White House Press Secretary Jay Carney comes back to the podium. He’s been in hiding for 15 days while the administration tried to duck questions on Libya, and they coordinated a collective message about how to talk about Benghazi without being caught in the lies they had previously stated.
ABC News’ Jake Tapper grilled White House press secretary Jay Carney today on the administrations response to attacks on US Embassy in Benghazi, “Didn’t President Obama shoot first, and aim later?”
This is unreal. Seriously, unreal. Everytime I think the Obama administration cannot go any lower on the intellectually honest scale they find new ways to lower the bar. There is no longer daylight visible between the bar and the dirt.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used that explanation for more than a week after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. (it goes on)
Stop – Wait… wha? The State Dept never concluded the attack was from protests? Huh?
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Meanwhile The Obama Campaign is focused on Big Bird….
The State Department is coming under more scrutiny ahead of anticipated hearings scheduled for tomorrow. Request for additional security fell on deaf ears, and despite State Dept claims there were no protests in front of the consulate in Benghazi. The Democrats are petrified of the impact on the election, desperate to protect President Obama, and are attempting rabid obfuscation:
The Congressional Hearing will be streamed live tomorrow at noon on the web – AVAILABLE HERE
(Reuters) – A U.S. security officer formerly stationed in Libya has told lawmakers he sent two cables to the State Department requesting more security agents for the American mission in Benghazi but received no response.
The officer, Eric Nordstrom, also said that a State Department official, Charlene Lamb, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi “artificially low,” according to a memo summarizing his comments that was obtained by Reuters. (more…)
Insufferably ridiculous reporters searching for “gotcha” phrases – Michigan TV station’s reporter asks Ryan, “Does this country have a gun problem?’
The GOP vice presidential candidate responds that “this country has a crime problem.” When the reporter asks for clarification, Ryan explains that “good, strong gun laws” are currently on the books, “but we have to make sure we enforce our laws.” He goes on to clarify:
“We have lots of laws that aren’t being properly enforced. We need to make sure we enforce these laws. But the best thing to help prevent violent crime in the inner cities is to bring opportunity in the inner cities, is to help people get out of poverty in the inner cities, is to help teach people good discipline, good character. That is civil society. That’s what charities, and civic groups, and churches do to help one another make sure that they can realize the value in one another.”
ABC 12’s reporter then offers a somewhat odd retort, asking, “And you can do all that by cutting taxes? By…with a big tax cut?” (more…)
The Middle East – Let’s cut to the chase so that a broader understanding is possible.
Look at a map of the Middle East:
The first understanding is to know the “Modern West” was accepting of mass migration from N-Africa through Tunisia and Libya into Cyprus, Italy and on to Europe for decades. This migration was/is the beginning of their substantive multi-cultural issues they are now facing socially and economically.
Long story short…. Eventually Europe wanted the spigot turned off because the “undesirables” were not assimilating correctly and they could not afford the resulting problems. The ruling fascists in Libya (Gaddafi) and Tunisia (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali) now held “leverage” over Europe. Quackdaffy and Ben Ali became the gatekeepers. (more…)
Via GWP – Mary Matalin takes Krugman down a peg…
When I hear the name Paul Krugman now I can’t help but think about him speaking to the Think Progress Occupier “crowd” at NetRootsNation 🙂 :
….that the month before the election the Unemployment Rate, presented by the ideologically aligned Dept. Of Labor, just happens to drop below 8%.
25 of the best bi-partisan economic minds in the nation, independently, all predicted and got the exact number of predicted newly-employed workers correct at 114,000.
But simultaneously, every single one, all twenty five, independently, calculated and predicted the unemployment rate wrong for the first time in history? (more…)
Epic x 2
Epic….
This. T.H.I.S. Right Here.. is exactly what it looks like when the institutional media circles the protective wagons around The Lightbringer – President Obama.
Jack Welch, the most trusted CEO ever in American history, says: when it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like a duck it’s a friggin Duck. (talking about the manipulated 7.8% unemployment figure From the Bureau of Labor Statistics) His credibility is so firm, and so dangerous, the media must find a way to diminish him, and protecting their Dear Leader, without being seen as protecting their Dear Leader.
Enter the water-carrying CNN crew to provide cover. Watch how they do it.