In January of 2012 ABC’s George Stephanolopous asked then GOP candidate Mitt Romney if “state government had a responsibility to provide or ban birth control“? Watch it again:

Everyone watching in the auditorium, and everyone at home asked: “huh, what’s that about“?   That had to be the stupidest question EVER. What the heck is he talking about and why?
Alas, it was only a few weeks later we began to understand. ABC was setting the stage for the DNC to introduce Sandra Fluke. And weeks later the introduction of the DNC “War On Women” campaign.

“Politics is downstream from pop culture” – Andrew Breitbart

WASHINGTON DC – Make no mistake, there is always a deeper agenda whenever a seemingly innocent campaign pops up overnight. (more…)

There’s a bigger undercurrent issue here which we’ll be discussing tomorrow….

WASHINGTON – An exhibit at the “Feminist Museum” at the University of Oregon (UO) has attacked hardware stores for selling tools that have been painted pink.
Britt Bowen, a UO graduate student and co-creator of “Feminist Museum” told Campus Reform that fellow student Mattie Reynolds created the project to protest “the way that certain companies will target female customers by painting things pink.”
“I have this huge problem with going into hardware stores and seeing these traditionally ‘male’ tools that companies make applicable to women by making them pink,” Reynolds said in an article published in Daily Emerald, a student newspaper.  (read more)

The Washington Free Beacon has a great outline worth spending some time digesting:

The Clinton Files

On May 12, 1992, Stan Greenberg and Celinda Lake, top pollsters for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, issued a confidential memo. The memo’s subject was “Research on Hillary Clinton.”

Voters admired the strength of the Arkansas first couple, the pollsters wrote. However, “they also fear that only someone too politically ambitious, too strong, and too ruthless could survive such controversy so well.”

Their conclusion: “What voters find slick in Bill Clinton, they find ruthless in Hillary.”

The full memo is one of many previously unpublished documents contained in the archive of one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential candidate as a strong, ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative. (more…)

Given what Senator Clinton formerly said about General “Betrayus”, and given the backstory of former CIA Analytical Director Mike Morell’s admitted manipulation of talking points and stand-in status for Petraeus; and given the fact that Petraeus gave testimony to congress that he didn’t know who changed the Benghazi talking points but claimed it was not the CIA; and given the fact Eric Holder was investigating Petraeus over the affair with Paula Broadwell at the time of Benghazi, well, something is three dimensional Machiavellian about this latest water-carrying. 

(Via MediaIte)  In the new book HRC, by The Hill’s Amie Parnes and Bloomberg’s Jonathan Allen, General David Petraeus praised Hillary Clinton as a potential president, specifically citing what many consider her biggest obstacle as a candidate: her role as Secretary of State overseeing the American compound in Benghazi when it was attacked in 2012.

“She’d make a tremendous president,” Petraeus said. “Like a lot of great leaders, her most impressive qualities were most visible during tough times. In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined, and controlled.”

On This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Jon Karl brought this up to Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) and asked if it “took the wind out of the sails” of Benghazi as an anti-Hillary talking point.  (read more with video)

“The children belong to all of us” ?   Hmmm.  How positively Clintonian.

(CNSNews.com) – In addressing criticism of the Common Core national  education standards, a panelist at the Center for American Progress  (CAP), a liberal think tank, said critics were a “tiny minority” who  opposed standards altogether, which was unfair because “the children  belong to all of us.”

The CAP was founded by John Podesta, former chief of staff to Bill  Clinton and now an adviser to President Barack Obama.  At a CAP event to  promote Common Core on Friday, CNSNews.com asked about the critics who  say federal monetary incentives attached to Common Core is driving the  states to implement the standards. (more…)

There is a considerable amount of chatter amid the blog-o-sphere for an interview Hugh Hewitt had with former Clinton White House Counsel Lanny Davis. [ Transcript here ]

Most of the attention has focused on the final segment question where Hewitt challenges Davis to summarize Hillary’s accomplishments as Secretary of State, and Davis cannot name one:

LANNY DAVIS: … more time, which is at some point, at some point, if she runs for president, Benghazi and every other issue she’s being criticized for, and I happen to believe that there are only a handful of people that hold Benghazi against her. I don’t think that that’s a serious political issue for her.

HUGH HEWITT: Okay, then give me one more thing.

DAVIS: But she’s got to do it. She’s got to do it if she runs for president. And she knows that.

HEWITT: All right, one question, you’ve got a minute. Summarize for me what she accomplished as Secretary of State.

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CNN was broadcasting a Hillary Clinton speech in/out throughout the day.   Essentially a campaign promotion.   However, as they were quickly running live clips they accidentally put two clips together.

The result was a Benghazi explanation attached to another conversation about 2016 – which slightly appeared to present itself as if Clinton was laughing.

No biggie.   HOWEVER, what happened next is what’s hilarious.   CNN host Ashley Banfield freaked out and jumped into action to insure the audience knew the snicker was not related to Benghazi.  Her panic is hilarious:

Strange, but I can’t ever remember such a panicked response toward a negative optical appearance on behalf of a conservative ? ……Somewhat beyond silly when you consider it was CNN’s Dana Bash who did the same misleading presentation to Mike Huckabee just a few days ago – and never panicked to correct.

At Rnc meeting @MikeHuckabee just said fed govt shouldn't help women w who can't control their libido w birth control.

— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) January 23, 2014

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Two thoughts: First, when was the last time you heard *ANY* media pundit speak glowingly about a Republican president? Second, note two specific words in Tingles praise, “they” and “ticket”:

…”they are”..
…”They possess”..
…”That may be the very ticket this country needs”…