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Blind Lead Blind?. . . Campaign Peeks At Polls, Precipices, Lesbian Farms, And McCain

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

The story of the blind men who reached conflicting conclusions about what an elephant is because they touched different parts of the beast’s body doesn’t apply to the blind folks of the hostile dominant media trying to size up the Donald Trump Republican pachyderm.
Can the elephant fly because the flapping ears are like the wings of a huge nocturnal bat? Is the beast immobile because its stout legs are like deeply rooted trees? Does the coiling trunk suggest the creature resembles a boa constrictor?
However, assorted media left-wingers don’t arrive at differing interpretations of this GOP beast. No matter what part they touch, they cry out, “Awful! Terrible! Monstrous! Ghastly!”
Zoo elephants may be behind signs saying, “Don’t feed the animals.” But the warning sign against the Trumpian elephant is, “Always assume the worst.”
New York Times writer Jim Rutenberg posted on August 7 that news-media members concluded Trump was too dangerous to be allowed to win the White House, and were putting their biases into action on the job.
When Trump said that Barack Obama founded the ISIS terrorist army, because of the way he had cast the Mideast into deeper chaos, the reporters thought Trump’s only meaning could be that Obama flew secretly into Iraq, dashed down a hidden tunnel, and signed some founding document in Arabic. Oh, what a great gaffe Trump had made, they thought; Obama did no such thing!
Although the National Rifle Association is known for its members’ impressive voting power that keeps anti-gun politicians at bay, when Trump said at a rally that “the Second Amendment people” could have something to say about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s electoral fate, media folk gasped that Trump was advocating her assassination.
Hardly original. National radio host Dennis Prager recalled that leftist media had accused former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin of wanting assassinations, too. No wild accusation is too embarrassing for the “impartial” journos to make as long as they hope it damages conservatives.
Seeing repeated examples of such unreliability by dominant media, news consumers may think they have to piece together a picture on their own.
National polls in mid-August generally showed the crime-stained, corrupt Hillary nevertheless leading Trump by single digits. No doubt her adoring media gave her as many positive bounces as they could, but they had been wrong about dismissing Trump ever since the Manhattan billionaire surprisingly jumped into the presidential race in mid-2015.
Trump successfully seemed to have tapped into legions of supporters who had all but given up on getting positive results from an elitists’ political process he called rigged, but they turned out for him in record numbers by the end of the GOP primary season.
Were they being ignored or overlooked by pollsters, to produce misleading results leading toward the November election? Among many flubs a person might wish to recall, bad polling occurred in Britain’s 2015 general election, when its Conservative Party romped to an unexpected outright parliamentary majority, as well as the UK’s recent successful Brexit vote to leave the European Union.
Many folks today are too young to remember, but right here in the U.S., polls supposedly showed incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a tight, suspenseful race with Republican challenger Ronald Reagan in 1980 — right up until Reagan smashed the hapless Carter into the dust on Election Day.
An August 16 post at the Washington Examiner was headlined, “Voter registration numbers show battleground states are getting redder,” that is, more Republican.
A GOP electoral strategist wrote that after Obama won five of these six battleground states in 2012 by a cumulative vote margin of more than 618,000, the number of registered Democrats in those states has dropped by more than 775,000, while Republican registration there has grown by more than 230,000. Just a straw in the wind? It’s happening “under the radar across the country,” wrote Barry Bennett.
Meanwhile, USA Today posted on August 13 that despite opinion polls, a Smartphone app developer said his data suggest that Trump will win the presidency. Ric Militi said his “app poses questions and polls responses based on an average of 100,000 daily users. ‘I go with Trump, based on what we see’,” the news site quoted him.
USA Today said Militi explained: “We’re not a poll. We’re a conversation, and 100 percent anonymous. People feel comfortable answering questions without fear of being bullied or being called a racist. People can express themselves safely, and you get a pure answer.”
Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner reported on August 16 that Trump’s first TV ads in the general-election season soon were to begin — after Hillary already spent about $57 million on ads, plus millions more paid out by super PACs supporting her.
Trying to bend political campaigns to their will is only one of the dominant media’s occupations. Further remaking the United States into their disordered leftist vision is another.
To them, massive abortion is best kept quiet unless news about it can be twisted to kill even more babies. The Obama administration’s remarkable recent efforts to destroy bathroom privacy, overturning millennia of tradition, are barely worth mentioning to these media, too, because publicity could inspire public resistance.
Another overwhelming scandal is the way millions of black families have been crippled or destroyed by what started as a well-meaning welfare state under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” in the 1960s.
A regular government check took the place of a wage-earning father at home, disastrously distorting family patterns and building up a dysfunctional culture of dependency that the Democratic Party encourages as a way of providing it a reliable large black vote.
The last thing that calculating Democrats want is independent-feeling blacks who no longer believe they have to depend on the party for their very lives and sustenance.
The August riots in Milwaukee once against exposed dangerous outright hatred against whites by long-suffering people who feel despair but can’t seem to recognize what the real cause of their hopelessness is.
The Daily Caller news site reported on August 16 that Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, himself an accomplished black role model, “blasted the ‘liberal mainstream media’ for being an ‘accomplice’ for their role in the Milwaukee riots over the weekend.”
This news site said Clarke went on to tell Fox News that “the media was ‘afraid to ask this dysfunctional underclass for some self-evaluation and to encourage them to self-criticize about some of the behaviors that they engage in that were on display the other night’.”
The previous day, The Daily Caller posted that Clarke said on another Fox News program: “We have inescapable poverty in the city of Milwaukee. Milwaukee is sixth poorest city in America. You have massive black unemployment, I think at 32 percent. You have a failing K-12 public education system. It’s one of the worst in the nation. You have questionable lifestyle choices.
“Some of this is self-inflicted,” Clarke added. “All the kids with no fathers around, father-absent homes. When fathers are not around to shape behavior of young men, they oftentimes grow up to be unmanageable misfits.”
Trump was direct about the needed solution, The Washington Times posted on August 16, reporting that “Trump made his most direct appeal yet…for black voters in the presidential race, pushing forward an agenda to restore law and order and revitalize inner-city neighborhoods that he said suffer from years of misguided Democratic policies.”
Speaking not far from the scene of the Milwaukee riots, Trump said, “I am running to offer you a much better future. Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and it will never be accepted in a Trump administration,” the Washington newspaper reported, adding that the GOP candidate said their suffering was part of a “rigged system” led by Hillary Clinton that only pandered to them.
A federal government that burns through trillions of dollars in spending every year showed long ago that it was in far over its head — but that hasn’t stopped its liberals from finding even weirder ways to run their show.
The Washington Free Beacon website incredibly reported on August 16 that the federal government is even holding summits for lesbian farmers in order to alter some supposed image of farmers as “white, rich male.”
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture is holding summits to promote the role of lesbian farmers as a part of its ‘Rural Pride’ campaign,” the Free Beacon reported. “The agency is working with singer and LGBT activist Cyndi Lauper for a ‘day of conversation’ about the struggles of gay and transgender individuals in rural America….
“‘The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights, in collaboration with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and The True Colors Fund, will engage with LGBT rural communities across the country to host the LGBT Rural Summit Series,’ the USDA said,” according to the Free Beacon.
“ ‘Each series will offer a unique opportunity for USDA and other federal agencies to share information relating to policies, programs, and services that exist to protect, promote, and strengthen LGBT rural communities’.”
And don’t forget some federal dough. “The all-day summit will teach lesbian and transgender hillbillies how to get subsidies from the government like rural housing loans and ‘community facility grants’,” the story said.

Blocking Pro-Life Initiatives

Meanwhile, an Arizona political race drawing national interest continues to be fought up to the Grand Canyon State’s primary election day on August 30 — incumbent Sen. John McCain battling for the GOP nod against family-practice physician Kelli Ward, a conservative.
As to be expected, McCain has run radio ads with much of the state GOP’s establishment endorsing his try for a sixth straight Senate term. They were joined by an endorsement from former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Phoenix’s KFYI radio news (550 AM) reported a new poll on August 11 showing a wider lead for McCain, 50 percent to 29 percent. Still, it was notable that this poll, from an organization intriguingly run by a former state GOP political director, didn’t have even such a famed figure as McCain exceeding 50 percent.
Stephen Sebastian, a spokesman for challenger Ward, told The Wanderer on August 12:
“McCain is worried about the massive disparity in enthusiasm between Kelli Ward’s supporters and his own. If Kelli Ward is not a credible threat, why spend millions attacking her and releasing internal polls that still show McCain under 50 percent, with no information about the polling sample demographics or methodology?. . . Team McCain will say anything to stop our momentum.”
However, an Arizona GOP strategist who asked not to be named, but isn’t regarded as favoring McCain, told The Wanderer on August 14:
“Regarding the polling, everything I’ve seen shows McCain beating Ward by a very solid margin. Moreover, if he thought he had a real race against her, he’d be running ads accordingly. Instead it’s just the Super PAC, while his campaign is running ads against (likely general-election Democrat nominee Ann) Kirkpatrick. That suggests he knows he’s winning” the primary.
The popular conservative “Seeing Red AZ” blog on August 16 ran another attack against McCain’s claim to have strong pro-life credentials. It said: “Many conservatives found a letter from National Pro-Life Alliance in their mailboxes Monday. It specifically calls out. . . . McCain for repeatedly blocking pro-life initiatives. The letter, signed by Jenni Harris, the group’s executive director, cuts right to the chase.
“She explains that the Life at Conception Act, which would legislatively bypass Roe v. Wade by using the Supreme Court’s own language against itself, now has a record 164 cosponsors in both the U.S. House and Senate — including four of the five Republican congressmen from Arizona. Harris says, ‘As I write this letter, John McCain is not among them, despite multiple meetings and calls to his staff’,” the blog said.

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