NYT Only Finds the FBI Texts Newsworthy in that Republicans are ‘Seizing’ On Them
Posted: December 15, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bias, Democrats, Department of Justice, DOJ, FBI, GOP Pounce Story, Hillary Clinton, media, New York Times, Peter Strzok Leave a commentThe New York Times has already moved on to the ‘Republicans pounce’ portion of the news cycle.
Becket Adams writes: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is facing a brewing scandal involving hyper-partisan texts written by his former team members, and the New York Times has already moved on to the “Republicans pounce” portion of the news cycle.
Because that’s often the modus operandi for these sorts of things.
Peter Strzok, who specializes in Russian counterintelligence, was removed from Mueller’s team this July. The decision to take Strzok off the Russia investigation came after the Justice Department’s inspector general discovered he had sent and received dozens of anti-Trump texts between August 2015 and 2016 from Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer with whom Strzok was having an affair. Page was also on Mueller’s team, but only briefly. She returned to the FBI before the special counsel was made aware of the texts.
There’s really no getting around it: The texts are extremely partisan.
“I can not believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president,” Page wrote in one note.
Strzok wrote in another note, “God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.”
“And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” Page wrote in another text. “I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps.” Read the rest of this entry »
WOAH NELLIE: Wife of Demoted DOJ Official Worked for Firm Behind Anti-Trump Dossier
Posted: December 12, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Politics | Tags: 2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Campaign, Christopher Steele, Donald Trump, Dossier, FBI, FISA surveillance, Fusion GPS, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, James Rosen, Nellie H. Ohr 1 Comment
Bruce G. Ohr was demoted at the DOJ for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump ‘dossier.’ (AP)
Investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year.
James Rosen and Jake Gibson report: A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document, than has been disclosed, Fox News has confirmed: The official’s wife worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.
Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr’s duties – including whether she worked on the dossier – remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.
Fusion GPS has attracted scrutiny because Republican lawmakers have spent the better part of this year investigating whether the dossier, which was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, served as the basis for the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain FISA surveillance last year on a Trump campaign adviser named Carter Page.
“The House Intelligence Committee,” Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News in a statement on Monday, “is looking into all facets of the connections between the Department of Justice and Fusion GPS, including Mr. Ohr.”
Until Dec. 6, when Fox News began making inquiries about him, Bruce Ohr held two titles at DOJ. He was, and remains, director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force; but his other job was far more senior. Mr. Ohr held the rank of associate deputy attorney general, a post that gave him an office four doors down from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The day before Fox News reported that Mr. Ohr held his secret meetings last year with the founder of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, and with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier, the Justice Department stripped Ohr of his deputy title and ousted him from his fourth floor office at the building that DOJ insiders call “Main Justice.”
Initially, DOJ officials provided no explanation for Ohr’s demotion. Later, they said his wearing of two hats was “unusual”; still later, they confirmed Ohr had withheld his contacts with the Fusion GPS men from superiors.
A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document, than has been disclosed, Fox News has confirmed: The official’s wife worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.
[Read the full story here, at Fox News]
Contacted by Fox News, investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of the demoted official, Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research firm last year. The precise nature of Mrs. Ohr’s duties – including whether she worked on the dossier – remains unclear but a review of her published works available online reveals Mrs. Ohr has written extensively on Russia-related subjects. HPSCI staff confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.
Fusion GPS has attracted scrutiny because Republican lawmakers have spent the better part of this year investigating whether the dossier, which was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, served as the basis for the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain FISA surveillance last year on a Trump campaign adviser named Carter Page. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Jake Tapper and Robby Mook on Clinton Study: ‘Deplorables’ Alienated Voters
Posted: December 5, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, 2016 Presidential Race, CNN, Donald Trump, Harvard, Jake Tapper, Kellyanne Conway, Kennedy School of Government, media, news, Robby Mook, video Leave a comment
New York Post Cover for November 10, 2016
Posted: November 10, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Donald Trump, journalism, New York, New York Post, news, Newspapers, Polls, Tabloid Leave a commentSource: Covers | New York Post
[VIDEO] Watch Hillary Clinton and Her Staff Do the ‘Mannequin Challenge’
Posted: November 8, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, Robotics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Clowns, Democrats, Dolls, Fortune (magazine), Hillary Clinton, Mannequins, media, news, toys, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Gutfeld: Think This Election is Over Tuesday? Think Again
Posted: November 6, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, DNC, Donald Trump, Fox News, GOP, Greg Gutfeld, Hillary Clinton, news, The Greg Gutfeld Show, video Leave a comment
2016 wasn’t about Clinton or Trump; it was about us
[VIDEO] MacLean: Clinton Team’s Visits to Blue States Shows She’s Smelling Smoke in the Firewall
Posted: November 6, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Blue wall, FBI, Firewall, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, HRC, media, news, video Leave a comment
The New Yorker Officially Endorses SMOD, Accidentally Inserts Wrong Candidate’s Name
Posted: October 24, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Hillary Clinton, New Yorker Magazine, SMOD, Sweet Meteor of Death Leave a comment[VIDEO] Protester Interrupts Bill Clinton With A ‘Bill Is A Rapist’ Sign
Posted: October 6, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bill Clinton, media, news, Protest, Rape, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Jane Sanders: ‘It Would Be Nice’ If FBI Sped Up Clinton Email Investigation
Posted: April 28, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Democratic Party, Email Probe, FBI, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Jane Sanders, Neil Cavuto, The Pantsuit Report, Washington Free Beacon, Your World with Neil Cavuto Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Disassociation: Bernie Sanders Keeps Referring to Himself in the Third Person
Posted: April 27, 2016 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bernie Sanders, media, news, video, Washington Free Beacon Leave a comment
[VIDEO] ‘BERNIE & HILLARY’ — A Bad Lip Reading
Posted: April 21, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bad Lip Reading, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, media, news, video Leave a comment
Bill Clinton On Sanders Supporters: ‘Just Shoot Every Third Person On Wall Street’
Posted: April 16, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Communism, Democrats, DNC, Hippies, Marxism, news, video, Wall Street 1 CommentTrump’s Unit Not as Stiff as it Once Was
Posted: March 8, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, ABC News, Donal Trump, Katich, Marco Rubio, media, news, Polling, Ted Cruz Leave a commentNational Review Launches Counter-Offensive
Posted: January 21, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Conservatism, Donald Trump, journalism, media, news, William F. Buckley Jr Leave a commentHow Our Presidential Debates Amuse China
Posted: January 15, 2016 Filed under: Asia, China, Entertainment, Global, Mediasphere | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Al Jazeera America, Arthur Ashe Courage Award, Democracy, Donald Trump, Fox News, Gun control, Reality television, Ted Cruz, The New York Times, United States Leave a commentMitchell Blatt continues:
The Guojiang Subtitle Group, which is made up of about six dozen volunteers across China, subtitles American debates and uploads them to Chinese video sharing sites like Sina. But if the hope is that Chinese viewers would be more supportive of democracy after watching them, we are in for a disappointment. In fact, some Chinese viewers come away thinking democracy is a joke. “There isn’t that much discussion of policy issues. Many remarks are just sensational,” the New York Times quoted a former business consultant as saying. Other viewers compared it to watching a reality show or a sitcom.
To be fair, the Chinese aren’t alone in laughing at The Donald and other ridiculous characters in politics. A debate moderator accused Trump of running “a comic book version of presidential campaign, and FOX News host Bill O’Reilly opened a segment of his show by imagining what the GOP primary contenders would be like if they were stars of a reality television show. Joking about politics is an international pass time.
Even in China, with its limited scope of political discourse, social media users mock local government officials and joke about corruption. One popular joke holds that in America, rich people get involved in politics, while in China people involved in politics get rich.
[Read the full text here, at Acculturated]
Still, from the many conversations and experiences I’ve had during the four years I’ve been living in China, it seems as if the Chinese public views the flaws in democracy as the rule rather than the exception. Americans have our complaints—and rightfully so—about politicians, but at the end of the day, most of us believe in Winston Churchill’s famous remark, “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Politicians might say stupid things to appeal to the public, but isn’t that better than the public having no say at all? By contrast, Chinese people often look at countries with unstable or failing democratic systems and use those systems as examples of why democracy itself is flawed. Thailand (with its many coups), Libya, and Iraq are frequently cited examples in China in the past few years.
But the Chinese save their worst criticism and their favorite cautionary tales about the foibles of democracy for Taiwan…(read more)
Source: Acculturated
#GOPDebate: The Trump-Cruz Duet
Posted: January 14, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, 2016 Presidential Election, Birther, Canada, Donald Trump, Fox Business Channel, GOP, GOP Debate, Iowa, media, New York, news, Ted Cruz, Television, United States Leave a comment
[VIDEO] FEEL THE LOVE: Congresswoman Mia Love of Utah Endorses Marco Rubio
Posted: November 19, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Endorsement, GOP, Marco Rubio, media, Mia Love, news, Utah Leave a comment
It’s Real: Hillary Clinton is Collapsing
Posted: September 27, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Benghazi, Democratic Party, Desperation, Email, Global Panic, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Joe Biden, Joe Trippi, John Kerry, propaganda, Pundit, Spin, The Pantsuit Report 1 CommentHas Joe Trippi Lost His Mind?
Source: LA Times
DRUDGE Readers Completely Misunderstood Poll Question ‘Who Won 2nd GOP Debate?’, Answered ‘Who Is Your Favorite Candidate?’
Posted: September 16, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, CNN, Dasich, Donald Trump, Drudge Report, GOP, GOP Debate, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, media, Mike Huckabee, news, Poll, Rand Paul, Republican, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz Leave a comment#Clinton Campaign Update
Posted: September 2, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: #ReadyForHillary, 2016 Presidential Campaign, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Movies, Poster Art, satire, Wizard of Oz Leave a comment[PHOTO] Spotted in the Jungles of Central America: Trumpkinistas
Posted: August 11, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Central America, Donald Trump, Parody, Sandinistas, satire, Trumpkin, Trumpkinista, TShirt Leave a commentTrumpagram: Washington Post Reporter Chris Cizilla Gets Note From Donald Trump
Posted: July 31, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Chris Cizilla, Donald Trump, journalism, media, news, Washington Post Leave a commentOur reporter got a note from Donald Trump.
ATTENTION: Young People!
Posted: July 24, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 1960s, 2016 Presidential Campaign, Democratic Party, Flyer, Hillary Clinton, Pants, Pizza, poster, Saul Alinsky, The Pantsuit Report Leave a commentHillary to CNN: ‘I Was Never Subpoenaed’. Gowdy: ‘Really? Here’s the Subpoena’
Posted: July 8, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Benghazi Committee, Clinton Foundation, Congressional Investigation, Court order, Email server, Guy Benson, Hillary Clinton, Hot Air, Pantsuit Report, Sidney Blumenthal, Subpoena, U.S. Department of State 1 CommentGuy Benson writes: People “should and do” trust her, she insists, laughing off ugly polls on that very question. After all, why on earth would anyone doubt Mrs. Clinton’s veracity?
Chaser, via Congressional investigators:
And what was the Select Committee requesting?
Gowdy’s devastating press release:
“Secretary Clinton had a statutory duty to preserve records from her time in office, she had a legal duty to cooperate and tell the truth with congressional investigators requesting her records, and she was personally subpoenaed the moment the Benghazi Committee became aware of her exclusive use of personal email and a server, and that the State department was not the custodian of her official record. For more than two years, Clinton never availed herself of the opportunity, even in response to a direct congressional inquiry, to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement designed to evade public transparency. The State Department, which should have informed congressional investigators years ago, failed to do so either. The fact of the matter is it took the Benghazi Committee to uncover Secretary Clinton’s use of personal email and a server to conduct official State Department business. And it was Benghazi Committee inquiries that led the State Department to confirm Clinton failed to turn over all emails that should be part of her public record; that Clinton’s personal emails and server in fact do contain classified information; that her emails from Sidney Blumenthal were solicited; and that she used more than one device for electronic communication, undercutting her ‘convenience’ claim. With regards to Secretary Clinton’s claims today, the committee does not know why or when she chose to wipe clean her personal server, but we do know her way of doing things provided an incomplete public record.”
In short, she’s lying about everything….(read more)
[VIDEO] Hillary’s Cribs Shock Young People
Posted: July 1, 2015 Filed under: Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Ben Carson, Bernie Sanders, Cabot Phillips, Campus Reform, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, media, news, The Pantsuit Report, video, White House 1 CommentCampus Reform Correspondent Cabot Phillips played “Candidate’s Cribs” with young people in front of the White House. After trying to guess which Presidential candidate has lived in a series of mansions, many of them were shocked to find out that Hillary Clinton had lived in all four of them…
UPDATE: Important Headline Correction!
Posted: June 30, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Editorial Error, Fact checker, Flames, Hillary Clinton, News Update, The Clinton Foundation, The Pantsuit Report, Weeping Leave a commentIn our previous news story, the headline said “Girl Bursts into Flames After Hillary Touches Her’. The headline should be “Girl Bursts into Tears After Hillary Touches Her’. Our team of fact checkers and lawyers overlooked this understandable error. Fortunately, we discovered it. There is no independent verification of a girl bursting into flames at a Hillary Clinton event. We reviewed the video, and confirmed that. We regret our mistake.
Thank you for reading punditfromanotherplanet.com.
[VIDEO] 2016 Presidential Campaign: Girl Bursts Into Flames After Hillary Touches Her
Posted: June 30, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Pantsuit Report, The Pantsuit Report 1 Comment[VIDEO] Bill Whittle: Death By Dynasties
Posted: June 24, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bill Whittle, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, John F. Kennedy, media, news, Political Dynasties, Ted Kennedy, video, Washington DC Leave a commentDo Americans love a dynasty? The media wants to tell us that everyone is looking for the next Kennedys. Check out this Afterburner to see how wrong that is.
Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton (D) Donor
Posted: June 16, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Democratic Party, Donal Trump, Hillary Clinton, Trump Enterprises 2 CommentsHow the @AP Reports on Two Female Presidential Candidates from Different Parties
Posted: June 14, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: #ReadyForHillary, 2016 Presidential Campaign, Associated Press, Carly Fiorina, Chairman, Democratic Party, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Illinois Republican Party, media, Media bias, news, Nomination, Pantsuit Report, Twitter Leave a commentvia LilMissSoulGlo on Twitter
RUMOR: Bill to Divorce Hillary, Marry O’Malley
Posted: May 19, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Drudge, Drudge Report, Gossip, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, Matt Drudge, media, news, satire, The Pantsuit Report Leave a comment[VIDEO] Chris Wallace & Marco Rubio Do Abbott & Costello’s ‘Who’s On First?’
Posted: May 17, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, War Room | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, Abbott & Costello, Chris Wallace, Fox News, Fox News Sunday, Iraq War, Marco Rubio, media, news, video Leave a comment