Obama's Parting Bullshit

CR’s John Gray has blown a hole in Obama’s jobs record. Back in 2015 he laid out the case, which hasn’t changed much.

Obama Touts This. Currently at 5 percent, the unemployment rate is at the lowest level since Obama became president. In addition, the president has “created” about 8.1 million net new jobs since 2009 – a little less than the 8.7 million that were lost during financial crisis in 2008 and 2009.

But Not This. Those rosy unemployment numbers fail to factor in millions of people only marginally attached to the workforce, or those who would like to work, but have quit looking for employment out of frustration at the lack of opportunities. When those workers are factored in, the real unemployment rate, otherwise known as the underemployment rate is now 9.9 percent – nearly twice the rate of the “official” metric.

- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/4-ways-obamas-final-speech-was-a-load-of-crap#sthash.pEIcjQz6.dpuf

Trump Must Air Obama's Dirty Laundry (As Distasteful As That Might Be)

At the end of Obama’s presidency, the United States is bombing seven foreign nations – but most of the actions have been cloaked in secrecy, often supplemented by deceit. Opening the files at the Pentagon, CIA, and State Department  on U.S. intervention in the Syrian Civil War might explain why the U.S. plunged deeper into that morass.  Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels have openly battled CIA-backed rebels.  The U.S. has armed and bankrolled Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria despite federal law prohibiting providing material support to terrorist groups. The U.S. dropped 12,192 bombs on Syria last year – at a time when much of the Washington establishment and media was vilifying Obama for not intervening.  We need the bureaucratic smoking guns on this policy.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/09/trump-must-expose-obamas-abuses-of-power/

Down Nausea Lane: Reviewing The Rise Of Obama's Sycophantic Press And The Death Of Objectivity

When Obama ran for President four years later, news reporters led the cheers. “It’s almost hard to remain objectivebecause it’s infectious, the energy, I think,” then-NBC reporter Lee Cowan confessed in an MSNBC.com video posted January 7, 2008. On CNN a few days later, Politico editor John Harris admitted: “A couple years ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they needed to go through detox when they came back — ‘Oh, he’s so impressive, he’s so charismatic,’ and we’re kind of like, ‘Down, boy.’”

As a candidate, the Associated Press celebrated Obama as “something special,” while as President-elect, the Washington Post drooled over his “chiseled pectorals,” on display during a vacation in Hawaii. As President, reporters touted his “prodigious talents,” his “amazing legislative agenda,” and his “huge achievements.” And as an individual, journalists fawned over Obama, calling him “one of our brightest presidents,” a “huge visionary,” “the perfect American,” “our national poet,” and “the most noble man who has ever lived in the White House.”

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2017/01/09/farewell-decade-media-drooling-over-barack-obama

CBS Shows Us How To Lie Even When Telling The Truth

The MSM is so fundamentally dishonest, they simply CANNOT be truthful, even when being factual.

100 PER CENT TRUE

Governor Jennifer Granholm's Nostradamus Moment

This stuff will never get old for me.

NOTHING LIKE A NATE SILVER QUOTE TO ADD SOME CREDIBILITY TO ONE'S WILD SPECULATION

Liberal Icon Nat Hentoff Passes Away At Age 91.

People who know me, know that I bristle when the term "liberal" is used to describe Leftist thuggery.

Liberalism is a lofty idea and it invites the George Bernard Shaw inside all of us to muse that someone should try it sometime. The planet can only support a few dozen true liberals and Nat Hentoff was one of them.

Years ago, before Rush Limbaugh had his own TV show, he guest hosted on a channel that would eventually morph into CNBC. Limbaugh interviewed Oliver North and both men had already established themselves as pariahs. Hentoff called the show to offer support to two men he frequently disagreed with. I doubt if Keith Olbermann would do anything half so gracious.

From NYT obituary:

While his sympathies were usually libertarian, he often infuriated leftist friends with his opposition to abortion, his attacks on political correctness and his criticisms of gay groups, feminists, blacks and others he accused of trying to censor opponents. He relished the role of provocateur, indirectly defending racial slurs, apartheid and pornography.

A good man has been laid to rest.

Newt Gingrich Explains How And Why Trump Defeated The Establishment

Great video! All 67+ minutes. Gingrich at the top of his professorial game.

Especially interesting to me is that so many people--including people who voted for Trump--don't understand the Earth-shattering significance of November 8. Is The Donald an anomaly or the embodiment of something much larger, a movement whose time has come? He is possibly both.