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Condemning ‘Racist’ GOP for Bringing Back ‘Jim Crow’

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

For over a month the media joined their allies in the Democratic Party in browbeating corporate America and the public into believing that an “immoral” and “racist” Republican Party has been waging a “holy war” to bring back “Jim Crow” laws to “torture” black Americans. 

The most recent efforts to label the GOP a bunch of bigoted vote-suppressors (something the lefty media has been doing for the last decade) occurred when Georgia Republicans passed an election law that even the liberal Washington Post admitted was “less strict” than voting laws in deep blue states like Connecticut and Delaware. 

The following is a compilation of the ugliest depictions of the Georgia law since its passage from lefty hosts, correspondents and pundits: 

 

Republicans Would Deny Water to Jesus on the Cross

 

 

Host Joy Reid: “Do you think that Joe Biden is ready to….get rid of the filibuster?”…
MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson: “What he needs to do is fill these busters with some fear of the government. These are the kind of people who would pass a law to keep Jesus from be — getting a cup of water while he’s dying on the cross.” 
Reid: “Yeah, that is sad but true.”
— MSNBC’s The ReidOut, March 26. 

 

GOP Wants to End Democracy, “Torture” Black Voters

 

 

“What Republicans are saying is they’re going to make it torture for you to vote in line by having fewer machines, beat-up machines at places….places where black folks live…make it impossible or torture for you to vote in line. And they’re going to make it impossible for you to vote by mail. They’re going to lock off every way that you can vote….This is the end of democracy in America. This is the beginning of the South Africa strategy…..It’s Jim Crow America.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, March 25. 

 

Republicans Waging “Holy War” to Take America Backwards to Jim Crow

 

 

 

“Why do you [Republicans] bring back the most odious laws suppressing the black vote, almost by design, since Jim Crow? You want a nice activity? Google ‘Jim Crow Laws’ in states where they existed and compare them to the language, phraseology, and the intention of what’s sold in over 40 states right now, some 250 plus bills. Take a look and be shocked at the similarity….This is becoming some kind of perverse holy war for you guys.”
— Host Chris Cuomo on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, March 15.

 

 

“We have to stop these people [Republicans] at every single turn because they will take America back to the 1930s, ’40s, and ’20s, and make sure that nobody who’s not a straight white male Christian is actually able to vote and exercise their right in this country.”
— MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, March 18.  

 

“Immoral” and “Racist” GOP 

Host Jonathan Capehart: “To my mind, it seems like the party is foregone. It’s done.”…
Former NBC News, Washington Post and current reporter for FiveThirtyEight.com Perry Bacon: “All the Republicans are defending this Georgia law….from all wings of the party essentially. The Republican Party is pretty organized and actually has some policies which are basically, ‘how do we maintain the existing racial and economic status quo?’…They have an agenda….Make it harder for Black Lives Matter people to protest….weaken public schools….Make it harder for people to vote in states all over….One reason why they’re continuing on a course that is in some ways immoral and some ways racist is because this course is not as bad electorally as I thought it would have been.”
— MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, April 11. 

 

GOP Is “Cheating” To Prevent “Browning of America” 

 

 

“It’s [Republican Party] also a party that’s an anti-browning party. This is a party that does not like the browning of America. This is a party that’s cheating at the polls. This is a party that’s doing anything, by any means necessary, to continue the try to win so there are a lot of underhanded tactics.”
— CNN political analyst April Ryan on CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, April 11. 

 

Georgia Election Law = “Very Close Rhyme” to Jim Crow

 

 

“I did grow up under Jim Crow laws. And Jim Crow laws, remember, never said black people couldn’t vote because that would have been clearly unconstitutional and illegal and out of bounds. What they were, were laws, on their face, applied to everyone but were designed and enforced to deny voting rights to African Americans. And, you know, if this not a complete and total verbatim repeat of that, it is certainly a very close rhyme.”
— Washington Post Associate Editor Eugene Robinson on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, April 7. 

 

Stop Those Republican Cheaters!

“Basically what we are seeing that happened in Georgia, with the Republican legislation, is that they are corking the bat and putting resin on the ball. They are cheating. They were the ones that created the current, existing laws on the books.”
— Voto Latino President and NBC News contributor Maria Teresa Kumar on NBC’s Meet the Press, April 4.

 

Georgia GOP Should “Embrace Rich Heritage” of Suppressing Black Voters

 

 

“Why doesn’t he [Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp] go all in and embrace the rich heritage, the hard fought well-deserved tradition in Georgia for voter suppression? That would be new and remarkable.”
— Host Brian Williams on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, March 31. 

 

“Jim Crow Is Making a Comeback”

“Jim Crow is making a comeback, the fictional black-faced character from minstrel shows who came to symbolize second class citizenship for millions of Americans. Jim Crow is also the name used to describe unequal racial segregation rules that banned black people from eating at white-owned restaurants, staying in white-owned hotels, and fully participating in the election process. Now, as hundreds of new proposals to scale back voter participation in elections make their way through state legislatures, the parallels with the past are inescapable.”
— Reporter Joe Johns on CNN Tonight, March 31.

 

Boycott An Entire State, Even If It Hurts Black Businesses There 

“While Jackie Robinson’s home state enacts laws designed to keep people of color from voting is beyond mere hypocrisy. It is forcing players to participate in a humiliating sham, a virtual minstrel show of racist propaganda….If the baseball players will not or cannot boycott, the consumers must. Fans must boycott the Jackie Robinson Day game and the All Star Game telecast on Fox….After sports, we boycott movies filmed in Georgia and consumer businesses based there, like Delta Airlines and Coca Cola. The list of economic punishments for racism, which we can accomplish, is endless. We already went through this shit with Georgia in 1862. And in 1962. Boycott Georgia.”  
— Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann in YouTube video posted March 26.

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ICIJ’s 2020 annual report showcases huge impact in a challenging year

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS

As the world went into COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was in the thick of its second major investigation for the year.

ICIJ published Luanda Leaks in January 2020, and was preparing to publish the FinCEN Files in mid-2020 before the pandemic hit. As the full social and economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic rolled around the world, ICIJ’s reporting partners were forced to divert resources away from the investigation (or, in some cases, make drastic budget cuts to ensure survival), and the team of international journalists working on this complex, cross-border financial investigation were finding borders closed and travel near impossible.

But ICIJ’s model of collaborative journalism was uniquely placed to weather this storm. Journalists were able to turn to the network and get on-the-ground help from each other in chasing down leads, sourcing footage, and recording key interviews. The publication of the FinCEN Files investigation in September 2020 was both a logistical feat of incredibly dogged reporting, as well as a testament to the power of journalists working as a team on groundbreaking global stories.

Read ICIJ’s 2020 Annual Report.

The success and impact of these two investigations also capped a banner year for ICIJ’s storytelling, despite the many challenges to travel, fundraising, network building and other key business operations wrought by COVID-19. ICIJ’s 2020 annual report, published this week, reflects the innovative ways ICIJ’s team adapted to this unprecedented year and reiterates the importance of harnessing technology to empower investigative reporting around the world.

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In his introduction to the annual report, ICIJ Director Gerard Ryle has showcased the incredible impact of both Luanda Leaks and the FinCEN Files as evidence that this work is more necessary — and in more need of support — than ever before.

“A few things are clear from these stories. The first, based on enthusiastic and encouraging responses from our readers, is that regular people don’t like corruption,” Ryle said.

“The second is that once presented with clear evidence of corruption, authorities are prepared to act.

“The third is that ICIJ’s model of ‘radical sharing’ and collaboration allows journalists to marshal their individual capabilities to track down and expose high-level corruption — and advance the growing demand for accountability coming from people in every corner of the world.”

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Other key highlights from ICIJ’s 2020 annual report include behind-the-scenes details of how each investigation unfolded in 2020, the ongoing impact of our earlier investigations (including China Cables, Panama Papers and more), major milestones in the ongoing development of our tools, technology and methodology, and the continued success of our training programs for the journalists we work with around the globe.

Read the full ICIJ 2020 Annual Report report here.

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“Heartbreakingly sad” photo of Queen Elizabeth sitting alone prompts calls to ease COVID restrictions at funerals

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: Hot Air, INVESTIGATIONS

Can the White House please explain when President Biden has to wear two masks and when he does not?

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Twitchy

Woke Medicine Comes to New York City

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Washington Free Beacon

A pair of doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital last month outlined a pilot program that, they said, would offer “preferential care” to patients of color. The proposal, published in Boston Review, accuses hospitals across the country of practicing “medical apartheid”—something they said must be addressed through “race-explicit interventions.”

Those interventions may violate civil rights laws, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital assured the Washington Free Beacon that they are “not currently underway at the hospital.” That hasn’t stopped one of its authors, Dr. Michelle Morse, from moving on up: She is now the chief medical officer of New York City.

In her new post, Morse will wield enormous influence over New York’s hospital system, and she has promised to use it to “advance health equity.” Part of her job will be serving as a liaison between the health department and local medical centers, including three she singled out as examples of “de facto segregation”: Montefiore, New York-Presbyterian, and Mount Sinai. She was also named the deputy commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness, a division within the New York City health department.

Morse’s ascent reflects the larger trajectory of progressive activism, which has migrated from the fringe of academia to the heart of public health bureaucracies. Vermont’s health department announced this month that people of color will get first dibs on the coronavirus vaccine as a part of the state’s commitment to “health equity.” And in December, the Centers for Disease Control proposed vaccinating essential workers before the elderly because the elderly skew white.

Morse did not respond to a request for comment.

Morse’s march through the institutions—from foundations to fellowships and finally to a top government post—reveals how radicalism gains influence. Supported by an incestuous network of left-wing nonprofits that credentialize activists and funnel them into positions of power, activists like Morse use studies funded by those same nonprofits to give their agenda a veneer of scientific credibility. And since the nonprofits combine charity with activism, it is easy for them to launder the latter as the former, further insulating them from critique.

Take EqualHealth, which Morse cofounded after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. What began as a support system for Haitian health care workers soon became an effort to stem “the miseducation of health professionals on the root causes of illness.” Those root causes, per the group’s website, are racism and capitalism, which it seeks to combat through “disruptive pedagogy.”

In 2015, EqualHealth founded the Social Medicine Consortium, “a collective of committed individuals, universities and organizations fighting for health equity.” Morse received a $100,000 grant from the Soros Equality Fellowship three years later to launch the “Campaign Against Racism,” a network of health equity activists who work to “dismantle racial capitalism.”

All the while, EqualHealth continued its original work in Haiti—giving an air of humanitarian legitimacy to what became a radical group.

This sort of legitimation gives activists a foothold to further burnish their credentials. Morse went on to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship that sent her to Washington, D.C., to work on “health equity priorities” with the House Ways and Means Committee. By the time she became New York’s chief medical officer, she had experience in both nonprofits and government, making her a prime candidate for the position.

Once in power, activists are buoyed by a flood of foundation-funded studies that serve to justify their agenda. Race-conscious policies of the sort Morse advocates have found a home in prominent medical journals such as the Lancet, which in February released a Soros-supported report calling reparations a public health measure. These studies cite others from the same nonprofit complex, giving activism an air of academic legitimacy.

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital proposal is a case in point. Every stage of the argument, from diagnosis to prescription, rests on foundation-funded critical race theory. The proposal borrows heavily from a paper—”Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Anti-Racism Praxis”—that was funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and written by two “health equity” scholars, who argue race-conscious programs are better than colorblind ones at reducing racial health disparities. As evidence for those disparities, Morse cites her own 2019 study on the relationship between race and referrals for cardiac care—which itself draws on the Kellogg-funded paper to interpret its results.

“By assuming the existence of institutional racism across all American institutions,” Morse’s 2019 study reads, “we can turn from research focused on documenting disparities and inequities to implementation research directed towards correcting them.”

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital plan also calls for reparations as a form of “medical restitution,” citing a paper that claims to model their effect on COVID-19 transmission. That paper, which Morse co-authored, was likewise supported by nonprofit as well as government grants and rests on similar assumptions about institutional racism.

Estimates of disease transmissibility, the paper says, “seldom capture oppressive social forces including institutionalized racism and sexism,” an omission it describes as “the symbolic violence of R0.” Since reparations weren’t in place, ending coronavirus lockdowns “had a disproportionate adverse mortality effect on black people” and thus “resembled a modern Tuskegee experiment.”

But it is arguably doctors like Morse who are proposing medical experiments, on the very same patients they’re claiming to help.

If implemented, the pilot program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital would be an unprecedented act of social engineering. “Rather than rely on provider discretion or patient self-advocacy to determine whether they should go to cardiology or general medicine,” the program would encourage doctors to send black and Latino heart failure patients to cardiology, on the grounds that minorities are referred less often than whites.

But the hospital’s own data suggest that this could backfire, causing worse outcomes for minority patients.

Between 2007 and 2018, black heart failure patients were more than three times as likely as white heart failure patients to have end-stage renal disease, which requires a dialysis machine to treat. Since general care is used to referring patients for dialysis, patients with both heart and kidney failure may be a better fit for general care. Sending them to cardiology instead could delay life-saving treatments.

It could also lead to black patients getting too much care, rather than too little. A common critique of the American medical system is that it funnels patients to specialists instead of general care practitioners, resulting in misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. That excess care can have fatal consequences: Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. So by increasing the rate at which black patients are referred to cardiac specialists, the program could hurt the very people it’s meant to help.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital may not pursue this particular medical experiment. But in her new role with the city of New York, Morse will have plenty of test subjects.

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This company works harder at social signaling than making a good product

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Twitchy

Blame Trump: Deadspin Says Former Prez Preventing Lakers From Visiting Biden

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

Donald Trump is gone from the presidency, but the so-called “white supremacist” stands accused of preventing the reigning NBA champions from visiting the White House. This is the asinine assertion of Deadspin hate-monger Carron J. Phillips, who blames Trump for the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers not being able to visit President Joe Biden.

Phillips called Trump the “white supremacist that eternally merged politics and sports” (if you don’t count “Basketball Jones” Barack Obama enlisting NBA players to shill for Obamacare). And, Phillips alleges, the ramifications of Trump’s time in the Oval Office are still affecting American traditions:

“Trump is why it’s been more than 1,620 days since the NBA’s champions have visited the White House. … The 2020 Lakers were supposed to be the first to meet President Biden. But, due to the Trump Administration’s repeated failures when it came to having any type of plan for dealing with a global pandemic, ESPN is reporting that scheduling conflicts and COVID-19 protocols will prevent the Lakers from visiting during their time in D.C. when they play the Wizards later this month.”

LeBron James, Steph Curry, Megan Rapinoe and other woke athletes warred with Trump during his presidency and refused to visit him. And, we’re told by Phillips, that Trump could not understand why many athletes and teams didn’t go to the White House to be used as “props in a photo-op for a man that stood for hate, cruelty, and reckless behavior.”

Phillips also says the tradition of presidents hosting championship sports teams “became a burden rather than an honor under Trump.” It was not a burden for the many championship teams and Olympians who made White House visits priorities instead of trashing conservative politics and staying home.

In reality, President Trump had a lot of help in not receiving several championship teams. Many said they wouldn’t attend, so they weren’t invited. Some were too busy campaigning for Biden and the Democrats. Rapinoe picked a fight with the president during the 2019 World Cup women’s soccer championship run and vowed not to go if her team won the Cup.

When Phillips ran out of ammo in trying to make the case that Trump is responsible for the Lakers not being able to meet with Biden, he turned his wrath onto NFL Hall of Famer and Trump backer Brett Favre.  

Despite feeling that some normalcy is returning to the White House, Phillips says it “doesn’t mean that it will prevent hypocritical idiots like Brett Favre from believing that sports and politics don’t mix.”

Favre recently told Andrew Klavan, on The Daily Wire, “I can’t tell you how many people have said to me, ‘I don’t watch anymore; it’s not about the game anymore.’ And I tend to agree.”

Hypocrite! declares Phillips. Favre and the 1997 Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl and visited the White House when Bill Clinton was president. By projection, Favre’s visit with President Bill Clinton is presumed by Phillips to have been political in nature.

Phillips’ bottom line is to blame Trump for damaging the tradition of White House sports championship receptions. And, if all else fails, he ridicules the president’s former supporters, like Favre, for invoking the “stick to sports” argument. These arguments are bogus, weak and nothing more than political theater.

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Whites aren’t hated for slavery but for making America and the West

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, WND

In “Why the Jews?” my book on anti-Semitism, there is a chapter on anti-Americanism. My co-author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, and I long ago understood that many of the reasons for Jew-hatred and America-hatred were the same.

Among them are envy of success – material, of course, but even more importantly, success in terms of influence. Another is the religious foundation of both peoples: Both America and the Jews are rooted in belief in God, belief they are a Chosen People and belief in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, as the book from which they derive their values.

America-haters and Jew-haters resent the enormous influence both nations have had on the world, have contempt for their belief in being Chosen and dismiss the Bible as irrelevant and even malevolent.

In the premodern age, Christian anti-Semitism was primarily animated by the charge of deicide – the charge that the Jews killed Christ, a charge that does not have a parallel in anti-Americanism. But beginning in the 20th century, the reasons for the two hatreds converged.

In his recent biography of Adolf Hitler, Brendan Simms, a professor of the history of international relations at Cambridge University, identified Hitler’s hatred of America and especially of capitalism as central to Hitler’s worldview: “Hitler’s principal preoccupation throughout his career was Anglo-America and global capitalism. … Hitler wanted to establish what he considered racial unity in Germany by overcoming the capitalist order and working for the construction of a new classless society.”

In other words, another commonality of America-hatred and modern Jew-hatred has been hatred of capitalism. The Nazis hated America and the Jews, both of whom they identified with capitalism. And the left (not the liberal, who traditionally loved America, but who has become the primary enabler of the left) hates America, which it regards as the paragon of capitalism. By becoming the most successful country in history, America, the quintessential capitalist country, remains a living rebuke to everything the left stands for. If America can be brought down, every left-wing egalitarian dream can be realized.

The question for the America-hater, just as for the Jew-hater, has been: How do we destroy them? What has always rendered anti-Semitism unique among ethnic and religious hatreds was its goal of extermination. No other ethnic bigotry is exterminationist. Regarding America, the left does not seek to exterminate Americans; the idea is ludicrous, since most of those on the left who loathe America are themselves American. What the left does very much seek is to destroy America as we have known it – the capitalist and Judeo-Christian enclave of personal freedom.

The Jews created something world-changing by introducing into the world the Hebrew Bible, a universal and judging God, the Ten Commandments, the rejection of the heart as the guide to behavior, the emphasis on justice (not “social justice”) and the doctrine of Jewish Chosenness. They were forever hated for this. So, too, is America hated for placing the Bible at the center of its value system, its belief in being a “Second” Chosen People, its freedoms and its capitalism. America is not hated for its slavery. If it were, given the ubiquity of slavery throughout world history, every country and ethnic group on earth would be hated. America is hated for its values and its success.

The fact is that, just as did the ancient Jews, the Americans made something unique: the American experiment in freedom. And it succeeded beyond even its founders’ dreams. With all its faults, America did become a shining “city on a hill” – the famous phrase first articulated in 1630 by John Winthrop echoing Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and repeated throughout American history. For example, President Ronald Reagan, in his 1989 Farewell Address, said, “I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life.”

And who created this unique place of liberty, opportunity and unequalled, widespread affluence? More than any other group, it was the WASP, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. I say this as neither Anglo-Saxon nor Protestant. Catholics, Jews, nonbelievers and members of every faith, ethnicity and race (blacks, in particular) made major contributions; but it was the WASP, more than any other group, who made America. And for that reason, America-hatred is WASP-hatred and, more broadly, white-hatred.

The idea that whites’ unique achievements – in making America, in music, art, literature and the sciences – means that white people are intrinsically superior is absurd. Hitler was also white, as was Josef Stalin, as are most American mass-murderers. Those facts are no more a commentary on whites than Johann Sebastian Bach or Leonardo da Vinci being white is a commentary on whites.

Whites made the country and the greatest civilization – not because they were white, but because of the values they held. Hatred of the white is ultimately hatred of those values.

Given what the WASP has achieved in the West and in America, it takes extraordinary levels of dishonesty and ingratitude to be anti-white. But neither truth nor gratitude is a left-wing value.

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A Bunch of ‘Bull’: CBS Drama Says BLM ‘Not Opposed to Police’

April 20, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

Network television has officially jumped the shark in its desperate efforts to defend the domestic terrorist organization Black Lives Matter. This week on CBS’s court drama Bull, an earnest defense attorney actually said with a straight face that BLM is “not opposed to the police.”

In the episode, “Evidence to the Contrary,” on Monday, April 19, an innocent young black man is mistakenly accused in the premeditated murder of a police officer. The young man has been active in the Black Lives Matter movement.

In a pre-trial hearing, defense attorney Chunk Palmer (Christopher Jackson) requests that the trial “exclude any mention of my client’s involvement with Black Lives Matter or photographic evidence of affiliation with same.” When the prosecution argues that the “defendant has a lengthy and well-documented history of anti-police sentiment,” Palmer offers a ridiculous reply.

Chunk Palmer: Your Honor, the A.D.A. is clearly mistaken in this regard. Black Lives Matter is not opposed to the police. Black Lives Matter is opposed to police killing black people. And the prosecution is trying to paint this organization and, by extension, my client, as being extremist and anti-law enforcement. All for the crime of simply affirming the value of black life.

Black Lives Matter protest slogans include “ACAB” (“All Cops Are Bastards”) and “Fuck 12” (“Fuck the Police”). If those slogans are not “anti-law enforcement,” I do not know what is. And considering that in 2019 the number of unarmed black men fatally shot by police in the United States was a total of 14 people in a country of 330 million, BLM was never really about addressing a supposed epidemic of evil cops targeting black men. BLM was a corporate shakedown operation that used terror to rake in billions for its founders and Democrat Party entities. 

The subject of violence at protests does come up at the pre-trial hearing, but Palmer pins such violence on those “not associated” with his client’s group.

Chunk: Your Honor, we have a second motion for the court’s consideration. I ask that we exclude any reference to the defendant’s prior conviction for criminal mischief. My client was one of over 200 people arrested after a Black Lives Matter demonstration became overrun with people not associated with his group, but who were there solely for purpose of looting and vandalizing. He couldn’t afford counsel, he spent a night in jail. For these spurious charges to be used against him– it seems unjust and unfair, Your Honor. 

Judge: Ms. Olson, care to respond? 

Ms. Olson: Your Honor, as Mr. Palmer is well aware, if his client chooses to take the stand in his own defense, he can be cross-examined about prior crimes that bear on his credibility. To arbitrarily deny me the opportunity to share this conviction with the jury seems… How did you put it? Unjust and unfair? And it is. To the state, which believes Mr. Craddick is guilty of murdering a police officer in cold blood. And I would also point out to the court, violence against police officers seems to be a common feature of these rallies. And whether that violence is instigated by the sponsoring organization or outsiders who seize the opportunity to indulge in mayhem is beside the point. The point– the only point– is that Mr. Craddick has been arrested and convicted in the past. And that is something that the jury has a right to know. 

Violence does indeed follow BLM wherever it goes. Its “mostly peaceful protests” have left a tragic trail of billions of dollars in damage, dozens dead, and many more injured. Such violence is likely to continue in the coming months, especially with the George Floyd murder trial wrapping up and people like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) encouraging more violence.

But Hollywood cannot dare let that truth come out of the mouths of its shows’ main characters. The role of television heroes in 2020 and 2021 are to keep pushing the same lies that legacy media pushed all last year about BLM protests being “mostly peaceful.” And as the gaslighting continues, more innocent communities will be terrorized while BLM founders buy more mansions.

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WH’s Psaki Flips Out at FNC’s Fisher, Struggles to Answer Immigration Questions

April 19, 2021 MadMadNews Reposted Filed Under: INVESTIGATIONS, Newsbusters

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki began her week on Monday with a briefing so bad that there’s no way to go but up. On Monday’s episode, Psaki arrived with a short fuse and clashed with multiple reporters over basic immigration questions and blew a basket at the Fox News Channel’s Kristin Fisher over the administration’s mixed messaging on a refugee cap.

Fisher started with an admission of confusion and an open invitation to clear things up on the White House’s flip-flopping on what number of foreign refugees could be allowed entry into the U.S.: “I’m still just a little bit confused about what changed between 1:00 pm. on Friday and around 4:30p.m. on Friday to go from, ‘We’re not raising the refugee cap to, we are raising it by May 15th.’ What – what changed in those three and a half hours?”

 

 

By then, Psaki had fielded numerous questions on it, but Fisher merely wanted the record corrected. Instead, Psaki claimed “we never said we’re not raising the refugee cap” and the administration had always been clear.

Fisher tried to interject, but Psaki demanded she be allowed to “finish” in order to reassert that there was never a doubt that they would maintain Trump immigration levels (though that’s exactly what they had said they would do).

The FNC correspondent inquired about whether Psaki was actually claiming their clarification “had nothing to do with the pushback from some Democrats on Capitol Hill,” but instead of answer this yes or no question, Psaki said Fisher didn’t know what she was talking about (click “expand”):

PSAKI: I don’t think you’ve articulated to me what our change in policy was? What was our change in policy from the morning to the afternoon?

FISHER: The – the Executive Order from Friday morning said that the admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified. Period. And yes, there was a caveat that you could raise that cap later. But I mean, it expressively says that right there –

PSAKI: That’s a pretty important caveat, that when we reached 15,000, a subsequent Presidential determination could be made. And again, the biggest challenge –

FISHER: – then why – why did you need to make that clarification?

PSAKI: – because people weren’t understanding what we were conveying to the public and weren’t conveying what we were trying to project to countries around the world and it’s incumbent upon us to make sure there’s an understanding of what the President’s policies are, what he’s trying to achieve, and what he feels morally is that we’re going to welcome in refugees from around the world. Change the policies from the past administration where they were not welcoming in refugees from the Middle East and Africa. And that was important to him to take that first step and move it forward.

FISHER: The line said, “The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified.”

PSAKI: And the –

FISHER: Can you understand how some people would interpret that?

Psaki continued going the personal route (as she did back on March 17), bashing Fisher by saying “we all have a responsibility to provide all of the context” and cited an esoteric claim from Friday morning that Biden would later “increase admissions.”

Fisher reasked the question about interparty pressure, but Psaki stuck to her insistence that “I don’t think you’ve articulated what our change in policy is.” This time, however, Fisher twice shot back that it’s “not my job to do that.”

With this exchange having reached its end, Fisher closed by asking whether the White House as a new “official…position that there is indeed a crisis at the border” since President Biden had used the word “crisis” over the weekend.

Showing Biden isn’t actually in charge of his own executive branch, Psaki ignored that, suggesting it’s wrong and even offense to suggest children fleeing “violence, economic hardships, and other dire circumstances is a crisis.”

CBS’s Nancy Cordes was the first reporter to bring up the issue, but she merely noted the change from maintaining the 15,000 cap to increasing it by May 15th and brought up Biden’s “crisis” label in a follow-up.

In both cases, Psaki offered 300-word-plus word salads that blamed the Trump administration for having left them with a lack of staffing to be clear-eyed about their initiatives.

With CNN cameras again focused on the Derek Chauvin trial, Kaitlan Collins again broke free of the Zuckerville tried three times to get an answer about the disconnect from what Biden campaigned on to their initial announcement of continuing the Trump administration limit to breaking in their own.

As with Cordes, Psaki offered lengthy answers that maintained the Office of Refugee Settlement was battered by the previous regime and “hollowed out,” so this one will need time to retool.

No matter how many car analogies Psaki made, she didn’t make it better.

Later, another reporter wondered whether Psaki’s shot at people misunderstanding them was geared at fellow Democrats, which led the White House official to do further mop up duty.

Back to Collins, she also deserved credit for asking Psaki about the inflammatory comments from Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) about the Chauvin trial (click “expand”):

COLLINS: And you talked about how the White House is preparing for whatever that verdict is. Congresswoman Maxine Waters said over the weekend that, they need to – “we’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.” Does the President agree with what she said about getting more confrontational?

PSAKI: Well, I can speak to the President’s view. He has been very clear that he recognizes the issue of police violence against people of color, communities of color, is one of great anguish and it’s exhausting and quite emotional at times. As you know, he met with the Floyd family last year and has been closely following the trial, as we’ve been talking about, and is committed to undoing this long-standing systemic problem. His view is also that exercising First Amendment rights and protesting injustice is the most American thing that anyone can do. But as he also always says, protests must be peaceful. That’s what he continues to call for and what he continues to believe is the right way to approach responding.

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