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So the left creates racism,

The extreme lefties see discrimination everywhere and in everything.

That being said I have no idea if there is any racism behind the selection of oscar candidates. I never cared enough about the event to form an opinion, I don't even know how the selection process is made.

Here's where they cross over to actually being racist, rather than creating labels and complaining. Force anything that is comprised of or mainly consists of heterosexual white males and break it up or include more of every kind of person. However, allow the people on the bottom and near the bottom of this privilege pyramid to organize and allow whatever constructs that only consist of these people. The cutoff line varies depending on mood. The cutoff being who isn't allowed to be a majority or gather without complaining versus who is allowed to be a majority or gather with complaining.

interracialpeoplemeet.com? Not racist.
blackwhitepeoplemeet.com? Not racist.
blackpeoplemeet.com? Not racist.
asianpeoplemeet.com? Not racist.
wherewhitepeoplemeet.com? SUPER RACIST.

The Post is part of the Murdock empire and slightly to the right of Fox "news".

In a 2008 interview with Walt Mossberg, Murdoch was asked whether he had "anything to do with the New York Post's endorsement of Barack Obama in the democratic primaries." Without hesitating, Murdoch replied, "Yeah. He is a rock star. It's fantastic. I love what he is saying about education. I don't think he will win Florida... but he will win in Ohio and the election. I am anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk."

Murdoch and chief executives from several major corporations,joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form the Partnership for a New American Economy to advocate "for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all illegal aliens now in the United States.

There's already been a 'white people meet' website already: farmersonly.com

This pretty much nullifies the rest of your post.. If one sentence existed to show narrow-mindedness this would be it.

J.J.Christ where the hell do you see racism in that title? It's a reference to the whole diatribe about black actors getting the shaft at oscars(which is debatable but not the point).

I never cared enough about the event to form an opinion, I don't even know how the selection process is made.

That being said I have no idea if there is any racism behind the selection of oscar candidates.

It's called a joke. yuk yuk yuk

If you bothered to read, you'd notice I made the statement that the legacy websites are already 'white people meet' but hey, it's better to stop reading when you've got what you want already. Efficient.

I'm curious how of all places, Hollywood, that this type of thing happened. By accident or just an odd coincidence? On purpose to make the issue a big deal? I'm curious, but not enough to look into it.

Award shows are meh. There's too many of them to mean anything.

Do you always make completely uninformed posts? Maybe, that's the wrong question.. Do you ever make an informed post?

Don't start arguments all the time for no *** reason please.

Now that it looks like you have caught up to everyone and at least partially grasp what is going on

Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation. Both sides are coming to the realization that they'll need each other if the billionaire businessman becomes the party's presidential nominee.

The GOP establishment is no fonder of Trump than when he first roiled the campaign last summer with his controversial comments about immigrants and women. But with voting beginning in just over a week, his durability atop preference polls has pushed some donors, strategists and party elders to grudgingly accept the prospect of his winning the nomination.

"We'd better stop hoping for something else and accept the possibility that he's our nominee and be prepared to rally around him if that's the case," said Fred Malek, a top Republican presidential fundraiser.

Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican nominee who represented Kansas in the House and Senate for decades, said of Trump: "He's got this personality where I do believe he could work with Congress."

Trump, too, has started to suggest that he'd look for ways to work with Republican leaders if he wins.

"I'm a dealmaker who will get things done," he said Thursday during an event in Las Vegas. "There's a point at which — let's get to be a little establishment. We got to get things done, folks, OK?"

However, the establishment's growing acceptance of Trump's electoral prospects so far hasn't manifested itself in tangible support for his campaign. The real estate mogul has not been endorsed by any congressional lawmakers or governors, nor are there any indications of a big wave of major donors planning to get involved with his campaign, despite Trump's assertion that he's received "so many calls" from wealthy and influential Republicans.

If anything, the most visible signs of support for Trump's campaign in recent days have come from those who see themselves as outside the Republican establishment. Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and a favorite of the tea party insurgency, announced her support for him on Tuesday. Amy Kremer, the former chairman of the Tea Party Express organization, announced plans this week to launch a super PAC backing Trump's candidacy.

"The one thing I know for sure is that he absolutely is 100 percent pro-American and he loves this country and wants to restore it to greatness," Kremer said of Trump. "At this point, I really believe he is the only one with the ability to do that."

Much of the mainstream Republican reckoning with Trump is rooted in deep disdain for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the businessman's closest rival. Cruz is seen as more likely to try to upend the web of lobbyists, donors and other powerbrokers who have long wielded enormous influence in the Republican Party.

Liz Mair, a communications operative who is running one of the GOP's few anti-Trump efforts, said donors affiliated with other candidates would rather let Trump beat Cruz in the early voting states than let their least-favorite senator gain momentum.

"They'd rather that he kills Cruz by winning in Iowa and New Hampshire and then try to take him down," Mair said.

Even as he's taken up the anti-establishment mantle, Trump has made some quiet overtures to GOP powerbrokers. He met with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson last year and has also reached out to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, though he hasn't spoken directly with House Speaker Paul Ryan.

There are still big swaths of establishment-minded Republican voters and officials who staunchly oppose Trump's candidacy and believe both he and Cruz are unelectable in November. They say there's still plenty of time for a more mainstream candidate to mount a serious challenge.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are all seeking to beat expectations in Iowa, then be a top finisher in New Hampshire. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is also in the mix in New Hampshire.

Having already been endorsed by four senators, Rubio's campaign says it's preparing to unveil a series of endorsements from high-profile elected officials in the coming weeks, part of an effort to push more mainstream Republicans to coalesce behind his candidacy.

"They're not lining up behind Donald Trump," Rubio said Friday on Fox News when asked about Trump's establishment support. "They're just telling people their opinion about Ted Cruz."

Still, John Catsimatidis, a major Republican and Democratic donor, said it's time for the GOP to accept that when it comes to Trump's strength, "the facts are the facts." After donating to several campaigns, including Bush's and a super PAC supporting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker before he dropped out of the race in the fall, Catsimatidis says he's now talking up Trump, a longtime friend, in conversations with other big money donors.

"He showed his toughness and we need somebody tough," he said.

Trump himself has been a fixture of the New York donor class for decades and already has deep relationships with many establishment players. He often talks about how he's been in politics all his life and has been seen as the "fair-haired boy" showering contributions on both Republicans and Democrats.

When Donald Trump announced his campaign for President last summer, the Republican establishment treated him, a longtime liberal showman, as a joke. He became less funny when he shot up in the polls, but, for months, he was still considered a classic bubble candidate whose support would eventually pop. But now, this week, there’s some evidence that the establishment is finally beginning to accommodate itself to Trump. The Times reported yesterday that Bob Dole, the former Senate Majority Leader and the Party’s 1996 Presidential nominee, said that he’s “got the right personality and he’s kind of a deal-maker.” Today has the Washington Post former mayor Rudy Giuliani and New York Representative Peter King on the record siding with Trump over Ted Cruz, who is intensely disliked by many Republicans who have worked with him in Congress, where he championed the government shutdown in 2013 and has excoriated his own Senate leadership. “If it came down to Trump or Cruz, there is no question I’d vote for Trump,” Giuliani said. “As a party, we’d have a better chance of winning with him, and I think a lot of Republicans look at it that way.”

King told the newspaper, “Cruz isn’t a good guy, and he’d be impossible as President. People don’t trust him. And regardless of what your concern is with Trump, he’s pragmatic enough to get something done. I also don’t see malice in Trump like I see with Cruz.”

The quotes from Dole, Giuliani, and King—three moderates—do seem to represent a slight shift. It’s the first time prominent Republicans have indicated that they could accommodate themselves to a Trump nomination and Presidency. Still, Trump has not yet received the endorsement of even one Republican governor, U.S. senator, or U.S. representative. And most of the pro-Trump sentiment reported this week is driven by hatred of Cruz rather than any affection for Trump. The Post’s headline—“GOP Establishment Warms to Trump”—seems overstated and premature. “GOP Establishment Still Cool on Cruz” might have been more accurate.

The accommodation, to the extent that it’s even happening, also seems premature. It is true that Trump is in a commanding position. In the average of the latest polls, he has a slight lead over Cruz in Iowa, and he is far ahead of his competitors in New Hampshire and South Carolina. It is possible that Trump will sweep the early states and turn into an unstoppable force.

But the establishment need not surrender before the battle has really even begun. Republicans still have one more shot before handing over the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan to Trump or to Cruz. Despite the dominance of those two candidates, and the repeatedly thwarted efforts of the other candidates to take them down, it still makes sense to look at the Republican primary as a three-way race. The non-Trump/Cruz vote in the early states is substantial: forty-five per cent in Iowa, fifty-eight per cent in New Hampshire, forty-nine per cent in South Carolina. About half the Republican electorate wants someone besides Trump or Cruz.

The problem, of course, is that, through the pre-primary season, that enormous bloc of voters has been hopelessly divided. But that will soon change. The early primary states usually don’t pick the winner. What they tend to do is winnow the field to the final group of contestants. That’s why Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie are all attacking one another right now rather than the two front-runners. Those four more moderate candidates are in a death match, the result of which will likely be that one of them makes it out of New Hampshire as a viable alternative to Cruz and Trump.

Rubio’s campaign, which seemed promising in the late fall, seems to have stalled, but he still appears to have the best shot at making the final cut if he can take third place in Iowa, take second place in New Hampshire, and then win South Carolina, a strategy his campaign is reportedly calling “3-2-1.” But it’s also not too late for Kasich, Bush, or Christie to benefit from a surge in New Hampshire and earn the establishment’s backing.

The point is that there remains a market for a mainstream conservative. We just don’t yet know who it will be. And, once we do, the establishment will have one last chance to save its Party.

I told [Buchanan] privately that he would be better off without all the hangers-on, direct-mail artists, fund-raising whiz kids, marketing and PR czars, and the rest of the crew that today constitutes the backbone of all that remains of the famous "Conservative Movement" and who never fail to show up on the campaign doorstep to guzzle someone else's liquor and pocket other people's money. "These people are defunct," I told him. "You don't need them, and you're better off without them. Go to New Hampshire and call yourself a patriot, a nationalist, an America Firster, but don't even use the word 'conservative.' It doesn't mean anything any more."

Pat listened, but I can't say he took my advice. By making his bed with the Republicans, then and today, he opens himself to charges that he's not a "true" party man or a "true" conservative, constrains his chances for victory by the need to massage trunk-waving Republicans whose highest goal is to win elections, and only dilutes and deflects the radicalism of the message he and his Middle American Revolution have to offer. The sooner we hear that message loudly and clearly, without distractions from Conservatism, Inc., the Stupid Party, and their managerial elite, the sooner Middle America will be able to speak with an authentic and united voice, and the sooner we can get on with conserving the nation from the powers that are destroying it. [Chronicles]

call yourself a patriot, a nationalist, an America Firster, but don't even use the word 'conservative.' It doesn't mean anything any more.

Falwell said Trump is "a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again"

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and prominent evangelical leader, has endorsed Donald Trump for president.

In his endorsement, Falwell called Trump “a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.”

“It is truly an honor to receive Jerry’s endorsement,” Trump said in the statement. “Not only is he a high quality person, with a wonderful family, whom I have great respect for – I also consider him a very good friend and his support means so much to me.”

Falwell may have just officially announced his endorsement, but his political leanings were clear when he introduced Trump at Liberty University on Martin Luther King Day. Falwell called Trump a “breath of fresh air” in the introduction, compared him to Ronald Reagan and Falwell’s own father, and said, “In my opinion, Mr. Trump lives a life of loving and helping others … as Jesus taught in the New Testament.”

Falwell’s endorsement is personal; Liberty University does not endorse political candidates. (Many presidential candidates have spoken there in the past year, however, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz launched his candidacy at the school.) But the endorsement from a prominent evangelical like Falwell coming just a week before the Iowa caucuses can only help Trump muscle out Cruz for the religious vote.

Cruz has been trying to undermine Trump with this voting bloc by attacking the thrice-married, formerly pro-choice candidate on his “New York values.” Yet Trump still garnered the support of 42% of evangelicals in a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, over Cruz’s 25%.

TIME’s Elizabeth Dias and Alex Altman spoke to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, about Trump’s surprising success with Christian voters. Perkins said many evangelicals feel “beaten down” by political correctness. “Now they see Donald Trump, who is taking on that same elitist politically correct mindset and not backing down,” he said. “They find common cause in this guy, even though he comes from a completely different world.”

To be sure, not all religious right leaders support Trump. Glenn Beck and Russell Moore, for example, were recently featured in National Review’s anti-Trump issue. But Falwell’s endorsement gives credence to the trend, cementing Trump’s appeal with faith voters at the top.

The unexpected sense of generosity that marked Donald Trump's concession speech in Iowa on Monday night began to fray during his speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday -- and appears to have evaporated completely, given what Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. By the end of his tirade against Ted Cruz's Iowa win, Trump suggested that a new election should be held....

In the wake of Trump's second-place finish, at least one conspiracy theory spread among his fans -- but it centered on Marco Rubio, not Cruz. That theory was that Microsoft rigged its tabulation software to give Rubio a boost from Trump's votes. This theory made no sense....

At a news conference prior to his speech in New Hampshire, Trump referred to Cruz's campaign having emailed voters during the caucuses implying that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race. That email was excoriated by Carson in his statement on Monday night, and Cruz's team copped to it on Tuesday. Given how Carson's support evaporated at the end of last year, there's no indicator that the email made much of a difference in the race; and Carson actually slightly over-performed his polling average. But, still, Trump lashed out at his main competitor.

"What he did to Ben Carson was terrible," he said, according to The Hill. "When they said Ben Carson is out of the race and come vote for him, I thought it was terrible."

There's no evidence at this point that the Cruz gambit on Carson gained him many votes. The final average of polls in Iowa put Carson at about eight percent -- meaning he did better than polls would suggest.

As for the Cruz mailer, which we've discussed, the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza found that the voter scores printed on them (a tactic which studies have shown can spur turnout) were often misleading. In a report for Bloomberg, Sasha Issenberg reported that 3,000 voters that were unlikely to turnout received those mailers, suggesting that -- while perhaps deceptive -- the tactic didn't make a difference in a race Cruz won by more than 6,000 votes....

Does any media outlet like Trump?

As far as I have been able to tell, everyone hates Trump except for people that hate the government and the mainstream media.