Friday, December 30, 2016

The Election Was Not Hacked


As Jon Gabriel so succentily put it:

Despite the histrionic claims of the press, the election was not hacked. The Democratic National Committee’s lousy IT security allowed someone to access their emails which were then leaked. Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta fell for an age-old phishing scam that was as believable as getting millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince. Using the spotty media understanding of cybersecurity, they can claim that the DNC and Hillary’s campaign were “hacked,” but the election decisively was not. And the press knows it.

It is a distinction with a diffrence.  I'm sure if you question the press on it they will say they meant "the election" inclusive of the voting and all the campaigning that lead up to the vote.

But that's not how most people view it. They separate the election as the actual voting and tallying of the votes from the campaigns leading up to the election as separate entities altogether.

I highly doubt the press is ignorant of this separation.  It is a deliberate disinformation campaign on the part of some outlets (the New York Times, Washington Post)  and just plain laziness on the part of others (Fox News).

And it is the primary reason why most people think the purveyors of fake news are the mainstream media itself. 

Thursday, December 8, 2016

The Infantile Temper Tantrums of Sore Losers

Typical of liberal infantile behavior. 

Our campaign lost the election. But Trump’s team must own up to how he won.

I know how to be a gracious loser.
I could have let it go last week when Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, challenged me to look her in the eye and say she ran a campaign that gave white supremacists a platform. I considered for a split second. I knew you were supposed to be gracious when you come for the post-election forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. But I decided this was a year where normal rules don’t apply. Speaking the truth was more important.
“It did. Kellyanne, it did,” I told her. It’s just a fact. Trump winning the election doesn’t change that. To my mind, his win makes it all the more important that the truth be acknowledged.
No Jennifer, you do not know how to be gracious. Nor is your infantile behavior anything close to the truth. The only saving grace is that after losing a campaign you should have won in your sleep, you will never hold a significant position in a political campaign again. 
And neither will your fellow colleagues that made up Clinton's senior staff. 
This behavior is also apparent in the prolong and useless recount demands, petitions for the electoral college betrayal of the voters, the incessant whining about the popular vote, and the sudden campaign by liberal activist to eliminate the electoral college altogether. 
This behavior does not reflect well on the people who would have ruled us.
It in fact confirms the wisdom of electing Donald Trump as the next president of the United States.