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Adam Schiff's Avalanche of Accolades (Or Pencil Neck Schiff's Avalanche of Accolades)
Townhall.com ^ | January 24, 2020 | Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Posted on 01/24/2020 4:11:00 AM PST by Kaslin

Our media elites arrogantly lecture about our democracy being undermined by robotic propaganda, but do they ever listen to themselves talk about the Democrats? Somehow, they think their robotic propaganda is just the "truth." The press came to witness the Senate impeachment trial, and Rep. Adam Schiff had them at hello.

No member of Congress has been more dramatically partisan in this war on the Trump presidency than Schiff. Did you know he's the second coming of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg? Check out this list of the media's responses to his opening statement at the trial.

1."I think it'll go down as one of the great performances ... He just shreds the other side every time he gets up," claimed MSNBC's Jonathan Alter.

2. On CNN, Wolf Blitzer declared it was "a very, very powerful and forceful speech ... a very, very strong case from Adam Schiff."

3. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called it "dazzling ... really remarkable" and said, "It was the second-best courtroom address, since it's like a courtroom, that I ever heard."

4. On Twitter, Washington Post reporter Greg Miller oozed, "the way he has handled impeachment will leave a mark on history, exceeding nearly all contemporaries."

5. Washington Post writer Jennifer Rubin wrote a valentine to Schiff's "grand slam" with the headline "Adam Schiff's Brilliant Presentation Is Knocking Down Excuses to Acquit."

6. ABC's Terry Moran said: "It was meticulous and well-organized. It was grounded in evidence, which he recited and arranged ... in a comprehensive narrative. At times, he tried to rise to a level of eloquence and stir a sense of responsibility for the Senate."

. MSNBC's Jason Johnson insisted Schiff wasn't just talking to senators: "He was speaking to 100 years in the future. This is a speech that kids are going to be giving in 2060 ... at university projects."

8. CNN's Paul Begala seconded that emotion: "I believe what Adam Schiff said yesterday is going to be studied 40 or 50 years from now."

9. MSNBC lovebirds Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski echoed each other in adoring Schiff's "virtuoso performance."

Then these people wonder why Americans watch Fox News instead! To love Schiff's case, you have to believe that a single phone call from the president to the Ukrainian president is somehow an impeachable offense on the level of abuse of power and obstruction of the House.

What's entirely missing from this tsunami of saccharine sentiments is an important counterargument. Schiff has lied and manipulated this entire process. Schiff's staff was working with the "whistleblower" in August, before his complaint was filed. But then Schiff lied shamelessly on MSNBC on Sept. 17, saying, "We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower." Two days later, he lied again when he thanked Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the intelligence community, without whom he "might not have even known there was a whistleblower complaint."

The "fact-checkers" actually tagged Schiff on this, but how serious was their evaluation? Consider this: PolitiFact was founded in 2007, and this was the first time it has ever found an error in his statements. Since 2012, Sen. Ted Cruz has been subjected to 143 fact-checks, while Schiff has two.

The dishonesty of Schiff emerged again during the trial, as when he mischaracterized text messages from Ukraine-scandal figure Lev Parnas to Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. As usual, the Schiff-adoring networks skipped right over his lies.

But they lecture us about the integrity of democracy.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: impeachmenttrial; pencilneckshiff; pmsnbc
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1 posted on 01/24/2020 4:11:00 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

To the gallows with them all!


2 posted on 01/24/2020 4:13:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: Kaslin

Give Schiff a trophy for performance art.


3 posted on 01/24/2020 4:14:22 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: Kaslin

And the “media” wonder why their credibility is in the crapper.


4 posted on 01/24/2020 4:14:59 AM PST by ScottinVA (Out of Virginia in 2021.)
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To: Kaslin

SHIFFTY’S SPEECH WAS OUT OF THE BEGALA, CARVILLE AND STEPHANOPOLOUS PLAYBOOK.


5 posted on 01/24/2020 4:16:38 AM PST by chopperk
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To: Kaslin
consistent with his treason, the congenital liar
of the House does not even have an American
flag in his office; just flags heralding
his allegience to HIS mantra of gay child (alive or dead) rape.


6 posted on 01/24/2020 4:17:39 AM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Kaslin

This Impeachment Fraud is nothing more than a free campaign ad for the Democrats.. Paid for by We The People.


7 posted on 01/24/2020 4:18:29 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Gahanna Bob

Emmy award?


8 posted on 01/24/2020 4:18:47 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Kaslin

No one watched... except the Democrat media. Then again, no one is paying attention to them either.

Democrats nor their captive media can force us to be tuned in.


9 posted on 01/24/2020 4:20:56 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin

Even Lindsey Graham was impressed.


10 posted on 01/24/2020 4:21:36 AM PST by JZelle
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

That’s what it is... forced on the Senate and the country by moron Republicans afraid of what the Democrat media would say about them if they went straight to dismissal and a vote of acquittal.


11 posted on 01/24/2020 4:23:38 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin

When does lecturing and threats of vengeance become an harangue? Adam Schiff passed that point long ago.

To hell with the facts of the matter. He has his adrenaline flowing and the flush of being in the zone during his rant and postulating of very unlikely circumstances, which somehow “prove” his point.

Whatever it is.


12 posted on 01/24/2020 4:24:42 AM PST by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: JZelle

Propaganda can seduce us into thinking the other side has a legitimate case.

We’re in danger of forgetting the President has a case to present, too.


13 posted on 01/24/2020 4:26:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Schiff and Nadler remind me of 4th grade class clowns constantly disrupting class.

The exasperated teacher gave out make-work......writing the multiplication table 100 times o keep them quiet.

Impeachment is makework for unruly 4th graders.

Gives them something to do ........ besides looting the US Treasury.


14 posted on 01/24/2020 4:26:21 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: goldstategop

“...forced on the Senate and the country by moron Republicans ...”

Get a life, will ya?

NO REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR IMPEACHMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


15 posted on 01/24/2020 4:33:04 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Liz
That's one thing I'll say about Impeachments...when they're playing for the cameras in Washington, the economy starts booming.
16 posted on 01/24/2020 4:34:35 AM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: goldstategop

“We’re in danger of forgetting the President has a case to present, too.”

Yep. It is like being a juror on a civil case. The plaintiff goes first, and you are sitting there thinking they have a valid case. No doubt about it. Then the defendant’s attorneys have their turn, and the plaintiff gets exposed for the hoax they are trying to pull. Schiff, Nadler et al will go down in flames. Schiff loves hearing himself talk for hours on end. Funny thing is he says general stuff that any American should agree with, but the Democrats are weeping with joy at his intelligence, eloquence, and integrity. They will pay in November.


17 posted on 01/24/2020 4:36:06 AM PST by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Nice catch......


18 posted on 01/24/2020 4:36:18 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

The democrats’ statements are absurdly irresponsible. Where is the evidence that Trump is going to delegitimize the 2020 election, that he’s a despot, that he’s covering up stealing the 2016 election? All this stuff is nuts to the point of being dangerous.


19 posted on 01/24/2020 4:36:29 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams
They drone on and on with unbridled certainty that there's evidence out there:
<><> that Trump is going to delegitimize the 2020 election,
<><> that he’s a despot,
<><> that he’s covering up stealing the 2016 election.....

.........IF ONLY they could have more witnesses........

20 posted on 01/24/2020 4:42:45 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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