Hospital morning round-up and Open Thread
I’ve learned never to go visit my mom in the hospital first thing in the morning. It’s a busy time for nurses and a bad time for my mother, so I’m invariably in the way. I will be heading off soon, though, to find out how she’s doing. Before I leave, though, I can’t resist sneaking in just a little bit of blogging.
Thanks to a post at American Thinker, we can see just how deeply today’s drive-by media is intertwined with the White House. It’s naive to expect that this incestuous relationship could result in objective reporting and investigation.
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It’s a bit sprawling, because Jonah Goldberg wrote an email, not a tight article, but Goldberg still has a nice summary about the White House’s motivation (pretty obvious, actually) when it came to Benghazi.
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The new Watergate for Obama: It’s not just “what did you know and when did you know it?” but “where were you and why didn’t you do anything?” On the night Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were saving at least 30 American lives and fighting a losing battle to save their own, all the evidence is that Obama was AWOL, displaying a a callous disregard for American life that, if he were a Republican, would occupy every page of every newspaper and every minute of every news show.
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Incidentally, when it comes to doing the job that the incest media (my new name for it) refuses to do, Ben Shapiro has a good round-up of the administration’s most heinous lies.
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This has to be seen to be believed: An alternative news weekly in Oregon asked Republican U.S. Senate candidates to come to its office and meet with its reporters. Candidate Mark Callahan caught Nigel Jaquiss taking notes on his opponent Jo Rae Perkins’ somewhat rambling answer to a question. The notes were (and I quote) “blah, blah, blah.” When Callahan castigated Jaquiss for being disrespectful, Jaquiss responded as one would expect a “liberal” to respond: he screamed invective at Callahan and kicked him out of the room.
I don’t live in Oregon and I don’t know anything more about Callahan than this story, but for just situational awareness, decency, and moral courage, he certainly gets my vote. (Oh, and he thinks climate change is a myth, which seems to be the case if one has been foolish enough to believe in AGW, rather than the earth’s and the sun’s majestic dance, one that has gone on for billions of years.)
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Next step in Obama’s agenda: attack the death penalty, which is in the Constitution. The Founders opposed cruel and unusual executions, but still recognized that there’s a place for capital punishment. As a friend of mine says, Obama can get away with this because, while the media was all about a botched execution (and there is no excuse for that), they conveniently forgot to report upon the heinous murder (complete with the dying victim being buried alive) that the murderer callously boasted about later.
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Rob Schneider’s sense of humor and my sense of humor are not the same. I recognize his talent, but he doesn’t make me laugh. Recently, though, he made me stand up in front of my computer and cheer.
