Fox News host Sean Hannity last night told guest, pollster Frank Luntz that Osama Bin Laden would still be alive if President Obama “had his way.” Adding that he had tape recordings to prove his false, malicious assertions.
HANNITY: I know the president will say, ‘Well, we got bin Laden.’ Putting that aside…
LUNTZ: And the public gives him credit for that.
HANNITY: They do. The public does give him credit for that. But it wouldn’t have happened if he had his way, and I think that can be proved as well on tape.
Did Sean miss the part where Obama had Navy Seals kill Bin Laden? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. [ READ MORE HERE ]
Fox’s ‘Syphilitic Liar’ Sean Hannity Says That ‘Obama Didn’t Want Bin Laden Dead!’
As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative lies and misinformation.
In the 2008 presidential race — he was tops in lying at the Fox News Republican propaganda machine. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to “demonizing” the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August 2008: “That’s my job. .. I led the ‘Stop Hillary Express.’”
By the way, now it’s the “Stop Obama Express.”
“Hannity’s “Stop Obama Express” has promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama.
Along the way, he has uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical.
When he is not going after Obama, Hannity attacks members of Obama’s family and other progressives, and denies all the while that he has unfairly attacked anyone.
Hannity has been caught numerous times doctoring videos or polls to make President Obama and the Democratic look bad.
He is a liar and smear artist of syphilitic proportions.
PLAYLIST: Sean Hannity – The Sickest MFER on TV
——————————————- Elsewhere, the anti-Obama, anti-Dem lies, racism and bigotry continued to flow from right-wing America unabated:
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Culture Wars Politics: How America Got into The Current Destructive Birth Control Mess
Mad men? Markos Moulitsas questions the effectiveness of race baiting in election ads
Worst Persons: Rick Berman, Tim Wildmon and Rachel Burgin
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Meanwhile, an Arizona Republican has called for a “White Appreciation Day“: Arizona is the gift that just keeps on giving. First its immigration policy took center stage, then its governor wagged her finger in the face of the President, and now one of its lawmakers is suggesting that Arizona needs a holiday for white people.
Rep. Cecil Ash, a Republican (of course) from Mesa, spoke on the House floor about the need for a white people’s holiday.
It all started when Rep. Richard Miranda suggested that the state adopt a Latino holiday.
After some heated exchanges, Rep. Cecil Ash took the floor.
“I’m supportive of this proposition. I just want them to assure me that when we do become in the minority you’ll have a day for us,” Ash said.
When questioned about his proposition, Ash defended his statement by saying, “Yes, I think it was appropriate. It was appropriate for the mood that was in the House and I think that if and when the Caucasian population becomes a minority, they may want to celebrate the accomplishments and the contributions of the Caucasian population the same way.”
It would seem that we already have white appreciation day because, in all honesty, what day isn’t a good day to be white and appreciated?
On May 2, a mere few hours after bin-Laden was assassinated in Pakistan, and then again on May 4, I published in Global Politician and the Chronicle Media Group detailed articles regarding the raid, its background, and its unfolding (the entire texts of these 2 articles are appended below). On May 5, I reiterated my claims in an exclusive interview I granted to the Macedonian weekly Publika and in a televised investigative journalism show (“Vo Centar” with Vasko Eftov).
My articles contained numerous bits of information that were confirmed only days later. Here is a partial list:
I was the first journalist to expose the fact the Obama and other senior figures in the administration watched the raid unfold in a live feed. I even identified the ultra-secret and sophisticated equipment involved (helmet-cams with small, mobile drop-down transmitters). A day later, BBC confirmed that indeed this may well have been the materiel used in the operation.
I wrote that bin-Laden and his family moved into the compound in late 2005 and early 2006. This was confirmed on May 7 by Amal, his young Yemenite widow. Moreover, on May 5 and 6, the CNN made public utility bills (connection to the gas network, for instance) which prove that the building complex was not in full use prior to April 2006.
I further asserted on May 2 that both the ISI and the CIA knew about bin-Laden’s whereabouts and were involved in procuring the land, constructing the structure and transferring him and his family there. On May 5 and 6, the ISI (Pakistan’s intelligence service) insisted in a series of press releases that it had corresponded in 2009 with the CIA and sought their input regarding the fate of bin-Laden’s brood, mentioning the compound specifically and repeatedly. On May 4, the CIA admitted that they have been watching the compound for months prior to the raid. Such prolonged presence in a sensitive militarized border town would, of course, have been impossible without the close collaboration of the ISI.
Moreover: in an interview the aforementioned talkative bin-Laden widow gave to the Daily Mail, she astoundingly made the statement that, back in 2001, after the invasion of Afghanistan, her infamous husband and she crossed the border and entrusted themselves to the “Pakistani government” (presumably the ISI). Bin-Laden, she averred, was stashed among friendly tribesmen in villages (exactly as is set out in my articles) until 2006. This was further confirmed by Reuters on May 7.
In my articles I said that 3 men and 1 woman died in the raid and that bin-Laden was unarmed. This was later confirmed by everyone involved, including the Pakistani authorities. The 3 men were bin-Laden’s son and 2 couriers who were mistakenly (and intentionally) misidentified as 2 Pakistani brothers (actually, they were not brothers and they were not Pakistani). The woman was one of bin-Laden’s entourage, possibly one of his wives.
Finally, all manner of “experts” explained why bin-Laden didn’t have weapons, bodyguards, escape tunnels, and hidden rooms behind double walls in his compound: he didn’t want to stand out, they said. But, in the lawless and crime-ridden border areas of Pakistan everybody who is anybody has bodyguards and is armed to the teeth. Indeed, bin-Laden provoked the intense curiosity of locals and the CIA alike precisely BECAUSE he did NOT have any of these amenities. Thus isolated, he was forced to rely on couriers and one of them allegedly led the investigators to his doorstep.
Sources (note the dates, days after in have published my articles):
The United States shared with the Israelis the two-way wireless and satelite video feeds (provided by the raiding party’s helmet-cams and drop-down transmitters) of the assault on bin-Laden’s compound. At a certain point an officer is heard asking for instructions “from the Commander (in Chief Obama – SV)”. Obama then ordered him to “terminate target” (i.e, to kill bin-Laden) although this is not captured on tape. Obama gave the lethal command from an underground situation room, flanked by Panetta, Clinton, Gates, and other senior officials.
In 2001, shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan, the CIA whisked bin-Laden and his family to a safe haven in Pakistan, among friendly tribesmen who served as guides and supplier for American special forces on the ground. The CIA, in cahoots with Pakistan’s ISI, then embarked on the construction of the compound that was stormed on May 1, 2011. In 2005-6, bin-Laden and his family were transferred there and virtually imprisoned. Bin-Laden was not allowed to carry weapons and he had no bodyguards. The entire fortress-like edifice was locked from the outside. The CIA allowed only couriers to come and go with censored mail and minimal money orders. One of the couriers was a Tunisian and the other Jordanian. They both collaborated with the Mossad and with the CIA on multiple assignments.
The decision to assassinate bin-Laden was adopted after he was repeatedly heard threatening to expose what he knew about various covert operations in the USA and elsewhere should he not be allowed free movement.
WRITTEN MAY 2, 2011 at 10 AM CET
On May 1, 2011 Osama bin-Laden was allegedly shot in the head by Navy Seals during an operation in Pakistan. The order came directly from US President Obama and he also monitored the firefight from the White House Situation Room as it unfolded.
Bin-Laden’s body was first whisked away to Afghanistan where DNA samples were taken and an autospy was performed. The cadaver was then returned to Pakistan and buried at sea. Thus, we have only the word of the United States administration – not known for its veracity – that he is no longer with us.
But, even if true, why wasn’t bin-Laden taken alive? Presumably, had he been abducted, he would have proven to be an invaluable source of intel on crucial national security issues facing the United States. A shot to the head, execution-style, indicates orders to shoot to kill (as was later confirmed by the CIA and the military – SV). Why give up such a cornucopia of information that cannot be obtained in any other way? To shut him up, of course. A live bin-Laden would have had to be debriefed, interrogated, and then judged in a court of law or military tribunal. To prevent multiple embarrassments and a myriad incriminating revelations involving multiple administrations, he had to be disposed of summarily.
All powers are self-interested – but America is narcissistic. It is bent on exploiting and, having exploited, on discarding. It is a global Dr. Frankenstein, spawning mutated monsters in its wake. Its “drain and dump” policies consistently boomerang to haunt it.
Both Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega – two acknowledged monsters – were aided and abetted by the CIA and the US military. America had to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former.
The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti-Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Macedonia till 2001. Osama bin-Laden, another CIA golem, restored to the USA, on September 11, 2001 some of the material it so generously bestowed on him in his anti-Russian days.
Normally the outcomes of expedience, the Ugly American’s alliances and allegiances shift kaleidoscopically. Pakistan and Libya were transmuted from foes to allies in the fortnight prior to the Afghan campaign. Milosevic has metamorphosed from staunch ally to rabid foe in days.
This capricious inconsistency casts in grave doubt America’s sincerity – and in sharp relief its unreliability and disloyalty, its short term thinking, truncated attention span, soundbite mentality, and dangerous, “black and white”, simplism.
In its heartland, America is isolationist. Its denizens erroneously believe that the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is an economically self-sufficient and self-contained continent. Yet, it is not what Americans trust or wish that matters to others. It is what they do. And what they do is meddle, often unilaterally, always ignorantly, sometimes forcefully.
Elsewhere, inevitable unilateralism is mitigated by inclusive cosmopolitanism. It is exacerbated by provincialism – and American decision-makers are mostly provincials, popularly elected by provincials. As opposed to Rome, or Great Britain, America is ill-suited and ill-equipped to micromanage the world.
It is too puerile, too abrasive, too arrogant and it has a lot to learn. Its refusal to acknowledge its shortcomings, its confusion of brain with brawn (i.e., money or bombs), its legalistic-litigious character, its culture of instant gratification and one-dimensional over-simplification, its heartless lack of empathy, and bloated sense of entitlement are detrimental to world peace and stability.
America is often called by others to intervene. Many initiate conflicts or prolong them with the express purpose of dragging America into the quagmire. It then is either castigated for not having responded to such calls – or reprimanded for having responded. It seems that it cannot win. Abstention and involvement alike garner it only ill-will.
But people call upon America to get involved because they know it rises to the challenge. America should make it unequivocally and unambiguously clear that – with the exception of the Americas – its sole interests rest in commerce. It should make it equally known that it will protect its citizens and defend its assets, if need be by force.
Indeed, America’s – and the world’s – best bet are a reversion to the Monroe and (technologically updated) Mahan doctrines. Wilson’s Fourteen Points brought the USA nothing but two World Wars and a Cold War thereafter. It is time to disengage.
First Lady Michelle Obama’s invitation of the rapper Common to the White House for a poetry event caused a hypocritical uproar in right-wing media.
Common is alleged to have rapped about shooting police and to have written lyrics calling for the “burn[ing] of former President George W. Bush.”
The Obama White House responded, saying it was unfair to characterize Common’s body of work as violent.
Obama With Commons in The White House (05-11-2011)
Fortunately, the Obama’s didn’t succumb to the right-wing pressure — and Michelle’s evening of poetry rolled out seamlessly Wednesday night, showcasing the impact of poetry on American culture. President Obama spoke and was joined by many renowned poets.
As pointed out earlier by Media Matters For America, Fox was singing a much different tune about Common approximately half-a-year ago. Reporter Jason Robinson interviewed the “rap legend” for an October 2010 report for FoxNews.com and told him, “your music is very positive. And you’re known as the conscious rapper. How important is that to you, and how important do you think that is to our kids?” [ READ MORE ]
As Obama’s approval ratings skyrocket, Republicans are in a panic, and are trying to diminish Obama’s “good fortune,” by resorting to what they do best — RACE BAITING.
Why do racist Republicans hate Rap Music?
First, they are racists. Second, Rap music is “pop culture” — which means “diversity.” Narrow minded racists don’t like anything other than their own. They view the world myopically — “US verses them!,” “We Are Better Than Them,” “God is a Republican,” etc.
God is a Republican. The Republicans tie religious belief to their supposed superiority, and to politics and policy-setting. They know God. You don’t. God favors them, not you, if you disagree with them. The German Nazis had belt buckles that read, “Gott Mit Uns” (God is with us).
Naturally, they turn to the shysters and charlatans at Rupert Murdoch’s “Fixed News” Channel a.k.a Fox News.
Since the 60′s, Republicans have only been able to win elections by appealing to the racist souls of those whites who feel “overrun” by immigrants, blacks and of course pop culture — which unites young voters — black, white, latino etc., who tend to vote Democratic.
By bad-mouthing rapper Commons, Republican media is essentially telling their base and hopefully any fence sitters the following:
White People!… Be Afraid!… Very Afraid of Black People!… They Are Coming To Get You… Your Hard Earned Money Through Welfare!… The “Free-Loading” Blacks Are Already in YOUR WHITE-HOUSE — and, The Crude, Ungodly Rappers are Singing All Over The Lincoln Bedroom!…Be Afraid, Be Afraid!!
MMFA: Fox News contributor Sarah Palin claimed that gasoline prices have doubled since President Obama took office because the administration is “decreasing the amount of energy in our market domestically.”
In fact, this claim has already been debunked by energy experts, and even those who disagree with Obama’s energy policies have said that it’s simply not accurate to blame those policies for the current spike in gas prices. [ READ MORE ]
Syphilitic LIAR Sean Hannity On Bin Laden: “We Must Argue That The Obama Policies Were Wrong And The Bush Polices Were Right”
Osama Bin O’Reilly Falsely Claims That “We Know” That Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Led To Bin Laden Capture
O’Reilly Falsely Claims DOJ Is Going After “CIA Agents [Who] Were Just Following Orders” From Bush
Liz Cheney (Daughter of America’sJosef Mengele[ Dick Cheney ]) Claims That The Debate Over “Enhanced Interrogation” Is Over: “It Worked, It Got The Intelligence”
Krauthammer Claims That Despite Action On Bin Laden, Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Best Characterized As “Dithering”
Bozell Whines Bush Not Getting Enough Credit For OBL Death: “Hip Hip Hooray For George Bush”
