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#FreeKate’s Mom: ‘I Will NOT Have Anyone Ruin This for Family!!!!’

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 54 Comments

Some catastrophes are surprising and others are entirely predictable. When the parents of Kaitlyn Hunt launched the “Free Kate” campaign to make their daughter America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ . . .

Well, what part of very bad idea is so hard to understand?

Q. What kind of parents would make their teenage daughter the poster child for a crusade to legalize sex with 14-year-olds?
A. People who don’t think very clearly about the potential consequences of their actions.

On May 17, when Kelley Hunt Smith published her vindictive “Free Kate” Facebook rant, in which she named the 14-year-old’s parents nine times, and when Steve Hunt published his dishonest Change.org petition falsely portraying the case as an innocent “high school romance” between a 15-year-old and 17-year-old, three consequences could be predicted:

  1. The truth would eventually come out — Soliciting national attention to such a controversial situation created an incentive for people to start digging up facts. It took only a matter of days for it to become widely known that Kaitlyn Hunt’s birthday is Aug. 14, 1994. She was 18 before she began her senior year at Sebastian River High School. It was subsequently confirmed that the younger girl was born in April 1998 — i.e., she was 14 at the time of the criminal sex acts, and the age difference was 44 months, not a mere two years. There was no way the original misrepresentations were going to withstand national scrutiny, and Kaitlyn’s parents should have known that.
  2. Kaitlyn’s character would become an issue — In fact, the Hunt family made an issue of Kaitlyn’s character, bragging about how popular and successful she was, a “model child.” So when contradictory evidence emerged (“Beat her f–king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”), the Hunts had already forfeited any right to complain that this was irrelevant. If you claim that bigoted prosecutors are ruining the life of an innocent little angel, you can’t complain about evidence that your “angel” is a foul-mouthed tattooed she-hooligan.
  3. Bad causes attract bad people — It took about a week for the facts to catch up with the bogus “Free Kate” narrative, but once it became clear that she wasn’t a victim of homophobic persecution, whatever mainstream support the campaign ever had evaporated pretty quickly. Once the decent well-meaning supporters realized they’d been bamboozled, the Hunts were left with a hard core of supporters who were either (a) too emotionally committed to the glorious gay-rights rainbow dream to comprehend the ugly reality, or (b) creepy weirdos who want to legalize sex with jailbait.

Trying to ride herd on a crew like that wasn’t going to be easy and — surprise! surprise! surprise! — Kaitlyn Hunt’s parents weren’t prepared to deal with that reality, either. So there has been a (predictable) meltdown within the “Free Kate” Facebook group in recent days. Evidently at the urging of Kaitlyn’s lawyer, her mother presented administrators of the page with a confidentiality agreement they were required to sign, and four administrators resigned rather than to sign it. This had terrible repercussions for group morale, among other things, and Kelley Hunt Smith didn’t handle that too well:

For the past week or so, I’ve been hoarding up some weird stuff bubbling up from inside the “Free Kate” universe, and I’ll have more later. Meanwhile, the motion by Kaitlyn Hunt’s lawyer to have the allegedly “prejudiced” judge thrown off the case has, predictably, failed.

As I’ve said before: She should have taken the plea bargain.

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.27.13

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Supreme Court Upends Marriage Debate, Foreshadows Long Struggle

Traditional marriage advocates now on defense

SCOTUS strikes down key section of DOMA, remands Prop 8 decision to lower court, both by 5-4 votes

Texas Executes 500th Inmate
Woman was convicted of murdering 71-year-old neighbor

Australian PM Gillard Ousted In Party Coup
New PM is her predecessor, Kevin Rudd



POLITICS
Governor Perry Calls Texas Legislators Back To Austin To Work On Abortion Bill

Texas Governor Rick Perry

“We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do.”

Senior IRS Manager Takes The Fifth Before House Committee

Rep. Duckworth Rips IRS Contractor For Questionable Disabled Veteran Status Claim

Court Of Appeals For The Armed Forces Overturns Marine’s Murder Conviction

Two Atlanta Men Get Ten Years In Federal Prison Under Hate Crimes Law

Detroit Emergency Manager To Strip Pay, Title From Absent City Council President

NY Top Court Rules Starbucks Baristas Have To Share Their Tips



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Slips In Asian Markets After Posting Gains In US: NYMEX $94.64, Brent $100.88
Revised Figures Show US Economy Grew At Only 1.8% In First Quarter
EU Agrees To Push Cost Of Bank Failures Onto Shareholders, Wealthy Savers
Zimmer Fires Back At Mens’ Wearhouse
Asian Stocks Rise On Hopes Of Continued Fed Stimulus
Euro Falls To Three-Week Low Against Dollar On ECB Rate Outlook
NJ’s Largest Paper Threatens Unions With Closure
Microsoft Offers Download Of Windows 8.1 Preview
Nvidia Shield Retail Launch Delayed
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Lifts Veil On Google, Microsoft Lawsuits – Slightly
Microsoft’s Kinect For XBox One Won’t Work On PCs
FTC Commissioner Calls For “Reclaim Your Name” Campaign



SPORTS
Giants Can’t Solve Kershaw, Get Swept In LA

The Dodgers’ Andre Ethier strokes an RBI single off Tim Lincecum in last night’s game

4-2 loss caps first sweep of Giants by Dodgers at Chavez Ravine since 2009

Ex-Patriot Aaron Hernandez Charged With Murder

Bird Returns As Pacers’ President; Raptors’ Colangelo Steps Down

NCAA Can’t Win With School Sanctions

Yanks’ Teixeira Out For The Season


Confederation Cup Semifinals In Belo Horizonte: Outside The Stadium, It’s A War Zone

Astros Strike Back, Edge Cardinals 4-3

Royals Snap Skid With Extra-Innings Win Against Braves

Bucs Get Season-High Sixth Straight Win With 4-2 Victory Over M’s

Dickey Goes The Distance, Helps Jays Stop Rays

Slowey’s Revenge: Twins Lose To Worst Team In Baseball

Marcum Throws Shutout For First Win In Eleven Starts As Mets Beat White Sox 3-0

Lackey Gets 12 K’s As BoSox Pound Oswalt, Rockies For 5-3 Win

A’s Blank Reds 5-0

Tribe Rallies Late To Beat O’s 4-3

Rendon Sparks Nats’ Offense As J-Zim Stifles Snakes



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Inside Paula Deen’s Career Meltdown

Recipe for success

Doesn’t care about the money so much as the damage to her reputation

Miley Cyrus Puts On Raunchy Display On “Jimmy Kimmel Live”

Cameron Diaz Signed For Miss Hannigan Role In “Annie” After Sandra Bullock Passes

WWE Star CM Punk Hits Mom With Restraining Order

Justin Bieber’s New Love Interest Is Already Married

Rihanna Fears For Her Safety


Paris Jackson – Facebook Destroyed Her

Alleged Hit And Run Victim Claims Chris Brown Called Her “Bitch”

Oprah Winfrey #1 Again On Forbes List of Most Powerful Celebrities

Rachel Leigh Cook: I’m Happy We Waited To Have A Baby

Gwyneth Paltrow Strips To Racy Lingerie In Trailer For Sex Addiction Flick “Thanks For Sharing”



FOREIGNERS
New Aussie PM Hopes For “Kinder, Gentler” Politics
Nelson Mandela On Life Support, Zuma Cancels Travel Plans
Egypt’s Morsi Warns Continued Unrest Risks Paralysis
Qatar’a New Emir Vows Intolerance Of Sectarianism, Appoints New PM, FM
Taliban Bombs Kill Twelve, Wound Pakistani Judge
Tibetans Allowed To Publicly Revere Dalai Lama In Two PRC Provinces
ROK President Park Geun-Hye In China For Summit
Riots In PRC’s Sinkiang Province Kill 27
Tunisian Court Suspends Sentences For Femen Protesters
Mongolian President Elbegdorj Wins Reelection To Second Term
127 More Bodies Recovered; Uttarakhand Death Toll Passes 800



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Played Out – The Liberal Racists’ Uncle Tom Card
Twitchy: Sarah Palin – Tour Groups Can’t Get Into The White House, But Look Who Can
Mark Steyn: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Sister Toldjah: Scalia Rips SCOTUS Majority In Scathing Dissent From DOMA Ruling
American Power: Justice Scalia’s Dissent In United States V. Windsor
NRO Corner: The Supreme Court’s Mixed Decision On Marriage
Ed Driscoll: Blue On Blue – Frank Rich Dumps On David Gregory
Weasel Zippers: Rick Perry Calls Special Session To Pass Pro-Life Bill That Screaming Mob Of Leftists Disrupted
Breitbart: Palin Throws Down The Gauntlet – Ayotte, Rubio Should Be Primaried
Gateway Pundit: Edward Snowden In 2009 – “Intelligence Leakers Should Be Shot In The Balls”
Reihan Salam: The Status Of Working Women In The US
Victor Davis Hanson: The Glue Holding America Together
Scared Monkeys: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Loses His Mind Over Obama’s War On Coal
Cafe Hayek: Questions For Krugman And Kuehn
Jim Treacher: You Know Who Was “Ready For Hillary”? Ambassador Christopher Stevens


Category: Live at Five

Just Like Mandela: Has Banging Jailbait Become the New Civil Disobedience?

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 58 Comments

Meet Joshua Measroch, civil rights activist:

Measroch was charged June 13 with four felonies — rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purpose — and a misdemeanor charge of interference with custody.

Wait, did I say “civil rights activist”? Most people would probably call a guy who had sex with a 13-year-old an “accused sex offender”:

Measroch met the girl through an online dating site, police said, and “drove 50 miles to the girl’s home and picked her up without the permission of her parents,” the Marietta Daily Journal reported. Police say Measroch . . . kept the runaway in hidden in his bedroom at the home where he lived with his parents.

But remember that supporters of the “Free Kate” movement want to abolish all laws against consensual sex with minors:

“Get rid of numerical age of consent laws. … Get rid of arbitrary numbers. No one should have to do math to love another person.”

America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ Kaitlyn Hunt is a victim of discrimination, say her supporters, who compare her to Rosa Parks and want to prevent the dildo-wielding lesbian civil rights activist from being prosecuted for having sex with a 14-year-old. If you disagree with them, according to Kaitlyn’s mother, you’re just a hateful hater.

Remember what one of Kaitlyn Hunt’s supporters said: “Kate, you are fighting the good fight! Keep it up.” Keep having sex with minors, in other words, because as the American Civil Liberties Union says, it’s “both fairly innocuous and extremely common.” And we must remember Kaitlyn Hunt’s girlfriend was a runaway, too:

[The 14-year-old] ran away from home to spend the night [of Jan. 4] in Kaitlyn’s bedroom where, to quote the affidavit by Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy Shepherd, the two girls “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”

Happy 14th Birthday! (Batteries not included.)

Of course, unlike accused sex offender Joshua Measroch, Kaitlyn Hunt has the support of gay-rights activists who claim to be following “in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela” to “end heterosupremacist apartheid” imposed by “Jesus Freaks” and “Christofascists.”

The Supreme Court rebuked those “Jesus Freaks” and “Christofascists” today. It’s hard to believe that only 10 years ago, some people agreed with hateful haters like Antonin Scalia:

This case is about power in several respects. It is about the power of our people to govern themselves, and the power of this Court to pronounce the law. Today’s opinion aggrandizes the latter, with the predictable consequence of diminishing the former. We have no power to decide this case. And even if we did, we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation. The Court’s errors on both points spring forth from the same diseased root: an exalted conception of the role of this institution in America.

What a bigot, that guy. And he probably doesn’t support the “Free Kate” movement’s campaign to liberate teenagers from obsolete concepts like chastity, innocence and parental authority:

Kimberly Snyder, Jordan’s mother … said Jordan was getting ready for bed and that the family had spent an uneventful night together. Snyder remembered that her daughter unloaded the dishwasher — one of her chores — and that Jordan gave her a hug and told her that she loved her. …
Rumors around Cousins Middle School, where Jordan attended school, are that she was planning to leave with an older boyfriend. However, according to Snyder, Jordan didn’t have a boyfriend, and if she did, it wasn’t someone she had ever met in person and was an online-only situation.
“We monitored her activities on the internet,” said Snyder. “If her grades dropped, her T.V. was taken away — typical discipline for a 13-year-old. I wasn’t a mother who would drop her off at the skating rink and leave; she didn’t go spend the night with friends unless we knew the parents. We thought we were doing everything we could, that’s the reason this came as a shock. …”

Chores? No TV? No boyfriend? This parental oppression is such hateful bigotry, it’s worse than slavery. And, just like the heroic Kaitlyn Hunt, Josh Measroch wanted to emancipate that young vagina:

Jordan was found earlier this month at a home on a cul-de-sac in an upscale neighborhood in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta. Authorities in Cobb County say the teenager had been secretly living in the basement bedroom of Kennesaw State University student Joshua Harry Measroch, 21.

Another courageous martyr for the Jailbait Liberation Movement!

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

Lost In (Divided) America

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 24 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


It is 2040, and both New York and Washington are radioactive ruins. Chicago and Detroit have been reduced to rubble and abandoned; Pittsburgh and Phoenix are infested with deadly plague. In the new capitol of Seattle, alcohol is outlawed, and as the call to evening prayers sounds throughout the city, veiled women hurry through the streets. Along the border with the Old South, wary soldiers stand on guard for the Islamic Republic of America. This is the background for Robert Ferrigno’s Prayers for the Assassin, which perhaps due to Ferrigno’s history as a mystery writer apparently isn’t considered SF. Prayers For The Assassin paints an unpleasant picture of an America split by religious civil war after decades of Islamic penetration of the entertainment industry; on both sides of the line, Catholics are second-class citizens and Jews a hunted group of pariahs, widely blamed for the destruction of New York and DC along with the irradiation of Mecca. Our protagonist is Rakkim Epps, a former member of the elite Fedayeen and adopted son of Redbeard, chief of the Islamic Republic’s security service; having retired from his career as a “shadow warrior”, Epps now runs a semi-legal bar in Seattle’s lawless “Zone”, but he finds himself sucked back into the deadly politics of the Republic when his adoptive father summons him to find his missing sister Sarah before the reactionary Black Robes do. It seems Sarah isn’t satisfied with the popular history of the New York and Washington bombings, and may have come across evidence that the Jews were framed. Having already written one controversial history of the revolution and the cultural changes responsible for it -along with the will of Allah, of course- it’s very possible the Black Robes would be just as happy to find Sarah dead. The Black Robes and Rakkim aren’t the only ones looking for Sarah, though; the true perpetrator of the bombings is also looking for her, and he too has set a former Fedayeen on Sarah’s trail. This is an exciting novel and a depressing one; there is plenty of action involving all sides of the hunt, but at the same time, the slow decline of America into a third-world nation under the thumb of the mullahs is exceptionally depressing, all the more so since the history of the book has plenty of events “ripped from today’s headlines,” as they used to say.


Things only get worse in the sequels. Sins of the Assassin gives us a look at the Bible Belt as Rakkim returns there on a mission to find out what a Southern warlord known as The Colonel is seeking under a Tennessee mountain. Unfortunately for Rakkim, he’s got a very unlikely partner and an extremely deadly opponent; fortunately, Rakkim is very good at what he does, and his partner has some unexpected talents. Like the first novel, there’s plenty of action, but the decay of the Southern states is very much on display, and the weakness of both successor nations is evident as both Canada and a Mexico reborn as the Aztlan Empire have begun to nibble away at the borders of both. The final novel in the trilogy, Heart of the Assassin verges on the apocalyptic as the man actually responsible for the New York and Washington bombings sets a number of plots in motion to bring together the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt under his own hand, even as Rakkim’s sister Sarah (now an adviser to the Islamic Republic’s President) plans the same thing to stave off the further collapse of both nations. As for Rakkim, he is sent to Washington on what may be his most lethal mission: to find a holy relic supposedly hidden in a DC bunker that will bring America together. This last novel could have easily been bloated into a thousand-page doorstop of a technothriller, with detailed descriptions of the border fighting in Texas, Arizona and California, but Ferrigno keeps it tightly focused.


So that’s what I’ve been reading this past week.


Category: Books

World’s Youngest Blogger: “Get Your Motor Runnin'”

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 12 Comments

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.26.13

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Putin: No Grounds To Extradite Snowden

So, how's the diplomatic reset going, Mr. President?

So, how’s the diplomatic reset going, Mr. President?

NSA leaker remains at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow


Supreme Court Strikes Down Section 4 Of Voting Rights Act
Which incidentally cripples Section 5


Rudd Supporters Circulate Petition To Sack PM Gillard
Australian Labor party hoping to stave off catastrophic defeat at polls



POLITICS
Markey Beats Gomez In Massachusetts Senate Election

Rep. Markey and the President at a campaign rally

Takes 55% of vote with 99% of districts reporting


Texas Lawmaker’s Pro-Abortion Filibuster Ends Early

Obama To Start Climate Change Fight


Supreme Court Sides With Adoptive Parents In Struggle Over Cherokee Girl

Texas Prepares To Execute 500th Inmate

Weiner Sticking Out From The Pack

Army Announces Massive Restructuring; Twelve Brigades, 80,000 Troops To Be Cut From Regular Army

Senate Confirms Pritzker For Commerce 97-1

Senators Offer Bill Eliminating Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Slips Again As Expected Drop In Stockpiles Fails To Materialize: NYMEX $94.60, Brent $100.73
Sprint Shareholders OK Softbank Takeover Bid
S&P: Home Prices See Biggest Annual Gain In Seven Years
Asian Stocks Rise On US Data, Easing PRC Cash Crunch
Smith & Wesson Has Record Sales, Can’t Keep Up With Demand
B&N Retreats From Tablet Wars As Nook Sales Plummet
FTC Calls For Clearer Distinctions Between Ads And Search Results
AT&T Sells Out Of HTC First Facebook Phones
Most Malware Attacks Spawned From Legit Sites
Latest Firefox Release Boosts Video Chat, 3D Graphics, JavaScript Performance
Ouya Seeks To Shake Up Video Console Business



SPORTS
UCLA Sweeps Mississippi State For First College World Series Title

Bruins celebrate clinching title

Bruins top Bulldogs 8-0 in final game

Cubs Designate Closer Marmol For Assignment; Tigers Do The Same With Valverde

Vancouver Canucks Hire Tortorella

Ravens RB Pierce Unhurt After Armed Robbery, Carjacking

Yankees GM Cashman Says A-Rod Needs To STFU

Oregon Set To Learn Fate On Possible Recruiting Violations

Cardinals Brutalize Astros 13-5

Nats’ Bats Wake Up, Crush Snakes 7-5 And Get A Win For Gio



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Pop’s Poisonous Princess

The knuckle-duster says it all, according to the Daily Mail

A toxic role model for her army of young fans?

Christie Brinkley: I Used To Feel Very Fat In Old Modeling Photos

Are You Sure About That Divorce, Tish?

Alyssa Milano Goes Nearly Topless For Maxim Cover

Scottie Pippen: Beatdown Victim Spit At Me, Called Me N****r

Penelope Cruz, Michael Fassbender And Javier Bardem Face Off In “The Counselor”

Court Says No Change To Paris Jackson Guardianship

Snooki Goes From Beach Bum To Gym Rat

Shaq’s Alleged Mistress Destroyed By Judge, Harassment Suit Dismissed

Former Playboy Model Holly Madison Engaged

Liam Neeson To Get $20 Million For Role In “Taken 3”

Jokes On Rickles At Friars’ Roast



FOREIGNERS
Taliban’s Tactics Raise Doubts Over Talks
Obama, Karzai Reaffirm Support For Taliban Talks
Copter Crash Kills 19 As Rescue Efforts Strain Indian Air Force
Obama’s African Tour Overshadowed As Mandela Remains In Critical Condition
Rohani’s Wave Of Support Matched By Task Of Fixing Iran’s Economy
Israel Has Most Crowded Classrooms In OECD; Report Acknowledges Israel’s Population (Somehow) Well Educated
Clegg Forces Rethink On UK Visa Bond Proposal
EU Agrees To Continue Accession Talks With Turkey
Erdogan Claims BBC Part Of Conspiracy To Destabilize Turkey



BLOGS & STUFF
Aewl’s Abode: A Crime Is A Crime Is A Crime
Rand Paul: Why I’m Voting No On Immigration Reform
John McCormack: Five Senators Who Support Immigration Bill Can’t Answer Key Question About It
John Fund: A Civil Rights Victory
Commentary: Left Lives In The Past On Voting Rights
NewsBusters: Hyperbole Much? CBS Legal Analyst Compares Voting Rights Act Ruling To Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson Decisions
Gateway Pundit: SCOTUS Ruling Massive Win For Conservatives – Will Make It Harder For Democrats To Cheat
Bret Stephens: The Age Of American Impotence
Sense Of Events: How’s That Reset Working Out?
American Power: Obama’s Fading Foreign Policy Influence
Legal Insurrection: Environmental Activists To Steer Clear Of “Regulations”, Economic Arguments As Obama Declares War On Coal
Jammie Wearing Fools: Reality Denier Obama Says, “We Don’t Have Time For A Meeting Of The Flat Earth Society”
Twitchy: Actress Stacey Dash Attacked After Tweeting “Only God Can Judge Paula Deen”
Jawa Report: Obama Administration Condemns Coptic Protest In Egypt
Israel Matzav: Morsi’s New Stooge Is The American Ambassador To Egypt
Mary Katherine Ham: Obama Avoids Deciding On Keystone XL Pipeline – Again


Category: Live at Five

Benghazi: The Unanswered Question

Posted on | June 25, 2013 | 59 Comments

Last week, American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. called and asked me to take a look at a Wall Street Journal op-ed column by Kevin G. Norton, “Benghazi’s Record of Broken Trust.”

Tyrrell asked me to contact Norton, which I did.  Tyrrell explained he was curious about a question: Where was Obama? You may remember Chris Wallace asked this last month on Fox News:

Strange to say, we still have no answer to that question:

Unlike Chris Wallace, most in the press corps have been willing to accept the administration’s non-answers, so that we are left with what Rich Lowry has called “a blank spot” in Obama’s presidency. And to invoke the famous words of the former Secretary of State, what difference at this point does it make? Perhaps not much to civilians stateside, who might be tempted to dismiss the whole affair as another political kerfuffle in Washington, but it means a great deal to those who devote themselves to serving their nation overseas. Just ask Kevin Norton.
“It’s bothered me ever since it happened,” the 36-year-old former Army captain says of the administration’s response to the Benghazi attack. “It makes no sense at all.”
Norton served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Third Infantry Division in 2005, and was reactivated for deployment to Afghanistan as a combat adviser in 2009. Like every other American soldier, Norton was trained to “leave no man behind.” He summarizes the common understanding of troops under fire: “Everybody knows that if the s—t hits the fan, they’re going to do whatever it takes to get you out of there.”
What happened in Benghazi, Norton said in a brief telephone interview, was an “egregious violation” of that basic promise our nation makes to its courageous men and women who put their lives at risk to serve America in potentially hostile foreign countries. Although it appears Ambassador Stevens and State Department aide Sean Smith were both killed before any U.S. forces could have rescued them, the same is not true of two former Navy SEALS, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Both of them were part of a security detail that tried to save Stevens and Smith at the consulate, and were tasked with evacuating other Americans after the initial attack. Woods and Doherty were killed in a subsequent assault on the CIA annex in Benghazi. More than six hours elapsed between the first alarm from the consulate — “We’re under attack, we need help, please send help now” — and the attack on the annex in which mortar shells killed Woods and Doherty. By 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, Secretary Panetta was told of the desperate crisis in Benghazi and, about an hour later, Secretary Clinton called CIA Director David Petraeus to coordinate a response. Exactly why that response was insufficient to save the lives of Woods and Doherty remains hotly disputed. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Libya

Your Morning OJ Reference

Posted on | June 25, 2013 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Everyone remembers Johnny Cochran wee jingle:


The other reference.

Category: humor
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