“Why”? Apparently, Mr. Moore is having a difficult time figuring it out. Let’s help him: (more…)
It is perhaps serendipity the name Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi surfaced during the investigation of the Boston Bombing, “perhaps“. A name the administration would just as soon be forgotten.
Indeed if you rely on the water-carrying media to follow the story it’s probably the last time anyone will ever discuss the Saudi national, college student, and his powerful family connections. But some within the new media, in addition to Glenn Beck, are staying on the story.
Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi was injured and hospitalized during the bombing. Subsequently two high level meetings with his family’s interested representatives were conducted by both Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama himself. Michelle Obama even went to the hospital where Ali Al Harbi was being cared for and paid him a personal visit.
But why does he matter? (more…)
MARK STEYN – On Rush Limbaugh’s Friday program, fill-in host Mark Steyn reminded listeners of Limbaugh’s Tuesday comments predicting the media would “circle the wagons” for Islam if it turned out that the suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing Muslims, saying that the prediction will come true.
As it turned out, the suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indeed Muslims, and Steyn, author of “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” said the media wagon-circling would begin “any moment now.” (more…)
Rush Limbaugh did play the role of Captain Obvious earlier in the week and say the media would circle the wagons behind the killers if they are leftists. Duh!
It’s much easier for the progressive media to find compassion for a man who killed 4 including a child, injured almost 200, blown the limbs of dozens of people, if the killer is a left-wing ideologue and Islamist to boot. [Via Dan Riehl]
Had these been conservative, or Tea Party attributed killers, the media would hold no such sympathy. Sickening, left-wing media bias…….. just sickening.
IT’S OVER
CBS News has learned that multiple new whistleblowers are privately speaking to investigators with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya.
The nature of the communications with the whistleblowers and their identities are not being made public at this time. But in response, the Oversight Committee yesterday sent letters to the three federal agencies involved: the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department.
The letters make the case for the whistleblowers to be able to share sensitive or classified information with their own attorneys, and ask for each agency’s official description of the legal steps that process must follow. The letters also state that additional witnesses may be “compelled by subpoena to give testimony.” (link to CBS continued reporting)
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UPDATE: Amendment fails 54-46 VOTE JUST TAKEN
The expanded background check / National gun registry amendment is currently being debated and voted on the floor of the Senate. Initial predictive reports yesterday were for successful passage. That is not the case – The amendment is expected to fail, thanks in Part to Kelly Ayote (Republican from New Hampshire).
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) said Wednesday that she will oppose a Senate deal proposing to expand background checks on the purchases of firearms known as the Manchin-Toomey admendment.
“I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence,” she said in a statement. “While steps must be taken to improve the existing background check system, I will not support the Manchin-Toomey legislation, which I believe would place unnecessary burdens on law-abiding gun owners and allow for potential overreach by the federal government into private gun sales.”
Ayotte’s opposition leaves the amendment short of the required 60 votes for passage, unless a senator reverses their position prior to the vote on the floor at 4pm ET today
WASHINGTON – The Senate will vote Wednesday afternoon on what could be the biggest change in U.S. gun laws in nearly two years.
Senators will take up the bipartisan proposal from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks on firearm purchases and close the so-called gun show loophole at 4 p.m.
It will require 60 votes to pass, and the White House and Democrats still lack the final votes they need. (more…)
Yesterday I said it would be before the end of the day today that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) would start the mantra about the Boston Bombing being the work of right-wing domestic terrorists.
Piers Morgan just had Mark Potoc of the SPLC who made the case for “right-wing” anti government domestic terrorists because of “Liberty Day”….. “Tax Day”….. and the closeness of the April 15th bombing to the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City.
The SPLC will use any and all opportunities to sell their cultural marxism, and progressive agenda, and will wildly label everyone else as racist, extremist, etc.
Speaking to the profoundly obvious….
