Charlottesville : Trump Takes Media Charge but Progressives Still Call Him and the GOP "Racist"

BREAKING NEWS. President Trump told a press briefing Tuesday : “I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it,” Trump said. "And you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that. But I'll say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.” • The Lincoln Memorial in Washington was vandalized with red spray paint. The graffiti found on a pillar at the monument appeared to say "f--- law," the National Park Service told local station NBC 4 News. A preservation crew is already working to remove the graffiti, which was discovered early Tuesday morning, the NPS said. • • • THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT THE MEDIA AND POLITICIANS ARE PHILISTINES. They are looking for a civilization to destroy and have been allowed to choose the United States of America. • • • PHILISTINES. Merriam-Webster defines "Philistine" as "(1) a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia; (2) a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values; and (3) one uninformed in a special area of knowledge." But, as any Christian or Jew will tell you, Philistine has a Biblical significance. The story is scattered through the Old Testament. Philistines were an aggressive, warmongering tribe allied to the Phoenicians, who spread over the whole of the Lebanon and the valley of the Jordan, and Crete and other Mediterranean islands. In the time of Abraham, they inhabited the south-west of Judea This powerful tribe made frequent incursions against the Hebrews. There was almost perpetual war between them. They sometimes held the tribes in degrading servitude; at other times they were defeated with great slaughter. They were finally conquered by the Romans. • The name “Philistine” comes from the Hebrew word Philistia, and the Greek rendering of the name, palaistinei, gives us the modern name "Palestine.” The Old Testament indicates that around the 13th century BC, during the era of Samuel and Samson, the Philistines moved inland from the coast of Canaan and built their civilization primarily in five cities : Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron (Joshua 13:3). With their more advanced armaments and aggressive military policy, the Philistines continually halted Israel’s development as a nation. For nearly 200 years, the Philistines harassed and oppressed the Israelites, invading Israel’s territory. The children of Israel simply could not deal with the Philistines’ overwhelming military might. This only came to an end when Samuel and then David were able to defeat the Philistines (1 Samuel 7:12-14; 2 Samuel 5:22-25). • Today, Philistine is used as an epithet to refer to an unrefined, dull person. Reddit.com quotes the Oxford English Dictionary : "Philistine first meant figuratively, "A member of a group regarded as one's enemies, or into whose hands one would not wish to fall; a foe, a persecutor. Formerly also a debauched or drunken person (obsolete)." These meanings from the 17th century survived until the 19th century, but gradually merged with German usage, in which Philister was a derogatory term for a townsperson/a non-student among German students. The use of the German word Philister fell out of fashion, and the English word Philistine prevailed. From there, Philistine came to mean, "An uneducated or unenlightened person; one perceived to be indifferent or hostile to art or culture, or whose interests and tastes are commonplace or material; a person who is not a connoisseur." Etymonline simply says : "person deficient in liberal culture." • • • TRUMP REACTIONS TO CHARLOTTESVILLE. President Trump was accused of being everything from a Nazi to a racist after his original tweet at 7 PM on Saturday : "We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!" The tweet got 66,740 Replies and 57,794 Retweets and 187,864 likes -- more than any other tweet about the Charlottesville violence. In a later statement at a press conference, the President said : "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides -- on many sides. It's been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump. Not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time." That is as non-racist a statement as anyone could make about what happened on the Charlottesville streets on Saturday. But, President Trump was pounded by the Progressive media and politicians of both parties, and so he added to his initial statement on Monday, saying that the FBI and Justice Department were opening a civil rights investigation into the events that led to violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters and, the death of Heather Heyer, who died after James Fields allegedly rammed his car into a sedan, which hit a minivan into a crowd of pedestrians. The President said : "Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans. To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered. As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. It has no place in America." • • • HEATHER HEYER'S MOTHER THANKED TRUMP. One person -- perhaps the person most touched by the Charlottesville violence-- Susan Bro, the mother of the Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer, who died when a driver smashed into a line of cars, pushing one into pedestrians, thanked President Donald Trump for "denouncing those who promote violence and hatred," according to a statement Monday provided to NBC News. • • • FRANKLIN GRAHAM SUPPORTED TRUMP. Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, sharply criticized politicians who are blaming President Donald Trump for the violence in Charlottesville. Graham's comments came in a posting on his Facebook page : "Really, this boils down to evil in people's hearts. Satan is behind it all. He wants division, he wants unrest, he wants violence and hatred. He's the enemy of peace and unity. I denounce bigotry and racism of every form, be it black, white or any other. We are stronger together, and our answers lie in turning to God...Continue to pray for peace and for all those impacted by Saturday's tragedies." • • • AND FINALLY THE GOP SUPPORTS TRUMP. Republicans in Washington are largely standing by President Trump despite discomfort with his response to the violent and deadly clashes in Charlottesville. They are openly questioning why Trump took 48 hours to forcefully denounce the KKK members, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who turned a quiet, peaceful college town into a deadly war zone, but finally on Tuesday they said they don’t think the President is a racist (!!!) and that they are ready to work with him on policy. Representative Tom Cole said : “I don’t think the President is some sort of closet racist who’s deliberately stirring up the devils of our nature. Because of the nature of the attack, he should have been more specific. Within 48 hours, he was. Probably he missed an opportunity, but we’re all singing from the same song book now, and that’s a good thing.” Republicans across the political spectrum were quick to denounce the white nationalists who marched on Charlottesville last weekend. And many Republicans criticized Trump’s response blaming “many sides” for the violence as lackluster at best. Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who leads Senate Republicans’ 2018 campaign efforts, scolded Trump on Twitter for failing to directly call out the “evil” as “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorism.” At the same time, congressional Republicans didn’t ditch Trump in droves. The political reaction fits a familiar pattern that’s recurred throughout Trump’s candidacy and first 200 days in office -- outrage from liberals, Democrats, #Never Trump Republicans and a handful of others, while most Republicans try their best to duck and downplay the controversy and pivot back to their stalled GOP agenda. “I think the left is trying to make this political and it shouldn’t be,” said one vulnerable House Republican. “I’m disgusted by the heat from both sides.” Representative Tom Reed said : “I believe his message has been clear that racism, bigotry and hatred is not American and must be rejected in its entirety.” Asked if he had any concerns about Trump’s initial response, a top aide to a conservative congressman replied : “None. Despite whatever faults Trump has, he is not racist or anti-Semitic....Trump did not earn this.” The #Never Trump Republicans critical of the President see Charlottesville as a defining moment for the GOP. They fear that a Republican Party that becomes identified too closely with Trump risks permanently alienating a more diverse, less white electorate. Republicans are also losing ground with young people : a recent poll showed that only 22% of millennials approve of Trump’s job performance, while 62% disapproved. But, any Republican ought to realize that a majority of millennials is never going to support Trump or the GOP, whose strength lies with Americans in the Heartland. • • • ENTER THE PHILISTINES. While Heather Heyer's mother and Franklin Graham supported President Trump's reaction to the violence, much of America raised its ugly Philistine head to shout out attacks at President Trump and the Republican Party, which were full of hatred and deliberate efforts to flame what they saw as an opportunity to use the ugly Charlottesville spectacle to advance their goal of destroying Trump and the GOP. • • • KURT BARDELLA TRASHED TRUMP AND THE GOP. Perhaps the worst came from Kurt Bardella, who appeared on MSNBC Saturday to smear the entire Republican Party with the white nationalists protesting in Charlottesville. Bardella said : “This is the Republican Party right now that’s on display. Donald Trump’s Republican Party. And if they don’t want to be tied to it, if they don’t want to be associated to it, then people like Mitch McConnell, Speaker Paul Ryan, John Thune, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz -- anyone who proclaims to be a leader who doesn’t want to be associated with this type of hatred and racism, bigotry and ignorance -- they need to speak out right now loud and clear.” Bardella spoke before the violence reached another level with the tragic car crash that took place later in the day, but similar hate-filled statements echoed throughout the Progressive gutter world even after the horrific murder. So, it seems that Bardella feels that, even when a violent misfit like James Alex Fields decides to run his car through a crowd of people, he is in some way representing the Republican Party and conservatism in general. • What is Philistine about this is that Bardella should know better. He's a Republican who used to be employed by Breitbart News. He split from the party and Breitbart with the rise of Trump, and he now seems to make his living by regularly bashing both the President and Breitbart whenever one of the Progressive Leftist cable news outlets give him space to do so. Ignorance dripped from Bardella's hateful comments : “Frankly, the Republican Party needs to change its philosophy on a lot of things to prevent this type of stuff from happening. A lot of their policies are racist. When they talk about incarceration over drug treatment, that targets minorities pure and simple.” • Who’s the racist? • • • ATTORNEY GENERAL SESSIONS STARTS A CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION. Jeff Sessions knows a lot about civil rights -- he was born in Selma, Alabama, in 1946 and served as Alabama Attorney General. AG Sessions said Monday that there was no excuse for the actions of James Alex Fields, the young man who intentionally drove his car into a crowd of left-wing protesters. In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, he said the Justice Department was investigating the case with an eye towards federal prosecution : “It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our statute. You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable evil attack.” • While Sessions is being applauded as a direct administration voice against the white supremacist ideology that allegedly inspired Fields, he hedged when asked to criticize Trump’s response to the violence. Asked to explain why the President did not specifically call out white supremacy by name in his speech, Sessions said, “He said that yesterday -- his spokesman did. • When interviewed by CBS, Sessions said : "I think we’re making too much of this." • BUT, CBS excluded the 9/11 terrorist attacks from a statistic on the number of terrorism "incidents" in the US during its interview Monday with Attorney General Sessions. CBS used a graphic to illustrate the number of terrorist attacks committed by far-right and Islamic extremists since 2001. The graphic showed that "far-right extremists" were responsible for 62 incidents that resulted in 106 deaths, while "Islamic extremists" launched 23 attacks that resulted in 119 deaths. The graphic noticeably left out the Sept. 11 terror attacks, with CBS only counting extremists attacks from September 12, 2001, to December 31, 2016. The graphic appears at the 2:53 mark in the video ( < https://youtu.be/RIckNwGusM4 > ). CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell asked Sessions what the Justice Department needs to do since attacks by far-right extremists have been more frequent. O'Donnell -- a card-carrying Philistine -- put it to Sessions this way : "This is believed to be the largest white supremacy demonstration in over a decade. We went and looked at the data, and in fact, between 2001 and 2016, there were nearly three times as many attacks by right-wing extremists than Islamic extremists in the U.S. What does the Justice Department need to be doing?" Sessions, clearly not looking at the graph, said only that the Justice Department is focused on domestic terrorism and will continue to make it a high priority : "The Justice Department is focused on that. I'm briefed three times a week by the FBI on terrorism and terrorism related issues. That includes briefings on domestic terrorism. And we will continue to focus on that. It will be a high priority of the Department of Justice." • Late in the Sessions interview, CBS aired another graphic that listed the number of hate groups operating in the United States. The source for CBS' information was the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has a history of bias and being a Progressive Leftist advocacy group. It has been reported that SPLC overstates the number of hate groups and classifies organizations it disagrees with as hate groups. • CBS was not the only network to omit the September 11, 2001, terror attacks from its reporting. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle did not include 9/11 on Monday when she claimed that right-wing extremists have killed three times more people than Islamic terrorists. Ruhle -- another card-carrying Philistine -- said : "Reverend Al [Sharpton], I want to start with you. Between 2001 and now, we have seen three times more deaths caused by right-wing extremists than Islamic terrorists." Ruhle did not cite the source of her claim. • THE FACT IS that several reports show that since 9/11, Islamic terrorists have killed more Americans than right-wing extremists. According to New America, a Washington DC think tank, Islamic terrorists have killed 95 people in the 15 years after 9/11, while far-right extremists have killed 67 people in the same time period. • • • REVISIONIST HISTORY IS UNDENIABLLY PHILISTINE. But, it continues with not so much as a whimper from the GOP -- perhaps because then-Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina, a Republican and now UN Ambassador, was the first to give in to demands to remove Confederacy symbols -- in her case the Confederate Flag from the SC statehouse -- after the Baltimore shooting. • RICHMOND is on the radar. The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, which is just 70 miles form Charlottesville, will be the next Civil War monument targeted by Progressive Philistine Revisionists. A confederate heritage organization is seeking to rally next month at the city's Robert E. Lee statue. The group, "Americans for Richmond Monument Preservation," has applied for a rally permit for September 16, according to reports. It has already caused an online protest to kill the application, but a group associated with the preservation group claims it will go on. Richmond, which hosts the "White House of the Confederacy" in the shadow of the state capital, had already plunged into the battle over the statues on its heralded Monument Avenue. While cities such as Charlottesville have decided to move the monuments, Richmond has created a commission which is seeking a middle ground. In question is the removal of the statues of Lee, Jackson, Davis and General “Jeb” Stuart from historic Monument Avenue. The US National Park Service has a site dedicated to Monument Avenue and describes the Lee statue this way : "The 1890 unveiling of Jean Antoine Mercie's great equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee revealed the first major element on this unique memorial street. Afterwards, Monument Avenue seemed the logical place to erect more statues to Civil War heroes. The Lee Monument is the largest and grandest of the statues on Monument Avenue, with a 12-ton, 21' high bronze statue sitting on a 40' high granite pedestal designed by French architect Paul Pujot. Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Michael Paul Williams covered last week's standing-room only Monument Avenue Commission meeting and wrote that neither side appears willing to bend. On the supporting side, he quoted Jim Leach of Williamsburg, writing, "‘I think it's a mistake to do anything to these monuments. I believe it's a sacrilege. I believe desecration of these monuments will increase racial strife, not lessen it,' he said. ‘I would request that the blue-ribbon commission not be run as an African-American 101 class.' " On the opposing side, he quoted activist Phil Wilayto of the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, who said, "They've taken off the table the obvious option of taking the statues down...This commission is illegitimate. It cannot be the body that decides what happens to the statues." In Maryland, demands have come for removing statues and busts of Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the Dred Scott decision. Statues of General “Stonewall” Jackson, President Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee have been pulled down in New Orleans. • Pat Buchanan asked a good question in a recent column about tearing down Confederate monuments : "Many Southern towns, including Alexandria, Virginia, have statues of Confederate soldiers looking to the South. Shall we pull them all down? And once all the Southern Civil War monuments are gone, should we go after the statues of the slave owners whom we Americans have heroized? General George Washington and his subordinate, “Light Horse Harry” Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, were slave owners, as was Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and Andrew Jackson. Five of our first seven presidents owned slaves, as did James K. Polk, who invaded and annexed the northern half of Mexico, including California." • • • GINGRICH CALLS IT PANDERING. Mayors in cities with majority-black populations who order the removal of statues that note Confederate history are "pandering" in the wake of the Charlottesville violence, according to Newt Gingrich : "Mayors in towns that are largely black are going to pander to their audience. They are going to go out and prove they are popular by doing something that meets their current demagogic needs. But that's everything the Founding Fathers worried about," the Republican former House Speaker said Monday on Fox News' "The Story With Martha MacCallum." Newt said : "Having demagoguery define your country is truly dangerous. We ought to be a country focusing on the future, not a country frothing at the mouth about the past. And it tells you something about the intellectual collapse of the left." Gingrich rebuked Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan, saying : "Any person that tells you they are a neo-Nazi is telling you that they are signing up for evil." • Is Newt Gingrich calling these mayors Philistines??? Sounds like it. • • • THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE IN AMERICA. On Monday, the American Thinker published an article that quoted Pajama Media’s Roger Simon, a self-described “Jewish fella” : "The types who surfaced in Charlottesville on Saturday are certainly human beings of the most repellent and disgusting sort, murderous too -- pretty much violent, evil sociopaths. I wouldn’t mind if they were all rounded up, put in a space ship, and sent on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri." But, Simon offered some 'perspective' : "For the sake of argument, let's say there are as many as 100,000 white supremacists in America today. (This is undoubtedly a vast exaggeration, but let's use it, as I said, for the sake of argument.) Meanwhile, since the 1920s, our population has more than tripled to some 325 million. Using the figure of 100,000 white supremacists (not many of whom made it to Charlottesville fortunately), this puts the percentage of white supremacists in the US at a puny 0.03%. Terrible people, yes, but no epidemic by any stretch of the imagination." And, said Simon : "More to the point, are there more of these white supremacists than members of the equally violent and disgusting Antifa movement? Again statistics are hard to come by. (Both sides like to wear masks.) But I tend to doubt it. If anything, Antifa has been far more active, until Saturday. Obviously, none of this is to exonerate in the slightest the human excrement that descended on Charlottesville. It's just to put them in perspective." • • • PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT OBAMA PANDERED. Roger Simon is taking the long view. But, there may not be a 'long view' before long if Antifa and other Progressive groups get their way, because America as we know it will be wiped out. • Time and again, President Obama refused to condemn the violent racists of Black Lives Matter (BLM). Obama and the Democrat Party regularly encouraged the perverse cause of BLM and gave them political cover. Despite their regular use of violence, destruction, and racist rhetoric, in August of 2015, the Democratic National Committee passed a resolution “affirming” BLM. In July of 2016, at the funeral of five Dallas police officers murdered by a BLM-inspired racist, President Obama continued to defend the BLM movement. After the Dallas shootings, law enforcement leaders accused President Obama of helping to encourage a “war on cops.” Politico reported : "I think [the Obama administration] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like BLM, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible,” William Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said in an interview with Fox." • Katie Pavlich noted in 2015 : "It's time to expose the Black Lives Matter movement for what it is: a racist, violent hate group that promotes the execution of police officers. The evidence is in their rhetoric and written on their shirts." Pavlich goes on to chronicle how BLM has elevated individuals like Assata Shakur, “otherwise known as Joanne Chesimard, who shot and killed a New Jersey State Trooper back in 1973.” Last year, National Review’s David French highlighted a “sickening” essay by BLM that expressed support and admiration for -- in addition to Fidel Castro -- Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, Charles Hill, and Huey Newton. All were cop killers. French rightly asks, “How many despots and murderers must BLM praise before it’s consigned to the fringe of American life? How many riots and murders must it incite -- often through lies and hoaxes?” So far, not enough, it seems. • Despite all of this, a single incident by White Nationalists in Virginia -- with not a hint of support from President Trump or his administration -- and all of a sudden the Charlottesville racists are Trump’s “people.” Of course, eager to paint anyone on the right as a racist, describing the Virginia outlaws as “Trump’s people” has been a regular refrain from pundits on the left. In spite of all of the evidence linking Obama, the Democrats, and BLM, the Progressive mainstream media never sought to label black racists as “Obama’s people.” The double standard will continue. Instead of proving Trump a racist, more than anything else, the events in Charlottesville again reveal the depths of corruption of the Progressive Democrat Party and its pandering, Philistine media. • • • DEAR READERS, I have been sickened, revulsed and, yes, frightened by what I hnave heard and read in the anti-Trump Progressive media and from the Progressive Democrat cabal and the #NeverTrump GOP about Charlottesville. Sickened that any group of Americans could be as violently anti-constitutional in an effort to bring down a legitimate US President and the Republic with him. Revulsed by the lies and fake news created and then sworn-to by a bunch of political hacks and outlaws who hide behind their titles of Senator and Representative while they push full throttle to create a socialist / marxist totalitarain state of their chosen elites, in which no opposition or free speech or constitutional right to assembly and petition the government will be permitted. Frightened by the power these socialist / marxists seem to hold over the millions of political illiterates created by the education system run by the cabal and hawked by their MSM -- Philistine children of the Republic of Adams and Jefferson and Washington, who use violence against any attempt to oppose them. There is reason to be frightened for the future of the Republic. Thomas Lifson said on Tuesday : "The signs are all around us that the subversion and worse is afoot among those who feel that the federal government belongs to them, not to the voters of the Republic. You might even say that they think of it as "our thing." Lifson reminds us that : "We were warned last week in the words of someone who worked for Robert Mueller when he was head of the FBI. It was on CNN, so few people saw it, and as CNN habitués, they may not have considered it disturbing. Nonetheless, host Jake Tapper was sufficiently alarmed to clarify whether this was a metaphor. It was not." The person was CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd, who worked for the CIA and the FBI when Robert Mueller was Director, who last Thursday told host Jake Tapper : "Let me give you one bottom line as a former government official. The government is going to kill this guy. Trump defends Vladimir Putin, [while] their State Department, and CIA officers are coming home. And at Langley and in Foggy Bottom, CIA and State, they're saying, this is how you defend us? We saw the same thing in his transgender comments. What is the military saying to him on transgender? Show us the policy. You know what that means inside government, ain't going to happen. What did the Department of Justice say on Paul Manafort? You can say what you want, a judge told us we had cause to search his home early in the morning because we don't trust the guy who was your campaign manager. The government is going to kill this guy because he doesn't support them," Mudd declared. Jake Tapper attempted to clear up Mudd's comments, "obviously, when you're talking about killing you're using that as a metaphor." Mudd answered : "What I'm saying is government -- people talk about the Deep State -- when you disrespect government officials who've done 30 years, they're going to say, 'Really? Vladimir Putin sends US officers home and you support him before us?' " • It is a very frightening time for the Republic. Those who support President Trump and the Republic and its Constitution are the majority. But, for how long? When will it become dangerous even to say you voted for Trump?? Never, I hope. I trust in President Trump and his firm stance for the Constitution and Americans. And, some in positions of political power continue to have his back. But, most of all, I have hope for the millions of Americans who love their Republic and all it used to stand for to stay the course. Be strong. Fight the Philistines. And Never Give Up.