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The Truth Has Been (Omitted)
Townhall.com ^ | June 22, 2016 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 06/22/2016 12:08:56 PM PDT by Kaslin

Barack Obama is a dramatic failure.

His economy has been a slow-motion train wreck. His domestic policy has driven racial antagonism to renewed heights and divided Americans from each other along lines of religion and sexual orientation. On foreign policy he has set the world aflame in the name of pretty, meaningless verbiage and a less hegemonic America.

But there's good news: At least he controls the information flow.

This week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Americans to believe her rather than their own lying eyes. First, she openly admitted that the FBI would censor the 911 phone call of the jihadi Omar Mateen who murdered 49 Americans at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The FBI, she said, would remove explicit references to ISIS, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Islam.

The resulting transcript was a masterpiece of hilarious redaction. Here's just a taste: "In the name of God the Merciful, the beneficial (in Arabic) ... Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of (in Arabic). I let you know, I'm in Orlando and I did the shootings. ... My name is I pledge of allegiance to (omitted). ... I pledge allegiance to (omitted), may God protect him (in Arabic) on behalf (omitted)."

This memory holing would make George Orwell cry. In this iteration, Allah becomes God (See, Islam is just like Judaism and Christianity!), but we can't mention terrorist groups and their leaders. In fact, more than a week after the attack, Lynch told the press she didn't know the jihadi's motivation -- a motivation clearly stated in the transcript she released.

Insanity.

But this is not unusual for the Obama administration. We know that in the run-up to the Iran deal the Obama administration simply altered reality to fit its narrative: It had fiction writer and deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes cook up an account where negotiations with the terror state began only after the accession of "moderate" President Hassan Rouhani. Never mind that Obama and company had been negotiating with the mullahs behind the scenes for years before that. The narrative had to be falsified and upheld. When the State Department was forced to admit those lies in a press conference, the White House conveniently chopped out that section of the taped conference for public release.

We also know that the Obama administration lied openly about Obamacare. It knew from the beginning that you couldn't keep your doctor or your plan. It simply hid that fact for years. We know that the Obama State Department sliced out a section of transcript mentioning radical Islam when French President Francois Hollande visited the United States.

He who controls the information flow controls reality.

And the Obama administration is already rewriting reality for the historians of decades hence. We won't find out where they hid most of the political bodies until too late -- just as we won't find out what Clinton hid in her private server until far too late.

This is why a government must not be trusted with massive power. Politicians have every incentive not just to lie in the present but to lie with an eye toward the future. The more power they have over us, the more power they have over the reality we see -- and the more they think they can get away with manipulating that reality.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: islam; islamicterror; lorettalynch; orlando
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1 posted on 06/22/2016 12:08:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

And his anti-American, pro-Islamic agenda has been TOTALLY deliberate. And the GOPe has shown its true colors.


2 posted on 06/22/2016 12:10:42 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Kaslin

Nice Ben, too bad you are spending all your time trying to defeat Trump & in turn elect Hillary.


3 posted on 06/22/2016 12:12:11 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Kaslin

And the people who made his election possible (Media, Big monied Donors, Foreign Donors) need to be hunted down, beaten, and then thrown in prison.


4 posted on 06/22/2016 12:12:12 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Kaslin

I agree with Ben strongly on this and lots of things but he also wrote a piece saying that he is a NeverTrumper forever. That makes him a hypocrite because his stance helps Hillary. He has to grow up some himself.


5 posted on 06/22/2016 12:13:20 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Kaslin

bammy wants us to accept the invading hordes of muslims with open arms and to welcome them, house them, clothe them, supply them with phones and money, close our churches for them, turn over our daughters to them to be raped, allow them to kill us and not be prosecuted. After all, they are our REPLACEMENTS!


6 posted on 06/22/2016 12:14:03 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Jihadi-hating CRUSADER. Like it or STFU.)
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To: EagleUSA

yet he’s at 50 percent approval in the polls. Take away 5 for fraud and it’s still a ridiculous number.


7 posted on 06/22/2016 12:17:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: gubamyster

NeverTrumpers are like traitors who give aid and comfort to the enemy. We don’t have the luxury of letting Hildy or any other Democrat elected. In war they would court martial you and/or shoot you.


8 posted on 06/22/2016 12:19:20 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Kaslin

Everything about Obama is a big fat lie anyway.


9 posted on 06/22/2016 12:20:02 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: dp0622

50% approval ratings are lap dog press propaganda numbers. No one believes this horse Sh$% anymore.


10 posted on 06/22/2016 12:21:36 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Kaslin

We think it is ludicrous BUT the proof of effectiveness was demonstrated by a “man in the street” (Horowitz?) interview(s) in Brooklyn several days ago. Most of the publicized interviews stated that it was the GOP’s fault, the NRA’s fault, the anti-Gay Marriage fault.

I am not saying that there wasn’t somebody that blamed ISIS or Radical Islam, it is just that I never saw that interview(s) if they even exist. Still the ability to flood the low-information, already biased person with slanted news is the edge that the Democrat Party has on the electorate.


11 posted on 06/22/2016 12:23:37 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Kaslin

this is what a dictatorship does...
media is pravda.... not news
youre not in the obama regime unless you spew the lies...


12 posted on 06/22/2016 12:25:41 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: I want the USA back

Arrgh, don’t call that arrogant evil pos bammy. It sounds like a term of endearment


13 posted on 06/22/2016 12:25:46 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Obama is not with us....he is 100% with his most beloved, Radical, Islamic, Muslim Brotherhood & ISIS!!! The truth hurts, sometimes, folks,......but, the truth is still the truth!!! End of story!!!


14 posted on 06/22/2016 12:26:54 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: dp0622

I betcha the real approval rating is more like 15 percent


15 posted on 06/22/2016 12:27:16 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
What gave you the clue? That arrogant pos has never been with us.
16 posted on 06/22/2016 12:30:53 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263234/obamas-isis-lies-exposed-ari-Lieberman
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People that Barky has put into office:

Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development;
Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council (ousted for using his home computer
to tap into a Texas State and Local Intelligence Community database;

Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference;

Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC);

Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA);

Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
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Terror attacks under Barky:

June 12,2016 Muslim Omar Mir Siddique Mateen, kills 53 at Orlando Club

July 17,2015 Muslim man killed four U.S. Marines in attacks on military recruiting facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn.

May 3, 2015 two men opened fire outside of the Muhammad Art Exhibit event at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. The event featured the first inaugural “Draw the Prophet” contest.

December 20, 2014 Muslim man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley brutally murdered two New York City police officers. Police believe Brinsley was seeking revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police.

October 24, 2014 a man who had recently converted to Islam attacked four New York City police officers with an 18-inch metal hatchet. The incident occurred on a crowded sidewalk in Queens.

April 15, 2013 Chechen brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev exploded two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.The bombings killed three people including an eight-year-old boy. Hundreds of runners and spectators were seriously injured. Seventeen people saw their limbs blown off.

November 5, 2009 Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire in an attack at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Hassan killed 13 people and wounded over 30 more.

June 1, 2009 a man named Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad killed one soldier and injured another in a drive-by shooting targeting a U.S. military recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark.

(There are more terror attacks, I just don’t have them listed as yet)


17 posted on 06/22/2016 12:35:07 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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18 posted on 06/22/2016 12:59:27 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DarthVader; Kaslin

come on guys.

Just because we dont want blacks, hispanics, Jews, asians and single white women as well as idiot white men under 30 to vote the way they do, doesn’t make it so.

A lot of people on this board have to adjust to the new demographics in this country so we can WIN!!

Not every poll is a conspiracy and i would’t doubt at all if it were 45. Rusmussen and several others are not liberal pollsters.

It is at least 45 and it’s heartbreaking, which is why we need to win and not ignore reality.


19 posted on 06/22/2016 1:00:48 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Travis McGee

Funny, I was just thinking of this yesterday... Imagine “banzai” and “zeig heil” being redacted in 1941.


20 posted on 06/22/2016 1:03:01 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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