VladimirPee

By Marc A. Thiessen October 13 at 11:12 AM


In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, “Blizzard of lies,” in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared “Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.”

Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans “How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?” Thirty-seven percent said “most of the time,” 24 percent said “some of the time,” and 20 percent said “only now and then.” Just 15% said “never.”

Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least “now and then” on “important matters.”

That is simply stunning.

These Americans are right. The latest evidence came when The Post revealed that on Friday, April 20, 2012, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan came to White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler with a specific, credible allegation of misconduct by a member of the White House advance team in Cartegena, Colombia.


According to The Post, he informed Ruemmler that there was evidence that Jonathan Dach registered a prostitute into his room at the Hilton Cartagena Hotel shortly after midnight on April 4. That is specific. And he told Ruemmler that Secret Service agents on the ground had information suggesting the same. That is credible.


Yet three days later, on Monday, April 24, then-presidential press secretary Jay Carney told the American people from the White House podium: “There have been no specific, credible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team.”

Carney’s statement was flat untrue.

Carney further declared that “out of due diligence, the White House counsel’s office has conducted a review of the White House advance team and . . . came to the conclusion that there’s no indication that any member of the White House advance team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior.”

Really? Between Friday and Monday they examined all the evidence, interviewed all the witnesses and confirmed that those allegations were completely untrue? Did that weekend review include the actual copies of the Hilton hotel records, which, The Post reported, showed that a prostitute had registered into Dach’s room at 12:02 a.m. April 4? The records even included a photocopy of a woman’s ID card.

So why did Carney tell the American people there were “no specific, credible allegations” when he knew there were? And why did he say that the White House initiated its own investigation “out of due diligence” when he knew it was in response to evidence brought forward by the Secret Service?

Because there is a culture of deceit in the Obama White House — a serial willingness to say things that are untrue to protect the president.


Think about some of the falsehoods this White House has told the country:

They told Americans that no one at the White House edited the Benghazi talking points to blame the attack on an Internet video — until it came out that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes had urged Susan Rice “to underscore that these protests are rooted in and Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.”


The president repeatedly told Americans that no one would lose his or her doctor or health-care plan — until it later emerged that White House policy advisers had urged him to drop the line but “were overruled by political aides.”

Obama told Americans that there was “not even a smidgen” of corruption at the Internal Revenue Service (while the investigation was still underway) — but then it was revealed that there had been a spontaneous combustion of hard drives among IRS officials under investigation.

Add to that White House spokesman Josh Earnest’s false claim that Obama “wasn’t specifically referring to” Islamic State when he called them JV terrorists . . . or Obama’s false assertion that the sequester was “not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed” . . . or his false claim that “7 million Americans . . . have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.”

The list goes on and on.

One falsehood can be a mistake. Two are troubling. But three, four, five or more in a row? That is a pattern of deceit. Or, in the immortal words of William Safire, a “blizzard of lies.”

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Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

1) Lie.
2) When caught, lie again.
3) When cornered, Alinsky the questioner.
4) If asked again, say it's old news and move on.

grumbledog

stupider Dave you are at it again.

Just say Baaa and get in line

CarolSeer2016

Do you have a valid rebuttal, GD? Is this the only argument you can come with? Maybe because you have no other argument???

Ricktloml

He believes all of Obama's lies, or finds an excuse for them, anything to defend Obama. Obama to his supporters truly IS their messiah, they worship him. Amazing how anyone can have that kind of faith in a politician, but if you look at history it has happened before.

Snoopy

Grumble

Well thought out answer!

Running for Asshole of the Year are we?

Snoopy

grumbledog

Where to start 1st a poll done by FOX news Iam surprised that they didn't report 100% believed.

let's move on don't know many hotels anywhere that registers people visiting people in their hotel unless it would be somebody like a head of state, but just for giggles let's say he did take a hooker to his room he was 25 years old a volunteer not paid and prostitution is not illegal in Columbia.

Health care I give that one but still questionable did Obama write the entire law or even read the entire law.

IRS first off the Hard didn't spontaneously crash it was over a period of time and there was more then just her, plus her was re-cycle not destroyed, even before that there was no laws broken at the IRS the fact that they make groups applying for tax exemption to prove they were entitled to them is no crime. FIY there were both conservative and liberals group looked into the only difference is the conservatives ran to FOX and cried that they being mis-treated. more interesting question would be of the group that claimed they were targeted how many are around today doing their community services.

they are JV terrorist is Obama fault that Iraqis troop dropped their weapons and ran. It not our responsibility to defend Iraq it is up to their army. how many American lives are you willing to sacrifice.

What Obama said was there are 7.1 million enrolled in ACA

The sequester he should claim ownership, he gave them a year to come to an agreement but the do nothing congress did jus that "nothing"

grumbledog

There your rebuttal

the message was to Stupider Dave who hasn't had an original opinion posted on here.

He just leeches on to someone else point of view.

I have asked before on his posting If Obama is Muslin give us prove, not just him and American Weenie saying so.

VladimirPee

If Obama signed a law without reading it he is inept. But everyone knows ACA was his baby and he and Pelosi put it together

Laws were broken by IRS. They are required by law to keep emails. Period.

I guess you didn't watch the hearings. IRS apologized for targeting conservatives and they admitted Liberal groups were not sent for additional review.

grumbledog

don't know what hearing you were watching

they can only keep emails if the blackberrys don't crash, the committee have plenty of email, but nothing they can use to smear the President and they never will but they will keep have hearing to make it look good

Snoopy

Grumble

Time to go back to grammar school and learn your ABC's. Someone might accept your posts if they did not have to be translated into proper English.

As I said: running for Asshole of the Year.

Snoopy

grumbledog

No you already have that locked

vernon

we can see your just a ignorant lying troll

VladimirPee

1st law broken

The U.S. Archivist told lawmakers on Tuesday that the IRS “did not follow the law” when it failed to report the lost Lois Lerner’s emails, which could have included official documents.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lost-emails-archivist-108242.html#ixzz3G4Dcl77i


According to Part 1, Chapter 10, Section 3, “Standards for Using Email,” there is in fact an email archiving procedure in place. In subsection 1.10.3.3.1 of Section 3 title Don’t Slow Down the System, the manual instructs all IRS employees to refrain from sending large attachments since they will be archived with the message and will eventually fill up the server causing performance issues as well as headaches for systems administrators.


Refrain from sending large attachments to work groups or audiences. Remember every email message and any attachments, embedded graphics and photographs require a copy for each Exchange server store where each recipient’s mailbox resides. [Emphasis added]

Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/06/17/irs-manual-explicitly-governs-email-backup-retention/#S5Ku8xfsfXM7TaQu.99


In addition Blackberry emails are saved on an Exchange Server not just on the handheld device.

grumbledog

What's that now 5 years in a row.