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2016 | XLV-16 For Fairness, Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting T he more that details about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices come to light, the more their efforts appear to have been a sham designed to exonerate her of wrongdoing from the very beginning. As we wrote, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) failure to indict Hillary, based on the recommendation of FBI Director James Comey, has moved the United States closer to banana republic status. e Clinton family’s ongoing corruption and Hillary Clinton’s pay-to-play as secretary of state have also created a precedent which could encourage other politicians to enrich themselves at the expense of the integrity of their office. e FBI’s light touch also has created a double standard on national security, where high-profile figures such as Mrs. Clinton walk free while others lose their security clearance or are fined or jailed. Yet some on the left are unhappy with Comey’s investigation because of the comments he made publicly characterizing Mrs. Clinton as “extremely careless” with classified information. “What Comey should have done…was handle the Clinton probe like any other routine inquiry: provide confidential recommendations to prosecutors, release a strictly factual statement noting that the investigation would be closed, and resist external pressures to inappropriately air the FBI’s findings outside a court of law,” argues Riley Roberts, former speechwriter for former Attorney General Eric Holder, in Politico Magazine. Arguably, Clinton’s status as a presidential candidate under FBI investigation may have called for some public justification of the FBI’s decision. However, despite Comey’s open criticisms, the fact remains that he decided to recommend no indictment for Hillary Clinton. ere will be no accountability for Clinton’s many lies about classified information on her private email server or the way she jeopardized national security as secretary of state. Upon further review, it appears that Mr. Comey’s investigation was highly unusual, given the five immunity agreements that were handed out. According to Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, not only was Platte River Networks’ Paul Combetta granted immunity, the DOJ upheld this immunity despite the fact that he had lied to the investigators during an interview. “Instead of asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to revoke his immunity deal and squeezing him, Comey let [Combetta] go because he was a ‘low-level guy,’ he testified at the House hearing. It’s yet another action by Comey,” wrote Sperry, “that has left former prosecutors shaking their heads.” At that September 28 House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Director Comey as a witness, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) accused Combetta of “trying to cover-up the cover-up” by first using Reddit to solicit information on how to strip email address information and then trying to delete his posts. “e same guy later took Bleachbit and did delete emails,” continued Rep. Jordan. But Comey insisted that the immunity agreement was necessary to ensure that the FBI got the facts. “ere’s no doubt Combetta was involved in deleting emails,” said Comey. “He had the ‘O-sh-t’ moment, as he told us, and that’s why it was very important for us to interview this guy to find out who told you to do that, why did you do that.” According to Andy McCarthy, writing for National Review, Secretary Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and Clinton aide Heather Samuelson also received immunity agreements meant to ensure that they gave the FBI access to their laptops. However, the FBI could have just subpoenaed the computers or obtained a search warrant instead. AIM in the News page 2 MSNBC’s Brzez- inski: Hillary was “Amazing” During DebateWorries That Trump Will “Do Quite Well” Post Debate page 6 Exhibits You Won’t Find in the New Naonal Museum of African American History page 3 continued on page 3 By Roger Aronoff Was the Fix in on FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton’s Emails?

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For Fairness, Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting

The more that details about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices come to light, the more their efforts appear to have been a sham designed

to exonerate her of wrongdoing from the very beginning. As we wrote, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) failure to indict Hillary, based on the recommendation of FBI Director James Comey, has moved the United States closer to banana republic status.

The Clinton family’s ongoing corruption and Hillary Clinton’s pay-to-play as secretary of state have also created a precedent which could encourage other politicians to enrich themselves at the expense of the integrity of their office. The FBI’s light touch also has created a double standard on national security, where high-profile figures such as Mrs. Clinton walk free while others lose their security clearance or are fined or jailed.

Yet some on the left are unhappy with Comey’s investigation because of the comments he made publicly characterizing Mrs. Clinton as “extremely careless” with classified information. “What Comey should have done…was handle the Clinton probe like any other routine inquiry: provide confidential recommendations to prosecutors, release a strictly factual statement noting that the investigation would be closed, and resist external pressures to inappropriately air the FBI’s findings outside a court of law,” argues Riley Roberts, former speechwriter for former Attorney General Eric Holder, in Politico Magazine.

Arguably, Clinton’s status as a presidential candidate under FBI investigation may have called for some public justification of the FBI’s decision. However, despite Comey’s open criticisms, the fact remains that he decided to recommend no indictment for Hillary Clinton. There will be no accountability for Clinton’s many lies about classified information on her private email server or the way she jeopardized national security as secretary of state.

Upon further review, it appears that Mr. Comey’s investigation was highly unusual, given the five immunity agreements that were handed out. According to Paul Sperry, writing for the New

York Post, not only was Platte River Networks’ Paul Combetta granted immunity, the DOJ upheld this immunity despite the fact that he had lied to the investigators during an interview.

“Instead of asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to revoke his immunity deal and squeezing him, Comey let [Combetta] go because he was a ‘low-level guy,’ he testified at the House hearing. It’s yet another action by Comey,” wrote Sperry, “that has left former prosecutors shaking their heads.”

At that September 28 House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Director Comey as a witness, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) accused Combetta of “trying to cover-up the cover-up” by first using Reddit to solicit information on how to strip email address information and then trying to delete his posts. “The same guy later took Bleachbit and did delete emails,” continued Rep. Jordan.

But Comey insisted that the immunity agreement was necessary to ensure that the FBI got the facts.

“There’s no doubt Combetta was involved in deleting emails,” said Comey. “He had the ‘O-sh-t’ moment, as he told us, and that’s why it was very important for us to interview this guy to find out who told you to do that, why did you do that.”

According to Andy McCarthy, writing for National Review, Secretary Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills and Clinton aide Heather Samuelson also received immunity agreements meant to ensure that they gave the FBI access to their laptops. However, the FBI could have just subpoenaed the computers or obtained a search warrant instead.

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Your LettersTo the Editor: Just before James Comey came in with his verdict on Hillary, Obama went on the trail with her saying how Good and Honest she was. I knew then she would be cleared by the FBI, and James Comey. Also when Bill Clinton met with the Attorney General at the airport, that was the icing on the cake for Hillary.Bob H.

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AIM Editor Roger Aronoff was a guest on “Cavuto Coast to Coast” on the Fox Business Network. The topic was the mainstream media’s double standard in terms of cover-age of the presidential candidates, and its willful pursuit of negative stories about Donald Trump while giving Hillary Clinton’s many scandals a pass.

Arono� remarked on the show that he thought NBC anchor and recent debate moderator Les-ter Holt “got the message” from the mainstream media to go after Trump during the presidential de-bate. “If you watched the debate, he started out seemingly fairly in-nocuous and just trying to be down the middle,” said Aronoff. “But it turned into something where he went after Trump on several issues, and completely ignored Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, the Clin-ton emails...”

The media’s decision to treat Trump unfairly has been a consis-tent theme in recent months. “We had this article last month from Jim Rutenberg at The New York Times saying Trump poses such a unique potential danger as president that it’s okay to throw out journalistic standards,” said Aronoff. “Not that [these standards] really existed in recent elections...”

Dear Fellow Media Watchdogs: As of this writing, we’ve had Round One of the debates, both Trump v. Clinton and Pence v. Kaine. The consensus among our media seems to be that Hillary won, in part because she had no coughing fits and no head-shaking episodes. It was either a great body double, or she’s in better health than many have suspected. And clearly, Mrs. Clinton is better versed in conventional terms on the various issues that were discussed. Yet Donald Trump, who started out well, and scored points on the issue of the Trans Pacific

Partnership, failed in the end because of a stunning series of missed opportunities, and letting the moderator and Hillary get under his skin, revealing his thin-skinned temperament. Trump perhaps fell for the oldest trick in the book. He trusted that the liberal media were going to be fair and down the middle in the debate. Or maybe he didn’t. Lester Holt, seemingly a very nice guy, doesn’t come across as partisan left-wing hack. Maybe, Trump thought, he’ll be equally tough on both of us, similar to how Matt Lauer was. No, Donald, that’s not how it works. The questions for you are designed to provoke you and put you on the defensive, while questions for Hillary are meant to tee it up for her to show her mastery of policy, and by all means, to not embarrass her. The Los Angeles Times, for example, gave Hillary a unanimous victory. I think Trump lost the first debate on points. Many, many missed opportunities. Benghazi, the debt, the labor participation rate, the Iran deal, the Clinton Foundation, and how he addressed the “email” scandal. He let one get by him when the issue of cybersecurity was raised. Hillary had weakened and exposed our national security with her cavalier, and illegal, handling of classified material every day as secretary of state. We’ll see if he figures it out before the next debates. Why not have an answer ready when Hillary brought up Trump’s comments on women? “I did nothing compared to what Bill Clinton did,” he could have argued. “And you covered for him, Hillary, and stood by your man no matter what he did. You tore down so many women.” In the vice presidential debate, Mike Pence did an excellent job representing their ticket. Sen. Tim Kaine came across as a rude, arrogant attack-dog. Pence started out seeming to expect a gentlemanly discussion, but soon realized that Kaine was deter-mined to get in every canned attack line in his arsenal, aimed at Trump. By the time you receive this, the second presidential debate will have taken place. The stakes are enormous. Both sides believe it is the end of the world as we know it if their side loses in November. I wonder what would happen if Trump wins. Would Barack Obama prepare for an orderly transition to a Trump presidency? Or would he use his perceived executive authority to create a Constitutional crisis? I don’t think we know the answer at this point. Stay tuned.•

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Many exhibits in the new $500 million National Museum of African American History

and Culture in Washington, D.C. will be worthwhile. They will highlight the struggle to overcome slavery and give black people the rights they were promised in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Many black Americans have achieved great success. But black leadership in America, which is viewed by the media as almost exclusively liberal and Democratic, is not without major flaws. In addition, we think that the growing black conservative movement will not be given the attention it deserves. In the spirit of truth and transparency, we offer examples of exhibits that we have reason to believe, based on advance publicity, will not be available to those visiting the museum:

The Democratic Party’s history of slavery. The Republican Party was born in 1854 in opposition to slavery, and the Democratic Party was the party of slav-ery. As documented in Dinesh D’Souza’s

new movie, “Hillary’s America,” the Democratic Party is historically racist. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson attended a screening of the pro-KKK film, “The Birth of a Nation,” in the White House itself. Wilson was so rac-ist that liberal Princeton students have demanded removal of his name from campus buildings. Hillary Clinton once called former Ku Klux Klan member Senator Robert K. Byrd (D-WV) her “mentor,” saying after his death, “Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd.” As noted by The Daily Caller, Byrd joined the Klan because he was wor-ried that during World War II he might have to fight alongside “race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” Yet, no Republican presiden-tial candidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the black vote since 1965.

Black Lives Matter is a racist orga-nization that praises cop-killer Assata Shakur. A Black Lives Matter T-shirt is on display in the museum, in order to highlight “contemporary” black issues. The “Black Lives Matter Exposed” proj-

ect of Accuracy in Media looks at the vi-olent nature of the organization, includ-ing its support for Assata Shakur, a mem-ber of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), a group that worked with the communist terrorist Weather Underground. Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foer-ster “execution style” by shooting him in the head as he lay wounded by gunfire. Obama has highlighted the killings of black people in a campaign carried for-ward by his own Department of Justice against local police forces. Yet, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Insti-tute notes that, as of July 9 of this year, whites made up 54 percent of the 440 police shooting victims, compared to 28 percent who were black. In 2015, whites made up 50 percent of the 987 fatal po-lice shootings, while blacks made up 26 percent.

The Communist mentor of the first black President. Barack Obama’s elec-tion as the first black president was fa-cilitated by liberal media bias, since his father-son relationship with black Com-munist pornographer and pedophile

Sperry makes it clear that Mills was lying to investigators, as well. She, apparently, “told agents she had no idea Clinton maintained a private email server,” he writes. However, the email record demonstrates that she emailed the server administrator to ask about the status of that very server.

McCarthy calls the granting of these immunity agreements “very strange” behavior by the FBI. “The Justice Department could have required the production of the computer by simply issuing a grand jury subpoena,” he writes. “And had there been any concern that Mills would not cooperate, would destroy the computer, or would ‘misplace’ it (as Team Clinton claims to have misplaced so many Hillary devices), investigators could have applied for a search warrant and seized the computer.”

To add insult to injury, the FBI allowed Samuelson and Mills to sit in on Hillary Clinton’s interview with the bureau.

Former U.S. attorney Solomon Wisenberg, who conducted the grand jury questioning of President Bill

Clinton, argues that the FBI should never have allowed Mills to sit in on Mrs. Clinton’s interview. “Competent prosecutors do not allow a key witness to participate as  an attorney in an  FBI interview of the main subject,” he writes. “It just isn’t done.” He writes that “if Clinton insisted on Mills’s attendance, the interview would be conducted under the auspices of the federal grand jury.”

In addition, it was inappropriate that

the only interview of such a high profile subject wasn’t recorded. It is preposter-ous that nine people were allowed to sit in during the interview. Comey ac-knowledged that this was unusual, but he said it was not unprecedented, though he didn’t cite any precedents.

The FBI should have convened a

grand jury instead of just conducting light touch interviews, argued former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova, speaking at a recent Judicial Watch event. “Now, it is evident to me…what Mr. Comey should have done at the beginning of this investigation was empanel a grand jury,” said DiGenova. “When you want to investigate crimes involving national security information, classified information, you don’t do interviews. You issue subpoenas to witnesses, third parties for documents. You make people come into court and fight them in front of a federal judge…”

The left continues to claim that Mrs. Clinton is held to a different standard, a double standard when compared to other candidates. However, it is clear that the FBI did hold Mrs. Clinton and her aides to a different standard—one which gives a free pass to lies and corruption.

Roger Aronoff is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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By Cliff KincaidExhibits You Won’t Find in the National Museum of African American History

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Frank Marshall Davis was deliberately ignored by the liberal press. Liberals in the media knew that Obama’s associa-tion with a prominent communist would sink his campaign. In 2008, during his first run for office, the relationship was ignored by influential reporters like Da-vid Maraniss of The Washington Post, whose own parents were Communist Party members. Even the Drudge Re-port would not sell advertising to tell the story of Frank Marshall Davis. In 2012, newspapers like The New York Times and USA Today and conservative media like Newsmax refused advertis-ing for the film, “Dreams from My Real Father,” which cited evidence that Davis was actually Obama’s real father. Obama admitted that Davis, a writer for com-munist publications, had instructed him that black people have “reason to hate.”

Martin Luther King Jr.’s womaniz-ing, plagiarism, and communist advis-ers. While Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a fighter for civil rights and showed unique courage in opposing racism, he has his own serious flaws. The evidence shows that both President John F. Ken-nedy and his brother Bobby obtained and passed on information about King’s extramarital affairs and womanizing. It was information that had been obtained from FBI wiretaps on King authorized by Bobby himself. The Kennedy brothers, both anti-communist Democrats, were alarmed by King’s communist associa-tions. One of King’s closest advisers was J.H. O’Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O’Dell. He was a secret member of the Communist Party who would later join Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH. Anoth-er King adviser was New York attorney Stanley Levison, who had been involved in Communist Party financial affairs and was helping to arrange funding of the party by Moscow. He had recommended O’Dell to King. Despite his reputation as a moderate, Martin Luther King, Jr.

paid tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois, who had joined the CPUSA himself in 1961, at an event sponsored by the Soviet-funded journal Freedomways in New York City. King’s opposition to American involvement in the war against communism in Vietnam was strongly influenced by his communist associations. The facts also show that the famed civil rights leader was a pla-giarist who stole material from other

people and claimed it as his own.

Unpatriotic black sports figures. The sports exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Na-tional Museum of African American His-tory and Culture highlights the positive impact of black athletes such as Jackie Robinson on American society. But un-patriotic displays have been more com-mon recently. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” NFL quarterback Colin Kae-pernick said. Kaepernick also has worn socks depicting police as pigs. President Obama commented, “I think he cares about some real, legitimate issues that have to be talked about. If nothing else, he’s generated more conversation about issues that have to be talked about.” Kae-pernick, the child of a black man, was raised by white parents and is making an $11.9 million base salary this year. Black athletes Tommie Smith and John Car-los gave a Black Power raised fist salute, common among communists and social-ists, during the 1968 Summer Olympics. Black Muslim boxer Cassius Clay, also known as Muhammad Ali, refused Army induction in 1967, saying, “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?” Protests against the Vietnam War, which were backed by the Soviet bloc and organized by domestic communist groups, forced a U.S. military withdrawal from Viet-nam, leading to a communist takeover that produced hundreds of thousands of political prisoners and Vietnamese “boat people” trying to escape. Almost two million people were then murdered in a campaign of genocide in neighboring Cambodia, which was carried out by the communist Khmer Rouge. More than

58,000 Americans died trying to stop a communist takeover of Southeast Asia.

Paul Robeson: a black dupe of reds. A Soviet campaign was launched after the Russian revolution to exploit the “Negro question” in the U.S. and manipulate blacks and members of other minority groups for Communist purposes. The goal was a “Soviet America.” Although he invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked by a congressional committee about his party membership, the CPU-SA admitted, after his death, that actor and singer Paul Robeson had been a party member. Former CPUSA official Manning Johnson had testified in 1949 that that he saw Robeson “a number of times in the headquarters” of the CPU-SA and that Robeson was, in fact, a party member. Johnson said Robeson wanted to be “the Black Stalin among Negroes.” Johnson testified, “Paul’s assignment was to work among the intellectuals, the pro-fessionals, and artists that the party was seeking to penetrate and influence along Communist lines.”

Why Richard Wright broke with the Communist Party. Richard Wright, author of the classic texts Black Boy and Native Son, was a prominent black American author who joined the Com-munist Party but then became disil-lusioned by the party’s corruption and authoritarianism, and left it in 1942. He wrote an essay published in Atlantic Monthly in 1944 called “I Tried to Be a Communist,” which was later reprinted (with Wright’s permission) in the book, The God That Failed, a collection of anti-communist essays by ex-Communists.

The NAACP once opposed commu-nism. For many years, black groups such as the NAACP were bitter foes of the Communist Party USA, knowing that its politics were divisive and not designed to foster racial harmony. NAACP offi-cial Herbert Hill wrote a famous article, “The Communist Party—Enemy of Ne-gro Equality.” Hill said American blacks desired “integration and assimilation into all aspects of American life on the basis of complete equality,” but that the communists promoted separatism and what he called “super-jim-crowism.” Hill referred to “Communist carpet-baggers” who used nice-sounding front groups to

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The political correctness propag-ated by the government and the liberal media has hamstrung

America’s war efforts even as ISIS imperils Americans domestically, Dr. Sebastian Gorka explained during an interview on the #MediaMadness podcast.

Dr. Gorka, author of the book, Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, said that “… we have to get political correct-ness out of the threat assessment. The federal government, the White House, and the media that enables it is spinning a narrative that isn’t true, they’re censoring what the jihadis are doing.”

He rebuked the media for aiding the Obama administration in obscuring the link between fundamentalist Islamic doctrine and domestic terror attacks.

“By themselves the administration could not have gotten away with this. This was made possible—this absurdity, this Monty-Pythonesque absurdity—was only made possible by the willful connivance of the left-wing media.”

Warning about the consequence of failing to recognize the link between Islam and terrorism, Dr. Gorka said,

“When your enemy is a totalitarian organization, which is jihadism…if you deny that reality for your own political reasons, then you are endangering our war fighters, you are endangering American citizens and you will prolong the war.”

He also challenged the media’s initial coverage of Colin Powell’s leaked emails.

“What is the left-wing press quoting? His [Powell’s] derogatory comments about Donald Trump. I mean the real story is right there in his emails, but the left-wing media is not interested because they have to protect the establishment, they have to protect Hillary, they have to protect President Obama. This is how absolutely banana republic-esque we have become in terms of the culpability of the media.”

“The world is on fire thanks to the lack of leadership over the last seven and a half years, we have emboldened our enemies, whether it’s Russia, China, North Korea, whether it’s Iran or whether it’s ISIS. So, the world is a very dangerous place, much more dangerous than it was when President Obama took office. But none of those threats is an existential one in the way that ISIS is.”

Dr. Gorka explained that “…since ISIS declared the Islamic State two years ago…we have killed or arrested 110 ISIS jihadis on U.S. territory, the most recent one being just three weeks ago in Roanoke, Virginia.” He added, “the worst part of all is that…37 percent of everybody we’ve captured or killed here in America is an individual who has sworn allegiance to Abu Bakr, the head

of ISIS, but has decided that the best way to serve the new emperor of Islam, the best way to serve the Caliphate is…to kill Americans here in the United States.”

While he identified “the global jihadi movement” as the primary threat currently facing America, he also said, “…I think if the nation looks at itself in the mirror, the other truly horrific enemy we face is ourselves. If you look at the debt that both politicians of left and right have accumulated for this nation and for generations to come…Capitol Hill is acting like a bunch of drunken sailors that will create a bankrupt nation if we don’t get a grip.”

Questioned about the potential ramifications of a Hillary Clinton presidency, Dr. Gorka said that “…a Hillary Clinton administration would be catastrophic for this nation.” Describing Clinton as “…a person who’s completely beholden to the highest bidder and has no regard for the interests of the republic,” he asserted that “…she would be bad for America, her allies, and the interests of the nation in the long run.” While not a member of the Trump campaign, Dr. Gorka has previously advised the Republican candidate on national security.•

Alex Nitzberg is an intern at the American Journalism Center at Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

dupe blacks, and called the Communist Party one of the “implacable enemies” of black equality.

The Black Conservative Movement. African-American Conservatives, Proj-ect 21, Black Conservatives Fund and Blacks for Trump are just a few of the black conservative groups in existence. Leading black conservatives include Ja-son Riley, author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder For Blacks To Succeed; Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution; former GOP presi-dential candidate Ben Carson; Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; D.C.

Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown; South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott; and businessman Herman Cain.

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s top donors (as reported by The Washington Post):•Oprah Winfrey Charitable Founda-

tion, $21 million•Lilly Endowment, $20 million•Robert Frederick Smith, $20 million•Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $12

million•The Atlantic Philanthropies, $12 mil-

lion•Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,

$10 million

•Rhimes Family Foundation, $10 mil-lion

•David M. Rubenstein, $10 million•Ford Foundation, $8.6 million•Target, $7.05 million•Kaiser Permanente, $7 million•Robert L. Johnson, $6 million•General Electric, $5.5 million•3M, $5 million•American Express, $5 million•Boeing, $5 million•Rockefeller Foundation, $5 million•UnitedHealth Group, $5 million•Walmart, $5 million

Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism.

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MSNBC’s  Morning Joe  co-host Mika Brzezinksi—who has declared that she will be

voting for Hillary Clinton despite her concerns over the email scandal—said Tuesday that Hillary was “amazing” during the debate Monday night. She added that Donald Trump will still probably “do quite well” because he has struck a nerve with people who are sick and tired of the current system.Fellow co-host Joe Scarborough asked Brzezinski if Trump’s interruptions of Clinton help him:Brzezinski: Yes. I think it’s a different ballgame (from previous elections). I don’t really know where I’m getting this,  just  my overall gut feeling from watching the entire debate. She was amazing, she was really good. I just think that he’s going to do quite well out of this.Scarborough: You don’t know where you get it from? You get it from like the 87 Republican debates.Brzezinksi: I watched him, I listened. I know what is appealing about him to the American people that follow him. Not just his movement but others who are perhaps sick of what has happened the past few decades. He got in some things in there that make you go, ‘yeah, exactly.’ Clinton generally held her own during the debate—thanks in part to help from moderator Lester Holt—but Brzezinski is right to be worried by Trump as he has touched a nerve among disaffected Americans that could lead to a very unpleasant result for Democrats on November 8.•

The liberal media have done some selective editing of GOP presidential nominee Donald

Trump’s remarks after the terrorist bombings in New York and New Jersey by reporting that he is advocating “racial profiling.”

This is what a quick check of headlines on the web reveals:

Trump Defends Racial Profiling in Wake of Bombs – CNNWhy Trump Calls for Racial Profiling After Attacks – Rolling StoneTrump Says That Cops Need Racial Profiling in Counter-Terrorism Duties – New York Daily NewsBut Trump actually never used the

word racial in his remarks to Fox News:“In Israel they profile. They’ve done an

unbelievable job, as good as you can do. But Israel has done an unbelievable job. And they’ll profile. They see somebody that’s suspicious they will profile. They will take that person and they’ll check them. Do we have a choice? Look what’s going on. Do we really have a choice? We’re trying to be so politically correct in our country and this is only going to get worse. This isn’t going to get better. And I’ve been talking to you guys for years, and I’ve been saying it.”

Guess what? Profiling is something virtually everyone does, and not all profiling is racial or racist.

A couple of examples. When we look at someone we instinctively profile them. If a person is tall, they must be a basketball player—not all tall people can play basketball by the way. Or if they dress a certain way, we profile them as to their profession, marital status, etc. The TSA has profiled me so that I can qualify for its PreCheck program and avoid taking off my coat, shoes and removing my laptop from my luggage.

The adding of the word “racial” to Trump’s comments is an attempt by the media to portray him  as a racist and derail a campaign that has gained significant ground on Hillary Clinton in recent weeks, much to their chagrin.•

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By Don Irvine

By Don Irvine

MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Hillary was “Amazing”

During Debate—Worries That Trump Will

“Do Quite Well” Post Debate

AIM chairman Don Irvine with Brad and Mary Ann Morse

Liberal Media Adds Word “Racial” to

Trump’s Profiling Comments