Obama NBC’s Rep. Foxx
President Obama yesterday reached a new low. Watch the video here, the content starts at 7:40. It is bad enough that he is perpetually campaigning and ignoring our economic reality. It is bad enough that he still blames President Bush for every problem we have today.
President Obama said:
“I want to read a quote. This is from a Republican congresswoman. I didn’t really understand this. I’m quoting her,” the president said.
“She said that she has ‘very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt…because there’s no reason for that.’ She said, students who rack up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts, having opportunity ‘dumped in your lap.’”
Here is the “quote” as it was originally said by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC):
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that.”
“We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ You don’t sit on your butt and have it dumped in your lap.”
Here is the original quote color-coded to show what Obama removed from his so-called quote.
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with
$200,000 of debt or even $80,000 ofdebt because there’s no reason for that.”
“We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ Youdon’t sit on your butt and have it dumped in your lap.”
How can the press ignore such a blatant misrepresentation of fact for the sake of political pandering? He legitimately misled the crowd and this sort of willful and intentional distortion is shameful and hardly presidential.
In case you tuned out the Treyvon/Zimmerman story, here is how NBC distorted the 911 call audio to do the same thing.
What NBC reported on its news broadcast:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.
What was actually said on tape:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good.
Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?Zimmerman: He looks black.
Tell me how this hack job is any different than what President Obama did yesterday at UC Boulder. At NBC someone was fired for such an egregious and intentional hack job to stoke the flames of racial tension. A question for my legal friends, can Rep. Foxx sue for libel, or at least make a very justifable demand for a public apology? I’m sure the president will issue an equally boisterous apology for his intentional class warfare bomb once the press calls him on this.
Never before in my life have I been so disgusted with a president. Never before in my life have I seen a president who so brazenly attacked the people he supposedly serves. I pray that conservatives unite and boot his sorry ass out of office before it gets any worse for America.
Is Nancy Pelosi Dizzy Yet?
Nancy Pelosi is a horrible liar. I’d love to play poker with her just once. She berated the Bush administration for the use of torture, but now that we have learned that she knew about it years ago she’s singing a different song.
Allahpundit at HotAir.com sums it up nicely:
To refresh your memory of the timeline, there’s no dispute that she knew waterboarding was going on by February 2003, when one of her staffers went to a briefing on it and relayed the details to her. The question is simply whether she found out even earlier than that, in September 2002, after the CIA had started waterboarding Abu Zubaydah. Why does the timing matter? Um, it doesn’t: Even if it’s true that the CIA told her in 2002 that they were only thinking of using the technique, the very thought of it should have ignited her righteous progressive outrage. Instead, her defense here — I kid you not — is that by the time she learned they were waterboarding people in 2003, Jane Harman had become the ranking member on the intelligence committee and so, you know, it wasn’t Nan’s job anymore to speak up. Besides, she was too focused at the time on the big Democratic electoral turnaround … which wouldn’t happen for another three years. Make sure you watch at least to the part where she insists she doesn’t think she should have done more to stop the program. There’s that old activist liberal spirit! As Andy Levy says, “Nancy Pelosi’s lies are so transparent birds are slamming into them.”
In February on Rachel Maddow Pelosi offered her first stuttering denial:
- “They did not brief us with these enhanced interrogations were taking place.”
- “I can say flat out they never told us they were being used.”
On April 23, 2009 she offered a second stuttering denial:
- “we were not told that water boarding ot any of these other enhanced interrogations were used.”
Then, after being outed by reality, on April 27, 2009 she changed her tune through the proxy of an aide, and we were told that Pelosi didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels.
There’s plenty more to read here and here. And here. Or here.
For the sake of levity, let’s laugh it up. Here’s John Stewart giving Pelosi the once over.
