Posted on 3/4/2013, 2:10:32 AM by smoothsailing
March 3, 2013
Paul Roderick Gregory
Is the press corps getting some balls (to put it crudely but graphically)? Are they finally prepared to challenge the President’s untruthful assertions on facts that are crucial to understanding policy?
None other than NBC’s David Gregory today pressed Obama’s chief economic advisor, Gene Sperling, whether his boss told the truth in the third presidential debate that “the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.” Sperling finally wilted under the pressure of tough questioning to admit that “yes, in fact, the sequestration was President Obama’s plan.”
Sperling actually admitted nothing new as I chronicled in my With the Sequester, President Obama Argues With President Obama. Jack Lew, in his confirmation hearings, conceded on February 13 that the sequester originated in the White House. On Tuesday February 19, press spokesman Jay Carney admitted “The sequester was something that was discussed… and as has been reported, it was an idea that the White House put forward.”
Of course, these clear admissions that Obama parented the sequester are being furiously spun (The Republicans made him do it), but the words are not subject to misinterpretation. So it is true. Obama is fighting against his own program, while blaming his opponents! It can’t be clearer than that.
Despite this conclusive evidence that Obama himself proposed the sequester, the media sat on its hands as the President falsely excoriated the Republicans...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
He fibs and spends like a drunken sailor...and yet, they continue to elect him...
The media continues to cover for him.
How do we correct caption to read: White House is a lying sack of puss and bile?
As a former drunken sailor, I must take issue with that statement on two counts:
1. Unlike Obama, we were spending our own money.
2. Unlike Obama, when we ran out of money, we stopped spending.
Would be easier to count the times he tells the truth..
This a-hole makes Bill Clinton look like Honest Abe.
“Is the press corps getting some balls (to put it crudely but graphically)?”
Not in this lifetime.
I hate these freakin’ euphemisms like “fibbed”.
He lied!
kg/nancy
As a former drunken soldier, I second your sentiment.
Hopefully more in the media will join the few who are questioning him, if so it could bring down his presidency and I know full well that's wishful thinking.
Good article.
Not in the U.S. navy you weren't...:)
Not in the U.S. navy you weren't...:)
Since I was getting paid for services rendered, it was my money. Do you spend your employer's money or your own?
What’s disgusting is that the media may come around but it will be for self-preservation, not out of patriotism.
To be fair, there are a rare few, like Sharyl Atkisson, who actually care about the country.
Fibbed? Little kids 'fib' about hands in cookie jars! This SOB told a bald faced lie!!!!!! Tell it like it is.......
I tell a lie to the government and I go to jail? When the president tells a lie, it's just a fib???????
He is and has been a liar. We must survive this communist. We will survive this communist and his vile regime.
I really don’t know how to honestly respond to this post without getting banned from FR.
A couple days ago I described this poor excuse for a man accurately and just as I have done hundreds of times on FR, the post was deleted. So why bother...
Obama is what he is, everybody with a brain knows what he is, and nothing is going to get better until he (and his democrats) is no longer in power. There—that should be safe.
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