Giving a Trump victory its due: Media ignores his ISIS success, mocks him

You know journalism is in a sorry state when a New York Times columnist makes news simply by admitting the truth that President Trump’s leadership crushed ISIS.

Ross Douthat, a columnist at The New York Times, is being praised far and wide for noticing one of Mr. Trump’s many victories. Defeating ISIS is not insignificant, but you would barely know it happened if you rely on the legacy media. An even more self-defeating liberal effort is to convince their base that major presidential accomplishments are meaningless.

As a conservative columnist at The Times, Mr. Douthat’s approach was similar to that of many previous Trumpskeptics — he peppered his commentary with a variety of reasons he thinks Mr. Trump is still an oafish boor. Sure, he defeated ISIS and the media ignored it, but it’s Mr. Trump’s fault. He’s a scandalous, controversial president, and if he was just more normal, then the media wouldn’t be so distracted.

We’re told.

In his column, Mr. Douthat sets a tone at the start so no one should mistake his eventual admission as recognition of Mr. Trump’s masterful foreign policy approach. He starts by blaming the president for media malpractice:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/20/giving-a-trump-victory-its-due-media-ignores-his-i/ 

Deep State Behind the Deep State: Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, Trilaterals

In this video, part of a series by The New American on the "Deep State," Alex Newman exposes three secretive organizations that are at the center of the "Deep State behind the Deep State." These are the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg network, and the Trilateral Commission. Taken together, these organizations and the individuals involved with them play a crucial role in setting policy in America and worldwide--regardless of which political party is supposedly in power. Described by David Rockefeller as a "secret cabal" of "conspirators" seeking a "one-world" system, these globalist fanatics would destroy American liberty and independence if given the chance. To preserve freedom and liberate America from the clutches of these Deep State operatives, Alex says we must expose them and organize to stop them.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/27622-alex-newman-deep-state-behind-deep-state-cfr-bilderberg-trilaterals-p3-of5 

Related videos:

Part 1 - Deep State Bureaucracy Wages War on America, Trump, Constitution

Part 2 - Deep State “Intelligence” Agencies Are Out of Control

Congress to Investigate Obama Scheme to Nix Investigation into Hezbollah Terrorists

Lawmakers are launching an investigation into Obama-era efforts to thwart a longstanding U.S. investigation into the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, according to multiple congressional officials and insiders who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Obama administration worked behind the scenes to thwart a decade-long Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into Hezbollah and its highly lucrative drug trade in Latin America, according to a report in Politico. These officials are believed to have run interference on the investigation in order to avoid upsetting Iran and jeopardizing the landmark nuclear accord.

Senior Obama officials in the Treasury and Justice Departments are said to have undermined the DEA's investigation at multiple junctures in order to avoid angering Hezbollah's patron Iran, which could have jeopardized the landmark nuclear agreement.

Congress is now taking steps to formally investigate the reports, which multiple sources described to the Free Beacon as part of a larger Obama administration effort to overlook Iran's global terror operations in order to cement the nuclear deal.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/congress-to-investigate-obama-scheme-to-nix-investigation-into-hezbollah-terrorists/ 

Shock Report Reveals Drug Industry Spent Millions to Protect High Drug Prices

The U.S. drug industry has reportedly spent millions of dollars to quiet talk about rising drug prices.

According to Kaiser Health News, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — also known as PhRMA — spent much of this money during last year’s election cycle. However, the group has taken “battle stations to advance its interests” ever since 2009, when it started preparing for the implementation of Obamacare.

“Does that surprise you?” said former PhRMA CEO Billy Tauzin, who headed the organization roughly a decade ago, as Obamacare got closer to becoming a reality.

He continued, stating that whenever legislators appear interested in limiting pharmaceutical prices, “PhRMA has always responded by increasing its resources.”

Members of the powerful trade organization include notable drug companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Celgene, Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Amgen.

https://www.westernjournalism.com/evidence-shows-drug-industry-spent-millions-to-protect-high-drug-prices/ 

Former FBI Director Kallstrom: FBI Patriots Ready To Expose Shenanigans In Organization

How many dog and pony shows have Americans witnessed occurring in Washington, DC, the nation's corruption capital supreme?

From Congressional hearings where Representatives and Senators erupt in phony outrage at injustice, corruption and crime to investigations consuming billions of dollars the government does not have, the American people watch as "theater" plays out without any ending or resolution in sight.

It has come to the point these political hacks don't even throw a bone to the public anymore.

Now, Americans will be presented with another "theater" presentation.

This time it comes from former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom who claims there are individuals within the FBI organization that may soon go public "with huge new revelations that could sink the credibility of the 'Russian collusion' investigation."

https://freedomoutpost.com/former-fbi-director-kallstrom-fbi-patriots-ready-expose-shenanigans-organization/ 

Why Don’t Most Americans Realize They’re Getting Tax Cuts for Christmas?

Have you ever come up with what you think is the perfect Christmas gift—a well-chosen, carefully considered present—only for the recipient to react not just with indifference, but with outright hostility? Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan can sympathize.

Most Americans will save money under the tax bill that the Senate passed Tuesday night and the House passed Wednesday. The size of that benefit varies, but 80 percent of households will see some benefit in 2018. (The cuts shrink over time, eventually reduced to nothing for most people in 2027.) It’s not just that a plurality of respondents in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll say the cuts are a bad idea (41-24, with 35 percent unsure or holding no opinion), or might have bad long-term effects. It’s that only 17 percent actually believe they’ll get a break. That result is in line with other polls that have shown similar skepticism about receiving any benefit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/why-dont-63-percent-of-americans-realize-theyre-getting-a-tax-cut-for-christmas/548852/ 

The importance of no leaks after McCabe testified for 8 hours before House Intelligence Committee

Let's put on our Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hats as we think about the dog that didn't bark, or, in the specific case at hand, the leaks that didn't reach CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and other Democrat mouthpiece media.  The most that Adam Schiff, the suspected über-leaker on the House Intelligence Committee, had to say after the FBI deputy director testified for nearly eight hours, is that McCabe "has been a professional FBI agent" and that he does not understand "the calls of some to fire him."

Translation: "It looks bad, but I'm with Andy."
With the holiday lull approaching, count on Republicans to hold their silence.  Besides, the inspector general's report is expected early next year, and that could blow open the entire cabal that appears, from the Strzok-Page texts, to have plotted against a Trump victory and against the success of Trump's presidency.
 Less taciturn is James Kallstrom, former assistant director of the FBI.  He has been one of the most outspoken commentators on abuses within the FBI, and yesterday, he told Stuart Varney of Fox Business Network that "something is going to happen[.]"  Sundance of Conservative Treehouse caught the exchange and provided the video below:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/the_importance_of_no_leaks_after_mccabe_testified_for_8_hours_before_house_intelligence_committee.html#ixzz51pyaMu9G