In times like these--recessions or post-recessions, depending on whom one reads--scams proliferate. Usually a warning phone call or a letter telling you something in your life is out of wack and needs urgent attention.
A business client told us the other day he got a call on his personal cell phone even though it's
supposed to be a protected number informing him the warranty on his car had expired and this was his last chance to remedy the matter. Didn't he pay attention to the recent warning letter they sent. The robot on the other end then asked if he would like to be connected to a person who could help him with his options.
Now these calls usually go to seniors or aging baby boomers, a class or category this gentlemen doesn't currently occupy. A bit irritated, he decided to go along and was connected to someone who in a dire voice informed him his warranty was kaput and this was his absolute last chance to renew it.
"Listen," he told the guy, "my car is so old if it had any warranty left it would be in the Smithsonian Institute if the PC crowd running the place there now would accept it."
We bring this up because this article from the Wall Street Journal.
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Even the Wall Street Journal is now fed up with the biased media coverage of the 2016 Presidential election as revealed by a scathing article written by Kimberly Strassel, a member of their editorial board. As Strassel points out, it's almost impossible to turn on the TV without hearing about Trump's "lewd" comments while coverage of Hillary "uniformly ignores the flurry of bombshells" inherent in the various WikiLeaks, FOIA releases and FBI interviews.
If average voters turned on the TV for five minutes this week, chances are they know that Donald Trump made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.
But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of.
It comes from hacked emails dumped by WikiLeaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and accounts from FBI insiders. The media has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages to the Trump story. So let’s review what amounts to a devastating case against a Clinton presidency.
Start with a June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika
Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn. Ms. Rottenberg wrote
that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can
understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private
server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself
to review them and delete documents.” She added: “It
smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve
either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.”
A few months later, in a September 2015 email, a Clinton confidante fretted that Mrs. Clinton was too bullheaded to acknowledge she’d done wrong. “Everyone wants her to apologize,” wrote Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress. “And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles’ heel.”
zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/wall-street-journal-blasts-press-consistently-buries-hillary-clintons-sins
Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them. The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation (they are separate) and lay it all off as a Republican plot.
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A once decent newspaper now with it coteries of double and triple chinned blowhards languishes away today on the scrapheap of total irrelevance. Now of a sudden the Journal wants to display some outrage in these final sunsets against the Hillary-Goldman Sachs bought and sold MSM. These are some really brave journalists. We use the term journalists advisedly since it's lost all meaning these last many years. Truth is, the Journal has been pillorying Trump since --way since--before Iowa. They also have in their inimitable pathetic way shilled for Hillary.
By trying to foist off insipid candidates like Cruz, Kasich and others, they forfeited their only chance of taking the wrecking ball to this giant Washington octopus with the zeal of a born-twice-over missionary, intent on controlling everything on the planet that moves including all those that don't. In short, these neurotic, self-serving worrywarts hell-driven to protect and preserve their Grand Old Party's exclusionary status quo completely misunderstood the public mood.
But there's another real truth here. The Trump haters among whom the WSJ crowd stands obvious and arrogant will get exactly what they claim they hate the most but so dearly deserve, four more years of worse than BO. That's a political smell we hope those brave elitists enjoy. They earned it.
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