Over at the Weekly Standard the Blog catches the exchange between Lester Holt and Mark Halperin in which Halperin says out loud what we’ve all known for a long time:
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“The Obama folks clearly know they’ve found some traction on this tax return issue with Romney,” said NBC’s Lester Holt. “And then of course late in the week comes this challenge–‘give us a little more and we won’t complain anymore.’ Has this issue come to the point it’s jumped the shark?”
“I think the press still likes this story a lot, the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this,” said Halperin.
No kidding.
Obama wants Ryan to be called “risky” and the press has done nothing but call Ryan “risky.”
A CBS story claims (without any attribution) that Romney’s advisers said Ryan was “risky.”
The people around Romney told him it was risky.
As the Republican presidential candidate prepared to pick his running mate, he kept in constant touch with his senior advisers. They met in small groups and alone with the candidate. He talked to a number of other friends and confidantes, soliciting advice and opinions.
Aides knew the decision was fraught, and they told Romney so. It was a choice, they knew, that would fundamentally re-shape the race for the presidency. It would acknowledge Romney needed to offer voters more than just being the guy who wasn’t Democratic President Barack Obama. And it would tie Romney to the architect of a highly controversial budget proposal that Democrats are eager to use to badger the Republican.
And somehow CBS knows this despite
This was the culmination of a methodical, highly secretive process that involved 10 top Romney staffers, a volunteer team of attorneys, a secret secure room in Romney’s Boston headquarters, and reams of paper on a long and then a short list of potential candidates.
So the top Romney staffers who kept the entire process a top secret let on that they felt Ryan was risky?
Not. Buying. It.
A Google search for “Ryan a risky pick” yields nearly seven million hits. Among them:
Paul Ryan A Risky Pick – The Hinterland Gazette | The Hinterland …
New Yorker: Paul Ryan – Mitt’s Risky Pick | Peace . Gold . Liberty …
WaPo: Paul Ryan is a risky pick for Romney
It’s far more likely Ryan’s being “risky” came from David Axelrod and the lapdog press dutifully obeys its master.
Just this morning Steve Peoples of the AP outed himself as another Obama sycophant. His article claims that Ryan has been ordered to avoid taking questions.
But Ryan has been directed to avoid taking questions from reporters who travel with him, and to agree only to a few carefully selected interviews. He is known for sketching budget graphs on napkins to explain his ideas, but this past week it was Romney who used a white board during a news conference to help detail his own plan — one he says is virtually identical to Ryan’s.
Who directed Ryan not to speak to the press? Peoples asserts this as fact without any kind of evidence and this story has been picked up all over the place. And Obama? When’s the last time he took a question from a reporter?
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President Obama hasn’t formally taken questions from the White House press corps in more than two months, while on the campaign trail in Iowa yesterday he made time for reporters from People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.
His last news conference was at the G20 in June, when he answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water’s edge.
The White House press corps has not formally been given the opportunity to ask questions of the president on U.S. soil since his appearance in the Briefing Room on June 8 (when he said “the private sector is doing fine.“)
His last formal White House news conference was on March 6.
And that’s with proper attribution.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Smorgasbord: Smorgy, I can’t reasonably disagree with what you say there. I am retired also, and also have plenty of time. Just reading between the lines. It seems as if you were not aware of all the things that had already been published about Obama at the time he produced his fake birth certificate and therefore was (and should have been) neutral. But, as I said before, it is hard for even a neutral to look at what he produced for one minute and not be absolutely convinced that it is not a real certified copy of a legitimate birth certificate. I’m sure you have a certified copy of your bc and if you will take a few minutes to look it over, you will see that it doesn’t contain many mistakes, differences in type face, mistakes in the ‘certification stamp’ , etc. But you will see all of those things and more, all in the first minute and that is without all these ‘computer dianostics’ being preformed on it that proves it beyond any doubt. Once you know that the president has deliberately provided to the world a fake birth certicate, how can you be ‘neutral’ on him?
What do you think of this ‘fact’? Obama supposedly went to Columbia for 2 years, completing in ’83 in Political Science. Not one single person has ever been produced or named that ever saw Obama on the campus of Columbia. Especially none of the other Poly Sci majors. Can you be neutral on that? Yes, we should know the facts before judging, but Obama won’t produce any contrary facts.
@Redteam: ##51
When I said I am a “neutralist,” I meant on things new to me. If I get enough info on a subject to form an opinion, I ain’t neutral any more. Like you have said, it is hard for anyone to not know how fake a president we have.
You must be new to Flopping Aces. I have been condemned by the liberals on FA for being a berther. I too have said that all an open minded person has to do is look at the birth certificate and see that it was done on a word processor, not a typewriter.
You didn’t mention that the printing in the windows along the left side is straight, but the windows curve. Just put a straight edge under the typing and it will show it is straigt, but the lines of the windows curve. If you haven’t subscribed to World Net Daily’s emails, they are just about the only ones covering the Obama fake stuff. They are at WND.com.
It is nice to know that we have another reader who uses “common sense” to analyze what they read and hear. You will fit in quite well here.
@Smorgasbord: Smorgy, I have had FA bookmarked for at least 5 years, but was not a regular reader til lately. I ran across Mata on Strata and she told me she had been a writer here so I came over to read what she had written. I agree with about 95% of what I’ve read by her. I do read WND every day. yes, of course I know about the curved lines on the left side and all the other problems with the fake BC. I just don’t see how anyone can look at it and defend it. I like FA’s positions (generally) and the comments sections. So Smorg, I will be a fan and read your writings..
Looks like Smorg/Redteam tag team. If you guys really believe BHO didn’t attend Columbia and wasn’t born in Hawaii I’d love to hear some additional conspiracy theories.
@Richard Wheeler: Richard: If you really believe BHO did attend Columbia, would you enlighten the readers here? Why do you think so? Have you ever heard that any other student from Columbia at the same time ever saw him there? Provide us a link please. I can provide you a link to statements from other Poly Sci students of the 83 class that never saw him in a single class, and never saw his name on any class roster. Maybe there is a class of 83 graduation announcement with his name on it. Please provide that link. While you’re asking for someone to advance you more conspiracy stories, why don’t you tell us who started the conspiracy story that obama did graduate from Columbia, in any year or ever? I graduated from a major univ many years ago and can still name several persons in my senior class and if someone asked me if a certain person was in my class I could give you a absolute yes or no and that person would certainly have been in at least one of the senior major classes. So stop trying to act like these things aren’t important, just provide one single item of proof for any of your claims. So it’s not so much if I believe it or not, it’s why do you believe it?
Redteam Google Wayne Allen Root a published author who graduated from Columbia with BHO in ’83. He’s no friend and has additional conspiracy theories you may find interesting. Mant students as well as the University have confirmed his graduation in ’83. This allowed his acceptance at Harvard Law where he graduated as Editor of the Law Review.
If you wanna beat him suggest you stick with “It’s the economy stupid” Forget the far right conspiracies. It hurts Romney.
@Richard Wheeler: and of course Wayne Allen Root has always declared that he never heard of him, never saw him and he was never in a class of his. You said: ” Mant students as well as the University have confirmed his graduation in ’83.” Really? and one of those students names would be? Name just one for us, and provide a link to where he said it. Just one. Please provide the link to the Univ confirming his graduation. As you well know, of course, this has never happened. Remember, the president had all that info sealed. And we all certainly know that he was not accepted at Harvard based on anything other than money from a well heeled contributor. His Law Review appointment was an affirmative action deal.
Why are you kidding yourself?
Richard Wheeler
why should you be believed, where is your link to what you are saying, you must surely have the proof with a link, because you took the side to protect OBAMA, even would you lie for it?
THIS IS ALL FOR THE ECONOMY TO RETURN TO THIS COUNTRY,
NOT STUPID AS YOU THINK
@Richard Wheeler: Oh, and Richard, as you probably know Snopes (that liberal site that is carrying his water) claims it is true, that he did attend Columbia. However, like you, they could not produce one single person that ever saw him on the Columbia campus and Columbia has never acknowledged that he attended or graduated. If Snopes couldn’t find them, you can’t either.
@ilovebeeswarzone: iLOVebeESWarzONE you’re not gonna get any proof from Richard. As i pointed out to Richard, Snopes can’t even find proof of it, they just do what obama does, says that he said he did so he must have. Don’t you think that if there was a student that was in the presidents classes, they would be bragging to all their friends about ‘ I went to school with a president’ yada, yada. I graduated from a Univ in the same class with a recent presidential candidate, and yes, I can verify that he was actually a student at that univ.
Redteam
yes, that would be so,that’s why he never gave any answer to questions in 2008,
so he is not trusted after 4 years of not being present at the WHITE HOUSE,
to do his job,
bye
R.F. Where did you get the idea Root says he didn’t go to school with him? He’s using his attendance at Columbia to sell HIS conspiracy theories, Do you believe Obama went to Harvard Law? Occidental for 2 years? High Scool in Honolulu? Do you believe he has a wife and two lovely daughters, What do you believe?
@Redteam: #53
The far left liberal isn’t going to believe anything they don’t want to, or they know something is a lie, but the lie goes along with their agenda, so they try to defend it. The propaganda media goes along with any lie the democrats come up with. They also don’t report on some things the democrats don’t want reported. Remember Nancy’s, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” and Obama’s, “You didn’t build that.” Immagine if ANY republican had said anything like that. The propaganda media would have been all over them.
@Richard Wheeler: Richard, you’re not really claiming that Root said he went to school with Obama are you? He says he was a student at Columbia and majored in Political Science and graduated in 83, the same year that Obama ‘claims’ to have graduated. However, he clearly states that even tho they were supposedly in the same Political Science major that he never saw Obama, or never was in a class with obama and that he does not know a single soul that does know him or was in a class with him. You should at least read up on a person before claiming to represent his views. I think Obama attended Harvard Law as a foreign student. There are several people that know a Barry Soetoro that went to Occidental as an Indonesian citizen that bears a strong resemblance to obama and was a real pot head. Don’t have a clue if he went to high school in Honolulu, never heard anyone say they were a classmate. Don’t know if he’s married or not, claims to be. Claims to be the father of 2 children. Many people claim he is gay, I have no knowledge of that either.
As he desires, he is a blank book. Check out this link:
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/
@Richard Wheeler: #54
I and others have posted MANY different things about Obama on FA. You either won’t believe the FACTS, or you’re one of those who won’t believe anything negative against your king, or you are just an instigator who like to see how much trouble they can stur up. I’m not going to wrestle in the mud with you.
@Smorgasbord: Smorgy, what Richard is really doing is embarrassing himself badly. I’m sure he will keep his face hidden tomorrow when he goes out in public.
@Redteam: #66
People like Richard are just seeing how many people they can get to argue with them. The more you argue with them, the more they like it. If they would put as much effort into something positive, look what they could accomplish.
@Smorgasbord: Smorgy, yeah, I know, but the problem with him is that he is incapable of making a valid argument. He can’t provide links or facts for his points. I think he’s about 13 trying to act 18 but is a product of the Dimocrats educational system and can’t figure out how to provide any proof (which is not available). Maybe he’ll listen to us and learn something.
@Redteam: #68
He’s not hear to learn. He’s here just to instigate.
Smorg R.F Tagteam Romney,Ryan,Boehner,Palin,Gingrich etc.etc,. ALL leaders of the Republican Party believe BHO was born in Hawaii and attended Columbia. Why does your foolish tagteam disagree?
Are you two trying to elect Obama?
Who here at F.A. agree with your foolishness?
R.T says “Don’t know if Obama is married and has kids.” THAT SAYS IT ALL
Don’t get me wrong,I think you guys hilarious, and eagerly anticipate more conspiricies.
Semper Fi
@Richard Wheeler: #70
First, I make up my own mind. I listen to others and try to check out what they say. I have given many links to the many ways the birth certificate, Social Security number, the Selective Service card, and other things are fake. I have said before that I believe that we no longer have a two party system. We have one party with two branches.
I’m done wrestling in the mud with you.