This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Media

  • Ship of fools

    I don’t think a reasonable person can deny that the current administration has failed at everything it’s done since the day it began. I’d argue that it began it’s terrible downward spiral on the day that Obama named Joe Biden to be his running mate in the 2008 election. Obama, who has final say over the advice that he gets from his circle of obviously moronic advisers, so ultimately, he’s responsible, and that is probably his greatest failure. he’s appointed tax evaders to his staff who advise him to raise taxes to balance the budget. He implements Joe Biden’s plan in Afghanistan despite the fact that Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of history since he started shooting his mouth off about foreign policy.

    Now, he’s looking at making US history’s most infamous anti-war protester the Secretary of Defense. Our status in the United Nations has tumbled terribly, so our ambassador to the UN is now named as the first choice for Secretary of State.

    His CIA director involved himself in covert sexual dawdling, while the commander of his military forces actively engaged in combat in a foreign land sends 30,000 emails to a married woman. During those escapades, the chairman of his joint chiefs of staff, instead of complaining that his troops are forced by the Biden policy in Afghanistan to present themselves unarmed to to potential enemy attacks, blames those same troops for blowing their noses in public.

    Now, thanks to a compliant media, we know more about the sexual habits of our generals in one week than we’ve learned about the deaths of four Americans in the Benghazi consulate two months ago.

    They’re still fishing bodies out of the water around New York City, parts of the surrounding communities are still without power as we stand on the cusp of Winter. As Ace of Spades helpfully points out, we don’t even know the name of the FEMA director, the way we had Michael Brown’s name tattooed on our collective consciousness after Katrina.

    Businesses are laying off workers by the thousands anticipating the lack of understanding in this administration about how jobs get created in this country.

    And still, the media is silent, more excited about the hotels in DC filling up with reservations for the Inauguration Day celebrations – and the off-chance that they might get to see Lebanese boobies.

    But on to my main point, that any buffoon can be President as long as they surround themselves with competent people – look at Bill Clinton. but this buffoon can’t even get that right.

  • …oh, look! A squirrel!

    All weekend, I listened to Fox news folks complaining that the Petraeus sex scandal was sucking the air out of the Benghazi investigation, that the media was more interested in the lascivious details of the salacious extra-curricular activities of the CIA director than in the death of four Americans. Well, admitting there’s a problem is only half of the battle;

    Of course, this morning, everyone is wrapped up in the details of “when the President knew” about the Petraeus affair and the White House is not being forthcoming with those details. Yeah, that’s for a reason – because the White House is taking advantage of the media’s focus on L’affaire Petraeus and how easily they’re distracted by the sight of a pair of comely Lebanese twins and the possibility that they’re easy. The Obama White House is going to leak out slowly details of the investigation to keep the media fixated on the scandal.

    The UK’s Telegraph, in announcing the salivating press’ dream come true that Obama is finally going to throw them some crumbs in a press conference this morning on the subject, admits that it’s just a distraction;

    The widening probe into Petraeus’s extramarital affair has raised questions about the US commander in Afghanistan, distracting from talks over a looming budget crisis and efforts to fill high-level positions in Obama’s second term.

    Well, at least as we’re going over the financial cliff we’ll have some entertainment.

  • “I’m so glad we had that storm last week”

    ROS sends us a video of Chris Matthews expressing his pleasure that there are more dead people in the world and we had that storm last week, because it catapulted Obama into the lead;

    You can see Rachel Maddow try to stop him from making his blunt point, although he’s not that far off. Not only did Obama get to strut around and act presidential but the Romney camp went virtually silent while he did it. And maybe those dead people in NY and NJ would have voted for Romney anyway, though not likely.

  • Media covers for VP Bite-Me

    This probably won’t surprise many of my regular readers, but the Wisconsin’s Janesville Extra reports on Joe Biden’s little gaffe yesterday when he said that “There’s never been a day in the last four years I’ve been proud to be his vice president. Not one single day.”. But they report his quote; “Biden responded, saying not a day goes by that he’s not proud to be Obama’s vice president.” The local radio station, WCLO reported it the same way.

    Yes, I know that’s what Bite-Me meant to say, but it’s not what he said.

    Now can you imagine anyone in the media doing the same favor for Dan Quayle or any other Republican. How long did we have to hear about his misspelling of “potato”.

  • Covering for Obama

    So a walk-through of the media and this morning and they’re doing their darndest to keep Libya off of the front page. Washington Post’s only mention of the President is a puff piece about how he walks a tight wire on race (what else). But nothing on Libya. The Washington Times, however, has finally picked up on the story, reporting that John McCain has shook the cobwebs from his brain and started talking about Libya;

    “For literally days and days they told the American people something that had no basis in fact whatsoever. And that is the president of the United States,” the Arizona Republican said in an interview on CBS‘ “Face the Nation.” Mr. Obama “said that he immediately ordered action to be taken no action was taken over seven hours. Now we find out the secretary of defense decided not to take any action.”

    […]

    “Somebody the other day said to me, ‘This is as bad as Watergate.’ Well, nobody died in Watergate,” Mr. McCain said. “This is either a massive coverup or incompetence that is not acceptable to the American people.”

    In the editorial pages, Joseph Curl picks up the Watergate analogy;

    The main lesson from Watergate (after the no-brainer that you should never hire a guy named “Tricky Dick”) was this: The Cover-Up Is Worse Than The Crime. For some reason, Professor Obama seems not to know this crucial lesson. Or he’s just arrogant enough to say, “Well, that doesn’t apply to someone as brilliant as moi.”

    Make no mistake, though: There is a massive cover-up under way in the White House. Nothing else can explain the endless contradictions over the attack that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead. The White House has already had to rewrite the entire narrative once, holding a late night conference call with reporters just before a House hearing two weeks ago in which State Department officials told a whole new tale: There was no “spontaneous” protest over some anti-Islam video posted on YouTube. Instead, there were dozens of heavily armed terrorists who poured over a 9-foot-high fence covered with barbed wire to attack America on 9/11.

    Yeah, the cover up has been going on since the irrational and implausible story that the attack occurred because of a spontaneous demonstration over a poorly executed movie – a movie the was produced more poorly than the attack on the consulate. Who brings a mortar tube to an impromptu demonstration?

    At Blackfive, Deebow doesn’t like the idea that Obama is blaming the military for his won paralysis in reacting to the attack in time so save four Americans.

    A link to the Washington Examiner sent to us by Ex-PH2 asks why Romney isn’t talking about Benghazi. For the record, I asked the campaign that question last night and I’m still waiting for an answer.

    As far as the media goes, a young sergeant in Afghanistan wrote to tell us that the TV in their messhall is tuned to BBC and al Jazeera, English because they can’t trust the US media to tell them the truth anymore.

  • Not a white supremacist opens fire at WI mall

    According to Yahoo News, a guy who is not a white supremacist opened fire at a mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin and at least seven people have been hospitalized and the shooter remains on the loose;

    According to police, the suspected shooter is a 6’1″ black male weighing approximately 200 pounds and last seen wearing a camouflage jacket, grey sweater, blue jeans and carrying a white and black backpack. He was driving a black 2003 Mazda Protege.

    According to Fox6, the shooter’s is 45-year-old Radcliffe Haughton. Apparently, he’s not a veteran or that would have been included in the article.

    The Brookfield Patch says that he was related to one of the stylists in the spa that he attacked near the mall. And, I guess there are some explosives involved because BATFE is on the scene.

    Yet for some reason Yahoo felt a need to mention this in the article, too;

    In August, Wade Michael Page, an Army veteran with white supremacist ties, opened fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., killing six and injuring three others before shooting himself.

    Sure, it happened in Wisconsin, but that’s the only way these two are even remotely similar. And Page was also a high school grad, on unemployment insurance in the past, too, but I don’t see them include that in the paragraph, but the “Army veteran” thing makes the reason he shot a bunch of people much more easy to understand.

    So, I wonder how they’ll explain Haughton’s shooting spree.

  • Security guy killed in Yemen at US embassy

    The Associated Press reports that a Yemeni security official was killed in a drive by shooting at the US embassy there this morning. But I guess the real story is that the Associated press is still clinging to the “offensive video” explanation for renewed violence (or continuing violence, rather) in the region;

    Anti-American violence in the Middle East has spiked over the past month, most of it triggered by an anti-Islam video made privately in the United States. On September 11 in the Libyan city of Benghazi, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans – including two former Navy SEALs – were killed in what U.S. administration officials now describe as an act of terrorism. There is some debate about whether the attack was related to protests about the film or whether it was a premeditated attack unrelated to the film.

    I’m tempted to screen shoot the passage because it will probably disappear the minute some AP editor reads the news anywhere and discovers that the White House has been calling the attack in Benghazi a pre-planned attack since the first day, according to Jay Carney in an exchange with Jake Tapper yesterday.

    You’d think the Obama/Biden campaign could coordinate their lies a little better with their propagandists.

    While we’re on the subject of media and lies, ROS sent us a link to The Conservative Treehouse which writes about CNN journalist (probably the only time you’ll see me use those words together) Amber Lyon who exposes her own network being bought by governments to broadcast lies. Not the first time it’s happened certainly, nor the last, and I don’t see any shock on your faces from here. but you should read the whole post.

  • Update on that “hostage taker”

    Earlier today, I mentioned Klein Michael Thaxton who took a hostage in Pittsburgh today. At the time i was blogging from the road and didn’t have time to do much research, but Hondo sent us a link to an Army Times story that has some of Thaxton’s military background;

    An Army spokesman said Thaxton enlisted in the Army in December 2008 and separated from the service in June 2010. The spokesman said Thaxton, who was never deployed, was a private with the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

    He was a combat engineer.

    So he had about 18 months in the Army (he spent longer in the public school system, I’ll bet, but that wasn’t part of the story, was it?) which means he was booted, and we can pretty accurately guess it was for discipline problems. He also broke out of his half-way house today to get to the scene of his crime. But that wasn’t part of the story initially.

    It just seems to explain so well to the public what the problem was when they mention his prior military experience. Thanks, media.

    Hondo adds;

    Yes, he served in the Army. He never deployed. He never completed his first enlistment. His only duty assignment, other than training, was as a combat engineer at Fort Riley, KS. I don’t know why he was released from active duty after around 18 months – but the fact that he was later arrested for robbery leads me to believe it probably wasn’t an amicable parting.

    I actually kinda hope his attorney tries the “PTSD defense”. Here, it’s so bogus that even the media will probably raise the bullshit flag.