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EVERYTHING about this administration disgusts me, EVERYTHING. Every day, it just gets worse....
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It's called the 'wrap-up smear'. They attack something before seeing it, then continue their inaccurate observations after it's released, then say "we told you so" when all along, they're lying through their teeth, and about as clueless as a dead dodo bird.
Our National security interests are obvious
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By Shelley Ross
Ms. Ross is a veteran television journalist and former executive producer at ABC and CBS.
I was Chris Cuomo’s boss at ABC News nearly two decades ago, and I am a regular viewer of CNN today, so I’ve long watched how he communicates on camera and witnessed at times how he behaved behind the scenes. This year, as he escaped accountability for advising former Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his sexual harassment scandal, two moments crystallized for me how Mr. Cuomo performs.
The first was on March 1, two days before Governor Cuomo publicly addressed the sexual harassment allegations made against him by three women and apologized for acting “in a way that made people feel uncomfortable” but denied touching anyone inappropriately. On “Cuomo Prime Time,” Mr. Cuomo explained to his CNN viewers that because of the sexual harassment scandal, he would no longer be covering or interviewing his brother, as he frequently did during the first Covid-19 surge. With an expression of great sincerity, he said, “I have always cared very deeply about these issues and profoundly so. I just wanted to tell you that.”
The second moment came this Labor Day weekend, after Governor Cuomo had resigned and as his loyal confidants and outside advisers were losing their own influential jobs in the fallout. There was Mr. Cuomo in the Hamptons, appearing in a photo wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Truth.”
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For me, his statement of profound concern about sexual harassment and his “Truth” T-shirt were provocations in this era of personal accountability.
So here’s another moment involving Mr. Cuomo, the one that stands out most in my experience with him.
“Now that I think of it … I am ashamed,” read the subject line of a 2005 email Mr. Cuomo wrote me, one hour after he sexually harassed me at a going-away party for an ABC colleague. At the time, I was the executive producer of an ABC entertainment special, but I was Mr. Cuomo’s executive producer at “Primetime Live” just before that. I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an ottoman sipping his Diet Coke as I spoke with work friends. When Mr. Cuomo entered the Upper West Side bar, he walked toward me and greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock.
“I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss,” he said to me with a kind of cocky arrogance. “No you can’t,” I said, pushing him off me at the chest while stepping back, revealing my husband, who had seen the entire episode at close range. We quickly left.
Soon after, I received the email from Mr. Cuomo about being “ashamed.” He should have been. But my question today is the same as it was then: Was he ashamed of what he did, or was he embarrassed because my husband saw it? (He apologized first in his email to my “very good and noble husband” and then to me for “even putting you in such a position.”) Mr. Cuomo may say this is a sincere apology. I’ve always seen it as an attempt to provide himself with legal and moral coverage to evade accountability.
Now, given Mr. Cuomo’s role as a supporter of and counselor to his brother, I am left again wondering about his relationship with truth and accountability. Has this man always cared “deeply” and “profoundly” about sexual harassment issues? Does he believe enough in accountability to step up and take some meaningful actions?
I have no grudge against Mr. Cuomo; I’m not looking for him to lose his job. Rather, this is an opportunity for him and his employer to show what accountability can look like in the #MeToo era. Accountability has been the cornerstone of the #MeToo movement, leading to tangible results and even justice, consequences for harassers and the possibility of real change. Accountability has been clear in the wake of the New York State attorney general’s investigation into Governor Cuomo, which not only outlined instances of sexual harassment and mistreatment of at least 11 women by him but also identified an inner circle of advisers who helped guide him through this political and legal crisis. I call them the enablers. The official report documented the inner workings of these people, including Mr. Cuomo, and laid out their strategies and tactics to protect the governor.
Mr. Cuomo’s name shows up in an email thread with other advisers the weekend Governor Cuomo’s second accuser, Charlotte Bennett, came forward. The attorney general’s report says that he was part of “ongoing and regular discussions about how to respond to the allegations publicly” and that he appeared to counsel the governor “to express contrition.” The Washington Post also reported that Mr. Cuomo urged his brother to take a defiant position early in the scandal and not resign. We all know that Mr. Cuomo was being consulted by his brother; what has never come to light, and what Mr. Cuomo has not been held to account for, is the full scope of the advice he gave his brother and whether his advice and his role in helping shape the defense of a sitting governor (one who was being investigated by Mr. Cuomo’s own network) were in keeping with CNN’s standards and values. (In May, Mr. Cuomo apologized for taking part in strategy calls with the governor and his staff, calling it “a mistake.” CNN called those conversations “inappropriate.”)
After Governor Cuomo resigned, it didn’t surprise me that attention turned to the enablers. A number of them have been fired or forced to step down from their high-powered jobs. It did surprise me to learn that Roberta Kaplan, the chairwoman of Time’s Up, a nonprofit created at the start of the #MeToo movement to fight sexual harassment, was involved in efforts to defend the governor. She quickly resigned, followed by the group’s president and chief executive, Tina Tchen.
Finally, during the Labor Day weekend, as Mr. Cuomo was walking around in his “Truth” T-shirt, the entire 71-person Global Leadership Board of Time’s Up was dissolved, including Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Janelle Monáe, Brie Larson, Tessa Thompson, Laura Dern, America Ferrera, Kerry Washington, Tarana Burke, Alyssa Milano, Gretchen Carlson and Amy Schumer. The members were reportedly notified Sept. 5 via email from a co-founder of Time’s Up, informing them, “There is no need for your individual resignations, as the group no longer exists.” I cannot recall any organization ever acting so swiftly and comprehensively to hold itself accountable after top leaders veered from their founding mission.
While the fallout has continued across Governor Cuomo’s circle of advisers — two former staff members resigned from outside jobs, and the president of the Human Rights Campaign was summarily fired — Mr. Cuomo and CNN seem to have moved on. As recently as last month, he was suggesting that he did not cross a line in aiding Governor Cuomo, telling his CNN viewers, “I’m not an adviser. I am a brother.” A brother calls to privately console you after hours. An adviser is looped in on staff emails and crisis conference calls, gives talking points and helps shape the narrative.
I worked in television news for 30 years. I came up through the ranks as a producer at “Primetime Live,” an executive producer of “Good Morning America,” an executive producer of “Primetime Live” (where Mr. Cuomo was one of several anchors) and a senior executive producer of “The Early Show,” where I was painfully forced out after my managing came under attack in what I considered a toxic work culture. If Mr. Cuomo and CNN management don’t think he crossed a serious line, one that warrants consequences, I know he crossed a line with me. At one point in his 2005 email to me, he referred to how “Christian Slater got arrested for a (kind of) similar act (though borne of an alleged negative intent, unlike my own).” Mr. Slater was arrested after a woman reported that he had grabbed her buttocks as she walked down the street. Police charged him with third-degree sexual abuse. (The charges were dropped.) Mr. Cuomo, a former lawyer, appeared to use his short apology to legally differentiate the two incidents. He suggested Mr. Slater had “negative intent” while he, Mr. Cuomo, did not. He seemed to have a keen understanding of what accountability might look like back then; today we have no clear idea if either he or CNN is interested in accountability.
I never thought that Mr. Cuomo’s behavior was sexual in nature. Whether he understood it at the time or not, his form of sexual harassment was a hostile act meant to diminish and belittle his female former boss in front of the staff.
(Asked for comment, Mr. Cuomo said on Thursday night, “As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it.”)
I have fought sexual harassment in the workplace for 40 years now, and it can feel exhausting at times. In 1981, Roger Ailes insisted to me that we have a “sexual alliance” or my pending job offer at NBC’s “Tomorrow” show would be withdrawn. I called a lawyer and worried it might be the end of my budding television career. To my surprise, Mr. Ailes never denied it. He apologized profusely for what he called “middle age craziness” and persuaded me to accept the job, promising we’d never have another problem. I accepted it, naïvely thinking I could help reform the workplace one predator at a time.
Decades later, there is still a need to explain the many faces of sexual harassment in the workplace. It’s not just inappropriate touching, pressure to consent or drunken overtures after hours. Most sexual harassment is invisible to outsiders, as are the scars. It may be someone “accidentally” brushing up against you, or engaging in uncomfortable sexual innuendo with you, or asking you to spin around so they can look at your rear end. It’s all got to stop. You can’t have a sliding scale in which asking permission for a kiss is OK and a hand on the back is harmless. Who gets to draw the boundaries?
We must continue to hold the enablers accountable, both men and women. Time’s Up has already presented one remedy: the clean sweep. But I see another way forward.
I’m not asking for Mr. Cuomo to become the next casualty in this continuing terrible story. I hope he stays at CNN forever if he chooses. I would, however, like to see him journalistically repent: agree on air to study the impact of sexism, harassment and gender bias in the workplace, including his own, and then report on it. He could host a series of live town hall meetings, with documentary footage, produced by women with expert consultants. Call it “The Continuing Education of Chris Cuomo” and make this a watershed moment instead of another stain on the career of one more powerful male news anchor.
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See, it really does pay to be a liberal "journalist". Soon it will be in-your-face bribery/payoffs...
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The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bill is so massive and so packed with pork, that it’s hard to know what’s even in it.
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You know he knows he's doing something wrong when he freaks out like this. You don't have to be a psychologist to understand body language 
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Not about control?
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Meantime, Hochul answered questions about the shortage of health care workers expected from those losing their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated.
“We're working closely with various hospital systems to find out where we can get in other individuals to come in and supplement places like nursing homes,” she said. “We also have state individuals that are trained to be helpful. We're also reaching out to the Department of State to find out about visas for foreign workers on a limited basis to bring more nurses over here. So this is preliminary. We'll have a whole plan to deal with this. The main thing is, please get vaccinated.”
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Italy tells employers to withhold pay for those with no vaccine passport
No vax pass = no income.
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Hochul on expected upcoming shortage of health care workers in Rochester
She thanked the health care works who have been vaccinated.
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Meantime, Hochul answered questions about the shortage of health care workers expected from those losing their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated.
“We're working closely with various hospital systems to find out where we can get in other individuals to come in and supplement places like nursing homes,” she said. “We also have state individuals that are trained to be helpful. We're also reaching out to the Department of State to find out about visas for foreign workers on a limited basis to bring more nurses over here. So this is preliminary. We'll have a whole plan to deal with this. The main thing is, please get vaccinated.”
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Pulling my weight
Trump just lost again by a bigger margin in Maricopa, AZ.
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Arizona audit confirms Biden's win, but casts doubts
A widely criticized, GOP-led review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County concluded that Joe Biden received more votes for president than Donald Trump.
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Good News Friday - Sept 24Dear Patriots,
Happy Autumn. We hope wherever you are there is something good happening, even if it's small, even if you have to dig around to find it.
1- The harder they try to hide it the more we want to see it!!
(Red State)
The Feds Are Forced to Release January 6th Surveillance Footage and Narratives Crumble
QUOTE: Why has the federal government been trying so hard to keep surveillance footage of January 6th under wraps? We may have an answer to that question if a set of newly released videos are any indication.
A judge ordered the videos be released against the wishes of the government prosecutors who claimed doing so would undermine national security. Of course, that makes no sense, and what's on the videos runs counter to the chosen narrative.
2- The video at this link is just stunning. There are many people worldwide pushing back on governments.
(Canada Free Press)
Romanian government has closed all vaccine centers because 70% of the citizens won't get the jab
3a- We are still praying that this leads to some people wearing orange jumpsuits.
(Conservative Brief)
Durham Indictment Of Clinton Campaign Lawyer Points To 'Conspiracy' On Trump-Russia claims
QUOTE: Former Department of Justice Chief of Staff Kash Patel has a major theory following the recent news from Special Counsel John Durham's probe.
During an interview on "America's Newsroom," Patel spoke about Durham's probe into the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation and whether Hillary Clinton's campaign had any involvement in pushing false information to harm Trump and his campaign.
Patel said Durham's probe into the Clinton campaign is developing a "very well laid-out conspiracy charge" against those involved.
3b- (RealClearInvestigations)
Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt the CIA and FBI to Tar Trump
QUOTE: White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the criminal probe, which they say has broadened into a conspiracy case.
4- Sometimes it is good to get out and talk to REAL people!
(NEWT)
Omaha vs. Washington – Hope vs. Fear
QUOTE: The opportunity to visit with the people of Nebraska in America's Heartland provided me a great perspective. The positive attitudes and the sense of hope here is totally opposite to the environment of fear reported by news media and the bureaucracy of Washington, DC.
5- Too bad this drug, which is cheap and has very few side effects, has not been used from the beginning. Every single government agency has let us down.
(MAGA Institute)
NIH STUDY CONCLUDES IVERMECTIN WORKS!
QUOTE: Because we've come to expect nothing but cover-ups and anti-science diktats from NIH and its subdivisions, NIH has published on its website and article in the July-August issue of the American Journal of Therapeutics that concluded that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
The study authors continued, "Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally."
Of course, those of us who have been listening to tip-of-the-spear doctors with integrity—like Dr Bryan Ardis, Dr Richard Bartlett, Dr Eric Nepute, and America's Frontline Doctors and others—knew this months ago, but it's nice to know that Medicine, Inc. is FINALLY admitting the truth.
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6- It gives us great hope that 1.45 million children have left the public school systems. There was a decrease in public school enrollment in every state.
(PJ Media)
Voting With Their Feet: Parents Taking Their Kids Out of Traditional Public Schools in Astounding Numbers
QUOTE: A new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools shows what a great advertisement American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten and her more radical members provided for school choice.
After more than a year of school closures, Zoom classes, and battles over critical race theory, parents are increasingly taking their children out of public schools.
The study looked at enrollment shifts between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. Their analysis shows that 1.45 million children left traditional public schools. Charter schools gained 237,000 students in the same period. The difference is made up by families choosing private schools or homeschooling.
7- We wish the Dems would slap down these crazy people in "The Squad" more often.
(RedState)
AOC Starts Crying as the Lunatics Come Out to Play During the Iron Dome Funding Vote
QUOTE: By an overwhelming majority, the House voted today to fund the Israeli Iron Dome. It is a defensive system that protects against Palestinian rocket barrages. That vote was necessary as a stand-alone bill because far-left anti-Semites, mostly members of the so-called "squad," joined forces earlier in the week to strip the funding from the main budget bill.
8- Elections matter. Political policy matters.
The graph below shows it all. This is the reason to fight hard for clean and fair elections at every level in every state.
Nine of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates are red states.
Nine of the 10 states with the highest unemployment are blue states.
9- Some Governors fight like crazy to help the people in their states. Ron DeSantis always puts his citizens first. Unlike Biden, who is playing politics with this Covid-CCP treatment.
(The Epoch Times)
Florida Acquires Monoclonal Antibodies From GlaxoSmithKline After Biden Administration's Rationing
QUOTE: The state of Florida has obtained thousands of monoclonal antibody treatments to treat COVID-19 from a UK-based company after the Biden administration's abrupt rationing of federally acquired doses. Florida went to GlaxoSmithKline, which produces monoclonals that haven't yet been bought up by the federal government. They reached an agreement on about 3,000 doses, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Sept. 23.
"That's showing that we're going to leave no stone unturned. And, if there's somebody that needs a monoclonal antibody treatment, we're going to work hard to get it to them," the Republican told a press conference in Tampa.
The Biden administration seized control of monoclonals this month, in response to what some officials have described as a national shortage.
10- Think about these numbers for just a few minutes. Think about the priorities of the left.
In ONE city, there have been more shooting deaths of children, than Covid-CCP children deaths, in the whole country.
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Trump just lost again by a bigger margin in Maricopa, AZ.
Arizona audit confirms Biden's win, but casts doubts
A widely criticized, GOP-led review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County concluded that Joe Biden received more votes for president than Donald Trump.
Not so fast grasshopper...