Barack Obama ain’t closing Gitmo and the media is there to make excuses for him. Shocking.

There are as many examples of this as there are members of the activist old media, but let’s take this brilliant note from Good Morning America on Monday. Juju Chang, Emmy Award winning journalist for ABC News, gave us this gem:

“We begin with a legal turnaround for the Obama administration. It’s giving up the fight to try 9-11 suspects in civilian court here in New York, instead, self-proclaimed 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Muhammad and 4 other suspects will be tried before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. The President will have to break his campaign promise to shut down that prison.”

Oh, where do I begin? First, let me say, I’m not sure who wrote this, Juju, or a news writer or whether they cut-and-pasted from the AP. Doesn’t matter, Juju is still responsible. I’ve had many a spirited conversation with writers and producers who wrote scripts that would make any anchor look foolish or flat-out wrong. This makes Juju look foolish and partisan at the same time and I do not believe she is the former. I thought for a moment Robert Gibbs had taken a job as a news writer at ABC. He hasn’t, has he?

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I am waiting for Ezra Klein
to eat a copy of the Constitution
and tell us if it’s binding
and I am waiting
for 60 Minutes to wind down
and I am waiting
for a presidential debate moderator
to crack wise with Chris Christie
and I am waiting
for Old Media
to request end-of-life counseling
and I am really waiting
for the Associated Press
to screw up and forget to spin a story

I am waiting for Nova
to report a major extinction event
involving NPR and PBS
and I am waiting
for Charlie Gibson’s glasses
to fall off his nose
and I am waiting
for someone to interrupt Bill O’Reilly
and I am waiting for Saudi Arabia
to endow the “Al Jazeera Chair”
at Columbia University School of Journalism
and I am really waiting
for Katie Couric to connect the dots
on rising fuel costs

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Folks, it’s not called WikiHacks.  Nowhere in the news have I seen reports of hack attacks into CIA or State Department files.  Last time WikiLeaks well, uh, leaked, it had lots of help from an insider -allegedly the low level (read low life) intel flunkie Bradley Manning who described the prospect of disclosing vast amounts of state secrets as “beautiful and horrifying.”

Obvious conclusion that you won’t see in the Make-Believe Media:  This isn’t diplomatic rape — it’s incest.  America’s enemies are attacking from within.  And the Media is running a screen.

Time magazine can Skype with WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange.  And a private computer hacker can shut down WikiLeaks’ site for several hours, something the global governments just can’t seem to do.  Lots to learn there.  But hey, Interpol has just placed Assange on its worldwide wanted list for “sex crimes.” Yes, it takes an international government village to fail where the private sector suceeds.

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In what some might characterize as an act of desperation to stir up his base for voting purposes, Barack Obama, presumably the most powerful individual in the free world, opened the Oval Office to a bevy of leftist bloggers, ones who we’re told have serious issues.

The invitees fall more under the rubric of ideological or issue-oriented activists as opposed to online reporters, though the names are familiar to most political junkies. An administration official confirmed that Joe Sudbay of AMERICABlog; Duncan Black (“Atrios”), who runs the site Eschaton; Barbara Morrill, who writes for the DailyKos; Jon Amato, who is the founder of Crooks and Liars; and Oliver Willis, who runs an eponymous site, spoke with the president on Wednesday.

Amato, of Crooks and Liars infamy, did acknowledge some “issues,” while lashing out at White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in an excerpt from a previously released video.

Barbara Morrill’s issues, along with some insisting she is actually Barbara Morris, not Morrill, without providing proof, seem to be with defining herself and her role at DailyKos. Morrill, aka BarbinMD, was named Associate Editor in February of 2009 allowing for LithiumCola to move up from Contributing Editor to Featured Writer. LithiumCola has not yet been reached for comment.

On May 14, 2010, BarbinMD changed her username to her alleged real name, not so for Contributing Editor, Angry Mouse. It’s unclear why Angry Mouse was not invited to the Oval Office meeting, though recent reports of an issue with rats in the White House may have had something to do with it. (more…)

Joe Klein is one angry man. In fact, Joe’s so pissed-off I think he could shoot the next Twelve Angry Men sequel all by himself. Why is poor Joe so unhappy? Because we—well, actually, mostly you conservative women out there—are just so bleeping ignorant, that’s why. As an avid Tea Party supporter, I’ll be the first to admit I’m just a mindless dolt who consistently misspells the racist, dimwitted signs I bring to the rallies. Still, I’m not nearly as ignorant as you female Tea Party supporters. I mean, you’re really bleeping dumb!

But don’t believe me. Just read irascible Joe’s latest rant, “Ignorance as Authenticity,” immortalized for all time—or at least for a week or two—in Time. Mined from which, I bring you this nugget of angry Joe gold:

There is no way she [Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell] could ever be confused with a member of the elites; there is no way she could be confused with an above average high school student. Her ignorance, therefore, makes her authentic–the holy grail of latter-day American politics: she’s a real person, not like those phony politicians. In that sense, she—and the lifeboat filled with other Tea Party know-nothings—follow in the wake of our leading exemplar of ignorant authenticity, Sarah Palin (who seems every bit as unaware of public policy—she certainly never talks about it—as she was when a desperate and petulant John McCain chose her to be his running mate). There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts.

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Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who persist to query me on matters that they know I must ignore.
As I parry, neatly jinking, Tapper stares at me, unblinking;
No doubt he is thinking, thinking Robert Gibbs is short one oar.
“Jake the Malcontent,” I mumble, “never one to seek rapport.”
Of them all, him I abhor.

Yes, the fire’s now an ember from that long-ago November
When every media staff member bowed and scraped outside my door.
Confident, I held my pressers (Helen! Old as earth, God bless her),
Brushing off reporters–lessers, lessers who were such a bore,
Including Jake the Tapper, whom the gods named my bête noire.
From the start, we’ve been at war.

There! He rises, smarmy, sassy; I feel dizzy, bloated, gassy,
Sickened—stricken with the urge to swat this gadfly to the floor.
As I tamp down nauseation, purge my thoughts of his castration,
Jake the Tapper–this . . . crustacean–floats a challenge like a spore.
Yes, Jake Tapper the crustacean floats a challenge like a spore,
And it roots inside my core. (more…)

Amazingly, Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe seemed to figure out the hypocrisy of the DNC and the White House complaining about undisclosed donors and “special interest” money being supposedly funneled into Republican campaigns. The White House has been going after the Chamber of Commerce and more than once has been unable to come up with any defense or any support to their totally unsubstantiated claims. Alexrod can’t answer, Gibbs can’t answer, and Mika Brzezinski, co-host of Morning Joe certainly can’t answer. Joe brought up something that the rest of the media has blatantly ignored in this debate, President Obama’s ability to raise more money than any other candidate. President Obama has received more anonymous donations, more big oil donations, more big business donations, and more special interest donations than any other politician ever!

The obvious lunacy of the White House pointing fingers at the RNC is something that only one MSNBC host can apparently seem to grasp. Perhaps Joe can talk to the other MSNBC hosts that have shown “rank hypocrisy” when it comes to asking about finances between Republican and Democratic candidates.

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Those darn Republicans! Luckily, with the MSM and the Democrat Party now indistinguishable from each other, reporters can serve up softballs to ace press secretary Robert Gibbs and watch in awe as he smacks them out of the park!

Not to mention offer helpful suggestions of their own concerning political strategy. (more…)

We all know by now how the left reacts to the presence of the truth:  the screaming, the name-calling, the hysterical slander; the way they designate the craziest Koran-burning, abortionist-shooting nutcase they can find to represent the right; the way they demonize commentators like Rush and Coulter and Glenn Beck, without ever engaging with their ideas, and then use their names as insults to fling at people who have nothing to do with them.

In short, the left reacts to the truth the way a vampire reacts to a cross…  or the way the left reacts to a cross, come to think of it.  So when I see their brains start to smoke, I know one of the good guys is talking sense.

Last week, I and just about everyone else took note of a cover piece in Forbes magazine by Dinesh D’Souza called “How Obama Thinks.“  Basically, D’Souza put forward the psychological theory that certain of the president’s destructive and contradictory policies might be explained by examining his relationship with his father and his father’s anti-colonial philosophy.  The highlight of this well-reasoned and intelligent article was D’Souza’s examination of a heretofore almost wholly ignored piece of writing by the elder Obama.  It reveals that the president’s economist father had some very distasteful anti-western ideas.

Now as someone who doesn’t usually believe in analysis at a distance, I nonetheless found the piece remarkably convincing.  I was therefore not at all surprised when the White House, in the person of Press Sec Robert Gibbs, ripped into Forbes for daring to publish it.  “Did they not fact check this at all?” Gibbs cried.  Forbes editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, quite rightly, stood by the story.  Everyone acknowledges that D’Souza is putting forward a theory but as Forbes pointed out, “No facts are in contention.” (more…)

Courtesy of Howard Kurtz, the reliably liberal host of CNN’s Reliable Sources and, in his spare times, the media critic for the Washington Post, comes word that the Obama White House is none too pleased with the story that’s been raging through the blogosphere the past few days.

Dinesh D’Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting “the cause of anti-colonialism” from his Kenyan father.

But while most detractors focus on the author–and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique–the White House is aiming its ammunition at the business magazine.

“It’s a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist’s office, so lacking in truth and fact,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. “I think it represents a new low.”

Gibbs is meeting with Thursday afternoon with Forbes’s Washington bureau chief, Brian Wingfield, to discuss his objections. “Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?” he asks.

Nothing like a visit from the press secretary to focus the mind! But don’t expect a retraction from either Forbes or the Indian-born D’Souza: (more…)

GIBBS:  Good evening.  On our broadcast tonight:

• Miracle in Detroit–First Sharia law zone in nation records falling crime rates as word of amputations spreads.
• Voters heard–Congress unanimously passes tern limits bill, setting seasonal daily bag at ten.
• Gimme shelter–Hovel-ready projects to provide corrugated cardboard dwellings for urban homeless.
• And finally, Gray Lady Gray – New York Times to boost circulation with Sunday photo feature: “Op-Ed Beauties–Babes of the Times.”

Those stories and more later.  But first, Obama senior advisor David Axelrod joins us from Chicago shortly after being questioned by the FBI about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s disappearance.  Welcome, sir.

AXELROD:  Thanks for having me on, Bob.

GIBBS:  Any word on Blagojevich, David?

AXELROD:  Who?

GIBBS:  Never mind.  Rumor is the Obamas will extend their stay on Martha’s Vineyard by two weeks.  True?

AXELROD:  Yes, Bob.  With state-of-the-art communications, the president can avoid his responsibilities wherever he is. Doesn’t matter to him at all.

GIBBS:  But so many Americans are suffering while he parties on.  Doesn’t it look bad? (more…)

DAVID AXELROD:  The labor picture threatens our control of Congress, sir.  That means key initiatives like gutting Defense, forcing the richest 50% to pay their fair share, and passing an immigration bill with an amnesia rider are on the block in November.

OBAMA:  Man, those jobs reports are killin’ us.  And everybody knows the 9.5%, 15 million unemployed figures are probably way off.  Unfortunately, my new Bureau of Labor Statistics czar won’t be in place to fudge the truth until January.

ROBERT GIBBS:  Our media friends can do just so much to downplay conditions, sir.

OBAMA:  So, we only have until the October report to drastically reduce unemployment and convince people the economy’s turned the corner.  Suggestions?  George?

SOROS:  Tomorrow I hire vun million community organizees zu spy on neighbors and alert local media to Tea Party aviliation, zir.  Und anudder ten tousand tugs vill be contracted to vear Palin 2012 tee shirts ven attacking our candidates and dere fam’lies as dey worship. (more…)

Note:  After JournoList, and years of experiencing the obvious bias of the leftist press masquerading as trustworthy reports, I just can’t call “the Media” anything so dignified as mainstream anymore.  So, I’m going with a new term to refer to the cabal of leftist press operatives who daily coordinate their liberal talking points: the “Make-Believe Media.”

As in all matters Obama, the Make-Believe Media of JournoList infamy again appears inexplicably incurious in its reporting of the Wikileaks publication of the Afghanistan Papers.  Wikileaks’ Julian Assange claims that, via the New York Times, he asked the White House for help in reviewing the secret documents, a charge confirmed by the Times but denied by the White House.

However, the White House gives conflicting versions of what happened.  On Monday, Robert Gibbs admitted that the White House made no request to Wikileaks not to publish but did ask the group’s founder, Julian Assange, through reporters at the New York Times “to redact information that could … harm personnel or threaten operations or security.”

So, talking out of both sides of its press orifice, the White House denies it was asked in advance for help redacting the documents, while admitting it asked Wikileaks in advance to redact the documents on its own.  Well, gee, which is it? (more…)

ROBERT GIBBS:  The MSM are still holding the line, Mr. President, but the whole MSNBC crew has revolted.

DAVID AXELROD:  Schultz, Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews–tonight they begin their on-air nude marathon hunger strike, sir.  They’ll nibble on Brie and drink nothing but Perrier until you acknowledge your debt to them and restore the public option.

OBAMA:  Man!  Eighteen months ago those people thought I walked on water.  Now they crucify me because I can’t transmogrify private coverage into single payer.  Uh, Bob, who’s that sittin’ over there in the corner?

GIBBS:  His name’s Ezra Klein, sir, founder of the now defunct JournoList web clique I told you about.

OBAMA: What’s he doing here?

GIBBS:  You wanted our Latino media on the same page in the months before midterms, sir.  He’s reconstituted JournoList, only this time with 400 Hispanic journalists and bloggers.  They’ll communicate in coded Spanish–Ezra’s minor– to reduce the chance of exposure. Sort of like Codetalkers en Espanol.

OBAMA: Si, se puede!

AXELROD: We figured it would be helpful to have him attend our strategy sessions and hear firsthand the spin he’ll be disseminating.  He’s been instructed not to look you in the eye or speak unless he’s spoken to, sir. After all, he’s only 14… (more…)

NEW YORK (AP) – A conservative blog posts 2 minutes, 38 seconds of video clips of a black federal agriculture official saying she didn’t do everything she could to help a white farmer. The blogger labels it racism. Calls grow for the Obama administration to remove her. No one at the Agriculture Department or the White House checks further. The official is forced to resign.

Monday ends, but not the story.

A complete, 43-minute version of the video surfaces the next day, Tuesday, and casts a much different light on Shirley Sherrod’s comments: They were part of an NAACP speech about how she overcame her racial prejudice to help the farmer, not about prejudice that stopped her from helping him.

Now, the administration is criticized for wronging her by rushing to judgment.

By Wednesday afternoon, Sherrod is sitting at a studio in CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, watching on live television as White House press secretary Robert Gibbs apologizes to her.

She accepts and says: “Being afraid of the machine that the right has put out there—that’s what’s driving this.” (more…)

Obama’s Con-Man-in-Chief, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, has told a reporter, to say the least implausibly, that he has not “paid any attention” to former Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams’s shocking (and corroborated) revelations that the president’s appointees at DOJ…

• abandoned a slam-dunk voter intimidation case for racial reasons against the New Black Panther Party, a virulent hate group whose members have long been known for anti-white rants, death threats, and even praise of Osama Bin Laden;

• instructed lawyers in its civil rights division to disregard cases that involve black defendants and white victims;

• directed Voter Section employees not to ensure, as required by law, that no ineligible voters were on the rolls, even though there is evidence that illegal aliens and immigrants with green cards are committing rampant voter fraud in the U.S.; and

• is now considering a submission by Ike Brown, a Democratic Party Chairman in Mississippi, to run elections in Mississippi, even though a federal court already stripped him of that authority after he victimized minority white voters and otherwise prevented people from voting based on their party loyalties.

For the most part the progressive media, in step with Gibbs, have brushed off Adams’s momentous testimony – momentous because it suggests Obama’s DOJ to be infected with a monstrous black nationalist ideology not unlike that of Obama’s longtime mentor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. (more…)

Fascinating to note that the quote Robert Gibbs obsesses over — a quote from Rep. Paul Ryan, a Republican — is not only incomplete, and breathtakingly misrepresented, but taken straight from the pen of the Washington Post’s  blogger/reporter, the “JournoList” himself, young master Ezra Klein, a policy wonk and nakedly partisan operative who’s a living refutation of the Post’s pretenses to dispassionate objectivity.

Coincidence or collusion? Defending Klein the other day, the leftist blogger/professor Eric Alterman noted:

Klein, who founded “Journolist” and ended it after the takedown of Weigel, joked about adding a warning to his business page column that read, “WARNING: This column may contain liberal thinking, which has been shown to lead to universal health-care coverage in most industrialized countries.”

Of course, that sentence might just as easily have read: “… liberal thinking, which has been shown to result in misery and death for millions of people in industrialized and non-industrialized countries,” unless you’re 26 years old when you wrote it. (more…)

Let me see if I …. uh… uh… try to seek… uh… uhh… some answer on that.

Ladies and gentlemen, the great Robert Gibbs in action. The unidentified reporter ought to be heard from more often: maybe she can ask President Obama the same question, if he ever holds another press conference.

Your tax dollars at work.