Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Katrina Pierson, National Spokesperson for Trump 2016, Defends Melania Trump's Speech (VIDEO)

It's kind of frustrating not getting a definitive resolution to this. I agree with Lewandowski.

Via MSNBC:



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Patricia Smith: 'I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son...' (VIDEO)

Pat Smith, the mother of Benghazi hero Sean Smith, issued an emotional diatribe against Hillary Clinton at the Republican Convention last night.

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...

Heh.

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)

Yes, and national security broadly defined to include both domestic and international terrorism.

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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Corey Lewandowski Calls for Paul Manafort's Resignation (VIDEO)

If Manafort signed off on Melania's speech, he should resign. There's got to be some accountability.

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)

Here's Katie Pavlich, at Town Hall, "Sheriff David Clarke Rocks RNC With Pro-Cop Message: Blue Lives Matter."

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."

Jessica Alba Perfect Bikini Pictures

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Paul Manafort Rejects Plagiarism Allegations as 'Crazy' (VIDEO)

He's close to the boss, so this is pretty much the official line.

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

At Egotastic!, "Alessandra Ambrosio gave the gift of her knockers at the Global Gift Gala in a plunging pink dress."

And on Twitter:


Controversy Rages Over Melania Trump's Speech at #RNCinCLE (VIDEO)

Here's the CNN headline right now at Memeorandum, "Melania Trump's speech plagiarizes parts of Michelle Obama's."

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

This is really bizarre.

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:


Police Kill Afghan 'Refugee' in Ax-Wielding Attack in Würzburg, Germany

There's a new attack every day.

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.

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...
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.

Still more.

Protests in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention (VIDEO)

At the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, "Muslim, Black Lives Matter and conservative protesters clash at RNC demonstration."

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

Well, it's on.

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:

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
Keep reading for the full list of speakers.

It's pretty impressive.

LBCC's Eloy Ortiz Oakley Selected as California Community Colleges Chancellor

He's the president of my college, moving on to greener, more powerful pastures.

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

Heh.

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)

Man, this dude's a shuckin' and jivin' huckster par excellence!

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)

I doubt Don Lemon knew what he was getting into here, hence he cut to a commercial as Sheriff Clarke was just getting warmed up.

Watch, via Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "REALITY MAKES A RARE INTRUSION INTO DON LEMON’S WORLD WHEN HE INTERVIEWS MILWAUKEE SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE..."