Saturday, December 1, 2018


WATCH: Trump Supporters Hospitalize Reporter At Behest Of Trump On CBS' 'Murphy Brown'

Candice Bergen at the 'Murphy Brown'' Press Conference at the Essex House Hotel on October 27, 2018 in New York City.
Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage
CBS' reboot of the 1990s show "Murphy Brown" is filled with cringey anti-Trump fodder for its leftist viewers. On Thursday's episode, aptly titled "Beat the Press," for example, Trump supporters beat a reporter at the beset of President Donald Trump.
In "Beat the Press," actress Candice Bergen, who plays Murphy Brown, is watching a Trump rally set in Pennsylvania on television with her son Avery (played by actor Jake McDorman). A voice emanating from the TV set she's watching is a faux Trump voice directing his supporters to "body slam" a reporter named Frank Fontana (played by actor Joe Regalbuto). The show cuts to the TV set, where actual footage of President Donald Trump at one of his rallies is playing.
The faux Trump voice mocks "Old Murphy" and "Fibbin' Frank Fontana."
"Fibbin' Frank Fontana is here tonight. Where is he? There he is. See him? That's right. Let Fibbin' Frank know what you think of him! Maybe a good body slam, what do you say?" says the voice meant to be President Trump. Here's the full exchange (transcript provided via NewsBusters):
Murphy: You know, your Uncle Frank is in here somewhere.
Avery: He's covering the rally?
Murphy: Yep.
Trump: And by the way, anybody catch Old Murphy on TV this morning?
Murphy: Oh, boy. Here we go.
Trump: Yeah, she was at it again. Sitting there with her flunky friends, telling their big lies, planting their fake stories about our great country.
Avery: Is that what you do? You paint a much different picture.
Trump: I hear Old Murphy's partner in crime, Fibbin' Frank Fontana is here tonight. Where is he? There he is. See him? That's right. Let Fibbin' Frank know what you think of him! Maybe a good body slam, what do you say?
Murphy: Oh, I can't watch this garbage anymore.
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And it gets worse from there. Another scene shows Murphy and Avery going to a Washington, D.C., hospital to visit Fontana, who has been brutally beaten by evil Trump supporters.
"Next thing I know, I'm surrounded by a sea of red hats," Fontana tells the other characters, clearly referencing Trump supporters in iconic "MAGA" hats. Fontana's character suffered broken ribs and a damaged eye from the deplorables:
Murphy: I guess when you major in journalism these days, you have to minor in kickboxing.
Avery: Hey, Uncle Frank.
Frank: Hey, guys.
Murphy: What happened to you? I thought you knew how to duck.
Frank: You should see the other hundred guys. How bad do I look?
Murphy: Not bad, if you're a piƱata.
Avery: So, I guess the takeaway here is, next time you cover a rally, hope the president doesn't give you a shout out.
Frank: When Trump left the stage, I decided to leave the press pen and go interview some of the people. Next thing I know, I'm surrounded by a sea of red hats.
Murphy: Oh, God.
Frank: No big deal. I'm just milking this for the Jell-O and sponge baths.
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The show's over-the-top "comedic" venom toward the president and his supporters hasn't fared so well. Though the show's creator has denied the reports, it looks like this will be the only season of the anti-Trump Murphy Brown reboot.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS will stick to the "closed-ended order of 13 episodes" of Murphy Brown to "clear room on the schedule" for other comedic shows.
"For Murphy Brown, the rebooted series was always intended to be a closed-ended order of 13 episodes," says the report. "The multicamera comedy, featuring the return of star Candice Bergen and from original creator Diane English, has underperformed (6.2 million total viewers and a 0.9 in the key 18-49 demo) in its prime Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. slot and remains in consideration for a renewal. Fellow multicam comedy Fam, starring Nina Dobrev and Tone Bell — which has already changed showrunners — will take over Murphy Brown's slot starting Thursday, Jan. 10."

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France's Meltdown, Macron's Disdain by Guy MilliĆØre

France's Meltdown, Macron's Disdain

by Guy MilliĆØre  •  December 1, 2018 at 2:00 am
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  • "The French say, 'Mr. President, we cannot make ends meet,' and the President replies, 'we shall create a High Council [for the climate]'. Can you imagine the disconnect?" -- Laurence Saillet, spokesman for the center-right party, The Republicans, November 27, 2018
  • The "yellow jackets" [protestors] now have the support of 77% of the French population. They are demanding Macron's resignation and an immediate change of government.
  • The movement is now a revolt of millions of people who feel asphyxiated by "confiscatory" taxation, and who do not want to "pay indefinitely" for a government that seems "unable to limit spending". -- Jean-Yves Camus, political scientist
  • European elections are to be held this Spring, 2019. Polls show that the National Gathering will be in the lead, far ahead of La RĆ©publique En Marche! [The Republic on the Move!], the party created by Macron.
In May, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that in many suburbs, France has "lost the fight against drug trafficking". (Getty Images)
On November 11th, French President Emmanuel Macron commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by inviting seventy heads of state to organize a costly, useless, grandiloquent "Forum of Peace" that did not lead to anything. He also invited US President Donald Trump, and then chose to insult him. In a pompous speech, Macron -- knowing that a few days earlier, Donald Trump had defined himself as a nationalist committed to defending America -- invoked "patriotism"; then defined it, strangely, as "the exact opposite of nationalism"; then called it "treason".
In addition, shortly before the meeting, Macron had not only spoken of the "urgency" of building a European army; he also placed the United States among the "enemies" of Europe. This was not the first time Macron placed Europe above the interests of his own country. It was, however, the first time he had placed the United States on the list of enemies of Europe.
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TREAT ENEMIES LIKE ENEMIES AND FRIENDS LIKE FRIENDS

How Trump, Pompeo, Bolton and Mattis need to emulate Reagan’s example.

 
Michael Ledeen is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center and Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
I remember when Jimmy Carter invoked “human rights” to criticize the Soviet Union, and Leonid Brezhnev, the dictator of the totalitarian USSR, was furious.  He knew it was very dangerous to his rule, and he let Carter know that the Russians wanted it called off. 
Time showed how right Brezhnev was. Carter toned down his campaign, but over the years, a new generation of Soviet dissidents and refuseniks carried the criticism much further.  From Bukovsky and Sharansky to Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, the evils of the Soviet Empire were exposed and attacked, until Reagan made the themes his own, and until Gorbachev in desperation launched his calls for glasnost and perestroika, hoping to preserve his Communist dictatorship despite its manifest failure.
It was clearly a triumph of American values over an anti-American enemy, and it succeeded because the Soviet peoples had been inspired by the leaders of the United States, and because the Soviet leaders had a failure of will.  They could not bring themselves to crush the incipient revolution.  They certainly had the power to do it, but they couldn’t bring themselves to give the orders.  So the peoples of the empire changed the regimes, from Moscow to the captive nations.  That was what Reagan wanted, and accomplished.
The most important part of Reagan’s success was the tireless critique he and his people unleashed on the Kremlin.  It wasn’t just the well-known broadcasts from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty;  a lot came directly from the president, the secretary of state, and a plethora of senior officials.  A lot of this campaign has been forgotten and denied.  Reagan critics like to pretend, as is their wont, that the Soviet Empire fell because of its economic failure.  As if the Communists hadn’t failed from the very beginning, and as if our practice of calling for the release of political prisoners were not crucial.  But those of us who worked with the dissidents knew that Soviet Communism was doomed once the president had gone after its failed system.  It would not have occurred to him to say we wanted a change in behavior, not a change in regime.  I wish Messrs Trump, Pompeo, Bolton and Mattis would emulate Reagan’s example.
These thoughts come to mind as I watch the media and countless intellectuals and politicians call for harsh punishment of Saudi Arabia for the Khashoggi murder.  I say to myself, all this furor for the assassination of one man, reminding me of Stalin’s ugly remark that one dead man is a tragedy, while a million dead is a statistic.  His meaning is as clear as it is cruel:  if you’re going to be a murderer, do it big-time.  Thus the anti-Saudi campaign endures, while there is no comparable anti-Iranian outpouring (Khashoggi is lionized because he was a journalist, but one-third of the imprisoned and tortured journalists in the world are in the clutches of the Iranian totalitarians) or even an anti-Assad campaign (a half million dead at his hands;  a mere statistic evidently).
What worries me most about the current state of affairs is that the intellectuals are devoting significantly more time and energy to bashing Saudi Arabia—a longtime friend—than to Iran and Syria (and China), self-proclaimed enemies.  That’s crazy.  I’m all for calling out murderers, wherever they are, but it makes no sense to treat friends worse than enemies.  That is not just an “America first” foreign policy matter;  it’s common sense.
As things stand, our deep thinkers seem more committed to regime change in Riyadh than in Tehran, which is nuts.  We should be hell-bent on Iranian and Syrian regime change, and openly disappointed and disapproving of Saudi murderers.  Is that so hard?  Apparently so.
And what about the Russian attack on Ukraine, a friend.  As I wrote with the clear-headed General Flynn, Putin is an enemy.  There is no way, in my opinion, to get him to change his behavior.  So our most effective strategy is the same as we used against the Soviet enemy and should be using against the Persian enemy:  threaten his control of the regime.  The most effective way to do that is to encourage his many domestic challengers, and that should be done by all our top leaders, and should employ our best diplomats as well.  Threaten Putin with revolution, of the only sort that has succeeded:  a true revolution, based on the proven principles of the American Revolution.
It’s not hard, but it requires the will to prevail and bring down our enemies.
Faster, please.

INVESTIGATING GEORGE SOROS IS NOT UNETHICAL OR A CRIME

 
It's bizarre to the nth degree that something this obvious needs to be said, but the media excels at normalizing illegal behavior and at abnormalizing completely normal behavior. That currently means insisting that any investigation of George Soros is some sort of crime. 
That's certainly convenient because Soros is a major funder of the Left. It has no actual basis except ideological convenience.
Even setting aside all the weight of political controversy that Soros has been involved in, including defending and spreading anti-Semitism, his alleged Nazi collaboration and so much else, the simple fact is that Soros has invested a lot of money into political activism. And, at one point, that political activism targeted Facebook. It was completely legitimate of Facebook to look into Soros.
It was a matter of simple self-defense.
The media outcry, its hit pieces on the subject, treat any investigation of Soros as a "right wing conspiracy" or anti-Semitic. That's a particularly bizarre accusation to direct at the Facebook leadership which is largely left-wing and Jewish.
Soros hates Facebook because he wants a closed society and a censored media. The media wants the same thing. Its insistence that Soros should be above criticism is a demonstration of that.


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