The biggest endorsement for the Florida senator is a big bundler for the Republican Party. This bundler gave millions to Republicans like the perennial loser Mitt Romney.
Paul Singer a mega donor came out in favor of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Singer was a supporter of Jeb Bush. He flipped the script on Bush and cashed in on Rubio.
This is a big blow to the Bush campaign.
"He is accustomed to thinking about American foreign policy as a responsible policy maker," the hedge fund manager wrote. "He is ready to be an informed and assertive decision-maker." Rubio is the "best explainer of conservatism in public life today" and can "appeal to both the head and the heart," wrote Singer, describing the senator as the only candidate who can "navigate this complex primary process" and go on to defeat Hillary Clinton.
Money man gave Sen. Marco Rubio a $$$$$$$$$$ contract.
Bush, whose campaign warned donors last week that Rubio is a "risky bet," tried hard to win Singer's support, as did Chris Christie. Sources tell the Times that there was no single moment when the billionaire decided on Rubio, although Bush's dismal debate performance didn't help his cause. At a campaign event in Iowa on Friday, Rubio said he welcomed Singer's support, though he added that "resources alone are not enough" and "you have to have the right ideas and the right principles and convince people that you’re the right person for the job," the Guardian reports. He declined to address Bush's attacks on him, saying he doesn't think "it is a smart thing for Republicans to do Hillary Clinton’s job for her."
Singer warned Republicans that if they continue to push the anti-gay agenda, he might pull back on them. Singer is a strong supporter of Israel. Singer has a son who is gay.
Deso Dogg gave up hip-hop to join foreign extremists. The U.S. served him a rocket.
Scratch that: He is still alive!
Denis Cuspert left the rap game for the jihad. The former German rapper who went by the name Deso Dogg was one of the militants killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria.
He ended his rap career after converting to Islam and taking the name Abou Maleeq. He left Germany for Egypt and eventually Syria, where he fought with the jihadist anti-government forces in the Syrian Civil War, under the nom de guerre of Abu Talha Al-Almani (meaning The German Abu Talha).
He was injured during the fighting in the northern-Syrian town of Azaz in an air-strike conducted by the Syrian Army. In 2014 he gave his oath of allegiance to Islamist-Jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The United States Department of State added Cuspert to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
This was Deso Dogg's posse. The Western nations want this posse eliminated.
Being placed on that list usually means that if there's an attempt of capture, it's likely the target will be killed. The U.S. expected that his capture could result in a deadly encounter.
Cuspert was killed in a US airstrike near Al-Raqqah, Syria, according to a US Department of Defense spokesperson. According to German terrorism expert Florian Flande, a resident of Raqqa broke the news of Cuspert's death on October 17, 2015.
Be warned his lyrics are explicit and some of the language in German and English.
Republicans chairman Reince Priebus bans NBC from debates.
I can imagine the concern trolls saying that the Democrats did it to that right wing network when then senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton boycotted the debate in Nevada.
I remember over at Steve Doocy's Playhouse, the agitators told their viewers about Obama attending a radical Islamic madrassah and it was being spread around by Clinton's operatives.
Obama blasted the network for misleading the notion that he's a Muslim. What made him boycott the event? Well it had to be the head hancho over at that network. Chief Roger made an inappropriate joke about Obama. That was the last straw for Obama.
He froze the network out for nearly a year. It took Rupert Murdoch to broker peace with the network.
To this day, President Barack Obama looks at that network as "the opposition". He believes that he won't be able to talk about issues on that network. He believe that network attacks him and his allies for ratings. He cites that annoying conservative agitator as one of the reasons to why that network isn't friendly to him or Democrats.
NBC News disappointed that Republicans bowed out.
The network fired back at the Democrats by saying they've caved to the pressures of liberal activist groups such as MoveOn.org. They said that if you can't handle us, you can't be the president.
Now it seems like history is repeating itself.
The Republican National Committee is doing damage control after Republican candidates complained about the debate on CNBC. Some of the candidates were pissed they didn't get a lofty green room and the questions didn't focus on real matters.
Today it seems like the Republican leader caved to pressure from the candidates. Reince Priebus formally banned NBC from participating in debates. That includes Spanish network Telemundo.
I just sent this letter to NBC News suspending our partnership for the February Debate: https://t.co/MVke5m2EBm
Reince Priebus release a statement in regards to the CNBC debate. He said that he's no longer going to invest time in working with NBC.
Mr. Andrew Lack
Chairman, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
Dear Mr. Lack,
I write to inform you that pending further discussion between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and our presidential campaigns, we are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016. The RNC’s sole role in the primary debate process is to ensure that our candidates are given a full and fair opportunity to lay out their vision for America’s future. We simply cannot continue with NBC without full consultation with our campaigns.
The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith. We understand that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.
CNBC billed the debate as one that would focus on “the key issues that matter to all voters—job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the health of our national economy.” That was not the case. Before the debate, the candidates were promised an opening question on economic or financial matters. That was not the case. Candidates were promised that speaking time would be carefully monitored to ensure fairness. That was not the case. Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive. The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed.
While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of “gotcha” questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates. What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas.
I have tremendous respect for the First Amendment and freedom of the press. However, I also expect the media to host a substantive debate on consequential issues important to Americans. CNBC did not.
While we are suspending our partnership with NBC News and its properties, we still fully intend to have a debate on that day, and will ensure that National Review remains part of it.
I will be working with our candidates to discuss how to move forward and will be in touch.
Sincerely,
Reince Priebus
Chairman, Republican National Committee
Quick poll.
What are your thoughts on the GOP banning NBC?
Like I've said in the previous posting. NBC and other networks should tell Republicans to "go fuck themselves". They should say to Priebus, "Fine, we'll no longer cover Republicans".
Good luck on winning votes.
Let the Republicans grant all their debates to that right wing network, Newsmax, The Blaze, Cumulus, Salem Radio and iHeart Media. Let them deal with all the Republican debates.
Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush needs the junk food media more than they need them.
I mean if you're that petty over a few questions, how can you deal with a real issue?
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The aftermath of the Republican debate. CNBC defends its moderators after a handful of Republican candidates went off on them. The Republican candidates claim that the moderators didn't treat them fairly.
Reince Priebus went on that annoying conservative agitator's program to bitch about how CNBC messed up. Now the Republican National Committee officially suspends NBC handling of debates.
I am sure NBC will fire back at the RNC.
They tossed out the media bias bone and now conservatives are extremely livid.
Many agitators in the junk food media (i.e. conservatives) claim that they've proven a point.
Instead of answering the questions, the candidates will deflect from the question to attack the moderator. They believe it's their key to winning the Republican primary. I hear that the Republican candidates want the national party leaders to vet the moderators.
If you can't answer a few goddamn questions, how can you be the President of the United States?
Anyway one candidate didn't speak about the debate. He managed to dodge questions about being on "dire condition". Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is facing harsh criticism. Many believe his debate performance was a disaster. Many believe the Bush was a shoe in for the nomination.
Bush had face self-inflicted wounds and a mighty insurgent Donald Trump. Post debate, I am assuring that Bush is running either ahead of Mike Huckabee or behind Carly Fiorina.
Bush wanted to knock Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for being an inept lawmaker. Rubio went around and backhanded Bush. They were once friends in the Florida state house. It turns out that the bad blood was spilled on Wednesday night.
Most in the junk food media concludes that Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump survived the cut.
There's going to be another debate on the networks. I can bet you money, they're going to be more attacks at the moderators and more diversion tactics.
Still charting the wrong course, Reince Priebus decides to put NBC on ice. Suspends partnership with Telemundo and NBC.
I hear the calls of boycott.
The concern trolls want to boycott debates sponsored by CBS, ABC, CNN, Bloomberg, PBS, Telemundo and Univision. According to the concern trolls, the networks are liberal. NBC already got hit with a boycott.
If I was the presidents of these networks, I would tell them to "go fuck yourselves".
I would say, "Fine, we'll no longer cover Republicans". Good luck on winning votes. Let the Republicans grant all their debates to that right wing network, Newsmax, The Blaze, Cumulus, Salem Radio and iHeart Media. Let them deal with all the Republican debates.
The executives should ban all Republicans from appearing on their networks. Let them bitch about that. Tell them that you can't be President of the United States if you're constantly complaining about not getting your way.
President Barack Obama faces a barrage of attacks from the junk food media. He brushes it off. Sometimes when gets annoyed with the junk food media, he let's them have it. The junk food media covered Hilary Clinton in a negative light. Benghazi and email server stories were plaguing the campaign. It wasn't her fault that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blabbed out the objective.
Since the junk food media is invested in the entertainment concept such as that right wing network, they try to cave to Republicans petty and frankly childish demands.
Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush needs the junk food media more than they need them.
The folks over at Buzzfeed report that a man is being held in lockup on the charge of murder.
The 32-year old German man who has not being identified was arrested in the death of a Bosnian boy.
Mohamed Januzi a 4-year old boy from Bosina went missing earlier this month was found dead in a vehicle yesterday. Berlin police arrest the suspect after he confessed to murdering the boy.
He told his mother and she told him to turn himself in. The suspect also confessed to killing another child. The first victim was named Elias who went missing in July in the town of Potsdam.
Mohamed was last seen leaving a refugee camp with an unidentified man. Surveillance footage being released by the law. Mohamed's mother lost sight of him after she saw him playing with other children.
Germany is the recipient of the larges number of asylum applicants. With immigrants coming at such a rapid rate, many conservatives in Germany believe that the threat of terrorism would follow.
German residents listen to American conservative agitators too. They seem to believe that people fleeing danger are the danger. German right wingers are trying to stop immigration at the door.
American conservative agitators (i.e. that network and old fart Limbaugh) have been on this kick about the United States taking 200,000 refugees this year. It turns out that's not the case.
The United States is taking about 14,000 refugees.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Mohamed Januzi and the unknown boy.
Oklahoma City cop on ice after he was caught on camera smacking up a teen.
Looks like even school resource officers are afraid to do their jobs! According to the FBI's James Comey, those in law enforcement are afraid to do their jobs. The so-called Ferguson effect has made cops jobs difficult says the agitators in the junk food media.
I call that bullshit for two reasons. If cops aren't doing their jobs, then they're the ones who end up being in trouble for misconduct. If there was better training for law enforcement, you wouldn't hear these stories in the junk food media.
#BlackLivesMatter activists want police reform. They're not a "murder group" or a "hate group".
It seems like there's got to be better training for school resource officers. The now infamous video of the disgraced Richland County sheriff's deputy Ben Fields dragging the victim on the floor has the nation talking.
Fields was fired out the cannon after this video was posted on social media.
Now an Oklahoma City lawman is in the freezer after he was caught on surveillance camera smacking up a teenager.
Thomas Jaha on ice after smacking teen.
The teen was in the hallway without a hall pass. The officer Thomas Jaha told the teen to get back to class. The teen said that he wanted to get a drink of water.
There was a few words exchanged and soon the teen was arrested for disorderly conduct. But after the school reviewed the video, the officer was charged with battery and lying on a report,
Jaha said that the teen got in his face and threatened assault on him. The video told a different story.
“He struck a student twice in the head after this student got in an aggressive stance and faced the master sergeant,” Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department said.
In the video, the student can be seen walking out of the bathroom with the officer, and while, on his way back to class, he stops at the water fountain for a drink. The water fountain was directly next to the bathroom that they were walking out of, and the teen did not have to go out of his way or waste any time to get a drink of water. The student’s choice to get a drink of water along the way was seen as a sign of disrespect by the officer, who then took it upon himself to assault the boy.
While the teenager did not hit the officer at any time, the officer claims that he hit him in self-defense because the boy allegedly took an aggressive stance and balled his fists, which is not depicted in the video.
“They have the right to defend themselves. They have the right to use physical force to protect themselves, protect the public. And in this particular case, the force was not appropriate to the incident,” Balderrama said.
Although Jaha has been charged with assault he is still on the police force and iced with pay. He may face a cannon firing after the video went viral.
Just in case I hear this concern troll nonsense about the victim and the lawman's race: The victim was White and the lawman was Black, okay!
The former vice presidential nominee is now third in line in the power of succession. The House of Representatives voted today to place him at the gavel. He will now have the difficult task of trying to get the House in order.
The Republican lawmaker from Janesville was really reluctant to take the task, but for the sake of the party, he decided to jump into this.
Paul Davis Ryan, you got a big House. Mr. Ryan, the pressure is now on you to work with President Barack Obama and the members of Congress.
You will be the third Midwestern lawmaker to become the most powerful (and yes gullible) lawmaker in the country. You will be issued Secret Service detail and a cool perks being the House Speaker. You are going to make tough decisions that may help or hurt the country.
Many in the insurgency thought Ryan will be willing to compromise with the Democrats. Ryan also said that he will work with the president. He warned Republicans that he will not cave to pressure from either the president or a handful of insurgents.
The White House has called the new Speaker and wished him well.
His predecessor Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) said that he will get the budget and debt ceiling debacle completed before he steps down. Today the House had passed the legislation. The senate will take up the measure. Of course, I am guessing that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will find ways to derail the deal.
He was the chairman of House Ways and Means committee. He held that position for a couple of years now.
Picking him was a controversial move.
The 1st Congressional District has a Cook PVI rating of Republican +3. His district is a swing that leans Republican.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will now continue his reign on World News Today.
