Victor Davis Hanson: Fictions as Truth

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This president would like us to believe him on these and more topics:

 

"For the Obama administration narrative to be accurate about the swap of five Taliban/al-Qaeda-related kingpins for Sgt. Bergdahl, we are asked to believe the following:"

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"For Benghazi, the Obama administration would have us believe..."

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"For the IRS scandal, the Obama administration would have us believe..."

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"For the Obamacare scandal, we are asked to believe..."

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"For the VA mess, the Obama administration would have us believe..."

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"On illegal immigration scandals, the president would have us believe..."

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"I could go on with the NSA, AP, and Fast and Furious scandals, but you get the picture: the Obama administration does what it wishes, then says what it pleases, and assumes the media will offer the necessary mythologizing — and the Americans will get over it."

Obama Thinks He Has It Rough Now?

What an Obama presidency would look like if the GOP takes control of Congress in November.

PJ Media    ... "Operating amid a cocoon of aides who refuse to challenge him, or offer critical feedback (Valerie Jarrett would have their heads if they did, since this would reflect disloyalty), the president moves from failure to fiasco routinely.  We are, after all, speaking of  a man who told an exultant audience in Berlin before he even became the nominee of his party in 2008, and then again on victory night in Grant Park in Chicago in November 2008, that the moment of his victory and ascendance to office would be marked as one where the planet started healing, the oceans stopped rising, and all the other problems in the world  would just begin to melt away."...
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"Legacy building will drive the White House to agree to any nuclear deal with Iran it can get, and hope that the Iranians repay the favor of additional sanctions relief by not showing their contempt for America — delaying the final step of their accession to the nuclear club until Obama leaves office. That will mean Obama’s successor will have to answer the “who lost China” question about Iran getting the bomb."

Legal Insurrection
"From the South Dakota College Republicans:
"It’s not us, it’s you.
"That’s our message to President Obama with our new music video, “Say Something, Obama: The Music Video.' ”
 

 

... "In fact, most young people who cast their presidential vote for Barack Obama had no idea what or who they were voting for. It was a passing image that caught their eye, and suddenly they were in love.

 

"Six years later, millennials are abandoning the president in droves."

Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington

Amazon  "Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today’s media.

"Americans are at the mercy of powerful figures in business and government who are virtually unaccountable. The Obama Administration in particular has broken new ground in its monitoring of journalists, intimidation and harassment of opposition groups, and surveillance of private citizens.
Sharyl Attkisson has been a journalist for more than thirty years. During that time she has exposed scandals and covered controversies under both Republican and Democratic administrations. She has also seen the opponents of transparency go to ever greater lengths to discourage and obstruct legitimate reporting.

"Attkisson herself has been subjected to “opposition research” efforts and spin campaigns. These tactics increased their intensity as she relentlessly pursued stories that the Obama Administration dismissed. Stonewalled is the story of how her news reports were met with a barrage of PR warfare tactics, including online criticism, as well as emails and phone calls up the network chain of command in an effort to intimidate and discourage the next story. In Stonewalled, Attkisson recounts her personal tale, setting it against the larger story of the decline of investigative journalism and unbiased truth telling in America today.

Exclusive: Sharyl Attkisson on Journalism’s Very Dangerous Trend    "Sharyl Attkisson, an award-winning investigative reporter who resigned from CBS News earlier this year, says the news media are heading down a dangerous path with attempts to “censor or block stories” that don’t align with their preferred agenda.

“ 'There’s a tendency in the news media, on the part of some managers, to censor or block stories that don’t fall in line with the message they want sent to the viewers,” Attkisson said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. “I think that’s really a very dangerous perspective to have.”...

Remembering D-Day in 18 Photos

The Daily Signal   

Soldiers crowd a landing craft on their way to Normandy during the Allied Invasion of Europe. (Photo: US Army/Flickr)

Hundreds of dead soldiers in stretchers covered with a blankets after D-Day. Killed during Normandy landings, they lie in a temporary cemetery on the cliff of Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach, ca. June 8-10, 1944. This scene took place a little west of the permanent Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. France, World War 2. (Photo: Newscom)

A moment of truth for the Tunnel Wall

Quite some time back, the TW posted a photo of Code Pink carrying a banner praising the murder of American troops, much the same as Westboro Baptist Church. The picture I published was this one:

 

Here is their refutation of the faux banner  "In response to CODEPINK's vibrant and loud presence on Capitol Hill in recent months, we have become the target of far-right hatred that has filled staff emailboxes with profane and insulting messages suggesting that, among other things, we should be run over by trucks, forced to wear burkas, or shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan where we would get what we deserved." ...

 

This is the photo that they say has been changed:

 

More on this at the link. TW still strongly condemns CP's failure to denounce those who support the murder of Israeli men, women and children, launching rockets into population centers with the desire to kill indiscriminately.

They may not have carried a banner praising the death of American troops, but they have given support to those who cause just that, who hand out celebratory treats after Muslims murder families with small children in their beds.

I find their goals and actions to be reprehensible. The Tunnel Dweller

The Fruits of Progressivism; It’s academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle.

George Will  "Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous..., and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. And academia’s progressivism has rendered it intellectually defenseless now that progressivism’s achievement, the regulatory state, has decided it is academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle."
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"Academia is learning that its attempts to create victim-free campuses — by making everyone hypersensitive, even delusional, about victimizations — brings increasing supervision by the regulatory state that progressivism celebrates.

"What government is inflicting on colleges and universities, and what they are inflicting on themselves, diminishes their autonomy, resources, prestige, and comity. Which serves them right. They have asked for this by asking for progressivism."
 

Sacrifices on the Altar of Obama’s Vanity

Jonathan S. Tobin  "By ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to enact sweeping new regulations that will transform the U.S. economy by essentially putting hundreds of coal-fired power plants on the road to extinction, President Obama is finally making good on his famous campaign promise that his election would signal “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.” The goal of the new regulations that bypass Congress is to reduce power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by the year 2030. But in order to do that, hundreds of the more than 600 coal-burning plants will have to close. Though it is impossible to say with any certainty how much damage this will do to the U.S. economy, what Obama is doing with a stroke of a pen will turn the energy industry upside down, send energy prices skyrocketing, and likely send those regions of the country that are dependent on either the coal industry or the plants that use the stuff into crisis." More...

 

Psaking it to State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki

Thomas Lifson  "Highly visible among the hacks who are now in charge of US foreign policy (such luminaries as Ben Rhodes and Susan Rice) is Jen Psaki, official spokesperson for the United States Department of State. Psaki is now an object of ridicule on Russian television, which has created the word “psaking” to describe “when someone makes a dogmatic statement about something they don’t understand, mixes facts up, and then doesn’t apologize.' ”

 

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As Ed Lasky has chronicled on these pages, Psaki's background as a campaign aide to Obama ill-qualifies her for her serious diplomatic responsibilities.  But in the Obama administration, political loyalty trumps expertise every time, even in the most sensitive positions.

 

We see that will apply to Obama's judgeships as well.

The Daily Obamanation

Infidel Bloggers Alliance 
 Oakland Elementary School Makes Students Attend Mandatory Assembly For Gay Pride Month
 

8th Grade Lesson Plan Asks Girls to Declare How Far They Will Go Sexually

 

Nauseating: Obama State Department Refers To Taliban 5 As “Gentlemen”

Thanks Barack! Taliban Now Have Modern U.S. Stinger Missiles

New York City Principal Bans Students From Singing Patriotic Song At School Ceremony

'I've Had Enough:' When Democrats Quit on Obama (Yeah, but who was it?)

 

Ron Fournier  ... "I share this email to make the broader point and to offer a disclosure: In the 18 months since I began writing columns focused on the presidency, virtually every post critical of Obama has originated from conversations with Democrats. Members of Congress, consultants, pollsters, lobbyists, and executives at think tanks, these Democrats are my Obama-whispers. They respect and admire Obama but believe that his presidency has been damaged by his shortcomings as a leader; his inattention to details of governing; his disengagement from the political process and from the public; his unwillingness to learn on the job; and his failure to surround himself with top-shelf advisers who are willing to challenge their boss as well as their own preconceived notions.

 
" 'Dem Party is F****d," wrote a Democratic consultant with strong ties to the White House and Capitol Hill during the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act website." ...

"The new approach: Frame the criticism as another example of Republicans complaining about something just because Obama was the one to do it."  Politico

GOP Senator Lindsay Graham warned President Obama the Senate Republicans would move to impeach him if he releases more prisoners from Guantanamo. The president can dodge that. The key is getting Michelle to okay the sex scandal that'll keep the public on his side.   Argus Hamilton

Remember Castro's Mariel boatlift? Arizona has become this Petulant Juvenile President's version

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FEMA, immigration officials dumping thousands of illegal children in AZ    "And when I say "dumping," I mean they are flying and busing these kids to Arizona and stuffing them in warehouses with not enough food or supplies. They are also - incredibly - busing kids to a Greyhound staton in Phoenix and simply letting them go, hoping they can find their parents who are also here illegally."
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"The Obama administration is handling this humanitarian crisis about as well as they handled the rollout of Obamacare. No direction, no leadership - just one SNAFU after another.

"Their actions make us look like a banana republic."

Thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border are straining the US agencies that handle illegal immigration. That could affect President Obama's election year plans.  "The Obama administration has linked the trend to unrest in Central American countries, but Republican critics say an executive action that the president took in 2012 is to blame, calling the situation "an administration-made disaster.. "

 Feds Drop Off Two Planeloads Of Illegal Aliens In El Paso, Texas   Quoting from this article in the El Paso Times: ...

These stories found at Drudge
AMERICA STUGGLES WITH SURGE IN CHILD MIGRATION...
FEDS DROP PLANELOADS OF ILLEGALS IN EL PASO...
'YOU ARE FREE, YOU CAN LEAVE'...
HUNDREDS MORE SHIPPED TO AZ...
Growing concern of diseases...
No end in sight for 'dumping' policy...
White House Launches Program to Provide Lawyers...
Cruz: Obama 'lawlessness' responsible for crisis...
Cantor: Time to strike deal...

Obama jails American soldiers for killing the enemy and frees the enemy to kill more Americans.

Noisy Room  ... "So how does the the so-called Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military wage war against American soldiers who are fighting Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan? By making it difficult for them to fight. For one thing, by changing the Rules of Engagement that our fighting soldiers must follow. Rules such as no one allowed to carry a loaded weapon while on patrol. No live rounds carried in any chamber. Rules such as no one must fire upon the enemy until the enemy fires first. Rules such as no one is allowed to fire back at the enemy if the enemy is firing from a school, hospital or occupied civilian residence. Of course, these just happen to be the favorite locations used by the enemy. Which may account why 85% of the military casualties in Afghanistan have occurred after Obama got elected.

"What happens when an American soldier breaks any of those rules? He will be Court Marshaled. Think this is absurd then let me introduce you to The Leavenworth 10. " ...

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