SiriusXM hosts Stephen K. Bannon and David Webb announced on Breitbart News Daily that SiriusXM has suspended Glenn Beck and Webb will temporarily take over Beck’s 9AM to noon Eastern time slot on SiriusXM’s Patriot Channel 125.
SiriusXM issued the following statement:
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SiriusXM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs. However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in our judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which we cannot and will not condone. For that reason, we have suspended The Glenn Beck Program from our Patriot channel for the coming week and are evaluating its place in our lineup going forward. SiriusXM is committed to a spirited, robust, yet responsible political conversation and believes this action reflects those values.
The suspension is in response to the interview Beck did with fiction author Brad Thor last Wednesday, in which Thor likened the GOP’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump to a South American-style dictator who would cause an “extinction-level event” for the country if elected. Thor then declared that in such a case, Congress would not be able to remove Trump from office by “legal means” through impeachment, so Thor asked “what patriot will step up and do that” if Trump oversteps his Constitutional restraints. Beck agreed with Thor’s assessment.
THOR: He is a danger to America and I got to ask you a question and this is serious and this could ring down incredible heat on me because I’m about to suggest something very bad. It is a hypothetical I am going to ask as a thriller writer.
With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as President? If Congress won’t remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitutional-granted authority, I should say, as president.
If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office? And I don’t think there is a legal means available. I think it will be a terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office because you won’t be able to do it through Congress.
BECK: I would agree with you on that and I don’t think you actually have the voices we’ve been talking about and we’ve been talking about this off-air for a while. I think the voices like ours go away. I don’t think we are allowed – especially if things, and I believe the economy is going to go to crap, even if Jesus was in office. It’s going to naturally reset. It has to.
After receiving criticism for these comments from people who believed Thor and Beck were suggesting or at least implying assassination, Beck offered a lengthy defense of his statements. You can read the full transcript of his defense here.
Listen to Bannon and Webb’s announcement of the suspension below:
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Malzberg Show,” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who is a self-described member of the “never Trump” movement, was asked if there’s anything GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump could do to win him over. Kristol said he was “never Trump,” but added a “never say nyever” caveat.
Kristol said, “For me it’s more of a matter of character. I don’t know that you can change your character at age 69, and given the things he’s said even very recently about other people, the way he demeans other people. But I mean, I guess never say never. On the one hand, I’ll say never Trump, and on the other hand, I’ll say never say never and I’ll leave it ambiguous.”
Heidi Cruz said on the Indiana campaign trail Saturday that her husband
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
97%
“is an immigrant.”
“Ted is an immigrant. He is Hispanic,” Heidi Cruz said of her Texas senator husband, an American citizen who renounced his Canadian citizenship though he was born north of the border. “He can unify this party.”
“We have libertarians joining our cause. I have people every day from the Democrat Party telling me that they re-registered to vote for Ted as a Republican. Because they understand what he stands for, and he represents America.”
As of press time, it is unclear whether Heidi meant to say that Ted Cruz is the son of an immigrant father, or whether her line was a Freudian slip referring to the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Canada.
Cruz moved to the United States as a toddler in 1974 after being born in Canada in December, 1970.
Thanks to the candidacy of Donald Trump the financial intersection of money and political opinion, as guided by the monetary motives therein, has brought some amazing revelations to the surface.
These financial/media relationships have largely, and historically, remained hidden. They have damned sure never been publicly, clearly, and regularly stated so the consuming audience would know the presentation was fraught with financial conflict.
♦ The Senate Conservatives Fund (PAC) purchasing massive quantities ($400,000) of Mark Levin’s books in exchange for favorable candidacy political opinion. Conveniently Hidden by the radio host who avoids mentioning the financial conflict created.
Then again, Levin never informed his audience of his family working within the Staff of Senator Ted Cruz either. Does Levin’s endorsement, when contrast against the crony-constitutional advocacy, clarify with a little sunlight? You decide.
♦ Or how about the Breitbart Media enterprise being run via an $11 million purchase from Billionaire Robert Mercer, who also funded Ted Cruz’s Super-PAC “Keep The Promise 1”, to the tune of $10 million. Little overlooked facts, never openly shared for news consumers to determine source motive. Pesky Sunlight
♦ Maybe the Ben Shapiro website “The Daily Wire“, being funded by the billionaire Wilks Brothers, Levi and Farris, in Texas. Who also fund Ted Cruz and his Super-PAC “Keep The Promise”. Shapiro never publicly disclosed the financial/content conflict, or the extent therein. Could Shapiro support any other candidate other than who his content owners approved of? Again, you decide. (Yep, Pesky Sunlight)
♦ The Chairman of Glenn Beck’s Mercury One charity, David Barton, jointly running the Pro-Ted Cruz Super-PAC“Keep The Promise”; also never put into the sunlight by Glenn Beck or his various media enterprises so the consuming audience could filter presented political opinion through the filter of fiduciary connections. More Pesky Sunlight
These are just a few of the politically motivated – financially dependent – revelations we probably would never have known about were it not for Donald Trump presenting a genuinely conservative America-First platform; and as a direct consequence, the faux-constitutionalists having to reverse opinion simply to retain income.
♦ So it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise to find out that Erick Erickson’s media venture “The Resurgent“, is taking Super-PAC money from the (formerly Scott Walker advocates and financial backers) Ricketts family of Wisconsin who fund OUR PRINCIPLES PAC to the tune of $3,000,000 in February alone.
Yes, it appears there’s another conservative voice who can be added to the list of those whose opinions are conveniently tied to a financial incentive therein.
In addition to all of those in the Salem Media Communications network, along with Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro, Erick Erickson and anyone who is hosted upon the various media enterprises they front for…. all paid shrills dependent upon political graft.
Interesting indeed how the intersection of financial dependency drives the political ideology of these modern “conservative voices”. However, this does increasingly explain how those same voices will stand and cheer for Mr. No-Budget/Omnibus, House Speaker Paul Ryan.
’s most high profile surrogates,” could end up becoming “a rolling PR nightmare” for Cruz when Beck “heads to court this summer for allegedly defaming a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.”
[Glenn Beck] currently faces a defamation lawsuit—because he doubled and tripled down on charges that a victim of a terrorist attack was actually the real terrorist.
And now, previously unnoticed court filings show his defamation lawsuit might get exciting—and just as the presidential race hits a boiling point. Filings also show that the mediation process, which could have resulted in a settlement, has been terminated.
[…]
The facts of the case are, well, not that surprising if you know anything about Glenn Beck. In the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing terrorist attack that left six people dead, Beck claimed that one of the victims—Saudi national Abdulrahman Alharbi, who was injured in the attack—was actually in on it.
“You know who the Saudi is?” Beck confidently proclaimed in one broadcast a few weeks after the attacks. “He’s the money man. He’s the guy who paid for it.”
The problem for Beck? Not every person from Saudi Arabia is a participant in a terrorist plot. Authorities investigated Alharbi and subsequently cleared him of any involvement—but it was not lightning-fast enough to keep Beck from telling his millions-strong audience that Alharbi was a crypto-terrorist.
Woodruff also explains the extent of Beck’s close association with the Cruz campaign:
Beck and Cruz have campaigned side-by-side across the early primary states. Beck accompanied Cruz for the last few days of the Iowa caucuses, where Cruz snagged a game-changing win.
During their Iowa swing together, Cruz could barely control his affection for Beck.
“What an extraordinary, visionary, passionate thinker,” he gushed at one Iowa stop.
In a radio broadcast earlier this month, Beck complained that he has spent a lot of money paying his own way to campaign for Cruz.
“This has cost me about $300,000 to go on the road for as long as I have,” he said, according to the Christian Postreported. “$300,000 out of my pocket. Those are not donations. This is out of what I’ve personally lost because I’m not on the job, so that’s what it’s cost me by not being at the facilities in Dallas. We’ve lost $300,000.”
Beck also stumped for the senator in Arizona and Utah. In the lead-up to that trip, he told listeners that they needed to campaign for the senator because we may be facing divine judgment.
“Ezekiel talks about these times and says basically everyone in their own way, you are a watchman on the tower, you are a watchman at the gate,” he said. And the blood of the people who could have been saved—now think of this—because we’re talking about the rights of all mankind. If America goes down—this isn’t hyperbole any more, this isn’t like a famous Reagan speech that he gave—this is real.”
There’s been a lot of pearl-clutching lately over Donald Trump’s tweet about Heidi Cruz, in which he compared a flattering picture of his own wife to a particularly dour-looking snap of Cruz’s. Critics say Trump’s not-so-subtle attack on Heidi’s looks was un-presidential and uncalled for.
They’re wrong.
The first point to be made is that Trump didn’t start the wife-baiting. Make America Awesome, a Trump-opposing PAC founded by the mannish Liz Mair, started circulating a particularly raunchy image of Melania Trump, urging GOP primary voters to back Cruz. While Cruz didn’t authorise the ad himself, it was retweeted by many of his supporters. As always, the super PACs acted like a ninja assassins for its candidate. “It wasn’t me, your honour – it was those dastardly, nefarious PACs!”
Feminists call this sort of behaviour slut-shaming. I call it sexy-shaming. I’m really not sure what’s achieved by pointing out that your opponent has an attractive wife. Isn’t that a sign of success? Indeed Melania isn’t just a great beauty: she’s proven herself to be eloquent and willing to speak up about immigration, and she is the only non-dwarf (sorry Jeb) spouse to have gone through legal immigration, unless you count Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) himself of course.
Is there any reason to attack her looks, besides the jealousy of women who apparently have neither looks nor brains?
Trump’s critics have accused him of being over-the-top in his response. Surely, say his critics, insulting a rival’s wife for being too ugly is simply crass, classless, and rude.
I agree. It’s all of those things. But that’s agood thing.
For decades, politics has been a competition of grievance. Politicians and activists win public sympathy by pretending to be hurt and offended. Those who are the most convincingly wounded win the day — and it’s the left, the masters of faux-offendedness, who tend to beat the competition.
Trump’s crass tweets and objectionable comments may not be comfortable reading for old-fashioned conservatives who appreciate decency and good manners, but they are helping to break the language codes that were primarily set up by the left, for the left. Trump is destroying old notions of what’s acceptable and unacceptable to say, and the primary losers of his new paradigm will be left-wingers and establishment types.
If Republicans learn anything from the unbelievable failure of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, it should be that “presidential” and “nice” don’t go together. Isn’t it strange that elections follow the same rules as dating? Nice guys finish last.
Republicans typically reject the “everybody gets a trophy” mentality that has invaded our culture, but if you insist, we can add up to the attractiveness quotient of Cruz’s wife and all of his alleged mistresses and compare the total with Melania. That ought to at least earn him a participation trophy.
To beat Hillary, Republicans must focus on getting more people under the tent, which means snagging Democrats. Would Trump gain the support of blue-collar working Democrats by tearfully apologizing to Cruz after the senator’s minions attacked his wife? He could actually alienate them with that behaviour. Outside of the D.C beltway, respect is gained by standing up for yourself, and punching back twice as hard.
You also need balls to tame the beast of political progressivism. Trump is facing attackers from all sides. GOP establishment members planning convention shenanigans to steal the nomination, RINOs like Rick Wilson promising to vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump, and Soros-funded goons from Black Lives Matter and MoveOn planning attacks on the democratic process. The Donald knows that the best defense is a good offense, and that’s exactly the style we need to win the election.
Trump isn’t just changing politics, he’s changing culture. The grievance wars have created a daily reality of fear for people who fall foul of the hyper-offended, even when the offense is unintentional. When actor Drake Bell cracked a joke about calling Caitlyn Jenner “Bruce,” he faced an internet lynch-mob of people who were offended on Jenner’s behalf and was forced to apologise.
Taking offense is a sort of one-upmanship. If you’re offended, especially on behalf of an allegedly “marginalized” group, it signals you’re a part of the educated, progressive elite. This, from people who’ve never read a book outside 2 years of a Gender Studies degree.
This is the consensus that’s prevailed in politics and culture for more than a generation. There are only two significant forces that are putting up a fight against it: the anonymous pranksters of the internet, who reside on websites like 4chan and 8chan and delight in deliberately offending people, and Donald Trump.
Because Trump’s campaign is almost entirely self-funded, he has leeway to be a total asshole on the public stage. He doesn’t have to worry about what polite society thinks of him, because unlike the other candidates, he isn’t thinking about the next fundraising dinner in D.C.
This has given him the unique ability to smash our culture’s stifling language codes with a sledgehammer. In the process, he’s certainly lowering the tone — but it badly needs to be lowered. Only by totally ignoring people’s feelings can we end the left’s culture of grievance, offense, and victimhood. It’s what I’ve been doing for years, and it’s what Trump is now doing on the national stage.
Sure, the rudeness is uncomfortable to decent conservatives who appreciate good manners and a civil tongue. But if we really want to beat the left, we need Trump’s crassness. A few mean tweets about Heidi Cruz is a small price to pay to end a quarter-century of grievance culture.
Glenn Beck has now admitted that he misled audiences at his campaign appearances for
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
97%
when he told them the copy of Don Quixote he held in his hand was the same copy that George Washington purchased on the day the Constitution was signed. Beck now admits that the copy he was displaying at Cruz rallies was actuallyprinted in 1796 — 9 years after the Constitution was signed.
The controversy surrounding Beck’s book heated up earlier this week when a spokesperson at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate told the Huffington Post that the copy of Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote that Washington purchased on the day the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, is “stored safely” in their collection and is not out on the campaign trail with Glenn Beck.
The curators even helpfully tweeted a photograph of the real copy Washington purchased on that historic day in 1787:
In a statement to HuffPost, Beck acknowledged the book he’s displayed at rallies is not the copy of Don Quixotethat Washington purchased on that day. However, Beck said he possesses another copy of the book, dated 1796, from Washington’s library.
“The lesson that I take from Washington’s diary where he says ‘Signed the constitution. Bought Don Quixote’ is that we are never done in our service to God and Country,” Beck said. “I have incorrectly stated that my copy is the copy that Washington purchased the day he signed the Constitution. That version is one of the copies owned and housed in Mount Vernon. I take full responsibility for connecting my book (which is dated 1796) to the book Washington purchased that fateful day of September 17th, 1787. But make no mistake the copy in my possession is from the private library of George Washington.”
Experts at Mount Vernon noted that the ownership of the 1796 volume is complicated, and that it’s uncertain whether that later edition, owned by Beck, was in Washington’s library or was purchased by Washington as a gift for his friend Colonel Tobias Lear. The 1796 copy of Don Quixote was later passed down to Lear’s son, Benjamin, who identified it in records as having been received from Washington.
A Mount Vernon spokeswoman said it would need to see Beck’s copy in person to authenticate it.
It’s still unclear how Beck, a self-described Constitutionalist who prides himself on his knowledge of that period, could have thought that a book printed 9 years after the day the Constitution was signed was the copy Washington purchased on that historic date. But Beck clearly made this mistake repeatedly.
Beck repeatedly misled audiences about his copy of Don Quixote while stumping for Ted Cruz in Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada.
At a Cruz rally in Ames, Iowa, on January 30, Beck said that Washington wrote in his diary “two lines on the day of the signing of the Constitution. First line: ‘Signed the Constitution today.’ Second line: ‘I pick up my copy of Don Quixote.’ This is his copy ofDon Quixote that he picked up that day.”
At a rally at the Morningstar Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina, on February 11, Beck again declared, “This is the copy that he went and picked up the day they signed the Constitution.”
At a rally in Henderson, Nevada, on February 21, Beck again said, “This is George Washington’s copy of Don Quixote. This is the copy that he picked up the day they signed the Constitution.”
On his website, Beck posted the transcript of his Blaze TV appearance yesterday where he blasted the Huffington Post’s reporting on the book controversy as “the sloppiest journalism I have ever seen.”
“Now, I don’t think you care at all about rare book dealers,” Beck said. “But you know who does care? Me. And here’s why: Because people are now saying I’m dragging out a fake Washington book all around the country. And now they’re starting to question the Washington compass, which also has documentation.”
Beck added:
And, you know what, let me tell you something. I paid a fortune for these things. And these people who are printing these things are hurting the monetary value of those items. And they’re only trying to do it because it’s the same group of people that try to discredit any kind of history that is coming from a conservative. They have their own political motives for doing it.
Ted Cruz only holds a one-point lead over 2016 rival Donald Trump in his home state of Texas, according to anew Emerson Polling survey released Wednesday.
Of the 446 likely primary voters surveyed Feb. 21-23, 29 percent said they supported the Texas senator, compared to 28 percent who went for Trump.
Marco Rubio came in third with 25 percent of support in the Lone Star State.
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Additional figures spelled some bad news for Cruz in his home state.
Of the three candidates, Cruz was viewed by respondents as the least honest about his record. 37 percent said he was the least truthful, compared to 35 percent who viewed Trump as the least honest in the race.
The poll revealed that Trump had the highest favorable opinion in Texas at 56 percent. In that category, Cruz came in second at 50 percent and Rubio third at 36 percent.
The poll had a margin of error of 4.6 percent. The Texas primary will take place on March 1.
Donald Trump trounced his rivals in the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday, notching his third consecutive victory and giving the Manhattan mogul even more momentum heading into Super Tuesday next week, when voters in a dozen states will cast their ballots.
Trump’s decisive win, which the Associated Press announced immediately after polls closed, was propelled by an electorate even more enraged than the ones that had swept him to wins in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and a second-place showing in Iowa.
For the first time in the 2016 primary season, media entrance polls showed that a majority of voters, 57 percent of Nevada caucus-goers, said they were "angry" with the federal government. Another 36 percent said they were dissatisfied.
And, as significantly, they want to bring in an outsider to fix it. More than three in five caucus-goers said they favor someone from outside the political establishment rather than a candidate with political experience as president.
That was bad news for Marco Rubio, who is now 0 for 4 in the February contests, and Ted Cruz, who won the Iowa caucuses but finished a disappointing third in South Carolina on Saturday.
Those two senators continued to vie for second place — and for the crucial mantle of the best candidate to eventually take down Trump.
But they face a political calendar that now plays even more to Trump’s strengths: massive made-for-TV rallies and free national media coverage, with a dozen states voting in only seven days.
Early reports on the ground showed long lines and turnout trending higher than expected — and, at times, disorganization and confusion about the caucus rules. There were reports of ballots running low, caucus workers in campaign gear and even double-voting.
However, the Nevada Republican Party tweeted at 10:20 p.m., "There have been no official reports of voting irregularities or violations."
In a sign of the vote’s importance, Trump himself attended a caucus in Las Vegas to garner support, arriving at the same site as radio host Glenn Beck, who appeared on behalf of Cruz.
The 2016 Republican campaign has set turnout records in the first three states but Nevada has had poor showings the last two cycles. In 2012, only 33,000 Republicans showed up to caucus in Nevada, which was down from 44,000 four years before that.
Caucuses are notoriously difficult to poll and predict, especially in states like Nevada without a long history, but Trump led public surveys handily.
Still, Trump, who lost the Iowa caucuses despite leading in most public polls ahead of the vote, entered Nevada warily.
“The caucus system is dangerous, to use a very nice word,” Trump said in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt on the eve of the election. "It’s sort of a dangerous system.”
Low turnout puts a particular premium on early organizing, in which both Rubio and Cruz quietly invested. Cruz had the backing of the state’s Republican attorney general, Adam Laxalt, and has appealed to Nevada’s rural voters with a television ad highlighting his opposition to the fact that the federal government controls 85 percent of the state’s land. (John Kasich targeted the same issue in TV ads, as well.)
Rubio, meanwhile, tried to connect with Nevada voters from his time living there as a child in the late 1970s and early 1980s, telling audiences about how his father worked as a bartender at Sam's Town and his mother as a maid at the Imperial Palace. (He still has numerous cousinsin the state.) Rubio’s family’s dabbled with Mormonism during those years and Rubio hopes an active Mormon political network that lifted Mitt Romney to a landslide win, with 50 percent of the vote, turns out for him.
Stumping in rural Nevada on caucus day, Trump continued to boast of his strong poll numbers in states coming up on the voting calendar, including Cruz's home state of Texas. He warned supporters to be wary of “dishonest stuff” from Cruz, whom he dubbed a "baby" and a "liar."
And Trump issued a warning shot to Rubio to beware taking him on: The two have largely avoided tangling but that could change if Rubio builds on his second-place finish in South Carolina on Saturday.
“When he hits me, ugh, is he gonna be hit,” Trump said. “Actually, I can’t wait."
During a rally in Las Vegas Tuesday, Rubio alluded to Trump several times but didn't attack him head on. The Florida senator emphasized that while voters have a right to be angry, the election has to be about more than that.
“Frustration’s not a plan. Being angry’s not a plan,” Rubio said. "So this election can’t just be about making a point. It can’t just be about electing the loudest person in the room because that alone will not solve the problem.”
Rubio has received a rash of endorsements since Jeb Bush dropped out of the race on Saturday night, including from Sen. Dean Heller, who is Mormon, and Rep. Mark Amodei.
Cruz’s campaign, meanwhile, mocked Rubio’s status as the favored son of the GOP establishment, and for his inability to win a state. Early in the cycle, South Carolina and Nevada had been targeted as potential Rubio wins, but Trump’s dominance has proved too thorough.
"Rubio’s stated strategy is to lose the first four primary states, lose every state on Super Tuesday, then lose every state on March 5, then lose every state on March 8, and then finally win in Florida (where he's currently polling third, behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz),” Jason Johnson, Cruz’s top strategist, wrote in a memo this week.
Despite being one of only four states to vote in February, Nevada has gotten short shrift this cycle, especially on the GOP side, coming just three days after the highly competitive South Carolina primary and only a week before Super Tuesday, when a dozen states with far more delegates at stake will vote.
Ben Carson and Kasich were widely expected to finish at the bottom of the field.
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck – who recently erred in alleging that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump voted for President Obama in 2008 – previously said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.
“I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama,” Beck said to Katie Couric during an interview with CBS in 2009. “How’s that?”
CBS noted Beck also said,”He may have voted for Hillary Clinton over McCain had Clinton been the Democratic nominee in 2008.”
In a YouTube video posted on September 21, 2009, Beck tells Couric that McCain is “weird, [and] progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.”
“Failing @GlennBeck lost all credibility. Not only was he fired @ FOX, he would have voted for Clinton over McCain,” Trump tweeted.
Beck called Trump a progressive and compared him to Obama during an interview on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly last week.
“He voted for Obama in ’08, come on Bill,” Beck argued as O’Reilly defended Trump from Beck’s criticism.
Beck later apologized and “pointed to a fake tweet as the reason he initially believed Trump voted for Obama.”
Beck also took part in the recent “National Review Against Trump” magazine edition that resulted in the National Review beingbucked from hosting an upcoming GOP primary debate.
Beck is expected to campaign alongside GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after recently saying on Fox News, “Cruz is my guy.”
-Sara Palin (1A)- “Based on @MegynKelly’s conflict of
interest and bias she should not be allowed to be a moderator of the next
debate,” Trump posted to Twitter on
Saturday
a.Megan Kelly on Sara
b.Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,”
National Review editor Rich Lowry. Conservatives Against Trump – Glenn Beck
(endorses Cruz) , Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson, Andy Mccarthy, Michael Mukasey,
Tomas Sowell, Brent Bozell, Dana Loesch, Katie Pavlich, David Macintosh. National
Review loses GOP debate sponsorship over anti-Trump issue. (1C)
c.Trump and Beck – Beck (CNN money article) “Trump wins it will be a Snowball
to Hell” "We need a new George
Washington," Beck said at the rally. "Today's Washington will not be
found in the garish light of gold, but rather, in the bold service of a man who
stands tirelessly for what he deeply believes -- that government should be of
the people, by the people, and for the people." "I have prayed for
the next George Washington," Beck said of Cruz. "I believe I have
found him." - Trump (1H 22 Failed Beck) renewed his feud with Beck on
Thursday, days ahead of the conservative commentator's scheduled campaign
appearances with Ted Cruz.Cruz's
courtship of Beck was perceived by many observers as a response to Palin's
endorsement of Trump earlier this week. "Wacko @glennbeck is a sad answer
to the @SarahPalinUSA endorsement that Cruz so desperately wanted," Trump
tweeted on Thursday. "Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul!" - “I
could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t
lose any voters, OK?” Trump told an enthusiastic audience at a Christian
school, Dordt College. “It’s like incredible.”
d.Kelly and Rich Lowry (1D)
e.Hollywood - Michael Moore, Kerry Washington,
Rosie O’Donnell, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Dylan McDermott, Roseann Barr,
and Lily Tomlin are among the film and television stars who have pledged to
“speak out in every way possible” to prevent Trump from becoming the next
President of the United States as part of the new “Stop Hate Dump Trump”
campaign.In a statement on its website,
the group says it believes Trump is “a grave threat to democracy, freedom,
human rights, equality, and the welfare of our country and all our people.”
f.by BREITBART NEWsA former McCain senior adviser blasted former
Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as
“just classless,” telling Politico’s Ben Schreckinger that McCain’s vice
presidential running mate is “one of America’s most astounding morons.” Schreckinger
reports: “It’s just classless,” said a
former senior adviser to McCain of the endorsement, predicting it would
backfire. “It’s undermining to a key Trump message which is one of competency.
What Trump has said is that he’s going to hire the very best people and bring
in men of Carl Icahn’s ilk … and he’s appearing with someone who’s viewed as
one of America’s most astounding morons.
g.Ted Cruz: Establishment Has Abandoned Marco
Rubio for Donald Trump
h.Clinton Super PAC responds to Pailn with a
Mocking Smiley Face on Twitter.
i.Rich Wilson GOP consultant on MSNBC Trump
supporters masterbate to anami. (1E)
j.Sara supported Cruz for his senate run. Mark
Levin on the birth Canada issue (1B)
-Weekly Standard 9 Tales of Trump at His
Trumpiest see Word FIle
-Willy Duck Dynasty (1F)
-Dr. and President Jerry Falwell Jr. Liberty
University on Hannity – Stories the Media wont tell you about Trump. (1F)
a.Trump at Liberty University (1G)
-Drudge Poll posted on Sick Bias.com
a.As a personally responsible American who is
currently working and supporting a family my greatest fear is that our freedom
and our sovereignty will be stolen from us by the socialist communist left.
There is no freedom in social programs only tyranny and control. S 2016 begins
the United States starts to to lose their sovereignty self-governance. Because
the politicians that were elected to protect us or doing the opposite the allowing
the invasion of the illegals from the south the north in the east as well as
overloading social programs, which is a socialist communist idea from the 70's
from Cloward and Piven. This poll taken by Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report is
probably the scariest poll I've ever seen you have the Communist Bernie Sanders
neck and neck with the capitalist Donald Trump who wins the communist or the
capitalist?
-The Week.com – Donald Trump is poised for the
strongest primary performance in modern history
a.No non-incumbent has won both the GOP's Iowa
caucus and the New Hampshire primary since the dawn of the modern primary
system. Trump has a real shot to be the first. And no recent candidate has
overcome the kind of deficit most of the other candidates face in both national
and state-by-state numbers at this late date, against a candidate with as
strong and stable numbers as Trump has, and gone on to win.
b.If Trump wins both Iowa and New Hampshire, and
then goes on to win South Carolina and Nevada — as he is favored to do — he
could very conceivably win every contest, or at worst lose a favored son state
or two like Cruz's Texas. Nobody has run the table like that — not Nixon in
1968, nor Reagan in 1980, nor Bush in 2000.
c.And if he loses Iowa to Cruz, and wins New
Hampshire decisively, there's little historical reason to believe that Cruz has
a better chance at the nomination than Trump does, much less that anybody else
has a better shot than either.
d.A Trump nomination would be unprecedented. But
an upset victory by any of his opponents would, in many ways, be even more so.
2.Obama
-Fox Brian Kilmean talks with Former CIA
operative, Joshua Katz – Obama threatens anyone that gives him bad intel on
ISIS (2A)
-Oct – Nov 10,000 Minors were caught attempting
to cross into Texas 2x as many as 2014 same time line.Forcing the opening of three new shelters and
threatening a worsening humanitarian crisis.’09-’11 upto 1k from El Salvador Guatemala Honduras now ’12-’15 surge up
to 15k and more.
-by JULIA HAHN 20 Jan , Breitbart On Wednesday,
Senate Democrats successfully and predictably blocked what many conservatives
described as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s “Show Vote'”on refugee admissions. It has
been called a show vote because the Ryan plan, even if the President signed
it,would still allow the President to bring in an unlimited number of refugees
from an unlimited number of countries. Democrats’ filibuster on the motion to
proceed to Ryan’s show vote comes one month after Speaker Ryan sent President
Obama a blank check to fund visa issuancesto nearly 300,000 (temporary and
permanent) Muslim migrants in the next 12 months alone. Ryan’s decision to
fully-fund Obama’s immigration agenda arguably ceded any leverage he may
otherwise have had over Democrats and ensured the large-scale migration into
America would continue and grow.
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3.Hillary Imploding
-Wash. Post Who Had the worse week?
a.For Hillary Clinton, it’s starting to look like
deja vu all over again. Start a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination
as giant front-runner. Check. Raise tens of millions of dollars and look
unbeatable for large swaths of the year before the primaries start. Check. An
insurgent challenger running to her ideological left? Check. Collapsing poll
numbers on the eve of actual votes? Check. Over the past week or so, Clinton
has watched as her national polling lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a
self-avowed socialist, has shrunk. And, far more important, Clinton’s standing
vis a vis Sanders in the key early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire has
eroded as well (27+). In Iowa, after holding a high-single-digit lead (at
worst) for months, Clinton now finds herself in a dead heat with the caucuses
just over a week away. The Real Clear Politics polling average gives Clinton an
edge of less than five points. Real Clear Politics polling average, Sanders is
up by almost
13 points. Bernie Sanders Hope and Change ad (3A)
-Breitbart Trump Hillary Should Be Indicted
a.Billionaire candidate Donald Trump says Hillary
Clinton should be indicted for her mishandling of classified documents – after
a Fox News report showed that she was sharing documents on her insecure server
that was classified higher than top secret. “What she did is so ridiculous,
it’s so, frankly stupid … she was conniving, you know it’s just the way she
is,” he said during an interview with radio host Howie Carr.
b.Trump suggested that Clinton was being protected
by the Obama administration, as she was running to succeed him in 2016. “Right
now President Obama and the whole group, they’re probably protecting her, and
we’re going to find out how our law works,” he said, calling it a “criminal
act.”
c.EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails on her
unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's
most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified
letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.
d.Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified
letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles
McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by
intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional
classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special
access programs" (SAP).That indicates a level of classification
beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her
server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling
of the government’s closely held secrets.
-Observer.com – Poll Women Wont Help Hillary
a.First, a USA Today/Rock the Vote pollfound
millennial women preferring Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to Ms. Clinton. Women
between the ages of 18 and 34 preferred Mr. Sanders by a 19-point margin, with
50 percent choosing the senator and 31 percent choosing the former secretary of
state.
b.On Tuesday, a Monmouth Universitynational poll
found Ms. Clinton’s lead among women had taken a nose dive since December. Ms.
Clinton currently leads Mr. Sanders by 19 points among all women, a smaller
lead than what the same poll found at the end of 2015, when Ms. Clinton had a
45-point lead. That’s a huge drop in just one month.
-Moody’s Predicts that Democrats win the White
House in 11 months
a.The Democratic presidential nominee will win the
race for the presidency but the election is shaping up as historically tight,
according to a political model. Less than 11 months from Election Day, Moody’s
Analytics is predicting that whomever lands the Democratic nomination will
capture the White House with 326 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s
212.
b.Those results are heavily dependent on how swing
states vote. The latest model from Moody’s reflects razor-thin margins in the
five most important swing states — Florida, Ohio, Colorado, New Hampshire and
Virginia.
c.In each of those states, the Democratic
advantage is less than 1 percentage point, well within the margin of error.
-Bloomberg.com – Campaigner-in-0Chief Bill
Clinton Gives a worrisome speech in Iowa
a.Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for
his wife in New Hampshire Wednesday, bluntly admitted how much more difficult
than expected Hillary Clinton's race for the Democratic presidential nomination
has become.
b.“This has turned into an interesting election,”
the candidate's husband told a rally in Salem. “We’re fighting it out in Iowa.
We’ve got a little lead that I think is solidifying and maybe growing a little
bit. We’re on a home-field disadvantage here."
4.GAS OPEC – IRAN to Destroy Oil Market
-We’ve defeated the shale revolution, claims Opec
| The Times.co.uk
a.Low oil prices finally damage US production
b.Opec was on the verge of claiming victory over
its North American rivals last night after its strategy of squeezing out the
shale industry by flooding the markets with oil appeared to be vindicated.The oil producers’ cartel said that falling
prices would force lower production from its rivals by the end of this year,
with American and Canadian producers particularly affected. Opec, led by Saudi
Arabia, has maintained production levels even as crude prices have collapsed 70
per cent from their level in 2014. In its first monthly report of the year,
Opec said that its policy was starting
-IRAN
a.Last Sunday, the U.S. Treasury Department
announced it would impose sanctions against a number of individuals and
organizations over Iran’s ballistic missile program.
b.“Iran’s ballistic missile program poses a
significant threat to regional and global security, and it will continue to be
subject to international sanctions,” read a statementfrom Adam Szubin, acting
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “We have consistently
made clear that the United States will vigorously press sanctions against
Iranian activities outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action –
including those related to Iran’s support for terrorism, regional
destabilization, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile program.”The new sanctions come as Iran is expected to
receive tens of billions of dollars in frozen assets in accordance with the
Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA), agreed upon by the regime in Tehran and the P5+1 world powers. On
Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the U.S. had granted Iran $1.7
billion dollars, repaying the Ayatollah’s theocracy a $400 million dollar debt
plus $1.3 billion in interest. Kerry called the payment a “fair settlement.”
President Obama agreed, claiming “the settlement could save us billions of
dollars that could have been pursued by Iran.”
c.by JORDAN SCHACHTEL18 Jan 2016Washington,
DC1,431 Iran will ignore recently-passed U.S. sanctions against its ballistic
missile program, the regime’s defense minister pledged on Monday, promising to
unveil new homemade weapons systems in the near future. “[Any] attempt to
impose new sanctions [against Iran] under irrelevant pretexts is indicative of
the continued US hostile policy and acrimony toward the Iranian nation, and a
futile effort to undermine Iran’s defense might,” said Iranian Defense Minister
Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan on Monday.
