by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 11.
- 9/11 to be remembered in New York City, Washington, Pennsylvania
- President Obama to Mark 15th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks At the Pentagon
- How Trump retooled his charity to spend other people’s money (“An investigation — including examinations of 17 years of tax filings and interviews with more than 200 individuals or groups listed as donors or beneficiaries — found that it collects and spends money in a very unusual manner.”)
- Is Hillary Clinton Right About Trump Supporters? This Is What The Polling Data Says (“A survey taken this May found that about two-thirds of Trump supporters believe Obama is a Muslim…The same poll found 59 percent of Trump supporters believe Obama was not born in the United States…These views are incorrect but are also racist and xenophobic….A poll of 16,000 Americans conducted by Reuters in June found that 40% of Trump supporters believed that blacks were more ‘lazy’ than whites and nearly 50% believed blacks were more ‘violent’ than whites.”)
- Why Clinton isn’t sweating ‘deplorables’ (“A public debate about the true size of Donald Trump’s ‘alt-right’ base doesn’t bother Team Hillary one bit.” Nor should it, as Hillary Clinton is right, although her “half” figure may be too low…)
- Hillary Tweets Brilliant Response To Trump’s Claim He Respects HRC supporters.
- Kaine says Catholic Church might change on gay marriage
- Clinton leads Trump in new poll, but warning signs emerge (“Clinton holds a 46 percent to 41 percent edge over Trump among likely voters, followed by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson at 9 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein at 2 percent. Clinton’s lead swells to 10 percentage points among the wider swath of registered voters, 45 percent to 35 percent, similar to her 45 percent to 37 percent edge last month.”)
- Reporter shuts down Trump surrogate on birther comments
- Trump and the media: An outrageous celebu-candidate, plus the debased culture of journalism, produced this disaster
- Morell and Vickers: An open letter to Donald Trump (“You cannot credibly serve as our nation’s commander in chief if you embrace Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Nope.)
- Why It’s Ridiculous to Call Clinton’s “Basket of Deplorables” Her “47 Percent” Moment (“Romney talked down to and dismissed the importance of poor people, while Clinton talked down to and dismissed racists, xenophobes, and homophobes. A slight difference. Plus, Romney was talking about people who may have actually chosen to support him, whereas Clinton was referring to people who in no way would vote for her.”)
- White Nationalists See Trump As A Chance To Break Into The Media Mainstream (“Hours Before Clinton Highlighted Trump’s Racist Supporters, Three ‘Alt-Right’ Leaders Gathered To Salute The GOP Nominee”)
- Why Media Shouldn’t Fall For GOP Attempts To Scandalize Clinton’s “Basket Of Deplorables” Remarks (Good luck with that, with people like Ron Fournier and Dan “No” Balz out there…)
- Did They Forget to Mention Something? (“As far as I can tell, none of the Trump campaign pushback to Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comments have said anything about the people Clinton was talking about not being racist, not being misogynist or by whatever definition not being ‘haters.’ It’s not referenced once.”)
- Republicans rave about Tim Kaine (“‘I think he could be very effective with working with people here,’ says one of the potential VP’s many GOP fans in the Senate.”)
- Tim Kaine makes rare campaign stops in his home state of Virginia
- Martha Boneta’s Liberty Farm Festival (Solid coverage, as always, by Steve Albertson…unfortunately it’s a gathering of the hard right – Corey Stewart, Cynthia Dunbar and the like. Ugh.)
- Belleville: Virginia’s energy future (“The CPP sets an eminently achievable goal for Virginia to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of whether the CPP is the final regulatory word on the matter, Virginia would benefit greatly if its policymakers took steps to bring the Commonwealth into the 21st century clean energy economy.”)
- Donation lockout, clearer laws among suggestions to curtail illegal contributions to legislators
- In Fauquier, Mike Pence rips Hillary Clinton for ‘basket of deplorables’ remark (The truth hurts…just look at polling or video of Trump supporters’ racism, sexism, violent rhetoric, etc, etc. This isn’t even debatable, other than the exact percentage which fall in a particular category of “deplorable.”)
- Tim Kaine makes surprise stop at youth football game in Highland Springs
- Haysom: Soering killed her parents because mom had sexually abused her
- Virginia Tech email threat came from outside U.S., officials say
- Five questions for the candidates for mayor of Ricmond
- Bill DeSteph & Frank Wagner: Pipeline will transform Hampton Roads economy (DeSteph is a bigot and and idiot; Wagner is a bought-and-paid-for puppet of Dominion Power. ‘Nuff said.)
- Governor McAuliffe to campaign for Clinton and Kaine in Portsmouth
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Prepare for the future at Virginia’s port
- Norfolk has been pulling struggling students out of classes before they can take the SOLs
- Tennessee pulls away from Virginia Tech late in Battle at Bristol
- Splendid Sunday starts off a seesaw week of temperatures
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