Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Well, folks, I'm a bit distracted making final arrangements for the upcoming Texas trip, but, yeah... (*SMILE*)... I've "heard something" about a presidential debate tonight.
Who's gonna "win?"
Haven't got the slightest...
Who's gonna be credited with a "win?"
Again... haven't got the slightest.
(The media could go either way... I'll give you my reaction after the fact.)
Do I hold out great hope for Romney? Nope. Sadly... no. Does this mean I expect him to get his butt kicked? Nope. (Heck... he could win big... but he could lose big, too... I just have no confidence in the guy.)
Here's what I do know: The debate will be largely a battle of talking points and damn the truth.
The media won't hold Obama to account for his lies... and while they'll smack Romney around a bit, if Romney gets crucified either during or after the debate... it'll be his own fault, I'm guessing.
Listen... Romney is running a lousy campaign so far. At least that's how I see it from my vantage point here in New York.
The Republican Party sucks. They truly are the Stupid Party. Obama should be down by 10 points... and yet... he's not.
Does all this pessimism mean I believe Obama is destined to win in November? No. Surprisingly (to some of you, no doubt) I still believe that Romney will win... and that he may indeed win big!
Why...?
Because Obama is so bad... so bad...
Yep. In the end, folks, I've gotta hold out hope that when push comes to shove, a majority of the American People (and more important... a majority of the electoral vote) won't sign on to another four years of guaranteed American decline.
Not that we won't have major problems if Romney wins - we will - but as bad as Romney is... he's by far the better man and better American than Obama.
Anyway... on to newsbites!
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-02/bernanke-seeks-gains-for-stocks-in-push-for-jobs-economy.html
* BEN BERNANKE IS INSANE!
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is increasingly aiming for gains in stock prices...
* THAT'S NOT HIS JOB! THAT'S NOT THE FED'S MANDATE! THE MARKET IS SUPPOSED TO BE A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF ECONOMIC REALITY - NOT A CASINO WHERE EVERYONE WINS EVERY TIME! JEEZUS... THIS IS INSANE!
Bernanke, setting the stage for a third round of quantitative easing in an Aug. 31 speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, said the strategy works in part by boosting the prices of assets such as equities.
* OH... MY... FRIGGIN'... GOD...! THESE PEOPLE ARE EVEN PRETENDING ANYMORE! THEY'RE FRONT AND CENTER TELLING US THEY'RE REINFLATING EQUITIES MARKETS AND DAMN THE ACTUAL REAL ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS!
In a speech yesterday in Indianapolis he said higher stock and home prices would provide further impetus to spending by businesses and households.
* FOLKS... HE'S TELLING YOU...! HE'S TELLING YOU...! HIS ACTUAL GOAL IS TO REINFLATE THE HOUSING MARKET ALONG WITH THE STOCK MARKET THAT IN TURN INVESTS IN THE HOUSING MARKET AND... AND... AND...
(*BLOOD PRESSURE SHOOTING THROUGH THE ROOF*)
* THIS IS OBAMA'S GUY! HIM AND GEITHNER! ROMNEY WANTS THEM BOTH GONE. FOR THAT REASON ALONE WE NEED TO REPLACE OBAMA WITH ROMNEY!
“It’s pretty clear that the stock market is the most important transmission mechanism of monetary policy right now,” said Peter Hooper, chief economist at Deutsche Bank AG in New York.
* NO! NO, NO, NO! IT'S NOT CLEAR AT ALL! INDEED... IT'S ABSOLUTELY WRONG - AND SYMBOLIZES EVERYTHING THAT'S WRONG WITH THE "NEW" AMERICAN ECONOMY!
* PEOPLE... READ THE FULL ARTICLE. THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/media-gives-little-play-to-obama-tape-137354.html
News organizations have so far given little play to the newly surfaced videotape of President Barack Obama’s 2007 speech...
* FRANKLY, I'M SURPRISED POLITICO RAN THIS PIECE!
* OH... AND IT'S NOT JUST "GIVEN LITTLE PLAY." IN SOME CASES IT'S DELIBERATE LYING ABOUT THE TAPE - ABOUT WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY RUN AS EDITED vs. THE FULL TAPE BEING RUN NOW. FOLKS... LIES OF OMISSION CAN BE AS DAMAGING AS LIES OF COMMISSION AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS EXPERT AT BOTH.
Media outlets hedged their bets with headlines such as CBS News’ “Obama video: October surprise or old news?” and Politico’s “Obama ’07 video: Shock or schlock?”
* AGAIN... CASE IN POINT. REGARDLESS OF THE TRUTH, MUCH OF THE MSM IS STICKING TO THE OBAMA PARTY LINE. (IS ANYONE REALLY SURPRISED...?)
ABC News...emphasized what the network reported on in 2007, but noted in its piece “Full 2007 Video of Obama Emerges of Then-Senator Obama Claiming Federal Discrimination Against New Orleans” that what was covered at the time was based on the edited video and prepared remarks released by the Obama campaign.
* ONE MORE TIME...
* "...WHAT WAS COVERED AT THE TIME WAS BASED ON THE EDITED VIDEO AND PREPARED REMARKS RELEASED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN."
(*SMIRK*)
And at the Los Angeles Times, James Rainey wrote in his piece, “Obama video reveals everything … that we already knew...”
* WELL... PERHAPS JAMES RAINEY "ALREADY KNEW IT," AND NO DOUBT OTHERS IN THE MSM "ALREADY KNEW IT," BUT WHAT PEOPLE WHO RELY UPON THE MSM "KNEW" WAS... er... AS ABC NEWS ITSELF NOW DEIGNS TO NOTE... "...WHAT WAS COVERED AT THE TIME WAS BASED ON THE EDITED VIDEO AND PREPARED REMARKS RELEASED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN."
(*SHRUG*)
* FOLKS... THE FIX IS IN. IT'S NOT PERFECT. THIS ARTICLE IS PROOF THAT THERE ARE LIMITS. BUT, JEEZ... THE MSM IS GONNA DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH DOING (AND MUCH THEY CAN'T!) TO BOOST OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION CHANCES AND THAT MEANS YOU CAN'T TRUST THEM - NOT WITHOUT A GREAT DEAL OF VERIFICATION! IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/sensitive-documents-left-behind-at-american-mission-in-libya/2012/10/03/11911498-0d7e-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html?wpisrc=al_national
More than three weeks after attacks in this city killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, sensitive documents remained only loosely secured in the wreckage of the U.S. mission on Wednesday, offering visitors easy access to delicate information about American operations in Libya.
Documents detailing weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s trip and the personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission were among the items scattered across the floors of the looted compound when a Washington Post reporter and an interpreter visited Wednesday.
* INCOMPETENCE... INCOMPETENCE... INCOMPETENCE... INCOMPETENCE... INCOMPETENCE...
* OBAMA... CLINTON... OBAMA... CLINTON... OBAMA... CLINTON...
* OR, HEY... MAYBE IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!
(*SMIRK*)
Although the gates to the Benghazi compound were locked...
(*SNORT*)
...several days after the attacks...
* LOCKED... SEVERAL DAYS AFTER THE ATTACKS...
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP!
...looters and curiosity-seekers were free to roam in the initial chaotic aftermath, and many documents may have disappeared.
No government-provided security forces are guarding the compound, and Libyan investigators have visited just once, according to a member of the family who owns the compound and who allowed the journalists to enter Wednesday.
Two private security guards paid for by the compound’s Libyan owner are the only people watching over the sprawling site, which is composed of two adjoining villa complexes and protected in some places by a wall only eight feet high.
* CHANT IT WITH ME, FOLKS... O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A! HIL-LAR-Y! HIL-LAR-Y!
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