I’ve generally thought of Kirsten Powers as a lefty airhead but more recently I’ve noticed that she’s taken some strong stands against various democrat lies and distortions. Her column on the Fox News Website yesterday blasts the Obama regime for its “blame America first” position on the murders of U.S. citizens and the eruption of violence in the Middle East.
“Disgusting and reprehensible.” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Truly abhorrent,” an outraged White House official told an international conference. Were they talking about the murder of four Americans in Libya? Or perhaps the hoisting of an Islamist flag over the U.S. Embassy in Cairo?
No. For that they stuck to diplomatic speak. For the president, the harshest language was: ”I strongly condemn the outrageous attack.” For Clinton it was that the US is heartbroken and she condemned “this senseless act of violence.” But “disgusting and reprehensible” and “truly abhorrent ” were reserved for an amateurish and silly film by someone nobody has ever heard of.
In fact, what is “disgusting and reprehensible” is that there are people in the world who think they are justified in attacking and killing people because someone hurt their feelings or offended their sensibilities. The US government should not act as a validator or enabler of this upside down worldview, which is exactly what the Obama administration has done repeatedly as they have responded to these abhorrent attacks against the United States.
I have defended the Obama administration against the complaints from the right that they have run an “apology tour” in the Middle East because I believe the US should admit when we make mistakes, such as the accidental burning of Korans. But what we shouldn’t do is affirm the wrongheaded view that people should be protected from the free speech of others.
Worse, our leaders shouldn’t let our enemies know that when they kill our people and attack our embassies that the US Government will act like a battered wife making excuses for her psychotic husband. Wake up: we weren’t attacked because of a movie made by an American. We were attacked because there are crazy religious fanatics who hate the United States. We didn’t ask for it.
You know Powers is on the right track because Keith Olberduche is foaming and frothing about her on Twitter. You’ll have to scroll down the Twitter feed to see his comments directed at Powers.
Read the entire Kirsten Powers editorial here.
The stupid is strong with this one:
Powers has her moments. She dared to appear with Malkin, MK Ham, and La Shawn Barber in some early HotAir videos (they have been removed from YouTube). I didn’t think of her as empty-headed so much as going soft on her teammates.
This is one screwed up mess, though, as our national security and reputation in the world are on the line, and the Obama crowd can only spin, lie, distort, and campaign. Grow up, grow a pair, and fulfill your sworn duty, Mr. President.
It’s a huge lack of experience across the board. Obama is more leadership equipped to do his family budget, or a local NGO. How he got to be the leader of the free world can only be that hipsters voted.
@ darkwords:
family budget??? oh hell no! i would not have let that community organizing, reverend wright-listening, racist hunt for buried treasure in my cats litter box!
So since that’s never going to happen, what you’re saying is that there’s no way to stop them?
@ lobo91:
The Obama Administration doesn’t want to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Personally, I believe Obama will high-five Michelle if Iran nukes Tel Aviv.
This is amusing:
So…according to Rice, our investigators have “no solid evidence” that the attack was pre-planned…probably because they haven’t actually arrived on the scene yet.
The Islamic view of Obama’s muslim outreach:
Obama’s entire policy on the Middle East and dealing with islamists was and is naive, simplistic and delusional. But we knew that all along.
@ huckfunn:
If he actually believed the things he says, I’d agree.
But I don’t think he does. He knows exactly what he’s doing, and what the result will be.
lobo91 wrote:
I think Obama believes in secularizing all religious beliefs and replacing those beliefs with the religion of global statism, just like Lenin and Stalin. The masses are easier controlled when they’ve been pacified by free candy from the state. I have no doubt that he has deliberately led the U.S. into economic and military decline. I just don’t quite know where the bad intent stops and the incompetence begins. I really think that he believed that appeasement and apology would help secularize the islamists and in that he was hopelessly deluded.
Iron Fist wrote:
True. He wanted—wants still, probably—to use Iranian nukes as the club to force Israel to grant suicidal concessions to the “Palestinians,” which is why he sat out Iran’s “Green Revolution” prequel to the “Arab Spring. It’s been obvious from the get-go; “sanctions” are merely his CYA window-dressing to pretend otherwise.
BTW, IF—thanks for your comment over at the Tatler. It went into their weirdo spam filter and, though I requested that it be rescued, they haven’t done it yet.
lobo91 wrote:
Here’s the actual video of that interview. Astounding!
@ huckfunn:
It’s pretty sad when you can’t tell the difference between a senior administration official and a member of the campaign staff.
Time for a little Mo’Town: “I’ll Be There.”
lobo91 wrote:
Obama don’t need to pay attention to no steenkin’ Hatch act.
huckfunn wrote:
Hell, he doesn’t pay attention to the Constitution. Why would he care about the Hatch Act?
lobo91 wrote:
Bingo!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I’m glad you got it. I didn’t know what happened to it. I thought maybe they just didn’t like me
Iron Fist wrote:
Nah. Their spam filter is pretty aggressive—which is necessary if you see the amount of crap that gets tossed at them—and it apparently catches some posts improperly. Hell, I’m a “contributor” there, and it occasionally catches some of mine; unfortunately, my status is not high enough for me to be able to rescue things myself, and though I can request things be taken out of “spam,” when the news cycle is jumping it is, understandably, a low priority for them.
In any event, I appreciate your weighing in.
Iron Fist wrote:
Dimbulb David Gregory asks Bibi, “Hey; what’s wrong with containment?”
Benjamin Netanyahu To NBC: Those Who Believe Iran Should Have Nukes ‘Set A New Standard For Human Stupidity’
huckfunn wrote:
What I want to know is when the Obama White House will begin addressing these points:-
Already the threads of the Clinton State Department meme over the death of Ambassador Stevens are beginning to unravel. The latest story released by State is that a group of concerned moderate muslim Benghazi residents carried the wounded Chris Stevens on foot to the Benghazi hospital, but he died before they could get him there. Yet “, doctors worked on him for half an hour before declaring him dead”.How could any sane person try to concoct such a crazy story unless they were panicking and felt that they had lost the initiative and had to put ‘something ‘ out.
Questions:
Why would so called concerned citizens be out and about at 2AM at night when there had been heavy mortar and RPG7 and Machine gun fire raking the US Consulate for hours?
How did a crowd of concerned Benghazi citizens get the Ambassador to hospital by dragging him along the streets and expect him to still be alive when he arrived. Didn’t anyone have a vehicle to transport him seeing that the Benghazi Hospital, that the State Department quoted as the hospital his body was delivered to, was about 5 miles from the site of the Consulate?
Why did the ‘crowd of concerned citizens’ bypass 5 other hospitals on the way to Benghazi Hospital and not deliver the Ambassador to one of them? The bypassed hospitals include, Al Haram Clinic; Assatwa Hospital; Al Kha Clinic; Benamer Hospital; Al Fawyhat Hospital?
Please explain the reports circulating in Benghazi on the 12th. Sept. that Stevens had been repeatedly raped and sodomized both alive and dead during the missing 8 hours by the mob? Even the Gay Radical Left site Washington Buzz is reporting that!
What idiot at the State Department would send an openly ‘gay’ man to be the Ambassador of a radical Muslim nation?
Why did the reports of the vehicle ambush of Steven’s car with Smith and the two Diplomatic Security Service (ex US Navy Seals) get quashed early in the proceedings?
Explain the massive leakage in OPSEC that allowed the Ambassador to travel to a very open and poorly defended Consulate when for two days Libyan security had been warning the US Embassy of mounting threats of direct action?
Why did Clinton instruct the State Department to shut down media over Libya when the State Department story line began to unravel, using the pretext that the FBI investigation made comments unlawful under the ‘sub judice’ rules of evidence when no civil court case has even contemplated?
Why did Obama purposely miss the Intelligence & Security Briefing when there was a massive security incident happening, and rather go fund raising in Las Vagas?
Why was Stevens even in Benghazi at an insecure facility when there was massive threats of direct action?
Why were CIA operatives instructed to minimize their intelligence collection by the State Department when the 9-11 annerversery was approaching and local Libyan security was issuing warnings to the US legation?
Why were there very restrictive Rules of Engagement in force (including US Military guards being forbidden to carry loaded weapons) when a very high threat level should have been in force?
Similarly in Cairo we see similar poor appreciation shown and a lot of ‘blue sky’ wishful thinking by the US administration.
Marine Corps Guards at the Cairo US Embassy were ordered by the State Department to carry unloaded weapons only, when this was openly known to Islamists throughout Cairo due to very poor OPSEC (Operational Security).
Why did the US Embassy refuse to act when on the 9th and 10th September the Egyptian security forces and Police advise the US State Department and embassy to be aware that trouble was brewing for the 9-11 anniversary?
Why were US embassies through 18 Muslim nations advised of a threat on the 9-11 anniversary yet the Clinton State Department went out of its way to downplay these warnings and refused professional security advice to stand staff down?
This incident is as serious as the Tehran incident that wrecked the Carter run for his second term. It seems that the State Department orientalists have still not learned their lessons about the attempt to use ‘soft power’ when dealing with Islamist regimes.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The answer to all of the above is sheer incompetence and dereliction of duty by the White House, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense. Next questions: How long can anyone in the MSM pretend to be a journalist by not asking all of the questions you asked? How long do they think they can prop up and protect the Obama regime?
A timely reminder that Islam has NOT been a religion of peace since Mohammad left Mecca for Medina in 622 AD, Shortly after, the perpetual killing of infidels began.
Every little detail is exposed in Islam’s own history and Mohammad’s own words (Ahadith/Quran) for the world to see.
The Prophet of Doom
@ huckfunn:
At least until November 7th…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
This Administration is drunk on the gay-rights agenda to the point where it has the DA DTs. Leaving aside the rumors about the Secretary of State and the President, there is the First DA/DT Supreme Court Justice, the ending of the DA/DT rules for the military, and the Administration’s endorsement of same-sex marriage.
In the insular hothouse bunker that this Administration has been, sending an openly-gay man as Ambassador to a volatile Islamist hellhole might actually seem logical, as some sort of “proof” of our Western enlightenment—despite the fact that it wholly ignores the cultural realities of the place the ambassador is being sent.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Don’t forget Big Sis over at DHS.
lobo91 wrote:
Maybe the U.S. press, but the German press were all over the “failed Obama foreign policy” thing on Friday. I’m thinking that some of the U.S. newsies will start to abandon ship.
@ darkwords:
He doesn’t know enough economics to be trusted with a family budget. I doubt he could balance the books for a wishing well.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
If he hired capable people to be in charge of such things, it would be okay.
Unfortunately, we got someone who can’t do his own taxes, and a guy who thinks printing $40 billion a month of imaginary money is going to create jobs.
//We’re doomed!
Kirsten Powers is not an air head.