Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Katrina Pierson, National Spokesperson for Trump 2016, Defends Melania Trump's Speech (VIDEO)
Via MSNBC:
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Patricia Smith: 'I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son...' (VIDEO)
It's indeed personal.
Watch, at the Rebel Media, "Patricia Smith: 'I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son' in Benghazi."
And at ABC News 15 Phoenix, "POWERFUL! ♥ FULL SPEECH: Patricia Smith, mother of Benghazi victim - Republican National Convention."
And Remember, Tiny House Hunters...
My wife and I have watched this show a few times, and it's fascinating. Of course, I'd never even consider one of these tiny houses, but it's still pretty cool how the builders can get so much stuff in an extremely small space. And hey, maybe it will work for some people (although the family of five or six we watched once had to be insane, but whatever).
In any case, you gotta read this hilarious essay from Chuck Wendig at Terrible Minds, "An Open Letter to Tiny House Hunters."
It's getting Instalanched and SDA-alanched, so I had to toggle back and forth and arrow-browser buttons before it would load, but what a hoot:
Second, the toilet. Nobody has brought this up on the show, but I’m going to now: if you live with other humans, eventually one of you is going to take the kind of deuce-evacuation that could conceivably destroy a marriage. Normally you’d be fine, because normally you’d be living in a normal-sized human house where you have a door to close and a fan and several rooms or even floors of separation. But now you dwell in an elf-house and now you and all the other elves are going to share in that dump you just took. You’re going to live with it for a while. Everyone is going to become intimately familiar with one another’s bathroom peccadilloes, okay?Heh.
He goes on about "those aforementioned Herculean/Sisyphean dumps" again, but you get the picture.
Over 300 comments there as well. It's like the old days of blogging.
Sebastian Gorka: 'This has become the national security election...' (VIDEO)
Frankly, with all the instability and violence, the GOP should be having the election handed to them on a platter. We'll see, of course. And I do think polls are underestimating Donald Trump's strengths. (I expect more independents will vote for the GOP than we're seeing in polling, and more than mainstream-leftist analysts will allow.)
Here's his book, Sebastian Gorka, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.
And watch, with Judge Jeanine Piro:
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And Matt Lewis, Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Betrayed the Reagan Revolution to Win Elections (and How It Can Reclaim Its Conservative Roots), and McKay Coppins, The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House.
John Sides and Lynn Vavreck, The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election.
Still more, from Ed Morrissey, Going Red: The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President--and How Conservatives Can Win Them.
BONUS: Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government.
Corey Lewandowski Calls for Paul Manafort's Resignation (VIDEO)
Indeed, I said the same thing earlier, but Manafort's at the top. This is a serious charge.
At Hot Air, "Lewandowski knifes Manafort: If he signed off on a plagiarized speech, he should resign."
Sheriff David A. Clarke Speech at the Republican National Convention (VIDEO)
He's awesome!
A powerful, powerful speech. He calls out the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements for sowing anarchy and violence in our streets.
Watch, "FULL SPEECH: Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. Republican National Convention."
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Paul Manafort Rejects Plagiarism Allegations as 'Crazy' (VIDEO)
By tonight, the issue will probably go away. Knowing the Trump campaign, nothing seems to derail its political momentum.
At CNN, "Manafort: Plagiarism accusations are crazy."
Previoiusly, "Controversy Rages Over Melania Trump's Speech at #RNCinCLE (VIDEO)," and "Melania Trump Accused of Plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 Convention Speech."
Alessandra Ambrosio Pink Plunging at Global Gift Gala
And on Twitter:
Bringing Sexy Back! @voguemagazine https://t.co/tpocJ0UwZh pic.twitter.com/oc2Y47unsM
— Alessandra Ambrosio (@AngelAlessandra) July 19, 2016
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— Alessandra Ambrosio (@AngelAlessandra) July 14, 2016
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— Alessandra Ambrosio (@AngelAlessandra) July 7, 2016
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— Alessandra Ambrosio (@AngelAlessandra) July 6, 2016
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— Alessandra Ambrosio (@AngelAlessandra) June 28, 2016
Controversy Rages Over Melania Trump's Speech at #RNCinCLE (VIDEO)
And at Bloomberg, "RNC Chair Reince Priebus says he'd "probably" fire Melania Trump's speechwriter," and "What will Melania's speech cost the Trump campaign?"
I don't think it's going to "cost" the campaign. If anything, the left's attacks on Melania will make her sympathetic and feed into The Donald's playbook.
However, no one's been fired yet, which I think's a mistake. Trump should hold someone responsible then blame the media for fanning the flames of overkill. In any case, at the Washington Post, "In convention’s rocky start, deeper questions emerge about Trump."
And watch, "Watch Melania Trump Plagiarize Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention Speech."
Monday, July 18, 2016
Melania Trump Accused of Plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 Convention Speech
I watched Mrs. Trump's speech and thought it was just about perfect. Then, after Senator Joni Ernst spoke, I finished cleaning up the kitchen and flipped the channel over the the Angels-Rangers game on Fox Sports West. I'm on my iPhone of course, on the Twitter app, and in almost real time Mrs. Trump was being accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama's speech from the 2008 Democrat Convention. I don't even think I watched Michelle Obama in 2008, much less Obama. But this dude on Twitter, Jerrett Hill, tweeted the evidence, along with video clips. And it looked damning. Now pretty much the entire MSM is on the case and the question is how bad will it be for the Trump campaign?
My theory is that Mrs. Trump is innocent of plagiarism and Donald Trump's going to be saying "You're fired!" to somebody pretty quick. But who's the speechwriter? We don't know yet, or at least I haven't seen anyone identified so far.
In any case, here's some stuff from Twitter:
CORRECTION: Melania stole a whole graph from Michelle's speech. #GOPConvention
— Jarrett Hill (@JarrettHill) July 19, 2016
WATCH: https://t.co/8BCOwXAHSy pic.twitter.com/zudpDznGng
Here are the passages it appears Melania Trump lifted from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech https://t.co/XAStKRgueP pic.twitter.com/qWiwE0xNS9
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 19, 2016
An otherwise fine speech ends up being ruined by pure stupidity. Who's the speechwriter? #MelanieTrump #RNCinCLE https://t.co/QYYQLDrLMK
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
Jeffrey Lord, huge Trump backer, says on CNN that "this is a serious thing" re the Melania Trump speech.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 19, 2016
It's very serious. The Donald will defend his wife and attack the MSM. This kind of thing could end up helping him. https://t.co/EXBoP5SNRQ
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
they couldn't have ripped off Ann Romney or Cindy McCain instead?
— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) July 19, 2016
Yeah. Weird that. #MelanieTrump #RNCinCLE https://t.co/jG0WWoQrZJ
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
That Jarret Hill dude is sure gonna get his 15 minutes tomorrow. #MelaniaTrump #RNCinCLE
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
That Jarret Hill dude is sure gonna get his 15 minutes tomorrow. #MelaniaTrump #RNCinCLE
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
That's not what you want. #MelaniaTrump #RNCinCLE https://t.co/2AzOsFc1rc
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
Honestly feel a little bad for Melania, who likely had no idea the speech was plagiarized.
— Alex Parker (@AlexParkerDC) July 19, 2016
My thoughts exactly. Most in the MSM smell blood however. #MelaniaTrump #RNCinCLE https://t.co/aTKvTcg2ag
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
My thoughts exactly. Most in the MSM smell blood however. #MelaniaTrump #RNCinCLE https://t.co/aTKvTcg2ag
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
Careful not to overdo it MSM hacks. Not that I care if you screw up, but you're working against yourselves. #Trump https://t.co/nhV0QpC8pG
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
Expect "but Joe Biden" to be the phrase of the day tomorrow
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 19, 2016
.@BenjySarlin If the shoe fits. #MelaniaTrump #RNCinCLE
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2016
Person close to Trump is blaming Paul Manafort for "approving speeches," says excellently sourced @costareports on MSNBC
— Marc Ambinder (@marcambinder) July 19, 2016
Never seen another campaign where these internecine attacks get launched so fast - or picked up so uncritically https://t.co/SgCGGUeGJ0
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) July 19, 2016
Trump's "very proud" of Melania, but was her speech very plagiarized? https://t.co/2C7bnbnN2j
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 19, 2016
Parts of Melania Trump’s speech tonight were strikingly similar to Michelle Obama’s in 2008 https://t.co/kQIyZWhC9b pic.twitter.com/UUvqIhj72L
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 19, 2016
Police Kill Afghan 'Refugee' in Ax-Wielding Attack in Würzburg, Germany
If we see an increase of attacks in Germany, maybe Merkel will start to change course on the "refugee" crisis?
At WSJ, "Afghan Migrant Shot Dead After Hatchet Attack on German Train":
BERLIN—A 17-year-old Afghan migrant wielding a hatchet and a knife injured four people on a train in Würzburg, Germany, Monday evening before being shot dead by police, the authorities said.Well, you'd think an attack would "add fuel to an intense debate" across Europe. The continent's practically going up in smoke as it is.
Police were investigating a witness report that the attacker made an Islamist exclamation, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on German television. If confirmed, the incident would represent the most significant Islamist attack in Germany since a Kosovar gunman killed two American servicemen in 2011.
Three of the victims were seriously injured, officials said.
The attacker was believed to be a 17-year-old man from Afghanistan who came to Germany as a refugee, Mr. Herrmann said in television interviews.
“I am appalled about this,” Mr. Herrmann said. “He injured a number of people, slashing around himself with a hatchet and a knife.”
Mr. Herrmann said that one witness reported hearing the attacker shout “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great.” However, other passengers on the train, he said, didn’t recognize “any particular Islamist motive” to the attack.
Unlike France and Belgium, Germany has avoided deadly Islamic State-inspired attacks even as authorities have warned that the stream of refugees and other migrants that have poured into the country presented a security risk. Roughly a million people arrived in Germany last year to request asylum, many of them from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The attack is likely to add fuel to an intense debate across Europe on immigration, Islam and how to respond to the wave of people from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere seeking refuge on the continent. While Germany initially welcomed hundreds of thousands of people last fall, Chancellor Angela Merkel has since scrambled to limit the flow...
Still more.
Protests in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention (VIDEO)
There's video at that link.
And at Fox News, Griff Jenkins for "On the Record" with Greta, "RNC protests attract hodge-podge of groups."
List of Speakers for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
We had the floor fight convention chaos this afternoon, but the main speakers are up on the podium. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell is speaking as this post goes live.
Here's the brief listing:
Daily Themes & Headliners:Keep reading for the full list of speakers.
Monday: Make America Safe Again
Headliners: Melania Trump, Lieutenant General (ret.) Michael Flynn, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Jason Beardsley and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (Mont.).
Tuesday: Make America Work Again
Headliners: Donald Trump, Jr., U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (WV), Ben Carson and Kimberlin Brown.
Wednesday: Make America First Again
Headliners: Lynne Patton; Eric Trump; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista; and Indiana Governor Mike Pence, whom Donald Trump has chosen as his vice presidential running mate.
Thursday: Make America One Again
Headliners: Peter Thiel, Tom Barrack, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump
It's pretty impressive.
LBCC's Eloy Ortiz Oakley Selected as California Community Colleges Chancellor
At the Long Beach Press-Telegram, "BREAKING: Long Beach’s Eloy Oakley named chancellor of California Community Colleges."
Read it at the link.
Oakley's a glitzy showman without a Ph.D. He acts like some big mover and shaker all the time. Meanwhile, the overall quality of our college demographic continues to fall, and there's very little programmatic support that improves the classroom experience.
Anyway, good for him. We get a new college president.
Over 100 Nude Women Pose Against Trump at Republican National Convention in Cleveland
At Blazing Cat Fur, "AVERT YOUR EYES! Over 100 Nude Women Pose Against Trump in Cleveland":
More than a hundred women stripped and posed naked with mirrors in Cleveland, answering a photographer’s call to blend art with politics and portray Donald Trump as unfit for the White House...One of the women pictured there has a faux-Sinead O'Connor buzz cut, lol.
And notice they're all white chicks. So much for leftist diversity!
It's too hilarious.
Black Marxist Cornel West Slams Hillary Clinton's 'Dangerous Neoliberal Ideology...' (VIDEO)
He throws Bernie Sanders under the bus all the while calling him affectionately "Brotha' Bernie," heh. And West then gloms onto "Sista' Jill" Stein because she represents the "progressive" alternative to Hillary Clinton's "dangerous neoliberal ideology" and the "neo-fascism" of Donald Trump.
What a real piece of work, lol.
He's interviewed by communist Amy Goodman, at Democracy Now!, "Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party's Jill Stein Over 'Neoliberal Disaster' Hillary Clinton."
And see earlier, "Bernie Sanders Names Hateful Leftist Cornel West on Democratic Platform Committee." Brotha Cornel talks about ultimately dissing the platform committee with the "Hillary forces" refused to put "Medicare for all" and "the Palestinian issue" up for the final vote.
Also, see David Horowitz's chapter outing Dr. West's radical leftist hatred in his recent book, Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion.
Sheriff David Clarke Slams 'Hateful Ideology Called Black Lives Matter' (VIDEO)
Watch, via Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "REALITY MAKES A RARE INTRUSION INTO DON LEMON’S WORLD WHEN HE INTERVIEWS MILWAUKEE SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE..."