NBC Meet the Depressed host Kristen Welker tried to put GOP vice presidential hopeful Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) in a corner with some of former President Donald Trump’s statements as expressed in the recent presidential primary. Far from achieving her gotcha attempt, she instead spewed some lies of her own. Watch the exchange as aired on NBC’s Meet the Press: NBC MEET THE PRESS 6/30/24 10:27 AM DOUG BURGUM: Four years ago, when we ended up with the current ticket on the Democrat side, that was this grand devil's bargain of “everybody drop out, we're going with these two”. Then, the biggest lie that has been foisted on the American public was seen on Thursday night. People can't unsee what they saw. What they saw was, we've been told by the White House, two weeks ago the White House was attacking journalists, including your friends, saying that no, you can't say these stories about that Joe Biden isn't capable of serving right now. And then all of America saw it. And you know who else saw it? Our adversaries saw it, Putin saw it, Xi saw it, the Ayatollah saw it. I mean, the nation- we keep talking about elections, we're at a greater national security risk today than we were on Thursday because the Commander-in-Chief showed that he's not capable of serving. KRESTEN WELKER: Well, there's not proof of that, but Governor, let me just ask you about the debate and a little bit more of what we saw. By one count, Donald Trump made more than 30 false claims during that debate. I want to play something you told my colleague Chuck Todd on this broadcast last year, take a look. CHUCK TODD: You ever lied in politics? BURGUM: No. TODD: That you know of? You don’t believe you’ve ever lied? BURGUM: No. TODD: You feel like you've always told the truth as you understood it? BURGUM: Absolutely. That's how I was raised and how I've gone forward. WELKER: As someone who is on Donald Trump's short list to be his vice presidential nominee, do you think he should stop saying things that are not true? BURGUM: I think the whole manufactured thing this morning of -- that Donald Trump has said something that he hasn't said before, I mean, everything that he said on Thursday night he's been saying before. I mean, so this isn't -- WELKER: But this- is not manufactured, Governor. BURGUM: This is not news. WELKER: But this is not manufactured, Governor. I mean, just to say a few: he said that Democrats want to kill infants after birth. That's not true. He again lied about widespread fraud. Not true. He lied about his comments after Charlottesville. Should he be truthful with the American people if he wants to lead this country? BURGUM: Well, it’s… WELKER: Especially given what you just said that YOU never lie. That’s YOUR standard, Governor. There is what clumsy Alinkyism looks like on TV, this digging up of some footage in order to apply Rule #4 (hold the enemy to their own rules) with Burgum. But in fact these things were true.  In order to accept Welker’s premise on abortion as true, one has to concede that Democrats do not want to “kill infants after birth”, or more specifically, provide lifesaving care to abortion survivors. This is disproved by the widely-circulated video of former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam discussing what should happen to abortion survivors, which Trump alluded to in the debate.  Likewise election results, for which there is still litigation ongoing. And, at least in Pennsylvania, reasonable people agree that the state Supreme Court should not have overruled the State Legislature and imposed universal mail-in ballots or dictated they be counted in violation of state law.  But the most egregious lie is Welker saying that what Trump said about Charlottesville at the debate is untrue. After sitting on it for seven years, Snopes officially debunked the “good people on both sides” hoax. Trump was, in fact, “exonerated”. But the most outrageous bit of hackery is Welker waving off national security concerns now that Biden’s debate performance is public proof evident of an obvious and ongoing cognitive decline. There is, in fact, evidence of that. Welker seems unaware of the shift that Biden’s performance has triggered, and she is still operating as though the Regime Media were in the Before Times. And like Biden, she has little time to adjust to the new landscape.  

News of the recent violent protest outside a Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles got a standard pro-Palestinian New York Times whitewash from reporters Jill Cowan and Jonathan Wolfe. Much of their take was devoted not to the violence committed by thugs against Jewish people entering a house of worship, but to an abstract defense of the right to protest supposedly coming under threat by Democrats, including President Biden. As if using bear spray and masks and chants of “Intifada!” were normal parts of constitutionally protected protests (none of those gory details made it into the NYT story, as opposed to the more comprehensive one that appeared in the synagogue’s local Los Angeles Times.)   A protest outside of a synagogue in Los Angeles’s most densely populated Jewish enclave on Sunday drew unusually swift and forceful condemnation from top Democratic leaders including President Biden, reigniting debates about the boundaries of acceptable protest as tensions over the war in Gaza continue to flare across the country. The president, along with Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles, joined Jewish groups in seeking to cast synagogues and other houses of worship as off-limits to demonstrators. “Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American,” Mr. Biden said in a statement posted on Monday on social media. “Americans have a right to peaceful protest. But blocking access to a house of worship — and engaging in violence — is never acceptable.” Pro-Palestinian groups criticized that characterization, defending Sunday’s demonstration and arguing that protesting an event at a synagogue was not inherently antisemitic. In this case, demonstrators were protesting a real estate fair at Adas Torah synagogue, where attendees were invited to meet “representatives of housing projects in all the best Anglo neighborhoods in Israel” on Sunday afternoon. …. Mr. Biden was, in essence, claiming that it adhered to American values “to use a place of worship to illegally sell ‘Anglo neighborhoods’ on stolen, occupied land,” organizers with the antiwar activist group Code Pink, which supported Sunday’s demonstration, said in a statement. “This mischaracterization by President Biden is outrageous and has real consequences.” Rabbi Dovid Revah of Adas Torah said the event was the first of its kind that the synagogue had hosted, and it would probably be the last. Still, he disputed that the event was promoting illegal land sales. The reporters shrugged their shoulders over who started what, though the pro-Hamas contingent are almost invariably the violence-stokers in these situations. After some back and forth about violence at the UCLA encampment, and the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles and Democratic governor of California noting the anti-Semitism, the utterly discredited, Hamas-linked Islamic pressure group CAIR somehow got quoted as an expert source. Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that protests should never involve violence, but also that the right to speak out should not be limited. Naturally, the smug ACLU was on the scene. Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel for First Amendment rights at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, says that violence and blocking access to buildings are never protected under the First Amendment. But protesting outside of houses of worship is protected speech -- a fact, he noted, that the Supreme Court has affirmed. He added that leaders’ quickness to condemn the protest as antisemitic, without knowing specifics about the violence, was troubling. That impulse, Mr. Eliasberg said, was something he observed in responses to the campus protests, as well. “In some of the responses, it’s really sloppy thinking and some ignorance or deliberate ignoring of what the Constitution protects,” he said. By contrast, the Los Angeles Times managed to report less flattering facts about this “constitutional” protest: Eden Cohen said a handful of LAPD officers were standing at the entrance of the synagogue, apparently trying to keep protesters from going inside. Her throat and eyes burned from the bear spray that saturated the air, she said, adding that she saw Jewish people on the ground after being sprayed with the irritant as others tried to help them….

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