Glen Beck: Michelle Obama's Trump Takedown Was "Most Effective Political Speech" Since Reagan Slate

AOC joins the long list of people blown away by Michelle Obama's speech last week in Manchester, New Hampshire. The accolades have poured in daily in response to the First Lady's speech on sexual assault and Donald Trump's relentless attacks on women who are too fat, too ugly, too flat-chested -- women not worthy of him groping their genitals, kissing them against their wills, and generally backing them up against the wall in a sexual showdown.

Without a doubt it was the finest speech in our incredibly ugly 2016 presidential campaign. Many believe it's a speech for the decades. Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck caught many of us off-guard, calling Obama's speech "the most effective political speech since Ronald Reagan." Bottom line -- in remarks not discussed in these terms by the media -- Beck argued that Michelle Obama brought the Republican War on Women to life, and in no uncertain terms.

“The audience was pin-drop quiet. It connected. Whether you like to believe it or not, whether I want to believe it or not, it connected. And it was powerful,” Beck said. The conservative talk show host called on his listeners to watch the speech to see for themselves the “devastating effects” it can have. “And I don’t mean on Donald Trump,” he added. “I mean on the conservative movement.” Why? Because it is an effective message to get women away from Republicans in general. "We had been talking about, 'there is no war on women.' You just handed them a war on women," Beck said. "And if you listen to her words carefully, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, they are coopting women and it will work."

Can American Women Support Country Over Party?

As Glenn Beck correctly notes, Democrats have a unique opportunity to bring Republican and Independent women into the party with a common-sense, get things done president like Hillary Clinton.

Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence supports personhood bills, for heavens' sake. There is no greater issue for American women and our girls than creating equivalency between our legal and civil rights with those of a week-old zygote. It's the ultimate insult to our integrity as living, breathing females and we are sick of the Republican Party, accompanied by Catholic bishops and evangelicals led largely by men, riding rough shod over our right to live and breathe in America.

If the Republican candidate for president Donald Trump prides himself on grabbing women by the genitals, Republican men have passed bills around America demanding -- not only that women seeking abortions watch an ultrasound of their womb -- but they have specified exactly how our faces must be positioned against the video. They have specified legally that we cannot turn our heads, and there may be laws in some states that actually require us to sit in a neck brace that holds us in place.

A Republican Assault on Women's Lives

It adds insult to enormous injury that in the midst of an endless assault on women's reproductive health that has gone on for well over a decade, the Republican candidate for president prides himself on assaulting women, and the party calls it no big dead. Once again, the women are guilty -- once again we are liars. The Republican posse gives no integrity to American women, at a time when abortion rates are the lowest ever. They mount a false attack on IUDs, the most effective form of birth control available.

Indeed, our First Lady Michelle Obama channeled this Republican patriarchal mindset at a time when Donald Trump has lit a torch against all women in this country. The emotional and psychological wreckage left in this man's Republican presidential path has opened wounds that his Trumpsters cannot relate to.

Our challenge as responsible citizens and true supporters of women is to brainstorm with American women of every skin color, class and political status on how to move this country forward. It's time to take the chains off all Americans and agree that the days of a white men's club running our lives and our country are over. ~ Anne

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WikiLeaks reveals the real Huma Abedin Politico

" . . . the WikiLeaks release of thousands of stolen campaign emails — which the campaign has neither verified or denied — shed new light on her unique internal role this cycle: Abedin has been around so long (she started her career as an intern in the First Lady's office) she’s become more than a body woman.

She is now Clinton’s external hard drive.

When it comes to Clinton’s complicated web of relationships with donors, elected officials, union members, and longtime supporters, Abedin is where all of that information is stored -- she knows who needs a phone call or a personal visit to feel heard and come on board, who can be acknowledged merely in a Tweet, and who is a lost cause for Clinton."

Journalists shower Hillary Clinton with campaign cash Center for Public Integrity

This report came out yesterday, and while the amounts are not significant in the grand scheme of things, except for a few maximum contributions, the effect is to fuel the image of a non-objective press. Note that this overt political support is not universal, as many media companies have policies against any donations to political candidates.

The New York Times’ ethics handbook forbids its staffers to give money or contribute money for "political candidates or election causes" over the appearance "that the paper is taking sides." The Associated Press is crystal clear, stating that “under no circumstances should they donate money to political organizations or political campaigns.”

CNN spokeswoman Bridget Leininger said the cable network “does not allow editorial staff to contribute to candidates or political parties.”