Note: Important Update and Comment appears below.
To be filed under the category, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Democrats are going to say, “He’s not looking at her butt! He’s looking at… well, he’s looking at something on the floor!!!”
And I say, “Not with that look on his face, he isn’t. And don’t think Sarkozy doesn’t know exactly what’s going on, either.”
There are many Democrats who laud the Clinton era, and yearn for a return to that gilded age when the streets were paved with gold.
There are flaws with their memories, of course: a comparison between the Bush and Clinton years doesn’t make George Bush look bad at all; the Bush tax cuts, contrary to Democratic talking points, actually led to “the largest four-year revenue increase in U.S. history”; the Clinton budget surplus turns out to be a myth that really should be exposed as such once for all; and everything else aside, Clinton’s biggest successes as president came AFTER voters rejected disastrous Democrat rule in the Republican revolution of 1994.
But let’s agree: things were a whole heckuva lot better with Bill Clinton at the helm than they are now under Obama’s faulty steering.
That said, this is NOT the return to the Clinton years anybody was wanting. If you really want to be more like Bill Clinton, Barry Hussein, PLEASE don’t be like Bill was with women. ANYTHING BUT THAT.
I hope Michelle slaps you silly, Barry. I hope you sleep on the lawn tonight. I hope a few $6,000 purses don’t cut the mustard.
UPDATE: I have since seen the video, which I will post, that presents a very different “picture” as to what happened:
The still image seems to show a laser-beam focus on the girl’s rear end; the video shows what would amount to a quick glance in the course of helping another woman down a step. To the extent that Obama is “leering,” it amounts to something in momentary passing. Nothing to get worked up about.
For the record, I wouldn’t have run the story if I’d seen the video rather than the picture.
I don’t take down articles. I have NEVER taken down an article. Why not? Because that’s what the left does, all the time. They run absolutely terrible stories (such as the Daily Kos story questioning whether Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with Trig because it was really Bristol Palin who was actually pregnant with a child fathered by Todd Palin), and when the facts come out disproving such an attack they simply delete it and move on like nothing happened. There was never an apology, never a mention that they had participated in anything wrong. Just nothing.
I don’t want to be like that. I want to take responsibility.
Someone took a “still” of a video that – while itself unedited and therefore “true” – created a very different inference as to what actually transpired than the whole story (or video) would have provided in context. This is what the left does all the time: they isolate one aspect of a story from the context and broadcast an artificial and propagandized view of reality. And they rarely ever admit what they are doing.
Here’s a fact-checked example of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – not to mention most of the mainline media – doing almost exactly the same thing with statistics that someone did with that “Obama leering” video:
With growing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border fueled by powerful drug cartels, officials from both countries have been repeating a shocking statistic to suggest this isn’t just a Mexican problem.
“This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States . . . more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that lay in our shared border,” President Barack Obama said on a visit to Mexico on April 16, 2009. “So we have responsibilities as well.”
Obama joins many other U.S. and Mexican officials — from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Mexican ambassador to the U.S. — who have cited versions of the 90 percent figure in arguing for greater U.S. intervention. For his part, Obama has pledged to commit more money and resources to stem the flow of guns south of the border.
But Obama, Clinton and others have left out important qualifiers when citing the 90 percent statistic, which originates from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency doesn’t have statistics for all weapons in Mexico, where gun sales are largely prohibited; the figure is based on only guns that the Mexican government sent to the ATF for tracing and that the ATF found were traceable.
Along those lines, the number was cited correctly by William Newell, an ATF special agent who oversees the bureau’s operations along border in Arizona and New Mexico, when he testified before a House subcommittee on March 24.
“In fact, 90 percent of the firearms recovered in Mexico, and which are then successfully traced, were determined to have originated from various sources within the continental U.S.”
Gun rights groups say the number has been widely and intentionally distorted to advance a gun control agenda.
And on April 2, 2009, Fox News ran a story on its Web site dismissing the statistic as a “myth.” The article cites statistics from the Mexican government that suggest only about a third of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico are submitted to the ATF for tracing; and it notes that many guns submitted to ATF cannot be traced. Therefore, the writers conclude, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the United States.
According to the article, “a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.” The article goes on to say many weapons are coming from a wide variety of foreign sources including China, South Korea, Spain and Israel, as well as from the Russian mafia and other nefarious sources in Asia, South and Central America.
“Reporter after politician after news anchor just disregards the truth on this,” National Rifle Association spokesman Chris Cox told Fox News. “The numbers are intentionally used to weaken the Second Amendment.”
ATF officials challenge the suggestion that Mexico only sends them guns they suspect are from the United States. In fact, the ATF found about a quarter of the 90 percent were made in other countries and then taken illegally from the United States into Mexico.
Here’s the Fox News story with the fuller array of facts.
What the mainstream media, and what President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, did with guns in Mexico is what largely passes for “news” today. Half truths frequently amount to whole lies. And we get carefully edited half truths that appear to tell a story supporting the liberal agenda as a matter of course today from our “journalists.”
Whenever you tell a story from one side, one “snippet,” you run the risk of bias. And our drive-by media is filled with bias today.
I am doing something that the above media and persons have not done; I am presenting what amounts to a retraction, along with the full evidence so that people can come to their own conclusions.
So any liberal who wants to criticize me for this story, go ahead. Just realize that even when I’m wrong, I’m STILL better than your people and your sources.
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