Politics Judges striking down laws & executive orders, Senators filibustering . . .

Nobel Prize. Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Obama have one. It's something of a joke.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...els-u-s-house-campaigns-to-fundraising-record

The Trump Effect Propels House Campaigns to Record Fundraising

That’s a 45 percent increase over the $66.2 million raised during the same period two years ago, the previous record. The maximum contribution amount to campaigns was the same during both periods. Republican incumbents and challengers raised $49.8 million, while Democrats pulled in $46.3 million.

 

The man is an antisemite.

The price of his nobel prize is 40 years x $3.5B in military aid to Egypt. Peace apparently is arming both sides with our high tech weapons.

 

Obama.



(within a couple of weeks of winning his award, he was bombing at least six countries, only one of those was leftover from W).

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30...emen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

just weeks after he won the Nobel Prize, Obama used cluster bombs that killed 35 Yemeni women and children. Even Obama-supporting liberal comedians mocked the arguments of the Obama DOJ for why it had the right to execute Americans with no charges: “Due Process Just Means There’s A Process That You Do,” snarked Stephen Colbert. And a firestorm erupted when former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs offered a sociopathic justification for killing the Colorado-born teenager, apparently blaming him for his own killing by saying he should have “had a more responsible father.”


The U.S. assault on Yemeni civilians not only continued but radically escalated over the next five years through the end of the Obama presidency, as the U.S. and the U.K. armed, supported, and provide crucial assistance to their close ally Saudi Arabia as it devastated Yemen through a criminally reckless bombing campaign. Yemen now faces mass starvation, seemingly exacerbated, deliberately, by the U.S.-U.K.-supported air attacks. Because of the West’s direct responsibility for these atrocities, they have received vanishingly little attention in the responsible countries.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html

US drops more bombs in Obama’s final year of office than in 2015

The U.S. dropped 26,171 bombs last year, 3,027 more than 2015.

According to an analysis of Defense Department data from the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan think tank, the majority of the bombs were dropped in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. leads an international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in both countries and has carried out air operations in attempt to reduce the area controlled by the terrorist organization.

(Neither Iraq nor Syria were combat operations in Jan 2009)

 

Suuuuuuuure.

The issue raised is the value of Nobel prizes. They're clearly not objectively handed out based on merit. Obama's is proof of that.

Trump doesn't deserve a Nobel either. He wouldn't get one, no matter what he does. That's how useless the award is.

Aside from that, the whole argument is a logic fallacy known as argument from authority.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39592010

The rise of left-wing, anti-Trump fake news

 

http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/329158-gorsuch-has-busy-first-day-at-supreme-court

 

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb...neymoon-hell-liberal-media-vs-president-trump
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As President Trump approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, he has received by far the most hostile press treatment of any incoming American president, with the broadcast networks punishing him with coverage that has been 89% negative. The networks largely ignored important national priorities such as jobs and the fight against ISIS, in favor of a news agenda that has been dominated by anti-Trump controversies and which closely matches what would be expected from an opposition party.

For example, President Trump’s push to invigorate the economy and bring back American jobs received a mere 18 minutes of coverage (less than one percent of all airtime devoted to the administration), while his moves to renegotiate various international trade deals resulted in less than 10 minutes of TV news airtime.

Eight years ago, in contrast, the broadcast networks rewarded new President Barack Obama with mainly positive spin, and spent hundreds of stories discussing the economic agenda of the incoming liberal administration.

For this study, MRC analysts reviewed all of ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening news coverage of Trump and his new administration from January 20 through April 9, including weekends. Coverage during those first 80 days was intense, as the networks churned out 869 stories about the new administration (737 full reports and 132 brief, anchor-read items), plus an additional 140 full reports focused on other topics but which also discussed the new administration.

Five big topics accounted for roughly two-fifths (43%) of the whopping 1,900 minutes of total network airtime devoted to the Trump administration. But those five topics accounted for a much larger share (63%) of the negative coverage hurled at the administration, as the networks covered each with an overwhelmingly hostile (more than 90% negative) slant.

 

Breaking News:

A website "dedicated to exposing & combating liberal media bias," writes article about liberal media bias.

 

The media isn't covering media bias. The media is supposed to live up to its fourth estate billing, not contributing hundreds of $millions in PR for the democrat party.

 

Butthurt.