On Wednesday morning, Mark started the day with Steve, Ainsley and Brian on "Fox & Friends" discussing the Tuesday night before in the Georgia special election. His little bit of phrase-making appears to be catching on. The Washington Times:
Conservative commentator Mark Steyn says Democrats came away empty-handed in Georgia's special election because the party as a whole is obsessed with "deep state dinner theater."
Georgia Republican Karen Handel stunned challenger Jon Ossoff with a 52 percent to 48 percent victory in Atlanta's suburbs Tuesday night. Mr. Ossoff's campaign spent more than $30 million in the losing effort, which Mr. Steyn said is somewhat attributable to the party's fixation on the president's associates and Russia.
More from Mediaite:
Canadian commentator Mark Steyn bashed Georgia congressional candidate Jon Ossoff as well as the investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign ties to Russia on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning.
Ainsley Earhardt kicked off the segment by asking the writer (in 2006 he penned the doomsday pamphlet "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It") why Jon Ossoff lost Tuesday night's election in Georgia's 6th district to his Republican opponent Karen Handel.
For Steyn, the answer is Russia: "Well, I think the basic reason is that everybody understands what the Democrats have been doing for the last six months doesn't meet the fairness test."
"The guy won the election fair and square, and to make him a Russian agent, to make him a candidate for impeachment, to put him under investigation for obstruction of justice — from day one or in fact, from November 9th — it just hasn't been fair," Steyn declared.
"First was hey, tax returns, next was Russian collusion" host Brian Kilmeade added.
"And it's all nonsense," Steyn said. "Everybody knows that Russia is just deep state dinner theater that absolutely means nothing to anyone with a life."
As for the celeb quotient:
Kilmeade rattled off the long list of celebrities - including Samuel L. Jackson and Chelsea Handler - that backed Ossoff, who reportedly brought in 700 campaign donations from California.
"The idea that Samuel L. Jackson should determine your politics is as stupid as putting Chuck Schumer in an action movie," said Steyn.
Mark instantly revised that view to say he'd quite like to see Chuck Shumer in Fast & Furious 9. Click below to watch the full interview:
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As I think about this further, the following comes to mind: what is being done to President Trump and the election of 2016 is nothing less than a coup attempt. Only one group has been working continuously since the election to undermine the results and to remove the lawful winner from power: the democratic party and their party members in the press and in government. This was started by Obama deliberately easing the way for democrats working in bureaucracies to spy on Americans who are not democrats. Bezos, seeking to protect his bloviated Amazon uses his sock puppet to push the lie of Russian-Trump collusion. And on and on. But this is a slow motion sleaze ball coup by a spoiled self declared elite oligarchy against America. Let's call it what it for what it is and start thinking of how to push back. And soon. They have already dog whistled one mass assassination attempt and have not changed their rhetoric at all.
The snarky "pamphlet" crack only goes to prove one thing. We expect Mediaite to lie about everything political. That's what it does. But its inclination for lies runs so deep that it can't even properly describe as a book the (unfortunately) most prophetic commentary on the Islamization of the West that anyone has produced. I have autographed copies of both America Alone and After America on my bookshelf plus Kindle versions on my iPad. The books were greeted by the political elitists with the usual head explosions and derision plus multiple inquisitions by various of Canada's thought police. The lawsuits eventually resulted in the destruction of the odious hate speech law. As for the books' accuracy you can lift passages and they seem to describe today's news. Pretty impressive track record and dismissing the works with the word "pamphlet" only makes Mediaite look the fool.
Sen. Schumer's fine acting skills could be used in a tour de force in "SNAKES ON A PLANE II: Slithering to Armageddon". Schumer could of course fill the role he was born to play- that of the lead viper. But he will also be considered as the feckless copilot, scheming against the pilot and crew as he seeks to hijack the plane and deliver it and its cargo to the mysterious competitor who is relentlessly trying to take over all airlines...
Hi, Mark
We just watched your interview on Fox News Live and, for us, we would describe President Trump as being an 'unformatted politician'!
As a resident of District 6 it was my pleasure to contribute to the Ossoff Loss.
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I'm a bit more partial to the deep state kabuki dance myself, but dinner theater will do.
Touché, Mark! Ten minutes of Breakfast Theatre of fine taste and biting wit! And I am not a breakfast person.
I don't know who 99% of these "celebrities" are and Jane Fonda merely recalls Hanoi Jane to me and probably to a lot of other Americans, especially the rednecks in Georgia! And Cher really needs to put them away!
As for the Documentary-Maker for Millennials, he perhaps could benefit from watching a mockumentary ad: Adobe's "Hovering Art Director" for a ginger beer ad. Studies show that 55% of Millennials respond favorably if there is a kitten in the ad.
Maybe the Democrats can dress up as Cat-persons of neutral gender for their next elections. As for me, the only time I use gender is for "le" and '"la". Everything else has a sex, more or less!
Mark, you sit too modestly. You can manspread a little!
That's funny!
I have friends in medicine. At a certain point, a physician must tell the patient: We have the history and the current results: This is what you must do for the best chance to live.
The best chance to live for all North Americans is to defeat every progressive now. Obviously, later, we will find that better and worse approaches to specific political issues will emerge.
But right now, stand for one's own country, not globalism. Civil liberties, not "human rights". Stand for the specific, not the general. Stand for what we can control, not for someone else's amorphous theories about what we ought to do.
A pamphlet? A pamphlet? It was a prophetic book of the greatest significance!
Indeed, the term "pamphlet" makes it sound like he was handing them out on a street corner while wearing a sandwich board and yelling through a bullhorn.
Not only is "pamphlet" used in a demeaning way, but only a single book is listed. The pajama boys at Mediaite should come and look at the shelves creaking and groaning under the many books on my shelves written by Mark.
Once again anonymous little people try to demean someone who actually makes a contribution to the public discourse.