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CNN Falls Below The Hallmark Channel In Prime Time Viewers

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 gags

Can you say sinking ship? CNN Falls Below The Hallmark Channel In Prime Time Viewers

It’s a sad thing. If CNN didn’t pay Airports across the country to broadcast their leftist lies no one would be watching.

From The Adweek Network TV Newser:

Basic Cable Ranker: Week of Feb. 5

Another week, another win for Fox News in prime time and in total day.

FNC ranked No. 1 across cable in total day (6 a.m. – 6 a.m.) for the fifth consecutive week, and dominated by a significant margin. That said, the network was -13 percent in total day viewers from the comparable week in 2017.

The network earned another No. 1 finish for the week of Feb. 5 in prime time viewers. But similar to its performance in total day, FNC was -13 percent in prime time versus the same week last year.

Despite the year-over-year audience declines, Fox News programming were among the most-watched across all of cable this past week. Hannity, Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Ingraham Angle made up 11 of the top 20 telecasts in total viewers.

FNC also finished No. 4 in the prime time demo (A25-54), ahead of MSNBC (No. 13) and CNN (No. 19).

MSNBC scored another top 5 finish, both in prime time (No. 2 overall), and in total day (No. 3 overall). Not only did MSNBC keep its spot in the top 5, but it posted double digit growth in prime time viewers (+22 percent) and in total day viewers (+26 percent).

MSNBC defeated rival CNN in the prime time demo, but fell short to CNN among A25-54 across total day (No. 15 vs. No. 12).

CNN, as mentioned knocked off its rival MSNBC among adults 25-54 in total day, but struggled relative to last year in prime time. The network was -30 percent in total prime time viewers, and -23 percent in total day viewers from last year.

Basic cable ranker: Week of Feb. 5 (total viewers):

https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/965398100524261377

People are turning to Hallmark, instead of CNN, for decent programming. They don’t want to hear the constant bad things and the obvious lies about our President; a man who is working overtime to save our country!

h/t American Lookout

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White House Meetings On Ukraine Coincide With Time Of Russian Fingerprint Fabrications

August 12, 2017August 21, 2017 gags

At the same time the Guccifer “Hack” was taking place, Joe Biden was hosting a meeting with 18 Ukrainians. Very unusual for him. Warren Flood was a consultant for Biden. Warren Flood was the name the Microsoft account was registered to on the Guccifer documents.

More Ukrainian connections. Also be sure to watch the video below where Imprisoned Romanian hacker ‘Guccifer’ tells Fox News that ‘Guccifer 2.0’ could be the U.S. State Department.

From Adam Carter [April 29th, 2017]:

In my research to investigate the real identity of Guccifer 2.0, I discovered that the name Warren Flood applied to more documents than had originally been reported and highlighted the unusual nature of those documents both in terms of the metadata and the RSIDs (and Russian Stylesheet that existed in multiple documents even before the content in each document did) and explained that this demonstrates an effort to try to discredit Wikileaks by blaming leaks on Russian hackers.

Considering where copies of Microsoft Word installed by Flood (highlighted in the photo above with Biden) might exist besides on computers he owns, I considered his past role as Sen. Joe Biden’s Technology Director (as noted on his Linked-In profile) and thought one place to look for interesting activity would be computers residing in Biden’s office or generally at the White House.

So, I wondered who may have visited Biden that day around that time. I thought I’d check out visits to the White House hosted by Biden, wondering whether there’d be any interesting activity anywhere near 1:38pm on June 15th 2016.

It turns out that Biden was hosting visits from a number of Ukrainians around that time, on that date. To see how frequent this sort of activity occurred I checked the whole of June. – It seems such visits were not a regular occurance.

(Times below are appointment times, some individuals turned up before their 2pm appointment)

An attempt to quickly identify visitors in June showed the following had a Ukraine connection:

While this doesn’t prove anything, it certainly is a curious coincidence to stumble upon while looking for activity of people that might have had a motive (or helped with an effort) to frame Russia.

US visitors that day also have ties back to events surrounding the Ukrainian 2014 revolution and/or reporting on it (with the exception of Kuklish who is an English-Ukrainian translator) and most had worked or were working in the State Department.

It’s worth nothing that Nuland and Pyatt were both embroiled in a diplomatic crisis in 2014 when a conversation they had was posted to YouTube showing that the US was interfering in Ukraine’s politics (The State Department and the White House blamed Russia’s vice-president Dmitryi Rogozin for the leak.)

I’m not going to get into speculation. I’ve let journalists who have written extensively on the Ukraine coup know about this and will leave this up to them to pursue, if they wish to.

UPDATE [May 2nd]: A closer look at the actual booking/arrival times, room numbers, other visits, etc. shows that, on the 15th, there were effectively 2 meetings. One of which had at least 18 individuals attending (Stoliarchuk is listed at 1:30pm and 2:00pm) and another with at least 4 attending.

‘Guccifer’ to Fox News: ‘Guccifer 2.0’ is not Russia, it’s the US Government

Imprisoned Romanian hacker ‘Guccifer’ talks exclusively to Fox News about the DNC email hack, Hillary Clinton’s private email server and claims ‘Guccifer 2.0’ could be the U.S. State Department.

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FLASHBACK – CIA Director David Petraeus: “We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher”

March 11, 2017 gags

In a 2012 Wired article, entitled, “CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher,” then CIA Director David Petraeus heralded emerging technologies in relation to spying.

FLASHBACK - CIA Director David Petraeus: "We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher" — CIA Director David Petraeus unwinds with some Wii Golf, 2008. Photo: Wikimedia

With Wikileaks latest, largest dump of confidential CIA files ever published, the world is beginning to realize just how far gone our privacy rights are. They have become virtually nonexistent thanks to Obama’s two terms in office.

As far back as a five years ago, then CIA Director General David Petraeus was touting how hi-tech advances offered countless ways Americans can be spied on.

With the rise of the “Smart Home,” you are sending tagged, Geo-located data that the CIA can intercept in real-time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.

The CIA had a plan that smart meters, smart phones, smart TVs and other smart household devices installed in every hopelessly “Dumbed Down” American’s home would permit the Deep State complete invasive access to you in the un-private, unsafe sanctuary you call home.

From Wired March 2012:

MORE AND MORE personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.

Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.

“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,” Petraeus said, “the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”

Petraeus allowed that these household spy devices “change our notions of secrecy” and prompt a rethink of “our notions of identity and secrecy.” All of which is true — if convenient for a CIA director.

The CIA has a lot of legal restrictions against spying on American citizens. But collecting ambient geolocation data from devices is a grayer area, especially after the 2008 carve-outs to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Hardware manufacturers, it turns out, store a trove of geolocation data; and some legislators have grown alarmed at how easy it is for the government to track you through your phone or PlayStation.

That’s not the only data exploit intriguing Petraeus. He’s interested in creating new online identities for his undercover spies — and sweeping away the “digital footprints” of agents who suddenly need to vanish.

“Proud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come,” Petraeus observed. “Moreover, we have to figure out how to create the digital footprint for new identities for some officers.”

It’s hard to argue with that. Online cache is not a spy’s friend. But Petraeus has an inadvertent pal in Facebook.

Why? With the arrival of Timeline, Facebook made it super-easy to backdate your online history. Barack Obama, for instance, hasn’t been on Facebook since his birth in 1961. Creating new identities for CIA non-official cover operatives has arguably never been easier. Thank Zuck, spies. Thank Zuck.

Former CIA director Petraeus says US spies have damaged their relationship with Silicon Valley again #Vault7 https://t.co/r0iLPGxoyP

— WikiLeaks Task Force (@WLTaskForce) March 10, 2017

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Obama’s Treatment Of The Mainstream Media

February 25, 2017February 25, 2017 gags

Remember when Obama framed the Mainstream Media as the opposition party?

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

Attacking the news media is a time-honored White House tactic but to an unusual degree, the Obama administration has narrowed its sights to one specific organization, the Fox News Channel, calling it, in essence, part of the political opposition.

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

Her comments are only the latest in the volatile exchange between the administration and the top-rated network, which is owned by the News Corporation, controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Last month, Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, and David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Obama, met for coffee in New York, in what Politico, which last week broke that news, labeled a “Fox summit.”

While neither party has said what was discussed, some have speculated that a truce, or at least an adjustment in tone, was at issue. (Mr. Ailes and Mr. Obama reportedly reached a temporary accord after a meeting in mid-2008.) But shots are still being fired, which animates the idea that both sides see benefits in the feud.

Fox seems to relish the controversy.

“Instead of governing, the White House continues to be in campaign mode, and Fox News is the target of their attack mentality,” Michael Clemente, the channel’s senior vice president for news, said in a statement on Sunday. “Perhaps the energy would be better spent on the critical issues that voters are worried about.”

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Or how about the time, back in 2008, when OBAMA Kicked reporters off his plane because their papers had endorsed John McCain?

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The Battling Boys Of Benghazi

July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 gags

A short poem you won’t forget.

Do you recall Obama referring to the Benghazi incident as “a bump in the road?”

Today, I heard an ex-Navy Seal being interviewed on Fox News regarding a book he has written about how to handle crisis situations in our lives .

At the end of the interview he asked if he could make a comment on Benghazi, and of course the anchor said “yes.”

He then thanked Fox News for keeping the Benghazi story in the news, since other news organizations are not.

He said the Seals who died deserve the public knowing the truth about the whole affair.

The poem was written by an anonymous Marine Corps officer:

“THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGHAZI”

We’re the battling boys of Benghazi,

No fame, no glory, no paparazzi.

Just a fiery death in a blazing hell,

Defending our country we loved so well.

It wasn’t our job, but we answered the call,

fought to the Consulate and scaled the wall.

We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate

Led them to safety and stood at the gate.

Just the two of us and foes by the score,

But we stood fast to bar the door.

Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,

So we fought and we fought and we fought

’til we died.

We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,

But Barack and Hillary didn’t give a damn.

Just two dead Seals who carried the load

No thanks to us…we were just

“Bumps In The Road”.

So, will this reach every American with a computer? Or do we act like the press and give a pass to the people who literally sat there in the White House and watched the Seals’ execution on live streaming video and did absolutely nothing?

The Obama Administration obviously won’t be held accountable because they apparently accept Hilary Clinton’s assessment, “What difference does it make?”

And she wants to be the next President?

Pray she is not!”