And water is wet: PBS “Journalist” invents a lie about Trump

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"Whatever it takes" — how true

BUSTED: Judy Woodruff Made Up a Story About Trump, and Her Explanation Makes It So Much Worse

The journalism industry continues to cover itself in glory at the DNC, with essentially every mainstream press outlet debasing itself in pursuit of getting Kamala Harris elected. Long-time reporter Judy Woodruff provided the latest example when she appeared to make up a story involving Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. 

ALSO SEE: Study Shows the Lengths Media Having to Go to Make Kamala Harris Look Good

According to Woodruff, who was anchoring PBS News' live coverage from the DNC, Trump colluded with the Israeli prime minister to stop a ceasefire deal in Gaza because it would "help" Harris. Here are her original comments, which occurred on Monday evening.

WOODRUFF: The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because it's believed that would help the Harris campaign. I don't know where, I don't know, who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, which is to work on that one, and maybe there are some other domestic issues that, you know, they'd like to see come home.

That's quite the accusation, and one you'd think a seasoned reporter wouldn't make without impeccable sourcing. It smacks of the Russian collusion hoax, being yet another claim that Trump is somehow using foreign sources to "interfere" in the election. 

Notably, Trump advising Netanyahu not to take a deal with Hamas would be smart policy given Hamas is a terrorist organization that needs to be destroyed as a governing force in Gaza, but that's beside the point. The story wasn't true, with both sides denying any such discussions took place. 

Woodruff then went back on air to offer a quasi-clarification, explaining that she was just repeating reporting from Axios and Reuters.

At no point did any news outlet report that Trump told Netanyahu to not take a deal with Hamas, much less for political reasons as Woodruff claimed. She made the story up out of whole cloth, and then, instead of admitting it, doubled down on lying about it by blaming other outlets.

Pending in Old Greenwich (Bad link before — fixed now)

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11 Lighthouse Lane, $5.5 million, 83 days. Nice house, but I have a question: the property comprises 0.28 acre in the R-12 Zone, which has a FAR size limitation ratio of 0.315. Doing the math, that’s 43,560 X .28 = 12,197 X .315 = 3,842. The tax card and the listing both show house size as 4,986 sq. ft. — there’s no basement, so we aren’t talking buried, uncounted space here; what gives?

I despise the entire FAR scheme and opposed it when I was on the RTM back when it was first dreamed up, but I still wonder how this, and other houses, can be built 1/3 larger (and even more, in some instances) than FAR ostensibly allows.

I’m not the only one confused on this matter. Here’s what the broker for the original house said in 2005: Remarks: OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN A LOVELY OG NEIGHBORHOOD. PVT ASSOCIATION. SPACIOUS ROOMS, MANY RECENT UPDATES. APPROX F A R 3785.

What happens in Minnesota won't stay in Minnesota

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John Hinderaker, PowerLine

Minnesota’s legislature adopted a law in 2023 that requires “Ethnic Studies” to be embedded in every K-12 class, from Geometry to English. American Experiment polled the Ethnic Studies proposal, and found that it was popular with many Minnesotans. This is because they thought Ethnic Studies means learning about other cultures–how Dutch children wear wooden shoes, and so on.

The reality is entirely different. The bill that Tim Walz backed and signed into law represents an effort to radicalize our children and turn them into far-left activists. And the same effort likely will come to your state soon.

Minnesota’s Department of Education soon will release detailed requirements for Ethnic Studies curricula, but in the meantime, American Experiment’s Katherine Kersten explains what is in store for our kids:

The department’s standards and benchmarks, approved in January, require first-graders to “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”

Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.” High-school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”

Hinderaker:

So the curriculum incorporates the whole leftist political and cultural agenda. The Walz administration is relying on a committee of far-left activists to design the Ethnic Studies curriculum. It will be heavy on “settler colonialism,” the Left’s current buzzphrase….

There is much more at the link. The public schools have become, in some areas, a training ground for anti-Americanism. Don’t assume it can’t happen in your community. The teachers’ unions are the driving force behind this evil, and educators everywhere are looking for opportunities to turn schools into leftist indoctrination centers. Ethnic Studies is one more battleground in this war.

Related: This “scholar” unwittingly reveals the truth of Hinderaker’s warning:

Educate to Indoctrinate: Education Systems Were First Designed to Suppress Dissent

Public primary schools were created by states to reinforce obedience among the masses and maintain social order, rather than serve as a tool for upward social mobility, suggests a study from the University of California San Diego.

The study in the journal American Political Science Review finds historical patterns from 1828 to 2015, across many countries, of education reforms, including the rise of mandatory primary schooling itself, being implemented after instances of social unrest. The research also sheds light on the current controversy in the U.S. over teaching critical race theory.

“The key prediction of the research is that when there are periods of internal conflict, states will introduce education reform that is designed to indoctrinate people to accept the status quo,” said the study’s author Agustina S. Paglayan, a UC San Diego assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science/School of Social Sciences and the School of Global Policy and Strategy.

Paglayan added that while some could interpret this as evidence that states were trying to solve people’s economic woes by investing in education after violent rebellions, historical documents tell a different story.

“My research reveals violence can heighten national elites’ anxiety about the masses’ moral character and the state’s ability to maintain social order. In this context, public education systems were created and expanded to teach obedience,” Paglayan said.

A recent example in the U.S. of the government turning to education reform after encountering resistance is when former President Donald J. Trump created The 1776 Commission after the widespread Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. The commission was charged with promoting “patriotic education,” Paglayan said, to supposedly unite Americans.

While the commission was eliminated on the first day President Joseph R. Biden took office, its recommendations continue to shape education reform efforts in many states, Paglayan says, pointing to a wave of different state bills that ban public schools from teaching about systemic racism.

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She cites a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison as evidence that the U.S. looked to primary schools after a period of insurrection that threatened established institutions.

“After several violent uprisings in the late 18th century, such as Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion, politicians became increasingly interested in education.

Soon after Shays’ Rebellion, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison relaying that it should be taught in schools that violence is an illegitimate way for citizens to express discontent and that it should be drilled into them to express it by voting,” Paglayan said.

“Children are like sponges,” Paglayan said. “Politicians thought that primary schools could shape behavior by instilling fear of punishment for misbehavior, or conversely, by promoting rewards for proper behavior. The mere act of attending school every day, sitting still, not speaking out of turn and following schedules, routines and rituals, like marching in silence from classroom to breakroom, would make individuals internalize from a young age what constituted good manners and civil behavior.”

And the peasants and the media's flying monkeys swoon (UPDATED)

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This one’s typical of the “objective journalists’” reaction to Mrs. Light Bringer’s moving harangue from the alter:

Van Jones Says He Had ‘Spiritual’ Epiphany After Obama DNC Speeches

CNN host Van Jones was completely blown away by Barack and Michelle Obama’s speeches at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, saying he hadn’t realized he’d been living in a “spiritual desert” until they spoke.

After the former first lady’s address in Chicago, CNN’s Anderson Cooper said her speech was “probably the most effective, powerful political speech I’ve ever heard.” Jones, who once served in the Obama administration, then upped the ante with praise that cast the event in quasi-religious terms.

“I didn’t know how much I missed them,” Jones said of the Obamas. “I miss them. I miss that. I miss hearing that.”

“Biden did something important last night, and he transferred the machinery of the party to Kamala Harris,” Jones continued. “The Obamas renewed the magic of the movement. That’s what they were transferring. And they did it beautifully. They did it powerfully.”

The former president “used nostalgia in a beautiful way,” Jones said, distinguishing it from the kind of nostalgia behind Donald Trump’s slogan “make America great again.”

“He reminded everybody of the best things about our families, about our neighborhoods,” Jones said of Barack Obama. “That was beautiful. And then Michelle, she wasn’t doing the minister role. She was really doing the coaching role.”

He praised the former first lady for speaking about “the affirmative action of generational wealth” and for saying “the whining on the left needs to stop.”

“This was a masterful act of leadership,” Jones concluded. “It was a sacred task. They took it on well. It was like an oasis—I didn’t realize I had been in a spiritual desert until they created that oasis on that stage. And they did a beautiful job tonight.”

UPDATE: If it weren’t for their double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

Michelle Obama wore nearly $3K pantsuit to DNC while touting her parents were 'suspicious' of the wealthy

Michelle Obama wears $1,690 Monse blazer, $890 trousers to deliver Democratic National Convention speech

What a number of us on this blog have been saying all along

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Rick Moran, PJ Media:

There's Only One Thing That Truly Unites Democrats: Hatred of Donald Trump

Rick Moran

The Democrats are going to be tough to beat in 2024. They are as unified behind Kamala Harris as the Republicans are behind Donald Trump.

Republicans are unified behind an agenda and a personality. But Democrats are unified not behind any grand ideas or exciting personalities. Democrats are unified by their hatred of Donald Trump, the same as they were in 2020 and 2016.

For eight long years, Democrats have not been running on any ideas worth mentioning, unless you call promising everyone more goodies an "agenda." They certainly haven't been running behind any scintillating personalities. Instead, their hysterical fear and hatred of Donald Trump has served as a uniting expedient. And the more hysterical the hatred, the more united they get.

It's like the stories parents tell their children to get them to behave. Trump is the bogey man and he'll come get ya if you don't join us. Otherwise, it's the threat that Trump will (choose one) "destroy democracy," "steal the election," or "enslave all minorities."

I confess to not watching the Democratic convention. It's more boring than most conventions simply because we all know exactly what they're going to say. Judging by the polls, the American people are tuning out the hysterical hate, also. 

“Until we defeat Trumpism there’s nothing else that really, really matters,” Rep. Ro Khanna of California told reporters after a delegate breakfast on Tuesday. “And if we don’t defeat Trumpism, we’re going to be in a world of hurt, because there could be years of Republicans in charge.”

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About all those jobs created under Biden/Harris; uh ...

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Jobs Report Revised DOWNWARD by 818,000 Jobs

CNBC:

The U.S. economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the 12-month period through March 2024, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

As part of its preliminary annual benchmark revisions to the nonfarm payroll numbers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the actual job growth was nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of this year.

The revision to the total payrolls level of -0.5% is the largest since 2009. The numbers are routinely revised each month, but the BLS does a broader revision each year when it gets the results of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.