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To: RMF who wrote (56069)9/19/2012 1:24:04 PM
From: joseffy  Respond to of 71588
 
Reporters haven’t asked about Sebelius breaking law in W.H. briefings

09/18/2012 By Alex Pappas

dailycaller.com

Reporters covering the White House don’t seem to have many questions about Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who was found in violation of federal law against engaging in political activity while on the job.

A review of transcripts by The Daily Caller indicate that no questions have been asked by the reporters who cover the president about Sebelius during official White House briefings or gaggles since Sept. 12, when the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said in a report that the cabinet secretary violated the Hatch Act earlier this year.

It’s still up to President Obama whether Sebelius should keep her job or face some sort of punishment after being found in violation of the Hatch Act.

(WATCHDOG: Obama must punish Sebelius or Congress can impeach her)

The ethics office said Sebelius violated the law on Feb. 25 while delivering a speech to Human Rights Campaign while serving in her official capacity as cabinet secretary. In her speech, she called for Obama’s re-election, and the election of the Democratic candidate for governor in North Carolina.

The Hatch Act
prohibits certain civil servants in the federal government from engaging in political activity on the job.

“While a violation of the Hatch Act occurred, Secretary Sebelius’ statements would have been permissible if they had been made in her personal capacity,” the report said.

Even though reporters haven’t inquired during press conferences and gaggles, White House spokesman Eric Schultz told The Associated Press that, “These were extemporaneous remarks … the U.S. Treasury has been reimbursed, and Secretary Sebelius has met with ethics experts to ensure this never happens again.”

The news about Sebelius was overshadowed last week by the attacks on America’s diplomats in the Middle East. But Torie Clarke, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Donald Rumsfeld, argued while guest hosting WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall on Monday that a double standard may be at play.

“If it were a Republican official who had done this, the outrage would be continued and loud and would have been on the Sunday talk shows beyond Benghazi and anything else,”
Clarke said.


Read more: dailycaller.com



To: RMF who wrote (56069)9/19/2012 2:01:12 PM
From: joseffy2 Recommendations  Respond to of 71588
 
Open Media Assault On GOP Candidate

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 by J. D. Longstreet
rightsidenews.info


"Apparatchiks of the Democratic Party"

I have lived through a lot of presidential election cycles since FDR and I must tell you, this one is, indeed, strange -- to say the least!

For the first time in my memory, the Mainstream Media is in open assault in the GOP candidate for President.

The so-called "fourth estate" (A nick-name for the press) has dropped all pretense at being non-biased and have thrown their lot in with President Obama and the democrats and have turned all their fury loose on his challenger, Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate.

What we are witnessing here is a slobbering love affair between the media and Obama. It is profane and it is vulgar.

It is common knowledge that the MsM is, far and away, left-leaning around the globe. But here in the US, they're "leaning" no more. For all intents and purposes they are now apparatchiks of the Democratic Party.

We saw the press "set-up" an ambush of Romney last week all because he dares tell the truth about the Obama Administration's disgraceful handling of the Libyan consulate/embassy attack. How dare a republican candidate for President point out that THEIR man -- Obama -- had screwed-up! The fact that Obama had, indeed, acted as the narcissist that he is, and even went so far as to attend a fund raising affair while the Ambassador HE sent to Libya was being murdered and dragged through the streets of Benghazi -- well, that was beside the point. The point, so far as the media was concerned, was that "Obama be shielded and protected" and that Romney be made to look as though he was unduly attacking a President who was deeply concerned for the welfare of the Ambassador and the three other men employed by the State Department who also lost their lives.

Problem is, the American public could see for themselves on their own TV sets just how concerned Obama was. He was in full campaign mode speaking and raking in the dough at a fund raiser! So much for "respect" for those folks on the front lines of the diplomatic service risking their lives in Obama's name.

It was disgusting behavior by the President.

And then the MsM began to "play" with polling data to make it seem that the Romney campaign was in a death spiral. They cherry picked polls and data to prove their "facts." Then they began what seemed, for all the world, as a coordinated attack on th Romney Campaign by the "elites" of the media.

Within the past few hours of this writing, they are now lambasting Romney for having said that supporters of Obama were dependent upon the government.

HUH?

Yep! Romney, again spoke the truth -- and he is being pilloried for it by the MsM.

Somehow, all this simply points to another truth concerning the MsM. They are, indeed, elite. They are insulated form the unwashed masses out herein the hinterlands who already know that what Romney said about the government dependent hordes supporting Obama for President is TRUE!

Yeah, I know having the temerity to utter such a truth makes me a racist. While I'm at it, I may as well solidify my position as a racist by uttering another truth. Once Obama is ejected from the Oval Office, it will be a cold day in Hell before another black man takes up residence at 16000 Pennsylvania Avenue. Obama and his socialist agenda has done immeasurable harm to the ranks of black politicians everywhere. It will be generations before they are able to regain even a portion of the trust we, in the proletariat, once had for them.

As for the MsM -- they are on the way out. They have only hastened their exit with their willful undisguised assault on an honorable man such as Mr. Romney. Their sad unrestrained debauched behavior in reporting on this election cycle has earned them derision , distrust, and distaste by honorable men and women in -- and out -- of politics in America as well as the general public -- the consumers of their untrustworthy reporting.

It was apparent over the past few days that even folks on the left side of the political spectrum in America cringed at the abusive manner the MsM was/is attacking Mr. Romney. They, too, are repelled at the demonstration of rabidity on display in the ranks of the MsM's elite.

We warned months ago, that this would be the dirtiest campaign in America's history and we have been proven more than a little prescient. We also warned that Romney would have to fight and win over Obama, the Democratic Party, and the Mainstream Media in America to gain the Presidency.

In my opinion, the American electorate has already decided for whom it will cast its ballot(s). That small (but increasing) number of Independent voters, nationwide, may well be the "ace n the hole," if you will, as the deciding factor in this election. We can only pray that they are as disgusted with the behavior of the MsM as we are and will cast their ballots for decency, for honor, for just "plain ole respect." If they do -- Romney will win and maybe, just maybe, there will be a slim chance that that precious quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality will have, at least, A CHANCE of rebirth in a nation so badly mauled by the incompetence of another leftist social experiment -- America's first black President.

Obama must not be allowed to fail. The MsM has taken it upon themselves to insure the success of the Obama Administration. Unfortunately, Obama's abysmal failure is writ large across America -- and the globe -- with the smoke, fire, and murder of Americans in the diplomatic service. THAT must be minimized by the MsM if their fairy tale of a successful Obama Presidency is to survive. They seemed to have missed entirely the American public's conclusion that success within the Obama administration is -- and has been for a very long time -- comatose or worse. Their efforts display only how "out of touch" with the American public the MsM really is.

One can only hope the American voter will be as angry as this scribe at the MsM's machinations -- their less than crafty plot to insure Obama's reelection -- and will vote their anger at the ballot box successfully showing Obama the door AND giving the MsM the back of America's collective hand.