58 posts from Friday, October 11, 2024

-Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingraham. This is the Ingraham Angle from Washington tonight. As always, thank you for joining us. Obama's got nothing. That's the focus of tonight's angle. All right, his swagger doesn't have the appeal it used to have. His shout-outs. Hello, Pittsburgh. Oh, the audience. It just kind of seems juvenile, I think. And now the man who won the presidency as the great uniter is making a nakedly racial-insulting appeal to black male voters who are skeptical of Kamala Harris. -We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout as we saw when I was running. That seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. You're coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I've got a problem with that. Part of it makes me think that, "Well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you're coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that." -Well, with Kamala's mounting challenges in battleground states, Obama jetted in, and he held court. You saw him there. But rather than addressing concerns about Harris' record on the economy and on the border, people's standards of living, he tried to shame black men into supporting her. -So now you're thinking about sitting out or even supporting somebody who has a history of denigrating you because you think that's a side of strength because that's what being a man is? -Really? That's the argument? His message to black men is clear. You're stupid sexist if you don't vote for Kamala. Is this what all that hope and change was all about all those years ago? All right, let's be very clear here. In the history books, Obama's administration will go down as a failure because when it was over in 2016, the voters rejected his chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton, and they elected someone who had never run for political office before, a businessman, Donald Trump. Americans had had enough of the Obamas, and they wanted to go in a completely different direction. And the facts show why. Remember, President Obama promised to help the middle class and urban voters, but he really never did. And he promised that he would get tough on China, and he was going to declare them a currency manipulator, but he never did. And he promised to renegotiate NAFTA, but we know he never did that either. President Trump got more done in his own one term than Obama did in two, and Trump had a pandemic to deal with. Now, look at the real median household income numbers. Wow, hit a record high under Trump. Even CNN had to report it. Well, Obama knows all this, and he knows that in every poll conducted for the past few years, voters have been very clear. They prefer Trump's economic record to Biden and Harris's. So while Obama, I think, believed he needed something new to say yesterday, and he tried to save this issue for Kamala. Now, he's had months to think about an argument, but this was the best he could come up with. - The reason some people think, wow, I don't know, I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good, 'cause it was my economy. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time. So just in case everybody has a hazy memory, he had that, he didn't do nothing except those big tax cuts. - Not surprising from the man who famously said this. - Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. - Trump didn't help build that economy. I did. Now, almost nothing Obama said in Pittsburgh was actually true. - Donald Trump and his cronies. Freedom means that the powerful can do whatever they please. We believe in the freedom to provide for our families. We believe that true freedom gives each of us the right to make decisions about our own life. - Oh, really? Then why is Kamala sitting on a billion dollar war chest if she's not supported by the powerful, Mr. President? Now, under Trump, the powerful weren't allowed to flood our communities with migrants or to send your jobs offshore. Like Obama doesn't even sound like he believes much of what he's saying anymore, and especially about Kamala. - The good news is Kamala Harris, she doesn't have concepts for a plan. She has an actual plan to make your life better, to bring down the cost of things like groceries. She'll go after corporations that are jacking up prices. - All right, I have a question for Obama. If she has this great detailed plan, why is she unable to explain her to defend it under real questioning? Why are the voters not buying it? And why does she need you to try to do it all for her? It's all ridiculous. And you know what else is ridiculous? That the guy who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in office, which is still hilarious, is now on the same side as Dick Cheney. And the fact is, Obama's act was always phony. He was never a racial healer. He was a cynical fomentor of racial divisions. And he was never a champion of the working class. He supports and agrees with the same globalists and billionaires who support Kamala Harris today. And he was never really a peacemaker. He agrees with most of the Cheney's views on foreign policy now, and supports the Cheney's pick presidential candidate. Now, this is his real record. And this is why the voters rejected his recommendation in 2016, Hillary Clinton. And this is why voters are rejecting his advice right now. He's always been kind of the same editor of the Harvard Law Review, who learned to protect and defend the elites. He's comfortable with them. If you want to know about real estate and Martha's Vineyard, or hear about how to score floor tickets to the next game, then he's your man. But if you're trying to figure out how to build a colorblind political coalition or raise living standards for the middle class, then he's the last person you should be taking advice from. As we told you last night, the problem for these people isn't their calm strategy. The problem is all of them are wedded to the same failed policies that have eviscerated our middle class. Meanwhile, President Trump has spent nine years under relentless assault, showing us that he is committed to the multiracial, multiethnic, multi-state coalition to improve life for all Americans. So voters, vote for your own interests. You don't owe Obama anything. He's gonna be fine. He has his mansions and his movie and Netflix deals and his standing invites on private yachts in the South of France. Now, remember, he's the smartest guy they've got. He's obviously been thinking about how to defend the Biden-Harris record for months. And in the end, all he's got is, you're being mean to her because you don't like women. In other words, they got nothing, and that's the angle.

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Welcome to Hannity and tonight coming up we're gonna check in on the battered but free state of Florida where residents have already started to rebuild the recover after two back-to-back huge hurricanes maybe now Kamala Harris will actually drop the act after spending the last what nearly two weeks pretending to be deeply concerned with hurricane preparedness for the first time ever in between important interviews with the call me daddy podcast having drinks with Stephen Colbert who nobody really watches tea with the ladies of the view talking about raising brand with Howard Stern. Oh, now I can focus on the people in North Carolina and Georgia. Of course, Kamala is running the fakest phoniest campaign in the history of presidential politics. She didn't receive a single primary vote. You need to remember that. She avoids talking about all her stated radical extreme positions and beliefs. She hides behind anonymous staffers. We don't know who they are who tell us that almost all of her stated opinions have changed over the past few years. But she's never been challenged one time by the state run media mob on any of them. She is almost completely unable to speak coherently without a teleprompter and now the state run media they're trying their best to rescue a campaign that is beginning to spiral downwards. And that includes far left CBS News where producers, video editors were working really extra hard and overtime over the weekend to cut and slice and dice and piece clips together in what is nothing but a blatant effort to make Kamala Harris look more competent than she is. For example, here's the same question. One answer ran in a promo and one ran on 60 minutes, two totally different answers to one question. Now, the first answer, a bizarre word solid, appeared to be the original full answer and was initially released as a preview to promote 60 minutes. And maybe somebody didn't like it. Anyway, the second clip, it was what actually aired during 60 minutes. You can't make this up. Take a look. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. Well, that second answer is really concise. Two completely different answers. The same question. Now, the Harris campaign is scared. They deny any involvement with the editing at CBS. But there's zero justifiable reason for CBS for this to ever happen. But we've been telling you since 2007 and eight, journalism is dead. News is a thing of the past at CBS. And frankly, for most of the state run media mob, like most of the so-called news outlets, this is a network that is dedicated to left wing activism, activism and extension of the Harris campaign. They should never, ever be allowed to host another debate. And frankly, they owe it to you, the American people, to release the entire unedited transcript. The only reason they won't is they know that their bias will be on full display. And while CBS host to his credit, Bill Whitaker, he did ask Kamala a couple of good follow up questions on the border crisis. No one in the state run media mob has tried to get answers over the many, many extreme radical positions in her own voice that she has stated. Why anonymous aides claim that she has mysteriously changed her position, but nobody's asked if she's changed these positions. Now, despite a flurry of interviews over the last week, well, with only 26 days until election day, think of this. The American people still do not have answer to her own radical extreme position stated in her own words. Here are the questions she should be asked. We'll run through them fast. Number one, does she really support zero restrictions on abortion? Even months seven, eight, nine up to the ninth month. Number two, does she want a mandatory gun buyback like she stated? Also known as confiscation. Number three, does she still think the border wall is a medieval vanity project of Donald Trump? Number four, does she still want to decriminalize the illegal immigration and offer free housing, health care, education, sex change, or surgery? A path to citizenship, college tuition, legal driver's licenses. Does the number six, does the vice president still want reparations? Nobody's asked her. Does she still want to ban plastic straws and reduce meat consumption? Does she still, she's still behind the 93 trillion dollar socialist green new deal that she co-sponsored with Bernie Sanders and does she still support eliminating the filibuster to get that done if she's president? This would be the end of capitalism as we know it. Let's look at number nine. Does she still want to eliminate private health insurance and pass government run health care or Medicare for all? Number 10, does she still believe the high cost of energy is the cost of democracy and you have to pay it? Number 11, does she still want Americans to have the courage to never say the words radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien and why does she believe that? Never been asked that question. Now, she said number 12, she was going to address inflation and illegal immigration on day one. Wasn't day one, January 20th, 2021, was she going to try and raise the corporate tax rate, the estate taxes, capital gains taxes? Does she still want price controls and taxes on unrealized capital gains? That will cause a great depression. She's not been asked any detail. Number 14, she was proud to be the last person in the room when Biden authorized the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Does she still stand behind that decision? Number 15, does she still want to defund, dismantle, reimagine the police and ICE as she has stated in her own words? Number 16, does she stand behind the bail fund that she promoted for violent rioters and insurrectionists in the summer of 2020, four days after, you know, the burning down of the police precinct in Minneapolis. Number 17, does she stand behind her statement that summer when she went on Colbert and said the rioters aren't going to stop, the rioters shouldn't stop and we're not going to stop supporting them. 18, does she still believe 18 to 24 year olds are stupid as she once stated? 19, does she believe inflation is transitory as she claimed? 20, why did she lie in safe for three plus years that the border is secure when it was anything but? And by the way, 21, she said in August of 23, we call it Bidenomics and we're proud of it. Is she still proud of it? 22, does she stand behind her belief that Americans need to stay woke? Number 23 or four, whatever the number is, does she think AOC's proposed 70 to 80 percent tax rate is still a fantastic idea? She once said 24, will she ever deport any illegal immigrants? 25, is she still unburdened by what has been? Because in interview after interview, I don't care if it's the Call Me Daddy podcast, The View, Colbert, Stern, CBS, Kamala has been totally unburdened by any of those questions about her past stated radical positions. Meaning in the last four years for crying out loud. But we know that she enjoys Raisin Bran and Miller Lite. But despite all the heavy lifting by virtually everyone in the media mob to help her, the Harris campaign is still taking on water. The joy apparently is gone. As Axios put it, Democrats are experiencing the blue wall blues. Quote, top Democratic politicians and operatives tell us the vital the vital states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania are getting tougher for Vice President Kamala Harris and the party's Senate candidates, internal and now external polling is now showing Trump is winning in these states, including a new Emerson poll that has Donald Trump up by one in Pennsylvania. That's following insider advantage that shows he's up by two in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Quinnipiac is showing Trump up by two in Wisconsin and four in Michigan. Panic is now set in and things are starting to get pretty weird. By the way, here's Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is also a Harris campaign co-chair. If you could explain this to me, please dial in and call the show and tell our producer. Take a look. In a statement, Governor Whitmer's office defended the video, writing in part, quote, the governor's social media is well known for infusing her communications with pop culture. They said the governor was just recreating a trend and promoting the chips act, which is about semiconductor production. Looks like a Doritos commercial to me. I'm not sure how that bizarre video promotes the Harris campaign or semiconductors. Some of the comments online are pretty downright funny, but it's clear Democrats are getting desperate. And remember, this is the same campaign that called J.D. Vance weird. And needless to say, things are not going well for the Democratic Party and they're getting more weird by the day. James Carville, my old friend, sounding the alarm, rightly so. Take a listen. Only thing I feel is the election is coming November 5th. I'm scared to death. And I'll get a time to beat up. You're not in a reflective mood, not in a particular effective mood right now. I'm very, very concerned about what is Harris need to do with the month left. They need to be sharp. They need to be aggressive. They need to stop answering questions and start asking questions. They're doing all this and sitting down with 60 minutes and sit down, Colbert and sitting down. No matter what, if I come on your show, you're going to ask me a question. That's true. If I have a press conference, I get to ask the question. You'd like to see or do more press conferences? I'd like for to put more things in place. Only problem is she hasn't answered any of the important questions. Now, after a week of disastrous interviews, well, the Harris campaign is calling for a lifeline tonight. In comes Barack Obama campaigning for Kamala in Pennsylvania, where he was openly worried about turnout among African-American men. He doesn't seem too confident himself. Take a look. We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running. Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. He seemed tired. He looked like he didn't want to be there and didn't sound particularly optimistic. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton is going to be headed to Georgia to say hi to all the girls in Georgia. How are you doing? Good to see you. I'll be glad to give you a tour of my plane later. Anyway, where enthusiasm for Kamala is also in a steep decline, noticeably missing from the campaign trail, Joe and Jill Biden, which is kind of strange, because according to Kamala, there's nothing that she would have done differently over the past four years. Now, let's be clear. Despite the floundering Harris campaign, I want to warn all of you. Anything can happen. Don't look at these numbers. Don't look at you're up here, up there. You've got to look at it like you are the vote that matters. You are the vote that's going to put it over the top. You're it's two minutes left in the game. You're on your own 20. You have no time out. You need to march down the field 80 yards. You have to cross the plane and kick the field goal if you want to win. Act like and play like you're behind. Twenty six days until Election Day. And if you don't want the most radical extreme agenda ever imposed on you, the American people, you better believe the Democratic Party will do what it takes to win this election and hold on to power. There's a lot at stake.

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No change. That's the focus of tonight's angle. Well, we have more evidence today that Democrats believe they're gals in trouble. First, the pro-Harris website Axios published this piece. Behind the curtain, Dem's blue wall blues. There's growing worry among Democrats that Harris seems stuck, even sliding a bit, after a strong start to her young presidential campaign. Her media blitz, heavy spending, and largely favorable coverage don't seem to be moving the needle much, if at all, these Democrats say. Now, Michigan, once thought to be a fairly solid hold for Harris, is slipping away. Axios notes that it's where Democratic erosion among union members, Arab Americans, and young men all collide. And the numbers in the new poll by Emerson and the Hill show trouble for Harris as well. As the race there is now tied at 49. And in other states in the same survey, Trump's either tied or leading. He's up by one in Pennsylvania, ditto in Georgia, which actually seems low to me, but he's up by two in Arizona, and he's tied in Wisconsin. And then Quinnipiac, that was out yesterday, showed much more stomach-churning trend lines for Harris. Although it has her up by three in Pennsylvania, Trump is up by three in Michigan, and he's up by two there in Wisconsin. So, this is not how Team Kamala thought it was all going to look less than a month out before election day. Now, despite relentless lawfare against Trump, we can never forget that or forgive it. Despite a massive money advantage over Republicans, and of course, the historic first as their nominee, Democrats find themselves in a real jam. Now, when a campaign is on track to win, we know what things sound like. And well-known political consultants don't need to give on-air advice like this. You're really probably under 20 days that you have to really get a message out. They need to be sharp, they need to be aggressive, they need to stop answering questions and start asking questions. And those comments were just four days after Obama's campaign guru, David Axelrod, made it clear, Harris needed to start getting out there, doing town halls, interviews, because Trump was everywhere. And sure enough, the Harris team, they snapped too, and they dispatched her to do a bevy of shows, mostly friendly, and none of it made her look any more serious or any more qualified to be president. And I'll say this, and we go even further, at different points in every time she went on these shows, she looked either afraid, confused, or just plain stupid. What do you think would be the biggest specific difference between your presidency and a Biden presidency? Well, we're obviously two different people. Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu? I think, with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance? Do you nap at all? Not really. I wish I could. I wish I could. Well, at this point, with the polls as they are, if you're, let's say, one of Kamala's big donors, you've got to be starting to wonder, what on earth did these people do with all that dough that they raised? But maybe, apparently, a billion dollars didn't go as far as it used to, and it can't buy her any love. In what's clear from the reporting in the Washington Post today, Harris campaign officials are somehow looking to blame the donors if things go south. Now, I love this phrasing, "People familiar with the campaign strategy," that's campaign officials, "who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans, said Wednesday that the campaign continues to face significant headwinds that will require more money over the coming weeks. They said each of the seven targeted swing states remains within the margin of error, requiring costly spending plans." Sounds like the federal government or Ukraine, they can't give them enough money, they still lose. Now, meanwhile, reporters at the other propaganda arm of the DNC, The New York Times, they seem to be totally flummoxed by the mess that Kamala is in. So all they can do is go back to what they do best, smearing Trump by claiming that he's racially divisive and he's just mean. And when you read this piece, you've got to get to almost at the end of it, like four paragraphs on the bottom. Do they admit that despite how supposedly polarizing Trump is? Check this out. Polls show that he's expanded his support among Latino and black voters from four years ago, a shift that threatens to undermine the multiracial coalition that has long been the foundation of democratic victories. Now, how divisive can Trump be? He's building his coalition. I'm glad they're all catching up over there at The Times because we have known for years on the angle that Trump's new Republican coalition is very real. Inflation has been terrible. Definitely when Trump was in office, there was gas prices lower, you know, saying go to the movie theaters and not pay your arm in a leg. Kamala Harris has been for four years in the presidency and all we have is like problems. We have to close our border. It's easy. You don't need additional funding to do it. It's an executive order that Donald Trump proved on day one when he was in office last that you can do it. Shut it down. It was working. That's not working anymore. Now, Americans are smarter, I think, than the ad men, all those high paid consultants that want more money from the carers camp. Now, they're smarter than the abortion fanatics think they are as well. And certainly they're smarter than the media think they are. Because for all their celebrity testimonials, all the Democrats, TikTok strategizing, all their late night TV schmoozing, Kamala, in the end, is still Kamala. She's still the same annoying candidate she's always been. And I ask you tonight, how can someone be simultaneously so untalented yet so arrogant? It's quite a feat. But understand this, if they lose and look, they can still win, but if they lose, it looks like more likely that they will. Democrats are going to rush to blame her, Kamala. But we should let them get off that easy, because if they lose, it's because they have run the country into the ground. And now that Kamala said there's no nothing she would have done differently than Biden. She certainly can't run away from the Biden record. So it's just hang in there. Overall, inflation is up almost 20 percent. All food is up 22 percent. Housing up 23. Energy almost 30 percent higher for Americans. Auto insurance 60 percent almost. It's higher than it was before under Trump. Oh, and wages. Oh, yeah. Real wages from when Trump left office to last month are also down. Although Obama is stumping for Kamala tonight in Pittsburgh, and we'll get to that, I'm asking, where's the hope and change in any of these dismal statistics? The fact is, Trump has a better record, a far better record on every major issue. And the fact is, Trump picked a better VP candidate than Harris did as well. Another fact is, Democrats refuse to change any of their horrid policies. And at the same time, they actually move further left on the social issues. It's worth remembering that back in 2008, Obama was the Democrat who was against gay marriage. And before that, Bill Clinton was for don't ask, don't tell in the military. But now Kamala thinks we should pay for sex surgeries for prison inmates. That's how far they've moved. Americans supporting Trump, they believe that if he becomes president again, their lives are going to get markedly better. But I think Democrats voting for Harris, most of them can't say the same. The only thing that holds them all together is their abortion obsession and their hatred of Donald Trump. But on the economy, on the border, no hope and no change. And that's the angle.

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Just weeks after CBS moderators muted Vance's mic at the debate, the network was caught airing a deceptively dirty edit of Kamala's interview on 60 Minutes. On Sunday, CBS promoted the interview with a clip of Kamala struggling to lay out her Middle East policy. But when the episode aired on Monday, her answer was completely different. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. Whoa, what did CBS do here? The first answer they pro-mowed was a mess. The second answer that aired on CBS was better. But what happened between Sunday and Monday? Were they pressured into fixing her answer? Kamala's campaign says no. And how do we really know that's her answer to that specific question? How do we know they didn't just pull that from another part of the conversation? This is an extremely suspicious journalistic maneuver. And if it's true, it is scandalous. We were already suspicious of this interview because of how obvious and frequent the edits are. The Trump campaign is demanding CBS release the full unedited interview. And there's a precedent for that after all, CBS did that to Trump in 2020, publishing the full transcript of his interview. They did the same thing in 2012 when Mitt Romney said Obama didn't initially call Benghazi an act of terror at an October debate. Sixty minutes waited until the night before the election to release the transcript. And it turns out Obama said it was too early to tell. So what's different this time? CBS has a dark history of election interference. In 2004, they got caught airing Forge National Guard documents to hurt W. Now, news about CBS News and the questions surrounding documents we aired on this broadcast and on the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes on September 8th. The documents purported to show that George W. Bush received preferential treatment during his years in the Texas Air National Guard. At the time, CBS News and this reporter fully believe the documents were genuine. Tonight, after further investigation, we can no longer vouch for their authenticity. And CBS also aired a 60 Minutes piece on Benghazi, whose source gave a phony firsthand account of the attack. And to make matters worse, the guy was promoting a book he wrote through a CBS owned publisher. Then in 2020, Trump was forced to walk out of an interview after Leslie Stahl denied the laptop was real. Two years later, they corrected the record. Will CBS do the right thing and release the transcript?

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Harris will ban all fracking. Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking your first day in office? There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. That will immediately put tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians out of work and send utility bills skyrocketing. There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. Trump will protect clean energy fracking and protect the jobs it creates. I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.

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