With the recent revelation of Special Counsel John Durham’s court filings that have pretty much, using the left’s favorite conversation-crusher, “debunked” the whole Trump-colluded-with-Russia-to-steal-the-2016-election-from Hillary fiction, the media got the official cue to look the other way in response to Tucker Carlson’s breakdown of the falsehood they (and Democrats) inflicted on Donald Trump, President Trump, his supporters and the nation for years.

Leave it to Media Matters and the predictable others to ignore the bulk and substance of the segment and possibly point to a dead guy who can’t offer any clarification or even facts.

The NYT/CNN/NBC axis flooded the zone every time Robert Mueller scratched his nose. They spent hours and hours deciphering his every sneeze. Actual criminal indictments from Durham of Hillary’s lawyer or FBI operatives — crimes that created Russiagate — barely merit an article.
— Glenn Greenwald, 2/13/22

There are many consistencies when it comes to how this whole Durham investigation is playing out. One being that whenever there’s bad news for a Republican, there’s always someone who’ll leak that damaging info to an eager liberal media to disseminate. But when there’s bad news about a Democrat, nothing is leaked and if it is, it’s downplayed by the press. Aside from court filings that are public record, there’s been enough radio silence that the media’s been able to portray Durham as much ado about nuthin’… until now.

This is also where the media has itself stuck in the proverbial box where they have to either admit they were played by Hillary Clinton, her campaign and the DNC, or they knew Donald Trump never colluded with the Russians during his 2016 campaign and throughout his term as president. The latter is probably closer to the truth and the world saw how they were all in for the pro-Hillary/Democrat narrative.

The media really can’t admit they were suckers for Hillary’s disinformation as that would place an even bigger storm cloud over their already pitiful reputation for impartiality and honesty, but alas, that appears to be the only plea they can cop. As they gaslight the world claiming to be fair and impartial, their only remaining option is to admit to being overpaid, and in some cases, multi-millionaire suckers.

They’ll claim, despite no evidence ever being found, to have relied on impeccable “sources and methods“, which we all know cannot be questioned… until this one time. They’ll claim, despite no evidence ever being found, there was no reason to believe that Hillary Clinton, her campaign, the Obama administration, the FBI, CIA, and federal employees would EVER make up such an elaborate scheme to win a presidential election and once lost, sabotage a presidential administration. They’ll claim, despite no evidence ever being found, their instincts pointed to a direction that we all now know to be incorrect and as they are human, should be willing to look past this minor blip in judgment.

Why will the media seek such forgiveness? Because it’s not over.

Most Democrats want Hillary Clinton investigated for any role in Russiagate scandal: poll

We don’t know how many people in the media have been hauled in to testify in front of Durham’s grand jury. It stands to reason that players currently under investigation may have passed on slanderous information to members of the media for rapid circulation; information known to be false yet published anyway. It’s not a crime for a First Amendment-protected journalist to distribute lies, but it sure can put a dent in a resume and public reputation to his or her employer. The chances are pretty small that so many supposedly smart people could have gotten it all so wrong, thus it stands to reason too many were happily all-in on pushing false stories on the Donald Trump they collectively hated. They had no problem amplifying falsehoods that resulted in many people having to lawyer-up and some even seeing the inside of a jail cell.

As the Durham investigation nears its conclusion, look for legacy media so-called journalists and anchors try and paint a scenario where they just may have gotten inadvertently ensnared by bad opposition research and tactics. You know, we all make mistakes and they always remind us that Americans are very forgiving people. They will soon try and demand we forgive them because they’re all we have when it comes to getting news we can trust.

Hillary Clinton waves off questions about whether she spied on Trump in 2016

Take their word for it… IF they talk about it at all.

Hang in there, Chris. Only 201 days until the election.

Meanwhile, the currently unaffected in the liberal media are also trying to hold out as long as possible.

Many doctors have been prescribing hydroxychloroquine to coronavirus patients, despite no conclusive evidence of its success.
— USA Today, 4/10/20

Obviously, they’re NOT looking very hard.

American Thoracic Society endorses anti-malarial drug treatment for coronavirus patients
Las Vegas hospital blazes own path with malaria drug to treat COVID-19
This Coronavirus Patient Dodged A Bullet With Hydroxychloroquine. Harbinger Or Outlier?
New Jersey loosens restrictions on hydroxychloroquine for use in nursing homes
Doctor was already treating patients with Trump’s ‘gift from God’ drug – before FDA approval
Hydroxychloroquine used to treat COVID-19 patients at Bayonne Medical Center
Wax Backs Up Pennacchio in Case for Hydroxychloroquine
Australia Plans To Roll Out The Use of Two Existing Medications After Patients Have Successfully Recovered in Secret Trials
Laguna Doctor Claims Success Treating Coronavirus Patients
Actor Daniel Dae Kim credits ‘secret weapon’ for COVID-19 recovery
Fox News medical correspondent claims hydroxychloroquine cured his 96-year-old father of coronavirus
CT doctors: Some success with drug for coronavirus patients

And the list goes on.

Of course, almost every news account touting hydroxychloroquine success includes the caveat that it’s not a “proven” cure to Coronavirus; probably to placate outraged liberals in the newsroom and the community. But how many people need get sick and maybe die just because others see political victory in opposing anything President Trump is for. French doctor Didier Raoult’s assertion that nothing cheap and available will stop those seeking to create THE vaccine for Nobel Prize consideration and all the funding dollars a nomination (let alone victory) brings is an ugly reality.

So, how long can CNN’s Chris Cuomo hold out before he says “fuck it” and takes hydroxychloroquine because the potential of dying is not worth the suffering just so Brian Stelter and the Democrat left can stick it to the man on the run up to the 2020 presidential election?

The clock is ticking….

Section 7
On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.
— Principles of Medical Ethics with Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry

Even though they are in open violation of the American Psychological Association’s “Goldwater Rule” (especially when it comes to anything President Donald Trump), some in the profession make some of us question their sanity. One such psychiatrist is Dr. Allen Frances who appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” to buttress host Brian Stelter’s latest hypothesis: the president must be nuts.

Duke University psychiatry professor Dr. Allen Frances claimed President Trump is responsible for millions of deaths and said he has been more destructive than infamous dictators Adolf Hilter, Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin.

We don’t work for Fox News, but professional journalists usually catch a misspelling of Hitler and “Josef” Stalin.

Frances appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday, and almost immediately contradicted himself by comparing Trump to mass murderers, right before he discouraged personal attacks.
— Fox News, 8/25/19

What’s more troubling is Dr. Frances saying…

If it would get him out of office, I’d say go with it even if it’s inaccurate.

That alone makes one rightfully question the integrity of a mental health infrastructure where decisions that affect people’s lives can be made solely based on the arbitrary feelings of a psychiatrist.

One would also think on a show called “Reliable Sources”, statements as absurd as those made by Dr. Frances would be challenged. They were not and when mistakes are made on national television by professional journalists, blame… “tech difficulties”.

Maybe this is just another illustration of why liberals appear to be so ill-informed. Consider the reliable source.

While we’re not psychiatrists, it could be a safe assumption that a “crazy” president, unfit to serve, would’ve left the economy and foreign policy in relative shambles. Granted, there has been turmoil when it comes to the revolving door of personnel in the White House, but if President Donald Trump is crazy than we definitely need more crazy presidents.

The following are some of President Trump’s “crazy policies” Dr. Frances conveniently left out.

IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump’s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country.

• • Due to President Trump’s pro-growth policies, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters.
  • Real GDP grew at annual rates of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter.
  • More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.
  • This is the eighth time this year that the unemployment rate has been below 4 percent.
  • Prior to this year, the unemployment rate had fallen below 4 percent only five times since 1970.
  • The unemployment rate for African Americans in May fell to 5.9 percent, which is the lowest rate on record.
  • Asian and Hispanic-American unemployment rates have reached record lows this year.
  • Initial weekly jobless claims have hit a nearly 50-year low under President Trump.
  • Under President Trump, job openings outnumber the unemployed for the first time on record.
  • Recently, more than two-thirds of Americans rated “now” as a good time to find a quality job, tying a record high in a poll by Gallup.
  • Americans are seeing more money in their pockets thanks to the booming economy.
  • In recent months, workers have seen their largest nominal year over year wage growth in nearly a decade.
  • In 2017, real median household income rose to a post-recession high.
  • President Trump’s policies are helping to lift Americans out of poverty.
  • African-American and Hispanic-American poverty rates reached record lows of 21.2 percent and 18.3 percent, respectively, in 2017.
  • Since the election, 4.6 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.
  • Consumer confidence has soared under President Trump, recently reaching an 18-year high.
  • President Trump is delivering on his promise to bring back American manufacturing.
  • The National Association of Manufacturers’ Outlook Index had the highest annual average in its history over the past year.
  • Manufacturing added 284,000 jobs in 2018, the most added in a year since 1997
  • Small Business optimism jumped to a record high under President Trump, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
  • The NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index broke a 35-year record in August.
  • President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, ushering in the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.
  • These tax cuts are delivering real results for American families and workers.
  • More than 6 million workers received tax cut bonuses and benefits.
  • More than 100 utility companies have announced lower rates.
  • President Trump is ensuring American workers receive the training and education they need to compete in today’s economy.
  • President Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American worker.
  • More than 185 companies and associations have signed our “Pledge to America’s Workers,” promising more than 6.4 million new training and career opportunities.
  • The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.
  • President Trump has prioritized the economic empowerment of women.
  • The women’s unemployment rate recently reached its lowest rate in 65 years.
  • The Small Business Administration lent approximately $500 million more in capital to women-owned businesses in 2017 compared to 2016.
  • The Administration helped launch the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which could leverage more than $1 billion to support women entrepreneurs.

ROLLING BACK RED TAPE: President Trump is rolling back costly regulations that have burdened hardworking Americans and stifled innovation.

• • President Trump has followed through on and exceeded his promise to roll back two regulations for every new one created.
  • President Trump’s Administration surpassed the 2:1 ratio in 2018, eliminating 12 regulations for every new one in 2018.
  • In 2017, the Trump Administration eliminated 22 regulations for every new one.
  • Since taking office, President Trump’s deregulation efforts have achieved $33 billion in regulatory savings.
  • In 2018, these efforts alone delivered $23 billion in benefits to American families and business owners.
  • President Trump has signed 16 Congressional Review Act resolutions into law, eliminating burdensome Obama-era rules and regulations.
  • President Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would have harmed America’s economy and cost American workers millions of jobs.
  • President Trump signed an executive order to streamline the permitting process for infrastructure projects with a goal of cutting approval time from up to 10 years to an average of 2 years.
  • President Trump signed legislation to roll back burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations that harmed community banks.

NEGOTIATING BETTER DEALS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is negotiating fair and balanced trade deals that protect American industries and workers.

• • President Trump negotiated a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to replace the disastrous and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement.
  • Once enacted by Congress, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) will better serve the interests of American workers and businesses.
  • USMCA will incentivize billions of dollars in auto and auto parts production in the United States and create a freer and fairer market for American agriculture.
  • USMCA also includes the strongest-ever provisions on labor, environmental, digital, and intellectual property protections to reflect the realities of the 21st century economy.
  • The President renegotiated the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement to preserve and grow jobs in the American auto industry and increase American exports.
  • The United States and Japan are set to begin negotiations on a United States–Japan Trade Agreement.
  • President Trump is establishing a new trade relationship with the European Union (EU), working toward the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to transatlantic trade.
  • President Trump has established a Trade and Investment Working Group to lay the groundwork for post-Brexit trade with the United Kingdom (UK) and has notified Congress of his intent to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK.
  • This year, President Trump filed a withdrawal notification with the Universal Postal Union, launching a one-year negotiation to secure fair international postal rates for American mailers.
  • President Trump has expanded market access for American agricultural producers.
  • Argentina has opened to American pork and beef, Brazil to American beef, Japan to lamb and Idaho chipping potatoes, South Korea to American poultry, and more.
  • The Administration authorized $12 billion to aid farmers affected by unfair retaliatory tariffs.
  • The Trump Administration has begun the process to expand the sale of E15, or gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol, to year round.
  • Under President Trump, the United States will no longer accept bad trade deals and unfair trade practices that harm American workers and industries.
  • One of the President’s first actions after taking office was withdrawing the United States from the terrible Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incentivized outsourcing.
  • In 2017, the Administration oversaw 82 antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.
  • President Trump is holding China accountable for its unfair trade practices, such as the theft of intellectual property, by imposing tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods.
  • Following President Trump’s successful meeting with President Xi in Buenos Aires, both agreed to conduct negotiations over 90 days to address the United States concerns.
  • American steel and aluminum jobs are coming back following President Trump’s tariffs to protect domestic industries that are vital to national security.
  • President Trump imposed tariffs to protect American-made washing machines and solar products that were hurt by import surges.

UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY: President Trump is rolling back costly and burdensome regulations to unleash America’s incredible energy resources.

• • After years of stifling regulation under the last Administration, President Trump is unleashing America’s energy potential.
  • America is the largest crude oil producer in the world and production has hit a record high.
  • President Trump’s policies are helping to boost American energy exports.
  • The Administration has streamlined Liquefied Natural Gas terminal permitting.
  • In 2017, the United States became a net natural gas exporter for the first time in 60 years.
  • American coal exports increased by more than 60 percent in 2017.
  • President Trump is expanding access to our country’s abundant natural resources.
  • The President signed legislation to open up energy exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
  • In July 2018, the Department of the Interior announced it would hold the largest oil and gas lease sale in history.
  • In 2017, the Administration approved construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and the cross border permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
  • The Administration issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will export American petroleum products to Mexico.
  • The President has ended the war on coal, cutting Obama-era regulations such as the “Stream Protection Rule” which was estimated to cost industries $81 million a year.
  • President Trump is replacing the Clean Power Plan, a flawed Obama-era regulation that the Supreme Court ordered halted.
  • President Trump rescinded the hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the oil and gas industry $32 million per year.
  • The Trump Administration curbed the burdensome Obama-era rule on methane, saving American energy developers hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory costs.

EXPANDING OPTIONS FOR QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE: President Trump is expanding access to affordable healthcare choices and taking action to lower drug prices.

• • President Trump’s Administration is working to provide Americans with affordable alternatives to Obamacare.
  • The Administration expanded short-term, limited duration health insurance plans that are expected to be nearly 50 percent cheaper than unsubsidized Obamacare plans.
  • President Trump has expanded association health plans, allowing more employers to join together across State lines and affordably offer coverage to their employees.
  • The Administration proposed a reform to Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) regulations that will give consumers more freedom to purchase benefits that fit their needs.
  • Roughly 800,000 employers are expected to provide HRAs for more than 10 million employees once the rule finalized.
  • Americans have more healthcare freedom thanks to the President signing legislation that ended Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty.
  • While healthcare premiums had been steadily increasing as a result of Obamacare, the average benchmark exchange premium will decline for the first time in 2019 thanks to President Trump’s policies.
  • Next year, Americans will benefit from more insurer participation on the exchanges.
  • Medicare Advantage plans offer more benefit options than ever before, and average premiums in 2019 will be 6 percent lower than in 2018.
  • President Trump launched an unprecedented campaign to drive down drug prices, leading more than a dozen drug manufactures to enact price freezes, reductions, or rollbacks.
  • In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a record number of generic drugs, breaking the previous record set by the Administration in 2017.
  • The FDA’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 generic drug approvals are expected to bring nearly $9 billion in savings in 2017 alone.
  • President Trump signed legislation eliminating contractual gag clauses that stopped pharmacists from informing patients about lower drug prices.
  • The President put forth an initiative to stop global freeloading that drives up prices for American patients.
  • The Administration provided Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans with new negotiating tools to drive down drug costs for American patients.
  • The Administration implemented reforms to the amount Medicare pays hospitals for drugs that are purchased under the 340B program, saving seniors $320 million in 2018.
  • President Trump signed “Right to Try” legislation to expand access to experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.

FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE CRISIS NEXT DOOR: President Trump mobilized his entire Administration to combat the opioid crisis that has devastated communities across the country.

• • President Trump launched an Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to confront the driving forces behind this crisis.
  • The President signed the landmark SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the largest and most comprehensive legislative package addressing a single drug crisis in history.
  • The President helped secure a record $6 billion in funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
  • The Administration provided more than $2 billion in grants in 2018 to help States, territories, tribes, and local communities prevent and treat opioid abuse.
  • The Administration pursued scientific solutions to prevent and treat addiction through the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative.
  • The President launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction and youth opioid usage.
  • Last year, President Trump created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which recommends ways to tackle the opioid crisis.
  • The Administration declared the opioid crisis a nationwide Public Health Emergency in 2017.
  • President Trump is working to cut off the flow of deadly opioids into our country and to disrupt the networks that distribute them to our communities.
  • The Administration secured first-ever indictments against Chinese nationals for fentanyl trafficking.
  • The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a surge to target fentanyl and heroin dealers in the districts with the most severe overdose death rates.
  • The DOJ formed a Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team and shut down the biggest Darknet distributor of drugs.
  • Last year, the DOJ announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history, arresting more than 120 defendants with opioid-related crimes.
  • The President launched a Safer Prescribing Plan that seeks to cut nationwide opioid prescription fills by one-third within three years.
  • The Administration has led four National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days, collecting a record-breaking 1,837 tons of expired and unneeded prescription drugs.

STANDING UP FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: The President is committed to defending the right to life and religious liberty.

• • Shortly after taking office, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy.
  • President Trump defunded a United Nations (UN) agency for colluding with China’s brutal program of forced abortion and sterilization.
  • The Administration withdrew guidance that constrained State’s ability to exclude family-planning providers that provide abortion services from the Medicaid program.
  • The Trump Administration proposed new regulations to ensure Title X family planning funding does not go to projects that perform, support, or refer patients for abortion.
  • The Trump Administration issued regulations establishing new or expanded exemptions from the Obamacare contraceptive mandate based on religious beliefs or moral convictions.
  • In 2017, the President issued an executive order to promote free speech and religious liberty.

KEEPING AMERICAN COMMUNITIES SAFE: President Trump has made clear that his first responsibility is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

• • Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows violent crime decreased under President Trump’s watch in 2017, following two consecutive years of increases.
  • United States Attorneys indicted the most violent criminals on record last year.
  • Last year, the DOJ announced nearly $100 million in grant funding to hire hundreds of additional law enforcement officers.
  • President Trump is cracking down on the vile MS-13 gang that has brought violence to communities across the country.
  • In 2017, the DOJ worked with international partners to arrest and charge approximately 4,000 MS-13 members.
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations arrested nearly 800 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
  • President Trump signed an executive order to restore State and local law enforcement’s access to surplus equipment that can be used to help keep our communities safe.
  • President Trump enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
  • The DOJ announced the creation of the National Public Safety Partnership in 2017, launching a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crime.
  • President Trump signed legislation to improve the Federal firearm background check system and keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
  • President Trump signed the First Step Act, which includes bipartisan reforms to make our Federal justice system fairer and our communities safer.
  • The First Step Act will help prepare inmates to successfully rejoin society, reducing recidivism and improving community safety.
  • This legislation includes commonsense sentencing reforms that will make our Federal justice system fairer while keeping violent criminals and sex offenders off our streets.

ENFORCING OUR LAWS AND SECURING OUR BORDERS: From the first day of his Administration, President Trump has worked to uphold the rule of law and secure our borders.

• • President Trump released an immigration framework that would fix our broken immigration system through merit-based reform and provide the resources needed to secure our border.
  • This includes closing the legal loopholes that enable illegal immigration, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery.
  • President Trump secured funding to begin building the wall and construction has already begun in areas along the southern border.
  • President Trump deployed the military to assist in securing the southern border.
  • President Trump and his Administration took action to require aliens seeking asylum to go to a port of entry to make their claim.
  • Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 17,256 criminals and 1,019 gang members in FY 2018.
  • ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 158,581 aliens in FY 2018, an 11 percent increase from FY 2017.
  • 90 percent of those arrested had criminal convictions, pending charges, or had been issued final orders of removal.
  • ICE ERO increased removals by 13 percent in FY 2018 to 256,086, the majority of whom were convicted criminals.
  • Removals of convicted criminal aliens increased by 14 percent from FY 2017.
  • Nearly 6,000 known or suspected gang members were removed in FY 2018, a 9 percent increase from FY 2017.
  • The Department of Justice prosecuted a record number of criminal immigration offenses in FY 2018, and increased the number of prosecutions for illegal entry by 84 percent over FY 2017.
  • Immigration courts are now completing more cases than at any point since 2011
  • President Trump kept his promise by launching the office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
  • The Administration has more than doubled the number of jurisdictions participating in the 287(g) program, which enables State and local law enforcement to aid immigration enforcement.
  • President Trump has made our country safer by ordering the enhanced vetting of individuals entering from countries that do not meet our security standards.
  • These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court ruling.

REBUILDING AMERICA’S MILITARY FORCE: President Trump is rebuilding our military and defending America’s interests across the world.

• • President Trump ended the devastating defense cuts of the past Administration and has secured historic investments to rebuild our military.
  • President Trump signed legislation providing $700 billion for defense in FY 2018 and $716 billion in FY 2019.
  • President Trump is supporting America’s men and women in uniform, securing the largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
  • The President issued a new National Security Strategy to keep America safe from all threats.
  • The Administration has also released new strategies specific to cybersecurity, biodefense, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction terrorism.
  • President Trump directed the first whole-of-government assessment of United States manufacturing and defense supply chains since the Eisenhower Administration.
  • President Trump initiated the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, improving United States deterrence policy and existing capabilities to counter nuclear threats.
  • President Trump empowered our military commanders with broad authority in order to take the fight to ISIS, and the results are clear.
  • ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which has been liberated since President Trump took office.
  • All of ISIS’ territory in Iraq was successfully liberated.
  • ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city Raqqah has been recaptured.
  • ISIS’ territorial caliphate has been defeated and President Trump has announced that he is bringing America’s troops in Syria home.
  • President Trump announced a new Iran strategy to confront all of Iran’s malign activities and withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear deal.
  • All sanctions that had been lifted or waived under the Iran deal have been reimposed.
  • The Administration has sanctioned more than 160 individuals tied to the regime’s support of terrorism, ballistic missile program, human rights abuses, and more.
  • President Trump took decisive military action to respond to the barbaric use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.
  • President Trump directed strikes in response to the regime’s chemical weapons attacks in April 2017 and April 2018.
  • The Trump Administration has also rolled out sanctions targeting those tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
  • President Trump is strengthening America’s cyber defense and directed the elevation of the United States Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
  • The President announced that the Department of Defense will work to create a Space Force to serve as an independent branch of the United States military.

RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ABROAD: President Trump is restoring American leadership on the world stage and advancing an America first agenda.

• • President Trump held an historic summit with Chairman Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.
  • Since the summit, the leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both countries have met.
  • Because of the President’s actions, North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.
  • The remains of POW/MIA service members from the Korean War are being returned to the United States.
  • Prior to the summit, President Trump’s leadership helped secure the passage of historic UN sanctions on North Korea.
  • President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there.
  • President Trump withdrew the United States from the UN Human Rights Council due to its bias against Israel.
  • The Administration made clear that it does not accept the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over Americans and will continue to protect America’s sovereignty.
  • President Trump has successfully advocated for cutting waste at the UN.
  • Changes made to the organization’s structure allowed the UN to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their budget, while making the organization more efficient.
  • The President’s leadership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has encouraged members to increase their defense spending and realign the Alliance’s priorities.
  • In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending among NATO allies.
  • President Trump convinced the Alliance to strengthen counterterrorism activities, and NATO formally joined the coalition to defeat ISIS.
  • President Trump’s Administration is working to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific through investments and partnerships.
  • President Trump has imposed tough sanctions on the corrupt regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
  • President Trump has taken tough action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including Russia’s efforts to undermine United States elections.
  • The Administration has imposed sanctions on more than 200 individuals and entities related to Russia’s destabilizing activities.
  • The Trump Administration has enhanced support for Ukraine’s defense by stepping up sales of weapons to its military.
  • The Trump Administration has secured the release of numerous American citizens held abroad, including Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey, Josh Holt from Venezuela, and more.
  • President Trump attended G20 summits in Argentina and Germany, where he promoted American First policies and encouraged closer cooperation.
  • In 2017, President Trump conducted tours through Asia to promote America’s interests.

HONORING AMERICA’S COMMITMENT TO OUR VETERANS: President Trump is honoring America’s commitment to our veterans by ensuring they receive the quality care they have earned.

• • President Trump secured a record $73.1 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide quality medical care for our veterans.
  • This funding included $8.6 billion for mental health services, $400 million for opioid abuse prevention, $206 million for suicide prevention, and more.
  • The President signed the VA MISSION Act, revolutionizing that VA healthcare system and reforming numerous services for our veterans.
  • This legislation will consolidate and reform existing programs to give eligible veterans better access to healthcare providers in their communities.
  • Thanks to this legislation, eligible veterans will have access to walk-in community clinics that offer immediate, local care.
  • President Trump and his Administration have expanded access to telehealth services for veterans, including through the “Anywhere to Anywhere” VA health care initiative.
  • President Trump issued an executive order requiring the Administration to improve access to mental health treatment and suicide prevention resources for veterans.
  • President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing employees and protect whistleblowers.
  • Under President Trump, the VA has removed, demoted, or suspended more than 4,300 employees for poor performance.
  • President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, streamlining the process used by veterans when appealing benefits claims.
  • President Trump fulfilled his promise to create a new White House VA Hotline to provide veterans with 24/7 support.
  • The VA is providing veterans with online access to wait time and quality of care data.
  • The President signed the Forever GI Bill, providing veterans, service members, and their families with enhanced education benefits.
  • Last year, programs at the VA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development helped more than 51,000 veterans find permanent housing and access supportive services.

TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT: President Trump has followed through on his pledge to transform the Federal Government and increase accountability and transparency.

• • President Trump’s Administration submitted a plan to reorganize the executive branch in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
  • In a historic show of transparency and accountability, the Trump Administration completed the Department of Defense’s first ever audit.
  • The President implemented a five-year ban on lobbying for White House employees and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign countries.
  • Each quarter since taking office, President Trump has donated his salary, fulfilling a promise he made to the American people.
  • President Trump is reshaping our Federal judiciary, appointing judges who will follow the Constitution as written.
  • The President has appointed Circuit Court judges at a record pace.
  • President Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
    — Mark Simone, WOR, 3/9/19

  

And all that despite his having to ward off and defend himself (for going on three years) against a deep state, attempted coup d’etat with partisan media cover to an extent we still don’t know. Despite the declarations of Dr. Frances, President Trump has done more to help Americans and is nowhere near the murderous, socialist/communist/dictator death tally. Then again, some Democrats can tolerate a Chairman Mao and all of the wonderful things he did for the Chinese people.

Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.
— Anita Dunn, Obama White House Communications Director, 10/20/09

Maybe the success the United States is currently experiencing is considered crazy because we’ve elected too many sane Democrat presidents who’ve left the American people worse off than when they took office.

Last week, three UCLA basketball players were detained in China, accused of shoplifting designer sunglasses from an upscale store near the team’s hotel.

Three UCLA men’s basketball players — including LiAngelo Ball, the younger brother of Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball — were arrested in China just days before Friday’s season-opening game against Georgia Tech in Shanghai. One source told ESPN the group of players — which also included freshmen Cody Riley and Jalen Hill — was arrested on shoplifting charges.

The players are being questioned about stealing from a Louis Vuitton store that is located next to the team’s hotel in Hangzhou, where the Bruins had been staying before moving on to Shanghai on Wednesday.
— ESPN, 11/8/17

As we all know, crimes like that are punished harshly by Chinese authorities, especially when committed by foreigners. The previous administration allowed Americans to languish in horrific foreign prisons for crimes far less egregious, yet President Trump wasted little time to bring up the accused UCLA players with expeditious, definitive results.

Three UCLA basketball players detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting are on a plane back to Los Angeles.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott thanked President Donald Trump, the White House and the State Department for their efforts in resolving what he called “the incident with authorities in Hangzhou, China.” He indicated that UCLA made “significant efforts” on behalf of its three players.

Trump said Tuesday he had a long conversation about the three players’ status with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
— Yahoo, 11/14/17

Of course, the black activist left will never acknowledge President Trump’s intervention into what could have been a long, drawn-out State Department negotiation that normally leaves the detained Americans in nasty jails for weeks, months, or worse. They’ll probably insist President Trump was simply doing his job and probably could have had the three released a couple of days earlier had he not been so indifferent to the plight of incarcerated black people.

“What they did was unfortunate,” Mr. Trump had said of the players. “You know, you’re talking about very long prison sentences. They do not play games.“

The UCLA players are suspected of stealing from a Louis Vuitton outlet around the corner from the hotel, where some sunglasses go for $740.

Mr. Trump had said that he hoped the Chinese president would help the players: LiAngelo Ball, a freshman guard; and Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, both freshman forwards. He emphasized that it was a “very, very rough situation, with what happened to them.“
— New York Times, 11/14/17

Those of us who’ve served overseas remember the stern warnings given not to break the law on foreign soil because the protections we enjoy in the United States are null and void outside our border. It would appear such a warning was not given to the UCLA players as they might have been considered demeaning, and as aimed at predominantly black players, racist.

Aside from the players (whose irresponsible behavior became an embarrassing bump during important diplomatic, president-level, foreign policy negotiations), don’t expect any thanks directed to President Trump, either by the media, Democrat politicians and/or social justice activists.

In fact, it’s sad how quickly some bite the hand that freed your son AFTER his ass was saved.

“Who?” LaVar Ball told ESPN on Friday, when asked about Trump’s involvement in the matter. “What was he over there for? Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out.“

“As long as my boy’s back here, I’m fine,” LaVar Ball told ESPN. “I’m happy with how things were handled. A lot of people like to say a lot of things that they thought happened over there. Like I told him, ‘They try to make a big deal out of nothing sometimes.‘ I’m from L.A. I’ve seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses. My son has built up enough character that one bad decision doesn’t define him.”
— ESPN, 11/19/17

Life is funny sometimes as things tend to be cyclical.

LiAngelo Ball’s father dismissed the intervention of the President of the United States to keep his son and others out of a Chinese prison, essentially said shoplifting is no big deal, and CNN’s “media critic” Brian Stelter took the opportunity to speak for all black people and turned the whole episode into an exercise in “racebaiting”.

Let’s put it this way; the next time anyone in the Ball family gets in trouble, there may not be a lot of people who’ll want to help them and rightfully so.

UPDATES

12/5/17: LaVar Ball pulls son LiAngelo Ball out of UCLA

Because it’s not about teaching your son right-from-wrong, consequences of actions, an education… no, it’s all about making sure LiAngelo is eligible for the NBA draft and all the money that comes with living off your children.

12/11/17: LaMelo, LiAngelo Ball agree to one-year deals with first-division Lithuanian team
12/12/17: Ball brothers picked ‘worst possible place,’ says American who played in Lithuania
12/20/17: How This Lithuanian Outpost Lured LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball

Being banished to the middle of nowhere is somehow quite fitting for the bouncing Balls.

12/22/17: Cody Riley, Jalen Hill Suspended for Season for Arrests Involving LiAngelo Ball

They can always leave the country….

For some, nepotism and/or sexual favoritism didn’t hurt either.

How dare anyone challenge the credibility of the professional media! In fact, not only do they enjoy 1st Amendment protection from political retribution, but it appears the media also believes they have a 1st Amendment right to be heard and believed by the public.

I think it’s dangerous. We’re in a dangerous phase right now, where too many millions of Americans aren’t listening at all to what the press tells them.
— Megyn Kelly

This not a laughing matter. I’m sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican. Press bashing may feel good to folks but when it’s done by people in power, it’s corrosive. Take off your partisan hats for a second.
— Chuck Todd

How the hypocritical arrogance oozes….

While there are many thousands of real journalists who received legitimate training (don’t rule out the well-documented liberal indoctrination in academia), it appears political science majors are enough for those who are raking in big bucks to steer partisan narratives, while having little-to-no formal journalism training, worked for politicians, or had the right door-opening relative.

Seeing how most the college journalism/communications classes are dominated by opinionated, liberal teachers 20-to-one, whenever you view a “panel” discussion on any of these news networks, remember you are really witnessing a pro-Democrat political science strategy session, NOT an honest journalistic dissection of any given event.

Chuck Todd • NBC News
Todd attended George Washington University from 1990 to 1994. He majored in political science and minored in music, but never graduated. Todd earned practical political experience on initiative campaigns in Florida and various national campaigns based in Washington, D.C. While in college, Todd worked for the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).

Anderson Cooper • CNN
Cooper was born in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, fashion designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. Cooper attended Yale University, where he resided in Trumbull College, and was inducted into the Manuscript Society, majoring in political science and graduated with a B.A. in 1989.

Martha MacCallum • Fox News
MacCallum earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from St. Lawrence University and also studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre School, founding the Miranda Theater Company in New York. MacCallum next worked as an associate in corporate relations at Dow Jones & Company.

Katy Tur • NBC News
Tur is the daughter of journalists Hanna Zoey Tur (formerly Robert “Bob” Tur) and Marika Gerrard. She graduated from Brentwood School in 2001, and from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005 with a BA in Philosophy.

Rachel Maddow • MSNBC
Maddow earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994. At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship. She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. This made her the first openly gay or lesbian American to win an international Rhodes Scholarship. In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy in politics at the University of Oxford.

Norah O’Donnell • CBS News
O’Donnell holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and a master’s degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University.

Ashleigh Banfield • CNN
Banfield obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and French from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1988 and continued her studies in French at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia, graduating in 1992.

Chelsea Clinton • NBC News
Clinton obtained a B.A. degree in history, with highest honors, at Stanford in 2001. In the spring of 2010, Clinton completed a Master of Science in public health degree at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.

In November 2011, NBC announced that they had hired Clinton as a special correspondent. One of her roles was reporting feature stories about “Making a Difference” for NBC Nightly News and Rock Center with Brian Williams. It was a three-month contract and allowed her to concurrently continue working for the Clinton Foundation and pursue her education. Clinton’s first appearance was on the December 12, 2011, episode of Rock Center. Although she received some negative critical reviews for her work, Clinton’s contract with NBC was renewed in February 2012. Rock Center ended in May 2013, and she left the network in August 2014. Clinton reportedly earned an annual salary of $600,000 for her work at NBC.

Amy Goodman • Democracy Now!
Goodman graduated from Radcliffe College in 1984, with a degree in anthropology. Goodman spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Chris Matthews • MSNBC
Matthews is a 1967 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews was also a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

Matthews served on the staffs of four Democrat Members of Congress, including Senators Frank Moss and Edmund Muskie. In 1974, Matthews mounted an unsuccessful campaign for Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in which he received about 24% of the vote in the primary. Matthews was a presidential speechwriter during the Carter Administration, and later worked for six years as Chief of Staff to longtime Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill.

Kate Bolduan • CNN
Bolduan graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2005 from George Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. During her time at the university, she walked on to the women’s volleyball team and acted with the student theater organization.

Megyn Kelly • NBC News
Kelly earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Syracuse University in 1992 and earned a J.D. from Albany Law School in 1995.

Tom Brokaw • NBC News
Brokaw matriculated at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, but dropped out after a year as he apparently failed to keep up in his studies, in his words majoring in “beer and co-eds”. In tribute to his fun-loving freshman year, the Airliner Bar has named a booth in his honor. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in 1964.

Lou Dobbs • Fox Business
Although accepted at the University of Idaho and Idaho State University, he was persuaded by the staff at Minico High to apply to Harvard University, where he was accepted and later graduated from with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1967. After graduating, Dobbs worked for federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C., then returned to Idaho. He briefly attended law school at the UI College of Law in Moscow.

Mike Barnicle • MSNBC
Graduated from Boston University in 1965.

In 1998, Barnicle resigned from The Boston Globe amid a controversy over two columns, written three years apart. The first column of more than 80 lines of humorous observations had a few lines that bore similarity to jokes in the 1997 book “Brain Droppings” by George Carlin. In a subsequent Globe review of all of Barnicle’s many years of work, a second column was called into question.

Lester Holt • NBC News
Holt attended California State University, Sacramento, and majored in government, though he never graduated.

Kimberly Guilfoyle • Fox News
Guilfoyle graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1994. While in law school, she interned at the San Francisco district attorney’s office. She also modeled for local department stores, including Macy’s, and modeled Victoria’s Secret lingerie in a bridal magazine. She also studied at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. While there, she published research in international children’s rights and European Economic Community law.

Matt Lauer • NBC
Lauer is a graduate of the School of Media Arts and Studies (formerly the School of Telecommunications) of Ohio University. In 1997, he received his undergraduate degree from Ohio University at the age of 39. He had dropped out of Ohio University’s School of Telecommunications in the Spring of 1979.

Lauer was terminated from NBC in November 2017, following allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior towards a colleague. Shortly after, media outlets reported additional women coming forward with complaints of ongoing sexual harassment. Lauer admitted that some of the allegations were true, and apologized to those he had hurt.

Juan Williams • Fox News
Williams attended Haverford College, from which he graduated with a baccalaureate in philosophy in 1976.

Brian Williams • MSNBC
Williams attended Brookdale Community College, after which he transferred to The Catholic University of America and then The George Washington University. He did not graduate, and instead interned with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. (Take his word for it….)

Meghan McCain • Fox News
McCain is the daughter of 2008 presidential nominee and long-time U.S. Senator John McCain and Cindy Hensley McCain. She has been a public figure for much of her life, first appearing at the 1996 Republican National Convention. She attended Columbia University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in art history. McCain originally planned to become a music journalist and interned at Newsweek and Saturday Night Live.

Michael Smerconish • CNN
Smerconish received his B.A. from Lehigh University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Charlie Rose • CBS/PBS
Rose entered Duke University, intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track; however, an internship in the office of Democrat North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics. Rose graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor’s Degree in history. Rose earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968.

In November 2017, Rose’s employment at CBS was terminated, and his eponymous show Charlie Rose on PBS was cancelled after in-house allegations of sexual harassment.

Laura Jarrett • CNN
Daughter of Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Prior to joining CNN to cover the Justice Department and Supreme Court, Jarrett worked as a litigation attorney in Chicago. Jarrett attended Harvard Law School where she was Articles Selection co-chair, an Article Editor, and a Technical Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and published her own articles on the intersection of gender, violence, and the law.

Jamie Colby • Fox News
Attending the University of Miami’s International School of Business, Colby earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting as well as a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of Law at age 22.

Bret Baier • Fox News
Baier attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1992 with a BA degree in political science and English.

Chris Cuomo • CNN
Cuomo is the son of Mario Cuomo, the former New York Governor, and the brother of Andrew Cuomo, the current Governor of New York. Cuomo was educated at Yale University, where he obtained an undergraduate degree, and Fordham University where he obtained his Juris Doctor.

Uma Pemmaraju • Fox News
Pemmaraju graduated from Trinity University in Texas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

Ana Navarro • CNN
Navarro is a graduate of the University of Miami and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies and Political Science in 1993. In 1997, she obtained a Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University Law School.

David Gregory • NBC News
Gregory was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Carolyn Surtees, an account manager, and Don Gregory (originally Don Ginsburg), a film and theatrical producer.

He received a degree in International Studies from the School of International Service.

Bob Beckel • Fox News
Beckel has a BA from Wagner College in Staten Island. While in college, he worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1968.

In 1977, Beckel joined the United States Department of State as deputy assistant secretary of state for congressional relations, becoming the youngest deputy assistant secretary of state in the Carter administration. Beckel was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign. In 2002, Beckel managed the campaign of Alan Blinken, the Democrat nominee for United States Senate in Idaho, until he resigned after being targeted for extortion by a prostitute.

On May 19, 2017, Fox News announced Beckel was released as a result of making a racist remark against another Fox News employee.

Gloria Borger • CNN
Borger graduated from Colgate University in 1974.

Her son is married to Mary Anne Huntsman, daughter of politician Jon Huntsman Jr.

Kennedy • Fox Business
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery attended but did not graduate from Lakeridge High School in 1990. She has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UCLA.

Jenna Bush Hager • ABC
Bush is the younger of the twin daughters of the President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, and a granddaughter of the President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush. She attended the University of Texas at Austin and took summer classes at New York University. She was a legacy member of Kappa Alpha Theta, her mother’s sorority.

Shepard Smith • Fox News
Smith attended the University of Mississippi where he majored in journalism, but left two credits away from graduation.

Wolf Blitzer • CNN
Blitzer graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970. While there, he was a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi. In 1972, he received a Master of Arts in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. While at Johns Hopkins, Blitzer studied abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he learned Hebrew.

Brian Kilmeade • Fox News
Kilmeade attended C.W. Post (Brookville, New York) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.

Mika Brzezinski • MSNBC
Brzezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson. She graduated in 1989 from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she majored in English, after transferring from Georgetown University as a junior.

Joe Scarborough • MSNBC
Scarborough earned a B.A. from the University of Alabama in 1985 and a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1990. Scarborough served in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001 as a Republican from the 1st district of Florida.

April Ryan • CNN
Ryan is a graduate of Morgan State University, however her name is absent from their list of “Notable alumni and faculty”.

Chris Hayes • MSNBC
Hayes attended Brown University for his undergraduate education, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and worked with student theater group Production Workshop.

Judy Woodruff • PBS
Woodruff attended Meredith College before transferring to Duke University, where she earned a degree in political science.

Andrea Mitchell • MSNBC
Mitchell is married to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967.

Trace Gallagher • Fox News
Gallagher graduated from the University of San Diego where he majored in business and played quarterback for the Torreros football team.

Jake Tapper • CNN
Tapper graduated Dartmouth College Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a B.A. in history, modified by Visual Studies. He briefly attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

In 1992, Tapper served as a Campaign Press Secretary for Democrat congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13), and later served as her congressional press secretary. Tapper also worked for Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm run by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate. Tapper also worked briefly for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997.

Tapper wrote several articles as a freelance writer, and then began his full-time journalism career in 1998 for two years as a Senior Writer for the Washington City Paper. Tapper wrote an article about going on a date with Monica Lewinsky, which skewered Washington’s culture of scandal. Tapper won a Society of Professional Journalists award for his work at the Washington City Paper.

Jim Acosta • CNN
In 1993, Acosta earned a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication, with a minor in Political Science, from James Madison University.

Martha Raddatz • ABC News
Raddatz attended the University of Utah but dropped out to work at a local station.

Candy Crowley • CNN
Crowley attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Tavis Smiley • PBS
In 1982, Smiley enrolled in Indiana University Bloomington. Because Smiley’s parents refused to complete financial aid papers, Smiley entered Indiana University with only $50 and a small suitcase. Administrators let Smiley complete the paperwork to become a full-time student. During his first semester of junior year, Smiley was under academic probation; he blamed his extracurricular activities for interfering with his studies. Smiley didn’t graduate from college at all, because he failed a required course in his senior year and “did poorly in several other courses,” which meant he could not complete his degree on time; rather than stay for an extra term, he chose to leave IU and move to Los Angeles.

In 2003, Smiley officially received his degree from Indiana University in public affairs.

To date, Smiley has received 16 honorary doctorates.

On December 13, 2017, PBS issued a statement saying that it had hired a law firm to conduct an investigation “immediately after learning of troubling allegations regarding Mr. Smiley” and that this investigation “uncovered multiple, credible allegations of conduct that is inconsistent with the values and standards of PBS.

On December 14, Smiley described the PBS investigation as “biased and sloppy” and said he would fight the allegations and the damage to his reputation.

John Berman • CNN
Berman earned a Bachelor of Arts in social studies from Harvard University.

Charles Krauthammer • Fox News
Krauthammer attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1970 with First Class Honours in both economics and political science. The following year, after graduating McGill, he studied as a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, before returning to the United States to attend medical school at Harvard, graduating in 1975.

Jon Stewart • Comedy Central
Stewart graduated in 1984 from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he initially majored in chemistry before switching to psychology.

John Dickerson • CBS News
Dickerson holds a degree in English with Distinction from the University of Virginia. “On Her Trail”, Dickerson’s book about his relationship with his late mother Nancy Dickerson Whitehead, a pioneering television newswoman, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006.

Gayle King • CBS
King graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976 with a double degree in psychology and sociology.

Greg Gutfeld • Fox News
In 1987, Gutfeld graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in English.

Nancy Grace • HLN
Grace attended Valdosta State University and later received a B.A. from Mercer University. As a student, Grace was a fan of Shakespearean literature, and intended to become an English professor after graduating from college, but after the murder of her fiancé Keith Griffin when she was 19, Grace decided to enroll in law school and went on to become a felony prosecutor and a supporter of victims’ rights.

Grace received her Juris Doctor from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer, where she was a member of the law review. She went on to earn a Master of Laws in constitutional and criminal law from New York University.

Poppy Harlow • CNN
Harlow graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and Middle Eastern studies.

George Stephanopoulos • ABC News
In 1982, Stephanopoulos received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York and was the salutatorian of his class.

In 1988, Stephanopoulos worked on the Michael Dukakis 1988 U.S. presidential campaign. After that campaign, Stephanopoulos became the “floor man” for Dick Gephardt, U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader; a position held until, along with David Wilhelm and James Carville, he became a leading member of Bill Clinton’s 1992 U.S. presidential campaign. At the outset of Clinton’s presidency, Stephanopoulos served as the de facto press secretary, briefing the press even though Dee Dee Myers was officially the White House Press Secretary. Later following several verbal missteps he was moved to Senior Advisor on Policy and Strategy.

Stephanopoulos resigned from the Clinton administration shortly after Clinton was re-elected in 1996.

Brian Stelter • CNN
Stelter studied at Towson University where he served as editor-in-chief of The Towerlight from 2005 to 2007. While still a student, he created TVNewser, a blog about television and cable news which he later sold to Mediabistro.

Stelter graduated from Towson in May 2007, and joined The New York Times as a media reporter later in July of that year.

John Stossel • Fox News
Stossel characterizes himself as having been “an indifferent student” while in college, commenting, “I daydreamed through half my classes at Princeton, and applied to grad school only because I was ambitious, and grad school seemed like the right path for a 21-year-old who wanted to get ahead.” Although he had been accepted to the University of Chicago’s School of Hospital Management, Stossel was “sick of school” and thought taking a job would inspire him to embrace graduate studies with renewed vigor.

Dana Bash • CNN
Bash’s father, Stu Schwartz, was an ABC News producer who served as the senior broadcast producer for Good Morning America. Bash graduated cum laude with her bachelor’s degree in political communications from George Washington University.

Karen Finney • MSNBC
After attending UCLA, Finney served four years as the spokesperson and Director of Communications at the Democrat National Committee. She served as Press Secretary for Hillary Clinton in the early 1990s, then moved into the private sector, working in marketing for the children’s academic book company Scholastic Inc.

In 2001, she managed crisis communications for the New York City Board of Education, and worked for Elizabeth Edwards during the 2004 presidential campaign. On November 25, 2014 Finney joined Media Matters as a senior fellow and consultant. On April 6, 2015, CNN announced that she was selected as Strategic Communications Adviser and Senior Spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Deborah Feyerick • CNN
Deborah Feyerick attended Barnard College where she graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.

Fareed Zakaria • CNN
Zakaria graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1986 and later a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Government from Harvard University in 1993.

Tucker Carlson • Fox News
Carlson was born in San Francisco, California, the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles, who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. His mother is the former Lisa McNear Lombardi, and his stepmother is the former Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune (daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and granddaughter of Carl A. Swanson) and a niece of Sen. J. William Fulbright.

He studied history at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Joe Johns • CNN
Johns holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and a law degree from American University in D.C.

Greta Van Susteren • NBC News
Van Susteren graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976, where she studied geography and economics. She later earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979 and prior to the start of her television work returned to Georgetown Law as an adjunct faculty member in addition to her full-time legal career. She was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Stetson Law School.

Mara Liasson • NPR, Fox News
Liasson is a graduate of Brown University (class of 1977) with a bachelor of arts degree in American history.

Amy Kellogg • Fox News
Kellogg received her B.A. from Brown University in Soviet studies, and her M.A. from Stanford University in Russian and East European studies. Kellogg is fluent in Russian, Spanish, and French. She spent the second semester of her junior year at Leningrad State University, in the former Soviet Union. After graduating from Stanford, she spent some time teaching English and studying Spanish in Argentina before shifting into the news business.

Katherine Timpf • Fox News
She graduated in 2010 from Hillsdale College (magna cum laude) with a B.A. in English.

Al Sharpton • MSNBC
Attended Brooklyn College, dropping out after two years in 1975. In 1972, Sharpton accepted the position of youth director for the presidential campaign of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Between the years 1973 and 1980 Sharpton served as James Brown’s tour manager.

Shannon Bream • Fox News
Bream attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. While attending Liberty, she entered the Miss Virginia pageant and won the title of Miss Virginia in 1990. She participated in the Miss America 1991 pageant and was one of the ten finalists. Her scholarship award covered much of her education.

After graduating from Liberty University in 1993 with a degree in business, Bream returned to Tallahassee and attended law school at Florida State University. She interned with Florida Congressman Bill McCollum, in the US House of Representatives.

Elizabeth MacDonald • Fox Business
MacDonald graduated with a B.A. with honors from Canisius College in 1984.

Katie Couric • Yahoo!
As a high school student, Couric was an intern at Washington, D.C. all-news radio station WAVA. She enrolled at her father’s alma mater, the University of Virginia, in 1975 and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. Couric served in several positions at UVA’s award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. She graduated in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies.

Erin Burnett • CNN
Burnett attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she studied political science and economics, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy.

Lawrence O’Donnell • MSNBC
O’Donnell graduated from Harvard College (class of 1974) with a major in economics in 1976.

From 1989 to 1995, he was a legislative aide to Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. From 1989 to 1991, he served as senior advisor to Moynihan. From 1992 to 1993, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, then chaired by Senator Moynihan, and from 1993 to 1995 he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, again under Senator Moynihan’s chairmanship.

Joy Reid • MSNBC
Reid studied documentary film making in the Harvard University Visual and Environmental Studies department.

Hallie Jackson • MSNBC
In 2006, Jackson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in political science.

Abby Huntsman • Fox News
Huntsman is the daughter of 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr.

At age 16, Huntsman worked a behind-the-scenes position at Good Morning America. By her own admission, she disliked it so much that she contemplated giving up on television “forever”. While attending the University of Pennsylvania, Huntsman interned for Diane Sawyer. In 2012, during and after her father’s presidential campaign, Huntsman appeared as a political commentator for ABC News in Washington, D.C., and Good Morning America in New York City. In 2013, she was listed as number 26 on the Forbes 30 under 30 list of up and coming members of the media.

Dagen McDowell • Fox Business
McDowell graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in art history.

There are notables not on this list because they actually majored in journalism. We also used Wikipedia as a consistent reference because many of the news entities (for some strange reason) decline to include education backgrounds in the posted bios of their on-air celebrities.

And this is just on the broadcast level. There are probably many others on the print/blog side, that have earned the right to be called journalists, sitting right next to those who do not and it’s no wonder why we get “news” and narratives we can’t trust.

BTW: the majority of black on-air personalities today actually had to complete classes/majors in the disciplines of the journalism profession BEFORE they got jobs in the business; a prerequisite many of their white counterparts have successfully bypassed.

In January 2004 Stelter created TVNewser, a blog covering the television news industry. At the time, he was a freshman at Towson University. He sold TVNewser to Mediabistro.com six months later and continued to run it until May 2007, when he graduated from Towson with a degree in mass communication with a concentration in journalism. He joined The New York Times two months later as a media reporter. He covered television and digital media for the Business Day and Arts sections of the newspaper. Stelter started at CNN in November 2013.
— BrianStelter.com

So, Brian Stelter created a media gossip blog while in college, was well-connected enough to sell it, and was hired shortly after graduation by the New York Times as essentially a tabloid blogger. Must be nice.

Now, he gets to lecture everyone about the ethics of journalism.

Too bad his arrogance and over-inflated sense of self has supplanted what should’ve been the common sense of his profession.

YouTube star known for pranks claims he was kicked off Delta flight for speaking Arabic
Delta Concludes From Multiple Witnesses That YouTube Prankster Was Actually Shouting, Disruptive

And because CNN’s Stelter Tweeted it as legit without issuing the proper caution, despite skepticism on the plane of the prankster’s account, a business brand has been harmed, albeit by the equally, willfully ignorant.

4 celebs who won’t fly Delta after Adam Saleh prank controversy

Brian Stelter fell for a prank because he suspended his duties as a so-called journalist watchdog and let his politically-correct, partisan advocacy overrule. Stelter carelessly ran with the word of known New York City prankster Adam Saleh, who’s been caught numerous times creating and recording hate scenarios towards Muslims to create the customary “awareness”.

As said here numerous times, way too many so-called journalism departments on campus today do not teach the professional disciplines, but pump out naive little activists who “want to make a difference”, thus are willing to believe what they want to believe instead of doing what real journalists are supposed to do: verify BEFORE you publish.

And these arrogants in the media lament how the public won’t take them at their word.

The “most extreme anti-media talk we have ever heard from a modern presidential candidate” is long overdue and their propaganda continues unabated.

ABC News: Clinton Rebounds on Enthusiasm; Trump Slips Overall in Latest Poll

Exactly how does one evaluate “enthusiasm” from a poll? A pertinent question given the questionable motives of a partisan media few believe or trust. Hillary Clinton has had to rely on “big names” to draw crowds in an effort to “Get Out the Vote” while Donald Trump’s supporters don’t appear to need a push.

One need only remember the quote of Chico Marx in 1933’s “Duck Soup” when he asked, “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” The media believes we should believe them simply because they’re the media and THEY say so. Sorry, but there’s also another noteworthy quote whose source is a current mystery: “What the media builds up, they will tear down”.

The media helped build up Donald Trump out of pure entertainment value. They KNEW he wouldn’t win the primary, but gave them great ratings as they openly portrayed him as a joke. When he began to win more and more, it became time to beat this Republican into a pulp.

DNC staffers wrote questions for CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer when he interviewed Trump, new batch of 8,000 WikiLeaks emails reveals

The problem is Trump counter-punched, gave the media a bloody lip and knocked them down; something they were not used to receiving. Like Mohammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston, Trump taunts a dazed media, waiting for them to get up so he can issue another punch and the whining has begun.

They’ve thrown everything negative possible at Donald Trump while almost consistently inquiring what Hillary needs in order to win the election. One thing they’ve spent little time on is allowing our eyes to evaluate the enthusiasm Donald Trump clearly has and that Hillary Clinton doesn’t.

First, take a look at some of Hillary’s events….

… and compare the size of her venues to that of Donald Trump’s rallies.

Visually, there is no comparison between the attendance size (which IS a contributing factor to “enthusiasm”) of Hillary Clinton’s events and Donald Trump’s. The media, led by Brian Stelter types would have you believe that they’ve been straight with the public all along, Donald Trump’s insulting name-calling is without merit and poor young journalists might be dissuaded from the professional out of risk of bodily harm.

Despite the reputations and lives the media’s torn apart, Donald Trump may have permanently made it impossible to believe them and only believe what we see with our own two eyes.