We have previously discussed the case of former Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann who was repeatedly and falsely called a racist in an encounter with a Native American activist in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Various media organizations have apologized or settled cases with Sandmann for their unfair coverage, including CNN. However, when Sandmann spoke at the Republic National Convention, CNN’s political analyst Joe Lockhart again attacked him personally after he criticized how the media got the story wrong. CNN’s Jeff Yang also attacked the teenager and even suggested that his speech proved that he was not innocent. Fellow CNN analyst Asha Rangappa attacked former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley as yielding to a racist America for not using what Rangappa suggested was her real name as opposed to “Nikki.” It turns out that Nikki is her lawful middle name and the Hill’s Saagar Enjeti noted it is “a Punjabi name.” That however is an appeal to reason not rage which seems to have little place in our national discourse or media coverage.
The personal attacks on speakers were beyond the pale, but hardly unprecedented. What happened to Sandmann was a disgrace for the media and he had every right to speak publicly about his treatment by the media.
Sandmann is a pro-life kid who wanted to demonstrate against abortion. He sought to play a meaningful role in his political system, which is what we all have encouraged. Indeed, CNN has aired many such calls for young people to have their voices heard. He was in Washington as part of the annual “March for Life.” This is one of those voices. Sandmann spoke about his horrific experience in being labeled the aggressor in the confrontation when all he did was stand there as an activist pounded a drum in his face. Sandmann said this morning in an interview that he only learned at 3 am in the morning on the bus home that he was being labeled a racist who attacked or harassed this activist.
In addition to Lockhart, CNN opinion writer Jeff Yang said that the speech confirmed to him that he was guilty all along.
“Hey @N1ckSandmann, I watched your speech tonight at the #RNCConvention2020 with an open mind, thinking I might hear something that would convince me of your position that you were an innocent victim of a cruel media. I was disappointed, but not surprised, to hear otherwise.”
So Yang now believes Sandmann was the aggressor or the one who was at fault? Yang even criticized Sandmann for not extending a “branch of peace” to Nathan Phillip, the Native American elder in the confrontation. Sandmann did nothing wrong in front of Lincoln Memorial. He just stood there as Phillip pounded a drum in his face. Yet, Yang now believes that the media was not wrong or Sandmann innocent.
Yang previously personally attacked Pete Buttigieg for calling for a “vision shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington Politics.” Yang again viewed Buttigieg’s political statement as a license for personal insults: “Okay, gloves off: This is the bullshittiest quote of many bullshitty quotes from this man, whose vision was shaped by Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey & Company and a keenly honed sense of ambition. Dude, your dad was a lit professor and you went to a private prep school. Quit fronting.” Nothing on the content of Buttigieg’s point. Just a personal attack from the CNN commentator.
The Sandmann controversy arose because of the very bias that Yang reaffirmed this week. For many, the mere fact that he was wearing a MAGA hat was enough to declare him a racist. An example that we previously discussed is the interview of “Above the Law” writer Joe Patrice with Elie Mystal. In the interview, Mystal, the Executive Editor of “Above the Law”, attacked this 16 year old boy as a racist. Patrice agreed with Mystal’s objections to Sandmann wearing his “racist [MAGA] hat.” They also objected to Sandmann doing interviews trying to defend himself with Mystal deriding how this “17-year-old kid makes the George Zimmerman defense for why he was allowed to deny access to a person of color.” It was entirely false that Sandmann was denying “access to a person of color.” Yet, the interview is an example of the criticism (which continued with Lockhart) of Sandmann speaking publicly about his treatment. Mystal and Patrice compared this high school student to a man who was accused of murdering an unarmed African American kid and continued to slam him even after the true facts were disclosed.
After his remarks at the RNC (which is not an easy thing for most teenagers to do), Lockhart declared on Twitter “I’m watching tonight because it’s important. But i [sic] don’t have to watch this snot nose entitled kid from Kentucky.”
Why is this teenager “entitled”? Because he is discussing his role in a national controversy or his abuse by the media, including CNN? CNN settled with Sandmann. When did that become “entitled”? The message from these media personalities seems to be that Sandman is expected to simply stay silent and such interviews make him either a George Zimmerman wannabe or a textbook case of entitlement. Of course, media figures like Lockhart can continue to slam Sandmann, but he is . . . well . . . entitled to do so.
Nikki Haley gave one of the most polished speeches at the RNC. There is clearly much in the speech that many do not accept about racism in America. However, Haley lashed out that it is
“now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country. This is personal for me. I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. They came to America and settled in a small Southern town. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a Brown girl in a Black and White world. We faced discrimination and hardship. But my parents never gave in to grievance and hate. My mom built a successful business. My dad taught 30 years at a historically black college. And the people of South Carolina chose me as their first minority and first female governor. America is a story that’s a work in progress. Now is the time to build on that progress, and make America even freer, fairer, and better for everyone.”
That speech led to an immediate personal attack from Rangappa that Haley bowed to racism by dropping her real name: “Right. Is that why you went from going by Nimrata to ‘Nikki’?” Rangappa asked.
In addition, South Asians for Biden attacked Haley and tweeted, “If America isn’t racist, why did Nimarata Haley feel compelled to change her name to ‘Nikki’? Maybe just the Republican Party is?” The group added “#PhonyNikki.” (The tweet was later withdrawn with an apology over its “tone”).
The problem is that Haley birth name is Nimrata Nikki Randhawa. She is not the first politician to use her middle name like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who goes by Boris. Then there is Willard Mitt Romney. Was Romney denying his roots by going with Mitt? Yet when a minority member uses her middle name, it is somehow evidence that she is a racist tool.
What is telling is that, rather than address the underlying argument on systemic racism in our society, analysts like Rangappa prefer to attack Haley personally and suggest that she is some type of shill for racism. Why? Rangappa teaches at Yale and in academia such ad hominem attacks are viewed as the very antithesis of reasoned debate. Likewise, in journalism, such attacks were once viewed as anathema, particularly when they are based on false assumptions.
There is much in these conventions to debate. In truth, I have never liked political conventions and view them all as virtually contentless. Nevertheless, there have been parts of the RNC that I have criticized, including the appearance last night of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a departure from past traditions of keeping such cabinet members out of political convention roles. Once again, such important lines of separation were obliterated by the Trump Administration, including the possible violation of the Hatch Act. The incorporation the naturalization ceremony also raises concerns over the use of such governmental functions for political purposes. I also found reformed former felon John Ponder’s remarks to be powerful, but I agree with critics that the incorporation of a pardon signing into the events at a political convention to be wrong. I have also previously criticized the use of the White House for the political convention, including for the First Lady’s speech (which I also thought was a good speech).
Those are issue worthy of debate and people of good faith can disagree on the merits. That is a lot more productive than attacking an 18-year-old kid because he had the audacity to criticize the media and support President Trump. There is, of course, a troubling entitlement evident in these stories. It is the entitlement enjoyed by media figures who feel total license to personally attack anyone who challenges their narrative or supports Trump. It is not just permitted but popular. This is why Merriam-Webster defines “entitlement” as the “belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.”
Oh “come on they” oh sorry “come on them”, oh sorry “Come on Man”, which convention was mostly negative? Which was mostly positive? In which cities are riots and controled by which polictical party? Who’s calling to debase the police? Which party is a constant purveyor of Socialist ideas? The last question, if you actually WORK are you better off today then three years past?
How much longer will the communist news network even be on the air ? who in their right mind would even turn them on?I quit watching them a long time ago even before they got so out of their minds as they are now .CNN is the laughing stock of the world only they are too stupid to know it sad.
Anyone who calls them “the communist news network” might be just a tad biased.
I think “the world” Ben lives in is very small and very peculiar.
Why would Ben’s world be small and peculiar? If you cannot see that CNN is the communist news network, maybe you need to get out more? Maybe your world is full of hate and socialist ideals? Before you say my world is small, I have ventured to 18 different countries and have been through 47 states. I have been around for a while and CNN has become a poor excuse of a news channel. If you took away their contracts with airports, they may have 2 actual viewers, BTB and CTHD, would that be the both of you?
It’s going to be interesting to see how the left wing media view the debates? Of course you’ll need two candidates together in the same room to debate.
Depends on what condition Biden’s in. You can’t record a mess of short clips and then produce an edited product when you’re in one of these debates.
Richard Nixon’s crew produced a mess of panel shows in 1968 where he took questions from local burgesses. I’d like to end the debates and revive that. Of course, the commission selecting the panels will invariably generate panels more friendly to the Democratic candidate. RNC officials seem to be easily rolled every time.
CNN has aired many such calls for young people to have their voices heard, but only what CNN wants them to say. So now WE, yes WE will elect Trump for 4 more years. And boy, will he have fun poking you in the eye. Because he is the President of the United States, and you and no one you support will be elected. HaHaHa
CNN’s raging commentators = Joe Lockhart & Jeff Yang & Asha Rangappa but each one of the are truth-seeker’s, eh?
Once again the news media is doing all they can to shade the truth and help elect Trump. Please, please can we get some honest reporting?
Once again the media is doing all they can to piss off the populace and elect Trump. Sad, so sad.
Is this sarcasm or evidence of being brain dead?
Paul, the results of the election prove you up. I can’t wait!
What more than rage and stupidity (as seen from the talking heads on the video) can we expect from democrats? While the dignified Republican convention proceeds the democrats kill people, riot and destroy communities. We see buildings burning.
Joe Biden has said nothing but I note in his basement a lot of fire extinguishers just in case.
Ha Ha CNN.
You are so mad at the RNC at having a far superior presentation style convention as compared to the DNC’s POS that you can’t do anything but attack the rousing success of the RNC Convention. True to form for you. You are so angry that you have to attack THE kid you went after you for your lost journalistically ways and won. OH, and that kid won against the Wash Post also!
Neener neener neener
Joe Lockhart? Former Press Secretary to Pedophile in Chief?
Even Asha Rangappa agrees that its OK to use your middle name. From here Wikipedia page:
Asha Rangappa
Born: Renuka Asha Rangappa
1974 (age 45–46)
United States
That’s great.
Leftists are complaining about Trump breaking political norms. But the time to think about that was when THEY were breaking the norms, such when the outgoing Obama administration SPIED on Trump’s presidential campaign.
The left are dirty fighters, but not very bright. Their entitlement mentality leads them to think that only THEY can throw low blows – it never occurs to them that by throwing the first low blow, all they’ve really accomplished is changing the rules of the fight.
IG Horowitz confirmed in his lengthy investigation report that there was no partisan “spying” done by the FBI in their investigation of Russian/Trump campaign contacts. Read it.
btb, yes you are correct. But truthfully, that was not his mission was it? His mission was only to determine if internal policies of the FBI and DOJ had been broken, wasn’t it?
The internal policies of the FBI include non-partisan exercise of their powers, so that was properly covered.
YOU LIE,SEE CLINESMITH.
No, the Obama Admin. did not “spy” on Trump’s presidential campaign: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200824/fact-check-did-obama-spy-on-trumprsquos-campaign-get-caught
The FBI did open a legit counterintelligence investigation involving Trump’s campaign, the legitimacy of which has been confirmed by a variety of bipartisan and non-partisan sources, including the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the non-partisan DOJ Inspector General’s report.
And commit, what was the result of that investigation by the OAG?
Yang previously personally attacked Pete Buttigieg for calling for a “vision shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington Politics.” Yang again viewed Buttigieg’s political statement as a license for personal insults: “Okay, gloves off: This is the [redacted] quote of many [redacted] quotes from this man, whose vision was shaped by Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey & Company and a keenly honed sense of ambition. Dude, your dad was a lit professor and you went to a private prep school. Quit fronting.” Nothing on the content of Buttigieg’s point. Just a personal attack from the CNN commentator.
Oh, Buttigieg’s a walking resume. What Yang won’t acknowledge is that however negligent state legislators are, they manage to balance their budgets routinely. He also won’t recognize that everything Congress touches, it damages. The exceptions in recent decades were some mild reforms to federal employee retirement programs (ca. 1984), amendments to Medicare re-imbursement schedules (same era), and the 1996 welfare reform.
Rangappa teaches at Yale and in academia such ad hominem attacks are viewed as the very antithesis of reasoned debate.
ROTFL
Yes, Turley, you’ve mentioned this mutt before, terrible; however, your bias is indefensible. Read Foxnews or the Washington Times and then comment.
Ooooooh terrible! Why can’t they be like Fox News “analysts”?
JT, please got to hell. I’ve asked you before.
BtB:
Why do you read Turley if you want him to go to hell?
You may be passionate, but you aren’t very smart.
“go to hell” is a figure of speech expressing ones complete disapproval of an act by another person. There is no hell, or if there is I am guessing they have wi-fi, and JT could still be posting from there. Maybe he is already.
“JT, please got to hell. I’ve asked you before.”
What a vile creature lurks amongst us. Intolerant, illiterate and ignorant.
Allan looks in the mirror and sees a vile creature: intolerant, illiterate, and ignorant.
Sounds like Anonymous the Stupid is repeating what another just said. Not enough brainpower to create his own retort.
Ban for life.
Meanwhile, Turley is silent about the multiple times that people literally broke the law last night or in preparation for last night: the Hatch Act, which prohibits civil servants from “engag[ing] in political activity – i.e., activity directed at the success or failure of a political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group – while the employee is on duty, in any federal room or building, while wearing a uniform or official insignia …” and imposes tighter restrictions on “further restricted employees” working on national security (https://osc.gov/Services/Pages/HatchAct-Federal.aspx). That law doesn’t apply to the President or V.P. (or to the First Lady, who is a private citizen), but is does apply to other federal employees who either spoke themselves or assisted with the preparation / participated silently in uniform.
nycsouthpaw:
“We’re in a situation in which the president feels unconstrained by the law, his aides scoff at following it, the law enforcement bureaucracy has decided it cannot accuse or check him in office, his AG maneuvers to protect him, and the GOP Senate shuts its eyes and plugs its ears. We can’t have the rule of law in America if its institutions place the chief of the executive branch beyond the law’s reach and he uses the impunity granted to him to spit on the law and use the powers of government—which belong to the people—to benefit himself and his campaign. That’s what Trump’s impeachment was about and it’s what last night was about. The collapse of the rule of law under Trump is the problem Senate Republicans refuse to see or address.”
Rep. Bill Pascrell: “Law, norms, and constitution only work if institutions do the hard work to enforce them. The innumerable institutions that have failed us these last 4 years have either ignored this fact or, like mcconnell republicans, support trump’s illiberalism.”
Omar C. Jadwat: “Using a naturalization ceremony as political theatre the same day a judge rules you’ve been unlawfully obstructing the naturalization of people serving in the US military is pretty damn disgusting”
First person witness to Trump offering to pardon people break the law for him:
https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1298315862563323907
This should horrify every patriotic American.
Even Chris Wallace called this out, though not referring to the Hatch Act by name:
Trumps got a 10 point lead among independents, hence the left-wing panic with made-up and made for TV charges. Can’t wait for Liberal Head Explosion Day on Nov. 4.
Oh yeah, he’s sitting pretty. Mespo, I probably won’t even vote this year since you have me as convinced as you have yourself.. Why bother? You’re not going to, right?
You must be referring to this recent poll that also show Biden with a 10 point lead among all people polled:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eHT_l5lsfjvX-VTuA2doFfqaV3QeYZVx/view (p. 3)
Yup, that’s truly panic-worthy. /s
Of course, no one should put stock in a single poll. More to the point, a national poll isn’t really what matters, given that the presidency is determined by the Electoral College, not the popular vote. Right now, Biden is favored to win the EC vote (see, e.g., projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president and projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/ ). Of course, that could change before November. I’m not taking anything for granted.
Meanwhile, you too are silent about the multiple times that people literally broke the law last night or in preparation for last night. So much for the part of law and order, huh? Apparently you simply don’t care about our laws if Trump and his supporters are the ones breaking them.
“Meanwhile, you too are silent about the multiple times that people literally broke the law last night or in preparation for last night. ”
I wonder if Needs to be Committed saw the videos of the death and destruction that took place under democrat auspices in Wisconsin last night? That is what should have been on all the news channels.
Like btb you know nothing about political science or polling.
Maybe not, but most of the Trumpers here, including and especially Mespo, are constantly reassuring each other that Trump’s reelection is a sure thing, and I have heard about whistling in the dark.
It is NOT a sure thing. If we law and order loving, hard working citizens want to see POTUS DONALD J TRUMP re-elected, we need to turn out the vote block by block like legions.
shoulder to shoulder, in lockstep, leading and if necessary dragging along all our friends and family with serious intensity. and we will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8E6AEeVtI
I am having a backyard BBQ and free beer and sausages for Trump voters. Unfortunately, it is at an undisclosed location here in flyover, so I can’t offer invitations on the internet.
I have a new item for the grill too: “yutofu” yes grilled tofu but not just any grilled tofu, fish flavored grilled tofu. sounds weird but actually is a fantastic treat, go to your Chinese market and git u some and give it a try
Trump is not a “law and order loving” person. He pretends to be one, but he’s totally happy to break laws when it benefits him (FFS, he and his family are so corrupt that their charity was shut down by a judge for misusing funds, and they had to pay $2M to charities they’d attempted to defraud — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50338231).
No actual law and order loving person should vote for him.
Yet it is Democrats who are supporting the Brown Shirt violence that is destroying our cities.
Democrats who are letting criminals out of prison.
Democrats who refuse to prosecute violent rioters.
Democrats who go on television and say the violence and mass destruction are ‘mostly peaceful’.
Democrats who want to defund and attack the police while letting criminals loot and destroy for ‘reparations’.
Democrats who are increasingly anti-semitic.
Democrats who profited by selling Russians a huge share in our uranium mines.
A Democrat president, Obama, who mocked Romney for saying Russia was still a problem.
Democrats who praise Communist China and think saying ‘Wuhan Virus’ is racist.
Democrats who hate America.
If you were honest, Young, you’d be able to talk about SOME Republicans and Democrats and people with other political affiliations engaging in crime and/or supporting crime by others, while OTHER Republicans and Democrats and people with other political affiliations object to it.
I’m not going to join you in cherrypicking.
I have no problem saying SOME people throughout the political spectrum are criminals or support crime. Unfortunately, Trump is one of them.
None of those are true except Obama did make fun of Romney for saying Russia was still a problem.
Sue him, it was a campaign and at the time Russia – Putin was not president – was not much of a problem.
The America haters are in force on this blog and they are all Trumpsters.
Young, will you join me in condemning the person who murdered two protesters in Kenosha last night?
Is he one of the people you referred to as “Brown Shirts”?
“A 17-Year-Old Aspiring Cop Has Been Charged With Murder In Kenosha
“Police arrested Kyle Rittenhouse, a onetime police cadet, whose social media accounts indicated an affinity for the ‘Back the Blue’ movement.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8pxj/a-17-year-old-aspiring-cop-has-been-charged-with-murder-in-kenosha
Mespo, you seem to get off on insulting people who have political views that are different than yours, and you regularly run away from substantive discussion.
Your ad hom is irrelevant, because the folks at projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president and projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/ do know about polling.
The only poll that counts is 1 taken on Nov 3. None of these other fake polls matter 1 damn bit because they are slanted to satisfy the ones paying for the poll.
Sure del, and what smart buyer wouldn’t want to be told they’re more popular than they really are. That kind of thing can come in handy in a tight race.
Just to be clear: voting does not occur only on Nov. 3. All states allow early voting and voting by mail in at least some circumstances. Moreover, the tallying of all legal votes does not occur solely on Nov. 3, as votes may arrive or be counted earlier or later (my state is actually going to start counting mail in votes earlier, but embargo the results until after the polls close on Nov. 3; ditto for early in-person voting).
And arguably the poll of the Electoral College electors in December is the one that counts the most.
not arguably. the poll of the EC is the verdict. it ends there.
“arguably the poll of the Electoral College electors in December is the one that counts the most”
WTF are you smoking?
Are you actually so woefully uninformed that you don’t know that the Electoral College is everything?
You and you;re fellow TDS’ers have been whining about it for 4 years for Chrissake.
Do yourself a favor and go get a real job.
delmaracer is the one who said “The only poll that counts is 1 taken on Nov 3.” I was correcting him/her.
I’m retired. Take your own advice Rhodes.
“for good or for ill” _Chris W. (not known for his impartiality)
Democrats don’t agree with anything that “never happened before”. Then we can look at the testimony and other indicators to see that the Obama Administration spied on Trump before he was elected and then attempted to impede the President after he was in office. Did that ever happen before?
CTHD, it’s another bar lowered by Trump and his enablers that his supporters avoid considering that once lowered, many can and will follow, whether their candidate or another they don’t like.
Standards in place for good reasons having to do with fair play, civility, and non-partisan government are meaningless to Trump and apparently to his followers. It does not speak well of their character, wisdom, or both.
“Standards in place for good reasons having to do with fair play, civility, and non-partisan government are meaningless to Trump and apparently to his followers. It does not speak well of their character, wisdom, or both.”
This is said by the fellow that just told our host to “go to hell”. Can anyone think of someone more vile?
The worse the Dum’s look, the madder they get and the greater loss of civility they exhibit. I, for one, hope they spontaneously combust. If not that, perhaps they can do a deep dive in a pit toilet.
Our host is a social media influencer, Allan. He’s here to push public opinion in a particular direction. He’s acting as a defense attorney for the Republican party. He maintains he’s an advocate of free speech. And he’s an adult. He doesn’t need your protection.
It’s funny that the right wingers here think Turley just does this blog out of the kindness of his heart. He may be a kind person in private but this blog is an editorial and it’s safe to say the number of hits on the page directly reflects on how much money Turley is paid to host the blog.
are being paid to come here bug? prolly not i guess. me neither., i suspect turley isnt either
we all want to project ideas and change the world, blogging is a tool, and turley is a top blogger by any measure
JT is a Blogger, Bugs.
If his columns on HIS blog influence people, then they must be interested in what he has to say.
I realize that is very upsetting to you, since you’re somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao.
So why don’t you start your own blog, instead of bringing nothing to the table here.
Or, just get a real job.
“Our host is a social media influencer,”
We look at things differently. Professor Turley is admittedly on the left side of the aisle and has always been. He is an accomplished lawyer and professor with great interest and expertise in civil liberties. I was attracted to his analysis of the law long before I came to this blog. I came because whether I agreed with him or not I recognized his position on the law was intellectually honest. The second that same honesty was used seemingly to favor Trump the intellectually dishonest started to make him into a pariah. They did this to Alan Dershowitz as well. Both of then attempted to keep their personal bias out of their legal statements but people on the left frequently don’t appreciate such honesty.
You are not interested in intellectual honesty regarding the law so I don’t know why you are here.
You stated “Turley is paid to host the blog.” Since you made a statement that could be libelous why don’t you tell us who you think is paying him for this blog. We all do things that we believe benefit us but you were specific with the word “paid” so I will await your answer unless, of course, you come up empty.
Sorry! That is really funny s..t.
Thanks Allan.
You people are reaching at straws. There is clear video of Kerry meeting with mullahs in Iran CLEARLY showing there should be an investigation. It was a phone call coordinating with future contacts. You resident evil partisan zombies do grow so tiresome after a while.
“while the employee is on duty, in any federal room or building, while wearing a uniform or official insignia”
Pompeo was on his own time, not in any federal facility and wasn’t wearing a uniform or official insignia. If fact he wasn’t even in the country. One could discuss propriety but would have the losing side of an argument after looking at how the Obama Administration tried to interfere with the election using federal facilities, with federal employees that leaked on Obama’s behalf and even fraudulently changed official documents.
Trash do not bother looking at these abuses while looking for any poor excuse to dump on the opposition.
Trash likes the two killings last night along with the rioting and destruction of communities by those they agree with.
Walter Shaub, former Director of the Office of Government Ethics (who resigned because the Trump Admin. refused to abide by required ethics laws):
“Chad Wolf not only used his official authority for politics, he specifically hijacked a governmental function for the Trump campaign. And he used humans. I have seen a lot of ethical abuses before. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
“Chad Wolf using official authority to conduct a legally binding act as a bit of performance art for Trump’s re-election is so far over the line as to make him unfit for public service.”
Trump also used the military aides who appeared in the video as props.
That and more discussion: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aides-proud-to-violate-hatch-act-ethics-laws-reports-2020-8
The investigation mentioned in that article by Rep. Joaquin Castro of Pompeo’s speech:
“According to multiple reports, Secretary Pompeo filmed a speech for the Republican National Convention on August 24, 2020 while he was visiting Jerusalem on official U.S. government business. Despite the administration’s claims of lawful behavior, no legal analysis has been made public. Instead, the legal analysis that has come to light shows precisely the opposite.”
More info about the investigation: https://castro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/chairman-castro-launches-investigation-of-the-us-secretary-of-states-participation-in-the-republican-national-convention
But these are only the most high profile individuals who may have breached the Hatch Act. For example, if civil servants helped with any of the preparation for any of the use of the WH for the convention, that’s a Hatch Act violation for those civil servants.
The Republicans seem OK with violations of the law as long as those violations are in their favor.
I generally oppose people breaking laws, regardless of their political affiliation (there are rare occasions when I don’t object, such as peaceful civil disobedience and where the person breaking the law accepts the legal consequences, or minor breaches such as jay-walking).
“The Republicans seem OK with violations of the law as long as those violations are in their favor. I generally oppose people breaking laws.”
Needs to be Committed should have said ‘I only oppose the opposition breaking laws but not my own. She supports violence and killing in our streets. Misuse of our courts and perjury by the FBI permitted by the Obama Administration.
What a HYPOCRITE.
CTHD has never expressed any opinion indicating she favored “violence and killing in our streets” as Allan alleges. He should offer proof or an apology.
Commission of lies in one part of our integrity. The omission of truth while spouting those lies isn’t much different than a lie even though the lie is unsaid.
You lie all the time like Needs to be Commited and you are vile so why should anyone listen to anything you have to say?
Didn’t think so.
Carry on.
An error of omission could be likened to when your doctor prescribes a new drug without telling you to stop the old one because the two together kill the patient.
I hope that makes things simpler for you to understand.
You mean like injecting bleach before I finish the hydroxychloroquine? Forgive me, I don’t have the medical training that you and the President have had.
The stupidity gene occupies your DNA so I don’t expect you to be able to ever correct your errors.
BtB, Allan lies about me all the time. This is one of his favorite lies. Here are a few examples of him saying stuff along these lines previously:
“CTHD, you are a violent individual and will use anything in your power to push yourself where ever you wish to go. I am beginning to think that you are the one that needs to be locked up”
jonathanturley.org/2020/06/04/new-york-times-reporters-and-other-writers-condemn-paper-for-publishing-cotton-editorial/comment-page-1/#comment-1961321
“[CTHD] sounds like a semi educated leftist thug that is willing to kill or injure people to foment revolution in this country.”
jonathanturley.org/2020/06/05/mea-culpa-new-york-times-caves-to-protests-and-apologizes-for-posting-conservative-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1961688
“CTHD Needs to be committed because he supports the violence and looting that led to around 15 people being killed after Floyd’s death. … CTHD keep supporting the facists and the killers.”
jonathanturley.org/2020/06/29/turley-testifies-on-the-lafayette-park-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-1972411
Notice that when he makes these false accusations about me, he never links to a comment that provides evidence for his claim. Because he cannot. I absolutely do NOT support “violence and killing in our streets.” Allan is simply a sick individual who wants to project this onto me. He even brings sex into it:
“It’s interesting to think that peaceful protestors don’t know how to separate themselves from the violent ones and permit the violent ones to commit violence with impunity. It sounds likd CTHD gets sexually arroused from such happenings.”
jonathanturley.org/2020/06/23/protesters-topple-bust-of-george-washington-at-george-washington-university/comment-page-1/#comment-1969754
I hope that he will one day choose to find a therapist to help him with his desire to lie about people whose political views are different from his.
Needs to be Committed, I don’t have to copy what you said that leads to describing what you are. Everytime you post is an example of those features. Whether you commit a lie or omit one, it is much the same.
If you were honest about wishing another to find a therapist you would provide the name of your own. I feel confident that a therapist has been working on your problems for quite awhile. If not I await you to eventually spin into a raging state of mind.
I have no problem with different opinions. I hold political opinions that are quite different from either party. I wish this blog did discuss opinion rationally but I learned a long time ago that people filled with your type of hate are not rational.
CTHD, Allan is good only for a laugh. He’s not worth anyone taking seriously, though it is sometimes necessary to correct flat out mistatements. This is a gullible crowd. Hey, they mostly support Trump.
I occasionally laugh at his hypocrisy and his errors (like yesterday, when he posted this: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/08/25/pelosi-accuses-trump-and-colleagues-of-defining-domestic-enemies/comment-page-1/#comment-1993881 ignoring that the quote he claimed “has not been documented and doesn’t seem to exist” was on the very page: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/08/25/pelosi-accuses-trump-and-colleagues-of-defining-domestic-enemies/comment-page-1/#comment-1993796 — talk about inattentive!), but mostly his lying and insults make me sad on behalf of his family and on behalf of society having to live with people like Allan who get off on posting lies and insults.
Your complaint was: “ignoring that the quote he claimed “has not been documented and doesn’t seem to exist” was on the very page:”
CTDHD is being dishonest. Her statement was misplaced by her so as I said (my statement below) “doesn’t seem to exist” She left out the word “seem” because she is dishonest and then uses the statement “was on the very page:” which it was but was also a dishonest statement. If she were an honest person she would have recognized that I looked to whom the blog showed she was responding to but because I didn’t search an entire library I added the word “seem”.
It turns out that this girl is lying or attempting to lie which is usual for her.
The statement I made that I referred to was:
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“Needs to be Committed complained about another’s quote not being documented which I later documented in a twitter video. Now she provides a quote that has not been documented and *********doesn’t seem *********to exist. She is a hypocrite.
Hillary Clinton who in her mind still hasn’t conceded 2016 says: ““Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances”.
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1298023931790712832
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Free beer & grilled sausages for Trump votes on election day. Big parties planned. Foreigners and Democrats welcome too, valued fellow neighbors and citizens!
but BLM and ANTIFA supporters, not
“CTHD has never expressed any opinion indicating she favored “violence and killing in our streets”
Yes she has, and so have you, by straight up lying, and lying by omission.
You have tried to pretend Antifa doesn’t exist (a straight up lie), and Commit has lied by claiming that all protesters are “peaceful” (both a straight up lie and lying by omission).
But now all of the violence and killing and burning and looting, and defunding of police, that your Party condoned, are coming home to roost.
Which is why Biden will lose. That’s what happens when you let cheap emotions rule over common sense.
Rhodes, you must be drunk. I have never said antifa doesn’t exist. I agree they exist.
I seriously doubt Commit would say all protesters are peaceful as she is extremely careful in what she says and of course not all protesters are peaceful.
Biden has called for arresting protesters who break the law and did not call for defunding the police. Part of his platform includes more funding for COPS programs.
“Commit has lied by claiming that all protesters are “peaceful” (both a straight up lie and lying by omission).”
You don’t link to any comment of mine to substantiate your claim. Because you cannot.
And I can link to comments of mine where I note that “I oppose violence, looting, rioting” (quoting myself from 8/18).
Here is your Party’s problem, Commit.
Straight from Don Lemon’s mealy mouth:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1298629732309721088
As Lemon says, polls and focus groups are now clearly showing that ordinary law abiding citizens have had enough of Democratic-Socialists who are in favor of “violations of the law as long as those violations are in their favor”.
Which is why I started laughing the first time I heard “Defund the Police” back in June, after weeks of rioting. Talk about a bone-ass stupid strategy!
It’s by far the dumbest political mistake I’ve ever seen. You can thank Pelosi for that idiotic move. She’s completely lost her sh*t.
Rhodes — Apparently when the shooting started in Kenosha the Defund the Police crowd began calling for the police. That has happened before several times. They don’t want police until they are scared.
One of those shot had his arm destroyed. Bet he finds it harder to loot with only one arm. No sympathy.
The Democrats wanted to imitate the Nazis by having violent crowds swarm the streets and destroy property and attack people. Funny they didn’t see that might create an unfavorable impression.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298529196549869568?s=20
CTHD, you post as though the Dem’s don’t do the same things as the Rep’s. If you really believe this, this blog site becomes even less relevant than it is now.
Yet you don’t provide any actual evidence of any Secretary of State under a Democratic President doing what Pompeo did, or any acting DHS official under a Democratic President doing what Wolf did, or any President and First Lady using the WH for a backdrop during a Democratic National Convention.
I can be convinced with evidence. Do you have any evidence of “the same things as the Rep’s”?
And here’s additional important news re: the lawlessness on the part of Trump and his enablers:
From the House Intelligence Committee to the DoD Inspector General:
“On July 21, 2020, the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence requested that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD IG) open an investigation into the Trump Administration’s apparent retaliation against U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Alexander Vindman for his congressional testimony during the impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump, as well as whether that effort may have included retaliation against his brother, LTC Yevgeny Vindman (LTC Y. Vindman).1
“Since then, our Committees have obtained a complaint filed with your office on August 18, 2020, by LTC Y. Vindman. It raises disturbing new allegations which, if true, would further substantiate our concerns that he was retaliated against for making protected disclosures about potential legal and ethical violations committed by multiple White House officials, including President Trump.2 …”
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20200826cbm_schiff_lynch_smith_to_odonnelldod_ig_re_vindman_retaliation.pdf
CNN is the mouthpiece of the Democrat party so what they say and how they behave shows us the souls of the rest of the Democrats. At this point, it’s actually possible to posit that Democrats are borderline mentally ill. Their obsessions and hatred of any one who doesn’t agree with them is reminiscent of so many of the dangerous revolutionaries we’ve seen through out history…. Chavez, Mao. Stalin, Castro, Hitler, and other evil fascists. We are lucky that Democrats are not in power throughout the US. We are unlucky that they have ruined about 50% of the US where they are are in power. Anyone who votes for a Democrat is voting for fascism and the destruction of the US. I never felt this way before but the tables have turned and their actions are illustrative and cant’ be ignored any more.
The GOP is the mouthpiece of Fox News. So what?
Read a newspaper and quit watching either one – CNN or the GOP I mean.
You keep revealing yourself to be dishonest or ignorant. Fox has a broad spectrum of characters in it’s news and commentary operation. PBS, the supposed ‘public’ network employs manifest shills like David Brooks and calls that ‘balance’.
Oh yeah, when I want fair and balanced I watch Tucker Carlson AND Laura Ingraham.
How about you?
You might learn the difference between news and commentary. You might also recall the long list of liberals who’ve been employed by Fox. Unlike PBS, Fox doesn’t hire bought-and-paid-for shills like David Brooks.
I know the difference between news and commentary which is why I don’t watch 24/7 cable “news” for news.
By the way, CNN has Rick Santorum and a variety of right wing punching bags, just like Fox has left wing punching bags.
Look TIA, if you don’t get that Punch and Judy wasn’t a sanctioned boxing association fight, I don’t think I can help you.
Tucker Carlson is your worst nightmare, BTB.
That’s because he calls out both Democrats and Republicans.
Tucker is a populist. Laura is a partisan, just like you.
I’m sorry if insulted your leader Rhodes. While I have never dreamed about Tucker Carlson, it sounds like you do, and often. I suppose if I was a masochist needing a spanking, Ingraham is the one I’d be dreaming about, but I’m not and I haven’t.,
Book– Odd how your style of argument always ends up swimming in the gutter. Just an observation. I imagine it was sometimes effective in grade school.
Book- Funny how your style of argument often ends up swimming in the gutter. Just an observation. I imagine it was effective in grade school with your potty-mouth friends.
Double post because of Chrome issues again.
Young, I vote for the 2nd iteration. The image of sharing “with potty mouth friends” enriches the otherwise bland “grade school” reference.
True, it does.
Tucker is a liar.
Fox News’s own lawyer stated in court that no reasonable viewer would think that Carlson is stating facts when he claims to be stating facts:
Karen McDougal is suing Fox for slander because Tucker Carlson said “Remember the facts of the story; these are undisputed. Two women [one of whom is McDougal] approached Donald Trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn’t give them money.” But those aren’t facts; McDougal didn’t approach Trump, much less threaten him.
“despite Mr Carlson’s statement that ‘the facts of the story’ are ‘undisputed’, Fox News’s attorney, Erin Murphy, told the judge hearing the case that ‘there’s no statement that a reasonable viewer would understand in this context to state something provably false’ – and argued that viewers simply do not consider Mr Carlson a source of factual news.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-tucker-carlson-facts-trump-playboy-model-a9573436.html
Do his viewers agree that his show is nothing but kayfabe entertainment?
Not regarding Tucker as a source of factual news is not inconsistent with his own statement of being an opinion writer. Not the same thing. I think Professor Turley has explained it several times. The trolls here only understand it when someone like Maddow uses it as a defense.
More people watch and trust Tucker than watch or trust any of the leftist CNN or MSNBC personalities. Must be good stuff there.
Yes, and I understand he’s entering the contest for Maine’s Tallest Midget.
He will probably win that as he does everything else.
Carlson’s own lying statement was about “the facts of the story; these are undisputed,” when his so-called “undisputed” “facts” were false.
*I* don’t regard him “as a source of factual news.” But him falsely claiming “undisputed” “facts” is lying, and any honest person should be able to call it out as lying.
That some people “watch and trust” him is a testament to their stupidity and/or desire to be lied to as entertainment.
And I hope Fox has to pay up in the defamation suit. Even better if Carlson has to be deposed and own up under oath about lying to make money for himself and Fox.
Commit — But him falsely claiming “undisputed”
I know precise words are important to you but shouldn’t that be ‘his falsely claiming’ rather than ‘him falsely claiming’ — something about using possessive with a gerund, I think.
Not a criticism. I am not a grammar Nazi on casual posts. Just a thought.
I remember Stormy Daniels and Avenatti. How did that turn out? (It’s election time again) This girl that you are responding to has a lot of difficulty keeping her own stories on track. Much of the time she skirts the issue with innuendo that doesn’t work out. We all know that Donald Trump likes pretty women and that the sex he had with Daniels or McDougal was consensual. I think CTDHD is trying to spice up her boring life.
Tucker is a stud and his show is awesome. Your daily show here is boring and only about ten people tune in. Sad to admit I am one, LOL, joke’s on me i guess
I check because I am curious about her. A pattern is emerging.
I agree with you Kurtz.Though I don’t watch him all the time I think he is one of the best talk shows out there. He has his own unique philosophy which in great part involves his desire to watch out for the families and the truth. He has disagreed at times with both candidates but to agree with Biden would be agreeing to a man full of conflicts who changes his mind based on the polls.
Might matter — if anyone watched CNN.
Captive audiences in airports.
People of integrity don’t work for CNN. Or the Sulzbergers. Or the Bezos minions.
Far as it goes, Tiffany Trump showed she’s the only trump child to contend with politically going forward.
Typical juvenile thinking from TIA. Religious fanatic or juvenile.
And on the hunt for that elusive integrity!!