Did the Clinton Foundation Raise ‘Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ for a Hospital in Haiti That Was Never Built?

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“Hillary Clinton … took in hundreds of millions of dollars for a hospital in Haiti that went to the Clinton Foundation, that was never built — that was years ago. Where is that money?” . . .

Michael Cohen, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald Trump, made this accusation while answering questions about Trump’s donations to veterans’ groups. He blamed the news media for asking questions about Trump’s donations, yet letting Hillary Clinton’s allegedly squandered hospital promise go unquestioned.

Although Cohen made the comment in passing, it was picked up by Diamond and Silk, a pro-Trump duo with a Twitter following of more than 80,600. They cited Cohen’s claim and doubled-down on the question in a video, which was retweeted or liked at least 4,600 times: . . .

There’s real frustration among Haitians over failures in progress promised to them, not just by the Clintons but from the international community at large. In 2015, Haitian activists protested outside the Clinton Foundation in New York, claiming the Clintons mismanaged hundreds of millions in taxpayer money through the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission. (Read more from “Did the Clinton Foundation Raise ‘Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ for a Hospital in Haiti That Was Never Built?” HERE)

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Pentagon Officials Admit Afghan Soldiers Have Disappeared From US Military Bases

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It is no secret that thousands of Afghan troops have come to the United States for training by the military.

What has just been revealed, however, is that since January 2015, 44 Afghan soldiers have disappeared from U.S. bases, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told Reuters.

Eight men disappeared in September alone.

Some of the missing troops have ended up in Canada with the help of an illegal pipeline, while others have presumably attempted to go unnoticed in the United States.

At a briefing Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said 32 of the missing soldiers had been located.

Since 2007, the United States has trained approximately 2,200 Afghan troops on various American military bases.

While the number of missing Afghan soldiers is relatively small compared with the number to successfully complete their military training, a U.S. defense official called the incidents concerning and “out of the ordinary.”

The disappearances could prove to be an embarrassment to the Obama administration, which has spent billions of dollars training Afghan soldiers so that they can return home and protect their country.

“The Defense Department is assessing ways to strengthen eligibility criteria for training in ways that will reduce the likelihood of an individual Afghan willingly absconding from training in the U.S. and going AWOL,” Stump said.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been vocal in his criticism of President Obama and his inability to vet immigrants arriving in the U.S. from countries with a Muslim majority.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has promised to crack down on illegal immigration when he becomes president.

Some experts blame low morale, improper military training and lack of opportunities in Afghanistan for the soldiers’ decisions to abandon their positions.

Michael Kugelman, a South Asia specialist at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, explained why he believed the troops have gone AWOL.

“They face a formidable enemy, with very limited resources and many Afghan troops aren’t getting paid on time,” he said. (For more from the author of “Pentagon Officials Admit Afghan Soldiers Have Disappeared From US Military Bases” please click HERE)

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Ex-Kaine Staff Member Shocked at Former Boss’s Debate Performance

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On the question of who won the vice presidential debate Tuesday night, the answer you get is largely determined by whom you ask.

One person who feels Republican Mike Pence clearly emerged the winner over Democrat Tim Kaine is former Kaine staff member Christian Rickers.

Following the debate, Rickers spoke with Breitbart News and commented on the performance of Hillary Clinton’s running mate.

“Kaine should have been himself. I don’t know what the Clintons have done to him. I thought Pence won the debate,” Rickers said.

He continued, “It made me very sad. I’ve never seen him like that. It’s not the Tim Kaine I know. I can’t believe it. Is that what we have been reduced to? Win at all cost and bring out the hatchet?”

Rickers, a lifelong Democrat, is now the executive director of the Trumpocrats PAC.

Prior to the debate, he said, “Tim Kaine is one of the finest public servants I have ever known and he’s a great guy. But he’s not running for president … she is.”

Rickers accused the Clintons of placing blame on the American work force for the increasing rise in unemployment, while they are the ones responsible.

“The fact is the Clintons caused all of this with aggressively pursuing globalist policies that shipped our jobs overseas and on top of that they got rich,” Rickers remarked. “From zero to a quarter of a billion dollars by selling influence all over the world. Shame on them!”

Rickers appeared on Fox News in August and was asked what pushed him to leave his lifelong party and support GOP nominee Donald Trump.

“I came from a very small town, where we had 25 manufacturing plants 20 years ago and now there’s only one, and he is speaking to that. He’s got a plan. He’s talked about that. He’s the only one talking about rebuilding infrastructure and manufacturing,” Rickers said.

He also said that while the media are focused on the 50 or so Washington insider Republicans who support Clinton, there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats across the nation who support Trump.

The Trumpocrat PAC gives those people a base of operation.

Rickers was a delegate for President Obama in 2012, and supported Sen. Bernie Sanders until he dropped out of the 2016 Democratic primary race. (For more from the author of “Ex-Kaine Staff Member Shocked at Former Boss’s Debate Performance” please click HERE)

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Trump Earns Three Big Endorsements in a Key Battleground State

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has picked up three more endorsements from the law enforcement community, and all three come from a critical swing state in next month’s presidential election.

The three largest police unions in Colorado — the Denver Police Protective Association, the Aurora Police Association and the Colorado Springs Police Protective Association — have all endorsed Trump for president.

The union leaders have assured that the “law and order” candidate will keep Colorado’s cities “safe and secure.”

“The Aurora Police Association believes that Donald Trump’s strong support for law enforcement will ensure safer communities in Colorado and across our country,” Sgt. Bob Wesner, president of the APA said, according to the Aurora Sentinel.

“We just like what he has to say about law enforcement and he is very supportive of law enforcement so we wanted to support him,” he added.

Wesner noted the endorsement wasn’t sparked by a particular stance that Trump had taken, but by the candidate’s overall support for law enforcement.

Combined, the three police unions represent about 2,700 members of law enforcement in Colorado.

The endorsement could be an important boost to Trump since recent polls place his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a slight lead in the state. However, Trump sees the battleground state as attainable, with his most recent visit being Monday.

“After thoughtful consideration, we wholeheartedly believe Mr. Trump is the only candidate that will protect law-abiding citizens from those who choose to break the law,” Nick Rogers, president of the DPPA said, according to the Denver Post.

Last month, Trump also earned support from the national Fraternal Order of Police after completing a required questionnaire. The organization represents 330,000 officers nationwide.

“Mr. Trump has seriously looked at the issues facing law enforcement today,” Chris Canterbury, national president of the union said in a statement. “He understands and supports our priorities and our members believe he will make America safe again.”

The Fraternal Order of Police has a history of supporting Republicans for president. It endorsed the GOP nominees in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections, but refrained from endorsing Mitt Romney in 2012 because of his negative stance on unions.

According to the Daily Caller, Clinton has now shown interest in winning over the police unions, but at times, her tone has irritated some members of the law enforcement community. Instead, her campaign has chosen to embrace Black Lives Matter and other activists groups which seek to curb police brutality.

Patrick Davis, an adviser for Trump’s campaign in Colorado, released a statement saying the endorsements were an honor.

“Donald Trump stands for tougher law enforcement and safer communities, and these endorsements demonstrate that the brave policemen and women in Colorado agree with Mr. Trump’s goal of making America safe again,” Davis said. “We are honored to have their support and will work with them to get Mr. Trump’s message of protecting our communities out to Colorado voters in the coming weeks.” (For more from the author of “Trump Earns Three Big Endorsements in a Key Battleground State” please click HERE)

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Violent Pipeline Protesters Are Obama-Approved. Peaceful Ranchers? Not So Much

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According to the U.S. Constitution, Americans are guaranteed equal treatment under the law. According to the Obama administration, the word “equal” has no bearing on its treatment of protesters — just their politics.

Last week, the administration said it would allow protesters of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to stay on federal lands. This decision was made despite clashes between armed activists and police authorities, and a request for assistance by a sheriff. Notably, the clashes and protests are taking place two years after the Army Corps of Engineers held nearly 400 meetings about the pipeline, and made nine requests for meetings with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe that were not attended by the Tribe.

This is the Tribe that is now protesting the pipeline, along with various environmental activists.

Compare this to another recent protest on federal land — the 2015 rancher protest in Oregon. Armed like many of the pipeline protesters, ranchers took over federal land in order to make a statement against increasing federal land grabs, in support of Cliven Bundy, who regularly trespassed on federal land laws in protest. In contrast to today’s protests, the ranchers engaged in no violence. Yet law enforcement agents began arresting them after just 24 days. The crackdown resulted in the death of one rancher, Lavoy Finicum, when he left the wildlife refuge to drive to a nearby town. Although the ranchers were armed, they were peaceful, and Finicum was killed after police fired on him despite no dangerous actions by the rancher.

Enabling Pipeline Protesters

In stark contrast to the small, low-key rancher protest, hundreds of members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and armed environmental activists have been camping out for two months on federal lands in North Dakota and Iowa, protesting the construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The protests have resulted in violence, with both sides blaming the other.

Members of the tribe say the pipeline endangers sacred sites near its reservation and endangers the tribe’s water supply, and that the construction company has already destroyed sacred sites. (The tribe’s “media backgrounder” can be found here.) However, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation, “Archaeologists inspected the 1.3-mile section along the route of the Dakota Access pipeline in southern North Dakota, and found no signs Native American tribal artifacts are present, despite what protesters argue.”

Mercer County Sheriff Dean Danzeisen of North Dakota sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressing his concerns about their guns. “They are armed, hostile, and engaged in training exercises which can only be intended to promote violence, whether on Corps property or elsewhere.” Dealing with the protesters also costs law enforcement extra money for overtime.

Yet federal agents say they have no intention of removing the trespassers, declaring they have a free speech right to be on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ land. The Corps has encouraged the protesters to move to adjacent land where they have a permit to stay, but they refuse.

North Dakota’s sole US representative, Republican Kevin Cramer, says the encampment is illegal and accuses the feds of looking the other way. “If that camp was full of people advocating for fossil fuels, they would have been removed by now,” he said. “There is some discretionary enforcement going on.”

Violent and Non-Violent Actions by Pipeline Protesters is the Norm

The protests have blocked work from progressing on parts of the pipeline. The construction in Iowa was forced to shut down briefly when protesters dismantled part of the fence around the construction site. In Missouri, twelve protesters chained themselves to construction equipment there, resulting in multiple arrests for criminal trespass.

Each weekend, more protesters arrive at the encampments. In Iowa, they are organized by the group Mississippi Stand. So far, more than 130 protesters have been arrested in Iowa and North Dakota, mostly for trespassing. Many volunteer to be arrested, knowing there will be few ramifications; law enforcement merely places the activists in plastic handcuffs, books them, then releases them immediately to go back and protest some more.

The Obama administration has stopped any building of the pipeline on federal lands, so developers are continuing the construction on private, state or local government land. The pipeline will carry oil 1,200 miles from North Dakota to Illinois, crossing South Dakota and Iowa. Pipeline officials say it will reduce energy dependence on foreign oil, and will generate $55 million annually in property taxes. There are up to 7.4 billion barrels of oil in North Dakota’s Bakken region.

The pipeline was supposed to be completed by the end of the year, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit put a halt on part of the construction while considering a lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

The lengths to which the government has gone to appease the environmental protesters is astounding. If Native Americans can care about the land, why not ranchers? (For more from the author of “Violent Pipeline Protesters Are Obama-Approved. Peaceful Ranchers? Not So Much” please click HERE)

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Tax Dollars at Play: Recent Chart-Topping Hits of Fraud and Abuse

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On Thursday, a report issued by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense slammed a former senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter for using a government credit card on sexual escapades, alcohol abuse and other illegal actions.

According to the report, Army Major General Ronald Lewis illegally spent nearly three thousand of the taxpayers’ dollars. According to Politico, Carter had this to say:

At the Pentagon, Carter said he was briefed on findings from the investigation, but “will defer any further comment on the report pending the Army’s review.”

“As I said when I first learned about allegations of misconduct against Maj. Gen. Lewis and removed him as my senior military assistant, I expect the highest possible standards of conduct from the men and women in this department particularly from those serving in the most senior positions,” Carter said in a statement. “There is no exception.”

While Lewis’ actions are an obvious violation of the public trust, his three thousand dollars in taxpayer abuse is small potatoes compared to other ways the public loses out to corrupt government officials and corrupt civilians abusing the system.

Here are a few recent examples:

Sickening Medicaid Mischief From a CBS News report Tuesday about Medicaid abuse:

Baby boomers are expected to need more in-home care as they age, but federal investigators are now raising an alarm over what they call persistent fraud and abuse in Medicaid-funded personal care services. Investigators from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General are once again criticizing Medicaid for not cracking down in this area, saying the government needs better regulations to prevent patient neglect and fraud cases. Estimates of questionable billing since 2012 total more than $600 million, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.

Sin City Spending Spree The 2012 escapades of the General Services Administration cost taxpayers over $800,000 on parties and other spending in Las Vegas.

Sure, They Could Use Good PR, But … The federal government has averaged nearly one billion per year in “public relations” spending over the last decade, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. Some of that money goes to public service ads, like the Centers for Disease Control’s ads encouraging HIV/AIDS safety by promoting condoms and art…but not abstinence.

Booty Calls With Taxpayer Booty Senator David Vitter (R-LA) used a government phone to chat with a prostitute. That use of taxpayer dollars was a major reason he lost his race for governor last year.

Forget His Phone and Pen, How About His Golf Clubs and Swimming Trunks? President Obama was pressed by reporters in 2012 when he appeared to combine official trips and campaign trips. The former may be paid for by taxpayers; the latter must be privately funded. Then there’s the Obama Family Vacation Fund, known as the U.S. Treasury. Investor’s Business Daily estimates that their R&R has cost us over $70 million.

“Federal Fumbles” Finally — in keeping with his predecessor, retired Senator Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican James Lankford published a “Federal Fumbles” report that highlighted 100 ways taxpayer money was wasted by the federal government. One example was the use of six million dollars “to repair a building that remains unsafe.”

This is a quick and dirty list of outrageous offenses, and hardly the most expensive ones. Health care spending by the Feds is rife with abuse, as is the Pentagon’s budget. And over $100 billion is lost to “improper payments” each year, even as big corporations snag tens of billions each year through legal handouts from Congress.

The next time someone says we need to raise taxes, just point out that we’re funding sexcapades, swindles, booze and billion-dollar boondoggles. Stopping that comes long before taking more of your hard-earned money. (For more from the author of “Tax Dollars at Play: Recent Chart-Topping Hits of Fraud and Abuse” please click HERE)

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Just How Many Times Did Tim Kaine Play the Race Card?

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Where to begin with Senator Tim Kaine’s abysmal performance in the vice-presidential debate?

Let’s start here, with this opener:

It is so great to be back at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

This is a very special place. Sixty-five years ago, a young, courageous woman, Barbara Johns, led a walkout of her high school, Moton High School. She made history by protesting school segregation. She believed our nation was stronger together. And that walkout led to the Brown v. Board of Education decision that moved us down the path toward equality.

Stop right here.

How was it exactly that Barbara Johns was forced into a situation that resulted in a segregated school in the first place? Answer: Because Tim Kaine’s political party, the Democrats, had spent the previous 89 years using segregation — racism — as the building block of their party. As Kaine would go on to demonstrate as the debate moved on, playing the race card is still at the core of his party — and the campaign of its latest nominees, Kaine and Hillary Clinton.

Next, incredibly, Kaine said this:

I’ll just say this: We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, and we trust her with the most important thing in our life. We have a son deployed overseas in the Marine Corps right now. We trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander-in-chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander-in-chief scares us to death.

Suffice to say, Pat Smith, the mother of State Department Information Officer Sean Smith has a very, very different opinion. Sean Smith was one of the four Americans killed in the terrorist attack in Benghazi. Clinton failed abysmally in taking care of the most important thing in Pat Smith’s life: her son. Smith, in fact, holds Hillary Clinton “personally” responsible for her son’s death. Kaine never mentioned Pat Smith, much less addressed her concerns in the debate.

Kaine never answered the moderator’s question as to why so many millions of Americans think Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy. He responded by praising her passion and career, then, but of course, played the race card by saying this of Trump:

And as a candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals, and he has pursued the discredited and really outrageous lie that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States.

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

This was, of course, a deliberate lie. Trump’s remarks were in the context of illegal immigration, decidedly not a condemnation of “Mexicans.” And all anyone — certainly a sitting US Senator Kaine — has to do to research the subject is check here with ICE, the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency. Here’s but one headline from ICE in 2014:

ICE Texas field offices remove more than 800 sex offenders so far this year

More than 2,000 removed every year in past 3 years

The ICE report begins as follows:

DALLAS — The four Texas field offices within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) have deported more than 860 sex offenders so far this fiscal year.

Of the 862 alien sex offenders deported by the Texas-based offices, about 27 percent were convicted of sex offenses against children.

What about this does Kaine not understand? Answer? Kaine does understand and chose to, but of course, play the race card and suggest Trump is a racist for stating what the US government itself states is hard fact. So too have Democrats made the so-called “birther” issue into a race card. The hard fact of history is that this issue has recurred five different times with a sitting president and actual or potential presidential candidates (President Chester Alan Arthur and potential or actual candidates Barry Goldwater (born in the then-territory but not-yet-the-state of Arizona), George Romney (born in Mexico to Mormon missionary parents), Lowell Weicker (considering a run in 1976 for the GOP nod, Connecticut Senator Weicker was born in Paris to parents in the foreign service) and of course Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (R, 32%), born in the Panama Canal Zone while his Navy-serving father was stationed there. All were white and all Republicans. While I always believed Obama was born in Hawaii, there was and is nothing in the least inherently racist about birtherism — unless, of course, you are a race-card playing Democrat like Tim Kaine.

This is the exact same obsession with using racism as a political ploy that fueled the Democrats’ political power as supporters of slavery, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. Now they use race in the illegal immigration issue or inject race into the ancient previously all-white birtherism ploy. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are now playing the same race cards once played by Kaine’s fellow Virginian and race-card player extraordinaire Woodrow Wilson.

Then there was this Kaine whopper, the reference here to the Bush 43 tax cuts:

The second component of the plan is massive tax breaks for the very top, trillions of dollars of tax breaks for people just like Donald Trump. The problem with this, Elaine, is that’s exactly what we did 10 years ago and it put the economy into the deepest recession — the deepest recession since the 1930s.

This is a flat-out lie. The reason the economy was put into “the deepest recession — the deepest recession since the 1930s” — was precisely because of the Democratic Party’s repeated devotion to forcing banks to give loans to Americans who could not afford them. Those Americans eventually and inevitably defaulted on their loans, triggering the “Great Recession.” This mind-blowing reality was documented in detail in New York Times business reporter Gretchen Morgenson’s book with housing and mortgage investment consultant Joshua Rosner, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon.

The title says it all … and one of those fingered in this cesspool story involving a prominent Democratic Party lobbyist is, yes, President Bill Clinton and his 1994 National Partners in Homeownership policy. But there is Kaine making up out of whole cloth — looking the American people right straight in the television eye — and lying about what caused the Great Recession.

There’s more — much more, of course. The number of outright lies combined with clever sleight-of-hand deceptions by Kaine is stunning. All of this added to Kaine’s widely-panned style that combined arrogance, rudeness, and agitation in varying measure.

A CNN poll after the debate gave the contest to Pence. Most interesting stat from that poll was this:

Still, 29% of debate watchers said what they saw Tuesday made them more apt to vote for Trump, compared with 18% who said it made them more likely to back Clinton.

Thanks to Tim Kaine, and the contrast with the calm, measured, conservative and decidedly truthful approach of Mike Pence, is this any wonder? (For more from the author of “Just How Many Times Did Tim Kaine Play the Race Card?” please click HERE)

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Undercover: Steven Crowder Infiltrates Socialist Student Protest and It Is Absolutely Terrifying

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So, what exactly does a “Students Against Sweatshops” conference entail? Conservative comedian Steven Crowder went undercover — for science — to find out.

The results? Just … just watch and see for yourself.

Today’s college students don’t identify as socialists, but rather as “anarchist-communists.”

Do not confuse “intersecting identities.” You can be “sexuality queer” but NOT “gender queer” and if you get that wrong, well, you’re naturally a BIGOT.

And, of course, a “conference” is really code for paid union protests where the unions don’t actually show up and just use these college students to promote their far-left agenda and do their dirty work for them.

If this is the best our universities have to offer, we’re doomed. (For more from the author of “Undercover: Steven Crowder Infiltrates Socialist Student Protest and It Is Absolutely Terrifying” please click HERE)

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Linking Hurricane Matthew to Climate Change Is Overblown Hype

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Hurricane Matthew is big, dangerous, and (if it makes landfall) something not seen in the continental United States for a decade. This, of course, means it will be linked to global warming.

There will be a lot of “scientists say we can expect,” but little actual data. That’s because the data show for the last 10 years we have had an unusual drought of landfalling major hurricanes (Category 3 and higher) on the continental U.S. That’s right, no major hurricanes have made landfall for over a decade. This is the longest such drought on record.

A lot of it is luck. There have been major hurricanes in the Atlantic whose paths have not taken them onshore. However, there has not been the steady increase in hurricane activity that the doom-and-gloomers predicted following a swarm of major hurricanes in 2005. Yes, there is a lot of change from year to year, but there is no worrisome trend.

In fact, taking a tally of the scariest hurricanes (Categories 4 and 5) indicates things were worse nearly a century ago. For the 44 years from 1926 to 1969, 14 of these most powerful storms made landfall, while the 46 years since then had only three.

Good luck will almost certainly run out and we will have years with multiple major hurricanes making landfall. If so, that is a return to normalcy, not a harbinger of impending climate doom. Since record-keeping began in the 1800s, the average annual landfall of major hurricanes is about two. However, it is far from constant as recent experience shows.

Further, a return to normalcy very likely will be associated with record levels of financial losses. This is due to the explosion of coastal development of recent decades. Again, it will not be due, as some will assert, to more frequent or more intense hurricanes.

The last decade has been a very mild one regarding major hurricanes hitting American shores. If Hurricane Matthew makes its expected landfall in the U.S. this week, the drought will be broken, but it won’t be a sign that we are headed to a man-made climate catastrophe. (For more from the author of “Linking Hurricane Matthew to Climate Change Is Overblown Hype” please click HERE)

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The Media’s Embarrassing Failure to Bring up Obamacare in the Debates

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Maybe Bill Clinton should moderate Sunday’s presidential debate. Referring to Obamacare this week as “the craziest thing in the world,” he seems to understand that the consequences of the health care law might be of interest to voters.

Indeed, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 71 percent of Donald Trump supporters and 77 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters say the issue of health care is “very important” to their vote in 2016.

Which is why it seems odd that not one single question dealing with Obamacare was asked at either the first presidential debate or the only vice presidential debate of the 2016 election. Not one.

Well, perhaps it’s only odd if you don’t know the major broadcast networks have all but ignored the disastrous news stories about Obamacare.

According to the media watchdogs over at the Media Research Center, from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31, ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “NBC Nightly News” have not covered the issue at all. “CBS Evening News” dedicated a whopping 2 minutes and 18 seconds to the subject.

As the Media Research Center notes, “To put that in perspective, these same three evening news shows managed to find 46 minutes and 49 seconds to dedicate to Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte running afoul of Brazilian police.”

Maybe we’ll get a question about Lochte in the next debate.

There are so many questions that could be posited about Obamacare’s failures that perhaps the moderators just haven’t been able to choose which one to ask. For example:

Sir/Madame: The Government Accountability Office just announced last week that its investigation has determined that Health and Human Services has been illegally bailing out insurance companies with taxpayer dollars. What’s your reaction?

Or …

Sir/Madame: What do you say to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost the insurance they bought through Obamacare’s public co-ops? So far, 12 of the 23 co-ops have failed and been shut down, costing taxpayers $1.2 billion and forcing 740,000 people in 14 states to scramble to find new health insurance.

Or …

Sir/Madame: Contrary to what President Barack Obama originally promised, many Americans’ premiums did not go down, they’ve gone up. And the evidence suggests they will continue to rise. By 2025, the Congressional Budget Office predicts that employment-based coverage will cost about 60 percent more than it does today because of Obamacare. How will you address that?

Or … (my personal favorite)

Sir/Madame: Former President Bill Clinton referred to Obamacare as “the craziest thing in the world.” Do you agree with his remarks?

So many options but not one single question in either debate on the topic.

And yet, abortion, which fewer than half of voters say is very important to their vote, was a major topic in the vice presidential debate.

And I’m not saying it isn’t important. But why did CBS moderator Elaine Quijano think it was more important to voters than the issue of health care?

If she’d done a little more homework, she might have been able to combine the two issues by asking what the candidates thought about a report from the Government Accountability Office showing that Obamacare forces taxpayers to subsidize bills for abortion services.

One might think that, in the post-debate analysis, some in the media might start asking about what major issues have not been addressed.

The folks over at NBC News apparently did ask that question but got the wrong answer.

An article following the vice presidential debate said the debate “left lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocates stunned, after 90 minutes of questioning failed to address a single LGBTQ issue.”

It doesn’t mention that voters rank that issue over 30 percentage points behind health care as important to their vote.

To say the media doesn’t get it lets them off the hook way too easy. They get it all right. Obamacare is a disaster but they’re hoping voters won’t notice. (For more from the author of “The Media’s Embarrassing Failure to Bring up Obamacare in the Debates” please click HERE)

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