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Chuck Todd of All People Explains How Bad Things Are for Biden From Historical Context

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Generally, when Democrats get bad poll numbers – especially on a consistent basis – their cheerleaders in the mainstream press do one of two things: try to make things appear rosier than they are by doing “silver lining” reports, or sound alarm bells in an effort to warn their fellow Democrats of what’s ahead come election time if they don’t get it together.

NBC News “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd, a media apologist for the left if there ever was one, did the alarm bells thing in a report he filed during his Sunday program, pointing to the most recent polling numbers from his network but diving further into them to show from a historical context just how bad things were for Democrats courtesy of one man: Joe Biden.

Todd focused on three key areas he said were indicative of how a president’s political party typically fared during midterms: Approval ratings for the president, where people were on the direction they felt the country was headed, and party control of Congress. In two of these three, Todd noted that the numbers were in “shellacking” territory for Democrats come November:

“I’m going to start with perhaps the most important number to understand the direction of the midterms, its job approval here, the president’s job approval rating sitting at 43%. If you look at history, history shows that kind of presidential approval rating leads to a shellacking for the party in power. How about the mood of the nation? Let me show you this, right now our wrong track, nations on the wrong track number sitting at 72% – second poll in a row where we’ve been over 70%. This is only the third time in our poll’s history over thirty years where we’ve had two tracks that off. That again would put you in shellacking territory for the party in power.”

“The one place Democrats are holding up okay is on the question of which party should control congress: basically a dead heat, one point advantage there, but most analysts will tell you Democrats have to be up by about four or five due to redistricting in order to actually hold the house here so that puts it in the middle. But as you can see, two of our three most important indexes is sitting in shellacking territory right now for the Democrats. This is a dangerous place for the party and the president to be at the one-year mark of this presidency.”

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Indeed, and as our own Nick Arama reported, perhaps most alarming for Democrats is the fact that independents have also soured on Biden a great deal over his time in office so far, with some suggesting during interviews that Biden has gone too far to the left, while others say he hasn’t been the uniter he said he would be.

This dovetails with how we saw independents vote in the 2021 Virginia elections, with polling and interviews going into Election Day as well as exit polling showing independents were turning away from Biden and Democrats on educational matters and also because they believed he was shifting too far leftward, deciding to vote for Republicans in order to send a message.

There’s still a lot of time between now and November, but Democrats have this penchant for doubling down when they’re up against the ropes, and I don’t see that changing here. The economy is ultimately where it’s at, and if a majority of voters are still sitting around their kitchen tables trying to figure out how to make ends meet when the time to cast their votes comes, that “shellacking” Chuck Todd warned about will become a very painful reality for Biden and his fellow Democrats as people decide “enough is enough.”

Related: White House Makes a Terrible Admission That Will Come Back to Haunt Joe Biden

NBC Poll Reveals the Most Unpopular Major Political Figure—and Where Things Are Headed

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NBC News has released its latest poll, showing who the most unpopular major political figure in the country is. But it also gives us a good indication of where things are headed as the November mid-term election draws closer.

Here are some of the topline results.

Starting with who took the top prize, that would be (drum roll, please) Kamala Harris. Yes, Black Hillary, as my colleague Jeff Charles likes to refer to her, has only a 29 percent favorable rating with a -17 favorable/unfavorable differential. But perhaps that comparison is unfair because I’m not sure Hillary Clinton was ever this bad at politics. Harris has truly set the bar so low that it may never be touched again in the modern era.

From her “dog ate my homework” interviews to the awkward cackle that so often makes an appearance when she gets nervous, Harris is truly the worst politician of this generation, and that’s really saying something. And Democrats have little choice but to roll with her in 2024 or they risk destroying their party from the inside. Can you imagine the charges of racism that would go forth if the Democrat establishment and donor class throw Harris under the bus?

Past that, though, I found the popularity of the individual parties to be revealing, and it’s important to look at these kinds of things in context. Historically, Democrats typically do better in head-to-head, generic polling matchups. That doesn’t mean they win every election, obviously, but it does mean that the GOP can and has taken control of Congress while technically being “down” in the polls. That’s especially true 10 months out.

On this day in the 2014 cycle, Democrats were leading by around a point. By the time Election Day rolled around, that has flipped to a GOP +2.4 advantage. Further, in 2016, Democrats led the generic ballot all the way until Election Day, yet lost all three branches of government.

The point is that the GOP being in any kind of hole isn’t actually indicative of much — given they have often prevailed anyway. But when Democrats are down, it’s red alert territory because of the dynamics at play.

In this NBC poll, which has traditionally been kind to the left, Democrat Party favorability is underwater a full five points more than the GOP. On the generic ballot, things are essentially tied. And on the right track/wrong track numbers, you see an absolute disaster unfolding for the Democrats.

Taking all of this together, I think you can reasonably ascertain that the Republican Party is in a very strong position heading into 2022. That’s not really news, as the trends have been apparent for a long time, but it is a continuation of an important theme. And every single day that passes represents a day Democrats can’t get back in order to try to turn things around. If this election isn’t already set in stone, we are approaching that point of no return.

Of course, never underestimate the ability of the Republican establishment to figure out a way to lose. Yet, the elections in Virginia should give people hope that things have, indeed, changed. All I know is that I’d much rather be a Republican right now vs. a Democrat.

Media and Leftist Activists Furious Over Parents Now Pushing for 'Curriculum Transparency' In Schools

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There’s nothing short of a war happening for the heart, souls, and minds of America’s children taking place within the country’s education system, and while that may sound hyperbolic, the lengths the left was going to in order to teach your children to be obedient to their ideology instead of teaching them to be free-thinking Americans is undeniable.

According to NBC News, the latest attempt by parents to keep their children safe from leftist indoctrination is to simply have the educator’s lesson plan posted online.

This really shouldn’t be that big of an ask, but naturally, the leftists are mounting a defense of keeping what these schools want to teach your children secret. Moreover, there are activist groups attempting to paint this as an attack on free speech, which is rich coming from the left.

NBC News reported that 12 states have introduced legislation that requires schools to post their curriculum online:

Lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation to require schools to post lists of all of their teaching materials online, including books, articles and videos. The governors of Arizona, Florida and Iowa, who have previously raised concerns about how teachers discuss racism’s impact on politics and society, called for curriculum transparency laws in speeches to their legislatures this month.

Naturally, NBC News wants to paint this as not just being a censorship issue but a racial one. For instance, they make a point to refer to Critical Race Theory as “racial sensitivity training” and note that conservative group Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo has been resisting it.

As goes the leftist narrative on CRT, so goes the reporting. NBC News makes the resistance to Critical Race Theory seem like a witchhunt that has forced innocent people into hiding and banned books from Black authors:

While most schools have insisted that they don’t teach critical race theory, a new report by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access found that local efforts to restrict schools from teaching or using critical race theory emerged in at least 894 school districts, which enroll more than a third of all K-12 students in the country. The outrage over critical race theory has resulted in educators’ being ousted from their jobs, parents’ becoming suspicious of mental health initiatives and schools’ banning books by Black authors.

NBC News links to stories about the fallout from parents resisting Critical Race Theory but doesn’t elaborate on them. For instance, the educator ousted from his job was a superintendent who resigned less than a year after attaining the position due to conflicts he quickly developed with parents and concerned citizens after his “woke” ideology began paving the way for the hard-leftism seen in schools today.

The “mental health initiatives” were actually conversations school counselors were having with children about social justice and sexuality from as early as 5th grade and being paid $90k a year for it, and the books banned by a black author were allegedly teaching children social justice concepts such as “microaggressions.”

Again, posting curriculums online shouldn’t be a big deal, but the left is making it one. Parents have every right to be concerned about what their children are learning or reading, and moreover, they should be. Last October, one school superintendent defended a book displaying homosexual porn, referring to it as art on par with Michaelangelo. There are other books depicting pedophilic acts in schools as well.

There’s much more to it than just these examples as well, but despite the mounting evidence that parents should be worried, public educational institutions not only pretend like there’s nothing to worry about but even go so far as to push the idea that parents have no right to knowledge about their children’s education.

The Michigan Democrat party even flat-out said so in a now-deleted Facebook post according to Fox News:

“Not sure where this ‘parents-should-control-what-is-taught-in-schools-because-they-are-our-kids’ is originating, but parents do have the option to send their kids to a hand-selected private school at their own expense if this is what they desire,” the post read.

“The purpose of public education in public schools is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught,” the Michigan Democratic Party’s post continued. “It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community, the public.”

At some point, the left’s ideological bubble became so thick that they began to believe that they were entitled to the upbringing of their own children. They are gravely mistaken, and it will be parents who show them this.

Biden's Polling Remains Underwater, but There's Something Else for Republicans

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NBC News dropped a poll today largely focusing on President Joe Biden and his approval numbers, and it’s good news for Republicans. While this poll has him beating the RealClearPolitics average by three points, he’s still underwater with 44 percent approval versus 54 percent disapproval.

The numbers are almost universally bleak for the President.

In his inaugural address one year ago, President Joe Biden championed unity, promised a bold governing agenda and prioritized defeating the coronavirus.

Now, as Biden begins his second year as president, majorities of Americans give him low marks for uniting the country, being competent and having the ability to handle a crisis, according to results from a new national NBC News poll.

What’s more, 6 in 10 disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy, while more than half give him a thumbs-down on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

His overall job rating among adults stands at 43 percent approve and 54 percent disapprove — unchanged in essence from October’s survey. (Among registered voters, it is 44 percent approve, 54 percent disapprove.)

  • On the economy: 38-60
  • On the coronavirus: 44-53
  • On the US-Russia relationship: 37-50
  • On foreign policy: 37-54

I mentioned yesterday that the issues hitting Americans hardest – the economy and COVID-19 – are going unaddressed while Biden and the Democrats continue to focus on issues that are distant to the vast majority of American voters. They are not seen as properly handing the virus or the economy (if they’re even being seen as handling it at all). Supply shortages and omicron surges are dominating their concerns right now.

But, buried within this poll is a sign that the Republican Party’s future is still up in the air.

Trump, future Republican candidate?
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This NBC News poll has been asking since January 2019 if Republican voters support Trump or the Republican Party. More most of that question’s history, Trump has hovered in the low 50s/high 40s on that question while the GOP has mostly been coming in second. But in the August poll, Trump hit a low of 40 percent preference versus the GOP’s 50 percent. In October, he crept back up to 43 percent to the GOP’s 50 percent.

This month, Trump hit a new low of 36 percent while the GOP surged to 56 percent.

So while all of Biden’s woes keep piling up, Trump has not been able to keep much of a platform with Republican voters. Some rallies here and there help, as does the media coverage (good or bad) that they get, but his lack of a social media platform and little daily press coverage has hurt his ability to stay in front of voters’ eyes consistently enough for them to want to see more.

Meanwhile, Biden’s agenda and lack of political skill have been a gift to Republicans. They don’t even have to come out and do or say anything as the Democrats just constantly trip over themselves through their chaotic control of the House and Senate. It’s made the GOP look much better in moderate/centrist voters’ eyes. They are seeing polling surges and Democrats are acting very terrified because of it.

This is giving several Republicans a new avenue to build up their own platforms and make their names better known. It’s led to Ron DeSantis of Florida getting bigger name recognition. It’s allowed Glenn Youngkin to shock Virginians and the rest of the country. It’s given an opening for Josh Hawley. It’s provided Ted Cruz an opportunity at a soft re-launch of his image.

That’s not to say that Trump can’t or won’t be a force in the future. His best shot will be at trying to get his preferred candidates into office in 2022. He’s attempting that in Georgia and elsewhere.

But if he can’t win those elections, then it’s time to rethink his position within the party. 2024 candidate may not be the optimal way forward. He can still play kingmaker (and perhaps better ensure a longer-lasting legacy) and guide the party if he wants to continue being a political force.

Right now, though, he simply can’t be. He doesn’t have a platform to do it from.

Yet.

The RedState 2021 Pulitzer Prize Parody Awards – Where All the Winners Are…Not (Part 1)

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Dishonoring some of the inglorious work in the media from the past year.

On the regular here in this column, we recognize the foibles and fumbles, the distractions and disservice, and the misdeeds and malpractice in the mainstream media. In order to properly recognize the efforts at abandoning their mission statements and the hard work behind not doing their jobs, we decided to choose those at the nadir of their profession, across a number of categories.

So here’s to the various efforts made throughout the 2020 mutation that was the 2021 Variant, and…congratulations to the…winners…I guess…???

Distinguished Local Reporting

  • Hanan Kim – KCPQ Fox-13  In SeattleKim was attacked outside of a courthouse while conducting an interview – she was struck directly by her attacker, who threw a piece of cauliflower.
  •  Amanda Bartlett -The San Francisco Gate Bartlett detailed the harrowing tale of patrons who were “trapped” on Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. This entailed them sitting in the boat for minutes before being guided off to walk out of the ride.
  • Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board The paper covered a razor-thin election result in Broward County where a handful of votes determined the winner, but a few hundred ballots were discovered uncounted. The paper saw where the blame rested in the Democratic primary, in a deep blue county, run by a Dem election official, where the local post office failed to deliver the ballots in time – it was all Ron DeSantis’ fault.
  • Michael Lyle – Nevada Current  On the fiery subject of gerrymandering in Nevada the Democrat legislature is redrawing districts, and in so doing they are actually hurting the reelection chances of their own. Rep. Din Titus explained in a speech to union officials about her condition: “I totally got f***ed by the Legislature on my district,” she said.
  • WINNER Miami Herald Editorial It was learned that the paper was resorting to using an artificial intelligence program to auto-generate features on local real estate stories. The only thing funnier than the perceived improvement in reporting from the deeply-biased news source was that the articles written by the robot were getting the highest readership traffic.

Distinguished Sports Reporting

  • Jeff Van Gundy – ESPN The color announcer for NBA telecasts was vocally bothered by the number of players refusing vaccines. During a game, he ripped into players who declared they were doing their own research into the vaccines, mocking them for not following medical experts – such as NBA color commentators like Jeff Van Gundy.
  • Bob Nightengale – USA Today  When the baseball writer was covering the World Series he declared he had long held the practice of not referring to the Atlanta baseball team by its hateful mascot name, The Braves. Except he had in fact referred to them as the Braves throughout the regular season, leading the paper to go back and stealth-edit his articles. His Twitter feed, however, received no such scrubbing.
  • USA Today Editorial Board  The paper ran an editorial from a female college athlete who described the numerous problems with allowing trans athletes to compete as women. Following an outcry from trans activists, the paper edited the athlete’s own comments in the previously published opinion piece.
  • ESPN Documentaries  The sports channel gave Bubba Wallace the chance to hype, once again, the fully discredited noose controversy, for some reason using its E-60 series for a 90-minute piece on the debunked controversy. In it, Wallace repeated the claim it was a hateful noose and even said of select members of NASCAR who disputed the claim he has not forgiven them – over an incident that did not happen.
  • WINNER Kelli Stavast – NBC Sports  By a unanimous vote, Stavast takes this honor for her on-track post-race interview with NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Brandon Brown. While speaking trackside the crowd began the “F— Joe Biden” chant, Stavast attempted to save face by insisting they were chanting “Let’s Go, Brandon,” kicking off the cultural touchstone that has lived on for months.
This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows two of Larry McMurtry's typewriters which he used to write his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

Pulitzer Commemorative Rice Cake Award (Honoring the most content-free journalism coverage)

  • Dani DiPlacido – Forbes The need to describe for us how celebrities had to endure the pandemic in ways just as dire as the rest of us was constant in the press. Hard to come up with a more harrowing account than the carbohydrate-averse Gwyneth Paltrow being so confined that she had to resort to the horror of eating bread during quarantine.
  • Mary Mrad, Chloe-Lee Longhetti, D. Lawrence – The Daily Mail  Thankfully the Aussie edition of the British rag was there to detail for us that during pandemic restrictions, actor Paul Hogan was set to fly home to Australia. That is the entire detail; he was boarding a plane. It took three reporters to deliver this pertinent information.
  •  Various Outlets  As reports from the red carpet at events go, they are already uniformly vapid. New lows were achieved however in Geneva, as the press awaited the arrival of Joe Biden to meet with Vladamir Putin. Journalists saw reason to descend and report eagerly with microphones and cameras on what was transpiring…with the woman charged with vacuuming the red carpet.
  • Gabe Fernandez – San Francisco Gate  During a Monday Night Football game played during a torrential downpour, the cameras caught sight of a fan in the seats wearing some competitive swimmer’s gear. Fernandez did some intrepid gumshoe work to track down the teenaged fan and get the details, for some reason.
  • WINNER Lee Respers France – CNN  Take already newsworthy-challenged celebrity news, reduce it to gossipy personal activity reporting, and you have pretty challenging content. Well, CNN’s entertainment reporter managed to take that flavor-free weak tea and dilute it even further with her report of two celebrities who went out together and nothing happened: “Two Grammy-winning artists walk into a bar and … apparently they just drank. That’s according to Ed Sheeran, who says he took his friend Taylor Swift to a pub and no one noticed.”

Distinguished Coverage of Frozen Confections  (President Biden inspired so much of such coverage the Committee created a new category to honor the work.)

  • Various Outlets  When the ice cream company/activists Ben & Jerry’s made the announcement they would be pulling business out of Israel’s occupied territory as a sign of Palestinian support, the press raved about the decision. Less reported was how the move basically prevented their product from being sold to the Palestine region. Also avoided was that the announcement led to numerous states pulling funding of the company from state ventures and retirement plans to a monetary sum greater than the purchase price paid by parent company Unilever.
  • Jennifer Jacobs – Bloomberg   Amid a brewing story about Hunter Biden and an illegal handgun, the press descended on the President to hammer with questions – What was he giving up for Lent?! President Softserve detailed that sweets were on his banned list, lamenting how this meant he had to forgo ice cream for the period.
  • Drew Weisholtz – The Today Show  Disney actress and singer Olivia Rodrigo recently visited the White House. (I don’t know why either.) She thought President Biden had initially given her a commemorative shoehorn, but it seems she had a brain freeze. It turned out to actually be an ice cream scoop. 
  • Heather Haddon – Wall Street Journal  Many McDonald’s customers are fully aware of the frequency of the ice cream items on the menu being unavailable due to mechanical issues. Well, in the era of Biden, action is taken. The FTC is looking into the issue of the problem of Mcdonald’s McFlurry machines being offline so often.
  • WINNER – Various Outlets  There is no better example than seeing the collective press swarm on President Biden as he orders himself a cone in Cleveland. When asked what flavor he chose, the journalists audibly swooned as he announced “chocolate-chocolate chip!” He then was asked about what advice he had for the Republicans possibly blocking the Jan. 6 Commission and he stated, “Eat some chocolate-chocolate chip.” The press broke out in applause.

Distinguished Coverage In Race Relations

  •  G. Daniela Galarza – Washington Post  The gastronomy writer has determined that there is a new form of intolerance found in food reporting – using the word “exotic” to describe dishes, or ingredients. According to Galarza, exotic, indirectly lengthens the metaphysical distance between one group of humans and another, and, in so doing, reinforces xenophobia and racism. If you think the food writer is resorting to word salad, understand she was so bothered she managed to write over 2,200 words, about being upset with one word.
  • Sammi Katz, Olivia McGiff – New York Times  In this daft exploration the writers claim that American tiki culture is racist. The problem – racist to whom? Tiki style borrows elements from multiple countries, on numerous continents, and then melds those influences to create completely ersatz items as a result. There is absolutely no way you can point out any culture possibly offended, it just feels racist. Pour yourself a stiff multi-rum drink – this is a migraine-inducing farce.
  • Darryl Fears – The Washington Post  There is a dire intolerance in the practice of birdwatching, but not where you would expect. Surprisingly, the gripe is not that this is a largely caucasian pursuit or that white privilege is built into the study. The problem rests with…the birds. The names of the avian creatures were often designated by racist ornithologists or others with problematic pasts. I suppose texts need to be rewritten to change designations to the Variegated Woke Thrush or the Virtue-tailed Ibis.
  • Madeleine Stone – National Geographic  If a reporter is ever stuck for supplying a race-based piece all they need to do is find a dire item in the news and declare that it is impacting minorities to a greater detriment. Ms. Stone must have been up against a summer deadline when she declared fireworks were discriminatory. It seems that the air pollution from Chinese-made fireworks affects minority communities worse, in an unpatriotic fashion.
  •  Erin Aubrey Kaplan – New York Times  The editorial was written by a woman who placed one of those mini-libraries on her property for her neighbors in the POC neighborhood where she resides. She became very bothered one day to see a white couple looking at her library. This led her to surmise that this non-event would lead to gentrification of her area.
  • WINNER Anne Quito – CNN  One other sure way to get in on the racism beat is to find an aspect of our culture that has yet to be called out for intolerance. At CNN, they broke new ground and discovered that lettering is now offensive. Yes, it has been declared that the ‘Chop Suey Font’ is somehow hateful. Imagine how surprising this will be to Chinese residents to learn all this time they have been racist in using this type of lettering at Chinese restaurants – such as the one in the photo used in this feature.