Monday, September 17, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Monday, September 17, 2012


Raise your hand if you know what today is... which day of "federal observance" September 17th is.

Ya know what, folks... I had no idea until I received an email from the Texas Patriots PAC.

(*SHRUG*)

Hey... another question: Have you heard about this!?

Again... I hadn't.

(Amazing, huh...)

Nope. I was pretty busy all weekend. Didn't pay all that much attention to the news. But... me not paying "all that much attention" to the news still means I was paying some attention. After all, I engaged in a bit of newsbiting and stand-alone posting yesterday morning. 

I had talk radio on last night as Mary and I were driving home from Dad's.

N*O*T*H*I*N*G

Kinda scary. And, no... it's not just a blog report... this actually happened!

You don't think we're losing America, folks? Really? After all you read here day in and day out?

I know Romney's faults. Believe me I do! He certainly wasn't my candidate for the GOP nod. But I tell ya, folks... we're on the knife-edge (that is, if we're not already past the point of no return) and if we don't toss Barack Hussein Obama and his entire administration out on their asses via the upcoming November Election...

(*PURSED LIPS*)

4 comments:

William R. Barker said...

* TWO PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/320283/disgrace-benghazi-mark-steyn

* YOU REALLY SHOULD READ THE FULL ESSAY, FOLKS; MARC STEYN IS MY IDOL AS A PUNDIT.

The 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: That’s not a spontaneous movie protest; that’s an act of war, and better planned and executed than the dying superpower’s response to it.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

In...America, the president is too busy to attend the security briefing on the morning after a national debacle, but he does have time to do Letterman and appear on a hip-hop radio show hosted by “The Pimp with a Limp.”

(*PURSED LIPS*)

[Meanwhile, in Egypt,] the U.S. embassy in Cairo is guarded by Marines with no ammunition...

* FOLKS... GOOGLE IT... (*SHRUG*)

When it comes to a flailing, blundering superpower, I am generally wary of ascribing to malevolence what is more often sheer stupidity and incompetence. ... But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey are guilty of something worse, in the Secretary of State’s weirdly obsessive remarks about an obscure film supposedly disrespectful of Mohammed and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs’ telephone call to a private citizen asking him if he could please ease up on the old Islamophobia. Forget the free-speech arguments. In this case, as Secretary Clinton and General Dempsey well know, the film has even less to do with anything than did the Danish cartoons or the schoolteacher’s teddy bear or any of the other innumerable grievances of Islam.

* ONE... MORE... TIME...

The 400-strong assault force in Benghazi showed up with RPGs and mortars: That’s not a spontaneous movie protest; that’s an act of war, and...Secretary Clinton and General Dempsey are, to put it mildly, misleading the American people when they suggest otherwise.

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

One can understand why they might do this, given the fiasco in Libya. The men who organized this attack knew the ambassador would be at the consulate in Benghazi rather than at the embassy in Tripoli. How did that happen?

They knew when he had been moved from the consulate to a “safe house,” and switched their attentions accordingly. How did that happen?

The United States government lost track of its ambassador for ten hours. How did that happen?

Perhaps, when they’ve investigated Mitt Romney’s press release for another three or four weeks, the court eunuchs of the American media might like to look into some of these fascinating questions...

(*PURSED LIPS*)

For whatever reason, Secretary Clinton chose to double down on misleading the American people.

“Libyans carried Chris’s body to the hospital,” said Mrs. Clinton.

That’s one way of putting it.

The photographs at the Arab TV network al-Mayadeen show Chris Stevens’s body being dragged through the streets, while the locals take souvenir photographs on their cell phones.

* WERE YOU AWARE OF THIS, READERS...? WERE YOU...??? MOST MEDIA REPORTS DESCRIBED NOT THAT REALITY, BUT SOME FEEL-GOOD PABLUM ABOUT HOW LIBYANS BROUGHT THE AMBASSADOR TO THE HOSPITAL... BUT IT WAS TOO LATE... AS IF THEY'D BEEN TRYING TO RESCUE HIM.

A man in a red striped shirt photographs the dead-eyed ambassador from above; another immediately behind his head moves the splayed arm and holds his cell-phone camera an inch from the ambassador’s nose.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

Some years ago, I had occasion to assist in moving the body of a dead man: We did not stop to take photographs en route. Even allowing for cultural differences, this looks less like “carrying Chris’s body to the hospital” and more like barbarians gleefully feasting on the spoils of savagery.

Meanwhile...

(*SIGH*)

...in Pakistan the local doctor who fingered bin Laden to the Americans sits in jail.

In other words, while America’s clod vice president staggers around pimping limply that only Obama had the guts to take the toughest decision anyone’s ever had to take, the poor schlub who actually did have the guts, who actually took the tough decision in a part of the world where taking tough decisions can get you killed, languishes in a cell because Washington would not lift a finger to help him.

* I TRULY AM ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY UNDER OBAMA.

William R. Barker said...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/16/cnn-political-report-sends-obama-donation-link-twitter-followers#ixzz26duLPZFC

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* I JUST HEARD ABOUT THIS WHILE LISTENING TO RUSH LIMBAUGH. I OF COURSE TRIED TO CONFIRM IT... BUT CAN'T SEEM TO FIND ANYTHING IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

(*SMIRK*)

* HOWEVER...

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/09/16/cnn-reporter-peter-hamby-sends-obama-donation-request-form-to-twitter-followers/

* FOLKS... THIS CLEARLY HAPPENED! I MEAN... JEEZ... YEAH... NEWSBUSTERS AND HOT AIR ARE BOTH PARTISAN SITES, BUT THEY'RE "MAINSTREAM" PARTISAN SITES. THEY'RE NOT GONNA FAKE SCREEN SAVES!

* FOLKS... WHY WHEN I GOOGLE THIS AM I NOT FINDING REPORTAGE OF THIS AT THE NYT, WASHINGTON POST, ET AL? (I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER.)

* FOLKS... AS I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG... THE GLOVES ARE OFF. THE MASKS ARE OFF. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS PART OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/health/policy/california-tries-to-lead-way-on-health-law.html?pagewanted=all

The meeting came to order, the five members of the California Health Benefit Exchange seated onstage...

Delay and outright resistance to the health care overhaul might be the norm in much of the country, but not here. California...is at the forefront of preparations for January 2014, when a requirement that most Americans have medical coverage or pay a penalty takes effect.

So far, only 13 states and the District of Columbia have told the Obama administration they intend to set up the insurance exchanges that are supposed to provide a marketplace for people to buy health plans. None are being watched as closely as California...

* OK, FOLKS... NOW COMES THE KICKER... READ ON!

The California Health Benefit Exchange has already hired 50 employees and is poised to hire 50 more.

* BETCHYA NONE ARE DOCTORS OR NURSES! BETCHYA WITH BENEFITS TACTED ON WE'RE TALKING SIX-FIGURE MEDIAN COMPENSATION!

Construction of the Web portal through which some three million people are expected to buy insurance by 2019, and through which many others will likely enroll in Medicaid, is under way.

* I WONDER WHICH POLITICALLY CONNECTED OUTFIT GOT THAT CONTRACT AND HOW MUCH BEYOND MARKET RATES THEY'RE CHARGING...???

Realizing that much of the battle will be in the public relations realm, the exchange has poured significant resources into a detailed marketing plan — developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial $900,000 contract with the exchange.

* TAXPAYER MONEY, FOLKS... TAXPAYER MONEY. MONEY GOING NOT TO DOCTORS OR NURSES, BUT TO PR FLACKS. SOUND GOOD TO YOU?

Hollywood, an industry whose major players have been supportive of President Obama and his agenda, will be tapped.

* HERE IT COMES... READ ON!

Plans are being discussed to pitch a reality television show about “the trials and tribulations of families living without medical coverage,” according to the Ogilvy plan. The exchange will also seek to have prime-time television shows, like “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and Univision telenovelas, weave the health care law into their plots.

* DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOUR AMERICA, FOLKS? SOUNDS ORWELLIAN TO ME, FOLKS.