P.S. I think Jay Clownie is not only a brilliant political cartoon, but a fantastic photoshop. Yesterday, WH Press Secretary Jay Carney was forced to play the part of rodeo clown, trying to distract the press bulls from the matador. Carney-Clownie’s makeup photoshop is flawless, even behind his glasses! And the combo of Barack “Never Forget I’m BLAAAAACK” Obama whispering in the ear of a white guy in white face is just pure genius.
There was so much in yesterday’s melee,I thought I’d do a separate post with a video of the entire meeting(it is delicious) and small bits from some people who NEVER say anything bad about Barky.It got so bad yesterday I decided to rename the spokesweenie from Cornhole to Jay Carnage.It just seemed to fit.
The Obama White House is claiming they knew nuthink! IOW, it’s a kind of bad news/good news thing.
Bad news: The Obama White House is not only incompetent, but it’s also corrupt.
Good news: The Obama White House is totally incompetent at corruption.
WH spokesman Jay Carney shamefully diminished the lives lost in Benghazi by calling it a “political circus,” then blamed Fox News for the AP scandal (huh?) and finally spun into yet another bout of channeling the famous “I know nutthink!” Hans Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes.
Tweeters listed things Jay Carney might actually know:
How many ways there are to rearrange and repeat the same words in a sentence full of lies.
How to look both contemplative & constipated.
That Robert Gibbs totally snookered him when he told him this job was “fun” and “easy.”
That if he plays ball, he can count on Democrats to reward him with a cushy job somewhere else.
Methinks this tweeter nailed it on the head about what Jay Carney knows:
::crickets::
The IRS has admitted it really did harass groups with the words “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names.
One victim says, “They wanted a synopsis of all the books we read! I thought, I don’t have time to write a book report. You can read them for yourselves.”
Then, she mailed them copies of The Constitution and The Five Thousand Year Leap.
That part is kinda funny. This next part is way not funny at all.
Among information the IRS demanded were lists of names and addresses of members, donors and volunteers, as well as member access to website pages.
This info was then turned over BY the Internal Revenue Service TO a left-wing political organization funded by self-proclaimed hater of all things Republican George Soros.
I’m late posting today because I was flipping back and forth between Cornhole’s presser and Riechsfeuhrer Holder’s.It seems like the dam that put off making any of these crimes public until after 2012 is close to bursting.Benghazi,the IRS, and now it has been discovered that DOJ grabbed two months’ worth of phone records from the AP.The A freakin’ P!The first thing the White Hut did was point the fingers at Justice.For that kind of phone tap Holder must sign off on it.Meanwhile Corny was as pathetic as ever,trying to defend the indefensible.He was pounded on the IRS audits,which they’ve already admitted to and he said the investigation is still going on and he can’t comment.That’s the way it went all day.
The morning news shows are all sending thank you cards to Angelina Jolie;she announced she’d had a proactive double mastectomy so the talking heads could spend their time talking about that instead of covering the lying bastard’s presser yesterday.It strikes me that like most committed radicals he will deny everything in the face of incontrovertible evidence to his last breath.I’m afraid he may slowly be going mad.
ABC is reporting that they have obtained copies of twelve sequential White House emails that PROVE the White House edited out politically problematic information from the Benghazi talking points.
First is the original draft composed by the CIA.
Second is the draft after about ten revisions from within the Obama Administration.
Third is the last of at least TEN drafts coordinated by the Obama White House and the Clinton State Department that Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney falsely claimed was the ONLY change made by them.
The final, heavily edited version was distributed to Congress and Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after the attack.
ABC Report: CIA head Petraeus was disgusted by revised talking points
What we know for sure:
President Obama swore the attack was triggered by a YouTube video.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swore the attack was triggered by a YouTube video.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice swore the attack was triggered by a YouTube video.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney swore the attack was triggered by a YouTube video.
There was no YouTube video protest.
Benghazi was an extremist Muslim terrorist attack from the get go.
The Obama White House and the Clinton State Department knew it from the beginning.
President Obama and Hillary Clinton fabricated the video claim to cover their political backsides.
The Left-Stream Media may be waking up from their Obama Kool-aid stupor. This surprising report from The New Yorker:
“For a long time, it seemed like the idea of a coverup was just a Republican obsession. But now there is something to it.”
Thursday, May 9, 2013, was the first opportunity for reporters to ask questions of White House spokesman Jay Carney following the explosive hearings on Wednesday about the White House’s cover up following the Benghazi terror attack last September.
The reporters assigned to cover the White House saw fit to ask Mr. Carney only ONE QUESTION about the hearings. And the question, at the very end of the briefing, did not address the actual substance of the hearings at all:
Q. Ambassador Pickering has told some news outlets that he’s willing to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee. Is there any expectation from the White House that he will? And furthermore, Dick Cheney was on the Hill this morning and he was talking to folks on the Hill, and he said that Secretary Clinton should be subpoenaed if necessary. Any response first on Pickering, and then secondly to Vice President Cheney’s comments?
We The People depend on these journalists to help us keep an eagle eye on our top elected officials.
So what did they decide was MORE IMPORTANT than a White House COVER UP up involving a TERRORIST attack on a U.S. EMBASSY that left four Americans DEAD?
Q Jay, speaking also about the Senate, Republicans have submitted some 1,000 questions to Gina McCarthy and the EPA and there appear to be some delays in that process. Are you concerned about the nomination — about her nomination specifically? And what is the reason for the EPA not answering those questions?
Q McConnell and Boehner today sent a letter to the President saying they’ll be declining to recommend appointments to IPAB. Is there any concern that public confidence in IPAB will suffer because there won’t be any Republican input?
Q Jay, is the White House preparing for a conflict with congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling this summer? And do you expect that tax reform would be a part of a deal over that at all?
Q When is the President meeting with entrepreneurs and also the local residents? Is it before the tour, after the tour? The schedule wasn’t very clear.
The jury was told Gosnell kept the remains of at least 47 dead babies in odd places at his clinic, including cat food jars.
A reporter asked White House spokesman Jay Carney if President Barack Obama has any comment on the trial. Carney said, “The president is aware of it. The president does not and cannot take a position on an ongoing trial, so I won’t as well.”
Riiight. Cuz we all know how careful Obama is not to insert himself inappropriately into other people’s legal issues.
Remember that time his friend Henry Gates was seen breaking into a house and refused to produce identification ro prove it was his own house to which he’d forgotten the key? The cops followed procedure and arrested him.
The next day, President Obama admitted he didn’t know all the facts, then proceeded to tar and feather the Cambridge police as racists who had “acted stupidly.” What were those cops supposed to do? Let a man who merely claimed to be the homeowner and became abusive when asked to present identification continue breaking into the house? Sheesh.
Sequester cuts kicked in March 1 and the Obamas are using it as an excuse to cancel White House activities they don’t much care for. For example, they don’t like having people trooping through “their” digs, so White House tours were all canceled, even the school tours that had already been approved and scheduled for spring break trips.
The Obamas themselves all took spring break vacays, natch. Barack went to Florida to golf. Malia and Sasha went to the Bahamas with school chums, then met up with Michelle in Idaho to ski. It was their second ski trip of 2013.
The Obamas also lurve Lurve LURVE celebrities, so in the first half of April, they’ve also managed to scrape up a few bucks to enjoy:
a White House reception for the Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings and major league soccer champs LA Galaxy,
security and motorcade for Barack to play golf two weekends in a row,
security and motorcade so Barack could attend the Syracuse-Marquette NCAA tournament basketball game at the Verizon Center and schmooze with Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III,
a “42 Film Workshop” with Harrison Ford in the State Dining Room,
an exclusive viewing of “42” with the film’s cast and crew in the White House theater, and
an East Room celebration of Memphis soul music, with performances by stars like Justin Timberlake and Queen Latifah.
One previously scheduled annual event has been canceled for this month … allegedly due to a “lack of funds.”
The annual White House reception for noted Jewish-Americans in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.
Meanwhile, Israel came to a halt for two minutes to honor Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust.
REMOVED U.S. Special Forces from a red-hot danger zone;
INSTALLED local militia with ties to Muslim extremists to “guard” the embassy;
IGNORED multiple signs that attack(s) were being planned for the anniversary of 9/11;
DENIED multiple requests for additional security;
LIED for weeks after the attack about what they knew and when they knew it.
SHORT STORY LONG – Here’s the timeline I’ve pieced together, with URLs at the end:
2011 March: Obama authorizes a military assault on Libya’s Gaddafi government, without obtaining the approval of Congress that is required by law. Only 47% of Americans approve of Obama’s action.
2011 October: The leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, dies. While Gaddafi was admittedly a seriously major creep, he had at least been keeping Al-Qaeda out of Libya. Extremists move into the leadership vacuum left by his death.
2012 February: The U.S. embassy in Libya requests — and is granted — an extension on their Site Security Team (SST) composed of 16 Special Forces soldiers who provided security, medical and communications support to the embassy. The State Department says the SST can stay four more months. That sets them up to leave Libya in August, shortly before the anniversary of 9/11.
2012 March: Eric Nordstrom, the State Department’s Regional Security Officer, sends a cable to Washington asking for additional diplomatic security agents for Benghazi. He gets no response.
2012 April: Two men throw an IED over the consulate fence.
2012 May: Militant Muslims attack the Red Cross office in Benghazi, then post on Facebook that they’re planning something for the Americans.
2012 June: Unknown assailants blow a ginormous hole in the consulate gate. Four days later, the British ambassador’s car is ambushed by militants with a rocket-propelled grenade. Another threat appears on Facebook.
2012 July: Nordstrom again asks Washington for additional security for the diplomats in Libya. Again, he gets no response.
2012 August: Family members of the Libyan militia protecting the consulate receive warnings about an impending attack. Ambassador Stevens wants the 16-special forces SST to stay longer; Washington orders them to leave.
2012 September 8: Members of the Libyan militia protecting the consulate warn U.S. diplomats that the security situation is “frightening.”
2012 September 10: The day before the anniversary of 9/11, Ayman al Zawahiri, the man who took over as head of Al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed, issues a public call for Libyans to avenge the death of his Libyan deputy, Abu Yahya al Libi, who was killed in June by a U.S. drone.
2012 September 11: American embassies are assaulted in 20 different countries. In Cairo, attackers scale the U.S. embassy walls and replace the U.S. flag with the Islamist banner. The consulate in Benghazi is attacked by about 20 heavily armed men. Our people in the White House, State Department, military, FBI and CIA watch the attack going down in real time.
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SBU means Sensitive but Unclassified. COM means Chief of Mission – i.e., the Ambassador.
February 17 Brigade is a militia with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and most influential Islamic movement in the world. It’s credo is, “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.” Its most famous slogan, which is used worldwide, is “Islam is the solution.”
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Ansar al-Sharia: Translation “Partisans of Islamic Law” is an Islamist militia group in Libya that advocates for the implementation of strict Sharia law throughout Libya. Category Yellow: Homeland Security uses a five color-coded threat level scale to label the probability of a terrorist attack and its potential gravity. Red is severe risk; Orange is high risk; Yellow is significant risk; Blue is guarded, general risk; Green is low risk.
Late on the night of September 11 to 12: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issues a statement that “some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”
2012 September 12: Media outlets report that Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack by well-armed militants. Reuters reports that some administration officials believe the assault “bears the hallmarks of an organized attack.” Reuters also reports there are indications that members of both al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Ansar al-Sharia may have been involved in organizing the attacks. President Obama says he does not believe the “outrageous and shocking attack” was simply due to a protest that turned violent, but he never mentions either the video or the word terrorism. He just says, “My suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start.”
2012 September 13: White House spokesman Jay Carney says “the protests we’re seeing around the region are in reaction to this movie.”
2012 September 14: Carney says the administration had “no actionable intelligence” that a 9/11 attack was being planned.
2012 September 15: A CNN reporter walks through the unsecured crime scene at the Benghazi consulate and makes off with Ambassador Stevens’ personal journal. CNN reads and uses Stevens’ journal entries in news reports, citing it as an unidentified source “familiar with Stevens’ thinking” and saying the ambassador had been concerned about a “rise in Islamic extremism” that posed security threats to him and his staff.
2012 September 16: Susan Rice, Obama’s Ambassador to the United Nations, appears on multiple Sunday talk shows, saying again and again that a protest over the video was the “proximate cause” of the four American deaths. Libya’s interim president Mohamed Magarief says the assault in Benghazi was not a spontaneous protest, but “was planned, definitely.”
2012 September 19: National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen testifies before the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the assault was an “opportunistic” attack in which armed terrorists took advantage of an on-going protest. (Olsen was appointed to the position in 2011 by President Obama.)
2012 September 20: President Obama says, “What we do know is that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly harm U.S. interests.” CBS reports that witnesses in Benghazi say there was no protest prior to the armed assault against the consulate. White House Press Secretary Carney declares it “self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.”
2012 September 21: Secretary of State Clinton says “what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack.”
2012 September 25: In his address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama makes repeated references to the video, but never mentions terrorism. Then he goes on ABC’s The View and, when asked about Clinton’s statement that “what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack”, Obama blames “extremist militias” and says “we’re still doing an investigation.”
2012 September 26: Libyan president Magarief tells NBC there was no protest prior to the armed assault against the consulate.
2012 September 27: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says it’s “clear that there were terrorists who planned that attack.”
2012 September 28: The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James Clapper, issues a statement kinda sorta taking the blame for maybe saying there had been a protest that got out of control. (Clapper was appointed by Obama in 2010 and is subject to his authority, direction, and control.)
2012 October 3: FBI investigators finally arrive at the crime scene in Benghazi, which has been unsecured since September 11. (One wonders what exactly constituted all the alleged “investigating” Obama et al. had been claiming they were doing. Isn’t securing the crime scene the FIRST thing you’re supposed to do?)
2012 October 6: U.N. Ambassador Rice says when she was yapping on all those t.v. shows about the video, she had “relied solely and squarely on the information the intelligence community provided to me and other senior U.S. officials.”
2012 October 7: The White House Disinformation Campaign on Libya Summarized [2:52]
2012 October 9: Senior State Department officials for the first time acknowledge that there was never any protest in Benghazi. Then they blame the whole “blame the video” thing on the intelligence community.
2012 October 10: Both Lt. Col. Andy Wood (head of the SST the State Department pulled out of Libya in August) and Eric Nordstrom (the State Department’s Regional Security Officer) testify at a House Oversight Committee hearing about how their repeated requests for more security in Libya were denied by Washington. Their testimony is confirmed by cables made public by Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
2012 October 11: During the vice presidential debate, Biden says, “We weren’t told they wanted more security there.” He also blames the administration’s shifting explanations about the attack on the intelligence community.
2012 October 22: Members of the February 17 Brigade tasked with guarding the Benghazi consulate say that, on August 28, 2012, they received a tip about a possible attack on the diplomatic compound and that on the morning of 9/11, the consulate asked them to increase security, but later, for some unknown reason, said to never mind.
2012 October 23-24: ABC, CBS and Reuters all release the three emails reproduced above. Reuters notes, “The timing of the emails is consistent with what a senior State Department official told reporters at a briefing on Oct. 9.”
2012 October 24: When asked about the emails, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the White House knew about those emails as soon as they were received. The word he used was “instantaneously.”
2012 October 26: Fox reported that three urgent requests for military assistance for the Benghazi consulate were sent from the CIA annex. SOMEBODY told the CIA operators they were to stand down. Two former Navy SEALS, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, were at the CIA annex. They wanted to go help defend the consulate. They were ordered to stay put, but DISOBEYED that order. Both died heroically, trying to protect the ambassador and his staff.
I was talking about all this with Dearest and mentioned my blog of Oct 15, 2012 (see URL below) where I showed how President Carter’s approval ratings had gone above 50% for four months after our Tehran embassy personnel had been taken hostage. And I said, “I bet Obama was pissed they murdered Stevens instead of taking him hostage.”
Dearest said he would not be at all surprised if Obama had actually organized the whole thing. I was skeptical at first, but when he laid out his reasoning, I had to admit, disgusting as it is, it’s also plausible.
Suppose Obama made a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood, or somebody like them, to swoop into an unprotected compound on 9/11 and take Stevens hostage. And suppose that it was only because Doherty and Woods disobeyed orders to sit on their hands that said attackers found themselves getting shot at by two highly trained Navy SEALS.
Would not the likely outcome be that the attackers would assume they had been taken for suckers and take out their anger at Obama by publicly brutalizing and murdering the guy they were supposed to just kidnap?
Keep in mind, please, that we have NO EVIDENCE this is what happened. It just seems to make a lot of sense of all of the above, KWIM?
Consider if Stevens had been kidnapped and the American people had acted the way we usually do, rallying around in support of our leader during a time of national crisis. We could easily have been headed toward a sure Obama win on November 6th.
We may owe our national salvation to two heroic Navy SEALS. Had they survived, they would surely have been court-martialed. They knew that and ran into battle anyway, because it was the right thing to do.
It would be poetic to learn this is all true, seeing as it was Navy SEALS who risked their lives to get Osama bin Laden, only to have Obama claim all the credit then blab their identities and operational secrets to our enemies.
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