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I'm sorry, but Liberals that support this late term abortion **** are evil. Pure and simple. Read below. Revolting.

The awful coverage of this born-alive bill shows the media’s strongest bias

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...rn-alive-bill-shows-the-medias-strongest-bias

Why can’t the media get it straight when it comes to the question of when human life begins?

I don’t believe that reporters and editors at the largest media outlets botch their facts out of deliberate dishonesty. The two most likely explanations are: (A) They just don’t care to try and overcome their bias, or (B) they do try, but their bias and the bubble they live in are so strong that they fail.

Check out the coverage of Tuesday’s debate over two pro-life bills that the Democrats successfully filibustered.

Keep in mind that one of these pro-life bills was not an actual abortion restriction. The Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act merely requires doctors and hospitals to treat babies who survive abortions and are born alive as patients. CNN claims that the Senate was debating “two abortion restriction bills.” But it is not an “abortion restriction” to say that a child who is already born must be cared for.

Do CNN editors not know what the bill would do, or do they believe that letting a living, already born baby die counts as an abortion?

If that latter possibility sounds insane, consider how CNN describes such a baby. CNN says the bill “would require abortion providers to work to 'preserve the life and health' of a fetus that was born following an attempted abortion as they would for a newborn baby, or face up to five years in prison.”

“A fetus that was born,” as Alexandra DeSanctis points out, is also known as “a baby.”

Every single person you know is a “fetus that was born.” Caroline Kelly, the CNN reporter who wrote this piece, is a “fetus that was born," just as every senator who refused to allow a vote on this measure is a fetus that was born.

What the bill would do is require a doctor to treat a person born after an attempted abortion the same as it would treat a person born not after an attempted abortion.

The New York Times says the bill would “threaten some doctors who perform [abortions] with criminal penalties.” That’s literally true but entirely misleading. The only abortionists to face criminal penalties would be those who fail to terminate a baby in utero and then also refuse to provide or order care for the living baby born as a result.

The New York Times's “threaten … with criminal penalties” language is as sensible as saying malpractice laws “threaten some doctors who care for women with legal penalties.”

In another bit of misleading sleight of hand, the New York Times says “late-term abortions” are “exceedingly rare” because “abortions after 20 weeks accounted for 1.2% of abortions in 2016.”

Considering that 623,471 abortions were reported, 1.2% is more than 7,400 late-term abortions. Is that exceedingly rare? That’s 140 every week. There are twice as many late-term abortions in the United States as there are children or teens killed or injured by firearms in the U.S. The New York Times does not call it “exceedingly rare” for children or teens to be shot in the U.S.

If you administered truth serum, probably 90% of the accredited press in the U.S. would say they want abortion legal in most or all cases. If you looked through the sources and contacts and wedding guests of most reporters and editors at major publications, you would find tons of Planned Parenthood, SKD Knickerbocker, and EMILY's List names among them. The average reporter lives in the same ecosystem as the average abortion lobbyist and Planned Parenthood flack.
 

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Before anybody criticizes Mike Pence heading the coronavirus task force:

Bono Praises Mike Pence’s Defense of AIDS Bill During Friendly Meeting in Germany

Yahoo News - Dave Quinn
Feb 18, 2017

After an address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday in which he vowed that the Unite States will “hold Russia accountable,” Vice President Mike Pence had a brief visit with U2 frontman and activist Bono.

The two men discussed the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — a government initiative to provide treatment, testing, education, and counseling to those suffering with HIV/AIDS in Africa (among other places).

It was first signed in 2003 under President George W. Bush and later renewed in 2008 under President Barack Obama. As an Indiana congressman at the time, Vice President Pence was an advocate for PEPFAR’s passing.

“Twice on the House floor you defended that,” Bono told Pence. “That’s how we know you.”

“It was an extraordinary historic accomplishment and you played a leading role in carrying it forward,” Pence responded.

The rockstar has been raising awareness about the global HIV/AIDS epidemic for nearly two decades now — co-forming Product Red, which partners with big brands (Nike, Gap, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Beats by Dre, etc.) to help raise money for charities fighting the disease.

He also co-founded the ONE Campaign which aims to eradicate poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by raising awareness and encouraging Americans to contact senators/elected officials and voice their opinions.

While Pence did advocate for PEPFAR’s passing, some critics have claimed that he enabled an HIV outbreak in Indiana when he was serving as governor. The critics claim that Pence’s defunding of Planned Parenthood, which was one of the few places in some parts of Indiana that offered HIV testing, as well as his alleged dithering on pushing forward a needle exchange bill to fight passing infections, led to a rise in HIV patients in Scott County. He eventually approved a bill for needle exchanges which led to a reduction in the number of HIV cases.

“I appreciate the chance to get together for you for a minute,” Pence told Bono. “I heard you were in town.”

“You’re the second busiest man on earth,” Bono joked.

Afterwards, the Pence tweeted about the meeting. “Enjoyed chatting w/ Bono at @MunSecConf,” he wrote. “Discussed prior effort to twice pass Africa AIDS assistance & future security in developing nations.”

The Munich Security Conference marks Pence’s first trip overseas as vice president.

Link https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bono-praises-mike-pence-defense-220436735.html

You won't see that article anywhere, but I found it and here it is.
 

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My thought for the day on Bloomberg's attitude....

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Bloomberg: Tremendous Support For Hillary

NEW YORK (Big Hairy News) - The Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign claims they are receiving hundreds of letters and emails daily encouraging Bloomberg to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

While the announcement is being seen by political analysts as gauging the public's acceptance to Clinton being on the ticket, one unnamed campaign insider is privately urging caution.

"Literally all of the letters are coming from the same Palm Beach zip code, and 95% of the emails are from the same IP address, which also happens to be in Palm Beach. We need to check this out before jumping on board the Hillary Express, I think."

Also a little common sense analogy


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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/key-witness-dr-barbara-ziv-221302233.html

Key Witness Dr. Barbara Ziv in Harvey Weinstein Trial Hit By Car
February 25, 2020

A key witness against Harvey Weinstein is in hospital after being run down by a car. Dr. Barbara Ziv, a forensic psychologist, explained why Weinstein's victims stayed friendly with him even after he raped them. Dr. Ziv's testimony was considered crucial to the jury reaching a guilty verdict. The website Law & Crime reported Dr. Ziv's accident "may be seen as suspicious by some, given the timing."

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Owners of Mexican restaurant north of Tucson targeted on social media after Trump rally
https://tucson.com/business/owners-...cle_c0a06dc6-aa06-5778-9743-a0a2ddabff90.html

The owners of a Mexican restaurant in Catalina are fending off social media attacks after appearing in the VIP area at Donald Trump's Phoenix campaign rally last week.

A member of the Grupo de Palfeis Facebook group on Wednesday posted a screengrab image from the Feb. 19 rally that showed Sammy's Mexican Grill owner Betty Rivas standing behind Trump, donning a red cowboy hat emblazoned with "Latinos Love Trump."

Video here of the Betty Rivas and husband Jorge speaking of the intimidation: https://www.facebook.com/272611932916196/videos/244811393180710/

That post on Grupo de Palfeis, which is a marketplace where its 109,000 members can advertise goods and services, attracted more than 230 comments — pretty much all of them negative.

The conversation then moved to Sammy's restaurant's social media including its Yelp and Google reviews.

“Very ugly stuff. They are saying nasty stuff about the restaurant," owner Jorge Rivas said Friday, a day after he and his wife posted a video on Facebook defending their rights as "naturalized American citizens" to vote, support and meet whomever they please.

"Just because we are Latinos, it doesn't mean that we have to feel like every other Latino in this country," Rivas said in the video. "We are individuals and we feel that we have the constitutional right to meet and support whoever we want."

This is the second time that the couple and their restaurant at 16502 N. Oracle Road have been the target of Tucsonans opposed to Trump largely because of his immigration policies. In 2016, the couple was on the receiving end of nasty phone calls and minor vandalism to their far northwest valley restaurant after Betty Rivas was invited on stage with Trump during his March 2016 campaign rally at Tucson Arena.

Jorge Rivas said they have gotten a few nasty phone calls this time, but no one has caused any damage to the restaurant, which they opened in 1996, or made threats of violence.

Rivas said that the online attacks have had little to no impact on his business, which draws the bulk of its customers from Catalina, SaddleBrooke and the far end of Oro Valley.

"People know us quite well in this area. I feel more than anything they know who we are. We are not mean, bad or racist people," said Rivas, the father of three. "They know what they see posted online is a bunch of crap."

Rivas said the people posting negative comments about Sammy's “are just wasting their time. They are not going to achieve their goal of running us out of business.”
 

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With Buttgag dropping out, Joe Biden is now the youngest man in the Dem field.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/01/...rD0uN97UZ8_5Ll9gKiQU4TZsngk4dcY1zRjmMKJ6RRCC0

77-Year-Old Joe Biden Now The Youngest Man Left In The Democratic Primary

Former Vice President Joe Biden is currently the youngest man still standing in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

Biden’s distinction comes as 38-year-old Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, dropped his presidential bid on Sunday after a weak showing in South Carolina on Saturday. That contest also claimed the candidacy of billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, who is 62.

Of the men remaining on the Democratic side, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are both 78, although Bloomberg’s birthday was last month and Sanders will turn 79 in September.

The female candidates still in the field include Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, 38, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, 59, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 70. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Attacks Biden’s Age)

At 70 years and 220 days on Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump currently holds the record for the oldest president to assume office. Unless Gabbard or Klobuchar pull out an improbable victory, that record is sure to be broken in January 2021, either by Trump himself or a septuagenarian Democrat.
 

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Thomas Sowell gave awesome testimony before Congress about their penchant for bad decisions leading to bad legislation. He explained that experts working as doctors, or steel manufacturers, or ship builders, or car manufacturers, etc. would spend their life learning about one trade or skill - ONE. Congress would then pretend to have more knowledge than such experts on dozens, even hundreds, of such matters and pass laws forcing or preventing actions that even these same experts could not agree on. The result? Failed legislation that usually creates more problems than it fixes, leading to further flawed, ignorant legislation trying to fix the problems created by the original legislation.
 

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With Buttgag dropping out, Joe Biden is now the youngest man in the Dem field.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/01/...0uN97UZ8_5Ll9gKiQU4TZsng k4dcY1zRjmMKJ6RRCC0

77-Year-Old Joe Biden Now The Youngest Man Left In The Democratic Primary
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This is becoming a monumental ribald classic for all time AND the DNC's best chance in 2020......bwahahahaha

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At this point, Biden's gaffes are legion: he often has no idea where he is, he picks fights with audience members, he insults people, he forgets what office he's seeking, he gets confused when he tries to pander to black people, he imagines that half the country was killed by guns in the last 13 years — and that's just the short list.

On Monday, Joe outdid himself, when he completely forgot what the Declaration of Independence said and ended up calling our creator "the thing," like some creature out of a Godzilla movie. And no, that's not the Babylon Bee talking. It's really Joe Biden:



The mainstream media, though, won't talk about this risible gaffe. Indeed, they cannot talk about it because, when compared to Bernie the Red, Joe Biden is the best that the Democrat Party has to offer to the American people: a corrupt, senile, and extremely creepy old man.

Kinda reminds me of another creepy dude 'cept for the talent part of course.

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I can see headlines like this coming to us from his campaign.

Joe Biden Drops Out of Race, Endorses Biden
Former Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden bids fairwell to supporters, and commits to “devoting my next 18 months to going door-to-door for my former rival Joe Biden.”

Following disappointing performances in early primaries and caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden today suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and announced he’ll throw his support behind the winner of the South Carolina primary, the former Delaware Senator, Joe Biden.

“A man’s gotta know when he’s whipped,” Biden told a tearful crowd of supporters. “It’s time for me to skedaddle, and make way for that Biden fella — God love him. He’s got the Joe-mentum now, and I’m yesterday’s newspaper, stained filthy with bird droppings and cat urine.”

The three-time presidential contender said he was moved by the selflessness of Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, who each dropped out the race this week and plan to endorse Biden.

“If they can put aside their own ambitions for the good of the country,” Biden said, “so can Old Joe.”

After nearly a year as the presumptive frontrunner, the Biden campaign fell off an electoral cliff in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, supplanted first by the youthful energy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and then by the late-blooming Biden campaign.

Thanks to a tailwind from the Biden endorsement, Joe Biden says he thinks “Democrats will finally come together around the one candidate who can beat President Eisenhower.”
http://scrappleface.com/blog/2020/03/02/joe-biden-drops-out-of-race-endorses-biden/

GO JOE....The RNC gift that keeps on giving

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Creepy Dumb Joe Dirt&Comrade Fidel Sanders is what it will come down to for the democrats. Wow! This should be fun when the presidential debates start...haha
 

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Oh, holy hell, Booted, I laughed so freaking hard at that video.

Number of times a geezer hit the deck: Approximately 20.

Number of times a geezer hit the deck as the result of an actual punch: Maybe 4.

I love the 0:28 mark where all three - the two initial "combatants" and the third guy trying to stop the fight - are ALL on the ground.
 

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More of the peaceful, tolerant Left on display

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik harassed in a 'vicious, vile, sick attack' while visiting grocery store

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), whose robust defense of President Donald Trump during the House impeachment inquiry helped make her a household name, was harassed at a grocery store on Saturday. The congresswoman for New York's 21st district posted a hateful note that was posted on her car's windshield, presumably written by a left-winger who recognized her.

"Rot in hell FASCIST PIG," the note read, according to a photo shared by Stefanik on Twitter.

“My husband and I went grocery shopping this morning before district events and enjoyed chatting with constituents throughout the store," Stefanik wrote. “This vile anonymous note was left on our car."

The incident happened after Republicans have warned Democratic politicians and personalities against encouraging their supporters to target GOP officials in public. In July 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told her supporters at a rally to confront Trump officials when they were out in public.

"Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere. We've got to get the children connected to their parents," Waters said at the time.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It is truly sad that the radical Far-Left cannot see beyond their vicious hate. <br><br>My husband and I went grocery shopping this morning before district events and enjoyed chatting with constituents throughout the store. <br><br>This vile anonymous note was left on our car. <a href="https://t.co/4K5OBN8qVj">pic.twitter.com/4K5OBN8qVj</a></p>— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1236352361771261953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Opponent does not condemn the author
As Townhall noted, Stefanik asked her Democratic opponent, Tedra Cobb, to denounce the "hatred" directed at her.

"As an elected official, I understand that respectful & passionate policy disagreements are foundational to our democracy. But this note is just sad hatred," she wrote.

"We are praying for the author," Stefanik added. "This hateful rhetoric should be publicly condemned by my opponent immediately."

Cobb responded to Stefanik and while she described the note as "damaging and wrong," she stopped short of condemning the anonymous author.

"I think it's time you joined me in pledging not to name call in this campaign. I'd love to work with you to set a better example for #NY21,” Cobb said.

A 'vicious, vile, sick attack'
The back-and-forth between Stefanik and Cobb continued with the congresswoman replying and noting her Democratic opponent failed to condemn the harassment targeting her.

"One is a policy difference (you have voted numerous times to raise taxes) the other is a vicious, vile, sick attack," she said. "They are not the same and voters know it."

As Townhall's Beth Baumann explained, the message targeting Stefanik may even point to the congresswoman facing a possible security risk.

"Not only is it rude but it's also scary. Clearly the person who left the note watched Stefanik, noticed what car was hers and waited for her and her husband to go into the store. That's a safety and security risk."

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And before Steelerfan says it - hit?
 

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Twitter censors AGAIN in embarrassing move.

New York Post Journalist Censored on Twitter for Exposing Champagne Socialist Carlos Maza

New York Post journalist Jon Levine was locked out of his Twitter account earlier today and forced to delete several tweets in connection to his article exposing the ultra-wealthy background of socialist YouTuber Carlos Maza.

Twitter first locked Levine out of his account this morning, but after inquiries from the journalist and his followers, the platform restored access to his account, claiming that the lockout had been an “error” and that his tweets about Maza did not violate the platform’s policies.

However, later in the day, Twitter changed its mind again, telling Levine that “upon further investigation, these tweets violate our Twitter rules, specifically our private information policy.”

Levine had tweeted pictures from his recent article, “YouTube socialist Carlos Maza slams the wealthy but lived in luxury,” showing pictures of a $10 million mansion in Florida owned by Maza’s family. The pictures are publicly viewable on real estate websites, where Levine obtained them.

Levine’s tweets were archived and can be viewed here. They reveal information about the mega-wealthy background of socialist Maza.

Twitter claimed that Levine posting publicly-available images of Maza was a violation of its “private information policy.” Yet Maza has done the same — last month, he called out establishment Democrat James Carville for living in an “obscene four-story mansion,” posting images of the residence to prove it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just found out James Carville -- who spends his time lecturing Democrats for being "too far left" -- lives in an absolutely obscene four story mansion and dear god can we STOP taking political advice from the ultra-wealthy. <a href="https://t.co/cSIA5dJbv6">pic.twitter.com/cSIA5dJbv6</a></p>— Carlos Maza &#55356;&#57145; (@gaywonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1227606222553133056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Maza did not tell his followers about his family’s $10 million Florida abode, where he is registered to vote.

“If Maza wants to start eating the rich — he may have to have to begin with his own family,” wrote Levine in his NY Post article.

“Through his clan, the millennial firebrand is connected to multiple Florida mega-mansions, a $7.1 million pad on the Upper West Side purchased under an LLC — and a yacht by luxury boat-maker Donzi.”

This is not the first time that Maza has been connected to a censorship controversy on a major tech platform. Last year, using his position as a writer for far-left Vox.com, Maza pressured YouTube into demonetizing videos from conservative commentator Stephen Crowder, an act that led to the condemnation of the Google-owned platform from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others. In the aftermath of the controversy, YouTube cracked down on content across its platform.

In a tweet about Twitter’s censorship, Levine called the platform’s actions “Orwellian.”

“Despite initially calling their decision to lock my account “an error” — Twitter locked me out again a few hours later over the same Carlos Maza story.I have reluctantly deleted the tweet and I’m sharing with you some of the timeline here.”

“[This] is Orwellian.”
 

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-hires-senior-adviser

Sanders hires adviser who blamed America for 9/11, questioned bin Laden op, mocked Michelle Obama's looks


Bernie Sanders’ newest senior adviser has a history of incendiary comments that include placing blame on America for 9/11, disparaging Michelle Obama's appearance, and even describing the Obama administration's Usama bin Laden takedown as "choreography."

Sanders, I-Vt., over the weekend announced that Phillip Agnew, an artist and organizer, officially would be brought onto his Democratic presidential campaign. Agnew previously served the campaign as a national surrogate.

“I am excited to welcome Phillip to our team,” Sanders, who is fighting to rebound after Super Tuesday losses to former Vice President Joe Biden, said in a statement Saturday. “He is a gifted organizer and one of his generation’s most critical voices on issues of race and inequity. He has and will continue to push me and this movement to deliver on what is owed to Black people who have yet to experience reciprocity in this country.”

Agnew tweeted the announcement, saying: “i’ve joined the campaign as a senior advisor; accepting the challenges & contradictions to my friends & comrades: thank you for the love & accountability. this is a people's position on a people's campaign. We will leave no one behind. That is our promise. @BernieSanders"

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i've joined the campaign as a senior advisor; accepting the challenges & contradictions<br><br>to my friends & comrades: thank you for the love & accountability.<br><br>this is a people's position on a people's campaign. <br> <br>We will leave no one behind. That is our promise.<a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/QyyApLSPLN">pic.twitter.com/QyyApLSPLN</a></p>— phillip agnew (@iPhilSomething) <a href="https://twitter.com/iPhilSomething/status/1236460385806487554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Agnew, though, has a history of controversial posts on social media.

In 2009, he tweeted several times mocking then-first lady Michelle Obama’s appearance.

“Random thought while standing in Gas Station: Michelle Obama is an odd looking woman…I’d call her ugly but I don’t want the backlash…” he tweeted on Oct. 22, 2009.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I see Bernie's new outreach to African-American and mainstream Democrats is off to a great start. <a href="https://t.co/D6ibxoB8Jq">pic.twitter.com/D6ibxoB8Jq</a></p>— Dan SIoan 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺🏳️*🌈 (@dantoujours) <a href="https://twitter.com/dantoujours/status/1236500649103286272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Agnew tweeted, again, on Dec. 10, 2009, saying: “Michelle Obama is just not pretty…I’ve tried to look at her from every angle possible.”

Again, on Jan. 10, 2010, Agnew posted: “#letsbehonest Michelle Obama is NOT an attractive woman. Intelligent, yes. Successful, yes. But pretty? Hell no!!!”

Agnew, on Sunday, put out a statement apologizing for his tweets.

“I am not my tweets from 2009. Still, words have power to heel & to harm and I acknowledge and apologize for when my words harm,” he tweeted. “I’ve spent years speaking life and love into my community but I was wrong and I have to be accountable.”

Agnew shared a full statement saying he was “sorry for the remarks he made” when he was 23.

“I typed them as a young, immature, and insecure boy who thought he was forever invisible and ‘invincible.’ My comments were shallow, careless, sexist, and cruel,” he said. “I grew up socialized by false standards of beauty and success. And young, dumb Phillip spouted all manner of things that today I absolutely reject and regret.”

He added: “Thank you for holding me accountable.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i am not my tweets from 2009.<br><br>still, words have power to heal & to harm and i acknowledge and apologize for when my words harm. <br><br>i've spent years speaking life and love into my community but i was wrong and i have to be accountable. <br><br>please take a minute to read my statement: <a href="https://t.co/RCuFUyAr7W">pic.twitter.com/RCuFUyAr7W</a></p>— phillip agnew (@iPhilSomething) <a href="https://twitter.com/iPhilSomething/status/1236767130747633665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Agnew’s statement focused on his past remarks about Michelle Obama but didn’t acknowledge other controversial posts on Twitter and Instagram over the years — about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and more.

“Tomorrow America remembers the day that she turned on herself, dismantled her constitution, and killed her own citizens in the name of money,” Agnew tweeted on Sept. 10, 2010.

Then there was this one on May 2, 2011, the day U.S. Navy SEALs killed Usama bin Laden in Pakistan: “I don’t believe sh*t America, and by default Obama, says. Sorry. We prolly BEEN killed Osama. All choreography. Got no proof; gut feeling.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sanders campaign promotes to Senior Advisor Phillip Agnew, who tweets: America is responsible for mass shooting at Orlando nightclub, lied about killing Osama bin Laden, murders its citizens for money <a href="https://t.co/XNB2f046XX">pic.twitter.com/XNB2f046XX</a></p>— John-Paul Pagano (@johnpaulpagano) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnpaulpagano/status/1236723662570639360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And on Sept. 11, 2016, Agnew shared a cartoon of the burning World Trade Center and two boomerang-shaped planes in each tower, with “U.S. Interventionist Policy” imprinted on each.

His caption read: “#neverforget what goes round comes round.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I get that there is an entire generation of young activists who either weren't born/don't remember 9/11/2001 but you really need to think here, because you won't win elections by telling the loved ones of dead office workers and first responders that we got what we deserved. <a href="https://t.co/th1zjc46lu">pic.twitter.com/th1zjc46lu</a></p>— Dan SIoan 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺🏳️*🌈 (@dantoujours) <a href="https://twitter.com/dantoujours/status/1236689912214290432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Then on June 13, 2016, after the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., Agnew tweeted that “america is hate-founded, hate-legislated, hate-sponsored, hate-endorsed, hate-filled. This country created this.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Phillip Agnew:<br><br>2016: "america is hate-founded, hate-legislated, hate-sponsored, hate-endorsed, hate-filled."<br><br>2020: "i've joined the [<a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a>] campaign as a senior advisor; accepting the challenges & contradictions"<a href="https://t.co/cFa3a548RI">https://t.co/cFa3a548RI</a><a href="https://t.co/m6thqI4WSV">https://t.co/m6thqI4WSV</a> <a href="https://t.co/XZ0j5Xj88u">pic.twitter.com/XZ0j5Xj88u</a></p>— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1237051328737804292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Amid a backlash over that tweet, Agnew clarified that he was “not blaming the victims here,” but that “when I say country I mean the people in power/policy, the government.”

“Just clarifying who to blame,” he said. “it isn’t radical islam and it wasn’t those people in the club. It is us. We spread this hate.”
Agnew posted another tweet highly critical of U.S. foreign policy last year.

“international issues can be confusing for some,” he tweeted on Feb. 25, 2019. “a good rule of thumb: if the US is sending ‘humanitarian’ aid…it’s a PR cover for inhumane bullsh*t. If the US has chosen a side…it’s the wrong one. If the US is PUSHING the story…it’s a lie.”

The Sanders campaign and Agnew did not immediately respond to Fox News' requests for comment for this report.
 
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