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Fast and Furious — in Libya?

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 6 Comments

Dan Collins is just askin’ questions:

So, eyewitnesses are saying that not only wasn’t the movie the cause of the attack, but that there wasn’t any protest of the movie prior to the attack. Suspicion now falls on an al-Qaeda operative who was sent from Gitmo to Gaddafi in 2007, after Gaddafi agreed to keep him jailed. Instead, Gaddafi released Sufyan Ben Qumu to appease Islamists in 2008. When Congress was considering Obama’s strategy of engaging with the anti-Gaddafi rebels, NATO told them that there were al-Qaeda among those rebels . . .
What this means is that the primary target might not have been Christopher Stevens*, but rather retired Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was tasked with trying to get shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles out of the hands of militants. And it also prompts the question, “Who supplied those armaments?”
I’m not saying that the administration did. It would have been madness for them to have supplied shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles to rebels among whom were elements of al-Qaeda when US was engaged in enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya, in order to help those rebels get rid of Gaddafi. Still, given the variety of very obvious lies we’ve been fed by this administration, and given its fecklessness on other occasions, it seems to me within the realm of possibility.

Read the whole thing, because I think Dan’s definitely onto something here, and I’ll go him one further: It is not necessary for the U.S. to have directly supplied the weapons in order for the administration to be at fault for having indirectly supplied the weapons:

  1. U.S. supports rebels.
  2. Rebels capture weapons from Libyan military.
  3. Rebels use captured weapons to kill Americans.

It’s not exactly like shipping weapons to Mexican drug lords, but still the word “feckless” comes to mind. I mean, hey, let’s help some ragtag desert savages to overthrow their dictator, despite warnings that there are al-Qaeda terrorists among these ragtag savages — what could possibly go wrong?

Category: Uncategorized

You Go, Pamela Geller!

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 19 Comments

Erin Burnett of CNN interviews a very brave woman:

Seriously — go hit Pamela’s tip jar!

 

 

 

Category: Atlas Shrugs, CNN, Israel, Terrorism

Obama Talking Point: ‘Opportunistic’

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 20 Comments

“The best information we have now, the facts that we have now, indicate that this was an opportunistic attack.”
— Matt Olsen, head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center, testifying to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

“President Barack Obama said he thinks Muslim protests against Western criticism of Islam are ‘natural.’
” ‘The natural protests that arose because of the video… were used as an excuse by extremists,’ Obama said during an hour-long town-hall interview on the Spanish-language Univision channel.”
— Daily Caller via AOSHQ

Finally, a punchline to the sick joke of Obama’s foreign policy. After the Idiot Ambassador Susan Rice was all over TV Sunday insisting that the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was not — repeat, not — a “pre-meditated” attack, now the facts that contradict the original White House spin are becoming public, and so the slow-motion walkback is underway.

“Opportunistic” was still somewhere between “spontaneous protest” (Spin #1) and the final “yeah it was totally a pre-planned al-Qaeda hit” admission. And, no, Jay Carney doesn’t want to get into the details because — nudge, nudge — it’s an “ongoing investigation.”

At no point, whowever, will the White House ever admit that their Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Islamaphobe game was all about political damage control, nor will any of the mainstream media people who enthusiastically pushed the Obama spin ever admit that they were, in fact, totally in the tank for their Democrat buddies and thus complicit in a deliberate deception.

Source: Slain ambassador said
he was on al Qaeda hit list

What? The slain ambassador himself knew he was targeted for assassination by radical Islamic terrorists? And the Obama administration did . . . what? Nothing?

“Can we ask a question, Mr. President? No? OK, then . . . ” And then it’s on to do the Letterman show and party down with Jay-Z.

Grant that they’re totally in the tank for their Democrat buddies, but do these “reporters” have no sense of professional pride? Are they just gonna roll over and take it? Are they going to let themselves be played for fools by this administration?

“What’s clear,” the CBS reporter concludes, “is that the public won’t get a detailed account of what happened until after the election.”

Yes, of course. That’s exactly the arrangement. And they like it.

Lots more at Twitchy, but the hands-down best line of the day was a commenter at Ace of Spades HQ:

There was no advanced planning for what happened in your mouth. It was merely an opportunistic event.

Category: Barack Obama, Libya, Terrorism

OMG! @ParisHilton Gets Wrongly Tagged ‘H8R’ for Talking About Gay Sex

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 53 Comments

Paris Hilton: So Rich, She Don’t Need You

Political Correctness requires that no one ever say anything to hurt the feelings of Designated Victim Groups, and even mega-celebrities are not exempt from this stupid rule:

Paris Hilton has been caught on tape making homophobic and derogatory statements about gay men who have random sex with strangers even stating “most of them probably have AIDS.” . . .
[A] spokesperson for Hilton said:
“Paris Hilton’s comments were to express that it is dangerous for anyone to have unprotected sex that could lead to a life threatening disease. The conversation became heated, after a close gay friend told her in a cab ride, a story about a gay man who has AIDS and is knowingly having unprotected sex. He also discussed a website that encourages random sex by gay men with strangers. As she was being shown the website her comments were in reference to those people promoting themselves on the site. . . . Paris Hilton is a huge supporter of the gay community and would never purposefully make any negative statements about anyone’s sexual orientation.”
On the audio Paris says at one point: “Gay guys are the horniest people in the world. They’re disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS.”
The heiress was in Manhattan for New York Fashion Week and in the early morning hours of Friday, September 7, Paris’ remarks were caught on tape by a cab driver, when her pal, who is an openly gay male model, is heard in the audio clip describing Grindr, an app that gay men use to locate other gay men for hookups.

A few relevant factual reference points:

  1. In describing men who hook up with complete strangers via the Internet, Paris said “most of them probably have AIDS.”
  2. This was not offered as a scientifically valid estimate, but a rather common-sense health concern, related to the promiscuous behavior described.
  3. Butt-fucking isn’t healthy. Excuse the blunt language, boys and girls, but the rectum is not a sexual organ. It is foul and unsanitary, and if you have some kind of weird obsessive-compulsive fetish about doing it in the hiney-hole, you need to seek help.
  4. Yes, Point 3 applies equally to you hetero guys who, to satisfy your porn-influenced kinky craving, coerce or cajole your girlfriends into taking it up the poop chute.
  5. The Gay Thought Police who are trying to turn Paris Hilton into a latter-day Anita Bryant, merely for expressing a revulsion at the promiscuous indulgence in anonymous sex, are engaged in a form of dishonest fascistic propaganda.
  6. Attempting to take a single de-contextualized comment and turn it into evidence of “hate” — to define people according to selective distortion — is probably not going to endear you to any honest person who has hitherto been your ally.
  7. Paris Hilton has so much money she doesn’t need to kowtow to political pressure groups, and if she’s being nice to gay people, it’s not because she can be blackmailed. Even if she never again appeared on TV, she’s still richer than you.

You people need to get a life, stop harassing @ParisHilton and — please! — seek help for your weird hiney-hole fetish.

Category: Celebrities, Gays

OMG! I Thought The Obama Flag & Blood On The Wall A Tasteless Joke. . .

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 17 Comments

by Smitty



But no, that upper image is, unexpectedly, a sale item:

Let me be perfectly clear. Obama wasn’t joking when he talked about ‘fundamentally transforming America‘. This is why I tell people: the election in five weeks is nothing short of a Constitutional referendum.

If given another 48 months to wield his Commie wrecking ball on our notion of limited government, know this: he’ll be hanging on to power for more like 480 months.

You know what you’ve got to do.

(h/t HotAir)

Category: Barack Obama

Obama: An Authentic Phony

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 20 Comments

Back during the 2008 GOP primary campaign — most of which actually happened in 2007 — I wasn’t yet an independent blogger, but was “a man under authority” at The Washington Times.

Working on the news side of the operation, the public expression of my opinions was streng verboten, which of course didn’t mean I had no opinion. So it was only in private that I was able to bitch, bitch, bitch about the stupidity of nominating a bald septuagenarian. Never mind that John McCain was an unprincipled backstabbing crapweasel; the real problem was that the “optics” were all wrong.

Even if you could tolerate his self-serving mendaciousness and erratic temper, Crazy Cousin John never looked or sounded remotely presidential in the superficial way that candidates are judged in the TV age. No Hollywood producer would cast someone who looked and sounded like that as president, except in a thriller-drama where the good guy is a rogue CIA agent who exposes the hidden betrayals of the corrupt and craven leadership.

I said that — often and loudly, in private conversations — at a time when it was thought the Democrats would nominate Hillary Clinton, who doesn’t exactly exude empathy. Maybe in a contest against the Chilly Bitch stereotype, the Embittered Old Bald Guy could squeak out a win, just barely, but John McCain never stood a snowball’s chance in hell against the Allstate Man.

It is perhaps unnecessary and unwise to invoke the phrase, coined by a liberal writer for the Los Angeles Times but made notorious by Rush Limbaugh, “Magic Negro.” What the phrase originally suggested was a certain type of modern Hollywood casting, in which the Good Wise Black Man serves as a sort of moral symbol, an embodiment of virtue, the voice of authority.

If  there is anything “racist” about the Magic Negro, it is a liberal racism in the souls of the liberal screenwriters and directors who seem psychologically trapped with Jim Crow-era white guilt manifestations. A $250-an-hour therapist might be able to help them with those hangups, but instead these Hollywood people keep foisting their weird insecurities on us as  TV primetime crime dramas and Oscar-bait movies that feature this stock character, the Magic Negro, as an emblem of righteousness.

Whatever. I’m over it.

As soon as Obama emerged as a genuine contender in the Democrat primary field — after the October 2007 debate in which Hillary got tripped up over a question about driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants — I witnessed with increasing horror the GOP primary campaign in which John McCain, counted out in late summer, gradually worked his way back to front-runner status.

“No! It’s all wrong! It doesn’t work!”

Millons of Americans have been programmed by their voracious consumption of popular culture to react automatically to superficial perceptions — “image” — and the match-up between Obama and McCain was a disaster for Republicans in that sense.

Denzel Washington vs. Tim Conway? No, dear God, no.

Beyond the purely racial component, the problem was that Obama has a deep baritone voice and a calm demeanor (the Allstate Insurance Man) whereas John McCain’s voice is a raspy tenor, and his manner is nervous and edgy. This presented an insuperable political problem in the 24/7 Media Age, where the President of the United States is a celebrity — famous for being famous — and is judged by People Who Watch Too Much TV in the same superficial stereotypical way they judge everybody else.

Obama seems presidential, and vast numbers of Americans have lost the ability to distinguish between seeming and being.

The election of Obama was made easier by the media, which provided this superficially appealing celebrity with a personal narrative that didn’t quite match the reality of Obama’s life. Correcting that mythos is the purpose of a series entitled “The Obama You Don’t Know” in the Washington Examiner.

As Jeff Dunetz says, this report has blown a huge hole in the fake biography of our 44th president, and the question is whether the realization that they’ve been conned by media image-makers will cause the American people to re-think the difference between seeming presidential and being presidential.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Hollywood, Media Bias, Racism, Washington Examiner

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.20.12

Posted on | September 20, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Mitt Hits Ohio Next Week

Romney campaigns in Mansfield, Ohio


Three days, six cities on the bus in the battleground state
Related: GOP Senators Offer Unsolicited Advice To Mitt; Crazy Cousin John Disses Romney Critics


Oh, Wait, Maybe It Was A Terrorist Attack
Administration begins the slow walk back to the truth about Benghazi


SecDef Panetta Talks Hacking With PRC
Lots of nodding and smiling but no actual discussion of cybercrime issues results



POLITICS
House Committee To Hear From DOJ Inspector General On “Fast & Furious”

ATF Director Kenneth Melson

IG Horowitz to be sole witness at hearing; his report to be discussed

Chicago Alderman Relents, Chick-Fil-A To Open After All

What To Expect From The Brown-Warren Debate

CBO: Six Million Uninsured To Get Hit With Obamacare Tax

Jobs Bill For Vets Bogs Down In Senate

NJ Revenue Lags Projections

Activists Rally After Judge Says Ariz. Police Can Ask For Papers

Judge Says MTA Must Post “Defeat Jihad” Ads



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Profit-taking, Continuing Crappiness Of Economy Chop Oil Prices: NYMEX: 91.98, Brent $108.19
Disappointing PRC Data Dents Euro Stocks
Bank Of Japan: No Economic Recovery Until Spring
Dow Grinds Out A Gain, Though Most Stocks Sag
Ofcom Lets BSkyB Keep License, Rips James Murdoch
Bank Of America To Cut 16,000 Jobs By Year-End
Incomes Fell Or Stagnated In Most States Last Year
Groupon Debuts Credit-Card Payment Service For Merchants; Challenges Paypal
Roku Streaming Stick Coming In October For $99; Also, Vudu
Apple Maps Lose Way, Fall Victim To Feud With Google
HTC’s WinPhone 8 Devices: An Initial Pleasant Surprise
MLB Hopes iPhone Tickets Will Be A Hit
Vimeo Look: The Mac To The YouTube PC



SPORTS
Adam Jones Two-Run Dinger Gives O’s Victory Over M’s

Adam Jones jacks one into the stands

Extra-inning homer by former Seattle prospect caps Mariners’ collapse; O’s now just half a game back from Yankees in AL East, move past A’s for wild card lead

NASCAR Reinstates Allmendinger

Jeter Gets 200th Hit During Yanks’ 2-1 Win

Stubbs Leads Reds Past Cubs, 6-5 In 11th

Howard Homers In 9th, Phillies Top Mets 3-2

Holland Solid As Rangers Drop Angels 6-2

Tigers 6, A’s 2; Detroit Now Just 2 Back Thanks To Royals

Nationals Win Opener Against Dodgers, But Furious Comeback In Nightcap Falls Short: Magic Number Is 1



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lohan Arrested For Leaving Scene Of Accident

Lindsay Lohan

Allegedly hit pedestrian in front of hotel
…or did she?
Slash vouching for LiLo’s sobriety

Bill Gates Still Richest Dude In America

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Reunite

Amanda Bynes: “I’m Doing Amazing”


Lady Gaga Looking Meaty In Amsterdam

Melissa Joan Hart Welcomes Baby Tucker

Pink’s Singin’ In The Rain On “Today”, Approves Miley’s Lookalike Hairdo

Kristin Cavallari Welcomes Baby Camden



FOREIGNERS
South African Police Kill Two As Crackdown On Striking Miners Continues
French Diplomats On High Alert After Publication Of Naked Mohammed Cartoons
Opposition-Led Strike Hits Trains In India
PRC To Keep Surveillance Ships, Fishing Boats Near Senkaku Islands
Syrian Rebels Allegedly Defeat Loyalists At Border Crossing
Pak Retailer Faces Blasphemy Charges After Not Joining Film Protest
Former Chungking Top Cop Implicates Bo Xilai In Heywood Murder
Danish Magazine Runs Topless Kate Photos
Senior Israeli Official Tells Iran To Quit With The Threats At IAEA Meeting; Warns That Israel Will Defend Itself
Aussie Senate Rejects Gay Marriage Bill



BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: With Misery And Obama For All
WyBlog: First Health Insurance, Now Administration Mandates Minimum Gasoline Purchase
NRO Corner: How Biased Are Polls?
Atlas Shrugs: AQ Ex-Gitmo Detainee Involved In Benghazi Attack, Ambassador’s Murder
Protein Wisdom: Obama Desperately Looking For New “Squirrel!” Issue
Valley Of The Shadow: Rules For a Post-Obama Media
The Lonely Conservative: Obama – Slumlord Millionaire
Michelle Malkin: Cult Of Obama Tries To Launch Creepy “For All” Campaign
Twitchy: #ForAll Cult FAIL – Jim Messina Creeps Everyone Out
Gateway Pundit: Conservative Group To Run Netanyahu Ads In Florida
Ed Driscoll: Booty Call
Not Yet Europe: Romney Tape Gap NOT Recording Error
Jihad Watch: OIC Calls On West To Enact Sharia Blasphemy Laws
Legal Insurrection: Maine Senate Race In Play?
Weasel Zippers: House Passes Buffett Rule On Voice Vote, Allows Rich Liberals To Put Money Where Their Mouth Is
GayPatriot: Executive Privilege Used To Shield Holder’s Shoddy Management Of DOJ?

Category: Live at Five

$105,000 Worth of Champagne

Posted on | September 19, 2012 | 16 Comments

What else would you expect to drink when you attend a fundraiser for the Man Who Stopped the Rise of the Oceans?

President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan that featured a champagne tower of 350 bottles worth $105,000 — more than twice the median household income of an American family.
The tower of $300-a-bottle Armand de Brignac Brut Gold . . . is a permanent fixture at the club. ‘It’s floor-to-ceiling gold bottles in the entire space,’ a 40/40 representative told the New York Post. ‘It’s beautiful—breathtaking. It’s the first thing you see when you walk in.’ The median income for an American family was $51,413 in 2011.

Obama campaign slogan 2008: “Change We Can Believe In.”

Obama campaign slogan 2012: “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.”

BTW, don’t confuse this with the “excellent armagnac” served at Chez McCain to members of the Elite Cabal of Bloggers to which The Lonely Conservative was not invited.

Category: Barack Obama
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