and still thinks he should be fired over Fast & Furious. Lanny Breuer, too.
From Steyn on the current mess:
I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the American flag, and very attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a federal republic is the single “O” logo symbolizing the great gaping maw of spendaholic centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs, eerily mimicking the bloody finger streaks left on the pillars of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as its staff were dragged out by a mob of savages to be tortured and killed. What better symbol could one have of American foreign policy? Who says the slick hollow vapid marketing of the Obama campaign doesn’t occasionally intersect with reality?
and
What other entertainments have senior U.S. officials reviewed lately?
Last year Hillary Clinton went to see the Broadway musical Book of Mormon. “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others”? The Book of Mormon’s
big showstopper is “Hasa Diga Eebowai” which apparently translates as
“F*** you, God.” The U.S. secretary of state stood and cheered.
Why does Secretary Clinton regard “F*** you, God” as a fun toe-tapper
for all the family but “F*** you, Allah” as “disgusting and
reprehensible”? The obvious answer is that, if you sing the latter,
you’ll find a far more motivated crowd waiting for you at the stage
door. So the “leader of the free world” and “the most powerful man in
the world” (to revive two cobwebbed phrases nobody seems to apply to the
president of the United States anymore) is telling the planet that the
way to ensure your beliefs command his “respect” is to be willing to
burn and bomb and kill. You Mormons need to get with the program.
From Althouse on what might seem a distraction effort:
We're barraged by new distractions, so let's catch things that are
slipping down the memory hole. It's not just Nakoula. It's Chris
Stevens. Our ambassador was murdered, and he was murdered after he was
targeted and he was not given security.
Shame on those who disrespected Nakoula's freedom of speech. Their
faults are apparent and need to be remembered. But what happened to
Chris Stevens? I don't trust that we've learned the whole story. Why
wasn't he protected? Was he an inconvenient man? We saw such an effort
to create static around his death. Look — riots over here, here, and
here! Offensive video on the internet! Man with a "towel" around his
face! And hey check out the most important thing that happened all week:
Romney said "47%" to some people back in May!
The very fact that we're thinking about Nakoula — and futzing with
Romney rhetoric — makes me feel that Chris Stevens got stuffed down the
memory hole.
Who wanted that forgetting and why?
That is an interesting question. The most basic answer would be "Obama and Clinton didn't want to believe they actually NEEDED full security("We helped the Libyans, they would not do/allow anything to happen!") for the ambassador", followed by "They were busy preening and didn't want to have to deal with it." And the "SQUIRREL!" distractions, well, this administration doesn't want anyone actually talking about it when they screwed up, and most of the media is quite willing to help. So is the media just so in the tank they'll reflexively try to cover for Obama & Clinton even on this? Or were they asked to help out?
Now that's a kind of blowback on Waco I'd not have thought of:
"A Pakistani imam, Abdul Wahid Qasmi, once told me that President Bill
Clinton burned to death scores of Americans for criticizing Jesus."
"If America can execute blasphemers, he said, why can’t Pakistan?"
Nicholas D. Kristof challenged that statement, and the imam opened a book "and began reading triumphantly about the 1993 raid on David Koresh’s cult in Waco, Tex."
From the comments: Heh - sure. Waco had nothing to do with actual blasphemy laws being
violated - or even the existence of such laws. But what's more important
to the Muslim world (apparently) are *appearances*.
Based on that, then - we are indeed guilty. Issue the apologies now!!
Gowdy’s promise of hearings comes after The Daily Caller this week published a series of emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, that show the Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs director Tracy Schmaler
and Media Matters staffers working together to attack reporters covering
Justice Department scandals and other administration critics.
“My guess is, this won’t be the last we hear about that,” Gowdy said when Simone first asked him to respond to the news of their collusion. “[House oversight committee chairman Darrell] Issa is the chairman, and he can do what he wants.”
Yes, he can; question is, will he/will he be allowed to actually DO anything?
Well, yeah, if they actually think that stupid 15-minute video was an incitement to muslims, they should consider that movie a full-out call to war!
Of course, the movie is to polish Obama's apple, so it's different, right?
Oh, for God's sake...
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