tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post7855899435617859802..comments2024-03-19T01:31:03.691-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Some Standard Group Stories are accepted by all!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-41986608781860300052012-10-31T08:34:32.556-04:002012-10-31T08:34:32.556-04:00Many of us tend to forget this blog is about the m...Many of us tend to forget this blog is about the mainstream press corp and not about the right vs. the left. jkwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50224790945963633812012-10-31T08:21:26.634-04:002012-10-31T08:21:26.634-04:00I'm trying to understand the irony that we lov...I'm trying to understand the irony that we love democracy all over the world -- as long as they elect guys we like and support U.S. interests 100 percent,<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1430326754990749952012-10-31T03:12:34.429-04:002012-10-31T03:12:34.429-04:00http://frontpagemag.com/2012/thomas-sowell/libya-a...http://frontpagemag.com/2012/thomas-sowell/libya-and-lies/<br /><br />Sowell continues Benghazi fiction... across Canada.<br /><br />"It was a little much... Benghazi"<br /><br />((( no it wasn't. didn't happen. Howell makes shit up. )))Sam Gunschnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-6691771465173401142012-10-31T03:09:12.703-04:002012-10-31T03:09:12.703-04:00http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/president-...http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/president-120530-first-public.html<br /><br />Howell variations on the theme... Benghazi B.S. <br /><br />D. Howler just got lucky in his theorizing.<br /><br />Sam Gunschnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47424298420619716752012-10-31T03:05:25.914-04:002012-10-31T03:05:25.914-04:00re Somerby says: "But within the conservative...re Somerby says: "But within the conservative world and the mainstream press, the Benghazi Group Story has been very potent."<br /><br />Canada's daily tabloid equivalent of Fox News publishes this in dailies across Canada:<br /> <br />excerpt: "Why then did both President Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice keep repeating the story that this was a spontaneous protest riot against an anti-Islamic video in America?"<br /><br />http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/10/30/cooling_out_the_voters<br /><br />gosh golly gee this Daily Howler guy keeps getting lucky in his analysis of the elite media sucking the various appendages of right agenda for access to the bling.<br /><br />He's just a lucky ducky I guess. <br /><br /><br /><br />Sam Gunschnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18259770043867918322012-10-30T22:26:19.346-04:002012-10-30T22:26:19.346-04:00Romney's Zionism is creepy as hell.
Anyway, ...Romney's Zionism is creepy as hell. <br /><br />Anyway, ayman Zawahiri is AQ #1. He's a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood now have a huge stake in Egypt in the cabinet. Call them the political wing of AQ. They are very close to getting rid of secular law.<br />In Libya they are gaining ground too. Cyrencia is a place where Egyptian influence is heavy. The battle in Benghazi is a clear enough indication that the Muslim Britherhood have a very long reach. <br /><br />You are a blithering American idiot. Biden and Obama have failed their geography lessons in both practical examination and in oral presentation. The Arab spring was a front for some very dangerous forces. Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-36115896503104070272012-10-30T22:02:06.258-04:002012-10-30T22:02:06.258-04:00@ABL Own up, 'know-it-all' ! You've &...@ABL Own up, 'know-it-all' ! You've 'hated Obama's guts' from long before you ever heard the name Benghazi pronounced - what, within the last half year ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18012898786268840552012-10-30T16:51:05.070-04:002012-10-30T16:51:05.070-04:00Stick to the subject. This one is Good Bob. You...Stick to the subject. This one is Good Bob. You'll get your chance, probably very soon and very often.urban legendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68055932851331775922012-10-30T16:48:17.205-04:002012-10-30T16:48:17.205-04:00You will be the first to volunteer for our ground ...You will be the first to volunteer for our ground nation-building in Egypt and Libya, right? And Syria for good measure, under the assumption that your geographic and historical knowledge is on a par with Romney's (Syria is Persia's route to the sea, not the PERSIAN Gulf) and you think Syria's in North Africa, right?<br /><br />Oh, wait, I forget the GOP is populated by chicken hawks like Cheney, Bush and Romney.urban legendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62432386897185650672012-10-30T16:40:36.491-04:002012-10-30T16:40:36.491-04:00Said without the slightest argument whatsoever. Yo...Said without the slightest argument whatsoever. You know, supporting evidence?<br /><br />I doubt you know what Ambassador Rice actually said. urban legendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64659212454745046522012-10-30T15:53:54.792-04:002012-10-30T15:53:54.792-04:00What is ironic, this is pretty much what Rachel Ma...What is ironic, this is pretty much what Rachel Maddow said when she blasted PolitiFact a couple of weeks ago. <br /><br />But of course, it was said by Rachel Maddow, so Somerby had to go ape-shit because it came from her.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69285270149304459342012-10-30T15:00:07.081-04:002012-10-30T15:00:07.081-04:00By the way, your side could use more "pedants...By the way, your side could use more "pedants like Somerby."<br /><br />He's been carrying Mitt's water for months now.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52572578881906892842012-10-30T14:59:06.925-04:002012-10-30T14:59:06.925-04:00Right. He only "implied" that Benghazi w...Right. He only "implied" that Benghazi was an act of terror when he called it an act of terror in a speech about Benghazi the day after Benghazi.<br /><br />And dear clueless: The issue is over. Your boy got slapped down. He's moved on to Jeeps in China. And not doing all that well with that one either.<br /><br />So please, let us all know what your right-wing handlers are telling you boys to say every where you can find a forum on which you have not yet been banned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32515659790582310922012-10-30T14:16:45.380-04:002012-10-30T14:16:45.380-04:00Bingo ABL. He never actually says anything and lea...Bingo ABL. He never actually says anything and leaves you with the impression that something was agreed upon between him speaking and you hearing his words. So pedants like Somerby can protect him. <br /><br />The ultimate problem is that Islamists are actually seizing control of North Africa. That is the fruit of Obama's skippy genius. Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-82984895741737548052012-10-30T13:50:21.423-04:002012-10-30T13:50:21.423-04:00Obama only implied that the video was responsible,...Obama only implied that the video was responsible, just like he only implied that the attack was an act of terror. Almost saying things is a specialty of his. And I absolutely agree that Obama's handling of Benghazi was his usual way of handling things - disengaged, deceptive, and relentlessly political, in the smallest sense.ABLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18071092966452432582012-10-30T12:59:12.604-04:002012-10-30T12:59:12.604-04:00I kept wondering if I were the only crazy one in t...I kept wondering if I were the only crazy one in thinking both polifact and Kessler sounded more like Romney apologists than fact checkers. This post, as well as the one on polifact (which I had missed) confirms my impression that the press as gone absolutely bonkers on this. <br /><br />For the life of me I can't see anything the lease bit unusual or exceptional on how Obama handled this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73053049184141336772012-10-30T12:30:10.621-04:002012-10-30T12:30:10.621-04:00"Balance" is more important than facts. ..."Balance" is more important than facts. Kessler keeps a running track of his scores; Romney, who has run the most dishonest presidential campaign in recorded history (his staffers even brag about it to journalists, off the record, of course), averages 2.44 "Pinnochios;" Obama averages 2.11. Kessler probably goes to bed at might nagged by even that "unbalance." Fact checking is a fraud. The purpose of fact checking is NOT to establish truth or falsehood, but to give the appearance that someone in journalism is doing actual journalism, or is at least capable of it. <br /><br />Has Kessler ever fact checked other journalists?TILhttp://til.tknoreply@blogger.com