The Curious Case of the Unquestionable Senator Claire McCaskill - Media? Can't you find your words?

I'm just a little curious about why those who are paid to be curious, are showing so little signs of being, even the least bit, curious. Those of you who saw the MO Senate Debate last week... saw Claire McCaskill wearing her usual calm, cool & collected, poised and color coordinated self, the very picture of the moderate professional.

And then... Dana Loesch asked about a whistle blower from her husband's company, and POOF! Moderate Claire vanished in a puff of ire, and nasty, spitting mad Claire appeared in her place.

What I'm curious about, is what about that story, of her husband cutting deals in the Senate dining room, what about that made little miss moderate Claire McCaskill become so unhinged?

Why did her campaign squelch the story when the New York Times considered running it? Why did her campaign try and silence the Daily Caller from running it?

But even more curious, is why are there no journalists in Missouri even looking into this story?

Well, almost none, the Southeast Missourian did run one story:

"Conservatives calling out McCaskill for suit against husband"

Which is just fine, they don't have to support the story... but... as journalists, isn't it their job to investigate and report the story, so that their readers and listeners are aware and informed?

Why have no other NEWS Media outlets but this one, looked into the story?

Isn't curiosity... their job?

And how about you, dear reader, don't you have a responsibility to watch the watchdogs?

There are plenty of stories on unethical and dishonest doings in the McCaskill camp... but very, very little is ever mentioned in the media... doesn't that make you just the littlest be upset?

Well... what is it that you do when you're upset, do you typically sit quietly and do nothing? Say nothing? Tell no one else about what you are upset about?

No?

Well then here are some people who you should be letting know that you are not happy with their failure to do their job, at your, your state's, and your nations, expense.

And those are not the only stories, there are also these:

• War on women? McCaskill business sued for sexual harassment
• The Spirit of Community Organizing – When Corruption Gets Treated As A Manageable Risk

And there are plenty more where those came from too, such as:

• McCaskill/Shepard slumlords?
• #MOSen: Poverty Profiteer Claire McCaskill Gets $40 Million Stimulus
• Why isn't Capstone Development listed on Claire McCaskill's financial disclosure?

Is there any truth to these stories? Isn't it the job of the MAINSTREAM MEDIA to find out?

Make yourself HEARD!

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"Hating Breitbart" - what a lifelike title for a movie!

I almost missed out on the opportunity to see the movie premier of Hating Breitbart in St. Louis last week, with a number of friends and core Tea Party activists. But unlike my several chances to meet Breitbart in person, all missed, this one I made - by the skin of my teeth (thanks again to Chris Loesch for hanging out in the lobby and getting us stragglers into the sold out show!).

I guess when I first heard of Andrew Breitbart, it was when O'Keefe & Giles made their underage prostitution bust of Acorn. The way he promoted it, flat out, with no reflexive nod to progressive sacred cows, no obeisance to political correctness, and a full out in your face laughing FU to those who expected him to, it was a thrill that ran up far more than just your leg, it charged all of our spirits, nationwide.

Big time.

There's been much said already, and deserved, about Breitbart's mastery of the New Media, but IMHO what was truly different about Andrew Breitbart was that he didn't try and pander to the Tea Party - he didn't need to, he got it, he felt it and he believed it too.

Note: I'm not saying that he believed IN the Tea Party, but that he believed WHAT makes the Tea Party what it is, that we all have a right to live our own lives, and no one has a right to take that away from us. He didn't believe in a movement or in something that was interesting new news, or the latest political happening. Instead he did what he did because he too had been someone who understood it, and, like the rest of us, was a believer before there ever was a movement to get behind. It was because of that part of Breitbart that is in all of us, that the movement caught fire in the way it has, from the healthcare battles and on down to today, and because of that, he knew exactly how to communicate it, rally it, and affirm it, with one or both of his two emotional settings: jocularity and righteous indignation.

To watch the movie 'Hating Breitbart', is to see and experience all of that again, first hand, and there's nothing quite like seeing someone saying and doing exactly what you would like to imagine yourself saying and doing, were you in the same position to.

From the first scene of Hating Breitbart, I, and everyone else in the theater, was laughing, cheering, shaking our heads in disbelief at those in the media and politics, who are so oblivious to their own statist bias, and then laughing out loud again as Andrew showed them to themselves in full out and glorious Breitbart style. Such as the part where he takes apart a 'journalist', Max Blumenthal, by feeding him his own words back to him. With aggravated faux calm and self righteousness, the leftie says  "I never called anyone a racist.", and then Breitbart feeds him back his own words and headlines, forces him to admit that he did do just that, and then just fillets and destroys the punk, in public, with his own words.

Or the part where ABC Nightline's... Terry Moran, I think it was, repeatedly tries to get him to call Congressman Lewis a liar. He realizes that's what they want, but holds back, again and again, until finally he says it 'He's a liar!', but he doesn't leave it there. Because at that point, as he expected, the reporter, after pestering on that point all morning, finally moves on to another issue. Breitbart will have none of it. He calls him on it. Calls him on his attempt to produce the story he wanted, calls him on his cheap tactics and explains to him exactly how his 'reporters ethics' had been used to do nothing but pull off a cheap, dirty, trick. And he was caught at it.

The old media, caught by the new media, to be unworthy.

That same quality of journalistic ethics was on display during a screening of the film, by one of those exposed in the film, for the biased and unethical twit he was... and a dim one at that. I mean, you'd think that a person might grasp from the title, that the act of "HATING BREITBART" was one of the means of jocularly furthering Breitbart's Righteous Indignation... but this tweeting twit from the Daily Koz and HufPo, continued on with his hatred of AB, by blathering it on so loudly in the theater that he had to be ejected from it.

Yep, that's just how bright they aren't. PR firms are paid big bucks for ginning up that kind of 'free' publicity, but this dingbat did it all for free:

"...Ryan Clayton, a far left contributor to DailyKos and Huffington Post, was escorted out a Friday night showing of the documentary, Hating Breitbart, in Arlington, Virginia, for his outbursts during the opening minutes of the film."

Gotta love it. The old media falling to the new... By Breitbart, from beyond the grave. ...Clausewitz said that War is the continuation of politics by other means. Well Andrew Breitbart's new media, is certainly politics by other means, and our old media journalists are simply new names on a long list of casualties to be.

#war

After the showing, thanks to JD Wilson, we stood for pictures of our whole crew, with (Center Row, l to r) Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit), Myself, Doug Edelman (above me), Virginia Kruta (Live from the Catacombs (below me)), Becky Noble (The Conservative Cauldron (center in red)), Dana Radio intern Amy Grace (in white), Dana Loesch (CNN contributor, 97.1 FM Talk, The Dana Show (center)), Chris Loesch, Jeremy Segal (Rebel Pundit (in green & hat), Adam Sharp (SharpElbows.net) in red Elmo hat top right, (lower row, 3rd from right): Martin D. Baker, Adam "Bad to the Bohn",  and the invisible Patch Adams (Poed Patriot, who couldn't make it) and other non publicity seeking friends.

... and what do the well dressed bloggers do after attending a glamorous movie premier? Bacon and waffles of course!

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We interupt this post to bring you a public service announcement:

"Dear America: If you want your news media to hide from you the uncomfortable information which they should be informing you of - do nothing. You've already got what you want. And deserve.

If on the other hand, you expect the fourth estate to inform you of what those in power are doing, left, right and center, then you're going to have to demand it of them... LOUDLY!!!!

Join US! #WAR!!!!!!!!!!"

HEY! Show Me State! 
Show your favorite NEWS Media what you think of their burying the stories that might damage their favorite Senate Candidate Claire. They don't need to agree that these scandals are scandals, but for them to not even acknowledge them... what the heck to they exist for?!

If you've got Twitter, or Facebook or a Blog or a reasonably loud voice - here are a few suggestions to show your News provider what the Show Me State expects of them.

Pick your local favorite and Show Them what #War means!



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Obama, Crowley and the full context of "An Act of Terror"

Some folks are surprised by the ire directed at CNN's Candy Crowley for her efforts in moderating the last debate, particularly for her 'factual insertion' regarding an 'act of terror'. Well, since the context depends just as much upon what was not said, as well as what was not said, lets have a look at what was, wasn't, and should have been said, both during the debate, and in the original White House statement's - what was written and approved, and the President's live comments, the day after the attack took place.

This all began of course during one of the many prickly moments in the debate, this time when it 'strayed' towards Libya and Obama tried to erect himself with a comment that,

"... the day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people in the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime."

Romney knew that to be untrue, and set out after the president. After some back and forth, Romney pointed out that it was in fact 14 days before Obama called it "an act of terror". Obama retreated, and then told Romney to,

"Get the transcript"

Crowley, seemingly shocked at this questioning of the media narrative, and stuttering in a manner that'd make Obama proud, said,

"eh,eh,eh, he, ah, he did in, in fact sir, so let me, let me, uh, call it an act of terror, so ul [garbled]..."

At which point Obama takes advantage of being let off the spitted hook Romney had him on, says

"Can you say that a little louder, Candy?"

She chuckles, as does the much pleased audience, and she says

"He did call it an act of terror, he did as well, uh, take, it did as well, uh, take, two weeks or so, uh, for the whole idea of their being a riot out there about this tape, to come out, you're correct about that."

There are many things to criticize Crowley for on this, not least of which was that she was supposed to be the moderator, not a tag-team player in the debate. Her job was to keep the candidates moving along and on point, not to help one of them to make their point for them, or to restrain the other from pressing home their point.

The fact is that Crowley not only did not insert facts into the debate, she effectively removed them, and in the process helped Obama to escape from a very, very, uncomfortable situation. There are many things which that is, but moderating isn't one of them; it was instead tantamount to a referee knocking the ball out of bounds for the home team.

The words you choose have meaning - as do the words not chosen
As to factual evidence of the President's statement in question, while in the leftist world, where concepts and principles are relegated to 2nd place, and at best to factoids, her comment was neither factual nor accurate. People like to say that words have meaning, but what meaning they have is determined by the context of the passage (comment, speech, book, etc) they are used or abused in.  Noting that the word 'terror' was used, is a meaningless factoid, of not much more worth than noting the total number of words used in the speech. The question is did the President call the Benghazi attack and 'act of terror', and the answer, easily verifiable by looking at his own words, is no, he did not.

The official transcript does not even mention the word terror at all. Not in any way shape or form. Nada. Zero. None. Look for yourself (at the link, or it's reproduced at the bottom as a courtesy to my intellectually lazy readers):

Obama says:

"I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi,..."

Here it is simply characterized as an outrageous attack. Of course... he also called Romney's comment to him in the debate outrageous, presumably he wasn't calling Romney a terrorist, or imply that he was engaging in a terrorist attack?

He closes out that paragraph with the comment that those killed

"... stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives."

Callously took their lives is a far different thing than being murdered for a political cause. He then directs that the barn door be closed, now that the horse, 9/11, is out, by having his administration

"...provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya..."

and around the globe. He then refers to what he has already put forward as the cause of unrest in the region, the obscure anti-Muslim video (which he was to hang Susan Rice out to dry on, that Sunday)

"While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others"

, and says that

"we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants."

"That kid of senseless violence" is also not calling, or even appropriately hinting at calling, the Benghazi incident a Terrorist Act.

In his words at the podium, he says (taken from the official White House video, linked above), that he will,

"Work with the Libyan govt, to bring to justice, the killers, of our people."

The word Killers is also not a reference to terrorism, and that failure to not state it flat out, clearly, as an act of terror, is a much louder statement, portraying this as simply a 'man caused disaster'. He then says that:

"...there is absolutely no justification to this kind of senseless violence."

Yet another deliberate instance of Not referring to an act of terror. He continues, "... None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts." Another deliberate instance of Not referring to an act of terror.

He makes further references to 'attacks' and 'attackers', but pointedly not to terrorism. After an extended comment on Ambassador Stevens activities, he finally gets around to mentioning 9/11 (but not terrorism) and how he'd visited wounded warriors and then learned of this, you guessed it, 'attack'. Finally, he manages to eek out the word terror,

"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values we stand for. Today we mourn four Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done in this terrible act, and make no mistake, justice will be done."

In that context, and following his ramble about what he did to mark 9/11, it was at best an oblique and very general comment about terrorism in general, it was NOT an instance of coming out and calling the Benghazi attacks to be an act of terror, made all the more obvious by his reference immediately afterward to a 'terrible act', and then again, to attackers:

"But we also know that the lives these Americans led, stand in stark contrast to their attackers."

The very deliberate intent of this entire speech, and of the complete absence of the word 'terror' from the official statement, is to deliberately Not refer to Benghazi as an act of terror.

Statement by the President on the Attack in Benghazi

I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America's commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives.

I have directed my Administration to provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya, and to increase security at our diplomatic posts around the globe. While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.

On a personal note, Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States. Throughout the Libyan revolution, he selflessly served our country and the Libyan people at our mission in Benghazi. As Ambassador in Tripoli, he has supported Libya's transition to democracy. His legacy will endure wherever human beings reach for liberty and justice. I am profoundly grateful for his service to my Administration, and deeply saddened by this loss.

The brave Americans we lost represent the extraordinary service and sacrifices that our civilians make every day around the globe. As we stand united with their families, let us now redouble our own efforts to carry their work forward.

Two-Faced Claire! McCaskill sells out Missourian Union members for Texas friend$

Hey Claire, riddle me this: On the one hand you claim that controlling the Senate isn't all that important  (and yet you are currently in, and running again for ... the senate...right?), and on the other hand, your Democrat party's control of the senate has given your husband's business $40 million or so in Obama stimulus dollars.

Huh?

How does that work out? It's almost like your Right side doesn't know what your Leftist side is doing?

Let's look again... on the Right: "Control of Senate: 'No biggee'"

And on the Leftist: Claire's husband snaps up $40 million in big Obama stimulus bucks.

That just doesn't balance out, does it?

Oh, but wait, then... it also looks like the Leftward hand doesn't know what the behind the back knife-holding hand is doing either... why else would mostly Democrat leaning Flight Attendant union members protest Claire McCaskill's campaign office with chants of:

"Represent Missouri not Texas!" and "Texas has 3 Senators, Missouri only 1!"?

It seems as if the extremely Two Faced Claire betrayed her Missouri constituents for her old college friends and donor$ from... Texas.



Stacy E. Washington filed a post from today, from the site outside Claire's St. Louis office, where a hundred or so Flight Attendants were demonstrating just how very displeased they are with being flown around on AirClaire:

"According to the two [American Airlines] flight attendants I spoke with this morning, Claire has sold them down the river for campaign donations and as a direct favor to her old college roommate, Ann Loew, who is, you guessed it: the APFA Executive appointee!"

Are you Joking? That's extremely Two-Faced, even for you Claire!

Why so serious?

Missouri: You are the Show-Me state... how much more do you need to see?

Vote McCaskill out of office before she helps you some more!

Two Faced Claire - Her Right side doesn't know what her Left side is doing... do you?!

Local activists Gateway Grassroots Initiative led a protest in downtown St. Louis today, outside of the headquarters of Peabody Coal.

The reason why, was not to protest Coal, but to draw attention to what should be front and center in every Missouri voters mind in regards to the senate race between Todd Akin and Claire McCaskill: the issue of jobs, rising energy costs, and an incumbent senator who is more interested in her own political power, than the rising rates Missourians will have to pay for their power, as her policies take affect.

Dana Loesch of 97.1 FM NewsTalk, Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, and other local activists, myself included, joined with a large number of local Missourians to remind Claire McCaskill, and those who fund her, such as, amazingly, Peabody Coal, about a few facts:

• Peabody Energy is the LARGEST private-sector COAL company in the WORLD.
• COAL fuels approximately 10% of the energy generation in the United States. One in 10 homes or businesses runs on coal.
• COAL provides 81% of Missouri’s electric power generation.
• Missouri 11th in the nation in energy affordability. Due to COAL.
• COAL is directly responsible for thousands of union and non-union jobs.
• At AmrenUE out of its 16,546 megawatts of electric generating capacity, 64.8% comes from COAL. These are generated at power plants such as Labadie Energy Center (Franklin), Meramec Energy Center (St. Louis), Rush Island Energy Center (Jefferson County), and Sioux Energy Center (St. Charles).
• “Flipper” McCaskill’s votes, which give legislative force to her “I hate coal” comments will have a negative effect on the jobs at those plants and the economies of those towns and regions and Missouri as a whole. These policies and support of the MACT rule will cause YOUR “electricity rates to necessarily skyrocket.”

With so much riding on the price and availability of coal, shouldn't your senator be doing their best to keep coal available and inexpensive? Claire McCaskill knows the answer to that

I had the honor of playing the Hoft-Horn as
warm up act for Jim Hoft and Dana Loesch H/T Doug

question is "Yes!", which is why she does her best to dupe Missouri voters about where she sees her power lying, as when her campaign tells our conservative leaning state:

"Claire is fighting to keep utility costs low for Missourians — which is why she opposed 'Cap & Trade' and why she's led the fight to stop or delay burdensome federal regulations. "

Yet when she is back in Washington D.C. and out of your sight, she casts her vote where she knows her power truly lies - with the Obama administration, and in support of those fatal EPA rules, as she:

"... voted against the so-called disapproval resolution while Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., supported it. "

The vote on the resolution failed was painfully close, but at 46-53, it failed. What's interesting, is that "Five Democrats from coal-rich states voted with the Republicans in support of the resolution"... was Claire McCaskill one of them?! Nope! 

Claire voted for her power, not yours. She says one thing out of the Right side of her mouth, but her Votes come from the Leftist side of her mouth, so the jokes on you... are you laughing? You shouldn't be, because her vote went to strengthen the Obama administrations grip upon power over the coal industry, enabling the MACT rule to stand, and that EPA rule,

"... calls for the first national standards limiting a host of airborne contaminants, among them mercury, arsenic and chromium, from the emissions of power plants. It is known as MACT — for Maximum Available Control Technology — a label that points to the eventual requirement that both coal-fired and oil-fired plants would need to install to advanced scrubbers and anti-pollution equipment. 

Blunt cited studies estimating a $10 billion cost for industries across the country to comply with the rule. He argued that it presents an undue burden on states like Missouri that rely heavily on coal to generate electricity.
What this really stands for is an assault on coal and coal-based utilities," he said on the Senate floor."

This woman was born under communist rule & is speaking out
she doesn't want her children to have to live - or die - under it

The EPA's MACT rules are the essential components of the Obama administrations original 'Cap & Trade' policy, which, after congress refused to pass, Obama used his EPA to force its components into place anyway.

It is important to keep in mind that this policy is designed to make your energy costs go through the roof, as then candidate Obama explained:

"When I was asked about the issue of coal, uhhh, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."

The poison fruits of this policy is already taking affect. Patriot Coal, a spin off of Peabody Coal, recently was the first U.S. coal company to file for bankruptcy,

"Patriot Coal is the first U.S. coal company to file for bankruptcy in many, many years as its shares fell 72 percent to 61 cents. Its shares had traded as high as $24.99 last July. Patriot Coal was spun off from Peabody Energy Corp in 2007. It has 12 active mining complexes in Appalachia and the Illinois Basin with about 1.9 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves.[ia]"

Given how close to home that is hitting... why in the heck is Peabody Coal, giving so much money to Claire McCaskill's re-election campaign?

Shouldn't Peabody's Board of Directors and its Shareholders, be just a little curious about supporting a senator who has made her feelings so very clear in regards to their product? As Claire has said,

“I’m no fan of coal, I hate coal.”

Well Claire, we're no fan of yours, and we're going to show you, that by voting for Todd Akin for U.S. Senator from Missouri this November, We The People are coming to take your power away!

  

Jim Hoft & Stephanie Rubach

Dananonymous!

McCaskill  has got to go!