Wake Up America – Context! Timeline! Truth! They Matter!!

Posted by Tina

I’m a blogger. My game is discussing politics and current events. It’s not always easy to get the facts straight because I have to rely on media reporting. Thankfully there are some who investigate what’s being reported so the truth can be revealed. The latest effort to smear, demean, and bring down is a case in point. The goal is to isolate our president and end his presidency by unifying the country to work against him. See also here.

Bruce Heiden of American Greatness reveals such truth in his article, “How the Media Smeared Trump on Charlottesville:

…Talking heads, Capitol Hill pontificators, CEOs, and ordinary folks on Facebook have criticized the president’s Saturday remarks as inadequate at best and an oblique expression of complicity with the Ku Klux Klan at worst. For one erstwhile supporter they necessitated a clean break with the president. Julius Krein explained to Slate that he was forced to revise his views of Trump by “the simple and obvious fact that somebody died, and it was obvious that there was some neo-Nazi psychopath who killed that person. To not state the obvious, to fail to ‘tell it like it is,’ I thought was pathetic.”

It’s easy to see why Krein would think that President Trump was expected to address one simple and obvious fact—that a neo-nazi murdered someone in Charlottesville—because Krein, like virtually everybody, acquired his information about the president’s statement from the media. For example, the report about the events of August 12 on NPR’s website indicates, with respect to Trump’s statement, that the “obvious” facts about Charlottesville were exactly those mentioned by Krein, and it even notes that although President Trump approached the microphone about an hour after the car ramming, his remarks somehow overlooked both the ramming and its victims. Sure sounds like the president flunked a no-brainer, or was up to something odd.

Unfortunately for the president’s critics, what was obvious to them whenever this completed narrative reached them could not have been obvious to President Trump when he began to speak at 3:35 p.m.. Why? Because at that moment it was not obvious to anybody. The hospital where the victims of the car ramming were being treated announced that one person was dead and 19 were wounded at 3:53, more than 10 minutes after the president finished his remarks.

It is true that the mayor of Charlottesville had tweeted information about an unspecified death at 3:16, but the tweet did not link the fatality to the car ramming or to any specific cause. So when Trump was preparing his statement, and while he gave it, he did not know the “obvious fact” that Krein and so many others now insist he ought to have addressed, that a person had been killed. And he also did not know that her killer was a neo-nazi psychopath, because the driver’s identity was not announced by the police until 9:46 pm.

In fact, when President Trump addressed the cameras on the afternoon of August 12, he was not there to share with the nation his views of a terrorist attack, as many with 20/20 hindsight suppose. He was there to offer reflections on a disturbing riot which had been going on in Charlottesville since about 11:00 a.m., and about which he had already commented in a tweet at 1:19 p.m., when the simple and obvious fact that now summarizes Charlottesville to everybody was as unobvious as it could possibly be, because it hadn’t happened, and nobody imagined that it would (except possibly James Fields). From about 11:30 a.m. to 1:42 p.m. (when the ramming occurred) the obvious fact of Charlottesville was an ongoing riot, and this continued to be the case at 3:35 p.m. when the car ramming, its effects, and its causes were still subjects of unconfirmed report and speculation.

The president did not choose the time of his statement because it was opportune with respect to the status of the events in Charlottesville, but because a media appearance about a different matter was already scheduled for that hour.

The left’s up to something more then ending Trump, although his demise is the immediate goal, and it’s not good for America.

They have been working on ending Trump since Trump won the election. The gut wrenching reality that Hillary lost was overwhelming to them. It took only a few months for dismay and sadness to morph into anger and vengeance by those who imagined they could rule over the American people forever. That they engage in such deceitful, militant tactics should be abhorrent to any American that values liberty and the rule of law. This is evidence of adherence to militant tyrannical ideologies. This is the stuff of oppressive regimes in their early incarnations. This is how Castro, Chavez, and many other Marxist revolutionaries began.

There have been many targets placed in the cross hairs of the radical Marxist left through the years. They have lied about anyone or any group that represents a perceived threat. In the last ten years they have turned up the heat in their evil ambitions:

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008

“We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” — Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008 …

… Race…Had Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell been elected president, race would have been incidental rather than essential to their governance. Nothing in Barack Obama’s past suggests that such a statement could ever have been true of his presidency. From the beer summit to “punish our enemies” to the two occasions of pop editorializing about Trayvon Martin, and from Eric Holder’s “my people” to “nation of cowards,” the Obama administration has sought at opportune times to emphasize racial differences, mostly to secure the base for Obama’s own reelection and for midterm elections. The result is that race relations have become more polarized than at any other time in the last 30 years.

The affront to our American Republic and the principles we cherish: the democratic process, the rule of law, individual rights, equality, tolerance of others, and individual responsibility, is unacceptable. The assault on morals that we hold dear, honesty, decency, fair play, respect, truth, is unacceptable and must end.

This isn’t a normal contest between parties, nor is it simply a contest for power. This is a fight for the preservation of America and it has now become deadly serious. The forces that wish to transform America are willing to see any city burned and looted, any citizen murdered or harmed, and any opponent destroyed with lies. It all falls on the alter of their designs. Wake up America! We who love America must resist the temptation to automatically accept the things we hear or read about the president. In Journalism, as in life, context, timeline, and truth matter. Some have put the destruction of America and President Trump above the things that matter and the things that make America great.