{"id":22589,"date":"2016-06-26T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22589"},"modified":"2016-06-26T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:30:22","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-26062016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/26\/squatchs-open-thread-26062016\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 26\/06\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since TomCat posted two articles for Saturday, I relaxed a bit with the furbabes . . . lots of scritches and belly rubs for them and headrubs for me.  No rain today and lots of sun and breeze.  I hope tomorrow is the same because my car is so dirty that a neighbour is going to help me wash it.  I only hope that the removal of the dirt does not cause it to fall apart! <\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — While the British vote on Thursday to leave the European Union has inspired concern—and in some cases, regret<\/font><\/a>—among not only British citizens but international observers, several conservatives took the moment to instead put out statements that went beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

2. A Fox News regular uses the “no-go zone” canard to defend Trump’s response.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jedediah Bila, who regularly appears on Outnumbered<\/em> and The Five<\/em>, tried to justify Donald Trump saying that “there’s nothing to talk about”<\/font><\/a> with his foreign policy advisors regarding the British vote during an appearance on The View<\/em>. She said:<\/p>\n

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"What he’s defending is the right of a country to make decisions for itself when it comes to immigration, when it comes to finance. If you look all over Europe, there is a problem right now with terrorism. There are areas of Paris that you can’t go into, these sections are quartered off. And what this country is saying right now is, ‘Look, we want to be responsible for our own decisions.’ It’s a very American concept—Manifest Destiny, so to speak. We want to determine the fate of our country."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bila failed to mention that the idea of a “no-go zone” in Paris was debunked so thoroughly that Fox News aired four separate apologies<\/font><\/a> for spreading that allegation. She also did not mention that Manifest Destiny caused what Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe called “bitter dissent”<\/font><\/a> within the country, and was opposed by both Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln before James Polk was elected as president.<\/p>\n

Her comments, as aired on Friday, can be seen here.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n