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9/8/2014

Greta Van Susteren And The ‘Dirty’ Phone Call

Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:59 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Greta Van Susteren didn’t just fall off the turnip truck:

“When reporter Jennifer Griffin said she was told that there was a stand down order at Benghazi, I got a weird call from the Obama administration trying to pressure me to get Jennifer to back down on her report,” Van Susteren recalled. “I thought the call from the Obama administration was dirty. Incidentally, I don’t control my colleagues and they don’t control me.”

“The Obama administration’s behavior post-Benghazi has been weird, like they’re hiding something,” explained Van Susteren.”First, that silly story about that video. Remember [National Security Adviser] Susan Rice on all the Sunday talk shows? And even President Obama kept talking about the video for weeks.”

“Are you suspicious?” Van Susteren concluded in her “Off the Record” segment. “I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t born yesterday.”

–Dana

98 Responses to “Greta Van Susteren And The ‘Dirty’ Phone Call”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (4dbf62)

  2. These leftists are so used to pushing around weak liberal women who are always victims they don’t know how to deal with a strong conservative lady like Greta.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  3. Of course, “at this point what difference…” – sigh

    felipe (40f0f0)

  4. …“The Obama administration’s behavior post-Benghazi has been weird, like they’re hiding something,” explained Van Susteren…

    What does she mean the administration’s post-Benghazi behavior has been weird? This has been their M.O. since this administration was still a campaign. And of course they have something to hide.

    This was originally published in July 2008 by, but no longer available at, TNR:

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050983/posts

    Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama’s press office. The campaign was irked by the Times’ latest poll and Nagourney and Megan Thee’s accompanying front-page piece titled “Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race,” which was running in the morning’s paper. Nagourney answered the query, the substance of which he says was minor, and went to bed, thinking the matter resolved.

    But, the next morning, Nagourney awoke to an e-mail from Talking Points Memo writer Greg Sargent asking him to comment on an eight-point rebuttal trashing his piece that the Obama campaign had released to reporters and bloggers like The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder and Politico’s Ben Smith. Nagourney had not heard the complaints from the Obama camp and had no idea they were so steamed. “I’m looking at this thing, and I’m like, ‘What the hell is this?’ ” Nagourney recently recalled. “I really flipped out.”

    Later that afternoon, Nagourney got permission from Times editors to e-mail Sargent a response to the Obama memo. But the episode still grates. “I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others,” Nagourney tells me. “I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I’m a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I’m a political opponent.”

    …In June, there was something of a revolt after Obama ditched the press corps on his campaign plane for a secret meeting with Clinton at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s house in Washington, leaving the reporters trapped on the flight to Chicago. The D.C. bureau chiefs of half a dozen news organizations, including the late Tim Russert, sent an angry letter to Obama aides Robert Gibbs and David Plouffe and threatened not to reimburse the campaign for the cost of the flight. “The decision to mislead reporters is a troubling one,” they wrote. “We hope this does not presage a relationship with the Obama campaign that is not based on a mutual respect for the truth…”

    Heh. It sure as h3ll did presage just such a relationship, didn’t it, suckers.

    …Reporters who have covered Obama’s biography or his problems with certain voter blocs have been challenged the most aggressively. “They’re terrified of people poking around Obama’s life,” one reporter says. “The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true. …

    Not entirely true = complete fraud. Just like the whole Benghazi story, not just the lie about the video. But all the lies before and after.

    Steve57 (685cca)

  5. Greta has some balls.

    Hey liberals, that’s what a feminist SHOULD look like. (Opens myself up to attacks about my apparent misogyny)

    DejectedHead (9b0c64)

  6. Barack Obama: “The only people that don’t want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide.”

    ropelight (36b164)

  7. I think Greta has a good idea what Obama and the libs are all about, and says so, but understated in tone.

    I think “like they’re hiding something” is Gretaspeak for “when are we going to get to the bottom of this?”, and “I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t born yesterday” is Gretaspeak for “They’re lying through their teeth.”

    We went to high school in the same town (but different ones, at I think slightly different times).

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  8. Greta is as Greta does, and she deserves credit for exposing Obama’s attempts to suppress evidence of his duplicity in Benghazi. Clearly, his Administration had been running from the truth, lying, and stonewalling from even before the fires were put out or the wounds were bandaged.

    Greta wasn’t born yesterday, but that’s true of lots of Americans, even a few who comment here, but the question she didn’t address is why it’s taken her so long to report on the Administration’s arm twisting of reporters. That information was at least as newsworthy then as it is now, perhaps even more so.

    PS: She and her husband are big time Scientologists.

    ropelight (36b164)

  9. #8, mg, that’s a spicy meatball. I might have trouble sleeping.

    ropelight (36b164)

  10. I guess if TFG does resign in 2015 then he will be eligible for a pardon from Prez Biden. (I just threw up in my mouth a little)

    Gazzer (26a83c)

  11. Dude, that’s two years ago.

    AZ Bob (34bb80)

  12. Seriously, didn’t RODHAM ‘splain it when chatting with Sen.Ron Johnson R-Wisconsin??
    “at this point, what difference does it make? This has been a COVER UP, only someone of limited mental capacity would not “get it”. Benghazi is THE CLASSIC OBAMA/RODHAM excerpt.

    Gus (70b624)

  13. I would just sent over a armed drone to greta. Hillary you know like what happened to vince foster.

    rodham (72f323)

  14. The question is who exactly made that call.

    It wasn’t exactly “the Obama Administration”

    This is important to know.

    Then we would know maybe at least one person who is interested in covering things up.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  15. So, Sammy, is that a distinction without a difference or you goin’ with the tooth fairy or a sinister force?

    ropelight (90dc89)

  16. The Obama Administration is not one coherent whole, especially on foreign policy.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  17. People in the government were feeding Obama and people in the white House intelligence they knew to be no good.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  18. Obama is too incompetent to do anything about it – and that goes whether he thought it was done purposely or NOT!

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  19. Sammy- if a person is looking for one type of pattern, they might miss another one.
    The Obama administration’s foreign policy is very coherent if you know what organizing principle to look for.
    The organizing principle is clear, minimize the impact of the US on the world, which means to withdraw our troops and minimize our ties to allies,
    because he thinks the US is a bad and evil country and its influence on the world is bad.
    And since the US is such an “evil influence” on the world, we need to apologize.

    The only problem with this is that he knows that not all of the US agree, so he can’t be outright and do it all at once as he would like, hence the continued presence in Afghanistan.

    And he has been weakening the US military and growing the debt, making it harder for the next president to do anything different.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  20. She was too close to the SOOPER SEKRIT intelligence

    JD (548f4a)

  21. Jonathan Topaz at Politico reports on the complicity of Syrian Rebels in the brutal beheading of Steven Sotloff. The family’s spokesman lays blame directly at Obama’s feet and names others calling for arming the so-called moderate rebels.

    Steven Sotloff spokesman blasts White House handling

    A spokesman for Steven Sotloff’s family contends the slain American journalist was sold to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by Syrian rebels and says the Obama administration “could have done more” to save him.

    Appearing on CNN Monday evening, Barak Barfi said that his sources in the region have told him one or more of the Syrian rebels sold Sotloff to ISIL for $25,000-$50,000. He referred to them as “so-called moderate rebels, that people want our administration to support,” a jab at lawmakers and political figures — including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and many others — that have suggested arming the Syrian rebels…

    Observers might conclude the life of a relatively unknown Jewish war corespondent just isn’t a priority item for a guy who turned his back on Americans fighting for their lives in Benghazi, especially when the President has an early tee off time. First things first, food stamp’s gotta keep his eye on the ball.

    ropelight (90dc89)

  22. This administration has moved from just being corrupt to now being criminally negligent. And it’s not just criminal about beheadings and Benghazi but even worse, our southern border. Mark my words, soon terrorist will be operating inside the U.S. and if is clearly Obama and the Democrats fault by leaving the border open to terrorists by letting future welfare/Democrat voters in. It doesn’t matter because it is our families and our communities that will be blown up by Moslems, not theirs.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  23. “The Obama Administration is not one coherent whole, especially on foreign policy.”

    Sammy Finkelman (728434) — 9/9/2014 @ 5:16 am

    Sammy, I would argue that they are an incoherent ‘hole on just about everything.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  24. 2. Greta is not Conservative. She’s from Appleton, WI. I’m from Green Bay. She’s not loony-tune left like inhabitants of MADison.

    PCD (39058b)

  25. PCD, I realize Greta is not conservative as I’ve watched her show many times. I was just trying to point out how leftists can’t handle any woman who looks them in the eye and says: Bull crap! BTW, I have noticed she’s gotten a tad more conservative over the years. She’s not there yet but I see some progress.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  26. Yep, Hoagie, that’s my take too. BTW Greta’s in the restaurant business, she has a share of the Old Mill Inn on Long Island’s North Fork.

    ropelight (90dc89)

  27. Nothing like being in bussiness to teach you how the market, and the world, works.

    felipe (b5e0f4)

  28. That’s funny ropelight, because I owned The Old Mill Inn of Hatboro years ago. And felipe, if anything will teach you how the market ( and the regulators and tax men and labor ) works it is the restaurant business. Everything is mandated, regulated and taxed to hell. I often would sit at my bar after closing and ask myself why I kept doing it.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  29. I’m from Appleton, Wisconsin, even went to UW-Madison, and I’m conservative…God does miracles.

    I wonder if I’ve run into you, Hoagie.

    Sammy, I do need to back-track a bit and agree with you that some of the Obama Administration’s problem is incompetence.
    Why in the world would an American President plan some major speech on dealing with terrorists on 9/10? Even with a competent and motivated administration, a successful terrorist attack on 9/11 seems to be a distinct possibility, and one is setting oneself up to look like a fool (or even more of one, depending on the case).
    Even if, yielding to the conspiratorial side, he knows of a planned terrorist “attack” that is set to fail, planned to affirm his previous day’s statements, he still is at risk.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  30. You never know, MD in Philly. I’ve had: Blair Mill Pizza (in Hatboro), Blair Mill Too (Roslyn), Blair Mill Inn (Hatboro), Valley Stream Inn ( Bensalem), Café Giuseppe’s ( Manayunk), Napoleon’s ( Center City) and Bonaparte’s (Northern Liberty), The Buck Hotel (Bensalem). Plus a couple places in Doylestown, two in Conshohocken, and a few in San Antonio, TX. Oh, forgot American Crab & Seafood on Grant Ave. in the Northeast.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  31. I’m gettin’ old. Forgot The Sandwich Board ( Northeast), The Raven Inn ( Springhouse) and E.A. Poe’s in Montgomeryville.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  32. Actually, Hoagie, it is because I thought you said something once about hosting a student from Korea, and the school where my daughter attends, a little north of Philly, often has several students from Korea.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  33. “I often would sit at my bar after closing and ask myself why I kept doing it”.

    I know exactly what you mean, Hoagie; my father owned restaurants, bakeries, and his restaurants had bars, and he would ask himself the same thing. He ended up getting the hell out of the bussiness and bacame an ordained Deacon. God rest his soul.

    felipe (b5e0f4)

  34. On break. I get Robo call from Andrew Cuomo. It started out only about himself, but, as
    I guessed, and was thinking maybe wouldn’t happen about halfway into he call he starts talking about Kathy Hochul.

    Before that there was also about not sitting this election out.

    The last half of the call praises Kahy Hochul and he even asks people to vote for Kathy Hochul before asking you to vote for him!

    Yesterday there was arobo call from Bill de blasio. This wa sthe second one, a day after the first one. The first one had been only for Kathy Hochul, this one was for both of them.

    They are trying to gte people to remember the name and to vote for Kathy Hochul without them realizing they are focusing on Kathy Hochul.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  35. Business, not bussiness, although if he sold kisses (nothing more) he prolly would have kept that particular concern going.

    felipe (b5e0f4)

  36. MD in Philly (f9371b) — 9/9/2014 @ 5:29 am

    The organizing principle is clear, minimize the impact of the US on the world, which means to withdraw our troops and minimize our ties to allies,

    That is a little bit off base descrption of part of it. He doesn’t like to be the world’s
    policeman.

    The Wall Street Journal has an artivle today – basically says Joe Biden saved the day. He got a call from the Kurdish leadser and theer was something different in his voice…

    Apparently he got Obama to intervene and save Erbil.

    because he thinks the US is a bad and evil country and its influence on the world is bad.

    No – becaus ehe thinks the United States doesn’t deserve to be so important. Why us? And maybe also that people hate the United States for being so powerful, so at least try to look less influential..

    And since the US is such an “evil influence” on the world, we need to apologize.

    Not evil influence. Just disproportionate influence.

    Of course he may have bought into criticisms of this or that. So make a vague apology.

    And he has been weakening the US military and growing the debt, making it harder for the next president to do anything different.

    Weakening the U.S. military is such agradual process, it hasn’t had that much of achance to make taht bog a difference.

    The weakening has been going on since the 1990s.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  37. 21. JD (548f4a) — 9/9/2014 @ 5:47 am

    She was too close to the SOOPER SEKRIT intelligence

    Susan Rice was. That was the ultimate source.

    Now it could have been the same people who promoted the SOOPER SEKRIT intelligence that the talking points referred to who also earlier had done something to slow down a military response that night, who may have called Greta Von Sustern – or more likely, called someone in the White House, said that story by Jennifer Griffin was inaccurate, and asked if something could be done to get the story retracted.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  38. 22. Steven Sotloff was not originally captured by ISIS – but the original thinking was that he was captured , not by rebels at all, but by the government of Bashar al Assad – and Assad sold him to ISIS.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  39. Yes MD in Philly. My wife is Korean and we have had some kids stay with us. There is a large Korean community around Philly. My wife is pretty active with them as she tries to get them out of the “vote Democrat” mold. But we take in exchange students from some of the area churches and Buddhist temples. If we didn’t take them some would have had to stay at community centers in Cheltenham, Melrose Park or Abington and that is not cool. I should say we used to. Frankly, I’m too old to be running around any more. I thought you meant you had perhaps been at one of my restaurants.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  40. says Joe Biden saved the day

    Depending on Joe Biden can never be good news.

    Weakening the U.S. military is such agradual process, it hasn’t had that much of achance to make taht bog a difference.
    The weakening has been going on since the 1990s.

    Sammy, I only know what I hear from reputable experts. Yes, even George Sr. I believe has said that he let the “end of cold war peace dividend” be too great, and the military needed to be built up under bush because we had to “go to war with the military we had”.
    But before Obama, we were going to guarantee ongoing air superiority with the F-22, then cancelled further production. The navy has been too small and getting smaller. The army is shrinking, the marines are shrinking.
    others who know what they are talking about feel free, but not obligated.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  41. BANDAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaR!!!!!

    JD (8997a8)

  42. MD:

    Sammy, I do need to back-track a bit and agree with you that some of the Obama Administration’s problem is incompetence.

    Why in the world would an American President plan some major speech on dealing with terrorists on 9/10?

    It just workded out that way. He may want to do something – or not do something – and Congress just got back into session for about a week till after the election.

    Yes, if something does happen on September 11th, that speech is going to look very outdated very quickly.

    I don’t know what the real odds are of that happening.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  43. Well, Hoagie, there was a question I was thinking about the other day (really, I was) that I’ll ask that involves your wife and yourself.
    Many years ago we knew a Korean couple in the apartment building we lived in at the time. At their suggestion, we knew a few places to go for “Korean barbeque”- Bulgogi. But it has been so long (decades) that I don’t know if the places have changed and where to go these days. We don’t go out much, and typically don’t visit someplace unless it is a “sure thing”? So, between you and your wife, can you recommend a place for great bulgogi, say, within a 30-45 min drive from Cheltenham area?
    Thank you.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  44. Sammy, planning it for 9/12 wouldn’t have been that hard, unless he already has a fundraiser scheduled or needs to travel to be ready for tee time on sat AM.
    I have no idea how to calculate the odds either, but I assume it is higher on 9/11 than on 9/12.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  45. At least Obama is takking a gamble that nothng will happen on Sept 11th.

    The CIA probably told him so.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  46. OMG. Priceless

    JD (8997a8)

  47. we’ll have to pay special attention on September 11 to see if Obama’s gamble pays off

    I’m a set a reminder

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  48. I’d begun doubting my memory, but this isn’t a new revelation. I don’t recall where I found the link at the time, but Greta wrote about it in January.

    AZ_Langer (a65cb5)

  49. For you MD in Philly. It’s close and the bulgogi and kalbi are done at your table. You’ll get 4 or 5 assorted kim chee plates and it’s right off Cheltenham Ave around 66th Ave and Second St.

    Seorabol Korean Restaurant
    5734 Old 2nd Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19120
    (215) 924-6865

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  50. Thanks, Hoagie.
    Yes, the bulgogi done on that cute little grill in the center of the table.
    On a nice day we could walk there.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  51. Hoagie,
    Thanks again, I just checked their web site. I know just where it is, as Old 2nd is sort of a “fast way” to go straight south to downtown Philly. I think it is in a (very) little shopping center that I really never paid much attention to. (Though it is about 7 blocks south of 66th)
    And my daughter had “try sushi” on her bucket list, they have that too.
    Their grills are more modern, last time we went years ago to a place on 5th St the grills were these little hibachis, and every table had an exhaust vent hanging down.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  52. #49, thanks, AZ, I asked (#9)why Greta was so tardy in revealing the Administration’s underhanded attempt to use her to drag a red herring across Obama’s bloody trail back to Benghazi. The link you provided partly explains it. Greta was approached by an old friend working in the Obama Administration who pretended to be doing her and Jennifer Griffin a favor, when all the time it was nothing but the cynical act of betraying a 20 year friendship to evade responsibility for betraying American lives to Islamic terrorists.

    The same dirty bastards who betrayed our brave men in Benghazi are the same dirty bastards who betrayed the parents of the men as their bodies were brought home are the same dirty bastards who sent Susan Rice out to lie, bald faced, to the nation, and they’re exactly the same dirty bastards quick to betray a friend in an attempt to prevent the facts of their abominable betrayals from coming to light.

    As candidate for President Barack Obama himself said, “The only people that don’t want to disclose the truth, are those with something to hide.

    ropelight (90dc89)

  53. MDinPhilly and Hoagie, My younger daughter is Korean by birth, but American by nurture. She is also in the Oct. 2014 issue of Hot Rod, just inside the back cover. She is a trained professional Mechanic.

    Best Bulgogi we ever had was at a gathering of Holt families. We had some Koreans from different towns in Orange County (CA) try to give the kids a taste of Korean culture. This guy set up a huge, homemade grill and has the bulgogi ready right when the kids are hungry from the games. This was one time we could get the pre-teens and young adults to come.

    PCD (39058b)

  54. Obama should have bitch slapped greta.

    rodham (1d210b)

  55. 50, it took a Japanese exchange student living with us to even get Brenda to try Kimchi. Actually Tomoko and my son would eat it up like no tomorrow.

    PCD (39058b)

  56. Seems to me this administration gave Greta the back of their hand then reached over and grabbed her by her hair. I must ask Debbie Wassername-Schultz if I’m right.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  57. 55, what are you doing to prepare for 9/11? I’ve got my irons loaded.

    You may think what happens here, but we had the “happy face bomber” leaving bombs in our mailboxes a few years back.

    PCD (39058b)

  58. 30, I’m a grad of Green Bay East, and UW-La Crosse.

    PCD (39058b)

  59. 57, why? DWS can’t tell the truth if it was a condition of being allowed to attend her synagogue.

    PCD (39058b)

  60. PCD, the Korean guys do the same type of “home made” BBQ at the Korean Presby church in Cheltenham. These guys can cook like hell, can’t they? My problem is I start on the Soju with these guys and my wife has to drive home. I’ve observed the South Korean guys cook up a storm but the few North Koreans know nothing about food. Probably because they didn’t have any to prepare.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  61. 61, only knew of one North Korean guy in LA. He built a business there with his South Korean wife.

    Did have a family here where the father was mainland Chinese and his wife was North Korean raised in Beijing. Was funny when her mother came over for visits. Their kids and my Brenda would refuse to learn Korean from her, and they’d run for the hills.

    PCD (39058b)

  62. Sammy is probably out looking for the Oct. 2014 issue of Hot Rod.

    PCD (39058b)

  63. Perry is advocating for violence against women. How precious.

    JD (102fce)

  64. I take it JD, rodham is Perry?

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  65. Hoagie – yes. He has advocated violence against women, and killing political opponents. He is off his proverbial rocker. And his meds.

    JD (102fce)

  66. Always follow links by narciso-

    So, the repub intel committee was being undermined by their own staffers?
    When are these guys (Repubs in govt.) going to wake up and realize there is no fair play anymore? nothing is about governing the country well, its all about arrogant power and selfish ambition, cheating as necessary.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  67. Speaking of political dishonesty and Wisconsin-
    they are not giving up the battle to intimidate conservatives in Wisconsin and undermine walker:
    http://legalnewsline.com/news/251647-district-attorneys-wife-drove-case-against-wis-gov-walker-insider-says

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  68. narciso @65 – A little while back there was speculation that Mike Rogers was slow walking or attempting to submarine the investigation of the House Intelligence Committee into the Benghazi debacle because his wife holds a senior position with one of the large international security contractors. I think Toensing’s disclosures about Committee’s Chief of Staff put a little different spin on the Committee’s activities.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  69. well there was that, his wife ran ran Aegis,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  70. Well, I guess there is no reason why both can’t be true, is there?

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  71. Maybe Occam’s razor doesn’t apply to political corruption in this day and age.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  72. It has a ‘six degrees of Kevin Bacon’ quality, the chief investigator, Allen, went to work with many of his supposed targets, the many ties to Doha, which seems to run matters from Tripoli (Bel Hadj)
    to Aleppo,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  73. If 0 had bitch-slapped Greta … I’m not sure the protection detail could save him from a pointy-toed shoe to the jewels. And even if they did, he’d have to go home.

    htom (412a17)

  74. But JD, I must point out that all radical leftists like communists and Nazi’s advocate killing their political enemies so rodham is just towing the party line.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  75. obama’s hardest ever most enthusiastically amped-up bitch-slap is not a particular terrifying prospect really

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  76. *particularly* i mean

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  77. happyffet, it’s about impressive as his pitch.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  78. we’re never going to catch up to where we should have been if the media hadn’t elected this loser Mr. Hoagie

    it’s very sad

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  79. wymenfolk do get him ‘wee wee’d up’ on occasion,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  80. happyfeet, it wasn’t just the media but rather the perfect storm of media, academics, entertainment, lawyers, lobbyists, unions and LIV’s. Throw in the fact he’s half black and Romney was so “moderate” 8 million conservatives stayed home rather than compromise their vote and well, you see what we got.

    Hoagie (4dfb34)

  81. i think of media very broadly

    and i still think that barack obama’s election is the result of the most lavishly-funded marketing campaign the world had yet seen

    maybe this iwatch thing will raise the bar?

    we’ll see

    nobody wears watches anymore you stupid appletards

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  82. applegotchi

    happyfeet (a785d5)

  83. Samsung is eating Apple’s lunch with apple sauce,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  84. 46. 47. 48.

    46. Sammy Finkelman (728434) — 9/9/2014 @ 11:04 am

    At least Obama is takking a gamble that nothng will happen on Sept 11th.

    The CIA probably told him so.

    Some assertions have such impeccable logic to them that they just have to be true.

    I didn’t know this, but I found: (via the Monday Wall Street Journal)

    http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-transcript-september-7-2014-n197866

    CHUCK TODD:

    you’re giving that speech the day before the 13th anniversary of 9/11.

    PRES. OBAMA:

    But right. And I–I want everybody to understand that we have not seen any immediate intelligence about threats to the homeland from ISIL….

    No immediate intelligence – that means that’s what the DCI and the CIA told him.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  85. 63. PCD (39058b) — 9/9/2014 @ 12:57 pm

    Sammy is probably out looking for the Oct. 2014 issue of Hot Rod.

    No, (and I had other things to do anyway) but when I read it a few minutes ago, it piqued my interest, but Hot Rod is just too hard to find around here.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  86. Sammy, Sammy, Sammy…
    What did his intel tell him before Benghazi? What ever it was, he didn’t look too well in dealing with it.

    Now, if you want to tell me there is “no immediate intelligence” in the WH, I can concur wholeheartedly.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  87. 49.

    I didn’t realize earlier ( @ #38 ) that the person who called up Greta Sustern didn’t say what it was that Jennifer Griffin supposedly got wrong!!

    Whoever it was, didn’t want her working on the story at all.

    The person who called was probably just a messenger.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  88. On break. I get Robo call from Andrew Cuomo. It started out only about himself, but, as
    I guessed, and was thinking maybe wouldn’t happen about halfway into he call he starts talking about Kathy Hochul.

    Sammy, that you receive robo-calls from liberals/Democrats pretty much reveals (or at least hints at) your party affiliation and voting habits. What’s both scary and pathetic, however, is that I bet you’d be considered moderate by the standards of your party and much of the world of liberalism in the 21st century.

    Mark (1e11aa)

  89. “No immediate intelligence – that means that’s what the DCI and the CIA told him.”

    Sammy – The head of the CIA reports to the DNI, who is the principal adviser to the president on intelligence matters.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  90. General MacGoo, I mean Clapper, yes I feel reassured.

    narciso (ee1f88)

  91. Fantastic issues once and for all, you merely picked up some sort of logo brand new viewer. What would people propose in relation to this page that you just produced at times during the past? Just about any selected?

    Privacygo.Com (3c5e2a)

  92. 87. …but Hot Rod is just too hard to find around here.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434) — 9/9/2014 @ 7:36 pm

    Considering the high taxes, you ought to get a free subscription.

    Steve57 (685cca)

  93. 88. MD in Philly (f9371b) — 9/9/2014 @ 7:41 pm

    Sammy, Sammy, Sammy…
    What did his intel tell him before Benghazi? What ever it was, he didn’t look too well in dealing with it.

    Nothing, of course. And it probably never got to his level.

    The CIA later tried to insert into the talking points that they had issued all kinds of warnings about the dangers in Benghazi, and the State Depatment got that out of there.

    I really think nothing will happen in the United States and probably not anywhere else either, on September 11th.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  94. 91. Yes, of course.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)

  95. Yes, of course.

    Sammy – I clarify that because you often seem to present a very different organizational structure for our intelligence operations.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  96. daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 9/9/2014 @ 9:02 pm

    Sammy – I clarify that because you often seem to present a very different organizational structure for our intelligence operations.

    Actually, I made a mistake, although it was mostly with typing (I know there is something now above the CIA that is between the CIA and the president)

    It should have been DNI.

    Sammy Finkelman (728434)


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