Attkisson: CBS Buried An Obama Quote In 2012 On Benghazi

Hot Air  "Attkisson insisted on CNN and Fox that executives had been notified by 60 Minutes that they had a clip in which Obama rejected the use of the word “terrorism” the day after the attack on the consulate in Benghazi in an unaired portion of Steve Kroft’s exclusive interview. Instead of forwarding that to CBS Evening News and the reporter working on the Benghazi story — Attkisson herself — network news execs instead directed their organizations to use another part of the interview that bolstered Obama’s case, never revealing the existence of the sound bite until after the election. Attkisson tells both Michael Smerconish and Howard Kurtz that “something very unethical was done“:
. . . 

"The full transcript leaked before the election, but it didn’t really catch fire until later. Thanks to the delay, Candy Crowley stepped all over Mitt Romney’s entirely accurate criticism in the presidential debate in October 2012. Rather than speak truth to power, CBS went silent — to preserve it, perhaps, on behalf of Barack Obama? No one’s talking at Black Rock, nor will they likely do so.

"Amusingly, Smerconish spends more time challenging Attkisson on her bias than discussing that of CBS News, although to be fair it might have been to allow Attkisson a chance to defend herself against critics who don’t understand that holding government accountable means doing so in Democratic administrations, too."

Joseph Goebells made a Nazi dictator out of a German midget corporal named Hitler. The most corrupt mainstream media in our history made an American president out of a pot smoking street punk out of Hawaii named Barry Soetero. When lies and deceptions of the MSM are continuous, brainwashing becomes a problem. Obama is a result of that problem.  Comment at Breitbart

Sarah Sanders blasts WSJ for putting an ‘I’ in fake news; then she finishes them off with audio proof

Samantha Chang  "White House press secretary Sarah Sanders continues to slice ’em and dice ’em — fake news stories, that is.

"Sanders fired back at a Wall Street Journal report that misquoted President Trump as saying: “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un.”

"Keep in mind that Trump has repeatedly slammed the North Korean dictator as “rocket man” and “short and fat,” so it defies logic for the media to suggest Trump is bragging that he has “a very good relationship” with Kim right now. "

Audio of Mr. Trump's words at the link 

. . . "While quibbling over a single word might seem ridiculous, this is what we’ve been reduced to in light of the avalanche of fake news emanating from the anti-Trump media, which has been caught lying about his koi fish-feeding manners, among other things.

"Sarah Sanders blasted the WSJ over the misquote amid the Journal’s report claiming Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had paid $130,000 in hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels (real name: Stephanie Clifford) to keep quiet about an alleged affair Trump had with her in 2006.

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Samantha Chang is a politics/lifestyle writer and a financial editor. She is a law school graduate and an alum of the University of Pennsylvania. You can find her on Twitter at @Samantha_Chang.

Why Is Liberal California The Poverty Capital Of America? (Updated)

About four years ago, during the administrations of Barack Obama and Jerry Brown, we travelled to the LA flower district, passing blocks of homeless people along the sidewalk. Not just here and there, but shoulder to shoulder.
I have not seen news commentary on them since Democrats were the ruling regimes at the time, but fully expect these people to be media darlings should Republicans return to power in California. The Tunnel Dweller.

Weasel Zippers

"Entitlement programs and taxes."

"Via LA Times:

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.
Given robust job growth and the prosperity generated by several industries, it’s worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state’s per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%, compared with 6.27%).
It’s not as though California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause. Several state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200% above the poverty line receive benefits. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments and “other public welfare,” according to the Census Bureau. California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients.
The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some states — principally Wisconsin, Michigan, and Virginia — initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under President Clinton and a Republican Congress. Tied together by a common thread of strong work requirements, these overhauls were a big success: Welfare rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the labor force.
The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty programs, however, resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no-strings-attached cash disbursements. It’s as though welfare reform passed California by, leaving a dependency trap in place. Immigrants are falling into it: 55% of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30% of natives.

Keep reading…

Update: California is a socialist state. Democrats are a socialist party.

. . . "12.3% of public school students (one in eight) are illegal aliens. You can see why teacher unions oppose enforcing the law, as public school spending is based on part on the number of students.
"Jackson wrote:

With a permanent majority in the state Senate and the Assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years." . . .

Is Obama as Shallow as He Seems?

"Perhaps it’s time for me to conclude that Obama is too fixated on himself and his image to be other than shallow."

Power Line Blog  "Yesterday, writing about former president Obama’s hack remark to David Letterman about the absence of “a common baseline of facts” shared by Americans, I asked whether Obama really is as shallow a thinker as he appears to be. It was not a rhetorical question. To be sure, Obama has failed to display appreciable depth since he wrote his fictionalized autobiography, Dreams From My Father.

"His signature pronouncements and phrases are banal and borrowed. “The audacity of hope,”borrowed from his spiritual mentor the Reverend Wright. “Just words,” lifted from Deval Patrick. “You didn’t build that,” the obnoxious contribution of Elizabeth Warren. “Right side of history,” the conclusory rallying cry of countless Marxist hacks.

"Yet, I’ve always suspected that Obama has a gear in reserve, one he’s never been called on to display given the desire of so many to anoint him on sight (I assume his Harvard law professors called on him to display his full intellect, but we don’t know his law school grades). First gear will suffice with David Letterman and his audience. Second gear was always good enough for the mainstream media.

"But after the Letterman interview and his chat with Prince Harry, perhaps it’s time for me to conclude that Obama has no gear beyond second. Perhaps it’s time for me to accept Rich Lowry’s assessment:

[T]he deepest truth about Obama is that there is no depth. He’s smart without being wise. He’s glib without being eloquent. He’s a celebrity without being interesting. He’s callow.

"And that of Kevin Williamson:

Barack Obama doesn’t speak a foreign language or play a musical instrument, exhibits no sign that any great book has left a mark upon his mind, has never, so far as the printed word can document, uttered an original thought or put forth an interesting idea.

"Perhaps it’s time for me to conclude that Obama is too fixated on himself and his image to be other than shallow."

Obama Uses Photo of Himself for Christmas Card That Doesn’t Say Christmas

Eight Times When Obama Honored People With Photos of Himself

Like golfer Arnold Palmer for instance:

And John F. Kennedy:

Quoting Rich Lowry in The Callow President:

[T]he deepest truth about Obama is that there is no depth. He’s smart without being wise. He’s glib without being eloquent. He’s a celebrity without being interesting. He’s callow.

Pandemonium and Rage in Hawaii

See also: Brain-Dead Lefties Blame Trump for False Missile Alert by Rick Moran.   It's not nice to tick off Hollywood personalities.

The Atlantic

A false alert of an impending missile attack highlights just how unprepared the country is for nuclear disaster.

"Why would my 22-year-old brother be calling so early on a Saturday morning? I’d ignored the first call. But the second time the phone rang, I picked it up. He was panicking, his voice trembling uncharacteristically: He’d just received the emergency alert warning of a ballistic missile that was heading for Hawaii, where I’m from, and where he and my family still live. “THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” the alert read. My brother was alone, and had no idea what to do or where to go. And he wouldn’t have had much time to figure out a game plan—some estimates suggest a missile from North Korea could reach Hawaii in 20 minutes.

"People across the state were terrified. Many assumed they would die, but sought shelter anyway. They took cover in mall bathrooms, bathtubs, drug stores—even a storm drain. Hawaii has very few shelters, and houses with basements are rare. There were reports of people speeding down highways and running red lights to reunite with family members. Others called one another to say “I love you” one last time.  

"The alert turned out to be false, an epic—almost unbelievable—mishap. A state employee had accidentally triggered the Emergency Alert System message at 8:07 a.m., during what should have been a routine internal test. It took officials 38 minutes to announce their mistake, and to confirm that the warning had been a false alarm. Those 38 minutes were the 38 worst minutes of many Hawaii residents’ lives. And they were just as horrifying for people outside of Hawaii who, like me, felt helpless as they contended with the prospect of never seeing their loved ones again." . . .

The Hawaii worker who 'pressed the wrong button' has been reassigned

Ige released a statement on Sunday saying that "steps have been taken" to improve the alert process and that a false alarm "will never happen again."

Obama, Trump, and the Silliness of Spielberg's The Post

CNN did, however, see fit to review O'Keefe's new book, American Pravda, which hits the bookstores on Tuesday.  Although the book is a thoughtful exploration of historical and modern reporting – in a just world, it would be a staple in journalism schools – CNN chose to headline its review thusly: "James O'Keefe says Trump asked him to go on birther-linked mission."

Jack Cashill  " 'The way they lied," says the Ben Bradlee character in Steven Spielberg's preposterous new film, The Post, "those days have to be over.  We have to be the check on their power.  If we don't hold them accountable – my God, who will?"

"This is the same Ben Bradlee, by the way, who retrieved the diary of his sister-in-law, Mary Pinchot Meyer, after she was murdered and burned the pages having to do her affair with Bradlee's pal, President John Kennedy.  The murder took place less than a year after JFK's assassination and three weeks after the release of the Warren Commission report.  Meyer's ex-husband was CIA.  Bradlee collaborated with the CIA to destroy the evidence.  Thanks in no small part to Bradlee's intervention, the murder was never solved.  This is just one of the minor ironies that render the movie absurd.

"A larger irony is that the movie should have been rightly called The Times, since it was the New York Times that ran all the risk in publishing the Pentagon Papers that contractor Daniel Ellsberg had pilfered, not the Washington Post.  "It's as though Hollywood had made a movie about the [Times'] triumphant role in Watergate," said James Goodale, the Times' in-house attorney when the papers were published.

"As is painfully obvious, Spielberg made the movie to rally the liberal troops against President Donald Trump and his perceived threat to the First Amendment.  The silly, subversive part of it all is that Spielberg elevated the role of the Washington Post only because the Post had a female publisher and thus a juicy role for Meryl Streep.  The Times reviewer, paying deference to feminist sensibilities, still dared to write the following: "It is an unfortunate irony that the makers of a film dedicated to the pursuit of truth took dramatic license with Mr. Sulzberger, who died in 2012, in their worthy elevation of Ms. Graham, who died in 2001."  He refers here to the Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger and the Post publisher Katherine Graham.  Only among allies in political correctness would so basic a corruption of the truth be considered "worthy.' " . . .

Trump & Sarah Sanders Just Found White House Leaker, Now They’re Making Him Pay BIG TIME

Conservative News  "If you’re one of the millions of Americans who have no idea who Rep. Schiff is, Daily News Briefing provided a solid summary of his background:

If you are familiar with Adam Schiff at all you know that he has no interest in the truth or working across the aisle. He’s a partisan who only cares about advancing his liberal agenda and bashing Trump. He also loves being on TV. Every time there is a camera around you will find Adam Schiff running with the phony Russia narrative or hurling some wild accusation at Trump.

"Yep, that pretty much sums up Adam Schiff.

"After rumors began spreading over the past few months that Schiff was the one who has been leaking sensitive White House intelligence to the public, President Donald Trump blatantly called him out in a Thursday interview with The Wall Street Journal.

“ 'All I see of these Democrats, like Adam Schiff — it’s all he does, he’ll have a meeting, and then he’ll leave, and he’ll call up the meeting, and then I’ll have a meeting and then he’ll leave,” said Trump." . . .