Showing posts with label Marc Thiessen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marc Thiessen. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2016

The GOP Enjoys Trump Rallies!

By Jeff Simpson


We brought you the story of,  in your face racism that is prevalent in the Republican party, especially where the GOP Presidential sweepstakes is concerned.

As we know, there is always more.   While the obnoxiousness and absurdity of the candidates has empowered the dregs of society to feel comfortable talking and committing violent acts.



I wonder why they would feel that they could attack someone that did not look like them.


In the next few weeks you will hear of an attempt at a coup by the Republican powers that be, where they will try and derail the Donald and subvert the will of their base.  


Republican leaders adamantly opposed to Donald J. Trump’s candidacy are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the presidential nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in Wisconsin’s April 5 primary and extending into the summer, with a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort that would cast Mr. Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election.
Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla fighting.
The group who whined about the uncertainty that was created by the recall are now planning to completely upend the electoral process of the primaries and create massive uncertainty within the Presidential primary process.  Anything to make sure the billionaires stay in power.  

While the Republican establishment hates Trump and is very worried about losing their grip as owners of the Republican nominee, they do appreciate the fact that his supporters like to physically abuse people who disagree,




Thiessen concedes that Trump’s egging on of the people in his crowds, including the promise to pay their legal fees, is “highly irresponsible” — but it’s just so invigorating to see it: “His supporters see a man who stands up for himself and believe he won’t let the United States get pushed around either.”
Yes, Trump’s call for a Muslim ban, his spewing of conspiracies theories about 9/11 and Iraq, his embrace of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Middle East dictators, and his calls for protesters to be “roughed up” are all repulsive. But for many Americans, the left’s smash-mouth tactics are repulsive as well.
Trump understands this, which is why he is milking the protests to his advantage. He is using them to rally blue-collar America by saying we’re not going to take this anymore — we are not going to bow to the Alinskyite tactics of the radical left.

Yes, your memory is not playing tricks on you.  You have heard of Marc Thiessen before, he is responsible for this literary nightmare!



One would think that when your resume consists of writing speeches for the President who gave the worst speeches in History and ghostwriting a fictional autobiography of one of the worst  and most easily intimidated Governors in history would disqualify you from being taken seriously in politics again but this is crazy season.

In case you are wondering where does Walker fall in the battle between the GOP and the Donald?  Exactly where you would expect him too - playing both sides.

The governor said the field became a little clearer after Tuesday’s contests, but no decision has been made yet. “Clearly sometime between now and the presidential preference primary…I’ll let people know if I’m going to endorse or not,” Walker said during a stop in Green Bay earlier this week.
Walker himself dropped out of the race last September. While he did not mention Donald Trump by name at the time, he encouraged other candidates to also exit so the Republican Party could establish another front runner in the race.
Apparently, even though Walker spent 71 days and $7 Million dollars hanging out with these guys, he still needs more time to see who he can endorse that will further his own blind ambition.  

Finally as for Trump, now that he sees that the GOP establishment has set their sites on making him go away, he feels empowered to ramp up the hateful rhetoric....

During a Saturday rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump made his supporters grand promises of how “we are going to win”. Amongst these promises was an ominous threat. Shouting over the crowd’s cheers, Trump yelled:
“We’re going to win with our Second Amendment. We’re gonna win big league with our Second Amendment!”
You can watch the unbelievable moment below, where Trump delights his gun-loving fanatics:





I truly believe that unless an adult steps in to the room and puts his/her foot down this is going to escalate into a conclusion where people get hurt.  Who is going to be the adult in the room for the GOP?  

What a horrible time in our History!  















Sunday, August 9, 2015

Fox Stacked The Deck For Walker In Debate, Walker Still Lost

Yes, yes, I know that the first GOP debate was days ago and is old news, but this was just too important not to share, IMHO.

Fox News had apparently stacked the deck to favor Scott Walker in the debate.

In May, Fox announced the debate and the requirements for the candidates to participate in them. Included in those requirements was that the candidates had to "file all necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC)."

Most of the candidates complied with these requirements. Scott Walker did not. He didn't file his FEC paperwork until the day before the debate.

Yet, despite Walker not complying with their own rules, Faux Newz gave Walker the third seat at the debate. Other candidates who followed the rules were demoted to the little kids debate table.

Pretty sketchy, right? Ah, but as with all things Walker. There's more. There's always more.

After the debate, Faux Newz had their squawking heads discuss the debate. One of the consultants, Marck Thiessen, couldn't praise Walker enough that night or the day after:
Thiessen also heavily praised Walker during an August 7 appearance on America's Newsroom, claiming that "the obvious winners are Bush and Walker because they were in the lead so they didn't need to hit home runs, and they both put in strong performances, especially Walker, I think, had a great moment when he took on -- jumped in and took on Hillary Clinton, which, I think, there was not enough of that in the debate last night."
However, as Media Matters reports, Faux Newz failed to mention that Thiessen was the ghost writer for Walker's "autobiography." Likewise, they didn't report that Thiessen is also an adviser to Walker's campaign:
The Washington Post, where Thiessen works as a columnist, reported on March 6 that "Walker is also seeking counsel from several hawks from George W. Bush's administration -- including Abrams, Bush's deputy national security adviser, and Marc A. Thiessen, a Post columnist and former Bush speechwriter known for his staunch defense of waterboarding and other interrogation tactics barred by President Obama. Walker selected Thiessen to co-write his 2013 book, 'Unintimidated,' and the two men became confidants during hours of Skype conversations each weekend."

Politico reported in February that Walker "said he sat down for three-and-a-half hours of foreign policy meetings" including with Thiessen.

New York Daily News Washington Bureau reporter Cameron Joseph criticized Fox News on Twitter, writing: "Curious how Marc Thiessen can be on Fox right now analyzing the debate. He co-wrote Scott Walker's book, and they don't even ID him as such."
Yet despite all the help that Faux Newz gave to Walker, he still was the biggest loser of the debate.

I'll give Walker one thing. He always find new and unique ways to be an embarrassment.

Friday, September 14, 2012

When the Echo Chamber Makes No Sense!

In 2004, former Republican insider David Brock, exposed the Right Wing Echo Chamber showing us all how the right wing has a plethora of media outlets and talking heads to push any story whether its true or not.  

EIght years later and its still going strong, lets take a quick look at it in action.  We pointed out here that Mitt Romney had a really bad day recently where his ambition got the better of him and he jumped on the death of a US Ambassador to try and help propel him to the White House.  Fortunately for all of us it backfired big time. 

The public relations beating that Mitt Romney was taking needed to be stopped and the only way to do that is to change the topic.   Cue the right wing talking heads, including right wing pundit Marc Thiessen from the American Enterprise Institute to take his best shot . 

How long had it been since President Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya? After all, our adversaries are known to use the anniversary of 9/11 to target the United States.

According to the public schedule of the president, the last time the Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting was Sept. 5 — a week before Islamist radicals stormed our embassy in Cairo and terrorists killed our ambassador to Tripoli. The president was scheduled to hold the intelligence meeting at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the day after the attacks, but it was canceled so that he could comfort grieving employees at the State Department — as well he should. But instead of rescheduling the intelligence briefing for later in the day, Obama apparently chose to skip it altogether and attend a Las Vegas fundraiser for his re-election campaign. One day after a terrorist attack.

So the new meme they are trying to push is that President Obama has no interest in security briefings, thus causing the terrorist attacks and taking your eye off of the "Mitt Romney's foreign policy fail" ball.     However because they are so desperate, they chose a topic that makes absolutely no sense.  

Does anyone really think that the President(or any president) would completely skip the daily briefing(aka Presidential daily brief - PDB)?   Even the criticism about George Bush not listening to the Aug 6th PDB but the fact that he listened to every word and then chose to ignore it.  

Does any thinking person who will not gain financially by a Romney Administration truly think that President Bush was that much more intellectually curious than a President Obama?  Could President Obama speak as intelligently and informed as he does on all issues if he completely ignored the PDB's? 

Fun Fact on PDB's: The PDB, contains the most critical and pressing intelligence information the President needs to know every day(researched and written by the people whose job it is to know these things).  They are all typed out given to the President.  He can choose to get them briefed to him by someone from the CIA and/or he can choose to read them himself.  These come to him every single day of the year, no matter where he is on the planet.   Many days, President Obama chooses to read them himself.  

One last fun fact for Mr. Theissen, or anyone who tries to advance such a blatantly false attack on the President, as saying he skipped his brief to attend a Las Vegas fundraiser. 

It is just NOT true!!  In case you are wondering, a plane ride to Las Vegas from DC takes approximately  4 Hours and 50 minutes.  Plenty of time for President Obama to have read that days PDB. 

There is the echo chamber in action, now you can go to almost every right wing blog or opinion writer in the county are now trying to push this ridiculous story throughout the country. 

They are lying!

Now you know the rest of the story! 

Now you know the rest of the story!