Tom Maguire does a stellar job at actual reporting here on the woman, whom Obama alleged, died because of the big bad health insurance companies and was then buried with a Obama shirt on.
All the more stellar since the MSM can’t be bothered to type in a few keywords on google:
Obama told the crowd that the woman had no health insurance, so viewed that way the Times reporting is literally accurate. However, the woman, Melanie Shouse, did in fact have insurance – she had a catastrophic policy with a $5,000 deductible and did not want to drop a few hundred bucks on a routine exam and a mammogram, despite feeling a lump in her breast at age 37.
Tom links to an interview with Shouse in which she said she took a gamble on insurance because she had just dropped 30 grand into a new business. She only took out catastrophic insurance in which the deductibles were high. She felt a lump but did not go to the doctor, once again gambling. Then, when she finally DID go see a doctor they told her what she already knew, cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Congressman Mike Pence on Obama’s Q&A at the GOP Retreat:
Transcript below the updates….the MSM is already trying to spin it like Obama schooled the Republicans. Of course they are splicing in a lot of Obama footage and leaving much of the Republicans questions and statements on the cutting room floor.
Comedy gold. First we have David Shuster, the shill for all things liberal and scummy, inviting Andrew Breitbart onto MSNBC to discuss the O’Keefe story where Brietbart got Shuster to retract his allegations of wiretapping:
As soon as Breitbart forced Shuster into a corner by reading Shusters’s obviously biased tweets Shuster would not let Breitbart have any airtime, instead he continued to talk over him and lamely tried to change the subject. Andrew later re-printed the email Shuster sent to him alleging that he had “no horse in this race.” An obvious lie based on his tweets. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, he didn’t say those exact words but that’s what you walk away with when you watch the whole 10 minute clip of Stewart laying into the Olbernutbag. Of course Jon had to throw some Rush Limbaugh red-meat to his audience but the rest of this clip was out-friggin-standing: (h/t Taqiyyotomist)
It really is not any surprise that this report coming out of the US military is completely sterilized as it has been the aim to whitewash it from the beginning. It details how everyone else screwed up but Hasan was just a troubled military man who simply freaked out and killed 13 of his compatriots, sic.
Look at the photos the media selected to use of Hasan. Downplay any mention of terrorism. Read the rest of this entry »
“I think he should, if the standard is the one set by [Trent Lott],” Steele said on “Fox News Sunday” when asked if Reid should resign his post. Trent Lott resigned his post as Majority Leader in 2002 after praising Strom Thurmond’s 1948 presidential candidacy during a birthday celebration for the 100-year-old South Carolinian.
Mark Halperin and John Heliemann report in their new book, “Game Change,” that Reid said during the campaign he thought Obama could win because, while black, he was “light-skinned” and lacked a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.
While reading Michael Isikoff’s piece on the Newsweek blog regarding the Club G’tmo detainees, I discovered an ironic twist of rich, chocolatey sweet, goodness all the way down at the end of the article.
Remember all of the whining, crying, protesting, and hand wringing about how the detainees at Club G’tmo were supposedly being mistreated in all sorts of ways? Yeah, it turns out that things are so bad there…the detainees want to stay.
Now, in a classic curve ball type twist of fate, the “horribly abused, totally miserable” detainees at G’tmo are, according to their lawyers, preparing to fight their transfer to the Land of Lincoln.
But the final irony is that many of the detainees may not even want to be transferred to Thomson and could conceivably even raise their own legal roadblocks to allow them to stay at Gitmo.
You know its getting bad when your starting to lose liberal talking heads like Bob Schieffer. Here he is with his chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford on Face the Nation yesterday discussing the The Crotch Bomber and why the issue will continue to haunt Team Obama:
BOB SCHIEFFER: Jan, some people, critics of the President are saying that perhaps the response to this was one of the low points of this administration.
JAN CRAWFORD: Well, I mean when you’re talking about the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano coming out and insisting that the system worked and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying on this program last week, pretty much the same language that the system has worked. That’s a problem. I mean obviously the American people can look out there and go, well, you know, it didn’t.
But it’s not just those sound bites. I mean those are sound bites. The reason that’s an issue for Obama is that it goes to the bigger question of the competency of his government and the trust that people have in that government. You look at polls. Polls show that the trust in government is an all time low. Domestically, obviously, stimulus plan hasn’t worked. Unemployment is high. And so now we have a situation where a terrorist can get on an airplane, seemingly could have been caught if some officials had just done a basic Google search of the database. And the Homeland Security secretary is insisting the system worked. Read the rest of this entry »
The year started with my wife outta work, no family income (I just get beer money for my books), two sick kids, the neighbor’s trampoline had just taken flight into the back of our car-almost totaling it.
…The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama – which is something that the critics developed themselves – would be comical, blasphemous, or both.
If such a comparison were to be made, it would, of course, inevitably be to Obama’s advantage.
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Despite all the compromises, it has finally been possible to ensure something so fundamental, as the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them. Add to that the biggest ever financial support package in America’s history, a major disarmament agreement and the quickest-ever re-establishment of American reputation.
On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work. Read the rest of this entry »
Journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer, the maker of Not Evil, Just Wrong, has been doing a standup job of showing the hypocrisy inherent in not only the man-made global warming schizo’s but the left side of the aisle as a whole. Here he is questioning the hypocrisy of those “representatives” to the Copenhagen climate change conference who have belittled and shamed people about the effects of flying a plane.
Funny how they dismiss McAleer as not worth their trouble. How dare he question them on their “green” credentials. Right?
The U.N. estimates 40,500 tons of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere during the 12-day conference – 90 percent of it from flights. The rest comes from waste and electricity related to transport to and from the conference center and lodging in and around the Danish city.
Most of the leaders were flying either on commercial airlines or government-owned jets and Sweden was one of the few to announce plans to offset those aviation emissions – something it does routinely. Most are doing nothing to boost their green credentials and some saw no reason to treat their trip to the U.N. climate talks any differently.
And today on Neil Cavuto the filmmaker was assaulted on live tv today by those oh so tolerant lefties, and Neil rightly points out that you see none of this from the right side of the aisle: Read the rest of this entry »
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he would have found a justification for invading Iraq even without the now-discredited evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to produce weapons of mass destruction.
“I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean, obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments about the nature of the threat,” Blair told the BBC in an interview to be broadcast this morning.
It was a startling admission from the onetime British leader, who was President Bush’s staunchest ally in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
Blair’s comments were immediately denounced by critics who accused him of using false pretenses to drag Britain into an unpopular war that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of allied troops and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
Speaking to broadcaster Fern Britton, Blair insisted that ousting Hussein had improved the situation in Iraq by laying the foundation for a more democratic country. He described the upcoming Iraqi elections as “probably the single most significant thing that’s happened to that region for many years.”
“I can’t really think we’d be better with him and his two sons still in charge,” Blair said of Hussein.
The title of that article above, from the LA Times, is titled: WMD Not Point Of Iraq War.
