The Obama Objective: To Control The News… “The Obama political team at the White House has always prided itself on its media savvy. After all, they got a candidate with an otherwise unsalable socialist past elected on a campaign that sold his personality, not his platform.”

The Obama Objective: To Control The News

Investor’s Business Daily ^ | 20 May 2013 | Editorial

Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:13:51 PM by IBD editorial writer

Barack Obama “Hope” poster, originally by Shepard Fairey. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

First Amendment: For awhile, it looked like the White House wanted just to control “the narrative.” But its seizure of AP phone records and surveillance of Fox employees now show its real aim: to control the news.

The Obama political team at the White House has always prided itself on its media savvy. After all, they got a candidate with an otherwise unsalable socialist past elected on a campaign that sold his personality, not his platform.

They won saintly press coverage, with much blather, mostly from the Washington Post about how Obama was all about “storytelling” and selling a “narrative.”

They also mastered the hard propaganda, creating a Pepsi-Cola-like happy horizons logo to substitute for a platform and market their candidate and even employed pop artist Shepard Fairey to drive the hipsterly message home through his famous portrait.

“Big Sis” for president? EMILY’s List, Washington Post promote Janet Napolitano in 2016

“Big Sis” for president? EMILY’s List, Washington Post promote Janet Napolitano in 2016

 

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | 5-21-2013 | Ben Johnson

 

Posted on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:49:12 PM by topher

 

English: Washington, DC, February 4, 2009 — DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano visits FEMA Headquarters and meets with FEMA staff. FEMA/Bill Koplitz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Would the woman most closely associated with the TSA airport stripsearches make a good presidential candidate? The abortion lobbying group EMILY’s List and The Washington Post think so.

 

This month, EMILY’s List launched an initiative entitled “Madam President” dedicated to electing the first female president.

 

The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, said she was not placing all her bets on a Hilary Clinton candidacy.

 

 

 

Breaking: IRS Targeted Conservative Groups That Taught US Constitution

 

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Breaking: IRS Targeted Conservative Groups That Taught US Constitution

 

The Gateway Pundit ^ | May 13, 2013, 6:49 AM | Jim Hoft

 

 

 

 

Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013 9:03:36 AM by Texas Fossil

 

The IRS not only targeted conservative Tea Party groups and Jews… They also targeted conservative groups that taught the US

 

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Constitution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Washington Post reported:

 

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On Jan. 15, 2012 the agency decided to target “political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform movement.,” according to the appendix in the IG report, which was requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and has yet to be released.

 

 

 

Ted Cruz Has All the Right Enemies

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Ted Cruz Has All the Right Enemies

 

Townhall.com ^ | May 8, 2013 | Brent Bozell

 

Posted on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:48:42 AM by Kaslin

 

 

 

Posted on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:48:42 AM by Kaslin

 

 

 

 

The Washington Post offered a splashy profile of freshman Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday, and the most surprising thing about it was a lack of venom. The reporter described “the self-assured, nonstop talker who won national debate championships as an undergraduate at Princeton.”

 

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Cruz “honed his reputation early in his career as a dazzling Supreme Court advocate” and now “has bashed into the national conversation,” most notably in attacking establishment Republicans, who’ve called him and other young Senate conservatives “wacko birds.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This story, however, wasn’t as surprising as James Carville’s declaration on ABC’s “This Week.” He was typically blunt — but in a wholly unexpected direction. “I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years.”

 

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Bill Ayers (Hussein’s terrorist pal): Road to Atlanta cheating scandal ‘runs right through WH’

Bill Ayers (Hussein’s terrorist pal): Road to Atlanta cheating scandal ‘runs right through WH’

 

Washington Post ^ | 4/03/13 | Valerie Strauss

 

English: Bill Ayers speaks to audience members following a forum on education reform at Florida State University (January 12th, 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Posted on Friday, April 26, 2013 10:59:14 PM by Libloather

 

 

 

Bill Ayers, a retired professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in no uncertain terms takes aim in this post at federal school policies that led to the Atlanta cheating scandal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ayers, a radical activist during the 1960s and ’70s, had the national spotlight thrown on him during the 2008 presidential campaign when right-wing commentators tried, incorrectly, to say he had a close relationship with then candidate Barack Obama.

 

 

 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Will Attempted Bomb Attack Be Blamed on ‘Violent Rhetoric’?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Will Attempted Bomb Attack Be Blamed on ‘Violent Rhetoric’?

 

Gather ^ | April 12, 2013 | Renee Nal

 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona speaking at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been effectively vilified in the mainstream media—possibly contributing to an attempt on his life. On Friday, a package addressed to the controversial Sheriff would have exploded, possibly killing him if the device was not intercepted. This was not the first attempt to assassinate the sheriff.

 

 

 

Obama Is Pushing Banks To Make More Home Loans To Borrowers With Poor Credit

Obama Is Pushing Banks To Make More Home Loans To Borrowers With Poor Credit

Brett LoGiurato

April 3, 2013

The Obama administration is readying a push to get banks to make more home loans available to individuals with weaker credit, The Washington Post’s Zach Goldfarb reports.

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It’s a push that walks a tightrope, since it is expected to help boost the continuing economic recovery immediately but risks opening up the shaky lending that led to the housing crash.

Obama’s plan would provide for more lending to individuals such as young people buying their first homes, as well as people whose credit has been damaged by the recession.

Conservative Libertarian Outpost | MOLAN LABE!… “UN Arms Trade Treaty Calls for Disarmament of Persons 55 and Older”

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Within the pages of “Behold a Pale Horse,” Cooper charges that certain sectors of the U.S. government initiated a covert operation decades ago designed to gradually turn the population against the private ownership of firearms.

In order to accomplish such a feat, the government set about on a deliberate course of action that would insure that deadly, military grade firearms would make it into the hands of dangerous criminals.

UN Arms Trade Treaty Calls for Disarmament of Persons 55 and Older

(Guns) – Individuals 55 and older would lose their right to keep and bear arms under a provision that’s expected to be included as part of a comprehensive United Nations Global Arms Trade Treaty.

 

UN Secretary Gen. Ban Ki-moon spoke about the impetus behind the controversial measure at a press conference over the weekend in New York City, the site of the final negotiations between the 193 Member States.

 

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“Regulating the international transfers of both weapons and ammunition is a key component of a robust arms trade treaty, as is limiting civilian access to small arms and munitions,” said Ban Ki-moon.

 

UN disarms elderly

 

PFC Agnes Agnieszka mans a machine gun next to a truck.

 

 

 

 

 

“There’s an emerging consensus that certain groups should be restricted from possessing conventional arms, certainly those who fuel conflict, arm criminals or violations of international humanitarian or human rights law are at the top of the list,” Ban Ki-moon continued.

 

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“But also, the international community believes segments of the population that present a danger to themselves and others, chiefly individuals deemed or adjudicated mentally defective and persons with attenuating cerebral faculties, should be added to that list.”

 

The UN Small Arms Treaty Talks Are Getting Serious – Where’s The Outrage?… “despite being less than 24 hours away. Conservative blogs and sites are as guilty as the Mainstream Media.”

The UN Small Arms Treaty Talks Are Getting Serious – Where’s The Outrage?

Freedom Outpost ^ | Mar. 18, 2013 | Dean Garrison

Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:50:48 AM by EXCH54FE

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From March 18-28 the United Nations will again meet with an updated draft to try to finalize passage of its Small Arms Treaty. However it doesn’t seem to be a story, despite being less than 24 hours away. Conservative blogs and sites are as guilty as the Mainstream Media. Almost no one is speaking out against a Treaty that has the ability to change America, and the world as we know it, forever.

To give credit where credit is due I will say that the NRA has not dropped this fight. It just seems that most everyone else views it as a non-story. As of this morning I found six total sources reporting the story within the last two days. I consider that unacceptable. Here is a quote from NRA opposes U.N. arms treaty, which was published earlier today in The Washington Post:

Top Secret America – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchTop Secret America –

 

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Top Secret America is a series of investigative articles published on the post-9/11 growth of the United States Intelligence Community.[1] The report was first published in The Washington Post on July 19, 2010, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dana Priest and William Arkin.

 

The three-part series, which took nearly two years to research,[2] was prepared with the assistance of more than a dozen journalists.[3] It focuses on the expansion of secret intelligence departments within the government, and the outsourcing of services.[4]An online database at TopSecretAmerica.com, as well as the articles to be published, were made available to government officials several months prior to the publications of the report. Each data point at the website was substantiated by at least two public records.

 

David Greenfield: Obama’s War on American Generals

David Greenfield: Obama’s War on American Generals

FrontPage Magazine.com ^ | Feb. 19, 2013 | David Greenfield

Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 8:07:07 AM by Tugo

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During the Bush administration there were only two American commanders of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Under Obama there have so far been five. There has been a new ISAF commander nearly every single year that Obama has been in office. The only exception is 2012 when Obama was too busy trying to win an election to bother further sabotaging a losing war.

Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning

Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning

 

WAPO ^ | Friday, March 8, 5:47 PM | Rand Paul

 

Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 7:19:32 PM by Dacula

 

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If I had planned to speak for 13 hours when I took the Senate floor Wednesday, I would’ve worn more comfortable shoes. I started my filibuster with the words, “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA. I will speak until I can no longer speak” — and I meant it.

 

I wanted to sound an alarm bell from coast to coast. I wanted everybody to know that our Constitution is precious and that no American should be killed by a drone without first being charged with a crime.

 

McCain Doubles-Down, Calls Rand Paul, Justin Amash, and Ted Cruz ‘Wacko Birds’

McCain Doubles-Down, Calls Rand Paul, Justin Amash, and Ted Cruz ‘Wacko Birds’

Reaganite Republican ^ | 08 March 2013 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 12:54:25 PM by Reaganite Republican

English: United States Senate candidate , at a town hall meeting in Louisville, . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is what WAR feels like, eh?

McCain was just on twitter pumping a ‘must-read’ WaPo article that agrees with him on Ron Paul‘s filibuster…

Woodward: White House ‘Code: You Better Watch Out’

Newspaper editor and book author Bob Woodward continued his battle with President Barack Obama’s administration on Thursday, saying the White House is playing the “old trick” of attacking the messenger because he accurately reported the president’s reversal on the upcoming sequester.

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“They got caught and — this is an old trick — make the conduct of the press the issue rather than their conduct,” Woodward told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Thursday night. “The biggest story in Washington is the town itself. What a craze it has become.”

Bob Woodward: ‘Very Senior’ White House Official Warned Me

Bob Woodward: ‘Very Senior’ White House Official Warned Me

 

The Blaze ^ | February 27, 2013 | Jason Howerton

 

Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:26:38 PM by Art in Idaho

 

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Appearing on CNN Wednesday, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward said a “very senior person” at the White House warned him that he would “regret doing this,” referring to his outspoken criticism of President Barack Obama’s handling of the impending forced cuts known as the sequester.

 

 

“I think they’re confused,” Woodward told CNN host Wolf Blitzer. Woodward apparently went on to criticize Obama further over the sequester the same day he received the warning from the White House.

 

(Gunny G: As Always, See The Reader Responses!!!) ~ Woodward: Obama Exhibiting ‘A Kind of Madness I Haven’t Seen in a Long Time’

Woodward: Obama Exhibiting ‘A Kind of Madness I Haven’t Seen in a Long Time’

 

NewsBusters ^

 

Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:59:38 PM by chessplayer

 

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The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward continues to break ranks with his Obama-loving colleagues by holding the President’s feet to the fire concerning the looming budget sequester.

 

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Just days after he wrote a piece in the Post exposing the inconvenient truth that it was indeed the White House that initially proposed sequestration during the 2011 debt ceiling debate, Woodward appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday saying that Obama’s decision to not send the USS Truman to the Persian Gulf as a result of these deliberations was “a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time”

 

 

 

(video follows with transcript and commentary):

 

Reevaluating the President’s Push for Pre-K

Reevaluating the President’s Push for Pre-K

 

Eagleye Blog ^ | February 14, 2013 | Bethany Stotts

 

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:35:20 PM by eagleye85

 

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In his State of the Union speech, President Obama proposed “working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America.” This additional preschool access would, of course, be funded through federal and state coffers. President Obama is headed to Georgia today to “formally unveil his proposal for expanding early childhood education,” reports the Washington Post.

 

Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars

Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars

 

Boston.com ^ | February 13, 2013 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

 

Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:14:39 PM by Mad Dawgg

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.

 

But the troops that launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foot in the combat zone. Now their battlefield contributions may be recognized.

 

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that for the first time the Pentagon is creating a medal that can be awarded to troops who have a direct impact on combat operations, but do it from afar.

 

Big Sis mulls presidential bid

Big Sis mulls presidential bid

 

GOP USA ^ | February 5, 2013 | Staff

 

Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2013 9:38:33 AM by IbJensen

 

 

If Hillary Clinton isn’t in the 2016 U.S. presidential mix, a Washington Post commentary says Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano may be the woman to watch.

 

Before moving to Washington Napolitano was a well-regarded and popular governor in Arizona. Since arriving in the nation’s capital she has made it known she’s mulling making a run for higher office, the Post said Monday.

 

A Morally-Confused Marine…

A Morally-Confused Marine

 

Townhall ^ | February 5, 2013 | Dennis Prager

 

Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 12:09:58 PM by EveningStar

 

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Last week, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by a Marine captain titled, “I Killed People in Afghanistan. Was I Right or Wrong?”

 

President Obama’s popularity surges to three-year high [Smell the Dung]

President Obama is riding a wave of personal popularity into his second term, with his highest favorability ratings since his first year in office, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

 

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Fully 60 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Obama in the new poll, up slightly from October but a clear shift in opinion from an election year in which his ratings hovered in the mid-to-low 50s.

 

And by 39 percent to 26 percent, the president now has more “strongly” positive ratings than strongly negative reviews, breaking a two-year stretch in which intense opposition was on par with or higher than intense support.

 

Koppel, Woodward on Obama-Clinton Foreign Policy: World in Meltdown; U.S. in Most Dangerous Period

Koppel, Woodward on Obama-Clinton Foreign Policy: World in Meltdown; U.S. in Most Dangerous Period

Sunday, January 27, 2013 | Kristinn

Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:22:31 PM by kristinn

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Last week on Meet the Press, it was NBC News‘ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel slamming the Obama administration‘s “diminished”,foreign policy influence around the globe.

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Today on Meet the Press, two veteran Washington newsmen, The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and former ABC, now NBC News correspondent Ted Koppel, matter of factly described the present foreign policy environment as being in “meltdown” and entering “one of the most dangerous” periods in U.S. history.

Obama has hijacked the American Revolution

Obama has hijacked the American Revolution

WND ^ | 1/24/2013 | Buchanan, Pat

Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:24:43 PM by Sheapdog

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“Second Term Begins With a Sweeping Agenda for Equality,” ran the eight-column banner in which the Washington Post captured the essence of Obama’s second inaugural. There he declared:

“What binds this nation together … what makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago.”

Obama then quoted our Declaration of Independence:

President Obama’s Cat-Food Future For Retirees

The Obama Economy: Americans are drawing down their 401(k)s for nonretirement needs in record numbers, just as Social Security goes bust. This portends poverty for millions as the White House fiddles. Cat food, anyone? One out of four U.S. workers with 401(k) retirement savings accounts has been forced to cash them out or borrow from them at high costs just to stay solvent.

 

English: President Barack Obama and Senator Ted Kennedy participate in a national service event at The SEED School of Washington, D.C., where H.R. 1388, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act was signed April 21, 2009. The legislation tripled the size of AmeriCorps and provides new service opportunities for millions of Americans at all stages of their lives. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

The Washington Post, citing a report from financial advisory firm HelloWallet, said the withdrawals have drained $70 billion, or an astonishing near-quarter of the total $293 billion, in America’s retirement accounts “undermining already shaky retirement security for millions of Americans.”

 

(Gunny G: All Hands Know It’s The First Baby-step To The Full Alinsky!) ~ Registration Will Lead to Confiscation

Registration Will Lead to Confiscation

The Blaze ^ | January 9, 2013 | Brian Lilley

Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:37:19 PM by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration is considering a “national database” of all firearms in the United States to “track the movement and sale of weapons.” If such a database comes to fruition the database will lead to confiscation.

Last year Canada ended its national long gun registry, a national database of every rifle and shotgun in the country that was supposed to help police track the movement of and sale of weapons. When it was introduced twenty years ago critics said the registration of firearms would eventually lead to confiscation, a criticism dismissed as ridiculous, yet that’s what happened and more right up until its dismantling.

As recently as last winter law abiding gun owners who had complied with the registry were having their rifles confiscated. In late 2011 hundreds if not thousands of people who had legally purchased the Armi Jager AP80, a .22 calibre variant of the AK47, were informed that their rifles had been deemed illegal and must be surrendered .

Journalists react in shock to Drudge Report header featuring Hitler and Stalin… (“The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent begged his followers not to talk about or visit the Drudge Report.”)

Shocked journalists this afternoon were quick to react to the Drudge Report’s controversial header photo comparing President Obama to Hitler and Stalin. The item linked to a Weekly Standard article reporting that President Obama was willing to address the gun issue with an executive order.

 

“Hitler and Stalin!” exclaimed BuzzFeed Editor Ben Smith on Twitter alerting most of his followers by linking directly to the Drudge Report.

 

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“Drudge rules our world,” responded Slate journalist David Weigel to Smith’s post on Twitter, later adding sarcastically, “SOMETHING SHOCKING HAS BEEN POSTED ON THE INTERNET.”

 

“Our right is nuttier than your right (US to 193 countries),” wrote the Al-Monitor’s Laura Rozen.

 

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The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent begged his followers not to talk about or visit the Drudge Report.

 

“Dear everyone: Talking about how Drudge’s visuals are ruse to get attention = giving Drudge attention,” he wrote.

 

“Also, don’t link to Drudge – link to twitpic,” the Washington Post’s James Downie added.

 

Brennan must answer for passport breach

Exclusive: Jack Cashill ties in Obama’s apparent 1981 trip to Pakistan

 

On Monday, President Barack Obama nominated John Brennan, his chief counterterrorism adviser, to head up the CIA. Brennan, 57, has served as assistant to the president for counterterrorism and homeland security since 2009.

 

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Before voting to confirm, Republicans in the Senate may want to question Brennan about the role he played in Obama’s 2008 campaign, specifically his potential involvement in the multiple breaches of the presidential candidates’ passport records in March of 2008.

 

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The Washington Post headlined the story on March 22, 2008, “Rice Apologizes For Breach of Passport Data; Employees Looked at Files On Obama, Clinton, McCain.”

 

The “Rice” in question was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The offended party in the Post story was Barack Obama. He told reporters that he expected “a full and thorough investigation,” one that “should be done in conjunction with those congressional committees that have oversight function so it’s not simply an internal matter.”

 

It Begins… Obama’s Ministry Of Truth Replacing Great Literature With Propaganda In The Classroom

The Obama Administration has launched its newest campaign to confiscate the minds of our children. To qualify for federal grant funds, Obama is requiring states to adopt a new program called Common Core State Standards In English. The program would wipe great works of literature from English curriculums across the country.

 

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And replace them with “information text”, such as “Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management”, an Order, of course, favorable to the Liberal environmentalist movement.

 

Via Lucianne, Powerline reports,

 

Obama Wants a War

Conservatives seem to be nonplussed about President Obama sending Treasury Secretary Geithner to Capitol Hill without a proposal for a grand bargain on entitlements.

 

But why? Worrying about debt and default and entitlements is for the responsible people.

 

English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Responsibility is for the people who believe in the “responsible self,” the notion developed a couple of millennia ago during the Axial Age. Responsibility is for the bourgeoisie.

 

President Obama is above all that. Liberal politics in general is above all that. Their politics is about war, not about nice comfortable entitlements. President Obama’s War? He’s fighting a war on “inequality.” Even the Washington Post‘s Zachary Goldfarb is willing to admit to that.

 

Is Petraeus Scandal an Obama Scandal?

Is Petraeus Scandal an Obama Scandal?

 

Accuracy In Media^ | November 16, 2012 | Roger Aronoff

 

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Posted on Monday, November 19, 2012 11:34:27 AM by Academiadotorg

 

The news media are continuing to try to protect the Obama administration from a rapidly growing scandal.

 

A November 13th article in The Washington Post by Scott Wilson argued that Obama “has been untouched by the unfolding investigation involving former CIA director David Petraeus,” a view that belongs on the opinion page under the heading, “wishful thinking,” not on the news pages.

 

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Petraeus scandal puts four-star general lifestyle under scrutiny – (“The commanders who lead the nation’s military services and those who oversee troops around the world enjoy an array of perquisites befitting a billionaire”) The Washington Post

Petraeus scandal puts four-star general lifestyle under scrutiny

 

View Photo Gallery — The David Petraeus scandal: Cast of characters: A scandal that began with the relationship between retired Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the CIA, and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, has mushroomed. Here’s a look at the people mentioned in the case.

 

English: Official photo of David Petraeus, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Greg Jaffe, Published: November 17

 

Then-defense secretary Robert M. Gates stopped bagging his leaves when he moved into a small Washington military enclave in 2007. His next-door neighbor was Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, who had a chef, a personal valet and — not lost on Gates — troops to tend his property.

 

Gates may have been the civilian leader of the world’s largest military, but his position did not come with household staff. So, he often joked, he disposed of his leaves by blowing them onto the chairman’s lawn.

 

Among the new information uncovered by the Post’s Greg Jaffe and Anne Gearan, the Petraeus biographer was asked to leave her doctoral program at Harvard and apparently mistated her accomplishments at West Point.

 

Among the new information uncovered by the Post’s Greg Jaffe and Anne Gearan, the Petraeus biographer was asked to leave her doctoral program at Harvard and apparently mistated her accomplishments at West Point.

 

The Myth of the Missing Three Million Republicans

A score of people this past week have asked me about the three million Republicans allegedly “missing” at the polls this year. For starters, if the Washington Post is to be believed, Mitt Romney received 1.3 million fewer votes than John McCain did in 2008, not 3 million. For the record, Obama received 7.5 million fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008.

 

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More than 1.1 million of the Republican votes were “lost” in California. It is not that California Republicans turned against Romney. His percentage of the vote was higher than McCain’s in 2008. It is just they know their votes were in vain in that increasingly absurd state. The same is likely true in New York State where Romney fell more than a half-million votes short of McCain’s totals. Excluding these two states, Romney received 300,000 more votes than McCain.

 

That much said, the results in several states do raise eyebrows, most notably Ohio and Pennsylvania. Romney received nearly 100,000 fewer votes than McCain in the former and 35,000 fewer votes in the latter. In all the other battleground states, Romney improved both on McCain’s raw numbers and his percentage of the vote.

 

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Prison Planet.com » US ‘Secret’ Drone Base and Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy

The Washington Post yesterday detailed a secret — and not-so-secret — US base of operations in the Horn of Africa.

 

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

It is from this massive, 500 acre base run by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), that virtually all the non-Afghan war drones are launched. It is the center of the US drone war against al-Qaeda (except for those al-Qaeda elements in Libya and Syria with which the US administration is allied — think of those as Eastasia).

 

Romney Is a Liberal… (“And even worse than you think, says Paul Gottfried.”)

For once in a blue moon, I find myself agreeing with Dana Milbank of the Washington Post (October 18) when he observes that “conservatives are mum about Mitt’s moderation.” Making allowances for Milbank’s ideologically colored view, when he says that in recent weeks the Republican presidential candidate “sprinted toward the center,” this columnist is correct on two points.

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One, Romney has abandoned just about every “conservative” social position he took during the primaries; and two, “conservative” commentators and GOP regulars don’t seem to mind. They’re too busy celebrating Romney’s ascent in presidential polls, or else complaining that Romney hasn’t savaged Obama’s foreign policy furiously enough.

GOP media celebrities may be receiving their worldview as well as money from neoconservative fat cat Rupert Murdoch, who is an ardent American interventionist.

They seem to be oblivious to the fact that most Americans are not complaining about Obama’s insufficient aggressiveness in international relations.

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Mark Levin takes issue with George Will, Charles Krauthammer debate analyses

On his Wednesday radio program, conservative talker Mark Levin suggested he didn’t care much for the presidential debate analysis of either The Washington Post’s George Will or the Fox News Channel’s Charles Krauthammer.

 

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Levin, author of “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,” first took on Will, who called Tuesday’s town hall debate “immeasurably the best in American history” on ABC’s post-debate coverage.

 

“Why? How can this be said to be “immeasurably the best?” Levin asked. “I don’t think more lies have been told in 90 minutes in history of debates. Why? The constant interrupting by the moderator?

 

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You know what it is? It’s all about the superficial. They wanted to see a fight. They got a fight. Well, good for them. I like to see fights, too.”

 

Rush Limbaugh: As Predicted, the Corrupt Polls “Tighten”

 

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RUSH: CNN is panicking over their own poll. As predicted, the polls are starting to tighten.

 

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CNN, at least what they’re saying, they’re starting to panic. You’ll hear the sound bites coming up. Oh, by the way, the Washington Post poll that was so devastating to Romney in the swing states, this goes beyond simple incompetence or media malpractice.

 

This is genuine corruption. We find out, and from the Washington Post’s own pollster, that they based last Friday’s poll of Romney being up ten, 11, whatever it was in those three swing states, on 160 people with a margin of error of plus or minus eight. I’m not kidding you.

 

Buying Reelection on the Taxpayer’s Dime

 

Washington Post reporters Jerry Markon and Alice Crites deserve kudos for turning the spotlight on the Obama administration’s use of taxpayer funds to curry voter favor in the critical battleground state of Ohio.

 

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Markon and Crites cite a laundry list of largess that has poured into the state in recent years:[T]he state’s portion of the $2.3 billion in clean-energy manufacturing tax credits was tens of millions of dollars more than the slices that went to other swing states…

 

WINEP’s “Near East Policy”: Silence the truthers, stage another 9/11! (“…Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call out the federal army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack”)| Veterans Today

 

Clausewitz famously said that war is “politics by other means.” Today, mass-murdering Americans in false-flag attacks to start wars against Israel’s enemies is “Near EastPolicy by Other Means.”

 

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This treasonous “policy” is being openly and shamelessly advocated by the pro-Israel think tank WINEP, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

 

Last night, I helped break the story that WINEP representative Patrick Clawson has openly called for the mass murder of Americans in a false-flag attack to launch a war on Iran. (Watch the video – it must be seen to be believed.)

 

Top Senator Calls for Investigation of Bush False Flag Terror Plot | Veterans Today

 

by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

 

English: Official photograph portrait of former U.S. President George W. Bush. Português: Foto oficial de George W. Bush, presidente dos Estados Unidos da América. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Accusations have been made against two senior Navy officials that may well lead to charges of conspiracy to commit murder, treason and terrorism against the United States.

 

More importantly, sources report that behind the plot that it has taken years to bring forward may well implicate former Vice President Cheney.

 

As of this writing, the lives of all involved hang in the balance as, too often in the past, cleaning up the crimes of the Bush administration has involved “accidents” as with presidential aide John Wheeler, whose body was found in a Delaware landfill in January, 2011.

 

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Regime Brags: Obama is So Smart, He Doesn’t Need Intelligence Briefings (The Arrogance)

 

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RUSH: This is Marc Thiessen,

 

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opinion writer, Washington Post: “Obama Alone: This President Does Not Need Intel Briefers.” Wait ’til you hear this spin. We’ve already got Obama walking back a major gaffe, this statement that Egypt is not an ally. They have been since 1989. Regardless the Muslim Brotherhood situation now, they’ve always been an ally. Folks, they’ve had to walk that back now.

 

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This is a major gaffe, and even foreign policy media people know this, and that’s why they’re walking this back, because there are some people who are not in the media laying down for this one……..

 

OBAMA SKIPPING STAGGERING AMOUNT OF DAILY INTELLIGENCE MEETINGS

 

One of the centerpieces of the Democratic case for Barack Obama‘s reelection in Charlotte last week was the President’s record on national security – specifically, his decision to pursue the operation that eventually led to the death of Osama bin Laden.

 

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DNC Lies About Obama and His Mother

 

RUSH: Obama, in his speech last night, said two things which are not true. Well, one thing was said about him which isn’t true, and he said something himself

 

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that isn’t true. His wife, Michelle (My Belle) Obama, during her speech, I think even Clinton during his speech, I think Biden during his speech, said that Obama was constantly by his mother’s bedside when she was ill, passing away.

 

Why Is Obama So Confident? (Gunny G: ” and that reason must be on the mind of EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!! Semper Wondering! *****”)

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Who’s winning the presidential race? There’s an odd disconnect between the polls and the body language of the candidates. John Harris and Alexander Burns report from Tampa, “Republicans believe Obama’s governing defects should make a GOP victory virtually inevitable, but Romney’s political defects make it only a long-shot possibility.”

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The Media Built That for Obama

 

On Aug. 5, Chris Cillizza at The Washington Post announced he was playing with a “somewhat controversial idea” that Mitt Romney should be the favorite to win the presidential election. Debatable, maybe. But controversial? Well, yes. It violates the pro-Obama mandate of our national press corps.

 

Prison Planet.com » Govt May Now Collect, Catalog, and Store All Private Information

 

Joe Wolverton, II

New American

Aug 6, 2012

Imagine that the U.S. government had the power to scour the reams of public records and collect and collate every bit of personal information about every citizen of this country. Now imagine that any of the various intelligence and security agencies within the government could combine that data with any other information about a person that has been posted to a social media website or compiled by one of the many data aggregating companies that keep tabs on all of us. Finally, imagine that all this data could be passed among these agencies and that the ability of anyone inside or outside the government to challenge this surveillance was all but eliminated.

Prison Planet.com » Govt May Now Collect, Catalog, and Store All Private Information

 

Joe Wolverton, II

New American

Aug 6, 2012

Imagine that the U.S. government had the power to scour the reams of public records and collect and collate every bit of personal information about every citizen of this country. Now imagine that any of the various intelligence and security agencies within the government could combine that data with any other information about a person that has been posted to a social media website or compiled by one of the many data aggregating companies that keep tabs on all of us. Finally, imagine that all this data could be passed among these agencies and that the ability of anyone inside or outside the government to challenge this surveillance was all but eliminated.

Articles: The Obama Syndrome? (“But at what point does a disorder become a danger to the person suffering it, or worse, a danger to those around them?”)

But at what point does a disorder

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become a danger to the person suffering it, or worse, a danger to those around them?

The question relates to our president. Now in the spirit of full disclosure, I am not a trained psychologist or psychiatrist, but I

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have taken a college level course or two. As in every Psych 101 course, I, like every student in the class, was convinced that I suffered whatever aberration was being discussed that day. So, as I say, I am not an expert. But also like most people who have taken an introductory psychology course, some things stuck with me, most probably because they were so unusual.

Tea Party Unbound (Barry Soetoro Outbound)

 

For several years now it seems to me that voters throughout the country in a perfectly peaceable way have demonstrated their revulsion at the ruling class’s political , academic and media elites, and the media’s disparagement or utter refusal to cover this civil revolution has not succeeded in killing it.

Instead, as more people join in and see how the media distorts or refuses to report what they see with their own eyes, the sooner all of the major media will be joining Newsweek and CNN and the NYT and the Washington Post in their death throes. (This week it was so bad the far left Ford Foundation was granting media like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times substantial funds to keep these half dead publications afloat.)

White House issues embarrassing apology to Charles Krauthammer over Churchill bust gaffe

 

The Obama presidency is fond of issuing apologies for America on the world stage, but very rarely makes them at home to Americans. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer has just issued one to Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer,

 

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who last week wrote an op-ed berating the Obama administration for removing a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office when it came to power. Pfeiffer had issued a stinging attack on Krauthammer, alleging that his Churchill bust reference was “100 percent false.”