Donald Trump offers Jeff Sessions attorney general post

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LeafByNiggle said:
Actually, the number of news sources that uphold decent journalistic standards is too many to list. It would be unfair to single out just a few.
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That would be fine, list as many as you wish, it would be interesting to see who you think they are. Thanks.
 
Been watching Sessions for years…

Since I knew several people who were in fields that have or are being taken over by H-1B visa holders, I found that Sessions was just about the only person on the national scene who would stick his neck out to oppose this pernicious program. Find out who likes this program, it reads like a who’s who of the top firms in the tech and engineering world. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Microsoft, IBM, GE, So Cal Edison, PG&E, Consolidated Edison and many more. All of whom backed HRC. I just thank God for the vision that allowed me to get into a career that can’t be outsourced.

As an AG, he can’t kill the H-1B program, that takes an act of Congress signed into law, but he can enforce already existing federal law on employee verification in the workplace just as soon as Trump reverses Obama’s executive orders. Trump won’t have to do massive deportations, many of these people will voluntarily deport themselves once those jobs are no longer available.

I’m in favor of an immigration policy that works and that does not reward illegal conduct. I’m not in favor of open borders because I strongly believe that they are fundamentally incompatible with a social welfare state.
 
I do not believe such an animal as an unbiased news organization actually exists. For instance, there are certain things the NY Times will not voluntarily report on thanks to their majority owner Carlos Slim, and in fact Schulzberber issued a mea culpa regarding the NYT’s bias causing them to badly misjudge what was happening out there. I don’t expect the NYT to improve much, though. Same with the LA Times. Spent time back in southern California (where I came from) and saw a week’s worth of the paper edition of the LA Times, every day there was at least one major article about the campaign or about the local issues that was written in language that belonged on the editorial/opinion page.

I can provide at least two examples of differences in coverage between the MSM and alternate media, but that’s getting off the topic of Sessions so will just say: like it or not, one has to peruse the alternative news sites and do the hard work of separating the wheat from the chaff between the various different viewpoints to get a feel for what is actually going on.
 
Zzyzx_Road said:
I do not believe such an animal as an unbiased news organization actually exists. For instance, there are certain things the NY Times will not voluntarily report on thanks to their majority owner Carlos Slim, and in fact Schulzberber issued a mea culpa regarding the NYT’s bias causing them to badly misjudge what was happening out there. I don’t expect the NYT to improve much, though. Same with the LA Times. Spent time back in southern California (where I came from) and saw a week’s worth of the paper edition of the LA Times, every day there was at least one major article about the campaign or about the local issues that was written in language that belonged on the editorial/opinion page.

I can provide at least two examples of differences in coverage between the MSM and alternate media, but that’s getting off the topic of Sessions so will just say: like it or not, one has to peruse the alternative news sites and do the hard work of separating the wheat from the chaff between the various different viewpoints to get a feel for what is actually going on.
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Editorial decisions of which story to report does indeed provide a means for exhibiting bias. However there is a huge difference between that kind of bias and the kind of journalism that throws standards to the wind and just reports outright lies, or stories not fully verified. Thankfully there are many sources that still respect journalism enough to keep from being that egregious. They are called “mainstream media”.
 
Zzyzx_Road said:
Been watching Sessions for years…

Since I knew several people who were in fields that have or are being taken over by H-1B visa holders, I found that Sessions was just about the only person on the national scene who would stick his neck out to oppose this pernicious program.
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I agree it’s a terrible visa program. It’s the one that Melania Knauss (now Melania Trump) used to get her visa to work in the US. If we hadn’t had that terrible visa program, maybe she wouldn’t have been allowed to work here and become a citizen. 😉
 
Originally Posted by **mary bobo **
Look at so many who have been in the Congress as a whole so much longer. When you get to be the age of some of them, common sense says it is time to retire. The founding fathers in their great wisdom never intended for government jobs to be for life. They lose touch with how the rest of the country functions.
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DaveBj said:
I know – Sessions has been there for 20 years, and he is the junior senator from Alabama. This is a swerve off topic, but I favor a constitutional amendment limiting service in Congress to a total of 12 years.

Meanwhile, we’re all going to have to get over a couple of stupid things that he said 30 years ago.
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He’s there for 20 years because the people of Alabama want him there.
There’s a simple way to end this problem with U.S. senators, however, that makes far more sense than term limits: repeal the 17th amendment. 👍
 
LeafByNiggle said:
If you don’t know how to tell a fake news site from a real news site there is very little I can do to help you.
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I can. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NY Times, are now officially opinion sources, not news sources. They made it overtly clear this year. They are not true news sources, as evidenced by their own actions.

Jon
 
dixieagle said:
We live in Mobile, AL, and Jeff Sessions lives a few miles away. My husband is a local TV journalist and the first journalist (to our knowledge) to tweet about the appointment, based on something Sen. Richard Shelby had released, evidently prematurely. We used to meet Sen. Sessions occasionally when he was visiting a parent in the nursing home where my MIL lived. My husband has interviewed him numerous times, and is in frequent contact with his “right hand woman”. My husband is the only local journalist Sessions has spoken with since the election.

The Senator is undoubtedly very conservative, and illegal immigration has long been one of his biggest issues. I don’t share his particular view on this subject. However, from everything we have observed over decades, he is a fine, decent, humble family man, and a man of utmost integrity. He is, in my estimation, utterly incorruptible.

I think the allegations of racism are overblown in the extreme. He marched, arms linked, with John Lewis at the recent 50th anniversary of the Selma march, and the young, African American US attorney in our region, who is a Democrat, had this to say about him: “Jeff Sessions is a man of outstanding character with an impeccable reputation for integrity. I have no doubt that he will be an outstanding U.S. Attorney General. I wish him much success in this new leadership role in our nation.”

We’ve heard much about “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions”, something that Ted Kennedy harped on as far back as the hearings in which he was denied confirmation as a federal judge. He had no more say in his name than did “Barack Hussein Obama”.

I did not vote for either Trump or Clinton (American Solidarity Party for me) but, based on our knowledge of Sen. Sessions over decades, I believe that much of what is written about him is malicious and untrue. The knee-jerk reactions by some people and media outlets, simply because he is a Trump appointee, are short-sighted and unfair.
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JonNC said:
I can. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NY Times, are now officially opinion sources, not news sources. They made it overtly clear this year. They are not true news sources, as evidenced by their own actions.

Jon
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Please cite incidences of overtly false data being reported as fact from each of these. As it is, your claim, until it is proven, is just your opinion.
 
gilliam said:
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump is announcing his choices for three key administration jobs Friday, naming Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

startribune.com/trump-offers-national-security-adviser-job-to-flynn/401844825/
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He’s going to be fantastic. I hope that he starts enforcing federal laws against hiring illegal aliens and growing marijuana.
 
Paganus said:
He’s going to be fantastic. I hope that he starts enforcing federal laws against hiring illegal aliens and growing marijuana.
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As to the latter, the hypocrisy of Republicans knows no bounds. They preach against Washington interfering int state’s rights until they are the one’s in power. Then they match Democrats stroke for stroke on federal mandates on what should be a state issue.
 
Nothing against Sessions but what happened to the Republican principle of less government and getting rid of some of these Cabinet positions?

Instead we’re trying to fill them ALL, reinforcing the notion of having as much government as we can get away with.

I’ve always sided with the libertarian principles that the government is here to protect life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Implied in that is protection against fraud (read the party platform) but how’s that working out?
 
LeafByNiggle said:
Please cite incidences of overtly false data being reported as fact from each of these. As it is, your claim, until it is proven, is just your opinion.
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I’ll let you cite a news story from Breitbart that was false first. To be clear, an opinion piece is not a news report. Breitbart does both.

And, since you asked,
google.com/amp/townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/08/16/uh-cnn-milwaukee-shooting-victims-sister-was-not-really-condemning-the-violence-n2205748%3Famp%3Dtrue?client=safari
 
JonNC said:
I’ll let you cite a news story from Breitbart that was false first. To be clear, an opinion piece is not a news report. Breitbart does both.
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That’s TownHall. Also, it is not logical to call opinion pieces false news and thereby saying the actual news produce is thereby tainted.
 
pnewton said:
That’s TownHall. Also, it is not logical to call opinion pieces false news and thereby saying the actual news produce is thereby tainted.
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So what that it’s Townhall? Is the story true?
As for your second point, I agree. That is what’s wrong with the claim that Breitbart is necessarily false news. False news is when the news presented is false, logically enough. Opinion pieces are opinion. When Howard K Smith was on ABC years ago, you knew the news from an opinion peice. It said do on the screen. Not so the case with George S. on GMA. The problem on the MSM is the news is tainted by opinion. That might not be false news, but neither is it journalism.
False news is when the story isn’t true, or its spun to present a particular POV. Parts of a quote left out, presenting as journalism talking points from one campaign, offering a poll that is intentionally weighted to achieve the desired result.
 
JonNC said:
So what that it’s Townhall? Is the story true?
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They linked their supporting evidence. Two of the links lead back to other articles they have at their** own** site, the third to similar** blog**. So, no, I am not inclined to believe such stories. The logic is that what they say is true because they said so twice, and so did their friends. Sure CNN might have made a mistake, but at least they do some journalism there and not this sort of self-supporting, circular logic.

I am not impressed with conservative complaints against media when their own sources are so, so bad. I have seen so many get suckered in by just blatantly stupid reasoning, as well as completely fraudulent stories. Sites like this make HuffPo look like Pulitzer quality.
 
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