History for January 8

History for January 8 - On-This-Day.com:
James Longstreet 1821 - U.S. Civil War general, Soupy Sales (Milton Hines) 1926 - Comedian (Host: The Soupy Sales Show), Elvis Presley 1935 - Musician, known as "the King of rock 'n' roll" 


Bob Eubanks 1938 - Game show host ("The Newlywed Game"), Stephen Hawking 1942 - Theoretical physicist, writer ("A Brief History of Time"), David Bowie (David Robert Jones) 1947 Singer, movies ("The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Labyrinth", "Basquiat"), Broadway ("The Elephant Man") 


1675 - The first corporation was chartered in the United States. The company was the New York Fishing Company. 


1815 - The Battle of New Orleans began. The War of 1812 had officially ended on December 24, 1814, with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The news of the signing had not reached British troops in time to prevent their attack on New Orleans. 


1856 - Borax (hydrated sodium borate) was discovered by Dr. John Veatch. 


1889 - The tabulating machine was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His firm, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). 


1900 - In South Africa, General White turned back the Boers attack of Ladysmith. 


1958 - Bobby Fisher, at the age of 14, won the United States Chess Championship for the first time. 


1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." 

1994 - Tonya Harding won the ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later took the title from Harding because of her involvement in the attack. 

City Councilman Suddenly Flees After Being Pulled Over by Border Patrol — Agents Soon Find Out Why | Video | TheBlaze.com

City Councilman Suddenly Flees After Being Pulled Over by Border Patrol — Agents Soon Find Out Why | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Crystal City Council member Marco Rodriguez was allegedly transporting three illegal immigrants from the border to San Antonio when he was stopped by authorities. Rodriguez reportedly talked with the officer for a short time, but then took off again, KENS-TV reported."

Hillary Can't Explain The Difference Between A Democrat And A Socialist

Hillary Can't Explain The Difference Between A Democrat And A Socialist | The Daily Caller
In a softball interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Democratic Party frontrunner Hillary Clinton vehemently denied she’s a socialist, but found herself unable to answer what the difference is between a Democrat and a socialist.
Clinton’s main rival for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination is Vermont senator and self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
Matthews asked Clinton, “What’s the difference between a socialist and a Democrat? Is that a question you want to answer, or would you rather not?”
“You’d have to ask [Sanders],” Clinton said before being interrupted by Matthews.
“You see, I’m asking you. You’re a Democrat, he’s a socialist. Would you like someone to call you a socialist?” Matthews asked.
“I am not one,” Hillary responded without answering the question.
“OK, well what’s the difference between a socialist and a Democrat?” Matthews asked again.
“I can tell you what I am, I am a progressive Democrat,” Clinton responded.
“How is that different than a socialist?” Matthews asked a third time.
“I am a progressive Democrat who likes to get things done,” Clinton continued.
“And who believes we’re better off in this country when we’re trying to solve problems together. Getting people to work together.
There will always be strong feelings and I respect that, from, you know, the far right, the far left, libertarians, whoever it might be, but we need to get people working together.
We’ve got to get the economy fixed, get all of our problems, you know, really tackled and that’s what I want to do.”

First power station knocked offline by hackers is harbinger of cyber-warfare future

First power station knocked offline by hackers is harbinger of cyber-warfare future | HITBSecNews: "A power outage in western Ukraine on 23 December 2015 was the result of a cyberattack, the country's energy ministry has confirmed.
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET believe it to be the first-known instance of power stations being disabled by hackers.
The incident left homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine without electricity for several hours in December 2015.
The malware used to carry out the attacks is believed to be the BlackEnergy Trojan, first developed in 2007 to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
It has since been upgraded to carry out more sophisticated tasks, such as cyber-espionage.
"We found out that the attackers have been using a malware family on which we have had our eye for quite some time now: BlackEnergy,"...

Watch U.S. Veteran’s Response When Anti-Gun British Reporter Asks Him If He’s Actually ‘Proud’ to Live in His Country | Video | TheBlaze.com

Watch U.S. Veteran’s Response When Anti-Gun British Reporter Asks Him If He’s Actually ‘Proud’ to Live in His Country | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When asked if he was “proud” of the number of Americans who die by gunshot wounds every year, a U.S. veteran said he didn’t know how to answer due to the phrasing of the question.

Instead, during an appearance on Britain’s Channel 4 News, Armed American Radio reporter Neil McCabe argued that Americans, including himself, do not have an obligation to be a victim of an attack.

The exchange between McCabe and Channel 4 reporter John Snow began when the British journalist "

"Somebody's Lying. Who Is It?"

"Somebody's Lying. Who Is It?" :: SteynOnline

On December 29th Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with the editorial board of The Conway Daily Sun.

...Just by way of background, three months ago, the latest crop of email releases from Hillary's secret server reveals that she knew even as the Benghazi attack was unfolding that it was terrorism and not, as I put it back in September 2012, a spontaneous class-action movie review. As I said to Hugh Hewitt in October:

She chose to politicize it from the moment it was happening, even as it was underway. In other words, in the afternoon of September 11th, when it was 9:00 in the evening in Benghazi, she was already politicizing it. And I think it was damaging that on September 12th, she told not only the President of Libya and the Prime Minister of Egypt, but also her own family members that it was a terrorist attack. And yet, there she was on September 14th at Andrews Air Force Base over the coffins of the dead lying to Tyrone Woods' family when she told them we're going to get that guy who made the video, and we're going to have him arrested and prosecuted... She tells the truth to the Government of Libya. She tells the truth to the Government of Egypt. But she lies to the people to whom she is meant to be a public servant, the American people...

At a critical moment on a critical date in American history, she opened her mouth and vomited forth a sewer of lies that everybody else is supposed to just try and swim their way through to find out the reality of what went on. And if you're a foreign government leader, you know the truth. If you're the American people, you get lied to.

Once you know the timeline of her communications with the Libyans, the Egyptians and with Chelsea Clinton, it becomes harder and harder to accept that the video distraction was anything other than a consciously constructed official lie.

Now listen to Tom McLaughlin at the Conway editorial meeting. He has the facts, and she has a lot of generalized evasions about the "fog of war":

Here's the transcript:

Turning to Hillary, I said, "You mentioned the families of the Benghazi victims and the discrepancy Mark brought up about your email — or conversation maybe — with your daughter..."

"Um-hmm," said Hillary.

"...about it being an al Qaida-like group, Ansar al Sharia. Then you told an Egyptian diplomat in a phone conversation that it was a planned attack and not a protest. Umm, but then, when the bodies were brought back, you spoke to the family members and you told them, they say that you told them, this was a spontaneous demonstration. And then George Stephanopolous asked on This Week: "Did you tell them it was about the film?"

"Um-hmm," she said. "And you said, 'No.' Now, somebody's lying..."

"Well first let me say," she interjected, but I pressed on.

"...Who is it?"

"Well, not me. That's all I can tell you," she continued. "But, you know, people were incredibly emotionally distraught...

That's one way of putting it. As Mr McLaughlin notes, three of the grieving families were so "incredibly emotionally distraught" they have specific recollections of Hillary telling them it was all about the video:

Tyrone Woods' father said — about you — that you said, 'We're going to have those people arrested who were responsible for the death of your son.' Sean Smith's mother reported, 'She [Hillary] said that it was because of the video.' And then Glenn Doherty's sister said that, "You chose to, in that moment, to basically perpetuate what you knew was untrue.' So, all three of them say you told them that."

"Well," she said.

I ignored her and continued, "And you say you didn't tell them that..."

"I did not tell them that, but, I can't recite for you everything that was in a conversation where people were sobbing..."

Hillary Clinton is now telling lies about her lies. Lies about why Americans died halfway round the planet. This would be crippling to any other presidential campaign, and yet it takes The Conway Daily Sun even to put the matter to her..."

Juanita Broadderick Takes to Twitter: "Bill Clinton Raped Me..."

Juanita Broadderick Takes to Twitter: "Bill Clinton Raped Me..." » Louder With Crowder

Here I was thinking today was going to be all about the gun control and how Obama is taking the wheel, driving us off the cliff. Then along comes Juanita Broderick with a simple little statement. In under 140 characters, she lobbed a giant bomb.
I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73….it never goes away.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 6, 2016

It’s a bomb for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, it is not in any way news to those of us who are familiar with Mrs. Clinton’s committee of skeletons in her closet. If you can’t see them, move the pantsuits. Yeah, there they are.
For the stray Clinton supporters here, after you’ve crushed skulls and shoved those skeletons back behind the parachute pants, yes, that is the REAL Juanita Brodderick, as verified by a journalist over at Vox. Okay? So keep your pants on.
Just got off the phone with Juanita Broaddrick, who confirms that @atensnut is her real Twitter account.
— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) January 6, 2016

Here’s a quick history to my fellow Millennials who may not have been paying attention to the Clinton presidency, what with us being more interested in My Little Ponies, Ninja Turtles, or whatever the “hottest” band was at the time. Juanita Broderick is one of several women Bill Clinton (obligatory “allegedly”) sexually assaulted. Others include Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones and the infamous Monica Lewinsky (who allegedly consented).
In other words, if ever there was a real “rape culture” it was around Bill Clinton. Here’s what Broderick said in a 1999 NBC interview:
Then he [Bill Clinton] tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip … He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him ‘No,’ that I didn’t want this to happen but he wouldn’t listen to me. … It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to ‘Please stop.’ And that’s when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip. … When everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says ‘You better get some ice on that.’ And he turned and went out the door.”
Rape. Real rape. Not “I regretted it the next day so that’s, like, totally rape right?” kind of rape, but actual forced, abusive rape. It’s something Broadderick cannot stop thinking about. But Bill Clinton?
So fast forward to now, 2016, where feminists scream RAPE when a man looks at them funny. Broadderick is saying Bill Clinton raped her and Hillary covered it up. Let’s also remember that Hillary recently said all women who alleged rape should be heard…
Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported. https://t.co/mkD69RHeBL
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 23, 2015
Which doesn’t really jive if you spend any kind of time thinking about anything. Hillary Clinton covered up her Bill Clinton’s rapes. She’s running for the highest office in the land.
Again: Hillary covered up rape. She’s running for the highest office in the land.

Lunch video-Amazing!!-----Future Unmanned Russian Solar Powered Tank Which Is Invisible To Drones.

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GOP Rep. Drops Terrifying Revelation After Two Pakistani Men Are Apprehended at U.S. Southern Border | TheBlaze.com

GOP Rep. Drops Terrifying Revelation After Two Pakistani Men Are Apprehended at U.S. Southern Border | TheBlaze.com:

"With evidence that at least two Pakistani nationals listed on various terrorist watch lists were apprehended while entering the U.S. illegally, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is warning Americans that the southern border is vulnerable to intrusion by terrorists.

According to records reviewed by TheBlaze, two Pakistani men, Mukhtar Ahmad, 25, and Muhammad Azeem, 20, surrendered to a U.S. Border Patrol agent Sept. 20, 2015, near Otay Mesa, California. A Terrorist Screening Database records check of Ahmad revealed that he is on a terror watch list as he’s an associate of a known or suspected terrorist. A records check of Azeem revealed that he had been flagged as a positive match for derogatory information — it is unclear from the records what that “derogatory information” is."

The Corn-Fed Albatross Called Ethanol

The Corn-Fed Albatross Called Ethanol - WSJ:
The renewable fuel has cost drivers an extra $83 billion to fill their tanks since 2007, and it does little or no good for the climate.
In the past two presidential-primary seasons, candidates crisscrossing Iowa before the caucuses would pay obeisance to corn ethanol and its compulsory use in gasoline.
Yet in the current campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz reliably sits atop the Iowa polls even though he scoffs at the Renewable Fuel Standard passed by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007.
Maybe even Iowans are having second thoughts about a law that has been a boon to corn growers but hardly anyone else.
Before long, it may be politically safe to take a wise step and eliminate the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
...Today, ethanol’s downsides have become clear.
First, it increases the cost of driving. Current ethanol blends provide fewer miles per gallon, so drivers pay more to travel the same distance...
Second, ethanol adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than it eliminates by replacing fossil fuels.
The Environmental Working Group says that “corn ethanol is an environmental disaster.”
The group explains: “The mandate to blend ethanol into gasoline has driven farmers to plow up land to plant corn—40 percent of the corn now grown in the U.S. is used to make ethanol.
When farmers plow up grasslands and wetlands to grow corn, they release the carbon stored in the soil, contributing to climate-warming carbon emissions.”
And then there is the carbon emitted in harvesting, transporting and processing the corn into ethanol.
...Finally, the U.S. no longer needs renewable fuels to reduce its dependence on energy from foreign sources.
Thanks to expansion in the oil and gas industry, the U.S. has outdistanced Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top oil and natural-gas producer.
The U.S. could become energy independent in five years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but only if crude oil prices are high enough to keep American producers operating..."

2/3rds of Obama's Gun Death Stats Are Suicides

2/3rds of Obama's Gun Death Stats Are Suicides:
"During his January 5 speech explaining “the fierce urgency of now” and the need for executive gun control to save the day, President Obama also admitted that two thirds of his scary gun death statistics are suicides.
Early in his speech–published by The Washington Post–Obama said, “Every single year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns — 30,000.”
He said this was a combination of “suicides, domestic violence, gang shootouts, [and] accidents,” but he did not elaborate on which of these reasons for death made up the lion’s share.
Rather, he built on the number “30,000,” saying:

"Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters or buried their own children. Many have had to learn to live with a disability or learn to live without the love of their life. 
A number of those people are here today. 
They can tell you some stories. 
In this room right here, there are a lot of stories. 
There’s a lot of heartache. 
There’s a lot of resilience, there’s a lot of strength, but there’s also a lot of pain. 
And this is just a small sample."
Well over halfway through his speech, Obama admitted that “high-profile mass shootings” draw attention to the “few mentally unstable people who inflict harm on others, but the truth is that nearly two in three gun deaths are from suicides.”
Hillary Clinton’s campaign ran an ad that swelled gun death numbers in this same way.
The ad opened with Clinton saying, “This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries. Between 88 and 92 people a day are killed by guns. We’re better than this.”
Breitbart News pointed out that two thirds of those gun deaths were suicides, not deaths from “gun violence.”"

Ah, the details...-----Greenland Aiming to Opt Out of Paris Climate Accord

Greenland Aiming to Opt Out of Paris Climate Accord | Heartlander Magazine:
"Even before the ink dried on the UN climate agreement developed in Paris, Greenland is angling to opt out of its commitments under the accord due to its impacts on the territory's energy sector. 
“We still have the option of making a territorial opt-out to COP21," Kim Kielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, said during a visit to Copenhagen in mid-December.
"We have an emissions quota of 650,000 tons of CO2, which is the same as a single coal-fired power plant in Denmark, or a minor Danish city."
Travel an Issue
Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, is geographically roughly the size of Mexico while the population is smaller than the Cayman Islands’ making Greenland the least densely populated country in the world.
With its population so widely dispersed, the commonest mode of transportation for locals is light planes which emit a great deal of carbon dioxide during their operation..."

Cruz: Obama Targets Law-Abiding Citizens Instead of Criminals

Cruz: Obama Targets Law-Abiding Citizens Instead of Criminals:

"Cruz, who is currently on a six-day bus tour through Iowa, spoke to reporters about Obama’s announcement of new gun control executive actions.

“This has been the most anti-gun administration in the history of our country” Cruz said. “This has been an administration that has targeted law abiding citizens in particular, rather than targeting criminals, rather than targeting terrorists.”

Don't Cry for Me, Gun Controller

Nate Jackson: Don't Cry for Me, Gun Controller — The Patriot Post:
"During his Tuesday press conference rolling out his over-hyped executive actions on guns, Barack Obama even shed a “tear” for the children. “Every time I think about those kids [killed at Sandy Hook Elementary], it gets me mad,” he said, wiping away a tear. (And he says he’s not good at the theater of the presidency.)
...He then proceeded to introduce measures that would do absolutely nothing to reduce crime or so-called “gun violence.”
He’ll target only the law-abiding, and he will likely continue the lax enforcement for which his administration has grown so infamous.
Every American should be incensed when lives are taken senselessly, but also when craven politicians stand on the coffins of innocent victims to trumpet their preferred gun control policy.
If Obama really wanted to save lives, he’d work with Congress to push for things like fewer “gun free zones,” which just happen to be where nearly every mass shooting takes place.
Instead, he lectures: “I believe in the Second Amendment. It’s there written on the paper.
It guarantees a right to bear arms. No matter how many times people try to twist my words around, I taught constitutional law, [so] I know a little bit about this. I get it. But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment.”
 He’s just not interested in those ways."

History for January 7

History for January 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Millard S. Fillmore 1800 - 13th President of the United States, Paul Revere (Paul Revere and The Raiders) 1942, Kenny Loggins 1948 - Singer 


Rand Paul 1963 - Politician, Nicholas Cage 1964 - Actor ("National Treasure" movies, "The Rock"), 
Rhianna (Robin Hannah Louise Kenny) 1983 - Singer 


1610 - Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter's moons. He named them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. 


1904 - The distress signal "CQD" was established. Two years later "SOS" became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to send by wireless radio. 


1927 - In Hinckley IL, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game. 


1942 - The World War II siege of Bataan began. 


1953 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced the development of the hydrogen bomb. 


1975 - OPEC agreed to raise crude oil prices by 10%, which began a time of world economic inflation. 


1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton. 


2009 - Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged greater international involvement in the energy dispute. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/01/continuous-fear-by-tammy-derouin-images.html

Continuous Fear

By Tammy Derouin

The images and stories coming out of the Middle East and now Europe are terrifying.  ISIS has been allowed to grow and terrorize not only its region of the world but has moved into Europe.  They will continue to push their way west.  They are not shy about their ambitious goal, stating that they want to conquer us, the United States.

The cruel and barbaric treatment of those who simply do not believe or live as they do is beyond criminal, it’s diabolical.  We are told Islam is a religion of peace, yet to be forced to choose between converting or death is not an act of love; it’s control enforced by continuous fear.

We are told that ISIS has become contained.  But, their numbers are growing not decreasing. They are moving west and with the help of our current administration, they could be located in an area near you, very, very soon.   Wouldn’t you think the leader of any given country would want to do background checks on those being admitted?   You wouldn’t let just anyone into your home, would you?  

I do not understand the Liberal Left.... 

CNN's Camerota Shocked 14 Women Could Make Claims Against Bill Clinton

CNN's Camerota Shocked 14 Women Could Make Claims Against Bill Clinton
"Is that right?
Fourteen??"
That's Alisyn Camerota, 1:21 into the video clip. The shock and incredulity in the voice of the CNN host is stupendous!
Yes, who could possibly imagine that, as CNN commentator Errol Louis stated, there are 14 women who could potentially make allegations of improprieties against Bill Clinton.
If Camerota had consulted CNN's own files, she wouldn't be so shocked.
The Starr report includes Monica Lewinsky's testimony that Clinton personally told her that "he had had hundreds of affairs" before the age of 40.
And Dick Morris is on record saying Clinton had "hundreds of women" just during his time in the White House. 
Whatever the precise number, does Camerota assume that Clinton conducted himself like Sir Galahad in all his encounters?
The discussion arose in the context of Donald Trump's jujitsu against Hillary after she accused him of "sexism."
JOHN BERMAN: What'll be interesting, Errol, is whe we see Bill Clinton out on the campaign trail next week in New Hampshire. Does Bill Clinton address any -- get within a million miles of any of this?
ERROL LOUIS: Well, you put your finger on exactly what is going on here. Is Donald Trump wants to take Bill Clinton out of the equation. Wants to either embarrass him or otherwise frighten him off the campaign trail. Unlikely to happen, but that is the strategy. To sort of get him out of the picture so that he can go after Hillary Clinton without her biggest booster, one of the most popular Democrats in the country. I don't think that's going to happen. But you know, after what we've seen with Bill Cosby, and with. old accusations. There are about 14 women who could be said to have made claims at one time or another.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: Is that right? Fourteen??
LOUIS: Well, if you go to the sort of right-wing websites and the talk radio crowd. There are about 14 names out there.

FBI Pulls Out All The Stops To Investigate This STUPID Thing

FBI Pulls Out All The Stops To Investigate This STUPID Thing | The Federalist Papers
When someone left a couple strips of bacon on the door of a Las Vegas mosque, the FBI sprang into action.
So did the Las Vegas Police and the Las Vegas Sheriff’s Department.
Because this is a vicious hate crime, law enforcement will dedicate as much manpower and resources as necessary to bring this vigilante to justice!
The FBI is leading the investigation – the same FBI who couldn’t be bothered to investigate the mosque that the Boston Bombers attended, by the way – and are searching for a man who smells delicious.
The crime took place at the Masjid Tawheed Mosque and is being investigated as a “hate crime.” They even have surveillance video of the dastardly deed:

Clinton Mercilessly Grilled on MSNBC: ‘What’s the Difference Between a Democrat and a Socialist?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Clinton Mercilessly Grilled on MSNBC: ‘What’s the Difference Between a Democrat and a Socialist?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton was mercilessly grilled Tuesday evening by an MSNBC host over the difference between the ideology of a Democrat and socialist.

“I want to try to help you tonight…locate yourself politically,” Chris Matthews, host of “Hardball,” told Clinton before noting that her chief 2016 rival Bernie Sanders identifies as a socialist."

The “Klanbake” 1924 Democratic Party National Convention

The “Klanbake” 1924 Democratic Party National Convention
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The “Klanbake” 1924 Democratic Party National Convention
New York, New York!
Madison Square Garden, New York City, June 24-July 9, 1924

The Democratic “Klanbake” New York 1924
The 1924 Democratic National Convention, also called the “Klanbake”, held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924, took a record 103 ballots to nominate a presidential candidate.

1924 Democratic Party National Convention – Half Are Ku Klux Klanners!
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, founded and populated by Democratics after post-Civil War Reconstruction, was reenergized after the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith’s very popular racist & Pro-Klan motion picture The Birth of a Nation.
The picture was a particular favorite of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson.
As recounted by William Keylor, Professor of History & International Relations at Boston University:
While the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publicly denounced the movie’s blatant appeals to racial prejudice, the president organized a private screening of his friend’s film in the White House for the members of his cabinet and their families.
“It is like writing history with lightning,” Wilson observed, “and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
After World War I, the popularity of the Klan surged, and it became a political power in many regions of the United States, particularly in the South.
It was also popular in the border states, the Mountain States, and the West.
Its local political strength gave it a major role in the 1924 Democratic Party National Convention (DNC).
However, its participation was unwelcome by many DNC delegates, such as Catholics from the major cities of the Northeast and Midwest.
The tension between pro- and anti-Klan delegates produced an intense and sometimes violent showdown between convention attendees from the states of Colorado and Missouri. Klan delegates opposed the nomination of New York Governor Al Smith because Smith was a Roman Catholic. Smith campaigned against William Gibbs McAdoo, who had the support of most Klan delegates.
Ku Klux Klan Platform Plank
The second dispute of the convention revolved around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform. 
Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates. 
To celebrate, tens of thousands of hooded Klansmen rallied in a field in New Jersey, across the river from New York City.
This event, known subsequently as the “Klanbake”, was also attended by hundreds of Klan delegates to the convention, who burned crosses, urged violence and intimidation against African Americans and Catholics, and attacked effigies of Smith.
The final vote was 546.15 for the Klan, 542.85 against it.

When it was OKKK to be KKK!
Newspapers called the convention a “Klanbake,” as pro-Klan and anti-Klan Democratic delegates wrangled bitterly over the party platform.
The convention opened on a Monday and by Thursday night, after 61 ballots, the convention was deadlocked.
The next day, July 4, some 20,000 Democratic Klan supporters wearing white hoods and robes held a “picnic” in New Jersey.
One speaker denounced the “clownvention in Jew York.”
They threw baseballs at an effigy of Al Smith.
A cross-burning culminated the event.