Tag: Painful Truths

Wow, our esteemed Veep is a real piece of work, isn’t he?

I know he makes me feel good to be an American.

BuzzFeed isn’t normally my cup of tea, but this article caught my eye –

There was no shark in Brigantine and certainly no beached seal in Manhattan. The NYSE trading floor did not flood, and the 10 or more Con Edison workers trapped at a damaged plant turned out not to exist. These rumors were briefly and embarrassingly juxtaposed in users’ Twitter timelines with real and often devastating stories about lives and property that had been destroyed, people in need of help, and a city’s infrastructure buckling under the weight of a historic storm.

But more important, perhaps, we already know they’re false.

Twitter’s capacity to spread false information is more than cancelled out by its savage self-correction. In response to thousands of retweets of erroneous Weather Channel and CNN reports that the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded with “three feet” of water, Twitter users, some reporters and many not, were relentless: Photos of the outside of the building, flood-free, were posted. Knowledgeable parties weighed in.

Twitter may end up being the most accurate news source available- especially since the MSM has apparently totally abdicated any responsibility beyond being a left-wing cheerleader and meme-perpetrator. Just be sure to apply the 24- and sometimes 48- hour rule to anything that isn’t immediately verified (and cheer-leading “me too” responses don’t count)- pictures or video or it didn’t happen.

As always, though, YMMV.

I scoured these from Twitter’n’other places- all rights reserved to those who took them, natch.

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Looks like NY just had their very own Katrina.

And still don’t feel like posting on it. But there’s this –

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Weekly Standard:

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ”

(Emphasis mine)

Ace:

No one… in the CIA.

Hmm. Who would be in a position to order the stand-down, who’s not in the CIA?

Hmmmm…

It would have to be someone very high ranking in the chain of command, obviously.

Not military — I don’t think the military can order the CIA.

So, someone high ranking who is not military and also not in the CIA, but who gives orders to the CIA.

I give up. I can’t solve this mystery.

Can you?

Would be funny if not so sad- our people died because the Lightbringer froze. All you folks from 2008- are you proud now?

Glenn gets snarky–

IN LIGHT OF HIS COMMENT ABOUT HORSES AND BAYONETS, here’s some recommended reading for President Obama: Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan. Remember when they had to air-drop saddles? Perhaps Obama will have more time for reading, soon.

Heh™. Indeed©.

Early candidate for snark-o-the-week –

“Tennessee played a great game tonight. They were well prepared and well coached, and the team executed the game plan flawlessly. The loss was due to the poor policies left over from the Fulmer era.”

Rooool Tide!

Via Instapundit, Ed Driscoll reminds us of an old (in Internet time) article by Jim Treacher (@jtlol for those who like to follow snarkiness on Twitter) from ‘way back in September 2008. He has him pretty well pegged-

My initial reaction to Bacongate was, “Well, it’s just another gaffe. Obama couldn’t possibly be dumb and mean enough to call Palin a pig.” Yeah, she mocked him during her convention speech, but it was all about his record (or lack thereof) and soaring rhetoric. Which isn’t nice, perhaps, but that stuff is fair game in a political campaign. Could he really be so thin-skinned and self-serious that he’d start hitting back with personal insults?

Yes. He. Could.

At first I thought it was a mistake for the McCain camp to demand an apology. As I told my close personal friend Glenn Reynolds, I thought they should have said something like:

“We’re pleasantly surprised by Senator Obama’s newfound sense of humor, and look forward to watching it develop over the coming weeks and months.” You know, rise above it, while still reminding everybody that Obama is a stiff, humorless, gaffe-prone scold.

But now I’m having second thoughts. I think he meant exactly what the crowd obviously thought he meant, because it fits a clear pattern of behavior.

A pattern that has become blindingly apparent over the past four years, and especially over the past four months.

What was the Obama camp’s initial reaction to Palin’s announcement (of her candidacy- ed.)?

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same.”

Yeowtch! And her palmprints on the podium were still warm. (Quite a contrast to McCain’s ad, less than 24 hours earlier, congratulating Obama  on his achievement.) But then, later that same day, Obama walked it back:

“I think that… campaigns start getting these hair triggers and the statement that Joe and I put out reflects our sentiments,” he said, according to the pool report, apparently criticizing his staff for going overboard, as he did occasionally in the primary.  So he’s  not the hostile, panicky jackass. It was his staff’s fault.

Yes We Can… Pass the Buck!

Perceptive, that Treacher fella. Too bad more folks didn’t listen to him. I felt the same way, but then I felt like an asshole crying in the wilderness against Hope! and Change! The best outcome I could see was that somehow the Lightbringer’s election would bring us a new era of racial comity in this country. Guess that didn’t really work out, did it? In many ways I feel like I’ve been dragged back to the Sixties, and that is not an era I ever wished to repeat.

Read The Whole Thing™ and see if JT didn’t have the man absolutely pegged before he ever became The Preznit.