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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

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'We're clean and beautiful': Trump tells Greta Thunberg to save climate advice for other countries by John Gage \| January 22, 2020 10:27 AM President Trump touted the environmental health of the United States while blasting teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We want to have the cleanest water on earth. We want to have the cleanest air on earth," the president said during a Wednesday news conference after he was asked about Thunberg. "Our numbers, as you saw, we had record numbers come out very recently. Our numbers are very, very good. Our environmental numbers, our water numbers, our numbers on air are tremendous." "We're clean and beautiful," Trump added, but said things need to be done to clean up other countries. "You have another continent where the fumes are rising at levels that you can't believe. I mean, I think Greta ought to focus on those places." Trump also said during the press conference that he "would have loved to have seen" Thunberg speak at the conference. He additionally mentioned that "she beat me out on Time magazine" in reference to her being recognized as the 2019 "Person of the Year." On Tuesday, the president said at the conference that he did not know "anything about" the climate activist but called her a "very angry person." He has previously ripped her on social media, saying last month that she "must work on her anger management problem."

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HOW INSANE ARE THESE LIBS? THIS RETARD COMPARED HER UGLY FACE TO KELLYANNE'S. I'D TAKE KELLYANNE IN A HEART BEAT... Silly Feminist, Screenshots are Forever! Dem Hack Deletes Tweets Mocking Kellyanne Conway's Looks BY MEGAN FOX JANUARY 22, 2020 CHAT COMMENTS Pam Keith, a verified Democrat on Twitter, who ran for Congress in Florida and lost, decided it was a good idea to post a photo of herself next to Kellyanne Conway, on Conway's birthday, no less, comparing their faces, mocking the older woman for not being as young-looking as herself. It did not go as planned. Screenshot via Twitter This inspired her oh-so-feminist followers (who only care about uplifting women) to post photos of themselves, saying things like "You're doing something wrong, Kellyanne," and "I guess not selling one's soul to the devil is actually good for the skin." Several catty hags piled on to insult and mock the looks of the 53-year-old mom—because orange man bad—calling Conway a "hot mess," among other things. Amanda Prestigiacomo at the Daily Wire compiled a few. Gosh, I love feminists. pic.twitter.com/8yPfGgveei — Amanda (@AmandaPresto) January 21, 2020 But the cackling didn't last long when normal people started pointing out the meanness and hypocrisy on display. And, by the way, Pam, we see your eyeliner. Blaire White, transgender conservative YouTuber commented, "We can literally SEE your makeup, full eyeliner and likely foundation. Trying to come for her looks is low." Screenshot via Twitter Other's pointed out that if you back up a bit, the comparisons could change rather quickly. Screenshot via Twitter The plea for attention and compliments by grown women was really the grossest part. "That whole thread turned into every teenager's nightmare: their 50+ parents posting selfies and asking for compliments." It was painful. That whole thread turned into every teenagers nightmare: their 50+ parents posting selfies and asking for compliments. — DaSilva (@RomanticNat) January 21, 2020 And look who liked the mean-girl tweet. None other than smug Alyssa Milano, who pretends to care about women. Screenshot via Twitter The true face of feminism is what's ugly and that was on full display yesterday until Keith figured out she'd made a mistake by ripping the mask off a movement that is not for women at all, but deeply partisan and only pro-Democrat. Keith removed the tweet sometime during the night, but it was too late to stop it from spreading. Screenshots are forever._____ Megan Fox is the author of “Believe Evidence; The Death of Due Process from Salome to #MeToo,” and host of The Fringe podcast. Follow on Twitter @MeganFoxWriter

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CNN Makes Most Perfect CNN Hire In History

thefederalist.com
January 22, 2020 By Tristan Justice

Tuesday was now former editor-at-large for CNBC John Harwood’s first day at CNN as a network White House correspondent. Less than a week after CNN complained that one of its reporters was called a “ liberal hack,” CNN hired a liberal hack.

Harwood is a textbook example of a biased reporter masquerading around the nation’s capital as an “objective journalist,” on a noble quest to uncover the truth in clear and honest reporting in a media environment saturated with fake news.

There is certainly no shortage of examples to illustrate Harwood’s left-wing bias, but then again, the list to showcase CNN’s runs even longer, making the pair a perfect fit.

Of course, true to form and well within CNN’s brand, Harwood thinks the media has actually been too fair to the Republican Party.

In December, Harwood responded to a tweet by CNN’s chief arbiter of objective journalism Brian Stelter, who lauded a column declaring that media objectivity gave the Republican Party the power it has today.

“Good description of the challenge for journalism. Hard for reporters to say plainly that the Republican Party, at this point in our history, is fundamentally broken, but it is,” Harwood wrote on Twitter.

One could dissect this theory however, using Harwood’s own work at CNBC.

In 2015, Harwood enjoyed the privilege of moderating one of the Republican presidential primary debates.

His bias was full-on-display in what was arguably the least-substantive debate of the entire cycle. Harwood’s first question of the night was directed at candidate Donald Trump, asking the businessman if he was running a “comic-book campaign.”

Here’s what Harwood said, emphasis mine:

Mr. Trump, you’ve done very well in this campaign so far by promising to build a wall and make another country pay for it, send 11 million people out of the country, cut taxes ten trillion dollars without increasing the deficit, and make Americans better off because your greatness would replace the incompetence and stupidity of others. Let’s be honest, is this a comic-book version of a presidential campaign?

“No, it’s not a comic book and it’s not a very nicely asked question the way you say that,” Trump said.

No kidding, and it’s a wonder to journalists why Trump entered the White House with such animosity towards the press.

Throughout the night, Harwood’s bias was painfully obvious. He repeatedly interrupted now former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and got into a tense exchange with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio by aggressively attempting to fact-check the Republican senator using wrong statistics.

During the primetime event, Harwood tried to cite a study from the conservative Tax Foundation to paint Rubio’s tax plan as a giveaway to the one percent, peddling a typical progressive talking point used to brand Republicans as purveyors of the wealthy.

Despite Rubio correcting Harwood that lower-income individuals would benefit more than the rich, Harwood interjected again and refused to concede that he was incorrectly citing the Tax Foundation’s research.

The head of the Tax Foundation even corrected Harwood in real-time during the debate on Twitter.

“Rubio was right about his plan. Poor get larger tax benefit than the rich,” wrote Scott Hodge, the president of the foundation that conducted the study Harwood attempted to smear Rubio with.

To pour salt on the wound, Harwood refused to admit the error days after the debate. Just weeks before the debate however, Harwood once issued a correction of an earlier tweet on the study from the Tax Foundation, proving that the CNBC reporter was once well-aware of the foundation study’s true conclusions.

Another ripe example in Harwood’s past shows how Harwood should fit right in at CNN working alongside the network’s Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta who shares a fellow disdain for the president. In 2018, Harwood criticized Trump’s characterization of the international gang MS-13 as “animals,” and responded to a conservative columnist’s tweet who claimed misleading reporting on the topic was “disturbing.”

“However repugnant their actions, MS-13 gang members are human beings IMHO,” Harwood tweeted.

Harwood of course, did everything to support Hillary Clinton in 2016 without explicitly saying it publicly.

In September 2015, Harwood sought the advice of Clinton advisor John Podesta on what to ask former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in an interview.

Earlier that year, Harwood revealed himself to be a chief defender of Clinton’s as the former secretary of state was embroiled in scandal over the use of a private email server to handle classified information while working at the state department.

“PERSPECTIVE: Petraeus gave info he knew classified to someone he knew unauthorized to see it. No allegation yet HRC did anything like that,” Harwood wrote on Twitter.

Petraeus’ mistress’ however, had security clearances unlike Clinton’s attorney or the Denver IT firm involved in handling Clinton’s emails. In addition, Petraeus didn’t put sensitive information on the internet as Clinton did. That’s a more accurate perspective.

One could probably fill a book on Harwood’s bias against conservatives in loyal defense of Democrats. One might say he’s a “liberal hack.” One might even be President Donald Trump at their first press conference together.

Tristan Justice is a staff writer at The Federalist focusing on the 2020 presidential campaigns. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.