Brent Bozell Talks! My Advice To Trump and Crooked Hillary Sounds About Right.

 Palestinian murderers. (See 1 below.)

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I had the distinct pleasure of having lunch with Brent Bozell yesterday. Later he spoke to a public audience under the auspices of the SIRC.

In his public comments, Brent began by ticking off a laundry list of bills and actions by the radical left to totally amend the First Amendment. What they seek, based on their legislative efforts, is to criminalize opinions that conflict with their own thinking. Fortunately, to date,  all their efforts have failed but the degree to which they are trying to under gird freedom of speech is frightening and continuing.

What is even more frightening is the radical left have become openly and increasingly blatant about their desire to gut the First Amendment.

He then discussed the fact that spineless Republicans have run campaigns promising action on amnesty and Obamacare and yet, have done nothing.  In fact, Republicans have funded all the legislation they profess they were going to eliminate and, in Brent's view, they now own Obamacare.

Adding insult to injury, Bozell pointed out nothing has come from the various Republican investigations.  The corruption in the IRS - pass, the corruption by Hillary and The State Department regarding Bhengazi - pass and the list is endless.

As to Trump, Brent acknowledged he was a Cruz man and has been mystified by Trump's success. He stated Americans are not angry just at Washington but at about everything.  They feel they have been lied to consistently and Trump cleverly sensed their frustration and has proven attacking the press and the media is not only doable but also elevates.

As for the media and press, they currently enjoy only a 6% favorable rating and it is Bozell's view they will now circle the wagons on behalf of Hillary having dropped her like a hot potato, to her extreme displeasure, when she ran against Obama.  It is pay back time.

Regarding Trump, he should expect no help from the press and media and, in fact, they will do whatever they can to report him in the most negative light. Trump, to his credit, has manipulated them to his advantage and will continue to do so.

The credibility of the media has reached such a low point and their lack of truthfulness and objectivity has become so obvious, it has become dangerous.  Why?  Because the public needs reliable and unbiased information in order to make reasoned decisions.

Even more grievous than biased reporting is the complete and utter lack of reporting and ignoring matters of critical importance.

Brent told the audience the documentary entitled "Clinton Cash" was going to be released shortly and would provide evidence that Bill Clinton raised hundreds of millions of dollars for their foundation from a variety of sources, foreign and domestic for which various favors were exchanged,  Furthermore, Trump's charge that Hillary used her State Department tenure in a questionable manner as she too raised millions of dollars by granting favors in exchange for foundation funding.

One balancing hope is being able to use social media which offers the opportunity to level the playing field. Facebook , Bozell pointed out, is the exchange of information among friends and this raises both receptivity as well as the credibility. He said TV ads have a 15% acceptance whereas the same ad sent via social media by one friend to another achieves a 75% rating of acceptability.

Republicans are behind the curve when it comes to understanding and implementing the benefits of social media usage.  But then, Republicans seems to be behind the curve on virtually everything when it comes to winning as a party and in answering questions Bozell said they best thing Republicans can do is send a clear message to their leaders they no longer will be given free rides for failing to execute on their commitments.

In an answer to increasing disruptions accompanying  Trump events Bozell acknowledged they were staffed and led by professionals, stated that Soros spends $200 million supporting his various causes and such disruptions would get uglier because this is the way anarchists believe you make progress.

Bozell began the Media Research Center some 30 years ago and its "...mission is to bring balance to the news media..."
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My advice to Trump on what to say to voters in order to capture The White House. (See 2 below.)
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Why Even-Handed Isn’t Pro-Israel

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

The left-wing J Street lobby has tried to brand itself as being both “pro-Israel” and “pro-peace.” The slogan is highly disingenuous because it implies those who disdain their support for pressure by the U.S. government to overturn the verdict of Israeli democracy are not in favor of peace. The majority of Israeli voters who support policies opposed by J Street want peace just as much as American liberals. The problem with the group is that the “pro-Israel” part of their mantra has been redefined to prioritize the creation of a Palestinian state alongside it as the only formula for saving the Jewish state from itself.

But while the overwhelming majority of Israelis and foreign friends of Israel agree that a two-state solution would be the ideal way to end the conflict, the problem is that the Palestinians have never been able to say yes to such a deal. They have refused every peace offer as well as efforts to revive direct negotiations. Their leaders, both the “moderates” of the Palestinian Authority and the Islamists of Hamas that run Gaza, encourage and support terrorism, such as the bloody shooting carried out today in Tel Aviv that has left at least three Israelis dead.

It is in that context that debates about shifting U.S. policy from one that is focused on an alliance with Israel to an “even-handed” approach that would tilt things more toward the Palestinians such as the one that Democrats are about to conduct over their party platform is so problematic. Though the Democratic presidential race is now effectively over, the efforts of the Bernie Sanders campaign to have their views on the Middle East reflected in the party platform are just about to heat up. The contrasting views of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about Israel were among the few truly substantive differences between the candidates during the campaign. Clinton's left-wing challenger echoed the propaganda of the Jewish state’s foes by repeating claims that Israel’s measures of self-defense against terrorism are “disproportionate.”

As we noted last month, Sanders was able to place five of his delegates on the committee tasked with writing the Democrats’ platform. Among them were Cornel West, a virulent academic advocate of BDS and other anti-Israel measures, as well as pro-Palestinian activist James Zogby. That sets up what promises to be a fiery battle as the Sanders camp seeks to alter a document that in past years has been unreservedly pro-Israel to an “even-handed” one that will pay homage to the effort to create a Palestinian state and to express sympathy for their struggle.

This puts both Clinton and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in a difficult spot. They need to conciliate Sanders and his supporters in order to unify the party for the general election fight against Donald Trump, and that means the platform will likely lean even more to the left than expected. But Clinton also doesn’t want to let Trump be able to claim that the Democrats have abandoned Israel. Those charges were given credence not only by the polls that show Democrats are less likely to be pro-Israel than Republicans. That impression is backed up by the party line vote in Congress last year on the Iran nuclear deal, in which Democrats chose loyalty to President Obama’s appeasement to the dismay of the pro-Israel community.

That’s where J Street comes in posing as the advocates of a compromise that will satisfy both Sanders and Clinton. As Politico reported, J Street has circulated a memo that says the platform should attempt to “meet the essential needs of both Israelis and Palestinians.” J Street also says it opposes the anti-Israel BDS movement and favors American recognition that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

But J Street also wants the Democrats to support a ban on Israeli building in lands it took in 1967 including parts of Jerusalem, which it also envisions as the seat of government for a Palestinian state. It says it wants recognition of Israel as the national homeland of the Jews and that its people should be able to live “a normal life without terror or incitement” while the Palestinians should also be able to govern themselves in peace and dignity.

Such two-state solution advocacy sounds reasonable, and perhaps the Democrats’ platform will reflect those sentiments and throw out their 2012 language that emphasized support for Israel’s rights and security.

But in this case, even-handed does not mean pro-Israel because the two sides to the conflict don’t want the same things.

Most Israelis would be overjoyed to accept a peace settlement that ended the conflict for all time even if it meant painful territorial compromises that would result in the eviction of many Jews from their homes in the heart of their ancient homeland. But as the Palestinians have indicated repeatedly, even their supposedly moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas is not willing to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders would be drawn. Despite occasional lip service paid to the two-state solution idea for the Western press, neither Palestinian leaders nor Palestinian public opinion is ready to accept Israel. They see all of Israel -- not just the West Bank and Jerusalem -- as occupied territory. They applaud terror attacks on all Jews. Those dining in Tel Aviv cafes, like the victims in today’s atrocity, are seen by them as extremists as deserving of death as those Jews living in the most remote West Bank hilltop settlement.

The problem with even-handed policies, such as President Obama’s obsession with creating more “daylight” between Israel and the United States, is that they only encourage the Palestinians to continue rejecting peace rather than putting pressure on them to accept the compromises including statehood they’ve repeatedly rejected. That stand seems irrational, but it makes sense when you realize that Palestinians have come to view their struggle against Israel’s existence as intrinsic to their national identity.

Events like today’s attack in Tel Aviv ought to remind all Americans that so long as Palestinians are killing Jews, talk of even-handed policies will not help anyone, least of all Israel. Those who will praise today’s murderers as “heroes” — as both Palestinian moderates and extremists alike will do — don’t deserve support from either Democrats or Republicans. By fetishizing Palestinian statehood and trying to redefine support for that concept as essential to being pro-Israel, J Street and the left are actually harming the cause of peace and strengthening the forces inciting terrorism. If Democrats choose that path, they may claim, like J Street, to be pro-Israel, but that will be a deception. Until the Palestinians show themselves willing to end their century-long war on Zionism, even-handed means putting daylight between their party and the effort to defend the Jewish state.

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2) Trump needs to set forth broad policy themes and get away from his pissy fanny personal attacks.  He does not have to flesh them out in great detail but he does need to provide some insights so voters can focus on him as a serious candidate and not just a media star phenomenon.

Were I advising him I would tell him to propose the following:

1) Emphasize and connect the need why America must lead from strength and that entails, above all, living within our means and paying down our debt.

2) In this regard I would urge him to:

a) Overhaul the tax code making it simpler and more equitable so he could reduce staffing at the IRS and save on costly worthless spending.  This agency has proven to be as corrupt as its tax cheating customers.

b) Take a fine tooth comb and eliminate wasteful spending, duplicate programs and redesign transfer programs for the economically and physically disadvantaged that address their legitimate needs in a positive and not demeaning manner. The word welfare needs to be stricken because is has a negative connotation.

c) Eliminate entire government agencies beginning with the Department of Education and reduce the level of employment and responsibilities in other such departments as Energy, EPA etc. Any worthy programs can be transferred to other agencies.

d) Put The Pentagon on a diet while increasing their funding for new equipment and personnel in order to rebuild our military capability. Bring back senior officers who Obama fired and lift the PC burdens from operational planning.

e) As  last measures I would address the illegal immigration issue and offer a path to citizenship with appropriate costs for those who wish to apply and impose fines on employers who hire illegals who do not apply for citizenship. Those who apply would be issued work permits and checked for any criminal behaviour and barred accordingly.

Finally, Obamacare should be reworked in a manner that allows the free market to solve the problems associated with lack of portability and eliminate other restrictions that have burdened the system and inflated costs.  Let doctors engage in the practice of their profession.

This is a lot to accomplish in four years but it would go a long way toward restoring America's faith in itself, in government and it would cause the markets to feel more confident as well.

Down the road I would address a whole host of others issues such as a return to making the dollar sound as a curb on unrestrained Congressional spending, the powers of The Fed, the plaintiff bar, the legitimate role of lobbysists etc.,

I have every belief a program along the lines I have outlined coming from a successful business entrepreneur would appeal to the uncommitted core of voters and sweep The Donald into the White House.

In conjunction with the above program Trump should explain to the voters why it is critical they return a Republican Congress so he can accomplish these worth goals and tell the voters that if members of his party do not perform they have every right and , in fact, the duty to sweep them out of office.

In terms of how he should  conduct himself in regard to attacks from Hillary and biased press and media, I would leave him to his own devices because it is obvious he has been phenomenal in cutting off  their legs and tying them up in knots. Crooked Hillary sound about right to me!
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