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#JayCarneyExcuses Don’t Make Me Give You The Full Jessup Again

by Smitty Is there an American who looks a bigger ass than Carney? None. None bigger ass. #JayCarneyExcuses The vast right wing global fracking voter warming ethanol suppression conspiracy terrified my dog into eating my homework — Smitty TheWackoBird (@smitty_one_each) May 10, 2013 #JayCarneyExcuses Sorry, I was too busy reading the bill. Wait, not even […]

The Big Benghazi Lie: State Department Deleted Key Facts From Talking Points

Jonathan Karl of ABC News reports that an entire paragraph of the CIA’s original assessment of the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was deleted after political objections were raised by a State Department official. The deleted paragraph — which referenced prior CIA warnings about terrorist attacks in Libya — was one of numerous […]

The ‘How Dare You’ Defense on Benghazi

Pocan (D-WI) says “there’s no smoking gun… from this.” line seeks to minimize the testimony near end of the hearing.pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05… — Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) May 8, 2013 Associated Press: Let’s Quote Democrats Dismissing the Testimony Before We Quote the Witness bostonglobe.com/news/nation/20… | @vjmfilms — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 9, 2013 “This has been a […]

Unsurprising Media Consensus: ‘Shut Up About Benghazi, You Stupid Republicans’

Even before the six hours of congressional hearings began, CNN telegraphed its disinterest in the Benghazi “whistleblower” testimony by cutting away to Cleveland, Ohio, for what Wolf Blitzer falsely promised would be the first public statement by kidnapping victim Amanda Berry. What actually happened in Cleveland was a ginormous media scrum for a statement by […]

The Highly Ironic Syrian End-Game?

When last we examined the mess in Syria, President Obama was embarrassed that the Assad regime had crossed his “red line” by reportedly using chemical weapons against the rebels (who are, by the way, a dangerous mob of Islamic extremists). And so now the ironic denouement, in headlines via  Memeorandum:   Damascus hit ‘by Israeli […]

Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up

Flaming skull alert at Ace of Spades for the release of e-mails confirming that (a) officials knew from the outset that the attack on the consulate in Libya was the work of terrorists, but (b) this information was suppressed for political purposes: State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, worried that members of Congress would use the […]

Obama’s Syrian Dilemma

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail) President Gutsy Call promised serious consequences if Syria’s Assad regime crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons against anti-government rebels. Now that there is clear evidence that Assad used chemical weapons? Well, it’s nuanced, Chuck Todd explains: “I can tell you there is regret […]

Syria: Another Casualty of ‘Hope’

Reading a long New York Times article about the prevalence of Islamic extremism among Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime in a two-year civil war, I was struck by this paragraph: The religious agenda of the combatants sets them apart from many civilian activists, protesters and aid workers who had hoped the uprising would create […]

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