Victor Davis Hanson is such a gifted writer, I’m green with envy. This is his latest piece. Well worth your time to read.

CNN’s Existential War With Trump

After just 100 days in office, before his own agendas could even be enacted, the liberal Shorenstein Center at Harvard reported that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of the Trump Administration was already negative. Just one in every 13 CNN stories proved positive. That radically asymmetrical pattern (shared by NBC/MSNBC) had never been seen before in the history of comparable media analytics. No one at CNN sought to explain the imbalance, leaving the impression that the news organization had more or less joined the progressive opposition.

The best way to stop the chronic Trump attacks on the veracity of CNN is not to unleash a rude and boisterous Acosta to argue endlessly with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but simply to ensure that CNN news reports are fact-checked and not in need of retractions or firings, that CNN hosts, contributors, and anchors do not stoop to profanity, scatology, racism, and a historical comparisons to Stalin and Hitler, and that CNN’s staff and hosts do not joke about the president being killed through plane crashes and decapitation.

CNN’s Existential War With Trump

This was Trump’s agenda yesterday:

Trump Schedule || Monday, November 5, 2018
12:40 pm || Departs White House
2:15 pm || Arrives Cleveland, Ohio
2:45 pm || Delivers remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally; I-X Center, Cleveland
4:15 pm || Departs Cleveland
5:15 pm || Arrives Fort Wayne, Indiana
6:05 pm || Delivers remarks at a Make America Great Again Rally; Allen County War Memorial Coliseum; Fort Wayne, Indiana
7:55 pm || Departs Fort Wayne, Indiana
8:10 pm CT || Arrives at Cape Girardeau, Missouri
9:00 pm CT || Delivers remarks at a Make America Great Again rally; The Show Me Center, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
10:40 pm CT || Departs Cape Girardeau, Missouri
1:40 am || Arrives White House

Without exception, he’s worked hard and the people have responded with turn away crowds full of joy and enthusiasm. In the reply section to this thread, I’ll post some highlights from these rallies. They could be separate threads on another day, but there’s just too much else going on.

Hometown hero, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity shared the stage with the president in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Lee Greenwood sang “God Bless The USA.” You’ll never hear that anywhere the democrats gather …. Never.

Here’s the video. Talk about enthusiasm.

Win or lose, if you think the brutality of the left would be in any way diminished, you’re not paying attention. Some pollsters show the races tightening as they always do. They’re just trying to cover their backsides in case the “blue wave” fails to materialize.

The left will commit rampant fraud, as they always do. Hillary got 5 million illegal votes, and that was when the left knew the election was “in the bag.”

There’s no telling how much they’ll get away with this time. It’s a tried and true formula, since they never pay any price.

The democrats have the media, all the glitterati, the entire educational system and almost limitless funds from socialist billionaires yearning for a One World Order.

We have us.

The legacy of those who came before and the future of our children to follow is at stake. Don’t think for a second your vote doesn’t count. It’s a right men and women have paid dearly to preserve. Make your voice heard today.

Why the Midterms Matter

•Blowing up political correctness, because an American turnaround cannot happen if we are unable recover the meaning of words and talk forthrightly about what is really going on.

•Delegitimizing the false narratives of the mainstream media, because a turnaround cannot be sustained if basic communication channels remain corrupted.

•Taking down the administrative state, because a turnaround will fail if unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats continue to override the sovereignty of the American people by controlling our society.

Turnarounds Begin Only When Enough People Accept Something Is Wrong

Like many turnaround efforts, the past months confirmed a deep cultural and political crisis, with numerous irreconcilable differences.

• https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/05/trumps-american-turnaround-why-the-midterms-matter/

On October 20, 2016, John Cassidy, in The New Yorker, confidently declared about Donald Trump, “He’s going out as a sore loser, raving at the world, threatening to unleash chaos.” Joe Scarborough, on MSNBC, said on August 15, 2016, “That’s a guy who knows he is going to lose. That’s a guy who knows he is going to lose.”

Regardless of what pollsters, pundits, and professionals may say, the fact is that no one knows what will happen on Tuesday. Will there be a blue wave? Is it going to be a split decision? Is it possible a red wave will form? I don’t know, nor does anyone else. There are some interesting aspects of this election cycle, though, that are going underreported.

The bottom line is this: no one knows what Tuesday will bring. Don’t let the opinions of the experts discourage you. What happens on Tuesday is up to you. Vote.

• https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/tuesday_is_up_to_you.html#ixzz5VzpwjXIj

But one issue stands out: border security. Amazingly, the pollsters admit it’s the first time they’ve asked about border security, and 59 percent of registered voters said it is an important issue in the election. Eighty-four percent of Republicans and 47 percent of Democrats ranked border security as a key issue; independents were evenly split. Republicans have a ten-point lead over Democrats on the question of who will better handle border security, and a 19-point lead among independents

On Tuesday, all eyes will be on the more than two dozen toss-up House races. It’s here where Democrats don’t appear to have the strong advantage they need to win several of these contests that will take them over the top. The poll shows a slim preference for Democrats—49-44 percent—in these toss-up districts; considering the margin of error in the poll (3.5 percent), it’s essentially a tie.

• https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/04/washpo-abc-news-poll-has-ominous-news-for-democrats/

Barack Obama is a complete fraud … always was. A creation of a media obsessed with elevating “the first black president”, he burst on the scene at the 2004 Democrat convention and in four short years was elected president.

But without his teleprompter and carefully worded, self- aggrandizing speeches, he’s nothing more than a petulant juvenile who has had everything done for him.

Now he’s trying desperately to remain relevant while his legacy is dismantled by the only man with the balls and the will to do it.

Obama’s 90-Second Temper Tantrum About Conservatives And The Midterm Election

“In 2010, they said Bill and I were setting up death panels to kill your grandma. Remember that? In 2014 they said Ebola is going to kill all of us, shut the borders,” Obama explained. “In 2016, it was Hillary’s emails. They were all wound up about that. Now, in 2018, they’re telling you the existential threat to America is a bunch of poor refugees a thousand miles away. They’re even taking our brave troops away from their families for a political stunt at the border. And our men and women deserve better than that.”

It’s easy to say that Republicans are trying to scare people into voting for them but the reality is simple: back in 2014, people were very afraid of Ebola. In 2016, Americans were genuinely concerned about Hillary’s emails and the lack of security she had. And now, Americans are worried about what’s taking place on our southern border.

That’s not “fear-mongering.” It’s called being in touch with the average American family.

• https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/11/04/icymi-obamas-90second-temper-tantrum-about-conservatives-and-the-midterm-election-n2534881

The sub-headline was baffling, “PRESIDENT Trump surprised a crowd of his supporters at his latest ‘Make America Great Again’ rally by suggesting he could be about to leave shortly after he started speaking.”

I turned to read the piece and immediately knew someone was coo-coo.

The president made a joke at a rally in Estero, Florida. He asked the crowd who had already voted. Many raised their hand indicating they had.

President Trump said, “Wow! Everybody voted already? Then what the hell am I doing here tonight? Goodbye.”

He started to leave, everyone laughed, and he continued his speech.

Once again, the media misrepresented the president. Once again, people saw right through it. Once again, the credibility of the press diminished just a little more.

• https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/11/press-continues-to-discredit-itself.html

Dan Crenshaw Fires Back at ‘SNL’ Star Pete Davidson: ‘Vets Don’t Deserve to See Their Wounds Used as Punchlines’

Davidson said during Saturday’s “Weekend Update” segment that Dan Crenshaw, whose photo was displayed, was “kinda cool” but that viewers might be “surprised he’s a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a porno movie.” He added, “I’m sorry, I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.”

FOR THOSE WITH A SENSE OF THE MORBID OR A VERY STRONG GAG REFLEX, HERE’S THE SWILL THEY AIRED LAST SATURDAY:

Crenshaw, who is running against Democrat Todd Litton for an open suburban Houston district seat, replied in a tweet on Sunday, saying: “Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended. That being said, I hope @nbcsnl recognizes that vets don’t deserve to see their wounds used as punchlines for bad jokes.”

• https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/05/dan-crenshaw-fires-back-at-snl-star-pete-davidson-vets-dont-deserve-to-see-their-wounds-used-as-punchlines/

This woman is crazy smart. I enjoy reading her.

Tuesday Will Tell: Blue Wave or Red Tsunami?

It’s true that the major media is uniformly opposed to Trump and his party, but as Rasmussen also notes, they have less sway on voters than they would hope:

The majority of voters believe the media is more interested in creating controversies about candidates than in reporting where they stand on the issues. Voters also think the media is trying to help Democrats in the upcoming elections which helps explain why Democratic voters are much bigger fans of election news coverage than others are.
So who’s peddling the Blue Wave scenario?

I tend to agree with Roger Kimball that it is those who cannot believe they lost in 2016:

If only the Democrats sweep the midterm elections, they say to themselves, then we can put this awful anomaly, this hideous wrinkle in the order of the universe, behind us.

• https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/11/tuesday_will_tell_blue_wave_or_red_tsunami.html#ixzz5Vziso9oR