Donald Trump's Winning the Narrative

The terrorism narrative, which is to say, he talking plainly about terrorism, the way regular people talk about terrorism, especially New Yorkers (who should know a thing or two about terrorism).

From James Robbins, at USA Today, "Trump's winning terrorist narrative":

For more than a year, Donald Trump has been raising an alarm about the upswing of terrorism in the United States, promising to address it head-on without any of Washington’s usual political pieties. Jargon-laden responses to terror attacks from the White House and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign only tend to confirm Trump voters' worst fears about the Washington establishment, rather than build support for the Obama-Clinton approach to fighting the Islamic State terrorist group.

On Saturday a pressure cooker bomb detonated in a Manhattan dumpster, wounding 29. A second device was found blocks away and disarmed. This followed a pipe bombing that morning in Seaside Park, N.J., targeting the Marine Semper Fi 5K fundraising race. Fortunately, only one bomb detonated and no one was harmed.

On Sunday, five bombs were found in a backpack near a train station in Elizabeth, N.J. On Monday one suspected terrorist, Afghan immigrant Ahmad Rahami, was arrested after a shootout with police in Linden.

While all this was playing out on the East Coast, on Saturday a man went on a stabbing rampage at a mall in St. Cloud, Minn., wounding nine people before being gunned down by an off-duty police officer. The assailant, Somali immigrant Dahir Adan, whom ISIL claimed as a “soldier,” asked one of his victims whether he was a Muslim before stabbing him.

Monday morning, White House spokesman Josh Earnest attempted to calm rattled public nerves, saying that “when it comes to ISIL, we are in a fight, a narrative fight with them, a narrative battle.” He assured us we are winning it. Democratic presidential candidate Clinton quickly echoed this line, and accused Trump of giving “aid and comfort” to the terrorists by counseling a get-tough approach against radical Islam that strays from the administration’s more restrained rhetoric.

The White House response that America is successfully challenging ISIL’s "narrative" is cold comfort when improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are blowing up on American streets...

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Mark Steyn on 'The O'Reilly Factor' (VIDEO)

At great segment.

I miss Mark Steyn:

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton Calls for 'Tolerance' After Crossroads Mall Jihad Attack

"Tolerance."

I think Americans are just about out of "tolerance" at this point. We've been so "tolerant" we're about to die from it.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "Tone-Deaf Governor Calls for ‘Tolerance’ After ISIS Stabbing."

Samantha Hoopes Visits Coney Island (VIDEO)

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Obama Won't Acknowledge Terrorism

From the impeccable Michael Goodwin, at the New York Post, "Obama won’t acknowledge terrorism — and it’s great news for Trump":

Poor President Obama. He had a perfect plan — to use his final UN speech Tuesday to secure his reputation for putting Globalism First. He would preen to the assembled autocrats and bureaucrats about forcing America to take in a record number of refugees, and blast Donald Trump for putting America First.

Hillary Clinton also had a perfect plan. She would keep attacking Trump and his supporters as dangerous and deplorable in hopes that she could scare her way into the White House. With Obama playing the race card to help her with black voters, Clinton would wrap her arms ever more tightly around the president and his policies between now and November.

But terrorist bombings and stabbings are great disrupters, especially when they involve both New York and the heartland in a single weekend. The disruption becomes unbearable when the attacks allegedly are carried out by foreign-born Muslims who were welcomed here with open arms, then turned on their generous American hosts.

Events have a voice and a vote, and the terrorism in Minnesota, New Jersey and New York is scrambling the presidential campaign. It also revealed Mayor Putz to be a horse’s ass as he twisted himself into a pretzel to deny calling the Manhattan bomb a bomb and terrorism terrorism. New Yorkers know that when a bomb goes off on a public street and another one is disarmed nearby, it’s terrorism, stupid.

While the scramble for political safe spaces is still under way, the advantage so far clearly belongs to Trump. His gut instinct to call the Saturday bombings what they were, combined with his demand that refugees and immigrants from countries with a history of terrorism be given tougher scrutiny, fit the nation’s mood and the facts.

Is there any doubt he’s right when he says political correctness has handcuffed law enforcement and that more attacks are coming? Or that his backing by numerous law-enforcement groups reciprocates his support for them? It is a potent message when Americans believe they are less safe than they were eight years ago.

The result of the mayhem and Trump’s boldness is that Obama and Clinton are playing defense. The president hoped to avoid saying anything Monday, no doubt viewing the attacks as a distraction from the lofty thoughts he wants to express at the UN, but events forced him out of his hidey hole...

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Americans' Trust in the Media Sinks to Record Low

Well, I'm glad.

I'm not glad trust is sinking. I'm just glad that folks are reporting the survey findings. The media's been a total disgrace lately. It's definitely worse than ever.

At Gallup, "Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low":

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' trust and confidence in the mass media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. This is down eight percentage points from last year...

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Jackie Johnson's Partly Cloudy and Warm Forecast

Via CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Democrat 'Our Values' Talking Point: It's Not 'Annoying' — It's Evil

This is an excellent post, at Legal Insurrection, "Annoying Dem Meme ‘o the Day: Hillary & Obama As Defenders of ‘Our Values’."

But if you'll indulge me, I'll offer a correction: Democrats claiming to stand up for "our values" is a longstanding meme I've noticed over the last few years, starting with President Obama himself, when he intones, "That's not who we are." I've repeatedly mocked this meme, and as you can see it's become an organized talking point on the Democrat side. It's not "annoying" though." It's evil. Leftists do not get to define "our values," simply because they don't accept our values. They don't endorse American exceptionalism and the country's historic vision of the "City on a Hill." Frankly, Democrats from Obama on down have been apologizing for these very same values for the last eight years, starting with the Apologist-in-Chief's Cairo speech.

No, we're way past the "annoying" stage. Redefining "our values" is central to Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America. Patriots must recognize this rhetoric for what it is and call it out every time for enabling our enemies and getting Americans killed.

You stupid, evil woman. https://t.co/udHCj5YApf

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 19, 2016

Ahmad Khan Rahami 'Vacationed' in Afghanistan, Brought Pakistani Wife Back Home

Oh brother. This kinda thing's getting to be a model for American jihad, apparently.

Syed Rizwan Farook's wife, Tashfeen Malik, was from Paksitan as well. He picked her up while visiting Saudi Arabia. They were wonderfully "assimilated" into American life, that is, until they slaughtered fourteen innocent co-workers at the San Bernardino government center.

In any case, at the Los Angeles Times, "Suspect in New York-area bombings had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan":

Rahami "vacationed" several times in Afghanistan, majored in "criminal justice reform." He imported a wife here from Middle East.

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 19, 2016

Ahmad Khan Rahami, a suspect in the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey, had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan several times in recent years, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation.

Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan who was captured Monday after a shootout with police, had taken three separate, months-long trips to Pakistan, traveling from there to Afghanistan, the officials said.

Investigators say Rahami had married a Pakistani woman whom he brought with him to the U.S.

The woman left the U.S. for Pakistan in recent days and was intercepted by officials in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the U.S. official said.

Officials do not know whether she was aware of Rahami’s plans.

Prosecutors in New Jersey on Monday charged Rahami with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon in connection with the shootout in Linden, N.J., that led to his arrest.

No charges related to the bombings had been filed by late Monday.  Superior Court Judge Regina Caulfield in Union County, N.J., set bail at $5.2 million.

Linden is near Elizabeth, N.J., where Rahami lived with his family, Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said.

Rahami, 28, was in surgery after being shot three times by police — in the shoulder, the forearm and leg.

An account from the Union County prosecutor’s office said Rahami was taken into custody after a uniformed police officer approached a man later identified as Rahami about 10:30 a.m. outside a bar in Linden.

“At that time, Rahami immediately produced a handgun and shot the officer in the torso, striking him in his protective vest,” prosecutors said in a statement...

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Chelsea Bombing Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami Taken Into Custody (VIDEO)

Following-up, "More on Ahmad Khan Rahami."

Updates at Memeorandum.

Waterboard the mofo. #ahmadrahami https://t.co/3yLtjesEqt

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) September 19, 2016

More on Ahmad Khan Rahami

Following-up, "Ahmad Khan Rahami: Suspect in New York City Bombing is Identified."

At WSJ, "Afghan Immigrant Sought in New York Bombing":

Authorities on Monday named the man they want in connection with a bomb that exploded in Manhattan over the weekend—saying the 28-year-old Elizabeth, N.J., man may be “armed and dangerous’’ after a series of bombs were placed around the New York City area.

Meanwhile Monday morning at an Elizabeth train station, an explosive device recovered by authorities near a trash can detonated as investigators were attempting to disarm it with a robot, authorities said.

The target of the manhunt was identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, a U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan. Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the man’s northern New Jersey home on Monday, officials said, one of several searches being conducted in the area as the terrorism investigation intensified.

Officials suspect Mr. Rahami is responsible for a bomb that detonated Saturday evening in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 29 people. A follow-up search of the neighborhood by police revealed a similar, unexploded homemade bomb left on the street. Authorities think whoever placed those bombs may also be responsible for a pipe bomb that exploded on the street of the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park earlier that day, according to law-enforcement officials. No one was injured in the earlier explosion.

The ‘’Wanted” poster issued by the FBI doesn't explicitly call Mr. Rahami a suspect, but several law-enforcement officials say he is the person they believe is behind the bomb plot. The officials are working to determine if any other individuals may have been involved.

Counterterrorism officials are trying to determine if Mr. Rahami may have been part of a terror cell, officials added.

Authorities released a photo of the man and described him as 5-feet-6 and weighing about 200 pounds. Mr. Rahami has brown hair, brown eyes and brown facial hair, the FBI said.

The race to solve the bombing accelerated Sunday evening, when New York police and the FBI stopped a vehicle near the Verrazano Bridge. Five people in the vehicle were questioned in connection with the bomb probe but were not charged. Law-enforcement officials described those people as relatives and friends of Mr. Rahami.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that vehicle stop “was helpful’’ to investigators in zeroing in on Mr. Rahami. The mayor said the FBI was looking “more closely’’ at the connections between a bomb that detonated in Manhattan Saturday night, another bomb that was found four blocks away, and the Seaside Park pipe bomb.

On Sunday night, authorities were alerted to a suspicious device found outside the Elizabeth, N.J. train station. When a robot was sent to probe the package, one of the bombs inside detonated, officials said.

FBI officials said the package contained multiple homemade bombs. “In the course of rendering one of the devices safe, it detonated,’’ the FBI said in a statement. No one was injured by the blast.

In a fresh sign of the urgency officials feel in trying to stop additional bomb attacks, alerts were sent to New Yorkers’ cell phones urging them to contact authorities if they see Mr. Rahami or have any information about him.

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Ahmad Khan Rahami: Suspect in New York City Bombing is Identified

Fox News just posted the photo of the suspect, named Ahmad Khan.

Expect updates...

More, from ABC News:

UPDATE: Source: Cell phone left behind with pressure cooker helped police identify Rahami: https://t.co/0DyOKLab9P pic.twitter.com/sMgu1rq8jX

— ABC News (@ABC) September 19, 2016

A Weekend of Coincidences

Following-up, "Bomb and Knife Attacks Rattle the U.S."

Here's Robert Spencer, at FrontPage Magazine, "Incidents in NYC, New Jersey and Minnesota look an awful lot like jihad, but the denial is as thick as ever":

It was a weekend of coincidences: acts declared not to be terrorism that just happened to look a great deal like…terrorism.

After a bomb went off at 23rd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan and another bomb was found four blocks away, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said: In a press conference in the aftermath, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said, “This was an intentional act.” However, he added that he didn’t think it was terrorism, and refused to agree with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said that the bombing was “obviously an act of terrorism.”

De Blasio’s position was entirely incoherent: what is an intentional bombing if it isn’t terrorism? Cuomo made a bit more sense as he explained that while it was obviously terrorism, “it’s not linked to international terrorism. In other words, we’ve found no ISIS connection.”

Very well. So he was leaving the door open to it being “right-wing extremists.” But was it an act of jihad? Both de Blasio and Cuomo were committed to denying that there is any jihad that has anything to do with terrorism in the first place, so they would never answer (or, given the state of the mainstream media, be asked) that question, but just to assert that the bombing was not terrorism, or international terrorism, did not entirely rule out that it may have been an act of Islamic jihadis. Yet De Blasio remained mystified: “We know it was a very serious incident, but we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this. Was it a political motivation? Was it a personal motivation? We do not know that yet.”

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Bomb and Knife Attacks Rattle the U.S.

I've got Fox & Friends on right now, and there's an FBi raid happening at this moment in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

I can't wait until authorities release the names of the suspects. If they're Muslim, oh boy, it's going to rattle the campaign.

At WSJ, "Bombs in New York and New Jersey, Stabbing Attacks in Minnesota Stoke Unease":

Three violent attacks over the weekend that left almost 40 people injured remained shrouded in questions, but together they fueled growing fears among authorities about terror assaults by small groups, lone wolves or simply deranged individuals.

And even as those were under investigation, a suspicious device found in a trash can near a train station in Elizabeth, N.J., exploded early Monday as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a robot, officials said, according to the Associated Press.

Among the earlier incidents, police said a man dressed as a security guard injured nine people in knife attacks late Saturday at a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minn. He was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.

Authorities said they were investigating it as a possible terrorist incident.

Islamic State-linked Amaq Agency called the man “a soldier of the Islamic State” who “carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition.”

The man, whom police didn’t identify, made references to Allah and asked at least one victim if he was Muslim. He was identified as Somali-American.

In New York, authorities were searching for a bomb maker who set off a blast near a large trash container on a Manhattan street Saturday evening that left 29 people injured from flying debris, including shrapnel.

Police subsequently found an unexploded bomb four blocks away. Authorities said they had identified a “person of interest” in the bombing they would like to speak to.

Earlier in New Jersey, officials said they didn’t yet know whether a pipe bomb that went off before a charity run at a seashore resort Saturday morning was linked to any terror group. Officials were also trying to determine if the Manhattan bombs and the New Jersey device were made by the same individual or group.

No injuries were reported from the blast at Seaside Park as thousands of runners were set to participate in the benefit for Marines and sailors.

The attacks, coming as world leaders gathered in New York City for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, heightened concern that similar assaults could be mounted elsewhere, especially in public places with large crowds that are difficult to protect...

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'Face the Nation' Host John Dickerson Pounds Kellyanne Conway on the Left's 'Birther' Obsession (VIDEO)

Ms. Conway handles the harassment like a true professional.

I think the "birther" controversy will be seen as the last gasp of Clinton's hopes if Donald Trump goes on to win the election.

It's really pathetic.

At CBS:

Hillary's Hexed and Vexed by the White Working Class Vote

Heh.

Like I said at the last post, I love this stage of the election. And it's not just Hilary who's hexed. The mainstream media's hexed too. Hexed and vexed, lol.

At WSJ, "White, Working Class Voters Vex Hillary Clinton":

WASHINGTON, Pa.— Hillary Clinton isn’t banking on winning pockets of Pennsylvania and Ohio packed with the sort of white, working class voters flocking to Republican Donald Trump. She just wants to avoid a wipeout.

Mr. Trump’s path to victory in these battleground states hinges on running up overwhelming margins in largely white counties, neutralizing Mrs. Clinton’s advantage among minority and college-educated voters clustered in the cities and suburbs.

With polls showing the race tightening in these states, Mrs. Clinton is deploying two allies to try to cut into Mr. Trump’s numbers: her husband and Vice President Joe Biden.
The Clinton campaign reckons that if anyone can make inroads with blue collar voters unhappy about their prospects and cool to Mrs. Clinton, it is these two, who came from hardscrabble backgrounds that give them a natural cultural and economic affinity to this slice of the electorate.

One of their prime targets is Pennsylvania. The state is emerging as a firewall for her campaign in blocking Mr. Trump from reaching the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. If he loses Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, he faces daunting odds in clearing the threshold, analysts say.

“Where’s the tipping-point state—the state that would put Trump over 270? I think you can make a stronger case for Pennsylvania than for any other state,” said Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report. “She has to win that, so I think investing a lot of time in that makes a lot of sense.”

Democrats haven’t lost Pennsylvania since 1988 and polls show Mrs. Clinton leads here, but she has been losing ground.

A new Muhlenberg College/Morning Call poll found Mrs. Clinton with a nine-point lead among likely Pennsylvania voters in a head-to-head matchup with Mr. Trump, and an eight-point lead when third-party candidates are included.

A Real Clear Politics average of polling in the state shows she is ahead by about six points, down from nine points for much of last month.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign wouldn’t say how well she would like to do among the state’s white, working class voters, but one benchmark is the 2012 presidential race. That year, Mr. Obama won Pennsylvania by carrying 42% of this constituency, compared with 56% for Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Democrats say Mrs. Clinton didn’t help herself when she made a comment in March that her energy policies were “going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” She later said she was “mistaken in my remarks.”

Jim Davis, chairman of the Democratic Party in Fayette County, Pa., near the West Virginia border, said Mrs. Clinton’s comments stung. “It resonates here and Trump has capitalized on it,” he said. “She’s hurt herself in Pennsylvania.”

Mr. Davis was among the customers and Democratic officials who greeted Mr. Clinton when the former president recently stopped at an Italian restaurant in the county to shake hands. It was one of two stops Mr. Clinton made that day behind partisan lines—in a pair of southwestern Pennsylvania counties won by the Republicans in 2008 and 2012...

With the polls tightening, I've been paying more attention to the Electoral College math, and I don't see much hope for Trump --- or at least much margin for error --- unless he's able to win the Keystone state. When polls are running neck-and-neck there, I'll start getting a little more emotional about things.

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Deep Concern Among Democrats About Hillary Clinton's Hispanic Strategy

Following-up from earlier, "Hillary Clinton Struggles in Florida."

One of Hillary's biggest problems in Florida is she can't hold the same numbers of Latinos that Obama did in 2012. Indeed, her shrinking Latino vote could cost her the state, when combined with a lot of folks who've said they're just going to stay home.

I'm loving this phase of the campaign. The Democrats are truly freakin' out, and they get more desperate in the attacks each week. I think the rank-and-file are full of it.

At the Washington Post, "Among Democrats, deep concern about Clinton’s Hispanic strategy" (via Memeorandum):

Lagging support among Hispanic voters for Hillary Clinton and congressional candidates in crucial races has stoked deep concern that the party and the presidential campaign are doing too little to galvanize a key constituency.

While Clinton holds a significant lead over Trump in every poll of Hispanic voters, less clear is whether these voters will turn out in numbers that Democrats are counting on to win. Clinton trails President Obama’s 2012 performance in several Latino-rich states including Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. In those same states, where Democrats’ goal of retaking the Senate hinge, some down-ballot Democrats remain unknown to many Hispanic voters.

That reality has prompted a flurry of criticism of Clinton’s and the party’s Hispanic strategies. Despite a uniquely favorable environment with Republican Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on undocumented immigrants, Democrats are increasingly worried that the opportunity is slipping away to meet a longstanding party goal of marshaling the nation’s growing Hispanic population into a permanent electoral force. The concerns are compounded by Trump’s recent surge in several battleground states.

“We’re not seeing the Democratic Party take advantage of this moment in time, really looking to leverage more engagement in a more strategic way with our community,” said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza.

One top criticism is that Clinton waited until this month to launch a sustained campaign of traditional, Spanish-language ads in key markets. Previously, the campaign’s Hispanic strategy centered on reaching millennial voters through new media such as Facebook and YouTube. Its television outreach was produced primarily in English and aimed at bilingual households. According to critics, Clinton missed a chance to deploy a broader effort to target the Hispanic electorate like the one that Obama pioneered four years ago.

“This approach may end up being vindicated on Election Day,” said Fernand Amandi, a veteran strategist who led Obama’s research, messaging and paid media operation for the Hispanic vote in 2012. “I just find it to be more risky than replicating what we know worked, which is the sustained approach that the Obama campaign put in place.”

Clinton aides and her allies insist that they are facing a very different opponent than Obama’s, along with new challenges posed by a Hispanic electorate that grows younger and less reliant on traditional modes of communication with each passing cycle.

The dispute goes to the heart of a debate among Hispanic operatives about how much emphasis should be placed on newer ways of reaching younger Hispanics, who like millennials overall are more resistant to backing Clinton than older Latinos...

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'Manufacturing Test Explosives' on Tumblr — Left-Wing Manifesto Claims Credit for Manhattan Bombing

Well, this is interesting.

Paul Joseph Watson tweeting the link earlier today:

Tumblr blog "I'm the NY Bomber". Writer is an SJW who hates Trump. https://t.co/APT7s9oGfA #Chelsea pic.twitter.com/Vjm1J5lcsh

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 18, 2016

The page has been deleted, but it's still up in cached format:

Hi.

You probably have all seen the news by now,

the explosives detonated in New York City, that was me. Those were just some tests, I know where I have made errors and I will not make the same mistake next time.

I did it because I cannot stand society.

I cannot live in a world where homosexuals like myself as well as the rest of the LGBTQ+ community are looked down upon by society. It is 2016 and we are still being viewed as mentally ill, sinners, attention seekers, and just plain weirdos in general. I am not going to stand by while under classed and underprivileged people are oppressed. I am not going to stand by while there is inequality in my country such as the racism being seen in white police officers all over the country. I am not going to live in a country where it is OK to have a misogynist, xenophobic, racist Islamophobic, republican candidate running for President of The United States! That’s implying that republicans in general should even be taken seriously as they are all cisgendered privileged white people.

This is not the end, this is just the beginning. I will be remembered. I will make a difference. I will eliminate my targets before it is too late.

I don't think this is authentic. Frankly, with the second device being a pressure-cooker bomb, I suspect these are genuine jihad attacks.

That said, I've been warning about the coming far-left "direct action" attacks for some time. I don't doubt we'll be seeing some, especially if Donald Trump is elected.

Meanwhile, at the Daily Beast:

Aaand here's the first fringe theory blaming the Chelsea bombing on the anti-Trump LGBT community: https://t.co/DdsGoHLYOH

— Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL) September 18, 2016