It would appear that Speaker John Boehner is feeling some heat directly from a Republican Senator in Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over getting to the bottom of the Benghazi attacks. During this interview, which took place last night, Graham said he would be meeting with House leaders "tomorrow" which is today. Can't wait to hear how that went.
Take note at the 3:00 mark. Shortly thereafter, Graham says:
"To my House colleagues, please, for God's sake step up your game when it comes to Benghazi."
I'd like to make a suggestion to Senator Graham. Pick of the phone and call Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. I'm guessing Issa is sure to give you an earful about how Boehner did more harm than good when it came to helping with the Fast and Furious investigation.
Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren sat down with outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss - among other things - Egypt and Benghazi. Those expecting Greta to be a bit tougher on Clinton than was the stable of gelded Republican Senators and Congressmen last week were disappointed but there were some revealing moments.
Commentary after the video:
After exchanging niceties, Clinton refers to the post-Arab Spring in general - Egypt in particular - as a "period of adjustment" and that it's important "not to see these revolutions hijacked by extremists". What she didn't say was that countries like Egypt are adjusting to Sharia law and that the hijacking of those revolutions is a foregone conclusion and was predictable to so many with much less information than Clinton had at her disposal during the early stages of the Arab Spring.
Shortly thereafter, Greta brings up Morsi's 2010 comments, which included him saying the Jews were descendants of "apes and pigs", and that Egypt must "nurse its children on hatred of the Jews". A few hours before Greta's interview, reports came out that a close Morsi aid said the Holocaust never happened and that the Jews secretly moved to the U.S.
Hillary's response?
At the 1:58 mark, she says "We were quite concerned about those statements" and that "the Egyptian presidency has repudiated" the comments.
What more proof does one need that the Democratic Party has more contempt for Christians and conservatives than for the Muslim Brotherhood? Virtually the entire Barack Obama administration, for more than four years, has been engaged in class warfare that involves much more critical and relentless criticism of conservatives who haven't even come close to talking like Morsi.
At the 3:30 mark, when asked about Morsi personally, Hillary said:
"I think he has a lot of the right intentions".
Wait a minute. A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who also happens to be the President of Egypt has pure intentions?! The intentions of the Brotherhood include the annihilation of Israel and establishing a global caliphate.
Shortly after the 4:00 mark, while mildly defending Morsi, said:
"It's not what somebody says. It's what they do."
You mean like saying Al-Qaeda has been decimated while actually fueling the group's resurgence by siding with the Muslim Brotherhood all over the Middle East?
At the 4:40 mark, the conversation shift's to Morsi's welcoming of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is responsible for mass genocide in his country. Clinton doesn't just excuse Morsi for doing so by saying such meetings take place all over the Middle East but check out this quote, delivered by her at about the 5:20 mark:
"He (Bashir) does need to be held accountable for what happened on his watch as President."
Interesting to hear such language coming from Clinton, which makes a nice segue to the question about Benghazi, which is asked shortly after the 12:00 mark. It was a two-part question and just as open-ended as many of the questions asked by Republican Senators and Congressmen at last week's hearings.
1.) Can Americans feel confident that security at embassies and consulates will be sufficient, moving forward?
2.) Should we go back to Benghazi?
Clinton's answer ultimately led to a sales pitch for more money to help keep these installations more secure. Again, like what happened at the Senate and House Committee hearings, that pitch went unanswered by Greta, despite earlier testimony from Charlene Lamb, a State Department bureaucrat, who testified that a lack of funds was not the reason for a lack of security in Benghazi.
In that hearing, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) asked Lamb if lack of security due to budget concerns. Her answer (at about the 1:45 mark) was "no sir":
Breitbart was not too happy with Van Susteren's failure to ask any follow-up questions of Hillary about Benghazi.
If you're a conservative looking for a reason Sarah Palin should NOT run for president, this is it. She is absolutely most effective when she is able to speak her mind without being censored by hypersensitive handlers. What better example can there be than her telling America that there were a lot of 'WTF Moments' in Obama's State of the Union speech? Of course, the speech was billed as 'Winning The Future' but that is NOT what Palin meant when she referred to the acronym.
Unfortunately, unless someone like Jim DeMint jumps into the race, Palin may still be the best candidate currently in the proverbial pack. Gingrich, Romney, Huckabee, et. al. should be non-starters with the Tea Party. History says they're establishment elites who are trying to adopt Tea Party rhetoric with little to no willingness to implement Tea Party mandates. Unfortunately, the liberal media is going to do all it can to nominate one of them, like McCain in 2008.
Palin's 'WTF' moment comes very early in this clip but it's worth watching the whole thing; she hits the nail squarely on the head for the entire interview.
Aside from far left liberal attorney Gloria Allred's most recent high-profile charge appearing to be politically motivated, it may be backfiring on both her and her client in a major way. Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is in a fierce battle with current state Attorney General Jerry Brown. Allred is representing a woman who used to work for Whitman and her husband; that woman's name is Nicandra Diaz Santillan and she has been discovered to be an illegal alien.
Diaz was a housekeeper for Whitman and her husband, Dr. Griffith Harsh from 2000 - 2009. Allred's complaint in which she represents Diaz claims that Whitman and Harsh allowed Diaz to work for them after learning she was illegal. Allred claims a letter from the Social Security Administration with Harsh's writing on it proves the charge. There are some problems with that. The letter, dated 2003, notifies Allred and Harsh that there are some inconsistencies with Diaz's social security number; it's later learned that Diaz likely forged the application with a false number. There is a handwritten note on the letter by Harsh that says, "Nicky, please check on this."
Allred's claim is that this is a smoking gun. Lost on her is that Harsh didn't dismiss the letter and it was Diaz who fraudulently submitted a false social security number on her application and even continued the lie when the letter was ostensibly presented to her by Harsh in 2003.
This fact was not lost on Greta van Susteren, who absolutely skewers Allred for this stunt. Also apparently lost on Allred is the jeopardy she's putting Diaz in by exposing the illegal alien to felony charges by shining a light on her fraudulent application.
This is a major backfire. Allred has got to be second-guessing herself at this point. Considering Jerry Brown is the state's AG, it's no wonder Allred dismissed the possibility of exposing her client to prosecution.
A day prior to Greta's skewering of Allred, radio talk show host Mark Levin did the same thing, only for much longer. Here is the beat down Allred received from Levin - in two parts via Hapblog:
Perhaps you've seen Dr. Hill on Hannity, Greta, or Huckabee. Odds are better that you've seen him on the O'Reilly Factor, where he makes the majority of his appearances. In any case, Hill is a paid Fox News Contributor who should perhaps be out of a job soon.
David Horowitz and Cliff Kincaid have uncovered a multitude of very disturbing things about Hill, not the least of which involves scrubbing his website after he's been busted.
It all started when David Horowitz posted on his NEWSREAL blog that Hill was severely underqualified to discuss American foreign policy relative to Iran. Hill apparently took issue with this and responded to Horowitz via Twitter. In reading Hill's response, Horowitz noticed something very disturbing about Hill's wallpaper - it included several photos of Assata Shakur, a convicted cop killer who ended her victim's life by shooting him "execution style" in the head two times. Shakur was convicted but escaped thanks to help from both Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army. She is currently in Cuba, thanks to being granted asylum by the Castro government.
As is quite common, Cliff Kincaid has picked up the ball and is running with it, exposing far more disturbing facts about Hill. So far, Kincaid has written three articles on Hill and Fox News continuing to retain him as a contributor. In Kincaid's SEPTEMBER 28 article, he provides the details of an interview he conducted with Hill:
While Hill disputed reports that Shakur shot Foerster in the head, the website of America's Most Wanted, a Fox program, describes what happened this way: "On May 2, 1973, New Jersey State Police Troopers James Harper and Werner Foerster were patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike in the East Brunswick area. They stopped a car with three occupants and began to question them. The female passenger, JoAnne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She suddenly pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and opened fire. Trooper Foerster was struck twice in the chest and Trooper Harper was hit in the shoulder. Chesimard then picked up Trooper Foerster's service weapon and shot him twice in the head, execution style, while he lay in the road."
Yet, Marc Lamont Hill seems to revere Shakur based on Horowitz' claim that his Twitter wallpaper consists of several pictures of her. Uh, well, that was before Hill was outed. According to Kincaid, Shakur has been taken down and replaced by the rather innocuous photos of Muhammad Ali.
In the same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial background and writings, over the course of just a few days Accuracy in Media has been able to determine the following about Hill from public sources:
He called the notorious anti-white, anti-Jewish Khallid Muhammad a "mentor, teacher, and revolutionary hero," and believes that the black racist died not from a brain aneurysm but was assassinated. Muhammad was so extreme that he was ousted from the Nation of Islam because of his hatred of Jews. He gave a lecture on "The Importance of Ideological Training in the New Millenium (sic)" at the Polymathematic University's "Political Education Program for the Poor Righteous Communist Party." He declared on a "MySpace" page that the people he'd like to meet personally include Assata Shakur, Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, and Mumia Abu Jamal, another convicted cop-killer. He speaks on "The Importance of the Nation of Islam to Hip-Hop Culture" and says that he once belonged to something called the Ansaaru Allah Community, an Islamic sect with doctrines similar to the Nation of Islam that has been accused of being a religious cult. Hill's "MySpace" page features a slide show of such figures as Assata Shakur, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Ella Baker, who just happens to be the namesake of the Ella Baker Center, founded by Van Jones. The Marc Lamont Hill website includes a graphic and obscene "Sex With Timaree" segment that features advice from a "Sexpert" on how to enjoy the "Land o' Anal" or anal sex.
Hill also spoke at Polymathematic University according to Kincaid and this is easily verified. What's quite disturbing about PU is a link on its website under the heading of "Comrades". When you click on that link, you are directed to the website for the POOR RIGHTEOUS PARTY OF THE BLACK NATION, which has photos of Mao Tse Tung, Malcolm X, Nicolai Lenin, and some other really sweet dudes.
The most telling things about Hill are his actions after being confronted about his allegiances. Among things deleted or altered include his My Space page, Twitter, and Homepage.
Fox News in general and Bill O'Reilly in particular need to denounce Marc Lamont Hill and do so publicly while pledging never to allow him to set foot inside the Fox News Channel again. To this point, O'Reilly deserves the benefit of the doubt. He will be severely tainted if he continues to provide Hill with a forum.
David Horowitz and Cliff Kincaid have uncovered a multitude of very disturbing things about Hill, not the least of which involves scrubbing his website after he's been busted.
