Democrat Mayor of Winnsboro arrested on 6 counts of Medicaid fraud

Alice Wallace, the Democrat mayor of Winnsboro, Louisiana (a small town in Franklin Parish), was arrested on April 21, 2026, and charged with six counts of government benefits fraud related to an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme.

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Wallace, 50, is accused of fraudulently receiving Medicaid benefits for herself and a dependent from 2021 through 2026, totaling about $75,000, while ineligible due to her income and employment.

She allegedly failed to report changes in household income, marital status, employment (including her role as mayor), and access to employer-provided health insurance.

One count corresponds to each year of the alleged fraud. The investigation started from a referral by the Louisiana Department of Health.

She was arrested by the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (under Attorney General Liz Murrill) and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. She turned herself in.BackgroundWallace became Winnsboro's first female mayor in 2022, winning by a narrow 12-vote margin. 

Wallace, like Chris Wallace [no relation] is a Democrat, in case I didn't mention it.

The charges cover a period including her time in office. Wallace has denied the allegations, calling them politically motivated ahead of her re-election bid (primary on May 16, 2026). At least she didn't call those who made allegations 'racists'. She pleaded not guilty, naturally.

In a Facebook post, Wallace stated she would be "vindicated" and blamed interference (including references to "the devil" in some reports) for trying to derail her campaign. The case is pending in Franklin Parish court.

This is a developing story.

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Chris Wallace's ratings have gone beyond circling the bowl

Imagine having a tv show that few people watch on a network that few people watch and when your show goes off air more people tune into the network that not many people tune into in the first place. 

That's Chris Wallace's show called "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?" And in answer to the question: hardly anyone is watching. In fact, more people turn you off when you're on, and turn the Contemptible News Network (CNN) back on, when you're off. CNN viewers seem to go out of their way to find something else to do when your show is on than torture themselves to watch you. [H/T The Western Journal]

This was in spite of a media blitz to hype for Wallace's  weekend interview show after he left his long-standing position at the number one cable network news outlet, Fox News in December 2021 to go to CNN+. 

But that CNN venture collapsed in April after less than a month in operation and Wallace was left out in the cold.

CNN tried to revive the failed liberal's career but his show didn't even crack 500 thousand viewers. Nielsen numbers had him at 462,000 and that's just a little more than the number of travelers on an India train [if you don't include the riders on the roof]. 

Fox News’ “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy kicked butt in that time slot by a triple-digit advantage and double-digits in the 25-54 age demographic. Wallace drew a mere 58,000 to Gowdy's 72,000.

CNN drew 78,000 eyeballs in the 25-54 age bracket between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., but when Wallace came on it dropped to 58,000 in the same age bracket and after he signed off, it jumped back up to 71,000 in the 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. hour earning Wallace the moniker "Human Repellent."

The good news for Wallace and Fox News is that his show was renewed for another season in December.

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Rumor has it Chris Wallace is miffed about CNN+ and his future

Chris Wallace left Fox News to join CNN+ and it turned out to be a career move similar to an F22 fighter pilot joining a Kamikaze unit to end his career. Except in Wallace's case, he thought he was signing up with an elite F35 squadron. He went from first to worst with a streaming service that gets fewer views than a YouTube education channel teaching seashell painting in Portuguese.

Seriously, Wallace went from Fox, the number one cable news network, to CNN, the number one network in fake news, tied with MSNBC, and is lucky to get 10,000 viewers, if that much. Really. 

People who watch Fox News are delighted he's gone. The guy is a flaming liberal whose politics became obvious when he hosted the 2020 presidential debates, in which he made Candy Crowley look unbiased when she hosted the Obama-Romney debacle and gave Barack the answer to a question with which he was having trouble.

Perhaps it was the Jeff Zucker charm that got Chris to abandon Fox's USS Constitution to board CNN's HMS Titanic, a ship that ended with a cold, pitiable gurgle. Then Zucker resigned in a scandal having to do with an affair with a colleague and ending in the Cuomo garbage heap, but Wallace wasn't expecting this, that's for sure.

But Wallace should have seen what he was getting into, at least to some degree better than he did. His contempt for Fox News was too much for him to continue to digest, and that made leaving a lot easier.

Now, according to a report, he’s throwing daily tantrums over how bad CNN+ sucks.

Reliable sources say Wallace is "having daily breakdowns," over the "miserable launch" of CNN+ and a reliable source says Chris wants a "CNN show or is threatening to walk," or in Wallace's case, to take a limo home.

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Supposedly, Wallace is having staffers count how many times a day his promo is playing, and is pushing for Fredo Cuomo's time slot.

One can only imagine what the Lemon-Wallace handoff would look like if that dream of his comes true.

LEMON: I love you, Chris.

WALLACE: You must have me confused with another Chris.

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CNN+ is a minus with viewers: cuts to follow

You get more people on the roof of a bus bound for New Delhi than the new subscription service CNN+ gets. The network recently acquired Chris Wallace from Fox News and believe it or not, it still sucked because people are tired of Orange Man Bad. They can't even get 10,000 suckers to watch it.

“Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence,” CNBC reported. “To put that daily user number in perspective, CNN’s cable network suffered a sharp decline in viewership last year but still rang up an average of 773,000 total viewers a day.”

The report sparked serious skepticism as to whether the Compromised News Nebbishes can obtain enough demand to keep it going, but you would think that with a leftist like Chris Wallace somebody on the left would be watching. 

Not so much.

Axios reported that CNN’s investment in the streaming service is slated to be dramatically cut and that projections as to the number of subscribers CNN+ was expected to get will also be significantly reduced.

“The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service over the next four years,” Axios reported. “CNN executives, with help from consulting firm McKinsey, originally expected to bring in around 2 million subscribers in the U.S. in the service’s first year and 15-18 million after four years.”

Now they're figuring about a dozen more than they already have. 

The report said that “hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut” from the projected $1 billion investment in the service and that the company’s new leadership team has not yet decided the fate of the struggling service, but none of the money is expected to go to feed the homeless, build a wall, add to any law enforcement budget, or go to the RNC.

“They originally planned for the service to break even after four years,” the report jokingly added. “Much of the subscriber opportunity executives see comes from international markets.”

For every billion bucks, CNN thought there would be a billion schmucks. Guess not.

Ex-WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, who left the company last week, pushed the launch of CNN+ before CNN merged with Discovery. He must be having a good laugh.

CNN+ made big news when they announced that they had grabbed leftist Chris Wallace away from Fox News, to the delight of the Fox News audience who won't forget how suckworthy Wallace was as emcee of the 2020 presidential debate.

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Author Ann Coulter had the best take: “I’m guessing Chris Wallace is going to ‘CNN Plus’ because ‘CNN Minus’ would be redundant.”

What prescience.

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CNN's Dr. Don Lemon believes Trump was "hopped up" on performance-enhancing drugs at debate

Compromised News Nazis' (CNN) Doctor Donald Lémon, who hosts a progressive entertainment show with frequent guest, CNN"s very own Fredo Cuomo, picked himself off the floor and left his favorite West Village establishment, "Leather Straps and Cowboy Chaps Bar" to watch Tuesday's Presidential Debates featuring President Trump vs. Chris Wallace and some old blithering guy who spent a lot of his time apparently checking his fly.

Dr, Lemon, a self-described expert on drugs that hops you up, said that while watching Trump go up against Wallace and the old guy, he thought that the President was "hopped up" on drugs.

“I felt like I was watching a kid whose doctor had prescribed him too much Adderall,” Dr. Lémon said as he made a comically exaggerated sniffing sound for added effect, while Fredo playfully made farting sounds with his hand in his armpit.

“Yeah,” Fredo added. “You can’t just reach in the medicine cabinet... and hope it works.”

Lėmon then asked, “Am I wrong?”

"No, you're cute. We're both cute and look, I work out. Check out these guns."

"Wow," the expert on hopped up doctor said.

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Comical News Network snubbed from debate moderation

CNN Moderator to Trump: President Trump, how have you coped with your abject failures as President? How ashamed are you?
CNN Moderator to Joe Biden: Mr. Vice President, it's an honor, sir. My question to you is, what is the one thing you would like to see happen in your presidency that you haven't already accomplished as Vice President?

This is how a Comical News Network (CNN) moderator would sound if that network was allowed to put in a Biden shill. Thankfully, that will not happen because the network is being snubbed for the debate(s) and this is for obvious reasons.

The whiners at CNN are now whining publicly that Chris Wallace [who is not shill for Trump, that's for certain] a Fox News host, is moderating the September 29th debate.

Speaking on CNN's "Newsroom," socialist host Brianna Keiller, seemed to be clueless as to how Chris Wallace, a person who appears left-leaning. would get the chance to moderate while working for a network that doesn't believe Trump should be thrown out of office in disgrace, incarcerated for being a wise ass, and made to give up all his wealth to Black Lives Matter and Antifa. She believes that Fox News, not the Compromised News Network [aka Comical News Network; aka Communist News Network] who "tells it like it feels."

“The presidential debates are set and Fox News’ Chris Wallace will monitor the first between President Trump and Joe Biden,” said Keillar, as reported by Newsbusters. “The debate commission giving the September 29th face-off to Fox despite propaganda, dishonesty, and the fact that some Fox hosts advise President Trump,” unlike Jake Tapper who only advises Republicans not to run against Democrats is state elections, or Donna Brazile who gave Hillary Clinton debate questions and who [unfortunately] works for Fox News.

Keillar, known for having the self-awareness of a crouton, then asked CNN senior reporter Oliver Darcy if perhaps the presence of Chris Wallace, who she admitted is a fair journalist, will somehow legitimize Fox News.

Let's be real. Fox News leans to the right but their actual reporters like Brett Baier, Bill Hemmer and several others, are quite fair. CNN, on the other hand, is extremely bias and far-right leaning. They leave out details and create hoaxes like the "good people on both sides" hoax in which they made it sound as if Trump was praising white supremacists and Antifa, when his next sentence clearly explained who he meant. CNN left it out, like they also forgot to report that President Trump has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Propaganda? Ha!


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Love Gov. wants a go at Trump in primary challenge

The following is satire based on the real news.

Former husband of Jenny Sanford and former Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford has decided the American people have waited long enough for his absolution to kick in and now it's time to return to the big arena of politics. He announced Sunday that he is running for president as a Republican.

Sanford said the GOP faces an identity crisis having elected a "wife cheater" to the highest office in the land and when questioned by Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" about his own "wife cheating," Sanford said, "When it's love, it isn't cheating, and right now the Republican Party needs to do some soul searching."

"I think we have to have a conversation about what it means to be a Republican," Sanford told Wallace, claiming the party "has lost our way." His current partner, María Belén Chapur, is living with him but it is unclear if she plans to help his campaign as Jenny Sanford did when he ran for governor.

Keeping the onus off his personal foibles and infidelity, Sanford spoke about the debt, deficit and government spending, pretending like every politician who wanted to be elected that he would forcefully lower all of those economic areas. 

Sanford also challenged Trump's tactics when it comes to trade, saying that engaging the world when it comes to trade is "one of the hallmarks of the Republican Party."

He also brought up political culture, which he said has been "damaged" by Trump, but not by him. "Back home in South Carolina, we don't call it cheating--that's a reserved word for poker--here we call it 'following your heart.'"

"We need to have a conversation about humility," Sanford said, blasting Trump's social media habits by claiming that a tweet "is not leadership." "Humility is what won María's heart," he added.

When pressed on why he is running a race that he knows he will likely lose, Sanford, trying his best to sound sagacious said, "this is the beginning of a long walk, but it begins with a first step.”

Chris Wallace called out Sanford over his own behavior, particularly the stretch in which for nearly a week in 2009 during his term as governor, he was missing from his job, and eventually admitted that he was in Argentina doing things with María, and not hiking the Appalachian Trail like his former mouthpiece had claimed after 15 phone calls were made trying to locate him.

"Oh, I profoundly apologized for that and the other women I bedded over the last 20 years," he said. "But Trump never said he's sorry for what he did and I said I'm sorry. My dear mother always told me, 'if you ever lie, say you're sorry and the lie will disappear.' And she was a vegetarian."

Trump, as is his wont, trolled Sanford after his scandal was made public, but Sanford claimed that his campaign against "that b****** Trump."

Sanford is now the third Republican to announce a run against Trump in the primaries, with former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh previously announcing their campaigns. Most pundits believe that between the three of them running, it might take a total of 12 votes away from Trump, if that many.

Jenny Sanford

Sanford resigned as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association and was succeeded by Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) although in an email of June 29 to members of his political action committee, Sanford said he had no intention of resigning as governor.

On August 25th, however, he was warned by state representatives Nathan Ballentine and Gary Simrill that if he didn't resign, he would be impeached, but he still stubbornly declined because he had no other marketable skills other than being a politician or a sex toy.

On December 3, after the third public hearing on impeachment, the ad hoc committee unanimously voted to remove most of the charges against Sanford saying that it didn't warrant "overturning an election." By December 6 the committee voted 6-1 against impeachment, stating that they had better things to do than dealing with this reprobate. 

But they all voted to censure him.

On December 15, 2009, the House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to censure Sanford 102-11 in January 2010.. The eleven who did not vote to censure him may have had guilty consciences of their own.

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Bobby [Bozo] O'Rourke would do Fox town hall

"Who sat on the mic?"

Former Texas Rep. and former U.S. Senatorial losing candidate, and former guitarist and failed writer,  Beto O'Rourke said Monday that he would be grateful to participate in a town hall hosted by Fox News because his poll numbers are so bad, it's possible that not even his wife would vote for him. Of course, she has an excuse--Beto tried to slip her a turd from their son's diaper and pretended it was a green avocado.

O'Rourke's willingness to go on Fox is a break with a number of his campaign rivals.

When asked at a campaign stop in Iowa about whether he'd be willing to appear on an actual non-leftist cable network, he told so-called reporters that he "absolutely" would be. 

After all, if he's willing to go on YouTube to show the American people that just like us, he gets his hair cut and goes to the dentist, why not go on Fox? 

Just hope he never goes for a colonoscopy.

“This campaign is about going to where people are, and you see that physically in where I show up [like he did in Mexico.] But it also has to be in those channels or those social media streams where people get their news and their information. That also includes Fox.”

Incidentally, more people watch Fox than any of those leftist networks.

The presidential hopeful said he was unaware of any current talks between his team and Fox News, which Democratic Party leadership said earlier this year was too biased to host any of its primary debates this cycle. Perhaps Fox doesn't want to waste their time with a loser.

O'Rourke's remarks come one day after South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) participated in a town hall on the network that drew 1.1 million total viewers. It was a smart move on his part because if he screwed up, he could blame the conservative attackers at Fox [which of course Chris Wallace is not.] If he was successful [which it appears he was] he'd reach tons of folks.

Sens. Bernie "Comrade" Sanders (I-VT) and Amy "Clean This" Klobachar (D-MN) have also done events hosted by Fox News. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) will appear in a Fox News town hall on June 2 and I have already put that in my Google calendar to make sure I'm doing something else.

Other candidates, however, have refused to appear in the network's events.

Sen. Elizabeth "Dances with Heritage" Warren (D-MA) accused Fox News of being a "hate-for-profit machine" while saying that she would never appear in a town hall hosted by the network. She is kind of stupid if she really wants a shot at "Heap Big" prize of the Democratic nomination.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has also indicated she would refuse a town hall invitation because they might ask difficult questions.

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Trump doesn't like Fox News today

President Trump's approval rating does best when he tweets less or attacks every little insult or opposition moment.

On Sunday, he was more critical toward Fox News, his favorite cable news network.  He blasted them for "moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side" and forgetting "the people who got them there" by hosting a town hall for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg [aka Butter Judge; aka Alfred E. Neuman.]

Actually, President Trump didn't get Fox News "there," meaning to the top of the cable news charts--they were already there before he went on the campaign trail simply because they're center right position commands a larger, more normal, much more patriotic audience.

The town hall event was hosted by Fox News' Chris Wallace and held in Claremont, New Hampshire. As was the case with Fox's Bernie Sanders town hall, most of the audience responded frenetically to the gay South Bend mayor, and gave him a standing ovation, as noted by Mediaite. 

So in this case, as he was with the Bernie Sanders "Commie-a-thon Town Hall," the president was angry about Fox offering the far-left Democrat a positive platform on the network. Trump was particularly critical of Wallace and it's rumored that he put a magic curse on him.

Never one to let a miff go by without a tweet, Trump posted:

"Hard to believe that @FoxNews is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him." 

"Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems. They got dumped from the Democrats boring debates, and they just want in. They forgot the people who got them there. Chris Wallace said, 'I actually think, whether you like his opinions or not, that Mayor Pete has a lot of substance...fascinating biography.' Gee, he never speaks well of me — I like [his father] Mike Wallace better...and Alfred E. Newman [sic] will never be President!"

Trump's jab at Wallace for praising Buttigieg is a reference to the host's comments last month comparing the mayor favorably to his fellow Democratic presidential candidate Robert [Beto] O'Rourke; Buttigieg, said Wallace, offers "a lot of substance" and "interesting, refreshing ideas," particularly compared to the Texas Democrat.

Trump could have pointed out that Buttigieg has swung so far to the left that he swallowed a mouthful of the Pacific Ocean, rather than attacking Wallace [who is left of center, for sure.]

In response to Trump's criticism of the network, Fox's Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume offered a little praise for Buttigieg and faulted Trump for not taking enough questions from the press. "Say this for Buttigieg--he’s willing to be questioned by Chris Wallace, something you’ve barely done since you’ve been president," said Hume. "Oh, and covering candidates of both parties is part of the job of a news channel," Hume added.

I understand that Trump is a fighter and tough counter-puncher, but I believe he needs to know when not to punch, especially the one cable news network that covers him fairly. Rather than attacking the network and the interviewers, Trump might try attacking the leftist positions the Democratic candidates have taken and talk about his economy.

The president's comments about Democrats "dump[ing]" Fox News from the party's debates refers to the Democratic National Committee announcing in early March that it is barring the network from hosting any of the Democratic presidential debates due to alleged ties between the network and the Trump administration. 

In response, Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Sammon issued a statement urging the DNC to reconsider. "We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate," Sammon said. "They’re the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters."

Whether you like Chris Wallace or not, Sammon is absolutely correct about that team. Even Wallace would ask tough questions, unlike the powderpuff questions the left asks of them.

Following Fox News' Sanders event, Trump also issued some critical comments directed at the network and the host of the event, Bret Baier. "So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on Fox News. Not surprisingly, Bret Baier and the 'audience' was so smiley and nice," said Trump via Twitter. "Very strange, and now we have Donna Brazile?"

Brett Baier is one of the best news anchors in the business, bar none. Trump needs to allow the other side to have a voice and to be courteously interviewed by him and others, unlike the way the left [such as Jim "Gosh, I Love Me" Acosta] asks questions of Republicans.

Trump cited "many complaints" that the town hall was "stuffed with Bernie supporters" while Trump supporters were supposedly not "let in." 

Trump tweeted:

"Many Trump Fans & Signs were outside of the @FoxNews Studio last night in the now thriving (Thank you President Trump) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the interview with Crazy Bernie Sanders. 

"Big complaints about not being let in-stuffed with Bernie supporters. What’s with @FoxNews?" 

But the Daily Wire pointed out, The Morning Call's coverage of the event noted that Fox News "reached out to various political and local groups in the area and mined requests to attend after it publicly announced the event," and that the event was attended by Trump supporters, independents as well as Bernie supporters.

Hopefully, President Trump will stop "punching down" and go after the socialist policies the Democrats are calling for as well as the abortion issue and open borders, the two biggies that Americans are very concerned about. If he sticks to the issues rather than trying to soothe his ego [which all presidents have], I believe he'd win the 2020 election by a landslide.

So President Trump doesn't like Fox News today. Give him another day--he'll get over it.


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Trump: Whitaker will have free reign over Mueller probe

Like a case of genital warts, most of us just want the Mueller investigation to go away. Not that anyone on the right side of the aisle is worried Mueller will find something against Trump or his administration, but for many of us, the investigation has gone on for so long now it's beginning to rot.

In spite of this, I believe if Trump is innocent [and I'm sure he is] he ought to allow the probe to come to its fullest conclusion and assuage all doubts of guilt.

On Sunday, President Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that he will be giving acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker free reign over the Mueller investigation on the Russia probe, including limiting or even shutting it down.

"It's going to be up to him," Trump said. "I wouldn't get involved."

President Trump picked Whitaker after he fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Whitaker is an outspoken critic of the Mueller investigation and this ignited renewed accusations that Trump is trying to squelch the investigation.

They would want Trump to select an acting AG who is all in for the probe and a Democrat to boot.

Trump said he didn't know of Whitaker's previous public remarks, which paints the president as uninformed and begs the question: why did he choose someone of whose ideology he was unaware?

I think the president was pulling our collective legs on that one.

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Pence calls Obama's speech 'disappointing'

Vice President Pence criticized Obama's return to the left's desperate campaign trail telling "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that Obama, in his attempt to paper over a crappy legacy with major tax increases and an enormous hike in the national debt was "very disappointing."

"It was very disappointing to see President Obama break with the tradition of former presidents, and become so political, and roll out the same tired arguments that he and liberals have made over the last eight years," Pence told Wallace.

"We inherited an economy that was growing a little bit more than one percent," he continued. "In the last quarter, our economy is growing at 4.2 percent. Four million new jobs, unemployment at a 50-year low. And to have President Obama come out and tout his policies that resulted in less than 2 percent growth -- which saw tax increases, ObamaCare regulation, and a doubling of the national debt -- I think was -- it was very disappointing."

Pence also spoke about what he called the "un-American" anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed last week, and swore he would take a lie-detector test to prove he did not write it.

Personally, I believe him.

"I would agree to take it in a heartbeat and would submit to any review the administration wanted to do," Pence asserted. As for whether other officials should be forced to take a polygraph, Pence was reluctant, saying that it is up to the president to decide the issue.

The cowardly Op-Ed, purportedly written by a "senior administration official," depicts a broken White House and claims that top-level bureaucrats are actively working to undermine parts of President Trump's agenda.

That isn't treason, but it sure as hell sounds like sedition. The president is an elected official and to undermine him is seditious and carries a very stiff legal penalty.

"If they are that senior administration official -- that they're violating an oath, not to the president, but to the Constitution," Pence said.

According to the vice president,  President Trump was also concerned about the national security implications of the situation. "Look, it's un-American. And I think that's why you've seen Republicans and Democrats condemn this."

But mostly Republicans, because if someone tried to assassinate President Trump, Democrats would scramble to find reasons to justify such a heinous act.

Pence continued: "To have someone who literally celebrates coming in every day to frustrate the agenda that the president and I were elected to advance -- it really is an assault on our democracy. And it should be universally condemned."

And prosecuted fully.

The Op-Ed conspicuously used the term "lodestar," a word which Pence has been known to use in speeches.

Wallace asked him if he believed the use of that word appeared to be an attempt to frame him, Pence replied, "I wouldn't know," but said the entire situation was an attempt to "distract attention from this booming economy and from the president's record of success."

Pence encapsulated his thinking about how the administration is portrayed by the media and the reality of what he sees in working as vice president.

"Sometimes I watch a little bit of TV in the morning, and then I go to the White House, and I feel like I’m in a parallel universe. I walk into a White House where there’s a President behind the desk; he’s in command. He's constantly driving forward on delivering on the promises that we made for the American people. And then I go home at night and I see cable TV talking about all of this stuff about disarray in the White House, and it's just not my experience. 

"You look at the passage of historic tax cuts for businesses and individuals, and the way that jobs are coming back, and investment is coming back. The re-negotiation of trade deals, our allies contributing more to our common defense. All of that is happening because we have a president of almost boundless energy who comes in every day -- regardless of what's happening in the Washington media culture -- and says, 'What are we doing today to deliver for the American people?' And I think that's why I see such enthusiasm as I travel across the country. And that's why I believe the American people are going to vote to re-elect Republican majorities in the House and Senate this fall."

If Obama understood why the country elected President Trump to the office he once held, and owned up to it, he would not be campaigning for the Democrats because that's just campaigning for the GOP.



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Who Lost the Great Debate--guess

The final debate is over, the candidates had their say, and, in the end, Donald Trump would not commit to the results of the election if he loses. 

He will believe the results, of course, if he wins. That's because he needs an 'out' to protect his fragile ego should Hillary Clinton win, and it's looking more and more like the former secretary of state, as incompetent and untrustworthy as she is, will likely win the election.

And if Hillary Clinton does, in fact win, that would be historical--she would be the first non-convicted felon to hold the office of president.

Had the GOP put up any other candidate than Trump, there is no doubt that Clinton would be singing the blues. Not only is she the former Worst Lady, she is also the worst candidate money can buy. But the presidency has become like a monarchy, and it's Hillary's turn, and her devil-given right, to run the country.

Trump seemed to win the debate up until the end, until he blew it, just like the New York Mets.

Chris Wallace began with policy issues over gun rights and went on to discuss abortion and immigration. All was going relatively well for Trump, whose use of polysyllabic verbiage is generally limited to such words as 'incredible,' 'unbelievable' and 'amazing'. Donald called Hillary a "nasty woman" and she responded by saying Donald was the "most dangerous" person to run for president in modern history. 

Nice and civilized.


When asked if he would accept the election results, Trump's response was: "I will look at it at the time." He cited his concerns about voter registration fraud and hit the media saying they are corrupt. Of Hillary Clinton, he said that she "shouldn't be allowed to run" because she committed a "very serious crime" with her emails.

And again when pressed about whether he will concede if he loses the election, Trump said, "I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense," this being the same secret tactic he will use against ISIS if he should somehow happen to win.

Clinton responded to that remark with "That's horrifying," and to be perfectly honest, I can see her point. It's one thing to think that corruption exists, because it absolutely does exist. But the idea that the entire election is "rigged" suggests that our system in total is corrupt and nothing about the American system can be trusted. That's just nonsense and Donald needs to visit places like Russia and North Korea for a more balanced outlook.

Hillary went on to add, "That is not the way our democracy works. He is denigrating, he's talking down our democracy and I for one am appalled."

What does not apparently appall Hillary is accepting millions of dollars from foreign countries that denigrate the very gender for whom she pretends to advocate.

Trump responded by saying the Justice Department's handling of her email probe was "disgraceful," but he forgot to mention the FBI Director's even more disgraceful handling of her email probe.

Chris Wallace was the best part of the debate along with the respectful audience. His questions were tough on both candidates and he was able to pretty much keep the debate in control, in spite of the back and forth verbal battling that took place from time-to-time.

The candidates never shook hands at the start nor the end of the debate--boxers have more class than either of these two clowns.

America lost the debate.


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Earpieces banned after Lauer used one on Hillary

The Commission on Presidential Debates will allow presidential debate moderators to wear earpieces if they choose, but only the executive producer of the commission will be the person at the other end of the wire.

Thus, executive producers from each news organization will be denied editorial control and the earpieces will be used mostly to keep track of timing.

Now Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace won't have to deal with questions being fed to them by their respective bosses in the upcoming presidential debates, as was the case with Matt Lauer when he moderated the "Commander in Chief Forum" between Clinton and Trump on September 7th.

Lauer wore an earpiece in that debate and it left many people, particularly Hillary Clinton fans, complaining about Lauer's interviewing skills and judgment. 

The "disastrous performance" was largely due to NBC News chief Andy Lack pushing Lauer to press Clinton on the email scandal. How dare they question the honesty and integrity of Hillary Clinton.

According to one NBC representative, it was the executive producer, not Lack, who was directing Lauer during the interview. "Andy was not in [Lauer's]ear. It's totally untrue. The fact of the matter is he would never be in the ear of any host during a program--it would be way too distracting," the rep said. He claimed that Lack was in the control room giving feedback during the interview, but didn't speak directly to Lauer.

Lauer took all the blame and New Yorkers, liberals mostly, expressed their desire to have the host shocked with a cattle prod, tarred and feathered and spit upon by all Hillary supporters. 

"Death is too good for that scum," one woman who wished to remain anonymous said. "He is a sexist, misogynistic, vile, disgusting crap weasel of a host and he deserves to be banned from television, radio and Facebook. I hate him so much I could spit. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him . . . " and she kept saying that until the interviewer's mic was turned off.

Lauer took the week off  after the interview and has lost all credibility with liberals who believed he was too hard on Clinton and much too easy on Trump. They're not used to the liberal mainstream media doing that and it was clearly a shock to their systems.

An investigation will be underway to see whether Lauer turns out to be a registered Republican.

Holt, on the other hand, will host the next NBC debate between the two most detestable party nominees in the history of the United States. The debate will be on Monday, September 26th at 9 p.m. Following that will be the second debate on October 9th, hosted by Raddatz and Cooper, and the final debate on October 19th, on Fox News, hosted by Chris Wallace.

If Donald Trump can put his ego aside for the 90 minutes, he stands a good chance to win.

If.


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Hillary goes on Fox

In an exclusive interview with Chris Wallace on Fox's "Fox News Sunday," Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed that Americans have a legitimate concern about her trustworthiness. She was referring to, in part, her email scandal and the Benghazi attack which she did nothing to save the lives of four Americans, one of whom was Ambassador Chris Stevens. Instead, she blamed the catalyst for the jihadist attack on some obscure video, which she even told the families of the victims was the cause that led up to the Islamic attack. 

The would-be felon, if not for the FBI's James Comey letting her off the hook because of who she is, said, "I think that it's fair for Americans to have questions.  Every time I run for an office, though, oh my goodness, all of these caricatures come out of nowhere. And people begin to undermine me because when I left office as secretary of state, 66 percent of Americans approved of what I do."

Well, oh my goodness, these caricatures do not 'come out of nowhere.' They come out of your incompetence, sneakiness, rampant lying that puts your political ambition above that of the security of the American people, and the characteristic way you shout when you speak and your eyes go wild.

It's amazing your favorability rating is north of zero, but there will always be voters who base their choice on demographics rather than qualities that candidates are accountable for, like competence, honesty, patriotism and putting America first and not just saying it.

When Wallace confronted her with the issue that two-thirds of Americans have concerns about her trustworthiness, she parroted her cliched response: "I know that I have work to do."

Balderdash.

Hillary Clinton does not believe that she needs to change anything about herself because if she did, she would have started that thirty years ago.

The DNC email hack was also discussed but she never quite made the claim that what generated the hack was the fact that Putin wants Trump to win the presidency.

Regarding Hillary on the Benghazi attack when she told family members of the victims she never sent support for and blamed the attack on a video, she claimed the families 'misunderstood' her because they were overwhelmed by grief.

Right--they were all so mentally messed up that they heard Clinton tell them that she was going to get that guy who made the video when she really said, "We know it was an Islamic jihadist attack and we're going to do everything we can to destroy those terrorists and bring them to justice."

The biggest flaw that Hillary Clinton has is that she believes the American people are all stupid. Her greatest strength is that she convinced those who are to vote for her.



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Fox Goes Mainstream on Bibi

Well, it looks like Fox News has gone mainstream media when it sang a different song on Friday about Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace criticized Bibi's decision to speak in front of Congress in March and did not kiss Obama's ring and confess his plan beforehand. The speech will come just weeks before the Israeli election, which it appears will be won, once again by Netanyahu.

Speaker John Boehner extended the invitation to Bibi on Wednesday and even Boehner forgot to mention it. 

The subject of the speech will primarily be on the need for greater sanctions on Iran and on Islamic extremism.

The exchange between Smith and Wallace came in response to a quote from Martin Indyk from The New York Times Thursday. Indyk worked for the Brookings Institute and served as US ambassador to Israel. He was also the former US envoy to the peace process. "Netanyahu is using the Republican Congress for a photo-op for his election campaign and the Republicans are using Bibi for their campaign against Obama. Unfortunately, the US relationship will take the hit. It would be far wiser for us to stay out of their politics and for them to stay out of ours," Indyk said.

Wallace agreed completely with that statement and said that he was "shocked" by the whole affair. Smith asked whether Bibi would back out of the speech because, "Members of his own Mossad have come out and said this is a horrible idea and so have members of his own political party. Of course his political opponents are screaming up and down, the newspapers over there are going wild over this."

Bibi's selfie

Smith, for his part said, "It seems that they think we don't pay any attentiuon and that we are just a bunch of complete morons, the US citizens, like we wouldn't pick up on what is happening here."

Wallace then added: "For Netanyahu to come here and side with Boehner against Obama on Iran seems to me like very dicey politics."


My take differs from Smith and Wallace. Obama has been the worst presidential ally to Israel we have ever seen, except, perhaps than Jimmy Hamas Carter. All that Netanyahu is doing is giving the same treatment to Obama that Obama has given to him, time after time. Wallace called Bibi's actions akin to "sneaking into Congress." In a sense, this might be true because Obama doesn't usually know what's going on in the world unless it's on the news, he has, in effect, stated.

Obama selfie

Iran is building a nuclear arsenal; I have no doubts of this, in spite of the lack of unrefutable proof. I base my belief on Iran's history of lying, and the Islamic doctrine of Taqiya that allows lying for the sake of Islam.

The biggest threat in the world today is not the Islamic State, they can be defeated. Our biggest threat is Iran. They are working diligently at creating a nuclear arsenal and have already come up with a missile system that can reach here. Obama is giving them every opportunity to finish the job.

Netanyahu may have designs on another term in office, but bowing to Obama and asking permission to speak to Congress is both unnecessary and futile. Barack doesn't like Israel and dislikes Netanyahu even more. 

You see, Bibi has one thing Obama lacks: absolute patriotism to the country he leads.

I am surprised that Fox News has gone to the left on this issue. I am not suprised Shep Smith has, as he tends to be quite liberal, which is his choice. But for Chris Wallace to disregard Israel's position in the Middle East and the motive driving Netanyahu to make his case, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It tastes like spoiled baba ganoush.

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