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Category: Media

  • New York Times to the rescue

    In the opening hours of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, we read about the black banners of al Qaeda which made their appearance at the site of the deadly attack there, but somehow, the New York Times “turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”

    The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.

    Yes, we’re supposed to believe that Susan Rice and the Obama Administration were correct in their assessment that it was over some poorly directed and acted amateur video that caused the whole thing. You know, as if we’re stupid. Despite the fact that Libyan government told the Obama Administration that it was a coordinated attack, despite the fact that the late Ambassador Stevens warned the State Department that they were concerned about the threat from al Qaeda, despite the fact that al Qaeda has made a resurgence in Libya in the months following the attack.

    Apparently, the New York Times is trying to pull out an end of the year publicity stunt for the Obama Administration.

    The attack also suggests that, as the threats from local militants around the region have multiplied, an intensive focus on combating Al Qaeda may distract from safeguarding American interests.

    WTF is that? Fighting al Qaeda for any reason is in American interests, whether it’s over Benghazi or over Mali, FFS. Morons.

  • Gawker & the Truth; never shall the twain meet

    Gawker bullshit

    I wrote earlier about Shannon Richardson, the lunatic who sent ricin to the president and the mayor of New York and tried to frame her husband for it. I was playing around on Facebook and saw the above banner to a Gawker article, written by Adam Weinstein, who has since “unfriended” me on Facebook when I confronted him on the headline to his article.

    Adam took the things that she wrote at face value and called her “pro-gun”. In her letters that contained the ricin, she wrote;

    You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns.Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face.I served in the united states army and because your muslim ass will probly [sic] never be able to retire.I will have to work until my last breath.I deserve better and so do my wife and kiddos.I will take care of this myself and make sure you wont be runnin [sic] this country in the ground any further.The right to bear arms is my constitutional right and I will excersice [sic] that right til the day I die. What’s in the letter is nothing compared to what ive got in store for you mr president.

    Now, she was divorcing her husband, and according to Weaponsman, she didn’t like her husband’s guns. But somehow, Weinstein thinks that it’s more credible to believe that the words written by a lunatic trying to frame someone when a rational person would believe that anything she said was a complete fabrication meant to get her husband arrested. Weinstein would have us believe the words she wrote were what she meant, not what she wanted law enforcement to believe about her husband. And, oh, yeah, if you go to the comments at Gawker, the left-tards are eating it up.

  • What You Lose with NBC News

    As someone who wouldn’t watch NBC Nightly News even if held at gunpoint by a crazed Brian Williams fan (ditto for Today) I must rely on the reporting of Brent Bozell’s network watchdog website Newsbusters.org, which usually gets it right, for the truth of this statement:

    After going 72 hours without even mentioning ObamaCare on its air waves, NBC’s continued refusal to cover the disastrous policy on Thursday’s Nightly News or Friday’s Today brought that total up to 96 hours. Amazingly, Friday’s Today had the audacity to include two segments about Vice President Joe Biden buying lunch at a Washington D.C. sandwich shop rather provide any Obamacare updates.

    Think about that folks: Here our nation is embroiled in the biggest government-created domestic mess it has experienced in decades, perhaps ever, and one of the supposed top three broadcast network news shows in the country and its morning counterpart have not even mentioned the subject in 96 hours? That’s four full days for the math deficient. And who knows what that figure will be by the time you read this. Apparently the term news means something elitely different in New York City Speak. Worse, what can their nationwide audience perceive as current news when the main issues of the day are being kept from them by the very folks they trust to provide it? You simply could not find a more on-point application of the expression misplaced trust if you searched forever.

    What is really sad is that this is the most watched of the three major network evening news shows, likely in part to superficial soccer-mom fascination with William’s lantern-jawed and carefully-coiffed good looks. That’s probably true as well for the audience of Matt Lauer, the urbane morning metrosexual on Today. My soccer-mom hit may be a tad unfair but female viewers do dominate, especially for morning news shows, which may mean NBC sees their viewing audience as being as shallow as their broadcast content. Before you ladies berate me in the comments, kindly note those mays. Recall that a majority of those soccer-moms voted for another charming metrosexual, Barack Obama, not once but twice.

    But a certainty it is that NBC’s content will remain shallow and limited in scope as long as NBC’s vacuous viewers accept this ideological censoring of what they are permitted to know about national affairs. And in this case, those are affairs of major health consequences to them and their sniffling, little red-nosed rug rats and croupy, coughing curtain climbers.

    This is not just some legislative kerfuffle that NBC is ignoring; it is the largest, most comprehensive package of legislation since LBJ’s War on Poverty, affecting a sixth of our still unrecovered economy. And it’s in big, big trouble, so much so that it is in serious risk of repeal before it can crater the health insurance industry and bankrupt millions of Americans. Yet NBC considers this historic liberal overreach not worthy of their broadcast time? I saw, while looking for broadcast figures, that NBC is devoting significant airtime to the Kennedy assassination this week. But of course, hours of adulation can be allocated to the continuing canonization of another Kennedy, another skirt-chasing, lionized liberal icon fifty years dead, who set the standard for future Democrats, both presidents like Bill Clinton and pretenders like John Edwards. But no, not a minute was available to cover the worst liberal legislative clusterfark in the same five decades. We all know that had this been a Republican act, poor JFK would have been hard pressed to get an occasional mention this week at NBC amid all the scenery-chewing, mouth-frothing outrage spewing from Rockefeller Center. Do you suppose NBC might stand for Network Butt Covering for Obama? Here’s some advice for those of you who daily follow Brian and Matt:
    If you form your views from NBC News, you’re a loser in multiple meanings of the term. Try FOX.

    Crossposted at American Thinker in an edited form.

  • Contractor lied to CBS reporter about role in Benghazi

    We all saw the video in which Dylan Davies told CBS reporter Lara Logan about his daring-do at the consulate in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012. Well, it turns out that he told the FBI that he didn’t get to the consulate until the following morning according to the New York Times;

    The reporter, Lara Logan, said on “CBS This Morning’’ that the news division was misled by the officer, adding, “We will apologize to our viewers, and we will correct the record on our broadcast on Sunday night.”

    The apology followed disclosure by The New York Times on Thursday evening that the security contractor, Dylan Davies, had provided the F.B.I. an account that contradicted a version of events he provided in a recently published book and in the interview with “60 Minutes,” which was broadcast on Oct. 27.

    Mr. Davies told the F.B.I. that he was not on the scene until the morning after the attack.

    The information he provided in an F.B.I. interview was described on Thursday by two senior government officials as consistent with an incident report by the Blue Mountain security business, which had been hired to protect United States interests in Benghazi. The officials who spoke said they had been briefed on the government investigation.

    So, Logan and CBS have been trying to get a hold of Davies since they’ve seen the FBI report, and Davies ain’t answering his phone. Typical. Even more typical, he told The Daily Beast that he denied the FBI’s report and his interview with them. of course, it’s legal to lie to the media, but it’s not legal to lie to the FBI.

    “I am just a little man against some big people here,” Davies said. “They can do things, make up things, anything they want, I wouldn’t stand a chance.” Davies said he did not know who leaked the report to the Post but said he suspected it was the State Department, an allegation that could not be independently corroborated. “It would not be difficult to do,” Davies said. “I knew I was going to come in for a lot of flack and you know mud slinging, so yeah I’d say it was them, but I can’t be sure.”

    It’s as if they have a book with a checklist and a script. Thanks to the dozens of you who sent the link.

  • Just because I’m curious.

    With all the news about the horror of the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare being a complete dud, I’d like to hear from you.  How many of you have actually signed up?  If so what state, and how was the experience?  Right now we can only get anecdotal information so I want to hear actual numbers.  If you’re not going to sign up, why?  Do you think it’s going to fall apart?  If so what will be the result for the country?

     

    I ask, you answer.

  • What’s scarier than a vet?

    Why, a vet with an AR-15, of course. That’s why MSNBC ran this little video this morning, because the point is not to inform, but rather make shit up;

    See, they even added a grenade launcher, because it makes it even scarier. The problem is that it’s not likely that Alexis used an AR-type rifle during his shoot out with police. You can ask CNN, if you don’t believe me;

    …law enforcement sources told CNN Tuesday that authorities have recovered three weapons from the scene of the mass shooting, including one — a shotgun — that investigators believe Alexis brought in to the compound. The other two weapons, which sources say were handguns, may have been taken from guards at the Navy complex.

    The sources, who have detailed knowledge of the investigation, cautioned that initial information that an AR-15 was used in the shootings may have been incorrect. It is believed that Alexis had rented an AR-15, but returned it before Monday morning’s shootings.

    But, that ruins the whole scarier scenario that’s supposed to play out on the cable news wherein they get to inflict more gun laws that will only serve to disarm law abiding citizens and do nothing to prevent things like what happened yesterday. And I thought shotguns were this administration’s firearm of choice, yet Alexis legally bought a shotgun and then used to get two handguns from guards, apparently. I can still hear Joe Bite Me repeating “Buy a shotgun” in my head.

    Now tell me, right now, how either Dianne Feinstein’s or Joe Manchin’s bills would have prevented the shooting yesterday. Go ahead, Google it, I’ll wait. Done? Well, what’s the answer? No, Alexis would have been able to buy that shotgun or another one just as shotgunny. Which means that he still would have killed the guards from whom he stole the two handguns. Want to disarm security guards so no one can steal their guns? Of course not. But you want to take my guns for the same stupid reason.

  • Those crazy vets

    DrewM at Ace sent us this Tweet last night from a Washington Post headline

    DrewM Crazy vet

    The Post changed the headline after Drew captured it, but they’re back at it again this morning;

    One Navy official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Alexis was discharged in January 2011 for “a pattern of misconduct” and that the 2010 gun incident in Texas played a role in his departure.

    Another Navy official said Alexis was given a “general discharge,” a classification often used to designate a blemished performance record. In some cases, a general discharge can make it difficult to land a civilian job.

    But Alexis, 34, had no such trouble. He moved from Fort Worth to Washington about a month ago, friends said, and was hired as an hourly tech employee for The Experts, a Hewlett-Packard subcontractor that is updating computer systems at Navy and Marine Corps installations worldwide. He was scheduled to begin work at the Washington Navy Yard this month.

    The problem isn’t the military or Alexis’ training. He had an incident in 2004 before he joined the military in which he fired three shots into a tire of some construction workers who he thought were mocking him – that was before he joined the military. The problem is that he wasn’t prosecuted on either incident, so he wouldn’t appear as a risk in the NICS criminal background check. In fact, after the 2004 incident, it took nearly month from the shooting until police finally arrested Alexis.

    I’m having similar problems with our current situation. Apparently, not answering your door when the police knock is one way to avoid jail. And if you don’t answer your phone, the police won’t bother to take you into custody or get an arrest warrant from the prosecutor, in some places.

    Seattle’s excuse;

    He was arrested but not charged, Seattle police said. The paperwork apparently was lost.

    “That report never got to the Seattle city attorney’s office,” said Kimberly Mills, a spokeswoman for the city attorney. “Consequently, we never filed charges.”

    So, there you go. Yes, there are plenty of gun laws in place, but if the police and prosecutors aren’t willing to use them, they’re useless.

    Not reported in the news this morning; Millions of veterans who legally own guns didn’t go on a rampage yesterday.

    Oh, yeah, good job, CNN;

    AR15 shotgun

  • Another .762 caliber rifle found

    You might remember last week that the Washington Times reported that one of the Fast & Furious weapons found at crime scenes in Mexico was a .762 caliber rifle. This week, it’s NBC that saw one of these rifles at the brief school shooting in Georgia yesterday;

    A photo of [Michael Brandon Hill, the shooter] holding a rifle, believed to be the same one used in Tuesday’s shooting, was found on Hill’s cellphone, Davis said.

    The rifle was a .762-caliber AK-47-style weapon, manufactured by Romarm/Cugar.

    I’m pretty upset that Big Gun would create this rifle and not let me shoot one. But I guess the most fantastic part of the story is that Shooter Hill was carrying 500 rounds of ammunition for the gun. He must be The Hulk. The bullet is half again the size of a .50 caliber, so 500 rounds is quite a load.

    Um, media guys, it’s 7.62 millimeter, or if you’re married to calibers, that’s a .308 caliber. Hill was still pretty sturdy for carrying 500 rounds of .308. And of course, i can make fun of it all because no one was hurt – no one was hurt because good guys with guns arrived on the scene in time. And the gunman was more interested in being famous than being a killer. Good thing he was in a gun free zone or someone might have gotten hurt. And it looks like he might have stolen the gun from a friend.

    Thanks to H1 for the link.