HIS RALLIES ARE BIGGER SO HE MUST BE WINNING

Scottie Nell Hughes insisted Sunday that she’s not concerned about Trump’s falling poll numbers because his rallies are so big and enthusiastic. In 2012, the Romney campaign believed the same about its large and enthusiastic rallies, but the big crowds there did not foreshadow an electoral rout.

First, CNN anchor Poppy Harlow played video of Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press Sunday finally admitting that the campaign is “running behind” in the polls. Then Harlow played the Republican nominee himself saying that the polls that say his campaign is losing are all wrong.

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN

“The numbers are looking phenomenal, don’t believe the media,” Trump said.

So, who’s right? Harlow asked. “Are you concerned that your candidate seems to be on a very different page than your campaign manager when it comes to where they stand two weeks out?”

“Well, I don’t think they’re on a completely different page,” Hughes replied. “They’ve been probably on the same page closer than you see Robby Mook and Hillary Clinton on, after some of the disastrous comments he made this morning.”

“But when it comes to Florida, there really is a lot of optimism,” she said. “The reason why the Trump team is extremely happy. Right now, they’re up in absentee ballots. You have the four events that will have the 50,000 in attendance who Mr. Trump will be eye-to-eye with in the next three days. Early voting just is now starting in Florida in 50 counties tomorrow. They’ve not even started really to vote in the lines like we’ve seen in North Carolina and other areas, in Georgia, we’re seeing actually the rural areas are the high voter turnout. And you’re not seeing the same enthusiasm in the more urban areas which often skew more Democratic.”

When asked whether the Trump team is concerned that their ground game is millions of dollars and months behind Clinton’s, Hughes airily dismissed the concerns and pivoted to attack Clinton.

“We always knew going into it that the ‘Clinton Machine’ was going to be huge to defeat, especially when paired up with the amazing machine that the Democrats have built,” Hugues said. 

“Overwhelmingly, right now,” she continued, “females are turning out to vote.” All over the country, she said, women are turning out to early voting in record numbers, which “might” help Hillary Clinton, she said, but not with women who are unswayed by the “recent scandals” around Trump.

Author Hilary Rosen countered with the fact that Clinton is getting the overwhelming majority of women voters.

Hughes replied that the huge numbers of people turning out to Trump rallies puts her mind at rest about the polls. If people are willing to wait in line, sometimes for hours, to see Donald Trump, then they’ll do whatever it takes to get to the polls.

In October, 2012, Republican nominee Gov. Mitt Romney was actually drawing larger crowds to his rallies than Pres. Barack Obama. However, Romney lost in the polls. Empirically, crowd size is a lousy predictor of electoral success.

[h/t rawstory]

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IT’S ALL CLINTON’S FAULT

During the first presidential debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday night, the tone shifted from serious to comical when the Democratic nominee joked about finger-pointing over the course of the evening.

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When asked by debate host Lester Holt to defend tax hikes for the wealthiest Americans, Clinton made an offhand remark that she’ll be held accountable for everything that transpires during the debate. “I have a feeling by the end of this evening I’m gonna be blamed for everything that’s ever happened,” she said.

Without missing a beat, Trump responded, “Why not?”

Clinton waved her hand and said sarcastically, “Why not? Yeah, why not. Just join the debate by saying more crazy things.”

Many things were observed during last night’s first presidential debate. The fact remains, that Cheeto Jesus is a human shit stain. From an apparent snotty nose, to not being ill prepared for the debate, the tangerine not only embarrassed himself and his family, but those who follow him.

With CNN’s poll showing 62 percent favoring Clinton and 27 percent favoring Cheeto Jesus after the debate– clearly we are seeing that this human excrement is not ready for anything, let alone the seat in the White House.



From taxes, to dick trickle down theories, to birtherism, Fuckface Von Clownstick just can’t seem to tell the truth.

Steve Schmidt of Sara Palin fame…in his own words after the debate. Nothing else needs to be said!

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NELL HUGHES CAN'T BE THIS STUPID CAN SHE?

Scottie Nell Hughes, possibly the dumbest surrogate for Cheeto Jesus got fact-checked on the air on Saturday by anchor Poppy Harlow and activist Bakari Sellers.

Harlow pointed out that among nonwhite voters, Fuckface Von Clownstick is trailing even third party candidates in recent surveys, to which Hughes replied that the candidate has had rallies “all over the country” where the “doors are open” to everyone, regardless of race.

Sellers countered that Don the Con isn’t going to get a “participation trophy” just for showing up in one black neighborhood.

VIDEO COURTESY OF CNN

“I know that many surrogates and many supporters of Donald Trump like to take the man away from his baggage,” Sellers said, “but you can not sit here and not remember that Donald Trump is the one who supported the ‘Birther’ movement — and just yesterday in Philadelphia he refused to even apologize for it.”

Sellers pointed to Trump’s refusal to rent to black tenants in New York City and the full-page ad the former reality TV star took out in the New York Times calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five.

He quoted the late author Maya Angelou, who said, “When someone shows you who they are, you need to believe it the first time.”

When it comes to the housing discrimination lawsuits, Hughes said, that was “probably 30, 35 years ago” and besides, “obviously Mr. Trump addressed it.”

“Unfortunately, as we have seen this campaign season, the press has tried to trap him in different aspects,” she said.

Klansman turned Louisiana politician David Duke’s endorsement of Trump, she went on, pales next to Clinton’s endorsement by the “California grand dragon KKK leader today, who is out there making promotional videos on his own accord but still putting out there. Hillary Clinton has yet to disavow him, so there’s ties on both sides.”

“Scottie, what are you saying there?” Harlow asked. 

“I’m saying that Hillary Clinton has actually stronger ties, that has not disavowed a KKK endorsement,” Hughes said. 

“Bakari?” asked Harlow. “Your response?”

“Scottie and any other surrogate and Donald Trump himself are going to have an extremely hard time with this argument,” said Sellers. “I think they’re actually going down the wrong path that somehow Hillary Clinton is the bigot in this situation, or has some racist past or racist history, because that’s simply not the case.”

Hughes made a hail-Mary pass, trying to pin the Birther movement on Hillary Clinton, saying it was a member of her staff who brought it up during the 2008 campaign.

“Scottie, that is not factual,” said Harlow. “That is not factually correct. Hillary Clinton never questioned the birthplace of Barack Obama when she was running against him.”

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JAMES INHOFE IS A SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID

Wednesday was a big day for conservative for flat earth society member and wing nut Sen. James Inhofe . In the morning, he officially took the gavel as chairman of the Senate’s Environment Committee. In the afternoon, he took the Senate floor for a long speech about how human-caused climate change is fake.



In sum, the speech has everything. References to the oft-debunked “ClimateGate” stolen e-mail “scandal”, a poster of a Time Magazine cover from 1974 claiming an ice age is coming, and multiple references to former Vice President Al Gore. It has a mention of a survey of weather-casters who think global warming is caused by natural variation, but does not mention that weather-casters are not climate scientists. It even includes the claim that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “started” the whole idea that climate change is happening, even though the idea was conceived about 200 years ago.

The video above actually begins a couple minutes in to Inhofe’s speech, with a quote from Richard Lindzen, a former MIT professor and one of the most-cited voices of scientists who think global warming is fake. Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist, has often been characterized as having contrarian scientific opinions. He has also said that the evidence that cigarettes cause lung cancer is not “so strong that one should rule that any questions were out of order.”

Behind Inhofe in the beginning of the video is a list of climate scientists — Lindzen included — who don’t agree with the vast majority of climate scientists who say human-caused carbon emissions are contributing to climate change. Inhofe says he has compiled a list of 4,000 “renowned scientists” scientists who disagree (“this is all in my website,” he said). Inhofe’s list actually has 650 people, some of whom are television meteorologists, geologists, anthropologists, and even a man with no college degree.

Conversely, one of the most recent peer-reviewed studies on the state of climate science showed that out of 4000 abstracts from peer-reviewed papers published in the past 21 years that stated a position on the cause of global warming — 97 percent of these endorsed the point that it was human-caused. In the video, Inhofe says this is “just not true.”

Inhofe also criticizes climatologist Michael Mann’s famous hockey stick graph, which displayed temperatures going back half a millennium, and cites the controversy it received as a reason to believe climate change is fake. He does not mention that the National Academy of Sciences vindicated the hockey stick graph in 2006 as good science, as have multiple other peer-reviewed studies since.

It’s also worthwhile to point out that even if the hockey stick was wrong, even if it didn’t exist, we would still have enough scientific evidence to prove climate change is real and caused by humans. “Climate deniers like to make it seem like the entire weight of evidence for climate change rests on the hockey stick,” Mann told the Atlantic in 2013. “And that’s not the case. We could get rid of all these reconstructions, and we could still know that climate change is a threat, and that we’re causing it.”

Don’t expect this speech to be the end of climate denial in the Senate. Indeed, Inhofe ended his speech by promising more of it, citing his new position as head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

“Now I’m back in that position so we’ll have a chance to have hearings, and Mr. President, we’re going to have hearings with prominent scientists to come in and talk about this thing,” he said. “We’ll be there to be the truth-squad.”

James Inhofe, you are this week's worst person of the week. Congrats numbnutz!

[h/t thinkprogress]



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Rick Perry Is A Know Nothing 'Ignoramus' On Ebola

FEDERALLY INDICTED "IGNORAMUS" RICK PERRY

.....Says former Vermont Governor Dr. Howard Dean. Dean also said he discounts everything that the American Taliban utters. Amen Tell me again why Dr. Dean is not heading the DNC?

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean didn't mince any words when asked about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's continued insistence that we need a travel ban on flights from West Africa to stop Ebola from spreading to the United States on Chris Hayes' show this Friday evening while discussing the appointment of the new "Ebola czar" Ron Klain.


DR. DEAN ON RICK PERRY

The sad thing is, Rick Perry would be extremely offended if he was able to comprehend what Dean was saying about him. But in typical "OPPPPS" fashion, the verbal bitch slapping by Dr. Dean flew right over the Cuckoos nest!

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