Obama Campaign Launches ‘Truth Teams’

The Blaze
Fans and critics alike may get a kick out of the Obama reelection campaign’s decision to launch a“Truth Team” to fend off expected attacks on the President’s record. The campaign explains:

“The Truth Team is a network of supporters of President Obama who are committed to responding to unfounded attacks and defending the President’s record. When you’re faced with someone who misrepresents the truth, you can find all the facts you need right here—along with ways to share the message with whoever needs to hear it.”

ABC News reports the campaign is looking to “enlist” and “educate” nearly 2 million people for the team.

The Truth Team webpage features a blog with references to three outlets “AttackWatch,” KeepingGOPHonest,“ and ”KeepingHisWord.”

“Every time a baseless attack comes to light, we’ll arm you with the truth so you can spread the word.”

Attack Watch — launched last fall — includes a Politifact-like blog putting a quote next to a truth team answer, which includes no citations, “Attack Files,” as well as pages to “Report an Attack” or “Spread the Word.“ Some recent Attack Watch blog posts include ”Mitt Romney downplays our economic recovery,“ ”Debunking the so-called ‘War on Religion’,“ and ”Romney’s favorite Medicare lie.”



A press release for the campaign watchdog launch explains that the grassroots organization is aiming to double the number of supporters who took part in the Fight the Smears initiative during the 2008 campaign and fight back attacks on the President’s record before the Democratic National Convention this fall.

Truth Teams will be announced in swing states like Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Wisconsin, with events being held in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.

National supporters for the organization include the National Education Association, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and the United Steelworkers Union.

Beck Site Attacks Sarah Palin Over Trig Article, Writer Calls Palin-Supporter ‘Whore’

Big Journalism

You have to wonder what’s going on with Glenn Beck.

Beck’s fall from grace started when his site, The Blaze, falsely attacked James O’Keefe — to the delight of the very people who used to attack Beck. Then Beck, of all things, betrayed the Tea Party in the worst way any conservative could. I thought he’d hit bottom with that. After all, how much lower can you go than selling out to the mainstream media?



Well, yesterday, what I thought had been a rhetorical question was answered when The Blaze went full Andrew Sullivan, full Politico, full Wonkette, and and attacked Sarah Palin over a situation involving her family.

The Governor’s sin? Composing what amounts to a touching article about her family’s life with Trig – Todd and Sarah Palin’s youngest son with Down Syndrome.

To understand how misleading the Blaze attack is, you first have to read what Beck’s writer, a piece of work named Eddie Scarry (more on him below), wrote:

What’s the first thing that came to mind when you heard that Rick Santorum‘s special needs child was in the hospital with pneumonia late last month? I bet all ofMitt Romney‘s money it wasn’t Sarah Palin unless you are Sarah Palin. …

Of the roughly 900-word article, 123 of them relate to Santorum and his daughterBella who was born with Trisomy 18, a disability similar to Down syndrome.

It’s all downhill from there. For more perspective, the names “Rick” and “Santorum” appear three times total and are all found in the first paragraph. The word “my,” in reference to Palin herself, appears 15 times throughout the rest.

What the Blaze is intentionally doing here, is misleading its readers into believing Governor Palin was supposed to write a piece about the Santorum family and their daughter Bella. Moreover, The Blaze obviously wants their readers to believe that Palin selfishly exploited what happened to the Santorums so that she could write something all about herself.

That’s the only explanation for why the Blaze counts the number of times “Rick” and “Santorum” are used, or why there’s a count of how many words are dedicated to the Santorums. Why would those word counts matter otherwise?

The lie the Blaze tells here, is one of omission. But it’s a lie nonetheless, because the truth happens to be the COMPLETE opposite. Which leads me to a bigger question…

What are we to make of the fall of Glenn Beck when we’re forced to use the Huffington Post to correct his site’s misinformation … about Sarah Palin?

Yes, what just flew past your window was a pig, because today ”the truth has no agenda” at the Huffington Post:

[A] Daily Beast spokesperson says the Palin piece was assigned last week following the news that Rick Santorum’s daughter, Bella, had been hospitalized and he was briefly leaving the campaign trail.

“We asked Sarah Palin if she would like to share her personal story about life with a child with special needs upon learning about Senator Santorum’s decision last week to place his campaign on hold to be with his daughter,” the spokesperson emailed.

In other words, in the wake of what happened to Bella Santorum, Newsweek reached out to Sarah Palin — and I’m going to repeat this carefully for the Beck-impaired — to… share… her… personal… story… about… life… with… a… child… with… special… needs…

So what is Sarah Palin guilty of here? Writing the piece she was asked to write.

But what is The Blaze guilty of here? Again, telling a lie of omission and, just like Wonkette and Andrew Sullivan, using Palin’s family as a weapon against her. After nearly four years, this tactic is well-honed and easy to spot. Anytime the Governor writes about or speaks of or is seen with her family, some bottom-feeder weaponizes the event, weaponizes her own family, to beat her senseless with. And that’s exactly what The Blaze did.

And what kind lowlifes does Beck hire, anyway? When Stacy Drake, a Conservatives For Palin writer, challenged Scarry about his story via Twitter, he responded by calling her a “whore”:



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Scarry also writes for FishbowlDC , where degrading conservative women is a resume enhancer, so no surprise there. But it looks as though when Glenn Beck talked about, how did he put it again? — oh, yes,”Restoring Honor” — he must’ve meant other people’s honor.

Man Arrested for Threatening Nikki Haley’s Life Was An Occupy Wall Street Sympathizer

The 26-year-old North Carolina man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, surprise surprise, is sympathizer of Occupy Wall Street protesters. According to WISTV, Nathan Shafer was arrested Wednesday for threatening the life of Gov. Haley by commenting on a post made by the Governor on her Facebook wall November 16, ”I hope someone murders you before I do, how’s that for freedom of speech?”

WISTV reports that Shafer made the comment after hearing about the arrests of 19 Occupy Columbia protesters outside the State House last Monday.

State Law Enforcement Division agents visited Shafer in Charlotte two days after the comment. Shafer tells WISTV that he “retracted and deleted his statement, promised he wasn’t serious and apologized to the Haley family.” Two days after the visit Shafer was told he would be prosecuted for the threat. and turned himself in at noon Wednesday.

While Shafer claims he was not serious and “the whole situation is completely ridiculous and blown out of proportion,” several commentators have asked why should comments made by Tea Party members be considered threats, but Occupy Wall Street statements seen as in jest? Howard Portney points to the case of Brian Dean Miller, the Dallas man sentenced to 27 months in jail after posting on Craigslist:


“People, the time has come for revolution. It is time for Obama to die. I am dedicating my life to the death of Obama and every employee of the federal government. As I promised in a previous post, if the health care reform bill passed I would become a terrorist. Today I become a terrorist.”

WISTV acknowledges another federal court ruling from July that said a man was merely exercising his free speech rights when he posted online statements calling for President Barack Obama’s assassination.

The State reports that Shafer is charged with threatening the life, person or family of a public official. A SLED arrest warrant said he admitted to making the threat.

HT~ The Blaze

Angry 67 Year Old Man a Bank Customer Urinates in Teller's Drive-Thru Tube

A man at his local RBC Bank was told at the drive-thru that the bank didn’t sell money orders. He responded to this inconvenience by doing what any rational and sane person would do: he urinated in the drive-thru’s plastic tube.

Wait, what?

When he was told he couldn’t purchase a money order, the man reportedly became upset, mumbled something “about bad customer service,” and then urinated in the tube.

That’s foul. But it gets worse.

“Another customer pulled into the same drive-through lane shortly after the incident and said the tube had liquid in it that smelled like urine,” reports The St. Augustine Record. “She picked up the tube and urine spilled onto her and her car.” Read More