Tuesday Afternoon News & Open Thread


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Sep 18, 2012

This guy in the video is an asshole, apparently he doesn’t understand that it is illegal, to use Media Matters. Apparently he doesn’t get that abuse of media by an administration is not only contempltable, but also is more in the style of  government ran television, when you use the government as your one source for facts. I just wanted you all to see how far and wide that addiction to the koolaid is, and how far the butt sniffing of this administration goes. Yuck Also this is not who will be on Cavuto’s show.

Tonight, 4p ET: The secretly recorded tape — NOW Romney responds!  Neil has the first interview.  Plus, CEO Allan Mulally on Ford’s success.

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From the Daily Caller

Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office  of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show  Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack  reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of  Information Act request. (RELATED:  TheDC’s complete coverage of Media Matters)

Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media  Matters staffer Jeremy Holden on attacking news coverage of the New Black  Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.

Holden attacked former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys J. Christian Adams  and Hans von Spakovsky on Sept. 20, 2010 for what he called an attempt “to  reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.”

Before Holden posted his article at 7:52 p.m., Schmaler  sent him several emails with information helping him attack both former DOJ  oficials.

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/emails-reveal-justice-dept-regularly-enlists-media-matters-to-spin-press/#ixzz26qrhfImw

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The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama     John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Right Wing News

3) “I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.” — Barack Obama

2) “…I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” — Barack Obama

1) “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” — Barack Obama

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Obama Negotiating Release of Omar Abdel-Rahman\

http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/18/obama-negotiating-release-of-omar-abdel-rahman/

By: streiff (Diary)  |          September 18th, 2012 at 01:39 PM

For those of you who don’t know, Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka “the blind sheik”, is serving a life sentence in a federal prison for his role in planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He is also viewed, unsurprisingly, as a religious leader in most of the Arab world.

Thomas Jocelyn of the Weekly Standard does a great job of connecting the dots and makes a compelling case that the sacking of US diplomatic facilities on September 11 was part of a larger effort to secure the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman.

Now we have reports that the Obama Administration is in negotiations with the government of Egypt to release the blind sheik from prison:

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Shame:

September 17, 2012 – 5:36 am – by  Andrew Klavan

The people who booed the God of love, now rush to the defense of a hateful Allah. The people who pissed on the Christ of redemption, now bewail the hurt feelings of a damnable Islam. The people who denounced the death of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, now make rationalizations as brown-shirted cops drag a man from his home at midnight for the crime of posting a video on YouTube.

I’m sorrowful, but I confess I’m not surprised.

Over the course of time, I have seen many people ruin and waste their lives. Good people, smart people, talented people who sacrificed the gift of existence to drugs, alcohol, bitterness, self-abuse, fear, and anger. In every case, always, I felt the root cause was unacknowledged shame.

At some point, these people had come to confront — as we all must — their cowardice, their weakness, their dishonesty, or their foolishness. Unable to accept the pain of an honest assessment of their brokenness, they turned their eyes away and practiced denial instead. In an attempt to avoid the agony of their shame indefinitely, they created whole new philosophies of life. If, for instance, they had backed down when they should have stood up, they declared nothing was worth fighting for. If they lied when they should’ve spoken true, they declared truth was an illusion. If they succumbed to desire when they should have resisted, they decided continence was a game for puritans and fools.

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18 September 2012 Last updated at 04:43 ET

Mass jailbreak sparks manhunt near Texas border

Police stand outside a jail after the escape of more than 130 inmates in Piedras Negras The state government has offered rewards for information leading to the arrest of prisoners

More than 130 prisoners are on the run in Mexico after a mass breakout from a jail close to the US border.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19634070

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19640175

Egypt orders arrest of US-based Copts over film

Authorities in Cairo have ordered the arrest of seven US-based Egyptian Coptic Christians for their alleged involvement in an anti-Islam video.

The crude production posted on YouTube has sparked violent protests and riots across the Muslim world for its depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

It is unclear who made the film, but it has been linked to an Egyptian Coptic Christian living in the United States.

An arrest warrant has also been issued for US Christian pastor Terry Jones.

One woman and seven men, including Mr Jones, are accused of “insulting the Islamic religion, insulting the Prophet and inciting sectarian strife”, according to the prosecutor’s office.

It said international police agency Interpol would be notified of the warrants. A request will also be filed with US judicial authorities.

19 thoughts on “Tuesday Afternoon News & Open Thread

  1. yttik22 says:

    That was a great article, Katmoon! Thank you:

    “The people who booed the God of love, now rush to the defense of a hateful Allah. The people who pissed on the Christ of redemption, now bewail the hurt feelings of a damnable Islam. The people who denounced the death of civil liberties under the Patriot Act, now make rationalizations as brown-shirted cops drag a man from his home at midnight for the crime of posting a video on YouTube.”

    Amen to that! What hypocrisy. I loved his shame based analogies. Indeed, people who carry around a lot of misplaced shame often turn to drugs and alcohol and have a lot of other problems. It’s like they’re hell bent on personal destruction. Well, now if seems like we have a President with misguided shame, apologizing all over the place, almost as if he were leading the entire country down a path of personal destruction.

    • Oh what a conversion there would be if we had a mss flu outbreak or something else; people find faith when they need it, instead of recognizing it was always thereso they wouldn’t be in “need”.

  2. Ferd Berfle says:

    Screw the international warrant. The First Amendment takes precedent. This anti-American corrupt, criminal administration, DBA Obama, Inc., needs to be booted out of office and then investigated in January ’13. Obongo has gone out of his way to undermine our values, our way of life, and our Constitution. He said in ’98 that he was FOR the redistribution of wealth, which is nothing more than Marxist thought.

    He is wrong about everything and right about nothing. His views are diametrically opposed to mine and I will work diligently to convince others that he needs to go.

    • Ferd, come on now, it’s all sharia all the time with Obama.
      The only way that blind fool goes back to Egypt is with a pigs head hat for company in a pine box.

      I wonder if any “reporters” will ask President O’moron if he would allow Americans to be sent there to complywith the warrent. I mean we use to send all the renditions there, I guess that has changed.

      War between Japan and China
      War between Iran and Israel and the US,
      Russia sent all NGO’s th US packing….who they going to war with?

      Obama is responsible for the negligent homicide of our Ambassdor and three others. A dozen border agents and 100′s of Mexicans as well, and still they vote for him.

  3. I love what Romney said, and I hope he remains strong on his comments; like its a shock the press is going to hate it. Romney himself said it was ineligant but that sure doesn’t make it less true.

  4. Obama about Romneys remarks: “A president has to work for everyone”. Really? even us white folks, could have fooled me, you racist, Mr. President, Or is that “Pimp With A Limp’s BFF?

    • ~~JustMe~~ says:

      “A president has to work for everyone”. Hmmmmm~

      A University of Florida student said he was denied entry into a campus rally featuring Michelle Obama because he was wearing a John McCain t-shirt.

      Matt Pesek told the website Campus Reform that he had a ticket for the event but was turned away while he was standing in line. An Obama staffer allegedly told the student that he would not be allowed inside because the First Lady’s speech was for “supporters only.”

      The revelation surfaced the same day President Obama appeared on CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman and said he represented the entire country.

      “If you want to be president, you have to work for everyone,” he told Letterman.

      “I was waiting in line wearing a ‘Gators for McCain’ shirt when a guy (representing the Obama campaign) comes up to me to just intimidate me,” he told Campus Reform. “(He then) asks me for my ticket saying…this is an event with only Obama supporters.”

      Pesek said he offered to turn his shirt inside but was still denied entry.

      A university official told the website that Obama officials could refuse entry to whoever they wanted because it was a private event. But it was being held on a public university campus — paid for by taxpayers. http://tinyurl.com/9ox35yr

  5. “Obama, in TV interview, says message to Muslim world is ‘we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe’ ”
    this was in yet another David Letterman appearance; which I am sure people in cairo watch everynight, and will get the message. Good venue there for foreign policy Mr. President, stay sharp.

  6. sassyminor says:

    Romney looked rested and did a good job on Cavuto’s program. I admit that a couple of the video comments caused me to cringe.
    One was the reference to “responsibility for family and life.” People who have lost jobs during this recession are a separate group from perpetual welfare recipients.
    The second was that he “won’t worry about those people” which is very similar to comments that got him in trouble before, and he had to clarify that the “safety net” stays in place. That was near the time when he was misquoted about liking to fire people.
    He is making a nice recovery, but obviously the media will give him no space.

    • yttik22 says:

      It’s unfair, but completely predictable, that the media is not showing those Romney quotes in context. He was answering a question and without the context of the entire conversation, we can’t really pass judgment. Of course the media is filling in the blanks for everyone anyway, also known as lying.

      It’s kind of interesting, President Obama just said that 100% of us were dependent on the Gov. “You didn’t build that” and “we all belong to the Gov.” Romney cut that number down to 47% and people freak out. And yet that’s precisely what President Obama has been advocating for, more dependency on the Gov, everything from 46 million people on food stamps to tax payer funded birth control and government run healthcare.

      • sassyminor says:

        Romney has a record of personal generosity. Seeing those coal miners lined up for his rally had me hoping that a squad of Romney democrats would swing this election, which could still happen.
        There are many lower-income republicans, especially in southern states where union wages are/were not earned. That 47% breaks down to about 30% welfare recipients, and 17% workers, retirees, or military members. I’m just saying that every vote counts…well, maybe or maybe not.

        • Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy says:

          Good point, Sassy. And we know the media is intentionally trying to depress voters for Romney. Meanwhile, polls are showing them virtually TIED, including in battle states. Hopefully, people will not buy what Obama and his minions are trying to sell…

    • yttik22 says:

      I’m a bleeding heart and I agree with what Romney said. It’s not the money so much as it is the harm it does to people when they’re unable to provide for themselves and forced to live off the government. To see how it damages people’s spirits you just have to visit a reservation or an inner city somewhere. People deserve dignity, privacy, the ability to take care of themselves. They deserve jobs, upward mobility, the American dream.

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