MICHAEL SAVAGE WARNED TRUMP ABOUT REINCE PREIBUS, VOTERS REJECTED ESTABLISHMENT

MICHAEL SAVAGE WARNED TRUMP ABOUT REINCE PREIBUS:

SAVAGE SAYS PREIBUS CLOSE TIES TO GOP ESTABLISHMENT IS WHY VOTERS REJECTED JEB BUSH AND VOTED FOR TRUMP.

I THOUGHT PREIBUS WAS A NICE GUY WHO DESERVED HIS ROLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

WAS I WRONG??

DID TRUMP ONLY HIRE PREIBUS AS A WAY TO SAY "THANK YOU" WHEN HE KNEW PREIBUS WOULD POSSIBLY UNDERMINE HIM?

REINCE PREIBUS IS GREAT AT ESTABLISHMENT POLITICS.

REINCE PREIBUS IS GREAT AT WINNING NATIONAL ELECTIONS.

HOWEVER REINCE PREIBUS DID NOT MAKE A GREAT CHIEF OF STAFF IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR REINCE PREIBUS?


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***** Michael Savage Warns Donald Trump: ‘Rinse’ Reince; He’s ‘Everything the Voters Rejected’


President-elect Donald Trump should not select Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff, says Michael Savage, the national talk radio host and author of the new book Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country After Obama.

Priebus is “the enemy within,” Savage warns.

“He’s the RNC! Everything the voters rejected,” Savage tells Breitbart News. “He will steer Trump away from every policy we sent him to D.C. to change. He is the enemy within. He is [Paul] Ryan, [Mitch] McConnell, and the Old Guard. They do not want change. ‘Out with the old, in with the new.'”

A close Ryan ally, Priebus was responsible for the GOP “autopsy” following the Romney-Ryan loss of 2012.

One of its conclusions held that, to win elections, Republicans must embrace an immigration agenda that would import future voters who tend to overwhelmingly support Democrat policies.

The Priebus manifesto argued against opposing amnesty and appealing to the Republican electorate’s “core constituency.”

We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only,” the Priebus report stated.

By contrast, for years Savage has argued that Republican candidates should run campaigns on “borders, language, and culture.”

“I call him ‘Rinse,'” Savage said of Priebus, adding that’s “what Trump should do with his advice.”

Savage’s talk radio show, which is one of the most listened-to talk radio programs in the country, reaches an audience over 20 million listeners and is syndicated by over some 400 stations nationwide. This week, Savage will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in the category of Spoken Word On-Air Personality.

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McConnell Warns GOP: Default Will Be Obama's 2012 Gain

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McConnell warns default could ‘destroy’ GOP brand

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Wednesday that a default on the nation’s debt would not only be dangerous for the country, but could also have damaging political repercussions for the Republican Party.

Ahead of the latest meeting between congressional leaders and the White House on Wednesday, however, Republicans appeared to be of two minds when it came to McConnell’s proposed “back-up plan” for raising the county’s debt limit.

“(Democrats) want to blame the economy on us and the reason default is no better an idea today than when Newt Gingrich tried it in 1995 is that it destroys your brand. It would give the president an opportunity to blame Republicans for a bad economy,” McConnell told conservative commentator Laura Ingraham in a Wednesday morning radio interview. “Look, he owns the economy. He’s been in office almost three years now, and we refuse to let him entice us into co-ownership of a bad economy.”

McConnell said that while his “first choice was to do something important for the country” in drafting a back-up plan, he also believed that default could devastate the Republican Party politically, “just like we knew shutting down the government in 1995 was not going to work for us; it helped Bill Clinton get re-elected.”

“I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy. ... If we go into default, he will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public -- maybe with some merit, if people stop getting their Social Security checks and military families start getting letters saying servicepeople overseas don’t get paid. It’s an argument he could have a good chance of winning, and all of the sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy,” he said. “That is very bad positioning going into an election.”

Shortly before heading to the White House for the latest round of debt-limit talks, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) issued a statement in which he implicitly rejected the McConnell plan.

“Currently, there is not a single debt limit proposal that can pass the House of Representatives, but I believe the path forward is to focus on what we can agree upon, and though it doesn’t go as far as our budget, House Republicans can likely agree with the general spending cuts and entitlement changes in the ‘big deal’ proposed by the President,” Cantor said in the statement.

But McConnell did receive the support of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said in a statement that the fallback plan would “ensure that Republicans aren’t unduly blamed for failure to raise the debt ceiling.”

“The last-case emergency proposal that Sen. McConnell outlined yesterday is a smart, forward-looking plan to make clear to all Americans that should we get to August 2nd without an agreement, it is President Obama alone – and not Republicans in Congress – who decides whether to raise the debt limit, and owns the economic consequences of any default,” McCain said.

Democrats seized on the reactions from Republicans to McConnell’s proposal to make the case that they are in disarray in the debt-limit talks.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had been “close to entering a framework agreement with the president of the United States (and walked) out because the Republicans in the House undercut him, and now you have Republicans trashing a proposal put forward by the Republican leader in the Senate.”

“I just think people need to wake up to the fact that these guys, the message they’re sending is that ‘We’re prepared to tank the entire economy, put millions of jobs at risk unless we get things one-hundred percent our way,’” Van Hollen said. “And that’s just irresponsible. We want the American people to take a look at what their position is.”

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Juan Williams' Firing: Michael Steele Comments On Meet The Press

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Newt Gingrich Demands Congress Cut Funding NPR

In Wake Of Williams Firing, Republicans Want NPR Funding Examined


Three potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates chimed in Thursday on the firing of NPR news analyst Juan Williams, with two of them calling on Congress to scrutinize NPR's federal funding.

Williams was ousted Wednesday night for comments he made on Fox News about Muslims.



But former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) all called NPR's move an act of censorship and political correctness.

"While I have often enjoyed appearing on NPR programs and have been treated fairly and objectively, I will no longer accept interview requests from NPR as long as they are going to practice a form of censorship, and since NPR is funded with public funds, it IS a form of censorship," Huckabee said in a statement.

"It is time for the taxpayers to start making cuts to federal spending, and I encourage the new Congress to start with NPR."

Conservatives saw the Williams's firing as a chance to criticize media outlets, such as NPR, which they say are too sympathetic to left-wing points of view.

The long-time commentator told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."



NPR explained Williams's firing in a statement saying his comments were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."



NPR operates using both private and public money, though most of their revenue comes from non-public sources.

Gingrich, who was the top House lawmaker from 1994-1998, said that Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting its funding.

"The U.S. Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting off its money," he said on Fox News, calling the incident "a total act of censorship."

Palin put her response on her widely read Twitter account, saying "NPR defends 1st Amendment Right, but will fire u if u exercise it. Juan Williams: u got taste of Left's hypocrisy,they screwed up firing you."


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Juan Williams Unjustly Fired From NPR For Muslim Remarks: "Nanny State"

NPR Fires News Analyst After Remarks About Muslims

NPR has fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams, also a commentator on the Fox News Channel, after he told Bill O'Reilly that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane.

In a statement late Wednesday, National Public Radio said it was terminating Williams' contract as a senior news analyst over his comments on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor."

NPR executives had previously complained about his remarks on Fox, including saying first lady Michelle Obama could be a liability for her husband shortly after his inauguration.

The latest comments came Monday, when O'Reilly brought on guests to discuss his own appearance last week on ABC's "The View," during which Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set to protest his views on Muslims.

"Where am I going wrong here, Juan?" O'Reilly asked.

Williams, 56, responded that too much political correctness can get in the way of reality.

"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country," Williams said. "But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

A phone message left for Williams at his home in Washington was not immediately returned Thursday morning.

Williams appeared briefly Thursday on Fox News and said he was abruptly fired Wednesday by Ellen Weiss, NPR's vice president for news. He said he told Weiss he meant what he said on the O'Reilly show, but that she told him he had made a bigoted statement and crossed a line.

"I said, 'You mean I don't even get the chance to come in and we do this eyeball-to-eyeball, person-to-person, have a conversation? I've been there more than 10 years," Williams said. He said Weiss responded that "there's nothing you can say that would change my mind."

Before Williams was fired, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said such commentary from a journalist about other racial, ethnic or religious minority groups would not be tolerated.

"NPR should address the fact that one of its news analysts seems to believe that all airline passengers who are perceived to be Muslim can legitimately be viewed as security threats," CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said.

Later Wednesday, NPR issued a statement saying Williams' remarks "were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

"Juan has been a valuable contributor to NPR and public radio for many years and we did not make this decision lightly or without regret," NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm said in an e-mailed statement.

Conservative bloggers defended Williams on Thursday, blasting NPR's decision.

"All Juan Williams did is say both exactly how he feels and how many, many other Americans feel on this subject," wrote Erick Erickson on his "Red State" blog. "The man's body of work makes clear he is no bigot. But we sure can't offend Muslims, can we?"

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also weighed in, telling Fox News that Congress should investigate NPR for censorship and consider cutting off its public funding.

Only a small part of NPR's budget is provided by Congress through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. O'Reilly also called Thursday for an immediate suspension of taxpayer funding for NPR and said that Williams reflected the views of many Americans.

Williams' appearances on Fox have been an issue for NPR in the past, including his remarks about Michelle Obama on a 2009 episode of "The O'Reilly Factor."

"Michelle Obama, you know, she's got this Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going. ... her instinct is to start with this blame America, you know, I'm the victim," Williams said, according to an account by NPR's Ombudsman Alicia Shepard. Carmichael was a civil rights activist.

At the time, Shepard wrote that Williams was the network's biggest "lightning rod," drawing hundreds of complaints. NPR executives then asked Williams to stop using the NPR name when he appears on O'Reilly's show.

On Monday, he was identified as a Fox News contributor.

Williams was a longtime reporter, columnist and editorial writer at The Washington Post. He has written extensively on the civil rights movement, including a book on the African-American religious experience and a biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Sources: Fox News, NPR, Washington Post, Wikipedia

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"Obama Only Favors Black People" Claims Rep. Steve King (Lies)

Steve King Says Obama "Favors the Black Person"


The often-controversial Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa said on a radio show Monday that President Obama's policies favor black people.

On G. Gordon Liddy's radio show, King said, "The president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race - on the side that favors the black person." (RealClearPolitics has audio of the remarks available here.)

King made that remark in a discussion about Arizona's controversial new immigration law, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and requires law enforcement officials to question a person about his or her immigration status during a "lawful stop" if there is "reasonable suspicion" that person may be in the country illegally. Mr. Obama has said the law could lead to racism against Latinos.

The Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, is reviewing the law to determine whether it is constitutional.

"When you look at this administration, I'm offended by Eric Holder and the president also, their posture," King said. "It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race, and I don't know what the basis of that is, but I'm not a coward when it comes to that. And I'm happy to talk about these things, and I think we should."

Holder did last year say, "In things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," but he did not specifically call white people cowards.

In addition to the president's statements about the Arizona law, King criticized the president's remarks about the conflict between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and police officer James Crowley (which led to last year's "beer summit") and the Justice Department's unwillingness to investigate the community organizing group ACORN.

Also yesterday, King requested that Mr. Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, testify before Congress in order to address "the public perception that favoritism played a role in the grant of asylum to Ms. Onyango." The half-sister of Mr. Obama's late father, Onyango moved from Kenya to the United States in 2000 and was granted asylum last month.

King has made a number of inflammatory comments in the past. Earlier this year, he said voting on health care reform on a Sunday was an affront to God. In 2008, he said terrorists would "dance in the streets" if Mr. Obama won the presidency.

UPDATE:

Colorado State Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican running for Congress, canceled a fundraiser featuring King, the Associated Press reports, following his comments about Mr. Obama. Gardner's campaign manager Chris Hansen reportedly would not say why the $100 per-plate fundraiser scheduled for Saturday was canceled, but he said guests would be contacted and invited to one of eight other fundraisers this month.


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Arlen Specter, Michele Bachmann's Heated Exchange: "Act Like A Lady"

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