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Attacks on Susan Rice unfounded
Washington Post, by Editorial

Original Article

Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 11/24/2012 3:45:09 PM

Since the Senate is solely responsible for the confirmation of Cabinet officers, it´s not often that members of the House of Representatives jump into a debate about the nomination of a secretary of state - particularly before there has been a nomination. That´s one of the reasons a letter sent to President Obama this week by 97 House Republicans, challenging his potential choice of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for the State Department job, is remarkable. Another is blatant disregard of established facts. Drawn up by Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., the letter alleges that "Ambassador Rice is

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Your Barbra Streisand meter is going to ping as loud as Yasser Arafat´s Geiger counter scare. I don´t even recommend reading this propaganda from the White House. My point for posting was buried way deep at the end was the actual claim of "racism" of the "white" House members who signed this letter. And, it wasn´t subtle. BIAS abounds at the WaPo.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Nimby, 11/24/2012 3:49:04 PM     (No. 9032166)

It´s only you press whores who think that


Reply 2 - Posted by: mathman, 11/24/2012 3:53:52 PM     (No. 9032177)

Unfounded=without basis in fact=unacceptable to true feeling liberals.
Facts are stubborn things. Amb Rice fed us a false narrative. It was known to be false in the White House at the time.
She has hardly distinguished herself in representing U S interests at the U N, after all. She has mostly represented the desire of Zero to make Islam look good.
She is pretentious, stubborn, and arrogant.

I agree that she is a good soldier. Put her in the front lines in Afghanistan. But not as Secretary of State.
We have enough sycophants now. We do not need one more.

Oh, well.

Reid will prevail, and she will be approved. He owns Nevada, you know.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: marthaville, 11/24/2012 3:54:26 PM     (No. 9032179)

And we all know the Democrats have only opposed unqualified and incompetent presidential appointees for cabinet level positions as well as Supreme Court nominees.

Give me a break. All those nominated by a president are political. The Washington Post is anything but naive.

When was the last time the Post opposed a nominee proposed by Obama?


Reply 4 - Posted by: maggie2u, 11/24/2012 3:56:17 PM     (No. 9032182)

The congressional black caucus are the ones who are racist. Four and a half years ago, a female governor and her family had a firestorm of hate from leftists rain down on them that continues to this day. Where was/is the defense of this woman? I say they don´t defend her because she is white.


Reply 5 - Posted by: trackman999, 11/24/2012 4:01:22 PM     (No. 9032186)

Demanding the truth is so racist.


Reply 6 - Posted by: King of all trolls, 11/24/2012 4:02:22 PM     (No. 9032188)

The Democrap´s house negro is absolutely off limits. You racists. God forbid a Secretary of the UN should have to answer for her job performance. John Bolton got a free ride, right?


Reply 7 - Posted by: Twinkle93, 11/24/2012 4:03:12 PM     (No. 9032189)

We the taxpayers pay Rice well over $100K a year and she goes out and gives us false information.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: mitzi, 11/24/2012 4:03:42 PM     (No. 9032191)

Sorry - she deliberately appeared on all those Sunday shows and "presented" false information.

Might as well appoint and confirm her. She can take her place around the table with the rest of the administration clowns. Why waste a perfectly decent person ... appoint Susan Rice, she´s already corrupted.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Coy860, 11/24/2012 4:10:14 PM     (No. 9032207)

Susan Rice earned the criticism by merit.
Thanks to her, and Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, the entire Middle East is more messed up than ever before in my lifetime.
So, am I reacist against the black, the white or the Muslim? Or am I sexist? Can a woman be sexist against another woman?


Reply 10 - Posted by: Not your typical New Yorker, 11/24/2012 4:13:51 PM     (No. 9032211)

She opened her mouth, she said what she said and until the person that altered the words to help Obamas campaign is found out....she owns it.


Reply 11 - Posted by: L.A. Guy, 11/24/2012 4:20:19 PM     (No. 9032218)

Susan Rice is either incompetent or complicit.. either way, she is NOT qualified or trustworthy.

Condaleeza Rice was at least honorable, oh and she was a Black Woman nominated by Republicans so the tired old race baiting argument falls flat on its face.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Keekng, 11/24/2012 4:20:30 PM     (No. 9032219)

It is easy to spot obama´s sniveling sycophants.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: krause, 11/24/2012 4:20:57 PM     (No. 9032220)

Allen West lost because those voting against him were racists, I guess.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Flipper3, 11/24/2012 4:22:08 PM     (No. 9032223)

Attacks unfounded? No they´re not.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Opsimath, 11/24/2012 4:23:37 PM     (No. 9032226)

Breitbart in his "Big Government" link on January 22, 2010 posted an article about what Susan Rice was up to.In the first year as U.N. ambassador, she had a Lebovitz photography shoot taken at the U.N. at the Security Council office. She has the largest DC office and staff of any U.N. ambassador; and while in NY, lives in the penthouse at the Waldorf. She is often missing during critical votes and cares nothing for the interests of Israel. The most telling thing about her allegiance to the U.S. is the web page change of the U.N. ambassador: gone is the American flag and posted was the Blue U.N. flag.


Reply 16 - Posted by: earlybird, 11/24/2012 4:24:59 PM     (No. 9032227)

Anyone with a brain who can read and has access to her history (her Wikipedia page is informative) knows that that headline is not true. She had a very bad history long before Benghazi. And her personality is not appropriate for a diplomatic position, particularly such a high level one.

Toughness is one thing. Coarseness, abusiveness, and the limitation of language that causes one to use expletives and nasty language are another. She is unfit.


Reply 17 - Posted by: TakeBackAmerica, 11/24/2012 4:38:10 PM     (No. 9032234)

Americans: No longer listen to anything Spooky Dictator says, much less believe it.

Impeach while we still can.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Spidey, 11/24/2012 4:44:49 PM     (No. 9032242)

As long as republicans keep getting beat down by the race card,the left is going to keep playing it.They have made exploiting white guilt into an art form.If you have a black republican they´re traitors to their race but white liberals aren´t traitors to their race,go figure.


Reply 19 - Posted by: JoElla Bee, 11/24/2012 4:44:58 PM     (No. 9032244)

FTA: "Could it be, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus are charging, that the signatories of the letter are targeting Rice because she is an African American woman? The signatories deny that, and we can´t know their hearts. What we do know is that more than 80 of the signatories are white males, and nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy."

That sounds like reverse racism, to me. Being Southern, white, and male doesn´t make a person racist or sexist any more than being black and female makes one less accountable for lies and incompetence.


Reply 20 - Posted by: planetgeo, 11/24/2012 4:49:34 PM     (No. 9032250)

The Washington Post has apparently forgotten that the last Secretary of State in a Republican Administration was a black female, also named Rice, and deemed very competent. So much for the scurrilous racism charge.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 11/24/2012 4:52:13 PM     (No. 9032252)

Here´s the fairness test:

Substitute the name and face and person of
John Bolton for Ms. Rice.

Now, imagine the press reaction when he pleads that he was just reading the talking points.

They would crucify his skinny, white posterior.


Reply 22 - Posted by: JAN, 11/24/2012 5:00:51 PM     (No. 9032270)

The comPost can kiss my grits.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: dipi, 11/24/2012 5:01:58 PM     (No. 9032271)

Unfounded because she is a negro, or because she lied?


Reply 24 - Posted by: WhatMediaBias, 11/24/2012 5:10:53 PM     (No. 9032279)

Zuzanne Reiss vass only followink orderss. Dummkopfs.


Reply 25 - Posted by: jalo1951, 11/24/2012 5:11:00 PM     (No. 9032280)

My question is why did Obama send Rice out to comment? Obama said she knew nothing, had nothing to do with the situation so why was she the spokesman?


Reply 26 - Posted by: Ida Lil, 11/24/2012 5:15:29 PM     (No. 9032283)

Face the truth only one female sec. State has been qualified and adding a third failure is a waste of time money and respect.
get back to finding a non metro sexual man not just a male and put him to work.
Allow the racial scam to continue much longer and only minority candidates need to apply.
Susan rice isn´t entitled to job she isn´t qualified to handle.


Reply 27 - Posted by: bmoc, 11/24/2012 5:35:29 PM     (No. 9032303)

What was truly unfounded was what the washington post (lower cased by design) did to good Americans like Sarah Palin. It´s time to fight back.


Reply 28 - Posted by: Italiano, 11/24/2012 5:51:45 PM     (No. 9032315)

Face it, you elect Democrats and you get the Affirmative Action / preference products that come along for the free ride. And spare me the "Rhodes Scholar" bilge. Anyone who has been down the road of academia knows how that game is played.


Reply 29 - Posted by: rburns, 11/24/2012 5:55:46 PM     (No. 9032318)

BS. You hacks aren´t journalists you are a sad bunch of blind sheeple who follow the narcissistic ass. You wouldn´t recognize facts because you have no clue what facts are.


Reply 30 - Posted by: janylou, 11/24/2012 6:02:37 PM     (No. 9032325)

I have yet to hear an apology from MS. Rice for feeding the American public the lies!


Reply 31 - Posted by: noproblems, 11/24/2012 6:10:13 PM     (No. 9032329)

the goal is to pressure McCain and Graham to drop their hold on her nomination. it is the inside the beltway world that these folks all live in.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 11/24/2012 6:10:24 PM     (No. 9032330)

Leftist groupthink - - -

She´s black, a woman, and pro-abortion - - therefore it´s UNTHINKABLE that she can be criticized.

Ooops - - did I write "groupthink"? My bad - - it should be "groupfeeeeel."

There - - I fixed it.


Reply 33 - Posted by: laotzu, 11/24/2012 6:11:12 PM     (No. 9032331)

Remember when the Post ran an article like this about the attacks on VP Cheney? Oh that´s right, they didn´t. They published pictures of the location of his private home in the DC area (not talking about the naval observatory.)

No point in arguing with crazy. It just makes you look crazy. Spend that energy educating a young mind. That may make a difference.


Reply 34 - Posted by: 4Justice, 11/24/2012 6:13:55 PM     (No. 9032333)

Pure lies...nothing but lies.

Btw, I really would appreciate it if people would stop using the word "negro". It is a subtle, but obvious racial attack because you know that word has not been used as an acceptable description since the early 1960´s. I find it highly offensive that people are intentionally using it.


Reply 35 - Posted by: saguni, 11/24/2012 6:25:40 PM     (No. 9032352)

I don´t hate the congressional black caucus because of their race, I hate them because their first comment, regardless of the subject or situation, is "You are racist!"


Reply 36 - Posted by: suedotsue, 11/24/2012 7:00:22 PM     (No. 9032383)

In 2004 another African American woman named Dr. Rice was nominated for Sec. of State. The WaPo said there were more complaints about her nomination than any other in history. Amazingly, the WaPo didn´t say democrats who opposed her were racist or from former Confederate states.


Reply 37 - Posted by: wepeople, 11/24/2012 8:05:09 PM     (No. 9032430)

Could anyone publish the names of the editorial board of the WaPo so we could hold them accountible for their sedition?


Reply 38 - Posted by: hotcorner, 11/24/2012 8:32:43 PM     (No. 9032450)

Henry Kissinger, who must be close to 90, appeared on a news show last night and was twenty times more articulate about the middle east than the recent statements of both Susan Rice and Hilary Clinton. How sad and incompetent are most all of Obama´s appointments let alone the number of czars that really run things.


Reply 39 - Posted by: steveracer, 11/24/2012 8:55:53 PM     (No. 9032466)

But it was okay when Condalessa Rice was called a house nigg$$, that was okay. Got it. Thanks.


Reply 40 - Posted by: BreakRight, 11/24/2012 9:07:07 PM     (No. 9032476)

Revised headline: "Press Attacks on 97 Repub Reps Unfounded"

There, fixed it.


Reply 41 - Posted by: god of irony, 11/24/2012 10:17:00 PM     (No. 9032542)

She was either lieing or stupid. If liberals say we can´t hold her accountable because of race sex then they are the bigots.


Reply 42 - Posted by: beancounter, 11/24/2012 10:39:38 PM     (No. 9032557)

Democrats love to play the plausible deniability game. Put out a spokesperson who has no knowledge of the facts, aside from what´s on the paper in front of them.

We know the talking points were doctored for political reasons. If she wasn´t qualified to comment on what happened then she shouldn´t have been on the Sunday shows. If that doesn´t reflect badly on her then it reflects badly on the administration who put her in that situation.


Reply 43 - Posted by: bwebb, 11/24/2012 11:59:04 PM     (No. 9032607)

Since Sept. 11,2012 I have been waiting for a logical-reasonable explanation as to why the US totally failed to help our Ambassador and 3 former US Servicemen...who fought bravely till they were all murdered. I have been looking high and low...and I do blame President Obama and also Sec. of State Clinton...the buck stops with them !


Reply 44 - Posted by: steveW, 11/25/2012 1:12:36 AM     (No. 9032640)

Hej Court Eunuchs - your Lord and Master won. Interesting that you still feel you need to lie and cover-up for Him, though. Interesting.


Reply 45 - Posted by: Trigger2, 11/25/2012 4:25:55 AM     (No. 9032689)

Here comes the rag WaPo to protect Rice. What a surprise.



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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from

Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion

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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel    Original Article
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for


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