To find previous reference to silly, inane, and stupid political quotes in this blog, just enter the phrase, “politicians say the darndest things,” in the search box above. As you will see, 2014 is not the only year that politicians have been putting their foot in their mouths and showing how incapable they are when it comes to governing and problem resolution.
1) Quote: “OK. I’m just going to come right out and say it: This is quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across — well, come across in a long time anyway. A massive brawl in Anchorage, Alaska, reportedly involving Sarah Palin’s kids and her husband. It was sparked after someone pushed one of her daughters at a party….And now police have released audio of that interview. It does include some rather colorful language from Bristol. Here now is Bristol’s recollection of how that night unfolded. So sit back and enjoy.” CNN anchor Carol Costello
Comment: A little more background on this quote and the referenced video. The colorful language occurs as a man is dragging Bristol Palin across the ground. Somehow, Ms. Costello thinks that this is hilariously funny, a small woman being physically dragged along the ground by her legs by a much larger man.
CNN has been a member of the mainstream media who has covered up most of the Obama administration’s failures and lies. They readily bought into the propaganda that Republicans were carrying out a “war on woman.”
But I guess it is okay to abuse women, drag them across the ground as long as they are not Democrats or liberals. Somehow, Costello and her bosses think this is “possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across.” I wonder if they would have had the same reaction if it was Chelsea Clinton or one of the Obama daughters being dragged across the ground.
I seriously doubt it, their hypocrisy and biased reporting and attitudes are so obvious…and so sickening. No woman deserves this abuse or ridicule, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.
2) Quote: “And I would like to point out that Ambassador [Chris] Stevens was not murdered. He died of smoke inhalation in the safe room in that CIA installation.” Eleanor Clift.
Comments: Eleanor Clift has been a long time liberal writer and TV commentator. In this quote and the words that preceded them she is trying to get the Obama administration off of the hook for the disaster and murders at the Benghazi compound in Libya. As most know, terrorists attacked the U.S. compound on September 11, 2012, an attack that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Stevens, and the near death of two dozen other abandoned Americans.
The reason that the Ambassador was in the safe room was because of the violent attacks. He probably would have been murdered with a terrorist bullet if he was not inside the safe room. To say it is okay that he was not murdered by a bullet but because of smoke inhalation, assuming that is even true, is little comfort to his family and friends. He is unnecessarily dead because of Obama administration incompetency. Trying to spin his death as smoke inhalation to make it more palatable and get the administration off of the hook is nothing more than a cover up for a bumbling administration.
3) Quote: “You know, I’m a Christian preacher, and God finally said, ‘Look, I can’t send nobody else. I got to go myself.’ And I ain’t saying that Obama is Jesus, but for many of his followers he is.” MSNBC Commentator Eric Dyson.
Comment: Comparing Jesus or God to this President is beyond comical and obscene. If Obama was truly God or Jesus I doubt his approval rating would be so low, and falling, and his programs and policies would be such failures. He would be healing the country not allowing his association with people like Al Sharpton to rip it apart. Trust me, Mr. Dyson, this President is neither omnipotent or effective.
4) Quote: The police “seem to be leading to rounding up and executing of [sic] us as a people … Does America want to have a race war?" African-American Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson from Troy, New York, posted on Facebook claiming that African-Americans are being rounded up and executed.
Comment: Do we really think that an African-American President. or any President, would allow black people to be rounded up and executed as she believes? Somehow she actually got elected to public office with such craziness as this. It is highly doubtful that powers to be are going to round up tens of millions of Americans and execute them. Beyond pathetic and comical.
5) The following is a roundup of 2014 Presidential quotes and lies that the media, including media outlets that generally support the President and overlook his failures and scandals, found so inaccurate and misleading that even they were moved to comment that they were lies, not reality.
- Quote: The President claims that Republicans filibustered over 500 pieces of legislation.
Comments: Even on the surface this is apparently a deception or at least a gross exaggeration. Under Harry Reid, there were probably not even close to 500 pieces of legislation developed, never mind filibustered.
But let the Washington Post settle the question. According to the Post, the lie was so transparent that the Post noted that the President was referring to some pieces of legislation dating all the way back to when he was a Senator, including some votes against ending debate, votes that Obama himself made.
Quote: Obama claimed he never referred to ISIS as the JV team of terrorists.
Comment: The Washington Post also weighed in on this lie and quote. There so-called fact checker, Glenn Kessler, called it a top lie of the year when he was quoted in the Washington Free Beacon:
“I look at the issues that resonate with people and are big issues. So one of the major things was Barack Obama saying that he was not specifically referring to ISIS when he referred to a JV team.”
Kessler went on to say he actually he reviewed the New York Times transcript of Obama calling the Islamic State a “JV team,” and said “it was pretty clear” that Obama had lied.
- Quote: Obama claims that 7 million Americans got access to health care insurance and health care for the first time due to the Medicaid expansion within Obama Care.
Comments: The Washington Post reported that the 7 million people Obama claimed got health care insurance for the first time due to Medicaid expansion missed the mark by anywhere between 5.9 and 3.7 million people depending on estimates: “… here is the ultimate authority — the President of the United States — making the problematic claim that everyone counted under the administration’s Medicaid math is getting “access to health care for the first time.” He seems to be falling into the same trap as other Democrats, and some reporters, by assuming that everyone in the Medicaid list is getting health insurance for the first time because of the Affordable Care Act. But that number is nowhere close to 7 million.”
- Quote: Obama claims that his position on using executive actions on unilateral immigration reform ahs not changed over time: “Well, actually, my position hasn’t changed. When I was talking to the advocates, their interest was in me, through executive action, duplicating the legislation that was stalled in Congress. And getting a comprehensive deal of the sort that is in the Senate legislation, for example, does extend beyond my legal authorities. There are certain things I cannot do. There are certain limits to what falls within the realm of prosecutorial discretion in terms of how we apply existing immigration laws.”
Comments: Politifact’s research indeed found that Obama is “revising history” with his comments, and it’s “still a reversal from his positions over the past few years.”
When the Washington Post and Politifact cannot spin the Presidential lies enough to give them even a smidgen of truth, you know the Presidential lies and quotes are way over the line.
That will do it for this episode and update of politicians say the darndest things. A President who lies constantly, a member of the mainstream media who likes seeing a woman dragged across the ground by her legs, a liberal pundit who thinks it is okay that an ambassador was murdered by smoke inhalation and not a bullet, and a politician who thinks the government is rounding up tens of millions of Americans for execution.
Politicians, and those who report on politicians, say the darndest things and that is the shame of what we are living through in Washington and other political stops around the country.
Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:
www.loathemygovernmobama,washington post,politifactent.com
It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.
Please visit the following sites for freedom:
Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
No comments:
Post a Comment