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AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES THE BABYLON BEE:
Shot: All The Other States Beg California To Add Them To Travel Ban.
—Headline, the (satiric) Babylon Bee, September 17th.
Chaser: San Francisco Expands Travel Ban to 22 Pro-Life States.
—Headline, American Greatness, today.
ALSO, TRUMP WOULD CLOBBER THEM WITH SANCTIONS: Why China fears sending the tanks into Hong Kong. They know this, and Trump knows this, which is why the trade talks are “ongoing” and why they haven’t sent tanks in.
ALSO, A LOT OF GOP POLITICIANS: Don Surber: How the media blew the Syria story.
This morning at 8, BBC posted a story, “Turkey’s Erdogan ‘threw Trump’s Syria letter in bin.'” It was Fake News.
This afternoon at 2, President Donald John Trump announced Erdogan agreed to a cease-fire along the Syrian border.
Once again, the press got the story all wrong. President Trump knew what he was doing and succeeded where his predecessors had failed. He removed American troops in order to bring peace to a section of the Middle East. He used tariffs, not soldiers, to force the issue.
The Washington press corps covering President Trump is incompetent and corrupt as it violates the public trust by deliberately trying to sabotage the man the American people elected president.
President Trump’s mediation of the Kurd-Turk dispute is award-worthy. The press blew the story by attacking our president. Amid all the false reports of coming calamity and impending genocide, I advised readers to Trust Trump. He earned it.
And of course I was right because getting President Trump right is the easiest thing in the world to do. Just accept that he is better informed than the press, and he knows what he is doing.
But the media is a bunch of garbage peddlers. You have your garbage collectors who help keep America clean and safe, and then you have your garbage producers at CNN and the like.
The fog of war expelled by the American media was a historic embarrassment to anyone who is now or has ever been a member of the Fourth Estate. Obamanauts — including generals — were allowed to say whatever they wanted to try to undermine President Trump’s peace efforts without bothering (in most cases) to allow the Trump administration to respond.
Crazy talk of genocide filled the cable airwaves.
ABC was caught using training footage from Kentucky to depict a non-existent “Slaughter in Syria.”
Has it issued an on-air apology or correction yet?
Last I heard ABC was stonewalling. But do follow the link as he recaps the press coverage. Note that quite a few GOP pols were snookered into joining a resolution condemning Trump here. But as Surber notes, that worked to Trump’s benefit, too:
Lindsey Graham and a comically bad House resolution demanding war in Syria were an unexpected gift to President Donald John Trump in his talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Or maybe the Great Deal Maker figured his enemies (Democrats and the media) and his hawk friends (Senator Graham) would squawk about withdrawing U.S. troops from the battlefield, which we would give the president leverage in peace negotiations.
President Trump can tell his NATO ally, look, I want to stay out of this mess but if you fail me, the chicken hawks and Graham will force me to take military action. . . . The press is getting President Trump’s deal-making wrong, just as it has every past deal.
Really, read it all.
Related: Congress Claims Situation In Syria Is Bad But Not Bad Enough For Them To Actually Declare War.
“It’s really bad over there and Trump is really evil for not sending more troops and fighting Turkey,” said Senator Mitt Romney. “I mean, just to clarify, it’s not bad enough for Congress to actually do its job and declare war. But still, it’s pretty bad.”
I remember when the Babylon Bee was just a satirical news site, not America’s paper of record.
UPDATE: James Carafano: Syria cease-fire follows completely appropriate actions by Trump – Avoids needless bloodshed. I’m sorry, but all the best people told me there would be needless bloodshed.
REMY: HORRIFYING TWEETS RESURFACE! New video from Reason TV:
SO HOW WAS MY DAY? Well, I got some writing done, but most importantly I discovered that you can sing the Gilligan’s Island theme to the tune of Ghost Riders In The Sky, and it’s actually kind of awesome.
OPEN THREAD: Sod off, swampy!
LOUISIANA ELECTION: New poll shows incumbent Democrat, GOP challenger tied in Louisiana governor race. “Mr. Edwards and Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone are tied at 47% support, according to the poll, which will be made public Friday by We Ask America. The result shows that Mr. Rispone has quickly consolidated the Republican vote in the Pelican State, a development that should make him a more formidable opponent as Mr. Edwards seeks re-election Nov. 16.”
THIS IS WHO THE NBA IS IN BED WITH: Did a Muslim Slave Make Your Chinese Shirt? A look inside the ‘cotton gulag’ in Xinjiang province.
SOME IMPROVE MEETINGS BY THEIR PRESENCE. OTHERS IMPROVE THEM BY THEIR ABSENCE. Scalise: White House Meeting Went Well Once Pelosi, Schumer “Stormed Out.”
BRENDAN O’NEILL: Finally, A Rebellion Against Extinction Rebellion. “The people are rising up against the elites. No, I don’t mean Extinction Rebellion. I mean the Rebellion against Extinction Rebellion. Today’s clashes on the Tube between the commuting working classes and the time-rich, bourgeois fearmongers of the XR cult is a wonderful illustration of the elitist nature of eco-politics and of rising public fury with the eco-agenda. For more than a week now the XR elitists have been disrupting everyday life. They’ve stopped flights from taking off, preventing people from going on well-earned holidays or visiting loved ones abroad. They’ve clogged up roads in city centres, irritating cab drivers and people on buses. And they’ve stormed Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market – smug middle-class vegans lecturing hard-working traders about the correct way to think and live.”
We need an end to the lefty privilege that lets well-off white people feel good about ruining the days of ordinary working people. “Some leftists and greens have been shocked by today’s rebellion against Extinction Rebellion. They’re saying XR should change tactics. But the problem here isn’t tactics – no, this ugly, elitist inconveniencing of ordinary people represents the actual content of XR’s outlook. It captures the fundamentals of this movement, which is a backward-looking, anti-progress, anti-people outfit. Today’s XR sneering at working people wasn’t a mistaken tactic – it was the essence of environmentalism.”
MEXICO SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME MUCH MORE COOPERATIVE LATELY FOR SOME REASON: In a first, Mexico deports 311 Indians trying to sneak into the United States. Shipped ’em back to Delhi. This story is from the Times Of India; not much coverage here in the U.S.
THE PRC IS POWERFUL, BUT I’M BEGINNING TO THINK THEY OVERESTIMATE THEIR POWER: N.B.A. Commissioner: China Asked Us to Fire Daryl Morey. Though when you’re used to dealing with toadies like LeBron, it’s easy to see how that overestimation might happen.
THIS IS CNN: “Gerald Sisnette, a [CNN] Field Production Supervisor, who said that he thought it would only get better when Trump was dead, which he hoped was soon. ‘This is a story that’s not gonna go away,’ Sisnette said, referring to Trump coverage in general. ‘The only way this will go away is when he dies. Hopefully, soon.’”
James O’Keefe strikes again.
‘SUCH HYPOCRITES!’: FORMER GOV. JAN BREWER (R-AZ) SLAMS MEDIA RESPONSE TO PELOSI FINGER-WAGGING.
Brewer was photographed poking her finger in President Barack Obama’s face when he visited Arizona in January 2012. She claimed that after giving him a written invitation to inspect the crisis on the Arizona border, the two engaged in a heated discussion about a passage in her book, Scorpions for Breakfast, which depicted Obama as condescending and dismissive.
Brewer took flak for her finger-pointing from both the media and the public, who accused her of disrespecting the presidency. More than 12,000 letters flooded her office in the ensuing days, most of which condemned her, calling her “trashy” and “tasteless.” Likening the act to belching at the president, a writer for the Washington Post scolded her, “If a thing is frowned upon in general, it’s even worse to do it to the president in particular.”
By contrast, Pelosi has met with adulation and gratitude from liberals after President Trump tweeted an image of her standing up during a meeting and wagging her finger at him.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines (and DNC talking points) and it all makes sense.
WORST WHITE SUPREMACIST PRESIDENT EVER: Black unemployment stays at a record low for September 2019.
WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Harvard students mocked Asian applicants who received lower personality scores.