Guest Post by Ann Coulter
Great news for Joe Biden. After months of abysmal public approval numbers, President Biden’s favorability among registered voters has soared by 2 points to 45%! And all he had to do was bring us to the brink of World War III.
The media are thrilled with the possibility of nuclear war with Russia. Catastrophes are terrific for ratings, and flood-the-zone coverage of a war between two faraway countries that has almost zero effect on the lives of most Americans allows journalists to act like deep-think, geopolitical strategists (after having quickly looked up “Ukraine” on Wikipedia).
They dragged out the COVID panic porn for two straight years. By now, the only people still interested in pandemic updates are hysterical liberal women in Manhattan claiming to have “long-haul COVID.”
The national pastime has segued seamlessly from watching TV anchors cry on TV about the coronavirus to watching TV anchors cry on TV about the fate of Ukrainian children.
Of course, when American kids are murdered expressly as a result of our own government’s policies, the journalism protocol is: No crying, no coverage.
There will be no tears for the 5-year-old Florida girl killed in October when an illegal alien from Guatemala, Ernesto Lopez Morales, tanked up on six 32-ounce beers, then plowed into the little girl and her mother as he was driving to get more beer.
Nor for Texas teenager Adrienne Sophia Exum, killed instantly one Sunday afternoon in 2020 when Heriberto Fuerte-Padilla, an illegal alien from Mexico, smashed into the car she was driving, then fled the scene. There’s even some news: The Biden administration announced that Fuerte-Padilla will not be deported.
And there will be no weeping for the still-unidentified mother and daughter, aged 59 and 22, killed last December when a human smuggler (a “U.S. citizen,” aka “anchor baby”) carrying six illegals across the border into Texas, sped through a stop sign and T-boned the pair.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but the media’s obsessive focus on Ukraine is terrific for the interests of the Democratic Party. Recall that, in his 2012 book, “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind,” then-UCLA professor Tim Groseclose demonstrated that media bias alone costs Republicans about 8 to 10 percentage points in elections.
And that was 2012. One can only imagine what it is in post-Trump 2022. If only we could return to the junior varsity media bias of 2012!
Until the war in Ukraine, the Democrats were facing midterms after having spent the previous two years mandating masks and an endless series of vaccinations — even for the vaccinated or previously infected.
Democrats flung open the border to illegal alien murderers, drug dealers, gang members and welfare recipients.
Democratic district attorneys have turned city after city into feces-smeared murdertopias that make Charles Bronson’s “Death Wish” look like “The Sound of Music.”
These days, the left’s main casus belli is teaching little kids about anal sex, transgenders and the inherent evil of white people.
What could even Stalin’s media do with that record?
Option 1) Implement a collective mind wipe, perhaps through an electromagnetic pulse, to erase voters’ memory of everything that’s happened since Joe Biden was sworn in.
Option 2) WAR! (Someplace in the world that’s not here.)
What crisis at our border? We’re reporting on a WAR.
How can you talk about murder rates when CHILDREN ARE DYING IN UKRAINE?
What vaccine mandates? COVID is over. Now we’re talking about war!
Everything bad that’s happening is Putin’s fault! He’s like Hitler!
Talk about Russian collusion! Putin gave Trump Facebook ads; he’s giving Biden a military invasion.
By now, the media have whipped the public into such a frenzy over Ukraine that a majority of Americans want the U.S. to start shooting down Russian planes, starting World War III with nuclear armed power.
A small price to pay for Democratic dominance.
But much like American military interventions around the globe, things don’t always go as planned.
The Democrats’ media helpers might want to recall President George H.W. Bush’s 89% favorable rating in 1991 — the highest presidential job approval rating then on record, according to Gallup.
Those astronomical numbers came as a result of the conclusion of the Persian Gulf War, when we went to war with Saddam Hussein because he had invaded neighboring Kuwait — violating that nation’s sacred sovereignty! — and proceeded to commit unspeakable war crimes, including using poison gas. The first week of that war, Bush’s poll numbers shot from 64% to 82%.
Republicans had a lock on the next year’s presidential contest. No serious Democrats were willing to challenge him, and the party ended up with a horny hick from Arkansas as their nominee.
And then it all collapsed. By Election Day 1992, Bush’s public approval rating was down to a pathetic 34%. The h*rny hick won the election, and Bush became an embarrassing one-term president.
On the military side, at least the Middle East was finally at peace. We never heard a peep out of Hussein again. Wait — what happened?
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Third in Line…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAZpHaRnHY
Astounding.
I betcha she didn’t dump out any of her bottles of Russian vodka, except maybe into a beaker or a blender.
How Dare You ever intimate that SanFranNan would dilute her fine chilled Russian vodka with anything in a blender.
Clearly people have lost the ability to notice something as obvious as alcohol induced dementia (Wernicke- Korsakoff Syndrome).
Is it that or did she have a stroke? Or both? WTF
Think about it…we already have a pompous buffoon who hasn’t had a good idea in his 40+ years in politics, and riddled with dementia, next up a for real moron who can’t even read at a 7th grade level and thinks people dying around the world is a laughing matter, and then this drunk bitch….we are well and truly screwed
Nancy Pelosi :Born: March 26, 1940
Literally older than dirt.
Oh noes, the puppet master will have to use his right hand for the next two years.
…And Ann being the savvy Washington pundit that you are you surely realize that there is no way they will let the war be over before the election. It is all they have. Imagine that… appealing to patriotism for the Ukraine while pursuing and prosecuting those who are patriotic to America. Quite a stunning contradiction which I believe the GOP will take advantage of.
GOP, Girlish Old Panhandlers WILL NOT solve anything as they are as much the problem as the Devilcrats. Not 10 cents worth of difference between these self serving groups! 21% pay increase anyone? How much have you gotten this year?
Sadly, the MSM’s repeating the socialist democrat party line as though it were true—is working. I am amazed at how many people I’ve spoken with who believe our inflation and gas prices are the direct fault of Putin. Almost no one remembers that the CPI and especially gasoline were spiraling up long before the invasion and even before the Biden public warnings to Putin to not invade. And these are voters.
Robert Heinlein: “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
Winston Churchill: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
War!!! Now back to our regularly scheduled programming… climate change…
and supply issues because…. climate change
The Media will cheer when Biden assaults the Kremlin on his hobby horse with an ice cream in one hand and the reins of his hobby horse in the other to recover that hour Putin stole a few days ago.
Next Spring, Putin will once again steal the hour again and that time he is likely to keep it.
Bush League…Was the scandal of the day, for a minute.
“But for a brief period, the war treated Prescott Bush rather well.
In June, 1918, just as his father took over responsibility for relations of the government with the private arms producers, Prescott went to Europe with the U.S. Army. His unit did not come near any fire until September. But on August 8, 1918, the following item appeared on the front page of Bush’s home-town newspaper:
High Military Honors Conferred on Capt. Bush
For Notable Gallantry, When Leading Allied Commanders Were Endangered, Local Man is Awarded French, English and U.S. Crosses.
International Honors, perhaps unprecedented in the life of an American soldier, have been conferred upon Captain Prescott Sheldon Bush, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Bush of Columbus.
Upon young Bush … were conferred: Cross of the Legion of Honor, … Victoria Cross, … Distinguished Service Cross….
Conferring of the three decorations upon one man at one time implies recognition of a deed of rare valor and probably of great military importance as well.
From word which has reached Columbus during the last few days, it appears as if the achievement of Captain Bush well measures up to these requirements.
The incident occurred on the western front about the time the Germans were launching their great offensive of July 15…. The history of the remarkable victory scored later by the allies might have been written in another vein, but for the heroic and quick action of Captain Bush.
The … three allied leaders, Gen. [Ferdinand] Foch, Sir Douglas Haig and Gen. [John J.] Pershing … were making an inspection of American positions. Gen. Pershing had sent for Captain Bush to guide them about one sector…. Suddenly Captain Bush noticed a shell coming directly for them. He shouted a warning, suddenly drew his bolo knife, stuck it up as he would a ball bat, and parried the blow, causing the shell to glance off to the right….
Within 24 hours young Bush was notified … [that] the three allied commanders had recommended him for practically the highest honors within their gift…. Captain Bush is 23 years old, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1917. He was one of Yale’s best- known athletes … was leader of the glee club … and in his senior year was elected to the famous Skull and Bones Society”
Wag the fucking dog until we are all immolated in a nuclear war
to hide all the crimes that put that grifter in a position to kill us all.
FJB and the Kenyan pulling his strings.