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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/11/2013 8:49:04 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577905

worth every penny, the benghazi mom wished Hillary a happy mother's day because hillary still has her kid and she doesn't because of Hillary..that must make you feel good

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/11/2013 9:20:22 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577905

US Evacuating Diplomats From Libya Amid New Protests...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/11/2013 9:22:29 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1577905

IRS Inquisition Update ................................................................................................... By Kevin Williamson May 11, 2013 Along with targeting tea-party groups, the IRS may also have given extra-special attention to the tax-exempt status of some Jewish groups for political reasons. From the Jewish Press: The passionately pro-Israel organization Z STREET filed a lawsuit against the IRS, claiming it had been told by an IRS agent that because the organization was “connected to Israel,” its application for tax-exempt status would receive additional scrutiny. This admission was made in response to a query about the lengthy reveiw of Z STREET’s tax exempt status application. In addition, the IRS agent told a Z STREET representative that the applications of some of those Israel-related organizations have been assigned to “a special unit in the D.C. office to determine whether the organization’s activities contradict the Administration’s public policies.” . . . And at least one purely religious Jewish organization, one not focused on Israel, was the recipient of bizarre and highly inappropriate questions about Israel. Those questions also came from the same non-profit division of the IRS at issue for inappropriately targeting politically conservative groups. The IRS required that Jewish organization to state “whether [it] supports the existence of the land of Israel,” and also demanded the organization “[d]escribe [its] religious belief system toward the land of Israel.” More bureaucratic snafus?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/12/2013 12:20:55 AM
From: TopCat	9 Recommendations Respond to of 1577905

"Hell, the RW spent 70 million trying to impeach Clinton...." I think they should budget at least $200 million for impeaching Obama.........consider it stimulus spending.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/12/2013 11:20:34 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 1577905

Hell, the RW spent 70 million trying to impeach Clinton.... Just to clarify terms, you should take out the word "trying". Clinton was impeached, he was not convicted.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/12/2013 11:36:08 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577905

IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE NOW: ABC, CBS and CNN top executives all have siblings or spouses working directly for Obama The Democrat Party and the media are indistinguishable from one another and it doesn't take much digging to prove it. You knew the mainstream media was biased, but this is incredible. It was revealed today that CBS News President David Rhodes' brother is Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in rewriting the Benghazi talking points. But it gets worse. It is now learned that ABC President Ben Sherwood's sister, Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, is a Special Assistant to Barack Obama on national security affairs. But even this isn't it! CNN's deputy bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is the wife of Tom Nides, who until February was Hillary Clinton's deputy. Ben Rhodes is a top NSC advisor with absolutely no foreign policy or military experience. None! This idiot has advocated intervention both in Libya and now Syria. How has that worked out for us? He is responsible for helping to massage the Benghazi talking points to watered down drivel. His greatest accomplishment appears to be a Master's Degree in fiction writing received from New York University. So perhaps we should call him Obama's fiction writer! In what may be a belated effort to salvage its reputation, or perhaps an effort to get the best scoop now that keeping quiet is out of the question, ABC published a story revealing that there were twelve revisions of the Benghazi memo. The final version eradicated all references to terrorists and al Qaeda. Nice work, Mr. Fiction Writer! ...The only mainstream media reporter really doing her job is CBS's Sharyl Attkison. Attkison has also done a heroic job on the Fast N' Furious Eric Holder gun running scandal. Now it appears CBS is pressuring her to leave. Gee, wonder why? Whatever shred of credibility existed among the network news organizations has now been utterly obliterated. The Pet Goat versus going to sleep during a terrorist attack. Cindy Sheehan versus Pat Smith. And Valerie Plame versus the Benghazi Four. Gee, no bias there. We have a fascist media on our hands, bound as tightly to the government as NPR. And it's high time that we treat them as the pariahs they truly are. directorblue.blogspot.com I think Rush Limbaugh has been using the term "State Run Media" for some time. It's not wrong.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/12/2013 11:40:08 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1577905

NYT: Uh Oh, Benghazi Might Actually Be A Scandal With the New York Times now running a front page story on what might be deliberately false statements made by the White House about the Benghazi emails, the scandal has entered a new stage. Benghazi isn’t about a few right wing press activists tooting their horns anymore; much against its inclinations, the MSM increasingly understands that substantive questions exist. That doesn’t mean that politics have disappeared from the story line. Just the reverse: the political struggle over the Benghazi narrative is becoming more intense. On the one hand, Democrats generally will be trying to minimize the story while Republicans will push it. Within the Democratic ranks, the Clintonistas will be the most determined enemies of the story. Nobody is more resilient than the Clintons when it comes to surviving bad press, but Benghazi has the potential to become a major liability for the Clinton brand. Unless Mrs. Clinton’s team can build a theory of the case that clears her and her associated of primary responsibility for both the mess and, potentially, the cover-up, Team Clinton has some tough weeks and maybe months ahead. For the White House, there are two options: to fight the whole story, or to do everything possible to hand it off to former Secretary Clinton. Given that the story can no longer be swept under the rug, steering the controversy to the State Department is what the White House wants. A big press brouhaha over the degree of Mrs. Clinton’s responsibility for the mess is the best possible outcome for Team Obama; the uneasy relationship between the two wings of the Democratic Party is coming under new strain. The White House wants and needs this to be a whodunit about editing talking points, not a story about a White House effort to avoid a public discussion about the crisis in its Middle East policy (the Libya intervention was a bungled mess, Al Qaeda is on the rebound, etc) in the closing days of the campaign. The ugliest dimension of the story still trying to claw its way out of the Republican media ghetto is the narrative about the unseemly rush to pin the blame for the terror attack on a video, and the subsequent railroading of one of the world’s lousiest film makers into jail for essentially political reasons. This was both ugly and cowardly: ugly because the administration absolutely knew that the attempt to blame the film for Benghazi was at best baloney and at worst a deliberate lie. Cowardly because there is a difference between cringing and sensitivity, and the panicky response to the film was definitely on the wrong side of the line. A reflexive moral crouch and a knee jerk apology reflex is not a sign of a sensitive and statesmanlike approach to cultural misunderstandings; it telegraphs weakness to our enemies and says that if you push us we fold. It’s a good thing all this was done by a Democratic administration; if the GOP had blundered this badly the media universe would be Bengazigate wall to wall. The pack would smell Pulitzers and the hunt would be on. We could get there yet; the Benghazi story has broken through the first firewall. One reason second terms tend to be more disappointing than the first in modern America is that second terms are often defined by scandals (Watergate, Iran-Contra, l’affair Lewinsky). Between the IRS Tea Party mess and Benghazi, the Obama second term is already playing fight-the-scandal; there could well be much more to come. [Image of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton honoring the victims of the Benghazi attack Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012; courtesy Wikimedia] blogs.the-american-interest.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/12/2013 11:47:35 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577905

Should CBS fire Sheryl Attkinson for aggressively covering the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack in Libya? Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/11/top-obama-officials-brother-is-president-of-cbs-news-may-drop-reporter-over-benghazi-coverage/#ixzz2T5LMAnDs

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (714793)	5/12/2013 12:36:52 PM
From: longnshort	6 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577905

Victoria Toensing, attorney for Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks, says Hicks is a Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries, and President Obama twice for President. Toensing also said that NBC News "spiked" the story this week, prior to Hicks' dramatic testimony before Congress. Toensing appeared on WMAL-FM in Washington DC Saturday with host Steve Malzberg. "He voted for Hillary in the primary and Obama twice. NBC spiked the story where I told it before the hearings... ...It’s just amazing what the press is still trying to do to cover this up. So they try to make this partisan because of the lawyer. Well I’m not the messenger, he’s the messenger! The modus operandi is to find anything they can do to just attack.” Listen to the full interview here. (H/T Jessica Stanton)