Showing posts with label MSM. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Mainstream Media Terrorist Translation Guide

With word that a terrorist was caught attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (yep, the same one featured in Die Hard: With a Vengeance), the ne'er-do-wells at iOwnTheWorld broke out one of their classics.


I, for one, blame the Militant Lutheran Movement.



The Top 150 Conservative Websites, October 2012

Here are the latest rankings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ranked based upon Alexa traffic rankings. Yes, some of these are middle-of-the-road or moderate sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis.
RankTraffic RankWebsite
1165foxnews.com
2233wsj.com
3245telegraph.co.uk
4379usatoday.com
5426drudgereport.com
6454bloomberg.com
7914realclearpolitics.com
8997thedailybeast.com
91031theblaze.com
101196nypost.com
111283dailymail.co.uk
121576breitbart.com
131873zerohedge.com
142185dailycaller.com
152230weeklystandard.com
162263washingtontimes.com
173103hotair.com
183186townhall.com
193332thehill.com
203409washingtonexaminer.com
213776nationalreview.com
224239newsbusters.org
234355rasmussenreports.com
244414jpost.com
255064freerepublic.com
265247investors.com
275252pjmedia.com
285272ocregister.com
295617foreignpolicy.com
305887military.com
316232rushlimbaugh.com
327701debka.com
337758twitchy.com
347967americanthinker.com
358409ynetnews.com
368434reason.com
379375theweek.com
3810283ijreview.com
3911522timesofisrael.com
4011634freebeacon.com
4112418redstate.com
4213472lucianne.com
4313596thegatewaypundit.com
4414074michellemalkin.com
4514823humanevents.com
4615091ace.mu.nu
4715091mypetjawa.mu.nu
4815091rhymeswithright.mu.nu
4916326powerlineblog.com
5017380mises.org
5117443westernjournalism.com
5218216heritage.org
5318650freedomoutpost.com
5419563wattsupwiththat.com
5521825therightscoop.com
5625248creators.com
5727639canadafreepress.com
5828321legalinsurrection.com
5928737stratfor.com
6030102commentarymagazine.com
6130935whitehousedossier.com
6231540patriotupdate.com
6334129thenewamerican.com
6435109freedomworks.org
6535636weaselzippers.us
6636091realclearmarkets.com
6738380lifenews.com
6838413marklevinshow.com
6939366jihadwatch.org
7039490althouse.blogspot.com
7140892globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
7243506atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
7346025market-ticker.org
7446106the-american-interest.com
7546477mrc.org
7646951ricochet.com
7752867memeorandum.com
7854290frontporchpolitics.com
7955687navytimes.com
8057693hannity.com
8157840dailypundit.com
8259076atr.org
8359781rightwingnews.com
8460351takimag.com
8564082hillbuzz.org
8665831boortz.com
8766046spectator.co.uk
8870344cnsnews.com
8971330cowboybyte.com
9072888borderlandbeat.com
9173118anncoulter.com
9276632city-journal.org
9379797riehlworldview.com
9481766armytimes.com
9585787wizbangblog.com
9686572theothermccain.com
9789537volokh.com
9891812numbersusa.com
9993562firstthings.com
10097514conservativedailynews.com
101104606defensetech.org
102105139linkiest.com
103107539jammiewf.com
104112549israelhayom.com
105119890climateaudit.org
106120811moonbattery.com
107124447conservatives4palin.com
108125746directorblue.blogspot.com
109127275lonelyconservative.com
110131243airforcetimes.com
111131626thecommentator.com
112132942cato-at-liberty.org
113133574gatestoneinstitute.org
114134337maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com
115135144marinecorpstimes.com
116137863danielpipes.org
117142555aim.org
118143837american.com
119146652aei.org
120147536sayanythingblog.com
121148382floppingaces.net
122162809patterico.com
123163547judicialwatch.org
124168032economicnoise.com
125174785datechguyblog.com
126180434polipundit.com
127183567angrywhitedude.com
128187067radicalislam.org
129188371smalldeadanimals.com
130192554steynonline.com
131193336maggiesnotebook.com
132197884redalertpolitics.com
133199870dennisprager.com
134201925allamericanblogger.com
135203409theblogmocracy.com
136204807spectator.org
137215449creepingsharia.wordpress.com
138220031bostonreview.net
139223159fireandreamitchell.com
140223510iowahawk.typepad.com
141232030memri.org
142233937gaypatriot.net
143237288americanpowerblog.blogspot.com
144237326ihatethemedia.com
145238883sultanknish.blogspot.com
146239848shark-tank.net
147242194freeenterprise.com
148244467blackfive.net
149250343noisyroom.net
150251689breitbart.tv
151256298imao.us
152256405proteinwisdom.com
153260250moelane.com
154261455politicsandfinance.blogspot.com
155272305zombietime.com
156273425justoneminute.typepad.com
157276675nicedeb.wordpress.com
158278032thisainthell.us
159288120cafehayek.com
160301834tammybruce.com
Related: The Top 150 Conservative Websites, July 2012.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

DOOM ANTIDOTE FROM KEVIN DUJAN: These are the Last Days of Pompeii for the Democrat Party

During the last presidential election cycle, Hillbuzz founder Kevin DuJan was a major Hillary Clinton supporter. As the 2008 primary unfolded, he became outraged with reports of systemic cheating by Obama's hard left Chicago Machine, especially in Caucus states. His focus then turned from supporting Hillary to crushing the Marxist left.

Most recently, he has been on the frontlines of keeping conservatives focused on victory. His ongoing Doom Antidote series has been especially valuable in reminding us of the big picture.

Evidence that Democrats are in “Last Days of Pompeii” mode


...Democrats [were certain they had solved the demographic challenge in] 2008, with Howard Dean and Donna Brazile convincing them that they could dominate the country demographically by streamlining the party into one of “blacks, urban elite, college voters, Jews, Muslims, gays, and women who want to kill their babies”. The Clintons’ Democrat Leadership Council (a “DLC”, but not the one that Barack Obama belonged to) would be purged from the party and anyone Obama saw as “bitter, clinging” would be shown the door because Donna Brazile, in particular, felt these people were no longer wanted or needed for Democrats to win. Brazile, it should be noted, is also the rocket scientist who advised Al Gore not to use the Clintons in the 2000 election when Bill wanted to be deployed to bring home Arkansas and Tennessee for Gore (two states Gore lost... which would have landed him in the White House if the Clintons had campaigned aggressively in just those TWO STATES).

...Democrats were absolute fools to believe Donna Brazile and Howard Dean back in 2008. Deciding to push Barack Obama to the presidency and give the Left absolute control over the country was a fatal error that’s going to be corrected on November 6th. [The Ministry of Truth] Minitru insists this is not happening, and continues to pretend that Democrats will hold power for many years to come. The volcano is rumbling, and these people are still lounging on couches and eating their grapes, completely oblivious to what’s going to happen in just three weeks now...

...If they’d have run Hillary Clinton in 2008, then Democrats would have cruised to her re-election this year; Obama would have most likely been her VP and he’d have spent 8 years in the Naval Observatory (most likely observing his own naval) and would have been setup to be president himself in 2016. Democrats would have likely had 12 years in the Oval Office, with Obama destined to be president no matter what (sadly). The Left wanted everything all at once, and it got just four years before the country woke up and booted them out of office (hopefully for generations).

...As bad as things are, and as much damage as Barack Obama has done as president, just imagine how much worse things could have been if Democrats had moved slowly and done things under the radar over 12 years instead of trying to cram it all into four years of Obama. Democrats got greedy and wanted Obama to do all the crazy things upfront, thinking they could overpower Americans and force radical change on the country quickly before anyone could resist them. Donna Brazile, in particular, believed that a black president was key to pushing the Left’s agenda because all criticism of him would be countered with charges of — let’s see if you can guess — RACISM so his skin color would give cover for the craziest things Democrats wanted to do.

...When the books are written on the last four years, I think it will be clear that most of what Democrats tried to shove through couldn’t have been done if the President was white…because racialist demagoguery was key to making a lot of these things happen. From 2008 through 2010 or so, it was nonstop screams of “If you don’t support Obama, you are a racist!”. Democrats who weren’t leftists (and there used to be some of these in the party) had to go along with whatever Obama wanted because they, too, would have been declared racists for not supporting him. Hence, that Christmas Eve 2009 vote for Obamacare in the Senate where not a single Democrat read the bill or understood what it would do to the country…but they all voted for it anyway. Democrats needed a black president to make that happen, because only the threat of being called racists could make all Democrats in the Senate abandon their constituents and their duties as elected officials and vote for something they never read and didn’t understand.

At the time, Democrats danced around laughing and cheering at what they had done.
They weren’t cheering when the Midterm elections happened in 2010, however.

And they won’t be cheering in three weeks either.

The days of wine, roses, and using false accusations of racism to get whatever they want are coming to an abrupt end when voters’ anger at the party erupts on November 6th.

From Kevin's lips to God's ears. Take nothing for granted, my friends. Use this time to talk to your friends, your neighbors, and your co-workers (if you're lucky enough to have a job in the ongoing Obama Depression). And if you need a cheat sheet to hand folks, here's one you can print out. It specifically hits the economic catastrophe that is the Obama record.


STUDY IN CONTRASTS: The VP Debate in One Picture

This one -- sent in by Redman Bluestate -- seems to capture the unseriousness of the Vice President and vintage media.


On a related note, Breitbart did us a public service with a true fact-check, documenting the top 10 lies by Joe Biden in the VP debate.


HEY, EVERYTHING'S JUST SUPER BETWEEN THE CLINTONS AND OBAMA: At least, according to the Administration Press

Some AP propagandist-in-training named "Andrew Miga" (if that is his real name) was apparently instructed to push back against reports of open and escalating warfare between the Clintons and the White House.

Which is how piece of dreck came to be posted about an hour ago on the AP wire.

Bill Clinton's back in the campaign game big time

...The Obama campaign said Saturday it was pairing Clinton with another heavyweight, rocker Bruce Springsteen, at a rally this coming Thursday in Ohio, one of the most pivotal states.

Obama himself has cracked that he should appoint Clinton "secretary of explaining stuff." ... The lighthearted tone and determined cooperation between Obama and Clinton is hard-won and may not end with the 2012 campaign.

...If Obama has Bill Clinton to thank for a second term, one way to pay back the debt could be Obama's support for a Hillary Clinton campaign of the future.

Among voters generally, Bill Clinton is more appealing than Obama. A CBS News/New York Times poll in September found 66 percent of registered voters with a favorable view of Clinton, compared with 45 percent for Obama. ... Clinton rocketed out of the party's convention in Charlotte, N.C., last month energized by the massive crowd's roaring reaction to his partly ad-libbed call to arms. Clinton plunged into a two-day swing in Florida and has since added stops for Obama in a string of political battlegrounds.

During one recent week, Clinton:

• joined Obama at a meeting with about a dozen supporters at a private residence in Los Angeles.
• hosted a fundraiser with about 160 people who bought tickets starting at $1,000.
• spoke at a rally for four northern California Democrats in tight House races.
• was in Nevada for a rally for Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Berkley.
• was at Arizona State University rally with Democratic Senate candidate Richard Carmona.
• then came stops in Iowa and Indiana for more rallies with Senate and congressional candidates as well as fundraising events.

He's expected to keep up the pace until Election Day, Nov. 6... All told, Clinton has appeared at no fewer than 32 fundraisers and 15 rallies for Obama. One big-ticket reception at a private New York City residence with Clinton last June drew 47 people who paid $40,000 apiece.

...Some Democrats fret Clinton could overshadow Obama. A Pew Research Center poll last month showed 29 percent of those surveyed said Clinton's convention speech was the highlight of the party gathering, while just 16 percent called Obama's speech the highlight.

But there's no hiding the Clinton magic during an election year.

And there's no hiding the spin of an Associated Press "news" article during an election year!

When I think of Bill Clinton, I don't think of magic. I think of a convicted, impeached perjurer who sexually abused a series of women including an intern in the White House, opening himself up for blackmail, thereby putting the entire country at risk.

But this is the AP we're talking about; they'd find themselves quite at home covering Chavez, Castro and North Korea's bloated dictator, whatever the hell his name is.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

JACK WELCH DOUBLES DOWN: Yes, the Unemployment Rate is Bogus and Here's Why, Media-Schmucks

Actually, he didn't call them "media-schmucks", but I'm sure that was just an oversight on his part:

Even if the BLS had a perfect process, the context surrounding the 7.8% figure still bears serious skepticism. Consider the following:

In August, the labor-force participation rate in the U.S. dropped to 63.5%, the lowest since September 1981. By definition, fewer people in the workforce leads to better unemployment numbers. That's why the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% in August from 8.3% in July.

Meanwhile, we're told in the BLS report that in the months of August and September, federal, state and local governments added 602,000 workers to their payrolls, the largest two-month increase in more than 20 years. And the BLS tells us that, overall, 873,000 workers were added in September, the largest one-month increase since 1983, during the booming Reagan recovery.

These three statistics—the labor-force participation rate, the growth in government workers, and overall job growth, all multidecade records achieved over the past two months—have to raise some eyebrows. There were no economists, liberal or conservative, predicting that unemployment in September would drop below 8%.

Not to worry, Jack. Nate Silver's mathemalogical models predicted this improvement in the labor market.

Can't you just smell all of the jobs being created?



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Suffolk Pulls Out of FL, NC, VA -- Says Romney's Edge Too Large; Nate Silver's Arithmetronic Models Hardest Hit

Don't do the happy dance yet, but this appears to be a promising development.

Suffolk Calls NC, VA, FL For Romney, Will No Longer Poll States

Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos, whose polls are aggregated into mainstream averages to show where the presidential race stands in the swing states, said he’s finished polling in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia because President Obama has no shot of winning those states.

“I think in places like North Carolina, Virginia and Florida, we’ve already painted those red, we’re not polling any of those states again,” Paleologos said Tuesday night on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” “We’re focusing on the remaining states.”


Mitt Romney has spiked in the national polls since his first debate last week against President Obama. Romney took the lead over Obama nationally for the first time all year on Tuesday, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, although statistically the two are tied. Romney’s advantage is less than 1 percentage point.

The race has also tightened in the 12 swing states — Florida, North Carolina and Virginia among them — that President Bush won in 2004 but Obama won in 2008, and which will be critical in determining the outcome of the election.

That said, The New York Times' spinmeister pollster Nate Silver still has President Obama up in Virginia by a margin of six-hundred-teen percent; in North Carolina by eleventy; and in Florida by 7.389062145 (with a margin of error of 3/1000th of a binnacle).

As an aside, I tried to reach Taegan Goddard, Paul Krugman and Sandra Bernard (sic) for comment, but I kept getting voicemail.

Take nothing for granted, my friends. All of us -- myself included -- must redouble our efforts. To repeal Obamacare, we must take the Presidency, we must take the Senate and we must hold the House. Every one of our votes counts, in every state. Let's get crackin'.


Tuesday, October 09, 2012

HMMMMMMMMM: 47 Percent.

Spotted on Teri's Twitter feed (@SoCalGirl):


CBS has the latest Gallup poll data, but suffice it to say that Nate Silver's latest models show a more troubling trend for Romney:

Adding this "spillover" effect into the mix, Obama leads comfortably in Michigan, 165% to Romney's -65%. Similar trends appear in IA.

Silver's models also predicted with a high degree of accuracy that I will be eating at Arby's tomorrow.


THE BIG ISSUES: Obama Campaign Beclowns Itself With Big Bird Video

The GOP had the perfect response to the Obama campaign's use of "Big Bird" as an issue.


We have a $16 trillion dollar deficit. If we can't cut loose a puppet that makes $400 million a year, this country is doomed.


Monday, October 08, 2012

LARA LOGAN: The Obama Administration Has Been Lying to You for Two Years About the Middle East

More confirming evidence from one of the bravest reporters you'll ever meet, Lara Logan of ABC CBS News.

Eleven years later, “they” still hate us, now more than ever, Logan told the crowd. The Taliban and al-Qaida have not been vanquished, she added. They’re coming back.

I chose this subject because, one, I can’t stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . .” Logan declared in her native South African accent.

The lie is that America’s military might has tamed the Taliban.

There is this narrative coming out of Washington for the last two years,” Logan said. It is driven in part by “Taliban apologists,” who claim “they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder Taliban,” she added sarcastically. “It’s such nonsense!”

Logan stepped way out of the “objective,” journalistic role. The audience was riveted as she told of plowing through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are teaming up and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.

She made a passionate case that our government is downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. We have been lulled into believing that the perils are in the past: “You’re not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script.”

Isn't it interesting that among the very few vintage media journalists willing to speak truth to power are strong female role models like Lara Logan and Sharyl Attkisson?

To paraphrase American Glob, if Logan gave Brian Ross one of her balls, they'd both have two.



Saturday, October 06, 2012

Would Obama and the Democrats have cared more if it had been Big Bird who'd been raped and murdered in Benghazi?

I only ask because Big Bird (who is wealthier than Mitt Romney) appears to have become some kind of cause celebre among the denizens of the Left, who can't seem to find anything to cut from the bloated central government in Washington.


At the same time, Obama and the left are curiously silent about the rape and murder of our Ambassador to Libya:

According to the Arabic website, Tayyar:

...the American ambassador in Libya [Christopher Stevens] was sexually raped before being killed by the gunmen who stormed the embassy building in Benghazi last night [Tuesday, September 11], in protestation of a film insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him.

Then there is this picture, rarely shown on the MSM. Perhaps he is being rescued from the jihadis, but why, exactly, are his pants down?

The al-Qaeda affiliated men who sexually abused and killed Gaddafi are the same sort of men who sexually abused and killed America’s ambassador. We were told that the late Libyan dictator was killed because he was an evil oppressor of his people. Why was the American ambassador killed, who had hailed the revolution and was there helping to “build a better Libya“?

These are the questions the media and the Obama administration need to be answering...

While the usual suspects blather on about a fake issue, the Obama administration continues to cover up what really happened in Benghazi and why it issued a series of fabrications to the American people in the aftermath of the attacks.



A Soul-Crushing Letter From an Innocent Little Girl To the Cold, Dark Heart of Governor Romney

Spotted at @LOLBuzzFeed:


As an aside, Big Bird makes more money than Mitt Romney yet remains on the government dole.



Friday, October 05, 2012

KRUGPRESSION: Single Graphic Obliterates the Obama-Axelrod-Cutter Economic Talking Points

As Investors Business Daily puts it, President Obama's case for reelection rests on five economic claims, every single one of which is false. Every. Single. One.


Paul Krugman, Taegan Goddard, and Cher hardest hit.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Debate tweets and animated GIF bring teh funny

With all due humility, I was on a roll last night. As were a lot of other folks.

In chronological order:






More after the break:

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

By the beard of Zeus, CNN has beclowned itself during this election cycle

Dave forwards a note he sent to CNN about this piece of drek disguised as a news article:

There are several errors of omission and comission in this piece:


• The headline on the main page reads "Right-wing media coordinate release of old Obama video". I'm wondering: was the headline for the infamous secret Romney tape "Left-wing media coordinate release of old Romney tape"?

• The full tape had never been released. In fact, only 9 minutes of the 40 minute speech had ever been seen publicly before this story broke. There are also a variety of inflammatory remarks by Obama that had before been reported (stealing from the suburbs to give to the cities; praise for the virulent anti-semite Rev. Wright, who he had just repudiated; etc.).

I would appreciate your perspective on this obviously biased article and headline.

Dave

Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer, Dave. Unless you're being driven around Martha's Vineyard by a member of the Kennedy clan.



OBAMO! It's the Official Obama Bingo Card for the #DenverDebate - Don't miss out on your chance to score in the #Debates!

From your friends at iOwnTheWorld comes this invaluable debate game:


Recommendation: don't do shots every time the President says one of these words because you will definitely suffer from alcohol poisoning and wake up, with a three-day beard, in the hold of a freighter headed for Singapore.

Passing the buck (and redistributing the buck) are the only things at which this man is competent.


Tuesday, October 02, 2012

SETTING BACK RACE RELATIONS 40 YEARS: Tape Released by Daily Caller Reveals Obama Channeling Jeremiah Wright

Who is the real Barack Obama? Thanks to a tape -- long concealed by old media, it would appear -- I think we can now say with certainty. He is a divisive, hard-left ideologue who is living in the sixties.

In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.


“The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims “part of the American family.”

The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.

I will say one thing for him: if there's a way to divide people, whether by income, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, industry, or anything else you can care to name, Obama will find it.


Monday, October 01, 2012

MEXICAN STREETS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN: Holder Lies to Congress; Obama Covers Up; U.S. Media Ignores the Slaughter

Thanks to the Spanish language network Univision, we now have a more complete picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the ill-fated gun-running operation orchestrated by Attorney General Eric Holder. The A.G., of course, was found in Contempt of Congress for stonewalling a House of Representatives investigation. And President Obama claimed "executive privilege" as an obvious attempt to cover up Holder's culpability.

In the mean time, Mexico's government has put Holder's death toll at over 200 dead, not to mention U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed by Mexican drug smugglers armed by Holder's Justice Department.


But the media -- with the exception of a few dogged reporters -- has largely ignored a story a dozen times bigger than Watergate. In fact, the Univision network has conducted the first substantial investigation of Fast and Furious and the slaughter of hundreds that resulted:

On January 30, 2010, a commando [team] of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers...


...Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.


...the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.


...Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre...


As part of Operation Fast and Furious, ATF allowed 1,961 guns to "walk" out of the U.S. in an effort to identify the high profile cartel leaders who received them. The agency eventually lost track of the weapons, and they often ended up in the hands of Mexican hit men , including those who ordered and carried out the attack on Salvarcar and El Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez where 18 young men were killed on September 2, 2009.


...Following the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry at the hands of Mexican bandits on December 14, 2010, media and Congressional investigations prompted hearings. On September 20, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report, which opened the door for sanctions of 14 ATF and DOJ officials...


...In Washington, the Fast and Furious scandal became politicized, diverting the attention from the human cost in Mexico to political battles on Capitol Hill. In June, a vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt ignored the real tragedy in Mexico.


"Americans are not often moved by the pain of those outside [their country]…" Javier Sicilia, a Mexican poet whose son was killed in the midst of the violence, told Univision News. "But they are moved by the pain of their own. Well, turn around and watch the massacres..."


...Other firearms under ATF surveillance were permitted to leave the country from Texas, according to court documents and the exclusive testimony of Magdalena Avila Villalobos, the sister of an ICE agent who survived a confrontation with cartel hit men on a rural highway in Mexico on February 15, 2011. His fellow agent, Jaime Zapata, was killed during the attacks...


... "It's not from Arizona and Fast and Furious," Avila Villalobos told Univision News, speaking in her brother's stead for the first time, "but it's a very similar operation..." She later added, "Those weapons that have been recovered, it's been confirmed that they were weapons used in the shootout that killed Jaime Zapata and wounded Victor Avila." ...


The Texas-based operation and the firearms linked to the attack were bought by two trafficking rings in the state, according to Raymond Thomas, the Zapata family's lawyer...


Earlier this year, Texas Senator John Cornyn had echoed Thomas' assertions . Moreover, on September 25, Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley, the politicians behind the Fast and Furious congressional report released in July, sent a letter to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, requesting an investigation into Avila's and Zapata's case...

And Eric Holder dares to claim ignorance of the entire operation. Plainly, that's impossible for a program of this magnitude.


Furthermore, Fast and Furious was designated as an OCDETF operation (Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force), which required the highest level of cooperation between 94 U.S. Attorney's Offices, the DOJ, the ATF, the FBI, the DEA, the IRS, the U.S. Coast Guard, ICE, and the U.S. Marshal's Service.


As OCDETF, it is impossible to believe that Eric Holder did not have knowledge of the operation.


Mitt Romney should mention Holder's malfeasance every chance he gets. Holder is a disgrace and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But, given his corrupt Justice Department, it will require a new president.


Mexico's streets are running red with blood of children; Eric Holder's response is to stonewall Congress and cover up. And Barack Obama is doing his level best to shield Holder from prosecution by claiming "executive privilege", which plainly does not cover obvious wrongdoing as is the case here.

And our disgusting, corrupt, state-run media has nothing to say about this slaughter. Kudos to Univision for doing the work American media used to do, in a time long ago and a place far away.



Sunday, September 30, 2012

KEYSTONE KOMRADES: Obama aides contradict each other on Sunday talk shows as the Benghazi-gate cover-up unravels

Writing at American Power, Donald Douglas observes that White House adviser David Plouffe blatantly lied while discussing Benghazi-gate on Meet the Press:

Plouffe argued that Ambassador Susan Rice was relying on extant intelligence reports in her Sunday comments on September 16th, discussed here.

He's lying.

[At The Daily Beast,] Eli Lake reported that intelligence agencies knew it was a terrorist attack within hours, "U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates." And see Twitchy, "David Plouffe: ‘Libya wasn’t intel failure,’ canoodling after terrorist attack is hunky-dory; Media enables lies"... The video is here.

So Plouffe was flat-out lying (quite the shocker, I know). But in what is becoming a pattern for this administration, the various handlers can't keep their cover-up stories straight.

On CNN, Obama adviser David Axelrod plainly contradicted Plouffe and left Ambassador Susan Rice out to dry.

...when the host asked a similar question, Axelrod said, “Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the President called it an act of terror the day after it happened, But when you're the responsible party, when you're the administration and you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believes. This is being thoroughly investigated because we need to bring to justice.”

To put it bluntly, President Obama's key advisers are contradicting each other as the Benghazi-gate cover-up continues to unravel and even antique media is forced to cover it. This story, according to veteran observers familiar with both, is bigger than Watergate. An Ambassador and three other American diplomatic personnel are dead.

And every story the administration has told the American people about the terror attack was false.


Saturday, September 29, 2012

POLLING PROPAGANDISTS: The Walter Shapiro, Taegan Goddard and Doug Mataconis Edition

Some hack named Walter Shapiro, using the time-tested approach of quoting "anonymous" GOP operatives, suggests that the Romney-Ryan campaign is losing Ohio and doing so in spectacular fashion. Check out this bit of nonsense, the rock-hard kernel of stupidity at the heart of the story.

Maybe Romney isn’t down by 10 points, they argue, but the GOP presidential nominee seems destined to lose by a solid 5 points – and in closely divided Ohio that represents a loss of nearly landslide proportions. (That would mean that Obama would slightly improve his 2008 victory margin against John McCain.)

Never mind that the most accurate poll -- Rasmussen's -- has the Ohio race locked in a virtual tie. Shapiro's absurd "reporting" was eagerly marketed by the usual propagandists -- including Taegan Goddard and Doug Mataconis -- as pure gospel.

Now stop and consider just how deranged your thought processes have to be in order to believe this rubbish:

Tea Party: you have to believe that the Tea Party never organized or simply disappeared into thin air

The Debt: you have to believe that Obama's act of adding $6 trillion -- 60 percent -- to the national debt, which has resulted in the country's first credit downgrade, is wildly popular

Unemployment: you have to believe that Obama's horrific unemployment record is a winning one

2010: you have to believe that the 2010 tidal wave election never happened

Obamacare: you have to believe that spiking health care premiums and a huge number of employers who are dropping coverage have somehow transformed the Statists' health care takeover into a program beloved by the citizenry

Foreign Policy: you have to believe that Obama's bizarre handling of the Middle East, now aflame, is popular

Energy: you have to believe that Obama's war on coal -- a critical state industry -- is supported by the majority of Ohioans

Illegal Immigration: you have to believe that Ohioans embrace illegal immigration and Obama's extra-Constitutional executive orders implementing the DREAM Act

Obama himself: you have to believe that the known quantity -- a narcissistic, hyper-partisan,, hard Left demagogue -- is more popular now than the unknown candidate marketed by media as some sort of messianic, post-partisan cult figure

If you believe any one of these things, it's possible you have some sort of neurological deficiency. And if you believe all of them, you might be a hapless propagandist named Walter Shapiro, Taegan Goddard or Doug Mataconis.


The polls completely missed the 2010 landslide. And the polls have no freaking clue just how pissed off the American people are.