Showing posts with label Meet the Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meet the Press. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2015

SNL Premiere Basically a Hillary Clinton Campaign Ad

NBC and MSNBC have long slanted left politically and they do little to disguise it.  The liberal slant of their news and entertainment programming isn't that subtle yet their news programming raises questions on their journalistic responsibilities as a member of the 'fourth estate'. The Brian William's fiasco highlighted NBC 's lack of credibility in the news business but what about their entertainment side of the business?

The season premiere of NBC 's Saturday Night Live was just another example.  After appearing last Sunday on NBC 's  Meet the Press with Chuck Todd fielding mostly softball questions with little followup. the segment was designed to let Hillary Clinton address her criticisms and boost the shows sagging ratings, Hillary Clinton was given even more network time on SNL to rehabilitate her image and try to connect with the zero information Democratic voters.  An excerpt from The Daily Beast:
‘Saturday Night Live’ Premiere Basically a Hillary Clinton Campaign Ad
Miley Cyrus may have hosted the SNL Season 41 premiere, but the show was all about applauding Hillary Clinton—and not just when she appeared.

Live From New York…it’s a Hillary Clinton campaign ad.

On Saturday night, Studio 8H was briefly remodeled into a pop-up Ready For Hillary campaign headquarters for the 41st season premiere of Saturday Night Live.

The guest of honor herself even showed up for a heavily teased set, one that was tailor-made to lampoon the two biggest critiques of her persona—that her presidential ambition can at times read as deranged entitlement and desperation, and that she lacks relatable charisma—all while not-so-slyly dropping campaign platform items disguised as jokes.

And how much does Clinton want to be president? That she’s willing to sing “Lean On Me” on national television in order to get it. (Give the inevitable Democratic nominee credit: She’s the only political candidate in the race right now embarrassing herself on purpose.)
The Democrats and their coalition were quick to criticize the Citizens United SCOTUS decision because more money in politics would actually help level the field since the MSM leans left by every measure.  The Democrats controlled the narrative on almost all of the nightly newscasts and their party message saturated prime time entertainment and even late night cable shows like The Daily Show, which starred secret Obama loyalist Jon Stewart. The campaign finance ruling held out hope for actual free speech in the United States. Free speech, which was squelched by the 'fourth estate' for decades.

The fact that Hillary Clinton's failed campaign in 2008 was the reason for the Citizens United SCOTUS decision is something to relish as we watch her downward slide in the polls and the desperation of her media allies and her campaign to stop the bleeding.  The following video made by Citizens Untied  and was quashed by the Hillary Campaign and the FEC.


The story behind the video:
WASHINGTON, June 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it wants a case involving federal election law and an attack "documentary" on Hillary Clinton reheard next September. 
The justices said new argument should address two key Supreme Court precedents upholding federal election law and whether the high court should "overrule either or both." 
At stake in the case is a provision of a 2002 federal campaign law that bans "election communications" funded by corporations or unions close to an election. 
The justices heard argument earlier this term, with former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson representing the producers of "Hillary, the Movie." The film's backers wanted to make it available as an "on demand" movie on cable television during the 2008 race for the presidency.
But federal courts ruled the movie, financed partly with funds from unnamed corporations, violated the 2002 McCain-Feingold law. 
Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart, defending the law, suggested the Constitution not only allows the restriction of the "documentary" message when offered "on demand," but also on the Internet, on a DVD or in a book, even at a public library.
(Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205.)
The media may fail to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for her lies and misdeeds but the Citizens United decision means that Hillary Clinton will have to answer for her shenanigans to the voter. A voter who may actually be exposed to information and narratives not tightly controlled by the Clinton political machine and aided by their allies in the press and network entertainment..

Sunday, September 27, 2015

MTP: Chuck Todd Asks Hillary Clinton About Email & Transparency

Hillary Clinton  made an appearance on NBC Meet The Press Sunday to field some questions about her 'homebrew' e-mail server and transparency.  Chuck Todd, an ally of the Democrats pitched a few softball questions to Hillary and didn't pursue many follow-up questions.  A segment of the MTP interview follows:


Chuck Todd's ratings are low for a reason and allowing Hillary Clinton to spin her story made the segment almost laughable. Todd mentions the Washington Post piece about her emails but doesn't call out this Hillary lie or others. What about The 8 Times Clinton Told A Disproven Story About Her Emails ?  Instead, Chuck Todd basically let Hillary Clinton practice her soundbites and avoided any critical counter-punches.

Hillary can't decide how responsible she is for her emails....
 Fortunately, My previous blogs have taken a few jabs at the subject.
2nd Review Says Highly Classified/Top Secret Information Was in Hillary Clinton’s Email
*More blogs about Hillary Clinton's Benghazi lies, cover-up and her email scandal 
Democrats Distract From Hillary Clinton's Email Server Scandal Using Colin Powell
Other blogs of interest in the Hillary Clinton email scandal:
Hillary Clinton's Aide Doesn't Know What 'Wiping' a Server Means Either
Another 57 Clinton Email Threads Contain Classified Foreign Governments' Information
Dozens of Hillary Clinton Emails Were Classified from the Start, U.S. Rules Suggest 
State Dept. Suddenly Discovers Thousands of Emails from Top Clinton Aide
Hillary Clinton Will Turn Over Email Server to Justice Department
Hillary Clinton's Email Server Answers Avoid Key Questions 
Data in Hillary Clinton’s ‘Secret’ Emails Came from 5 Intelligence Agencies 
Hillary Clinton Email Scandal - Obfuscation & Obstruction 
Hillary Clinton Denies Being Subpoenaed: Investigators Release Subpoena
Hillary Clinton Email Scandal - Obfuscation & Obstruction
@AP 's FOIA Request Shows Extent of Hillary Clinton's Email Coverup 
A blog on the Benghazi - Syria connection
Obama Arms the Syrian Rebels & 'Overlooks' Their Use of Chemical Weapons 
A blog on the first days of media 'coverage'
Obama Media Machine in Full Deflection Mode after Embassy Attacks 

Another article on Hillary Clinton's mishandling of highly classified information.
Hillary Intentionally Originated And Distributed Highly Classified Information




Sunday, September 6, 2015

Democrats Distract From Hillary Clinton's Email Server Scandal Using Colin Powell

After years of stonewalling the Benghazi investigation, the Obama Administration's State Department that was led by Hillary Clinton was finally forced to produce some of the emails handed over from the private server by the former Secretary of State. FOIA requests and subpoenas were ignored as long as possible and half of the information was still destroyed by Hillary Clinton and her minions. The excuses and lies were numerous but pretending that her predecessors did the same thing is pathetic. The left leaning NBC's Meet the Press did their best to pretend that former Secretary of State under George W. Bush Colin Powell conducted his business much like Hillary Clinton without the uproar of course. An excerpt from TheHill.com is as follows:

Colin Powell: I used two computers at State
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he used two computers while leading the department, one for transmitting sensitive material and another for emailing “housekeeping stuff.” 
“I had a secure State Department machine for secure material and I had a laptop that I could use for email. I would email relatives, friends, but I would also email in the department,” Powell explained on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” 
“But it was mostly housekeeping stuff -- what’s the status of this paper, what’s going on here.”
Powell, a Republican who served in the George W. Bush administration, has spoken before about his two computers, and said he wrote an entire chapter about it in his book. 
But questions about Powell’s private email setup came as another former secretary of State, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, has struggled to answer questions about why she used a private email account while conducting official business.


Colin Powell wasn't running his own PRIVATE email server and the same rules didn't apply to his use of email at the time.  The attempts to distract from the unethical and illegal conduct of Hillary Clinton by the media is disappointing and disgusting.  Just as the mostly left leaning media sought to protect Barack Obama at any cost so it must protect Hillary Clinton and her conduct under Obama, the liar in chief. The Obama legacy and the Hillary Clinton  run for POTUS 2016 are virtually intertwined and the compliant and complicit media will predictably assist in the obstruction and obfuscation by the Obama administration and the former of Secretary of State



Why would Powell make the rounds?  He voted for Obama twice and isn't a conservative....


Hillary Intentionally Originated And Distributed Highly Classified Information

Other blogs of interest in the Hillary Clinton email scandal:
Hillary Clinton's Aide Doesn't Know What 'Wiping' a Server Means Either
Another 57 Clinton Email Threads Contain Classified Foreign Governments' Information
Dozens of Hillary Clinton Emails Were Classified from the Start, U.S. Rules Suggest 
State Dept. Suddenly Discovers Thousands of Emails from Top Clinton Aide
Hillary Clinton Will Turn Over Email Server to Justice Department
Hillary Clinton's Email Server Answers Avoid Key Questions 
Data in Hillary Clinton’s ‘Secret’ Emails Came from 5 Intelligence Agencies 
Hillary Clinton Email Scandal - Obfuscation & Obstruction 
Hillary Clinton Denies Being Subpoenaed: Investigators Release Subpoena
Hillary Clinton Email Scandal - Obfuscation & Obstruction
@AP 's FOIA Request Shows Extent of Hillary Clinton's Email Coverup 
A blog on the Benghazi - Syria connection
Obama Arms the Syrian Rebels & 'Overlooks' Their Use of Chemical Weapons 
A blog on the first days of media 'coverage'
Obama Media Machine in Full Deflection Mode after Embassy Attacks 

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Illusions of Iranian Sanctions Threatens Israel

The Illusion of Iranian Sanctions

 The Obama Administration minions made the rounds on the sunday morning news programs. I caught a few minutes of Ambassador Rice on Meet the Press trying her best to make the Obama-Media narrative fit the facts on the ground in Iran.  The line that stood out to me is the 'crippling sanctions' that Obama has in place in Iran. She then cites a 1 percent reduction in a statistic. The sanction talking points are uttered without question, not that David Gregory or Andrea Mitchell are capable or actual journalists. If they were capable or honest, they might ask about exemptions and the possible failure of the sanctions.

No Gregory and Mitchell were still to feeling smug and satisfied attacking Mitt Romney on his statement given in regards to the Egypt Embassy protest that they applied to the preplanned attack at the Libyan consulate.

I have followed the exemptions to Iran's largest customers with interest. Media Links and a video will explain it in as much detail as you would like.  It is clear, sanctions have as many holes as Ambassador Rice's statements for this administration.

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07.22.2012
  Contentions Exemptions Are the Rule on Iran Sanctions

 President Obama’s apologists continue to trumpet the notion that his reliance on diplomacy and sanctions is the best route to stopping Iran’s drive to obtain nuclear weapons. Though the partial oil embargo is making the lives of ordinary Iranians a bit more difficult, the sanctions are so riddled with holes that they are not proving much of a deterrent to the Iranian oil industry’s plans for foreign ventures let alone being enough to force Tehran to give up its nuclear ambition. As the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month, the West’s “crippling sanctions” are not stopping an Iranian energy company from making a bid on a French oil refinery.
And In Conclusion of this piece in Commentary Magazine

 All of this illustrates that diplomacy and sanctions are proving to be a dead end that will do nothing to stop Iran. Though the administration is determined to kick the can down the road until after November — and is even applauded by some purveyors of mainstream opinion for doing so — if the United States is serious about dealing with this threat, either the loopholes in sanctions must be sealed up or Washington is going to have to start talking more about the use of force.
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Links showing scope and scale.

 Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions Wed Sep 26, 2012 

SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Sept 26 - Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, is buying and selling Iranian fuel oil, undermining Western efforts to choke the flow of petrodollars to Tehran and put pressure on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

Vitol last month bought 2 million barrels of fuel oil, used for power generation, from Iran and offered it to Chinese traders, Reuters established in interviews with 10 oil trading, industry and shipping sources in Southeast Asia, China and the Middle East.

The Swiss-based firm issued a statement saying Vitol Group is in compliance with all international laws on trade with Iran.
 English.news.cn   2012-09-15 06:52:34
 U.S. extends exemption to 11 nations from Iran sanctions 

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States said on Friday that it would extend exemptions from sanctions to Japan and 10 European countries on account of their reduced purchase of Iranian crude oil.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would report to Congress that the exception to sanctions will apply to the financial institutions based in Japan, Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain for a renewable period of 180 days.

These countries first got the immunity in March from an American law adopted late last year to deny access to U.S. financial market foreign banks whose governments buy Iran's oil.
Bolivian Ship Violates Iran Sanctions
The law aimed to up pressure on the Islamic republic to force it to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, which Washington and its allies suspect are part of the efforts to make nuclear weapons.


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SINGAPORE | Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:40am EDT

Japan set to win extended waiver of U.S. sanctions on Iran oil   

June 28th, 2012
China, Singapore to be exempted from Iran sanctions 

 By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan on June 12, 2012
U.S. Exempts India, South Korea From Iran Oil Sanctions  



US exempts 11 states from Iran sanctions




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