The cascading outbreak of hoof and mouth disease
continues apace; this time from a ham-fisted fool at The Washington Post.
Daniel W. Drezner and his “hard-working staff” do not
like Attorney General Jeff Sessions. No
sir, not one bit. Their reasons: he was the first senator to endorse Donald Trump,
he dismissed divergent views as “soulless globalism” and he’s bringing back the
war on drugs.
Clinging fervently to his reflexive outrage, Drezner merely
glanced at a Tweet from Josh Dawsey, a Politico
White House reporter, who truncated a line from Sessions’ speech to the US
Border Patrol while visiting the US-Mexico border in Nogales, AZ.
Sessions to border agents: “It is here, on this sliver of land, where we first take our stand against this filth."https://t.co/lBHKcvaq0Q
The useful idiot jumped to conclusions assuming use of
the word “filth” was intended to describe illegal immigrants so he intemperately
fired off this Tweet:
Filth. He described illegal immigrants as "filth."
Whatever your views on immigration that's f**king embarrassing for a US official to say. https://t.co/sl5x5uLObK
Here’s the problem
for Drezner. He skimmed The Wall Street Journal piece containing
the Attorney General’s prepared remarks.
Sessions deviated from those remarks saying instead:
“Along this border, transnational gangs like MS-13 and
international cartels flood our country with drugs and leave death and violence
in their wake. And it is here that criminal aliens and the coyotes and the
document-forgers seek to overthrow our system of lawful immigration.”
“Let’s stop here for a moment. When we talk about MS-13
and the cartels, what do we mean? We mean international criminal organizations
that turn cities and suburbs into war-zones, that rape and kill innocent
citizens and who profit by smuggling poison and other human beings across our
borders. Depravity and violence are their calling cards, including brutal
machete attacks and beheadings.”
“It is here, on this sliver of land, on this border,
where we first take our stand.”
Using the excuse he had to rush off to a meeting with students
and colleagues, he did not carefully read the speech and jumped to his own
conclusions.Something he regretted
after the Tweet had already gone viral.He was astoundingly wrong and, to his credit, later apologized.
After TPM’s Josh Marshall
tweeted, “Sessions’
speechwriter goes full Stormfront in border speech” and Daily Kos’ Gabe Ortiz tweeted, “’We
take our stand against this filth.’ Sessions speech goes full-on white
nationalist,” Geraldo Rivera AKA Jerry Rivers appeared on Fox NewsOutnumbered yesterday repeating the false charge:
"I don't mind the tough talk, because it's deterred
people trying the Southern border, and that's a good thing because it's so
dangerous for them. To stabilize the border is a good thing. But I'm absolutely
deeply hurt and offended by the tone of this language. This attorney general by
using words like 'filth' to describe the undocumented immigrants coming across
the Southern border, it smacks of a racist tint to me that I find repulsive."
— PoliticalClownParade (@PoliticalClownP) April 12, 2017
I said all that to
say this:There are some people out
there who believe a movie about a tornado full of sharks is true.Is it any wonder Americans distrust the
media?
The left is seething over the firing by Attorney General Jeff
Sessions of 46 US attorneys who served under Teleprompter Jesus.
The
Justice Department said some US attorneys, as in prior transitions, already had
left the department. Sessions asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed
US Attorneys to tender their resignations.
Why
would Sessions keep in place those appointees given the fact Acting Attorney General
Sally Yates—unmistakably sympathetic to Obama’s non-enforcement policies—insubordinately
refused to defend a lawfully issued executive order endorsed by Justice’s
Office of Legal Counsel on the president’s travel ban?
The sore losers on
the left seem to be suffering from self-induced amnesia—after
all Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder said in 2009, “Elections matter. It is our intention to have the US attorneys
that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as we can.”
After Bill Clinton’s
inauguration, he fired all 93 US
attorneys. Not a peep was uttered. Not. A. Peep.
It is interesting to learn that one US attorney, Preet Bharara,
decided to be defiant of Sessions’ request to resign:
Source says US Attorney Preet Bharara doesn't plan to resign, will make President Trump fire him (Reporting from @LauraAJarrett@jaketapper)
One need not search
very long for the reason behind his defiance.
On November 30, 2016 The
Washington Examiner published a juicy tidbit regarding the relationship
between Sen. Chuck Schumer and Bharara.
“The aggressive New York Democrat, who is set to lead
Senate Democratic opposition to Trump's agenda next year, disclosed that Trump
sought out his advice on Bharara last week."
"’President-elect Trump called me last week and
asked me what I thought about Preet Bharara continuing his role as US attorney,’
Schumer said in a statement. ‘I told him I thought Preet was great, and I would
be all for keeping him on the job and fully support it.’"
Bharara served as
chief counsel to Senator “Upchuck”.
According to The
New York TimesBharara tainted a corruption case against New York
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver
"Mr. Silver’s lawyers moved to dismiss his indictment
because Mr. Bharara had orchestrated a 'media firestorm' that tainted their
client’s right to a fair trial. Such motions are considered long shots, but
Judge Valerie Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote that Mr.
Silver had a legitimate argument that the case should be thrown out because Mr.
Bharara, 'while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose
with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge
of the rules governing his own conduct.'”
Bharara’s office had
also been accused of “judge shopping” by the United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit in the insider trading case against the hedge fund traders
Anthony Chiasson and Todd Newman.
In 2012, a string of prominent insider trading
convictions landed him on the cover of Time magazine with the headline ‘This
Man Is Busting Wall St.’ The New York Post’s Page Six spotlighted his
appearance at this year’s Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles, featuring him
in the same paragraph with Jane Fonda, Angelica Huston and Steve Martin.
Chuck Schumer is
arrogant, overbearing and self-assured.
Yesterday the senator from the Great State of New York pronounced to the
entire world Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign his post in the Trump
Administration as head of the Department of Justice.
"There cannot be
even the scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney
general, the top law enforcement official of the land," Schumer said.
"Because the Department of Justice should be above reproach, for the good
of the country Attorney General Sessions should resign."
With those words, Schumer
didn't just dig himself a hole, he stole a backhoe, dug a really deep hole,
drove the backhoe into the hole, wired the backhoe with explosives and blew it
up.
Relying on published
reports from The Washington Post and The New York Times was an intellectually
bankrupt approach given the fact the pages of The New York Times was the cheering section for one of the 20th
Century’s most murderous dictators. Few
readers today will remember Walter
Duranty; the man history has catalogued as the sycophantic apologist for
Josef Stalin’s genocide in the Ukraine.
He covered Stalin’s show trials of his enemies in the 1930s as if the
trials were legitimate and dismissed out-of-hand his many thousands of
executions and purges. Duranty was
typical of those who look for wickedness in the wrong place and cannot see it
at the end of their noses.
Schumer’s beef
concerns two meetings then-Senator Jeff Sessions had with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s
ambassador to the United States.
As I
noted yesterday, more than 30 Democrat senators met with Russian diplomats
and foreign officials from the Middle East.
Since then The
Daily Caller discovered Visitor Logs showing Ambassador Kislyak visited
the White House at least 22 times between 2009 and 2016 during the reign of
Teleprompter Jesus.
Also emerging
yesterday was a photograph of Kislyak attending President Trump’s address to
the Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, February 28, 2017.
Lynch had contended
that she and Bill Clinton merely discussed grandchildren, golf and social
matters.
"She's an
honorable person, we know that," Schumer said. "She has said nothing
was discussed related to the investigation. So you have two choicesto
say this didn't matter or she's lying. I think it didn't matter. I don't
think she's lying."
What would the good
senator say if Attorney General Sessions had met with Vladimir Putin?
Let’s ask him right
now.
Wait. A. Minute. That’s
not Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III.
That’s a photograph
of Chuckles from September 26, 2003. The
article from The
New York Post reads:
In possibly the
greatest show of political power ever to attend the grand opening of a gas
station, Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up in Chelsea yesterday with
Sen. Chuck Schumer to help inaugurate the first Russian-owned chain of
petroleum stops in America.
There was no ribbon-cutting at the opening of the Lukoil
station at 10th Avenue and 24th Street, but the diminutive Russian leader shook
hands with nervous-looking employees, drank a cup of coffee—spiked
with skim milk—and sampled a Krispy
Kreme doughnut in the station’s Kwik Farms convenience store.
Schumer said the Russian-drilled petroleum from Lukoil—which
bought out Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. in 2000—would
be a boon the United States because it could help free America from dependence
on oil from the OPEC nations, many of which are hostile Middle Eastern states.
A CNN crew attended
Zakharova’s weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday, but asked no questions at
the session itself about a fresh report by CNN, which said “current and
former US intelligence officials have described Kislyak as a top spy and
recruiter of spies.”
Shortly after the
noon hour yesterday, the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes
(R-CA) cautioned reporters to “be careful what you ask for” during a discussion
of FBI phone records implying reporters themselves or “other Americans” could
become the target of congressional investigations should phone records implicate
them.
“…for example, [if] you were on the phone with
the Russian ambassador and somehow your phone call got recorded, would you want
them turning over that phone call and that transcript to the committee?” Nunes asked.
“But isn't there a
difference between a call between a private person?” a reporter who is clearly
an intellectual midget countered.
“That's the point
here. General Flynn was a private American citizen,” Nunes said. “Look, I'm sure
some of you are in contact with the Russian embassy, so be careful what you ask
for here because if we start getting transcripts of any of you or any other
Americans talking to the press, then we can – do you want us to conduct an
investigation on you or other Americans because you were talking to the Russian
embassy? I just think we need to be careful.”
“If the memo is in fact an accurate account of what
transpired, it constitutes a remarkable example of the lengths to which some on
the political left, including a sitting US senator, were willing to go to stop Donald
Trump.”
That pronouncement is
completely accurate except for the exchange of the name contained within it.
London Times reporter Tim Sebastian was given access to Soviet archives in
1991. He came across “an arresting
memorandum” composed in 1983 by Viktor Chebrikov who was the head of the KGB from
December 1982 to October 1988. The memo
was addressed to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov. The subject:
Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
According to Forbes,
its clear Sen. Kennedy was actively and secretly collaborating with the
Russians to influence the 1984 election.
Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.
First he offered to visit Moscow. “The main purpose of the
meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with
explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better
prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA.” Kennedy would help
the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.
Then he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit
down for a few interviews on American television. “A direct appeal…to the
American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and
interest in the country…If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy
and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the
largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation
to Moscow for the interviews…The senator underlined the importance that this
initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.”
Kennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air
time—and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest
journalism.
Fast
forward 34 years.
Bright and
early this morning the 24-hour cable news outlets were going full throttle on a
story alleging then-Senator Jeff Sessions while working as a top advisor and
surrogate for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice
last year.
Senate Democratic
leader Chuck Schumer said Sessions had tried to “dramatically mislead” Congress
and called for his resignation. He stopped just short of calling his former colleague
a liar, but made it clear he thought Sessions had concealed the full truth from
the Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing. “If there was nothing
wrong” with meeting Ambassador Kislyak, Schumer asked, “Why didn’t he just come
clean and tell the truth?”
During his press conference he made three demands:
(1)A special
prosecutor must be named
(2)Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan must advance legislation
to “improve” the independent counsel law and to give a three-judge panel the
ability to appoint a special prosecutor
(3)The
Justice Department Inspector General should immediately investigate Sessions’
involvement in the Russia matter
Liberals sat with bated breath as they
watched the Academy Awards. Faye Dunaway
was not the martyr the Democrats needed Sunday night and their message to
working class Americans rang hollow at an event where arrogant millionaires
were giving golden statues to each other.
After President Trump gave the best speech of
his young presidency Tuesday night, Democrats trotted out a licensed undertaker
to deliver the Democrat response to his address to the Joint Session of
Congress. Undertakers are historically
in charge of voter registration rolls.
Democrats are desolate.
And apparently the Rooskies hacked Sen.
Claire McCaskill’s Twitter account.
I've been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years.No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel Com.
Not
so fast there, Clarabelle. Thanks to the
eagle eye of Charles C. W. Cooke, he found two tweets about meetings with the very same Russian Ambassador in 2013 and
2015. What a co-inky-dink.
Off to meeting w/Russian Ambassador. Upset about the arbitrary/cruel decision to end all US adoptions,even those in process.
Jeanne
Shaheen (D-NH) along with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Robert
Menendez (D-NY), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) met
with Jordanian Ambassador Alia Hatoug Bouran, Qatari Ambassador Jaham
Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, Saudi Deputy Political and Congressional Affairs Counselor
Musab al-Saud, Turkish Ambassador Serdar Kiliç and Emirati Chargé d’Affaires
Omar al-Shamsi in November 2015.
