Professor Jay – Page 2 – Skunk Politics

May 28, 2017May 30, 2017

Debunking the Press Lies About Back Channel Communications

The practice of maintaining back channel communications with adversarial nations goes back a long way, and a short way. These bridges serve as important and necessary tools of our nations diplomacy. The United States and the U.S.S.R. were on the brink of a nuclear holocaust in 1962 until cooler heads prevailed via back channels. (See photo above) If that crisis took place today with Trump as president, our media would have preferred a few hundred thousand crispy corpses.

President Obama’s administration negotiated the timing of a four hundred million dollar cash payment to Iran, in exchange for American prisoners. The deal was entirely concocted via a back channel. Iran does not have diplomatic relations with the U.S. and like most adversaries requires these alternate means of communiqué.

The generic response to this rebuttal of the back-channel-scandal, entails acquiescence to the need for communications such as these but an unwillingness to stretch that need to cover an incumbent President. This is not the original thesis of the critique but it is a more credible criticism. Unfortunately, it’s based on speculation. All agree there can only be one President at a time and only one policy. However, nothing indicates that Kushner violated this doctrine. No evidence exists to suggest he engaged in any direct negotiations or policy discussion with the Russians. It is plausible that the Trump team was establishing a relationship to deal with Syria and other pressing matters in preparation for when they took office.

The tragedy once again lies within our press corp that is oozing Trump-hate from their pores. Their continuing mission is to fool the public, on a daily basis, into believing something unprecedented is happening under this President. The reporters wrote these headlines with full knowledge of how back channels work. In fact, buried many paragraphs into the propaganda, the authors of the fairy tale inspired articles admit the truth about how communications with adversaries are conducted. But the goal is to hoodwink the public, and a headline is clearly enough to get the fake narrative across.

May 15, 2017May 16, 2017

Jake Tapper’s Judgement Clouded

The CNN anchor Jake Tapper captured two former heads of the United States intelligence agencies admitting {video below} that they both believe Donald Trump is assaulting our democracy and yet Tapper didn’t ask the most basic follow-up question.

Clapper, ‘I think our institutions are under assault internally’
Tapper, ‘Internally from the President?”
Clapper, “Exactly’
Clapper, ‘I feel as though [checks and balances] is under assault and eroding’
Hayden, ‘As a citizen I totally agree with what Jim {Clapper] told you yesterday’ [said after hearing Clapper’s comments]

Does Tapper comprehend what happens if the leaders of the NSA, CIA and FBI conclude that the President is assaulting democracy? These two former intelligence giants surmised that Trump is impeding the other branches of our government from doing one of their constitutionally assigned duties; keeping the executive in check. Tapper is so happy to have people on his team (Go Hillary) he doesn’t ask the spy duo what they would do about this crisis, or what their replacements are going to do about it. If they feel our very democracy is in jeopardy, then what? Watch it all fall down? Great job Jake. Maybe when the Marines call Trump a Clear and Present Danger you will awake from your slumber. These men are dangerous.

Being alarmist about the alarmists?

May 12, 2017May 23, 2017

Another Way CNN Perpetuates Anti-Trump Hate

We have detailed here and here some of the tactics used by CNN to propagate the Democratic agenda and perpetuate a hatred of the President. But there is another tool in their toolbox that is as absurd. Here’s how it works and an interesting recent problem they faced:

If a story is about immigration, CNN brings on guests who are illegal immigration success stories. If a story is about Trump rebuilding the nuclear arsenal, CNN brings on the author of a book about nuclear holocaust. The tactic is simple, CNN chooses an “expert” with a slanted point of view,

But when CNN reported a story about the Attorney General cracking down on crime, they faced a problem maintaining their stance as the opposition. An audience would find it ridiculous if CNN sided with the criminals. So what did they do? They found the 1 in 10,000 peddlers of poison, who turned his life around, and interviewed him. They are shameless.

UPDATE 05/15/2017: CNN is playing the race angle. Increases in law enforcement or criminal justice is racist, it disproportionately affects blacks.

May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

Diplomacy Akin To Spying Per CNN

In connection with the Trump-Russia con-job on the American people, CNN may have lost its mind. Leaving all sanity behind, a CNN reporter proclaims that Russian diplomats conversing with Americans and then reporting back to Russia (AKA their job) is “Spying.”

April 20, 2017May 11, 2017

Is CNN Left Wing Enough?

In an age where reverence of network news is at an all-time low, the level of introspection at these networks is even lower.

Recently; Vox, an even more left leaning outlet than CNN, ridiculed some aspects of how CNN covers news. Vox made some valid points about how CNN dramatizes the news in a manner which seemingly mimics sports coverage, (albeit a behavior true of all news networks.) And then they went on to criticize CNN, I kid you not, for inviting people who support Trump onto their network to speak. (Video below) You see, in their warped mindset, the liberal-anti-Trump perspective is so very right and the Trump perspective is so very wrong on each and every issue, that CNN permitting someone on air to expound on the wrong side of the debate is downright television treason.

Video courtesy of Vox

Vox would prefer to hear just one side of a debate, their side. It is worth noting that an overwhelming majority of the anchors, correspondents, and paid analysts on CNN are anti-Trump. A typical panel, as seen in this website’s last post, is outrageously one-sided.

The ironic reality that Vox couldn’t comprehend is that CNN brings lone Trump supporters on air to serve as punching bags for gangs of folks supporting the liberal Trump-hating side of every story. The daily routine CNN employs, entails lining up full panels of pundits, along with anchors serving as ringleaders, to laugh at the solitary Trump supporters and cheer their like-minded compadres who mock and deride anything these Trump whipping boys and girls say. If we distill the Vox vs CNN conflict down to the core, it’s two divergent philosophical positions on how best to manipulate an audience. Does the network show the audience only their favored side of the story, or does the network systematically rip apart the other side of the story with sheer numbers of one-sided punditry and good old-fashioned bullying? Thomas Jefferson would be proud either way.

Now for the saddest part. Whose criticism will CNN listen to? The entire right side of the American public begging for fair coverage or the minuscule fringe left, like Vox, that is too liberal for even CNN? I’ll give you a hint, throw reason and logic out the door.