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The Mask is TOTALLY Off Now

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The president’s speechwriter (Favreau) isn’t even bothering to pretend anymore. This isn’t about alleviating suffering. It’s nakedly political. And they don’t care if you know it. Well, I care. I wanted them to know somebody was paying attention. I also thought it was time I was audited, you know? 🙂

 

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Michelle Obama on Her Campaign 2012 Schedule

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“The greatest honor of my life has been to be America’s First Lady.  I can’t describe to you what a privilege it has been to meet so many Americans in every corner of this great nation of ours, and to welcome them from every corner of the country into the people’s house here on Pennsylvania Avenue.  My husband and I could not be more committed to seeing those who have suffered through this terrible recession made whole again.  I know what’s in my husband’s heart.  I know he loves being President as much as I love being beside him as First Lady.  There’s nothing we both want more than to see America well, and healthy, and prosperous. I believe Barack has laid the foundations to see us to that brighter day. Of course, my job being Mom is always first, but whatever support he needs to be so honored with another term, well, of course, I want to do whatever I can to help that happen”

OOPS!  That’s NOT what she said.  Here’s what Mooch-elle Antoinette ACTUALLY said:

“My approach to campaigning is: This is the time that I have to give to the campaign, and whatever you do with that time is up to you, but when it’s over, don’t even look at me. Don’t look this direction. No calls, no anything… It’s been a tough row to hoe, but I want him to be my president for another four years, as a citizen… So I’m going to do what I need to do. But Malia and Sasha always come first.”

Asslessclay Itchbay… but that’s just me.

h/t Politico, quoting WSJ

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Who-What-Where-When-Why, Anyone?

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Daily Caller has this story about Politico this morning that made me go to the sad place:

“Internet traffic and Web search measurement tools from several sources indicate that despite massive promotion efforts on MSNBC and in other venues, Politico.com is rapidly losing readers, especially outside of Washington, D.C.

Measurements of U.S. Web traffic provided to The Daily Caller by Compete, Inc. indicate that the number of total monthly visits to Politico.com dropped by 31.8 percent during the 18-month period that ended on October 31.”

I didn’t go the sad place, really.  But surely Politico & MSNBC will soon if they don’t wake up.  Surely there’s one human organism, breathing in & out, working for either of those outfits, who hasn’t had the curiosity bone in their head removed, right?  There’s got to be one carbon-based life-form with a key-card to either of those buildings who understands who-what-where-when-why in the first paragraph, right? Understands a .gov website is for plowing through data to do actual investigative reporting, and not just for downloading & rewording White House press releases and publishing them as news stories, right?

One?  Just one?

Hello?

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Grrr…

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I was messing around with the permalinks settings and bolluxed up the blog.

Yes.  It looks funny.

I’m off to dinner, then will be back to address it.

GRRRR….

UPDATE Friday, November 11, 2011 6:42am: I bolluxed up the blog last night, still haven’t fixed it, and will do it, but I just saw something so jaw-droppingly STUPID I had to post it – even on my po’ bwoke blog.  (My babies, my twins, are 13 today, 11-11-11, so I may not even get to fix it for sure until Sunday, given our birthday event schedule which started last night and goes all the way through Sunday, but I’m hoping I can restore it to it’s epic beauty before then! 😉  )

Okay!  The STUPID thing:  Perhaps you’ve heard a new batch of Nixon tapes was released.  This isn’t, in itself, especially notable, because this has happened before – BUT – some of the tapes were Grand Jury testimony.  Grand Jury testimony doesn’t ever have to be released, unless the Attorney General decides that it’s of ‘such historical value’ it can be.

Eric Holder has just released just such a batch.

I learned about it watching a Politico reporter on MSNBC just now.  I ACTUALLY saw The Politico reporter have the words form in his mouth, and then speak them, that Eric Holder didn’t *have* to release this Nixon Grand Jury testimony, but did it because it was of such historical significance, AND BLOW RIGHT PAST that thought and go on to just discuss the tapes themselves.  OMG…

NOTHING?  THE REPORTER BONE IN HIS HEAD HAS NOT A SPECK OF CURIOUSITY AS TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT HOLDER HAS OTHER MOTIVES? JUST THAT HE’S DOING IT OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART??

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

THIS SCANDAL-RIDDEN, ISSA-HUNTED, BLOW-OFF SUBPOENAS A.G. would, evidently, JUST OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART AND ASSUMED PART-TIME HOBBY AS AN AMATEUR HISTORIAN…

RELEASE THESE NIXON TAPES?  TO HELP MANKIND?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

The lack of curiosity on the part of this reporter is, to me, akin to not ducking when you see an asteroid incoming.  It’s a BASIC FRIGGING INSTINCT that has to be BRED or SOMEHOW SOCIALIZED out of you TO NO LONGER EXIST.  It VIOLATES the NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS.

He should not only be FIRED, he should be ASHAMED of himself.

(I think it was Politico’s Mike Mullen, but I’m not 110% sure.)

 

 

 

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Cain Confidentiality LIFTED = *crickets*

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About an hour ago, the National Restaurant Association lifted the cone of sha – er – silence from the neck of the silent-but-yipping-poodle accuser of Herman Cain’s.

So what has Politico done with the documents it has been so careful to keep under wraps? And what has the woman in question done?

NOTHING.

INSIDER SECRET:  Newsrooms have obituaries written in advance, okay?  They have interns keep them updated like resumes, so that when someone drops, they’re first with the news. You don’t think – IF THEY ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL – that they didn’t have this ready to go on the outside chance the Association broke with long-standing practice and lifted the ban?  

If they actually HAD something it would be a siren on Drudge right now.

THEY HAVE D*CK.

You know what happened?  I’ll betcha I know:  This woman, who at the time was 30 according to reports, has had some time to think about her claim.  She has realized in the fullness of time, that she was being a p.c. b*tch, and if she actually stood in the harsh sunlight of scrutiny, 2/3’s of America would adjudge her to be a reckless, shameless wench trying to besmirch the good name of a good man.

I’m bettin’ that’s true.  May take a while to be proven, but I’m bettin’….

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