The full quote that has everyone’s attention.  By Sally Boynton Brown, the current Executive Director of the Idaho Democrat Party, who is vying for the DNC Chairmanship:

I’m a white woman. I don’t get it. I’m pleased and honored to be here today to have the conversation. I’m so excited that we’re here. I am listening, because that’s my job. My job is to listen to the issues. My job is to listen and be a voice. And my job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt. My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, “Oh no, I’m not prejudiced. I’m a Democrat. I’m accepting. My job is to make sure that they get that they have privilege.”

Funny definition of “listening”.  Funny definition of a DNC Chair responsibility to go “Hey, you WHITE people – SHUT UP!”  And funny definition of “accepting”.

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Well THAT didn’t take long, did it?  Trump’s honeymoon, if one could call it that, last all of, oh, six seconds with the mainstream media.  I’ve been watching this stuff since I turned 18 (and very intensely the last 10) and it’s like Groundhog Day.  It just seems that once a Republican enters the Oval Office, there is a renewed vigor (and no small amount of snark and anger) to what seems to be a long period of somnambulance,  the MSM realizes that it should be asking the tough questions and doing the in-depth reporting once again.

Ha!  Who am I kidding?  They don’t – they just switch modes off and on and after watching them intensely for 10 years, it is clear that the Rs get the more attitude and persistence as well as an entirely different crop type of questions.  Slow pitch softball vs fast pitch baseball (with spikes.  Out of a bazooka).  These dolts in the MSM just don’t seem to understand that every time they act this way, they aren’t being the Fourth Estate, they’re just confirming the bias that most of us see daily.  Remember, it isn’t just how they cover the news but WHICH news they cover – and what film they leave on the floor.  They still think that they are the gatekeepers and the ones to “interpret the news for us”.  After all, they are the edumacated ones in the who, what, when, where, and how, right?

Er, no.  Those basics were supplanted a long time ago with the famous phrase by Glenn Reynolds (the Blogfaddah and owner of Instapundit):

Democrats with bylines

The Sunday Shows – 

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Project Veritas will likely be dropping video all week but for now, we’ve got the first two.

#DisruptJ20 plan to disrupt a Thursday night event.

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It’s going to be a fun few years.

Trump thrives off of media hostility, and the more hostile — and the less defensible — the better. It allows him to portray himself as the victim of a stilted establishment. It fires up his supporters. It keeps the debate on terrain that is familiar and favorable to him — whether or not he is being treated “fairly” — and allows him to adopt his ­preferred posture as a “counterpuncher.”

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Raise the minimum wage – who benefits?  Mostly unions – after all, they are amongst the most vocal of advocates.  Why?  Look at the escalation clauses in many of their work contracts.

Does it really help those at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder?  Is the minimum wage’s purpose, if you listen to Progressives, is to support a family?

One also has to ask – what about the freedom to contract between a prospective employee and an employer, especially when a minimum wage denies employment to those trying to get a start in the labor market?  

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