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Ten key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

by Speranza ( 128 Comments › )
Filed under Debt, Economy, Election 2014, Elections 2012, Elections 2016, Hillary Clinton, Media, Politics, Republican Party, unemployment at June 10th, 2013 - 8:05 am

The only thing though we can hope for (since Obama will NEVER be impeached) is to weaken him so much that we can limit the damage he is doing (and also hurt Hillary Clinton if she runs in2016).

by Nile Gardiner

The last few weeks have been among the worst of Barack Obama’s time in office, recalling earlier periods of turmoil for the president in 2010 and 2011, when his ratings also plummeted. In 2013, the situation is significantly worse for the White House, with the Obama administration engulfed in a series of major scandals (IRS persecution of conservative groups, the Benghazi debacle, and the Justice Department seizure of journalists’ phone records) that are not only eroding trust in government but also in the office of the president itself. This is undoubtedly a period of steep decline for the Obama presidency, whose imperial-style big government approach is being increasingly questioned not only by American voters, but also by formerly subservient sections of the liberal-dominated mainstream media. In contrast to his first term, Barack Obama is finding himself less and less shielded by the press, and far more vulnerable to public criticism.

With good reason, Americans don’t feel optimistic about their country’s future with President Obama at the helm. According to the RealClear Politics polling average, less than one in three Americans believe the United States is heading in the right direction. A new Economist/YouGov poll has the president’s job approval rating at just 46 percent, with 49 percent of Americans disapproving. Strikingly, 35 percent of Americans “strongly disapprove” of the president’s job performance, 15 points higher than the number who “strongly approve.” A mere 31 percent of Americans surveyed by YouGov believe the United States is “generally headed in the right direction.”

In addition to damaging scandals, which have raised major questions over the integrity and judgment of the Obama administration, there remain deep-seated concerns over the US economy and the enormous national debt, widespread opposition to the president’s health care reforms, and significant fears over national security. Barack Obama’s second term could not have started more badly for the “hope and change” president, who, with three and a half years in office remaining, looks more and more like a lame duck. Here are ten key reasons why the Obama presidency is in trouble, with the outlook exceedingly grim for the White House.

1. The American public is losing trust in Obama

A recent Quinnipiac survey found that less than half of Americans (49 percent) now view their president as “honest and trustworthy.” According to Quinnipiac, the series of recent scandals have begun to significantly dent the president’s standing with the American people, with his approval rating standing at just 45 percent. The IRS targeting of conservative groups has been particularly damaging, with 76 percent of voters supporting the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the scandal, and a series of Congressional hearings putting the Obama administration on the spot. Another survey, by NBC News/The Wall Street Journal, reveals a great deal of public concern over the “overall honesty and integrity of the Obama administration,” with more than half of Americans agreeing that recent scandals have “raised doubts” about the government’s trustworthiness. 41 percent of Americans believe that President Obama himself is “totally” or “mainly” responsible for the government’s handling of Benghazi – just 19 percent believe he bears no responsibility. On the IRS issue, only 24 percent say the president is not responsible in any way, while a third of Americans think he is largely culpable.

2. The Obama presidency is imperial in style and outlook

Leading conservative talk radio host Mark Levin was absolutely right when he blasted Barack Obama on Fox News back in January as “an imperial president.” It would be hard to find a US president in recent times who has behaved in a more arrogant fashion than President Obama, and that includes Richard Nixon. The Obama White House is routinely disdainful of criticism, sneeringly dismissive of Congressional opposition, nasty and brutish towards dissenting voices in the media, and completely lacking in humility. Even veteran reporters such as Bob Woodward, one of two journalists who broke the Watergate scandal, have found themselves on the sharp end of the White House’s boot after publishing unflattering stories. Woodward was warned earlier this year by a senior White House official that he would “regret” his remarks about the president’s handling of the sequester issue.  [.........]

3. Most Americans are still worried about the economy

Economic concerns are the top priority for Americans according to Gallup. In a recent poll, 86 percent of Americans agreed that “creating more jobs” and “helping the economy grow” are the top two priorities. “Making government work more efficiently” came third, at 81 percent. Despite a slight uptick in economic growth, and improving housing prices in some markets, the United States still has deep-seated economic problems. Most Americans are still nervous about the economy. According to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, just 46 percent of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama is doing in handling the economy. 64 percent of Americans are “somewhat dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with the state of the US economy today. Only 32 percent believe the economy will get better in the next 12 months. 58 percent of Americans still think the country is in an economic recession.

Strong job creation and robust economic growth are being significantly hampered in the United States by declining economic freedom, including rising tax rates, the growing burden of government regulation, and a rising dependency culture. Unemployment still remains at 7.5 percent, with nearly 12 million Americans out of work. 47 million Americans are living on food stamps (the highest figure in American history), and a staggering 128 million Americans are now dependent upon government programmes. A full economic recovery still remains far away. According to the Federal Reserve, Americans have rebuilt less than half of the wealth lost to the recession. [.........]

4. America’s level of debt is frightening

America’s economic problems are compounded by its huge debt problem. Barack Obama continues to lead the United States down the path of European Union-style decline, with incredible levels of public debt, currently standing at $16.85 trillion, a per person debt of $53,000. President Obama has done nothing to confront the vast entitlement programmes that are a yoke around the necks of future generations of American taxpayers, while taking an axe to defense spending, resulting in politically driven cuts that undermine America’s national security while doing nothing to reduce the country’s debt burden. As he made clear in his Inauguration address in January, President Obama remains committed to a big spending, big government vision, and one that will force the United States down the road to economic ruin unless it is reversed.

5. Obamacare is hugely expensive and increasingly unpopular

A key liability that will further expand America’s debt mountain is Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), the Obama administration’s hugely ambitious and expensive health care reform initiative that threatens to dramatically increase the cost of healthcare for ordinary Americans as well as businesses, when it goes into effect next year. Forbes Magazine reports that in California Obamacare is expected to increase individual health insurance premiums by 64 to 146 percent. The latest Congressional Budget Office estimate puts a $1.85 trillion price tag on Obamacare in its first 10 years. A clear majority of Americans oppose Obamacare. The latest CNN/ORC International poll shows 54 percent opposing the law. A Reason/Rupe poll found that a mere 32 percent support it. An April poll by the Kaiser Foundation, and reported by Politico, revealed that “just 35 percent of Americans view Obamacare ‘very’ or somewhat’ favorably, down 8 points since Election Day.” [.........]

6. Independents are rapidly withdrawing support for Obama

As Gallup polling has consistently shown, America is ideologically a conservative nation, with conservatives outnumbering liberals by a nearly two to one margin. Strikingly, as Gallup has found, more than 50 percent of Americans view Obama as more liberal than themselves, with just 27 percent of voters declaring that they share the same ideology as the president. Despite a clear advantage in terms of ideology, the Republicans have struggled to win over sufficient numbers of “moderates” (roughly a third of US voters) in the last two presidential elections, many of whom identify themselves as “Independents.” There are signs, however, that support for Obama among Independents is dramatically falling.  [.........] By a 45 percent to 35 percent margin, Independents believe that Republicans in Congress are doing a better job than President Obama on handling the economy.

7. The liberal media is less deferential to Obama in his second term

The Washington Post, standard bearer of the liberal establishment in the US capital, has labeled the IRS scandal a “horror story” for the Obama administration. Even The New York Times, the de facto inflight newspaper of Air Force One, recently carried a headline on its front page declaring: “Onset of Woes Casts Pall Over Obama’s Policy Aspirations.” The liberal mainstream media closed ranks behind Barack Obama for most of his first term in office, and relentlessly pummeled his presidential election opponent Mitt Romney ahead of the November 2012 vote, in a shameless display of bias towards their favoured candidate. [...........] Meanwhile, MSNBC, President Obama’s biggest flag-waver on cable news, has seen its ratings plummet in recent months, with Fox News further building its dominance of the ratings.

8. The Benghazi scandal has been extremely damaging

Much as the Obama administration tries to downplay the significance of the Benghazi scandal, it refuses to go away, with 46 percent of Americans believing “the administration deliberately misled the American people about the events surrounding the death of the American Ambassador to Libya” according to Quinnipiac. Like the IRS scandal, the Benghazi debacle has undermined trust and confidence in the Obama presidency. 58 percent of Americans in the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey agree that that the State Department’s handling of the Benghazi attack raises doubts “about the overall honesty and integrity of the Obama administration.”

In the aftermath of the barbaric killing of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans on September 11, 2012 at the hands of al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants, the Obama administration tried to pass off the brutal attack as a spontaneous response to an anti-Islamic video that hardly anyone has seen. Undoubtedly worried that the killings would upset the White House’s carefully crafted narrative in the lead up to the 2012 election that al-Qaeda was in retreat, administration officials sought to downplay the broader significance of the attack in the run up to the presidential vote, a strategy that succeeded in the short term, but has since imploded in the face of sustained Congressional scrutiny. Not only has Benghazi damaged the president, it also hurt former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s image too.  [...........]

9. Obama’s national security strategy is weak and confusing

President Obama’s recent address to the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington has to go down as one of the most weak-kneed speeches by a US Commander-in-Chief in modern times. His call for a winding down of the global war against Islamist terror was naïve in the extreme, and sent completely the wrong signal to America’s enemies at a time when al-Qaeda is strengthening its presence in parts of the Middle East as well as North, West and East Africa. [..........] His Guantanamo policy is deeply out of touch as well with American public opinion. US polls have consistently shown strong support for keeping the camp in operation. This is hardly a strategy that will endear President Obama to an American public that feels less safe today than it did in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

10. Obama is “leading from behind” on the world stage

American foreign policy has become even more weak and incoherent in President Obama’s second term. On the world stage the United States has not been this powerless and disengaged since the days of Jimmy Carter. “Leading from behind” is no longer just a mantra for the Obama administration – it has become its philosopher’s stone. Washington’s leadership on the Syria crisis is non-existent, with the White House content to farm out its foreign policy to Moscow and the United Nations. On Afghanistan, Obama’s position is one of retreat and a handover of power back to the Taliban. Iran is barely mentioned by the president, as Tehran’s nuclear ambitions march on. Meanwhile key allies such as Britain are treated with contempt and lectured to on European policy as though it were a schoolboy being reprimanded for speaking out of turn, while the Special Relationship and the transatlantic alliance continue to be eroded. [........]

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Lindsey Graham is in the tank for Samantha Power – naturally

by Speranza ( 23 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Eric Holder, Headlines, Progressives, United Nations at June 8th, 2013 - 2:00 pm

Raise your hand if this surprises you? Yeah I thought so.

by Bridget Johnson

The senator who led the charge to block UN Ambassador Susan Rice from filling the role of secretary of State has no problem with the person President Obama selected to fill Rice’s role.

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 Moving into Rice’s role at the world body with a sad track record of preventing atrocities will be the first leader of Obama’s Atrocities Prevention Board created in 2012, Samantha Power.

Power called Hillary Clinton a “monster” during the 2008 campaign and had to step down from Obama’s team then, only to rejoin his transition team after his victory. Since then, she’s moved through positions at the State Department and National Security Council.

When she left her role as a special assistant to Obama this February, the White House said it was so Power could spend more time with her two small kids. She is married to Obama’s former regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein; they met working on Obama’s first presidential campaign.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) today called Power “a solid choice” to lead the U.S. delegation at the United Nations.

“She has the background, intellect, and toughness to fill this important diplomatic post at a time of great conflict and rising danger throughout the world,” Graham said.

“As United Nations Ambassador, she will aggressively represent the United States interests in an increasingly hostile body.  She will also be a strong supporter of our close friend and ally Israel,” he added. “I hope the Senate will expeditiously consider her nomination.”

Although the Power nomination doesn’t come without controversy, there seems to be little will to try to hold up the nomination.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was asked yesterday on CNN if the GOP might try to block Power in order to wrest answers about Benghazi out of Rice.

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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said at the Brookings Institution that he has “some hopes” for Power.

But House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas) made clear that there will be opposition to Power, and not linked to Rice.

“I think Mrs. Power, the opposition will stand on its own in terms of her — you know, you want an U.N. ambassador that’s going to advocate for the United States, not apologize for the United States,” McCaul said on CNN.

“She’s compared our recent American foreign policy to that — those of the Nazis. This is a horrible rhetoric. And it’s not the kind of messenger I want to be sent to the United Nations to speak on behalf of the United States. So we have some serious problems with this nomination.”

Read the rest -  Fervent Rice opponent Graham is A-ok with Power

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The Obama Boom: 175,000 Jobs in May and Unemployment rises to 7.6%; Update: 122K of the Jobs created were low wage.

by Rodan ( 68 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Economy, Media, Progressives, unemployment at June 7th, 2013 - 11:00 am

The media has popped out the champagne this morning and are cheering exuberantly at May’s jobs numbers. 175,000 jobs were created in the month of May beating expectations. Although this number is in the just treading water category, the Obama Propaganda media is proclaiming this as proof we are in an era of renewed Prosperity. Some CNBC talking head even said that this economy has a 90′s feel to it. They ignore the fact that Labor force participation rate is still at historic lows, hours worked and wages were flat, but it does not matter to the media. It’s all about convincing Americans that times are good and that Obama is awesome.

Despite anticipation of a spring-into-summer swoon, the U.S. economy continued to create jobs at a relatively steady pace in May, adding 175,000 positions as the unemployment rate ticked higher to 7.6 percent.

Economists expected nonfarm payrolls to grow by 170,000 in the month after an initial reading of 165,000 in April, which was lowered to 149,000.

An alternative unemployment measure that includes the underemployed and those who have quit looking edged lower to 13.8 percent.

“The employment report does not look too bad after all, which should soothe recent concerns over a slowing for the US economy in response to domestic fiscal policy and external headwinds,” Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak, said of the report.

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The unemployment rate had been moving lower in large part because of a reduction in those looking for jobs. That metric, the labor force participation rate, ticked higher to 63.4 percent after hitting a 35-year low in March and April.

Services led job creation, while retail and the food service industries also contributed.

The numbers got a huge lift as well from a formula—called the “birth-death model”— that the Labor Department uses to estimate the number of jobs that new businesses created or lost. That estimate added 205,000 to the count.

It is very likely less than 175,000 jobs were created in May because the birth-death model might have inflated numbers. Regardless the facts do not matter to the Progressive Obama loving media. They will tout the jobs report all weekend to distract from Obama’s scandals. The media’s Obama Boom narrative is part of the reason no matter what revelations come out from the Obama scandals, his approval rating remains steady.

Back during the best days of the Bush economy which was not great either, the average during 2005-2006 was 150,000-175,000. The media claims it was stagnant growth and paled in comparison to the historical average. Now that its their beloved god-king Obama, they claim 175,000 is spectacular and gang busters. The media’s false Obama Boom narrative is no different than when the Soviets were claiming grain production was at all time highs, when they had food shortages. Sadly many Americans are looking for an excuse to like Obama, hence any news the media spins even if its not true, they will grasp on.

This is a cult of personality in regards to the love Americans have for Obama. I wish more on the Right would understand what they are dealing with and stop expecting some magical political silver bullet will do in Obama. We are stuck with this guy until 2017 and that is the reality.

Update: Zero Hedge digs into the jobs created and it turns out that 60% or 122,000 of the 175,000 jobs created were low wage positions.

The time has come to look at the quality component of the 175K jobs added in May, so without further ado, let’s drill down at where the growth was. Without much surprise, we find that as in months past, the bulk of the job growth continues to be concentrated in the lowest wage jobs:

  • Leisure and Hospitality added the most jobs in May, 43K
  • Retail Trade jobs rose by 28K
  • Education and health added another 26K
  • Temp jobs: the lowest of all paying jobs added another 26K

In summary – of the 175K jobs, 122K was to low wage occupations.

To be fair this has been occuring since 2000 when the 90′s Boom ended. Its obvious our economy has a structural problem and no amount of media cheering will change that.

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NSA’s Data-Mining program Prism

by Rodan ( 93 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Fascism, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at June 7th, 2013 - 7:00 am

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As news continues to break about the NSA keeping everyone’s cell phone records, it turns out that was the tip of the Iceberg. The NSA has a Data-Mining program called PRISM that collects everything a person does online. It gathers data from every ISP or Social media server and stores them. This clearly goes beyond anti-terror efforts and its actually quite scary what is going.

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track one target or trace a whole network of associates, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.

The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley.

Equally unusual is the way the NSA extracts what it wants, according to the document: “Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”

PRISM was launched from the ashes of President George W. Bush’s secret program of warrantless domestic surveillance in 2007, after news media disclosures, lawsuits and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court forced the president to look for new authority.

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That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil.

The technology companies, which knowingly participate in PRISM operations, include most of the dominant global players of Silicon Valley, according to the document. They are listed on a roster that bears their logos in order of entry into the program: “Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.” PalTalk, although much smaller, has hosted significant traffic during the Arab Spring and in the ongoing Syrian civil war.

This information was gathered for Data-Mining and I have a theory. The Obama Regime used the data collected and gave it to OFA help with their re-election. If the data was really used for anti-terrorism, then how come Major Hassan or the Tsarnaev Brothers were not caught. I am convince that PRISM and the IRS audits of Right leaning groups are interconnected and was where OFA got their information.

I am just speculating, so do not take my theory as gospel. Reagrdless, this amount of Government Data-Mining should be chilling to any American.

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The Obama Boom: A dismal recovery

by Rodan ( 106 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Misery Index, Progressives, unemployment at June 6th, 2013 - 8:00 am

The media has been pushing hard the last few weeks that the economy is booming. They cite the stock Market and Real Estate as proof that we are now in an economic golden age. They ignore wage stagnation, lackluster job growth and the fact most of the reduction in the unemployment rate was due to people unable to find jobs. None of these facts are getting out to the public instead its the economy is rating and we have prosperity. A UCLA professor debunks the Obama Boom theme.

The country’s tepid growth in its gross domestic product isn’t creating enough good jobs to build a strong middle class, according to a UCLA report released Wednesday.

“Growth in GDP has been positive, but not exceptional,” UCLA economists wrote in their quarterly Anderson Forecast. “Jobs are growing, but not rapidly enough to create good jobs for all.”

The report, which analyzed long-term trends of past recoveries, found that the long-anticipated “Great Recovery” has not yet materialized.

Real GDP growth — the value of goods and services produced after adjusting for inflation — is 15.4% below the 3% growth trend of past recoveries, wrote Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast. More robust growth will be necessary to bring this recovery in line with previous ones.

“It’s not a recovery,” he wrote. “It’s not even normal growth. It’s bad.”

Sadly facts do not matter in Obama’s America. With backing from the media and Hollywood, many Americans think Obama is doing a great job and the economy is booming. The logic is that they may personally may not be doing well, but their neighbors are. This thought process is created by media propaganda that would rival Soviet claims of increased grain production that never occur.

This is the new normal for the economy.

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It’s time to fire Al Sharpton!

by Speranza ( 103 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Liberal Fascism, Media, Political Correctness, Politics at June 5th, 2013 - 3:00 pm

I think one of the most disgusting instances of political pandering was the way all the Democratic candidates for president in 2004 (including Joe Lieberman) pandered to Al Sharpton and not one of them had the guts or decency to bring up the Tawana Brawley or Freddie’s Fashion Mart incidents. By the way Mr. Radosh is wrong,  Joe Scarborough’s Show is losing viewers and he is not even a token “conservative” but at best a center-left pseudo Republican.

by Ron Radosh

Do you remember Tawana Brawley? If not, you must go and watch the video co-produced by RetroReport and the New York Times. The Times starts by giving us a wrap-up of the case:

The news reports at the time, in the late 1980s, were horrific. Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old African-American girl from New York State, was said to have been abducted and repeatedly raped by six white men. She was found with “KKK” written across her chest, a racial epithet on her stomach and her hair smeared with feces. She was so traumatized, according to reports, that at the hospital she answered yes-or-no questions by blinking her eyes. Making the crime even more vile, if that were possible, she and her lawyers later claimed that two of the rapists were law enforcement officials.

Enter a relatively unknown (at the time) African-American activist named Reverend Al Sharpton. Rushing to get in touch with young Tawana, Reverend Al became her mentor, spokesman, and leader of the mass protests demanding justice for Brawley, the victim of an apparent white racist attack. In the process, Sharpton accused the police officer — who Sharpton said had actually attacked her — along with the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, Steven Pagones. “The evidence,” Sharpton said, proved that “an assistant district attorney and a state trooper did this.” Sharpton led mass picket lines at New York state offices, which I recall at times included the always gullible folk singer Pete Seeger.

[...........] It was too late for Officer Harry Crist Jr., who committed suicide because of the false accusations made against him, or for Assistant DA Pagones, whose career was ruined and whose reputation was smeared.

Writing today at The Daily Beast, Stuart Stevens calls it a “shocking reminder of the toxic mix racial exploitation and personal ambition can produce.” It should be, he writes, “required viewing for the NBC News executives who are heavily invested in rehabilitating a key culprit of this loathsome episode: the Rev. Al Sharpton.” Stevens is correct, and let me put it more boldly: It is time for MSNBC and its parent, NBC News, to fire Rev. Al Sharpton.

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There was some justice for the family of the dead police officer and for the unjustly accused Pagones. The two lawyers working for Brawley, Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason — both radical New York leftists — had their law licenses revoked. But as we know, despite a long record of outrageous, racially charged actions carried out by Sharpton, which Stevens summarizes for us, the activist’s career began to skyrocket.

Sharpton became a media celebrity, a kingmaker of Democratic Party politics, and the man all candidates had to grovel before in order to get approval because he had succeeded in anointing himself as the self-proclaimed leader of America’s black community. Yet Sharpton continued to reveal his antisemitism, continued to make false charges on other issues, and, as Stevens puts it so well, he “spent decades vomiting hate, leaving innocent victims in his wake.” And as PJ Media readers well know, he has continued his role in the protests he organized at the time of the Trayvon Martin shooting. [........]

Sharpton is not alone. But one thing stands out. Instead of suffering retribution for his continuing sins, he has been singularly rewarded. His greatest reward was NBC’s fairly recent appointment of Sharpton as anchor of his own program on MSNBC. He is also a regular commentator on other programs, including the network’s highly rated Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough. [.........]Imagine the scandal if Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly took leadership of a conservative activist group while hosting their own TV talk programs. We know that all hell would break loose the very first day. Sharpton is being touted, as Stevens puts it, as a “credible source of information.”

That persona, as a result of this new 15 minute documentary, is now up to being challenged. In the documentary, when asked to comment about his role in the Brawley episode, Sharpton is clearly anything but apologetic. As Wayne Barrett, the former political writer at the old Village Voice with his friend the late Jack Newfield, says in the program, Sharpton still thinks he did nothing wrong. [.........] Yet the media always come when Sharpton makes a call, as they did in Florida after the Martin shooting.

One other point must be made about Sharpton’s comments made for the documentary. First, he says, incredulously, that “something happened,” as he tries to imply that perhaps Brawley was right in her original charges. Second, he goes on to argue — and you must watch him say this in the video — that even if you think he is wrong, he acted because of his commitment “to social justice”!

Sharpton does not seem to realize it, but he is saying that “the end justifies the means,” the old apologia all leftist radicals use to explain away their most heinous acts. The holy grail of seeking “social justice” excuses anything, even false accusations that led to the suicide of one person and the end of a career for another. Beware of those who invoke social justice as the explanation for their actions.  [.........]

Yes, MSNBC is an upfront leftist news organization. Joe Scarborough, who regularly is balanced by the usual assortment of leftists and liberals, is the rare exception — the token conservative hired because he once was in Congress and has ties to the Hill and many friends to call upon for interviews and as guests. The network last year took the step of firing Pat Buchanan, whose upfront paleoconservative views offended the network honchos, and whose latest book at the time was accused of racism.

Nothing Buchanan wrote or did, however, compared one iota with the offenses of Al Sharpton, which continue unabated to this day. It is time that NBC do what they did to Buchanan. It is time to fire Sharpton, for he has made clear in his unwarranted defense of his actions in the Brawley case that he has learned nothing, and that he is still a purveyor of inflammatory racial charges that undermine any remaining credibility needed for the position of a news network anchor.

[.......] Even an avowed leftist network has to be called to account when it crosses the line and tries to give a classic demagogue a position on its news staff.

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LTC Allen West: LTC Matthew Dooley Thrown Under the (Jihadi) Bus

by 1389AD ( 50 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Military, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Sharia (Islamic Law) at June 5th, 2013 - 11:30 am

NextGenerationTV.com on YouTube:

Published on May 6, 2013 by ThomasMoreLawCenter
TMLC President & Chief Counsel Richard Thompson joins Col. Allen West of NextGenerationTV.com to discuss the case involving Army LTC Matthew Dooley

American Thinker: Pentagon Deep-Sixes Lt. Col. Dooley for Violating Muslim PC

Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley isn’t the one who has to hang his head low. That honor goes to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. Dooley is in the doghouse with the political, knocked-kneed Dempsey over his approved teachings about militant Islam. That’s right, approved teachings.

As a result, Dooley, considered a gifted officer with a bright future, has been handed a one-way ticket out of the Army unless an appeal he’s filing succeeds. But just like it’s hard to beat city hall, it’s tough to beat the Pentagon. Dooley’s last recourse is federal court.

Reports The Washington Times:

News of Col. Dooley‘s setback has emerged as some researchers of radical Islam are criticizing the Obama administration for downplaying the Islamic connection in a string of attempted and successful terrorist attacks, including the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15.

Dooley’s woes began when he was serving as a war college instructor. American Muslim groups didn’t appreciate Dooley’s materials, which provided an honest assessment of militant Islam. A guest lecturer in Dooley’s class offered strategic and tactical military advice in the event a Muslim nation (like Iran) acquires nuclear weaponry, which evidently didn’t sit well with Pentagon or White House PC peddlers.

Again, from the Times:

Col. Dooley‘s downfall began in October 2011 with a letter sent by 57 American Islamic organizations to John O. Brennan, then President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser and now CIA director.

Brennan is an unapologetic apologist for jihad, as Breitbart reported in February…

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I support LTC Dooley

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Eight Minutes That Should Change The United States For The Better.

by Flyovercountry ( 115 Comments › )
Filed under government, IRS, Progressives, Tea Parties, The Political Right at June 5th, 2013 - 8:00 am

Take both a good look and a good listen to this woman. This is the woman, personally identified by our President during one of his State of The Union Addresses as a domestic terrorist. She was considered by the Department of Homeland Security as a potential enemy of our nation, (being involved with one of those nefarious Tea Party groups and all,) and singled out by the IRS specifically so that her First Amendment Rights would be abridged. They accomplished this by abusing the full scope of their authority, not only through leveling an extra layer of scrutiny with her organization’s 501(c)4 application, but with personal audits of her and her husband, audits of members of their group, and invasive demands for personal disclosures considered in and of themselves illegal.

Congressman Jim McDermott(D) Mars, made a statement in response to this impassioned statement that can only be described as an evil worthy of the worst punishments imaginable by an angered mob. He basically said that it was the fault of those singled out by a bureaucracy enamored with its own power, for being singled out. According to Representative McDermott(D) somewhere further than mars, an overworked IRS, (which one would expect to have less time for witch hunts if they were indeed overworked,) was merely following through on their Constitutional Duty, by investigating every single Conservative group who made application to the IRS, while completely ignoring or expediting all those applications made by groups left of center.

McDermott’s ability to suggest this with a straight face tells me that this man has the ability to remain coherent after consuming massive quantities of alcohol, enough perhaps to jeopardize the lives of any actual normal people attempting to drink that much. My hope here of course is that when he is hospitalized for the liver transplant he’ll undoubtedly need in the future, he’ll face a Death Panel headed Kathleen Sebilius herself, under the terms of that monstrous health care plan, for which he undoubtedly voted yes.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Hell hath no fury……

by Guest Post ( 107 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Communism, government, Guest Post, Progressives at June 4th, 2013 - 6:00 pm

Guste Blogger: Doriangrey

 

For the last 4 years this little insignificant blog of mine has been dedicated to exposing the mendacious maleficence of the Fifth Column Treasonous Media. Let me tell you, it has been an effort akin to an ant trying to move the earth out of it’s orbit. As much as I wish I could take credit for what I read today over at the Washington Post, I honestly cannot, it was the Fifth Column Treasonous Media who did all the heavy lifting themselves.

Last Sunday I chanced upon an article in the New York Slimes by Op-Ed Propagandist Frank Bruni in which said propagandist whined and cried over the fact that the American People have grown wise to the lies, deceits, omissions and propaganda that the Fifth Column Treasonous Media has been peddling for decades now. So, yes it was with a great deal of schadenfreude that wrote this article.

Who Needs Reporters FRANK BRUNI?

Let me make this 100 percent perfectly crystal clear to you Frank. You and your fellow traveling Fifth Column Treasonous Media whores have earned a place of disgust in the minds of the American People below child molesters and murderers through the hard work of diligently lying to the American People. This thing called the internet came along and allowed the American People to check on the supposed facts that you have been claiming to report. What we discovered, because of this internet thing, is that you and your ilk are the most corrupt lying bastards on the face of the earth.

Do we still need reporters? Yes, why yes we do. It honestly is a damned shame that America hasn’t seen a genuine honest reporter/journalist in the last 60 years. So while we do need real reporters/journalists, currently, we do not have any. The internet is not killing the print new media Frank, you and your Marxist fellow traveling Fifth Column Treasonous Media whore comrades are 100 percent responsible for that.

Well the article I ran across today over at the Washington Post was another glorious schadenfreude moment. Here, Chris Cillizza, another Fifth Column Treasonous Media propaganda whore adds his gnashing of teeth and lamenting to that of Frank Bruni, with uproariously hilarious results in the Washington Post’s comment section. Suck it up Frank and Chris, the gig is up and we’re on to you.

Is political reporting dying?

As Bruni notes in his piece, many people celebrate this diminution of the media’s role as a deserved punishment for our bad behavior. Sure, there are bad reporters. And, yes, the tendency to consider every story as a mountain (no molehills exist anymore) is detrimental to our long-term job of educating the public about what matters in their lives and why.

There is no question that reporting is under assault by a political class that understands the benefits technology affords it to end-run the traditional (and even not-so-traditional) media. No matter your partisan leanings, that should be a scary notion.

Electing people to the highest and most powerful offices in the country (and, in some cases the world) should mean that voters get the whole story before making up their minds — not just the story a politician wants them to hear.

(By all means please go read the comments at the Wa-Po, they are a riot as the commentors there let Chris have it will both barrels)

The schadenfreude of watching Frank Bruni and Chris Cillizza standing thunderstruck, blinded by the light and utterly incapable or willing to comprehend what is happening to them is utterly delicious. Like deer caught in the headlight of a 90,000 lbs Kenworth tractor trailer speeding at them at 90 miles per hour, the rhetorical face of pure incomprehension is priceless. It isn’t just the the American People no longer blindly believe whatever lies these propaganda douche bags throw out, it has transcended that, to where, now like the crowd watching the Emperor strut about without any cloths on, after the little boy has said what everyone else was afraid to say. The Emperor has no cloths on and now the crowd is openly mocking the naked Emperor.

How much longer will the Fifth Column Treasonous Media faithful like Frank Bruni and Chris Cillizza continue casting about desperately, frantically attempting to find a scapegoat to blame for the destruction of their industry? One can only speculate, but I honestly and profoundly doubt that anyone in the Fifth Column Treasonous Media is going to be having an epiphany or suddenly need to clear their conscious any time soon.

The wailing, gnashing of teeth, crying and blaming any and everyone else for their woes will continue for quite some time because, quite honestly, these tools lack the intelligence, integrity or capacity for honest self introspection necessary for them to understand why the American People would rather have a child molester or starving cannibal renting a room in their house from them then one of their ilk.

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Anything Short Of Hard Time Is A Defeat Of Epic Proportion

by Flyovercountry ( 175 Comments › )
Filed under Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Eric Holder at June 4th, 2013 - 2:30 pm

Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy

We can file this one in the category of, “I don’t know what to wish for.” Our side has been absolutely giddy lately with the recent, albeit deserved, fall from grace by key members of Team Zero. On the one hand, Eric Holder is by far the single worst Attorney General our nation has suffered to date. That’s impressive, considering the fact that Janet Reno once held that position. He has politicized the Justice Department to the point where its very name has become some sort of sick mocking irony. Backing off from the Orwellian manner in which Holder has performed his duties thus far however, even if, and things look slightly inevitable now, Holder resigns his position as our nation’s top law enforcement official, who do any of us believe will replace him? (By the way, it is far from a done deal that Holder will be forced out at all. Remember, our current President has not shown the slightest shyness in appointing known criminals to cabinet positions. An example would be Tim Geitner, who’s problems with tax evasion were over looked in order to utilize his genius in overseeing the Department of Treasury, that very directorate that is responsible for handling people with tax evasion problems.)

The problem as I see it, is that even if Eric Holder goes, Barack Obama will still be the only person with the Constitutional Authority to nominate his replacement. Who does anyone believe will be given that nod from the Bamster? As our nation’s chief executive, Barack Obama has shown a penchant for nominating the worst possible candidates for any and every position. If this next statement doesn’t chill you right to your bones, nothing is capable of placing fear into your heart. Are you ready? Hillary Clinton was the most competent member of the Obama Administration. And all she did as our Secretary of State was to oversee a situation where roughly one quarter of our embassies world wide were set ablaze as some sort of bizarre celebration of the, “Arab Spring.” If Eric Holder resigns, which is far from being a done deal, and subsequently slinks out of town quietly, he will be replaced by Eric Holder 2.0, and that version has the potential to be far worse.

The question here, is how can we prevent this from happening? I’m going to take a slight detour here, but I promise that it will tie in to the topic at hand, and eventually make sense. During the summer of 1979, our economy was in a shambles, and actually stood in far worse shape than even the darkest days of 2008′s fall or 2009′s summer. The reported unemployment rate stood at solid double digits, and actual unemployment was pushing 20%. Annual inflation peaked at 13.5%, and William Miller, our Fed Chairman practiced a pure Keynesian approach, despite promising the opposite. Before William Miller, Arthur Burns did the same, and before Burns, W. McChesney Martin ran an identical policy. We had a monetary policy of purposeful currency devaluation from the 1950′s through the late 1970′s without respite. 1979, thanks in part to the utter incompetence of the President we had elected for ourselves saw those sins ultimately reach their inevitable conclusion, as a full blown economic crisis. On August 6, 1979, President Jimmy Carter’s only good decision, Paul Volcker, took his place as our Fed Chairman.

What is important to note here, is that Volcker was not Jimmy Carter’s first, second, or even third choice to head up the Fed. Carter was forced to nominate Volcker, by a business community who were preparing to surround the White House with torches and pitch forks. They were joined in their anger by mostly Congressional Members of his own party, who were skittish about their own prospects for reelection in an election that was only a year away. Volcker’s performance as our Fed Chairman was perhaps as important for our economic recovery and boom as Ronald Reagan. The point I suppose, is that even someone with Jimmy Carter’s level of incompetence is capable of making good decisions.

To be certain, there are differences between Carter and Obama. One being that Barack Obama is a narcissist, and quite frankly incapable of caring about anything or anyone other than himself and those things that do not impact his life and possessions personally. He does not care about trite little things like the electoral prospects of those people in his party. He does not care if his personal convenience is ruinous for others around him, or if his ideology causes hardship for anyone else, anywhere. Eric Holder has served him well, and his brand of politicizing the Justice Department serves the President’s agenda to a tee. I do not see anything changing that, despite the loss of approval ratings that the President has currently enjoyed. Barack Obama does not need to win any more elections, and really no longer has a use for approval ratings. He has shown that he understands executive fiat all too well, and most certainly can continue this strategy for 42 months longer without so much as a scintilla of cooperation from Congress, regardless of the make up of that fine collection of political cowards.

If there is to be any improvement with our current dilemma, it will only ever happen if the church of liberalism were brought down a bit, and more importantly, the church of Obama along with it. The first of those criteria was met over these past few weeks, but that one criteria being met is not enough. Eric Holder must go to prison, and he must face a penalty commensurate with the laws he has broken. Perjuring oneself to congress, swearing out falsified warrants, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and racketeering all carry stiff penalties should one be convicted of such. The only way a future Attorney General appointed by Barack Obama keeps to the straight and narrow is if they realize that politicizing and abusing the power of that office comes with a price. For that matter, all bureaucrats working in our out of control Executive Branch need to be reminded that behaving in such a manner carries consequences.

Darrell Issa asking a few uncomfortable questions of our nation’s ruling class elite will accomplish nothing. Our ruling class elite learning the hard way that they too, are accountable for their actions will accomplish much. Lisa Jackson broke the law while working for the Environmental Protection Agency, and she was promoted to a position of increased responsibility. Victoria Nuland broke the law while working for the State Department, and she was promoted to a position of increased responsibility. Lois Lerner broke the law while working for the IRS, and subsequently was promoted to a position of greater responsibility. There is a definite pattern to be noticed here. Even if the White House did not direct any of the shenanigans, (something I do not believe for a moment,) they are sending a clear message by promoting these law breakers. Currently, that message is, “abuse your power and break the law, it’s OK, you may even get promoted.” With an incarcerated Eric Holder, Lisa Jackson, Victoria Nuland, and Lois Lerner, that message would immediately change to one of, “even if the President turns a blind eye to people in his Administration violating the public trust, you will still find yourself in prison should you do just that.”

A show hearing in which our Congress Critters pretend to get tough will do little to solve the problems of a politicized government run amok. Actual accountability will do wonders towards the goal of constraining this behemoth. We are beyond the point where a little embarrassment will be adequate. We need to put the criminals in jail, and there is no better group than those who have abused their authority to do that very thing to others in our society, some of them unjustly.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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