WH Spokesman Carney Slams GOP’s ‘Obsession’ With Anti-Islam Film

January 25, 2013 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Hillary Clinton, Islam, Islamofascism, Jihad, Koran, Liberals, Libya, PCism, President, Progressives, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the days following the attacks on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year the Obama administration insisted the whole thing was a result of Muslim ire at an anti-Islam film posted to Youtube. Today, after Hillary testified in front of the Senate over her role in the debacle, White House spokesman Jay Carney is blasting Republicans for their “obsession” about the film.

During her testimony, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continued to blame the Benghazi attack on “militants” and got agitated over a question from Republican Senator Ron Johnson (WI) who asked about why the administration illegitimately focused on the video for so long.

As Sen. Johnson tried to pin Clinton down on the issue, the Secretary raised her voice saying, “The fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”
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Buzzfeed: With Rice Out, Benghazi Scandal Now Over?

December 15, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Buzzfeed, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice came before the American people and served up the untrue story that the attacks on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans was the result of some Youtube video. This false story seems to have helped torpedo her chances of being the next Secretary of State as today Rice pulled her name out of the running for the position. But, does her pulling her name from consideration somehow “end” the Benghazi scandal? Buzzfeed thinks it does.

According to Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller, Rice pulling herself out of contention for the nomination as Obama’s next Secretary of State “effectively caps a three-month administration scandal over the Benghazi terrorist attack.”

Miller goes on to say that because the Republicans found “the scalp they’ve been seeking,” why, the whole thing is basically over.

Over? So, all the lies, the deaths, the lack of support for our embassy and support personnel that were killed is now all erased simply because Rice quit her hunt for Sec. State and the GOP “got a scalp”?

Miller does note that Republicans are vowing to continue the investigation into the major failures at Benghazi, but he feels that it will now continue “without the bloodthirst.”

Of course, Miller is viewing the Benghazi massacre that Americans suffered as merely some political witch-hunt as all Democrats do. This is little else but an effort to give Obama a pass on his disastrous foreign policy failure by dismissing the whole Benghazi affair as nothing but mere politics.
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NBC’s Chuck Todd: Susan Rice a Victim of Conservative ‘Advocacy Media’

December 15, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, NBC, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice announced today that she was taking herself out of the running to be considered the next Secretary of State. To explain why she took herself out of the running, NBC’s Chuck Todd blamed it on “conservative advocacy media.” To Todd, it was nothing but a right-wing witch-hunt.

Todd appeared on MSNBC on Thursday and proclaimed that Rice was a victim because she didn’t have a “consulting team or a full PR team” at her disposal. I guess the White House wasn’t enough of a mega phone for her.

Todd basically claimed that Rice being lost to the President as a nominee for State was a conservative witch-hunt.
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Assoc. Press Paints Murders in Benghazi as Merely a ‘PR Disaster’

November 30, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Hamas, Islam, Islamofascism, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In an outrageous attempt to defuse for President Obama the murderous disaster that is his security failures in Benghazi on September 11, the Associated Press deemed the whole debacle merely a “PR disaster” and speculated it could all just be forgotten if Susan Rice were to be successfully nominated as our next Secretary of State.

The White House could finally have its chance to close the books on its Benghazi public relations disaster, as key Republicans signal they might not stand in the way of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to become the next secretary of state.

With such dismissive rhetoric, the AP seems to discount the death of Chris Stevens, our U.S. Ambassador to Libya, and several of his security staff all of whom were murdered by radical Islamists. Still, even the logic here makes no sense.

Is the AP saying that the ambassador’s brutal murder can just be forgotten if Susan Rice becomes Sec. of State? How does that even make sense? This claim makes as much sense as saying that Watergate should have been forgotten because Richard Nixon was successfully re-elected after perpetrating the break-in.

The AP next goes on to swallow whole the shaky explanation of why Susan Rice lied about what happened at Benghazi.
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(VIDEO) ‘High on a Mountaintop’ Tribute to the Heroes of Benghazi by Chris Cassone

November 30, 2012 | Filed Under Libya, Military, Music, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Tribute to the heroes of the Benghazi attack on our embassy: Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ambassador Chris Stevens…and a rebuke of the treason that let them die. All proceeds (that’s ALL…except the Bandcamp 15%) will go to the SEAL NSW Family Foundation.

(H/T )

Doris Kearns-Goodwin: We Need to Excuse Affairs to Get the ‘Best People in Public Life’

November 14, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, NBC, Policy, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In response to revelations of the extramarital affair that now former CIA Chief David Petraeus admitted to over the weekend, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin scoffed at the idea of holding highly placed public figures to account for their personal behavior.

On the Sunday, November 11 episode of NBC’s Meet The Press, Kearns-Goodwin made the point that we are too strict with our public officials and because of that we won’t get any more great presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and… Bill Clinton?

“What would we have done if FDR had not been our leader because he had an affair with Lucy Mercer? Think of the productive years that Clinton could have had if Monica Lewinsky hadn’t derailed them. We’ve got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We’re not gonna get the best people in public life if we don’t do that.”

Kearns-Goodwin also longed for the day when Americans paid little mind to the private lives of public figures.
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Most Transparent President Ever Finally Has a Press Conference

November 14, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Today at 1:30 PM, President Obama has deigned to hold an honest-to-goodness, question-taking press conference. I guess the President took to heart the plaintive plea of ABC’s Jake Tapper who asked Obama not to be a stranger as the Prez exited his last presser on August 20.

But that was just a walk on, guest shot, a surprise to the press. Obama’s last scheduled, solo press conference was all the way back on March 6.

Despite claiming that he’d be the most open, transparent president ever, Obama hasn’t been as forth coming with the Old Media establishment as other presidents. In fact, he’s been chided by the media since he first became president for keeping them at arm’s length.

The latest scolding Obama took over his shyness was in early in October when Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank looked up the numbers and noted that in the last four years, President Obama “has worked assiduously to avoid being questioned, maintaining a regal detachment from the media and other sources of dissent and skeptical inquiry.”
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Obama and That ‘Act of Terror’

October 18, 2012 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Libya, Policy, President, Progressives, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

The video juxtaposes Obama’s claim in the debate against multiple televised statements by White House and Administration officials in subsequent days. It clearly shows that while the president now claims his Rose Garden speech called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror,” neither the White House press office nor Administration officials viewed that speech as an affirmation of terrorism in Benghazi.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice repeatedly referred to the “video” as cause of the attack in subsequent administration statements – with Carney specifically affirming that the White House HAD NOT called the Benghazi attack “terrorism” on September 20.

The Rice and Carney statements unambiguously show that Obama’s claim is misleading.
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Debate Moderator Crowley Lies About Obama’s Benghazi/Terrorism Lies

October 17, 2012 | Filed Under Barack Obama, CNN, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, President, Progressives, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

CNN’s Candy Crowley, the so-called moderator of the second presidential debate for the 2012 elections, misled 60 million viewing Americans in the debate when she wrongfully sided with Obama against Mitt Romney when Romney maintained that Obama refused to call the attacks on our Libyan embassy an act of terror in his Rose Garden address on the incident the day after it occurred.

During the section on Obama’s abject failures on foreign policy, Romney was making the point that Obama took many days before he finally started calling the attacks on our Benghazi embassy an act of terror. But as he was making this point, buttinski Crowley sided with Obama telling Romney he was wrong.
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Obama Asks Hillary to ‘Hold This’…

October 16, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, PCism, President, Progressives, Religion, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

Hilarious

NYTimes: Libya Attack Discussion is the Republican’s Fault?

October 12, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Islamofascism, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, Policy, President, Progressives, Terrorism, The New York Times, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Surprising to no one, The New York Times agrees with the absurd spin from team Obama that the only reason anyone is talking about the Obama administration’s week worth of lies about the attacks on our embassy in Libya — attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, one of them our own ambassador — is because the Republicans keep bringing it all up in the national discussion.

The Times has decided to ignore the recent hearings about what the Obama administration knew and when it knew it. There’s just no “news” to it, the paper’s editors say. “It’s three weeks before the election and it’s a politicized thing, but if they had made significant news, we would have put it on the front [page],” said Times managing editor, Dean Baquet.
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FAIL: Obama’s ‘Forward’ Foreign Policy

October 12, 2012 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Ethics, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Can you trust Barack Obama to protect America?

Of course, he’s doing a great job leading America… at least if you are an enemy to America, you’d think that, anyway.

The White House Disinformation Campaign on Libya

October 7, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Islam, Islamofascism, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media Bias, PCism, President, Progressives, Society/Culture, Taliban, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

New evidence shows there were security threats in Libya in the months prior to the deadly September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Despite these threats, the State Department left its personnel there to fend for themselves.

Foreign Policy Fail: What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?

October 3, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

About Obama’s massive foreign policy failures in the Middle East as our embassies went up in flames last week, Kirsten Powers wants to know “What did they know, and when did they know it?” In fact, she’s downright accusatory saying that Obama and his State Department underlings are simply lying to us… and the Old Media is letting him slide on this outrage.

Powers does a great job raking Obama over the coals in her Sept. 28 Newsweek/Daily Beast article titled,”Write About Terrorism? Nah, Let’s All Bash Mitt Romney Instead!.”

Powers can’t see any other explanation about how the Obama administration performed after the attacks. They just lied, she says.
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Against Family’s Wishes, CNN Used Murdered Ambassador’s Journal in Reports

September 24, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, CNN, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Islamofascism, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, President, Progressives, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

CNN has finally revealed the “source familiar with Ambassador Stevens’ thinking” upon which it based much of its reporting in the week following the attack on our embassy in Benghazi and the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens. That “source” was his own, handwritten journal and CNN used it for its reportage quite despite the wishes of Stevens’ surviving family.

On Friday, September 21, CNN host Anderson Cooper made the admission on his Anderson Cooper 360 show saying that much of the “information was found in a personal journal of Ambassador Stevens in his handwriting.”

We came upon the journal through our reporting and notified the family. At their request, we returned that journal to them. We reported what we found newsworthy in the ambassador’s writings. A reporter followed up on what we found newsworthy, as I said, in the ambassador’s writings.

This rather benign explanation, though, runs quite contrary to what the Wall Street Journal reported. As WSJ reported, the family had asked CNN not to use the journal at all.
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As Embassies Burned, Obama More Interested in Interviews and Photo Ops

September 21, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Even as President Obama’s flacks are telling the media that he is too smart to attend daily intelligence briefings, we are finally finding out what he did on that volatile Friday morning last week when our embassies were burning and 21 countries were erupting in anti-American protests. Instead of worrying about all that, Obama was giving puffball interviews to entertainment magazines and having photo ops.

Instead of spending precious time dealing with the developing crisis in the Mid East and with his foreign policy scheme in a total freefall, on Friday morning, September 14, Obama was giving an interview to the entertainment magazine People en Español and participating in a photo session with photographer Omar Cruz.

Worse, this puffball interview wasn’t on his public schedule and was hidden from the public. Wasn’t Obama the one that claimed he’d have the most transparent administration in history?
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Instead of Watching Embassies Burn Obama Watches Football Last Weekend

September 18, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Libya, President, Progressives, Sports, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

We are told that President Obama watched a lot of football this weekend. I guess it was more fun than attempting to deal with our embassies burning in the Middle East and our soldiers being killed in Afghanistan.

The newsflash is courtesy of Amy Gardner’s twitter feed. Gardner, the White House reporter for the Washington Post, reports that the press gaggle on Air Force One reported that Obama spent his time watching football.

President Obama didn’t watch SNL season opener this weekend; watched a lot of football, per Josh Earnest on AF1 gaggle.

Must be nice to take time away from the pressing duties of being president to relax and watch a little football. But one wonders when this president actually takes time to undertake any of those pressing duties between golf, football, bowling in the White House bowling alley, and flying about the country for daily fundraising events?
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CNN Hides Facts: Cairo Riots Not About ‘Offensive’ American Movie, But Freedom of Blind Sheik The Goal

September 14, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, CNN, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, PCism, Progressives, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Just before the crowd in Cairo, Egypt erupted in violence against the U.S. embassy there, CNN’s cameras were in the capital interviewing protesters who said that the main purpose for their protest was to have Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (known as the ‘Blind Sheik’) released from a U.S. prison. Yet as soon as the riots began, CNN began to push the false story that the riots were sparked by some low-budget American movie that denigrated the Prophet Muhammad.

The very day before rioters stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo, CNN’s Nic Robertson filmed an interview with a handful of Islamists right outside the U.S. embassy. One of those protesters that CNN interviewed was the Blind Sheik’s brother, Mohamed al Zawahiri.

The Blind Sheik’s brother had an absurd “peace plan” proposal that he thought would end the blood shed between Muslims and the west and it was this so-called plan for peace that formed the basis for CNN’s report. But what is more interesting about the interview was that it serves as proof that the riots that happened hours later were not about any movie but were started in order to push for the release of The Blind Sheik.

Egyptian President Morsi has in the past expressed solidarity with Sheik Abdel-Rahman claiming that as Egypt’s president he’d work to have the U.S. free the terrorist. Morsi claimed this only two months ago proving that the release of Abdel-Rahman has been a key issue in his country.
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Roll Call Claims a ‘Republican Split’ Over Romney Embassy Comments, Offers no Examples

September 14, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, GOP, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, Newspapers, President, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Along with the rest of the Old Media establishment, Washington D.C.-based newspaper Roll Call also attacked Mitt Romney for having dared to criticize the Obama administration for its failures in the Middle East after the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya. To push the anti-Romney narrative, Roll Call claimed that a “rift” had developed among Republicans over Romney’s reaction. Strangely, the Capitol Hill newser didn’t offer much by way of proof that such a rift exists

Immediately after the attack in Cairo, Egypt, our embassy released an ill advised statement that essentially blamed America’s tradition of free speech for the violence. Mitt Romney immediately responded that this was a “disgraceful” statement for a U.S. embassy to make and criticized the Obama administration for it.

After all, America’s embassies operate under the control of the President of the United States and when an embassy speaks it is rightfully assumed that they are speaking with the President’s voice.
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NBC Pushes Unproven Claims of ‘Anti-Muslim Incidents’ In USA

September 14, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Ethics, Islam, Journalism, Koran, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, NBC, PCism, Progressives, Religion, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

When “journalists” confront conservatives, typically every claim, statistic, or assertion is challenged, but when talking to kindred spirits, reporters allow any manner of claim to pass by unchallenged. Such is the case with NBC’s interview of spokesmen for CAIR who, without any proof, were allowed to claim that “a spike in hate” against Muslims was occurring in the U.S.A.

Jim Gold of NBC News spends the more than half of his recent report giving spokesmen for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) all the room they needed to make the claim that after the Muslim rioters attacked American embassies in Egypt and Libya, they have seen more calls to their offices reporting hate crimes and discrimination against Muslims in the U.S.

Naturally, Mr. Gold never bothers to ask these Muslim activists for any proof of their claim. He just reports it straight as if it is simply a fact. If this were conservatives making such a statement, Gold would never allow the claim to be taken as Gospel truth without challenge like he did here. He would have had “experts” included in the story to rebut the conservative’s claims. But Gold did not seem interested in such “balance,” here.
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The ‘No Justification’ Talking Points

September 13, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Gary Krasner, Government, Government, Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Liberals, Libya, President | Comments Off

-By Gary Krasner

Referring to events in Libya and Egypt today, Obama said there was “no justification” for Muslim mobs violating US sovereign territory and murdering our embassy people and ambassador.

Hilary also said there was “no justification.”

Presidential spokesman Jay Carney said there was “no justification.” That was the administration’s line for the day. It’s an abamination.

Whenever one says that there’s no justification for a particular action, that means there are situations when that action might be deemed justified.
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HuffPo Contributor: ‘Why Should I Care’ About Death of Ambassador Stevens

September 13, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, Islam, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, Progressives, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Huffington Post contributor Sharmine Narwani took the occasion of the murder of our ambassador to Libya to launch into an anti-American diatribe that culminated in her asking why she is supposed to care about Ambassador Chris Stevens’ death or that of the other two killed with him.

Sharmine Narwani, who is also a correspondent for Al Jezeera and an associate at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, took to her Twitter account on Wednesday after it was reported that Ambassador Stevens was murdered by a rioting Islamist crowd in Benghazi, Libya.

100s of 1,000s of Arabs & Muslims slaughtered by American troops. Tell me again why I should care about whatshisname-plus-three?

Almost immediately Twitter followers began to attack the HuffPo blogger for her callousness. But Narwani was unapologetic. At one point she asked a detractor why he questioned her “logic” just because it was different from his. “His life,” she said of the ambassador, “does not hold any more weight than another.”
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The Atlantic Criticizes Romney Over Libya, But Mitt Was Talking About Egypt

September 13, 2012 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Elections, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, President, Republicans, The Atlantic, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Atlantic Wire accused Mitt Romney for a “less-than-factual” statement on Libya delivered in the hours after the attacks on our embassy. But in its rush to attack Mitt Romney, The Atlantic Wire got its countries mixed up as the statement it was condemning was Mitt’s statement on Egypt, not one on Libya.

A screen capture of the original headline

It wasn’t long before The Atlantic Wire changed its headline dropping the “On Libya” part.
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For Half The Day, MSNBC Ignored U.S. Embassy Attacks in Cairo

September 12, 2012 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Journalism, Liberals, Libya, Media, Media Bias, MSNBC, President, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Aside from the 11th anniversary of 9/11, there was no bigger story on Sept. 11, 2012 than the attack made upon the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt. But for half the day on Tuesday, MSNBC didn’t mention the incident.

A careful review of MSNBC’s programming on Tuesday proved that up until 6PM eastern, MSNBC had still not bothered to report the storming of the U.S. embassy.

Late on the morning of Sept. 11, Muslim protesters angry, they claimed, over an American movie that portrays the Prophet Muhammad in an unsavory light, scaled the walls of the embassy in Cairo. The protesters removed the U.S. flag and replaced it with the black al Qaeda flag. Some five hours later, the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya was also attacked. One American was killed and the embassy was burned to the ground.

By 6PM eastern both CNN and Fox News had televised stories about the attacks while MSNBC remained quiet.
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Rick Santorum: Obama Is a Terrorist Appeaser

December 12, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Anti-War, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Corruption, Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Lebanon, Liberals, Libya, Osama bin Ladden, Pakistan, Palestinians, President, Republicans, Rick Santorum, RightPundits.com, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

We haven’t talked much about Rick Santorum here on the blog — actually, few people have so we aren’t too different in that, unfortunately — but he had a nice little spot on CNN in an exchange with Candy Crowley on whether or not Obama is an appeaser of foreign terrorists and tyrants.

Obama, of course, has been portraying himself as the ultimate anti-terrorist because he “got” Osamma bin Ladden, not to mention how he has severely damaged al Qaeda. But is that all there is to his record? Does that make him the perfect anti-terrorist? Santorum says no.

Rick is exactly right, here. Killing a few terrorists is not necessarily being tough on either terror or the dictators that push terror as a tool of the state….

See the video and read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Muammar, Dead at Last

October 28, 2011 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Anti-Semitism, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Israel, Liberals, Libya, Security/Safety | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

There were at last count at least 643 ways to spell Muammar Gaddafi and I for one am very happy he is dead for that reason alone. The fact that he was the dictator of Libya for over forty years, funded the Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner and other terrorist acts also contributes to the good news.

These are proving to be bad times for dictators and it is easy to suggest that Basher Assad, a second generation dictator of Syria, will likely come to an equally bad end. So far this year the former dictator of Tunisia had to flee. Egypt’s Mubarack had to step aside, and both Syria’s and Yemen’s presidents are under siege. Nobody knows who’s in charge of Somalia.

As I watched President Obama take a victory lap when he announced Gaddafi’s death, my thoughts turned to what Ted Belman, a widely-read blogger called the Israpundit, had to say. “Gaddafi wasn’t any worse than the barbarians that killed him and will replace him. There are no freedom-loving democrats in the entire Muslim world which consists of seventh century-minded brutes.”

The Israelis have had the misfortune of having had to fight off Muslims not only for the past sixty-plus years of statehood, but in the decades leading up to it. Unlike those of us in the West, they understand them in terms of the insane, fanatical hatred they have for Jews, Christians, and all other “infidels”, unbelievers.
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The Consequence of US Leadership Failure at the UN

October 1, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Countries, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Palestinians, Peter Roskam, Policy, President, Republicans, Saudi Arabia, Security/Safety, State Department, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Rep. Peter Roskam (Ill., 6th District)…

In the coming weeks the United Nations Security Council is expected to take a series of misguided procedural steps towards allowing the Palestinian Authority (PA) to unilaterally declare independence (UDI). If they happen they will mark a step backwards from any potentially genuine Middle East peace and illustrate yet another failure of the Obama Administration’s “leading from behind” approach.

This did not have to be a foregone conclusion. This past May, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and I called on the Administration to stand united with the American people, and with Israel, opposing this UN action. The State Department has heard a similar chorus in the months since.
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Debunking the Palestine Lie

September 20, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Koran, Lebanon, Libya, Palestinians, PCism, President, Sharia, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

There has NEVER been such a people as the Palestinians. And those that wanted their own nation have been little else but murderers, racists, and hatemongers since the 1920s and before!

This video does a great job explaining the REAL history of these murderous, monstrous, haters.

Worse, during WWII the Palestinians honed their hatred to a special edge by learning at the feet of the Nazis.

The basis for all this violence, hatred, murder, war, and destruction perpetrated by the so-called Palestinians? Islam, of course.

Kinzinger Statement on the End of the Qadaffi Regime

August 24, 2011 | Filed Under Adam Kinzinger, Congress, Foreign Countries, GOP, Government, Illinois, Libya, Military, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill., 11th Dist)…

Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) issued the following statement regarding the end of the Qadaffi regime in Libya:

“This week, we witnessed the end to the Qadaffi regime, which marks a major victory for the people of Libya and another step forward toward our ultimate goal of achieving freedom and peace throughout the Middle East.

“Nonetheless, the people of Libya, Americans, British, French, and our Arab partners stand proudly united as we recognize the hard work, commitment and sacrifice of our militaries. The Libyan people fought tirelessly for their liberty, and prevailed.

“With this achievement, comes the continued responsibility of the United States to provide additional support and vigilance to Libya to rebuild this nation, founded upon democracy; and to take preventative action against any future retribution.”

http://kinzinger.house.gov/.

Rep. Kinzinger Defies GOP Opposition to Democrats War Resolution

June 24, 2011 | Filed Under Adam Kinzinger, Anti-Americanism, Anti-War, Barack Obama, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Liberals, Libya, President, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Representative Adam Kinzinger made what is in my opinion a principled vote on the pair of resolutions concerning the authorization and funding of Obama’s mission in Libya today. His principles however ran counter to the Republican’s conventional wisdom on this and he was one of only eight Republicans to do so in one case.

The first resolution that came to a vote was H.J.Res.68 – Authorizing the limited use of the United States Armed Forces in support of the NATO mission in Libya. It was introduced by extremist, left-wing Democrat Alcee Hastings (D, Florida). The resolution was meant to give cover to President Obama’s military involvement and hoped to give Obama up to a year of extra time to stay in Libya without further authorization.

Kinzinger voted with the Democrats on this, but I feel he did so in keeping with his support of the mission as opposed to his desire to aid Democrats. He supports this mission and that is that. Whether you agree with the effort or not, I think Kinzinger stayed true to his ideals and did not use this vote to play politics with the issue. (Kinzinger voted “yea” along with eight other Republicans: Dent; Dreier; S.King; P.King; McCotter; Rivera; Rogers of Michigan)

**BELOW, see video of Kinzinger’s floor speeches and a transcript of his comments**
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