These slightly overlapping press briefings are going to be one for the books. Sending Carney and Holder good thoughts so they can stand strong in the face of ridiculous BS.
Anyone on the right and left calling for AG Holder to be fired or resign is a bloody fool. This man made sure champions of voter suppression did not get their way in 2012. This man protected every American’s right to vote regardless of race and political affiliation. This man has made sure every American’s civil rights regardless of age, race, socioeconomic strata, and political affiliation has been protected since the day he took the oath of office.
Shame on the cowardly left for joining with republican voices in calling for him to be fired. The left is its own worst enemy in the way they cowardly stab a person in the back who has stood up for them and citizens of this country.
Some in the left had better be careful with their witch hunt before they do irreparable damage to 2016 voters they are desperate to court.
Sadly, the professional left couldn’t care less about the voting rights of the poor or minorities (especially when those votes went overwhelmingly for PBO). They want TV air time. THey want to please the corporations that sign their checks. And most of all they want to take PBO down a notch. Their hatred of AG Holder only solidifies my impression that there is a strong racial element to their inability to ever have this president’s back. Something about PBO and AG Holder seems to rub these people the wrong way.
However, Holder is having this presser with Kathleen Sebelius, the HHS secretary on medicare fraud…..but no doubt the questions on the AP would come up. I doubt that AG Holder would say much on that since it is still an ongoing investigation.
divide and conquer. scott walker in wisconsin admitted it on camera, and that’s about the only trick they have left to try. this drum-up on non-issues around the obama administration is an act of desperation, and i say “act of terrorism” and terrorism, and thereby treason, and the part of all republicans and “the news.” these people are traitors to the constitution, and that’s not an exaggeration. just look what they say when talking about gun “rights.” treason through and through.
Just white liberal Elites are calling for Eric holders resignation. Probably not even registered democrats!
Bear in mind, us democrats support Eric Holder, not the latte Elites.
If you want a pretty good run-down on the whole AP phone records situation, please read the NYT story by Charlie Savage and Leslie Kaufman and the Think Progress story by Hayes Brown. Here’s what caught my eye from the latter.
…by reporting the CIA’s involvement in foiling the plot, they put AQAP on notice that the CIA had a window into their activities. The AP’s reporting also led to other stories involving an operative in place within AQAP, and details of the operations he was involved in. That operative, it was feared, would be exposed and targeted by AQAP as retribution for siding with the United States.
What Brown is suggesting is that AP’s leak exposed the identity of a CIA operative. Think about that for a moment…it comes awfully close to a government source leaking the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. Any of you remember the months liberals spent demanding accountability for the person in the Bush administration responsible for that one? No one called that leaker a “whistleblower” because they weren’t – just as this one isn’t.
Boxer tells GOP to ‘look in the mirror’ on who’s to blame for Benghazi
By Ramsey Cox
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said House Republicans needed to “look in the mirror” on who is to blame for the “Benghazi scandal.”
“Start by looking in the mirror,” Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “Admit that you cut too much from embassy security.”
GOP DIPLOMATIC SECURITY CUTS SLIPPED DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE.
‘Start by looking in the mirror’
By Steve Benen
———————————
I’ve never understood why this doesn’t come up more. Republicans certainly see the attack in Benghazi through a lens that filters out all kinds of relevant facts, but if we made a list of all the things both sides agree on when it comes to the incident, near the top would be the consensus about inadequate security at the consulate.
And that necessarily means there should be some kind of conversation about congressional Republicans and their responsibility.
After all, the facts are unavoidable.
Dana Milbank wrote about this way back in October, though the basic issue — inadequate diplomatic security is the direct result of Republican budget cuts — seems to have slipped down the memory hole.
Whoever provided those quotes and paraphrases did so inaccurately, seemingly inventing the notion that Rhodes wanted the concerns of the State Department specifically addressed. Nuland, particularly, had expressed a desire to remove mentions of specific terrorist groups and CIA warnings about the increasingly dangerous assignment. Rhodes put no emphasis at all in his email on the State Department’s concerns.
Previous reporting also misquoted Rhodes as saying the group would work through the talking points at the deputies meeting on Saturday, September 15, when the talking points to Congress were finalized. While the previously written subject line of the email mentions talking points, Rhodes only addresses misinformation in a general sense.
So whoever leaked the inaccurate information earlier this month did so in a way that made it appear that the White House – specifically Rhodes – was more interested in the State Department’s concerns, and more focused on the talking points, that the email actually stated.
@whitehouse email contradicts Benghazi leaks http://t.co/VVtSkuntfU leaker was trying to setup Dep. NSA B. Rhodes, e-mail show's otherwise.
Worse offender is Jonathan Karl and ABC……he misreported, and started the whole thing.
…ABC News reported that Rhodes wrote: “We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation. We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting.” The Weekly Standard reported that Rhodes “responded to the group, explaining that Nuland had raised valid concerns and advising that the issues would be resolved at a meeting of the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee the following morning.”
The GOP leaking the emails is an afterthought, that’s what they do….in every instance. It’s a news organization taking them at face value, and misreporting, that bothers me the most. ABC gave the B.S. talking points story credibility…..now it’s impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
Growing movie production industry in Georgia too. They just announced a couple of days ago a big deal to expand production capabilities (and add jobs) in Savannah. Atlanta’s already been growing like gangbusters in that area.
It’s been fun listening to almost daily spoilers on the radio news about the current production of Anchorman 2 going on in Atlanta and on the coast. And of course, Tyler Perry Studios is cranking out work big time. 🙂
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will announce in the next few weeks how many combat troops the United States will leave in Afghanistan in 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
Obama has set next year as the target for withdrawing most troops but the decision is a delicate one as sufficient forces must stay behind to train and support Afghan forces and carry out some operations.
“Very shortly, not too long from now, the president does intend to make public what his plans are for post-2014,” Kerry told reporters.
If the person who leaked classified info has a phone # associated with them, directly or indirectly, in the AP phone logs, the algorithm for identifying them is ridiculously simple. The type of information that was leaked is classified, moreover it was CIA info, and the access lists and logs are carefully maintained.
Will be interesting to know how much AG Holder reveals about the status of the investigation, like has a US Attorney already empaneled a Grand Jury, etc.
Can’t listen because of conference calls but will be watching for tweets 🙂
What a nice comprehensive tweet description of the WHPC! And a wonderful thought- I sure hope he does, with added mental health bonus because those PS would wear on anyone’s sane nerves.
All they know and understand is corruption. Of course they expect it and seek it in everyone. In India it is said: “When a pickpocket sees a saint, he sees only his pockets.” The GOP lost. They will continue to lose. Soon they will be no more.
Sickened by all of this.. tuned into whpc crapola.. just can’t stomach the made up bullshit. These are not journalists doing a job, they’re gossip mongers. They are the same trash heap that helped Bush lie us into war.
Obviously, neither Congress or the MSM have accepted the fact that they are held in incredibly low esteem by the public. When your ratings are around 12%, you should really change your modus operandi, but they are so arrogant they can’t and won’t see it, therefore, can’t and won’t change. I’m sure those that heard or read Scott Pelley’s speech, said “That’s not me” Like Barbara Boxer said to the Republicans today…..LOOK IN THE MIRROR!
After the Marathon week long fest, I wrote Scott Pelley and thanked him for his sensible and calm reporting. I appreciated that he would not try to be first with nonsense. He would say “This is what we know” and recap clearly. No hyperbole, no conjecture, no premature conclusions…..
This rotten press just wants to preen and pose in front of the camera…..I like someone has written today…..believe that 24/7 cable news has been the death of good journalism.
They all suffer from ‘celebrity syndrome’ IMHO. They think they are ‘famous’, they think people admire them, they think they are doing a service.. But they offer nothing, they are made up and fancy in their expensive clothes, as if that makes them important and gives them credibility. It does not. People are tired of all this. People are hungry, scared. They are learning to listen. They are turning to other sources for information. These news people are has-beens, trying to make a buck while they still can. They know their days are numbered. I, for one, hope it’s a small number!
Somewhere David Shuster is eating two plates of crow. He doesn’t like the taste and the feathers keep getting stuck in his teeth,
Oh and the axles just came off of that bandwagon Charles Pierce jumped on as well. There he is sprawled on the side of the road trying to hitch a ride back to Esquire.
None of these MSM assholes can be trusted. What kind of friend or ally abandons you before taking the time to get all the facts? When the friends or allies in question are so-called journalists, it makes such failures of judgment all the more damning. These folks are getting their marching orders from the same source. MSM journalism, left, right and center, are just different shades of the same shit. Mindlessly following the orders of their corporate masters to gin up some SCANDAL involving the Obama adminstration. The idiocy spewed by the Washington Post “fact checker” this morning is an Onion-worthy example or Orwellian double talk, and evidence of how low the MSM is willing to sink to score cheap political points against PBO. Shuster and Charles Pierce hyperbolic rush to judgment concerning AG Holder are just the latest evidence of the negative bias both PBO and AG Holder face from “friend” and foe alike. “Bias” against someone involves a refusal or inability to give someone the benefit of the doubt. It is impossible to be a friend or ally of someone you are biased against. You will abandon him/her at the first sign of trouble. THis is how the PL treats PBO and AG Holder.
Chuck the Yuck thinks he’s one of the cool kids! Memo to Chuck, you can’t buy swag, you either have it or you don’t. Showing off in front of the other wanna be cool kids won’t get you swag either. You’re still a fail.
I don’t have a problem with Gibbs and I also don’t agree with the drone program. I have enough sense though, to not make it a single issue for me. I’m sure it’s the same for Robert Gibbs. I have no doubt where his loyalty lies, but I can respect his having an opinion on some policy issues.
Ladies and Gentlemen that smirk on Jay’s face is the fact that the press wants the Obama Administration to save those fuckers that leaked information about the C.I.A, and you what, Jay is kindly saying to those fuckers, “you guys are up shit creek.”
HaHa Don! Sounds as if Jay is channeling his inner Buddhist: “Be kind whenever possible ~ it is always possible”. And enjoying himself immensely. Days like this must help to balance out the really crappy days for him!
Peep that last paragraph folks:
“Gene testing can save lives, but at $3,000, it “remains an obstacle for many women.” And in related news, sometime this week Eric Cantor will hold yet another bimonthly vote to repeal Obamacare—a vote that if successful (although it will most assuredly fail), will prevent many more women from access to potentially life-saving care.”
Angelia Jolie Pens #NYT Op-Ed on Cancer Risk & Dbl Mastectomy http://t.co/32VbEbhhCx Brava Angie! Speaking out will help so many!
OK I get it now, the press corps big shots get to go to the White House, the whipper snappers get to question General Holder. The Holder media group is even more ridiculous than the WHPC. That probably means that promotions are in the near future for them.
Yep! Lots of other Taurean-Talents with birthdays today
Albert Einstein
George Lucas
Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones — “Goddess”)
Robert Zemeckis
David Byrne
Sophia Coppola
Raphael Saddiq
Clara Stanton Jones (Real bookworm) 🙂
Oh but thought her birthday was in April — I was trying to released from the hospita then, I think.l. But we can celebrate Miss Ella anyday as far as I’m concerned. 🙂
No wonder the GOP and their Propaganda media are busy manufacturing scandals! They just don’t want to report good news about the Kenyan, Socialist, Nazi, Muslim, Black Panther, whom we elected President.
So here’s the deal AP, and the rest of the pretend to be stoopid media, who know better, but just has a need to be annoying.
There is no law against the AP, any other news agency, or even a crayon wielding little kid, to write and release stuff obtained though nefarious sources. It may even be detrimental to our national security, yet nothing prevents them from going with it. It may not be ethical, but it’s surely legal.
What’s illegal is for someone with national security clearance to leak the information that would jeopardize said national security. So while the MSM is all a twitter trying to make this about them, they should note that PBO and Eric Holder just ain’t that into them as they’d like to think. DOJ is doing their job to pursue a crime that involves our nation’s security, and the rights of governmental employees to perform their duties without some dummy putting their lives in jeopardy for political or monetary gain.
The Obama Diary 
Hello.
congrats on 1st UT. Is school out for you now?
Thanks.
And almost. 😀
UT!!!
OMG!!!!!!!! You know me and you love me! 😀
The “Brush Your Shoulder’s Off” picture? Pres. Obama and Jay Z?!?! My day is made.
Thank you.
😆 A perfect pic for these crazy days!
These slightly overlapping press briefings are going to be one for the books. Sending Carney and Holder good thoughts so they can stand strong in the face of ridiculous BS.
Anyone on the right and left calling for AG Holder to be fired or resign is a bloody fool. This man made sure champions of voter suppression did not get their way in 2012. This man protected every American’s right to vote regardless of race and political affiliation. This man has made sure every American’s civil rights regardless of age, race, socioeconomic strata, and political affiliation has been protected since the day he took the oath of office.
Shame on the cowardly left for joining with republican voices in calling for him to be fired. The left is its own worst enemy in the way they cowardly stab a person in the back who has stood up for them and citizens of this country.
Some in the left had better be careful with their witch hunt before they do irreparable damage to 2016 voters they are desperate to court.
Sadly, the professional left couldn’t care less about the voting rights of the poor or minorities (especially when those votes went overwhelmingly for PBO). They want TV air time. THey want to please the corporations that sign their checks. And most of all they want to take PBO down a notch. Their hatred of AG Holder only solidifies my impression that there is a strong racial element to their inability to ever have this president’s back. Something about PBO and AG Holder seems to rub these people the wrong way.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO Was thrilled to see so many candles burning this morning! I just know it makes a difference, even if they are virtual! Energy moves through all form. (except maybe the GOP)
Congrats UT.
Thanks. 😀
Is carney going to be there with Eric?
I kind of doubt that.
However, Holder is having this presser with Kathleen Sebelius, the HHS secretary on medicare fraud…..but no doubt the questions on the AP would come up. I doubt that AG Holder would say much on that since it is still an ongoing investigation.
Separate press conferences I think, Jovie.
divide and conquer. scott walker in wisconsin admitted it on camera, and that’s about the only trick they have left to try. this drum-up on non-issues around the obama administration is an act of desperation, and i say “act of terrorism” and terrorism, and thereby treason, and the part of all republicans and “the news.” these people are traitors to the constitution, and that’s not an exaggeration. just look what they say when talking about gun “rights.” treason through and through.
Just white liberal Elites are calling for Eric holders resignation. Probably not even registered democrats!
Bear in mind, us democrats support Eric Holder, not the latte Elites.
I call them Limousine Liberals….
Tom Brokaw is one.
Yup. He is very fiscally to the right and socially liberal.
I didn’t know Tom Brokaw was a liberal.
Looking a bit deeper into the DOJ/AP story
By Smartypants
—————————–
If you want a pretty good run-down on the whole AP phone records situation, please read the NYT story by Charlie Savage and Leslie Kaufman and the Think Progress story by Hayes Brown. Here’s what caught my eye from the latter.
…by reporting the CIA’s involvement in foiling the plot, they put AQAP on notice that the CIA had a window into their activities. The AP’s reporting also led to other stories involving an operative in place within AQAP, and details of the operations he was involved in. That operative, it was feared, would be exposed and targeted by AQAP as retribution for siding with the United States.
What Brown is suggesting is that AP’s leak exposed the identity of a CIA operative. Think about that for a moment…it comes awfully close to a government source leaking the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. Any of you remember the months liberals spent demanding accountability for the person in the Bush administration responsible for that one? No one called that leaker a “whistleblower” because they weren’t – just as this one isn’t.
————————————————–
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/05/looking-bit-deeper-into-dojap-story.html
Boxer tells GOP to ‘look in the mirror’ on who’s to blame for Benghazi
By Ramsey Cox
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said House Republicans needed to “look in the mirror” on who is to blame for the “Benghazi scandal.”
“Start by looking in the mirror,” Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “Admit that you cut too much from embassy security.”
FINALLY!!!
What Democrats shoulda been saying from DAY ONE
GOP DIPLOMATIC SECURITY CUTS SLIPPED DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE.
‘Start by looking in the mirror’
By Steve Benen
———————————
I’ve never understood why this doesn’t come up more. Republicans certainly see the attack in Benghazi through a lens that filters out all kinds of relevant facts, but if we made a list of all the things both sides agree on when it comes to the incident, near the top would be the consensus about inadequate security at the consulate.
And that necessarily means there should be some kind of conversation about congressional Republicans and their responsibility.
After all, the facts are unavoidable.
Dana Milbank wrote about this way back in October, though the basic issue — inadequate diplomatic security is the direct result of Republican budget cuts — seems to have slipped down the memory hole.
————————————————
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/14/18252482-start-by-looking-in-the-mirror?lite
That’s my Senator! She is one of the most reliable Democrats.
Great minds Japa!
And we are two of the greatest. A match made who knows where.
I might even let you wear the bacon tux after that!
Whoopee
Raising a glass of limeade to you both! 😀
Governor Ronald McDonell just signed a bill eliminating his states gas tax-
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/13/va-transportation-bill-to-get-ceremonial-signing/
That pays for transportation projects. So, it’s up to the federal government to pay for repairs.
Whoever provided those quotes and paraphrases did so inaccurately, seemingly inventing the notion that Rhodes wanted the concerns of the State Department specifically addressed. Nuland, particularly, had expressed a desire to remove mentions of specific terrorist groups and CIA warnings about the increasingly dangerous assignment. Rhodes put no emphasis at all in his email on the State Department’s concerns.
Previous reporting also misquoted Rhodes as saying the group would work through the talking points at the deputies meeting on Saturday, September 15, when the talking points to Congress were finalized. While the previously written subject line of the email mentions talking points, Rhodes only addresses misinformation in a general sense.
So whoever leaked the inaccurate information earlier this month did so in a way that made it appear that the White House – specifically Rhodes – was more interested in the State Department’s concerns, and more focused on the talking points, that the email actually stated.
Wow…..
This smells like Boehner to me.
Worse offender is Jonathan Karl and ABC……he misreported, and started the whole thing.
…ABC News reported that Rhodes wrote: “We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don’t want to undermine the FBI investigation. We thus will work through the talking points tomorrow morning at the Deputies Committee meeting.” The Weekly Standard reported that Rhodes “responded to the group, explaining that Nuland had raised valid concerns and advising that the issues would be resolved at a meeting of the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee the following morning.”
Who gave Karl the emails ? Boehner had them in March…..
The GOP leaking the emails is an afterthought, that’s what they do….in every instance. It’s a news organization taking them at face value, and misreporting, that bothers me the most. ABC gave the B.S. talking points story credibility…..now it’s impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
“It’s a news organization taking them at face value, and misreporting, that bothers me the most. ABC gave the B.S. talking points story credibility….”
You hit the nail on the head, LovelyPlains.
Thanks Nath, how are doing today….all is well?
Karl has looked like a Fox ‘reporter’ throughout all this. And shame on Diane Sawyer for fueling the flames.
Has some alien taken over Tapper’s body and performed journalism?
A broken clock is right 2X in 24 hours. Besides, Tapper and Co at CNN had eggs on their faces lately.
Last, Jake Tapper left ABCnews and Jonathan Karl replaced him. Perhaps, Tapper wanted to show that Jonathan Karl was a poor replacement of Tapper?
Kerry says peace talks on Syria expected in june-
http://m.voanews.com/a/1660485.html
In case anybody missed it…worth a view.
Niiiiiiiice.
Growing movie production industry in Georgia too. They just announced a couple of days ago a big deal to expand production capabilities (and add jobs) in Savannah. Atlanta’s already been growing like gangbusters in that area.
It’s been fun listening to almost daily spoilers on the radio news about the current production of Anchorman 2 going on in Atlanta and on the coast. And of course, Tyler Perry Studios is cranking out work big time. 🙂
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will announce in the next few weeks how many combat troops the United States will leave in Afghanistan in 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
Obama has set next year as the target for withdrawing most troops but the decision is a delicate one as sufficient forces must stay behind to train and support Afghan forces and carry out some operations.
“Very shortly, not too long from now, the president does intend to make public what his plans are for post-2014,” Kerry told reporters.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94D0G920130514
Yeah but…
I hope Eric Holder blows this all wide open today.
oh bloody hell, tuned in to cspan.. and lo & behold teabagger talking.
I just got retweeted by “Jesus My Lord”. I’ve hit the big time!
Not to be negative about it LL, but the only way is down after this!
I’m afraid so.
My perspective …
If the person who leaked classified info has a phone # associated with them, directly or indirectly, in the AP phone logs, the algorithm for identifying them is ridiculously simple. The type of information that was leaked is classified, moreover it was CIA info, and the access lists and logs are carefully maintained.
Will be interesting to know how much AG Holder reveals about the status of the investigation, like has a US Attorney already empaneled a Grand Jury, etc.
Can’t listen because of conference calls but will be watching for tweets 🙂
#TrustBarack (and AG Holder)
https://twitter.com/deaconmill/status/334355065777291264
Corrected:
Yep ….
I hope Jay gets paid a whooooooole lot to put up with all those pooper scoopers.
What a nice comprehensive
tweetdescription of the WHPC! And a wonderful thought- I sure hope he does, with added mental health bonus because those PS would wear on anyone’s sane nerves.I’ll be with my Storytime kids when Mr. Holder is giving his presser. So I’m expecting UT to give a blow by blow.
Carney for the win.
When did CSPAN turn into a RWNJ machine?
Right before Brian Lamb reduced his presence. It was during GW Bush.
Quite a while ago….
Their book tv channel is the same….
Thanks, guys. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to it. Unbelievable RW slant.
Woot! Go UT!!
POTUS isn’t the one who is corrupt, it’s the two bit scumbags like drudge and the media and the Republicans.
All they know and understand is corruption. Of course they expect it and seek it in everyone. In India it is said: “When a pickpocket sees a saint, he sees only his pockets.” The GOP lost. They will continue to lose. Soon they will be no more.
Holder is live now.
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
Sickened by all of this.. tuned into whpc crapola.. just can’t stomach the made up bullshit. These are not journalists doing a job, they’re gossip mongers. They are the same trash heap that helped Bush lie us into war.
This conservative writer is soooooo sad. 🙄
Obviously, neither Congress or the MSM have accepted the fact that they are held in incredibly low esteem by the public. When your ratings are around 12%, you should really change your modus operandi, but they are so arrogant they can’t and won’t see it, therefore, can’t and won’t change. I’m sure those that heard or read Scott Pelley’s speech, said “That’s not me” Like Barbara Boxer said to the Republicans today…..LOOK IN THE MIRROR!
After the Marathon week long fest, I wrote Scott Pelley and thanked him for his sensible and calm reporting. I appreciated that he would not try to be first with nonsense. He would say “This is what we know” and recap clearly. No hyperbole, no conjecture, no premature conclusions…..
This rotten press just wants to preen and pose in front of the camera…..I like someone has written today…..believe that 24/7 cable news has been the death of good journalism.
They all suffer from ‘celebrity syndrome’ IMHO. They think they are ‘famous’, they think people admire them, they think they are doing a service.. But they offer nothing, they are made up and fancy in their expensive clothes, as if that makes them important and gives them credibility. It does not. People are tired of all this. People are hungry, scared. They are learning to listen. They are turning to other sources for information. These news people are has-beens, trying to make a buck while they still can. They know their days are numbered. I, for one, hope it’s a small number!
Top Defender of the Universe, Eric Holder, begins his presser now: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
PS: Top Information Officer of the World Jay Carney, is doing a fandamtastic job: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. GOP, emoprogs, and media has a sad.
LMAO. dumbasses.
BWWAAHHAHAAAAAAAAA!!
Somewhere David Shuster is eating two plates of crow. He doesn’t like the taste and the feathers keep getting stuck in his teeth,
Oh and the axles just came off of that bandwagon Charles Pierce jumped on as well. There he is sprawled on the side of the road trying to hitch a ride back to Esquire.
Let’s send an avalanche of tweets to those who jumped the shark, shall we ?
None of these MSM assholes can be trusted. What kind of friend or ally abandons you before taking the time to get all the facts? When the friends or allies in question are so-called journalists, it makes such failures of judgment all the more damning. These folks are getting their marching orders from the same source. MSM journalism, left, right and center, are just different shades of the same shit. Mindlessly following the orders of their corporate masters to gin up some SCANDAL involving the Obama adminstration. The idiocy spewed by the Washington Post “fact checker” this morning is an Onion-worthy example or Orwellian double talk, and evidence of how low the MSM is willing to sink to score cheap political points against PBO. Shuster and Charles Pierce hyperbolic rush to judgment concerning AG Holder are just the latest evidence of the negative bias both PBO and AG Holder face from “friend” and foe alike. “Bias” against someone involves a refusal or inability to give someone the benefit of the doubt. It is impossible to be a friend or ally of someone you are biased against. You will abandon him/her at the first sign of trouble. THis is how the PL treats PBO and AG Holder.
well lets be fair ut, facts ain’t gonna stop any of this by these crackpots… they’re on their road to impeachment/firing/lynching.
Love it. Right on the mark, my Lady.
Now, curious question: why did he recuse himself? Did he say?
Didn’t hear LL, can’t watch presser at moment, just keeping an eye on newsie tweets, will be interested to hear reasons.
B/C he was interviewed by the FBI
I see that now. Hah!
The GOP was so looking forward to their hearing tomorrow w/ A.G. Holder, and D A.G. Cole who gave the go-ahead left in March……sad faces all around!
I think it’s because he had been interviewed by the FBI on the case trying to find the leak!
This press conf by the AG has nothing to do with Holder or with the AP bs..?
CPAN hawked this a press conference without specifying Medicare as the subject. GRRRRRR.
just wait a second….you know they aren’t gonna let him off that podium without what they think will be a thorough going over.
wow, just as I typed the wait a second, did someone ask about the AP stuffs. See, they can’t help themselves.
Sorry…..they did on their site……..please, look up my comments up thread. I got that inform from C-SPAN. They got this one right, for a change.
Was wondering why K. Sebelius would be there….
Chuck the Yuck thinks he’s one of the cool kids! Memo to Chuck, you can’t buy swag, you either have it or you don’t. Showing off in front of the other wanna be cool kids won’t get you swag either. You’re still a fail.
Jessica Smellen at CNN!
Robert Gibbs on Mitchell’s panel on her MSNBC show with Rep Cummings being interviewed. Should be interesting.
Let’s hope Gibbs watches his mouth after his stupid comment about the drone program.
I don’t have a problem with Gibbs and I also don’t agree with the drone program. I have enough sense though, to not make it a single issue for me. I’m sure it’s the same for Robert Gibbs. I have no doubt where his loyalty lies, but I can respect his having an opinion on some policy issues.
This is right frame on the fake IRS “scandal”.
Ladies and Gentlemen that smirk on Jay’s face is the fact that the press wants the Obama Administration to save those fuckers that leaked information about the C.I.A, and you what, Jay is kindly saying to those fuckers, “you guys are up shit creek.”
Love it!!
HaHa Don! Sounds as if Jay is channeling his inner Buddhist: “Be kind whenever possible ~ it is always possible”. And enjoying himself immensely. Days like this must help to balance out the really crappy days for him!
WHO is this Alexis freak?
Meta, I was asking that same question. she was relentless. Oh BTW, Meta I got your zodiac sign mixed up. You are not a Leo. PBO is a Leo. Slap me. 🙂
LOLz!!!! Soooooo flattering to be confused with POTUS, my dear!!
It may shut up the PL though. Nothing will stop the GOP from going after PBO and AG Holder, that is what they do.
Angelia Jolie Writes of Cancer Risk and Double Mastectomy in New York Times Op-Ed
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/05/angelia-jolie-writes-of-cancer-risk-and-double-mastectomy-in-new-york-times-op-ed
Peep that last paragraph folks:
“Gene testing can save lives, but at $3,000, it “remains an obstacle for many women.” And in related news, sometime this week Eric Cantor will hold yet another bimonthly vote to repeal Obamacare—a vote that if successful (although it will most assuredly fail), will prevent many more women from access to potentially life-saving care.”
Go Holder.
Any other questions…
OK I get it now, the press corps big shots get to go to the White House, the whipper snappers get to question General Holder. The Holder media group is even more ridiculous than the WHPC. That probably means that promotions are in the near future for them.
But..but…but…Pres. Obama is a big spender.
… and THIS
🙂
You know the repugs will try and take credit for this decline.
They will claim it is due to their brilliant sequester.. Right?
Nope. CBO attributes it to increased taxes and faster payment from bailed out companies like Fannie and Freddie
So, can I safely assume that the AP and its brethren in the press are looking a bit like this?
QUICK, someone get to the bottom of this.
AG Holder and HHS Sebelius 5-14-13
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/312748-1
yes
Yes. You deserve it.
How did Mrs. LL’s testimony go?
She’s still at it. Hopefully today will be the last day.
She feeling good about it?
Yeah, they’re basically going over the same questions she was asked at her deposition.
Keep us posted.
Yes. Your night owl posts have earned you a morning off…
Do it! You deserve a break.
So batshit crazy bachmann’s head exploded yet ?
Yay! One by one…..
This is a Big F**King Deal (BFD).
Who ordered the egg on face hold the shells?
I missed Mother’s Day here at TOD. Surely someone brought this out of the box over the weekend. 🙂
Is there ever a bad time to watch FLOTUS dance? I think NOT!
Did you know it is Stephen Colbert’s birthday today? Yet another brilliant Taurus!
Yep! Lots of other Taurean-Talents with birthdays today
Albert Einstein
George Lucas
Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones — “Goddess”)
Robert Zemeckis
David Byrne
Sophia Coppola
Raphael Saddiq
Clara Stanton Jones (Real bookworm) 🙂
not sure I even wanna mention Mark Zuckerberg 🙄
Hello my little D.J!
Let’s not forget the great Ella Fitzgerald!
Hi Dakota!
Oh but thought her birthday was in April — I was trying to released from the hospita then, I think.l. But we can celebrate Miss Ella anyday as far as I’m concerned. 🙂
But …
No wonder the GOP and their Propaganda media are busy manufacturing scandals! They just don’t want to report good news about the Kenyan, Socialist, Nazi, Muslim, Black Panther, whom we elected President.
So here’s the deal AP, and the rest of the pretend to be stoopid media, who know better, but just has a need to be annoying.
There is no law against the AP, any other news agency, or even a crayon wielding little kid, to write and release stuff obtained though nefarious sources. It may even be detrimental to our national security, yet nothing prevents them from going with it. It may not be ethical, but it’s surely legal.
What’s illegal is for someone with national security clearance to leak the information that would jeopardize said national security. So while the MSM is all a twitter trying to make this about them, they should note that PBO and Eric Holder just ain’t that into them as they’d like to think. DOJ is doing their job to pursue a crime that involves our nation’s security, and the rights of governmental employees to perform their duties without some dummy putting their lives in jeopardy for political or monetary gain.
Thank you cookemom. That was clear, concise and absolutely on point and you’re not paid a lot of megabucks to figure out.
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/14/the-republican-party-is-a-joke/