BLOGGERS Say Maxine Waters told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that her first act as president would be to "impeach Donald Trump." 15MAI18

THIS shows just how stupid these right wing bloggers and all who shared this post as the truth are. IF Maxine Waters was president she wouldn't be able to impeach donald drumpf/trump because he would not be president. AND only Congress can impeach the president. DUH, REALLY, DUH!!!! BIG surprise these people watch fox faux news! These people need to pull their heads out of their asses. From PolitiFact.....

Maxine Waters

U.S. House of Representatives, D-Calif.

Say Maxine Waters told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that her first act as president would be to "impeach Donald Trump."

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Say Maxine Waters told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that her first act as president would be to "impeach Donald Trump."

No, Maxine Waters did not say she would impeach Donald Trump if she were president

By Louis Jacobson on Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

This meme has been circulating widely on social media.

Maxine Waters may be just one of 435 members of Congress, but President Donald Trump has elevated the profile of the California Democrat.

In March, at a campaign rally in southwestern Pennsylvania, Trump called Waters — a fierce opponent and the president’s ideological opposite — "a very low-I.Q. individual."

"You ever see her?" Trump continued, to boos aimed at Waters. "You ever seen her? You ever see her? 'We will impeach him! We will impeach the president!' But he hasn't done anything wrong. ‘It doesn't matter, we will impeach him!’ She's a low I.Q. individual. You can't help it. She really is."

Given Waters’ role as a foil for Trump, she has become fodder for social media posts by Trump’s allies.

One we came across was the following post that appeared on May 15, 2018, on the Facebook page "Judge Jeanine Pirro has Fans." This Facebook group bills itself as an independent fan page for Pirro, a Fox News host who is closely allied with Trump.

According to the Facebook group’s "about" page, "Judge Jeanine Pirro is out spoken and always on target. This site will expound on what the Judge is talking about and report what mainstream media won't." The group counted 713,110 followers when we first saw the post.

The post shows what appeared to be a screenshot of a CNN appearance by Waters with host Anderson Cooper. The chyron at the bottom of the screen said, "Maxine Waters 2020," and the meme offered the following dialogue:

Anderson: "If elected what would your first act as President be?"

Waters: "Well Anderson, I would impeach Donald Trump."

The group shared the image by saying, "And we pay her a salary!"

The problem: Waters never said anything of the sort.

The image appears to be from a real newscast on April 19, 2017, when Cooper interviewed Waters about Bill O’Reilly’s departure from Fox News.

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But the chyron "Maxine Waters 2020" is fake. The original chyron said, "Bill O’Reilly Out at Fox News."

The meme aims to make it look like Waters actually said that she would impeach Trump if elected president, which would be nonsensical. Obviously, there would be no need to impeach Trump if she either defeated him or succeeded him after he left office. Also, it’s up to Congress to impeach the president.

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Waters has called for investigations that could lead to Trump’s impeachment, but on several occasions — including an interview with the platform Cheddar and a rally at the U.S. Capitol — she called for Trump’s impeachment directly. When she denied on MSNBC in April 2017 that she had called for Trump’s impeachment, we rated her claim Pants on Fire.

We found no evidence that Waters is seriously considering a run for president. While she has occasionally joked about it, she shot down the idea during an appearance on The View in August 2017. (Her office did not respond to an inquiry for this article; nor did the administrator for the Pirro fan site)

Snopes.com noted that the meme appeared elsewhere before the Pirro fan site picked it up. The faked dialogue seems to have initially started as a joke in a May 11 tweet, and a version with the Cooper-Waters visual was retweeted May 14 by Fox News host Brian Kilmeade (he added: "genius"), earning more than 900 retweets and more than 3,000 likes.

Our ruling

Viral social media posts said Maxine Waters told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that her first act as president would be to "impeach Donald Trump."

This exchange never happened; it appears to have emerged as a joke that was eventually attached to a screenshot of an unrelated interview. In any case, the comments are nonsensical and may have more to do with making Waters look unintelligent than with the actual impeachment process.

We rate it Pants on Fire.

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Published: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at 5:30 p.m.

Researched by: Louis Jacobson

Edited by: Katie Sanders

Subjects: Fake news

Sources:

"Judge Jeanine Pirro has Fans" Facebook group, post, May 15, 2018

RealClearPolitics, "Trump: "Maxine Waters A Very Low I.Q. Individual," March 10, 2018

Anderson Cooper 360, episode transcript, April 19, 2017 (accessed via Nexis)

Anderson Cooper 360, tweet, April 19, 2018

USA Today, "Rep. Maxine Waters says she isn't running for president," Aug. 4, 2017

Alex Griswold, tweet, May 11, 2018

Brian Kilmeade, tweet, May 14, 2018

Snopes, "Did Maxine Waters Say She Would Impeach Trump If She Became President?" May 15, 2018

PolitiFact, "Maxine Waters wrong to say she has 'not called for' Trump's impeachment," April 19, 2017

Jared Kushner Is Puzzled That CNN Hasn't Fired All Its Anti-Trump Commentators 4APR17

KAPO jared kushner is another player in the drumpf/trump-pence administration's desire to impose authoritarianism on the American people, to silence criticism of their policies and actions, to destroy our rights protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is just more proof he would be more comfortable if we were a plutocracy and not a democratic Republic. From +Mother Jones.....

Jared Kushner Is Puzzled That CNN Hasn't Fired All Its Anti-Trump Commentators

KEVIN DRUMAPR. 4, 2017 6:46 PM

Jonathan Mahler has a piece in the New York Times Magazine today about the love-hate relationship between Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, and Donald Trump, the president of the United States. It's mainly about how both men thrive on politics as gossip, entertainment, and conflict, but it includes one interesting tidbit at the very end. It's about a breakfast meeting Zucker had last December with Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, who has become an increasingly important Trump advisor in the White House:

Kushner wanted to know why CNN still hadn’t fired anti-Trump commentators like [Van] Jones and Ana Navarro, who said on CNN in October that every Republican would have to answer the question of what they did the day they saw a tape of “this man boasting about grabbing a woman’s pussy.”...Zucker tried to explain that even though Trump won, the network still needed what he described as “a diversity of opinion.”

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to take this literally or seriously. Did Kushner really think that this was how a news organization was supposed to work? That once Trump won, all the folks who didn't like Trump would be fired in some kind of Stalinesque purge?

Apparently so. Welcome to the Trump Show.

KEVIN DRUM

Kevin is a political blogger for Mother Jones. Email Kevin calpundit@cox.net. For more of his stories, click here or follow him on Facebook.

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CNN Airs The Most Ridiculous Statement I’ve Ever Seen On Television 28AUG12

HERE is a revealing piece about how poor mitt robme "suffered" during his mormon missionary stint in France in 1968, after applying for and receiving a total of for deferments to avoid the draft and having to serve the country he loves in Vietnam (note, SARCASM INTENDED)....

by Tommy Christopher

When a friend tweeted me about a line from CNN’s Romney Revealed documentary, I thought he must have misheard or paraphrased it, but as it turns out, Gloria Borger‘s narration of the Mitt Romney profile really did contain the most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever heard on television, so ridiculous that I’m half-suspicious CNN is actually a cabal of master satirists who are making fun of the Republican presidential candidate.
The portion of the documentary in question covers Mitt Romney’s stint as a door-to-door Mormon recruiter in 1968 France, a duty which helped him to avoid military service in Vietnam. Earlier in the doc, narrator and interviewer Gloria Borger glossed over the fact that Romney sought, and received, four deferments during the Vietnam War (and later lied about it), instead saying simply that he was “exempt as a student, and with a high draft number.”
The doc also notes, as an example of Romney “becoming his own man,” that he protested in favor of the draft that he so skillfully avoided, before moving on to the time he spent in France, a time that Romney once described as “tough” because the French were “not happy to see Americans, because we were in Vietnam at the time.”
Yes, you heard that right. Not only did Mitt Romney protest in favor of sending other people’s children to die in Vietnam, even as he avoided service himself, he then complained about how those dying Americans made it “tough” for him while he was in France avoiding service.
Perhaps to avoid charges of bias, the documentary steers clear of these contradictions, but then takes the whitewashing to blindingly absurd levels by introducing the next segment with the aforementioned most ridiculous statement I’ve ever seen on television. “In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American,” Borger says, “but Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it.”
That’s right, in 1968, the year in which the highest number of American deaths in Vietnam were reported (16,592), France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American who was avoiding service in Vietnam. Aside from the constant danger of having one’s eye put out by an errant baguette, what hardships did Mitt Romney face while he was “in country?”
Well, all those dying Americans were causing protests in France, and as a result, says fellow Romney missionary Mike Bush, “There was no train service, there were no buses, no newspapers. The electricity would go off from time-to-time.”
The electricity would go off from time-to-time? Mon Dieu. Think of the horrific flashbacks to rudely-interrupted Gilligan’s Island reruns and spoiled escargot. But the horrors of Vietnam-era France didn’t end there.
“There were no letters from home,” Bush continues. “The money at the time came via check. That was our lifeline was getting letters from home.”
So, CNN’s story is that Mitt Romney had it tough during Vietnam because the protests in France made it hard for his dad to send him money. That’ll give anyone the thousand-yard stare.
The quest for “objectivity” has increasingly become the quest to avoid charges of bias, but in Romney Revealed, CNN seems to have bent over so far backward that they ended up unintentionally parodying the poor guy. Mitt Romney, and CNN’s audience, deserve better.
Here’s the clip, from CNN’s Romney Revealed:
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(h/t Don Millard)
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-airs-the-most-ridiculous-statement-ive-ever-seen-on-television/