The Hemingway Report

Monday, December 12, 2016

I had a dream last night

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Our Founding Fathers...if they knew today..

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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Louisiana Sends Republican John Kennedy to U.S. Senate in Runoff Election

We now have 52 seats in the Senate so now it's even easier for Trump to appoint whomever he wants assuming Republicans go along with it. Not to mention… now we benefit from the "Nuclear Option" Reid put into motion. Speaking of Reid, here he is in 2008 singing the praises of our founding fathers, championing the filibuster, and states he would never approve the 'Nuclear Option' because it "would ruin our country".

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FF to 2013. Here he is going against the genius, the vision, our founding fathers had to employ the Nuclear Option he himself said, "would ruin our country".

These asshole politicians have never heard of YouTube?

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Harry Reid is well-defined using one word...scum.

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by Warner Todd Huston10 Dec 2016Baton Rouge, LA811

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Republican John Kennedy has been declared the winner of Louisiana's runoff election for the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Foster Campbell and thwarting one of the last opportunities in 2016 for Democrats to gain a seat in the upper chamber.

Kennedy's win on Saturday night, the first GOP win since Trump's election, gives Republicans a 52 seat majority in the U.S. Senate, making it that much harder for Democrats to make any headway in Washington.

The stakes were high enough for President-elect Donald Trump to campaign arm-in-arm with Kennedy at a rally last week in Baton Rouge.

Trump told voters how important it was to get Kennedy to Washington, noting that it is "really close" in the Senate. "We need John in Washington, not only for the vote, but for leadership and everything," Trump said.

Days before Trump's stop in Baton Rouge, Vice President-elect Mike Pence also hit the campaign trail for Kennedy.

Kennedy's Democrat opponent, Foster Campbell, clearly felt Trump's popularity in the Pelican State as he generally refrained from too many direct attacks on Trump during his campaign. Campbell even ran campaign ads promising he would work with Trump while also insisting he would have the "courage" to oppose him when necessary. But it wasn't enough to stave off yet another GOP win for 2016.

Seeing Campbell's campaign as a last ditch effort, Democrats and liberal advocacy groups poured money into the campaign, giving Campbell a one million-dollar campaign fund advantage over Kennedy. Liberals were so hopeful for a Democrat win that a number of Hollywood types even came to Campbell's side, using their fame to push for his victory. Such liberal entertainers as Rosie O'Donnell, John Leguizamo, and Patton Oswalt all stumped for Campbell, according to The New York Times.

But ultimately, the loss is another bitter pill for Democrats to swallow in an election cycle that sent so many Democrats packing across the nation.

The hunt for the U.S. Senate has been a long time coming for Kennedy. The five-time State Treasurer has run three unsuccessful past campaigns for a spot in Washington, first as a Democrat in 2004 and the next two times as a Republican.

This win, however, does not change a seat from blue to red, as Kennedy won the seat being vacated by Republican David Vitter, who declined to run for re-election.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Look who's talking about fake news!

Brian Williams complains about fake news - just 21 months after he lost his job on NBC Nightly News for telling made up stories

Brian Williams has called out Donald Trump's transition team for spreading fake news stories.

Williams, who was suspended for six months and lost his spot as NBC Nightly News anchor for exaggerating stories about his time in Iraq and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, blasted the President-elect's team on MSNBC on Tuesday night.

'Fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience,' the 57-year-old said.

Brian Williams has called out Donald Trump's transition team for spreading fake news stories

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Williams (left, in Iraq in 2007, and right, hosting Meet the Press in 2008), who was suspended for six months and lost his spot as NBC Nightly News anchor for exaggerating stories about his time in Iraq and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, blasted the President-elect's team

Bill O'Reilly, host of the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News channel couldn't resist having a dig at Williams with the above tweet

It comes after Williams was forced to admit in February 2015 he wasn't aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by enemy fire during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He had told versions of the story about how the aircraft was shot down for more than a decade.

Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire had previously said the ex-NBC anchor was nowhere near the aircraft or two other Chinooks that had been flying in formation when they took fire.

According to the crew members, Williams arrived about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing.

'I said things that weren't true,' Williams told Matt Lauer in an interview on Today in June 2015, 'I own up this.'

'This was clearly ego driven, the desire to better my role in a story,' he said.

Williams had previously been the most-watched nightly news anchor and just last year he had signed a highly lucrative contract reportedly worth about $10million a year for five years.

An NBC News inquiry last April found Williams had exaggerated his reporting on a total of 11 occasions including in his award-winning reporting of Hurricane Katrina.