The problem with making Susan Rice secretary of state isn’t Benghazi. It’s war. Rice, like her “mentor,” former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and the current secretary, Hillary Clinton, has supported just about every proposed U.S. military intervention over the two decades. The president should nominate someone that occasionally opposes a war. [...] Rice is [...]
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News Desk: John McCain Set to Join Senate Foreign Relations Committee Before State Confirmation
SETTING UP a potential confrontational confirmation, if President Obama moves ahead to nominate Susan Rice to follow Secretary Clinton, Senator McCain will join the SFRC after the New Year. From Josh Rogin: McCain told The Cable he will join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and also remain on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) [...]
McCain Reverses on Susan Rice: “She’s Not the Problem”
Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com AFTER SENATOR John McCain was slammed for scurrilously attacking Ambassador Rice, as well as being proved wrong for his assertions about her by the entire intelligence community, which signed off on what she said on the Sunday shows that caused a ruckus, McCain had no choice but to tuck [...]
Mad Scramble for New Scapegoat as Allegations Against Susan Rice Collapse
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “It’s like sending in the electrician when you’re plumbing is broken.” – Catherine Herridge, Fox News Channel national correspondent WHAT WILL old man McCain and his mini me sidekick Lindsay Graham do now? There’s nowhere for the rest of the Rice critics to [...]
President Obama’s Offense on Behalf of Susan Rice is What a Boss Should Do
IT’S NOT surprising that Kirsten Powers’ op-ed on Benghazi is posted on the Fox News site, because the network has led on hyperbolic charges against the Administration, while simultaneously mixing hard news on the terrorist attack with partisan analysis and segments that aren’t about finding the truth. Powers is not in that category, but she [...]
Top Story — It’s the Demographics, Stupid
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AND BY stupid I mean former Governor Haley Barbour’s assertion that Sandy cost Mitt Romney the presidency. I made the case preemptively that Romney couldn’t blame losing on Sandy, knowing what was bound to come in what I believed (and wrote) would be [...]
Tin Foil Hat Alert: Black Panthers and “Fraud” in Pennsylvania!
ON AN Election Day where the Republican candidate has to flood the voting zone with white voters to make up for the gaping maw left by people of color fleeing their zone, Sean Hannity is leading his troops into tin foil crazy land. Powerline’s John Hinderaker is glad to deliver online what Hannity is squealing [...]
Sandy Versus Katrina, Are You Kidding?
YOU WOULD think Republicans would be too embarrassed by the memory of Katrina to utter such obscenity, but you’d be wrong. Fox ran with this nonsense comparison, with Drudge doing his best to compare the situation in the New Orleans stadium with what’s happening in New York, Staten Island and New Jersey. Segue to Paul [...]
Chris Wallace to Axelrod: Did Obama “Make Calculated Decision to Run Out the Clock” on Benghazi Questions?
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News TODAY ON Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace took the baton from Sean Hannity and the rest of the FNC partisans, who concocted a CIA narrative that’s been proved false, a story which ABC [...]
Raw Story: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Faces IRS Complaint Over Partisan Advocacy
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops faces IRS complaint over partisan advocacy (via Raw Story ) The Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has asked the IRS to investigate the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, alleging that numerous bishops had violated federal tax law by engaging in partisan advocacy. “As a 501(c)(3) [...]
Romney Revives Welfare Ad Under the Radar
A Democratic media-tracking source said the spot is running in markets that include Cincinnati, Dayton, Parkersburg, Wheeling and Zanesville, in Ohio. It’s also running in Colorado Springs and Grand Junction in Colorado; Gainesville, Jacksonville, Panama City and Tampa in Florida; Davenport, Omaha, Ottumwa and Sioux City in Iowa; Rochester, N.Y.; Las Vegas; and Charlottesville and [...]
Fox News Hypes “Exclusive” and “Death and Deceit in Benghazi” with Bret Baier [Video]
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com But — but the basic principle here — basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place. – Secretary Leon Panetta IF THE purpose was to honestly report the events that happened in [...]
Mark Halperin Plays Romney Fixer in Gloria Allred – Drudge “Freak Show”
THERE REALLY was no reason to cover the obvious swiftboating of Mitt Romney over his involvement in an age-old divorce battle, that is until Time’s Mark Halperin decided to play fixer on behalf of Mitt Romney, which no one of any stature believes was actually necessary. There is little doubt that this is a “freak [...]
Top Story: Ben Affleck’s ARGO in the Blast Furnace of Benghazi
“This is the best bad idea we have sir, by far.” – Ben Affleck in ARGO, playing C.I.A. agent Tony Mendez November 4th, 1979. As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA exfiltration specialist concocts a risky plan to free six American hostages. SOMETIMES A FILM meets with an event in history and [...]
Meet the Job Truthers [Videos]
**Update** “These numbers don’t add up.” – Joe Scarborough THIS IS not going to help Mitt Romney. But that didn’t stop GE’s Jack Welch from standing point. Chris Matthews and Welch had a smackdown today on “Hardball.” “Do you believe the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, lacks integrity,” Matthews asked. “You don’t think it’s [...]
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