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Fred Thompson Makes News With Benghazi Comments at AFP Event

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 31 Comments


 

Fred Thompson speaks in West Chester, Ohio

BLUE ASH, Ohio
News happens in weird ways. While we were driving to today’s Americans for Prosperity event in West Chester, Ali Akbar mentioned an article he’d just seen at Foreign Policy about the Benghazi attack. Meanwhile, CBS News was reporting that “during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).”

My mind wasn’t on Benghazi much, and when we got there, the sleep shortage started catching up with me. Quite literally, I was nodding off at one point during Fred Thompson’s speech. And then Fred started talking about Benghazi.


 


 

He never raised his voice, but he was clearly angry and, when it was over, it was obvious that Fred had definitely made news:

Former Sen. Fred Thompson today said he was “totally disgusted” by the Obama administration’s handling of the Libya terrorist attack, saying that U.S. officials failed to act “while our people were being systematically slaughtered” at the Benghazi consulate.
Speaking at an event sponsored by the free-market group Americans for Prosperity, the former Republican senator from Tennessee invoked his experience nearly 40 years ago as a Watergate investigator, saying that Congress must “get to the bottom of” the administration’s failures in the Sept. 11 incident that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead in Libya.
“This is probably the biggest cover-up in American history – and you’re talking to an expert in cover-ups,” Thompson said. . . .

Read the rest at The American Spectator.

Update (Smitty): thanks, Instapundit and Daley Gator!

Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Libya, Ohio, Terrorism, Uncategorized

Could The Families Of Woods & Doherty Go On Fox To Comment?

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Via The Corner. . .

The President earlier today issued a proclamation recognizing November as Military Family Month. It notes:

We each have a solemn duty to serve our Armed Forces and their families as well as they serve us…This month, we reaffirm that we will always lift up our military families – not just when their loved are away, but also long after the welcome home ceremonies are over.

Yeah, that’ll sure swing the military vote next Tuesday. Technically, Woods & Doherty were not part of a DoD mission per se, but their fate epitomizes the subtext of disdain this President seems to feel for all ‘corpse men’.

Update: linked by Jackie Wellfonder.

Category: Barack Obama

BOYLE: SEN. MENENDEZ REFUSES TO RELEASE TRAVEL RECORDS

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 11 Comments

The prostitution allegations against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez have caused the Democrat’s challenger, Republican Joe Kyrillos, to demand that Menendez release his travel records. There are important questions about Menendez’s trips to the Dominican Republic — where two prostitutes have claimed they were paid to have sex with him — and yet the senator’s staff will not respond to the Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle’s questions about the records:

Menendez spokeswoman Tricia Enright has refused to answer any questions on the subject. . . .
Enright has not answered when asked if Menendez will release his travel records.
Menendez’s 2012 public schedule shows no events listed for Easter or the following three days. On Easter Sunday this year, aircraft records obtained by TheDC show that Menendez donor Salomon Melgen’s private plane left Florida the morning of Easter Sunday, stopped at the Teterboro private airport near Menendez’s home in New Jersey, and flew on to the Dominican Republic.
Two days later it returned to the United States, from a private airport near Casa de Campo.
Melgen, an ophthalmologist and owner of an eye clinic in Florida, appears to have lent Menendez the use of his plane on several occasions and it is known that Sen. Menendez has been a regular visitor to the Dominican Republic.
On at least one occasion, according to a news account, Menendez has been a guest at Melgen’s Casa de Campo home.
Melgen has donated $14,700 to Menendez’s campaigns since 1993, with the bulk of it coming since he became a U.S. Senator, according to Federal Election Commission data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Smoke, fire, some assembly required. If Sen. Menendez has nothing to hide, why is his office refusing to address Boyle’s questions?

UPDATE: Ace of Spades:

Maybe he’s afraid his travel records were #hacked.

Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Scandal, Senate, Sex

Democrat Troll Accounts Wage Hateful ‘War on Women’ Against Dana Loesch

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 23 Comments

Evidently, the polls in the Missouri Senate race — which show Claire McCaskill at only 45% and Todd Akin within 2 points — have unhinged Democrats, who have adopted a “kill-the-messenger” frenzy against St. Louis-based Dana Loesch:

Why does Twitter @Support permit vile monsters like @KognitiveDiss to use their service, and thereby make Twitter such a toxic pool of filth? This isn’t about “Free Speech.” The First Amendment imposes no requirement on commercial providers to allow their services to be abused in this digusting manner. Dana Loesch’s political opinions — she wrote about the Missouri Senate race yesterday — should not make her an open target for these kind of hatefully obscene attacks from troll accounts.

UPDATE: Here’s a nice video from Glenn Beck’s “American Voices” series in which Dana Loesch explains who she is:

What kind of wicked person — what kind of vicious twisted soul — would say the hateful things about her that @KognitiveDiss has said? And why would Twitter @Support not automatically delete that kind of troll account?

Category: Dana Loesch

KYRILLOS CAMPAIGN RESPONDS TO MENENDEZ SEX ACCUSATIONS

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 13 Comments

The campaign of Joe Kyrillos, New Jersey Republican candidate for Senate, has issued a statement regarding the accusations that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) had sex with prostitutes during trips to the Dominican Republic:

“Like the recent Secret Service sex scandal in Colombia, the allegations reported today are deeply disturbing and raise serious questions,” said Kyrillos Campaign Communications Director Meaghan Cronin. “Senator Menendez must do the right thing and help settle this matter by immediately releasing his schedule and travel documents from the time the alleged incidents occurred. The people of New Jersey deserve answers today.”

In a brief telephone conversation, Ms. Cronin said the Kyrillos campaign had no forewarning of the Menendez scandal: “We were as shocked as everybody else.”

UPDATE: Kerry Picket of The Washington Times reminds us how Menendez responded to accusations that Secret Service agents had sex with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia: “If the facts are true, they should all be fired. The reality  is is that the secret service not only protects the president of the United  States, they represent the United States of America. They were on duty. If the  facts are true as we are reading in the press, they shouldn’t have a job.”

Veteran Republican operative Roger Stone predicts, “More hookers engaged by Sen. Bob Menendez will surface shortly,” and adds this accusation: “Menendez fundraiser/donor imported hookers from Miami for Sen. Bob Menendez.” If Stone is correct, it would appear that the allegations reported by Matthew Boyle of the Daily Caller are part of a larger pattern of behavior by the New Jersey Democrat.

UPDATE II: While mocking the video interview with the prostitutes posted at the Daily Caller, Betsy Rothstein of Fishbowl DC writes:

Come on, when does a Washington sex scandal stop being entertaining? Just about never.

This is an important point: Sex scandals have a sort of intrinsic readership value that tends to negate the usual liberal bias of journalists. And the fact that Menendez is from New Jersey makes this story of interest to the always scandal-hungry New York tabloid press.

 

Category: Election 2012, New Jersey, Scandal, Sex

Christie/Obama Caption Contest

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

Things Christie might be saying to tighten Obama’s jaw:

 

  • “Did you read that book I sent you by Walter Mondale, Psychological Strategies for Dealing with a Crushing Election Defeat?”
  • “If you need coaching for how to deal with actual media, I can help wean you off of MTV and Strolling Drone.”
  • “Has your wife stopped beating you?”
  • “I find that, when throwing the weight around, it is helpful to have some weight.”
  • “We went under the Hurricane Sandra bus like she was a pack of Benghazi jihadis doing their impression of Keenau Reeves in Speed.”
  • “You know that Lincoln bit about fooling some of the people some of the time? Yeahhh, that’s kinda up for ya.”
  • “I’m curious what dirt you have on Bruce Springsteen to get him to prostitute himself for your campaign like that.”
  • “Isn’t it ironic that a guy as anti-British as you sits at a desk made from the timber of the H.M.S. Resolute?”
  • “Have you figured out the pricing structure for presidential pardons yet?”
  • “What if it turns out that the people are far less stupid than you treat them?”

via Breitbart

Update: linked by Jackie Wellfonder

Update II: linked by Daily Pundit, who accuses me of being too nice. I’m wiling to commit to a definite maybe.

Category: Barack Obama, humor, New Jersey

But Should He Have Shot-Put A Stone Into The Water For That Extra Touch?

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | Comments Off on But Should He Have Shot-Put A Stone Into The Water For That Extra Touch?

by Smitty

Richard Tisei for Congress

This is the kind of breather we need from the other guys.

(Title refers to this classic.)

Category: Election 2012, Massachusetts

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 11.01.12

Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Romney Campaign Expands Map, Forces Obama On Defense

Mitt Romney

Romney, allied SuperPACs making ad buys in Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania as Obama advisers scoff

Slow Recovery From Superstorm Sandy Begins
Six million homes, businesses without power; fifty thousand utility men from Canada and the rest of the US pitch in to help


David Cameron Suffers Stinging Defeat Over EU Budget
Fifty Tory MPs join Labour in opposing increased budget for EU



POLITICS
Christie, Obama Play Disaster Tourist As Media Looks On Approvingly

Governor Christie and President Obama visit Brigantine NJ

“…a powerful image of bipartisan cooperation just six days before the election…”

NYC Subways Restore Partial Service; LaGuardia To Reopen Today

National Guard Evacuates Flooded Hoboken, Brings In Supplies

DHS Seeks Patriotic Computer Geeks

Supreme Court To Decide Whether Drug-Sniffing Dogs Pass The Smell Test

Wisconsin Senate Race Bitterly Close

GOP Poised To Increase Edge In Governors

Asian Americans Push For Political Clout



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Futures Mixed In Wake Of Sandy: NYMEX $86.35, Brent $108.76
Asian Shares Fall Despite Improving PRC Manufacturing
Stocks End Flat, Dow Falls 2.5% For October
Treasury Sees Debt Limit Approaching Near End Of Year
Netflix Shares Surge As Icahn Takes 10% Stake
3Q Profit Helps GM Shares Soar
Eurozone Unemployment Hits Record 11.6%
Why Apple (And You) Might Miss Scott Forstall
Microsoft Sued Over Windows 8 Interface
Nexus 7 Tablet’s Sales Approach One Million Per Month
FCC Details Sandy-Related Cellphone Problems
“Halo 4” Is The Next Chapter, Not The Next Evolution



SPORTS
Harden Brilliant For Houston As Rockets Beat Pistons 105-96

James Harden drives for the basket

Jeremy Lin scores 12 with 8 assists

Trail Blazers Stun Slumping Lakers

Giants Victory Parade Set To Roll At 11 AM

Sixers Grind Out 84-75 Win Against Nuggets In Opener

Angels Trade Ervin Santana To Royals For Prospect

NYC Marathon On As Planned Despite Sandy

13th Straight Day With No Talks In NHL Lockout

PCB Chief Ashraf Proposes Joint Indo-Pak T20 League

Yankees Return Rule 5 Pick Brad Meyers To Nationals



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Tim Tebow Finally Scores

Tim Tebow and Camilla Belle

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Kate Moss: The Vanity Fair Interview

Evan Rachel Wood And Jamie Bell Get Hitched

Miley Cyrus Dresses Up As Nicki Minaj For Halloween

Kanye West Apologizes To Papparazzo


Cee Lo Green Accused Of Sexual Battery, Denies Charges

Jessica Simpson Has Her Waist Back

Bristol Palin Making Levi Johnson’s Life A Living Hell Over Child Support



FOREIGNERS
Ten Killed, Fifty Missing In Riyadh Tanker Explosion
Taoiseach Kenny To Discuss Economic Growth Plans With Merkel
Erdogan Asks For German Help With Syrian Refugees
Clinton Calls For Overhaul Of Syrian Rebels’ Leadership
Why Chicoms’ President Matters More To India Than The American President
US Warns Israel Off Preemptive Strike On Iran
Four Dead, Five Missing s Cyclone Hits Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
PRC Patrol Boats Allegedly Expel Japanese Ships From Senkaku Waters
Sri Lanka Ruling Party MPs Move To Impeach Chief Justice



BLOGS & STUFF
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Pat Dollard: Obama’s Inaugural Pastor Declares All White People Going To Hell, Every Good “Nigger” Will Vote For Obama
GayPatriot: Obama Bestowed Presidential Medal Of Freedom On Pastor Who Says Whites Are Going To Hell
American Power: A Brutal Polling Day? Not For Mitt Romney
Wizbang: The 538 Magic-Bullshit-Spewing Machine Takes Google Surveys Seriously
Allahpundit: Karl Rove Predicts Romney 51-48
Special Operations Speaks: Facebook Censors The SEALS
Power Line: The Facebook Spike
Scared Monkeys: Joe Biden Talking About A 2016 Presidential Run
Legal Insurrection: Piling On Chris Christie Is Not Productive Right Now
Rush Limbaugh: Chris Christie Plays Role Of Greek Column For Obama Campaign
Atlas Shrugs: Classified Cable Warned Consulate Couldn’t Withstand Coordinated Attack
Jennifer Rubin: Obama’s Libya Stonewall Isn’t Working
Power Line: You Can’t Go Home Again
Jamie Weinstein: At Alan Grayson’s Hollywood Fundraiser, Rape Jokes Abound
Gateway Pundit: Landslide Watch – Obama In Free-Fall In Michigan, Indie Support Collapsing Too
Via Meadia: Hurricane Sandy And The Perils Of Nanny State Governance
Lonely Conservative: DOE Loans Used To Help Harry Reid In Nevada
Protein Wisdom: Plausible?

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