1 Epic.

2 “I wouldn’t be surprised if President Obama learned Osama bin Laden had been killed when he saw himself announce it on television.” -- Jon Stewart

3 ***this is me not calling attention to the fact that I was first***

shit

4 Rumsfeld on Beck right now. fyi

5 Stompist.

I fart in your general dir... whoops.

6 Always a nice surprise to read den Beste on current events! Thank you, Steven, and thanks, Gabriel.

7 I know someone who works for a LA Times syndicate paper.
When Kelo v. City of New London came down from the SCOTUS, one reporter in the newsroom yelled out ...

"Will these conservatives stop at nothing"

... of course not realizing that it was the liberal side of the court that had taken the day.

8 They will ignore it. They are just making a little noise so they can claim plausible deniability (in their eyes) that they are nothing but Obama's butt boys.

9 A good read. It's always difficult to go into the heads of your enemies, but honestly I think this isn't anything new for them. The ends utterly justify the means to the left. That's why Ted Kennedy, a murdering drunk driver, was the "Lion of the Senate." They plumb don't care about anybody being hurt; it's for the greater good.

10 Watergate was just "management flaws," if we use the new NYT term for this.

11 When I saw Kucinich on FNS I was amazed at how lucidly he framed the Benghazi and IRS stories and thought "we don't have a single person on 'our' side that does that". I think we're permanently fucked.
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 15, 2013 07:56 AM (50gjw)
==============
Their side hates us and thinks we're evil. From the top right down to the family of four churchgoers who gave $100 to their friend because he was running for dogcatcher.

Our side alternates between "can't we all just get along?" and "let's not fight."

Then there's the large faction on our side of "if we just give them what they want (queer marriage; amnesty; etc.) maybe they'll leave us alone--or even start liking us!"

12

(There's that damned 22nd Amendment, and there's no way we're going to get it repealed in time.)

 

Silly Wingnuts.  I could have my peeps in the senate pass this overnight.

13 I don't care if the press hounds Obama from now until the day he leaves office. I don't care if they actually do their jobs. I don't care if they pretend he's a republican so they actually give these scandals the coverage they deserve. They waited till after the election, so fuck em. All this stuff was out there before, and what were they doing investigative reports on? Rocks with the N word spray painted on them and Mitt Romney's customer complaints from his barber shop days in high school.

14 They will never leave us alone until we are in full tyranny.  Then they still won't.

15 Nope, ain't buyn' it. Remember that secret 'deep background' off the record press briefing? and one day later the press narrative changes direction with all the media moving in unison.

 

16 I think this is called "wishcasting".

There is no way in hell Obama will be remembered poorly, or held accountable.

17 “Game over, man.” – Cpl. Hicks

As is any semblance of the Mocha Messiah’s “Hopey-Changey” utopian fantasy.

If it is wrong to derive so much joy in the self-destruction of a
group of people who were so thoroughly convinced in the righteousness of
their cause that honesty and forthrightness were luxuries they simply
couldnÂ’t afford, then I simply do not wish to be right.

The really breathtaking thing is (and what should really be keeping the
sycophants awake at night out of sheer resentment), is that The
Lightbringer had almost two years in which to enact any piece of
legislation his little Marxist heart desired. However, as we saw with
the atrocity that was the “passage” of the Obamacare shit sandwich,
while they may indeed have believed in the inevitability of the Prog
Revolution, they knew enough to know that to simply foist a litany of
“transformative” intrusions upon of Proles would result in precisely the
sort of wholesale electoral slaughter they ended up reaping in 2010.
They were simply unwilling to walk the walk, pass their silliness, and
let the chips fall where they may in November.

“No,” they said.” This is for their own good, and if we can’t get them to like it, we’ll destroy anyone who says otherwise.” I also took away from that whole fiasco the notion that while they screeched like stuck pigs about social justice," they knew full well that there were damn few of us who agreed with them. Enter a few reliable GOP patsies, so as not to have to foot the whole bill come November. God forbid they should have the balls to actually stand for something.

Many of us are far less surprised by this shitstorm then the rapidity
with which the scales seemed to fall from the eyes of the collective MSM. As for myself, the past four days have been nothing short of a celebration of everything I hold dear as an American with no opprobrium whatsoever as I witness Obama single-handedly destory his own meticulously crafted mythology.

Lesson learned? If you lack the courage of your convictions, youÂ’re
an arrogantly uninformed, deliberate coward, and will inevitably find yourself resorting to exactly the sort of bullshit we see here. Such is the fate of any minority which grows weary of having to deal with messy, unpleasant things like, say, democracies. Like any common thug, that which they cannot or will not earn, they simply steal, lie and/or intimidate into acquiring.

This isnÂ’t their country. ItÂ’s ours. The difference being (and the
core principle the LSM never saw fit to disclose), is that when we said,
“We want our country back,” we were talking about them, as well. Believe
it or not, I maintain we NEED liberals. ItÂ’s the self-serving douchebags I can do without. Conservatives and libertarians have never shied away from a public debate on the issues, settled upon at the ballot box.

ObamaÂ’s Left, predictably, has demonstrated an intense disdain for
those who disagree with him, and they've conducted themselves accordingly. He has become a cliche. He is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and yet another example of the futility of Alinsky, Frankfurt School “progressive” policies.  Crime, it has been said, never really pays in the end. Especially if you werenÂ’t particularly clever to begin with.

God bless and keep Jonathan Karl. WeÂ’re it not for him, I can only
imagine the screeching weÂ’d be forced to endure from Those Who Crap On Cop Cars Yet Know Better Than We.

Again, IÂ’d feel sorry for them, weÂ’re i not enjoying this so thoroughly.

18

"...the Emperor truly does not have any clothes. Everyone is thinking the same thing: You know, Obama really isn't a very good president. "

Hm, the empty suit campaigning on hope-n-change and cotton candy rainbows. No?  He's NOT a very good president?

 

The.

Worst.

President.

Evah.

 

19 Ugh.  I think Rummy is wrong about the Muzz religion not being totally nihilist.

20 I forgot how much I missed Den Beste's political musings. Rare though they might be its good to hear from him once in awhile.

21 Rumsfeld(sp)  just knocked outta the park with truth.

22 Den Beste FTW!

23

The press strategy is to talk about all the scandals, tsk tsk a little, and meekly accept the lie that,  "No  one really knows who was at fault and the   President knew nothing of any of this."

 

Down the rat hole,   move on...

 

Some deputy secretary of whatever might lose his/her job at the IRS and that's about it.

24 Good shit Gabe, thanks. I feel a disturbance in the force. Once the damn starts to leak it goes pretty quick. Sort of like a sinking ship. You work your ass off to keep it from sinking, but at some point you realize it's time to jump. You DON'T want to be the last one to realize that, because you might not make the life boat of honesty. The coming weeks and this summer are going to be fun! Who will jump ship first? Certainly not the NY Slime, but looks like the WaPo is starting to look for the lifeboats right now. More Popcorn, Please!

25 Nice dream.  What will happen here in reality is that after a really bad week where every scandal that has been brewing will be dumped out so fast none will get much attention, all at once they will all shout "Squirrel!" and move to some other topic.  At which point all this will be old stories that have 'been completely covered.'

26 The solution to the MSM dilemma is quite simple, and it satisfies the base racist liberal. Through no fault of his own Obama is 1/2 black and 1/2 white. Yes, he has a fully evolved and accepted black ideology, but there still is the white. So the MSM should obvious start playing the black Dr. Obama/ white Mr. Obama card. Everything good and proper can be attributed to black Dr. Obama, and the bad stuff placed at the hands of the evil white Mr. Obama. Of course Obama struggles against his whiteness, but he had to engage that part of himself to gain office. After all the MSM know with certainty that racist America would never actually vote for a full black man with accepted black man ideology. The only way a black man could be elected in the US is if he had some white or at least fully Uncle Tom genes. So lurking just below the MLK (as revisioned) Obama there lurks an evil Halliburton loving Dick Cheney trying to get out. Use it Times/ NYT/ ABC et all. Obama is only imperfect because he is partially white. It would be racist to suggest otherwise.

27 But, yeah, I think Obama could fuck a chicken on live TV and they'll still be naming roads and schools after him by 2020.

28 Look! Over there! Angelina Jolie's missing breasts! Problem solved. My wife has shitty Good Morning America on - that's all they could talk about. That and DWTS. The fact is that the only way this cannot be ignored is when: a) High-level officials start going to jail (or mysteriously die, either is fine by me) b) President Dick is impeached.

29 Another angle is Obama is trying to get all the dirty laundry out now before the 2014 election cycle.

30

Be sure to set a link to this gem

David Axelrod: "When you're POTUS theres so much you don't know below you because the government is so vast."

Yeah, and I'm sure if government was only half as large, it would be half-vast.

31 To me, the most damning thing re: the MSM is the obvious fact that the MSM could. not. have. cared. less. about the many abuses of power over the past 4+ years UNTIL IT AFFECTED THEM via the AP scandal. That old saw about "first they came for the Jews" comes to mind. When they came for the Tea Party the MSM couldn't have cared less. And then they came for the press.

32 21 Rumsfeld(sp) just knocked outta the park with truth. --- I read Rummy's book and had a lot more respect for him by the time I was halfway through, regardless of any arguments that can be made over Iraq.

33 Use it Times/ NYT/ ABC et all. Obama is only imperfect because he is partially white. It would be racist to suggest otherwise. Posted by: Mekan at May 15, 2013 10:24 AM (hm8tW) We'll go with that. I really couldn't care what excuse they use for his failures, as long as they admit these are HIS failures. Somehow, Chimpy McBush was supposed to know the intricate inner workings of every single Federal Government department and office (and couldn't), but it's ok for 'Super-Genius' JEF and 'most sophisticated consumer of intelligence information on the planet' SCOAMT to not have any clue about what is going on - even in his own cabinet.

34 For some real fun play a little logic game and in your head imagine what would happen if the IRS was targeting African American groups.

35 Will someone please let loose a squirrel wearing something shiny? Please?

36 28 Look! Over there! Angelina Jolie's missing breasts! Problem solved. My wife has shitty Good Morning America on - that's all they could talk about. That and DWTS. CNN is still covering Jolie's missing breats and Prince Harry does New York 10x more than any of the scandals. Interesting that CNN chose THIS scandal-plagued week to morph into HLN, hmmmm? CNN-hitting bottom and still digging furiously.

37

29 Another angle is Obama is trying to get all the dirty laundry out now before the 2014 election cycle.

I tend to disagree. There seems to be this syndrome that everything the Obama Administration is one stroke of brilliance after another, that the only reason there is a mistake is that was intentionally. I think the worst for is yet to come.

 

38 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

39 29 Another angle is Obama is trying to get all the dirty laundry out now before the 2014 election cycle. Giving ammo to the enemy has never been a good strategy. Just saying the IRS abuse is a game changer. The ads write themselves and Carney and his stupid answers are going to be in a lot of ads next year.

40 i love rumsfeld he reminds me so much of my dad. God, i miss my dad

41 37 29 Another angle is Obama is trying to get all the dirty laundry out now before the 2014 election cycle. I tend to disagree. There seems to be this syndrome that everything the Obama Administration is one stroke of brilliance after another, that the only reason there is a mistake is that was intentionally. I think the worst for is yet to come. --- I'm not sure if worse scandals will come out or not, but everything is coming out so fast and furious, no pun intended, that it will likely poison the Dem brand by 2014.

42

Obamacare is coming our way. We see it coming as if in disaster movie slow motion, knowing it's going to catastrophically crash in a blinding explosion of spectacular fail. Millions of ordinary and largely apolitical people are going to feel the full and immediate effects of that crash. Their health-related insurance premiums will double, even triple, and suddenly the IRS will be more intrustive than ever, monitoring their every financial move and levying fines for the smallest infraction, such as failing to report a slight pay raise.  The quality of healthcare will decline dramatically, appreciably, visibly. We'll start seeing years-long waiting lists for even routine surgeries and treatments.

 

It is doubtful even the MSM, with all its influence, will be able to hide the magnitude of this failure or fully shift the blame to Republicans or otherwise explain it away. Soviet propaganda--and ultimately the Soviet system--failed when the people could see the glaring contradictions between what they were told and the reality of their daily lives.

 

I think the next three or four years will be worse than anyone seems to realize.

43 Obama to every imbecile who voted for him in 2012:  "How you like me now?"  Sad truth is, these idiots still like him--- alot. 

44 Obama to announce he's gay in 3...2...1...

45 The AP thing might be a deal breaker.  The press is feeling like an old mistress who not only got dumped, but found her nudie pics on a revenge web site.

46 I am still amazed that liberals think that a racial minority would have a hard time being elected to public office. It's good for at least 5% and I've known this since 1995. (Well, except for minorities of majority-minority districts, they have no chance.) It's because liberalism is a monumental and epic failure AND THEY KNOW IT. But liberals are now holding onto it via morality. They forget the anti-anti-Communist days but remember "civil rights" and flatter themselves that they were on the forefront. To make this work, conservatives have to be these absurd caracatured racists. Even though red SC and LA have governors of Indian descent. Steven is right. Even now, the whole of Obama's presidency is the following: He was the first black(ish) president. Every historical film about his presidency will start with that and say very little else.

47 When the IRS demanded my "private thoughts," I said sure:  "I think the IRS and Obama are pieces of shit." 

48 The Fever has broken.

49 OT/ DEAR AOSHQ CUSTOMR SERVICE, PLZ UNBAN MAH WERK IP ADDRES. CHECK UR EMAIL.

50 45 The AP thing might be a deal breaker. The press is feeling like an old mistress who not only got dumped, but found her nudie pics on a revenge web site. Posted by: Bob at May 15, 2013 10:31 AM (bT2QZ) I think this is the big one - all the other scandals were against 'other people' or 'for the cause'. T his one is a direct attack on the press, unless they can somehow justify it because those reporters were off the reservation.

51 someone needs to interview his mother in law

52 The AP thing might be a deal breaker. The press is feeling like an old mistress who not only got dumped, but found her nudie pics on a revenge web site.


Then bittorrented all over the world.

53 Wait a minute, I was black when you all elected me.  How can you hate me now because I'm black?  Sincerely, Barry O. 

54 The paper moon presidency, and that fact can't be changed.

55 I just hope they have to wince a little inside. 

56 OT Barf:

It's been over 17 years since former first lady Hillary Clinton urged a new community spirit in her book "It Takes A Village." Now President Obama's administration is doing something even her husband didn't--turning it into a $600,000, three-year federal program.

"It Takes A Village: Building State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Partnerships for Community Preparedness and Response"

drudge link

57 Obama to chief of staff:  "Quick, call Venus Williams.  I need her to come out of the closet ---now!" 

58 I sure hope Obama still has that Canadian bus for his presidential legacy and library.

59 The.
Worst.
President.
Evah.

If he hadn't been such a lazy tard it would have been true but I think he does not quite rise to the pinnacle of destruction that was FDR.

60 Damn sequester. Carney press conference transcripts hardest hit.

61 Boehner just said he wants people in jail

62 #56  And the new book:  "It Takes An Illegal Immigrant" 

63 Obama to seek asylum in Kenya?  Seriously? 

64 #61  I want Boehner, Hoyer, Pelosi and the rest of that crowd in jail. 

65 Millions of ordinary and largely apolitical people are going to feel the full and immediate effects of that crash.

I've never liked the phrase "you get the government you deserve" but I sorta see where people who say it are coming from.

66 Did someone say LOLCATS?

67 #56  Or "It Takes A Village of Illegal Immigrants" 

68 Boehner just said he wants people in jail


Fuckin A John...... are you gonna follow through on that ?

69

Ted Nugent on WLS radio this AM in Chicago was on an epic rant.  Do a search and listen if you can  .

 

70 Obama's post-presidency will be spent in the most exotic locations around the world. He won't spend more than 21 days per year in the lower 48. The only question is whether Michelle will divorce him or pull a Hillary.

71 Boehner said he doesn't want to hear who resigned vis a vis the IRS scandal. He wants to know who is going to jail.

72

The AP thing might be a deal breaker. The press is feeling like an old mistress who not only got dumped, but found her nudie pics on a revenge web site.

 

Leave Helen Thomas out of this.

73 I stopped reading at preference cascade.

74 Hello?

75

I've seen maybe one or two instances that might be called a "preference cascade." I sure as fuck wouldn't count on it to save our asses.

 

Didn't work out last November, did it? 

76 Not buying it. Got my hopes dashed once too often!

77

"It Takes A Village: Building State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Partnerships for Community Preparedness and Response"

 

Tribal? So we can be like Africa? How's that working out for Africans?

78 Hey what's wrong with anime???

Unleash Team Rabbit on the White House schnell!

79 Remember Ohio is Boehners backyard.

80 Chill out peoples. The press will be back on their knees by Monday. Just like Woodward was.

81 68 Boehner just said he wants people in jail Fuckin A John...... are you gonna follow through on that ? --- I recommend starting with a good chunk of the IRS staff, from the auditors on up to executive-level officials, then frog-marching Geithner, the current SecTres, and a bunch of these other shit-weasels.

82 It's 9:45 Central time and we haven't had our daily breaking ObamaScandal^(TM) . What went wrong?

83 Gabe, thanks for passing along the Den Beste article. I keep hoping for the dam to break and for the preference cascade to begin, but sometimes I think it's too much to hope for. Too many people are too invested in their utopian fantasies. But then, I'm a bit of a pessimist.

84 -------> I stopped reading at preference cascade.



Yup. Heard that one too many times during the campaign to ever listen again.

85 If he hadn't been such a lazy tard it would have been true but I think he does not quite rise to the pinnacle of destruction that was FDR.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at May 15, 2013 10:38 AM (epxV4)

 

FDR as 'pinnacle of destruction' is pure hyperbole. While the New Deal was disastrous, both in conception and execution, FDR was a great war-time President. His most ideologically opposed critics grant that much.

 

Worst President Evah title still goes to James Buchanan. Look it up. The closer you look, the worse it gets. Buchanan's administration, particularly his War Department under Floyd, was actively treasonous. Treason's hard to beat.

86 Obama Schedule || Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:45 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 11:00 am || Delivers remarks at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service; U.S. Capitol 12:30 pm || Lunch with Biden That's not the morning schedule. That's the schedule. How can that be? And I'm becoming suspicious of the daily "Lunch with Biden."

87 It's weird.

I mean, we've known all along that these people were fookin crooked-so long that I just take it for granted now.

It is disorientating to watch all these people with "O" faces over these latest scandals.

Welcome to the party, pals.  Awake now, you stupid low-info fucks?

88 69 Ted Nugent on WLS radio this AM in Chicago was on an epic rant. Do a search and listen if you can . Posted by: Big Swinger at May 15, 2013 10:42 AM (iWo0u) What show?

89 #83  I think there  was a preference cascade,  but it was overcome by a horde of LIV's who normally don't vote.  A soupcon of fraud,  a dash of  people sitting home on the GOP side,  and voila.

90 Their power to control the national agenda has been declining for the last fifteen years

...No.

They've declined as a vehicle for advertising to some formerly coveted demographics. So they stopped coveting them. If you're in one of them, you might mistake their loss of direct sway over you for a generalized power decrease. After all, they're not talking to you anymore.

And...they're not talking to you anymore.

But they're not ignoring you. They talk about you. And what they have to say about you is the "national agenda."

91 DEAR AOSHQ CUSTOMR SERVICE, PLZ UNBAN MAH WERK IP ADDRES. CHECK UR EMAIL.

Posted by: Serious Cat at May 15, 2013 10:34 AM (1gdVS)

SC, are you on twitter?  If yes, send Andy (@AndyM1911) a Direct Message about it. 

92 AP is now tweeting Boehner quote about who is going to jail. New definition of a conservative: A liberal who has been wire tapped for two months?

93

68 Boehner just said he wants people in jail


Fuckin A John...... are you gonna follow through on that ?

 

I didn't know the Speaker of the House could put people in jail.  Could you elaborate on how that happens?

94 Shit just got real

95 9:45 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

I'm beginning to wonder if he even does this considering he hasn't heard of any of the scandals before they hit the news cycle....

96 The only question is whether Michelle will divorce him or pull a Hillary. Posted by: AmishDude at May 15, 2013 10:42 AM (8egXB) I thought it was generally recognized that only Reggie pulls his Hillary. Am I missing something?

97

Too wordy.

 

Columnists need to columnate, and Den Beste has always been "overrated" in my opinion, because bloggers ought to be able to make their points without needing to be that floral.

 

And besides, tell us something we all can't see for ourselves.

98 Sounds like Boehner is gonna start with committees and subpoenas

99 look the President will have a few lower sycophants fired  from irs , he will binky swear He will never allow wire tapping Of Journalists again unless it's an affiliate of Breitbart or the like (which they will be On Board with), promise media a rose garden and Parties  galore.

all forgiven.  they will read his texts specially sent to Them Them Them personally , and   they will be bought again.

Because media isn't about Journalism and truth anymore, it's about being activists  for their cause.

100

People in jail.

 

Sure thing. Just not the people you expect.

 

-Bammyington McEvil

101 93 Shit just got real Carney's WH briefing at 12:30 EST. To paraphrase a moron from yesterday, Carney's shit about to get loose.

102 My fave (and Auster's) was "freefall". Yeah. Obama was in freefall all through 2012. If by that you mean in a stationary orbit immune to the effects of gravity.

103 Since I stopped reading at "preference cascade" I missed this gem: "Their power to control the national agenda has been declining for the last fifteen years." Yup, declined to the point that they were responsible for getting a president elected and re-elected in the last five. A real impotent bunch. At least it wasn't one of Malor's rare posts on gay marriage.

104 That Den Best was da best. Thanks.

105 P.S. Remember 2006?

This is what this reminds me off, like there is an electoral beating coming down and there is nothing that can be done to stop it.

I don't think we'll be seeing "Greg" around here on election eve 2014 after 8 pm.

106 I do hope Carney goes to the bathroom before the conference, or at least remembers to wear dark pants. It might be funnier if Carney just shows up to the thing blind drunk.

107 100 93 Shit just got real Carney's WH briefing at 12:30 EST. To paraphrase a moron from yesterday, Carney's shit about to get loose. --- I'm thinking more along the lines of "Carney's shit is about to get pushed in. Repeatedly."

108 "To paraphrase a moron from yesterday, Carney's shit about to get loose." Nah, they just got their asses reamed by Soros and finally got motivated to put some real talking points together.

109 #49 help@mu.nu is the quickest way.

110 I had read Obama released a statement yesterday  about getting those irs agents that used their position unwisely.

I had snickered slightly that he couldn't come up with flowing oratory to take this Daily Media Free campaigning  (as that is what he does daily) to turn this into a Boosh and republican moment as Carney tried to.

Perhaps today His skills will be honed, I'm sure a hundred plotters  have spent hours on this issue, cleaning it up and   making OTHERS, or anyone else , the issue.

111 Steven den Beste (...of all smart asses) The oppressive media amounted virtually to a little Jack Horner boy with his thumb plugging the hole in the information dyke. The kid was conditioned to pull out an official plum and congratulate himself for being such a good boy. This round, the thumb came out a bloody mess.

112 Yeah, you can't go contrarian when James Buchanan is on the list. Might be the worst executive in the English Speaking Peoples' history in fact. At least since Edward II.

113 "I had read Obama released a statement yesterday about getting those irs agents that used their position unwisely." He'll leave no stone unturned? Same line every time. Obama Rubble

114 At least since Edward II.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at May 15, 2013 11:02 AM (fx7EL)

Ahem

115 Same line every time. Obama Rubble

Posted by: what difference does it make at May 15, 2013 11:04 AM (MhA4j)

yep.

116 He'll leave no stone unturned? Same line every time. Obama Rubble /Sharia Law ammo

117 Is it too difficult to imagine that a job at National Enquirer might actually be a better-paying and more secure gig for these knob-swabbers than where they are now?

118 Great read. Helps me make sense of why liberals kiss his ass. What I don't get is affirmative action and all, is don't these reporters all have 401K's and investments, paying more taxes, etc? Why the hell do they support someone's policies that screw them out of their money.So their white people guilt >>>>> than a conservative fiscal policy for protecting their own damn money?

119 Okay okay. Queen Mary and King Henry VI were also godawful. Forgot about Mary, hadn't read enough about Henry.

120 New definition of a conservative: A liberal who has been wire tapped for two months?

Posted by: USA at May 15, 2013 10:50 AM (VIaw0)

Nice.

121 And Charles Stuart was right. His Parliament sucked and wasn't any more democratic than he was. His problem was simply that he failed to win.

122 Yep, not buying it either... & I'm thinking that the Media is just reminding BO that he only reigns at their sufferance. We The People do not enter into their calculation.

123 Point made yesterday. When the media members find out that they've been targeted and abused by their own system, their choice, if to remain acceptable within their community of liberal group think, is to buck up and shut up. Fear of how much worse things could be... Constitutional Rights? Not a hill worth defending.

124 118 easier to point out the few great leaders than each and every lout by name.

125 mumble mumble National Enquirer (where's my damn comb!)

126 True.  A sovereign and a subject are clean different things, after all.

127 In a perfect world this would be not just a wakeup call on Obama's presidency but also on the media's failure to vet him, plus their complicity in making his administration's overreach  possible. 

128 Why the hell do they support someone's policies that screw them out of their money.So their white people guilt >>>>> than a conservative fiscal policy for protecting their own damn money?

Posted by: dixiegal at May 15, 2013 11:06 AM (d8l76)

Exactly, the assuaging of their guilt, the discarding of their "privelage" is worth more.  At least on the surface, at dinner with their liberal friend,  that is what is stated so they can try to out-tolerance each other and flex their wimpy little liberal biceps.  In secret though, they think if they carry enough water, they will be spared the consequences of their own policy by the state.

129 Is it too difficult to imagine that a job at National Enquirer might actually be a better-paying and more secure gig for these knob-swabbers than where they are now?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at May 15, 2013 11:05 AM (HsTG

 

The National Enquirer gets a bad rap, in my view. Their focus is celebrity dish aimed at a specific target audience; i.e., people--mainly grandma housewife types--who are interested in that sort of thing. They actually do have layers of fact-checkers and exercise strict editorial review. They're also the ones who blew the lid off John 'Silky Pony' Edwards' sleazy affair, effectively killing that slimeball's political aspirations. And, so much unlike their more reputable journalistic brethren, their only agenda is to sell papers and make money. I respect that agenda.

130

About that thing that happened in your mouth...

At this point in time, what difference does it make?

131

Please, please keep up the focus on Benghazi.  The IRS and DOJ/AP issues are controlled burns, to use up the fuel so Benghazi can't become the firestorm it should be. http://tinyurl.com/ahf2eqb at Creative Minority Report. Why did the IRS pop up with "yes, we did target Tea Party groups, and we're really sorry" at just this point?  I'm afraid this will be a missed opportunity.  Gabriel, please keep it going.

132

"Their power to control the national agenda has been declining for the last fifteen years."


"Yup, declined to the point that they were responsible for getting a president elected and re-elected in the last five. A real impotent bunch."

 

No kidding. 

 

The LIVs and their ugly siblings in the FSA still (and always will) get their orders spoon fed through the traditional media.   Just bacause anyone, especially conservatives and libertarians, who  stays well informed on the issues has already moved to the internet doesn't mean the mouthbreather across the street has as well - and his vote  neutralizes yours.

133 Too wordy. Columnists need to columnate, and Den Beste has always been "overrated" in my opinion, because bloggers ought to be able to make their points without needing to be that floral. And besides, tell us something we all can't see for ourselves. You're saying this on AoS, home of the world's longest movie reviews? Heh. Heheh... hehehehee....

134 Steven Den Beste was the best when he was writing about politics. Now he's drawing those disturbing cartoons. What a waste of genius.

135 "Worst President Evah title still goes to James Buchanan. Look it up. The closer you look, the worse it gets. Buchanan's administration, particularly his War Department under Floyd,was actively treasonous. Treason's hard to beat.

Posted by: troyriser at May 15, 2013 10:47 AM (vtiE6)"

And there are the allegations that James Buchanan was our first gay President.

Is it relevant that the other leading contender for Worst President Evah is alleged to be our second gay President?

136 I used to read Steve denBeste's site every day.

I am sorry that continuing it was too much but the world is a little bit better place because he chooses to send out the occasional essay.

137 I thought the HQ Style Book recommends the usage "cow-orkers"?

138 Buchanan's administration, particularly his War Department under Floyd,was actively treasonous. Treason's hard to beat.


Well, Obama has an actual - no shit - "Hero of Communist Victory" as a Secretary of State. The enemy in a war is in a position to know who the traitors were - so when they award somebody as an official act of their government that pretty well guarantees that he was in fact a traitor.

For those who don't know - US Secretary of State John Kerry was made an official "Hero of Communist Victory" in July 1983 by the Communist government of Vietnam - it was even in the New York Times.

139 Den Beste recommended Angelic Layer and another anime series (Japanese name, I forget the name -- the one with a surprise "aha" ending hinted at all series long) and they were great, even if totally not what I would have watched otherwise. 

He is great to read even when the subject matter is way over my head ... there is a certain entertaining logical approach to his writing which almost seems like a separate thing, delightful even if the subject is too deep.

Like Steyn, Hanson, Ace, and some others, he makes being a non-Leftist feel rewarding.

We need NPR, NY Times, New Yorker high information venues with folks like Den Beste in order to take back the culture.

140 For those who don't know - US Secretary of State John Kerry was made an official "Hero of Communist Victory" in July 1983 by the Communist government of Vietnam - it was even in the New York Times.

Posted by: An Observation at May 15, 2013 12:15 PM (ylhEn)

 

Didn't know that. That changes things. To beat Buchanan, all Obama needs to do now is lay the groundwork for a bloody, protracted civil war costing hundreds of thousands of lives. After that, it's in the bag. He'll keep the title forever.

141

132 -

 

Sorry I had to post and run, so let me toss this in on an otherwise dead thread:

 

I love Ace like a brother from another mother... so I would never tell him he can be too wordy at times. 

 

But SDB?  Sure, I don't have a problem saying his stuff is too wordy. 

142 Think of the nation or ship of state like a mega ship.  Turn the rudder and nothing happens, then it turns, and you see the rocks coming up, its hard left rudder.  But the ship is still heading for the rocks.  There is inertia and there is phase lag.

Now we are starting to see the govt turn on its water carriers, like the AyyPee.  You pi$$ed off the water carriers, and they start turning on you.  You just made a friend an enemy.  The floaters are now coming to the surface.  There will be more and more revelations.  The problem is that the rudder has not turned yet to change course.  I hope that we can move the rudder and change course before we run up on the rocks.

Better have a life vest and a can of sardines just in case......

143 ...or Hard Right Rudder.  Heh.

144 I keep thinking about what shit will hit the fan once Obama is no longer President. I think the revelations are going to be spectacular, and lots of today's media worshippers are going to have their reputations trashed. But, could it be they are working on destroying the evidence right now? It is the conventional wisdom to assume that nothing on the intertubes can ever be forgotten, but if Obama controls the IRS, he can also probably control the CIA, the NSA, and whatever else it takes to help his toadies cover their slime trails, no?