[VIDEO] OH YES THEY DID: Reporter Asks Bill Clinton Questions About Juanita Broaddrick, MSNBC Edits Out the Footage
Posted: January 8, 2016 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Associated Press, Bill Clinton, Cedar Rapids, Effigy Mounds National Monument, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Juanita Broaddrick, Lisa Myers, Monica Lewinsky, National Park Service 1 Comment
David Rutz writes: MSNBC edited out footage of a reporter asking Bill Clinton repeated questions about the reemergence of Juanita Broaddrick, who has long alleged Clinton raped her, Thursday afternoon after airing the exchange in its entirety in an earlier segment.
Clinton was asked by a reporter about Broaddrick on Thursday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after he gave a stump speech there in support of his wife’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The reporter, according to the Daily Caller, was its own Kerry Picket. In an article entitled “Bill Clinton Avoids Reporter’s Question About Reemergence of Juanita Broaddrick,” the Daily Caller posted the full video of the exchange that played on MSNBC at 2:29 ET.
[Read the full story here, at freebeacon.com and the Daily Caller]
Clinton answered NBC reporter Kristen Welker’s questions, which did not mention Broaddrick, about the effect of his past on his wife’s campaign, but Clinton ignored Picket’s queries regarding Broaddrick. Read the rest of this entry »
Beware That College Brochure: Colleges Use Photoshop to Paint Faux Diversity
Posted: December 31, 2013 Filed under: Education, U.S. News | Tags: African American, Augsburg College, National Park Service, NPR, Shabazz, TaxProf Blog, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin 1 CommentNPR, A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure:
Paul Caron‘s TaxProf Blog turns up this, from NPR: Diallo Shabazz was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 2000 when he stopped by the admissions office. “One of the admissions counselors walked up to me, and said, ‘Diallo, did you see yourself in the admissions booklet? Actually, you’re on the cover this year,’ ” Shabazz says.
The photo was a shot of students at a football game — but Shabazz had never been to a football game. “So I flipped back, and that’s when I saw my head cut off and kind of pasted onto the front cover of the admissions booklet,” he says.
This Photoshopped image went viral and became a classic example of how colleges miss the mark on diversity. Wisconsin stressed that it was just one person’s bad choice, but Shabazz sees it as part of a bigger problem.
5 things to know about the Gettysburg Address
Posted: November 19, 2013 Filed under: Education, History, U.S. News | Tags: Chicago Times, Edward Everett, Gettysburg Address, Library of Congress, Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr, National Park Service 3 CommentsSo where was Lincoln, exactly?
Where in Gettysburg, exactly, did Lincoln actually deliver his Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863? A prominent, 1912 monument to the speech by the entrance of the town’s National Cemetery leads casual observers to believe it happened there. But look closely: A nearby, vintage plaque says the speech occurred 300 yards away on the spot of another cemetery monument (to fallen soldiers). Except . . . that’s not right, either, modern research has found. The true spot, according to research backed by the National Park Service, lies along the crest of a hill just outside the gates of the cemetery, on the grounds of an older, private cemetery.
Lincoln wasn’t the keynote speaker
The dignitary who spoke before Lincoln, Edward Everett, delivered what was scheduled as the main speech of the day. The former Massachusetts governor and onetime Secretary of State took two hours navigating its 13,607 words.
The speech was really, really short
Lincoln’s speech, a mere 271 words if you use the version that’s attributed to Lincoln, took only two minutes. The New York Times reported of the Gettysburg Address: “It was delivered (or rather read from a sheet of paper which the speaker held in his hand) in a very deliberate manner, with strong emphasis, and with a most business-like air.”
Presidential Irony Alert: ‘Professional Activist who Profits from Conflict’
Posted: October 17, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: ACORN, Activist, Alinsky, blogger, Democrat, Ideologues, National Park Service, Obama, Radicals, Republican, Tea Party, Veterans, White House 1 CommentRULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
It’s Time To Let Somebody Competent Run National Parks (Hint: Private Enterprise)
Posted: October 17, 2013 Filed under: Education, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Environment Research Center, Federal, monuments, National Park Service, Private Sector, Public Parks, Public Sector, Reason Leave a commentJ.D.Tuccille writes: The federal government has demonstrated the astounding ability to deal with its budget crunch by closing profitable operations like national parks, and thereby drown itself in red ink on its “money-saving” efforts. That’s right, closing the national parks cost about $450,000 in lost entrance fees and rentals, every day. That’s watching the bottom line, government-style. But even at the best of times, the federal government has proven itself a good steward of the national parks only when it lets somebody else do the work. Given the track record of government management of parks, and of parks managed by private contractors, maybe it’s time to relieve the feds of a burden to which they’ve proven themselves inadequate. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Partisan Bureaucracy and the End of the Civil Service
Posted: October 10, 2013 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Civil service, government, Internal Revenue Service, Kevin Williamson, Mark Steyn, National Mall, National Park Service, United States 1 Comment
The utopian goal of the civil service was to create something like a professional class of public servants, individuals dedicated to the public good regardless of the party in power — a final break from the spoils system and its attendant rampant corruption and cronyism.
David French writes: It had to happen eventually. The party of government and the government itself would start to merge into one seamless whole — capable of acting on their respective desires without even the necessity of explicit instructions. Kevin Williamson, Michael Walsh, and others sounded this alarm as the IRS scandal unfolded, and we were faced with two unsettling possibilities: Either the political branches of government were so craven they ordered a tea-party crackdown or the bureaucracy was so corrupt it cracked down on its own accord.
‘Battle of Yorktown’: Private Restaurant Owner Takes a Stand, Reopens in Defiance of Shutdown Order
Posted: October 10, 2013 Filed under: Law & Justice, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Carrot cake, Government shutdown, Helseth, National Park Service, Obama administration, Park Service, Virginia Beach, Yellowstone National Park, YORKTOWN, Yorktown Virginia 1 Comment
The shutdown of Washington has now become the battle of Yorktown.
In the same place where America fought its final battle of independence, one American businessman is refusing to bow to pressure to close up shop during the shutdown.
His story is just one example of what many view as the Obama administration’s widespread overreach during the government gridlock. Read the rest of this entry »
Through the Looking Glass: The Park Police, and the Walls of October
Posted: October 9, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Claude Moore Colonial Farm, Ed Driscoll, McLean Virginia, National Mall, National Park Service, National World War II Memorial, Obama administration, Weekly Standard 2 CommentsEd Driscoll writes: “The conduct of the National Park Service over the last week might be the biggest scandal of the Obama administration,” Jonathan Last writes at the Weekly Standard, in editorial that begins with President Reagan’s statement that “We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around,” a notion that seems to be receding further into the rearview mirror every day:
The conduct of the National Park Service over the last week might be the biggest scandal of the Obama administration. This is an expansive claim, of course. Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA, the HHS mandate—this is an administration that has not lacked for appalling abuses of power. And we still have three years to go.
Even so, consider the actions of the National Park Service since the government shutdown began. People first noticed what the NPS was up to when the World War II Memorial on the National Mall was “closed.” Just to be clear, the memorial is an open plaza. There is nothing to operate. Sometimes there might be a ranger standing around. But he’s not collecting tickets or opening gates. Putting up barricades and posting guards to “close” the World War II Memorial takes more resources and manpower than “keeping it open.”
PRIORITIES: Feds Try to Close the OCEAN Because of Shutdown
Posted: October 6, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Biscayne National Park, Fishing vessel, Florida, Florida Bay, National Park Service, Pelagic zone, The Park Chennai, Yacht charter 3 Comments
“Okay boys, Ocean duty. If you see any violators, show no mercy”
MIKE FLYNN reports: Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban… of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.
This is governing by temper-tantrum. It is on par with the government’s ham-fisted attempts to close the DC WWII Memorial, an open-air public monument that is normally accessible 24 hours a day. By accessible I mean, you walk up to it. When you have finished reflecting, you then walk away from it. Read the rest of this entry »
VIDEO: McDonald’s Employee Admits Being Paid to Protest WW2 Veterans
Posted: October 2, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Government shutdown, Honor Flight, Jake Tapper, McDonald, National Mall, National Park Service, National World War II Memorial, World War II 5 CommentsPatrick Poole writes: Yesterday I reported from the National World War Two Memorial on several members of Congress crashing the barricades set up by the National Park Service that were keeping out several hundred Honor Flight veterans — many of whom were WW2 veterans — from visiting their own memorial. The Park Service claimed that the memorial and the entire National Mall area had to be closed because of the government shutdown.
The same scene was reenacted again today as two Honor Flights from Missouri and Chicago arrived in prearranged visits. These Honor Flights were met by hundreds of ordinary citizens and about a dozen members of Congress, who once again crashed the barricades to let the veterans into the WW2 Memorial.
After about an hour, about 20 protesters arrived on the scene chanting “Boehner, get us back to work” and claiming they were federal employees furloughed because of the shutdown.
In the video below these protesters were marching towards the press gaggle and I was asking them to show their federal IDs to prove they were in fact federal workers. No one wore their federal ID and none would provide it to prove their claim.
Then, remarkably, a guy carrying a sign passed by wearing a McDonald’s employee shirt, which I noted. I then began asking them how much they had been paid to protest, at which point the guy wearing the McDonald’s shirt came back and admitted he had been paid $15. Read the rest of this entry »
Shameless: MLK Memorial Also Barricaded
Posted: October 2, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, History, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, martin luther king memorial, National Park Service, Orval Faubus, Steve Stockman, Twitter Leave a commentInteresting that the party of Orval Faubus just barricaded the unstaffed, open-at-all times MLK Memorial.
— Rep. Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) October 2, 2013
via Twitter
D.C. 9-11 Muslim rally VASTLY outnumbered by Bikers
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Cornel West, Muslim, National Park Service, Political action committee, Princeton University, September 11 attacks, United States, Washington Times Leave a commentMeredith Somers writes: A few dozen demonstrators attending a rally on the Mall once billed as the Million Muslim March were vastly outnumbered Wednesday by a Christian group objecting to their event and a counterprotest consisting of motorcycle riders honoring Sept. 11 victims. Read the rest of this entry »
2 Million Bikers to DC: Motorcycle Riders Roll into Washington
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: History, War Room | Tags: DC Comics, Muslim, National Mall, National Park Service, Political action committee, September 11 2001, September 11 attacks, United States Leave a commentWith flags flying, bikers head down 3rd Street through the National Mall. pic.twitter.com/h9QZxCc3Xo
— mollenbeckWTOP (@mollenbeckWTOP) September 11, 2013
Jacob Davidson writes: A group called the 2 Million Bikers to DC is leading a parade of motorcycles through the nation’s capital today to commemorate 9/11 victims and military veterans. “We’re here for 9-11,” the national ride coordinator Belinda Bee told the Washington Times. Since Tuesday, riders from around the country have been tweeting photos of their journey to Washington (hashtag #2MBikers), with early pictures and videos showing thousands of bikes overflowing out of rest stops and parking lots on their way to the event. A Facebook page devoted to the ride is also being updated with highlights.
DC says there are roughly 880,000 #2MBikers in DC today! Oh Yeah baby, Ride On pic.twitter.com/NQeFAPB7DD
— Jane (@jusjane6060) September 11, 2013
If this sounds like the type of event that would never receive approval from the city, you’d be correct. U.S. News reports that the group initially asked for a permit to demonstrate around the National Mall. However, the National Park Service denied the request, saying that such a large gathering of motorcycles would cause “a severe disruption of traffic” and more police than D.C. could provide. Read the rest of this entry »
VIDEO: Bikers entering D.C. to honor 9/11, protest Muslim rally
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, History, Mediasphere | Tags: Harley Davidson, Muslim, National Park Service, Political action committee, September 11 attacks, United States, Washington DC, Washington Times 2 CommentsThousands of bikers from around the country roared into the D.C. area on Wednesday in a show of support for Sept. 11 victims and in solidarity against a controversial Muslim rally on the Mall. Read the rest of this entry »