Newsbusters
"One wonders if Krauthammer was also taking a poke at the media who have for years bestowed so much reverence upon the current White House resident that they've made him almost God-like."
Monday, March 4, 2013
Why we call the media "lamestream"
American Thinker: Two Palestinian Deaths "Thus, the Times and the Post, while scouring for every bit of possible evidence to question treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails, showed no such interest or curiosity about treatment of Palestinians in Abbas's jails. None at all."
Sequester Scare! Two Thirds of News Stories Devoted to Hyping Budget Hysteria “Deadline day. Hours, now, until massive government cuts go into effect that could impact every American. Jobs vaporizing. Flights delayed. Even criminals walking free.” That’s the call to panic with which ABC’s Josh Elliot greeted viewers on the March 1 Good Morning America. Elliot’s frenzied tone, on the day sequestration was going into effect, was typical of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network coverage of Washington’s most recent fiscal debate.
Sequester Scare! Two Thirds of News Stories Devoted to Hyping Budget Hysteria “Deadline day. Hours, now, until massive government cuts go into effect that could impact every American. Jobs vaporizing. Flights delayed. Even criminals walking free.” That’s the call to panic with which ABC’s Josh Elliot greeted viewers on the March 1 Good Morning America. Elliot’s frenzied tone, on the day sequestration was going into effect, was typical of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network coverage of Washington’s most recent fiscal debate.
George Will: Obama Has 'So Gone Over the Top in His Rhetoric He’s Even Losing the Mainstream Media' "...February may have been a tipping point in Obama's relationship with media.
"Consider as additional evidence NBC's David Gregory on Friday saying the President doesn't like the Washington press corps and the feeling is mutual."Beat the press; Reporters reveal how the Obama administration threatens and controls the media
NY Post Via Weasel Zippers Covering "the increasing pressure that White House correspondents feel when dealing with the Obama administration — to follow their narrative, to be properly deferential (!), to react to push-back by politely sitting down and shutting up. "
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" “I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c--t, a--hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.” "
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" “I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c--t, a--hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.” "
Dare we hope the media is beginning to question this administration?
White House’s false sequester claims prompt media pushback
"Those [false] statements came as the White House sought to create public anger about Republicans’ refusal to vote for additional new tax revenues as part of a last-minute budget deal to forestall the sequester, which will force mandatory across-the-board cuts across much of the federal budget."
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"But the release of more than 2,000 illegal immigrants set off a wave of public anger, partly because of coverage by upstart media outlets that have not been allied with the White House." Emphasis added.
"When President Obama told us in his first Inaugural Address that our time of “putting off unpleasant decisions” was over, advocates of reforming our fiscal disorder read that as a promise that the new president would go beyond the perennial economic quick fix."....
"Clearly the days of “putting off unpleasant decisions” are not over. And this is where they get you."
Morning Joe Mocks Obama’s ‘Doomsday’ Sequester: ‘Nobody Told Him’ He Won Election, ‘Nothing’s Happened’ "Getting away from the mockery, Willie Geist informed, “The White House actually, turned out, couldn’t produce a single district where the sequester was shown to explicitly cause layoffs.”
It’s interesting, Nicolle Wallace added, to see how “completely disoriented the "Democrats and the Obama administration seems to have become by the message here.” They’re just confused about the effects of the cuts."
David Gregory Gets Sperling to Admit Obama Lied During Presidential Debate Will Gregory demand that Obama apologize?
"Anyway, it's great that four months after the fact David Gregory busts Obama for a bald-faced lie he told during a 2012 presidential debate, but this would've been much more helpful, you know, before the election." More here: Sperling's Disingenuous Defense of Sequester
WaPo Busts Obama…Again: Four Pinnochios for 'Janitor Pay Cut' Claim
"We're seeing small pockets of excellent reporting on sequestration, and this includes the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler. Kessler's already exposed Obama's scare tactics as lies twice this week. Yesterday Kessler hit the trifecta with this report blowing a hole in Obama's lie about Capitol Hill janitors receiving pay cuts."
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"But the release of more than 2,000 illegal immigrants set off a wave of public anger, partly because of coverage by upstart media outlets that have not been allied with the White House." Emphasis added.
Via Lucianne
This comes from....the NEW YORK TIMES? Obama’s Fault Op-ed columnist Bill Keller begins with assigning blame across the board, but spends the rest of the article on the President's culpability. (Which gave me a thrill up my leg.)"When President Obama told us in his first Inaugural Address that our time of “putting off unpleasant decisions” was over, advocates of reforming our fiscal disorder read that as a promise that the new president would go beyond the perennial economic quick fix."....
"Clearly the days of “putting off unpleasant decisions” are not over. And this is where they get you."
Morning Joe Mocks Obama’s ‘Doomsday’ Sequester: ‘Nobody Told Him’ He Won Election, ‘Nothing’s Happened’ "Getting away from the mockery, Willie Geist informed, “The White House actually, turned out, couldn’t produce a single district where the sequester was shown to explicitly cause layoffs.”
It’s interesting, Nicolle Wallace added, to see how “completely disoriented the "Democrats and the Obama administration seems to have become by the message here.” They’re just confused about the effects of the cuts."
"Anyway, it's great that four months after the fact David Gregory busts Obama for a bald-faced lie he told during a 2012 presidential debate, but this would've been much more helpful, you know, before the election." More here: Sperling's Disingenuous Defense of Sequester
WaPo Busts Obama…Again: Four Pinnochios for 'Janitor Pay Cut' Claim
Sunday, March 3, 2013
#BarackBenghaziObama
“But I Didn’t Do Anything!” "Sometimes it’s the things you DON’T do that are as bad or even worse than the things you do.
"This is the fourth cartoon in my AWOL series. Here’s the First - Second and Third."
"This is the fourth cartoon in my AWOL series. Here’s the First - Second and Third."
AWOL; 
White House Releases 700 Pages Of New ObamaCare Regulations
American Glob "Great. Don’t worry about death panels, folks. You’ll die of old age before you can read and comprehend the damn thing…"
More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released
The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act.
The four rules, which are scheduled for publication in mid-March, finalize both major and minor parts of the healthcare reform law that Congress passed in 2010.
Three of the regulations are final and roll out the multistate healthcare exchanges and reforms to the insurance market, including provisions to encourage cost-sharing, stabilize health insurance premiums and prevent providers from denying coverage.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said the rules would “help to ensure that every American has access to high-quality, affordable health insurance.”
Contrast and compare
More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released
The Obama administration on Friday released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act.
The four rules, which are scheduled for publication in mid-March, finalize both major and minor parts of the healthcare reform law that Congress passed in 2010.
Three of the regulations are final and roll out the multistate healthcare exchanges and reforms to the insurance market, including provisions to encourage cost-sharing, stabilize health insurance premiums and prevent providers from denying coverage.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said the rules would “help to ensure that every American has access to high-quality, affordable health insurance.”
Contrast and compare
The United States Constitution
ObamaCare
Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval In the 40s
Gallup "Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points." Graph at the link.
However if you do a search on this subject, you will get other polls showing Romney ahead of Obama last October.
However if you do a search on this subject, you will get other polls showing Romney ahead of Obama last October.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
President's schedule for Saturday, March 2
White House.gov No public schedule
But here is his weekly address blaming the Republicans for, I'm not sure... whatever.
Executive Orders Up to Feb 12th, 2013
But here is his weekly address blaming the Republicans for, I'm not sure... whatever.
...Because Republicans in Congress refused to compromise to close tax loopholes for the wealthiest Americans, hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose their jobs or see their paycheck reduced, and middle class families will be hurt...
Executive Orders Up to Feb 12th, 2013
If we didn't smile, we'd cry
Texas Gov. Perry just returned from California where he recruited businesses there to move to Texas. I hope he showed them this next statement:
The Logic of Liberalism
G. Donald Allen "While liberals have always (at least for a century) claimed the intellectual high ground, they have at the same time been applying flawed or incomplete logic in their solutions to social problems. This is rather obvious with the issues of economics, education, immigration, and energy. However, in most cases the chain of reasoning is lengthy, making logical flaws difficult to isolate and making counterarguments difficult to construct. As our examples will demonstrate, liberals, with emotional and belief systems concomitant with their logic, have problems determining flaws in their logic, much less addressing them."
Mr. Allen then lists several areas of concern and the fallacies of liberal logic in dealing with each:
Liberal Logic of Economics. ...."Call it Keynesian, progressive, economic justice, or the new normal, the current liberal logic never quite completes the argument and never gets to how the jobs problems are solved. "
Liberal Logic for Green Energy Solutions. "Hundreds of millions have been poured into green energy programs, many without a single measurable result. Yet, the administration is convinced of the importance of green energy and is committed to further investment in this venue."
Liberal Logic for Green Energy Solutions. "Hundreds of millions have been poured into green energy programs, many without a single measurable result. Yet, the administration is convinced of the importance of green energy and is committed to further investment in this venue."
Liberal Logic of Education. .... "We have masses of students graduating with hardly the ability to do basic math and basic language skills. We have high school dropouts at record levels. We have U.S. students doing poorly on international exams. A dearth of solutions abound. No one really knows what to do. But liberals have their patented resolution. Spend more money." ....
Liberal Logic of Immigration. ...."The liberal idea is, as usual, to spend more money, but even they are uncertain the net result -- except probably the accrual of more votes."....
In crystallizing the argument, the writer uses these words:
"In sum, the liberal solution almost always involves more governmental intervention, more governmental interaction, and particularly more taxation. Moreover, the liberal wants to be involved in everything; no issue is too unimportant for their watchful eyes. Interesting in the topics above is that each involves considerable expense, all generated by increased taxation on the rich -- whoever they are."
The Low-Information Voter’s Guide to Politics; Personal responsibility is hard. We're here to help.
"If you think you only deserve fun answers to all life’s questions … you’re right! This primer will help you look smart and morally superior in any political discussion. Just memorize these big words, explained in easy terms you already know from TMZ and The Daily Show:"
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Cartoon from ObamaCartoon
Conservative (and RINO) opinion on the Obama administration as of March 2013
This post may be more of a wish list than reality, but it helps soothe my pique at the demagoguery of this White House and the sycophancy of the press that covers it. TD
Joe Scarborough of NBC News: How Obama Overplayed His Hand
Wait! What? Did I just post something from an NBC source?
"Does Mr. Obama really want to claim that his administration, which has added $6 trillion to the national debt, is unable to save a penny out of every dollar it spends? Does he really expect Americans to believe — after four years, the banking and auto bailouts, several stimulus bills and a run of record deficits — that our $16 trillion economy cannot absorb $42 billion of spending reductions?"
Fear and loathing on the permanent campaign trail
"Glenn Reynolds posts the image [right], found on Facebook. It captures the theme of the stories of the week including the fear and loathing that Obama is retailing on the permanent campaign trial. Let’s add it to the record for future reference."
Duly added here.
Bob Woodward Agrees With Hannity: Journalists Should Ask Obama About Bill Ayers
"The fact that the president was never asked a lot about the 6 trillion in debt that he accumulated prior to this election, in this first election wasn’t asked about his association with Bill Ayers was troublesome to me, I think we’ve got a media that’s not as critical as perhaps it once was in, for example, the days of Watergate."
(Emphasis in the original)
Mark Steyn: Obama's Government-by-Fake-Disaster Movie "...maybe it would be easier to reinstate this critical $44 billion and cut the other $3.8 trillion, which is apparently responsible for nothing other than...the cost of the dress uniforms for the military detachment accompanying the first lady at her Oscars appearance."
President Obama's Lost Leverage "Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky stuck to a mantra that worked to unify their fractious party — the president had already gotten his tax hikes and now it was time for spending cuts. Boehner and McConnell, the master of back-room deals, also promised their rank and file that the time for private deal-making was over."
Obama can choose where to make the cuts. And you can be sure this man-of-the-people will make sure it hurts as many of us as possible. then blame Republicans. You can do this when your electorate is either:
1. socialists or,
2. Um, low-information
Abraham Lincoln Freed the Slaves, Barack Obama Freed Illegal Aliens!
NRO: The President’s (Second) Marriage Evolution "Just as we predicted, President Obama’s position on marriage has evolved once again. In an amicus brief filed Thursday, the administration urged the Supreme Court to strike down California’s Proposition 8 — the 2008 ballot initiative that reaffirmed that marriage is the union of a man and a woman."
Fighting the Real Enemy In all cases it has been the party, not the state
"Even harder for us is how to wage war against those who have seized the bastions of cultural and educational power. There is really only one way: we must eschew with calculation every vestige of the shadow-masters of position in public life. Cast our marketplace votes in consumer decisions to remove all support for network television, new movies, colleges, public schools, and other incarnations of political correctness. "
Joe Scarborough of NBC News: How Obama Overplayed His Hand
Wait! What? Did I just post something from an NBC source?
"Does Mr. Obama really want to claim that his administration, which has added $6 trillion to the national debt, is unable to save a penny out of every dollar it spends? Does he really expect Americans to believe — after four years, the banking and auto bailouts, several stimulus bills and a run of record deficits — that our $16 trillion economy cannot absorb $42 billion of spending reductions?"
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"Glenn Reynolds posts the image [right], found on Facebook. It captures the theme of the stories of the week including the fear and loathing that Obama is retailing on the permanent campaign trial. Let’s add it to the record for future reference."
Duly added here.
Bob Woodward Agrees With Hannity: Journalists Should Ask Obama About Bill Ayers
"The fact that the president was never asked a lot about the 6 trillion in debt that he accumulated prior to this election, in this first election wasn’t asked about his association with Bill Ayers was troublesome to me, I think we’ve got a media that’s not as critical as perhaps it once was in, for example, the days of Watergate."
(Emphasis in the original)
Mark Steyn: Obama's Government-by-Fake-Disaster Movie "...maybe it would be easier to reinstate this critical $44 billion and cut the other $3.8 trillion, which is apparently responsible for nothing other than...the cost of the dress uniforms for the military detachment accompanying the first lady at her Oscars appearance."
Obama can choose where to make the cuts. And you can be sure this man-of-the-people will make sure it hurts as many of us as possible. then blame Republicans. You can do this when your electorate is either:
1. socialists or,
2. Um, low-information
Abraham Lincoln Freed the Slaves, Barack Obama Freed Illegal Aliens!
NRO: The President’s (Second) Marriage Evolution "Just as we predicted, President Obama’s position on marriage has evolved once again. In an amicus brief filed Thursday, the administration urged the Supreme Court to strike down California’s Proposition 8 — the 2008 ballot initiative that reaffirmed that marriage is the union of a man and a woman."
"Even harder for us is how to wage war against those who have seized the bastions of cultural and educational power. There is really only one way: we must eschew with calculation every vestige of the shadow-masters of position in public life. Cast our marketplace votes in consumer decisions to remove all support for network television, new movies, colleges, public schools, and other incarnations of political correctness. "
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