. Bukovsky, and Mr. Stroilov demonstrated that it was an elite American intelligentsia who surrendered the United States to the adversarial socialist culture. The U.S. establishment’s capitulation to the global left led to a complete occupation of U.S. institutions and the ultimate corruption of the free world.
Few scholars have produced better explanations for the precipitous decline of Western democracy in the 21st century. Treason of the Intellectuals
For more than 150 years after the signing of the U.S. Constitution, Americans regarded their nation as a beacon of liberty and a model for representative democracy.
In the early decades of the 19th century, French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville expressed high praise for the United States, its citizens, and their civic institutions.
After abolishing slavery, Abraham Lincoln identified the U.S. Republic as “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Americans developed civil institutions that were second to none. In 1964, the American Civil Rights Act extended the foundational promises of the United States to all of its citizens.
Today’s woke left is destroying America’s legacy. While they claim to worry about “democracy,” they are really worried about losing their own power. They saw how actual democracy worked in 2016 and they don’t want any more of it.
Ordinary American citizens are victims of what French philosopher Julien Benda once called “La Trahison des Clercs” (The Treason of the Intellectuals).
Benda condemned early 20th-century European elites who were apologists for aggressive imperialism, military power, and racial discrimination. The elites who are betraying America today are proponents of aggressive globalism, technocratic power, and reverse racial discrimination.
Both Benda and Ms. West asserted that free societies can be ruined by a leadership class that rejects objective reasoning and ignores the difference between truth and lies.
From the New Deal to Bidenomics, Soviet show trials to corrupt courts, national sovereignty to open borders, education to indoctrination, free speech to censorship, honest elections to ballot harvesting, and freedom of religion to the suppression of faith, the survival of American democracy is more tenuous than ever.
These are the “dangers from within” that Presidents Lincoln and Trump were speaking about.
Might have some validity, but always remember Epoch Times is owned by people from China/Taiwan…
Democrat Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that threats to election officials were “domestic terrorism.
” Fontes said, “One of the critical components as well is the notion that it is not just those of us who are on TV who run elections. We have tens of thousands of jurisdictions across the United States of America. Those are run by your neighbors, your friends.”
When asked about getting threats, he continued, “It has impacted all of us. It has impacted all of our families as well.”
Fontes added, “And I think back to what we were talking about just a moment ago. One of the ways that I have been looking at this and addressing this is telling the really hard truth. And that is this: Threats against election officials in the United States of America is domestic terrorism. Terrorism is defined as a threat or violence for a political outcome. That’s what this is. I think the Department of Justice is really ramping up and starting to prosecute. We’re working with law enforcement across the country to really start to address these things. It’s not too little too late.”
Well, how about not cheating and just doing your job?
Because cheating, stealing elections, ballot counting non-votes--all of these are already illegal and criminally prosecutable.
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was guilty of trying to frame former President Donald Trump.
Anchor Dana Bash said, “I do want to ask about closing arguments in the criminal trial in New York. They are set for Tuesday. The jury could deliver a verdict later this week on 34 felony charges. I know you’ve criticized the prosecutors and the judge, but this case will ultimately be decided by 12 ordinary citizens. Do you have faith that the jury is going to deliver a fair verdict?”
Scott said, “Well, there’s no crimes so I assume that they will actually find him innocent. The only person guilty in that courtroom as DA Bragg, guilty of corrupting the justice system, guilty of not doing his job, and guilty of trying to frame an innocent man. It’s really the two tear justice system that has so many Americans concerned about fairness in our country.”
Bash said, “But just to be clear, you have faith in the jury system. and in particular again, these 12 ordinary Americans who are going to ultimately decide?” (what a biased, loaded question!)
Scott said, “I know that 96% is the number I’ve heard of the number of Democrats in that area of Manhattan. So I hope that they come to the right decision. I assume that he will be found innocent.”
They were hand selected by the prosecutor. Hardly "ordinary". No matter what, CNN is ALWAYS spinning.
Here is how leftist Wikipedia desrcibes the Epoch Times:
The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement. The newspaper, based in New York City, is part of the Epoch Media Group, which also operates New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television. The Epoch Times has websites in 35 countries but is blocked in mainland China.
The Epoch Times opposes the Chinese Communist Party, platforms far-right politicians in Europe, and has supported former President Donald Trump in the U.S.; a 2019 report by NBC News showed it to be the second-largest funder of pro-Trump Facebook advertising after the Trump campaign itself. The Epoch Times frequently runs stories promoting other Falun Gong-affiliated groups, such as the performing arts company Shen Yun. The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have promoted conspiracy theories such as QAnon, anti-vaccine misinformation and false claims of fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election.\
Finances
According to NBC News, "little is publicly known about the precise ownership, origins or influences of The Epoch Times", and it is loosely organized into several regional tax-free nonprofits, under the umbrella of the Epoch Media Group, together with New Tang Dynasty Television.
The newspaper's revenue has increased rapidly in recent years, from $3.8 million in 2016 to $8.1 million in 2017 (with spending of $7.2 million), $12.4 million in 2018 and $15.5 million in 2019. Tax documents indicate that between 2012 and 2016, the group received $900,000 from a principal at Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund led at the time by the conservative political donor Robert Mercer. Chris Kitze, a former NBC executive and creator of the fake news website Before It's News who also manages a cryptocurrency hedge fund, joined the paper's board as vice president in 2017.
A 2020 New York Times report called The Epoch Times's recent wealth "something of a mystery". Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News who produced a documentary with NTD, said "I'd give them a number" on a project budget and "they'd come back and say, 'We're good for that number.'" Former employees say they were told The Epoch Times is financed by subscriptions, ads and donations from wealthy Falun Gong practitioners.
The Epoch Times has increased its revenue by 685% over two years, reaching $122 million in 2021. Since 2019, it has gone mostly digital, spending millions on Facebook and YouTube advertisements (Facebook later banned the website, saying it "leveraged foreign actors posing as Americans to push political content"). As of 2023, The Epoch Times claims to be the US newspaper with the fourth-highest number of subscribers; this ranking cannot be verified as their circulation data is not audited by independent organizations.
Distribution
The Epoch Times publishes in 21 languages and 33 countries, and has print editions in eight languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian. Special print editions have also been erratically published in France. As of March 2022, The Epoch Times is planning to expand into the United Kingdom.
In April 2019, videos and ads from the Epoch Media Group including The Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty (NTD) totaled 3 billion views on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, according to the analytics company Tubular. That ranked it 11th among all video creators, and ahead of any other traditional news publisher, according to NBC News.
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I subscribe to Epoch Times because I believe their reporting is more objective than the MSM and supports, for the most part, my world view. It covers news stories from around thew world, often not even mentioned in the MSM. I am not concerned by their alleged funding sources. I am more concerned about the handful of corporations that control the MSM and their highly partisan and biased "reporting."
Fontes is illegitimate. He is the product of a stolen election.
Thank you.
national sovereignty to open borders
******
Today we see the same thing beginning to occur but with a different
group. And the USA has made no effort or any successful effort to
bring this to a stop. You see photos/footages of them crossing the Rio
Grande with just wading in the waste deep water flow. The county as
we have known it during our life span will be vastly different for the
grand/great children. Sad but change comes. They will adapt and be
living in outer space within the next hundred years.
The Epoch Times is the best for any reporting on mainland China. As far as ownership goes its heavily influenced if not owned by groups who feel deep attachment to the culture of old China such as the Fulan Gong movement. Very very anti-PRC considering how far we now lean in accepting PRC influence in our government and society the Epoch Times is a counter to that.
Falun Gong has some nutty viewpoints, but those viewpoints aren’t a threat to the US. It’s mostly a reworking of Daoist martial arts Qi exercises turned into a philosophy\religion. (Note: Philosophy & religion definitions don’t map well in meanings from East to West and West to East.) Again, not a threat to the US but the PRC views them as a threat to party control. Just like PRC views any uncontrolled (by government!) Christianity as a threat to party control!
Just a tad too much wishful thinking there. The majority of RINOs have won their Primaries.
The NON Rino Rs are still a very small portion of the Rs in the House and in the Senate
As long as earmarks and set asides are tools incumbents can use every conservative elected to multiple terms becomes a RINO. Every constituent can rationalize support for a multiterm evolving RINO if he\she can get their snout in the taxpayer trough. Rotation in office is necessary even if it’s enforced by term limits.
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
State legislatures can’t do worse!
Term limits for the House!
Here is another good article taken from Epoch Times:
thanks. Multi year subscriber to them.. Always insightful info versus the other publications/ sites
My fear.
The lawyers/plants in the jury will work to sway the normies in the jury with their “knowledge and judgement
Bingo. They will say this is what we legally have to follow per the judges orders.
gives them a weasel way out of any other opinion they may have .
Bash said, “But just to be clear, you have faith in the jury system. and in particular again, these 12 ordinary Americans who are going to ultimately decide?” (what a biased, loaded question!)
Scott said, “I know that 96% is the number I’ve heard of the number of Democrats in that area of Manhattan. So I hope that they come to the right decision. I assume that he will be found innocent.”
They were hand selected by the prosecutor. Hardly “ordinary”. No matter what, CNN is ALWAYS spinning.
They try to sound reasonable while they know they are protecting their bias. The uninformed will fall for that, but those of us who look at all angles and see thier past deceptions know better
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