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The Big Benghazi Secret

Posted on | August 4, 2013 | 66 Comments

In May, we began to learn the truth about what the Benghazi cover-up was all about: The State Department had a secret program to provide weapons to the Libyan insurgents who overthrew Gaddhafi. Once the dictator was gone and it became apparent that some of the “insurgents” the U.S. had armed were, in fact, dangerous radicals with ties to al-Qaeda, there began an effort to disarm these groups.

It was these negotiations that brought U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens to the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11, 2012, in what appears to have been a carefully planned trap by the radical groups the U.S. was trying to disarm. It seems quite likely that the ambassador and three other Americans were killed with U.S.-supplied weapons. The fact that Benghazi was crawling with CIA operatives is something the Obama administration doesn’t want to talk about, for reasons that should be obvious enough. Jonathan Tobin writes at Commentary:

If Benghazi is a “phony scandal,” Americans are entitled to ask why the government is behaving so suspiciously. . . .
At this point with so many unanswered questions about Benghazi, the administration should be facilitating the investigation of the attack rather than actually impeding it. We don’t know whether the code of omerta being imposed on CIA personnel is merely a function of bureaucratic inertia or a far more sinister attempt to prevent Congress and the public from finding out more about the failures of both the agency and the State Department. No one should make assumptions about wrongdoing, but given the unwillingness of the administration to apply its supposed belief in transparency to this question, it is, at the very least, reasonable to conclude that something is amiss here.

“Something amiss” is putting it rather mildly. It stinks to high heaven. The administration has been lying since Day One, and what they’re trying to do now is to run out the clock, to delay as long as possible — if they cannot entirely prevent — disclosure of the truth, so that they can then dismiss it as, “old news.” And this is really the scandalous part of it: What if the American people had known in fall 2012 what we know (or at least think we know) now?

The absurd claim that what happened in Benghazi was a “spontaneous” demonstration inspired by a YouTube video was a deliberate lie, part of a cover-up, the initial purpose of which was to deflect blame from the administration during the presidential election campaign. In truth, the Benghazi attack was a direct consequence of President Obama’s embrace of the “Arab Spring,” four Americans died as a result, and the administration is still trying to conceal the facts because Hillary Clinton was deeply implicated in this debacle.

John Hinderaker gives heed to rumors that weapons were being shipped from Libya to Syria. I’ve heard nothing about that, but I was impressed by Joe Curl’s reaction to the CNN item:

Here’s my thing: I don’t really have a problem with shadowy CIA operations. I understand considerations of foreign-policy realism and I know that sometimes it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. But when you screw up — and I’d say a dead U.S. ambassador counts as screwing up — you can’t stonewall and lie and claim it’s all a “phony scandal.” Not if you’re the president who promised America the “most transparent administration in history.”

 


Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Scandal

They Should Print It in Red Ink

Posted on | August 4, 2013 | 21 Comments

Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money:

After purchasing the Boston Globe in 1993 for a then-record $1.1 billion, the financially troubled New York Times just announced that it sold the 141-year-old paper to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry for a mere $70 million. That’s a straight 93% loss. Figuring in two decades of inflation would only make it worse — as does the fact that the Times retains the Globe’s pension liabilities, estimated at over $100 million.

Leaving aside all the changes in the media environment in the past 20 years, the pension-liability burden is the worst of it, and for no good reason. The 401(k) should be the standard model for retirement plans — fixed contributions, not fixed benefits, with the employee controlling his own retirement funds. Personal responsibility, not the entitlement mentality. Also, while you’re at it: Screw the unions and their obsolete collectivist class-warfare mindset.

Category: New York Times

FMJRA 2.0: Mental Door

Posted on | August 3, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Whatever Your Problem Is, ‘Vote Democrat’ Is Never the Solution

Given a Hypothetical Choice Between Monica Lewinsky and Sydney Leathers?

Intern Blows Up Weiner Campaign; Spokeswoman Stays Classy: ‘F–king C–t’

Rule 5 Monday

Well, She Is a Democrat, After All

Vile Lie-Peddler @Karoli Kuns and the Posthumous Vindication of Breitbart

As Though I Never Have Anything Nice To Say About #OccupyResoluteDesk

FMJRA 2.0: Atomic

Bill Schmalfeldt Finally Gets His Reply

Barrett Brown: Madness Foreshadowed

SHOCKING ALLEGATIONS IN KIMBERLIN V. KIMBERLIN

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.29.13

#WarOnWoman Does Anybody Care That Tetyana Kimberlin Fears for Her Life?

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.30.13

Bradley Manning Verdict: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! …

A Dozen Short Points On The Big Picture

World’s Youngest Blogger: Fear Fast-Food Future? Fuhgeddaboudit!

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 07.31.13

OMFG: Did Brett Kimberlin’s Buddy Cop a Plea on Child Pornography Charges?

Why Isn’t Craig Richard Gillette’s Name on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry?

Where the Brett Kimberlin Story Started UPDATE: Neal Rauhauser’s ‘TwitterGate’

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 08.01.13

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran: I Love This Bitch

21 Books, Part II

Oh, My: Anthony Weiner Porn Movie?

Wretched Chattanooga Newspaper Fires Editor Because of Anti-Obama Headline

The Game That Homey Does Not Play

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 08.02.13

Democrat Agenda for Women: Abortion and Also, Getting Groped by Bob Filner

Dammit, @CalebHowe, Get Better! UPDATE: Let’s Make It $30,000 Tonight

‘Cracker!’ Says Mendacious Swindler Charlie Rangel, Who Should Be in Prison

Can @Karoli Block the Entire Internet?


Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Crazed World (30)
  2. EBL (18, including links from Batshit Crazy News)
  3. Regular Right Guy (9)
  4. Lonely Conservative (7)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA will be Friday, August 10.


Batshit Crazy News

Category: FMJRA Award

World’s Youngest Blogger: MUST-SEE @TedCruz On Defeating #ObamaCare

Posted on | August 3, 2013 | 13 Comments

“On behalf of those not politically empowered, yet certainly at risk of having their future thrown under the #ObamaCare bus, please watch and spread this Senator Cruz video.
And tell Senator McCain that even a two-year-old like me can see that Senator Cruz is what leadership looks like. Maybe Senator McCain can take some lessons.”

Category: Health Care, World's Youngest Blogger

Sen. Lindsey Graham May Try Out New Look To Fend Off Tea Party Challenger

Posted on | August 3, 2013 | 61 Comments

by Smitty

Let’s face it: life is tough in RINO-land, and the growing backlash against political deadwood cannot be denied. The Blaze reports:

It’s official: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will face a Tea Party challenger in 2014.
A spokesperson for Republican Nancy Mace, who is already being billed as a Tea Party favorite, confirmed to TheBlaze on Thursday that she plans to challenge Graham for his Senate seat in the 2014 Republican primary. She plans to make a “special announcement” about her run at the Berkeley County GOP Breakfast on Saturday.
The spokesperson said the campaign will be releasing more information and Mace will be doing interviews following the formal announcement.

Meanwhile, Sissypuss the Blog Kitty, disguised as a mole, and infiltrating Graham’s inner circle, discovers that androgyny is the new black among political fashion strategists:
Can an avant-garde makeover get Lindsey where he wants to go? On a non-Saturday night? Stay tuned.

Nancy Mace for Senate

Help free the country from metrosexual tyranny!

via ILamy7

Category: Republicans, South Carolina

In Which the Untalented @AndOHehir Gets Owned by @AceOfSpadesHQ

Posted on | August 2, 2013 | 26 Comments

Some liberal motifs are perennial:

When God and Man at Yale was published in 1951, liberals denounced Buckley as a fanatic and worse. One hostile reviewer accused him of “un-Christian arrogance,” while another said that Buckley’s book had “the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night.”

From a 2010 Andrew O’Hehir “movie review” at Salon.com:

“Secretariat” is such a gorgeous film, its every shot and every scene so infused with warm golden light, that I began to wonder whether the movie theater were on fire. Or my head. But the welcoming glow that imbues every corner of this nostalgic horse-racing yarn with rich, lambent color comes from within, as if the movie itself is ablaze with its own crazy sense of purpose. (Or as if someone just off-screen were burning a cross on the lawn.) I enjoyed it immensely, flat-footed dialogue and implausible situations and all. Which doesn’t stop me from believing that in its totality “Secretariat” is a work of creepy, half-hilarious master-race propaganda almost worthy of Leni Riefenstahl, and all the more effective because it presents as a family-friendly yarn about a nice lady and her horse.

Who is Andrew O’Hehir and why should we care? Well, he’s a lousy movie critic who is obsessed with the kind of political themes that you find in a Lawrence O’Donnell rant, and the two phenomena are related, obviously. There are lousy movie critics who are liberal, and good movie critics who are liberal, and then there are untalented assclowns like Andrew O’Hehir who attempt to substitute politics for ability. That is to say, they are employed by liberal publications not because they are good writers, but because they are liberals and, in the case of Andrew O’Hehir, that means he doesn’t actually review movies, as such. Instead, he reviews the politics of movies.

It’s redolent of the soul-destroying party-line conformity that you thought died with Stalin — “How does this movie advance the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat?” –– except Andrew O’Hehir does this and think he’s being avant-garde. Anyway . . .

For reasons unknown, Salon decided that they would let Andrew O’Hehir write an article about how the bankruptcy of Detroit is the fault of right-wing Republican racists. This in turn inspired Ace of Spades to ponder the question, “Who the fuck is Andrew O’Hehir?”

Nailed it again. I’m gonna just call this guy “The Nailgun” because he nails everything in sight.

Read the whole brutal thing.

 

Category: Ace of Spades, Culture, Intellectuals, Movies

Can @Karoli Block the Entire Internet?

Posted on | August 2, 2013 | 51 Comments

It’s always funny to watch liberals attempting to think. Of course, if they were rational, they wouldn’t be liberals, and so when you deal with someone like Karoli Kuns, it’s kind of like peeling an onion of error: One layer of mistakes, and under that a layer of lies, and when you peel that away, there’s a layer of crazy. Et cetera, ad infinitum.

So last week, while Anthony Weiner was melting down and the Democrat-Media Complex was on its “phony scandals” crusade, David Corn of Mother Jones decided that it was a real scandal for conservatives to have a weekly meeting and an e-mail list. Some of the usual suspects accused me of being up to my neck in this alleged scandal — meetings! e-mails! shocking! — an accusation that inspired much sarcastic fun: If there’s a shadowy sinister conspiracy of Influential Conservatives, certainly I’d be crazy to deny being involved, but I ain’t confirming it, either, so as to inspire as much paranoid theorizing as possible.

Just call me Mister Big.

OK, so a lot of stuff was going on the past week that had nothing to do with either “Groundswell” or Karoli Kuns, but she’s too stupid to understand this. Monday, I attended a hearing in the Kimberlin v. Kimberlin case, and reported on Tetyana Kimberlin’s accusation that  her estranged husband Brett Kimberlin brought her from Ukraine to the U.S. in 1996 to have sex with her when she was only 15.

A couple days later, after Tetyana had been granted a protective order against convicted felon Brett Kimberlin — she fears for her life — and after Brett’s buddy Craig Gillette was exposed as having a child pornography conviction, I noticed Neal Rauhauser’s buddy Matt Osborne derogating my “journalistic integrity.” That required me to respond at substantial length. And then I noticed Osborne chatting on Twitter with Karoli Kuns, which inspired last night’s reminder of what a vile lie peddler Karoli Kuns is. You following me so far?

For the past year, Matt Osborne and Karoli Kuns have been part of an effort to protect convicted felon Brett Kimberlin, by pushing the meme that there isn’t really a story there, that Kimberlin is either so harmless or so obscure that no one should pay attention to those “right wing nut jobs” trying to call attention to the harassment of bloggers who write the truth about Brett Kimberlin. Echoing their buddy Neal Rauhauser, Osborne and Kuns promote the idea that either (a) this is a conspiracy by “Breitbots” or (b) Kimberlin’s critics are so evil they deserve to be harassed, or most often, (c) both.

What they are doing is wrong, because there is no “other side of the story” to the reprehensible evil that is Brett Kimberlin: Just read Mandy “Liberty Chick” Nagy’s 3,600-word exposé of Kimberlin’s criminal background, “Progressives Embrace Convicted Terrorist,” and then read about Julia Scyphers and Carl DeLong.

As I tried to explain to Monica Hesse, those who fail to tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin are in effect enabling Brett Kimberlin, and thereby are de facto accomplices in the harassment of Aaron Walker, Patrick “Patterico” Frey, Lee Stranahan and others on Kimberlin’s Enemies List, a list that now include his estranged wife Tetyana.

Do all of these people deserve to be harassed by a convicted felon who is the director of a 501(c)3 non-profit “progressive” foundation? Did Julia Scyphers and Carl DeLong deserve it, too?

Excuse me if I believe that Matt Osborne and Karoli Kuns, by making themselves apologists for Brett Kimberlin, by attacking Brett Kimberlin’s critics, and thereby discouraging mainstream media attention to this story, have made themselves willing agents of evil.

And yet Karoli Kuns is either so stupid or dishonest (take your pick) as to claim that it’s her “reporting” about Groundswell that inspired me to say that all honest and decent people have contempt for her.

She hasn’t done a damned thing about Groundswell to which anybody has paid any attention outside her own little corner of the conspiracy-theory left-wing fringe. Karoli Kuns has merely been recycling bits and pieces from David Corn’s week-old report about something that is a “scandal” only in the sense that David Corn thinks that conservatives talking to other conservatives —  meetings! e-mails! shocking! — is a scandal.

Mountains, molehills, some assembly required.

As is typical, Karoli Kuns is either deliberately lying or stupidly mistaken and, frankly, I don’t care which it is, because she’s abetting evil either way. And now she’s threatening to block anyone on Twitter who disturbs her in her evil and dishonest pursuits:

Please tell Karoli Kuns the truth about Brett Kimberlin, so she’ll block you, because everyone should crave the honor of being blocked by Karoli Kuns, who is still peddling vile lies.

 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, The Kimberlin Files

Dammit, @CalebHowe, Get Better! UPDATE: Let’s Make It $30,000 Tonight

Posted on | August 2, 2013 | 52 Comments

You’re pissing me off here, Caleb. There’s no sick leave in the blogosphere, and this “going to the hospital” stuff is not allowed. Besides, quite honestly, I can’t handle the stress. Being a middle-aged blogger — “middle-aged,” if the life expectancy of a two-pack-a-day smoker is 106 — has become increasingly stressful.

First Andrew Breitbart died at 43, then Chip Gerdes died at 42, and the sense of living on borrowed time is really starting to get on my nerves. Besides all the stress problems you’re causing, Caleb, those of us who survive by rattling the tip jar are praying for you to have a miraculous sudden recovery, because:

  1. Otherwise, we’ll be stuck with your brother Ben, and we’ve never liked him as much as we like you;
    and
  2. Until you get better, we’ll feel vaguely guilty about asking readers to have pity on our pathetic needs.

There are too many pompous liberal douchebags who still need you to mock them, Caleb. And there are too many RINO sellouts who need to be exposed and driven into the oblivion of disgraced exile.

All this lollygagging around in the hospital, with the nurses giving you sponge baths? Not allowed. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

So I just contributed $20 to “Caleb’s Girls Fund,” and I’m telling all my readers to give as much as they can — $10, $20, $100, whatever — because this liver disease you’ve got is really bad for you, but I’m just getting too damned old to be dealing with all this stress.

GIVE NOW to CALEB’S GIRLS FUND!

UPDATE: As of 4 p.m., the fund was at $27,624 from 563 donors, an average donation of $49.97. The original goal was $25,000, which was raised in three days, but there’s no reason in the world it shouldn’t be $30,000 or $40,000 by Monday. This pisses me off because, really, it should never come to this.

Somebody on Twitter said “charity,” well, charity, my ass!

In the 2012 election cycle, the top 5 GOP conservative super-PACS raised $336.9 million, a lot of which went straight into the pockets of consultants, or was spent on lame-ass TV commercials that did little or nothing in terms of moving the needle of public opinion.

If you took just 10% of that super-PAC total ($33.4 million), you could pay 500 bloggers more than $67,000 a year.

Ask yourself if 500 Caleb Howes wouldn’t be more valuable than a bunch of consultants collecting fat commissions. I repeat: Charity, my ass.

Larry O’Connor himself gave $500, but the key to a crowdsourced fund drive is lots of small donations — lots of people giving $10, $20, $50 — because everybody can afford that. Hell, if I could give $20, a damned streetcorner hobo could panhandle up $5, y’know?

GIVE NOW to CALEB’S GIRLS FUND!

 

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