White House and Press Relations Getting Worse

More Reporters Step Forward to Discuss Obama White House’s Petty Treatment of Press   "The validity of the story aside, an indisputable truth is that the press has been guilty since before the 2008 election of running interference for this president. And the American people are wise to it. A Gallup poll conducted last September found that the number of respondents who said they trust the news media had reached an all-time low.

US News  "Like previous administrations, Obama's advisers are trying to force-feed the press corps with their version of reality, and they sometimes give the impression they don't respect the men and women who cover the presidency. Their tactics include bullying, hassling, and, yes, threatening reporters in an effort to get them to back down from their stories or their lines of inquiry. The threats can include warnings that a reporter will lose whatever access he or she has to Obamaworld. In other cases, administration figures or Obama's allies outside government threaten to publicly challenge a reporter's credibility, sometimes with the accompanying use of foul or insulting language."  Via Lucianne

And representing the United States of America...

Dennis Rodman, Obama's Madeleine Albright  "This little incident, which in itself ranks up there on the sanity scale with Maxine Waters' warning of 170,000,000 Americans losing their jobs due to the sequester, is nevertheless a timely reminder of just how power-mad progressives really are, and how thoroughly their power-madness obliterates any notions of conscience or decency."

This ain't Henry Kissinger

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 And following Rodman's visit, North Korea threatened war again.

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How's Obama looking around the world?

From the UK Telegraph: Barack Obama a 'dithering, controlling, risk-averse' US president
" "The president had a truly disturbing habit of funnelling major foreign policy decisions through a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers whose turf was strictly politics," Mr Nasr writes in The Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat."
....
" "American foreign policy has been on a four-year autopilot, which I argue has been excessively risk averse and domestically focused. I don't see any clear decision yet to change that," said Mr Nasr in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
" "I wrote this book to problematise the way Obama has approached this whole region, and that it is dangerous to disengage and confuse a low-level foreign policy with success in foreign policy," he concluded."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Presenting the next Director of the [Obama] CIA!!!

"...I think that it is unimportant if Obama is or isn't a Muslim. I don't care whom they pray to. 

"The question is whether their world view, and their policies would be any different if they were Muslims. And I think the answer to that is no. And since it is their policies, not their beliefs that matter to the world, they should be judged for that."  In this speech, Brennan refers to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, "Al-Quds".

 US plan for UN to endorse Khamenei’s fatwa? Shock in Jerusalem US "....President Barack’s Obama’s circle in Washington was studying a bizarre plan for the opposite objective.
"It surfaced in an article published Tuesday, Feb. 12, by Ambassador Thomas Pickering, a veteran American diplomat who is influential in the framing of Obama’s Iranian policy.

"This what he wrote: “In years past, he (Khamenei) issued a fatwa condemning nuclear weapons. Washington could take advantage of this fact by drafting a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the fatwa. This could be a small step toward boosting Khamenei’s international profile while simultaneously pressuring Iran to follow its own religious decree.”
"Instead of dismantling these rogue nuclear programs, Pickering was proposing to legitimize Iran’s possession of a nuclear bomb capacity that only stopped one step short of assembling a bomb."

Tax receipts on pace to hit record $2.7T this year, congressional report says

Obama got his tax increases without cutting spending; now he wants more tax increases but still will demagogue any cuts the Republicans propose. Are the press totally incapable of seeing this?

Fox News   "As President Obama launches into the next phase of budget negotiations with Congress, recent estimates may lend credence to Republican claims that the federal coffers are well fed on taxes. "....
"With the enactment of the sequester, Congress will cut deeper and deeper into discretionary spending. But costly entitlements will continue to grow, driving up the U.S. debt and also the annual interest taxpayers pay on that debt."

 

Regulation Nation: New federal rules for school food will cost millions, group says

Fox News   "Newly proposed federal regulations aimed at the snack foods and drinks served in the nation's schools could come with a hefty price tag.
The American Action Forum estimates the regulations, which include caps on serving sizes and calorie counts, will cost schools $127 million and require more than 926,000 hours of paperwork."....
 

The Afghan Endgame

Texas on the Potomac More about this cartoonist in the future

AEI Critical Threats  "The president’s decision on Afghanistan was not as bad as it might have been—indeed, it was not as bad as it seemed certain to be at the start of this year. It leaves a glimmer of hope for success, which our commanders, troops, and diplomats in the field will exert all their powers to keep alive. But it was still a mistake that puts our nation’s security in greater jeopardy. We hope that the president will continue to reevaluate his own willingness to accept risk in light of the rapidly diminishing economic and political returns he will receive from lowering force levels.
"The war in Afghanistan is not yet lost. We are not yet losing, in fact, and success remains possible. But it is absolutely vital that the White House give General Dunford some flexibility to adjust the withdrawal timelines, and even to ask for temporary reinforcements, as the situation on the ground evolves."
By Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan

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The Obama economy for low-information voters

Forget the Sequester, the U.S. Economy Is Broken  "You should be worried that the solutions to all the above problems aren’t working. And they haven’t been working for the last five years. In fact, the solutions — the old standbys of low interest rates and deficit spending — are now creating more problems than they could ever solve."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/03/03/will-anyone-police-this-white-house/

Jennifer Rubin; Will anyone police this White House? ".... Until Friday’s news conference mainstream media never showed much skepticism about the reams of scare stories being passed around. And if not for Bob Woodward, not a single news outlet would have reported the origin of the sequester. (Think about the level of negligence involved on that point alone.) Whether on account of bias or ineptitude, media haven’t been very good at extracting the truth until quite recently."

Gilded Class Warriors

The People's Cube

Victor Davis Hanson
"Obama never quite squared his accusations that "millionaires and billionaires" had not paid their fair share with his own obvious enjoyment of the perks of "corporate jet owners," "fat cat bankers" and Las Vegas junketeers.
" Now that paradox has continued right off the bat in the second term. In the State of the Union, Obama once more went after "the few," and "the wealthiest and the most powerful," whom he blasted as the "well-off and the well-connected" and the "billionaires with high-powered accountants."
"  Like clockwork, the president then jetted to West Palm Beach for yet another golfing vacation at one of the nation's priciest courses, replete with lessons from a $1,000-a-hour golf pro to improve the presidential putting.
"  The rest of the first family jetted off on their own skiing vacation to elite Aspen, Colo., where nobody accepts that at some point they've already "made enough money." "

The President's Strange Obsession with Millionaires and Billionaires  "Barack Obama’s rhetoric makes for some interesting politics, but it amounts to destructive public policy.  And a president who seeks to patronize one section of American society by demonizing another, does a grave disservice to our country."

Oh, by the way, in case you were interested;
Michael Moore is a controversial documentary filmmaker with a net worth of $50 million  And this is his house:

 

Michael Barone on The Permanent Campaigner

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE  "Do we have a president or a perpetual candidate? It’s not an entirely unfair question.
"Even as Barack Obama was warning of the dreadful consequences of the budget sequester looming on March 1, he spent days away from Washington, apparently out of touch with Democratic as well as Republican congressional leaders.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/cartoons/

"In the meantime, Obama fans were lobbing verbal grenades at none other than the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward.
"His offense: He’s continuing to make it clear, as he did in his book The Price of Politics, that it was Obama’s then–chief of staff and now–Treasury Secretary Jack Lew who first proposed the dreaded sequester.
"This inconvenient fact threatens to interfere with the ready-for-teleprompter narrative that the Republicans want to cut aid to preschoolers in order to save tax breaks for corporate jets.
"It appears that Obama prefers delivering such messages to crowds of adoring supporters over actually governing."

Branco Cartoon – Manufacturing Crisis

From Legal Insurrection

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Top Television Shows Today Full of Garbage

Intellectual Conservative  "Hollywood is hypocritical about diversity when it comes to TV shows. The top 10 shows are full of profanity and sex."  Read the full article

"If you stopped watching network television awhile ago because it had gotten so bad, you made the correct decision. It has continued to get worse. A few years ago, network television became dominated by cheaply made reality TV shows and talent contests, sitcoms with hyperactive manic characters, and socially liberal themes. Television has always pushed the edge when it comes to socially progressive themes. But at what point does it go too far? Perhaps when there are no other options left during prime time network TV."

The Maneater

Parents Television Council  "A non-partisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment."
PTC's Best and Worst of TV
Best: The Middle on ABC
The Middle is consistently chosen as Best TV Show of the Week because of its humorous depiction of the clash of wills between teenagers, children, and parents -- yet, with parental authority, family, and good moral lessons always being upheld in the end…even if the route getting there is winding, convoluted, and funny.



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Worst: 85th Annual Academy Awards 

In order to appeal to Hollywood’s favored frat-boy viewership, the producers selected as host a man whose entire career has been devoted to being insulting, crude, and tasteless – and who was guaranteed to bring such qualities to his performance: ....

Worst on cable TV: "Tosh.O" on Comedy Central

"....Tosh is much more about sneering mockery, bigotry, and graphic sex and toilet jokes."