Thursday, August 24, 2017

Wonder if his middle initial is E

From the ridiculous to the sublime.

ESPN pulling announcer Robert Lee off game 'a reflection of society'

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MSESPN Pulls Asian Announcer Named Robert Lee Off UVA Game - Tucker Carlson

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Wednesday that the network's decision to remove announcer Robert Lee from play-by-play duty for a University of Virginia football game was "a reflection of society right now and how left-wing and PC it's gotten."

"Even your name given at birth or the possibility of a meme on the Internet is a reason to make a personnel change," said McHenry. "I mean, if that’s what we’re doing here … everyone might be out of a job, especially in this industry."

ESPN confirmed late Tuesday that it decided to switch Lee, who is Asian, to another game in response to this month's violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville that killed one woman and injured dozens of others. The network's statement said it made the decision after consulting with Lee, adding "In that moment it felt right to all parties."

FORMER ESPN HOST BRITT MCHENRY IMPLIES SHE WAS LAID OFF OVER CONSERVATIVE VIEWS

Wednesday night, ESPN President John Skipper sent a memo to employees stating the network was concerned that Lee's presence in the booth for Virginia's game against William & Mary "might create a distraction, or even worse, expose him to social hectoring and trolling." Skipper added that Lee himself had "expressed some personal trepidation about the assignment."

"This isn’t the type of attention you want on the national scene," McHenry told host Tucker Carlson. "Obviously, we know who [Lee] is now, but now these pictures, once the 24-hour news cycle goes away, he’s gonna be associated with Robert E. Lee and they’re superimposed together."

McHenry, who worked for ESPN from 2014 until she was laid off earlier this year, has been an outspoken critic of the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader in Sports." In June, she implied in a since-deleted tweet that she was let go from the network for her conservative political views.

McHenry has also criticized NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for his refusal to stand for the "The Star-Spangled Banner," as well as NBA star Kevin Durant for saying he wouldn't go to the White House to meet President Trump with the Golden State Warriors.

"I just think that this climate really is sending the wrong message," McHenry said, adding that "a lot of Americans are sick of being labeled a bigot if they don’t agree with whatever is on the left with some of these athletes and agendas."

"Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee murdered Heather Heyer

The statue of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was covered in Charlottesville on Wednesday(Mark Wilson)

Two Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Va., were covered with a black tarp on Wednesday as the city mourns the death of a woman killed protesting a white nationalist rally.

Workers in cherry pickers shrouded the monument of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park before moving on to the statue of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in nearby Justice Park.

Some of the onlookers cheered, and Jame Dyer said, “It’s a good start. They do have to go, but it’s a start, and I’m glad the city has finally recognized it has to happen on some level.”

Not everyone was pleased, however. John Miska, who had a gun strapped to his leg approached the Lee statue and began cutting the tarp with a knife, the Daily Progress reported.

Police asked him to stop, and Miska complied before he addressed the crowd and called the covering a “desecration”.

He pointed to Lee and said, “We need him to be here so that we can point at him and say he fought for the side that lost.”

The city council voted to cover the statues after residents packed the chamber, screaming and cursing the councilors for their response to the rally.

Neo-Nazis, KKK members, skinheads and other white nationalist factions descended on Charlottesville on Aug. 12 for the Unite the Right rally.

James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer who was there to protest the event.

The rally was first sparked by the city council’s vote earlier this year to take down Lee statue.

Mayor Mike Signer hugs life long resident Aaliyah Jones in front of the newly covered statue Jackson(Mark Wilson)

A judge issued an injunction preventing the city from removing it, and a hearing is schedule for Sept. 1.

The Charlottesville rally and the deadly violence that broke out has renewed the debate over Confederate monuments and their prominence around the country.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

A few memes that pretty much sum up the left

Trump rally and the innocent alt-left

Before you view these photos remember most of the Trumpsters were in the building listening to his speech. The attacks perpetrated here were from the left directed towards the cops. But it's still inconceivable they were just as much at fault as the alt-right in Charlottesville. Check the pictures. You be the judge. Do they look like they were there to keep the peace?

Police say that protesters threw water bottles and rocks at their lines, causing them to respond in kind with tear gas

Barry's got to go

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Jesse Jackson Says NFL Owners 'Should Have the Courage' to Sign Colin Kaepernick

Rev. Jesse Jackson is among those who believes Colin Kaepernick deserves another opportunity in the NFL.

In an interview with BlackSportsOnline (h/t TMZ Sports), Jackson said an "owner should have the courage to do the right thing" and sign Kaepernick:

Future News...Racial Discrimination

FBI has 'reopened' case on search for Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting records

Now before you get too optimistic remember the FBI and the Republican track record when it comes to this matter. Did someone say "matter"?

Benghazi

IRS scandal

Clinton Email scandal

Firey Trey Gowdy, Jim Jordan, Darrell Issa and company, and who could forget Comey's performance, proved their bark is worse than their bite. In all 3 of the scandals, not one person went to jail, one almost became president! Like the old Rolex ad stated:

[The true test of achievement is result]

And so far Republicans with all their bluster haven't shown me jack shit.

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The FBI has "reopened" its consideration of a request for records on the infamous 2016 tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, the group behind that request told Fox News.

American Center for Law and Justice President Jay Sekulow called the development a “positive sign,” in an interview Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.”

Sekulow said the FBI sent him a letter saying it had reopened his Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the June 2016 meeting. At first, the FBI and DOJ said they did not have documents detailing the tarmac meet-up, before recently releasing a batch of emails. They are now searching for more records.

“While we appreciate that the FBI has ‘reopened’ the case file and is now ‘searching’ for documents responsive to our duly submitted FOIA request from more than a year ago, it stretches the bounds of credulity to suggest that the FBI bureaucracy just discovered that ‘potentially responsive’ records ‘may exist’ on its own accord,” Sekulow said in a written statement.

FBI’s newest letter to the ACLJ – dated one week after the government watchdog group accused the government of lying to them about the existence of records – now states that “records potentially responsive to your request may exist.”

Last week, ACLJ released 400 emails from the initial batch they received. The documents revealed that Lynch used an email alias to discuss the secret meeting that took place between her and Clinton and that DOJ staffers were concerned about the optics of the situation.

The tarmac meeting fueled Republican complaints at the time that Lynch had improperly met with the husband of an investigation subject, Hillary Clinton, just before the probe into her personal email use was completed with no charges filed.

A week after the meeting, then-FBI Director James Comey called Clinton’s actions “extremely careless” but did not recommend charges. The criminal investigation was closed and then briefly re-opened in October just days before the 2016 presidential election.

Sekulow, who also serves on President Trump’s legal team, said the ACLJ will continue to “press on in our legal fight to ensure that the details of the secret Clinton-Lynch meeting and the subsequent cover-up and withholding of information from the public comes to light.”

JUDICIAL WATCH CLASHES WITH DOJ OVER LYNCH-CLINTON MEETING NOTES

He added that his organization will continue to “legally hold the FBI’s feet to the fire” and said he is “willing to go to court to get (the records) if necessary.”

The conservative group Judicial Watch also has clashed with the DOJ, after receiving similar documents it complained were "heavily redacted."

In response to those complaints, a Justice Department spokesperson referred Fox News to a letter sent by the DOJ Office of Information Policy on Aug. 1, 2017 to Judicial Watch explaining their decision to maintain redacted materials.

The letter explains that those sections pertain to “certain inter- and intra-agency communications protected by the deliberative process privilege, and information release of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of third parties.”

A Justice spokesperson told Fox News that decisions to claim the deliberative process exemption are routine.

In his June testimony, Comey cited concerns with Lynch's handling of the Clinton investigation. Comey told lawmakers that Lynch directed him to describe the email probe as a “matter” and not an “investigation.”

Comey said the tarmac meeting was a “deciding factor” in his decision to act alone to update the public on the Clinton probe—and protect the bureau’s reputation.

Really...I'm still reeling from his blistering dissertation then finished it off with.

"No reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

Monday, August 21, 2017

Got to love this

Police: Man Arrested for Defacing Confederate Monument in Indianapolis Park

"The police report did not state Ventura’s motive, despite the incident occurring a week after the Charlottesville protests."

Motive...

if the alt-right is deranged can he be far behind? He looks like the kind of guy who could generate this headline:

Crazed gunman shoots 12 at Shelby Street

McDonalds

But of course, we must remember the alt-left is as pure as the driven snow.

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Police say they arrested Anthony Ventura around noon for allegedly vandalizing the monument in Garfield Park on Shelby Street soon after the alleged incident.

A video of the incident circulated on social media after the incident, causing locals to see the damage for themselves.

“It’s stupid, it don’t really make any sense, you know?” Rex Staples, who lives in the area, told WXIN. “Because they’re really not doing anything.”

WISH reports Ventura allegedly defaced the monument, which honors more than 1,600 Confederate soldiers, with a hammer.

The soldiers remains are located at Crown Hill Cemetery.

The police report did not state Ventura’s motive, despite the incident occurring a week after the Charlottesville protests.

Authorities have not determined the full extent of the damage caused Saturday afternoon.

The police report did not state Ventura’s motive, despite the incident occurring a week after the Charlottesville protests.

After today's eclipse

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Robert C. Byrd

And not one Democrat gave a damn about it.

(I guess now this is going to become a big deal. The plan was to put Charlottesville on the alt-right but it backfired and may come back to bite them in the ass)

That was then. This is now.

"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944

Trump...can't catch a break

US Army mum on whether bases will keep Confederate names

Can this be far off?

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Fox News

Debate is heating up throughout the country over what to do with Confederate statues and memorials. But it appears, at least for now, that 10 major U.S. Army bases will keep the names of Confederate soldiers.

The Army refused to answer questions last week on whether those bases – including Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, and Fort Benning in Georgia – will keep their names, the Charlotte Observer reported.

All 10 U.S. military bases named for Confederate soldiers are located in the South.

Prior to this month’s violence in Charlottesville, Va., the most recent time the names of Army bases were strongly debated was in 2015, after the slaying of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C.

At that time, Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told Time there was “no discussion” regarding changing the names.

Base names are based on “individuals, not causes or ideologies,” public affairs chief Army Brig. Gen. Malcolm Frost said in 2015, adding that each base “is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history.”

The other seven Army bases named for Confederate soldiers are Fort Rucker in Alabama; Fort Gordon in Georgia; Camp Beauregard and Fort Polk in Louisiana; and Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia.

Monticello the next to go

Residents in the former states are now required to speak French.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Barcelona manhunt underway for Muslim killer

The driver in Thursday's van attack that killed 13 people in a tourist area of Barcelona may still be alive and on the run, Spanish police say.

They are hunting for Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, now named by Spanish media as the suspected driver.

And what is the outcry from the supposed "moderate Muslim community"?

Same shit. Different day.

Via:

http://www.stormyblogger.com

How relevant to today

Via:

http://www.stormyblogger.com

And you know what "party" that is.

Two sides to every coin

Certainly true of the MSM. Probably suffer a heart attack if I ever read a headline which wasn’t negative about Trump. Compared to the current president Bush had a love affair with the MSM! One thing Trump has got to do. When the press throws out the "chum" don't take the bait.

Here are a few recent headlines:

‘I would be amazed if he survives till end of the year': Trump's 'Art of the Deal' co-author predicts that the president is about to resign

Disgust as Trump quotes approvingly apocryphal tale of US general who 'summarily executed Muslim terrorists with pigs' blood-soaked bullets' in wake of Barcelona bloodbath

'There are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists’: James Murdoch, Fox CEO and son of Rupert, denounces Trump's reaction to Charlottesville violence and pledges $1m to the Anti-Defamation League

Fmr. White Nationalist speaks out against Trump's remarks

Now Imagine Barry was president and took the same actions Trump did.

Obama takes on infrastructure creates 500,000 new jobs

Obama’s tough talk neutered Kim Jong Un and his missiles

Stock market at all time high under Obama’s tenure

Obama uses MOAB bomb for the first time and kills high ranking ISIS targets in Afghanistan

Obama takes 2nd scoop of ice cream and gives it to the poor

Clearly, Trump takes a lot of badgering from the press. A complete 180 from the treatment Barry received. I remember one time those "hard-hitting" reporters asked Barry in an adoring tone, "Mr. President...what did you have for lunch today?"

Friday, August 18, 2017

Trump was right about Charlottesville

There is plenty of blame to go around on both sides. I've seen numerous videos and it is hard to distinguish who was the aggressor. With the alt-right, I don't see why they have to identify with skinheads, the KKK, and Nazis to get their point across which is the destruction of America's history.

On the other hand here are some photos or Antifa (alt-left) in the middle of it in Charlottesville... you won't see this from the MSM.

If they're not doing anything wrong why cover their face?

Charlottesville newspaper box suddenly takes flight all by itself.

Providing a light for anyone who needs a smoke.

After viewing these photos I hope you came to the same conclusion I did. They just showed up without a permit to keep the peace.

Stay tuned for the MSM uproar you're not going hear over this

Missouri Democratic state senator says she hopes Trump is assassinated

A Democratic state senator in Missouri is facing resignation calls for posting on Facebook Thursday that she hopes President Trump is assassinated.

“I hope Trump is assassinated!” state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal wrote.

Chappelle-Nadal eventually deleted the post, but a screenshot was saved and shared on Twitter.

In interviews with local outlets, Chapelle-Nadal said she regretted her post but not her anger at the president. She blamed her outburst on the president's response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville.

“I posted something on my personal Facebook and I should not have done that, and for that I am sorry for that," Chapelle-Nadal told St. Louis television station KMOV. "But I am not going to shy away from what caused that anger at all, I'm not going to shy away from that."

The Secret Service told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch it is investigating Chapelle-Nadal’s post.

Meanwhile, top Missouri Democrats – including Sen. Claire McCaskill and the chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party – are calling on Chapelle-Nadal to resign.

“I condemn it," McCaskill told the Post-Dispatch. "It's outrageous. And she should resign.”

Missouri Party Chair Stephen Webber called Chappelle-Nadal’s comments "indefensible.”

“I believe she should resign,” Webber said.

But Chappelle-Nadal told KMOX Radio she won’t quit.

“There is no way in hell that I’m resigning,” she said.

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