Showing posts with label Candidate Barack Obama. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Will SCOTUS Stop Obama?

May 30, 2015 Amnesty , Candidate Barack Obama 0 Comments
Obama Is Suspending the Law Designed to Deter Illegal Immigration 

By Ian Smith, May 29, 2015, National Review

A key part of the Fifth Circuit’s decision to keep the freeze on President Obama’s amnesty programs was the 25-page dissenting opinion written by the panel’s lone Obama appointee. Not only does it point to how the bloc-voting liberal justices of the Supreme Court will ultimately treat the case, it almost wholly focuses on the threshold issue of “prosecutorial discretion”: an executive-branch power that, if expanded to include mass grants of amnesty, would remove the last vestige of authority that Congress and the courts have in preventing immigration anarchy at our nation’s southern border. 

The “essential point of disagreement” that Judge Stephen Higginson had with Judge Hanen’s lower-court opinion has to do with the characterization of the president’s amnesty programs. How DAPA and DACA are categorized is crucial for both sides. Obama’s attorneys contend that the programs are mere exercises of “prosecutorial discretion” on the part of the president.

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Obama Campaign Donor/Volunteer Jane Pauley Jumps To CBS News --What? You mean, there's liberal bias in the "news"?!

Obama Campaign Donor/Volunteer Jane Pauley Jumps To CBS News --What? You mean, there's liberal bias in the "news"?!

April 11, 2014 Candidate Barack Obama , CBS News Sunday Morning 0 Comments
By Brent Baker, Apr. 10, 2014, Newsbusters.org

Jane Pauley, who, while campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008, declared “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that Bible on Inauguration Day,” has joined CBS News as a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning. She also gushed back in 2008: “Not only could Barack Obama be a good President, he’d be an exceptional one. And I so look forward to it.”

Pauley, who worked for the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee in 1972, co-hosted NBC’s Today show from 1976 to 1989 and has been a contributor again to NBC’s morning show since 2010.

Using her husband’s last name, Jane Trudeau, she maxed out to the Obama campaign in 2008 with a donation of $2,300, per OpenSecrets.org.

(TVNewser item and USA Today post on her network switch.)

Pauley’s yearning for Obama, quoted above, came in interviews with WISH-TV and WTIU-TV in Indianapolis after an Obama campaign rally in September of 2008. (See the video for clips from those TV stories.)



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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The Elder Statement: Media Bias: It Absolutely, Positively Influences How We Vote By Larry Elder

April 08, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Bill Clinton 0 Comments

By Larry Elder, Apr. 8, 2014

How much does liberal bias in the media affect how we vote? Greatly. Call media bias a game-changer.

Liberal bias also explains why the left wants “campaign finance limits.” Their leftwing message -- pro-Obamacare; pro-raising taxes on the rich; anti-choice in public education; pro-Roe v Wade; pro same-sex marriage; pro-“gun control”; pro-“immigration reform;” etc. -- gets delivered via biased newscast free of charge. Of the top 100 sources for news, almost all are leftwing. They include ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and nearly all the editorial pages of big-city newspapers.

Campaign finance limits will not “level the playing field” when the refs are pulling for the other side. The good news is that most Republicans -- except for John McCain -- know they’re being duped by calls for “finance reform.”

Bias is not merely the way reporters vote compared to non-reporters.
It’s about topic selection, the way things are worded and how issues get ignored that, under a GOP White House, would have become media obsessions. Thus, “Bridgegate” becomes a national issue. Meanwhile Benghazi, the IRS scandal and NSA overreach -- scandals that would rank high under a GOP president -- become afterthoughts.

Because Peter Jennings (ABC), Tom Brokaw (NBC) and Dan Rather (CBS) held their anchor jobs so long, they provide us plenty of examples of liberal bias and double standards.

Check out how the Big Three anchors covered President Bill Clinton’s first day in office versus how they covered George W. Bush’s first day. In Clinton’s case, he reversed a Reagan policy that tied federal aid for international groups to the recipient’s agreement not to use money to fund or promote abortions. In Bush’s case, he reversed Clinton’s reversal.

To the Big 3, however, it’s clear how they felt.

Clinton, all three “reported,” was simply doing the right thing. Bush, on the other hand, was groveling to the dark, sinister anti-abortion forces that course through the GOP:

Peter Jennings, ABC News, 1993: "President Clinton kept a promise (emphasis added) today on the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Mr. Clinton signed presidential memoranda rolling back many of the restrictions imposed by his predecessors."

Peter Jennings, ABC News, 2001: "One of the president's first actions was designed to appeal to anti-abortion conservatives (emphasis added). The president signed an order reinstating a Reagan-era policy . . . "

Tom Brokaw, NBC News, 1993: "Today, President Clinton kept a campaign promise (emphasis added), and it came on the 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion."

Tom Brokaw, NBC News, 2001: "We'll begin with the new president's very active day, which started on a controversial note (emphasis added)."

Dan Rather, CBS News, 1993: "Today, with the stroke of a pen, President Clinton delivered on his campaign promise (emphasis added) to cancel several anti-abortion regulations of the Reagan-Bush years."

Dan Rather, CBS News, 2001: "This was President Bush's first day at the office, and he did something to quickly please the right flank (emphasis added) in his party: He reinstituted an anti-abortion policy . . . "

UCLA economics and political science professor Tim Groseclose wrote “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.” It’s not just a BMW (bitch, moan and whine) book about media bias. Groseclose tries to quantify how the advantage bias gives to Democrats.

Groseclose finds that in presidential elections “Washington D.C. correspondents vote 93-7 for the Democrat, while the rest of America votes about 50-50.” Does this kind of lopsided voting preference affect the ability of a reporter to be, pardon the expression, fair and balanced?

Groseclose writes: “[The] average voter received approximately 8.2 percent of his news from Fox, and 79.9 percent from establishment media (defined as all outlets except Fox, the internet and talk radio). Thus, the ‘reach’ of establishment media is approximately ten times that of Fox News.”

Finally, Groseclose says that media bias gives 8 to 10 points to the Democrat right out of the gate in a typical election. But for media bias, the average state would vote like Texas. If not for bias, Groseclose argues “John McCain would have defeated Obama 56-42, instead of losing 53-46.”

Obviously bias is not a death sentence. Republicans control most of the governorships and most to the state legislatures. And despite bias, Republicans do win presidential contests. It it’s a heavy lift to overcome an out-of-the-gate, 8-to-10 point disadvantage given the other side by our objective, nonpartisan news corp.


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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Justice Department Refuses To Charge Woman Who Voted For Obama Six Times…

March 25, 2014 Candidate Barack Obama , Melowese Richardson 0 Comments
Christian Adams, Mar. 23, 2014, Breitbart
Last week Al Sharpton embraced convicted vote fraudster Melowese Richardson at a “voting rights” rally in Cincinnati.  The United States Department of Justice under Eric Holder has done nothing to Melowese Richardson 410 days after she admitted on camera that she committed multiple federal felonies by voting six times for President Obama’s reelection.
Federal law makes it a felony to vote more than once for President.  In fact, 42 U.S.C. Section 1973i(e) subjects Richardson to twenty-five years in federal prison for her six votes for Obama.



The lack of DOJ action against an unrepentant federal vote fraudster combined with Richardson’s lionization by Sharpton and the organization that sponsored the rally demonstrates how the Justice Department is facilitating a culture of brazen criminality on the eve of the 2014 midterm elections.  The failure to indict Richardson is the latest example of Holder’s department excusing lawlessness in federal elections and abandoning law abiding Americans.

Melowese Richardson was charged with state voter fraud crimes in Ohio.  She was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison on July 7, 2013. Unfortunately, instead of serving five years, Richardson was set free after only eight months.


A state court judge dismissed her May 2013 conviction and five-year prison sentence and allowed her to plead no contest to four counts of illegal voting, the same charges for which she was convicted.

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Related:  Sentencing Of Melowese Richardson:  Justice Department Refuses To Charge
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Ex-Rabid Supporter: "Why I'm Burning My Last Bridge With Obama" --Sloppy thinking, but she reached right conclusion.

March 19, 2014 Candidate Barack Obama , Carey Wedler 0 Comments

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