Joy Reid shuts down conservative guest who tries to trot our Clinton conspiracy theory in response to question about Trump's "sh*thole" comments.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

During a panel discussion on Trump’s comments about Haiti and African nations being “sh*tholes,” the AMJoy host turned first to conservative commentator Stephanie Hamill. 

“Stephanie, I will start with you. when you heard what Donald Trump said about Haiti, about the African countries, really talking about El Salvador and any other countries that are nonwhite, how did you feel when you heard those comments?” Reid asked. 

“Joy, we didn’t actually hear him say those words,” Hamill began only to have Reid clarify, “When you read them.” 

“When I read them, yeah, and this is the biggest fake news story of the week,” Hamill replied. “It’s interesting to sit back and watch people are so angry about what that the president didn’t say, and they are more angry than they are at the Clinton’s for getting rich off the poor Haitians with the Clinton Foundation.” 

As the panel expressed shock at Hamill bringing up the Clinton’s, Hamill pressed on. 

“You can ask Klaus Eberwein, the former Haitian government official that has all the dirt on the Clinton Foundation– oh, wait, you can’t ask him because he mysteriously committed suicide the day he was supposed to testify,” Hamill blurted 

“What are you talking about?” asked conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. “This is nuts.” 

“Did you get talking points before you came here from the RNC or the White House?” host Reid cut in. “It’s interesting that yesterday Mark Burns, who was the surrogate we had on on the Trump side yesterday, tried to roll out the same Clinton stuff? Did you get talking points before you came here?” 

“Joy, I didn’t get talking points,” Hamill shot back, attempting to get back to her story. 

Host Reid then cut her off with a warning. 

“I don’t know you, Stephanie, but let me explain this to you: this is not Fox News and we are not going to play the game of rolling out crazy conspiracy theories in answers to my questions and take us off track,” Reid lectured. “So I am going to put you pause for the minute, I’m going to put you to the side because they are more familiar with the way that we do things here.”

Oh yeah, she definitely got some talking points.

Joy Reid is rapidly becoming one of my favorite hosts on MSNBC.

Not only is she always well informed on the issues she presents on her show, but she simply does not tolerate any Right Wing bullshit.

Pretty soon the trolls may have to move away from criticizing Rachel Maddow's hand gestures and focus on some mannerism of Joy Reid's instead.

So the big news from yesterday was that Donald Trump is a racist. What, you already knew that?

Cold Open: "The President of the United States is Racist." pic.twitter.com/gzeLO2qCIi

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 12, 2018

Don Lemon is certainly not wrong here.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting. 

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to countries mentioned by the lawmakers. 

Trump then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway, whose prime minister he met with Wednesday. The president, according to a White House official, also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt that they help the United States economically. 

In addition, the president singled out Haiti, telling lawmakers that immigrants from that country must be left out of any deal, these people said. 

“Why do we need more Haitians?” Trump said, according to people familiar with the meeting. “Take them out.” 

These remarks received universal condemnation from just about everybody, including Fox News.

But rather than apologize Trump did what Trump does best.

He denied he ever said it.

The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018

Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018

Yep, once again Trump claims that everybody else is lying, and only HE is the source of the actual truth.

Jim Comey lied, the Hollywood Access tape lied, author Michael Wolff lied, the Democrats lied, and all of those women making accusations of improper sexual contact are a bunch of damn liars.

Problem in this case of course is that Trump came to prominence by promoting the racist lie that Barack Obama was not born in America.

So I doubt there are many people willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this.

During June White House meeting Donald Trump let his racist flag fly.

Courtesy of the New York Times: 

Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged.

According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017. 

More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained. 

Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.

Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office. 

As the meeting continued, John F. Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, and Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state, tried to interject, explaining that many were short-term travelers making one-time visits. But as the president continued, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Miller turned their ire on Mr. Tillerson, blaming him for the influx of foreigners and prompting the secretary of state to throw up his arms in frustration. If he was so bad at his job, maybe he should stop issuing visas altogether, Mr. Tillerson fired back. 

Tempers flared and Mr. Kelly asked that the room be cleared of staff members. But even after the door to the Oval Office was closed, aides could still hear the president berating his most senior advisers.

Of course the White House denied that this incident ever happened: 

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, denied on Saturday morning that Mr. Trump had made derogatory statements about immigrants during the meeting. 

“General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Nielsen and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims,” she said, referring to the current White House chief of staff, the national security adviser and the secretaries of state and homeland security. “It’s both sad and telling The New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous ‘sources’ anyway.”

Yeah okay, but that denial might have a little more credibility if it did not come from the same White House that stated emphatically that Trump's inaugural crowds were the largest ever, and that the Mueller investigation will exonerate Trump by Christmas.

Besides this sounds so much like something Trump would say that I am surprised Alec Baldwin has not already used it in an SNL skit.

However on the plus side we are now learning that Trump is not only racist toward Mexicans and Muslims.

On the negative side he is apparently racist against everybody who is not lily white or some shade of orange.

Just for the sake of comparisons take a look at what a REAL humanitarian trip to Haiti looks like.

Michelle Obama in Haiti from The White House on Vimeo.

And remember THIS was eight months ago. Undoubtedly well before the Grizzled Mama realized she could use the disaster and the suffering people as a back drop to soften her image and attempt to make herself appear to actually have compassion.

Also take note of how comfortable and accessible Michelle Obama is with this community.  She obviously feels connected to the people in a way that Palin obviously did not.  And NO it has NOTHING to do with skin color.

When Palin-bots revolt!

Sister Sarah has decided to pimp for Samaritan's Purse and ask her legion of sycophants to give money to support Franklin Grahams wallet...I ma sorry charity.  Here is a little of what she wrote on her Facebook page:
In an effort to fight a deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti, Samaritan’s Purse has flown over a dozen flights carrying vital medical supplies to the two cholera treatment centers it has been running since the start of the outbreak. These centers, run by medical volunteers from the U.S., Canada, and the UK, have helped save the lives of nearly 5,000 patients.

If you’d like to support the great work Samaritan’s Purse does in Haiti and around the world, please visit their website.

There's more but you get the idea.

Seems simply right?  Asking people to help what Palin pretends to believe is a worthy cause.  So of course she would expect the people she has conditioned to jump through her hoops to, well to jump through her hoops.

But not so fast, it appears that perhaps the Grizzled Mama does not understand her supporters quite as well as she thinks she does.  Here are some of their rather pointed responses. (I will of course omit their names.)

Sorry,charity begins at home...WE HAVE A LOT OF NEEDY IN THE GOOD OLE USA!!!

Sorry Sarah, as much as I like you, your totally off on this one! Charity. We as a country need to concentrate on helping our own in this country 1st and foremost! Whether this be American children, doing without food, and or who are up for adoption. Families that are doing without, within our communities be at the local, state or within these United States. Our 1st duty must be at home. We must take care of our own people, no other country is going to help us, and many times the charities that we give are either not appreciated or support future generations of American hater’s from abroad. Also lest we not don't forget our service men and women, and families and our homeless veterans, who have sacrificed their all for us!

I think that is Great,, BUT CAN WE PLEASE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN FIRST.There are too many Children and Adults hurting in AMERICA,How can we help others when we haven't helped our own, America comes

I work with the poor and homeless here in the good old USA and they would love to have the same gifts of food, clothing and shelter as the Haitians are getting from the US....the homeless here near Chicago are a little cold this time of year....there are many HERE who cannot do for themselves...and cannot rely on the government tohelp them either. The food pantry here cannot keep up with demand...no aid from the state or feds...

I CAN APPRECIATE YOUR SUGGESTION FOR HELP FOR HAITI, BUT THERE IS PLENTY THAT NEEDS HELP RIGHT HERE AT HOME IN THE USA. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A SPECIAL DONE ON THE CHILDREN THAT WILL DO WITHOUT THIS YEAR, DUE TO THE ECONOMY AND UNEMPLOYMENT HERE IN THE USA, WE HAVE TO HAVE OUR FOUNDATION SOLID HERE BEFORE GOING OUT TO HELP OTHERS.GOD BLESS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS

Sarah I have a question you are my favorite by far your awesome but I was wondering why are we in a rush to help other countries when louisiana and galveston has not been helped yet it still looks really bad just wondering there's a lot in our country that needs help and its not getting it its just on my mindm your still great

I am only interested in helping the millions of needy children in America. Sorry but tired of selling our own poor and needy for a photo op.

Hmm it looks like SOMEBODY is losing control over their minions.

And the really interesting thing is that the usually extremely militant and protective Facebook editors are letting these comments stay up, which kind of makes me wonder if even THEY are sick of Palin's shit!

It looks like somebody is doing damage control for Sarah Palin's Haiti fiasco.

Well as all of you know the video I put up yesterday from Greta van Sucks-to-be-Palin's-pal did not exactly show the compassionate side of the Grizzled Mama.  In fact it showed her to be a stand-offish, freaked out by Haitian people, phony.  So anyhow somebody sent me this link today, which ATTEMPTS to show Palin as much more nurturing by showing her clutching one carefully scrubbed, and disinfected baby.



Do you think they mentioned Samaritan's purse enough?

Okay well obviously this was supposed to shut all of us "haters" up about Snowdrift Snookie's lack of compassion by showing that if you will clean up one of the little buggers she will hold it as long as the camera is on her. 

Here is a picture from Greta's blog showing the Ex-Gov demonstrating her comfort level.

Oh yeah, she looks TOTALLY at ease.

However I also noticed that the "See? Sister Sarah LOVES the little brown people!" video accidentally captured something else that I don't think it was supposed to show.

Go to the 2:40 mark and look in the background.

Did you see it?

All through most of the video they carefully show Bristol only from the chest up, right up until that long shot toward the end.  So for the handful of people who came over here the other day claiming that at least one of the photographs of Bristol in Haiti show her to be skinny, what do you say now?

By the way, apparently the Haitians themselves were not at all fooled by Palin's blatant attempt to use their country to package herself as some kind of humanitarian either.



They may be poor but they are substantially smarter than the Palin-bots.  But then again, who isn't?

Sarah does Haiti.

From the New York Daily News:

The former Alaska governor and one-time GOP vice presidential candidate is visiting Haiti as a part of Rev. Franklin Graham's charity mission.

What the Mama Grizzly plans to do in Haiti remains unknown as details about the trip have been scarce. A spokeswoman for Graham's group cited security reasons for the lack of information, The Associated Press reported.

Palin has not made mention of her Haiti trip on her Facebook or Twitter accounts. The trip was first reported on Friday.

I love it that the journalist for the NY Daily News has NO idea just what in the hell Palin is doing in Haiti. Is it to give the impression of getting some foreign policy experience?  Is it to adopt a child for Bristol? (Oh yeah, THAT would not be transparent or anything!) Or is she trying to distract the media from noticing how horrible her new book sales are doing?

Well one thing we do know is that she brought her girls out for the Haitians to admire.  No NOT her children, these girls. (Somehow I doubt that the Haitians will be all that impressed with her water bra unless she is willing to stick a pin in it and let them all get a drink, you know to avoid the risk of contracting cholera from THEIR drinking water.)

She did bring one of her actual girls with her as evidenced by the very appropriately dressed Bristol in this picture.

What IS it with the Palin women and scarves anyway?  Do they really think they have the magical ability to camouflage ANYTHING?

It certainly does not appear to be helping Bristol stay cool in the heat, if this photograph is any indication.

Just look at the sweat plastered hair and sheen of perspiration on this poor young woman's face.

But that is Sarah for you, drag her kid out into the spotlight while refusing to let the media photograph her in a vain attempt to put the rumors to rest, only to have it do the exact opposite.

If my sources are correct, Palin is headed to the UK pretty soon after she is done showing the Haitians the miracle of American undergarment technology.

I hope she leaves the bra in the hotel for that visit.  I think poor Maggie Thatcher is suffering enough without having an eye poked out by one of Palin's augmented boobs.

Best write up EVER about Sister Sarah's politically transparent trip to Haiti.

From New York Daily News:

The year 2010 has been absolute crap for Haiti, one in which the crises have mounted with near-hysterical acceleration. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed as many as 300,000 people and destroyed much of the capital. Then came hurricane season, exposing more than a million tent-dwellers to life-threatening torrents and winds. Then came cholera, which continues to kill Haitians with no access to clean water or decent sanitation. Then came corruption at the polls and a political crisis that this week brought the country to a standstill. Schools and shops are shuttered, aid workers are on lockdown, and, until this morning, few but the fearless and flack-jacketed dared go out.

And now comes Palin, threatening to grace this beleaguered country with an awesomely ill-timed, insultingly opportunistic visit. At this point, some might prefer a plague of locusts to Palin poverty porn. Well, not Franklin Graham, president of the evangelical relief organization, Samaritan's Purse, that wants to bring her here: "I believe Gov. Palin will be a great encouragement to the people of Haiti and to the organizations, both government and private, working so hard to provide desperately needed relief," he said about the visit.

It is hard to imagine Palin's presence encouraging anyone in this country. A quick canvassing of relief-worker friends indicates their most prevalent reaction is along the lines of "WTF?" Much more importantly, most Haitians have no idea who she is. Even my friend James Beltis, a political activist at the State University who lives in a tent on its grounds, had never heard of her. (I guess he hasn't seen "Sarah Palin's Alaska.") For James, Palin would be yet another middling celebrity alighting Haiti "to profit from our misery," he said.

"Palin poverty porn," THAT was brilliant!

And here I thought she was too damn late going out to help the Alaska natives in 2009.  But hell that was only a month late, this time she is almost an entire year late to offer any so-called "help!"

I could not help but wonder if Palin FINALLY picked up a year old magazine, that was not about celebrities or gossip, and suddenly learned that Haiti had been hit by an earthquake.

"Todd! Quick grab a couple of those political props of ours and tell Franklin to fire up that Samaritan's Purse plane!  We have to get our pitcher taken with some of them there Haitians afore they don't look so damn pathetic anymore!"

Pathetic.

Right now Haiti is dealing with some very serious  politically inspired violence and a devastating cholera outbreak so perhaps Sarah Palin's presence will not be as damaging as it usually is in these situations.

Do yourself a favor and read the entire article, it is excellent!

Update: I forgot to mention this in the post, but sources tell me that Palin is also planning to swing by the UK to visit the poor, barely cognizant Margaret Thatcher for her much talked about and maligned photo-op with the ex-Prime Minister.  From what I have heard it is very unlikely that Maggie will even know who it is that is screeching at her and leaning in to get her picture taken.

In my opinion this is very sad, and only one step up from necrophilia.

Here is the new Haiti inspired version of "We Are the World". What do you think?

I find myself a little distracted by trying to put names to all of the stars that appear in this video. It is pretty well done though, and isn't it great to see that old footage of Michael Jackson before he completely went over the edge?

Here is the old video for comparison. Or just for your personal enjoyment.

Just speaking for myself I really enjoy seeing all of my favorite singers in the older version.

President Obama dispatches help to the devastated people of Haiti.

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THIS is how a President reacts to a natural disaster.

And just to show how compassionate he is, President Obama has invited George W. Bush to join the relief team so that he can finally see how it is supposed to be done. A little late perhaps, but you know you are never too old to learn.

President Obama's response to, and obvious compassion for, the people of Haiti fills me with pride in how my President, and my country, takes care of those in need.

Pat Robertson "Haiti made a deal with the devil!"

Did he really just say "The devil said okay it is a deal?

Quick somebody get a calendar and tell me what century I am living in!

I feel sorry for the people who are still so pathetically primitive that they believe this bullshit. These are the kinds of people who will give their last dime to the slick televangelist on TV telling them they can buy their way into heaven, or to SarahPAC because they believe God has chosen her to lead this country, or both.

I scares the hell out of me that the people who listen to these idiots are allowed to vote in this country.

Today is a day of shock and concern as the world turns to offer support to the people devastated by the earthquake in Haiti.

Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake to hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.

The devastation was so complete that it seemed likely the death toll from Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake would run into the thousands.

This is just terrible and my heart goes out to the Haitians.

I found this source for pictures of the devastation.




If you are feeling as helpless as I am, and want to do something to help, here is the Red Cross website where you can donate. You can donate to Doctor's without Borders here, or the the UNICEF earthquake relief fund here. If there are other LEGITIMATE relief programs out there then feel free to post them in the comments section.