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What If Crowley and Her Accomplices Succeed?

By David Catron on 10.19.12 @ 6:09AM

Such an outcome would be worse than a scandal, it would be downright dangerous.

Shortly after Obamacare was passed and signed by the President, Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute noted a sudden plethora of articles that had begun to appear in a wide variety of MSM outlets about the probable ill-effects of “reform.” This prompted him to ask, “Where were these reporters before the passage of the health care bill?” The answer to this question is now pretty obvious. They were colluding, via JournoList and other such forums that we don’t know about, to make sure that no one screwed up and told the truth before that morass of taxes and regulations became the law of the land. To the nation’s cost, their self-censorship succeeded.

Today, we face a similar but much more dangerous situation. The “reporters” of the establishment news media are engaged in a concerted campaign of misinformation to get Barack Obama re-elected. This has been evident for some time, but the breathtaking mendacity of this effort was writ large by Candy Crowley during last Tuesday’s presidential debate. Everyone has by now seen the video clip: the President made the preposterous claim that he had identified the attack on our Benghazi consulate as an act of terrorism as early as September 12. Then, when Romney called him on this egregious whopper, Crowley repeated the lie.

This was no misbegotten attempt at instant “fact checking.” It was a deliberately disingenuous attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the debate’s 65 million viewers. Crowley herself admitted that she had reviewed the transcript of Obama’s September 12 Rose Garden remarks in advance of the debate, and she is not dumb enough to believe Obama’s characterization of his boilerplate comment about “acts of terror” in general. This tag-team prevarication may well backfire. Jeffrey Lord suggests, in Thursday’s American Spectator, that it may turn out to be the “tipping point that makes Mitt Romney the 45th President of the United States.”

That would certainly constitute a splendid example of poetic justice. But what if Lord is wrong? What if Obama’s MSM pimps succeed in getting him re-elected? As we saw with Obamacare, these people wield a great deal of power and they are obviously willing to abuse it. Moreover, despite the increasing distrust with which the public regards the effusions of the Fourth Estate, nearly half of the nation’s adults still believe what they see and hear in the media. Gallup released a survey last month showing that 40 percent of the electorate still has some measure of confidence that the MSM reports the news “fairly, accurately and fully.”

This percentage constitutes an all time low, and it also means that 60 percent of the public has a healthy distrust of the media. Another good sign is that the survey showed enormous skepticism among the all important independents, only 31 percent of whom trust the media. Nonetheless 40 percent amounts to tens of millions of Americans, and its implications for last Tuesday’s face-off are scary to contemplate. It suggests the possibility that 20 to 25 million of the debate’s viewers could well have accepted at face value Crowley’s misleading statement about the President’s immediate reaction to the Benghazi attack.

If the final debate contains similar misrepresentations of fact, and it probably will, that could well dampen Romney’s momentum and even cause him to lose the election. And this is where the media become dangerous. Pat Caddell, a Democrat and former pollster for Jimmy Carter, recently outlined the peril: “The press’s job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power. When they desert those ramparts and decide that they will now become active participants … they have, then, made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy …”

It is no coincidence that Caddell’s remarks, which were made on September 27, were largely focused on the Benghazi attack. He was clearly shocked and outraged by the failure of the media to do its job as it relates to that particular “act of terror” and the disgraceful conduct of Obama and his minions in its aftermath. “We’ve had nine days of lies over what happened because they can’t dare say it’s a terrorist attack, and the press won’t push this. Yesterday there was not a single piece in The New York Times over the question of Libya. Twenty American embassies, yesterday, were under attack. None of that is on the national news.”

He went on to say that, during his days in active politics, the media would have been all over any President who behaved as Obama has behaved in reaction to Benghazi: “If a President of either party — I don’t care whether it was Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush — had a terrorist incident, and got on an airplane after saying something, and flown off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas, they would have been crucified!” But this is not your father’s press corps. They do, in fact, see themselves as “active participants” in political campaigns. And they always support the Democrats.

The JournoList scandal and several subsequent incidents of journalistic collusion have demonstrated that the media have collectively decided to take up the mantle of the Democrat party as well as its corrupt candidates. They have, as Caddell puts it, “made themselves the enemy of the American people.” Thus, much more is riding on the outcome of November’s election than who will live in the White House. The voters will be deciding if we still live in a democracy or a nation that has been “fundamentally transformed” into a place where self-appointed elites decide our destinies without regard to what we want or need.

About the Author

David Catron is a health care revenue cycle expert who has spent more than twenty years working for and consulting with hospitals and medical practices. He has an MBA from the University of Georgia and blogs at Health Care BS.

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Aristocat| 10.19.12 @ 6:29AM

Fatty Crowley will go down in history as the most egregious offender in debate history. Not only did she and Obama have the "transcript" scam all planned out in advance, Obama had all the questions in advance. Headliners: Debate #1: Romney, Debate #2: Biden: Debate #3: Crowley,
and not in a good way...

Cobalt| 10.19.12 @ 9:25AM

Friday October 19, 2012

Romney +4.6%

UnskewedPolls.com

http://unskewedpolls.com/

Von Mises Jr| 10.19.12 @ 11:16AM

If you want to see the Mitt Romney the MSM does not want you to see, please watch this Al Smith Dinner where Mitt is both hilarious and gracious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....._embedded#!

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:22PM

Still waiting for you at Yesterday's Story entitled - Looking At Tunisia.

Today's Contest is at Yesterday's Story on Tunisia.

We also had a Celebrity Guest.

You won't believe who it was.

The Contest runs until 7pm Saturday.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 11:45AM

Rasmussen - the GOP's favorite pollster - has it back to a tie this morning.

Norman Conquest| 10.19.12 @ 1:18PM

Rasmussen has Romney up by 5. Which poll are you looking at RCV?

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 2:15PM

Real Clear Politics this morning. You must be referring to Rasmussen's Florida poll, not the national one.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:23PM

Give it up, idiot.

vtwin's "Nigga" (his words, not mine) is Going Down.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 3:08PM

The only one "going down" is you TLP, as your constant homosexual act obsession reveals.

Brubaker| 10.19.12 @ 5:36PM

According to UrbanDictionary.com:

Going down: A statement to express that you will destroy, bring down, beat-up, or otheriwse eliminate somone or the effectiveness of something

Even when used in a sexual context, "going down" simply refers to oral sex, regardless of gender. Most sexually active men and women enjoy it with each other. It absolutely is not specific to homosexuals.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 2:46PM

Actually, RCV, Rasmussen's daily tracking poll is showing a very slight bump for Romney/Ryan, not O'Bama/Crowley.

You obviously still don't understand how these polls work.
Go educate yourself, here.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 3:07PM

Nick. Learn to read and think before you speak. Here's what Rasmussen said this morning, "Today’s presidential tracking poll from Rasmussen shows a two-point gain for Barack Obama, bringing him into a tie with Mitt Romney at 48/48. "

And I do understand how Rasmussen's running poll works. The slight "bump" in the last day isn't even statistically significant - that's why he uses the running total.

Further, the summary of national polls from RCP shows Obama now back in the lead. And tomorrow, we will see Rasmussen's first full poll of post-debate results. Your man Romney will be even further behind them. Next week, Gallup's polls will start to reflect the post-debate evaporation of Romney's brief ascendancy after Obama's miserable first debate performance.

And as I demonstrated to you yesterday, the electoral vote total -- the only one that matters -- has Obama in the lead no matter who you look to.

BWA-Ha-HA.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:38PM

Wrong, as usual, RCV.
The Foodstamp President only wins the electoral college if most of the toss-ups go his way.
Not gonna happen.

You can't even get Rasmussen's numbers correct.
He has it:
-Obama: 237
- Romney: 235
- Toss-up: 66

Ideology is blinding you to the facts in front of your face, RCV.

SUBVET| 10.19.12 @ 4:06PM

Nick.....please tell RCV polls are like pissing into the wind.......you probably will get wet.

I say LANDSLIDE......

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 5:35PM

I sure hope you're right, SUBVET.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 4:26PM

And in EVER SINGLE ONE of those "toss-up" states, Rasmussen shows Obama ahead. EVERY ONE, Nick. Check Rasmussen's numbers.

So Rasmussen's current electoral count is Obama 303, Romney 235.

You like to blind yourself to any fact that doesn't fit into your wish list.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 5:03PM

Wrong, yet again, RCV.
You don't seem to understand what the word "toss-up" means.
Plus, the "toss-ups" have been trending in Romney/Ryan's direction, not O'Bama/Crowley.

By the way, did you see this gem, from last night's The Daily Show:
"If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal."
- The Foodstamp President

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.19.12 @ 5:23PM

"The 'reporters' of the establishment news media are engaged in a concerted campaign of misinformation to get Barack Obama re-elected."

Romney is now ahead and inching forward, so unless Obama pulls a rabbit out a hat he will lose, and even if squeaks by to win by a few thousand votes, his second term would be hobbled by the lack of mandate and the Right's actions of the next four years. I hadn't realised Romney was not only a tough cookie but also v. smart. He is an improvement over Bush. So I was wrong all along, it is win-win for the Right-- but not for small government: "we are all statists now" is the unspoken change.. only diehard libertopians think small govt. has any chance with an aging population.

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.19.12 @ 5:32PM

"You must be referring to Rasmussen's Florida poll, not the national one."

Even if Obama wins, RCV, it wont be by more than a few hundred thousand votes, max. So let's look ahead: if Romney wins the election, a given is for starters we get RomneyCare-- not ObamaCare. The difference is minimal, based on robbing from Paul to pay for Peter's medical bills.
Second, we would get a more aggressive foreign policy. HOWEVER, unless something is done about the southern border, the #1 threat to us, it wont help. Either way: either restrict immigration or make Mexico the 50th state; something-- anything, has to be done about it.

Al Adab| 10.19.12 @ 5:37PM

The 50th state Alan? Who is leaving?

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.19.12 @ 6:09PM

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET.....er20121018

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.19.12 @ 6:10PM

... (psssst, it's a joke)

Ralph Novy| 10.23.12 @ 6:23AM

I would suggest, Mr. Brooks, that the #1 threat to "us" is not from across our southern border but from across Wall Street.

We are in the midst of a wholesale "looting" of this country by the country's "elite."

They yearn -- nay, they ache -- for a return to the pampered Gilded Age of the 19th Century, and have already come damned-near close to achieving their Tiberian fantasies.

Wake up!

Don't be a chump!

Stormzeye| 10.21.12 @ 5:22PM

The Sons of Liberty would have broken into her house, dragged her out into the street and tarred and feathered the traitorous hag.....a traitor to liberty.

Ralph Novy| 10.23.12 @ 6:25AM

Candy Crowley is a "traitor to liberty" because she dassed speak her mind?

You, sir or madam, are the traitor!

I denounce you!

Ralph Novy| 10.23.12 @ 6:12AM

You begin with "fatty"?

What sort of superior human being do you fancy yourself?

A truly "superior" human being wouldn't say such a thing.

Have a look.

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 6:29AM

down by a field goal in the fourth quarter, in the shadow of their own goalposts, team Romney has intecepted a pass and is now passing the 50 yard line...the crowd is going wild, the opposing coaches are throwing down their hats and playbooks, and screaming for the refs to "DO SOMETHING!" and the refs, having been calling a crooked game since the initial kickoff, are trying to do just that...and as the goalpost nears, it appears that they have a decision to make: get the hell out of the way, or get run over by a 250lb linebacker with the ball and a full head of steam??

R Martin| 10.19.12 @ 7:30AM

Not bad. I hope that's not your entry for today's contest.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:03AM

If you're looking for Today's Contest?

You need to back to Yesterday, and Look At Tunisia.

That's for you, too, spike.

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.19.12 @ 7:33PM

Romney's immigration policies are regarded as some of the most conservative of the last half-dozen presidential cycles.
'If you're someone who favors robust enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, Romney is the best presidential candidate that you've had in decades,' Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies told Yahoo News."

Whem we see it, we'll believe it.

Martin kzovich| 10.19.12 @ 7:04AM

Recently some one commented that the Media have become the enemy of the people( i do not recall who made the comment ) but I agree. They are the enemy of the people. In this regard I refrain from listening or watch ANY MSM of any sort.

A special not to FOX NEWS. I pray you do not join the others in your field and become another enemy of the people.

Aristocat| 10.19.12 @ 8:31AM

Pat Caddell, Democrat pollster, said that, and he was right....

Ken (Old Texican)| 10.19.12 @ 7:08AM

I pray a lot for our country. If Obama is "declared" the winnerin the wee hours following election day, I will not believe it or accept it.
I was looking at an electoral map. Lots of folks agree with me.

John786| 10.19.12 @ 10:03AM

Ken, you might get raptured before election day. It would be for the best. I don't think your spleen will hold if Br Obama ( may Allah guide him) wins. The mathematics at this stage in the game seem to be favouring the Brother. But as the saying goes- it aint over until the fat lady sings.

Al Adab| 10.19.12 @ 11:23AM

John,
Clever comment. Inshallah.

Ralph Novy| 10.23.12 @ 6:53AM

Nothing vaguely clever about it, guys.

Alej| 10.19.12 @ 10:29AM

The electoral map looks much like a blueprint for a secession movement.

The melting pot de-homogenized. Far from merely having nothing in common with the Northeast, the Great Lakes liberal states or the West Coast, I despise them. Less and except the minority of decent individuals remaining there.

But having Pelosis or Kerrys or obamas making laws that urinate on Texas values and attempt to alter Texas culture in unacceptable, up to and including the point of ballistic concepts.

Alej| 10.19.12 @ 10:31AM

"...is... ." When my blood gets up I don't proofread.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 10:40AM

I'm looking at a Column from Yesterday, entitled - Looking At Tunisia.

Did you know that they have Contests in Tunisia?

It's true.

You should check it out.

Al Adab| 10.19.12 @ 11:26AM

In re the electoral map, read Colin Woodard, American Nations for an understanding the the regional or sectional cultures which make up the country. It is interesting to watch how the votes follow the cultures.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:25PM

Go to The Contest, Al.

Yesterday.

"Look At Tunisia".

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 11:48AM

Try it, Alej. Results will be the same as last time the Red States tried it. Only this time, much, much quicker.

Alej| 10.19.12 @ 5:37PM

You declasse' maggots don't outnumber us 3:1 this time. And manufacturing has moved South, away from union mentalities and the Rust Belt.

Did I leave out the fact that by the first December, you would be freezing in the dark due to pipelines ending at the Confederation's northern borders?

? Or the fact that 2/3 of the active military establishment today hails from the South ? Like it has for decades.

Yep... it won't take four years this time, and the other difference is, there won't be a decade of punitive "Reconstruction." You losers will be ignored, shut out of the Confederation's commerce to starve or pay a broken Europe's charges for your potatoes.

BTW, don't any of youse guys plan on using the Mississippi River/Port of New Orleans for getting your wheat to market. Mule trains over the Appalachians (remember the part about no more hydrocarbons?) will have to support the Blue Midwest.

Y'all have a nice day, now.

doc255| 10.20.12 @ 10:49AM

Whoa there, buddy! You need to chill. First let me point out to you that not everyone up here in the North is stupid. Many of us are just as conservative as you are. Take a look at what's going on in WI. OH is starting to see the light. And the only reason MI is blue is because of the auto unions and Wayne Co. (home of what's left of Detroit). I can assure you that the rest of the state is a red as the clay in GA. You seem a tad bit bitter about something that happened well before your time, which kind of reminds me of the giant chip many blacks have been carrying on their shoulders because their great-great-great grandparents were slaves. But if you want to get into a pissing contest with us up here....well, you can just kiss away any further help with rebuilding after every major disaster that hits (what is it? About every other year or so?). And at least we can feed ourselves and we have fresh water to drink. What have you got, huh?? And when we block off the headwaters of the Missaissippi, you won't even have that...no, I'd say, it would be best if both sides in this country (North and South) get together to fight for what we do have in common.....our hatred for the the Left Coast!! They have definately got to go...

John Navratil| 10.20.12 @ 11:51AM

doc255,

I've got a big picture of a dam even as far south as St. Louis doing anything but flooding the midwest. It's hard to stop a river that drains 30 states and part of Canada ;)

Still, in sum, we agree.

RCV| 10.20.12 @ 3:00PM

The drones alone would take you Walter Mitty rebels out in a couple of days. You are so willfully ignorant of the federal government's overwhelming firepower in this day and age. You want to see shock and awe?

The only problem with Reconstruction last time was that it was cut short by a political deal in 1876, which allowed the Southern racists to reimpose their reign of terror on Black citizens.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 11:47AM

Believe it, Ken.

The very latest tabulation of Rasmussen's state polls gives Obama 237, Romney 196, with 105 "tossups". Of those toss up states, Obama leads with a total of 95 out of 105 -- only Missouri lean to Romney.

So, Rasmussen Electoral College Breakdown:
Obama 332
Romney 206

Real Clear Politics Electoral College Breakdown:
Obama 294
Romney 244

FiveThirtyEight.com Electoral College Breakdown:
Obama 287
Romney 251

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 11:51AM

Still whistling past the graveyard, I see.

Tom Kyba| 10.19.12 @ 12:04PM

More like digging up the graves looking for swag.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 12:08PM

Still trying to ignore reality, I see.

Warrior| 10.19.12 @ 1:56PM

It would appear your grasp of reality is tenuous at best and a desperate cry for a meds check.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 3:10PM

Those are the facts, Warrior, just the facts.

Warrior| 10.19.12 @ 3:46PM

Why must all liberals lie and triangulate. Debating on the facts seems so foreign to you morons. When the facts don't fit the narrative, change the facts. Rasmussen Electoral College projection:

Obama: 237 - Romney: 235 - Toss-up: 66

http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....scoreboard

Al Adab| 10.19.12 @ 4:20PM

Actually about the best Romney can realisticly get to is 256. He would almost have to run the table on the "tossup" states to make the 270. Must have FL, NC, VA and Ohio plus another 10 or so to get it. Might not be the waqy we want it but that's about where things lie.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 4:29PM

Thanks for your honesty, Al Adab. I've always admired your clear rational thinking.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 4:28PM

See above, Warrior. And in EVERY SINGLE ONE of the "toss-ups", Rasmussen has Obama ahead.

Current total: Obama 303, Romney 235.

Warrior| 10.19.12 @ 6:09PM

RCV just can't stop playing the court jester in liberal land. Your numbers are pure bullshit and so is your analysis. Using Rasmussen under the proposed scenario, FL and NC have already swung to lean Romney. Romney has opened up a 3 point lead in VA and trails 1 point (dead heat) in OH and NH. You also fail to mention that all the movement in the last three weeks has been towards Romney and not by a small margin. You liberal idiots used the polls to show us that Scott Walker was down 7 points in his recall. In the great words of Monty Python, I fart in your general direction.

RCV| 10.20.12 @ 3:02PM

Farting is about all you can do, sir.

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 1:45PM

nice try...but the ACTUAL RCP Electoral College breakdown is 206 Romney, 201 Obama, 131 tossup...Rasmussen has it 237 Obama 235 Romney 66 tossup...and you might as well toss the NYTimes' '538' in the dumpster; this is the same outfit that still claims the Benghazi attack on protests of a stupid video...do you ProgLibs WORK on lying, or is it as simple as breathing???

http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....e_map.html

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:28PM

Contest at Yesterday's Column - Looking At Tunisia.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:27PM

Give it up, idiot.

vtwin's "Nigga" (his words, not mine) is Going Down.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 4:58PM

Like your Mother.

SUBVET| 10.19.12 @ 4:07PM

Ken.........no worry LANDSLIDE

Ken (Old Texican)| 10.19.12 @ 7:36AM

It just occurred to me..... IE: virtually every blue State is on life support from the fed tit. Of course they are going Obama...(unless somehow their citizens' patriotism kicks in.)

SUBVET| 10.19.12 @ 9:15AM

Not in CA..............I feel Iam on the moon all by myself. This place is the pit of stupid.

I am ready for the fallout...........

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:16AM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 10:42AM

Which shirt do you wear on the Moon?

It's pretty Cold there, so I'm guessing: All of them.

SUBVET| 10.19.12 @ 4:10PM

TLP........when I am in Ct. I like the "skin them alive" shirt.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 4:59PM

I've got a lot of them, so let me know when you wear it out.

Al Adab| 10.19.12 @ 11:28AM

Subvet,
Take the money and run. Our investments won't survive the coming January capital gain and dividend tax increases. Let CA fend for itself. The "Big One" is coming but it turns out to be economic not geological.

SUBVET| 10.19.12 @ 4:13PM

Sh*t you mean I have to dig up my coffee cans in the back yard.

Al Adab| 10.19.12 @ 5:45PM

Hopefully they are full of Kruegerands. That might keep you going.

RCV| 10.19.12 @ 12:10PM

Ken, it is and always has been the red states at the federal teat. Most blue states deliver far more federal tax dollars than they get back, and most red states suck far more than the give in. Texas is the glaring exception. Do some research.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:29PM

Give it up, idiot.

vtwin's "Nigga" (his words, not mine) is Going Down.

sane person| 10.19.12 @ 12:31PM

You are not correct in this statement. Many of the red states, particularly in the deep south, receive far more in Federal money than their residents pay into the system.

See: http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....harts-maps

Moreover, liberal states such as CA , MA and NY receive far less than they pay into the system.

Frankly, CA, MA and NY are where the high paying jobs are located and combined with their large populations is where the tax revenues are highest.

My question is why rich people keep giving money to support the stupid, unemployed and poor people in the south?

Skippy| 10.19.12 @ 1:25PM

Because you hate them, that's why.
And that's good enough for us.

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 1:59PM

Well said. Very, very well said.

ebonystone| 10.19.12 @ 6:15PM

"Many of the red states, particularly in the deep south, receive far more in Federal money than their residents pay into the system."

Largely due to the number of large military bases located in the South. This was due to (1) the power of the southern Democrats in Congress; in the old days they had a lock on re-election, and so acquired the most seniority and committee chairmanships; and (2) the warmer weather -- training could be done year-round.

" CA, MA and NY are where the high paying jobs are located " and "My question is why rich people keep giving money to support the stupid, unemployed and poor people in the south?"

People in the North may have higher salaries, but they need them: taxes and consumer prices are much higher in the North. Northerners may have higher salaries measured in dollars, but their standard of living is not any better. Ask yourself why it is that so many people retire to the South?
Hint: it's not just for warm weather.

sane person| 10.20.12 @ 4:00PM

Actually you are quite wrong. The military expenditures in the deep south are nothing compared to the entitlements paid out by the Federal Govt to people who live in those states. West Virginia is one of the highest receiving states in the Union.

As far as prices being higher in the north, this is nonsense: cars, boats, clothes, furniture, etc. are teh same price in the north as the south. Moreover, unless you are in the large cities the price of real estate is not that much different. While property taxes are typically higher, this again depends on many factors and varies quite a bit. In any case, people in the north typically are willing to pay for good schools, libraries, parks, rec centers, etc. that are available to the community's residents.

Case in point: northern schools are ranked the highest in the county, while schools in most of the south are ranked dead last.

Clearly, you misinterpreted my comment about why us in the north are willing to pay for the losers in the south. In reality, we should have let the south go its own way in 1861 and left it drift into endless poverty and stupidity.

The cost of taking on the burden of the losers in the south has been a price too high.

But since you likely attended schools in the south where evolution, quantum mechanics, big bang theory, etc are consider anti-religous, I fear that logical and thoughtful cognitive processing are not one of your core competencies.

Alej| 10.20.12 @ 6:23PM

"West Virginia is one of the highest receiving states in the Union."

West Virginia is West Virginia because it broke away from Virginia to align with the North in the war, highly educated Yankee smartass.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.21.12 @ 10:01AM

In addition to your accurate historical analysis, that the efforts of Robert Byrd [now (D) Hell, instead of WV] and Jay Rockefeller, senior Democrat Senators who specialized in bringing home pork to their constituents for decades may have had something to do with it seems lost on sane person.

sane person| 10.21.12 @ 11:23AM

You are a idiot. The amount of money in "pork" is a tiny fraction of the money in entitlements to these or any states.

sane person| 10.21.12 @ 11:21AM

To say that WVA was aligned with the north is a vast overstatement. Moreover, slavery was not outlawed in WVA until 1865.

My point (that you were too stupid to understand) was that southern states receive more in Federal money than they pay in. Notable in this category are WVA, MS, AL, GA, SC, AR, etc.

You clearly are bitter about this, but it is a fact. The south is full of losers and you appear to be a resident of that region.

Kwan| 10.19.12 @ 7:38AM

No doubt the cheerleaders for Obama in the MSM realize that Obama is an empty suit that is all rhetoric and zero accomplishments. Therefore they've gone overboard in their efforts to prop up this phony. But unfortunately for them they can't hide the unemployment numbers, the growing debt crisis, Obama's failed Middle-East policies, the price of gasoline, the stagnant economy, the radical leftist that surround him, the fact that American citizens are starting look back on the Jimmy Carter Presidency as the good old days. Obama's vision for America is the same vision Fidel Castro had for Cuba, Hugo Chavez had for Venezuela, Vladimir Lenin had for Russia. Clint Eastwood pretty much summed it up when he said, "President Obama was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people".

Stephie| 10.19.12 @ 8:43AM

Sure they can Kwan. The sycophants on Morning Joe are saying obama has women voters in the bag, the economy is coming back and obama has created more jobs than ever before! And there are people who believe them . I've never seen such garbage as that network. The freaks they have working there are appalling.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:31PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:10AM

Mr. Kwan.

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

birmingham| 10.29.12 @ 9:53AM

What is the matter with you, TLP?? Why do you waste so much space repeating the same thing which appears to be spam?

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 9:17AM

I have a slightly different take on this, Kwan. I believe that in the final week to 10 days, when even the msm realizes that Obamarx is toast, they'll desert him droves for no other reason than to be able to say they reported accurately he was going to lose and lose big. It's called saving your own a**. They're rats, all of them, and they WILL abandon the sinking ship.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 10:50AM

They will NEVER walk away from him.

Look at everything Bill Clinton did - RAPE. Molestation. Fondling. Groping. Pathological Liar. Indecent Exposure. Perjury. Phone Sex while his Cigars were soaking in an Intern.

And, where is he, now?

He's STILL the Talk of the MFing Town, as far as they're concerned.

I know these guys like Pelleas knows the Top of Purp's head, and Vice Versa.

Capiche?

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 11:53AM

Tim, difference is every one knew Clinton was gonna kick Dole's ass so no need to run and hide.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:33PM

But he wouldn't have, if they had done their Job.

Nice Entry today, by the way.

TruSkeptik| 10.19.12 @ 7:47AM

There is a single phrase in this article that rings out above all the others. The MSM has become "a fundamental threat to the democracy …". The issue of course is what the American People are going to do about it. The Aerican People can be abused for only so long, they can be tormented by betrayal and lies for only a limited period, they will put up with mendacity and incompetence until it hurts because the American People are basically decent, patient and uncannily wise. But beyond that theoretical point, the American People will rise up and utterly destroy the mendicants and the incompetents. I for one look forward to that day of reckoning.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:33PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Stan Redmond| 10.19.12 @ 3:11PM

They couldn't do it without the intentional idiocracy being created by public schools and universities.

C. Vernon Crisler | 10.19.12 @ 7:48AM

"The press's job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power." Pat Caddell

With all due respect to Pat, that is NOT the job of the press. The job of the press is to report the TRUTH, regardless of which way it falls out.

When the press adopts any other function, no matter how laudable at first, it will not be long before truth becomes a casuality of ideology.

Nancy in NC| 10.19.12 @ 8:19AM

I believe that has already happened. The MSM not only decides what news to report but how to spin it.

To defend Caddell if they report the truth they will be protecting our liberty and freedom. They have failed to do that for over 100 years...it didn't start under this administration.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 10:51AM

I'm looking at a Column from Yesterday, entitled - Looking At Tunisia.

Did you know that they have Contests in Tunisia?

It's true.

You should check it out.

MelvinNC| 10.19.12 @ 8:11AM

Candy Crowley isn't going anywhere. She is going to slither back into her pit, festooned with lava lamps and posters of Jimmy Hendrix and Purple haze, take off her bra, debate with herself in whether she should burn it as a celebratory gesture, and put her multi colored psychedelic tie-dyed T-shirt on and pour herself a glass of cheap Sangria and receive Skype video phone calls form her fellow propagandists in what a fantastic job she did of upsetting the Romney political machine, and being a hero of the movement.
I'm surprised that the journalism schools are not erecting bronze statures in Candy's likeness, so that the journalism students may worship at Candy's bronzed feet.

Nancy in NC| 10.19.12 @ 8:19AM

Not enough bronze.

MelvinNC| 10.19.12 @ 8:28AM

I was going mention that, but it probably would have taken away of her burning her bra.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:11AM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Minuteman78| 10.19.12 @ 8:21AM

Ouch...the thought of Candy Crowley taking off her bra....not the way to start a Friday. I have to go watch some Fox News gals for an hour to scour that image out of my brain.

Maxwell| 10.19.12 @ 8:34AM

Minuteman78, I was about to add the same comment, you beat me to it. That image is NOT what I need to see in my minds eye on a Friday morning. Almost makes me blow breakfast.

MelvinNC| 10.19.12 @ 8:39AM

I'm sorry that is just how those 60s era feminists are.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.19.12 @ 8:57AM

"the thought of Candy Crowley taking off her bra....not the way to start a Friday"

It made me contemplate a vow of celibacy.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:14AM

Hey. If you accidentally fell out of an Airplane, you'd kill to have that Bra in your hands.

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:14AM

That goes for Melvin and Maxwell, as well.

Frank Drackman| 10.19.12 @ 9:30AM

Hey, I've got some old VHS tapes of Laurie Dhue at her DSL-iest...
and is it just me, or would Mona Charon be a Whore after a few rufies, I mean glasses of Wine...

Frank "I paid for that Whore's Microphone" Drackman

Seek| 10.19.12 @ 11:21AM

Aside from misspelling Jimi Hendrix's name and projecting the usual Red State Uber Alles bile upon "the Sixties," you speak foolishness. No voter in the real world is going to cast a ballot for Barack Obama because of something Candy Crowley said on the air. This whole "scandal" is a non-story.

MelvinNC| 10.19.12 @ 2:25PM

Well, for starters, I am a product of government run education which gives me an out on spelling. Secondly I am from Oregon, and I lived the 60's, the hippie, the squats, the yellow school buses turned into love, and heroin dens.
Then the suffering from the University of Oregon and the unshaven ugly ass feminists.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:34PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 8:52AM

Funny. What a desperation move. The Republican party has it's own cable channel, newspapers, and right wing talk radio media empire. The "Media is liberal-biased" is such a load of bull today, it's laughable.

Candy Crowley cried when Papa Bush lost to Bill Clinton - she is no liberal.

But continue to blame the media instead of your poor candidates and messaging rejected by the mainstream of America. It's good for me.

Now, Willard is telling Employers to scare their employees into voting for him. He's desperate, and, like Hitler, will do anything to win. It's slipping away, and now they are pulling out of North Carolina ... the freak show is about to begin.
If he fails again on Monday's debate, he's done, and maybe already on his way to a LOSS. He's a terrible speaker, has lousy ideas, and has no core to support. "Bush on Steroids" his campaign says he is.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.19.12 @ 8:59AM

He's baaaaaaack (apparently Starbucks doesn't need him until this afternoon).

I suppose the emergency remedial blogging seminar required that you reference Hitler in each post?

Von Mises Jr| 10.19.12 @ 9:44AM

I guess Perp/Jefferson/nathan/Will/whatever has been relegated to weekend duty.
Either that, or it is back from chasing Romney around on his tricycle.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:06AM

Another non-response. The old Romney's back, I get that... must be depressing.

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 1:48PM

it WILL be depressing ...for you on Nov 7, when you wake up in mommy's basement, wipe the cheetos crubs off your "Bay City Rollers" tee shirt, and contemplate that your Obamessiah is being evicted from public housing

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 2:01PM

Not just that, he won't be able to tell his Momma there aren't jobs available anymore.

Anthony| 10.19.12 @ 2:30PM

As opposed to the fake Obozo complete with a phony birth certificate, CT S.S. card, and admission to Columbia and Harvard as a foreign nation that REAL Obozo, purp?
You are in for the shock of your life.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 2:56PM

You mean like the elite, entitled RobMe that was given everything, including BAIN capital ... never served his country in time of war - ran away from the draft to draw pictures in the sand on the beaches of France, while the foolish patriotic young men were dying in VietNam... you mean like that pos?

Alej| 10.20.12 @ 6:28PM

"...foolish patriotic young men were dying in Viet Nam... "

Nice comment, Little Shit.

What war, or even branch of service, did you serve in, chickenshit ?

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 9:48AM

It took him a couple of weeks to lick his wounds (well, he must have been licking something to be gone so long) after the first debate. Now he, like the rest of the Obamarxbots who think their messiah won the last one, is all full of courage again. Fleeting it will be.

Von Mises Jr| 10.19.12 @ 10:52AM

It is anything but fleeting, KennesawJack. Caliban is a professional boot-licker. It is the price one must pay for an EBT card.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:08AM

Again, dis the 63% of the population that relies on government insurance that they paid for before they needed it. Sorry ass, you are.

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 11:57AM

Defend the 63%. Where did you get that number? Sycophant, you are.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 2:57PM

That is the true number of how many people get some form of government assistance - most of which they paid into for their working lives. Google it, Brainiac. Romney was wrong about that too.

Anthony| 10.19.12 @ 3:07PM

"My son is not very optimal, he is very dead".The mother of one of the slain Americans.
Your president is a cold blooded son of a bitch Purp, and a holes like you who support him have blood on their hands as well.
The times they are a chang'n. Watch out Purp.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 7:31PM

You are an idiot... the President simply responded in the same words that Jon Stewart used, "Optimal" ... Is that all you got?

Did you apologize for electing the asshole that killed 3000 people on 9/11? You're so concerned about 4 Americans - what about them?

Anthony| 10.20.12 @ 8:51AM

No, I didn't apologize for Clinton, moron, cuz I didn't vote for him.
Yes moron, you can lay 9/11 directly at the feet of Clinton who turned a blind eye to terrorism. The first WTC attack, he called a criminal act.
Osama called America a "paper tiger" cuz he saw that Clinton was a gutless president.
The only real criminal was Clinton, (have a cigar on me )but you're too stupid to see that Purp.
And Obozo goes and hide on the Libowitz, err Stewart show,cuz he has no balls for a real confrontation, and so according to Purp, the smartest man in the world has to mouth the words of one of the biggest asses in the world, next to Purp of course.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:07AM

Desperation is hard to defend, isn't it. Romney just had too far to climb and is well on his way to LOSING ... it's okay - in 2 1/2 weeks you can forget about RomBot and try again in 4 years.

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 11:59AM

Nah, not a chance. You need to ask Obamarx to get a glass a belt buckle so you can see what's happening.

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 12:00PM

One too many "a's" there, but you get my drift.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 12:02PM

Enjoy going down on Mitt RawMoney...

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 12:21PM

I'll bet you do.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 2:57PM

You started it, it was on your mind obviously... enjoy 65 year old jizz.

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 3:42PM

Wrong. I was implying your head was up his ass, not wrapped around his dick. Correct, I was. Obviously.

Anthony| 10.19.12 @ 2:36PM

Obozo lied,
the ambassador died,
it wasn't the video Obama,
it was you bragging on Osama.
Four Americans are dead,
it was the video Obozo said,
Hillary and Rice fed the lie
how many more Americans will die?
The November election is near,
it's America we hold dear,
Obozo and Biteme will go down,
Poor lit'l Purp will wear a frown.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:40PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 2:59PM

"It's America we hold dear" ... and yet you degrade it's President and Vice President. What kind of fascist, racist pigs are you?

Anthony| 10.19.12 @ 3:16PM

Oh, you mean like the way you morons on the left treated President Bush and Vice President Cheney? That kind of respect?
At least we didn't openly call for Bush's assassination like you morons did. At least Bush & Cheney took the heat for their actions and didn't hide behind women and lie to the American people about a bullshit video nobody saw.
So moron, you've been warned not to swim in the deep end of the pool here at TAS, cuz you're way over your head.
Next time you might drown.

Anthony| 10.19.12 @ 3:23PM

Sorry, ment to say at least we didn't openly call for Obozo's assassination, like you morons did.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 3:35PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

Obama and Laughing Boy Biden have degraded the office of the P and VP, not to mention Bubba's use of the Oval Office for sexual harassment and cigar parties. We criticize the person not the office, moron. You too stupid to understand that Obama is not the same as the Office?

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 2:57PM

Ever since the atrocity at Benghazi, Burp has REPEATEDLY blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate. He STUPIDLY believes that an ambassador has more power than the president.

Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence.
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Purp| 9.12.12 @ 4:16PM

"Correct - the Embassy in Cairo released that message BEFORE there was any violence. Obama knew nothing about it - but they were worried for their lives and tried to calm things down.

"Smart, since they didn't get burned down like what happened in Libya."
____________________________
Purp| 9.18.12 @ 7:57PM

"While the whole right-wing wants to jump on the President or Secretary Clinton for the Libyan security situation - why are they not giving the Ambassador on the ground - Stevens - his due as the responsible U.S. Official in Libya in charge of the legation and for his own security and security of others?"
____________________________

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:00PM

Who's to blame for 9/11 Nicki poo? The President?

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:05PM

Bubba "The Rapist" Clinton, scumbag.

SUBVET| 10.19.12 @ 4:17PM

I think it was the lesbo.............Mrs. C

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 5:22PM

He wasn't President then, fool...

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 5:41PM

The Rapist was never really president, scumbag.
But, he did spend 8 years destroying our military and intelligence assets, which allowed the attacks of September 11th, 2001, to happen.

There was a report that proved it. It was in all the papers, loser.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 5:56PM

So, you're saying President Bush wasn't in charge of Continental United States Security on 9/11?
Are you a complete IDIOT?
And you want to blame this President for a terrorist raid on a consulate, not even an embassy in Libya?

A Republican President isn't responsible for the worst attack on the United States EVER while he was President, but in a galaxy far, far away, the current Democratic President is completely responsible for an attack on a consulate?

Your partisan slip is showing, negating all you have ever said to try and be logical. You're not, and your side is LOSING.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 6:09PM

Purpie the Village Idiot
Bubba turned down three or four offers from countries that wanted to deliver Osama to us, moron. Bubba spent eight years ignoring the 1993 WTC attack, the Khobar Towers Attack, the USS Cole Attack, and two embassy (sound familiar) attacks. No wonder the muslim terrorrist believed we were weak. Bubba set a pattern of weakness and appeasement.
You really are stupid, this is too easy responding to you.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 7:33PM

And, tell me - was Bush Baby unaware of all that activity? Even when he was warned in August of 2001 about Osama Bin Laden? Couldn't even issue an alert? Not once?

Until you answer for re-electing sorry ass Bush, don't bother trying your false outrage about Libya.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 7:51PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 8:42PM

Purp the Village Idiot
So you admit that Obama is incompetent but your defense is Bush should have stopped 9/11? And Bush should have known that Bubba was too busy harassing women to respond to the terrorrist attacks? How stupid are you, moron?
There is no credible evidence that in Aug 2001 we knew we would get attacked. That lefty claim is believed only by 9/11 truthers like you, Hugo Chavez, and Sean Pennn,. You know it is false but you repeat it because you have no defense of Bubba and Obama.
You really, really are stupid, and a scumbag.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:02PM

Purp| 9.19.12 @ 8:06PM

"Who is in charge of the Embassy in a country? Who decides what is or isn't done in the Embassy?
"It is the Ambassador. He loved Libya, he miscalculated and tragically is dead.
"But, why would a President bother appointing an Ambassador if you're not going to listen to his advice. [...]
"Sadly, we can't ask the Ambassador himself - but that was his job."
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Purp| 9.19.12 @ 10:49PM

"Say it all you want ... Ambassador is the boss. If he wanted more security, he'd have had it. It sure isn't the President's fault. [...] Twist all you want. He was the boss, and he is now dead."
___________________________

Uh-oh!
Looks like Ambassador Stevens did ask for more security. Repeatedly. Scumbag.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 5:01PM

Helloooooooo?

Contest.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 5:57PM

And Bush is responsible for 9/11 - can't have it any other way if you blame Obama now. Sorry, ditzoid, you LOSE.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 7:34PM

But not to the President directly, Idiot boy. And with what money? John Boner cut the budget. Can't have it both ways sucko.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 7:44PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

Von Mises Jr| 10.20.12 @ 6:55AM

BREAKING NEWS - McCLATCHY AND AP REPORTING OBAMA REGIME COVERED UP BENGHAZI SINCE AL QUEDA HAS TAKEN OVER THE REGION. OBAMA’S WAR ON TERROR IS LOST (WHERE IS HARRY REID?)
OSAMA IS DEAD DUE TO BUSH INTELLIGENCE. OBAMA RETURNS AL QUEDA TO POWER WITH BEACH HEAD IN LIBYA.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:05AM

No real response... typical right wing blather.

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 2:01PM

you can expect to hear a lot of hysterical screeching from Purpie (the guy who blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own murder), vtwin, will, DRed, etc as Election Day grows near; the Hive knows its days are numbered...it's entertaining to watch them trash about and listen to the death rattle...

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:39PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Louis Jenkins| 10.19.12 @ 9:40AM

Hey Purp, you told me a couple of weeks ago that the ambassador placed himself in harms way, not Obama. Let's see, the compound was attacked in April, again in June, and the final blow came in Sept. Obama said exactly the opposite in the last debate. That it was his responsibility. Didn't mention the previous attacks, and didn't mention asking for re-enforcements. Hummm, who is telling the truth. Or are both of you lying?

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:18AM

Hey Louie - So, let's see, who you think handles the ground activity in a theater of war - the President, or the General, Commander in Theater?
If the General screws up, it's his fault, but the responsibility stops with the President.

Paint all you will, it isn't sticking, because the Ambassador runs his own show. But he IS appointed by the President and he is accountable also.

Now, for the security issue itself - go ask your Republican House why they cut the budget for EMBASSY SECURITY, if they were so concerned about security? Hmmmm?

Moreover, the Speaker and the Majority leader of the House as well as the Intelligence committees in both House and Senate and the Majority and Minority leaders of the Senate are in on the most intimate intelligence information. Now, no one said a thing about security matters at Embassies, until an attack occurred, of course, except to cut the budget for security.

And finally, no one can protect everyone from every danger everywhere - so get over yourself - or do you want to talk about the BIG ONE? GW Bush allowing 9/11 to occur 9 months after he was sworn in? Do ya?

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 2:49PM

Purpie the Village Idiot
Your alter egos here refuse or are unable to answer a simple question:

If Obama believed the Benghazi attack was a terrorrist attack (IT WAS), then why lie for two weeks on the View, Letterman, UN, etc that it was a response to a video?

You may want to check with the DNC to make sure you parrot today's excuse.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:02PM

You might care to check the video of the President calling it terror attack 24 hours after the attack ... you f**ked up, just like Mitt the Twit did in the debate.
You righties are consistent, tho - consistently wrong that is.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 3:27PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

As usual you are too stupid to even understand the issue. Let me go s l o w l y.
If he called it a terrorrist attack and believed it was a terrorrist attack, then why did he and his flunkeys keep saying for two weeks that it was a response to a video?
See Purp, moron, you Obamadolts, are now repeating the story line that Obama used the word terror on Monday. You are too stupid to understand that makes it worse because he knew it was a terrorrist attack, and YET continued to lie for two weeks that it was a response to a video.

Got that, moron?

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 5:58PM

They didn't, only Sean Insanity said it over and over and over again... just like Acorn was so corrupt.

Nazi tactics work sometimes, but not when we are all aware of the tactic.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 6:11PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

You do not make any sense. You need to get on the same page as your leader.

You really are stupid.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:27PM

"If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal."
- The Foodstamp President, Last night, on "The Daily Show"

"[...] there are going to be bumps in the road [...]."
- The Appeaser-in-Chief, Referring to FOUR Americans, murdered on 9/11/12

"[The attack was] a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo"
- Susan Rice, On ABC’s "This Week" Sept 16, 2012

"[State Department spokesman Victoria] Nuland defended Rice’s remarks with a repeated line about the ambassador’s statements accurately reflecting 'our government’s initial assessment.'"
- Statement on Sept 17, 2012, Source: McClatchy

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 5:59PM

Blah, blah... it isn't as big as 9/11, no matter how much you bold or scream. It ain't working so shut up about it already. You're like a fucking broken record with nothing new to say.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 6:13PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

Two weeks off has made you even more stupid.

You are a scumbag to blame Ambassador Stevens for his death when we now know Obama knew there was a terrorrist attack, did nothing during the attack, then went to Vegas for fundraising, and meeting with his top advisors, Beyonce and Letterman.

You really are stupid.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 7:34PM

Are you retarded - you keep repeating yourself.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 8:43PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

Two weeks off has made you even more stupid.

You really are stupid

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 7:42PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

Frank Drackman| 10.19.12 @ 9:58AM

Homo

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:29AM

Awwww, he wants my dick, dontcha?

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 12:02PM

No, but I heard Candy does, again.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:04PM

sick boy, sick

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 1:49PM

i'm guessing the sheep is done with it?

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:05PM

what kind of mind do YOU have?

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 8:43PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

Two weeks off has made you even more stupid.

You really are stupid

Grzmlyk| 10.19.12 @ 9:59AM

Liberal: ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, all of Hollywood and virtually ever cable series, TV movie and "news program," The Associate Press, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Businessweek, the AARP bulletin (circ. 24 million); Parade Magazine (circ. 32 millions), Enterainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, New York Mag, The New Yorker, Essence, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal (not the editorial page), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Rocky Mountain News, the Houston Chronical, the Detroit Free Press, Dallas Morning News, Minnapolis Star Tribune, The Boston Glob, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Newark Star Ledger, The New York Daily News The Chicago Sun Times, the LA Times, USA Today, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette . . .

Phew! I'm not even getting started!

Pecos Pete| 10.19.12 @ 10:56AM

Santa Fe New Mexican!

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:29AM

Just listing non-Fox affiliated media doesn't mean they are "liberal" media.
It's the Right Wing World mantra, but it's only because most Americans aren't buying what you're selling - and the media is just a convenient target. The blogosphere, which is NOT controlled by anyone, is far and away NOT conservative. In case you needed any evidence how lousy your ideas are viewed by most of the current and future voters - there you are.

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 1:50PM

you're the turd who laughed about Ambassador Stevens' death...sux to be you, scumbucket

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:05PM

You lie - but then that's the right wing's main tactic, isn't it?

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:09PM

Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence.
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Purp| 9.12.12 @ 4:16PM

"Correct - the Embassy in Cairo released that message BEFORE there was any violence. Obama knew nothing about it - but they were worried for their lives and tried to calm things down.

"Smart, since they didn't get burned down like what happened in Libya."
____________________________
Purp| 9.18.12 @ 7:57PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 6:00PM

Are you retarded?

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 7:41PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

Alej| 10.19.12 @ 10:36AM

"....and maybe already on his way to a LOSS."

"Maybe !"

Changing your tune a tad, Little Shit ?

The Avenger| 10.19.12 @ 10:42AM

Wow, I've been gone for a few days but I had hopes that Purp may have grown a brain. Alas, that is not the case. You will cry like a little school girl when O gets his shellacking. Myself, I will rejoice when you crawl back in your hole.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 10:52AM

I'm looking at a Column from Yesterday, entitled - Looking At Tunisia.

Did you know that they have Contests in Tunisia?

It's true.

You should check it out.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:32AM

Sure I would, but it looks like the crying will be on your side and I will be sure to remind ALL of you what your next 4 years will be like with the re-election of the President!

Romney is pulling out of North Carolina, and giving up there. 15 Electoral votes aren't easy to make up Rombot - he has the worst campaign management I have ever seen.

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 12:04PM

You really DO live in a dream world.

Tom Kyba| 10.19.12 @ 12:09PM

Oh gosh, Dr. Brain has declared the winner. Everyone can stop posting now. Thanks professor.

Frank Drackman| 10.19.12 @ 1:40PM

Umm Homo,
Romenys pulling out of North Carolina cause he's already won it.
Isn't there a dick you should be sucking?

Frank "POTUS interuptus" Drackman

Skippy| 10.19.12 @ 1:41PM

Umm...O'Bama has pulled out of N Carolina, not Mitt.

spike59| 10.19.12 @ 1:51PM

i'm guessing the only thing Obama's pulled out of is Chris Matthews

KennesawJack| 10.19.12 @ 2:02PM

Was Tingles on his knees or bent over?

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:07PM

You aren't paying attention, obviously. Go look it up. Romney is trying to get Ohio ... and gave up on NC.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:39PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 3:50PM

Nick
Obama believes it is NOT OPTIMAL.

O showed more emotion and empathy when his friend Gates got questioned by the police.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 5:06PM

Anything that gets in Team O'Bama/Crowley's way is "NOT OPTIMAL," CJW.
Because, all they care about is how this atrocity affects them politically.

Anthony| 10.19.12 @ 9:07AM

Well Mr. Catron, many of us here at TAS, for a long time, have been onto the total lack of professionalism and bias by the whores in the MSM.
The media deserve all the derision that the people of this great country can muster, because they have failed in the responsibility to be the honest aribers of the truth.
The media are part of the leftist establishment that has taken control of key elements of our society,like academia, government and the public schools.
If the MSM do manage to drag the Muslim Marxist over the finish line, nothing will protect them from what another 4 years of Obozo will do to this country. The MSM whores will be running for the tall grass along with Obozo and the D party.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 9:15AM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Louis Jenkins| 10.19.12 @ 9:32AM

Well, well, Purp is back. Thought he had given up after last week's session.

Melvin, in NC, said at the very beginning that the Bengazi incident was a terrorist attack. It took a day or so for me to agree as I may be a slower than most. Indeed, Obama may knew what happened. Another lie. And Obama's supposed to the the smartest, bestest, most intelligent, most Christ Like figure that we've ever had as president? Well, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't bat a thousand all the time. I'd rather bet on the local contributors being correct than Obama.

It takes a team to put Obama back in office. And their team has insinuated itself into all parts of our government, including MSM, and who knows, maybe even the janitor. How a Republican candidate can put himself into such a situation is beyond me.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:33AM

Not sure where you get the "Christ" figure idea, but let me guess - FOX!

Obama's team is far better than RomBot ... and it shows all the time.

Gr0w1er601| 10.19.12 @ 9:47AM

Cat's outta the bag. Unless you're a totally brainless ObamaZombie (there's an oxymoron for ya), you'll be voting for Anybody But Oblama. Even with these journalnitwits spinning away like runaway tops.

Von Mises Jr| 10.19.12 @ 9:50AM

So here is what the MSM is NOT telling you if O’taxmeggedon is re-elected:

- Bush tax rates and brackets sun set resulting in $4,269 additional Federal Income Taxes starting 2013 for a family with Adjusted Gross Income of $70,000 (A rate increase from 10% to 15% is NOT a 5% increase of your taxes. It is a 50% increase).
- ObamaCare Tax for Employers over 50 employees is $2,000 per employee if they fail to provide the approved coverage. If your employer drops your coverage and you fail to buy the mandated coverage, you are fined 1% to 2.5% of your income from 2014 to 2016. At $100,000 family income, your employer is fined $4,000 for a husband and wife each earning $50K and the family pays $1,000 escalating to $2,500 for failure to insure by 2016 at a cost of perhaps $20K.
- One-trillion plus dollar deficits will demand that America raise the Debt Ceiling in early 2013. The United States will face another Credit Rating Downgrade.
- Federal Reserve Policy of Quantitative Easing (QE3) buying $40 billion in Sub-prime mortgages per month will accelerate inflation.
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are under-funded. Estimates to bail out these Government Sponsored Entities may reach $363B through the end of 2013.
- ObamaCare has stolen $716 billion in Medicare Premiums paid by retired and current workers to fund Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Reductions to Medicare reimbursements to doctors threaten the “going concern” of hospitals and availability of medical care.

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 10:53AM

I'm looking at a Column from Yesterday, entitled - Looking At Tunisia.

Did you know that they have Contests in Tunisia?

It's true.

You should check it out.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 11:40AM

Bush taxes - completely up to the House to divide out the rich tax cuts from the middle class

If your employer drops your coverage, competition for you will be keen in other companies keeping coverage and you'll get a raise to boot - that's a scare tactic of course, VM.

Credit of the U.S. - completely up to the House United States Hosers ... if they stay in control.

Inflation? That's a laugh - I thought we needed jobs? Lower job employment doesn't equal higher inflation - and you know it.

Fannie and Freddie... so fund them already.

Medicare is extended to 2024 under Obamacare, giving another decade to find a true fix. Under Romney Medicare is bankrupt in 2016 - Can you say VOUCHERCARE? Romney = Grandma eating cat food and dog biscuits.

Is that all you got to scare us with VM? You gotta do better than that.

Tom Kyba| 10.19.12 @ 12:10PM

Please post again about how the MSM is not left-biased. I need another laugh.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 3:03PM

Burp will say ANYTHING to help the Appeaser-in-Chief cover-up his incompetence.
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Purp| 9.12.12 @ 4:16PM

"Correct - the Embassy in Cairo released that message BEFORE there was any violence. Obama knew nothing about it - but they were worried for their lives and tried to calm things down.

"Smart, since they didn't get burned down like what happened in Libya."
____________________________
Purp| 9.18.12 @ 7:57PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death.
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 6:01PM

Retards repeat themselves .. proceed.

Nick| 10.19.12 @ 7:40PM

You KEEP blaming Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.

CJW| 10.19.12 @ 8:44PM

Purpie the Village Idiot

Two weeks off has made you even more stupid.

You really are stupid

Who Knows?| 10.19.12 @ 10:35AM

I want Obama to lose in a historic landslide, the GOP to take over the senate and increase its house members.

That being said---

You posit---

“What if Obama's MSM pimps succeed in getting him re-elected?”

It was good of you to provide the latest percentages of people who trust the polls. Maybe there’s hope.

However, I still think you don’t get it---the MSM, led by the NYT-WP-NBC-ABC-CBS et al are the ones who CHOOSE their puppets, like Obama. THEY are the ones in charge.

Look at it this way. Probably 40% totally believe what a CBS nightly news shoots out their CRT—my old neighbor religiously watches such drivel. That leaves 60%.

On the right, a solid 30% is like me, and have long known what a crock the MSM spews. Ah, but the remaining 30%?

They are at least impacted by the MSM spin, and my guess is that enough of them join the 40% true believers to give majority status to the followers of the MSM.

Yes---the MSM is our true masters.

Obama is just the latest puppet. This is easy to prove. Ask yourself, could the MSM break Obama? Hell YES! They made him, keep on making him, and when he becomes a liability, they can, and WILL, break him---and ALL the other dudes and dudettes at the end of their strings.

Maybe THAT’S why Intrade---the smart money---still has Obama at 63%.

The MSM---“You’re on television, dummy!”

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:10PM

Assuming what you say is true about the 30% - who owns the media? Do you know?

7 Corporations own 90% of the media - who you think they support? You people are amazingly dumb.

Meowmeowoofwoof| 10.19.12 @ 10:56AM

The pig-in-a-pantsuit is guilty of providing aid and comfort to fellow progressive plants such as the one in the whitehouse. She knew the contextual meaning of his rose garden statement and stated a lie that it meant something else in front of millions of viewers. It is time for conservos to develop a plan for buying one of the three broadcast networks that is reaching fellow Americans. There are millions who are not wired or are busy working and living and get their news from popular culture. A broadcast ( ie. free ) network given the Fox cable treatment would not only reach the unplugged it would find financial success as going concern. The progressive movement has wormed its way into academia,public sector unions and media that they will be a threat to free peoples everywhere until we de-ball these 3 institutions. This war has just begun as a large segment of the U.S. are blind to the progressives hiding behind familiar tags like " democrat ". These progressive " aliens " believe " regulatory socialism " is the natural endgame for the perfection of man. They ignore the failures of 100 years of both soft and hard socialism. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us. See you in the trenches. Yours, Woofwoof

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:42PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

gulfcoastcommentary | 10.19.12 @ 11:39AM

Great article. Not only is Free Press vital to Democracy, it IS democracy!
Check out my blog entitled "The Media's 'Sacred' Role in Democracy" http://gulfcoastcommentary.blo.....cracy.html
Enjoy!

TLP| 10.19.12 @ 2:43PM

Fortune Cookie sometime say - To understand the Contest of Today? One must sometimes look to the Past. Specifically to Yesterday, and go Looking At Tunisia.

That is all.

Doctor Right| 10.19.12 @ 1:11PM

Can we PLEASE stop all the nervous-nellie hand-wringing???

Crowley is an ass, and she came off as a complicit ass to millions of people the other night.

Obama did NOT gain one single voter from that debate - NOT ONE.

Louis Jenkins| 10.19.12 @ 1:33PM

Dear Dr. Right:

I believe, as you name implies, right.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 4:08PM

Most polling is not supporting your bone-headed idea... the old Romney was on display and highlighted by the President this time around.

Crowley stood her ground, which is an affront to Republican men ... that's what you don't like. Women are not with you though. Especially, the ones in Romney's "Binders"

Abu Nudnik| 10.20.12 @ 11:43AM

I agree. It's all about character. Put the two on stage and it's Romney all the way. Obama is shrinking daily in the eyes of the public. Just appearing on stage with Romney is a disaster no matter how well he's perceived to have done. The 2nd debate victory is a Pyrrhic one for Obama. He had to reveal his weakest spot: that he lies to look good. Michelle went on TV the other day and said that her husband never blames anyone but just gets down to business. Breathtaking! She's describing Romney and everyone can see that. The fact that she is trying to raid the R/R cupboard to spread it on her widow piece of toast is in itself a kind of resignation to defeat - in his own bedroom! He's shriveled. He's toast.

Frank Drackman| 10.19.12 @ 1:43PM

I just wanta go on the record,
today, October 19th, 2012, in the year of our Lord, Hey-Zeuss, and I'm not sure what year it is on the Jewish calendar, and I'm Jewish, and I really don't know what year it is if you worship that Homo Moe-Hammed or Buddha...
If Obama wins North Carolina, I'll have sex with Candy Crowley.
Virtual Sex, I'm not a sicko.

Frank

Skippy| 10.19.12 @ 1:43PM

Hey, here's a question.
If Prince Bambo ascends to his throne again in Jan., can we riot like his sycophants will do if he loses?

cuban pete| 10.19.12 @ 2:45PM

Can't do it Skippy. We all have jobs, responsibility and commitments. I'll be at my financial advisor trying to protect my self funded retirement portfolio. However, by then it might be too late.

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 3:12PM

Why not? All 1400 of you would look good behind bars.

Frank Drackman| 10.19.12 @ 3:46PM

sounds like you speak from experience, Smegma-Breath.

Frank "putting the N into the N-Word" Drackman

Purp| 10.19.12 @ 4:09PM

Deranged Dracko you mean.

Alej| 10.21.12 @ 11:55AM

The American Spectator has degenerated into The American Spectacle... a troll-tolerating spectacle the (usually excellent) articles of which elicit comment threads that invariably degenerate into disappointment. The site is apparently not moderated, the advice below the proposed comment box notwithstanding.

Frank Drackman| 10.19.12 @ 2:50PM

2 guys broke into Candy Crowley's fashionable Upper West Side Condo.
She yelled "RAPE!"
they yelled "NO!"
Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frank "No Respect" Drackman

WaffenSS| 10.20.12 @ 8:05AM

In the Soviet Union(it still is the Soviet Union) there is a saying regarding the media. This saying is a play on the the two media outlets"authorized" by the government to disemenate the news. Tass which means "news" and Isvestia" which means truth. So in the vein of good Russian humour; 'In the truth there is is no news, and in the news there is no truth.
Like Rome, the Republic is in decline. For the same set of circumstances that befell Rome. We will disentegrate into chaos and ruin.

bobby12| 10.20.12 @ 10:16AM

To have mentioned after 9/11 that President Bush ignored numerous warning about an imminent attack, then went on vacation would have gotten you the label "traitor." Okay to call President Obama a terrorist sympathizer because he didn't label the attackers "terrorists" soon enough.

Abu Nudnik| 10.20.12 @ 11:37AM

The author never called Obama a terrorist sympathizer. He pointed out that the media ignored twenty embassy attacks and an assassination. He pointed out that the Obama administration stonewalled and blamed a video for two weeks. He pointed out that Candy Crowley, who chose the questions also studied the president's Rose Garden speech before the debate.

Abu Nudnik| 10.20.12 @ 11:33AM

It won't happen. Just putting the two on stage together shines up Romney and dulls down Obama. People judge character instantly, unconsciously: it is the oldest skill we have, facial recognition and body language. Obama's toast. Too bad there aren't more debates.

patrick Garabedian| 10.20.12 @ 4:38PM

There should be a drumbeat about the MIRACLE TRANSCRIPT , the transcript that miraculously materialized in the " moderator's" fat man-hands when Obama asked for it, to be then misquoted to Romney's disadvantage.

carly| 10.21.12 @ 12:59AM

Well, I would suggest that the citizens of this country have no choice but to take up arms against our oppressors.

woodsman1st| 10.21.12 @ 3:36AM

This sent chills up my spine!

That the media elite have the power, and use that power, to decide exactly who will become the leader of the free world.
Terrifying!

ReaganConservative| 10.21.12 @ 4:07AM

Candy Crowley is doing what we always know liberals do- they lie, cheat, propagandize, commit fraud, distort the truth, etc.. Thus have no integrity, no honor, no morals, no respect, etc.. People like Crowley only win when and if we are ignorant of the truth, and stay ignorant, which is not the case, as we the people see right through their facade- their deceit and lies, ie; games and political corruption, as always.

Petronius| 10.21.12 @ 1:59PM

While media control and advocacy are disproportionate and nihilistic, just remember who the presstitutes are: weenies and losers. In order to regain Our Liberties, look at who took them; academia and the legal establishment. Unless and until Constitutional purists control those institutions, we will continue to lose.

soljerblue| 10.22.12 @ 2:18AM

I spent 40 years of my life in broadcast news, and I can tell you that the public perceptions now becoming so widespread of the MSM as pimps for Obama and the progressives are, in fact, overwhelmingly correct. The Chris Matthewses, Andrea Mitchells, Lawrence O'Donnells, and so many more like them in front of and behind the cameras, are towel carriers in Obama's bordello.
But don't just blame Obama -- this goes back at least as far as the Nixon years, when the media dropped all pretense of balance in political reporting. It's only gotten worse, and the public has been far too long catching on. Pat Caddell is absolutely right -- but he's way late in saying so.

djn1313| 10.22.12 @ 10:09AM

The progressive/socialist/liberal mainstream media is no different than the media controlled by the nazis in Germany or the media controlled by the old Soviet Union. The US mainstream media is corrupt, biased, untruthful, and totally out of touch with the majority of Americans.

Ralph Novy| 10.23.12 @ 6:09AM

Is Fox News exempt from that criticism?

Ralph Novy| 10.23.12 @ 6:07AM

What a sniping, dishonest little punk you are, Catron.

" The 'reporters' of the establishment news media are engaged in a concerted campaign of misinformation to get Barack Obama re-elected."

And Martian death rays account for the rest of the world's maladies, right?

Jeez, Louise.

Get a life!

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