Sunday, September 16, 2012

CBS: Obama has three-point edge over Romney! (Er, please ignore the wildly inappropriate sample we used to get there)

Just when you thought the media couldn't become even more of a laughingstock, they try something like this:

The polls are specifically designed to drive a narrative that Obama is surging and Romney is struggling. Increasingly, though, the polls are having to go to ridiculous efforts to support this meme. Friday's CBS/New York Times poll, for example, uses a D+13 sample of registered voters. This is absurd.


...In 2008, an historic election wave for Democrats, the electorate was D+7. In 2004, when George W. Bush won reelection, the electorate was evenly split. In other words, D+0. Repeat after me; the Democrat share of the electorate is not going to double this year. Given the well-noted enthusiasm edge for Republicans this year, the electorate is going to be far closer to the 2004 model than 2008. Any poll trying to replicate the 2008 is going to artificially inflate Obama's support.


Let's try a simple thought experiment. Imagine if, for a week, all media polls decided to use a sample that replicated the 2004 electorate--a D+0 model. Given the GOP's enthusiasm edge--even the CBS poll found Republicans voters with a double-digit lead on enthusiasm for the election--the electorate is going to look a lot more like 2004 than 2008. Imagine how the narrative of the campaign would change. The CBS poll found Romney beating Obama among Independents by 11 points. With a balanced partisan sample, Romney would likely post consistent leads against Obama.

Let me repeat: Even this pathetic excuse for a Times poll shows Independents breaking for Romney by a double-digit (11 percent) margin.

Furthermore, more likely voters are self-identifying as Republicans, not Democrats. The numbers this year would indicate that an R+3 model is required for accuracy.

And an R+3 model by these corrupt SOBs would have Romney winning by a very formidable margin.

We are watching legacy media die, right before our eyes. Not only is the media utterly corrupt, but so are their polls, "news" articles, and op-eds.

Vote accordingly in November.


Best Chart o' the Day: Just Desserts

Via Henry Blodget's left-wing e-pub Business Insider comes this heartening news:

[This chart Mark J. Perry] shows inflation-adjusted newspaper advertising revenue over the past 60 years... Thanks to the precipitous decline in the last ~7 years, the industry is now back to where we it was in 1950. And it's only slightly better off when you factor in online revenue.


Journalism professor Jay Rosen of NYU observes that the peak year was the one in which blogging software first appeared.

So bloggers killed the newspaper star?

Oh, the humanity.


Larwyn's Linx: Why Barack Obama Should Resign Today

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Nation

Why Barack Obama Should Resign Today: Instapundit
Disgrace in Benghazi: Steyn
State Dept Running Scared, Scrubbing Documents: ConTreehouse

Law student’s response to JFK’s grandson’s plea to reelect Obama: LI
It's Come to This: A National Yard Sale For Obama: GWP
Violent Protest Near U.S. Embassy in Paris--100 Detained: JihadWatch

Obama: The First Amendment? Never Heard of It: Driscoll
Would-be Chicago Car-Bomber an Occupy and Obama Supporter: Riehl
Sudan Humiliates Obama Administration: Riehl

Obama's Stumbling Response to Embassy Attacks: Barone
The Unofficial Campaign’s Latest Disinformation Offensive: Rahe
Blasphemer found, detained by LA Police. Allah be Praised!: ProWis

Economy

Operation Screw: Schiff
BofA Sees QE3 Leading to $3,350 Gold, $190 Crude Oil: ZH
We Need a New Stock Market: ZH

Scandal Central

Disgraceful Disregard for America’s Security: Virtuous
Israeli foreign ministry: US buried its head in the sand, ignored our warning: Matzav
Today’s Intelligence Briefing has been cancelled due to lack of interest and aptitude: MOTUS

Disturbing Evidence Obama, Hillary Negligence Responsible For Death Of Ambassador, Marines, SEAL: Dollard
Compare: Obama’s 9/11 Anniversary Tweet Vs. Mitt Romney’s: WZ
Bishops’ President: Obama Admin Threatening Religious Freedom: LifeNews

Media

The week the legacy media dropped all pretense of impartiality: GayPatriot
Standing Athwart Sony Yelling ‘Stop’: Driscoll
New Film Mocking Religion Surfaces - No Riots Yet: MEMRI

Michele Bachmann Speech: Our First Amendment Rights at Risk Under This Administration: Values Voter Summit
Okay, Now We’ve Heard it All! The Media Blames Romney for Their Failure to Cover Obama!: LoneCon
ABC, CBS, NBC Devote More Time (20 to 1) to Romney Flap Than Obama Mideast Mistakes: MRC

Santorum: Obama victory would ‘fundamentally’ change America: Hill
Rick Santorum Flays Obama: AmSpec
Awesome: Google refuses to pull 'Innocence of Mohamed' film clip: Matzav

World

State Department: Stop asking us about the Benghazi attack: ForPol
The Muslim World Still Hates America: AmPower
Obama Polling Worse Among Jews Than Any Dem in 32 Years: FPM

'For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we’ve had an American ambassador assassinated...': AmPower
State Department To Downplay Religious Oppression: IBD
For first time since Israel-Egypt peace treaty, El Al set to halt flights to Cairo: Times of Israel

Armada of British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike: Telegraph
Hardly Mentioned: 8 Americans Wounded in Benghazi – Security Forces Abandoned Property: MagNote
Base attackers wore U.S. camo, destroyed jets: ArmyTimes

With Obama policy crumbling, White House blames movie for Mideast unrest: Exam
While the Middle East Burns, Obama Phones It In: Virtuous
Mali: Amputations of Thieves: MRC (Caution: Graphic)

Sci-Tech

The Man-Machine Merger: Kurzweil
Delta Crimps Startups Tracking Airline Rewards; MileWise, AwardWallet, Others Affected: Crunch
Panasonic, Toyota Report Damages in China as Protests Widen: Bloomberg

Cornucopia

An Open Letter: smh
My husband’s NEW ‘Apologize to Mohammed’ Contest!: Five Feet of Fury
Art world rejoices over 'botched' restoration: GlobPost

Image: Instapundit
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QOTD #1: "According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted." --Kim Sengupta, "Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination"

QOTD #2: "...you spoke about topics like green energy and climate change as reason for reelecting President Obama. These areas of policy are clearly important ones, and they rightly deserve a place in our national conversation. But more so than government mandated energy efficient vehicles and climate change awareness, the single most important thing to our generation should be ensuring that America as we know it survives for the generations that will come after us. America cannot be a global leader in green energy production if we can’t even pay our own bills." --Bryan Jacoutot

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the Obama campaign from fundraising during the funerals of heroes

That awful, awful Mitt Romney. Can you believe his hubris, what with he and his campaign tweeting during the funerals of American heroes?

Oh. What's that you say? It was the Obama campaign? That can't even wait a few hours after the funerals of American heroes to send crass fundraising tweets?

This is just unbelievable, especially in light of the Defcon 1 attack the MSM put on Romney for responding to a tweet from the US Embassy in Cairo without waiting some unspecified period of time. Will those same MSM bobble-head dolls criticize the president and his most trusted adviser for tweeting during a funeral?


Look at the time-stamp. This is literally in the middle of the ceremony... But not to be undone, David Axelrod also couldn’t wait to speak up:


At least Axelrod waited for the ceremony to end — by about 4 minutes, according to when Mark Knoller’s tweeted the doors to the hearses closing:

I will walk barefoot on broken glass in November to vote for Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and every single Republican on the ticket. The Democrat Party needs to be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


NSFW Mannequins?

Spotted at an undisclosed location in Florida:


Two words: Boo. Behz.

Boobehz.


Must-See Proof: Corrupt Media, Corrupt Polls

We already knew that legacy media was completely and utterly corrupt, with ironclad confirmation coming in the form of the recent gang-attack conspiracy against Mitt Romney.

Now, @NumbersMuncher (via @AriFleischer) represents graphically that very same corruption. Namely, how most recent Bizarro-Polls show Barack Obama in the lead despite a disastrous economy and a Mideast in flames.


Briefly put, the polls showing the SCOAMF in the lead are oversampling Democrats to bias the results.

But what should the samples be? Rasmussen (the most accurate of the 2008 presidential pollsters) posits the following ratio:


Point 1: For 2012, the average Republican-to-Democrat sample, the correct sample should be 36 (R) to 33 (D) to 31 (I).

Point 2: Among likely voters, independents break for Romney, 51 percent to 40 percent (according to the ultra-liberal National Journal).

So let's just get this straight: more people identify as Republicans than Democrats and Independents break by a double-digit margin for the Romney-Ryan ticket.

And, in the midst of an conflagration in the Middle East, QE3, and an economy back in recession, the media is trying to save this election for the SCOAMF.

Here's a hint, Chrissie Milbank-Dionne: It. Ain't. Gonna. Work. 2010 will look like a fond memory in comparison.


Barack Obama Channels Jimmy Carter (Again)

Barack Obama, September 12, 2012:

"There's a broader lesson to be learned here. Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later," Obama said in an interview with CBS News's Steve Kroft that was scheduled before four Americans were killed Tuesday at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.


"As president, one of the things I've learned is you can't do that," Obama added. "It's important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts and that you've thought through the ramifications before you make them."

Jimmy Carter, August 15, 1980:

In their fantasy world, all the complex global changes of the world since World War II have never happened. In their fantasy America, all problems have simple solutions -- simple and wrong.


It's a make-believe world, a world of good guys and bad guys where some politicians shoot first and ask questions later.

"Shoot first and aim later"?

You mean like blurting out the fact that Egypt's no longer an ally?

Criticism of the president's foreign policy by the opposition party never appeared to be much of an issue for vintage media when George W. Bush was in office.

Harry Reid's despicable declaration that "this war is lost" comes to mind. Or the Democrats' slanderous rhetoric about U.S. troops in Iraq.


Hat tip: Western Journalism.

Larwyn's Linx: Narrative Wars: Slap the Honey Boo Boos with Truthaganda

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Nation

Narrative Wars: Slap the Honey Boo Boos with Truthaganda: Zombie
On "Actionable Intelligence": DiploMad
Holder Justice Dept. Wants Islamic Blasphemy Laws: Wolf Howling

Twitter & The End Of The Fourth Estate: ConMinn
Report: Hillary Ignored Warnings: Breitbart
As Mideast Burns, Obama Tweets About Beyoncé and Jay-Z: JWF

‘Mr. President, It’s Time to Show Up for Work’: JWF
More unfit than incompetent: Pundette
Two Crossroads Ads About To Hit Airwaves: Ace

Economy

Dane County Judge Invalidates (For Now) Bulk Of WI Bargaining Law: Ace
Bernanke and the Fed just gave Romney a huge gift: Peth
US Downgraded... Again: ZH

B+: Three Cheers for O's Masterful Stewardship Over The Economy: Ace
U.S. Drops to 7th in WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index: Cato
First Family Vacations: JW

Scandal Central

Don’t misplace blame for Middle Eastern mayhem: Goldberg
The constitutional sacrilege of blasphemy laws: Hayward
Obama’s Mistake Is Much Bigger Than an ‘Ally’ Gaffe: Geraghty

Climate & Energy

EPA Demands People Use More Food For Fuel: RWN
Chevy Volt: Solyndra on wheels: DelawareOnline

Media

Mark Levin goes NUCLEAR: Obama has no angst that our ambassador was raped and murdered!: Scoop
Mr. President, it’s time to show up for work : GayPatriot
Oh my freakin' head: Jennifer Granholm on the Dating Game, circa 1978.: NakedDC

Women's Progress Backwards: The Tale of Two Burkas: Cube
The most offensive QandO post ever (NSFW): Q&O
American Jews Face Their Days of Awe: AT

World

Obama’s Egypt Error: The Three Outrages: Dossier
Muslim Brotherhood Praises Anti-American Protests On Arabic Twitter Feed, Feigns Support For U.S.: WZ
Mob Gathers Outside U.S. Embassy in London: WS

Black Flag of al Qaeda Flies Over American Embassy in Tunisia: AllAm
Al-Qaida in Yemen urges Muslims to kill US diplomats: JPost
LA Sheriff: Feds interview Calif. filmmaker : AP

WH Wrong: Mideast Protests Planned Before Video Ever Released: GWP
More Hope and Change… Angry Afghan Mob Torches Effigy of Obama: GWP
YouTube tells White House it will not remove video blamed for sparking riots: Twitchy

Photo: Black flag of Islam flies over U.S. embassy in Tunisia: Riehl
Producer Of Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitch: TSG
Police gas Sydney protesters: smh

Sci-Tech

Wrong Number: Why Phone Companies Overcharge For Data: Slashdot
PowerSkin launches NFC-friendly battery case for Galaxy S III: Engadget
Think you have what it takes to crack some malware? Kaspersky Lab wants your help.: PC Mag

Cornucopia

Smoking Gun on Obama’s Participation in New Black Panthers Voter Intimidation: MB
Behind No More...at least as far as fundraising is concerned.: MOTUS
Secret of Obama Chair Photo Revealed: MB

Image: The Looking Spoon
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QOTD: "By Obama’s own standards, Obamanomics has failed. After wasting four years of precious time implementing policies that have never worked in the past, the American economy remains broken. I know it, you know it, Ben Bernanke knows it. Maybe, deep down, even President Obama knows it.

My fellow Americans, trillion dollars deficits and Fed money printing is no way to rebuild the American economy. After all, too much debt and too much cheap money is how we got into this mess in the first place." --James Pethokoukis

Friday, September 14, 2012

Ruh Roh: Producer of Anti-Islam Film Was a Fed Informer

Hillary Clinton's shrill disclaimers notwithstanding ("The United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video"), it would appear that federal law enforcement officials were employers of the film's producer:

...Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”--and, by extension, its felonious producer--may be complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Though many key documents from the U.S. District Court case remain sealed, a June 2010 sentencing transcript provides an account of Nakoula’s cooperation with federal investigators in Los Angeles (and how his prison sentence was reduced as a result).

Nakoula, 55, was arrested in June 2009 for his role in a check-kiting ring that stole nearly $800,000 from six financial institutions by using stolen Social Security numbers and identities. Nakoula was named in a six-count felony indictment accusing him and unnamed “co-schemers” of perpetrating the bank fraud.

Denied bail, Nakoula, a married father of three, was locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in L.A. when he began cooperating with Justice Department lawyers and federal agents. During a series of debriefing sessions, Nakoula provided investigators with a detailed account of the fraud operation and fingered the man who allegedly headed the operation, according to comments made by his lawyer at sentencing...

Shhh. No one tell Jay-Z, Beyonce, or the roughly 56 million Islamists currently protesting the U.S. Government.


A Map of Muslim Protests Throughout the Middle East

It's only chaos throughout the Middle East:


I'm wondering how Ari Shapiro and Jan Crawford can blame Mitt Romney for these attacks.


Idea for President Obama: perhaps Jay-Z and Beyonce can rap the daily intelligence brief

Since the president appears so enamored with fundraisers, especially those featuring entertainers @JayZ and @Beyonce, my idea is obvious: let Jay-Z and Beyonce do a little rap each day to keep the president's attention focused on, uhm, national security issues.

As the Mideast Goes Up in Flames, Obama Tweets About Beyoncé and Jay-Z


It really doesn’t get any more pathetic than this...


...Always the stickler for detail, he even makes sure to get that little accent thingy over the second ‘e’.

If only we happened to have a president more interested in American interests than partying and fundraisers.


If you're sick of this s***, please consider donating a few bucks to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. These Jimmy Carter-Barack Obama Democrats need to be flushed from office, the sooner the better.


Crazy Obama-Middle East conspiracy theory? Or is it so sane that you just blew your mind?

Mark Langfan's detective work leads to some fascinating -- if not outright terrifying -- conclusions.

...in January 2011, before even a dozen demonstrators were killed, a small herd of camel-riding Mubarakists rode into Tahrir Square trampling some protesters underfoot, and Obama immediately flew into an apoplectic rage, gliding close to personally claiming that Mubarak was a war criminal for attacking peaceful "democratic" demonstrators...

...But in February 2012, after Assad has murdered over 10,000 Sunni mostly totally unarmed civilians by lobbing barrages of multiple rounds of artillery into Homs, why is Obama all but numbingly silent in-between his own barrages of multiple rounds of 18-hole golf?

The reason: the US President Obama has artfully and silently pivoted US Middle East Policy from a Pro-Saudi, Anti-Iran paradigm to a Pro-Iran, Anti-Saudi imperative.

Crazy you say? The Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim, attending at a recent Gulf security conference with US diplomats, “undiplomatically” for over 18 minutes calmly stated...:

1) “US Policy is the Number One threat” to the Gulf States;
2) America “has realized the dreams of Iran in Iraq;”
3) the US has “adopted the path and ideology of Khomeini;” and
4) the US “is no longer an ally” of the Gulf States.


To frame the instant question with a sharper point: Why did President Obama, in his 2009 Cairo Speech, pro-actively incite and reflexively, over Saudi Arabia’s infinite anger, support the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, who was the US’ stalwart Sunni American ally for over 30 years and who acted as the sole-substantial Sunni Arab counterweight to Iran?

...How come the Nobel Prize-winning Obama unflinchingly allows Assad, a Shiite/Alawite, confirmed state-sponsor of terror, funneler of IEDs in Iraq which murdered thousands of US soldiers, and a stalwart ally of Shiite Iran, to cold-bloodedly massacre what is now over ten thousand unarmed Sunni Muslims?

...And why did President Obama anoint the Shiite Al Maliki, a known-Iranian stooge, as the omnipotent new-Shiite Saddam of Iraq, sideline the Iraqi Sunnis, and compound the decidedly pro-Shiite tilt by tacitly handing the keys of Iraq over to Iran...?

Why does Obama constantly refer to the ragtag, disjointed, barely-existing Sunni al Qaeda as the "greatest threat to the US" when the Shiite Iran and its Hizbullah and Iraqi based proxies have killed many times more US soldiers and US civilians in the past 20 years than al Qaeda has, - and Iran is nearing the acquisition of nuclear bomb and constantly claiming Israel is a "cancerous tumor" that needs to be "cut out" of the Middle East?

...The answer can be found in Obama’ first documented foreign "policy" speech in 2002 dubbed the "Iraq War Speech" where Obama unambiguously declared:

“You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality. . . .” - Barack Obama, Oct. 2, 2002


From Obama’s very first recorded words on US foreign policy, Saudi Arabia, and not Iran, was to Obama, America’s Number one enemy.

President Obama’s inimical abhorrence of the House of Saud was further codified in US President Obama’s May 19, 2011 major Foreign Policy speech where he repeatedly explicitly attacked Bahrain, Saudi’s key ally, as well as again clearly targeting the “elite” Saud Family when he stated:

Prosperity also requires tearing down walls that stand in the way of progress -– the corruption of elites who steal from their people; the red tape that stops an idea from becoming a business; the patronage that distributes wealth based on tribe or sect. –- New York Times, 5/19/11 “Obama’s Mideast Speech”


Obama, from his 2002 speech on a Chicago street to his 2011 speech at the State Department, sees the House of Saud as the very personification of Obama’s “elites who steal from their people,” and of “the patronage that distributes wealth based on tribe or sect.”

But Obama’s one act which symbolically crystallizes the essence of what has been, is, and will be the Obama Doctrine is Obama’s very first act as US President. ...he formally and publically returned the bust of Winston Churchill to Great Britain that had long adorned the Bush Oval Office.

Obama viscerally rejected Churchill’s White House presence because it was Winston Churchill and his “Lawrence of Arabia” generation of British foreign establishment that, in effect, had “divided and conquered” the Muslim Ummah, and empowered the balkanized Sunni “elite” kingdoms at the expense of the Shi’ites and the Ottoman Empire. While empowering the local Sunni Kingdoms, Churchill disempowered a possible unified Muslim Caliphate, and the Shi’ites.

...With the Obama Doctrine, Obama’s entire foreign policy makes sense: It explains why Obama toppled Egypt, Saudi Arabia’s key Sunni ally. In a heartbeat, Obama rendered Egypt permanently paralyzed to assist the Saudis against Iran...

...In accordance with this doctrine, Obama obliterated the Sunni Qaddafi with hundreds of million dollar Tomahawk missiles, deleting the precious cache of Tomahawks (for possible use against Iran) where there was a truly heavily armed Libyan opposition who could fight for themselves and instead left an absolute Islamist maelstrom wrapped in chaos enveloped in bedlam and mayhem. As a result, Obama has mutely watched well over ten thousand Syrian Sunnis be massacred by Iran’s Shi’ite handmaiden, Assad, and hasn’t even shipped in one 5 kilometer range anti-tank weapon that would easily spay Assad’s rampaging tanks and artillery.

...And as a final policy puzzle piece, Obama’s noisy objection to an Israeli attack on Iran is, in reality, a deafeningly silent total rejection of Saudi Arabia’s push for America to militarily attack Iran. The Saudis know Iran is infinitely more of a threat to Saudi Arabia than to Israel.

Obama has publically amped up the five-alarm fire-fight with Israel to make the Iran issue appear to be an “Israel only” issue, thereby preemptively embarrassing the Saudis out of even asking for the US to strike... So for Obama it’s a win-win-win, actively attack Israel, blame Israel for destabilizing the Middle East, attack Israel’s American supporters as dual loyalists, and passively pre-reject the Saudis request for an attack on Iran’s facilities before the Saudis even ask for one.

What all this means is Obama has quietly turned 50 years of US Foreign policy on its head without even a single congressional hearing... Obama’s true foreign policy objective seems to be nothing less than the full nuclear weaponization of Iran. Anything else is a smoke-screen for Obama to look like he’s doing something, but in reality he is doing nothing to stop Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.

In conclusion, Obama is actively "democratically" toppling all U.S. Middle East allies, and soon a nuclear-armed Iran will control 70% of the World's Oil Reserves, charging $500 a barrel for oil.

...And in the short-term, Obama and the world will watch Assad commit a holocaust against the unarmed Syrian Sunnis, and, of course, Obama’s golf game will see some improvement.

Just after Obama was elected in 2008, Time Magazine published an article entitled "Baghdad Scuttlebutt: Pssst! Obama's a Shi'ite".

For what it's worth.


Note: Originally published March 1, 2012. Hat tip: Dan from NY.

Larwyn's Linx: Power, Revolution and the Arab Spring

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Nation

Power, Revolution and the Arab Spring: Michael's Comments
Un-mourned casualty of Obama’s bus: The First Amendment: Malkin
Part of White House Missile Defense System Completed: HillBuzz

If this UK story is true, Hillary Clinton should resign tonight: HayRide
US had 48 hour warning of Benghazi attacks, did nothing: Riehl
Why Mitt Will Win: Morris

Obama's Muslim Childhood: Pipes
The Hip-Hop President: All Swag, No Cattle: Malkin
Obama runs riot with facts on ally Egypt: Exam

Economy

Quantitative Easing, Weimar Edition: Zombie
What a $4 Trillion Fed Balance Sheet Means For Gold And Oil: ZH
Chicago Teachers’ Retirement Benefits Are Extravagant: Foundry

The Elephant in the Room: Douthat
Panic!: Mish
Why Obama is not concerned about the debt: IMAO

Scandal Central

OSC: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated Hatch Act: Politico
Obama's No. 3 Bundler Profits from Light-Bulb Regulations and Obamacare's Individual Mandate: Exam
Ohio Democratic Senator Using Antisemitism To Attack Jewish Opponent: Lid

Climate & Energy

EPA sends email to staff celebrating mass-murdering thug: NRO

Media

Flashback: Major-party nominee uses war deaths to score political points: Hot Air
AP Seems Stunned That Yesterday’s Auction of ‘Ultra-safe’ Treasuries Didn’t Go Well: BizzyBlog
Liberals In Media Are An Embarrassment To America: Glob

From the increasingly brazen liars at the Associated Press: the Fact-less Fact-Check: S&L
Krauthammer: We're Seeing The "Collapse Of The Obama Policy On The Muslim World": RCP
Krauthammer’s Take on Hillary: ‘Meltdown at the State Department’: NRO

Pro-Obama media — so far beyond bad it’s almost indescribable.: LI
Steyn on Obama’s Las Vegas ‘performance’: ‘Every American should be ashamed of their president’: DC
Kate and William angered by 'grotesque' invasion of privacy: BBC

World

Administration officials: Romney was right, that statement from the Cairo embassy was awful: Hot Air
Bachmann says FBI agents watched over her shoulder: Exam
Obama’s Terror Touchdown Dance is Over: Commentary

NBC chief foreign correspondent blasts Obama’s “Egypt not an ally” statement: Hot Air
What Was Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize For?: S&L
Former SEALs confirmed as Libya attack victims: NavyTimes

Obama rebuffs Netanyahu, defines "red line" Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapon: TAB
Obama-backed UN “Human Rights” Council Facilitates US-bashing Meet : Bayefsky
Egypt intelligence warns of attacks on Israel, US embassies: JPost

Sci-Tech

Did a New Yorker Cartoonist Predict Today’s Apps in 2009?: Gizmodo
10 great places to forage for food: USA Today
Top-secret satellite is launched from Vandenberg: LAT

Cornucopia

Reporting from the hive, or, “Did you hear what Romney said?”: MOTUS
The World's Worst Democrat Albums: Morlock Revolt
The Obama Library: ConservativeArt

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QOTD: "The idea that Romney is a cut-government-to-the-bone minarchist is based on a mix of unsubstantiated assertion, wild fantasy and guilt by association; you see, even if there’s no evidence that Romney’s a libertarian, he’s been captured by the heartless Tea Party types. Why, just look: He picked Paul Ryan, patron saint of the barbarian hordes, as his running mate.

It is a sign of what an unmitigated mess we are in as a country when Ryan is considered a heartless right-winger who wants to set old people adrift.

The famously heartless Ryan plan (moot now that he’s hitched his wagon to Romney’s) that supposedly slashes the budget doesn’t reach a projected balance until the year 2040 and increases spending over the next decade." --Jonah Goldberg

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Vexing problem for laughingstock media: how to blame Mitt Romney for Barack Obama's "Egypt no longer an ally" gaffe

Just moments after accusing Mitt Romney of "shooting first and aiming later", President Obama accidentally blurted out a slight modification to U.S. foreign policy: Egypt is no longer an ally of the United States.

NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel ripped the president for his outrageous and unexpected remarks.

Barack Obama’s assertion that he doesn’t consider Egypt an ally stunned NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel. Engel, reporting from Cairo, tells Chuck Todd that he needed to “sit down” after hearing that statement. Engel reminds Todd that the US had two major Arab allies in the region when Obama took office, on which it spent a significant amount of foreign aid to keep it that way — Egypt and Saudi Arabia. If we’ve lost Egypt as an ally, Engel asks, wasn’t supporting the effort to overthrow Hosni Mubarak a huge mistake?


After accusing Mitt Romney of "shooting first, aiming later" -- in the very same interview -- the White House immediately attempted to walk back the president's diplomatic gaffe.

President Barack Obama didn't intend to signal any change in the U.S.-Egypt relationship last night when he said Egypt is not an "ally," the White House told The Cable today.

In an interview with Telemundo Wednesday night, Obama said that the U.S. relationship with the new Egyptian government was a "work in progress," and emphasized that the United States is counting on the government of Egypt to better protect the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, which was attacked by protesters on Sept. 11.


"I don't think that we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy," Obama said. "They're a new government that is trying to find its way. They were democratically elected. I think that we are going to have to see how they respond to this incident."

That comment had Egypt watchers scratching their heads, especially since technically, Egypt was designated as a Major Non-NATO Ally in 1989 when Congress first passed the law creating that status, which gives them special privileges in cooperating with the United States, especially in the security and technology arenas.

White House spokesman Tommy Vietor told The Cable Thursday that the administration is not signaling a change in that status.

Talking about shooting first and acting later: remember "The Cambridge Police acted stupidly" statement?

Talk amongst yourself.



President Obama does Vegas

Patricia writes:

While the country mourns and the Middle East devolves into chaos, the media conspires to attack Mitt Romney for defending America.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama does Vegas.


Great Moments in American Foreign Policy [Dan from NY]

Dan from NY:

Ta da! The President of the USA admits he can’t make heads or tails of those pesky Egyptians:

Egypt not an ally, but also not an enemy, Obama says in wake of protests


President says Egyptian government trying to ‘find its way,’ warns of ‘real big problem’ if Cairo engages in irresponsible behavior

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Meanwhile, Hillary is starting a new career as a film critic. Pauline Kael, where are you when we need you?

Clinton calls anti-Islam video 'disgusting'


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It’s the movie, stupid. After less than four years in office the Obama regime has already accomplished so much. Now imagine what they’ll achieve if we give them four more.

Actually, as John Nolte tweeted earlier, the most stunning statement in this whole foreign policy debacle is Obama's admission that his policies have lost an ally in Egypt. They are no longer an ally.

I shudder to think what four more years of this fecklass madness will bring us.


More story ideas for NPR's Ari Shapiro and CBS News' Jan Crawford

If they can spare a few minutes between attacks on Mitt Romney, perhaps NPR's Ari Shapiro and CBS News' Jan Crawford can take time to examine some of the bigger issues. Namely, the utter failure of "The Obama Doctrine" -- whatever it may be -- as the Middle East erupts in Islamist-fueled chaos and Iran's nuclear-tipped missiles near readiness.

There were plenty of warnings: Days before 9/11, Jihadi groups in Egypt threatened to burn down the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Missing a week of PDB meetings: Despite these warnings and the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary, President Obama skipped a week of President Daily Brief (PDB) meetings

Sleeping through the 3am phone call: Notified that Ambassador Stevens was missing from the Bengazi compound, President Obama went to sleep.

Jay-Z and Beyonce take priority: In the midsdt of the conflagration, including pictures circulating worldwide of Ambassador Stevens being dragged through the streets of Bengazi, President Obama headed to... Las Vegas for a $40,000-a-head celebrity fundraiser.

Who approved the State Department's apology?: While the president claimed yesterday that the Embassy issued its apology without his approval, Senator James Inhofe stated on Fox News this morning that the president absolutely approved the statement prior to its release on the web and on Twitter.

President Obama condemned Mitt Romney's criticisms of the State Department apology before he criticized the attacks themselves.

No Live Ammo: U.S. Marines were not permitted by the Obama administration to have live ammo at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

Even after Benghazi Consulate attacked in June, no additional security was added: despite an IED detonating at the Benghazi facility, the administration failed to tighten security, leaving it instead up to their Libyan hosts. Reports indicate that these same Libyan security personnel were involved with the attack that left the Ambassador and other U.S. personnel dead.

The President has refused a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, but will find time to appear on the David Letterman Show. In addition, Obama invited the President of Egypt (leader of the Muslim Brotherhood) to meet next week at the U.N. while repudiating Israel's leader's request to meet that same week.

Just a little career advice for Ms. Crawford and Mr. Shapiro: if you want to resurrect your careers (which now, officially, languish in laughingstock territory), perhaps a little focus on America's national security interests -- which is what this story is really about -- rather than Mitt Romney's political persuasion might help.



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Nation

Enemy of Freedom, Broker of Death: Bad Eagle
The second 9/11 illustrates futility of groveling for peace: Exam
Press Corp caught on open mic planning attack on Romney: Ace

Four Americans are killed in Libya after U.S. apology for film: IBD
Obama Got His 3 a.m. Call. He Decided To Sleep Through It.: Ace
Obama apparently supports blasphemy laws: Virtuous

Romney is Right: Exam
Let Bush Be: Hanson
US Embassy In Yemen Stormed. When Do We Apologize?: Hawkins

Economy

The Teachers Union Commits Suicide: Morris
Time for School Choice in Chicago: Thomas
Let’s Be Honest: No One Is Closing Tax Loopholes: Harsanyi

The Brass Standard: Sowell
Clinton Myths: Stossel
“A” Is for Agitation: Radical Chicago Teachers on Parade: Malkin

Scandal Central

Ambassador Stevens killed at site with no Marines: Politico
Probe: Sebelius broke the law by campaigning for Obama reelection: The Hill
Breaking: John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Criticize President's Mid East Response: Lid

Climate & Energy

Dethrone the EPA: NRO
Chevy Volt ad honored for reaching gay, bisexual, transgendered buyers: Free Press

Media

The Media Says It’s All Romney’s Fault: HayRide
MMfA’s chickens come home to roost: They laid an egg when taking on Mark Levin: Riehl
New claim from Obama: 'Apology' in Cairo was effort to cool the situation down: Exam

The American Media Beclowned Themselves Yesterday: RS
Top Top U.S. general asks pastor to pull support for anti-Islam movie due to ‘the violence it could cause’: Exam
Obama again hits Libya attackers, American free speech: DC

World

Romney And Congress Must Nip The $3.82B Dollars Feeding Egypt’s Brotherhood’s Vile Fruits: Black & Right
Allen West demolishes Obama over Libya killing: Matzav
WARNING GRAPHIC: Image Appears To Show U.S. Ambassador After Benghazi Attack: Riehl

The 9/11 attacks on the US embassies were not about a movie: Glick
No, It’s Sharia and the Assault on U.S. Missions: McCarthy
Obama Camp Condemns Mitt Romney Before Our Attackers In Egypt, Libya: Breitbart

Obama Invites Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President to Meet Next Week; Blows Off Netanyahu: GWP
Israeli Government Accuses Obama of Lying After White House Said PM Did Not Request Meeting: WZ
Eleventh Anniversary of 9-11: Chris Skates

Sci-Tech

Minnesota woman fined $222,000 for 24 illegal song downloads: Sophos
iPhone 5: First Impressions Hands-On Review: MarketingLand
Panorama feature not just an iPhone 5 exclusive: Tuaw

Cornucopia

The Obama Presidential Library Is Soliciting Submissions: iOTW
Obama's Theme Song: AngriBanshee
Weird Carter ——> Obama Connections: iOTW

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Please submit your contributions to the Obama Presidential Library

If you have Photoshop skillz, the professional illustrators at iOwnTheWorld are soliciting suggestions for the Obama Presidential Library and Golf Center:


Here's my submission:


Update: The People's Cube has another excellent gallery.

Update II: I realized that Milton Wolf's Wolf Files is the original source of the contest.


The 10 Most Important Stories of the Embassy Attacks...

1. Barack Obama skipped the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) the entire week leading up to 9/11:

Sure, why would anyone think there might be some violence on 9/11?" ...Additionally, the US was warned that extremists might attempt to burn down the embassy. On Monday.

2. Obama skipped the PDBs even though intelligence sources report that the attacks were planned and coordinated.

Sources are telling CNN that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens was planned by attackers who used the protest outside the consulate as a diversion.

3. The first response to the coordinated attacks in Libya and Egypt by the Obama administration was... to apologize to the Islamists:

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions...

Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

4. . Shocked by the administration's statement, the Romney campaign blasted the apology.

The GOP nominee offered no regret for criticizing the president in the midst of an unfolding international crisis. "It's never too early to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values," Romney said... Romney condemned the violent protests and expressed condolences to the families of those slain in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador there. He said that instead of speaking out forcefully against the initial Egyptian breach, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo had seemed to sympathize with the attacks by issuing a statement that he called "akin to an apology."

5 . Liberal blogs -- and their primary consumers in vintage media -- needed a way to deflect criticism from President O'Carter. Their meme: Mitt Romney shouldn't criticize an apology... that the Obama administration itself later disavowed.

At 11:53pm last night Talking Points Memo released a statement from the Obama campaign condemning Mitt Romney for criticizing something the White House itself disavowed -- an appalling apology issued by the State Department.

Eight hours later, President Obama finally got around to condemning the monsters who attacked us on our own soil and killed our fellow citizens.



Yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of September 11, the Obama White House snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accepted an invitation from David Letterman, and apologized to Islamists upset over a film that mocks Islam and Mohammed -- something "artists" in America do to Christianity with my tax dollars on a fairly regular basis.


6. An open microphone, in fact, revealed that vintage media coordinating a gang attack on Mitt Romney:

Before Romney issued his statement today, an open mic capture the press coordinating questions to ask Romney, with one saying “no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question”.

7. In fact, the Obama administration condemned Mitt Romney's criticism before it bothered to condemn the Islamist attackers.

8. Why in hell wasn't the Libyan Embassy protected by U.S. Marines?

A Marine Corps official who would not speak for the record told Danger Room that the Corps did not and currently does not have assets in Benghazi.

9. As the U.S. embassy burns and our ambassador's body is dragged through streets, we discover that -- just as Obama skipped a week of daily intel briefings leading up to 9/11 -- he is now heading to Vegas for a fundraiser with Jay-Z and Beyonce:


10. And the President found time to do the Letterman show and celebrity fundraisers, but could find no time to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister as the Middle East burns and Iran readies its nuclear-tipped missiles.

This president needs to be pink-slipped. He's Jimmy Carter squared.