New York Times: IRS Scandal Ignored Because of Rush Limbaugh
May 25, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, IRS, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, New York City, Newspapers, Policy, President, Progressives, Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Taxes, The New York Times, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
There has been much speculation in the media on why Obama’s current scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups for attack didn’t come out last year when the initial flurry of reportage on the incident was seen. Well, The New York Times thinks it has the answer: it was Rush Limbaugh’s fault.
When the IRS finally admitted these last few weeks that it had, indeed, unfairly targeted conservative groups–most especially during the 2012 election cycle–many pointed out that this targeting was being complained about for some time. But why did the scandal just break big now, in May of 2013, when stories about it go back several years?
The paper of record pondered this very question in a May 21 piece by Michael D. Shear that places the blame on Limbaugh. It’s all because of “slutgate,” Shear claims.
The Times points out that in March of 2012, Representative Charles Boustany, Jr. (R, LA) held a hearing on the IRS targeting but the story got little traction. Shear quotes several parties to the effect that it was a “dog-bites-man story” in that the media wasn’t interested in talking about Tea Party groups complaining about the IRS.
So, what stories did hold the media’s attention during Boustany’s 2012 hearing? Rush Limbaugh’s media manufactured “slutgate.”
It was during the first week of March that Rush Limbaugh ridiculed abortion mill supporter Sandra Fluke for being a “slut” because she wanted the U.S. government to pay for her contraception.
The media, of course, went into a feeding frenzy on “slutgate” to the point that Rush eventually apologized for his over-the-top characterization of the abortionist. It was all the media could talk about at the time.
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Obama’s Attorney General Hypocrisy: Alberto Gonzalez vs Eric Holder
May 24, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Elections, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
In 2007 when Barack Obama was running for President the first time there was a controversy raging over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was right to accede to President Bush’s order to fire a handful of U.S. attorneys. Obama then criticized the AG for politicizing the office. Flash forward to 2013 and he’s now standing up for an AG that is far worse than what he claimed Gonzalez ever was.
The controversy over Gonzalez was a manufactured, fake, left-wing nothing of a controversy, of course, because U.S. attorneys serve at the President’s discretion and many presidents have fired theirs. Clinton fired all of his and even Carter fired one for “political reasons.”
In any case, then Senator Obama went on CNN’s Larry King Live to rip Bush and to say that his AG was acting too politically.
Obama criticized AG Gonzalez for seeming to think his role is “being the president’s attorney instead of being the people’s attorney.” Obama also claimed that Gonzales should be fired because he wasn’t “somebody who was actually trying to look out for the American people’s interests.”
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CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Reports She’s Been Shut Out By White House
May 24, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, CBS, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, Media Bias, PCism, President, Progressives, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The intrepid Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News has been one of the few reporters attempting to dig deep into controversial stories–and by controversial we mean stories that Obama would rather see go away. But after her work on Fast & Furious and Benghazi, she is now reporting that she’s been shut out of the information loop by the White House.
Attkisson was one of the few members of the progressive media establishment interested in covering the Fast & Furious scandal and has lately also been a bulldog looking into the Benghazi cover-up. She has been so far reaching in her work that she was dubbed a “persistent voice of media skepticism” by The Washington Post.
Her work got her praise and rumors that her boss, David Rhodes, may fire her for being too effective. Naturally, CBS boss Rhodes has a brother that is a close Obama adviser. Ben Rhodes, the CBS executive’s brother, also happens to be one of the operatives in the Obama administration directly involved in the Benghazi cover-up.
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Nancy Pelousie: An Example of the Stupidity & Lies One Must Perpetrate to be a Democrat
May 24, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Government, Corruption, IRS, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Progressives, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
There are dozens of examples every day of the lack of logic, ignorance of facts, downright dishonesty, and stupidity one must employ to be a Democrat in America, but today we must focus on a particular example of lunacy perpetrated upon the public by the loud-mouthed, dull witted former Speaker of the House, “San Fran” Nancy Pelosi.
This lying sack of botox was giving one of her signature pressers in which one gets lies, spin, and nonsense instead of information when she was asked about the current IRS scandal by one of the lapdog, left-wing media.
Curiously, the reporter asked San Fran Pelousie a real question:
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WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted
May 23, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, ABC, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, IRS, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston, Washington Post | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the Justice Department’s seizure of the AP’s phone records was justified. Despite all this disapproval, Obama’s approval rating is still just over 50 percent positive.
An important metric in the ABC/WashPost poll was the question of whether or not government is doing more to protect or threaten our rights. 54% felt that the government had become a threat to our rights while only 34% said that the government was acting properly to protect our rights. The American people’s faith in government is at low ebb.
This distrust is echoed when the poll turned to the specific cases of Benghazi and the IRS.
55% said that they feel that Obama is trying to cover up what happened during the terror attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. Only 33% felt he was honestly disclosing what he knew.
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The Conservative Hispanic Society: IRS Targeted Us Too
May 23, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Corruption, Hispanics, IRS, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Race, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Conservative Hispanic Society has joined the growing list of conservative groups that feel that they, too, were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service in its recent campaign of harassment. In a statement, CHS is “expressing outrage” over what it feels is Obama’s “infiltration of every aspect of our government.”
In a statement the Conservative Hispanic Society, a group that represents “traditional Hispanic values,” expressed its outrage at the Obama administration’s targeting of conservative Hispanic groups.
CHS feels that they’ve been targeted for a slowed down approval process.
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VIDEO: White House Spins Obama’s Role in Benghazi: From Competence to Irrelevance
May 22, 2013 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Homeland Security, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Sharia, Terrorism, The Heritage Foundation, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Helle Dale, The Heritage Foundation
With the weekend’s grand slam appearance on the Sunday talk shows by yet another official unqualified to talk about Benghazi, the Obama Administration has again shot itself in the foot.
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer attempted to defend U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s mischaracterization of the Benghazi terrorist attack, which she blamed on the now infamous anti-Islam video. It was a poor show.
All of this stands in stark contrast with White House’s handling of the Navy SEAL Team Six raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. We have all seen the images of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton huddled in the White House situation room with the national security staff, riveted to live images of the nighttime raid. It was hardly over before President Obama, speaking proudly as commander in chief, went on national television to announce the death of the enemy of the American people. The Administration even cooperated with the producers of the movie Zero Dark Thirty about the mission to kill bin Laden.
Even New Yorker Sides With Fox on DOJ Attack on James Rosen
May 22, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Earlier today it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News’ James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not as just a reporter getting “classified” information, but an “aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator.” This is such a shocking charge that even The New Yorker has come to Rosen’s support.
The focus on Rosen was reported in the Washington Post on May 20 with the paper wondering if the Obama administration’s goal was to intimidate reporters. The Post also said the investigation went nearly to the point of criminalizing standard news-gathering.
For The New Yorker, this is all quite chilling.
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Gov’t Memo Proves CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson Got Benghazi Email Story Right
May 22, 2013 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Barack Obama, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Religion, Sharia, Terrorism, TV, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
One of the earliest reporters revealing the internal emails about Benghazi exchanged between the U.S. Department of State and the intel community was CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson. Her original report was based on “written notes” and, as she said from the beginning, was not derived directly from the emails themselves. Despite this disclaimer, some called her reckless for her reporting. But in the end her reports are still quite close to the actual emails and shows she did not get the story wrong.
Attkisson was accused of not disclosing that her report was written from congressional insiders that gave her access to notes taken after they had been given access in Committee to the actual emails. To put to rest the accusations against Attkisson, Mediaite obtained an internal CBS memo that shows that she never claimed that her report was derived directly from the emails themselves.
When Attkisson handed in her original report on the email exchange, she clearly noted that her work was based on notes taken by her sources.
Note: *Emails were provided by the Administration to certain Congressional Committees for limited review. The Committees were not permitted to copy the emails, so they made handwritten notes. Therefore, parts of the quoted emails may be paraphrased.
This notation, however, did not make it to the May 10 story CBS posted to the web, nor was it pointed out on any of the CBS TV reports on the story.
No explanation was given for that lapse.
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Triage: Obama Summons Media Lapdogs to Secret White House Meeting
May 21, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Apparently a cadre of far left-wing “journalists” were seen filing into the White House for a secretive meeting with their lord and master Barack “I Didn’t Know” Obama.
Journalist Ari Shapiro noted the meeting on Twitter:
Spotted: @joshtpm @capehartj @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone?
— Ari Shapiro (@arishapiro) May 21, 2013
So, Obama summons his journ-o-list lapdogs to secret White House meeting for what… proper programing?
I am sure The One will be rapping the knuckles of his bought and paid for media operatives for chiding him on the slew of scandals his office has perpetrated lately.
Prepare now for the media to begin to downplay everything in obeisance.
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Politico’s Thrush Politicizes Oklahoma Tornado
May 21, 2013 | Filed Under Children, Climate Change, Democrats/Leftists, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Oklahoma, Politico, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma on the afternoon of May 20 was only a few hours gone, the devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest before Politico’s Glenn Thrush felt it was already time to politicize the event and by scolding Oklahoma’s Senators because they are against global warming and big government spending, no less
Only hours after the monster storm ended, Thrush took to his Twitter account to slam Oklahoma’s Senators.
It is striking that Oklahoma’s senators are 1) a federal spending skeptic and 2) global warming denier
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 21, 2013
So, because a tornado hit in an area that has a long history of getting hit by tornados, if that area’s senators were global warming believers…. then, what, Glenn? If Oklahoma’s senators were to be global warming aficionados, would that somehow have warded off a tornado?
Or, perhaps if said senators were believers in big government spending would that somehow have been a bulwark to stop natural disasters?
Or is it, Mr. Thrush, that you are always in a rush to find any reason to attack someone because they don’t believe in your love of big government and your zealous belief in global warming? Regardless of whether a town is destroyed and children are killed it all still serves as fodder for your desire to advance your political objectives?
Is that it, Mr. Thrush?
Related: Liberal Laughing that ‘Conservatives’ Were Targeted by Oklahoma Tornado Today.
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Liberal Talk Show Host: AG Eric Holder Should Be Fired
May 21, 2013 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Radio, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Bill Press is a liberal radio show host with a syndicated show heard across the country, so, naturally, Press is also an Obama supporter. But even this Obama supporter thinks that it is time for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to be fired.
After news broke that Holder’s Department of Justice had subpoenaed the personal and business phone records of some 100 reporters from the Associated Press the liberal talker took to Twitter to call for Holder’s head.
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CNN’s Crowley Admits Obama Didn’t Call Benghazi a Terror Attack
May 21, 2013 | Filed Under Barack Obama, CNN, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Religion, Sharia, Society/Culture, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
On the May 19 broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, host Candy Crowley said that Obama was late in identifying the attacks in Benghazi as terrorism quite contrary to what she said during the Presidential debates late last year.
As Crowley questioned White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer, she pressed him on whether or not the President was aware of the Benghazi talking points being written and re-written by the Department of State and the intel community, re-writes that eventually eliminated any mention that the attacks were perpetrated by terrorists.
In reply, Pfeiffer blithely told Crowley that “no president” would get involved in writing talking points like that.
Crowley went on to point out that Obama was late in calling it terror saying, “in an interview on CBS–which we later learned after the election–but a week and a half after Susan Rice was on [the Sunday shows calling the attack a reaction to a Youtube video] he did say he wasn’t sure if it was a terrorist attack.”
Pfeiffer the somewhat quixotically replied that, “no one was sure at that point.”
Crowley countered that saying “well, no the president, first of all in Libya they were sure of it and the CIA seemed pretty sure of it!”
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Politico: AG Holder Now Untouchable
May 21, 2013 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Eric Holder, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, News, Politico, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
-By Warner Todd Huston
Politico has declared embattled Attorney General Eric Holder untouchable after the many scandals, lapses, overreaches, and contempt charges have failed to induce the President to fire him.
After noting that politicians have been calling for his ouster for years, Politico says that “after years of trying to get Holder, the attorney general doesn’t seem at all worried” that he’ll be fired from his position as chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America.
Quoting only Holders friends on the direct question on the AG’s current status, presenting Holder as but a fall guy for Republicans to beat up on because they can’t attack the President directly, and saying that the GOP has no “discipline” and has repeatedly made claims that were “overblown or just plain goofy,” Politico says that he’ll be able to hold his job for as long as he wants to be there and with the President’s full support.
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Liberal Laughing that ‘Conservatives’ Were Targeted by Oklahoma Tornado Today
May 20, 2013 | Filed Under Cable, Comedy Central, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Ethics, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, TV, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Lizz Winstead is a producer and co-creator of the Daily Show, the left-wing comedy show hosted by Jon Stewart on Comedy Network. After this destructive and tragic tornado whipped through Moore, Oklahoma today, she thought it was hilarious that “conservatives” were killed there.
In typical scumbag, liberal manner Lizz Winstead took to Twitter to say: “This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target.”
This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) May 20, 2013
Oh, gosh. Isn’t that hilarious? People killed including dozens of school kids and she laughs that “conservatives” are dying. Nice. This idiot works on the extremist, left-wing Daily Show on Comedy Central. THIS is what you are subsidizing by watching that show, people.
Below is a screen shot in case she deletes her Tweet.
**UPDATE**
Yep, just as I thought. On the late evening of May 20th Winstead deleted the offensive tweet. Good thing I took the screen shot above to prove it existed.
Related: Politico’s Thrush Politicizes Oklahoma Tornado
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Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’
May 20, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, CNN, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Government, Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
CNN’s chief anti-gun zealot Piers Morgan may have been loathe to admit it, but this IRS scandal seems to validate some of his detractor’s distrust of government.
During his evening show on May 16, Morgan’s guest was magician Penn Jillette and the discussion turned to the admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had misused its offices to intimidate President Obama’s opponents. Morgan seemed to ruefully come to understand that this abuse of power lends credence to those that say the government cannot be trusted.
“I’ve had some of the gun, pro-gun lobbyists on here, saying to me, ‘Well, the reason we need to be armed is because of tyranny from our own government,’ and I’ve always laughed at them. And I’ve always said ‘don’t be so ridiculous, your own government won’t turn itself on you.’ But, actually, when you look at this–this has nothing to do with guns–but actually this is vaguely tyrannical behavior by the American government. I think what the IRS did is bordering on tyrannical behavior, I think what the Department of Justice has done, actually, to the AP, is bordering on tyrannical behavior.”
We might recall that Piers Morgan was skeptical of Breitbart’s own Ben Shapiro for making just that point earlier this year.
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Arkansas’ Democrat State Treasurer Arrested for Extortion
May 20, 2013 | Filed Under Arkansas, Budget, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Progressives, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
On Saturday the FBI arrested two-term Arkansas State Treasurer Martha Shoffner (D, Newport) on charges of “extortion under color of official right,” a violation of the Hobbs Act.
Shoffner has been under scrutiny in Arkansas for a seemingly unexplainable investment she made of state funds. After a legislative audit last year it came to light that in 2011 her office sold 11 bonds that hadn’t matured and then bought similar bonds from the same brokers, resulting in a loss of more than $58,000 of the state’s money.
Republicans have been clamoring for her resignation for sometime over this failed investment strategy.
In December of 2012, state authorities decided to hand over their investigation to federal authorities once it appeared that, along with the failed investing practices, Shoffner had also converted campaign funds to her personal use.
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Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
May 20, 2013 | Filed Under Business, Capitalism, Computers, Inernet, New Media, Technology, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Yahoo, Inc. has announced that it has cleared the way to purchase the social website Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion.
The Yahoo board approved the deal in a conference call on May 17, but by Sunday, it wasn’t clear whether Tumblr had accepted the offer. Yahoo reports that it will hold a press conference as soon as Monday to make an announcement on the matter.
Tumblr, a social media site that combined blogging with a sharable, crowd sourced platform, was founded by David Karp and Marco Arment in 2007 and built a quick following.
Already many Tumblr users are lamenting the decision to sell out to Yahoo. On May 19, the website Mashable posted a piece about the “upheaval over Yahoo’s rumored Tumblr acquisition” revealing some users disgust at Tumblr for selling out to the corporate giant.
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Rush Limbaugh Does Live in Obama’s Head
May 19, 2013 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
On May 14 after news broke that President Obama had once again attacked talk radio host Rush Limbaugh by name, El Rusbo joked that he was “living rent-free in Obama’s head.” It’s hard to fault Limbaugh’s logic on this. After all, the President of the United States of America has used his bully pulpit to bully Rush nearly a dozen times since he became President.
Remembering that Rush Limbaugh is but a voice on the radio and has no vote in any government, hasn’t the ability to wield the power of regulation, and cannot force anyone to do anything under the cover of law, here are some of the times that President Obama went out of his way to kick Limbaugh and did so by name, not just with a general allusion (starting with the most recent):
At a New York fundraiser on May 13, 2013
Meeting with denizens of Hollywood at a fundraiser, President Obama complained that he, the most powerful man in the western world, couldn’t get anything done in Washington because a single radio host stood in his way.
“I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us, but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them. And as a consequence, we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government,” Obama said.
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Again for 2013, Few Colleges Invite Conservative Commencement Speakers
May 19, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Censorship, Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Progressives, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Young America’s Foundation conducted its annual review of the commencement speakers at the nation’s top universities and once again discovered that very few conservative speakers were invited to give graduates that traditional send off into the “real” word.
In what it called a “star-studded example of imbalance,” YAF found that of the nation’s top 25 colleges only two had decidedly conservative speakers taking the podium and out of the full list of 100, only 17 conservatives received speaking slots. On the other hand, 62 schools had invited decidedly liberal speakers to give commencement speeches.
Invited to speak are such liberals as Oprah Winfrey; Barack Obama and his second man Joe Biden; Nancy Pelosi; U.S. Rep. John Lewis; Clinton supporter and poet Toni Morrison; Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker; New York Times columnist Nick Kristof; former EPA head Lisa Jackson, and many more.
“While these liberals indoctrinate college students, conservative voices are being silenced,” the YAF website says. “Neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson, who has risen to national fame for his criticism of this administration’s leftist policies, was banned from speaking at Johns Hopkins University by an online petition from liberal students.”
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Joe Scarborough: This IRS Scandal Sure Hurts My Anti-Gun, Let’s Trust Government Argument
May 19, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Founders, Government, Government, Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, IRS, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, President, Progressives, Regulation, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
MSNBC’s Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough, is nearly apoplectic over the recent IRS admission that it used the power of its office to intimidate conservative groups throughout Obama’s presidency. Not necessarily because the IRS was acting so poorly, but because the scandal hurts his anti-gun argument.
During the recent debate over gun control in the Senate, Scarborough was a big booster of the Toomey/Manchin gun bill.
One of the arguments against the two Senators’ bill was that expanded background checks would likely lead to an un-Constitutional gun registry. Opponents maintained that the government wasn’t trustworthy enough not to misuse the information that would be gleaned from universal background checks.
In April Scarborough called anyone that opposed his support of the Toomey/Manchin bill an “extremist.”
This week, after the current IRS scandal hit the news, Scarborough is changing his tune albeit if only slightly.
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Fox News’ Eric Bolling: ‘I Was Audited by IRS’ After Criticizing Obama
May 18, 2013 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Fox News, Government, Government, Corruption, IRS, Journalism, Liberals, Media, President, Progressives, Regulation, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
During the May 14 broadcast of Fox News’ “The Five,” panel member Eric Bolling announced that he feels he was audited by the IRS after criticizing President Obama.
As Bolling told the panel, “[In] 2011, I was pretty vocal against four more years of President Obama & I don t know if it s coincidence or not but I did get an IRS audit in 2012 for my 2011 tax returns. I m not sure if there’s any correlation.”
Andrea Tantaros chimed in saying, “It’s the Chicago way. [Obama] said he would change D.C. and the way they do business. Boy, has he ever.”
On Thursday, May 16, Obama demurred from appointing a special prosecutor to look into the growing IRS scandal saying that he thought the current internal investigations he’s proposed would suffice.
“I think it s going to be sufficient for us to work with Congress–they ve got a bunch of committees. Attorney General Holder announced a criminal investigation of what happened,” the President said during a joint press conference with Turkey s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan.
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Was the 2013 ‘Photo of the Year’ a Photoshopped Fake?
May 18, 2013 | Filed Under Israel, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Palestinians, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
At the beginning of the year the World Press Photo of the year was awarded to Swedish photog Paul Hansen whose photo “Gaza Burial” took top honors. But only weeks passed before some in the industry began to wonder if the photo had been manipulated in photoshop. Some even said that it was a composite image. If this were so, critics said, that would violate the spirit of the contest. (Seen above with my little “helping” notation)
The photo shows a gut-wrenching scene of a two dead Palestinian children wrapped in burial robes and being carried by distressed family members to be laid to rest.
One skeptic, computer scientist Dr. Neal Krawetz, did an extensive exploration of what he says is the manipulation of the prize winning photo. “Hansen’s picture is a composite,” he concludes.
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52 Media Orgs Sign Letter of Complaint to Eric Holder
May 17, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, IRS, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The journalist group Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has penned a letter of complaint to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after revelations that the Dept. of Justice obtained the phone records of some 100 reporters from the Associated Press.
The letter informs Holder that the group was “stunned” to learn of the DOJ’s actions against the Associated Press and notes that none of them could “remember an instance where such an overreaching dragnet for news gathering materials was deployed by the Department.”
“The scope of this action calls into question the very integrity of Department of Justice policies toward the press and its ability to balance, on its own, its police powers against the First Amendment rights of the news media and the public’s interest in reporting on all manner of government conduct, including matters touching on national security which lie at the heart of this case,” the letter states.
The letter continues to outline the legal implications, processes, and the law governing the DOJ’s requests for such records and ends by demanding that the Dept. of Justice “immediately return the telephone toll records obtained and destroy all copies” it holds.
The letter ends with a few final demands.
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John Yoo: Obama Created This ‘Leak-Happy’ Washington to Destroy Bush
May 17, 2013 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, George W. Bush, Government, Corruption, IRS, Liberals, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Former Bush operative John Yoo has said that President Obama is now reaping the whirlwind of a “leak-happy world” that he and his colleagues created to destroy George W. Bush’s administration and is ruefully amused that they are finding the whole thing suddenly distasteful.
In a statement, Yoo, who as the deputy assistant attorney general in Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, asserted that this most recent scandal of the Dept. of Justice secretly obtaining the phone records of scores of reporters at the Associated Press, “shows that this administration cares far more about power than political and civil liberty.”
“It has intruded on the freedom of the press in ways that the allegedly power-hungry Bush Administration would never have dreamed,” Yoo said.
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As Gangs Flourish, Displaying Historical Firearms Illegal in Chicago Museums
May 17, 2013 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Progressives, Rahm Emanuel, Regulation, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Outside of Chicago’s museums gangs are killing each other at an alarming rate. But due to Chicago’s strict gun ban policies, inside those museums curators are not allowed to display historical firearms. In fact, in some cases the museums are not even allowed to store their collections inside the city limits.
The matter has become an issue after the family of the late Major General William Levine, one of America’s highest ranking Jewish generals, donated his belongings to Chicago’s Pritzker Military Library this year. The collection included a firearm that the general picked up in Germany during WWII.
But the library isn’t allowed to display the captured German pistol. In fact, the library isn’t even allowed to store it in the collection inside city limits.
“We realized when we received that gift that we couldn’t keep that gun in the city of Chicago,” said Ken Clarke, Pritzker Military Library CEO.
To correct this foolish oversight in the law, powerful city alderman Ed Burke has proposed a museum amendment to the city’s strict gun ban law.
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New State Dept. Spokesperson Gets Slammed Over Benghazi
May 16, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
It has been 8 months since the terrorist attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, Libya, attacks that ended up killing four Americans including our ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. Still we haven’t had a concrete explanation about this incident and new State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki didn’t do anything to alleviate that state of affairs as reporters peppered her with uncomfortable questions in her May 13 press briefing.
One exchange during the briefing between Psaki and a reporter named Brad (perhaps the AP’s Brad Klapper) was particularly sharp.
At one point, Psaki avers that the State Department was not privy to the 12-times re-written Benghazi talking points until after all the re-writes were done. The reporter was a bit incredulous at that noting that there is no proof for her blithe claim because her office is refusing to release the records to prove it.
What was Psaki’s reply? “All right. Well, you’ll have to take my word for it…”
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Gosnell Defense Attny Blamed ‘Baby Factor’ In Part For Guilty Verdict
May 16, 2013 | Filed Under Abortion, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Attorney Jack McMahon had an interesting excuse for why he lost the case to a guilty verdict for his client, abortion mill operator Kermit Gosnell. It was because of the “baby factor” he said to reporters right after the court adjourned. McMahon called this “a big problem.”
Just what the lawyer meant by “the baby factor” is open to question, but in context it seems that he was saying that the jurors were influenced by the common human emotion of love for babies and that emotional response led the jurors to convict his client.
Oddly, McMahon also blamed the media saying, “The media has been overwhelmingly against him [Gosnell].” This is odd since the media barely mentioned the trial during its entire run. Further, jurors reported that they had not seen much of the media’s coverage anyway.
McMahon did applaud the jury for taking its job seriously, though.
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A Perfect Photo Showing the Wussification of America
May 16, 2013 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Liberals, PCism, Progressives, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Are girder-walking, construction workers that build America’s highest buildings wusses? Well, not exactly. But here are two photos that show how America has been wussified between the turn of the 1900s and the turn of the 2000s.
The top photo is from the early 1900s and is a shot of a crew of girder-walking, construction workers high over New York city. Notice they have no safety harnesses? Heck, some of them don’t even have shirts on!! Look at these crazy, daring, manly guys. I mean seriously. You have to admire their élan and bravery. They are lean, mean, buidling machines, aren’t they?
Now look at today’s workers doing the same job…
Fat, overweight, puffy-faced, schmoes wearing all sorts of wimpy safety gear. Harnesses, straps, hard hats, dayglow clothing… “oh, help me I’m scared to work up here. Oooo, make me feel all warm and safe inside, won’t you??”
OK, it isn’t that bad. I mean, these guys are still amazing for their intrepid jobs. I sure as hell wouldn’t be caught traipsing around on a 12 inch steel beam 40 thousand feet in the air!
And do I want to go back to the day when every job was so dangerous that you took your life in your hands every single day? No, of course not.
But, I think you see the point I was trying to make.
Look at the first photo. Now THOSE were men. Men doing dangerous work, risking life and limb to build this country from the ground up with an intrepid, derring-do spirit that made this the most powerful nation in the world. Guys like that built the Empire State Building in less than a year, DURING THE DEPRESSION, fer cripes sakes!
Today we can’t get an outhuse built in less than a year and we have to spend millions on regulatory requirements, safety harnesses, hardhats, and gobbeldegook before we slam the first shovel into the dirt.
Hell, it took us 13 years to re-build the World Trade Center!
The wussification of America has proceeded apace since the good ol’ days.
Thanks Democrats.
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Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases
May 15, 2013 | Filed Under 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Business, Capitalism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Ethics, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Gun Control, Guns, Jobs, Liberals, Liberty, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now prohibiting merchants from using the service to sell anything firearm related.
The new user agreement has altered its “Your Square Account” section to add a new category for things that Square won’t allow its service to be used for.
The new prohibition reads: “(23) sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury.”
This is the next battle for gun owners to fight. Liberals and anti-Constitutionalists continue to lose with efforts to curtail our freedoms via Congress and the courts so they are attacking our credit, banking, and sales sectors attempting to scare them into putting an end to the selling of firearms and firearm related items at the retail level.
Another area of attack comes in the field of investments. Some Democrats and anti-gun zealots are targeting investment firms that hold stock in gun companies. Others are trying to intimidate cities and individuals into pulling investments out of gun companies.
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