Sunday, October 14, 2012

This is terrible! Shot fired at Denver Obama campaign office (Updated)

9 News   "Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says there were people inside at the time of the 3:00 p.m. shooting, but no one was hit."

I hate this. Let the left be the source of this kind of hate; they commit hateful acts day after day without press coverage, but this will be plastered all over the news for days. Worst of all, it happened during the day with people inside and the perpetrator did not seem to care who was hurt or killed.
I suspect the people who would be extremely distressed are those of us who want Obama out of office because of concern for what America is becoming under his regime. We want to win with conservative ideas and not for juvenile bragging rights as I see so many Obamites do. This sort of incident brings anger mixed with much joy at places like MSNBC and Obama campaign headquarters, where this will be thrown into our faces with relish.
The next few days the left will be fervidly searching for any sign at all of this loon being linked to the TEA Party.

UPDATE: Fake hate crime alert: Leftists vandalize Denver Democrat HQ; Dems smeared Obamacare foes
"I called out GOP fake hate crime perpetrator Ashley Todd last year and have documented a long list of hoax crimes across party, racial, and gender lines for nearly two decades.
Hat tip to Michael Swartz, who is best known for his website, called monoblogue (www.monoblogue.us) as well as his first book, entitled "So We May Breathe Free: Avoiding Ineptocracy." Michael reminded me of an incident  long forgotten that needs to be brought up.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Why we cannot trust the Newsmedia; Announcing the Winners of the Inaugural Walter Duranty Prize

PJ Media
First some background: The Duranty Prize is named after the "somewhat notorious Moscow bureau chief of the New York Times between 1922 and 1936, Walter Duranty.
".....  To review for those in this room — most of whom do know — for some fourteen years Walter Duranty, then the most famous and respected foreign correspondent in the world — also, as it happens, a Brit — whitewashed the repressive evil deeds of the Soviet Union....
"He did this whitewashing most prominently in the case of the Ukrainian Holodomor: the forced starvation of between 1.2 and 12 million ethnic Ukrainians, depending on whose estimates you believe. In other words, a lot of people. Duranty called that genocide “an exaggeration and malignant propaganda” in the newspaper of record.  ....
Newsweek's Lorraine Ali and the Ghost of Walter Duranty
Why do we call the New York Times the New Duranty Times?
Runner-up; Andrew Sullivan;
...".If you have any doubts about what Sullivan thinks of Israel, his answer came in a column he wrote only a few days ago: “We give the Israelis everything they ask for and they give the U.S. nothing in return.
...."The second reason Andrew Sullivan deserves the prize is for his neverending and relentless crusade to prove that Sarah Palin was not the mother of her Down Syndrome baby, Trig."
.... "Finally, we must also cite Sullivan’s over-the-top cover story for Newsweek on Obama. In his eyes, the president is a conciliator of the center willing to work with Republicans, but foiled by right-wing Republicans bent only on his destruction. He does not refer to Bob Woodward’s new book, in which Woodward reveals Obama as a chief executive who eschewed cooperation across the aisle and sought instead to implement an unpopular health care program without any Republican support." 
FIRST RUNNER-UP by Roger Kimball;  
"The selection committee of the 2012 Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity is delighted to award its commendation and second-place prize to Bob Simon for his supremely untruthful report “Christians of the Holy Land,” which aired last April on CBS’s storied news show 60 Minutes."

DURANTY PRIZE WINNER by Claudia Rosett;

The selection committee is pleased to bestow the Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity on reporter Joan Juliet Buck and editor Anna Wintour, for their... fearless dismissal of the truth in ... “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert.”
...."With Syrians engaging in rather more active citizenship than Asma, in her charity works, apparently had in mind, the Assad regime tried to suppress the uprising by killing its own fellow citizens — shooting, shelling, jailing, torturing, and murdering even children. Unlike in Duranty’s day, thanks to modern technology it did not take long for these horrors to hit the headlines. Vogue’s paean to the Assads was abruptly exposed as one of modern journalism’s most mortally embarrassing makeovers.
With instincts worthy of the old Soviet politburo, or for that matter, the Assad dictatorship, Vogue’s initial response was neither to apologize nor to correct the record, but simply to delete the article from its web site."

More on the Ryan-Biden debate

Gargoyle Joe Is Your Debate Firewall?  "Last night while showing off his expertise, Biden claimed the US is Israel’s best friend and that Obama and Netanyahu have personally met 12 times. Both are lies: Obama pledged to create some distance from Israel and the two have met nine times.

“Foreign Policy” Joe stated emphatically that the consulate in Libya had not asked for additional security, intelligence experts did not warn of an attack and that he knows from security briefings that Iran is a long way from getting an atomic bomb.
"Unfortunately Ryan failed to point out that Thursday’s Washington Post had printed the emails asking for additional security at the consulate and he failed to ask Biden if the “intelligence experts” who assured him Iran is a long way from the bomb are the same ones who promised him the Libyan consulate was in no danger."
smile-day
Biden’s whoppers   "Some of the whoppers are shameful. If we had a free press, one or more of these whoppers would lead the news until next week’s presidential debate. They would be deemed to raise a profound questions of the man’s fitness for office, let alone the presidency. I want to itemize four of these whoppers:"...
From Punching the Left; The VP debate was an ambush. 
"If you can't win your own fights, hide behind a bully." 
"And whereas Ryan was sincere and forthright, Biden, when not acting like a drunken mime, spent the debate lying about the Obama administration’s past four years.  He lied about Libya, he lied about the President meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”dozens of times”, he lied about Obama’s definition of “millionaires” – if you make $200,000 a year, congratulations, you’re a millionaire! – , he lied about Sarah Palin talking about death panels in their 2008 debate, he lied about Medicare, and maybe most appalling, he lied about how close Iran is to going nuclear."   Hat tip to Spencer Wolfe at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Ryan was Bidened and almost Borked


Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Podcast: Kristol Reacts to the Vice Presidential Debate
THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Bill Kristol, hosted by Michael Graham:

Twitter frowns on Joe Biden's laugh  "Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan were the two candidates onstage at Thursday’s vice presidential debate, but a third character emerged: Joe Biden’s laugh, which didn’t escape the notice of tweeting politicos"
.Another Poll Shows Biden Won Debate
"A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds respondents think Joe Biden performed better than Paul Ryan in Thursday night's vice presidential debate, 42% to 35%".

WaPo fact checks the vice-presidential debate One such:  “Prior to the election, prior to him being sworn in, Governor Romney was asked the question about how he would proceed. He said, ‘I wouldn’t move heaven and earth to get bin Laden.’”   Biden

"Romney made this statement in a 2007 interview with the Associated Press: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
"But Biden has ignored the rest of the interview, in which the AP quoted Romney as saying “he supports a broader strategy to defeat the Islamic jihad movement.” Just a few days later, Romney expanded on his remarks during a debate:"
“We’ll move everything to get him. But I don’t want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person — Osama bin Laden — because after we get him, there’s going to be another and another. This is about Shia and Sunni. This is about Hezbollah and Hamas and al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a worldwide jihadist effort to try and cause the collapse of all moderate Islamic governments and replace them with a caliphate.” (emphasis added)     Via JustOne Minute
Does anybody know or care that Biden lied so often and has been refuted by so many diverse sources? Certainly not the "progressives" I know.
Well let me tell ya. My record stands for itself. I never say anything I don’t mean. Everybody knows, whatever I say, I do. And, uh, my whole life has been devoted to leveling the playing field for middle class people, giving them an even break.
"So, per Biden, egalitarianism, that is, government dispensing enforced fairness, is the essence of his political philosophy. And so, he really is something of a communist, the essential slogan of which is:

....From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!

Do you know who this man is?

Hint: a classic movie

The glasses will make it extra hard for you. Put your guesses in the comments section below this post if you care to take a shot.

Hint: he goes with the guy pictured at right.

If nobody responds, I'll leave it unanswered. 

By the way, the last one I had was of Shemp Howard, brother of three Stooges' Moe.
The Tunnel Dweller

Friday, October 12, 2012

Catholic Bishops Issue Statement Slamming Biden For Lying About HHS Mandate During Debate…

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Responds To Inaccurate Statement Of Fact On HHS Mandate Made During Vice Presidential Debate
The letter quotes statements by Joe Biden that include these words:
"With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution—Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital—none has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact. That is a fact."
Regarding Biden's statement, the Bishops renounced his words:  "This is not a fact. The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain "religious employers." That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to "Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital, any hospital," or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served."

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers

Liberal civility

Sick: Libs Hope Paul Ryan’s Wife Gets Raped…
"How progressive."

Ryan: Daughter’s nickname ‘Bean’ came from ultrasound; Sickos crack abortion jokes, spew venom. Read the sick Democrat tweets on this subject at the link.
One of the comments on these sick people:

And amongst all the vile Leftoid hate of babies and their sick pride....A true story just came out that a DOG saved a 3 week old baby by waking the parents....
It says something profound when an animal has more care for human life than a very large swath of the population....
Watch here:  http://www.therightscoop.com/a...
 Current TV Host: Ryan ‘Likes Fetuses So Much Because He Looked Like One Next to Biden’

Thuggishness rising from Warren supporters "Last night Ross Hemminger, Youth Coordinator for the Scott Brown for Senate campain, was heckled by pro-Warren supporters at the Brown-Warren debate. A source at the event told me that the hecklers were union members who were oganized by the Warren campaign for a “stand-out.”
"The incident happened when Hemminger started chanting “Go, Scott, go!” on the megaphone. The Warren supporerts chanted back “You sound gay!” A few others chimed in “You take it up the a**!”"   
The Warren campaign apologized for the Democrats whose conduct was so offensive. 

Obama honors Muslims at Iftar dinner

Iftar Dinner Lies - Obama Butchers The Truth - Bolsters Muslim Brotherhood

Hat tip to Harley Standlee, Placerville, CA
"More broadly, we’ve seen the extraordinary courage of Muslim women during the Arab Spring -- women, right alongside men, taking to the streets to claim their universal rights, marching for their freedom, blogging and tweeting and posting videos, determined to be heard.  In some cases, facing down tanks, and braving bullets, enduring detentions and unspeakable treatment, and at times, giving their very lives for the freedom that they seek -- the liberty that we are lucky enough to enjoy here tonight." 
Related: Obama Campaign To Hold First Muslim Outreach Event…  "Hasn’t he pandered enough to the Muslim community with his reaction to the Mohammed film?"
Obama seems to be to be like the schoolboy who gives his lunch money to the school bully in hopes he will not be harmed.

Obama touts Islam as a religion that Sandra Fluke could like.
"He used his remarks at this year's Iftar dinner to praise Islam as a female-friendly religion. "Indeed, you know that the Koran teaches, 'Be it man or woman, each of you is equal to the other,'" he said. For Obama, it is the Bible, not the Koran, that reeks of dangerous patriarchy. Obama has mocked the Book of Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and St. Paul's letters, but he would never dare question a passage in the Koran, which he regards as a holy and blameless book in no need of politically correct revision."    

Taliban shoots a little girl in the head in Pakistan   "Malala Yousufzai, a 14 year old girl was admired across a battle-scarred region ofPakistan for exposing the Taliban's atrocities and advocating for girls' education in the face of religious extremists.
"On Tuesday, the Taliban nearly killed her to quiet her message. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in the volatile northern Swat Valley and shot Malala in the head and neck in what appeared to be a targeted assassination attempt (see article: Taliban gunmen shoot 14-year-old girl activist."  Documentary video: We need to see more stories about Muslims such as these. 

Krauthammer and Hanson on the Obama / Romney debate

Charles Krauthammer; The Big Bird counterattack  ...."Lehrer did. In fact, Obama took more time than Romney — 41 / 2 minutes more — while actually speaking 500 fewer words. Romney knew what he thought and said it. Obama kept looking around hoping for the words to come to him. They didn’t.  After the scapegoats came the excuses."
...."Big Bird. The stupidest ad in memory. Has any president ever run an ad so small and trivial? After an unprecedented shellacking in a debate about very large issues, this is his response?
Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson
"The Middle East is ablaze, the country drowning in debt, the fiscal cliff looming — and Obama’s great pitch is that only he can save the $130 million enterprise that is the Sesame Workshop?  
"An inspiring second-term agenda: subsidies for Big Bird and free contraceptives for Sandra Fluke."

Victor Davis Hanson writes, Anatomy of a Disastrous Debate Performance  "Yet perhaps the reason for Obama’s reluctance to face questions and counter-argument was not just that Obama is not very good at it and resents doing his homework (“a drag”), and not just that his economic and foreign policy records are dismal and would be hard to defend under scrutiny, but largely that he has had scant need to work on debating or sharpening his analytical (sic) skills — given the investment of the media and popular culture in his success."

While Joe is laughing, let him grin over these

Intel sources: Video from Benghazi attack debunks administration claim about protests

Hot Air  "Video footage from the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, taken the night of the Sept. 11 anniversary attacks, shows an organized group of armed men attacking the compound, according to two U.S. intelligence officials who have seen the footage and are involved in the ongoing investigation. The footage, which was recovered from the site last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, offers some of the most tangible evidence yet that a military-style assault took place, according to these officials…"

Video From Benghazi Consulate Shows Organized Attack  "Footage from the night of Sept. 11 might be the clearest evidence yet of a military-style assault on the consulate in Benghazi. Eli Lake reports."....
"The videos were filmed from multiple closed-circuit cameras throughout the compound, and are at times grainy and hard to decipher. There are also some gaps. There is no footage, for example, of Ambassador Chris Stevens going into the safe room where he eventually died from smoke inhalation. The footage at the gate of the compound is taken from an angle that filmed the attackers from the side, so the people in the crowd can mostly be seen in profile."

Breitbart Exclusive: No Record of Intel Briefings for Obama Week Before Embassy Attacks   "According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing--known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)--in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff:"

9/6/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-069/7/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-079/8/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-089/9/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-099/10/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-109/11/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11

 Attack on Libyan embassy: State Department denies link to video

Biden's Church/State Schizophrenia

Peter Heck at American Thinker;  "Amazingly, on live national television, the vice president then went on to state that though he thinks infants in the womb are living human beings, he does not believe in using the force of law to protect them."....
"It's an interesting worldview, isn't it?  Government-sponsored theft is legitimate on moral grounds, but government protection of innocent, defenseless life is unreasonable.  That's the modern Democrat Party."

Via Bookworm Room

White House: Obama & Biden Were Never Aware Of Requests For More Libya Security

JAWA  "During the hearing on Benghazi this week, it was known several requests were made to at least keep the security they had and even more was needed. The requests were denied repeatedly.
"Joe Biden, during the debate last night, denied there were security requests. He used the word "we" never knew. Why, especially leading up to the 9/11 anniversary, didn't they know and who is "we"?
"I call BS
"This video says it all "Question: Doesn't The Buck Stop At The White House On Libya"?"



WHITE HOUSE MOVES TO INSULATE OBAMA ON LIBYA  "The White House scrambled Friday to explain Vice President Biden’s confusing statement that “we weren’t told” of requests for more diplomatic security in Libya, claiming he was referring only to “himself” and President Obama."

Andrew Klavan; Let This Be a Warning to You
"Vice President Joe Biden is the blithering shill for a failed philosophy. Congressman Paul Ryan is the intelligent and articulate defender of the most realistic reform agenda currently available. And yet I think the Romney/Ryan campaign dodged a bullet in the vice presidential debate. If it weren’t for the fact that Biden acted like a grinning, belligerent idiot, he would have won on points. As it was, it was pretty much a draw."