Bill O'Reilly is a moron.
Yeah... I'm riffing off the previous post... the Beck/Nugent transcript.
Worse than being ignorant... O'Reilly is a weasel. By now he's well aware that his facts were wrong - but far from taking his medicine like a man, he's been doubling down - but in a deflective sort of way... repeating the lies in a sentence here, a sentence there.
Folks... understand... as positive a force as Fox News is in the greater scheme of things, as I've always warned you, you can't take everything you hear on Fox at face value - particularly when the info is coming from the likes of O'Reilly.
Fox News is not a monolith! Besides the many liberals who appear on Fox to serve as "balance," many of the hosts (both straight news... the anchors and the pundits) are at best "right of center" - many are obviously "establishment Republicans" - some are even RINOs (at best!)
Repeat after me, folks... Fox News is in business to...
(*DRUM ROLL*)
...make money!
Yep. To make money... and also to play the same power games, the same status games, as the rest of the media plays... as the rest of society plays.
(*SHRUG*)
So... beware. That's all I'm saying! Use caution. If you must trust... trust but verify.
Keep reading "Newsbites" - keep reading "Usually Right" - because you can trust me!
But, folks... even with me the same rule applies; trust but verify!
If you read something here that sounds fishy... do your own research.
If you believe I'm wrong and can prove your point... do so! When I'm proven wrong (which happens very, very infrequently) I'm quick to chide myself and "correct" the record.
Folks... my ego flourishes on being right... not simply being seen to be right. That's part of what sets me apart from most people.
Anyway... enjoy the blog... learn from the blog... learn from the newsbites within the comment sections of each "Newsbites" post.
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* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/13988905-418/emanuel-goes-after-chick-fil-a-for-boss-anti-gay-views.html
* FOLKS... THIS SHOULD TERRIFY YOU. (AND KNOWING THAT SEVERAL OF YOU WILL AGREE WITH EMANUEL TERRIFIES ME!)
The anti-gay views openly espoused by the president of a fast food chain specializing in chicken sandwiches have run afoul of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a local alderman, who are determined to block Chick-fil-A from expanding in Chicago.
* WOW... SO MUCH FOR FREEDOM OF THOUGHT... FREEDOM OF SPEECH... FREEDOM TO HOLD DIVERSE OPINIONS...
* AS PRIVATE CITIZENS PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO LOVE OR HATE ANYONE AND ANYTHING THEY CHOOSE AS LONG AS DOING SO DOESN'T VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. POLITICAL OFFICIALS HAVE NO BUSINESS MISUSING THE POWERS OF THEIR OFFICE TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CITIZENS BECAUSE OF DIFFERENCES OF SOCIAL, RELIGIOUS, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, (ETC.) OPINION!
* OH... AND NOT BEING IN FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE... THAT IS NOT BEING "ANTI-GAY." THAT'S HAVING AN OPINION! AND IF THAT OPINION IS BUTTRESSED BY RELIGIOUS BELIEF... WELL... REMEMBER WHEN FREEDOM OF RELIGION WAS RIGHT UP THERE WITH FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN TERMS OF VALUES AMERICANS REVERED? NO LONGER, MY FRIENDS... NO LONGER.
“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values. They’re not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values,” Emanuel said Wednesday.
* JEEZUS... IS CHICAGO STALIN'S RUSSIA...? HITLER'S GERMANY...? THIS SORT OF RANT SHOULD TERRIFY ALL OF YOU READING THIS!
“What the CEO has said as it relates to gay marriage and gay couples is not what I believe, but more importantly, it’s not what the people of Chicago believe. We just passed legislation as it relates to civil union and my goal and my hope … is that we now move on recognizing gay marriage. I do not believe that the CEO’s comments … reflects who we are as a city.”
* JEEZUS, FOLKS... TURN THIS "LOGIC" ON IT HEAD AND APPLY IT TO STATES WHERE GAY MARRIAGE HAS BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY REJECTED AT THE BALLOT BOX. WOULD THOSE STATES BE JUSTIFIED IN TRYING TO STOP BUSINESS EXPANSION OF BUSINESSES WHO OWNERS FAVORED GAY MARRIAGE...?!?! OF COURSE NOT! THIS IS INSANITY! THIS IS INDEED "THE CHICAGO WAY." THAT'S WHY YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED OF ITS SPREAD!
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno is using the same argument to block Chick-fil-A from opening its first free-standing restaurant in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood.
* JEEZUS...
Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy was quoted last week as saying he was “guilty as charged” for supporting, what he called the “biblical definition” of marriage as between a man and a woman.
* AS... IS... HIS... RIGHT...!!!
“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that,” Cathy was quoted as saying.
(*SHRUG*)
Appearing on the Ken Coleman Show, Cathy was further quoted as saying, “I think we’re inviting God’s judgment when we shake our fist at him, you know, [saying], ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ And I pray on God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we would have the audacity to try and redefine what marriage is all about.”
* AND HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BELIEVE THIS... EVEN TO PROCLAIM HIS BELIEF AND TRY TO CONVINCE OTHERS THAT HE'S RIGHT!
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has said Chick-fil-A “doesn’t belong in Boston” because of Cathy’s discriminatory stance.
* FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS NOT "DISCRIMINATION." SECOND OF ALL... MENINO COMES ACROSS AS A FASCIST WITH NO CONCEPTION OF AMERICAN VALUES SUCH AS FREEDOM OF OPINION!
* PEOPLE... FOLLOW THE LOGIC OF SCUM LIKE EMANUEL, MORENO, AND MENINO! IT LEADS TO THE END OF BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS! IF YOU CAN'T SEE THIS THEN YOU'RE SO STUPID THAT YOU PRESENT A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/26/REVEALED-Corzine-s-MF-Global-Was-a-Client-of-Eric%20Holder-s-Law-Firm
Those wondering why the Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for the vaporization of $1.6 billion in MF Global client funds need look no further than the documents uncovered by the Government Accountability Institute that reveal that the now-defunct MF Global was a client of Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer’s former law firm, Covington & Burling.
Records also reveal that MF Global’s trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy retained as its general bankruptcy counsel Morrison & Foerester - the very law firm from which Associate Attorney General Tony West came to DOJ.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
As Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer explains in the Washington Times Thursday, the trustee overseeing MF Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh.
* REPEAT AFTER ME: O*L*I*G*A*R*C*H*Y
At Holder’s Senate confirmation hearing Freeh served as a character witness for Holder and revealed that Holder had previously worked for Freeh. “As general counsel,” Freeh said, “I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our bank. I chose Eric.”
(*SPITTING ON THE FLOOR IN DISGUST*)
Until now, the conventional wisdom for why Holder wouldn’t throw the book at Corzine was that Corzine is an Obama campaign bundler. (Indeed, as Breitbart News reported, four of the top officials at the Department of Justice - Eric Holder, Thomas Perrelli, Karol Mason, and Tony West - were also big money bundlers for Obama.)
But the newly understood crony connections reveal conflicts of interest that extend well beyond mere political support for a common candidate - they go to a tangle of prior business dealings that further underscore the need for a special prosecutor in the Corzine case.
* WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE, FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE...?
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/epa-exonerates-fracking-in-pennsylvania/
The federal EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) today shattered the environmental narrative that hydraulic fracturing in Dimock, PA caused groundwater contamination so severe that residents had to survive on bottled water.
In a press release today, EPA said: "The Agency announced today that it has completed its sampling of private drinking water wells in Dimock, Pa. Data previously supplied to the agency by residents, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Cabot Oil and Gas Exploration had indicated the potential for elevated levels of water contaminants in wells, and following requests by residents EPA took steps to sample water in the area to ensure there were not elevated levels of contaminants. Based on the outcome of that sampling, EPA has determined that there are not levels of contaminants present that would require additional action by the Agency."
The press release concludes: "Overall during the sampling in Dimock, EPA found hazardous substances, specifically arsenic, barium or manganese, all of which are also naturally occurring substances, in well water at five homes at levels that could present a health concern. In all cases the residents have now or will have their own treatment systems that can reduce concentrations of those hazardous substances to acceptable levels at the tap. EPA has provided the residents with all of their sampling results and has no further plans to conduct additional drinking water sampling in Dimock."
In a sane world, this should end the crusade against hydraulic fracturing, and end the federal government’s pursuit of regulatory oversight of fracking as well.
However, a world in which the Sierra Club (which, a few years ago took $26 million dollars from a natural gas business in order to wage war on coal) declares war on a fuel that only a few years ago, they were badgering cities to use in power plants, buses, and truck fleets, sanity seems in short supply.
(*PURSED LIPS*) (*SIGH*) (*NOD*)
* FOLKS... CLICK THE LINK... READ THE PIECE... TAKE A MINUTE TO VIEW THE VIDEO...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theanchoress/2012/07/24/chick-fil-a-if-youre-not-sure-this-is-how-fascism-works/
* AS I WAS SAYING EARLIER WITH MY OPENING TWO-PARTER...
(*SHRUG*)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/outing_the_white_house_8dFPDVPg4Rla99okalavRN
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) poured gasoline yesterday on a smoldering fight over national-security leaks from high-level Obama administration officials.
“I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks,” said the California Democrat, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.
* ...SAID... THE... CALIFORNIA... DEMOCRAT... WHO... CHAIRS... THE... SENATE... INTELLIGENCE... COMMITTEE...
She was referring to stories leaked (most to friendly reporters at The New York Times) that burnished Obama’s security CV but risked the lives of American field agents and harmed relations with U.S. allies.
* ...RISKED... THE... LIVES... OF... AMERICAN... FIELD... AGENTS... AND... HARMED... RELATIONS... WITH... U.S.... ALLIES...
The leaks included Obama’s oversight of a “kill list” of terrorist targets for drone strikes; operational secrets of the SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden; the work of double agents in stopping an al Qaeda airline bomb plot in Yemen, and the U.S. role in creating the Stuxnet virus that slowed Iran’s nuclear program.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
They came in a torrent; back in June, Feinstein said she’d “never seen it worse” in her 11 years on the intel committee.
* FOLKS... THE AGE OF OBAMA IS DIFFERENT... (I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU THIS ALL ALONG!)
It’s an open secret that Team Obama was behind much of the leaks — thus Feinstein’s statement. But that directly contradicts what President Obama claims.
“The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national-security information is offensive,” he said last month.
Offensive, for sure. Also true.
(*SHRUG*)
And it’s a signal of just how damning Feinstein’s assessment was that yesterday she basically apologized to Obama — after Mitt Romney used her words against the president — and said she “shouldn’t have speculated” about the source of the leaks.
* GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! SHE WASN'T "SPECULATING!" SHE'S THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!
Well, we’ll “speculate” that Feinstein has some pretty reliable sources. And whatever she’s been coached to say by campaign officials, her concern over the leaks is apparent — and appropriate.
(*NOD*)
Her voice has helped force the administration to open up multiple inquiries into the sources of the leaks. She deserves credit, even if she doesn’t want any.
(*NOD*)
Which left the ball in the hands of Romney, who yesterday delivered an acid-tipped foreign-policy speech.
“Exactly who in the White House betrayed these secrets?” he asked. “Did a superior authorize it? These are things that Americans are entitled to know — and they are entitled to know it now. If the president believes, as he said last week, that the buck stops with him, then he owes all Americans a full and prompt accounting of the facts.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/25/2912321/jeb-bush-wants-rubio-for-vp.html
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush thinks Sen. Marco Rubio is ready to be vice president...
* YET ANOTHER REASON TO BE LEARY OF A RUBIO PICK.
(*SHRUG*)
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