Here’s how the smear machine works

Volokh Conspiracy via the WaPo   "Just yesterday I was pointing out that many people were misled about the content of George Will’s column on sexual assault  by left-wing sites that manufactured outrage by putting a wholly inaccurate headline on a blog piece that proceeded to misrepresent what Will wrote."

"Now it’s my turn. Here’s the Gawker headline:  Law Professor: Only Prostitutes Would Directly Say “Yes” to Sex

"The law professor in question is me.  What I actually wrote, in the context of discussing why no jurisdiction in the U.S. has adopted an explicit consent standard like the one I was commenting on, because it’s absurdly overbroad and would make almost every adult American guilty of sexual assault, is that “the vast, vast majority of ‘sexual contact or behavior’ is initiated with only *implicit consent.*
...
So you can see how the headline is false on multiple levels* but it certainly provides clickbait for Gawker.  I hardly expect an apology from Gawker because that’s just what they do there.

I place this also under the heading of demagoguery. I saw Candidate Obama do it often with McCain and Romney's words.

It worked for Thad Cochran over Chris McDaniel
This is how those supporting voter ID will be portrayed by liberals:

Exposed: How the VA red-flags ‘disruptive’ vets

Human Events

 

... "That last phrase is priceless. Untold numbers of vets are dead, and legions more have languished because of the VA’s failure to deliver “quality health care.” The Office of Special Counsel just confirmed to President Obama this week that vets across the country were exposed to contaminated drinking water, dirty surgical tools, untrained doctors and neglectful nurses — and that whistleblowers were retaliated against or ignored.

"Yet, the VA’s soulless paper-pushers seem more preoccupied with flagging and punishing “disruptive” vets who have dared to complain about their disgraceful treatment and abuse."  Michelle Malkin

 

Let's see; those emails must be around here somewhere.

 

Poll: Huge majorities think the IRS destroyed their own email records

"There is no gender gap; 74 percent of men and 75 percent of women agreed. There is no race gap; 76 percent of whites and 70 percent of blacks agree. Between 73 and 76 percent of every age group thinks someone should be held accountable for the targeting allegations. Even 67 percent of self-identified liberals want to see someone held responsible for this scandal."

 

Reading list: Things aren't so great for Hillary right now

Five Reasons why June was Doom for Hillary 

... "This was supposed to be a great month with the launch of her new biography “Hard Choices.” The book tour had her featured on every major television news and entertainment program in the country. Hillary’s face was popping up across the fruited plains from Albuquerque to Zanesville. Things were looking good for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 preview.

 

'But then the wheels came off.

 

"Here are the five horrible stories that slowed down the Clinton Express in the last few weeks:"   Read more. Here is just one sample of what you will read:

The American people seem tired. Tired of Obamas, Bushes and yes, Clintons. President Obama hit record lows in public opinion polls over the last week. 

Lucianne
 

Hot Air    "In the two weeks of Hillary Clinton’s re-entry in pop and political culture with her book tour, she has demonstrated a remarkable inability to connect with people, to communicate effectively, and to even comprehend the damage she’s doing to herself. Any other politician with this kind of fortnight would find it fortunate to be called a mediocrity. To make this point, let’s start with the contrarian view. Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein wants to remind everyone of “Hillary’s Mad [Political] Skillz” today, but doesn’t exactly make a compelling case:" ...

 'Clinton: the Musical' comes to New York    “ 'It’s hard enough being president by yourself. Bill Clinton’s problem is that there are two of him. Literally,” the show’s description reads. “Clinton follows two Bill Clintons and Hillary on their quest to save their presidency, change America and prove that ‘politics is show business for ugly people.’” "

Did Hillary Lie to Congress?    From Ed Klein's book, Blood Feud, so consider the source. This could be accurate, but maybe not. TD
"She had no doubt that a terrorist attack had been launched against America on the anniversary of 9/11. However, when Hillary picked up the phone and heard Obama’s voice, she learned the president had other ideas in mind. With less than two months before Election Day, he was still boasting that he had al-Qaeda on the run.
If the truth about Benghazi became known, it would blow that argument out of the water.
“Hillary was stunned when she heard the president talk about the Benghazi attack,” one of her top legal advisers said in an interview. “Obama wanted her to say that the attack had been a spontaneous demonstration triggered by an obscure video on the Internet that demeaned the Prophet Mohammed.' ”

The Struggles of Hillary; The ordinary American just doesn’t know what it’s like
... "Most people can’t understand the nature of the hard work with which the Clintons are constantly building their fortune.
"They don’t know what it’s like to write a calculatedly tedious book for an almost $14 million advance."They don’t know what it’s like to get up every morning and take a private jet to an event where adoring fans line up for a book-signing (only one copy per person, and no posed photographs, please)." ...  Rich Lowry

Trey Gowdy goes for the throat in Capitol Hill showdown with IRS head honcho

Examiner.com

Examiner.com

 Transcript of the session here.

"From the South Carolina's Upstate 4th Congressional District, Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy mercilessly hammered IRS Commissioner and fellow lawyer John Koskinen during a rare late night committee hearing. A graduate of Yale University School of Law, Koskinen was held to task for failing to take the time to "read the relevant criminal statutes," while almost simultaneously claiming he personally hasn't witnessed any evidence of criminal wrongdoing at the IRS targeting of conservative groups, such as the Tea Party

(seen in its entirety in the video)."

Victor Davis Hanson: Federal agencies now exist not for the public good but for their employees’ benefit and Obama’s agenda.  ... "In other words, we are witnessing a new federal government that is a sort of rogue organism that exists for its own enhancement and is willing to do anything necessary to help those who help it.

"This is not America. It is like most failed states abroad, which also are not America."

This is a good stand-alone post that we will post separately tomorrow .

 

Rush Limbaugh: Koskinen Typifies the Arrogance of the Regime   "Now, fine, Obama can put in there whoever he wants, but we have the responsibility of knowing what that means.  The IRS is supposed to be an objective, blinded-by-politics agency.  None of that is supposed to matter, and we know that it does matter totally with this Regime.  So that's who this guy is.  He's an arrogant, condescending know-it-all who doesn't know nearly what he thinks he knows.  Who doesn't know who told him about Lois Lerner's e-mails.  He has no idea. " 

The IRS E-mails: The Unbelievable  

 ... "But, as good citizens, we are supposed to believe the unbelievable:

1. The IRS just happened to cancel the services of an e-mail backup company two months after receiving a letter from congress referring to targeting of conservative groups.
2. Lois Lerner’s hard drive just happened to crash in June 2011, just 10 days after receiving the letter from Congress.
3. Another person at the IRS whose e-mails could be of interest in the investigation had her hard drive crash in December 2011.
4. These crashed hard drives were the only source of these people’s e-mails.
5. The company Sanasoft, which was doing data backup during the period of 2009 to 2011 – the period where Lois Lerner’s e-mails were of interest – does not have any of the backed up data for that period.
6. The IRS did not set up any other method for backing up and archiving e-mails once the contract was canceled with Sonasoft.
7. There is no other way to recover these e-mails – they are simply lost.

"I know the administration believes the average citizen is incredibly gullible or stupid – or both – but do these people really expect us to swallow all of these events, and their timing?  Please!"

Chik-Fil-A Not Alone: Here Are 10 Restaurants That Liberals Hate And a Few Other Companies You May Know of.

UNIVERSAL FREE PRESS   "When a company takes a stand against the backwards policies put forth by the current administration, they are immediately labeled a “right-wing” company, which liberals demand to be boycotted. It’s not always the company’s stance, however, but the founder’s beliefs that have progressives screaming “fire and brimstone,” as if business owners are somehow not entitled to a political or social opinion. So, in the spirit of free enterprise, if liberals want to fight with withdrawal, conservatives can surely fight back with patronage. Here are a few of our favorite restaurants who have been accused of having a conservative, nut job agenda, which we stand behind 100 percent."
Hat tip to Reece Coble at TEA Party Conservatives for America

Besides restaurants, here are other businesses with a Christian point of view.

 Lefties got the horn when they messed with Longhorn Steakhouse  over the

 Obamacare mandate. As soon as the ACA was implemented,  the restaurant chain

 announced they would be cutting staff hours to  compensate for the pricey healthcare.

 

... "Forever 21 prints “John 3:16” on the bottom of its shopping bags. Covenant Transport, founded in 1985 by David A. Parker, an evangelical, wears its Christianity on the side of its trucks: in its name, which refers to the many covenants made with God in the Bible, and in its logo, a scroll that recalls the parchment on which biblical texts would first have been written." ...

 

 ... "Philip J. Clements, the founder of the Center for Christian Business Ethics Today, tells a story to illustrate how Judeo-Christian principles make business run smoothly. He once met with a group of businessmen in Africa, most of them Muslim, who complained of the corruption in their countries. So he shared with them Jesus’ parable of the talents, from the Book of Matthew, in which a master offers his servants some money for their use. When the master returns much later, two of the servants have made a profit and pay him back. They could have simply absconded with it." ...

...

"Mr. Hicks did not object to burger-wrapper or shopping-bag evangelism. But he cautioned that the businesses that behave in the most Christian manner may not have visible marketing plans. “It’s the actions,” he said, not the branding." 

 

Book excerpt: Evangelical Christian Executives: A New Model for Business Corporations

America's interests are in the capable hands of Obama and Kerry

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Kerry: 'We Don’t Do Foreign Policy By Polls'   ... "Rosen responded, "It sounds like you like the polls you like and you don’t like the polls you don’t like."

" 'No, I just don’t pay attention to polls. If I paid attention to polls, I would have quit in Iowa a long time ago. I don’t pay attention to polls," said Kerry, an apparent reference to his failed presidential bid in 2004."

The strategy of the jihadist and their allies in Iraq was evident long before their blitz started rolling toward Baghdad. But neither Maliki nor Obama wanted to listen.
... 'Washington didn’t respond—a claim that will fuel Republican charges that the Obama administration has been dangerously disengaged from the Middle East. Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki dismissed the warnings, saying everything was under control."

 Liz Cheney on how she and her father aim to shore up national defense  "You have to look first at the fact that when we went into Iraq, very shortly thereafter Moammar Qaddafi turned over the Libyan nuclear program. Clearly, that was a result of Qaddafi’s thinking he might be next. It doesn’t take much imagination to see what the threat would have been to us if Libya had nuclear weapons.

 “ 'We also were in a position at that point where our friends and allies could count on us, where they knew our word meant something.' ”

Obama's Foreign Policy Explained      "This clip explains, better than countless learned articles could, the essence of Obama's foreign policy. He's got a "four-stage strategy:' "

Jordanian air force bombs Al Qaeda-Iraq incursion. ISIS also stands at Saudi border. Kerry’s snags in Iraq    [ISIS] "capture of the key town of Rutba Saturday is seen by Western military sources tracking the Iraqi conflict as marking out the Islamists’ next target. That force split in two – one heading southwest toward the Saudi Arabia border and the other heading west to Jordan."

...

"Since Maliki is the object of Kerry’s maneuvers to replace him, he is not ready to offer the Kurds any concessions at this point. So Kerry’s Iraq mission has so far struck a high wall."

Story about a disfigured girl kicked out of KFC because of her looks a hoax

Rick Moran    "The heart tugging story about a 3 year old Victoria Wilcher, who was told to leave a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant because the sight of injuries she received in a dog attack in April bothered customers, is a hoax.

"Kelly Mullins, the girl's grandmother, raised $135,000 when the supposed incident went viral and was covered by national media. A doctor from Las Vegas flew in and pledged to donate his time to perform the surgeries. The KFC managers and employees got death threats and suffered other indignities.

"But Mullins made the whole thing up." ...

... "An interesting exercise in the power of social media and a reminder that Americans will usually fall for a sob story."

UK Daily Mail photo:

The Vatican, the Imam, the three unapproved prayers and interfaith movement origins in general.

I Know It's Going To Be Hard For You To Believe, But The Pope Invited a Muslim To Pray At The Vatican, and the Muslim Used the Opportunity to Insult All Non-Muslims

Video of the Imam's prayer: "...so make us victorious over the tribe of unbelievers."

Vlad Tepes  ... "But the importance of the event should not be underestimated. The meaning of the 3 extra verses you are about to see with great attention to detail and with highly acclaimed and authoritative Islamic texts,  will be shown to be basically a direct insult to the Jews and Christians in attendance. The Vatican’s response was to write some pot-boiler sophistry to deflect the imam’s insult in order to not take away from the intended spirit of the event one would assume. But this event was broadcast live to the entire Islamic world and it is highly likely that a large percentage of muslims watching knew exactly what took place, not to mention a number of Christian and other minority groups living in Islamic lands, even if nearly no Westerners did.

"This is not without importance and not without consequence."...

 Stephen Coughlin Vatican analysis of peace ceremony June 8, 2014  "Vlad Tepes has conducted a comprehensive interview with Maj. (ret.) Stephen Coughlin, who is one of the foremost non-Muslim American experts on Islamic law. Maj. Coughlin examines the context of what the imam’s prayer at the Vatican as it relates to Islamic law. He uses his explanatory material — from authoritative sources of Islamic law — to expose the strategy behind Muslim participation in the prayer event at the Vatican, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s exploitation of the “interfaith” movement to accomplish its own ends."
 

   
A Complete Collapse of Reason

... "Consider this passage from Reliance of the Traveller, chapter O, o9.0:

Jihad means to wage war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion. And it is the lesser jihad.
[…]
The scriptural basis for jihad, prior to scholarly consensus is such Koranic verses as:

• Fighting is prescribed for you (Koran 2:216)
  
• Slay them wherever you find them (Koran 4:89)
  
• Fight the idolators utterly (Koran 9:36)



Post above from Gates of Vienna

Always keep in mind these words: Taqiyya and Kitman when Muslims speak of their relations with the non-Muslim world.

He did it! Not me!

Loathe At First Sight

Hope n'Change

"Although the publisher of Hillary Clinton's book (which already dropped out of the Top Ten list on Amazon) claims that people just aren't buying books the way they used to, Hope n' Change is confidently predicting bestseller status for journalist Edward Klein's explosive new tell-all "Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas."

"As you can guess from the title, the two political families absolutely despise each other behind closed doors - and we have to admit that our hearts actually warmed to Bill Clinton just a bit upon hearing his quote: "I hate that man, Obama, more than any man I've ever met. More than any man who ever lived." (Follow the link - trust us, you'll love it.)" ...

Be sure to consider the source, however. 'Blood Feud' Author Also Wrote Obama Birther Fiction   "Sound like fiction? It could be. Klein – who’s written books about Barack Obama, the Clintons, Katie Couric and the Kennedys – has gotten the reputation for being a bit factually challenged. “The evolution of his career has raised eyebrows among liberals and conservatives, and the highly personal portraits he crafts have prompted questions about sourcing, accuracy and intent,” The Washington Post wrote in 2012 on the heels of Klein releasing “The Amateur,” a book about Obama."

Even Fox & Friends Doesn't Buy Ed Klein's Latest "Bombshell" (UPDATE: Limbaugh Is Skeptical, Too)  Another consider-the-source situation.

 "This too-good-to-be-true sourcing -- which, it should be noted, is the defining characteristic of everything Ed Klein writes -- was called out by Brian Kilmeade, who asked, "Now, who is his source? Chelsea? I mean, how would you possibly get in between them?' "

Rush Limbaugh: The Obamas vs. the Clintons -- Really?    Rush quotes Klein's account of what Bill Clinton supposedly said: ..." 'I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived." I don't know.  Does this guy talk that way? "I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived."  Why would he tell people this?  If they've got this public show going on of unity, you know, one of the things you never betray your true feelings about people.  Keep those -- small point.  Let's move on. " ...

Conclusion: Take this whole story with a grain of salt and watch for either Clinton and either Obama on TV showing great affection for each other. Maybe you'd prefer this book:

OBAMA-CLOWARD-PIVEN

Always On Watch

Admittedly, I have very few good things to say about either Richard Cloward or Frances Fox Piven.  I believe they are among this country’s most contemptible personalities.  I believe this because of their efforts to destroy American society and replace our traditional society with one modeled on the Soviet Union.  They are, in my view, classic examples of enemies of the state and they did everything within their power to bring this country’s government to its knees.  In spite of this disdain, a short summary of each is warranted as an introduction to this piece. ...

 

... "Together, Cloward-Piven developed what has become known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy, outlined in 1966 and calling for the overloading of the U. S. public welfare system in order to precipitate crises that were beyond the ability of government bureaucracies to manage.  It would, in other words, cause the collapse of the U. S. government and lead to the creation of a national welfare state paid for through onerous taxation imposed upon working Americans.  Cloward-Piven supposed that this could be the result of forcing the Democratic Party (which in 1966 controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency) to federalize all poverty based programs. "

...
"At this stage, of course ... there is nothing anyone can do about this.  Obama has a free reign for another 3 years.  It may even be true that we haven’t seen anything yet..."
Full article.