Obama Disrespects Seal Team Six in Their Dignified Transfer

I'm lucky I even heard about this.  I went back to do a little research about the Picture of the Day that the White House released of Obama saluting the fallen Seal Team Six during their Dignified Transfer and had a great deal of trouble finding anything.  It may be my search terms but I tried several and almost nothing came up.

The remains of 30 Americans who were shot down in Afghanistan arrived at Dover Air Force Base last Tuesday in what the military is calling Dignified Transfer.  Obama rushed - from another vacation or party - to the base for a photo op.  The Pentagon banned media coverage and 19 of the 30 families said they did not want any pictures taken.  Obama, not to be swayed, made sure there was a photographer with him and published the photo anyway.

There are two issues here.  First Obama completely disrespected the brave servicemen by ignoring the wishes of their families and the Pentagon.  I know he is the Commander and Chief and can over ride the Pentagon but what a lack of class and decorum.  Second, the MSM pretty much has ignored the whole episode.  I can understand the second point with the MSM because there is just so much that Obama is messing up it is difficult for them to report all of it but the first point it unforgivable.

To make matters worse, the White House argued the picture was released "in the interest of transparency."  A  laughable claim especially when considering how they govern and jam their policies down our throats.

The man has no respect for the military but is desperate to use them to advance his image.  See the killing of OBL and now this situation.

Did Rush Call US Soldier a Suicide Bomber? No.

Note: Since I upset Colby and Wulfgar with my podcast the other day, I want to respond to some of their points in separate posts. I'll start with the claim that Rush called the soldier in the VoteVets.org commercial a suicide bomber.

Media Matters , the MSM and the Left continue to attack Rush and lie and misrepresent his words. The latest is the claim that Rush called Brian McGough, the soldier in the Vote Vets.org ad, a suicide bomber. Media Matters actually quotes Rush correctly. (emphasis mine)

You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

This man will always be a hero to this country with everyone. Whoever pumped him full of these lies about what I said and embarrassed him with this ad has betrayed him. They're not hurting me, they're betraying this soldier. Now, unless he actually believes what he's saying, in which case it's just so unfortunate and sad when the truth of what I said is right out there to be learned.

So where exactly does Rush call Mr. McGough a Suicide Bomber??? Sure, he uses the analogy of a suicide bomber to describe what VoteVets.org/MoveOn.org etc. are doing to this valiant combat veteran. But he never calls him a suicide bomber like Mr. McGough himself claims.

“So, Rush Limbaugh called me a ‘suicide bomber,’ said the anti-war veteran. "More slander from the high and mighty sitting in his chair nursing the boils on his ass. I can assure you that I am no suicide bomber and that I can think for myself.’’

So, Wulfgar, you claim Rush called Brian McGough a suicide bomber. I ask you to show me the evidence.

Air America Declares Bankruptcy

The Liberal radio network has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Clearly, nobody wants to listen to a bunch of liberals whining about the country.

I tried listening to it when it was in Missoula, in order to hear what the opposition was up to and found it very depressing. I had to stop after a week.

Democrats Shopped Foley Emails to Media

Well, now we know that the Democrats had the Foley emails for months.

The Washington Post ran a story yesterday confirmimg that Democrats shopped the story for about a year and the media didn't bite - until a month before the election.

The story quotes the editor of Harper Magazine:

Ken Silverstein, Washington editor for Harper's, said on the magazine's Web site yesterday. "I know this with absolute certainty because Harper's was offered the story almost five months ago."

Silverstein said his source was a "Democratic operative," the same source that had provided the e-mail exchanges to the St. Petersburg Times in November 2005. Both the magazine and the paper declined to publish a story. But the source "was not working in concert with the national Democratic Party," Silverstein added. "This person was genuinely disgusted by Foley's behavior, amazed that other publications had declined to publish stories about the emails, and concerned that Foley might still be seeking contact with pages."

So the Demorcats and media concern for the pages is a bunch of garbage. They were shopping the story to hurt the Republicans. This is why the story broke just before the election. If there was true concern for the safety of the pages, the story would have been run months ago.