[FOXNEWS] A top editor at Rooters apologized on Thursday night after blaming President Trump for the deadly Capital Gazette shooting in a now-deleted tweet that was sent during a "state of emotional distress," but he might still be disciplined by the international news service.
Rooters Breakingviews Editor Rob Cox admitted that he "responded emotionally and inappropriately" after being called out for jumping to conclusions prior to the facts emerging. Police said the suspected gunman, eventually identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, targeted the newspaper after a lengthy feud regarding a 2012 defamation lawsuit.
"This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul," Cox wrote in the deleted tweet, according to TheWrap.
Cox apologized in a series of four tweets once it became clear that Ramos’ motive predated Trump entering the world of politics.
"When I saw the news today that a mass shooter had targeted the employees of a newspaper in Maryland I responded emotionally and inappropriately," Cox wrote. "Though my comments were entirely personal, they were not in keeping with the Rooters Trust Principles and my own standards for letting facts, not snap judgments, guide my understanding."
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Rooters Breakingviews Editor Rob Cox admitted that he "responded emotionally and inappropriately" after being called out for jumping to conclusions prior to the facts emerging.
Like we would expect anything else from Democrats with bylines. Fire his ass!
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When I was 3 years old and would "respond emotionally and inappropriately," my Mother had some very effective ways of helping me learn to respond to things appropriately. She is still alive if Mr. Cox would care to meet her for some helpful hints (first hint: prepare for a VERY sore backside for a while.)
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@#5: Jeebus, buddy! What looks back at you from the mirror..?! ;-)
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A rational human being who prioritizes the survival of his family and nation over that of his nations enemies. I also believe that you give people clear, concise and pointed examples in why everyone should obey the law and woe unto he that does not.
I believe in PUNISHMENT for people's crimes. Jail is not punishment. If you have laws, they need to be obeyed. People today take little to no responsibility for actions that might be immoral and horrible, but are currently legal. This leads to them feeling like they are above the law and the law is for the peons who clean and even worse, 'make' things.
In the end, all humans are people, but some people aren't humans. Frank Herbert had that right.
[DAILYCALLER] A reporter at a Massachusetts-based newspaper resigned Friday after falsely claiming in a tweet Thursday that the man who killed five employees at the Capital Gazzete newspaper left a “Make America Great Again” hat at the crime scene.
“Shooter who killed 4 people at Annapolis newspaper dropped his #MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening fire,” Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass., wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
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$10 says the Boston Globe will pick this guy up on waivers when nobody's looking.
[SEATTLEPI] The manager of a popular Vancouver, B.C., restaurant has been fired for refusing service to a supporter of President Trump.
The customer arrived at the Teahouse in Stanley Park wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, and was asked by manager Darin Hodge to remove the lat.
Soon after that, the manager, on the job for 18 months, was let go by the Sequoia Co. which manages the restaurant, for violating its "philosophy of tolerance."
"Sequoia does not support intolerance of any kind, and it is because of these principles that we cannot discriminate against someone based on their support for the current administration in the United States, or any other bonified political party," Sequoia said in a statement.
"The Teahouse has no political, ethnic or other bias and is committed to welcoming all visitors to Vancouver and treating all our customers with respect."
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I guess Mr. Hodge didn't get the memo about 'tolerance', did he?
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and it is because of these principles that we cannot discriminate against someone based on their support for the current administration in the United States
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#6 - The customer arrived at the Teahouse in Stanley Park wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, and was asked by manager Darin Hodge to remove the l(h)at.
doesn't say he wore it in....
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How long before "arriving while white" gets you turned away?
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OTOH, I used to laugh my ass off at The Homestead when some moron showed up at breakfast in shorts and flip flops and the black maitre'd, who had put his suit and tie on at about 4 am, told the schmuck he could not come in the dining room.
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The MAGA hat has come to symbolize racism, bigotry, Islamaphobia, misogyny, white supremacy and homophobia.
And thus Hodge dumped on millions of honest, hard-working Americans as did Hillary when she referred to Trump supporters as a basket of deplorables and unredeemables. Peter Strzok did the same thing when he said he could smell Trump supporters in Wal-Mart. Hodge ends up being that which he accuses others of.
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Would he have the courage to toss out anyone wearing clothing proselytizing any of the Local parties (Green, Liberal, Conservative, and/or their local branches)? No, the little weasel would turn a blind eye because "That's Different, because Shut Up!"
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#7. I understand what happened. If he was going into the restaurant he should have taken it off anyways. If he was just walking down the street he should have ignored the guy.
[Daily Caller] In an interview published Friday, Hillary Clinton was asked about first lady Melania Trump and what she thought of President Trump’s immigration policy.
Clinton’s bizarre, rambling response made little sense and did not convey much information.
The Guardian’s Decca Aitkenhead writes:
"I ask how [Clinton] interpreted the jacket the first lady wore to visit a child detention centre, bearing the opaque and intriguing slogan: ’I really don’t care, do u?’ Clinton slumps back in her chair, wide eyed, arms spread, defeated by the mystery. ’That, I have no idea. I have no idea. I can’t even ... I don’t have any idea. I don’t know.’ Does she feel sorry for the first lady? ’I don’t know. I honestly don’t know.'"
The Guardian article also includes a quote from Clinton in which she refuses to condemn many on the left becoming "uncivil."
h/t Instapundit
[NYPost] When Mayor Bill de Blasio picked Bernie Sanders to swear him in for his second term, it was a sign, much like a groundhog signaling six more weeks of winter, that the heart of the Democrat Party was changing ‐ even if Bernie himself still refuses to acknowledge that he belongs to it.
And while Sanders-endorsed candidates have floundered nationally, they got a big win last night when 28-year-old Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez breezed past establishment figurehead Joe Crowley in the primary for the relatively safe 14th District.
Nancy Pelosi tried to wave away the obvious Tea Party parallels by saying the 14th is simply a "very progressive district ... They made a choice in one district. Let’s not get yourself carried away." But it’s becoming clearer and clearer that Democrats’ days of flirting with the more radical wing of their party are over. They’re now in a committed relationship with each other, the hammer entwined with the sickle.
Party bigwigs should’ve seen it coming. In the 2016 presidential nomination race, Sanders was supposed to be Hillary Clinton’s tomato can. Instead, he gave her a serious run for her money, such that the party had to lean on the scales in Hillary’s favor just to make sure she limped across the finish line.
After Clinton lost to Donald Trump, Democratic candidates started sounding a lot more like Sanders ‐ Medicare-for-all and the like. Ocasio-Cortez, herself a former community organizer for the Sanders campaign, has followed suit. Her official platform included a right to housing, a universal-jobs guarantee and Medicare-for-all.
In Ocasio-Cortez, comrades everywhere finally have their sleeker, new model, and can finally start to haul the old jalopy off to the junkyard. Take a bow Berniecrats, you finally have someone to rally behind that doesn’t have to be carbon dated.
Ocasio-Cortez says her first goal, if elected to the House (an almost sure thing), is to introduce legislation abolishing ICE, a bridge too far for even Bernie, but a romanticized goal among the online far-left monster given life by Dr. Bernie Frankenstein. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has stated that he simply wants to reform ICE. But as national media line up behind the attractive and articulate Ocasio-Cortez, and her social-media following explodes as it has done since her victory, tempering the radical Occupy remnants is going to become more difficult.
She has yet to offer any solutions on how to pay for her fairytale platform, of course, beyond the standard manifesto answer of taxing the rich. Ocasio-Cortez also supports impeaching President Trump, which many Democrats quietly support but candidates aren’t supposed to say out loud, as the midterm electorate might be wary of spending the next two years mired in such shenanigans.
Her radicalized anti-Israel stance became apparent in a tweet blaming Israel for the recent violence in Gaza perpetuated by Hamas: "This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore."
She also blamed Palestinian deaths on Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Jewish state’s capital, Jerusalem.
Along with her tweets, a former New York City Council candidate whose platform was to "defeat the greedy Jewish landlords" both volunteered for her campaign and attended her election-night victory party. Ocasio-Cortez studied international relations and economics at Boston University
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I suspect she'll be either (1) A dedicated Democrat voter in the House or (2) A single term representative as the Democratic party primary her out next chance they get.
To dream the impossible dream... and make it that much harder for the next generation of Democrats to step into his still-filled shoes.
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom Perez introduced former President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... as America’s "real president" at a DNC fundraiser Thursday night.
"Let’s give it up for the real president of the United States," Perez said at Thursday’s fundraiser, Politico reported.
Obama reportedly then told the crowd of Democratic donors that they are "right to be concerned" about Trump’s presidency.
Perez’s false descriptor for Obama is just the latest instance of prominent Democrats abandoning political norms in order to undermine President Trump.
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By all means, keep saying things like this - it's gotta be good for a few more hundred Trump voters in 2020 every time they open their pieholes.
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[Breitbart] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Party’s rising socialist star, describes herself as "a girl from the Bronx" to project a working-class image. However, this claim is only half true ‐ to borrow a phrase from the left-wing website PolitiFact.
"Well, you know, the president is from Queens, and with all due respect ‐ half of my district is from Queens ‐ I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx," Ocasio-Cortez said this week on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
She similarly told the Washington Post: "I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family ‐ mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. I was born in a place where your Zip code determines your destiny."
The congressional candidate, who pulled off an upset win against high-ranking establishment Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), was indeed born in New York City’s Bronx borough. She currently lives there, too.
So what’s the issue? Ocasio-Cortez omits that for most of her formative years, she was actually raised in one of the United States’ wealthiest counties.
Around the age of five, Alexandria’s architect father Sergio Ocasio moved the family from the "planned community" of Parkchester in the Bronx to a home in Yorktown Heights, a wealthy suburb in Westchester County. The New York Times describes her childhood home as "a modest two-bedroom house on a quiet street." In a 1999 profile of the area, when Ocasio-Cortez would have been ten years old, the Times lauded Yorktown Heights’ "diversity of housing in a scenic setting" ‐ complete with two golf courses.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Daily Caller] In an interview published Friday, Hillary Clinton was asked about first lady Melania Trump and what she thought of President Trump’s immigration policy.
