Today witnessed one of the truly lowest points of modern presidential politics.
I'm actually blown away by Hillary's sheer desperation at this point. The email revelations of the last week must have rattled the Clinton campaign, because Cankles erupted like a blast-furnace of smears, lies, aspersions, and guilt-by-association attacks. She's sunk lower than ever before. It was ugly.
See, "Hillary Clinton's Desperate, Shameful Speech on Donald Trump and the 'Alt Right'."
Thursday, August 25, 2016
MARK WAID HINTED CONTEMPT FOR ISRAEL A FEW MONTHS AGO
Back in March/April, the cartoonist Steve Murray (Chip Zdarsky) took a vacation to Israel, and while tweeting about it, comics writer Mark Waid made some rather snide comments, such as:
Even more eyebrow raising, however, was the following:
Something pretty fishy about his putting Israel in quotation marks. Was Waid implying he doesn't recognize the validity of Israel? Because if that's what he was doing, he soaked up his reputation a bit more. Zdarksy didn't even seem to try and tell him he was running the gauntlet of embarrassing them, one more sad screw up.
The managers of the store he visited seemed to realize Waid was stooping pretty low, so they said:
Waid may have finally quit his galling little act after this, but signs still remain he's got a viewpoint that's very regrettable. And if that's so, he's only added another head-shaker to his past attitude of the 21st century.
@zdarsky No one believes for one second that you're actually in Israel right now and that this isn't some elaborate prank. No one.
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 5, 2016
Even more eyebrow raising, however, was the following:
@zdarsky Oh, right, you're still "overseas" in "Israel." I "forgot."
— Mark Waid (@MarkWaid) April 7, 2016
Something pretty fishy about his putting Israel in quotation marks. Was Waid implying he doesn't recognize the validity of Israel? Because if that's what he was doing, he soaked up his reputation a bit more. Zdarksy didn't even seem to try and tell him he was running the gauntlet of embarrassing them, one more sad screw up.
The managers of the store he visited seemed to realize Waid was stooping pretty low, so they said:
Our @zdarsky hall of fame art piece extravaganza in "Israel" @MarkWaid pic.twitter.com/SrMPEsajIe
— Comikaza (@comikaza) April 14, 2016
Waid may have finally quit his galling little act after this, but signs still remain he's got a viewpoint that's very regrettable. And if that's so, he's only added another head-shaker to his past attitude of the 21st century.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton's Inescapable Cloud of Corruption (VIDEO)
Cross-posted from American Power.
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Following-up, "#CrookedHillary: State Department Access Granted to Clinton Foundation Donors (VIDEO)."
From Lisa Boothe, at the Washington Examiner, "Clinton's Inescapable Cloud of Corruption":
Keep reading.
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Following-up, "#CrookedHillary: State Department Access Granted to Clinton Foundation Donors (VIDEO)."
From Lisa Boothe, at the Washington Examiner, "Clinton's Inescapable Cloud of Corruption":
While many in the media have declared the presidential election all but over, damning accusations of pay to play at the Clinton Foundation and reports that the FBI found 15,000 work-related documents that Hillary Clinton failed to turn over represent the political land mines that still lie between her and the presidency. Multiple ongoing Freedom of Information Act civil suits, perjury allegations, an IRS probe and alleged joint U.S. Attorney-FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation represent the inescapable cloud of corruption that could be the Democratic nominee's undoing.That's the best summary and analysis of this so far.
As the drip, drip, drip of information highlighting the intersection between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department surfaces, the political fallout for Hillary Clinton is unavoidable. The newly exposed emails demonstrate another lie told by the Clinton campaign. Despite her lawyers stating that only 30,000 emails on her server were related to work, the 15,000 puts that number closer to 45,000. But more importantly, it paints a clearer picture of what Hillary Clinton was attempting to hide by setting up private servers in the first place and attempting to wipe them clean.
What is particularly troubling for Clinton is that liberal publications like the Huffington Post and Boston Globe are calling for the Clinton Foundation to shut down. The calls will undoubtedly grow louder as reports continue to expose the overlap between top foreign donors to the foundation and the access it gained them to Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. That access puts into question the impartiality of the decisions Secretary Clinton made while in office and the potential conflicts of interest she would be confronted with as commander in chief. The Wall Street Journal has reported that "At least 60 companies that lobbied the State Department during her tenure donated a total of more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation." And according to the Associated Press, 55 percent of Clinton's meetings and calls with people outside of the government were donors to the Clinton Foundation.
More than 40 percent of the Clinton Foundation's top donors are based in foreign countries, prompting the Washington Post to write, "Rarely, if ever, has a potential commander in chief been so closely associated with an organization that has solicited financial support from foreign governments." Many of those foreign governments have a history of human rights abuses. It is estimated the Clinton Foundation has accepted tens of millions of dollars from Middle Eastern countries.
Emails recently released by Judicial Watch and reports by Fox News demonstrate the close level of communication between State Department and Clinton Foundation officials. Judicial Watch recently released 725 pages of State Department documents showing coordination between Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin and Douglas Band, a former longtime aide of President Bill Clinton and employee of the Clinton Foundation, who worked together to grant access to then-Secretary Clinton for high-dollar donors like Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain.
After failing to set up a meeting with the secretary of state through State Department channels, Salman, who contributed $32 million to the Clinton Global Initiative, went through the Clinton Foundation and successfully set up a meeting 48 hours later...
Keep reading.
Monday, August 22, 2016
DONALD AND HILLARY: LYING BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Donald us backtracking from the deportation part of his anti-illegal immigration vow...
... and Hillary has been called out by Colin Powell for lying about his role in her private email scandal.
... and Hillary has been called out by Colin Powell for lying about his role in her private email scandal.
THERE IS NOTHING THESE TWO LIARS WON'T LIE ABOUT.
CALIFORNIA ISLAMIST MURDERED GRANDPARENTS
Westword has a disturbing report about a Muslim convert in California who murdered his grandparents (via Jihad Watch):
The video onetime Coloradan Nathaniel Scheiern posted on his Facebook page circa May 4 comes with an all-caps warning/message: “GRAPHIC FOOTAGE. ADULTS ONLY. LESSONS WITH LIFE’S TESTS MAKES EASY A`s!Yet another monster who was influenced by both the Koran and ISIS. It's horrifying how Islamofascism has such a nasty impact on anybody who adheres to such filth.
The clip appears to be an ISIS terror video — and we’re not sharing it here because invective is followed by scenes of people being beheaded.
It’s too soon to know if material like this has any relation to the Glendale, California murders of Scheiern’s grandparents, William and Verna, for which Nathaniel was formally charged this week. But an autopsy reported cited by the Glendale News-Press reveals that William and Verna, ages 77 and 82 respectively, died of “blood loss from traumatic injuries.”
NEW ROCKET ATTACK HITS SDEROT
After some time minus the rocket attacks from Gaza, another one's struck Sderot. The army struck back, but there's your proof that so long as Islam is around, so too will be the potential rocket attacks.