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- Beto O’Rourke talks immigration at formal campaign kickoff near southern border - Fox News
- Why an anti-Ocasio-Cortez chant at a Trump rally was all but inevitable - The Washington Post
- Jake Owen plays at Tootsies on Lower Broadway in Nashville following album release - WZTV
- The Media and the Mueller Report’s March Surprise - The New Yorker
- Nollywood actress welcomes baby girl in the US (photo) - Legit.ng
| Beto O’Rourke talks immigration at formal campaign kickoff near southern border - Fox News Posted: 30 Mar 2019 01:10 PM PDT  2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke on Saturday formally launched his White House bid in his home state of Texas, and used an address in El Paso to focus in particular on the hot topic of immigration. "If we truly believe we are a country of immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees, the very premise of our strength, success and our security, let us free every single Dreamer from any fear of deportation," he said, referring to illegal immigrants who entered the country as children. BETO O'ROURKE PICKING UP SUPPORT FROM PRIMARY RIVALS OUT OF THE GATE O'Rourke, a former congressman who failed to oust Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 Texas Senate race, was speaking in his hometown of El Paso just blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border -- one of three rallies in the state. He spoke on a small stage in the city's downtown, quickly moving through policy issues and pacing from one side to another while surrounded by sign language interpreters. "This is our moment of truth, and we cannot be found wanting," he told the crowd. "The challenges before us are the greatest of our lifetimes." His speech comes during a week in which Trump has said he is considering shutting the southern border due to Mexico's alleged inaction to combat the increasing flows of illegal immigrants into the country, and weeks after Trump declared a national emergency at the border to free up more funding for a wall at the border. Saturday afternoon, Trump used Twitter to urge Mexico to act. "Mexico must use its very strong immigration laws to stop the many thousands of people trying to get into the USA," he tweeted. "Our detention areas are maxed out & we will take no more illegals. Next step is to close the Border! This will also help us with stopping the Drug flow from Mexico!" He also criticized Democrats for impeding progress to improve immigration laws, tweeting that "Dems don't care about the crime, they don't want any victory for Trump and the Republicans, even if good for USA!" Democrats have been taking increasingly extreme positions on issues relating to border enforcement -- for instance, advocating the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). O'Rourke himself has gone so far as to call for existing barriers to be taken down. But as his campaign ramped up in El Paso on Saturday, the ex-congressman struck a more bipartisan tone. In line with his 2018 campaign, O'Rourke said there was a "golden opportunity" for Democrats to work with Republicans on "comprehensive immigration reform" and to "rewrite this country's immigration laws in our own image, with our own values, and in the best traditions of the United States of America." BETO O'ROURKE, PETE BUTTIGIEG RISE IN NEW 2020 NATIONAL POLL In his address, he touched on a number of issues, sometimes in rapid-fire succession. Those included more liberal positions such as the federal legalization of pot, combating climate change promising a new Voting Rights Act to "end gerrymandering," and "high quality universal health care." In a nod to the city's large Hispanic population, he spoke in Spanish for the last part of his address. With a Democratic field that has increasingly embraced left-wing, once-fringe policies, it is far from clear how well O'Rourke's more centrist political stances that allowed him to stay competitive in the red state of Texas will fare on the national stage. So far though, initial polls are indicating his support is solid. A recent Quinnipiac University national poll showed O'Rourke in third place among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP While he formally kicked off his campaign on Saturday, O'Rourke announced his candidacy two weeks ago and attracted large crowds and lots of media buzz as he campaigned in all four of the early voting primary and caucus states. He also raised an eye-popping $6 million in his first 24 hours as a candidate. O'Rourke was scheduled to speak later Saturday at the historically black Texas Southern University in Houston before an evening event near Austin's state Capitol. Fox News' Paul Steinhauser and The Associated Press contributed to this report.  |
| Why an anti-Ocasio-Cortez chant at a Trump rally was all but inevitable - The Washington Post Posted: 29 Mar 2019 07:15 AM PDT Trump Organization executive Donald Trump Jr. served as a warm-up act for his father at a campaign rally Thursday night in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump Jr.'s patter would be familiar to anyone who pays attention to him on social media: fiery anti-left rhetoric heightened with hyperbole. So, at one point, he focused his attention on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). "Think about the fact that every mainstream, leading Democratic contender," Trump Jr. said, "is taking the advice of a freshman congresswoman who three weeks ago didn't know the three branches of government. I don't know about you guys, but that's pretty scary." [Ocasio-Cortez's righteous — and accurate — anger about poverty and the environment] The "three branches of government" thing stems from a live-streamed video of Ocasio-Cortez in which she briefly stumbled over the composition of the U.S. government. If you're not familiar with the story, you're perhaps unfamiliar with sites like the Daily Wire, where incidents like that one are fodder for a steady stream of pro-conservative articles. After Trump Jr. offered his assessment of Ocasio-Cortez, the crowd lit up. A brief chant erupted: "AOC sucks! AOC sucks!" How did we get here? It's remarkably straightforward. A Post Fact Checker poll conducted in December found that Fox News was consistently one of the key sources of political news for Republicans.  (Philip Bump/The Washington Post) Fox News covers Ocasio-Cortez far more heavily than other cable news networks. On average so far this year, Fox News has mentioned her in 0.6 percent of every 15-second segment it has aired — four times as much as MSNBC and five times as often as CNN. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post) Certain conservative social media accounts, such as the Daily Wire or Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk, talk about the New York congresswoman constantly. Compare that to the liberal site Think Progress or to The Washington Post, which obviously offers a broader range of news coverage than just politics. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post) The result? As a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday demonstrated, Ocasio-Cortez is viewed strongly negatively by Republicans. But she's also much better known by Republicans, with 23 percent of Republicans saying they don't know enough about her to have an opinion. Among Democrats, 44 percent say they have no opinion, while those who do see her much more positively. (Philip Bump/The Washington Post) Fox News in particular has an unparalleled ability to speak to the base of the Republican Party. While its defenders will often declare that it's simply counteracting liberal bias in the rest of the media, there's no single outlet that captures a similar level of attention from Democrats. What Fox News talks about — and how it talks about it — drives much of the conversation among Republicans. What has Fox said about Ocasio-Cortez?
Just a sample from this month. Ocasio-Cortez is polarizing and vocal. So Fox News and conservatives make her the "face of the Democratic Party" and focus their rhetoric on her. As a result, Republicans are more likely to know who she is. And what they know, they don't like. So Trump Jr. can lift a line from the conservative meme-mill disparaging a freshman representative from New York and throw it out to the crowd at a Michigan Trump rally and not get blank stares. Instead, predictably, he gets, "AOC sucks."  |
| Jake Owen plays at Tootsies on Lower Broadway in Nashville following album release - WZTV Posted: 30 Mar 2019 01:25 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]Jake Owen plays at Tootsies on Lower Broadway in Nashville following album release WZTV Country music superstar Jake Owen celebrated the release of his new album with a surprise performance at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in downtown Nashville on ...  |
| The Media and the Mueller Report’s March Surprise - The New Yorker Posted: 31 Mar 2019 02:01 AM PDT  Last year, the Times and the Washington Post shared a Pulitzer Prize for "deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage" of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. None of the stories established that Donald Trump or members of his campaign had conspired illegally with Russians, though some of the reporting raised that possibility. The Times, for example, reported that, in the summer of 2016, when Donald Trump, Jr., was informed in an e-mail that a high-ranking Russian official was offering to share dirt that could "incriminate" Hillary Clinton, he replied, "I love it." (When the paper contacted Trump, Jr., for comment, he released the e-mails in question.) On March 24th, Attorney General William Barr, summarizing the special counsel Robert Mueller's final report, announced that Mueller had cleared Trump and his campaign of conspiring with Moscow. In this revelation, commentators on both the left and the right perceived an epic media fail: Russiagate reporting had been conjectural, hyperbolic, and, in the end, just wrong. President Trump, for his part, tweeted that the media had "pushed the Russian Collusion Delusion" while knowing that it was false, and reprised his incitements against journalists, saying, "They truly are the Enemy of the People." The coverage of the investigation did include embarrassments—specious chyrons, tendentious talking heads, and retracted scoops, among them. Yet it does not follow that American journalism failed because the best-resourced newsrooms in the nation chose to report assiduously on the Mueller investigation and its subjects, only to learn that Mueller did not prove that Trump had conspired with Russia. Mueller was appointed in the first place because the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had uncovered troubling information about the campaign. According to Barr, Mueller found that there had been "multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign," and he did not exonerate the President of obstruction of justice. Apart from that, the evidence, independently uncovered by journalists, suggesting that members of the Trump campaign might have colluded, if not conspired, in order to win the election, was newsworthy, and begged for additional reporting. So did the evidence of Russian hacking attempts to manipulate the vote to Trump's benefit; of campaign-finance violations committed by the President's personal lawyer; and of corruption and false statements made by Trump's former campaign aides. Mueller's investigation resulted in the indictment of thirty-four people, seven of whom have pleaded guilty so far. The country's major papers, magazines, and digital newsrooms published reams of accurate reporting about all of this. But the indictments and the reporting also built up outsized expectations for Mueller's report. As the investigation extended into this year, the portentous question of what new information Mueller's team, exercising subpoena power, might disclose remained unanswered. The mystery provoked fevered speculation, but Mueller's office, unusually for Washington, did not leak, and so arrived the March Surprise. The media's role was complicated by the fact that revelations uncovered by professional reporters, once published, became engulfed in a toxic fog of hot takes, opinion masquerading as reporting, and hyper-partisan competition. The news organizations that employed the best workaday reporters on the Mueller beat are not entirely blameless in this regard. At the top of the Times desktop homepage, these days, as many opinion pieces appear as news stories, and the Washington Post has been expanding its opinion sections (though such pieces are careful about facts). Cable television, meanwhile, mixes field reporting and news-making interviews with personal asides from prime-time personalities and roundtables of bombast-mongers. Journalists have long harbored a belief that readers and viewers understand the difference between editorializing and reporting. It would be unrealistic to expect them to make such a distinction now. The economics of news is partly responsible for this state of affairs. In an age of distraction, many Americans now get their news from social media. At the same time, Facebook and Google have broken the advertising models on which newspapers and digital newsrooms previously relied. The survival strategy adopted by many papers—persuading readers to buy digital subscriptions—requires them to publish content that readers find indispensable or, at least, touches on their sense of identity. In cable TV, channels that viewers feel they can't live without command the highest fees from distributors. Fox News's deeply devoted audience makes that network exceptionally valuable. As a result, the temptation in media businesses is to exploit political tribalism. President Trump, for all his demagoguery, has yet to marginalize professional reporting. In many newsrooms, investigative journalism is enjoying a renaissance, and it is having a strong impact, within and beyond Washington. Last summer, while covering the Administration's "zero tolerance" policy of removing immigrant kids from their parents, Ginger Thompson, of ProPublica, obtained and released a recording of young children crying in a holding facility. Her work provoked a public outcry, and the Administration reversed its policy. Reporting by the Indianapolis Star helped bring to justice the child molester Larry Nassar, of USA Gymnastics. A series of stories in the Baton Rouge Advocate found that a Jim Crow-era law, which allowed defendants accused of felonies such as murder to be convicted by a split-jury verdict, fostered racism and mass incarceration. Louisiana's Republican-led state legislature approved a referendum to reconsider the law, and, in November, voters chose to require unanimous verdicts in trials involving felonies. Last Wednesday, the President gave a lengthy interview to Sean Hannity, of Fox News, in which he discussed the Mueller report. Trump praised Fox while attacking pretty much everyone else. The 2020 election cycle is all but certain to deliver another divisive, attention-grabbing spectacle. News organizations will have important choices to make. Investigative reporting can change politics, as it did in Alabama, in 2017, when voters elected the Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate after the Washington Post, and others, revealed the alleged misconduct of his Republican opponent, Roy Moore. The First Amendment protects all political journalism, even when it serves merely as a megaphone for particular candidates, but voters will benefit most from legions of reporters working without fear or favor. ♦  |
| Nollywood actress welcomes baby girl in the US (photo) - Legit.ng Posted: 29 Mar 2019 03:47 AM PDT  A Nollywood actress recently put to bed. The beautiful lady named Mistura Asunramo shared the good news of her successful delivery of a beautiful baby girl. Upon hearing the news of her delivery, many of her friends, colleagues and relatives have taken to congratulating her. The excited lady took to her Instagram page to share a photo of herself with the newborn. She was evidently beaming with joy at having welcomed her new bundle of joy. Mistura who already has two children, a boy and a girl, shared her joy with her family members. This she did in the caption which she wrote to capture her excitement at becoming a mother again. She said: "Alhamdulillai, Big congratulations to me as the Lord has blessed my family with a new Addition.... A new baby girl in the house... 9months of blessings and great News." READ ALSO: Yoruba actress Bukola Adeeyo gives birth to her 2nd child, a baby boy See the post below: READ ALSO: NAIJ.com upgrades to Legit.ng: a letter from our Editor-in-Chief Bayo Olupohunda Even before she gave birth, Mistura and her friends had celebrated the incoming child during a baby shower that was also held in the US. The Nollywood actress shared lovely pictures from the event. She particularly appreciated her two children for helping through the 9 months of her pregnancy. See some photos below: PAY ATTENTION: Get your daily relationship tips and advice on Africa Love Aid group In the wake of the announcement, quite a number of actresses have taken to Mistura's social media post to celebrate and congratulate her. The likes of Opeyemi Aiyeola, Nkechi blessing, Toyin Adewale, Dayo Amusa, Mide Martins and Eniola Ajao commented on her post. See their comments below: Officialtoyinadewale: "Oluwaseun oooo ayo abara tintin...congratulations dear sister." Nkechiblessingsunday: "Wow Congratulations sis." Dayoamusa: "Congratulations darling" Mydemartins: "Congratulations darling @misturaasunramu." Bimbooshin: "Congratulations my love . Oluwaseun" Funkeadesiyan: "Congratulations sis. May God bless the addition." Eniola_ajao: "A very big congratulations to you my sister.. May she forever be a source of joy in jesus mighty name." Funmiawelewa: "Congratulations sis" Opeyemi_aiyeola1: "Congrats dearie to God be all the glory." PAY ATTENTION: Read best news on Nigeria's #1 news app Recently, another actress Eyinju Eledumare also gave birth to a child and she was just as well congratulated by many people. NAIJ.com (naija.ng) -> Legit.ng We keep evolving to serve our readers better. Success's parents reveal the truth about cash gifts received from Nigerians | Legit TV  |
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