Jeff Sessions Praises Donald Trump’s Answers to ‘Sessions Test’

Breitbart ^ | 2/16/2016 | Julia Hahn

[lentulusgracchus]

Regardless whether the publication is to the left or to the right, and irrespective of which candidate is being touted, I despise manipulative journalism.

This is Breitbart, not NRO or RedState.

If they said "Yet", then "yet" is the answer. Of course Sessions is going to praise someone who answers fully, against someone who's being coy for some reason or is tardy and tongue-tied by excessive punch-slipping on key issues.

Time for the other guys to step up, and that includes my favorite, Ted Cruz.

[lentulusgracchus]

The definitive timeline of what Ted Cruz said and did ...

Oh, for God's sake, AuntB. Salon??!! Are you kidding me? Salon the arbiter elegantiarum of Republican politics?

You have got to be joking!

[lentulusgracchus]

I agree it sounds like a pretty good thumbnail. Thanks for posting, B_E.

Any of you have a feel for whether this will become an issue that could hurt Cruz? Like MSM articles next fall equating Dominionism with the child-molesting David Koresh and his Branch Davidian? Or the Solar Temple cult?

[KGeorge]

IMO, if it doesn’t, it sure should. Now I see where the ‘’Taliban’’ comparisons are coming from.

I knew about dominionism, charismatics (too well), & had heard of Joel’s Army, but foolishly thought the movements had faded- not metastasized.

There are some kind of books regarding child rearing that are pretty disturbing. (I don’t think I bookmarked these. Maybe an Amazon search would turn them up)

Anyway, one of the recommendations is to ‘’flick’’ a baby’s face if they suck their thumb. When I saw the video of Cruz’s daughter resisting being given to him, that was the first thing I thought of because she was flicking her fingers in his face.

I didn’t see anything about sexual abuse, but physical (’’baby beating’’), yes. I just read an article about it, so very limited info.

Was Koresh a dominionist? I thought he was some kind of polygamist. I’ll have to google Solar Temple. Sounds pagan.

[lentulusgracchus]

Koresh was a serial abuser ..... used his lecturing abilities to get a "hold" over his believers and helped himself to his male followers' wives, jumped on anything that struck his fancy, and helped himself to the older girls, too, even preteens.

He exercised a powerful intellectual and moral control over all his followers and upgraded the weapons he'd used to seize the Mount Carmel compound in 1988 from the previously incumbent faction of Seventh Day Adventists (another group) after a several hours' running gun battle.

Koresh and his "Mighty Men" cadre upgraded his original weapons cache, which featured numbers of Mini-14's, buying and converting numbers of civilian AKS's to full-auto AK-47's illegally, which was the source of the eventual warrants which the ATF tried to serve in 1993 as part of their "ZBO" ("Zee Beeg One", the budget-cycle "convincer" for the incoming 'Rat administration).

He also had a couple of (legal) Barrett rifles, one of which did a lot of the damage during the ATF assault, killing at least one agent and injuring others; the ATF knew about the Barretts and doubtless had plans for them in their ZBO "scary nasty guns" video for the gawping media post-raid. Except that the Davidians actually used them.

If the ATF, spinning forward Old Man Bush's Yankee distaste for crackers with guns, hadn't executed a massive assault on the Davidian compound, if instead the matter had been handled by one (1) Texas Ranger and the sheriff of McClennan County, there'd have been no huge gun battle, no seige, and no dozens of dead; and babies born into the holocaust of Mt. Carmel would be alive today and looking forward to their 23rd birthdays.

[KGeorge]

Wow. That’s quite a story. Seems like I remember someone saying (much more recently) that the Feds had a chance to deal with him away from the compound.

I thought Waco happened under Clinton/ Janet Reno. Is that incorrect? (Or is that what you meant by Bush’s Yankee distaste ‘spinning forward’?)

You’ve piqued my curiosity now. I’m going to go read up.

It’s really tragic that so many innocent people went down with him.
It’s hard to feel any sympathy for Koresh, himself, though.
People like this always seem to end up surrounded by dead bodies.

[mumblypeg]

See my post # 34.
I went to journalism school, way back in the dark ages. We were taught to **always** seek a statement from whoever else was being discussed in the article.
If the subject does not respond to press questions report that.
Let the readers draw their own conclusions.
A free press encourages readers to think, and to challenge politicians. It doesn’t tell the readers only what “our side” wants readers to know and think.
Reporting only what Senator A said about Candidates B, C, and D
without even attempting to get any rebuttals or clarifications, is inherently biased.
It’s wrong, regardless what publication is doing it. And you’re wrong to think it’s okay because “this is Breitbart.”
What if Candidates B and D claim they **did** respond? Did somebody goof, and Senator A simply wasn’t shown the responses? Or is Senator A fibbing?
We’ll never know, because the “journalist” didn’t ask. She wasn’t doing her job. And yes, I know it’s the internet, and the deadlines are quicker.

[etabeta]

Even here on FR we were all in support of Roberts’ nomination..we called him the good guy, we were enthusiastic...we could not have foreseen he would go south on us. I do believe that he was either blackmailed or his family threatened.