October, 2020, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: A Small Town Mayor Goes TDS, A U.S.Senator Goes Trivial, and the Washington Post Goes After Kids

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) Politicians in a perfect world would be dignified leaders, respective of all of their voters. However, anyone who has followed this blog knows that American politicians are overwhelmingly NOT leaders, dignified and respective. They are usually greedy, shallow, and ineffective people that never get anything accomplished.

Such is the case of the mayor of a small town in the rural areas of New Jersey and her recent childish outburst:

• Flemington, New Jersey is an old, quaint town in the rolling hills in western New Jersey, about five miles from where I used to live.
• The current mayor is Betsy Driver who I am assuming is a Democrat, given she is not a big fan of Trump.
• She is so not a fan that she recently, on her Facebook page likened Trump supporters to “religious zealots” who want to “enact the Christian version of Sharia law.”
• First of all, I did not know there is a Christian version of Sharia and I doubt it exists because it looks like the good mayor is in the throes of a TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, attack.
• Not only does she slander every Trump supporter and make up a fake Christian tenet, she goes over the edge with her follow up comments: “If you voted for the orange monster with COVID, go f— yourself. If you plan on voting for him again, unfriend me and go f— yourself again.”
• To say this is a dignified leader would be comical, she is on the verge of being certifiable crazy.
• County Republicans properly pointed out how intolerable and insulting her words were, calling them shameful and insulting and calling for the good, wacko mayor to resign:“Your statement is antithetical to the principles of representative democracy. It is further proof that you do not represent the people of Flemington, the character of Hunterdon County, and the values of at least part of the Democrat party.”

But the whole situation gets even funnier and more ridiculous in that the mayor claims that her words were taken out of context! Really not sure how “go F___ yourself” can be taken out of any context imaginable, seems pretty straightforward. 

Which gets us to another sad attribute of American opticians: when they say ridiculous stuff like “go F__ yourself” was taken out of context do they think we are too stupid to realize how inane her comment is or does she really believe her statement? In either case, she is obviously unfit to fairly serve ALL of her constituents in the town of Flemington, Republicans and Democrats.

2) We have often wondered out loud which member of Congress has said the most stupid things over the years. Nancy Pelosi was the long time leading candidate for that title but over the past few years people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sheila Jackson Lee have come on strong with absolutely ignorant and/or silly statements.

But there is a newcomer to this competition. Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono has come up with some pretty good idiotic comments lately, the latest one coming from the Senate hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Cooney Barrett:

• The good Senator actually asked Judge Barrett if she had ever sexually assaulted another person.
• Now, keep in mind there was no evidence she did, no one had come forward to claim that actually happened, it was just a ridiculous, unfounded and stiupid thing to ask a well respected judge and woman.
• The exchange between the Senator and Judge went as follows:

Hirono: I ask each nominee these two questions and I will ask them of you. Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?

Barrett: No, Senator Hirono.

Hirono: Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?

Barrett: No, Senator.

Roe Vs. Wade, Gun Control, Judicial Overreach, Civil Rights, etc., there are dozens of important issues that the Senator could have asked of the judge. But no, she decided to ask these two ridiculous questions that have no basis in reality. What a waste of time and breath.

Would she have asked these same questions if Joe Biden was nominated for the court, given his extensive sexual harassment and sexual predator beahviors that are well documented? I doubt it because the hypocrisy is strong with every Washington politician.

3) It has always been our position that democracy needs a strong, independent, smart, and unbiased press. Such a strong press would make sure that misbehaving politicians stay in place since those in the free press would be honest, stay in integrity, and chase down stories regardless of whose political party the subject of that story was associated with.

But, sadly, that is not the situation today in this country. Different media and journalism entities have taken sides in the political discourse in this country, standing up for one part of the political spectrum no matter how corrupt while trying to find even the tiniest hint of wrongdoing on other parts of the spectrum.

The Washington Post is no different. Its reporting and blatant hatred for anything Trump is well documented and known, as illustrated in the following bit of tripe that the Post recently published:

• Amy Cooney Barrett is a very well respected judge who has been nominated to sit on the Supreme Court.
• A couple of weeks ago, she was part of a White House press gathering where Trump introduced her as his nominee for the Court.
• Judge Barrett and her family attended the gathering.
• Many people at the gathering unfortunately came down with the coronavirus including the President.
• Fortunately, it appears most have recovered from the virus or are on the way to recovery.
• Judge Barrett has a lot of kids, both her own and adopted, who go to school.
• Unfortunately, two students and a teacher at one of her kids’ schools came down with the virus.
• Mind you there is absolutely no evidence that the Barrett kids had anything to do with the infection of these three people, none whatsoever.
• The Barrett kids tested negative for the virus, they stayed at home for a while after the gathering and only went back to school after the school said it was okay to return, they have had no connection to those that were infected, and have no virus symptoms. 
• But that did not stop Post writer, Amanda Prestigiacomo, from publishing a non-story, strongly implying that the Barrett kids, by attending the press gathering, spread the virus to school folks.
• Specifically: “Two students and a teacher at school attended by Barrett children tested positive for coronavirus,” was the headline to her story.
• After publishing this sensationalism headline and opening implications that somehow the Barrett kids are responsible, she then said, “Parents are freaked out though no proven link.”
• The story went on to say that “no evidence linking the school infections to the White House event.”

This was a non-story and yet the Washington Post still ran with it, implying from the title and the first paragraph that Judge Barrett’s kids somehow got these three people infected. It is only after the sensationalism headlines and first paragraph that they admit there is absolutely no evidence that the Trump meeting and Barrett’s kids had anything to do with the infections. A non-story that should have never been written, there is nothing there. So many other bigger issues and national problems to discuss and this newspaper prints this tripe, insinuating the kids did something bad. Disgusting.

Enough insanity for today: a New Jersey mayor goes off the TDS deep end, a U.S. Senator asks ridiculous questions, and the news media loses even more integrity.

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May, 2020, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: More Free POress Failures, Arrogance in the Chicago Mayor's Office, and Bad Priorities In California

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) We have often pointed out that a strong, aggressive, fair, and unbiased free press is critical to defending our rights and freedoms and uncovering scandals and misdeeds by politicians and government officials. We have also often pointed out how the journalism field and news industry in this country have failed to uphold those lofty and important pillars of freedom. 

News reporting and journalism in this country today is a disgrace, amoral, and totally biased to preconceived notions, wants and TV ratings. And the American public has grown more and more tired of journalists and news people being out of integrity for a long time now. According to Gallup, 58% of those surveyed now have very little or no trust in the journalism industry today. That pessimism level was only 28% back in the late 1970s and has trended steadily worse since then.

Nowhere has this failure of the press to be unbiased, fair, and aggressive been more pronounced than in the recent Tara Reade situation. Ms. Reade was a member of Senator Joe Biden’s staff long ago. She has recently accused him of sexual molestation and digitally penetrating her during an encounter many years ago.

When similar accusations were made when Brett Kavanaugh was being considered for the Supreme Court, news outlets, news papers, and news pundits jumped on the accusations immediately and basically concluded that Kavanaugh was guilty of nasty sexual acts without any real proof, facts, or credible evidence, all of which melted away after a very bitter and biased investigation by Congressional Democrats. But the fact remains that the journalism industry in this country jumped on the first inkling of sexual accusation and went hard after Kavanaugh.

But now Ms. Reade comes forth with actually more proof of evidence that Biden is guilty than the Kavanaugh accusers ever had, and the news media, in all forms, somehow choke on their word processing programs:

• It took the New York Times and Washington Post almost three weeks to even acknowledge that the accusations were being made.
• CNN took over three weeks to even acknowledge Ms. Reade’s existence on their website and coverage after that was weak and flaccid.
• And worst of all, National Public Radio (NPR), a left leaning, liberal organization took almost a full month to acknowledge the Reade situation, a fact that NP management recently admitted.
• NPR reporter Asma Khalid, was assigned the Reade story back in March.
• Despite the accusations, Khalid did not speak to Reade initially, claiming that she needed to do some research.Her editor at NPR, Kelly McBride, admits that the research process could have been finished inside of one week.
• Khalid took nearly three weeks to do the “research.”
• Compare that to the Kavanaugh situation where Khalid issued a report ONE DAY after the Kavanaugh accusations broke, i.e. she didn't take three weeks of research and then another week to put the story together.
• Not only did it take so long to actually put the Reade NPR story together, Khalid omitted an interview she did with one of Reade’s friends that could have substantiated the claims that Reade has made.

Again, freedom, liberty and democracy relies on a strong and unbiased news industry to process the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Unfortunately, the biases that exist today across all major news outlets not only distorts or ignores the truth, it undermines our freedoms since now nothing is real, nothing is the truth when all news reporting is done for personal, political, or business gain, truth be damned.

2) Let’s go back out to Chicago. The Mayor of Chicago is Lori Lightfoot. She has placed the city under some pretty stringent stay at home rules. But she acted like a typical “do as I say, not as I do” politician when a few weeks ago she had a beauty salon open up, which violated her own rules, to get a haircut. Her response after getting called out for the violation was that she needed to look good since she was in the public eye. Never mind that she violated her own rules and put other Chicago citizens in danger.

But her hypocrisy has continued since that bad optic beauty salon visit:

• She recently wanted “defiant churches” that she will take action against them if they hold church services in violation of her edicts, the edicts she ignored.
• She had previously warned churches against holding services via what she called “educational outreach.”
• Now, she is getting more aggressive and threatening unspecified action if she continues to be ignored: “We’re going to be communicating over and over again over the course of this week. I understand that people are getting anxious. But defying common sense and public health guidance only puts their congregations at physical risk. We’re going to continue to have that discussion but, if necessary, we are going to take action to make sure there is compliance to the stay-at-home orders.”
• Cristian Ionescu, the pastor at Elim Romanian, called his church’s first in-person service in two months an “extraordinary success” and claimed that his church took extreme measures to protect church participants.
• He went on to say that political leaders should have worked with the churches in the city and state to protect the First Amendment and the congregants rather than dictate terms and conditions for gatherings: “They should cooperate with us, not dictate to us. I take offense that they think they care more about our people than us.”
• Joe Wyrostek, pastor of Metro Praise International Church had the same view: “I just feel like we were put at the back of the bus. We were not in any of the discussions. We have to stand up for ourselves at some point. We’ve lost trust in what they’re doing. We have to peacefully resist and see where it goes.”

It is certainly easy to lose trust in elected officials when they violate their own rules to get their hair looking nice. The purpose and skill of a politician is leading and peacefully coming to a consensus that addresses any many issues and concerns as possible across all parties. Dictating what one should do and not do is not leadership, it is authoritarian.

3) One last piece of local political class insanity to finish up today. We have often pointed out how screwed up the state of California is, from huge unfunded budget liability holes to failing schools to crumbling roads to a dysfunctional housing market to an enormous homeless problem to higher and higher taxes. 

Thus, given these critical issues. One would hope that local and state opticians were hard at work, focused on these issues that probably touch every single resident of the state and not in a good way. 

But you hope would be crushed when you find out what one state politician’s priorities are:

• Evan Low is a California state assemblyman.
• In February, he introduced legislation that would make it illegal for retail stores with 500 or more employees to have separate boys and girls sections for clothing and toys in their stores.
• Of course, such requirements would increase store merchandising costs which would either reduce the stores’ profits or much more likely result in higher prices for consumers and shoppers in those stores.
• Higher prices for absolutely no reason.
• The basis for this proposed law is that the 9 year old daughter of a member of Low’s staff told Low that she did not like it when boys and girls clothes and toys were separate sections.
• As a result, the desires of a nine year old, California may soon require private stores to merchandise their stores according to the whims of a 9 year old.

So rather than work on the budget holes, the homeless problem or probably dozens of other, much more pressing and important issues, this politician is taking advice from a 9 year old on an issue that really is not an issue. I am sure that if you took a poll of Californians about what are the top 50 issues their families face, the separate retail merchandising of boys and girls products does not crack the top 100. And yet this politician is wasting taxpayer wealth and resources on this nonsense.

Nonsense in California, nonsense in newsrooms and nonsense in Chicago, no wonder things are screwed up when politicians and news people have such lousy priorities and moral standards.

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October, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: More Delusions, More Lies, More Bad Priorities

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) It is my opinion that when a left leaning media outlet like the Washington Post dares to be critical of any Democrat or liberal politician, then I sit up and take note. And that is exactly what I did when the Post printed an article by Mark Thiessen that actually dared to criticize Barack Obama as it related to the ill fated, poorly structured, and failure of a nuclear arms deal with Iran:

• Mr. Thiessen actually wrote: “When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration increasingly appears to have been a bottomless pit of deception.”
• He then commences to list the deceptions.
• First off, Obama intentionally failed to tell about the secret side deals he made with the Iranians when it came to inspections of Iranian nuclear weapon facilities.
• These side deals were uncovered only when two Republicans accidentally found out about them at a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• Then it became known that Obama had secretly sent a plan to Iran loaded with $400 million in Swiss francs, euros, and other currencies on the same day Iran released four American hostages.
• Obama then sent two more secret flights carrying $1.3 billion in cash.
• And most recently, Republicans on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations have found out that Obama tried to secretly use U.S. banks to convert $5.7 billion of Iranian assets.
• This happened after he told Congress Iran would not get access to the U.S. financial system.
• He then lied to Congress about what his administration had actually done.
• Specifically: “In July 2015, Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that, under the nuclear accord, Iran “will continue to be denied access to the [U.S.] financial and commercial market” and that “Iranian banks will not be able to clear U.S. dollars through New York, hold correspondent account relationships with U.S. financial institutions, or enter into financing arrangements with U.S. banks.” A few weeks later, one of Lew’s top deputies, Adam Szubin, used the exact same words in testimony to the Senate banking committee.”
• Despite this testimony, on February 24, 2016, Obama’s Treasury Department granted a license to help Iran convert those Iranian assets and then proceeded to try and convince two U.S .banks to carry out the deal.
• In a June, 2016 letter to two Senators, Obama’s Treasury Department declared that, “The U.S. Department of Treasury is not working on behalf of Iran to enable Iranian access to U.S. dollars elsewhere in the international financial system, nor are we assisting Iran in gaining access to dollar payment systems outside the U.S. financial system. The Administration has not been and is not planning to grant Iran access to the U.S. financial system.” 
• In summary, according to the article: “In other words, the Obama administration: (1) told Congress it would not allow Iran access to U.S. financial institutions; (2) issued a special license allowing Iran to do exactly that; (3) unsuccessfully pressured U.S. banks to help Iran; (4) lied to Congress and the American people about what it had done; (5) admitted in internal emails that these efforts “exceeded” U.S. obligations under the nuclear deal; (6) sent officials, including bank regulators around the world to urge foreign financial institutions to do business with Iran; and (7) promised that they would get nothing more than a slap on the wrist for violating U.S. sanctions."

Wow, talk about lying to Congress and the American public. And yet, nobody went to jail, nobody got impeached, nobody had a career cut short even though the lying on just this issue was blatant, recurring, and illegal. And yet Joe Biden recently reiterated the myth that the Obama administration was “scandal free.” Another whopper of a lie and more aspects of a so lame nuclear weapons deal with Iran.

2) We have given hundreds of examples of politicians acting badly. Examples of blatant lies, greed, idiocy, incompetence, bad priorities, and legislative and governance failures. And delusion, as shown again by losing 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton:

• For over two years Hillary has blamed a whole variety of reasons why she lost the election, never once really blaming herself for her own failures.
• And she has recently emerged again with a whole set of weird observations and excuses for her failed campaign.
• First, she claims that Trump is “obsessed” with her even though he hardly ever mentions her name, indicating a certain level of delusion and paranoia on her part.
• She views him as a “corrupt human tornado,” ignoring the corruptness of her public life, from lying about so many things (e.g. she did NOT land under sniper fire in Bosnia as she claimed), operating a money laundering scheme known as the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State, breaking laws and government security protocols by operating and using an unsecure computer server in her home, etc.
• She claimed that Trump’s victory was “illegitimate,” a belief which has no basis in reality when you consider he had well over 60 million votes and won the Electoral College.
• She then said she refuses to accept another four years of a Trump Presidency as if she has anything to say about it relative to 120 million voters.

Delusional, bitter, and still bitching two plus years after the fact that she lost to a political novice. Please just go away and leave us alone, we need people in office that come up with forward looking solutions not backward looking resentment.

3) Let’s finish up today with another loony idea and another bad set of priorities, this all from current Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. According to Ryan Saavedra, writing for the Daily Wire website:

• Warren believes that inmates in prison are “entitled” to get transgender surgery that is paid for by American taxpayers.
• She made this assertion and view during a recent interview on CNN.
• This is a reversal of a previous stand where she said it was wrong to have taxpayers pay for this surgery.
• Specifically: “I believe that everyone is entitled to medical care and medical care that they need and that includes people who are transgender who, um, it is time for them to have [transgender] surgery. I just think that’s important.”
• She had recently proclaimed that if elected, “I will direct the Bureau of Prisons to end the Trump Administration’s dangerous policy of imprisoning transgender people in facilities based on their sex assigned at birth.”

So much insanity with this, tough to figure out where to begin:

• Do these prisoners only have a right or are “entitled” to transgender surgery at taxpayer expense while they are in prison or should they get it when they are out of prison?
• Why are only prisoners, people who have broken the laws of society, entitled to taxpayer funded transgender surgery and not those peaceful citizens that have broken no laws?
• Why do prisoners have the right to this non-life saving, optional surgery when tens of millions of Americans have no access or cannot afford access to life sustaining medical and health care in this country, shouldn’t that be a higher priority than a minuscule set of people in prison who are not in need of life saving surgery?
• Where in the Constitution does it say that these folks in prison have a right or are “entitled” to this type of surgery?

As we have said so many times in this blog, current politicians have such a sad and pathetic set of priorities. Millions of American are homeless and hungry, untold millions are in need of drug addiction help, our roads and bridges are falling apart, Social Security and Medicare are hurtling towards financial insolvency, our public schools for the most part do a terrible job educating our kids, issues far more important and far reaching than transgender surgery for prisoners. 

These are some serious issues to be faced and addressed in this country. But Warren, like most of her peers in the political class, have no clue how to fix them, As a result they fixate on trivial matters such as funding transgender surgery with taxpayer money, an issue, if it even is an issue, that affects a tiny, tiny fraction of Americans.

More bad priorities, more delusions, and more lies from the American political class, a pretty standard day in the neighborhood.

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October, 2019, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Lying Politicians, Greedy Politicians, and Clueless Politicians

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) It is our experience that the Washington Post loves anything and everything Democratic and liberal. So it really catches our attention when it says anything negative about Democrats and liberals, as they recently did in the midst of the whole Ukraine/impeachment circus:

• Adam Schiff is the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives calling for the impeachment of Trump.
• The whole false basis of Schiff’s impeachment theory is the story of an unknown whistleblower.
• In order for the whole impeachment fallacy to have any kind of integrity it must be seen that Schiff is just an investigator and not a planner of the whistleblower’s story.
• In fact Schiff claimed in an MSNBC interview that he and his staff had “not spoken directly with the whistleblower.”
• But in fact, the Washington Post gave Schiff its highest designation of lying, four Pinochios, since that is not true: "Schiff on 'Morning Joe' clearly made a statement that was false. He now says he was answering the wrong question, but if that was the case, he should have quickly corrected the record. He compounded his falsehood by telling reporters a few days later that if not for the [inspector general's] office, the committee would not have known about the complaint. That again suggested there had been no prior communication. The explanation that Schiff was not sure it was the same whistleblower especially strains credulity. Schiff earns Four Pinocchios."

Again, if the Washington Post thinks you are lying despite being a Democrat, then you must REALLY be lying to get the highest rating of lying. But a Washington politician lying should not come as a surprise, we have shown hundreds of times in this blog the propensity of politicians everywhere to look us in the face and lie directly to us. It is just nice every once in a while to see a liberal piece of the mainstream media actually agree with us.

2) Kamala Harris is a California Senator who is running for President. In a recent public event she violated the first rule of public speaking, “know your audience”:

• She was recently speaking at a town hall event in Reno, Nevada when she said she wanted to “engage in real talk” about next year’s Presidential race.
• She addressed a topic that is being asked of every candidate, namely is she or anyone else who is running electable: “In this election, in the last couple- I mean, maybe couple of months, certainly a few weeks, there’s this whole conversation that has been coming up about electability focused on our campaign. Is America ready for that?”
• When she posed this question to the audience, is the world ready for her to be elected as President, people in the audience shouted out “No!”
• A little shook, Harris responded to the negativity by saying, “Well, yes they are.” 

Again, Ms. Harris, 1) know your audience and 2) do not ask a question that you may not like the answer to. Not only do the overwhelming number of Democrats not want you to be their candidate (Harris polls in the single digits, well behind several other candidates) you were not smart enough not to ask a loaded question in an open forum. Given you cannot control a small audience in Nevada, it is doubtful you could control the office of the Presidency.

The embarrassing exchange can be seen at:

https://preservefreedom.org/kamala-harris-get-publicly-humiliated-after-she-asks-crowd-this/

3) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is a freshman Congresswoman from Michigan. She has been a very vocal, crude, and profane enemy of Trump, Israel, and anyone who does not agree with her socialistic views. She is quick to criticize, often in profane terms, but provides no positive energy, ideas, or programs to fix anything that needs fixing in this country.

But there may be some karma coming to the forefront as she may have gotten herself into some serious illegal activity:

• According to Politico, the House Ethics Committee is reviewing a potential campaign financing issue incurred by Tlaib.
• This happened during her 2018 campaign for Congress.
• The committee has recommended that a preliminary investigation be done with the alleged violation being that Tlaib took money from her campaign financial funds after the election was over, a violation of campaign financing laws and regulations.
• She allegedly took $17,500 from her campaign funds after the election on November 6, 2018.
• The payments of the $17,500 took place on November 16 and December 1.
• Her office denied that any violations occurred.

Although innocent until proven guilty, it is interesting that three of the four freshman Congresswomen of “The Squad,” who have spouted off nonsense and hatred since being elected, Tlaib, Omar, and Ocasio-Cortez, have all been accused or proven to have violated financial guidelines when it comes to personal financial gain. 

Seems that it did not take the newbies long to figure out how to get rich while accomplishing nothing in a do nothing Congress. It is just their bad luck not to be good at skimming funds, they all may have been caught and are guilty of financial misdeeds for personal gain.

That is a good start to this month’s insanity: politicians skimming money for personal gain, politicians lying, and politicians too stupid to know their audience. More insanity to follow.

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How The American Journalism Profession Is Destroying The First Amendment and Our Democracy, Part 2

One of the once great things about this country was the First Amendment and the freedom of press guaranteed by it. A free press helps offset the nefarious political ambitions and freedom encroachments of politicians by keeping their actions in the sunlight of visibility, disclosure, and scrutiny, i.e. it helps keeps politicians honest. 

Unfortunately, we for the most part do not have an unbiased, free press anymore in this country but not in the way you think. Most people, when they think that the free press has been suppressed, consider many of the actions of Presidents like Obama, who was one of the worst Presidents when it came to undermining the free press guarantee of the First Amendment:

• He went after and prosecuted more whistleblowers than every other President combined.
• He spied on journalists who he thought was an enemy of his views and efforts without proper cause or warrants.
• His administration fought tooth and nail, more than any other President, to block legitimate and legal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
• His administration even tried to illegally charge a legitimate news gathering organization, the Associated Press, an outrageous sum of money for a FOIA request.

All of these acts undermined freedom of the press in the traditional way. But unfortunately, freedom of the press has been undermined over recent years not by politicians but by the press industry and journalists themselves. For the most part, and especially at the national level, news organizations have gone from reporting the facts, realities, and news in an unbiased way to shaping those facts, realities, and news in a very biased way. 

When journalists lose their integrity and ethics, the bedrock of their industry and profession, they undermine the First Amendment as much as some shady politician who is trying to get by with shady and unethical behavior. How far have journalists fallen down the integrity scale in Americans’ minds? In a recent Gallup poll:

• Only 20% of those polled said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in television news.
• 45% said they had very little or no confidence in television news.
• Newspapers do not do much better with 23% saying they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers while 40% saying they very little or no confidence in newspapers.
• Ironically they both did better than Congress whose ratings were the most abysmal among all major American institutions.

Note: The first half of the discussion on this theme can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-american-journalism-profession-is.html

1) Let’s start off today’s discussion with a recent poll that was written up by Warner Todd Huston on November 14, 2018 for the Godfather Politics website:

• The poll found that a whopping 72% of American blame the mainstream news media for many of the problems in this country since the media is “dividing Americans” and “spreading hate.”
• The poll was done by the respected polling outfit, Zogby Analytics.
• According to Zogby: “[respondents] felt the mainstream media spreads hate and misunderstanding, also felt that President Trump is responsible for the spread of hate and misunderstanding, but more voters overall, and in most sub-groups, blame the media slightly more!”
• And: “Overall, 72 percent said “the mainstream media has played a major role in dividing Americans along racial, gender and political lines. This has led to a spread of hate and misunderstanding among some people.”
• The overwhelming Republicans in the poll sample felt that the media was most to blame but even a majority of Democrats in the poll agreed that the mainstream media was most to blame.
• President Trump also caught flak for contributing to spreading hate and dividing Americans but the mainstream media was the clear winner in this question.

Thus, the First Amendment, which envisioned a free press providing clear, fair, and balanced news reporting has been undermined by at least the perception of almost three out of every four Americans that instead of being fair and vital to our democracy, they are guilty of dividing us and spreading hate.

2) The mainstream media has had a mortal and dedicated hatred for Trump even before he was elected. They definitely lean liberal and no doubt most wanted Hillary elected as President. Since they did not get what they wanted, they have gone after Trump for just about every affront they could imagine to the concept of the “free press.”

But as we have pointed out so many times in this blog, these same members of the media stood aside and let Obama get away with so many lies and so many transgressions against the First Amendment, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the rule of law. Two of those posts can be accessed below:

Shredding the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Rule of law: http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-2-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

Lies: http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/10/part-1-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

Which leads us to a fascinating article in the New York Times on December 30, 2016 by James Risen. Not only does the article provide a fascinating point of view on how the mainstream media is so biased but it was printed in the New York Times, one of the most biased, skewed, Trump hating journalistic endeavor out there:

• The title of the article was, “If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama.”
• Mr. Risen correctly points out that Obama and his administration went out and prosecuted nine government whistle blowers during its eight years, three times the number that all previous Presidents COMBINED had gone after.
• Obama reached back to the Espionage Act, a leftover relic from the first world war 100 years ago, not to go after real spies, the original purpose of the law, but to get government employees who dared to talk to the press.
• In addition, according to Mr. Risen, “Under Mr. Obama, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have spied on reporters by monitoring their phone records, labeled one journalist an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal case for simply doing reporting and issued subpoenas to other reporters to try to force them to reveal their sources and testify in criminal cases.”
• Mr. Risen himself got caught up in the Obama headhunting when Obama era officials tried to force him to reveal a confidential source.
• According to Leonard Downie, a former executive editor at the Washington Post and now a journalism teacher at Arizona State University (i.e. this guy has some credibility as a journalism professional) in a 2013 report from the Committee to Protect Journalists, Obama’s pressure on journalists was “the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post’s investigation of Watergate.”
• According to Trevor Timm who is the executive director of the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation: “Obama has laid all the groundwork Trump needs for an unprecedented crackdown on the press.” 
• And it gets worse: Dana Priest, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, stated: “Obama’s attorney general repeatedly allowed the F.B.I. to use intrusive measures against reporters more often than any time in recent memory. The moral obstacles have been cleared for Trump’s attorney general to go even further, to forget that it’s a free press that has distinguished us from other countries, and to try to silence dissent by silencing an institution whose job is to give voice to dissent.”
• While historically finding and stopping leaks had been a low priority of previous Presidencies, that changed with Obama according to Mr. Risen: “The Obama administration quickly ratcheted up the pressure, and made combating leaks a top priority for federal law enforcement. Large-scale leaks, by Chelsea Manning and later by Edward J. Snowden, prompted the administration to adopt a zealous, prosecutorial approach toward all leaking.”
• According to Lucy Dalglish, the dean at the journalism school at the University of Maryland, after meeting with Obama officials to discuss news reporting and government sources: “You got the impression from the tone of the government officials that they wanted to take a zero-tolerance approach to leaks.”
• Ms. Dalglish has stated that if Trump is as bad as Obama when it comes to stifling the First Amendment it is because “Obama handed him a road map.”

And yet when Obama was abusing the journalism industry and profession, those in high, visible, and public positions within the mainstream media gave Obama a pass. When Trump does the same thing, even at a fraction of the intensity and hate that Obama did the same thing, these same “journalists” go ballistic. This is what I call hypocrisy and just another reason why they or any hypocrite, cannot be trusted to have a unbiased and objective reporting of the news. 

The journalists in this country have been entrusted with a very important component of our democracy and sadly, they flub that responsibility just about every day of their working lives.

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