http://gratewire.com/ News & Opinion - Grated Fresh Daily en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 11:19:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://gratewire.com/search.php http://gratewire.com/topic/gop-aides-mock-house-republicans%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98crazy%e2%80%99-benghazi-witch-hunt#post-133290 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:05:48 +0000 Black Lion 133290@http://gratewire.com/ <p><img alt="RN" height="321" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/931210_435561993205577_2053281142_n.jpg" style="top: 0px;" width="320" /></p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/va-gop-candidate-planned-parenthood-worse-than-kkk#post-133289 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:01:49 +0000 Black Lion 133289@http://gratewire.com/ <p><span class="title">At NewsBusters, Telling The Truth = "Demonizing"</span><br /><span class="mood"><strong>Topic:</strong> NewsBusters</span></p> <p>R<img align="right" height="206" src="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/nbewjackson.jpg" width="401" />emember the Media Research Center's <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/mrctruth12.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">multimillion-dollar</a> <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/mrctruth12-2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">campaign</a> last year of demanding that the media "Tell The Truth!" except when it made conservatives look bad? Well, they're still at it.</p> <p> Jeffrey Meyer huffs in a headline on a May 20 NewsBusters <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2013/05/20/msnbc-dutifully-demonizes-conservative-black-gop-politician-he-might-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">post</a>: <br />'MSNBC Dutifully Demonizes Conservative Black GOP Politician: ‘He Might Make Todd Akin Look Like A Moderate'." And how, exactly did MSNBC "demonize" this politician? By telling the truth.</p> <p> Meyer complained that MSNBC's Chuck Todd "hammered the GOP’s nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, African-American pastor E.W. Jackson, as extreme and someone who 'might make Todd Akin look like a moderate.' 'Can the GOP win in 2013 with a ticket of candidates who are best known for being very conservative and very outspoken on social issues?' Todd rhetorically asked before playing several clips of Jackson in a manner worthy of a liberal attack ad." If that wasn't enough, Meyer writes, "Nowhere in the segment did Todd feel it necessary to mention the passionate speech Jackson gave at the convention, instead choosing to mock the candidate as worse than Todd Akin, the U.S. Senate candidate last year now infamous for his "legitimate rape" remarks."</p> <p> Oddly, Meyer doesn't include the content of the Jackson clips Todd played in the body of his item, only in the transcript at the end.Meyer also doesn't complain of any inaccuracy on Todd's part, only that Todd played accurate clips of Jackson saying:</p> <p> E.W. JACKSON: Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was and the Democrat Party and their black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.</p> <blockquote> <p>[...]</p> <p>JACKSON: I know that people say, well, it's unfair to associate homosexuality with pedophilia or some of these other perversions, but I believe that there is a direct connection because what they really want is absolute, complete and <br />total sexual freedom.</p> </blockquote> <p> Does Meyer not think these remarks are controversial? Or is he trying to work the ref as the MRC did last year, trying to discourage any scrutiny of Republican candidates?</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/fox-news-caught-editing-press-conference-to-spread-lies-video#post-133288 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:58:02 +0000 Black Lion 133288@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Fox News Caught Editing Press Conference to Spread Lies (VIDEO)</p> <p>This is one of the better researched examples of Fox News deliberately editing film footage to make false accusations against President Obama.</p> <p>This clip demonstrates some of the clearest evidence of dishonest Fox News quote mining I have ever seen.</p> <p>You can watch the video below and if you are interested in seeing all the sources, as well as reading a scene by scene explanation you can visit the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50tOdbYxXpw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LiberalViewer’s YouTube post</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/fox-news-caught-editing-press-conference-to-spread-lies-video/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/fox-news-caught-editing-press-conference-to-spread-lies-video/</a></p> http://gratewire.com/topic/the-wnd-birther-blackout-is-back-on#post-133287 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:56:06 +0000 Black Lion 133287@http://gratewire.com/ <p><span class="title">The WND Birther Blackout Is Back On </span><br /><span class="mood"><strong>Topic:</strong> WorldNetDaily</span></p> <p><img align="right" src="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/obamabirthcertificatez-340x170.jpg" />Earlier this month, WorldNetDaily <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/2315271/wnd-tries-to-jumpstart-birtherism-again/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dipped <br />its toes</a> back into the birther pool after a post-election break. Now, WND is is full pre-election mode -- with all the <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/birtherblackout.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blackouts</a> <br />of inconvenient facts that go along with it.</p> <p> Bob Unruh devotes his May 19 WND <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/sheriff-joe-to-congress-investigate-obamas-eligibility/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">article</a> to regurgitating the birther talking points regarding the latest lawsuit, and he has no time for inconvenient facts.  </p> <p> Unruh touts an affidavit from Cold Case Posse chief Mike Zullo asserting that "there was probable cause that forgery and fraud had been committed" regarding Obama's birth certificate. He makes no mention of Frank Arudini's <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/116752480/The-Annotated-Zullo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">deconstruction</a> <br />of a similar Zullo affidavit pointing out that, among many other falsehoods and deceptions, that Zullo claims to be speaking from "pesonal knowledge," which is simply false based on the legal definition of the term since "a full 60% of the affidavit has been told to him by Jerome Corsi or gleaned from other sources on the Web."</p> <p> Unruh claims that the cold case posse was assembled by Sheriff Joe Arpaio "at the request of his constituents, who were concerned they were being defrauded by having an ineligible candidate on the 2012 election ballot." That's a highly <br />disingenuous take on the truth; as we <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/wndarpaio.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">documented</a>, WND's Jerome Corsi got the investigation ball rolling by making a birther <br />presentation to a tea party group. </p> <p> Unruh notes that Roy Moore is on the Alabama Supreme Court overseeing the case in question and "is on record previously questioning Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president," but he doesn't bring up whether such a prejudicial opinion should disqualify him from judging this case.</p> <p> Unruh fails to disclose that Larry Klayman, who is representing the birther side of this case, has done legal work for WND, thus violating longstanding journalistic ethics about reporting conflicts of interest. </p> <p> We'll give Unruh a pass on this one since it was failed after his article was published, but don't look for any future reporting on an <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/142658577/McInnish-v-Chapman-AL-Opposition-to-Motion-to-Strike" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">amicus brief</a> filed by the Alabama Democratic party in the case that exposes yet another flaw in Zullo's affidavit: that it's signed "solely in his personal capacity and without any title, even an imaginary one."</p> <p> So: The birther games have resumed at WND, and they have as much to do with reality as its earlier <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/wndobamafail.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">anti-Obama jihad</a>. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133286 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:54:35 +0000 Black Lion 133286@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Massie is a self hating wingnut...no one takes him seriously...and he hates Obama because Obama has acomplished more than he ever could....</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/obama-scandals-bring-msnbc-7-year-low-while-fox-news-rises#post-133285 Wed, 22 May 2013 06:52:12 +0000 Black Lion 133285@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Rick, great analogy....And you would be correct...Engaging stubbs is not as fun as engaging Nick...plus she likes to post bait threads....I only reply if you are Obot respond...</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/open-thread-week-ending-524#post-133284 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:15:39 +0000 evzone 133284@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Asked you, Black Butterfly, why the absence on Gratewire - Care to tell us or is it a secret -<br /> Same with SLF - </p> <p>Will pose the same questions to both on Open Thread - - </p> <p>Hopefully we can get an answer on either one - (Beach Baby signs in once in a while)</p> <p>You can reply on Open Thread or My Home is not a Cage - - Have asked the same question on both threads making sure you see it -</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/my-home-is-not-a-cage#post-133283 Wed, 22 May 2013 05:14:19 +0000 evzone 133283@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Asked you, Black Butterfly, why the absence on Gratewire - Care to tell us or is it a secret -</p> <p>Same with SLF -</p> <p>Will pose the same questions to both on Open Thread - - Hopefully we can get an answer on either one - (Beach Baby signs in once in a while)</p> <p> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/obama-scandals-bring-msnbc-7-year-low-while-fox-news-rises#post-133282 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:16:06 +0000 california rick 133282@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Why does anyone take stubbles seriously?  Horses are shot for being that lame.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133281 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:09:24 +0000 Nick_A 133281@http://gratewire.com/ <p>the zygotes feel the same about you.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133280 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:07:53 +0000 Nick_A 133280@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Rikker, The blasphemer is believed making wrong quantitative judgements. They are not weighing the evidence correctly</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133279 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:05:41 +0000 rikker 133279@http://gratewire.com/ <p>I'm not going to bother to ask questions of zygotes. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133278 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:04:34 +0000 rikker 133278@http://gratewire.com/ <p>No, Nick. It's another manifestation of your mendacity.</p> <p>You've quoted an understanding that is unsupported in Scripture. The Pharisees disliked Jesus because they thought him a blasphemer. There isn't ANY scripture that mentions "losers' inability to make quantitative judgments", Nick. There isn't ANY scripture that implies it. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133277 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:03:00 +0000 Nick_A 133277@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Written like a true progressive Rikker. Kill first and ask questions later.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133276 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:58 +0000 Nick_A 133276@http://gratewire.com/ <p>It isn't a matter of adding but of understanding the concept.</p> <p>You are probably like BL who doesn't believe in, or at least open to the existence of Pink Unicorns. Your mind is closed.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133275 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:53:07 +0000 rikker 133275@http://gratewire.com/ <p>So you admit that you've added something to the Scriptures that isn't actually there.</p> <p>Why am I not surprised? </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133274 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:49:39 +0000 Nick_A 133274@http://gratewire.com/ <p>They didn't use those words Rikker but the Pharisees denied Jesus and thought him a trouble maker.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133273 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:48:54 +0000 rikker 133273@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Exactly. No one told the little zygotes to engage in unauthorized mitosis, Nick.</p> <p>They brought that shit upon themselves. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133272 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:48 +0000 rikker 133272@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Really? Can you quote chapter and verse? </p> <p>Or did you just make that up, as is your wont? </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133271 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:41 +0000 Nick_A 133271@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Now I know why you like abortions rikker. You like to see them squirm before they die.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133270 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:44:03 +0000 Nick_A 133270@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Rikker, that's what the Pharisees said about Jesus.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/top-irs-official-to-take-the-fifth#post-133269 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:42:03 +0000 Nick_A 133269@http://gratewire.com/ <p><div></p> <p><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328696/Lois-Lerner-Top-IRS-official-invoke-Fifth-Amendment-congressional-hearing-tea-party-targeting-program.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328696/Lois-Lerner-Top-IRS-official-invoke-Fifth-Amendment-congressional-hearing-tea-party-targeting-program.html</a></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Fifth Amendment provides that U.S. citizens may not be compelled to offer testimony if telling the truth would incriminate them.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lerner's defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III, wrote to the committee on Tuesday that his client would refuse to answer questions related to what she knew about the extra levels of scrutiny applied to conservative nonprofit organizations that applied for tax-exempt status beginning in 2010.</span></em></p> <p>If this is true, she'll need more than a fifth. She'll need an entire quart. This is just admitting that the IRS is corrupt from the top down as in the old expression <strong>"<em>a fish rots from the head down."</em></strong></div> </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133268 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:33:55 +0000 rikker 133268@http://gratewire.com/ <p>But not before I get to gloat, Nick. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133267 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:32:57 +0000 rikker 133267@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Nick, losers don't get to make quantitative judgments about ANYTHING. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133266 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:24:54 +0000 Nick_A 133266@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Rikker, progressives only make quantitative judgments. Being a slave to the agenda, they cannot understand what quality is.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133265 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:22:44 +0000 Nick_A 133265@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Quite true rikker. The ever growing Great Unwashed thrive on cowardice. It is one reason why a free America is doomed.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133264 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:21:26 +0000 rikker 133264@http://gratewire.com/ <p>I'm just quoting Rush Limbaugh. I haven't made any quantitative judgments. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133263 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:18:40 +0000 Nick_A 133263@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Rikker, Obama isn't black. His mother was white. Can't you tell the difference between black and white?</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133262 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:14:34 +0000 Nick_A 133262@http://gratewire.com/ <p>BL, there was a pink unicorn that visited the zoo a while back. You are just too closed minded and prejudiced against pink unicorns to accept it.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/special-delivery-for-black-lion#post-133261 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:12:32 +0000 rikker 133261@http://gratewire.com/ <p>It's deliberately scary, Nick. You people thrive on cowardice. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133260 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:11:19 +0000 rikker 133260@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Nick quoted: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 "</p> <p>Rikker responds: "And Nyuck! always goeth before "Stings a bit, don't it?"" </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133259 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:09:44 +0000 rikker 133259@http://gratewire.com/ <p>Nick: "This may be the first time in history when an illegal president is impeached."</p> <p>Not according to Rush, Nick. Rush says Obama can't be impeached......because he's black.</p> <p>You need to take a closer look at the PC rules, Nick. </p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133258 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:04:17 +0000 Black Lion 133258@http://gratewire.com/ <p>And this may be the first time in America that pink unicorns appear at the National Zoo...Since Nick is taking about things that are impossible, lets just go all out and wish for the most impossible things....Good luck Nicky...</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/the-enduring-legend-of-the-bureaucrat-whisperer#post-133257 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:51 +0000 Black Lion 133257@http://gratewire.com/ <p><div><br /> <h1>The Enduring Legend Of The Bureaucrat Whisperer </h1><br /> </div></p> <p>The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> opinion page is turning into the go-to source for documenting President Obama's <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/17/the-bureaucrat-whisperer/194118" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">supernatural influence</a> over the thoughts and actions of IRS employees. Reagan DOJ veterans David Rivkin and Lee Casey wrote a May 21 <em>Journal</em> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323582904578489690187015294.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">op-ed</a> arguing that fault for the IRS's inappropriate targeting of conservative non-profit applicants lies with the president. "The Obama administration made clear its deep dislike of <em>Citizens United </em>and of the various new conservative groups spawned by the 'tea party' movement," they wrote, and "the IRS has always been well-attuned to even subtle guidance from the White House." That argument was borrowed from Kimberley Strassel's May 17 <em>Journal </em>column: "All [Obama] needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds." </p> <p>This notion of <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/17/the-bureaucrat-whisperer/194118" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bureaucrat whispering</a> is, in isolation, a pretty big stretch. But the tableau created by Rivkin and Casey, in which politically savvy IRS employees scrutinize the president's every syllable and gesture with decoder rings at the ready, is ludicrous given what we now know about the tax agency office in Cincinnati where groups had their non-profit applications scrutinized. According to the <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/us/politics/at-irs-unprepared-office-seemed-unclear-about-the-rules.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">New York Times</a></em>, it was an understaffed, chaotic mess that got into trouble because it lacked guidance:</p> <blockquote> <p>Overseen by a revolving cast of midlevel managers, stalled by miscommunication with I.R.S. lawyers and executives in Washington and confused about the rules they were enforcing, the Cincinnati specialists flagged virtually every application with Tea Party in its name. But their review went beyond conservative groups: more than 400 organizations came under scrutiny, including at least two dozen liberal-leaning ones and some that were seemingly apolitical.</p> <p>Over three years, as the office struggled with a growing caseload of advocacy groups seeking tax exemptions, responsibility for the cases moved from one group of specialists to another, and the Determinations Unit, which handles all nonprofit applications, was reorganized. One batch of cases sat ignored for months. Few if any of the employees were experts on tax law, contributing to waves of questionnaires about groups' political activity and donors that top officials acknowledge were improper.</p> </blockquote> <p>From the <em>Times</em> report, it seems like there's a lot to be said regarding the IRS's inefficiency and "dysfunction," to borrow from a former IRS employee quoted by the paper. But this notion that low-level bureaucrats are standing ready to receive secret political communiques from the president is an invention of conservative pundits looking to bridge the considerable distance between the fumbling IRS employees in Ohio and the Oval Office.</p> http://gratewire.com/topic/uncle-nicks-official-birther-thread/page/9#post-133256 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:01:35 +0000 Nick_A 133256@http://gratewire.com/ <p>BL</p> <p><em>We have also learned that Obama is still President and there is nothing the birthers can do about that...</em></p> <p>I just had an interesting thought. This may be the first time in history when an illegal president is impeached.</p>