Not news news, but I’ll be verrry interested to see how the administration extricate themselves.
No routine “October surprise” distraction will suffice.
Whatever they come up with will have to be epic.
Now that the White House and State Department have made clear that they believe movies compel terrorists to terrorize, it’s time for them to get ahead of this problem. And one thing the White House can do immediately is to pressure Sony to stop the release of director Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” which celebrates the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Moreover, an excuse Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not be able to use in the case of “Zero Dark Thirty” (as she did with “Innocence of Muslims”) is the cowardly and self-righteous claim that the federal government and the Obama White House had nothing to do with “Zero Dark Thirty.” Because the federal government and the Obama White House had everything to do with “Zero Dark Thirty.”As we now know, in an effort to get this glitzy in-kind contribution (tens of millions of dollars) up on the screen in time to affect the election, it was the Obama Administration that gave the filmmakers tons of encouragement and a troubling amount of access to all kinds of classified material. [more]
(What? No, I am not hogging the popcorn.)
A downside is the number of people who’ll be slaughtered.
Note that the administration is now backing off The Movie Did It™ excuse.
One might be excused for attributing that to this pesky dilemma.
(What? Because the media whined that there was no way they could spin this? *heh* Even better.)
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Sorry to focus on the “GM is Alive” part but a great caller to El Rushbo’s show on Friday pointed out that when Chrysler was rescued with a loan it paid it back. GM still owes us $26 Billion that we’ll never see. (…while the bond-holders and non-union retirees were raped.)
IMHO, Zero Dark Thirty is tasteless taunting, a First World version of dragging American Soldiers and the Ambassador through the streets.
The Professional Warrior, removes his Tango and moves on, with hatred or respect for the Enemy, he moves on.
These teenage wannabes in the Admin that leaked this info are snails to me. Won’t spend my money on it.
Little known soap opera over in the Left corner: Thunder Thighs knows she could not win the 2016 president election (…if there is an election…) , should OBoBo get reelected! The Porch might get a *scoop* by watching both T/T`s & Slick`s itsy-bitsy little subtle signals regarding this, between now and November.
Natch, the mfcsMedia will not have a clue, because they are convinced that only (R`s), Conservatives and Tea Party Patriots are the “True back-stabbing cretins”, holding back the Proggie-Bot`s
FascistUtopian version of America…..Think about the bene`s if KisP gets the scoop. We can all get concealed carry permits AND use them frequently when the RATz declare us “Highest Priority Targets”!!! Headmissy can even award monthly *bag certificates* for the Porcher who scores the most…..
Jerry, please excuse the “familiar”, one of my worries as the ultimate October Surprise.
As far as “Highest Priority Targets”…… This Tango shoots back, and doesn’t miss, SIR!
:) Semper Fi.
There’s one flaw in your reasoning, Doug: Bin Laden does not equal Mohammed. A movie about the killing of bin Laden is not insulting to Islam as that other thing supposedly is. Oh, it will probably make some people angry but it’s not anywhere near the outrage that “insulting the Prophet” can gin up.
He’s got to get the movie out before January… the killing of Bin Ladin is the only thing they’ll be able to point back to when they propose the 60ft. statue of Obama staring across the D.C. mall at Lincoln….
Mother may I?
Hate that ignorant, arrogant, flap jawed, lying son of a bitch more every day?
I’ll go to Romney’s inaugural just to hold up a sign saying
BHO, GTF out of our
house you lying jerk.
We will probably be nuked before the election.
How’s THAT for an October surprise?
“Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.”
But for Obama and Hillary it just seems to go on and on and on in the size of the webs they ineptly build.
The only thing saving them is the MSM, which tries their best to NOT report the lies.
GM is a zombie; a dead corporation that dances and jerks to the commands of the progressive minions in government.
*cough*
DOJ is not happy over the truth being exposed…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CNN_STEVENS_DIARY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-23-05-22-33
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Yeah, I considered that; but I see it as a distinction without a difference wrt the administration’s narrative (blaming movies and asserting no official involvement).
If the effect is still anti-US violence, then the Prophet-related fiction will be totally exploded, too.
And the freeking dems use a ad about Mitt killing some tools wife because of the concocted story she had no health care because he closed a plant down. And they pounded that lie every day since.
My God, here we have a bonified American from the State Dept. and 2 other military!!!! WTF!???????? What does it take for this country to put a simple 2+2 together and and scream “YOU killed them!!!!”
I know all the polls that are being thrown around are skewed to make the magical black jesus look good, but it is horrifying to consider that at least 1/3rd of America is made up of individuals who are parasites.
I’ve been of the mindset for many years now that civil war is the only way back to the road of prosperity for us. If this shit continues, I may very well be right.
Fortunately Wollf, OBoBo will be trashed worse than any other president. I was tongue in cheek for The Porch.
It will be Romney/Ryan. Anything else can only come from voter fraud, and were that to happen, I will pay to form a regiment and you can by my Headquarters Company CO…………………
I dunno… That seems a sufficiency of OUTRAGE™.
And yet and yet and yet——————-where ever He/they go it’s yeah yeah swoon swoon We Love you Mr. President!!!! ?????????????????? The women on the View are wetting their pants just sitting near him. The audience is doing the same. He’s responsible for everything —to some degree– Bush is at fault for the rest——–and of course Congress— and a movie– on and on and on————-Romney should do this Romney should do that—– it matters not what Romney does or doesn’t do——–he will never knock their idol off his pedestal—he could be a GD serial killer and they’d stick up for him and blame someone else—-
He is a serial killer.
Just because only one of the victims of Fast & Furious was an American doesn’t mean he and Holder don’t have blood on their hands.
Same with the embassy murder victims: Obama and Hildabeast are responsible.
#18 My point exactly Buzz.