It’s a very chilly 1ºF this Friday morning, March 6th, 2015, aka the REAL inconvenient truth of ClimateScam. But before we begin one brief note: as the WSJ notes, even Eric Holder now admits not only was Darren Wilson absolutely innocent, but the whole “Hands Up/Don’t Shoot” narrative was bullsh*t from the beginning. The claim of racism within the Ferguson Police Department is so much Progressive window dressing.
Hells Bells, over 67% of Ferguson residents are Negroes; does it not stand to reason a majority of the encounters with “da pohlice” would involve citizens of a dusky skin tone?!?
You can tell, when it comes to Team Tick-Tock’s increasingly frequent, self-serving fraudulent claims of racism…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, the WSJ reports on an aspect of the net neutrality fiasco which pretty much sums up The Obamao’s entire Administration, quite literally, in a nutshell:
A key backer of the FCC plan admits he doesn’t understand the issue.
“…To get their way, the techies relied on what the Journal described as a “secretive effort inside the White House” with aides “acting like a parallel version of the FCC itself.” At a meeting last summer in New York, website operators—including David Karp , CEO of Yahoo’s social-media service Tumblr—pressed White House aides for heavy regulation.
Mr. Karp sat next to Mr. Obama at a fundraiser the next day and again pressed his case, according to the Journal account.Then in November, safely after the election, Mr. Obama publicly demanded that the FCC apply the old telephone rules to the Web. The FCC dutifully enacted the Obama plan on a partisan 3-2 vote.
Last week, before the FCC decision, Mr. Karp appeared on CNBC to promote the cause. That didn’t turn out too well. In a few awkward minutes the executive confessed that he didn’t “entirely understand” the Internet-service market and that it was not his “area of expertise.” We doubt that’s what he told the President at that fundraiser.
…Netflix also advocated aggressively for the new rules. And the company led by CEO Reed Hastings still officially endorses the FCC decision to impose Title II of the 1934 Communications Act on today’s Internet. But at a Wednesday investor conference Netflix CFO David Wells said, “Were we pleased it pushed to Title II? Probably not,” according to Variety. “We were hoping there would be a non-regulated solution,” he added…”
Yeah? In the words of femme fatale Maggie O’Hooligan…
Or, to borrow a phrase from the immortal Dewey Oxburger, “Nice going, a*shole!” This is the blind, unknowing and utterly inexperienced leading the country on…
And yet another reason never to utilize the services of Yahoo, Tumblr or Netflix.
Turning now to our continuing coverage of E-gate, courtesy of Best of the Web, James Taranto asks what inquiring minds want to know:
Who Is Eric Hoteham?
Arkansas mores in the Internet age.
“In a manner of speaking, Hillary Clinton has broken her silence on the State Department email scandal. Pushing back against the invidious stereotype that her advanced age means she’s technically incompetent, she pleaded her case on Twitter, one of those newfangled “social media” sites that are all the rage with the kids. “I want the public to see my email,” she tweeted late last night. “I asked State to release them [sic]. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
Bam, that settles that, now can we please get on with the coronation already? Well, not so fast. There are still some problems here.
For one thing, as we noted Tuesday,the State Department does not actually have all of Mrs. Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state. In case you missed the news, that’s because she used a private email account for all such correspondence. The State Department has possession of only those emails that her private advisers chose to give it in the past two months.
More to the point, the statement “I want the public to see my email” is about as credible as “I am not a crook.”If she wanted the public to see her email, she would not have bypassed normal regulations and procedures in order to keep it private. And BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski has home-movie footage of Mrs. Clinton telling a supporter in 2000: “As much as I’ve been investigated and all of that, you know, why would I—I don’t even want—why would I ever want to do email?”
Moreover, it turns out the secret server scheme was considerably more elaborate than simply setting up a Gmail or AOL account…”
In a related item, Kimberly Strassel offers her thoughts on…
“…Mrs. Clinton’s decision to ignore records laws also has to be viewed in the context of what she knew. In recent years she served as a senator and secretary of state, where she’d have been through rounds of ethics training. She was working for an Obama administration that had issued guidance requiring employees to use official email accounts.
She also clearly knew what any government watchdog group will tell you: That State has the most robust records-keeping rules of any department, with policies that go well beyond federal law.Her duties were very clear.
Then again, Mrs. Clinton is a lawyer. And here’s what she presumably understood, even if most of the media still hasn’t worked it out: The federal records law is very fuzzy. It is advisory, and says only that documents must be “preserved.” According to Team Clinton, turning over documents now is all that is required. And even if it isn’t, what Mrs. Clinton also knows is that there is no penalty for violating that statute. The Clintons thrive in gray areas.
…The timing is also notable. Mrs. Clinton only sent those 55,000 pages in December, and only after congressional investigators discovered the private address and demanded State explain what exactly had happened to all the emails from the nation’s top diplomat. In short, Congress’s entire investigation of Benghazi has been based on an incomplete record. (You can almost picture Mrs. Clinton smiling.)
State has meanwhile said it will release the (selective) 55,000 pages, though only after a review, which will “take some time to complete.” Here’s to betting it finishes in December of 2016.As for the fight over Mrs. Clinton’s server, and what it contains, that may never be resolved.
All of which is fortunate for Mrs. Clinton. And if we know anything, it is that Mrs. Clinton is good at creating her own fortune.“
“Doesn’t the latest Hillary Clinton scandal make you want to throw up your hands and say: Do we really have to do this again? Do we have to go back there? People assume she is our next president. We are defining political deviancy down.
The scandal this week is that we have belatedly found out, more than two years after she left the office of secretary of state, that throughout Mrs. Clinton’s four-year tenure she did not conduct official business through the State Department email system. She had her own private email addresses and her own private Internet domain, on her own private server at one of her own private homes, in Chappaqua, N.Y. Which means she had, and has, complete control of the emails.If a journalist filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking to see emails of the secretary of state, the State Department had nothing to show.
If Congress asked to see them, State could say there was nothing to see. (Two months ago, on the request of State, Mrs. Clinton turned over a reported 55,000 pages of her emails. She and her private aides apparently got to pick which ones.)
Is it too much to imagine that Mrs. Clinton wanted to conceal the record of her communications as America’s top diplomat because she might have been doing a great deal of interesting work in those emails, not only with respect to immediate and unfolding international events but with respect to those who would like to make a positive impression on the American secretary of state by making contributions to the Clinton Foundation, which not only funds many noble causes but is the seat of operations of Clinton Inc. and its numerous offices, operatives, hangers-on and campaign-in-waiting?
…Everyone at State, the White House, and the rest of the government who received an email from the secretary of state would have seen where it was coming from—a nongovernmental address. You’d think someone would have noticed.
…The press is painting all this as a story about how Mrs. Clinton, in her love for secrecy and control, has given ammunition to her enemies. But that’s not the story. The story is that this is what she does, and always has.The rules apply to others, not her.
…Sixteen years ago, when she was first running for the Senate, I wrote a book called “The Case Against Hillary Clinton.” I waded through it all—cattle futures, Travelgate, the lost Rose law firm records, women slimed as bimbos, foreign campaign cash, the stealth and secrecy that marked the creation of the health-care plan, Monica, the vast right-wing conspiracy. As I researched I remembered why, four years into the Clinton administration, the New York Times columnist William Safire called Hillary “a congenital liar . . . compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.” (Can you say “vast Right-wing conspiracy”? We KNEW you could!)
Do we have to go through all that again?“
Evidently, at least…
…for now!
Regardless, here’s a brief compilation of our favorite Hillary-email eviscerations…thus far:
Here’s the juice: having come into possession of a copy of Special Order 191 detailing all the the Army of Northern Virginia’s dispositions immediately prior to Antietam, George McClellan presciently pronounced, “Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobby Lee, I will be willing to go home.” He didn’t, and thus he did…though not willingly.
The GOP has just been handed an opportunity of the same incalculably historic significance; it remains to be seen whether they use it as ineffectively as McClellan.
Moving on, in an report eerily reminiscent of Egate, Dan Henninger details what he terms…
“As the Obama administration moves toward the March 24 deadline for a nuclear-arms deal with Iran, what becomes ever more clear is that no other American president has so confused personal entitlement with political trust.
…Now comes the Iran nuclear deal, whose details the administration will not make known for public debate, and should the deal happen March 24, the White House says it will not submit the agreement to Congress for a vote.As to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s detailed critique of the deal before Congress, Mr. Obama flicked it away as “nothing new.”
With public discussion, congressional oversight and criticism from Iran’s neighbors all dismissed as irrelevant, the administration has systematically reduced the reasons for supporting the agreement to one: because Barack Obama is doing it…”
At the risk of repetition, anyone detecting…
…a pattern here?!?
On the Lighter Side…
And in the Your Tax Dollars at Work segment, yet another example of a bloated, bureaucratic nightmare which believes it has your money to burn:
“The National Transportation Safety Board reportedly is considering re-opening its investigation into the 1959 plane crash that killed rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson.
The Des Moines Register reports that a New England man named L.J. Coon, who claims to be a retired pilot and aircraft dispatcher, petitioned the NTSB to take a second look at the case. The Civil Aeronautics Board, the NTSB’s predecessor in air crash investigation, ruled that the primary cause of the crash seven miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa, was pilot error and poor weather conditions.
…The NTSB responded to Coon in an e-mail dated Feb. 19, 2015, and read in part “You have gotten our attention.” A final decision on a re-investigation could take several weeks…”
Sorry, but this one doesn’t even move our…
…of the peg. But it surely means one of three things: either (a) the NTSB is overfunded, (b) someone just took their attention off a REAL problem to consider this inanity, or (c) the thinly-disguised pseudonym “L.J. Coon” means, as with his unconstitutional pressure of the FTC regarding net neutrality, Barry’s taken a personal interest in the demise of Buddy Holly.
Finally, as you may or may not have heard, TLJ is leaving us:
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