The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

But when a Republican is in the White House it's always bad news.

The NYT returns to work.

Reasons to vote Trump - #1 He put the news media back to work.

And the horror of accusing people of Treason?  Well, that was so 2016.

//This weekend you can catch a preview of what the next four years of mainstream media coverage of the Trump presidency will look like by checking in at the Boston Globe. They’ve decided to run an op-ed piece penned by John Shattuck, a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Clearly not wanting to pull any punches or inject a level of nuance into the discussion, the title blares out at us, Donald Trump raises specter of treason.

Yes, you read that correctly. It’s still more than a month before the PEOTUS will be sworn in and we’ve already got someone bringing up the word “treason” and tying it to his name. Now, some of you might correctly point out that newspaper editors frequently write the titles which appear above guest columns, so perhaps Mr. Shattuck wasn’t actually engaging in such hyperbole himself. Let’s check out his opening paragraph to get a sense of where the author is really going here.//

Trump is not even president and already the bad news is pouring in.

Lefty activists brought to tears by TSA patdown that are being done by Obama administration and manages to make Trump responsible.

You have to admire her instincts to do the search publicly and flinch like a basketball player taking a foul and bring tears to her eyes.

This is terrific!

My plan to get the press back to work is bearing fruit.

And now the left has no incentive to excuse the TSA security theater.

Winning!

This is an unwitting example of the understanding that we've all had that Obama has been effectively retired for years.

Also, that it is never too early to blame "President" Trump.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.....the Return of the Homeless.

So, in time for Trump's inauguration, the Boston Globe is running a series on .....homelessness.

It's nice to see the media return to work.

It is has become impossible to parody the left.

Do they not understand that they are the punchline of a joke.

Homelessness has not been mentioned for eight years, which is why I've replaced my tag line "The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news" with "The Return of the Homeless."

And here comes Mother Jones to prove me right.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news...

...but now the media has to go back to work.

It turns out that there is bad economic news after all.

//Now they tell us.

A new report on the economy finds that productivity growth is at a 50-year low and that much of the positive talk about the nation's financial situation in the last election, much of it coming from the administration, was a lie.


The report from the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and Gallup finds that for many, the economy is in reverse despite claims that there is an active recovery ongoing, complete with new jobs.//

I blame George Bush.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

We are about to start hearing about unemployment again.

You can see the media begin to tee up the new trope.

It seems that the "record low unemployment rate" may not be as good as it sounds because of "labor force participation."

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

So, with Obama about to leave office, appropriate for the controlled-media to start hinting that there is bad news that can't be ignored.

"With premiums expected to increase by twenty-five percent next year, even the New York Times has come to accept that the Obamacare is a costly and inefficient mess."

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....

...but there can be "interesting" and "unexpected" news.

//The anchors of CBS This Morning expressed bewilderment on Tuesday at the sharp premium hikes in Obamacare insurance plans, with one asking for an understanding for “why this is happening.”

When Obamacare open enrollment begins in 2017, the cost of mid-level plans will rise by an average of 25 percent in the 39 states served by the federal online exchanges. In addition, major providers like Humana, UnitedHealth, and Aetna have scaled back or dropped out of the Obamacare exchanges, leaving roughly 20 percent of consumers with only one insurer to choose from.

After Charlie Rose read out the report, Norah O’Donnell said, “We need a bigger understanding of why this is happening.”

“We sure do,” Rose said.

“Because the idea was not only to spread coverage around, but that by spreading the coverage around, not only would it help people get more preventative care, but then it would ultimately bring the costs down, and instead, the premiums are skyrocketing,” O’Donnell said, sounding exasperated.

“And so the question is, what happened?” Rose said.

“Yeah, and who’s profiting on this?” O’Donnell asked.

“What can be done?” Gayle King, a Barack Obama donor, asked.

“Is the way the law was set up failed? It’s a really interesting story,” O’Donnell said.//

Gosh....Unexpectedly!!!

Isn't that always the way in the Era of Hope and Change.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....

...and "bad news" means "doesn't fit the narrative of people needing government assistance and/or being nasty to minorities."

You know, stuff that would drive up the Democrat vote.

//Through it all, media coverage was so lacking that people living outside of the immediate area resorted to social media sites to updates themselves on what was happening in the area; using uploaded videos, pictures, and posts to piece together events and timelines, the pathways of the moving water, and how long the crisis would last. As cellular service failed, power went out across town after town, and families scrambled to find shelter, secure rescue, and just survive…news media coverage was virtually silent. A number of very good articles have been written about why, mostly speaking on the fact that the flood did not fit the narrative of entertainment the news media requires in order to garner coverage. The few articles that complain on the lack of national media coverage all have the same goal in mind… to get more media coverage on the event so that the scope of the tragedy can be known and help given to those people in need.

To accomplish this, they focus on the scope of the tragedy itself; as I resorted to earlier in this piece. In order to achieve the goal of coverage, those of us who care about the heartbreak in southeast Louisiana are forced to package it in those narrative frames of entertainment and historic loss in order to get anyone to care… and that to me is the larger tragedy. The tragedy is that strong, loving, cohesive communities, because of their strength and resilience, cannot be celebrated and assisted at the same time. That in order to be worthy of attention the very fabric of societal order has to have been sheered away; news media requires scenes that look like a zombie apocalypse, not scores of hometown heroes trying their best to rescue one another.

In these communities, families who lost everything feel guilty for letting someone give them money for a warm meal, because others have lost more. Neighbors organize care packages for people in the “devastated areas,” while floodwaters seep into their homes. Friends let friends of friends, and complete strangers off the street, sleep in their beds and on their couches because they have a place that is dry and some room to spare. People wait anxiously for the water to subside so that they can go and help their friends rebuild. Former high school classmates put up online lists of people to locate one another, connect with one another, and share supplies. The local fisherman run rescue missions through streets that have become rivers to rescue families stranded on rooftops and trapped on highways; forming a “Cajun Navy” of volunteers. And former residents travel from cities like Chicago and D.C., taking vacation days from work, to make sure longtime friends have someone there to help them remove the water-soaked sheetrock from their house.

No stories of looting, no stories of riots, no devolving of society to the lowest forms of humanity…instead a tragedy that has brought out the best in friends, family, and neighbors; people who help others before they help themselves…who see the assistance of others as an assistance of self.

Rather than reward that with aid and bringing the full force of our collective national attention to examples of what resilient and strong American communities look like when challenged…these communities are ignored and left to fend for themselves…simply because they can. The consequence of being a strong community is that your tragedy is not mentioned in national news, your strength uncelebrated, and your needs unmet unless they can be met through your own resilience. Humility and selflessly helping others does not fit the script of our news media… that is more of a tragedy than any flood.//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news....


....and national disasters are not so disastrous.

Bush was a racist for delaying three days to visit New Orleans, but Obama and Hillary get a pass.

Let's take a trip down memory lane.

//If ever there was a contrast to make around "then-and-now" media coverage of a Republican and Democratic president put in similar situations and their respective reactions to it, this one definitely makes the Top 5.

2005: President George W. Bush's presidency is basically declared over after he waits two days to cut a vacation short to return to the White House to directly engage in relief strategy around hurricane-ravaged Katrina.  On Day 3, he would visit the Gulf Coast to survey the damage.

The headlines at the time and since have included, A compassionate Bush was absent right after Katrina, The 7 worst moments of George W. Bush’s presidency, Kanye West Rips Bush at Telethon, What If They Were White?, Jesse Jackson lashes out at Bush over Katrina response, Katrina thrusts race and poverty onto national stage: Bush and Congress under pressure to act
and An Imperfect Storm - How race shaped Bush's response to Katrina.

So it's clear how the narrative went from "Bush waited three days to visit the Gulf Coast" to "Bush is a racist who would have acted faster if white people were victims of Katrina."

Why? Because Kanye West said so.
Fast forward to August 2016 — several storms hit Louisiana, not just a hurricane — the floodwaters have created the biggest natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina.

At least 13 people are dead, more than 85,000 people have applied for federal disaster aid, 30,000 people needed to be rescued and 40,000 displaced. State officials report it is easily the biggest housing crunch since Sandy.

In Livingston Parish, officials report as many as 75 percent of the 52,000 homes there had been damaged by floodwaters. In Ascension Parish, water had seeped into one of every three homes.

“We’ve been through Hurricane Gustav, Katrina, Isaac and Rita, but this without a doubt is the roughest we’ve ever had in this parish,” said Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.

A very simple question, if George W. Bush was president right now and playing golf with celebrities in one of the richest zip codes in the country, would the headlines again be everywhere that portray him as insensitive, out-of-touch, even a racist president be the same now as they were 2005? Of course they would.

Instead, President Obama continues his vacation that includes fundraising events for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the relative silence is deafening.//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Even catastrophic flooding isn't bad.

//After Donald Trump visited Louisiana to help unload supplies for victims ravaged by the massive, unprecedented flooding, former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) thanked the GOP nominee and actually called out Hillary Clinton and President Obama for refusing to visit.//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news... ...mass flooding in Louisiana?Who cares.

Democrats:  It's different when they do it...

...how many remember how the Dems tried to bring Reagan down because of Iran-Contra?

Big scandal....running a complicated scheme to free American hostages from Iran through Israel was really, really awful back when a Republican was in office.

Now, though, the Lightworker - believed of those who matter - can just airlift cash directly to Iran and it's all good.

Do we expect anyone to stand up for the rule of law on this?

I don't.

We have a corrupt political/media/legal culture.

//To summarize, the anti-terrorism sanctions are still in effect, a fact the administration has touted many times. Obama conceded at his press conference both that these sanctions are still in effect and that they applied directly to his $400 million pay-out to our terrorist enemies. But here’s the president’s problem: While he is correct that the sanctions barred him from sending Iran a check or wire transfer, that is not all they forbid — not by a long shot. They also make it illegal to do what he did.

As noted above, the sanctions prohibit transactions with Iran that touch the U.S. financial system, whether they are carried out in dollars or foreign currencies. The claim by administration officials, widely repeated in the press, that Iran had to be paid in euros and francs because dollar-transactions are forbidden is nonsense; Americans are also forbidden to engage in foreign currency transactions with Iran.

Obama had our financial system issue U.S. assets that were then converted to foreign currencies for delivery to Iran. Both steps flouted the regulations, which prohibit the clearing of currency of any kind if Iran is even minimally involved in the deal; here, Iran is the beneficiary of the deal.

The regs further prohibit supplying things of value to Iran, regardless of whether it is done “directly or indirectly.” Expressly included in the “indirect” category are transfers of assets to another country with knowledge that the other country will then forward the assets, in some form, to Iran. That’s exactly what happened here, with Obama pressing the Swiss and Dutch into service as intermediaries.

Although these regulations leave no room for doubt that their point is to prevent and criminalize things like sending $400 million in cash to the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, the ITSR adds another reg for good measure. Section 560.203 states://

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

//Another reason to support Trump: Only with the election of Trump will the media return to reporting bad news.//

Great minds.

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news. 

If this was a Republican administration, the fact that an unprecedented 51 State department officials signed a statement criticizing the president would PROBABLY be considered "news."

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Why would we be surprised that this is what happens when "results-oriented Social Justice Warriors" take over?

However, in any other circumstance this would be considered news and career ending.

//U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen denounced their conduct as "unseemly and unprofessional." Their lies, the judge noted, conned the 26 plaintiff states that were suing to stop the executive action, into "foregoing a request for a temporary restraining order."

Judge Hanen witheringly noted that he did not have the power to disbar the lowlife lawyers, and it is an astounding rebuke that he would mention that possibility. But he did "revoke the pro hac vice status of out-of-state lawyers who act unethically in court," meaning that the attorneys in question will no longer have privileges to practice law before courts in the state of Texas.

He is requiring all DOJ attorneys working in the 26 states participating in the case to take three hours of ethics training each year — presumably to remind them both of what's right and of their colleagues' disgraceful behavior.

It is rare for a federal judge to lay into government attorneys this way. Or, rather, it was before President Obama took office. Now it is a lot more common.

Only a month ago, an appellate court judge in the Sixth Circuit similarly excoriated Justice Department attorneys for unethically dragging out the discovery process in another lawsuit, in which they were defending the Internal Revenue Service. In that case, the judge criticized the lawyers' "studied obstruction," and repeated use of transparently bogus arguments to drag their feet in the lower courts.

Judge Raymond Ketheledge wrote pointedly that "lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws ... in a manner worthy of the Department's name. The conduct of the IRS's attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition."//

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

Remember how the media complained about "bad jobs" during the nightmare years of the Bush administration, when people barely eked a living while paying their government-mandated, inflated, medical health premiums?

//Hiatt throws out lots of reasons, such as people saving more now than pre-recession, as well as people working to clear up old debt. Not mentioned is the reality of the jobs being created, which are low wage and often part time. These are the jobs that Democrats called “bad jobs” during the Bush presidency, and blamed him directly. People just don’t have the money to spend like they used to in the Obama economy.//

Good times, good times...

The nice thing about having a Democrat in the White House is that there is never any bad news.

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