More on That Movie (Obama's campaign ad); Updated

Maureen Dowd's Loose Lips About Navy Seals Movie Causes Inquiry  "Dowd's no stranger to controversy but with her latest New York Times article she seems to have placed "Cool Hand Barack" in a rather awkward position.

"Dowd outed the administration's cozy arrangement with Oscar-winning couple Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. The pair has a movie in production on the hunt and killing of Osama Bin Laden set to be released 3 weeks before voters head to the polls in 2012. "....

"Dowd's revelatory column was published the day after Taliban forces launched a rocket-propelled grenade and shot down a helicopter over Afghanistan killing 22 Navy Seals from the same unit as the commandos who took out Osama bin Laden on May 1. Not good."

If we had lost a son in that ambush, we would not be happy with Democrats right now. TD

Sony Hosted Obama Fundraiser, Releasing Bin Laden Movie Before Election  "So far, Sony is the only major studio to hold a political fundraiser this cycle. According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony will release the bin Laden movie, directed by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, on October 12, 2012--less than a month before the presidential election."

 

A flag at half-staff in Virginia Beach,

near the base of SEAL Team 6

 White House Compromising Intelligence with bin Laden Movie?

LA Times: Film on Bin Laden causes stir over Washington access

NY Post: Call Off the ‘SEALs-ploitation’  "A key task for any commander is reining in subordinates who get out of line. Mr. President, tell your political crew that you won’t tolerate our troops’ bravery and sacrifice being exploited just to grab a few votes."

Much more Here:

From Blackfive: Obama campaigns on dead SEALs  "Even though most of the families specifically requested no media coverage of the return of the remains of the fallen, that doesn't apply to the campaign staff WH photographer. So we get a pic of Barry trying his damndest to look like a leader.

"Anyone with an dime's worth of decency would have known better than to use such an event, but that is simply part of Obama's lack of character. He couldn't just attend, he had top make sure that all the voting public knew he was there."

Update: Pentagon did not know of Obama photo  "An official White House photo of a saluting Obama was distributed to news media and published widely. It also was posted on the White House website as the "Photo of the Day." It showed Obama and other officials in silhouette and did not depict caskets.

"Doug Wilson, head of public affairs at the Pentagon, said the department did not know the White House photographer was present and had no idea a photo of the event was being released until it became public."

Allow me to refer you to the comments to this Blackfive post on the aforementioned photo.

Mr. Obama- like Bill Clinton- is a member of the "military-loathing" left and no amount of saluting photos will ever change my concept of  how they feel at ceremonies such as this. When people like these award the Medal of Honor to heroes of America's wars, I am sad for the recipients; they deserve so much better for their sacrifice. TD.

Names of the Fallen Seals..

Department of Defense   "The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of 30 servicemembers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Aug. 6 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed."

Democrats doubt Barack Obama's reelection chances

UK Telegraph  "President Barack Obama is facing mounting doubts within his own party about his re-election prospects, with fellow Democrats beginning to ask if Hillary Clinton would have made a better president." 

But never forget how far left she was. Name one path Obama has placed this nation on and tell me Hillary would not have chosen the same. And instead of being accused of racism by the left for opposing Democrat policies, conservatives would by now have been branded as sexists. 

By the way, what ever happened to those two "iron my shirt" guys from Hillary 2008?  Don't you suspect they are working for some Democrat campaign somewhere?

newbreen.com

A whole new perspective: Jimmy Carter's starting to look better   "His family uses Air Force One as a shuttle to one exotic vacation locale to the next. His wife preaches the virtues of fresh vegetables to children while noshing on burgers in private.

"When the stock market tumbled and our bond rating was down graded he continued to attend fund raisers and play golf.

"When the price gas approached $4.00 he did nothing but continue to tie the hands of domestic energy producers.

"When he spoke of shared sacrifice and evils of tax breaks for corporate jets. We simply just turned off the TV set.

"Ah Yes ...President Jimmy Carter.... Our memories of him are getting fonder every day."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Britain a metaphor for Obama voters vs. the rich

Ann Coulter  "Democrats would be delighted if violent mobs like those in Britain arose here -- perhaps in Wisconsin! That would allow them to introduce yet more government programs staffed by unionized public employees, as happened after the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1960s race riots, following the recommendations of the Kerner Commission.

....

Inciting violent mobs is the essence of the left's agenda: Promote class warfare, illegitimate children and an utterly debased citizenry.

Like the British riot girls interviewed by the BBC, the Democrats tell us "all of this happened because of the rich people."

In America, Mr. Obama attacks the "rich", but his policies are aimed against those making $250,000 or more which includes small business owners; people whose shops are being burned and looted over in London. You hear them being referred to as "the rich" by rioters and you can see the stage being set for the same in America by Democrats. The terms "corporate jet owners" and "millionaires and billionaires" is construed by these "feral young people" for anyone whose wise choices in life have made it possible for them to own a business. They are now the target for the left's envy and the street people's anger. TD

This rather cryptic UK cartoon depicts the hi-tech coordination of the rioters:

guardian.co.uk

Paralytic Western Society

Victor Davis Hanson  "It is fascinating to see how postmodern Western societies react to wide-scale rioting, looting, and thuggery aimed at innocents. In Britain, politicians contemplate the use of water cannons as if they were nuclear weapons; and here the mayor of Philadelphia calls on rappers to appeal to youth to help ease the flash-mobbing that has a clear racial component to it (is the attorney general’s Civil Rights Division investigating?). His appeal is perhaps understandable, but many of the themes of rap music — violence against the police, racial chauvinism, and nihilism — may well be some of the cultural catalysts behind the flash violence, though to suggest as much would be seen as more racist than the racist profiling used by the flash beaters. "

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters   "It was fun. It made life interesting. It got people to notice them. As a girl looter told a BBC reporter, it showed ‘the rich’ and the police that ‘we can do what we like’. "....

"Unless or until those who run Britain introduce incentives for decency and impose penalties for bestiality which are today entirely lacking, there will never be a shortage of young rioters and looters such as those of the past four nights, for whom their monstrous excesses were ‘a great fire, man’."

Alan Caruba; Flash Mobs: Being Young, Black, and Male in America Today

Warning Signs  "In short, Obama has done nothing for Blacks in America either on the macro and micro level to improve their opportunities or attitudes.

He has nothing in common with them; a half-white Columbia University graduate and Harvard educated lawyer, former instructor at the University of Chicago, married to a Princeton and Harvard graduate, herself an attorney. They have two girls that go to private school and their inner circle of friends, Black and white, are dedicated Marxists.

The editor of BlackQuillandInk.com says. “The Black community refuses to admit how wrong they were in voting for Obama.”

http://blackquillandink.com/

25 photos of D-Day from the Robert Capa collection

Slate  Photos from the International Center of Photography

Not a Capa photo: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/nor4o2.htm

Hat tip to John Paul Curnutt, Washington. Formerly of Garibaldi, Oregon.

Philly mayor blasts teens and parents

KFI640  “Parents who neglect their children, who don’t know where they are, who don‘t know what they’re doing...you’re going to find yourself spending some quality time with your kids in jail.”

‘You’ve Damaged Your Own Race’: Philly Mayor Blasts Teens, Flash Mobs  "Nutter, who is African American, targeted so-called flash mobs of black youths who’ve been caught on video attacking people in downtown Philadelphia. “If you want…anybody else to respect you and not be afraid when they see you walking down the street,” he said from the pulpit at Mount Carmel Baptist Church, “then leave the innocent people who are walking down the street minding their own damn business. Leave them alone.” "

Hat tip to Jerry Bentley, Lompoc, Ca.

I suggest to you that Maxine Waters and like-minded colleagues would have said she understood the youth's anger and shared it. She might say the youths were in "rebellion".  Sorry, but I will never forget Reginald Denny. TD

Updated: Rep. Peter King Asks For Probe Into White House’s Role in Bin Laden Movie

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61025.html

Big Hollywood  "Word of the Obama administration’s cooperation with Bigelow was first reported on Sunday by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who wrote that the White House was hoping the film, set for an Oct. 12, 2012, release date, would boost Obama ahead of next year’s election."

Is the Obama Administration inappropriately disclosing classified data to movie producers in the hopes of getting a film about the killing of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden released before the 2012 election?    "It was clear that the White House had outsourced the job of manning up the president’s image to Hollywood when Boal got welcomed to the upper echelons of the White House and the Pentagon and showed up recently — to the surprise of some military officers — at a C.I.A. ceremony celebrating the hero Seals."

Excerpt of Rep. King's letter here: 

....Special Operations Command’s Admiral Eric Olson stated that the May 1st raid “was successful because nobody talked about it before, and if we want to preserve this capability nobody better talk about it after,” and that his operators’ “15 minutes of fame lasted about 14 minutes too long. They want to get back in the shadows.” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen stated that “It is time to stop talking,” as “We have gotten to a point where we are close to jeopardizing the precision capability that we have, and we can’t afford to do that. This fight isn’t over.” Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated that “Too many people in too many places are talking too much about this operation, and when so much detail is available it makes that both more difficult and riskier” for such missions in the future.

SONY'S POLITICIZATION OF UPCOMING BIN LADEN RAID FILM DISCOURAGES AUDIENCE  "After it became known that Sony's planned movie project to be based on the raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan would actually be more like a reelection prop for Obama, Big Hollywood ran a poll, and the results show that a solid number so far - 98 percent - are discouraged from seeing Katheryn Bigelow's movie because of how it could be less a straightforward focus and more of a political election maneuver."

America’s Teenage President

Peter Wehner in Commentary Magazine  "Parents of teenagers will immediately recognize this cast of mind. It isn’t a particularly admirable or attractive quality to find in adolescent children. But the hope is they will, over time, learn to take responsibility for their mistakes, replace self-delusion with individual responsibility, and at least stop blaming others for their slip ups. We expect teens to outgrow their childish ways. And we should expect American treasury secretaries and presidents to do the same."

Wisconsin Holds the Line

Heritage  "The liberal political machine was in full throttle. Millions of dollars in campaign ads streamed on TV. An army of union workers descended on the state in a massive grassroots voter mobilization effort. But when the dust settled, the smoke cleared, and the votes were counted, the conservative majority that swept into Wisconsin last November remained intact last night despite an unprecedented recall effort designed to bring an end to Governor Scott Walker’s reforms."

Republicans hold off Dems in recalls, win enough seats to keep majority in Senate   "Republicans won four of six recall races, meaning the party still holds a narrow 17-16 majority in the Senate — at least until next week, when Sens. Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie, and Jim Holperin, D-Conover face their own recall elections. A third Democrat, Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, easily survived a recall attempt last month."

American Thinker has this:  "Wisconsin stands as model for GOP reforms we can promise voters in 2012. America has turned against Big Labor, precisely because of such self-interested political thuggery as seen in the Badger State. Public employees more likely to die in office than get fired are seen rioting and defacing the State Capitol. In the aftermath, boards of education save millions and avoid teacher layoffs because a cozy insurance monopoly gets broken.

"The GOP nominee must champion union reform, and use the events in Wisconsin as a teaching opportunity."

More here, Video here, here,

Boortz on The Wisconsin recall efforts  "Government employee labor unions – with their ridiculous pension benefits and costly work rules -- are at the core of the fiscal problems faced by state and local governments across the nation. The more the taxpayers realize this the closer we come to restoring some fiscal sanity to governance in America."

The view from the left:

A Stinging Defeat for Big Labor  "It’s a crushing blow to the unions, especially coming on the heels of their failure to oust Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser just a few months ago. The Washington Post’s “The Fix” blog reports this isn’t just a defeat for labor, but also for the progressive movement:"...

Rush calls it "inspiring".

Reviewing the Resumes: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section

Part 2: J. Christian Adams  "America should be appalled at the overwhelmingly politicized backgrounds of Eric Holder's hires in the Department of Justice Voting Section."

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"Not only did Shore contribute $1,000 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, her resume is a lengthy story of a leftist activist. Shore also worked for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a group dedicated to “environmental justice” and aiding illegal aliens. Naturally, while at MALDEF, she vigorously campaigned for comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens and characterized the citizenship verification program as an attempt to “disenfranchise” not only Hispanics, but also blacks. She also fought against Georgia’s photo identification requirement for voters, something states passing such laws should realize."

Part 1: Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section  "All sixteen new hires to the Voting Section have far-left resumes — which were only released following a PJM lawsuit. (This is the first in a series of articles about the Civil Rights Division’s hiring practices since President Obama took office.)"....

"For nearly a year, the Civil Rights Division rebuffed Pajamas Media’s Freedom of Information Act request for the resumes of attorneys hired into the Division during the tenure of Eric Holder. PJM was finally forced to file a federal lawsuit earlier this year. Only then did Justice relent and turn over the documents. The result leaves little wonder why PJM’s request was met with such intense resistance."