Lois Lerner's Obsession with Prayers

The IRS' Lois Lerner, the "I plead the 5th - though I've done no wrong" manager of Tax Exemption Audits who's division badgered only conservative 501(c) (4) organizations leading up to the presidential election of 2012 apparently has a long history of harassment of people who like to pray.

When she worked for the Federal Election Commission for 15 years she wanted to know what this pray thing is all about.....

Q: (reading from a letter from Oliver North to Pat Robertson) “‘Betsy and I thank you for your kind regards and prayers.’ The next paragraph is, ‘Please give our love to Dede and I hope to see you in the near future.’ Who is Dede?”

A: “That is Mrs. Robertson.”

Q: “What did you mean in paragraph 2, about thanking -you and your wife thanking Pat Robertson for kind regards?”

A: “Last time I checked in America, prayers were still legal. I am sure that Pat had said he was praying for my family and me in some correspondence or phone call.”

Q: “Would that be something that Pat Robertson was doing for you?”

A: “I hope a lot of people were praying for me, Holly.”

Q: “But you knew that Pat Robertson was?”

A: “Well, apparently at that time I was reflecting something that Pat had either, as I said, had told me or conveyed to me in some fashion, and it is my habit to thank people for things like that.”

Q: “During the time that you knew Pat Robertson, was it your impression that he had - he was praying for you?”

O: “I object. There is no allegation that praying creates a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act and there is no such allegation in the complaint. This is completely irrelevant and intrusive on the religious beliefs of this witness.”

Lois Lerner is refusing to testify because she has a closet full of skeletons that are begging to get out.  And I suspect it relates not only to the recent IRS scandal.

I'm Back and Here's Why

Haven't posted since last fall before the election. Was sure that when the truth about the Obama administration's total lack of concern for our ambassador to Libya and the others who were killed was revealed there simply could not be a second term for Barack Obama. Then Candy Crowley made it all too obvious in her debate moderation of the presidential debate that the gloves were off and the main stream media was prepared to lie, cheat and steal to cover for the Obama administration's failings. She took charge of the debate and buried any effort Romney would make to have Obama take responsibility for the deaths and the pathetic aftermath. She lied as the debate moderator (!) to save the Democrats.

Obama won, voting corruption has since been revealed in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and the Benghazi fiasco, the IRS fiasco, the AP and Fox reporters monitored by the Department of Justice, and on and on have come to light.  I have felt that perhaps with the attack on journalism and the 1st amendment, even the journalists who have been made the tools of the administration would finally wake up and smell the coffee.  There is some indication that that is happening...slowly.

But what has made me sit up and take notice?  Today's events are simply the last straw. Clearly Obama has put the word out...."say not one word about the IRS or other investigations on the network nightly news of CBS, NBC and ABC. " Today, to the astonishment of all in the room, Lois Lerner director of the division of the IRS responsible for the IRS chilling auditing of solely conservative organizations - PLEADED THE FIFTH AMENDMENT and it was not even mentioned on the nightly news of these three networks.

The fix is in. and these idiots will try to cover up several of the most hideous abuses of power by any presidential administration ever - believing that people won't notice. Insane. I must do my small part to stem this insidious tide of authoritarian muffling of media. Unbelievable.

Radio Silence on Benghazi Murders

Six weeks of radio silence from the White House and the Main Stream Media.  Remember no one died in the Watergate hotel.

And Tyrone, even though you never got to hold your newborn son, he will grow up knowing the character and quality of his father, a man among men who sacrificed himself defending others. God bless America !

This is What Baffles Me about Democrat Feminists

I have a wife and two daughters and I have learned from them that women are downtrodden by men.  Mostly white, middle aged men.  I reject the argument but not in its totality.  Not all white guys, but definitely this white guy.

Joe Biden is a blowhard and was a cackling, rude boor in his debate with Paul Ryan. But what struck me without prompting from my personal slate of lefty feminists was how he was particularly rude to Martha Raddatz.  A very good journalist and a woman who has spent far more time in flak jacket at various war fronts than Biden.  His churlish and frankly misogynistic behavior was noticed by many conservative women.

Tonight, Joe Biden is embodying everything that women hate about talking with men.

He was like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving dinner that was lecturing his 16 year old niece.  I'm sure he had to do all he could to keep from calling her "sweetie".  As I read the blog post linked here by Mollie Hemingway, Ed. I actually felt I learned a great deal about how women feel around a certain type of male.

Where for godsakes are the liberal feminists on this guy?  Is it just another John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Al Gore let the boys be chauvinist just as long as they tell us that they are on our side on abortion, situation?  It appears to be.

Frankly it smacks of a very, very hypocritical tradeoff that is frankly, creepy.

President Giant Ego

When visiting The View (instead of meeting with UN envoys or let's say some guy named Netanyahu) President said; " I understand that I'm just here as eye candy for you guys".  Say Mr. Narcissicism how about spending time instead finding out how our Ambassador to Libya and 3 other Americans were brutally murdered last week.

Main Stream Media - not a peep, move on, nothing to see here.

New York Environmentalists Explain Why Fracking is Bad

Most hilariously, the enviro-activists have demanded that state officials explore an alleged link between fracking and — we kid you not — syphilis.

They argue that a drilling boom would draw an influx of male workers from other states who would engage in activities of a kind that would spread sexually transmitted diseases.

They also contend that a boom would trigger a housing crunch, adding to homelessness and the health ailments that go along with it.

And that increased truck traffic would not only lead to more road fatalities, but would also — again, no kidding — discourage people from getting the outdoor exercise they need to stay fit.

This is absurd. If New York starts saying no to entire industries on the grounds they might trigger population changes, rising home prices and truck traffic, it might as well turn out the lights.

Well I admit I just wasn't paying enough attention to these issues.

From the NY Daily News

Global Sea Ice Has Increased

What? But the Arctic sea ice has melted to a scary level, right? Global warming is going to flood the beaches of Florida soon, right. Not so fast, scaremongers.

Day 256 Antarctic ice is the highest ever for the date, and the eighth highest daily reading ever recorded. All seven higher readings occurred during the third week of September, 2007 – the week of the previous Arctic record minimum.  

And total Global Sea ice is up

Pravda is a more open media outlet than our Main Stream Media.  

Univision Teaches US Media About Balanced Journalism

Univision decided not to rollover and serve softballs to Obama in a recent televised interview. They asked questions about Obama's promise to provide comprehensive immigration policy in his first year and why Eric Holder was not fired for the Fast and Furious gun walking policy that ended in hundreds of dead Mexicans.  This was not the fun type of Letterman or The View interviews that typically protect him from tough questions.

Journalism: The big media haven't exactly distinguished themselves with their lazy, biased coverage of President Obama. So it's nice to see a media outlet that asks tough questions and informs its viewers. Univision, take a bow.

No doubt, President Obama entered the Univision studio last Thursday for a televised candidate's appearance thinking it would be a cakewalk.

Investor's Business Daily has the whole story

Goddammit This Crap is Getting Way Out of Hand

Mainstream media is caught on open mic coordinating attack questions at Romney presser.

It's there all the time and here's the proof.

MSNBC Wants You to Think There are No People of Color in the Republican Party

MSNBC the network that espouses liberal and DNC talking points 24/7 is the whitest of the networks. All PrimeTime on air personalities morning (Morning Joe) and evening (Shultz, Matthews, Maddow, Mitchell and the other white guy Larry something or other) are white.  The exception is Al Sharpton whose combined talents of political pundit for the left and on air host seem awkwardly intertwined.

So to continue the meme that "that hey it's the Republicans that are racist" MSNBC chose to not show the minority speakers on the first night of the Repub convention.  They cut away from, and chose not even to talk about; a dynamic black woman Mia Love who excoriated the actions of Obama and brought the house down, Ted Cruz - charismatic Senate candidate from Texas, and Artur Davis, a black former Democrat who seconded Obama's nomination in 2008 but gave a rousing speech that appealed to former Obama voters.  You can bet MSNBC literally ran around shouting "make sure he doesn't get on".  It's embarrassing for MSNBC to have to do this to continue to try and fool their 38 viewers into thinking that the Republican party is racist.  Those three speeches rivaled the Ann Romney and Chris Christie speeches that came later in their enervating messages.

Jake Tapper Agrees with Halperin About Media Bias

Our cute little self-coined phrase Jourtegrity Lost has been around for a few years now and judging by how things have gone during the Obama presidency and his re-election campaign (which seem to be one and the same) the term has become more and more prophetic.  Jake Tapper, who has had to tread lightly on his belief that journalism is supposed to be neutral (in order to not anger the ABC news overlords) has again ventured into dangerous waters in speaking about the 2008 presidential campaign.

 "Sometimes I saw with story selection, magazine covers, photos picked, [the] campaign narrative, that it wasn’t always the fairest coverage."

Speaking with Laura Ingraham and quoted in the Weekly Standard Online Tapper simply thinks the media is clouding the real issues of this campaign.

More Admission by the Media that the Media is in the Tank for Obama

As the race for President of the United States gets tighter and as it starts to appear that Romney/Ryan have a real chance to win this thing, you are seeing a media that realizes it may need to prepare for a possibility that someone other than their guy will be in power. They are fessing up and the 4 year rah-rah parade is coming to an end.

Mark Halperin of MSNBC .  "the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants."

Okay, can it be made any clearer?  Is it a question anymore?

Soledad Show Preps ON AIR with UltraLib Website Notes

Anyone that thinks that CNN is somehow in the tank for President Obama should be ashamed of themsel......what?  Soledad got caught doing what?  Soledad O' Brien of CNN who likes to fist pump in studio guests when they say the right things (though she calls it the Obama bump) is so NOT a journalist  that it is uproariously funny. Please check out this story from Newsbusters.

Soledad O'Brien uses Talking Points Memo for her source for quotes....

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.During her interview with Virginia House of Delegates Republican member Barbara Comstock, O’Brien became visibly flustered and was actually caught doing finger stress exercises as she attempt [sic] to insert editorial commentary while her guest, a former skilled Republican operative, defended the House GOP budget, designed by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan.

Accidentally, a cameraman captured O’Brien furiously flipping through notes, only to cut out seconds later.

Indeed:

Once blown up, the picture told quite a story:

What she's reading from is a TPM article titled "The Myth Of Paul Ryan The Bipartisan Leader" published Monday at 6:08 PM only a few hours before this program started.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/13/soledad-obrien-caught-reading-liberal-blog-during-heated-debate-romne#ixzz23XJrGEi1

But 8.3% is not Really higher than 8.2%

The legacy media has done an incredible job of disguising the complete failure on virtually all fronts of the Obama presidency.  Not since Baghdad Bob have we been told left is right, up is down and high unemployment, record foreclosures and tripling of the national debt are good things.  Some people are starting to cut through the veil of lies.

86% of news about Romney's tour - Negative

When Obama went to Europe as the Dem candidate in 2008 he was crowned a "rock star".  Romney's tour is misreported by the 3 networks as a "failure".

Obama was treated like a rock star (from the Associated Press: "It's not only Obama's youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic...."), Romney endured a focus on gaffes and the trivial.

Now that's jourtegrity!

Word Going Around is Harry Reid is an Idiot

I don't know this for sure of course, but it's what I heard. His Dad must be so embarrassed. Jon Stewart could have passed on this as all other libs have but he didn't.  Something is going on at the Daily Show and I'm liking it.

Even the Daily Show Sees ABC's Bias

After the horrific massacre in Colorado many people heard  Brian Ross (ABCs chief investigative journalist) tell George Stepanopoulos how he discovered that the killer might be a tea party member.  He discovered this by simply googling "tea party and james holmes".  What a discovery! Stepanopoulos was intrigued. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show, not so much..

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Another Mainstream Journalist Calls Out NBC

Katie Couric's former producer reported by Breitbart.

Forget it. I’m done.  You deserve what they’re saying about you.  It’s earned.  You have worked long and hard to merit the suspicion, acrimony, mistrust and revulsion that the media-buying public increasingly heaps upon you.   You have successfully eroded any confidence, dispelled any trust, and driven your audience into the arms of the Internet and the blogosphere, where biases are affirmed and like-minded people can tell each other what they hold to be true, since nobody believes in objective reality any more.  You have done a superlative job of diminishing what was once a great profession and undermining one of the vital underpinnings of democracy, a free press.

Good job.

I just have one question:

What the hell is wrong with you guys?

Deacon Greg Kandra multiple award winning journalist has had enough. There must be hundreds of other journalists who would like the aching pain in the pit of their stomachs to go away also. 

MSNBC's Ed Schultz is Paid to Shill for Unions

More journalistic integrity from the great Obama media shills on the left. Ed Schultz, slimeball extraordinaire is paid not just by MSNBC but by various unions to throw his daily red meat to the ultra lefties.

A Labor Department spokesman confirmed to NewsBusters that Schultz received $190,000 from CWA  in fiscal 2011, far from than the $7,500 he was paid by the union a year earlier. The spokesman said unions are mandated to report such payments as required by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

For its fiscal 2010 payment to Schultz, the union characterized the payment as pertaining to "union administration," according to Labor Department records.

The fiscal year before that, unions paid Schultz $42,500 -- $17,500 from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, $10,000 from AFSMCE, and $7,500 each from the Building and Construction Trades union and International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. All were for "political activities," according to the Labor Department.

This is the guy who called Laura Ingraham a "right wing slut". (Obama forgot to call her about it).

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/03/09/ed-schultz-paid-nearly-200000-unions-2011-according-labor-dept#ixzz1ojxDj1Hr

Help Me, So That I Can Help YOU.

In Chicago they call it "Pay to Play".


"More than half of Obama’s 47 biggest fundraisers, those who collected at least $500,000 for his campaign, have been given administration jobs. Nine more have been appointed to presidential boards and committees.

At least 24 Obama bundlers were given posts as foreign ambassadors, including in Finland, Australia, Portugal and Luxembourg. Among them is Don Beyer, a former Virginia lieutenant governor who serves as ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein."

These are not the people standing in the unemployment line so don't even joke that this helps the jobs issue.