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(L) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks before a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 18, 2024. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) Molly Shannon performs at the One Kid One World Night on April 28, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for OKOW)
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory 12:16 PM – Friday, October 18, 2024
During a pre-recorded video segment that was sent over to the Al Smith charity dinner on Thursday, Kamala Harris tried to poke fun at Donald Trump by making jokes about the 2020 election and his previous comments about Detroit.
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, which is commonly known as the Al Smith Dinner, is an annual white tie event held in New York City.
The yearly event brings together politicians and business leaders from both sides of the political spectrum, including mayors, governors, legislators, and presidential hopefuls, to exchange friendly jabs, donate money, and enjoy a delicious meal. Its primary goal is to generate money for Catholic charities in the Archdiocese of New York, which assists women and children in need.
“Since its first dinner in 1946, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner has raised millions of dollars for New York’s most vulnerable women and children. The Dinner has featured renowned cultural, business, and political figures, including most major party presidential nominees during election years since 1960.
While campaigning in Wisconsin, Harris announced that she would be unable to physically attend the dinner, a major blow to Democrats right before the 2024 election, as every single presidential candidate has historically attended the event in the past.
Instead, she instead addressed the crowd through a video in which comedian and actress Molly Shannon played her longtime character, Catholic school girl Mary Katherine Gallagher, from the 1999 film “Superstar” and the long-running skit show “Saturday Night Live.”
NEW: Kamala Harris releases a pre-recorded video for the Al Smith dinner in New York that she didn't show up for.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan made fun of the Vice President after the crowd gave a dismal applause once it ended.
Harris: “So tell me something; I’m giving a speech. Do you have some thoughts about what I might say tonight?”
Shannon: “Don’t lie. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
Harris: “Indeed, especially thy neighbor’s election results,” calling out Donald Trump and referencing the 2020 election.
Shannon: “Don’t say anything negative about Catholics.”
Harris: “I would never do that, no matter where I was. That would be like criticizing Detroit in Detroit,” taking another swing at Trump, this time over recent comments he made that disparaged Detroit’s extremely high rates of aggravated assault, robbery, and murder. Detroit, Michigan, was voted in the top three most dangerous places in the U.S. this year, according to U.S. News & World Reports.
Shannon: “Does it bother you that Trump guy insults you all the time?”
Harris: “You should never let anyone tell you who you are, you tell them who you are,” the Democrat nominee added, hypocritically acting as if her entire campaign has not been based solely on insulting Trump, rather than discussing her proposals and policies.
Shannon then walks away from the videographer’s view, and Harris delivers a direct address to all of the white tie dinner’s attendees.
“The Al Smith dinner provides a rare opportunity to set aside partisanship and come together to do some good by supporting the tremendous charitable work of the Catholic church,” Harris said. “In the spirit of tonight’s dinner, let us recommit to reaching across divides, to seeking understanding and common ground,” she added. “And in honor of the great Al Smith, let us fight to build a better future with faith in God, our country and in each other.”
Meanwhile, Catholic outlets and organizations have already expressed strong disapproval of Harris, criticizing her political stances and voting record as fundamentally opposed to core Catholic values.
“Harris has consistently promoted abortion, scrutinized Catholic judicial nominees, and opposed pro-life pregnancy centers and activists. She has also embraced gender ideology, as well as transgender and contraception mandates that have, at times, jeopardized religious freedom,” the National Catholic Register reported.
As a U.S. senator, Harris also voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have required that babies who survive a botched abortion receive the same medical care to which all other infants at that stage are given.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine takes part in a sound check at the Fiserv Forum ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 14, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN Staff James Meyers 12:03 PM – Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced on Monday that he has authorized state troopers to be stationed at each school building in Springfield, Ohio after a series of “unfounded bomb threats” took place.
DeWine has said all 33 bomb threats received so far have been hoaxes.
Former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance have been blamed for recent bomb threats in the media, claiming they’re the reason these threats are taking place.
Turns out the "b*mb threats" that the media blamed Trump and JD Vance for for weeks were ALL hoaxes and some originated overseas.
“We have people, unfortunately overseas, who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country. "We think that this is one more opportunity to mess with the United States,” DeWine said during a Monday afternoon news conference. “We cannot let the bad guys win. Our schools must remain open. They’re going to remain open.”
However, DeWine declined to name which country the threats were coming from.
The troopers will deploy explosive sniffing dogs and will work alongside the Springfield Police Department. Three dozen troopers will be assigned to provide security before, during and after school hours at the city’s 18 school buildings for the foreseeable future.
DeWine also stated that the Haitians who relocated to the area of Springfield for work are there under legal status.
“There are issues about immigration that anybody has the legitimate right to talk about and to debate. "The fact that our southern border is porous and is a total mess is a legitimate issue in a presidential campaign, a Senate campaign or any other campaign,” DeWine said.
Starting on Tuesday, 36 state troopers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Mobile Field Force will be stationed throughout the school district.
They will start sweeping school buildings for threats each day before students and faculty arrive, remaining on-campus throughout the day “to provide security throughout the school day and during dismissal.”
“None of the threats that have come into Springfield to date have been legitimate. "We're doing this purely as a precaution to prevent further disruption within the Springfield City School District,” DeWine said.
Additionally, the Ohio Governor said he also directed Ohio Homeland Security to conduct vulnerability assessments on “critical infrastructure” in the city, as well as provide surveillance cameras to the local police department.
DeWine also stated that the problems with illegal immigration are legitimate issues to debate and something to think about when voting.
Meanwhile, nearly 20,000 Haitians have moved to Springfield over the past few years, a dramatic increase for a town that had 59,000 in it as of the 2020 census.
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The city of Springfield, which is dealing with an influx of Haitian illegals that have brought the region national attention, will send additional law enforcement and millions of dollars in resources from the governor of Ohio.
Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stated on Tuesday that while the “Temporary Protected Status” program has been implemented, which has allowed over 15,000 Haitians to enter the 59,000-person city since 2020, he believes more needs to be done by the federal government to assist affected towns.
The city of Springfield is at the center of one of the most controversial topics in this election. GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance stated that “Haitian illegal immigrants” are “draining social services and generally causing chaos.”
This afternoon, I outlined the support the state has been providing Springfield and Clark County in relation to the surge of Haitian migrants into the community. It also announced plans to expand primary healthcare access and traffic enforcement in the area.
Springfield has seen its population grow by over 20% in four years, driven mostly by illegal immigration, PBS reported.
In an effort to stop the federal government from continuing to send “an unlimited number of migrants to Ohio communities,” Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost authorized his office to investigate legal options on Monday, including the possibility of launching a lawsuit.
DeWine clarified that Ohio has already given Springfield extra funding to support driver education and training, pay for more immunizations and health checks in schools, and improve translation services.
“These dramatic surges impact every citizen of the community, every citizen,” he said. “Moms who have to wait hours in a waiting room with a sick child, everyone who drives on the streets, and it affects children who go to school in more crowded classrooms.”
The Ohio State Highway Patrol will be sent to assist local law enforcement on Wednesday in addressing traffic-related problems that have now arisen, according to officials, as a result of more Haitians using the roads who are not familiar with American traffic laws and not assimilating well into American culture.
According to DeWine, he has also set aside $2.5 million over a two-year period to expand primary healthcare services offered by private healthcare facilities and the county health department.
Additionally, in a Springfield police 9-1-1 call from August 26th, a local homeowner said on Tuesday that four Haitian immigrants were out at a nearby park holding dead geese whose necks had been broken.
The Federalist outlet was also able to obtain audio of a man reporting the incident to a local dispatcher, which was included in the article.
“I’m sitting here, I’m riding on the trail, I’m going to my orientation for my job today, and I see a group of Haitian people, there were about four of them, they all had geese in their hands,” the caller said.
Screenshots of a Facebook post from another resident of a Springfield local group also claimed that a friend’s cat went missing recently and was subsequently witnessed being prepared for dinner in the yard of a Haitian immigrant.
A handful of Springfield residents have voiced during public city council meetings that the surge in Haitian migrants and their “barbaric” methods of hunting local animals for consumption is distressing and has no place in their community.
However, a spokesperson from the Springfield Police Department still claimed that there were no “credible” reports of any illegal immigrants taking part in these acts, seemingly gaslighting community members and those who have personally claimed to have witnessed these situations.
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Another American city is being overrun by illegal migrants and violent crime, and guess what—the media is doing everything it can to ignore it, of course. Let’s talk about Springfield, Ohio.
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BlazeTV investigative reporter Julio Rosas traveled to Springfield, Ohio to cover the worsening crisis involving Haitian migrants in the area. In the video, Rosas interviews four individuals from the nearby village of Tremont City, Ohio, including Mayor Tony Flood II and a local police officer. These interviews were recorded on September 10, 2024.
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Springfield, Ohio, is at the center of one of the most fraught issues in this election. GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance wrote that “Haitian illegal immigrants” are “draining social services and generally causing chaos.” Springfield has seen its population grow by over 20 percent in four years, driven mostly by immigration. William Brangham visited the city to understand how it is coping.
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The Biden regime's State Department has now publicly confirmed what it must have known for nearly three years, if not longer: Taliban jihadis are holding three Americans hostage. What have relentlessly anti-American Biden regime apparatchiks done in response? True to form, they’ve sent billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to the Taliban.
The Washington Examiner reported Saturday that a Biden regime Foggy Bottom wonk “confirmed on July 11 that three U.S. citizens, George Glezmann, Mahmood Habibi, and Ryan Corbett, are currently being held in Taliban custody. Taliban representatives repeatedly claimed they only held two Americans in detention.” Why are they holding any at all, and why are the comrades in the State Department and the Oval Office sending them money instead of applying pressure upon the Taliban?
Of course, the Biden regime has long since made clear which side it is on, with $10 billion to Iran and $100 million to Gaza, which means to Hamas, since there isn’t any entity in Gaza that has the power or will to keep the money away from Hamas. The Taliban have been in on the gravy train as well. Just The News reported in early June that “a recently released federal watchdog report shows that the U.S. government has sent at least $11 million to the Taliban since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops.”
That was a wildly low estimate, as it left out the key excuse that the Biden regime uses to send our money over to Kabul: humanitarian aid. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) wrote in its May 2024 report, “U.S. Funds Benefitting the Taliban-Controlled Government: Implementing Partners Paid at Least $10.9 Million and Were Pressured to Divert Assistance,” that since the Taliban returned to power, “the U.S. government has continued to be the largest international donor supporting the Afghan people,” and that the Biden “has provided more than $2.8 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to help the people of Afghanistan.”
Antony Blinken and his henchmen would likely insist that this $2.8 billion was not sent to the Taliban, but to other groups that are operating in the country. But this is just as unrealistic and disingenuous as claiming that money sent to Gaza won’t go to Hamas. The aid money that has been sent to Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of the Taliban despite all the denials and claims to the contrary.
“Now,” said The Foreign Desk in an Aug. 2022 report, “humanitarian aid to the Afghan people is lining the pockets of the Taliban at the expense of innocent Afghans and American taxpayers alike.” Nothing has changed since then; if anything, the Taliban have consolidated their power even more than they had by mid-2022. Just as The News notes, “Judicial Watch released an investigation recently showing that the Taliban has created fake NGOs to siphon away tax dollars.”
Your tax dollars are even going to fund education in Afghanistan, even after the Taliban have barred girls from going to school. Judicial Watch reports that the Biden regime “has continued to fund Afghanistan’s education sector through six programs that cost $185.2 million even though the Taliban has issued decrees drastically limiting access to education for girls and women as well as restricting women’s ability to work and other basic freedoms.”
In fiscal year 2023 alone, “the U.S. sent Taliban-ruled Afghanistan over $566 million in humanitarian assistance. Most of it was for emergency food, but a chunk was classified as going to general humanitarian and health.” And all this business is about how the money is for food or “general humanitarian” needs is a steaming pile of nonsense, anyway.
Money is fungible. If you give the Taliban $566 million for food and medicine, they’ll have $566 million freed up for jihad violence and the oppression of women. Why this simple fact of basic economics continues to elude the great minds of the Biden regime remains a mystery and a matter of no curiosity at all for our nation’s “journalists.”
Ominously, “more than $15 million went to a cause that is labeled ‘redacted’ in the government records.” That’s right: we sent the Taliban $15 million for a secret purpose, and you can be assured that it’s not to cover the costs of printing millions of copies of the Bill of Rights. Congressional opposition, such as it is, should be demanding that the regime disclose what that money is going for and whether or not it is being spent in the best interests of the United States.
It’s a reasonable line of inquiry. After all, it seems as if the Biden regime never misses an opportunity to aid America’s enemies, even the Taliban, as they hold Americans hostage. There used to be a word for that. Started with a T. But everyone has forgotten that word.
