I do recall morons such as Christopher Buckley and political courtiers such as David Brooks waxing so lovingly about Obama “having a first class temperament” or admiring “the crease in his pants leg”. Obama can match Richard E. Nixon (yes I know it is Milhous) for paranoia and “enemies” as it is not enough to have 95% of the media in your pocket, he must have complete control such as the Kim dynasty in North Korea has.
hat – tip Powerline
by Kirsten Powers
There is no war on terror for the Obama White House, but there is one on Fox News.
In a recent interview with The New Republic, President Obama was back to his grousing about the one television news outlet in America that won’t fall in line and treat him as emperor. Discussing breaking Washington’s partisan gridlock, the president told TNR,”If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News…for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.”
Alas, the president loves to whine about the media meanies at Fox News. To him, these are not people trying to do their jobs. No, they are out to get him. What other motive could a journalist have in holding a president accountable? Why oh why do Ed Henry and Chris Wallace insist on asking hard questions? Make them stop!
Alas, the president loves to whine about the media meanies at Fox News. To him, these are not people trying to do their jobs. No, they are out to get him.The president seems more comfortable talking to “real journalists” such as Chris Hughes, who asked the question in the TNR interview
that elicited Obama’s reflexive Fox hatred. Hughes is the new owner of TNR and is a former major Obama campaign donor and organizer
[.......]
Recently, the White House has kept Fox News off of conference calls dealing with the Benghazi attack, despite Fox News being the only outlet that was regularly reporting on it and despite Fox having top notch foreign policy reporters.
They have left Chris Wallace’s “Fox News Sunday” out of a round of interviews that included CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS for not being part of a “legitimate” news network. In October 2009, as part of an Obama administration onslaught against Fox News,White House senior adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week” that the Fox News Channel is “not really a news station” and that much of the programming is “not really news.”
Whether you are liberal or conservative, libertarian, moderate or politically agnostic, everyone should be concerned when leaders of our government believe they can intentionally try to delegitimize a news organization they don’t like.
In fact, if you are a liberal – as I am – you should be the most offended, as liberalism is founded on the idea of cherishing dissent and an inviolable right to freedom of expression.
That more liberals aren’t calling out the White House for this outrageous behavior tells you something about the state of liberalism in America today.
Sure, everyone understands how some of Fox’s opinion programming would get under President Obama’s skin, the same way MSNBC from 4pm until closing time is not the favorite stop for Republicans. [......]
During the initial launch of the war on Fox News in October 2009, then-White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told the New York Times of Fox News, “[W]e don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” On CNN, she declared that Fox was a “wing of the Republican Party.” Then: “let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”
Gosh, this sounds so familiar. In fact, it’s exactly the line that Media Matters used in a 2010 memo to donors: “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
In fact, this is the signature line of Media Matters in discussing Fox News, which they say they exist to destroy. Their CEO, David Brock told Politico in 2011 that their strategy was a “war on Fox” that is executed by 90 staff members and a $10 million yearly budget, gratis liberal donors.
[......] What the Obama administration is doing, and what liberals are funding at MMFA is beyond chilling – it’s a deep freeze.
On the heels of Dunn’s attack on Fox, Brock wrote a letter to progressive organizations bragging about the U.S. government trashing a news organization: “In recent days, a new level of scrutiny has been directed toward Fox News, in no small part due to statements from the White House, and from Media Matters, challenging its standing as a news organization.”
A Media Matters memo
It complains of the “pervasive unwillingness among members of the media to officially kick Fox News to the curb of the press club” and outlines how they are going to change that through targeting elite media figures and turning them against Fox. They say they want to set up a legal fund to sue (harass) conservatives for any “slanderous” comments they make about progressives on air. They actually cite one of the best journalists around, Jake Tapper, as a problem because he questioned the White House about calling a news outlet “illegitimate.” Tapper can see the obvious: if the White House can call one news outlet illegitimate for asking tough questions, then guess who is next? Anyone.
We defend freedom of the press because of the principle, not because we like everything the press does. For example, I defend MSNBC’s right to run liberal programming to their hearts content.
Monitoring the media is actually a good thing; the media should be held accountable, including Fox News. When MMFA began I was supportive of their endeavor and even used some of their research. They seemed a counterbalance to conservative media monitoring organizations.
But now the mask is off. They make no bones about their intentions, and it’s not a fair media. It is clear now that the idea of freedom of the press actually offends Media Matters. In their memo, they complain about “an expansive view of legal precedent protecting the freedom of the press, and the progressive movement’s own commitment to the First Amendment” as an impediment to be overcome or changed. They say they are “consider[ing] pushing prominent progressives to stop appearing on Fox News.” For those who defy the order, they threaten to start daily publishing the names of Democrats who appear in order to shame them. If that doesn’t work, presumably they will just shave our heads and march us down Constitution Avenue.
When Anita Dunn was informing America – as a senior government official – which news organizations were “legitimate,” she conveniently deemed CNN, which rarely challenges the White House, as a “real” network. Presumably she believes MSNBC is “legitimate” also, despite their undisguised disgust of the GOP and hagiography of the president, not to mention more opinion programming than any cable outlet.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume she thinks CBS is “legitimate” after they just ran what amounted to a 2016 ad for Hillary Clinton on “60 Minutes.” CBS is the same place that has a political director who also writes for one of the most liberal outlets in the country, Slate. Who also just wrote in that publication that the president should “pulverize” the GOP. Imagine a political director at CBS hired away from the Weekly Standard who then wrote an article about “pulverizing” Democrats. I know, I lost you at the part where CBS hired a political director from a conservative outlet.
Last week Rolling Stone editor Michael Hastings – who is a liberal and said recently that “most journalists I know are liberal”
He told MSNBCs Martin Bashir, “That’s the presence of Obama, even on the press corps, even on the people who follow him every day. When they are near him, they lose their mind sometimes. They start behaving in ways, you know, that are juvenile and amateurish and they swoon.”
Hastings admitted that the presence of Obama made him go gooey too. “Did I ask about drones, did I ask about civil liberties? No, I did not.”
I guess this is what the White House and their friends at Media Matters call the “legitimate” media.
by Jennifer Rubin
As I have noted a couple times, Chuck Hagel has served as chairman for the Atlantic Council. His vice chairman is Chas Freeman. In a speech in Moscow on December, Freeman took to decrying the “fifth column” of disinformation agents in the United States who act on Israel’s behalf. Aside from the fact that Jews in particular have been branded for hundreds and hundreds of years as disloyal to their countries, the speech is a shocking diatribe that builds on the notion that behind any pro-Israel journalism is a “fifth column” of Jews.
A reader asks whether Freeman was actually singling out Jews. Let’s take a look.
Freeman began his speech by using a Hebrew word to describe this purported enterprise. “In the brief time available to me as a panelist, I would like to put forward some thoughts about the control of narrative and the manipulation of information as an essential element of modern warfare. The Israelis call this ‘hasbara.’ Since they are without doubt the most skilled contemporary practitioners of the art, it seems appropriate to use the Hebrew word for it. And, since Israel’s most recent war (against the Palestinians in Gaza) sputtered to an end just ten days ago, I’ll cite a few examples from that war to illustrate my main points.” [......]
He asserted these people are traitors to America: “In some countries, like the United States, Israel can rely upon a ‘fifth column’ of activist sympathizers to amplify its messages, to rebut and discredit statements that contradict its arguments, facts, and fabrications, and to impugn the moral standing of those who make such statements.” Each and every one of these fifth columnists, wouldn’t you know it, is Jewish.
He called out a Jewish organization: “[T]he Jewish Agency for Israel has sponsored an online ‘Hasbara Handbook’ for students around the world to use as advocates of Israel and its policies.” And then he cited another Jewish cabal: “The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America – an organization notorious for the viciousness of its efforts to blacken the reputations of those who criticize Israel or advance accounts of events that deviate from the official Israeli narrative by branding them as ‘anti-Semitic’ or ‘self-hating Jews.’ [.......]
He was not done. Next come the rabbis: “In addition, many American rabbis see it as their duty to rally their congregations to Israel’s defense. One typical example was a rabbi who, as the Gaza fighting began, stressed to his New York congregants that ‘making yourself well informed and able to articulate Israel’s case clearly and compellingly is … important. … No slanted print media article or editorial or electronic report that is … unbalanced and unfair can be allowed to go unchallenged. … [.........] All of these are our challenge. Get informed, stay informed, and let your voice be heard.’ ”
No mention was made of the thousands of Christian churches or the largest pro-Zionist organization in America, Christians United For Israel, all of which strongly support the Jewish State and work to combat media bias against Israel. (And Freeman never actually looked at whether the media is actually anti-Israel; he simply assumed it is accurate and everything to the contrary is propaganda.)
The rest of Freeman’s twisted version of Middle East events I leave to others. But can there be any doubt that this is a smear on Jewish Americans in particular? [........] (Someone should ask Hagel at the hearing what he thinks.)
And more to the point, what is Hagel and his organization doing with someone on their board who spews this verbiage? Hagel should be asked about these words, his relationship with Freeman and why, for goodness sake, he would agree to serve with him.
Read the rest – Chuck Hagel’s colleague; So many Jews, so much disloyalty
Tags: Chas Freeman, Chuck Hagel, Fox News, Jennifer Rubin, Kirsten Powers
Bill O’riley let Obama slip past him, gave him a back rub.
McCain, Fox, Romney, the Bush’s not any of them have the guts (or the two party evil cult thing) to call Obama out for his crimes.
So, just like with “immigration reform” show me the fence up and running for 4 to 6 years.
Re: Fox, lets see O’riley, etal take on the real deal of how commie the Democrats are in fact, take on this CO2 fraud as the lie/fraud it is.
Other wise they are just half ass enablers too.
Too, Obama served with William Ayers so whats the big deal with Hagle’s thugs.
sarc x 1000
Obama does not want any opposition. He would like to be a typical 3rd World leader.
bwahahahahaaaa!!!!
o/t just heard on fox news!
rham is going to move all of the city of chicago retirees onto the obamacare roles and ditch their retirement healthcare!!!!
The Obama war on Fox News is just Cook County thuggery.
Illinois is a mess with the same credit rating as Botswna & now
they are screwing up the country too.
@ coldwarrior:
That’s what they voted rfor!
RIX wrote:
It’s 3rd World Liberation.
coldwarrior wrote:
I can’t wait to taste the sweet sweet nectar of their tears…
This bunch demonstrates their desire for Marxism and total control every day. Not satisfied with having all media outlets but one, they want all the news outlets. I remember a couple or three previous regimes in history who demanded complete fealty of the media. Things didn’t work out so well.
Yeah, “Dreams FROM my father”
Obama is down with the struggle that he never expeienced.
@ doriangrey:
I am going to take a WAG that some of those retirees smoke and/or are overweight.
Oh man this would be good except it will eventually happen to me also (probably over being overweight with the dreaded assault weapons).
Chuck Hagel is an anti-Semite. That is one of the things he has in common with Obama.
O/T
Projection
Al Gore: ‘Our Democracy Has Been Hacked’
Rodan wrote:
Mugabe Lite™
Same Socialist Taste, Less Filling™
unclassifiable wrote:
Deep dish Chicago pizza will do that to ya.
Rodan wrote:
He finds the concept of “opposition” to be offensive.
Iron Fist wrote:
He also hates the military which he served in.
I respect Kirsten Powers. She is a liberal whom you can reason with. Nice to look at too.
AZfederalist wrote:
They aim for Kim Jong-Il type of worship.
This Chas Freeman fellow sounds like a moronic, nasty piece of work.
citizen_q wrote:
Since his party is in control of almost everything it makes you wonder what he actually means here.
@ RIX:
Obama is a Hipster and is living a struggle he never went through.
Speranza wrote:
She said the 60 minutes interview with Obama and Clinton reminded her of Soviet style state media.
@ The Osprey:
Yup, You trademarked it!
If all liberals were as rational and open minded as Kirsten Powers, the media would be much more trustworthy.
Rodan wrote:
Yeah they gave him and Hillary a real media style “Lewinsky”.
@ Speranza:
This actually is very scary. I knew the media was biased, but I have never seen it like this.
Speranza wrote:
Sing for Dear Leader!
There is no doubt that they have gone way over the edge for Obama. But, the scariest part of the whole press mess is the way they are now rewriting history in real time.
have to attack the underlings. Til the buck finally arrives at his desk. The GoP should scour Obama hires like Obama scours the electorate.
@ Mars:
My take is that they want more of the same and cover for their failures should they be exposed by perpetually playing the victim.
Komrade zero is in a huff the same way because there are a couple of lone voices that don’t parrot him and sing only his praises.
http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Wama-Ding-Dong-Childrens-Political-Climate-ebook/dp/B008D4WFEO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359489689&sr=8-2&keywords=obama+wama+ding+dong
The book I posted about yesterday is still free today. Not sure how much longer Amazon will keep it that way.
It is pretty funny. There are some formatting problems and you can tell a couple of spots he cut some stuff, but it’s worth a quick read.
Mars wrote:
Just like Joesph Stalin, who as he had is opponents murdered, also had them airbrushed out of photo’s and all record of them deleted from the archives.
citizen_q wrote:
Very true.
What is interesting is that the press should consider O the enemy. He has completely declared war against any individual reporter that deviates from the script. You would think they would rise up against this campaign of personal destruction.
@ doriangrey:
Yep, and the computer age makes it so much easier and efficient.
@ Rodan:
No, they seem to get worse every day. The only one who will call them out on it at all is Fox. Hence the Obama Administration’s attempts to Demonize Fox. They want to totally silence their critics. Dissent isn’t only not patriotic anymore, it is downright treason…
@ Iron Fist:
Obama has redifined patrotism and stood it on its head.
Of course any disagreement is racism pure & simple.
Mars wrote:
The Japanese have a saying I think is relevant. Something along the lines of, The tall nail gets pounded down.
And many I suspect have been trained since at least collage to this line of thought. They think they are right, rather that betraying their so-called profession and the first Amendment.
Ear Leader just finished his amnesty speech in front of the “Si, se puede” caucus out in Vegas (at a reported cost of $1.6 million, BTW). According to him, giving amnesty to the millions of largely uneducated Mexicans who snuck through what he claims is the best border security ever will result in thousands of new Intels and Googles.
Or something.
What a crock.
Interesting football map.
@ citizen_q:
It is at least something along those lines.
@ lobo91:
It seems like most of the applause lines included Mexico.
AZfederalist wrote:
Whatever “They” can not control “They” will attempt to destroy.
What our side needs is heroes people can identify with and ones that take reasonable stands against the Obama lie machine. MAke it loud.
conservatives as a whole are just too polite to get their voices heard. No one wants to listen to something that dull in the age of TV.
RIX wrote:
Reminded me of the big rallies they had in LA and other cities with thousands of people waving Mexican flags.
Every time some politician would claim that “there’s no way to find all these millions of people,” I always thought, “You could probably start with the ones at that rally.”
citizen_q wrote:
Someone should send this idiot the definition of “Irony”.
Rodan wrote:
It is revolting and anti-democratic to its core. Can you imagine them giving W. and Condi Rice a tongue bath like that if they held a joint “interview”? No I did not think so.
Iron Fist wrote:
They want a Totalitarian state. I have my issues with FOX, but we should have different voices.
@ lobo91:
Because people who are illiterate in both Spanish and English start large companies and invent things…
I remember several years ago when an immigrant rights parade came right
past our building in Chicago.
It was pretty open & aggressive.
I was thinking, what shadows?
A 10 year old with a lemonade stand has superior economics understanding
than Obama.
@ RIX:
Exactly.
@ RIX:
So does Leia.
I have no doubt.
citizen_q wrote:
The indoctrination starts in the Public Schools and never stops.
Speak-up, and you will be shot down every time. The State demands obedience.
@ Mars:
Speaking of… if Eaglesoars is around, they have a page of 40 free nook books today.
@ Speranza:
You are a history buff like I am. This has happened before.
@ Iron Fist:
They do not even speak Spanish correctly.
Iron Fist wrote:
I always watch for the way he conflates things in his speeches. In this one, he talked about all these people who came (legally) from other countries (mostly India and China) and started big companies and then implied that the only thing preventing all those Mexicans who snuck in from doing the same thing is “a piece of paper.”
They did the same thing with the “women in combat” announcement the other day. There’s a difference between someone ending up in a firefight and being assigned to a unit that has as its only mission going out and deliberately looking for the enemy to fight them.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Woodward and Bernstein — I thought this speaking up and investigating stuff was cool?
Is it not anymore?
unclassifiable wrote:
Only during Republican administrations.
@ lobo91:
It’s like when O says “we just want the rich to give a little more”.
Thomas Sowell points out that no one is giving anything to the government. They do it because of the threat of jail time, fines, and property seizure.
mskelly wrote:
Yeah I recommend everyone who reads a lot hit Freestufftimes every day. There’s always a bunch of free nook books and even more kindle books.
(And don’t forget if you have calibre and a couple programs you can always make them compatible with whatever you read digital on.)
@ unclassifiable:
He always says that he wants them to “pay their fair share,” too.
Apparently the “fair share” for almost half the country is zero.
unclassifiable wrote:
W & B were gunning for an Evil Republican President.
That made it all OK.
Go against The Party and you will die…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
It wasn’t always like that, though. People forget that it was the NY Times that broke the Whitewater story.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Actually W&B were doing it when the President and his henchmen were considering killing them.
Remember this is Nixon and friends we are talking about.
Now, not so much.
As a side note, maybe I was wrong about BO. He may be morphing into Tricky Dick.
@ lobo91:
It’s different with this guy. They treat him as a living god.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Actually Woodward has been pretty good over the last year or so going after O. Still a little softball, but at least he is willing to go after him at all.
Do a quick google search for woodward goes after Obama.
You’ll find a bunch of his articles, plus a lot of liberal attacks against him for his “bias”.
Rodan wrote:
Rodan, I ask this question sincerely, and not as a challenge: What is a hipster, as you use the term. I remember it as describing beatniks, but that can’t be what you mean by it.
@ lobo91:
That was before the Jason Blair-ization of the NYT. Back when it was a “Paper of Record” instead of a Democrat Party tabloid.
unclassifiable wrote:
Unlike BO I did vote for Tricky Dick.
The biggest crock in all of this is that if you ever want to know what abused illegal immigrants are go to southern Mexico.
They abuse and beat the hell out of the Central Americans transiting through Mexico to get to the U.S.
And unlike in the U.S. where, let’s face it, “an illegal is an illegal”, the C. American accents are a dead giveaway in Mexico that they ain’t Mexican.
Mars wrote:
I see him as an exception to the rule that allows the Liberals to claim they are really “fair and balanced” with their news reports.
Meanwhile, in another of Obama’s accomplishments:
Hey, I know how we can help! Let’s send them some tanks and fighters!
//
@ Da_Beerfreak:
What was your alternative? McGovern? Or did you vote for him twice (Not that Humphrey was all that great either)?
Full disclosure — it was a little before my time. My first vote was for Gerald Ford.
@ Moe Katz:
Hipster are a nasty bunch. They tend to be young people who are artistic and believe they can change the world. Anything they deem not hip, must be eliminated.
Hitler was a Hipster.
Here was my post on them.
They are not a laughing matter.
@ lobo91:
This administration picks new governments like they pick investments…
…losers. Billions of losers.
@ lobo91:
Tiananmen Square V. 2.0
@ Rodan:
Obama seems like a Hipster.
Actually kind of a Fop.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Muzz on Muzz, let them have at it!
@ lobo91:
BO had nothing to say, not one word of support for the Greens in Iran…but on 60 Minutes he congratulated himself for his solid leadership, without which would have had a different outcome…crazy bastard
The Beatniks were a type of hipster. Very marxist in their philosophy.
@ heysoos:
OOOO it’s a secret. Top secret. Very secret stuff he is working on. Too secret for us. Yep that’s right.
Let’s move on to the next tounge bath Steve. Don’t forget to get where the sun don’t shine.
BHO is claiming illegalborderv crossings are down 80% from 2000.
How would he know, do they pass through a turnstyle?
If itis way down, maybe it is the Obama economy.
@ Mars:
So where the Nazis, Bolshiks and Jacobins, Hipsters are the just latest incarnation of Totalitarian leftists who think they can change the world.
@ unclassifiable:
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I have always thought of komrade zero as a tricky dick. /
unclassifiable wrote:
Only once, my first time was ’72.
Hard to say what I would have done in ’68.
Full disclosure — I have lived most of my life in Saint Paul,MN.
Fun Fact: Minneapolis is Saint Paul’s oldest and dearest suburb.
RIX wrote:
I am willing to be that he is basing it on numbers caught. If so the next question would be is how doe border enforcement compare between now and 2000. Also there is the economy to consider, I doubt it is as attractive to leave home for the US now as it once was.
@ citizen_q:
Mexico has an unemployment rate of 4.5% and their GDP grew at 4%. Most of Latin America expect for Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina are booming right now. Colombia is going to be admitted into the OECD now.
Heck Latin America have an influx in Latin America of illegal Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
@ Rodan:
Couldn’t happen to nicer bunch of bros! mo-bros that is.
Shocking that Steve Kroft didn’t ask./
@ lobo91:
Well lookie here.
Someone apparently found their balls.
Good stuff.
@ citizen_q:
@ RIX:
Here is an article on this.
lobo91 wrote:
The same can essentially be said for the current crop of anti-2nd Amendment laws being leveraged out of the Newtown tragedy.
@ Rodan:
What the hell. We should be going over to Mexico.
Will Las Zetas let us keep our weapons?
Here’s another one.
Reversal of fortunes sends Spaniards to Latin America
citizen_q wrote:
And Biden told the NRA that they don’t have time to enforce the gun laws that are already on the books.
unclassifiable wrote:
I would not be shocked if this Obama economy continues, that will start occurring.
See my 96 and 98!
You never know, bro. Seriously, history is weird. Although most Americans will probably gravitate to Canada. From what I read, Americans are starting to move there.
Canada’s energy boom draws skilled Americans looking for work
It has begun!
@ Rodan:
Interesting article. Makes we wonder if we wills start to see large numbers of US citizens look abroad for work. We have such a long strong tradition of the other way around, I would think it almost inconceivable, but I had moved from MD to TX for a job opportunity. Which was a pretty good schlep.
@ lobo91:
If we had a thinking non-biased media, they would be tearing apart this administration just on the blatant conflicts in the statements, and often their actions.
I also wish more was made about the retired cops, not liking nanny cuomo’s gun law because it puts them in the same boat as us little people, and oh yeah they will be out gunned because criminals won’t follow laws.
@ Rodan:
Mexico has been a pretty popular US expat retirement spot for a while. Mainly because of the relative inexpensive longterm property leases you can get there and the fact that certain cancer treatments are offered there (and not in the U.S.)and are relatvively inexpensive also. Still there are a few things that you have to give up but that is why there are airlines.
You have to keep in mind that Mexico’s economic structure is still like Spain in a lot of respects. No foreign ownership of private property.
I worked in Mexico City for Pemex off and on for 5 years.
@ citizen_q:
He lies.
Despite Consumer confidence going down, Wall Street is near 14,000!
Boom Times!
///
And now for something completely different…
Someone in DC Town that loves a good fight…
Wayne LaPierre: NRA won’t accept ‘blame’ for criminals
Now if we could get the GOPee would fight half as hard as this Guy…
@ unclassifiable:
yeah what holds Mexico back is the Crime, corruption and not allowing foreigners to own property. If they change that, they would be a powerhouse.
That said, why can’t we get our own house in order? The fact some skill labor is moving to Canada should scare people.
citizen_q wrote:
It actually scares me. If a brain drain begins, then our economic spiral will be worse.
“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,” Obama said.
if he were built like your wife, he’s get a full ride to Alabama or USC
It’s great when Ben Bernanke prints money for Wall Street1
Economic Optimism Growing on Wall Street: CNBC Survey
@ coldwarrior:
Harbaugh responded to that and said that means less competition for his son!
@ unclassifiable:
Foreigners can own real estate in Mexico, as long as it’s not within 100 km of the border or 50 km of the coast.
mskelly wrote:
That’s a given.
Rodan wrote:
Maybe because Buttcrack Obama sees Crime, Corruption, and not allowing Anyone to own Property as a feature and not a bug.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Unlike political appointees, Lapierre’s job is merit-based.
If he doesn’t do a good job for the organization, we’ll fire him.
@ lobo91:
Was that recent? My gig was about 10 years ago and I was talking to the locals about it.
Shoot.
OT:
Uh oh Ray Ray.
Nice
unclassifiable wrote:
It’s in their constitution. Been there for about 100 years.
It’s a pretty common misconception.
lobo91 wrote:
And therein lies the crux of our current dilemma…
lobo91 wrote:
The Crackle returns!
lobo91 wrote:
Must be part of that “New Tone” that Bush was bringing to DC Town…
John Kerry was just confirmed by the full Senate, BTW
lobo91 wrote:
THat is correct, although I didn’t think the distance from the coast was that great. I know Americans who own property in Mexico.
And actually, Bolivia is pretty damned stable these days, especially considering that Evo Morales is still the president.
unclassifiable wrote:
BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
a boston paper complaining about cheating in football!
oh, the irony.
@ Mike C.:
There’s a way around it, anyway. They set up a “real estate trust” (a shell company, basically) that owns the property, and the foreigner owns the trust.
Mike C.:
Could it be because of the natural resources boom?
@ lobo91:
Or be a Spaniard! I know for a fact that Spaniards get special treatment in Mexico.
lobo91 wrote:
That should send a very clear message far and wide that Obama’s State Department is ready to kiss some serious ass…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
And they did it by voice vote, so there’s no record.
@ lobo91:
Bunch of f’n cowards!!
New Thread up at 5 PM.
See you all!
@ Mike C.:
@ lobo91:
Well that chaps my butt a little. But I guess you always have to check what you are told.
Darnit.
Hey,
Just to let you know. Obama is on the ball with the illegal immigration problem in Houston.
unclassifiable wrote:
I doubt that many Americans have read the Mexican constitution. It’s just one of those things that “everyone knows.”
I actually have read it. When I was attending the Sergeants Major Academy, Mexico was the country I was assigned for my country study.
@ lobo91:
Hillary Clinton.
The Courtney Love of diplomacy.
Part of a larger D’Rat plan???
Obama Admin Approves Sale Of Sensitive Military Technology To China
@ lobo91:
Actually they were selling copies of it in the Zocalo.
A small but very thick green leather bound book.
Kind of reminded me of the Texas constitution as far as the number of amendments/laws.
Of course if we included the U.S. Code in our constitution it would be incredibly big.
@ unclassifiable:
I’m sorry. I was wrong.
@ unclassifiable:
Like the EU constitution.
In case anyone was wondering what they need those new tanks for…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Just a continuation of the Clenis’ technology transfer to China.
At least they aren’t running the show out of Los Alamos anymore. Guess China got what they needed out of that little snafu.
Rodan wrote:
Not certain. Certainly the natural gas activity has recovered, hence me being here. Still not much oil. They’re pretty much self-sufficient here, especially from an agricultural standpoint. When I was here 12+ years ago, it 5.something Bs to the dollar. Now it’s about 6.7 Bs to the dollar. That’s pretty stable.
The Euro Zone is not doing well.
@ RIX:
The places that are not doing will are the places that are being run into the ground by a bunch of third rate lawyers, aka the political class.
@ RIX:
The only place doing well is DC and the surrounding areas.
@ lobo91:
Boomtown…
watch it, see how the oligarchy live….on your dime
unclassifiable wrote:
Geez. That’s the “Ahava” brand of cosmetics made from salt in the Dead Sea. Ahava has been the target of anti-Israel boycotts all across Canada.
Yep. The problem is the Jooooos, once again.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Didn’t Bill Clinton, with Loral Systems, also enable sensitive technology to be sold to the Chinese?
yenta-fada wrote:
He sure did. Help that greatly improved the Chicom’s ICBM force.
I’m beginning to think the presidency is outdated…the potential to wreak widespread havoc is too great…this president needs to be vigorously opposed for every breath he takes, and he is not…let Microsoft run the country
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Ignored by the media because of Monica. That’s what I thought until I saw what the MSM have done in this administration.
@ Speranza:
Perhaps we should play him a recording of the dulcet tones of Shrillery telling us that we are Americans and we have the right to question our leadership.
And she’s right -- because I certainly question HERS.
The Osprey wrote:
Not lite.
On steroids.
Take those debt figures and run ‘em through your calculator.
You’ll see.
heysoos wrote:
Too bad we don’t have the medieval Serbian kings.
All but one were canonized, and deservedly so.
None built palaces for themselves, but churches, monasteries, and schools for all to use.
Democracy…the god that failed. Or more properly, the latest version of antichrist.
unclassifiable wrote:
The chuckie doll of diplomacy.
Rodan wrote:
Hyperinflation. See above regarding Zimbabwe.
Rodan wrote:
Well, my poor tired tempest-tost brain is draining out sometime this year.
I told my husband that eternal damnation would be preferable to ratifying Obamunism by my continued presence.