Media fail: 'Regular' mom in SOTU speech former Democrat operative for Patty Murray

Ethel C. Fenig: Just an average, ordinary retooled homemaker...who happens to be a Democratic campaign staffer  . . . "Oh, and Rebekah's husband Ben, the sacrificing construction Husband of the Year worker who is now thriving and is part of Obama's "our story."  Well, definitely not my story and maybe not yours.  Unmentioned also as to why perhaps Ben Erler lost his job...he drinks a lot and has been cited quite often for DUI.  That is not recommended for continuing employment in construction jobs."

Examiner.com

So why would President Obama and his allies in the media keep this information from the public? And why would Obama feel the need to fool the country with such a ruse?

Barack Obama with Rebekah Erler.

"During Tuesday night's State of the Union speech, President Obama spoke of a struggling mother of two from Minneapolis who wrote him a touching letter describing her struggle as a middle-class person. Obama even said the story of her and her husband was “the reason I ran for this office.” But it turns out that Rebekah Erler, the woman who wrote that letter to Obama, is a former Democratic campaign operative who worked as a field organizer for Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and worked on Obama's 2008 campaign, Newsbusters reported Wednesday. Worse yet, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune failed to mention that in its glowing article.

Legal Insurrection:  . . "Remember Rebekah Erler, President Obama’s premiere “everywoman” success story from last night’s State of the Union address? The one whose family inspired the leader of the free world to stand up for the common man by…raising their taxes, or something?

"As it turns out, Rebekah isn’t just an inspiration. She’s an operative.

Consider Obama's character: 

•  Obama's health care plan promise named Politifact's 2013 'Lie of the Year'
• White House admits lying about Obama meeting Kenyan uncle
• Report says Obama knew Benghazi was a terror attack, lied about video
• Al Qaeda is 'On the Run'

• This site lists more My own personal choice is Obama's closing down all parks and monuments during the "government shutdown" with his instructions to make sure it hurt.  Petulant juvenile.

Snopes gives the above some balance

State Of The Union Address Just A Political Commercial

Investors.com  "Should the State of the Union continue in this form? Not only was the president's speech a fundraising pitch, so was Sen. Joni Ernst's GOP reply. That does a disservice to both a rising star and the competition of ideas.

"Based on content and delivery, you'd never guess that the newly elected senator from Iowa was a distinguished Iraq war veteran and brilliant campaigner who won office after defeating an obnoxious opponent, lawyered up with campaign cash, on the strength of what she stood for." . . .

VDH: Snipers, Correct and Incorrect

Victor Davis Hanson  "Were a confused Michael Moore and others faulting American Sniper on the argument that Chris Kyle was a sniper per se, or that he was an American sniper?

"I don’t remember Michael Moore or any other Hollywood grandees objecting much to the 2001 war film Enemy at the Gates, which was supposedly loosely based on the controversial (and perhaps less than verifiable) career of the deadly sniper Vasily Zaitsev. That movie portrayed the expert Zaitsev as a hero in trying to cut down Wehrmacht officers and soldiers on behalf of the Soviet cause. It reminded audiences not just that Zaitsev’s sniping could save his fellow Russians, but that it was also a very dangerous business for the shooter: As the hunter, Zaitsev often very quickly became the hunted." . . 

Chris Kyle’s Righteous Indignation  ... "He was a hero because he exhibited uncommon virtue. Specifically, he recognized evil when he saw it and channeled his righteous indignation toward its annihilation. Whether American foreign policy has followed an ideal course or not, this man acted with valor in pursuit of a life-affirming cause." ...  
Walter Hudson in PJ Lifestyle.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, COWARDICE AND THE LEFTIST-ISLAMIST ALLIANCE ABOUT TO MAKE NYC MUCH LESS SAFE

The Astute Bloggers  via HOT AIR:

... a federal lawsuit was brought against authorities after it was revealed that the police, under Ray Kelly, had started an anti-terrorism program some years back which included surveillance of mosques in the Big Apple. One result of that program was the development and publication of a report on domestic terrorism. One part of the demands by the Muslim groups bringing the suit was that the report be scrubbed because it’s “discriminatory” toward Islam. And now, the city is actually considering it.

In top-secret talks to settle federal lawsuits against the NYPD for monitoring mosques, the city is weighing a demand that it scrub from its Web site a report on Islamic terrorists, The Post has learned.

The groundbreaking, 92-page report, titled “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,” angers critics who say it promotes “religious profiling” and discrimination against Muslims. But law-enforcement sources say removing the report now would come at the worst time — after mounting terror attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris, Boston, Sydney and Ottawa.

#LiberalWarMovies

NRO Slideshow
"As resentful liberals stew over the runaway success of American Sniper with red-state bitter-clinging moviegoers, Twitter users weighed in with what a left-of-center war movie might be titled. Here’s a sampling of the snark at #LiberalWarMovies, illustrated by NRO."

“Where Eagles Perform Time-limited, Scope-limited Kinetic Actions”

“VeggieBurger Hill”

'American Sniper' Triggers New War: Conservatives vs. Liberals
"The culture war over the war pic has even colored praise from actress Jane Fonda, a frequent target of veterans' disdain for her visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam war. Her tweet praising the film was immediately pounced on by some vets. "

MSNBC'S MADDOW NOW REWRITING INSTANT REPLAYS

Ann Coulter  . . . "In fact, unless Rachel -- or that fantastic diverse staff -- can produce Scalise campaign literature from 1999, highlighting his views on repealing the 14th Amendment, reinstating slavery and opposing miscegenation, I am almost positive that the "conservative views" Scalise was touting to suburban New Orleans voters were more along the lines of, say, smaller government, prayer in schools and opposition to abortion. 

"If by "opposition to abortion," Rachel hears "reinstituting the slave trade," I can't help her. At that point, we're talking full-on dementia. 

"I'm no fan of David Duke: I hate long-time Democrats pretending to be Republicans. 

"But more than a decade after Duke quit the Klan -- he was out by 1980 -- Rachel's esteemed MSNBC colleague Al Sharpton was denouncing the Jews of Crown Heights as "diamond merchants." I assume from your surname, Rachel, that you are, at least in part, a "diamond merchant." What do you think about Sharpton having his own show on MSNBC and visiting the White House a dozen times?

Cowards!

"Sniper Movie comments by Michael Moore and Seth Rogen show their unpatriotic feelings toward the USA and our military." 

Cartoon by A.F.Branco ©2015.  Read more at Tony Branco

Obama's SOTU as seen from the UK: What a waste of national goodwill this presidency has been

State of the Union: Barack Obama channels Gordon Brown  "A good proportion of the US electorate must have hoped that in electing Barack Obama as president, they would be getting the visionary intellect and magnetism of a John Kennedy.

Instead, they ended up with the vision of Jimmy Carter and the personal charm of Richard Nixon. Mr Obama's State of the Union address was about as relentlessly bellicose and self-regarding as it was possible for a president whose politics had received two successive popular rejections to be.

"Combined with the defiance of a man whose views have been repudiated in a way that leaves him powerless against a Republican-dominated Congress, there was an absolute refusal to grant that his own obstinacy might be in any way responsible for rendering the remainder of his time in office largely pointless." . 

Tony Branco

HILARIOUS VIDEO: Dummies Across America – Guess What These Idiots Didn’t Know

Debbie Schlussel  "This may be a Martin Luther King Jr. Day leftover, but it’s worth watching to remind us yet again how ignorant so many Americans are. Note that many of these people are Black and they did not know this one basic fact. I’ll bet everyone in the video, though, could accurately tell you all of the details of the lives of each of the individual Kardashians and Jenners. And the rules of “Fight Club.” Love that guy with an ear guage (does he have one in his brain, too?). Very funny . . .
. . .
"By the way, these are all future Hillary (or Elizabeth Warren) voters . . . if they vote." ...

Justice Ginsberg rules on the SOTU

Legal Insurrection

WaPo: Another SOTU, another nap for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Penis Mightier Than the Sword

"Big Gay"?

Billy Crystal: Not gay enough.

Mark Steyn  "The feasting on the dead of Charlie Hebdo continues. Just when you thought the State of the Union couldn't get any tackier comes news of the latest phony-baloney pen-is-mightier-than-the-swordpseudo-solidarity:

Members of Congress will honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack during the State of the Union by holding up yellow pencils.

 A spokeswoman for Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin said that she will hold up a pencil and that they have confirmed that other lawmakers will do so as well. . . ...

"It would be hard to think of an institution more antithetical to freedom of expression than the modern Democratic Party and its constituent identity groups. Consider one of Charlie Hebdo's fellow funnymen, Billy Crystal. He's a big-time Oscar host and limousine liberal, but yesterday he made the mistake of wandering off-script:

Billy Crystal: 'Stop Shoving Gay Sex Scenes in My Face'

. . . "So maybe they'll let him still appear in movies and TV shows occasionally. Or maybe the taint of "homophobe" will linger. Crystal knows what he meant, and so does Big Gay. And they don't care whether his "clarification" is sincere; they're teaching a lesson to the broader citizenry: You can be a big star, and a Democrat, and a supporter of gay marriage; you can have played one of the first gay characters on TV, a third of a century ago, back when that sort of thing took a measure of courage as opposed to being the lamest bandwagon in town. And none of it matters if you make one infelicitous remark." 

After the SOTU, who should be more embarrassed, this administration or the voters who put it into office?

Is America Becoming an Idiocracy?  

" ...a woman identified only as Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Franklin is said to have answered, “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.”

... "The founders charged the citizens of this country actively to pursue righteousness in our elected officials and to remain alert to the activities at every level of government.

In SOTU, Obama Slips on Oil, Success of Private Sector  ... "Despite oil production on federal land being stifled 16%, despite the federal government snatching up tracts of land, despite an Environmental Protection Agency hostile to conventional sources of energy, America’s oil production continues to grow in the private sector. In spite of Obama trying to orchestrate his “middle-class economy,” free enterprise brought a true benefit to the American people." ...

Has the White House hired Jonathan Gruber as the President’s new speech writer?

Remember When Obama Wanted $8 Per Gallon Gasoline?

Steve Goddard @SteveSGoddard

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