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To: combjelly who wrote (716677)	5/21/2013 7:40:54 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583313

Funny how they have to parse every little word. It is almost like the Kremlin watchers of old. .. Scandalous...he used the word "terror" before he didn't use the word terror, before using it again...it's a scandal of impeachable merit... Let the revolution begin! Al

To: combjelly who wrote (716677)	5/21/2013 8:04:26 AM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1583313

Issa Defeats Media: 59% Approve of GOP's Benghazi Handling by John Nolte 20 May 2013, 5:52 AM PDT breitbart.com In the hopes of manufacturing a self-fulfilling prophecy, the media have spent weeks coordinating an industry-wide conspiracy in which everyone in media asks the same question again and again and again and again: "Will Benghazi backfire on the GOP if Republicans overreact?" To aid and abet this industry-wide conspiracy, the media have gotten together to extrapolate and hold up for ridicule anyone associated with the GOP who have used the "I" or "W" words -- Impeachment or Watergate. On top of all this, while the political right have correctly pointed out that the White House lied about the administration's involvement in the shaping of the CIA talking points, the media have tried to protect the president by lying about the administration's lying. Or, by downplaying the fact that the 94 emails prove the White House lied. The media agenda here is quite obvious: In order to protect the president, the media want the ongoing questions and hearings around Libya to backfire on the GOP. This way the investigation will die and the drip-drip-drip that is almost certain to hurt Obama, and the media's 2016 presidential standard-bearer, Hillary Clinton, will cease. Unfortunately for the media, though, this sinister plot is just not working. In a just-released CNN poll, 59% of the American people say that they believe the GOP have acted appropriately with respect to Libya. In fact, the GOP's actions surrounding Libya poll 4 points higher than their actions surrounding the IRS, which came in at 54%. If that isn’t enough media fail for you, Americans vigorously disagree with a media that spent eight months pretending Benghazi didn't matter. A full 55% believe Benghazi (and the IRS) matter and "are very important to the nation." Worse still (if you are a member of the White House's Media-Water Carrying Brigade), 59% of Americans rightly believe that the White House could have prevented the Libya attacks. That is an 11% increase since November. This is the media's second-worst nightmare realized (the first would have been for this to happen prior to the 2012 election). The media have lost control of the Benghazi Narrative, and this is the second poll in as many days that proves that. The GOP can now safely thumb their noses at the corrupt media, and with the will of the people at their backs, go about the righteous business of finding the full truth about Libya and making that truth public. P.S. I want a tick-tock of the president's whereabouts and actions while Americans were under attack in Libya. I want all transcripts of any communications between the White House and CIA prior to the release of the talking points. And I want a transcript of this meeting where the talking points were "drastically pared down."

To: combjelly who wrote (716677)	5/21/2013 11:02:43 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583313

Funny how they have to parse every little word. It is almost like the Kremlin watchers of old. .. Desperation leads to parsing. It infuriates them that Obama is not only competent but popular. The latter is esp. galling to them.

To: combjelly who wrote (716677)	5/21/2013 1:22:23 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1583313

Its amazing how blatant they have become................after all, this is one of their presidential hopefuls. 'Apologize to Apple'? By Steve Benen - Tue May 21, 2013 12:37 PM EDT Apple may be one of the nation's richest companies, but it did so by avoiding billions in taxes here and around the world. Congressional investigators found that the tech giant created "a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen," relying on "gimmicks" and "schemes" to sidestep tax laws. This has generated a fair amount of bipartisan criticism, though Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) doesn't seem bothered. In fact, he wants the Senate to apologize to Apple for bothering the company. Paul not only endorsed Apple's tax-avoidance schemes, but condemned Congress itself for daring to question the company's efforts to circumvent international tax burdens. The Kentucky Republican said he's "offended by the tone and tenor of this hearing," and lamented the very idea of "berating" a company just because it's taken unprecedented steps to avoid meeting its responsibilities, largely by creating shell companies abroad with no real employees. "If anyone should be on trial here, it should be Congress," Paul declared. "I frankly think the committee should apologize to Apple.... I would say what we really need to do is to apologize to Apple, compliment them for the job creation they are doing, and get about doing our job. Nearly three years ago, after much of the country -- and much of Congress -- was condemning BP for the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) apologized to the oil giant, saying it was wrong for Washington to try to hold the company responsible for its failures. And now, it's Rand Paul wanting to apologize to Apple for questioning its tax-avoidance schemes. Amazing.