They Just Cannot Help Themselves, Again

I keep pointing out the ceaseless bias in mainstream media for two reasons.

1) It is so much fun.

2) To remind all of us of the relentless, dishonest, destructive and dangerous campaign to discourage us and caricature President Trump.

The always reliably disingenuous Yahoo! strikes again in the aftermath of President Trump's post mission press conference regarding the killing of the ISIS leader who's name I will not mention.

Here is their headline.

"Trump says al-Baghdadi died 'screaming and crying.' U.S. officials aren't sure how he knows that." 

 

So he probably made it up right? Wrong.

 

Eleven paragraphs and two photo jumps later the "officials" explain the obvious.

 

 "I don’t have those details,” Esper said, adding that the president “probably had the opportunity to talk to the commanders on the ground." (Emphasis added)

 

Oh. 

 

By the way, the "officials" was one official, Esper, Chairman of the JCS. 

 

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They Just Cannot Help Themselves

This appeared on the Yahoo Home Page at 1:29 PM Pacific today.




"...that the president himself..." The clear intention of the headline, since this story is about our former ambassador to the Ukraine, is that President Trump did something wrong.

The actual story is relatively unremarkable.

An ambassador was removed and replaced because the President, at whose pleasure she served, was annoyed that she as interfering with his direct diplomatic efforts.

The "implication" is actually that he was personally involved in firing someone who worked for him. Oh my. Surely that is a criminal offense! Wait, its not? Well, surely it is an impeachable offense! Wait, it isn't any offense at all? Impossible, why else would it be front and center on Yahoo's Home Page? Because...Trump, of course.

 "The former ambassador says she was fired from her post after insisting that Giuliani's requests to Ukrainian officials for investigations be relayed through official channels, according to a former diplomat who has spoken with her. That former diplomat insisted on anonymity to disclose the private conversation."

Here comes the really good part.

"The diplomat was recalled from Kyiv as Rudy Giuliani — who is Trump's personal attorney and has no official role in the U.S. government — pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate baseless corruption allegations against Democrat Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who was involved with a gas company there." (Emphasis added)

"Baseless corruption allegations"? As far as I know there has been no investigation and certainly no believable non-corrupt explanation for a Ukranian gas company to pay the former V.P.'s son, who has no known expertise in Natural Gas or the Ukraine, something on the order of $50,000 a month while his father was in charge of Ukranian issues for the Obama administration. The payments continued into early 2019.

Did I mention that young Mr. Biden has no expertise that anyone knows of regarding the gas business or the Ukraine itself?

This is what passes for "news reporting".  Dangerous, destructive, infuriating.

Do not believe a word they say.

I think I mentioned Sarah Hoyt once before as saying that when she reads in the mainstream media that it is raining outside she goes outside to check, without an umbrella.

Do not forget that the mission of the media is to brow beat us into silence and discourage us from voting because everyone knows Trump is Toast.

I am looking forward to their furious lamentations when we beat them again in 2020.

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Trump and the Kurds

As usual, anything Donald Trump does is unprecedented and always, always, BAD!

Happily conservatives have actual memories and understand that history did not begin the glorious day President Trump was elected. 

In case the recent deluge of hysteria that followed his decision to "abandon" the Kurds has you wondering, please don't bother.

Thanks to Instapundit we have some context. 

 

October 10, 2019

THE BETRAYAL OF THE KURDS, A PLAY IN 73 ACTS:
Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds May Be the Dumbest Move of His Presidency.
Obama Betrays The Kurds.
Bush Betrays The Kurds.
[Bill Clinton’s] US abandoned us, say Kurds.
A People Betrayed: Twice Before, Washington Let Kurds Die to Promote Foreign Policy Designs. Now It’s The [George H.W.] Bush Administration Doing The Deed.

 I have no idea, nor do I much care, whether this policy is good or bad.

The Middle East, as a problem, pales to complete insignificance compared to the existential attack underway on this country by the left. Don't be distracted. Donate and volunteer if you can.