Author: Freedom Watch
Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups By Dakin Andone CNN August 17, 2017 Nine hundred and seventeen. That’s the number of hate groups operating in the US, according to data from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Alabama-based nonprofit activist group tracks civil rights and hate crimes and defines a hate group as an organization with “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” “Over the course of a year, we have a team of investigators that scours the internet for racist publications and real world activities…
Trump: ‘Country being ripped apart’ by monument removals By Cody Derespina Fox News August 17, 2017 President Trump on Thursday refused to back down from critics who’ve ripped him for failing to condemn protests surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments, doubling down on his belief the statues should stay and questioning if the progressive movement would turn on America’s Founding Fathers next. In the aftermath of a deadly car attack Saturday — following clashes at a largely white nationalist rally protesting the University of Virginia’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee — Trump…
By Bill O’Reilly, opinion contributor TheHill August 17, 2017 So I’m sitting there watching the CBS Evening News report on President Trump’s continuing Charlottesville narrative and the coverage seems very one-sided. Usually, CBS runs the most factually disciplined news broadcast among the big three but this one departs from that. One CBS taped story features a man who was once a white supremacist but now exposes them. The man says on camera that activist racist white people are “all around us.” He is not challenged by the CBS reporter. Continue Reading…..
Fox’s Shep Smith: We couldn’t find a Republican willing to come on and defend Trump By Julia Manchester TheHill August 17, 2017 Fox News host Shepard Smith said Wednesday that the network tried and failed to get a Republican on-air to defend President Trump’s controversial comments on violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend “Our booking team — and they’re good — reached out to Republicans of all stripes across the country today,” Smith said on his show “Shepard Smith Reporting.” Continue Reading…..
By Tucker Carlson Fox News August 16, 2017 One thing President Trump said Tuesday deserves more attention than it will likely get. On Monday a mob tore down a civil war soldier’s memorial in Durham, North Carolina. Police stood idly by and liberals across the country applauded it. Which statues are next, the president asked today, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson? It’s not a joke. Suddenly it’s a serious question. Continue Reading…..
Klayman: Sessions Afraid to Be Even Handed! Newsmax TV August 16, 2017
By Tony Lee Breitbart August 16, 2017 Fox News viewers were livid after Dana Perino—long suspected to be someone, like Megyn Kelly, who cares more about the opinions of elites in New York and D.C. than Fox News’ viewers—smeared Breitbart News as a site for Nazis on Monday. It seems like the vapid Fox News host knows less about Breitbart News and the alt-right/new right than the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is saying quite a lot. Continue Reading…..
By Jeff Stein Vox August 15, 2017 Several Alabama voters blame President Barack Obama for the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville this weekend because, they say, he sowed division in American politics. Attendees at a rally for Rep. Mo Brooks, a conservative House Republican running for Senate, in Decatur on Monday said they were confident that philanthropist George Soros was bankrolling both sides of this weekend’s violent clashes. Continue Reading…..
By Larry Klayman Newsmax August 15, 2017 I want to say this at the outset. As a young boy, Martin Luther King, Mohammed Ali, and the Temptations were my heroes. I am not a racist, and indeed I cherish among my many friends Alan Keyes, Larry Elder, and Armstrong Williams, all African-American conservatives and libertarians who, like me, believe that all of us — ironically in the words of our Founding Father and second American President Thomas Jefferson, who hailed from Charlottesville, Virginia, and his nearby estate at Monticello — are equal under God. And, as Jewish Christian, I…
Trump says he’s considering pardon for Joe Arpaio By Matt Zapotosky Washington Post August 15, 2017 President Trump told Fox News he is “seriously considering” issuing a pardon for former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted last month of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. Trump told the news outlet during a conversation in Bedminster, N.J., that the pardon could come quickly, perhaps in a matter of days. The news outlet reported the conversation on its website Monday. Continue Reading…..