Here are my observations and opinions of my selected news of the day.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN race baiter (getty image/the hill.com)
CNN RACE BAITING CONTINUES – Jake Tapper, interviewing El Paso Mayor Dee Margo, asked if he agreed with Beto O’Rourke’s remark that “the president’s rhetoric is making things worse and creating an atmosphere of violence.”
When Margo stated that he wasn’t “qualified to talk on that,” saying, “I’m not a talking head,” Tapper tried a different tack, according to Virginia Kruta, associate editor of The Daily Caller, quoting another Texan.
“Texas land commissioner George P. Bush said in a statement, ‘white terrorism is a real and present threat we must all denounce and defeat.’ Do you agree that white terrorism is a threat to the United States?” Again, Margo refused to take the bait.
Regular readers will recall my reporting of CNN’s Randi Kaye’s unsuccessful baiting of a focus group of Republican women on July 21, 2019, and my August 4, 2019 comments on CNN’s Don Lemon’s unsuccessful baiting of the black pastor Bill Owens.
DEMOCRAT AMY KLOBUCHAR, in Las Vegas for a labor forum event with Beto O’Rourke, couldn’t resist attacking the president saying, “I do think Trump’s rhetoric has fueled more hate in this country.”
Many on social media outlets have criticized the Democrat candidates for politicizing the shootings.
O’Rourke unashamedly pulled out the often-misquoted statement attributed to the president that the president called “Mexicans rapists and criminals.” Wrong! In July 2015, Donald Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems … they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And, I assume, there are good people.”
When asked why he used the term “rapists,” Trump pointed to reports at the time that indicated that as many as 80 percent of the female immigrants crossing the border are sexually assaulted on the trip. CNN’s Don Lemon foolishly argued that the rapes took place during the journey, not after they got here.
WHO’S REALLY FUELING THE ATMOSPHERE? Jon Cooper, chairman of The Democrat Coalition, tweeted Vice President Pence @joncoopertweets: “F**k you. Our nation doesn’t want your thoughts and prayers. You and Donald Trump – and congressional Republicans – are complicit in these horrific acts of gun violence. Your hate spawns domestic terrorism by white nationalists. The blood of innocent victims is on your hands.”
MORE LEFTIST HATE – David Rothkopf, a professor and founder of The Rothkopf Group couldn’t contain his hate while responding to Ivanka Trump’s tweeted condolences following the shootings. “This is on you. How will you explain it to your children?”
STILL MORE HATE from leftists Democrat presidential candidate Cory Booker: “We have a president who is responsible.”
AND FINALLY, Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, long-funded by George Soros, said @GoAngelo: “Fox News fuels white supremacy and extremism. A big part pf why this country is bubbling over with extremists these days can be traced to white-wing (cute) media.”
YOU BE THE JUDGE. Who do you think is stirring the pot of racism and white nationalism?
CORRECTION – Kamala Harris didn’t send 1,500 people to jail for pot, as candidate Tulsi Gabbard charged during the debate. It was more – 1,974, according to California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
HOPING FOR A RECESSION – Only one of the late-night talk show people would come up with a wish for a recession, and Bill Maher did so while chatting with Josh Barro, a contributor to New York magazine. “I’ve been hoping for a recession – people hate me for it – but it would get rid of Trump.”
“Recessions are really bad,” said Barro, “People lose their jobs and homes and we shouldn’t wish for it.” To which Maher responded, “I know. It’s worth it.”
BACK TO BALTIMORE – “Taxpayers (you and me) have paid nearly $2 billion in federal aid to fund 30,000 public employees at local and federal levels, an audit shows, writes Audrey Conkin in the Daily Caller.
“Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees with a combined payroll that exceeds $821 million annually. The mayor’s office paid $7 million in 2018 for salaries of 111 employees and $1 million for public relations fees,” according to an investigation auditors at OpenTheBooks.com conducted.
“We found the city drowning in taxpayer dollars,” OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski wrote in an editorial for Forbes magazine.
“If more money was the answer, Baltimore’ challenges would have been solved long ago,” he said. A total of $1.1 billion in grants and direct payments was given to Baltimore city agencies, nonprofit organizations and colleges from fiscal year 2015 to 2018. The city received $5.44 billion worth of federal aid in contracts, grants and other financial assistance for fiscal year 2018.
Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district received more than $9 billion in 2018 and more than $15 billion total between 2018 and 2019.
Baltimore’s schools pay another 10,770 employees with a combined payroll of $619.3 million – $79.1 million spent outside the classroom, $11.4 million spent on psychologists, $16.4 million spent on social workers, $7.4 million on counselors, $2.7 million spent on bus drivers, and $42.2 million spent on principals and assistant principals.
Cummings was interviewed while walking a Baltimore neighborhood Saturday sporting a cap and polo shirt bearing the logo of Under Armour, a sportswear company with headquarters in Baltimore.
The Baltimore Sun published an article with in depth coverage of his financial situation. You can read it by CLICKING HERE.
May God continue to bless the United State of America.
