Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command — 1 Chronicles 12:32
We have seen over these last several years a complete meltdown in the Secret Service in the reign of Pharaoh god-king Obama. The details are simply astonishing.
Before that, we had seven bullets that struck the window of Barack Obama’s private residence but went unnoticed for days. Obama’s youngest daughter was inside at the time of the shooting. It wasn’t even the Secret Service who noticed the bullet holes; it was a cleaning lady who observed broken glass. It turns out that agents reported the gunfire but were told by their superiors to stand down.
Before that, eleven agents on Obama’s security detail were sent home after a week of drinking and sleeping with prostitutes while on duty.
After that, despite promises to get their act together and reform the agency, we had an agent on duty in Amsterdam become so drunk he was passed out in a hallway while on duty in a hotel.
That is nowhere near the full list of scandals, for what it’s worth.
Which is the exact same thing that is going on in all of Obama’s other scandals.
You look at the history of Secret Service screw ups and you tell me that the president of the United States has ever been placed in so much danger in any other administration. I mean, the Secret Service has had a few issues, but nothing like this. NOTHING like this.
The question is why this meltdown has happened during the rule of our Pharaoh god-king.
There are two reasons, with one being unique to the Secret Serve and the other being endemic to the cancer that is Obama’s presidency.
As to the former, imagine you are a Secret Service agent. You have trained your entire professional career to be the absolute best at security and you have risen to the apex of your profession. You have a rare level of pride in yourself, your professionalism and the renowned agency you serve.
Then you get to your assignment. You are handed a bag of fecal matter and instructed to guard that bag with your life.
Do you think you’d feel at least slightly deflated?
THAT is a major part of the reason the Secret Service has so miserably collapsed during the Obama regime. These professionals know what a sack of foulness Obama is. We’re not talking about his race, of course, in spite of whatever blatant lies liberals want to spew because they are the spewers of lies; we’re talking about his loathsome personal character, his utter lack of integrity, his malignant narcissism.
What the Secret Service now have to protect is a disgrace. And these professionals know it.
Do you know what the difference between the sack of fecal matter and Obama? The sack of fecal matter draws flies and Obama tells lies.
Oh wait, never mind…
Lord of the flies
So if I’m a Secret Service agent and I’m told I have to either protect Obama or protect the sack of fecal matter, I would sigh, shrug my shoulders, resign myself to despair and ask for the sack.
And if I was then told that all the more senior agents had already chosen to guard the sack and I’d have to serve on the Obama detail instead, that’s when they’d hand me the bottle of booze to help get me through the shame of the next hours. Which explains all the Secret Service agents drunk on the job.
It has always been the highest and most prestigious honor for a Secret Service agent to be chosen to serve on the security detail of the president of the United States of America. Until now.
They are trying to do their best at guarding Obama, but you have to imagine the poor morale of guarding a truly dishonorable man.
The second reason is much more endemic and also serves to explain why ALL of Obama’s regime is failing, from his ObamaCare to his IRS to his intelligence community.
Let’s take the Secret Service. A big hullabaloo was made over the fact that Obama had selected the first female Secret Service director ever. I mean, wasn’t that just so wonderful?
You know what I would have preferred? The best Secret Service Director ever.
It is simply an appalling fact that the very worst and most basic security lapses have occurred with Julia Pierson running the show.
I’m not in any way trying to claim that a woman couldn’t be the best director; I’m claiming that in being determined to find a woman Obama ignored the vast majority of the candidates who should have been considered for that job.
That’s always the problem with race or gender preferences; you end up with the most PC candidate rather than the best candidate.
Do you know what Obama is looking for whenever he appoints a senior-level bureaucrat for an important federal position? The same damn thing Hitler did: personal fealty to the Führer.
That is why we’ve had massive screw up after massive screw up and nobody ever gets fired. Because these bureaucrats weren’t put in their jobs because they were competent; they were put in their jobs because they would lie and cheat for Obama.
Why wasn’t Kathleen Sabelius fired when the ObamaCare rollout was so miserably screwed up it literally became a joke? Why wasn’t Hillary Clinton destroyed over the Benghazi fiasco? Why wasn’t Eric Holder fired when guns that HE put into Mexican drug cartel members’ hands were used to murder a US Border Patrol agent and then Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to allow them the materials necessary for congressional oversight? Who was fired and criminally prosecuted for the political targeting of conservatives by the IRS? Obama just threw his whole intelligence community under the bus and claimed “they” screwed up; so who the hell has been FIRED?
In Julia Pierson, in Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sabelius, in Attorney General Eric Holder, in IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, in Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, in Director of Central Intelligence John Brennan, you have people who are willing to lie for their messiah and cover up his crimes that would otherwise have gotten him impeached years ago.
That’s all that matters to Obama. Because while real leaders try to fix the problems, Obama only cares about fixing the blame. While real leaders always accept responsibility and never claim credit, Obama always claims credit and NEVER accepts responsibility. And that cancer has affected the entire government and all of its agencies and all of its personnel.
That’s why the Secret Service is so completely screwed up. The same reason our health care system is completely screwed up and the same reason our intelligence community is so screwed up and the same reason the whole country is so screwed up.
Only the Secret Service is cursed with the responsibility to guard the turd who has done all the screwing up. And that distasteful burden is eating away at their souls.
So please, everyone, please give the men and women who risk their lives the dignity and honor they deserve and render your very best latte salute to your Secret Service…
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Fwiw, I’m sure those Marines would readily choose to salute the aforementioned sack rather than Obama, too.
Ambassador Chris Stevens did not have a Marine detail in Benghazi, Libya. But White House Senior Advisor and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett has a full Secret Service detail on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, according to Democratic pollster Pat Caddell.
That’s the pathetic foreign policy of the Obama administration, says Caddell today in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News. “Jarrett seems to have a 24 hour, around the clock detail, with five or six agents full time,” Caddell explains. “The media has been completely uninterested. We don’t provide security for our ambassador in Libya, but she needs a full Secret Service security detail. And nobody thinks there’s anything wrong with this. And nobody in the press will ask. What kind of slavish stoogery are they perpetrating here?
“This country has reached the point of absurdity. There are people dead because we don’t have security details for them. But she’s privileged to have a full Secret Service detail on vacation?”
Caddell points out that Americans are already unhappy with President Obama on foreign policy aside from the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Caddell, along with Republican pollster John McLaughlin, runs Secure America, a nonpartisan advocacy group. “We’ve just finished two polls coming out in the field today,” says Caddell, “but we already know that people feel strongly about Iran; they feel strongly about the administration’s policy with regard to Islamic extremists. They don’t like the Obama administration’s handling of these issues. And this election won’t only be about the economy. The American people aren’t stupid. They can walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Caddell does reserve heavy criticism for the Republican establishment, which he believes has ignored foreign policy issues for far too long. “When three quarters of the American people believe Iran will give nuclear weapons to terrorists, you can see that Americans care about this issue. And people overwhelmingly believe that Obama’s sanctions policies will not work. The pronounced minority who disagree with those positions seem to be centered in the mainstream media – and ground zero seems to be at NBC and MSNBC.”
President Obama has expanded the very small group of top aides who are given the privilege of taxpayer-funded personal drivers — who take them from their house to work and back home again each day — to include two top political advisers.
The Bush White House did not give the same privileges to any of its political advisers, according to former Bush administration officials. There is a record of the Clinton White House doing so once for two months, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller.
Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, both senior advisers to the president, have been given the luxurious and prestigious perk of being picked up at their homes and driven to work or around town throughout the day in government vehicles chauffeured by military drivers, according to a list of those given the benefit provided to The Daily Caller by the White House.
In addition, Jarrett has been made a “protectee” of the Secret Service, a spokesman for the agency said. It is not clear to what extent Jarrett receives protection. Neither the White House or Secret Service would comment on the matter.
“We don’t discuss the scope or nature of protection for any Secret Service protectee due to operational security concerns,” said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan.
But except for a few weeks after 9/11, political advisers to Bush such as Karl Rove did not have Secret Service details with them except for the rare occasion where they gave a speech where protesters were expected.
Axelrod was given protectee status in the late summer of 2009, according to a blog written by a former Washington Post national security reporter. It is unclear whether he retains that status. Donovan declined to comment on Axelrod’s status.
Regardless, one knowledgeable source indicated that Jarrett has regular or semi-regular detail protection, which has left some questioning whether the close friend of the president’s, whose portfolio involves mostly outreach to the business sector and domestic policy, really needs the high level of security.
Okay, I’m going to quiz you now, and I’m warning you, it’s a tough question. I say that because even our president wasn’t smart enough to answer it and he’s the most smartest man who ever lived. Are you ready?
Which one of these people needed to have a security detail more:
According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted.
A new book by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer details the startling extent of the cronyism that has pervaded President Obama’s “green jobs” push. According to Schweizer, 4 out of every 5 renewable energy companies backed by the Energy Department was “run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers.”
Those companies’ “political largesse is probably the best investment they ever made in alternative energy,” Schweizer explains. “It brought them returns many times over.”
Such is the inevitable consequence of large government interventions in private markets. Leaving aside the losses associated with transfers of funds from self-sustaining industries to ones that rely on government support, such interventions also encourage unproductive business activities by making “subsidy suckling” far more profitable than run-of-the-mill business expansions or product improvements.
Doug Ross spotted the relevant excerpt of Schweizer’s book (h/t Ben Domenech’s Transom):
When President-elect Obama came to Washington in late 2008, he was outspoken about the need for an economic stimulus to revive a struggling economy… After he was sworn in as president, he proclaimed that taxpayer money would assuredly not be doled out to political friends…
…But an examination of grants and guaranteed loans offered by just one stimulus program run by the Department of Energy, for alternative-energy projects, is stunning. The so-called 1705 Loan Guarantee Program and the 1603 Grant Program channeled billions of dollars to all sorts of energy companies…
…In the 1705 government-backed-loan program [alone], for example, $16.4 billion of the $20.5 billion in loans granted as of Sept. 15 went to companies either run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers—individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party. The grant and guaranteed-loan recipients were early backers of Obama before he ran for president, people who continued to give to his campaigns and exclusively to the Democratic Party in the years leading up to 2008. Their political largesse is probably the best investment they ever made in alternative energy. It brought them returns many times over.
…The Government Accountability Office has been highly critical of the way guaranteed loans and grants were doled out by the Department of Energy, complaining that the process appears “arbitrary” and lacks transparency. In March 2011, for example, the GAO examined the first 18 loans that were approved and found that none were properly documented. It also noted that officials “did not always record the results of analysis” of these applications. A loan program for electric cars, for example, “lacks performance measures.” No notes were kept during the review process, so it is difficult to determine how loan decisions were made. The GAO further declared that the Department of Energy “had treated applicants inconsistently in the application review process, favoring some applicants and disadvantaging others.” The Department of Energy’s inspector general, Gregory Friedman, … has testified that contracts have been steered to “friends and family.”
…These programs might be the greatest—and most expensive—example of crony capitalism in American history. Tens of billions of dollars went to firms controlled or owned by fundraisers, bundlers, and political allies, many of whom—surprise!—are now raising money for Obama again.
So it really doesn’t matter to Obama whether these crony capitalist boondoggles go bankrupt or not; what matters is that he gets a percentage of the billions of dollars of the American people’s money in the form of campaign contributions.
And that’s THE ONLY thing that matters: Obama providing all kinds of self-righteous rhetoric while he racks up more special interest campaign monies than ANY cynical and corrupt politician in the history of the entire human race.
He’s campaigning. Endlessly campaigning. Never governing, never leading, never bothering to do anything other than demonize and demagogue and lie and slander.
God damn America doesn’t need a budget. Because this nation under Obama is going to hell and you don’t need a budget to burn.
We are watching America – and even the most formerly honorable and important positions in America – begin to drift into what can only be described as psychotic behavior.
The Secret Service scandal in which over twenty top Secret Service agents and Marine security personnel engaged in wildly inappropriate conduct involving some twenty prostitutes in Colombia is no aberration. Nobody’s minding the shop; and the same attitude that holds that George Bush is responsible for the economy forever no matter how many years Barack Obama has been in control of it has permeated every single layer of government: nobody is responsible for anything in this “God damned” administration.
WASHINGTON — Potentially problematic and certainly embarrassing video of the General Services Administration’s infamous $820,000 Las Vegas conference has been obtained by The Huffington Post, showing well-dressed employees singing Frank Sinatra, downing margaritas and making light of lavish spending.
Video of the 2010 party, provided by an administration official on Friday, shows GSA employees in colorful tuxedos, putting on magic shows and enjoying mock Vegas-style entertainment — all in the name of team-building.
The footage follows the release of a video clip featuring a GSA employee named Hank Terlaje at the same convention strumming a ukulele and belting out an ode to high-spending office culture. That video, like the new batch, was part of an awards ceremony meant to be light-hearted and satirical, but clearly at odds with the President Barack Obama administration’s message of fiscal belt-tightening. Several GSA officials have already lost their jobs because of the convention.
“These videos reinforce once again the complete lack of judgment exhibited during the 2010 Western Regions Conference,” Greg Mecher, a GSA spokesman, said in a statement to The Huffington Post. “Our agency continues to be appalled by this indefensible behavior, and we are taking every step possible to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.” […]
Among the report’s findings, GSA spent $95 per person for a dinner reception at the M Resort Spa and Casino in Henderson, Nev.; $75,000 on a bike-building training exercise (the bikes were later donated to the Boys’ and Girls’ Club); $19 per person for an “American artisanal cheese display;” $7,000 in sushi; $3,200 for mind reader; $3,700 for T-shirts; and more than $2,500 on water bottles. The new videos obtained by HuffPost on Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend provide the first long visual evidence of the excess.
One clip features a red carpet entrance into a conference room gathering, during which GSA officials discuss what designer clothes they are wearing. Acting GSA Administrator Jeff Neely, who reportedly encouraged event organizers to make the conference “over the top,” tells the camera he’s donning all Armani, before urging people to “dispense with the notion that what’s done in Vegas stays in Vegas.” Later, a female employee with a self-described “talent for drinking margaritas” is handed a massive goblet filled with the beverage. Terlaje himself makes a cameo without his ukulele, during which he jokes that the board of directors should get a raise.
Another clip features GSA officials destroying office property in a scene inspired by the movie “Office Space.” The song “Push It To The Limit,” from the movie “Scarface,” blares in the background.
In another video, an “angry clown” — either a GSA employee or a professional hired by the organizers — talks about making work more challenging for other people. “Meetings are good to have in between breaks,” the clown declares. “Government — if you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.”
Among the other clips, there is a performance by the Green Man group — a variation of the Blue Man troupe — that uses recyclable material for beat-making. Additionally, GSA officials, donning black tuxedos with colored vests, perform their own rendition of “Luck be a Lady.”
There are silly magic tricks and an on-stage contest to see which attendee can blow the most bubbles through hula hoops.
Employees were encouraged to submit videos for a talent show contest, which Terlaje won. Among other entrants was one featuring Gumby on a motorcycle, as employees flashed dollar bills and rapped about the world travel and government pay raises they were getting.
“Not trying to get all touchy-feely, but I have to give props to my man [Acting Regional GSA Administrator] Jeff Neely,” they sing.
“I’m thrilled to be doing this,” Neely says in a separate clip, calling the conference the “culmination of a huge and impressive talent contest.”
The new videos seem likely to further inflame the back-and-forth between the administration and House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) over the GSA’s spending. The California Republican has suggested that the White House tried to hide evidence of lavish spending by sitting on the inspector general’s report for 11 months.
The GSA inspector general “briefed the Obama administration 11 months ago on its factual findings of waste and wrongdoing at a lavish Las Vegas convention,” Issa spokesman Frederick Hill, told POLITICO. “Rather than taking immediate action to suspend or dismiss those identified by the IG at this briefing as responsible, the administration instead let them have bonuses. Despite their efforts to manage the story, the administration only took real personnel actions when there were no more options for delay.”
Administration officials have scoffed at Issa’s charge, noting that proper protocols were followed to investigate the conference spending and that, once it came to light, officials who were responsible resigned or were fired.
Doan said the president and his aides aren’t taking ownership of their jobs. “This is very typical of the Obama administration,” she said. “There’s a lot of misdirection and cherry-picking of information that they release to the public. I think you also see the Obama administration circling their wagons because they know this is very damaging. You simply cannot justify the kind of wasteful spending.”
Barack Obama is running for president 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and he can’t be bothered with actually governing or running anything. You don’t take responsibility when you’re running for president – EVEN IF YOU’VE ACTUALLY BEEN THE DAMN PRESIDENT FOR FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
The Fast and Furious scandal – and this is giving Obama and Holder the benefit of the doubt and not believing the very real possibility that the two men deliberately set out to undermine 2nd Amendment gun rights by literally selling Mexican drug gangs guns so they could demonize American gun sellers and thus demonize the 2nd Amendment – has racked up so many corpses it is positively UNREAL. Let me simply sum it up: Obama’s people actually put guns into the hands of criminal drug cartels who then used those guns to murder American Border Patrol agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican soldiers, federal agents, police and family members of officials.
As Chuck Norris put it, Obama is smuggling guns to the Mexican drug gangs without any way to track them while demanding that YOUR guns be regulated or just plain taken away.
Congress is on the verge of issuing contempt of Congress proceedings against Obama’s Attorney General, stating:
“For over a year, the Department has issued false denials, given answers intended to misdirect investigators, sought to intimidate witnesses, unlawfully withheld subpoenaed documents, and waited to be confronted with indisputable evidence before acknowledging uncomfortable facts,” it reads. “’Operation Fast and Furious’ outrageous tactics, the Justice Department’s refusal to fully cooperate with the investigation, and efforts to smear and retaliate against whistleblowers have tainted the institutional integrity of the Justice Department.”
And where the hell is Obama? He’s at one after another after another campaign event.
As we speak, Obama’s State Department has terribly and despicably failed to protect human rights or America’s reputation as a nation that defends those rights in it’s godawful handling of China’s abuse of human rights activist Chen Guangchen. A BBC headline reads: “Barack Obama SILENT…”
If Obama had actually bothered to do his damn job, it might have prevented him from attending another campaign event and raising more campaign money. And that is the ONLY “crime against humanity” that Obama gives a damn about.
That is hardly the end of Obama’s constant scandals. It’s hardly the end of his complete failure to lead. There are so many examples this would be a 25,000 word article for me to write up half of them.
And where the hell is Obama? He’s campaigning, campaigning, campaigning. The man who has attended more fundraisers than the last five presidents combined is trying to attend more fundraisers than the last TEN presidents combined instead. So don’t expect anything other than a weak response from the likes of him on pretty much anything.
Obama in 2008 telling us about the utopia he’s going to create for an America suddenly embracing the mantra “We Are All Socialists Now” to go along with “Yes we can!”
Barack Obama addressed the wide distaste for government — and the fact that he and John McCain are running against Washington — at the forum on national service at Columbia University.
“Our campaign from the beginning has been about changing government,” he said, recalling some great accomplishments of American government: Civil rights legislation, the interstate highway system, and the National Park system.
Obama would, he said, “transform Washington” and “make government cool again.”
Obama also had some praise for small-town mayors — like, not so long ago, Sarah Palin — who, he said have “some of the toughest jobs in the country. We yak [in the Senate] but they…fill potholes and trim trees and make sure the garbage” is picked up.
Why was had there been such a “wide distaste for government”??? Because government taste like bovine fecal matter in giant quantities shoved down your throat. And then you’re forced to pay for the meal at about a hundred times the price that the private sector would have charged for the dining privilege. In a nutshell.
And, hey, Obama, boy have you ever changed government: you’ve made it bigger and more expensive and more “distasteful” than it has EVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC. You set out to “fundamentally transform America,” and you’ve done it. Good job. Pat yourself on the back. Smoke a cigarette. Your work destroying America is nearly done.
The GSA scandal gives us more than massive waste and fraud; it gives us pictures and videos of big government union workers putting on clown suits and flipping off the taxpayers. The Secret Service proves that even the most trusted workers in government have totally broken down under the Obama Culture. And we’re supposed to want to “make government cool again” so we can force the American people to pay for more of the same???
But Obama wants more and more and more and bigger and bigger and bigger government that will seize and confiscate more and more and more of the smaller and smaller minority of Americans who actually pay any federal income taxes and pay for this ungodly monster. Federal workers being paid more than $150,000 a year have DOUBLED under Obama. And there’s plenty more where that came from.
First there was Fast and Furious, then there was Solyndra and now there is LightSquared — three high-level scandals that involve allegations of cover-ups inside the Obama administration.
For a president who is already dragging an unpopular agenda and low marks on his handling of the economy along the campaign trail, this scandal troika is seriously bad news.
Obama is working desperately to prove to voters that he’s more interested in getting results than playing politics. He took a break from his series of campaign stops in battleground states (Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, back to Ohio next week) on Thursday and was wooing big-dollar donors in Washington. He explained that while it might look like he is engaged in his own re-election campaign, his is merely involved in “governance” by working to pass a new stimulus package.
“There’s a time for governance and there’s a time for making a political case,” Obama told donors. “My hope is, is that we’re going to keep on seeing some governance out of Washington over the next several months, because the American people can’t afford to wait for an election to actually see us start doing something serious about our jobs.”
This is a central part of Obama’s 2012 political pitch: That he is above politics, while his adversaries are unpatriotically grubbing for votes.
It takes chutzpah to make that case in the midst of a swing-state tour and at a dinner for political donors, but it’s an argument that Obama relied on during his remarkable political rise. It is understandable that he would want to use the same tool now that he is seeking to revive his fortunes.
The scandals, though, make the task harder.
The latest one involves confidential testimony from Gen. William Shelton, head of the Air Force’s Space Command, whom congressional sources say told a House Armed Services subcommittee that he was pressured to change his prepared remarks in a way that would benefit a major Democratic donor.
Philip Falcone is one of the big backers of LightSquared, a telecommunications company that wants to develop a nationwide satellite phone network. Falcone is a billionaire hedge-fund manager who is known as “the Midas of misery” for his skills at exploiting economic failure. He is also a big political campaign contributor, usually to Democrats.
His LightSquared venture requires federal authorization because of concerns that it would interfere with the satellite-driven GPS system that guides the U.S. military. Shelton reportedly said he was pressured to change his conclusion that the LightSquared plan was too risky. If the plan is nixed, Falcone and his partners stand to lose big.
A motive for trying to get Shelton to shade his testimony might also be found in the fact that the Obama administration has long been pushing for the idea of a national wireless broadband system, the very thing that Falcone and Co. are selling. If the generals say no to LightSquared it could permanently derail the pet project. But the involvement of a Democratic donor casts the pall of cronyism on the whole mess.
Only three entities review a general’s prepared testimony: Department of Defense, the White House, and the Office Management and Budget, so Shelton’s accusation is potent stuff.
This comes as new emails reveal that White House officials who were supposed to be vetting failed solar panel maker Solyndra, also run by a major Democratic donor, for a half-billion-dollar subsidized loan were very much interested in “optics” and political ramifications of their decisions.
Politics were at play when the White House revived the idea that had been tabled during the Bush administration and at play again as Obama officials fretted over how to manage the firm’s collapse in the least damaging way for the president’s re-election.
As evidence piles up in the Solyndra case, new details continue to emerge on the Fast and Furious probe that show a much larger scale for the Justice Department’s botched gunrunning sting, which encouraged illegal gun trafficking to drug gangs and then lost track of the weapons.
Here, there is no claim of cronyism, but there is the strong allegation from Republicans in Congress that the administration has withheld details of the operation now linked to the murder of a Border Patrol agent and other crimes in order to spare the administration further political embarrassment.
As Obama works to revive his brand as a man beyond petty politics, these three slow-burning political scandals will continue to undercut his claim.
Which amendment to the Constitution is Obama’s very favorite? Clearly the 5th, which allows his fascist cronies to deny responsibility for all the crimes they committed doing Obama’s thug bidding:
We have a statement that has been used again and again to attack John McCain and Sarah Palin – even by Barack Obama himself – that was a total lie. It never happened. Nobody said “kill him!” according to the Secret Service’s thorough investigation. If it hadn’t been for the fact that this bit of liberal demonizing propaganda had amounted to a direct threat to kill a candidate, no one would have ever known.
One liberal commentator described the “Weimar-like rage” of Republicans. But the fact is, it is the DEMOCRATS who are like the Nazi Weimar Republic: THEY are the ones who are resorting to propaganda techniques right out of Joseph Goebbels’ playbook.
I have been hearing for a good weak now about the incredible wave of Obama hatred of Republicans toward Barack Obama at rallies. Anti-McCain and anti-Palin hatred from Democrats has been deemed irrelevant. So what if Democrats call Sarah Palin a “cunt,” and so what if a prominent pro-Democrat comedian calls for Sarah Palin to be gang-raped by black men – that doesn’t qualify. Nothing wrong with that. Sarah Palin is a Republican, and many in the media believe she DESERVES hate. Thus the mainstream media is not only creating fictitious allegations to damage Republicans, it is ignoring genuine hate coming from Democrats.
One remark in particular has been repeated over and over again: “kill him!” We have heard it over and over again on every mainstram media outlet. But they aren’t the only ones passing off lies as truth.
OBAMA: I mean, look, if we want to talk about Congressman Lewis, who is an American hero, he, unprompted by my campaign, without my campaign’s awareness, made a statement that he was troubled with what he was hearing at some of the rallies that your running mate was holding, in which all the Republican reports indicated were shouting, when my name came up, things like “terrorist” and “kill him,” and that you’re running mate didn’t mention, didn’t stop, didn’t say “Hold on a second, that’s kind of out of line.”
And I think Congressman Lewis’ point was that we have to be careful about how we deal with our supporters.
Maybe Senator Obama should be careful about how he deals with the truth. Obama justifies John Lewis’ statements on the grounds that Lewis was troubled over what McCain supporters were saying, and then Obama cites a statement now proven to be false as an example.
Democrat Rep. John Lewis – an Obama surrogate – made an absolutely hateful. unforgivable, pure race-baiting statement about John McCain and those who support him:
“What I am seeing today reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse,” he said.
Noting that Wallace, a divisive political figure in his day, had also run for president, Lewis said, “He created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.”
The thing is, John Lewis said his ugly piece. The nameless man who said “kill him!” at a Republican Sarah Palin rally was made up by a biased, leftist, liberal, lying, demagoguing, propagandizing journalist.
Scranton Times-Tribune reporter David Singleton made the claim. It has been picked up and run over again by mainstream media entities such as ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. And Barack Hussein Obama. And it is a lie.
Posted on 10/16/2008 10:42:41 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
If you need any more evidence that you cannot trust the media in this election, here you go.
All week, every media organization in America has been endlessly repeating that someone shouted “Kill him” at a Sarah Palin rally when Barack Obama’s name was mentioned. As Jake Tapper might say, they were all “atwitter” about it, and used this incident to promote the view that McCain and Palin were deliberately inciting “dangerous extremism.”
Just one little problem. The Secret Service investigated the incident, interviewed security agents and dozens of audience members, and the only person in that whole crowd who heard “Kill him” was … the reporter, David Singleton of the Scranton Times-Tribune.
It’s a phony story.
Secret Service says ‘Kill him’ allegation unfounded.
SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.“
News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.
Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.
“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.
He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.
Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”
Sadly, I didn’t see this story on CBS, NBC, ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. You can figure that they won’t be doing any mea culpas and acknowledging that – boy – they had really got that Republican-hate thing wrong.
At this point, you should assume that hateful statements shouted out at McCain-Palin events were nothing more than liberal plants fortuitously standing right next to mainstream media microphones.
Journalists are liars. They are biased. They are demagogues. They have become propagandists in the mode of Joseph Goebbels. And they have launched a propaganda campaign against Republicans that is rivaled only by the Nazi propaganda campaign against Jews. Routinely, they have presented or allowed to be presented as fact false stories about Republicans, while refusing to investigate stories that would hurt Democrats’ interests.
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