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January 5, 2022
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THE EVENING EDITION By Mike Huckabee

Good evening! Here are some stories I think you will find interesting.


1. DAILY BIBLE VERSE

This verse was recommended by Vicki C.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 6:33

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2. Democrats and the media, I repeat myself, work to make a mountain out of January 6th:

I don’t envy the poor media handmaidens of the Democratic Party having to try to convince their viewers that the violence last January 6th was the worst thing to happen in the history of ever. The Democrats are trying to turn this into the biggest melodrama since Hollywood was turning out Technicolor tearjerkers like “Magnificent Obsession,” but it’s coming across more as “Ridiculous Obsession.” As the Federalist notes, it’s clear that it's not about “protecting democracy,” it’s about branding their political opponents as domestic terrorists so they can silence them.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/04/corporate-medias-jan-6-anniversary-coverage-is-all-about-silencing-republicans/

But how can the media make this fake “insurrection” seem as historically horrific as the Dems are making it out to be? Especially since, as Todd Starnes pointed out, a full year later, not a single person has been charged with insurrection, sedition or treason.

Well, one way is just to flat-out lie about it, like Joy Reid of MSNBC, who repeated the debunked claim that officer Brian Sicknick died of injuries inflicted by protesters. He actually died the next day of a stroke.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/01/04/joy-reid-show-tells-blatant-lie-about-the-death-of-officer-brian-sicknick-n501895

(Note to Twitter: I believe you call this “misinformation,” and ban people for spreading it. So why is Joy Reid still on Twitter?)

You’ll also likely see a lot of references to at least five people dying that day, without telling you that they’re including people who died of natural causes and who weren’t even in the Capitol. The only person who died a violent death in the Capitol was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester shot in cold blood by a Capitol Police officer.

That’s worthy of further investigation, along with the bad decisions of people in charge of security that day, but since those people include DC’s Democrat mayor and Nancy Pelosi, we’re still getting nothing but stonewalling from that sector.

https://www.westernjournal.com/house-republicans-turn-jan-6-tables-nancy-pelosi-major-accusation/

So what are the Democrats doing to goose their ratings? They’re trying to force a personality from a news channel people actually watch, Sean Hannity, to testify to their committee.

https://www.westernjournal.com/jan-6-committee-asks-grill-hugely-famous-conservative-despite-fact-nowhere-near-capitol-riot/

Hannity was nowhere near the Capitol, had nothing to do with the violence, and condemned it on his show. But they want to grill him about his private texts with Trump and other sources close to him, to try to bolster their nonsense claim that Trump was planning a violent insurrection. This is dangerously close to stomping on the First Amendment protection of freedom of the press, but somehow, I doubt that protecting Constitutional rights of conservatives is a major concern for the people involved in this committee.


3. Back to remote learning for Chicago:

Despite President Biden urging schools to stay open, the Chicago teachers’ union voted to return to remote learning due to the Omicron COVID case surge.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-cancels-classes-union-remote-learning

It reminds me of an observation I saw recently, that this was the first time our society has expected our children to sacrifice to protect adults.

Maybe it’s time for voters, especially parents, in every state to demand programs like one just created by Arizona Gov. Doug Doucey. It would provide resources for parents when schools refuse to do their job, even allowing them to take their state school funding and give it to another school if the one their child attends closes for even one day. It’s a first step to establishing that if schools refuse to open, then parents should have the right to take their education dollars elsewhere.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/landonmion/2022/01/04/arizona-providing-7k-to-families-facing-educational-barriers-amid-school-closures-n2601418

It’s also a reminder that public education funds do not exist to fund schools that don’t open and teachers who refuse to come to work. They’re there to provide kids with an education. If some educators refuse to educate, then the money should go to those who will.

4. Cuomo Update:

It’s good to be a Cuomo, at least in New York. This week, the Manhattan DA officially closed his investigation of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the needless deaths of residents of nursing homes forced to take in COVID patients, with no plans to file charges. Shortly afterward, the Albany County D.A.’s office announced that it was closing its investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo. They said that while they found his accuser “cooperative and credible,” they didn’t think they could meet the burden of proof to a jury.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/landonmion/2022/01/04/andrew-cuomo-will-not-be-prosecuted-for-alleged-sexual-harassment-n2601408

So I assume from the way that Cuomo’s people are treating this as vindication that some Democrats do still believe in due process, at least when it applies to Democrats.

For those disgusted by this news, I will note that there are still ongoing investigations of the nursing home/cover-up scandal at other levels of government, and Cuomo’s harassment accuser still has the option of filing a civil lawsuit, which her attorney says she “will do in due course.”


5. Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss…:

If you think that Andrew Cuomo got special treatment by the Manhattan D.A.’s office, this should set your mind at ease. The new Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg just basically announced that every criminal and miscreant in NYC will be getting off scot-free from now on. How very Democratic of him!

https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/alvin-braggs-green-light-for-anarchy/

This is because one of Bragg’s top priorities is to minimize the “impacts of incarceration,” which I assume include “reducing crime.” Note to New Yorkers: you keep voting for Democrats and expecting a different result. Albert Einstein would call that the definition of “insanity.”

6. "Snow job" in Virginia:

A lot of finger-pointing is taking place amid Virginia state officials, placing blame for lack of preparedness that led to drivers being stuck in the snow in their cars for up to 24 hours on Interstate 95.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/interstate-95-virginia-pretreatment

Among them was Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine, one of the major advocates for Virginians joining in the fight to prevent global warming. So congratulations: that worked.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/virginia-senator-hundreds-trapped-overnight-snowstorm-traffic-jam/story?id=82067117

The real heroes of this story were not, of course, the politicians who failed to do their jobs, but the law enforcement officers, nearby residents and fellow drivers, who braved the cold and snow to help strangers and each other. They used cell phones or trudged through the snow to find out who needed food, water, blankets, diapers and other necessities. Note to all the people badmouthing America as nothing but a bunch of selfish, racist identity groups: This is what America is really all about.

Incidentally, one politician who is definitely not to blame for this is the one that some liberals were blaming: Republican Glenn Youngkin, who doesn’t take office as Governor until a week from this Saturday.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/01/04/glenn-youngkin-gets-blamed-for-i-95-traffic-snarls-as-actual-governor-ralph-northam-appears-mia-n501429

Good point at the linked article: isn’t it funny how quickly liberals deleted their tweets blaming Youngkin after realizing their mistake but didn’t replace them with tweets blaming Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, who was actually in charge? I’d call that a “snow job.”


7. Conservatives and social media spar over free speech:

As social media sites become more and more blatant about their censorship of conservatives, they’re hastening the rise of free speech alternative platforms and their own march toward be becoming what Seth Meyers once called MySpace: “The abandoned amusement park of the Internet.”

After Twitter banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her unapproved comments about COVID and vaccines (Facebook also blocked her for 24 hours), influential podcaster Joe Rogan announced that he was joining the new conservative Twitter alternative GETTR. In just two days, he surpassed eight million followers (and unlike many on Twitter, I’ll bet his followers are real.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-rogan-joins-gettr-a-maga-alternative-to-twitter-following-rep-marjorie-taylor-greenes-ban/ar-AASo6dp

Also, Sen. Rand Paul announced that he’s moving away from YouTube and to the free speech platform Rumble.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-announces-exit-from-youtube-today-i-take-my-first-step-toward-denying-my-content-to-big-tech

Meanwhile, perhaps sensing trouble, Facebook lifted the “permanent” block it put on Heroes of Liberty, a publisher of children’s books about American icons including Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell and John Wayne. Facebook claims the ban was “an error.” Funny how such “errors” always go in only one direction, and you never hear of any leftist outlets being banned “by mistake.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/4/facebook-lifts-ban-conservative-childrens-publishe/

FYI, coming up next weekend on “Huckabee” on TBN, I’ll be talking about this issue with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Does that mean that I agree with or endorse everything she says and believes? Of course not. But I will defend to the death her right to say it.


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  • Anne Turner

    01/05/2022 07:13 PM

    Governor, Governor, .Governor, “snow job” !! Which served to remind me of the facts:
    Leftists have no sense of humor, none, nada, no how
    If upon looking at a sonogram one sees, arms, legs, a heart beating, a thumb in the mouth, a nose, eyes, ears, a head, it’s a BABY. It is not a lump of protoplasm.
    There are two genders in human beings, one has XX genes and the other XY. Nothing changes that. And yes, there are a microscopic number of babies born with an odd combination but they are predominately one or the other.
    There are physical strength characteristics inbred into men and woman. That cannot be erased, mitigated perhaps, but not erased.
    CRT is racist, period.
    It is not healthy to deficate on the sidewalk. Why do we have laws that require dog owners to “ pick” up?
    Stores will go out of business or close if their inventory is stolen.
    People will not work if they are given an equivalent income.
    We really do not have all of the answers to what causes global warming.
    We do not have the answers to we need to stop the Covid.
    Uninhibited immigrants coming over our borders, will lead to child prostitution, disease, proliferation of drugs and other crimes.
    God is in control.
    There are many more but how’s this for starters?

  • Wendy Storm

    01/05/2022 07:05 PM

    The chaos that we find ourselves in right now & our anticipation of elections this year brings to mind the ending in the 3rd Lord of The Rings movie where Frodo is clawing his way into the mountain followed by Sam in order to destroy the "ring". This is the visual I see for the elections to come. I just hope & pray that conservatives will be successful in destroying the "ring" of Biden's policies. If we fail in this battle there will be nothing but darkness over this land.

  • Thomas A Randall Sr

    01/05/2022 06:45 PM

    it is good to see who the real Americans are helping each other on I -95 in a snowstorm. While the politicians point fingers.

  • Glenn Zale

    01/05/2022 06:43 PM

    Perhaps the Democrais should change their name to the "Plausible Deniability Party."

  • Jerry

    01/05/2022 06:14 PM

    I want to congratulate the teachers unions in its attempt to shut down public schools for good the push for vouchers should take off only 10 years late the tax for public school should now be allowed to go for quality private non government sponsored schools the truth the public schools are a failure keep the public school in your democratic run cities and continue to watch failure let people take charge of their children’s education escape democratic ruin in your children let them go free and educate in the private sector but get ready to learn real solutions to real problems or just move to New York City Chicago DC or a democratic city where lawlessness awaits you

  • James Drury Jr.

    01/05/2022 05:23 PM

    Thanks Mike & Staff!

  • Margaret Cervera

    01/05/2022 05:19 PM

    Mr. Mike. I saw a video where you said the year 1968 touched you badly. It did for my family. My oldest brother was killed in DaNang in vietnam feb 3 1968. A book and all was written with him and his battilion in it. If you like to know more you have me email thanks margaret cervera

  • Sharon Faulkner

    01/05/2022 12:45 PM

    If Sean Hannity doesn't tell the DNC Star Chamber to go to hell I look forward to looking to see who gets "grilled" and it won't be Hannity.