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Cory Booker ‘didn’t realize’ sign he held for photo was pro-Palestine
Excited to be here at Netroots Nation talking with progressives like Sen. Cory Booker about our shared commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for all people. #NN18
What a jerk…
BOMBSHELL: Parkland Shooter Asked For Help Before Massacre, Was Denied
Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images
A newly released report has revealed that the 19-year-old gunman who shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February asked for help months before he went on the rampage, but the school district failed to act on his request.
The report was released on Friday after Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ordered Broward County Public Schools to release its report on the gunman who murdered 17 people during the Valentine's Day massacre.
According to The Daily Beast the shooter was told that "he could transfer to Cross Creek, a school tailored for students with special needs; sue the Broward school district; or stay at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School without any special counseling."
The Sun-Sentinel noted that the investigation found that the school district "did not follow the requirements of Florida statute or federal laws governing students with disabilities" in two specific instances:
-- School officials misstated [the shooter's] options when he was faced with being removed from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School his junior year, leading him to refuse special education services.
-- When [the shooter] asked to return to the therapeutic environment of Cross Creek School for special education students, the district "did not follow through," the report reveals.
The Daily Beast added that the shooter was identified at age 3 as having developmental delays and was "reportedly stripped of counseling services and left to fend for himself as a 'regular student'" after the school district failed to inform him that he "was still entitled to special assistance at Stoneman Douglas if he chose to stay."
Months after the school district failed to act on his request for help, the shooter dropped out of school and immediately purchased the rifle that he would use to carry out one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Recent studies suggest that "media coverage of mass shootings can have a significant impact on the psyches of potential mass shooters — that such potential mass shooters have a cognitive craving for attention, which they know they will receive for committing atrocities." For this reason, The Daily Wire no longer publishes names and images of mass shooters as it has become increasingly clear in recent years that "the value of public knowledge regarding specific names and photographs of mass shooters is significantly outweighed by the possibility of encouraging more mass shootings."
President Trump trolls Sen. Feinstein for having a Chinese spy on her staff
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, in Lewis Center, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)President Trump ridiculed Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein Saturday night for allowing a Chinese spy on her staff, questioning why she is “leading the Russia investigation” into possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
“The leader of the Russia investigation, Dianne Feinstein, had a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years,” Mr. Trump told a campaign audience in central Ohio. “And she’s leading the Russian ‘witch hunt.’ Isn’t that something? And then she says to me, ‘What did you know about this and that?’ Give me a break.”
News reports surfaced late this week that Chinese intelligence officials had once recruited a staffer in Ms. Feinstein’s San Francisco office to report back to them on local politics. She fired the staffer years ago.
Ms. Feinstein serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating allegations of Russian collusion with Trump aides in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Mr. Trump said the episode shows that Russia isn’t the only foreign power spying on the U.S.
“Not only China, it’s a lot of people,” he said. “And we’ve got to stop it. We’ve got to stop meddling, we’ve got to stop everybody from attacking us. But there are a lot. Russia’s there, China’s there. We’re doing well with North Korea, but they’re probably there [spying]. We’ve got to stop everybody. And I like Dianne Feinstein. But I don’t like the fact that she had a Chinese spy driving her, and she didn’t know it.”
Dana Loesch Comes Out Swinging, Puts Jim Acosta in His Place Once and For All
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
If you haven’t heard yet, Jim Acosta doesn’t think he’s in America anymore because Trump fans yelled “CNN sucks” at him.
Acosta, a CNN White House correspondent who does everything to telegraph his disdain for the American right short of wearing a #TheResistance button, attended a campaign-style rally for President Donald Trump in Tampa, Florida this week. Some Trump supporters, apparently knowing who Acosta is and just where he fell on the political spectrum, chanted their feelings on their network and gave him the finger. That act apparently drove Acosta to believe he was in some foreign, despotic land.
“He is whipping these crowds up into a frenzy to the point where they really want to come after us,” Acosta said the next day.
“My sense of it is that these opinions these folks have at these rallies, they’re shaped by what they see in the primetime hours of Fox News and what they hear from some conservative news outlets that just sort of give them this daily diet of what they consider to be terrible things we do over here at CNN.”
Yes, and what do they do over there at CNN? Well, take National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch. She recalled a CNN town hall in the wake of the Parkland shooting — and, according to the Daily Wire, her experience was so bad that she and her husband had to be to be escorted out for their own safety.
“Acosta is upset that someone yelled ‘CNN sucks,'” Loesch said in an NRA TV video posted Thursday.
“Imagine how he’d feel if his network set up a public lynching of him. As they did of me and Marco Rubio, wherein people called me a ‘murderer’ and they screamed ‘Burn her!’ And they rushed the stage and grabbed at me when I left. Jake Tapper corroborated this shortly after it happened, tweeting this in response to those who were in doubt: He says, ‘I don’t know but Chris’ — talking of my husband — ‘description is accurate and I made sure she was escorted out of the room.'”
“I wonder if Acosta can imagine what it feels like when his network allows guest after guest, day after day, to refer to you as a ‘murderer,'” she added.
“To refer to six million law-abiding Americans as people who hate children and are terrible parents simply because we believe in the right of self-defense.”
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NRATV✔@NRATV"@Acosta is upset that someone yelled CNN sucks. Imagine how he'd feel if his network set up a public lynching of him. As they did of me... many in legacy #MSM stopped prioritizing advancing news and truth in favor of advancing themselves and their political agendas." —@DLoesch
Loesch’s claim was indeed vouched by Jake Tapper in a tweet from February:
i don't know but Chris's description is accurate and I made sure she was escorted out of the room.
And, the chants are audible in this clip of Loesch and Parkland activist Emma Gonzalez:
“You’re a murderer!” and “murderer!” are clearly heard from the rowdy audience.
Now, is that their right? Sure. I don’t think either of the incidents at the Parkland town hallor the Trump rally served those who were heckling particularly well, but such is political discourse in 2018. Acosta’s spot-on Captain Renault impression, however, easily rates as one of the most farcical pearl-clutching moments of the Trump era.
This is a man, after all, whose access comes through a media outlet where contributors rationalize violence against Trump supporters and say that “folks calling for civility might need to check their privilege.” His network is responsible for the Parkland town hall, which had all the hallmarks of a political ambush set up under the auspices of a neutral discussion. All of a sudden, when incivility is visited upon him — if only in a form far less threatening than anything CNN contributors have condoned in the past — he thinks he “wasn’t in America anymore.”
Funny. Loesch never thought that, and look how she was treated by the viewers of “news outlets that just sort of give them this daily diet of what they consider to be terrible things.”
We all know that blind squirrels can find acorns from time to time. But can politically blind socialists find their lukewarm oatmeal on occasion?
James Woods says yes — at least where Bernie Sanders is involved.
Back in 2015, you see, Sanders gave an interview to Vox impresario Ezra Klein in which he said something regarding immigration that might have his supporters a bit uneasy.
“You said being a democratic socialist means a more international view,” Klein said during the conversation. “I think if you take global poverty that seriously, it leads you to conclusions that in the U.S. are considered out of political bounds. Things like sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders. About sharply increasing …”
“Open borders?” Sanders replied. “No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal.”
Hrm. Well, let’s try again: “Really?” Klein asked.
“Of course. That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States,” Sanders continued.
“It would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn’t it?” Klein said
“It would make everybody in America poorer — you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don’t think there’s any country in the world that believes in that,” Sanders said. “If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them.”
This isn’t a particularly right-wing point of view, which should be obvious, but the rest of the answer is pretty much spot-on. And, James Woods was willing to quote “Bank Fraud Bernie” — referring to Sanders’ wife’s alleged role in a bank fraud case — on his Twitter feed.
James Woods ✔@RealJamesWoodsBefore he sold out his followers, old #BankFraudBernie was the proverbial blind squirrel who actually found an acorn of wisdom from time to time…
5:11 PM - Aug 3, 2018
Yes, Sanders found an acorn of wisdom. Don’t tell him, though — he might get freaked out.
Sanders indeed took a lot of ribbing from the left on this account. This includes the magazine that put on the interview; just days after the conversation, Vox’s Dylan Matthews wrote an article titled “Bernie Sanders’s fear of immigrant labor is ugly — and wrongheaded.”
In the article, Matthews — recently mentioned in these pages for writing an article which claimed that Sanders’ $32 billion “Medicare for all” bill was “kind of a bargain” — stated that he believed an amendment should be added to the Constitution guaranteeing open borders.
“There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people,” Matthews wrote. “An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-fold just by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding.”
Matthews doesn’t mention just how economically unsound this entire argument is. After all, if paid at the same rates as American workers, unskilled foreign labor becomes significantly less attractive. Those that could find jobs would push Americans out of work and drive down wages thanks to the laws of supply and demand. These conditions would incentivize a parallel system in which immigrant labor was paid under the table at below-market rates, as well. (I’m assuming Mr. Matthews wouldn’t be doing away with the minimum wage.) This is to say nothing of the massive unfunded liability that unlimited immigration to a country with a robust welfare state. (I’m again going to assume Mr. Matthews isn’t planning on dismantling that.)
In other words, Sanders understands economics and the labor market better than Vox does. Just let that sink in. Even James Woods seems to have trouble believing that.
Never-Trumper Max Boot Runs Into Buzzsaw as Russia Expert Demolishes Him
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
Max Boot has made a relatively tidy visibility boost these last few years, all thanks to NeverTrumpism. Just last month, the CNN global affairs analyst wrote an article titled “I was a member of the Republican Party before Trump — now I want the Democrats to take over.” He’s said that Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, who recently threatened war against the United States, seems “more stable and rational” than Donald J. Trump. Trump has even got him thinking about race; the most guffaw-inducing headline on anything he’s written is almost certainly “2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege.”
In other words, he fits right in at CNN.
Alas, the Blitzer Network isn’t entirely a safe-space for Mr. Boot. Last week, Boot appeared opposite Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at both NYU and Princeton, on “Anderson Cooper 360.” In just a few short minutes, Cohen managed to tidily destroy his argument on Trump and Russia (or, as Boot might say, exercised the privilege of being an arrantly un-woke white male).
Max Boot has made a relatively tidy visibility boost these last few years, all thanks to NeverTrumpism. Just last month, the CNN global affairs analyst wrote an article titled “I was a member of the Republican Party before Trump — now I want the Democrats to take over.” He’s said that Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, who recently threatened war against the United States, seems “more stable and rational” than Donald J. Trump. Trump has even got him thinking about race; the most guffaw-inducing headline on anything he’s written is almost certainly “2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege.”
In other words, he fits right in at CNN.
Alas, the Blitzer Network isn’t entirely a safe-space for Mr. Boot. Last week, Boot appeared opposite Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at both NYU and Princeton, on “Anderson Cooper 360.” In just a few short minutes, Cohen managed to tidily destroy his argument on Trump and Russia (or, as Boot might say, exercised the privilege of being an arrantly un-woke white male).
The exchange was over Trump’s statement that he “had a great meeting, in my opinion — of course, the fake news didn’t cover it that way — but I had a great meeting with President Putin of Russia.”
Cooper noted that they didn’t cover it because he didn’t say what they discussed. However, Boot was of a more conspiratorial bent.
“Although he’s willing to threaten North Korea, he’s willing to threaten Iran, he never threatens Russia,” Boot said. “And that’s why a lot of American intelligence officials think that there is something highly suspect in the relationship between Putin and Trump.”
“I have no idea what Mr. Boot is talking about,” Cohen said. “He wants Trump to threaten Russia? Why would we threaten Russia? You’ve got two nuclear superpowers–“
“Because they’re attacking us!” Cohen, literally screaming, interjected. “Russia is attacking us, Professor Cohen! Russia is attacking us right now, according to Trump’s own director of national intelligence.”
Not content just to use the privilege of the un-woke white male, Cohen then decided to exercise erudition privilege.
“I’ve been studying Russia for 45 years,” Cohen said. “I’ve lived in Russia and I’ve lived here. If Russia was attacking us, we would know it.”
Boot was talking over Cohen, which prompted him to ask, “Excuse me, what did you say to me?”
“I said you’ve been consistent in apologist (sic) for Russia in the last 45 years,” Boot said.
“All right, I don’t do defamation to people,” a visibly piqued Cohen said. “I do serious analysis of serious national security problems. When people like you call people like me — and not only me, but people more eminent than me — apologists for Russia because we don’t agree with your analysis, you are criminalizing diplomacy and detente, and you are the threat to American national security. End of story.
“Why do you have to defame somebody you don’t agree with? They used to do that in the old Soviet Union. We don’t do that here. Well, we used to — but we need to stop it.”
Boot could only manage a laugh to all of this. Meanwhile, Cooper decided to ask Cohen whether he believed Russia was actually attacking the United States.
“I know what you’re talking about: During the 2016 election, Russia attacked the United States,” Cohen said. “Yes, I don’t think Russia attacked the United States. “
“OK, and you just denied being an apologist for Russia,” Boot interrupted. “You’re apologizing for Russia as we speak.”
“Will you ever let me finish? You don’t know what I’m going to say,” Cohen said. “The meddling began right after the Russian Revolution when Woodrow Wilson sent American troops to fight in the Russian civil war against the communists. The meddling began on the Soviet and Russian side … when the communists formed the Communist International in 1919. Ever since then, Moscow’s meddled in our politics, we’ve meddled in theirs.
This is low-level stuff, what went on. It is not an attack. It is not 9/11. It is not Pearl Harbor. It is not Russian paratroopers descending on Washington. This kind of hyperbole — ‘an attack on America’ — suggests that we need to attack Russia. So you’ve got Mr. Boot saying that we should threaten Russia. With what? Does he want to attack?”
“Yes, actually,” Boot responded.
“I think Mr. Boot would have been happy if Mr. Trump had waterboarded Putin at the summit and made him confess,” Cohen said in response to that. “Trump carried out an act of diplomacy fully consistent with the history of American presidents.”
Pointing out that Boot is criminalizing diplomacy? What privilege. I don’t know what kind of privilege, but I’m sure Mr. Boot can find some.
Rescuer Gets Within Feet of Abused Stray Pup, Hears Her Crying in Fear
When Kasey Anderson gazes at her brown-and-white-spotted pup, Robin, she can hardly believe her eyes. The dog who once cowered in fear and lived in constant terror now gives kisses of joy and moves through her days with confidence.
Robin, formerly known as Little Teri, was rescued from an abusive home.
The dog’s abusers claimed the dog “just showed up,” but the strewn about empty food bowls and heavy chains suggested otherwise.
Randy, who works with Stray Rescue of St. Louis, was the rescuer who was able to coax Robin into his lap. The poor, terrified dog howled in fear and pain, increasing her volume as Randy tried to get closer.
But in spite of her trauma, Robin showed a tiny sign that she was still wanting a human to love. She wagged her little tail, an outward sign of an inward hope that couldn’t help but rise to the surface.
When Robin was properly assessed by a veterinarian, things were far worse than anyone could have known.
Robin had suffered beatings to her face and chest, her teeth and gums were in disarray, and perhaps most life-threatening — she had ingested rat poison.
It cost $61,000 to save Robin’s life and nurse her back to health.
Anderson watched Robin’s story unfold, and her heart broke. She couldn’t even watch the entire rescue footage, Anderson wrote but instead retreated home to sob for hours on behalf of this broken pup.
Anderson already had two dogs but felt a fierce desire to take Robin into her own home.
She said Robin was understandably timid and frightened at first, but has made impressive strides in the comfort and stability of a loving home.
“She loves meeting new people, going for walks, destroying my mattress when I’m not looking, romping around with the other dogs, dressing up, wiggling her butt and having cuddle/snore fests at night,” Anderson wrote.
“She even helped out with her little foster brother, Dante, until he found his forever home!”
When Anderson looks at Robin, she feels inspired by the dog’s resilience and enthusiasm for life.
“She is a completely different dog than the skinny, distrusting, sad little lady I met just a little over a year ago,” Anderson wrote.
“I find her resilience and unyielding positive attitude to be a daily inspiration.”
Authorities botched attempt to redact report on Florida school massacre
Getty ImagesSchool officials in Florida need to sign up for remedial computer courses.
Authorities in Broward County, Fla., tried to literally cover up parts of a report on the Parkland school massacre — but failed because they didn’t know that the sections they blacked out became visible when pasted into another computer file.
A local judge had ordered sections of the report, written by a consultant, to be redacted to comply with the privacy rights of Nikolas Cruz, the accused killer of 17.
But the public got to see the entire document because of the computer foul-up, the Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported.
The report said the district generally followed federal and Florida rules, including providing special education for Cruz after he was kicked out of day care at the age of three.
He eventually wound up at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS.
And staff there misstated Cruz’s options when he was facing expulsion in his junior year, according to the report.
When he asked to return to Cross Creek school for special education, which he had once attended, the district “did not follow through,’’ the report revealed.
In part because of this, the Sun-Sentinel said, Cruz had no counseling or special-education services for the 14 months leading up to the mass murder.
Before the report was made public, Broward Schools superintendent Robert Runcie had said that when Cruz turned 18 he had rejected special-education placement.
But the consultant’s report revealed for the first time that Cruz had wanted to return to special education but his request went nowhere, the newspaper said.
Cruz bought a rifle three days after being forced to withdraw from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.
A year later he returned and used it to kill 14 students and three coaches.
Runcie insisted he had wanted to make the entire report public, but could not because of the judge’s orders.
“I didn’t even know that [restoration of redacted sections] was possible,’’ he insisted.
Cruz’s lawyers called the report a “whitewash” commissioned by the school district to clear itself of responsibility.
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