Posted on 12/27/2011 9:06:53 AM PST by Smokeyblue
To this day, Barack Hussein Obama remains a man of mystery. Copious amounts of documentation from his early life and academic career have never been released. It took years of pressure, plus Donald Trump as the ringmaster of a media circus, just to see his birth certificate.
When the L.A. Times obtained a potentially embarrassing videotape of Obama laughing it up at a party for Arafat minion Rashid Khalidi, the paper pursed its lips and fastidiously hid the tape from public view. Their newspaper account of the part didn’t even mention that domestic terrorist Friends of Obama Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn attended the event. Another important connection from Obama’s past, his long attendance at Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church of racial hatred, was carefully buried by the media until conservative radio hosts and bloggers dragged it into the open.
The rules for “vetting” are very different for Republican candidates. We’ve already seen murky allegations from Herman Cain’s past assigned a level of instant credibility that would never have been granted if he were a black Democrat. Even after a much more serious accusation of a long-running consensual affair caused Cain to suspend his campaign, we still don’t know exactly what the initial “sexual harassment” accusers complained about.
Now CNN has magically obtained the sealed records of Newt Gingrich’s first divorce. Here’s the wonderful story of how this Yuletide journalistic miracle came to pass:
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
I want a real conservative. We got a loser last time with McCain. Apparently the correct lesson was “make sure you vote for the loser THIS time,” not “we need to nominate a conservative”.
McCain as bad as he was, was better than Newt, or Romney. Which makes me incredibly sad.
If anyone will call them out on it, it will be Newt. At least he fights back.
FIFY
We all know it's a “he said - she said” pile of crap.
Now the MSM believes this is a dis qualifier, and a school document from Indonesia declaring Obama an Indonesian citizen isn't.
If “Vlad the Impaler” kissed enough babys and stirred the hearts of enough women, he could win the presidency.
McCain was a physical wreck, an annoying condescending quick tempered liberal prick, yet he went out of his way to endorse Obama and protect Obama. How he lost is still a mystery.
Newt may not have the presidential body, but he may have the wit to prove Obama is a complete ass on the debate stage. His knowledge of American history dwarfs Obamas. Even so, the MSM will run the debates, and Team Obama will call the shots on how the debates are executed. They will minimize his strengths and maximize his weakness.
If Newt runs, we will witness an MSM that will mock his character and appearance incessantly. That said, I think Newt is up to it. I think he'll shove it back up their pipes. Newt or Mitt, It will be one of the ugliest elections in history. Communists get nasty during elections. I honesly fear for our eventual candidates life. Opponents to communist leaders have short lives.
Let it all come out now, we don't need a fatal knifing next October.
They dropped the story!
A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
Lt. [Leiutenant: name, not rank] Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department’s Criminal Investigations Division.
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The hypocrisy shown by the media in this and other issues blows me (Herman Cain) away. My first reaction is always how stupid do they think we are. And then I realize [the collective] we are stupid because they get away with it time after time after time.
4 posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:10:45 AM by Gene Eric: “And CNN can legally publish and speak about the details of sealed records how?”
What Tupelo, FateAmenableToChange and Boogieman
wrote is right.
Printing these is legal, and should be. Releasing the documents to the media may or may not have been legal — I'm not yet sure since divorce records are usually public documents and some here are saying they were misplaced rather than sealed. Quoting the article: “Retired clerk Kenneth Skinner told CNN his deputy took Gingrich's file out of the public records room around 1994, ‘when he (Gingrich) became the center of attention,’ because Skinner feared tampering and theft.”
But in any event, once the media have them, there's nothing illegal about publishing them even if they **WERE** sealed (which in this case they probably weren't). That was settled decades ago by the courts with the Pentagon Papers case, and there are precedents dating back far earlier.
We don't live in Britain with an “Official Secrets Act” allowing judges to issue gag orders. In America, the legal offense, if any, is incurred by the person who leaked the documents to the media. Preventing prosecution of newspapers for reporting things unless they are libelous is what the First Amendment is for.
If FOX News or the Washington Times somehow got hold of some highly incriminating stuff about President Obama or Sen. Harry Reid or Rep. Nancy Pelosi, we would all be clapping our hands when we saw it published. That would be right.
The First Amendment exists for a reason. The framers of our Constitution knew from personal experience what happened when corrupt colonial governors, acting on behalf of British interests, tried to use the courts to control the press.
Government power is too dangerous to give judges the ability to exercise prior review and restraint against the press. If we don't like what a newspaper or TV station is reporting, turn it off and choose another one. Capitalism, not the courts, should control what gets published.
bama-continues/
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