Don’t Hurt Me

September 15, 2012

New York Times – President Obama has petitioned a Virginia Superior Court judge to issue a restraining order against Fox News contributor Brit Hume prior to tonight’s Presidential debate at James Madison University.

Obama stated in his complaint he fears for his campaign and is concerned Hume may “rough him up” in his role as moderator of the debate.  The President wants Hume enjoined from coming within 500 feet of him with a question which might appear harmless but could be used to bludgeon him.

Drop the Ballot; Step Away from the Voting Booth

November 6, 2012

Reuters – In a massive protest today against the almost certain election of Republican Mitch Daniels to the Presidency, Democrats across the country avoided the polls, casting the integrity of the results into doubt.

In Washington, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said it was heroic for 30 million Democrats to choose self-disenfranchisement rather than allow their votes to count for nothing.  An AP survey last weekend had the President down to Daniels by 20%, despite gross oversampling of Wisconsin academics.

Summat for Nothing

July 22, 2013

Boston Globe — Cambridge Police Officer James Crowley of “beer summit” fame was arrested outside his Natick, Massachusetts home today and charged with disorderly conduct after pleading with a mob chanting “racist pig” to calm down.

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It’s the question no one from the press is asking.  Who is lying?

Over the weekend a video of Sen. John Kyl at a North Tempe town hall meeting shot through the internet like a bullet.  The video showed Sen. Kyl revealing to his constituents that President Obama was holding border security ransom for better bargaining position on comprehensive immigration reform.

The White House responded on Monday morning with a flat denial.  Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said: “The President didn’t say that.  Sen. Kyl knows the President didn’t say that.”  That last phrase is inflammatory as it flatly claims that Sen. Kyl is deliberately lying about this issue.

Rather than let the matter die as a “he said, he said” story, bloggers scoured the internet for any other corroborating facts to bolster one position or the other.  Yesterday, Naked Emperor News uncovered audio from an interview Sen. Obama gave to local public radio in Chicago.  In it, he strikes the same juxtaposition of “trading-off” border security for comprehensive immigration reform, exactly as Sen. Kyl suggested: (more…)