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Matt Lauer Grills Controversial Obama Book Author Over White House Pushback

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Today’s Matt Lauer put author Jodi Kantor on the heat seat Monday morning over her controversial new book, The Obamas, which claims — among other things — that there are tensions between White House staff and the First Lady.

“Did you talk to the President and First Lady while researching the book?” Lauer pressed.

RELATED: Axelrod Confirms That Robert Gibbs Did Curse Michelle Obama

“The book is mostly reported through top aides and close friends of the president and First Lady,” Kantor responded. “I’m one of the only people to get access to the East Wing and the First Lady’s staff there. What I found is that aides and friends were able to tell stories that the Obamas don’t talk about, like what happened the first time they tried to go home to Chicago.”

Lauer presented pushback from the White House, which called her book an “overdramatization of old news.”

“Are you kind of taking poetic license here?” Lauer questioned.

“They haven’t disputed any of the facts,” Kantor argued.

Kantor went into more details about how First Lady Michelle Obama hasn’t been involved in the day-to-day activities of the West Wing.

“Is she disappointed with what’s happened so far?” Lauer asked.

“According to my reporting, there were times she was really frustrated,” Kantor revealed.

Watch Lauer’s exclusive interview with Kantor below, via NBC:

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  • Anonymous

    “Grilled” because it talked about Obama in a not so nice way; as opposed to “embraced” which Lauer does to any author who talks about any republican in a not so nice way.
    Boring.

    Who from  mediatie was in attendance at the 09 haloween party and helped team Obama hide the details from the public?  And why do the media chose to spike stories and hide the truth about Obama from the public? 

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.  Go back to books about Republicans (obviously starting with #43), the questions would be about whatever was negative in the book and ‘gee, why do you think they gave you access when they should have known it’d make them look bad?’

  • Anonymous

    I can tell you’re really on to something here Tina. What “dark” conspiracy lurks behind the Obama curtain. I really hate that the first lady has made it her cause to help veterans and get your fat kid off the couch for an hour a day. I mean how dare her! Clearly an uppity bitch!

  • 12voltman1

    The Obama’s Halloween scandal?
    ROTFLMAO.

  • Meg Larson

    Of all the things you could be questioning, Tina, you are wondering about a Halloween party from 2009?  Are you stuck in a time warp?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Does Lauer go directly to the White House to pick up his Bonus check, or does the DNC just mail it to him?

  • T. Gloves Donahue

    The same Today show that would give anti-Bush or anti-Reagan authors an entire week of segments to bash their subjects?

    Yes, that’s the show.

  • Anonymous

    Right?  This wacko has been all over mediaite this morning posting the crap.

  • Anonymous

    jealous, jealous, jealous with a touch of racism thrown in for good measure.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Conservative Victimization Syndrome.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Apparently, you’ve caught Tina’s CVS.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Super Bowl is coming up. All the rightists will be bellowing if their is a potato chip on the premises.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll take your word for it…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    Funny how anti-Bush books by Woodward and Bernstein where treated like gospel, yet one book against Moochele and suddenly it’s the Spanish Inquisition all over again.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I consider it a testament to how little “bad stuff” there is. Tina has to dig through mounds of crap before she finds her little nugget of trash.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_J7A4WQXTWWIGLHCGKEK67CJWKA Janet

    Matt looks very angry.  You would think the book was about him instead of his lord and master.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Lest we forget why you’re known as Big Petty.

  • http://twitter.com/benknight8 ben knight

    Book seems to be pretty weak, in that its strongest theme is that there
    were some “tensions” between Mrs. Obama and some of the more
    hard-charging White House staff. Whoa, stop the presses. How in the
    world is this “news” or even interesting?  Not much there.  

  • OSTL

    sock alert

  • Anonymous

    The Real Royal Misogynist Strikes Again !!!

  • Anonymous

    And Again !!!

  • Anonymous

    What an ass you are. Shoddy journalism and innuendo deserves heated push back. But of course a moron like yourself would not want anything positive about Obama. BTW… You should be on your knees thanking him for keeping us out of a depression. You idiot conservatives think he should be able to wave a magic wand and correct 8 YEARS OF BUSH RUNNING THE COUNTRY INTO GROUND. It doesn’t happen that way but the policies he has been able to get through despite REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISTS has moved us forward. If you want the country to start back down hill again elect another Republican.

  • Anonymous

    Another brilliant comment from the “Village Idiot.”

  • Anonymous

    Wow, another brilliant comment form an ill-informed mental midget.

  • 12voltman1

    We just have to read your words Gloves.”(formerly the white house)”.

  • 12voltman1

    Gee, if that seems like anger to you.
    You must be very sensitive.
    Just saying..

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who speaks the truth about the Obummers will be attacked by the left….they still believe in the fabricated fairy tale they helped create!!

  • 12voltman1

    Alice and Wonderland theme with Star Wars characters?

  • Anonymous

    Yup. Just like that other nut who wrote that Obama diaries or some crap.

  • Anonymous

    NBC is part of corrupt liberal media complex that was partially responsible for this little boy dictator. Of course, Lauer is not happy with a book that shows how these people are classless hypocrites!

  • Anonymous

    Remember when Today grilled Kitty Kelly on her Bush bash book?  Oh wait, they didn’t grill her, they brought her back for a second day to spew her hate. 

    What liberal media bias?!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Conservative Victimization Syndrome. My deepest, heart-felt sympathies.

  • Anonymous

    There does seem to be a fair point to be made about the difference between this book, and similar books about White House “scandals” during previous administrations.

    It seems that those who see the books as negative, and helping their political “side,” are more likely to approve of the book. Those who see it as an attack, hurtful for their “side,” are more likely to complain and accuse the author of fabricating evidence, or lacking authority.

    Is there anyone (particularly on the left), who is willing to explain or defend that hypothesis? Why is this book bad, but a similar Bush (for example) good? Is it just political expediency, or is there something more tangible?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vicky-Done/100003036285582 Vicky Done

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  • 12voltman1

    There are some that are just curious or others who are political junkies.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    No….Liberals are the victims remember? You better take a refresher course on your talking points…your straying!!

  • Anonymous

    When all else fails, attack the messenger.

  • 12voltman1

    This is what will bring President Obama to his knees.Losing the election.
    The Great Obama Halloween Scandal of 2009 and the cover up.
    LOL

  • Ben

    Breaking News!!

    -Chicks like to get involved.

    -Sometimes there’s tension in the White House.

    ….Well….ain’t that something.

  • 12voltman1

    Do you watch a lot of X-Files reruns?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get it.  It seems a new anit-Obama book comes out every week.  Why the fuss over this one?

  • Pablo

    What has she done for veterans? 37 White House Christmas trees? An iCarly appearance? What, exactly?

  • Pablo

    “I blame Bush.”

  • Pablo

    Yes, it’s because you’re not very clever.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ExposeElectionFraudClickHere

    And like the next election will be fair. Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 99% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. Comments are created before the stories are ever reported. The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth and attack anyone leaking it.

    The next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. The link in my name tells the whole story.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ExposeElectionFraudClickHere

    Probably because it’s not censored like everything online

  • Pablo

    Indeed. There’s juicier stuff out there, like the fact that Bill Ayers wrote most of Dreams From My Father.

    http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Michelle-Portrait-American-Marriage/dp/B005Q5W4NA/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5

  • Anonymous

    LOL…a real Rocket Scientist aren’t you?  Hahaha

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you look it up brilliance-

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/joiningforces/

    Why don’t you like all that the Obamas have done for veterans?  Do you like veterans?

  • Anonymous

    That’s a very safe argument to make when discussing something stupid Pablo.

  • Anonymous

    Personal attacks against the First Lady always signal a principled debater.  Bravo.

  • Anonymous

    Ayers is also the one who photoshopped Obama’s birth certificate and stole the Death Star plans from the Galactic Empire…

  • Anonymous

    Funny Stuff – I just used mediaite’s search function and entered “Controversial Bush Book”…guess what the results were:

    NO RESULTS FOUND

    Now, does that surprise anyone?

    Calling Dan …. perhaps you should require a little balance on the baord, eh???

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Yet, Conservative_Cretin, it is you and your ilk constantly whining about how unfair the media is to you.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What’s a “baord”?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    When Progressives Attack:  Note the anger in their voice as they move in for the personal insult.  The use of  “ass” and “moron” coupled with secret desire to say truly despicable things, alas mediate will would probably punt those comments. 

    Next, the need to cast the person as a racist, ignorant fool for daring to criticize the Obama (or anyone the Progressive likes).  “Getting on your knees”, my aren’t we the little sexist for saying that to a woman.  BTW, notice the assumption that the subject of it’s ire assumes Janet is a conservative, because only conservatives do not like Obama’s policies and of course all conservatives or anyone else are idiots for not seeing this administration’s genius. 

    Next, and while it has died down somewhat, the blame the Bush mantra.  After all, everything is Bush’s fault.  He ran the country into the ground all by himself, oh wait, lets not forget the true brains, Darth Cheney.  So what if congress, under the majority of both parties at one point or another were in the mix. 

    Then it is on to, as Harry Reid likes to say, REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISTS or Teaparty Republicans.   So what if this President had a majority in both houses, the evil republican stopped him.  Even now, the Republicans only hold the house, rather incompetently, and still they stop the Obama.  How DARE the opposition, well oppose the Obama, only holy progressives can stop, block, insult, and oppose the other side, never in reverse.  Then the forbidding prediction of the future if the Obama is voted out of office.  (Sounds like to prediction many of us make if he stays in office.  I guess time will tell or the country will fall, whichever comes first.)

    Oh and as for the New York Times writer,  just send her to a re-education camp, she will be fine.

  • OSTL

    when you can’t refute the facts jump on a typo! typical hardcore olbyloon diversion..lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    Yes, I am afraid so, it looks like that party was hidden from the public view. 

  • OSTL

    sez the sock that whines about Fox News (#1) every day…lol

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No, Paulie doesn’t like veterans. Republicans don’t. They’re always slashing veterans’ benefits. And, May All the Angels and Archangels in Heaven protect veterans running for political office. The Republicans disparage their service and attack them mercilessly. Cleland. Duckworth. Kerry. Sestak.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, if that is not the pot calling the kettle blah.

  • Anonymous

    Which is always for the Royal Dimwit.

  • OSTL

    Homeland security program in Chicago deemed $45M failure…nice goin, nobama!

  • 12voltman1

    I don’t think it is necessarily a anti-Obama book. But then again I don’t have a advance copy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    The key difference could be the look at  Mrs. Obama,  Ms. Kantor will be off to a re-education camp soon, besides, her last name is to close to “Cantor”, so she must be evil.

  • 12voltman1

    OK. I’ll bite.
    What’s a “baord”?

    Now, your turn. What’s the punchline?

  • Anonymous

    Everything is Bush’s fault you sanctimonious lunatic. You have no ability to look at  the world and see the problems and solutions. The knees reference is to that woman calling Obama a persons lord and master. You’re pathetic and yes I will keep calling idiots, idiots. The senate was never completely beyond the realm of filibusterer because Kennedy was dying at the beginning of the administration and was not able to be there for votes. You deserve to lose your home from unpaid medical bills. Of course you won’t because of the new health care laws but you and your friend s want to appeal them. Yes, 90% of the criticism of the president is based on racism. WTF up.

  • Anonymous

    Another lie – you’re like a fountain of poop…nice goin, Rocket Scientist!

  • Anonymous

    Wait where’s the racism? Is it where he’s talking about the Today show? Or calling NBC the “Obama Campaign Headquarters?” Or the use of the word “atizzy?” What’s so racist about any of those statements? Or is it just the case that you’re too ignorant to come up with any sort of substantive reply so you just threw out the word “racist” to score some imaginary points for yourself?

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ExposeElectionFraudClickHere

    The Psy-ops comments are just flooding this story. Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 99% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. Comments are created before the stories are ever reported. The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth and attack anyone leaking it.

  • 12voltman1

    Off topic, just a little bit this morning Jeff?

  • Anonymous

    Liberal cover up?

  • Anonymous

    Have you been able to convince anyone of your theories? You post here under a multitude of names, trying to get people to your site… but I’ve never seen anyone actually agree, or support your arguments. Are you running a successful campaign, I suppose is my question?

    Followup question: Is it possible to disagree with you, and not be part of the “psy-ops” team? Are there people who don’t agree with you, who you recognize as not being “government agents,” or are they all working for “the man?”

  • Anonymous

    Matt Lauer, singing the latest verse of his Ode to OBAMO: ‘Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him!’

  • Anonymous

       Any Kenyan cuisine served? How about Muslim fare from Mogadishu? The horror!

  • Anonymous

    “Everything is Bush’s fault you sanctimonious lunatic.”
    And you have the chutzpah to say:
    “You’re pathetic”

    A true example of lemmings off their meds. 

  • Anonymous

        The Obamas have done more for military families than any White House I can remember and I’m in my seventies,

  • Anonymous

    Horse hockey!

  • Anonymous

    Check out this web site for the list of Bush lies just through the first 4 years http://www.unknownnews.org/logoflies.html#seo2001 The last 4 years he destroyed the economy. Of course idiots like yourself would rather go back to the Bush era policies where jobs were being lost by the hundreds of thousands monthly rather than be happy with the 21 straight months of private sector job growth under Obama. WTF is wrong with you?

  • Anonymous

    That’s a technical argument, right Shitzy? LOL.

  • Pablo

    I am a veteran, moron. What I don’t like is people who “help veterans” through self-aggrandizement.

  • Pablo

    Why can’t you give me a concrete example or two?

  • Pablo

    Like what?

  • Pablo

    If you’re paraphrasing Obama, it’s pretty much a lock.

  • Anonymous

    Angry hyperbole is what you are most known for.  Posters like you are easy fodder.  You call posters names, your screen name is ridiculous and all you post is hatefilled rhetoric. Where in God’s name could you get the idea that I want to “go back to Bush the Bush era”? Because I called your post out for being pathetic? And Republicans ae morons? Your strawman is destroyed, go back to your hatefilled posts. 
    Unfortunately I have a good idea of WTF is wrong with you. LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think it’s possible for someone with an ounce of common sense to not understand that the lame stream media is total biased.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Jodi Kantor is about to find out just how vicious this White House can be. Personally, if I were her, I’d start wearing Kevlar!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Holistic

    Matt must have been at the Wonderland Party and wants no one to know. Still sucking on the Obama teat.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    Come on, you can do better than that.  Is air Bush’s fault?  If you blame him for everything, then it is you who is unable to see the world much less see solutions.   Oh, by the way, starting out with personal insults proves my point.  Cursing me to lose my house, that’s sweet of you.  

    So tell me, when the Democrats were and will be again, in the minority, how will you feel about the filibuster rule then?  Will you cry over the tyranny of the minority or of the majority.  It will happen, political climates change, so what then?

    As for medical bills, I lived in a socialist style medical system where I never saw the the same doctor twice.  That system almost killed my mother and it took the normal medical system to fix what the other guy did.  The name of that is system is the military and in my mom’s case, the VA.  While not every VA hospital, is the same, many of us veterans know that if you want to check out, the VA will speed you along.  I do not want that system for you as much as you hope that I would die. 

    I used to work at what is now WebMd, troubleshooting electronic claims and supporting medical software.  I spent four years watching the battle between the government, the private insurance companies and the doctors trying to survive them both.   The government is just as much the problem as the private insurance companies.  

    Here is what I do not want, I do not want an already out of control Federal Government forcing me, at the point of a gun, telling me what I must buy, period.  I do not want a 2000 page law that was passed by questionable means, transforming this nation in ways that we can only guess at.  Go back and try again

    Perhaps you should pay attention to the what is happening in the EU, if we become like them, then we face the same disaster.  We will not follow the German model, which does have merits, we are going to follow the French or Italian model and that will suck in the end.

    Here is your problem, pure and simple, because you are so far in the tank for Obama you see every disagreement with him as a racist assault, oh I am sorry 90%.  Not everyone who disagrees with Obama is a racists and to claim so is sloppy thinking.  Coupled with your emotional drive to attack, insult, and curse anyone who is not lockstep to your view causes you to be ineffective. 

  • Anonymous

    On Mr. So-Above-It-All… I’m so sorry to wreck your sensibilities. So I take it the we should repeal the law that forces everyone to have car insurance as well. Maybe we can get rid of those pesky building codes and zoning ordinances too! So should we abolish the VA as well now? You and everyone in this country have the benefits of socialism. You just don’t care to look at it that way because you have been taught that is a dirty word. Everything that has made this country great is based on communal good. Let’s bring back the Eisenhower tax rates and we would have a strong middle class again. After all wasn’t the 50″s the good old days in America? Please, call Ike a socialist for me.

  • Anonymous

    Glad to see your Steelers got what they deserve. Too bad it was at the hands of T-Joke.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    Sorry, its looking like OSTL is right, this is from the Chicago Sun Times. 

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/9853704-418/feds-find-failures-in-cook-co-homeland-security-project-from-start-to-end.html

    Then again it is Chicago and Homeland Security, two corrupt things that should not go together.  And yes, that was Bush’s fault.  Just remember kids, the Germans called their “Homeland Security”  the Schutzstaffel. 

     I said it then and I will say it now, Homeland Security is a corrupt entitiy that is the home for slush funds, cronie payoffs and the general oppression of the populace is the bonus.  Can you say TSA with those lovely overpriced and dangerous X-Ray machines.

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    Lauer is obviously upset that word has gotten out that the White House actually assigned the Press Secretary to reign in Michelle Obama’s opulent lifestyle, which runs contrary to the fake image the media has been creating for her with her bogus shopping trips to Target.

  • Anonymous

    “What has she done for veterans?” I gave you a whole website full – are you going to go all lame one me now that I’ve given you the proof?  Obviously your mouse works – click on the link fool.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    And yes it is….

  • Anonymous

    You truly are a hate-filled child lacking all substance, aren’t you?

  • Anonymous

    Sigh…….Fox and it’s Pundits will cherry pick this book unmercifully to sabotage the President and first lady.
    The irony is that Fox Pundits pretend to own “family values” and Jesus.

  • Anonymous

    Geeze!  Get Real…It was Bush who lied us into a disastrous War and ruined the Economy.

  • Anonymous

    Please seek counseling.

  • Anonymous

    Funny, I didn’t think  FOX was the topic of this thread.  I think it’s time for your FDS (Fox Derangement Syndrome) meds sweetie.  It’s a dangerous disease, if left untreated.

  • Anonymous

    Did they take some Vets with them on their many, many Vacations? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    she hurt matt’s feelings he as all on NBC and MSNBC are so brain washed in love with the dear leader…. OBAMA ….   that any criticism of him and the first woman ( would never reference her to be a lady) who didnt even want the job….  is hurtful to him Matt loves the Obamas ………

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    In a contest between Matt Lauer, Brian Williams, David Gregory or George Stephanopolous, who is the biggest Obama suck #ss in the “mainstream” media?

  • Anonymous

    What does she have on Obamas? She goes around and around without saying anything specific.

    Just another charlatan who pulls a stunt to sell her book.

  • Anonymous

    By “Many, many” do you mean like GWB or Reagan “many”?  That’s going to be tough – Obama would have to double his vacations to top those freeloaders.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like you need to look up the word “paraphrasing”…it’s OK.  I’ll wait. LMAO.

  • Anonymous
  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ExposeElectionFraudClickHere

    you have 6 comments. Stop covering up coward

  • Anonymous

    did laur interview a man or woman….theres ur cover-up

  • Anonymous

    At last I’ve got the answer to the question, “Where’s Matt Lauer?”

    He’s where he’s always been, in the tank for the Obama White House!

    You can rest asure that Jodi Kantor will not get invited to the next Obama Halloween party!  (But, Matt will!)

  • Pablo

    Yeah. I see media appearances. What has she done?

    Talking and doing are two different things.

  • Pablo

    This year alone, for example, she’s participated in 50 events, many out of the eye of the media, and even dedicated the White House Christmas
    tree to supporting veterans.

    Hey! It was 37 WH Christmas trees! They shorted her helping the troops by 36 Christmas tree dedications!

    Earlier this week at the White House, first lady Michelle Obama honored military families and reflected on their sacrifice.

    Wow! That’s incredibly helpful. You hear that, Vets? Your troubles are over!

  • Anonymous

    The non-Rocket Scientist is wrong…he is blaming Obama for a program launched by GWB’s Homeland Security Department in 2005.  Does that make sense?

  • Pablo

    Ayers has never mentioned that.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like Matt is offering his butt to Obama again.

  • http://twitter.com/kidbookratings Erik Metz

    As an Obama neighbor, let me speak on behalf of the country.  This book sounds pointless.  If I was rating it on my site, I’d Destroy the thing…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    OK, “Ike was a socialist”.  Feel better.

    Car Insurance, building codes and the like are handled at the local and state levels.  Why, well that falls to the 10th amendment, you know the part that gave states and the people all powers not specifically reserved to the Fed in that stupid little document.

    Let’s put the constitution aside for a moment.  The closer you are to the problem the better you can address the problem.  That is just plain common sense.  Have you ever worked for a big corporation and the seemingly insane rules that come from on high?   Why would you want to continue that at the national level with something that could determine if you get to live or die.  Do you want a nameless clown deciding your death and the manner of your death.  Now you can say the insurance company does that, and you are mostly right.  The difference, you can’t sue the Fed.  You get to die just like they do in Britain, with no recourse.

    No, I am not saying do away with the VA and you know it.  If there is any group of people that must be helped it is those who agree to die or sometimes worse, lived maimed for our country.   The way we have dealt with our veterans is a national disgrace, under both parties. 

    Now let’s talk about this little tidbit ” Everything that has made this country great is based on communal good.”  Sorry, I do not agree, and this sentiment shows a frightening lack of historical perspective.  You have just given the reasons that Mao, Stalin, Kim  and others have used to kill millions.  America is based on the power of the individual, who CHOOSE’S to work with others, not forced by the sword, whatever the individuals motives are.  Enlightened self interest, no matter the reason is an acknowledged strength of our system.  Does it suck that people are greedy, you bet, but you do not get to judge them.  The market will usually bitch slap them, just ask Netflix, they just saved Blockbuster.  I did not say the free market, because their is no such thing.

    Do you think communism would have given you the computer on which you are now insulting me on, of course you do.  But that is not reality.  The truth is that you would not be insulting me without some people being greedy and most people simply wanting to be paid for their work.   Oh and you would not be insulting me and others because the state’s internal security services would have hauled you off to jail by now for speaking against the Bush or any other oppositions leaders that you hate. 

    Now I cannot prove you favor communism, that is your call, but your use of the phrase “communal good” in that manner indicates a marked preference for that style of government, .  The old Soviet System is an example of communal good, with millions dead and cars that sucked to drive.

    An off to work…

  • Anonymous

    Republicans attack veterans?  Really?  Are/were the following all Republicans:
    1.  Jack Murtha calling troops cold-blooded murderers
    2.  Dick Durbin comparing US troops to Nazis
    3.  A host of Dems who equated Bush to Hitler…that one ring a bell with you?
    4.  Nancy Pelosi comparing Tea Party members and conservative townhall attendees to Nazis

    I won’t even go into details regarding how Alan West has been vilified by the Dem run media.

  • Anonymous

    I am so happy I have given you something to do today to express yourself. You’re an irrational alarmist and I am through with this back and forth. You are a black and white kind of guy with no room for shades or gray in your thinking. Go vote Republican and add to the problems. You clearly have cranial rectal inversion. It is a disease with no known cure but education so go take a few jr. college courses and write when you have completed them.

  • Anonymous

       You really hate her, don’t you? And such intelligent rebuttals.

  • Anonymous

    She’s far too easy a target, so I’m not sure why anyone would waste time on her.

  • Anonymous

      We all do.

  • Anonymous

    That would be the case if Lauer had done the research, but he only parrots what the White House tells him.  Most of the media get their talking points from the White House.  Heck, half the folks who work there were once part of the media. Anyone who would deny there is an unhealthy relationship between Obama’s White House and the media is just drinking the kool-aid.  Clinton wishes he was treated this well.

  • Anonymous

    You proved Sidhecat’s point brilliantly.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, you are so right the White House controls the media. I bet you think we didn’t land on the moon and there was a second gunman as well…

  • Anonymous

    You going to get it for saying that.  Didn’t you get the memo that Obama and Ayers don’t know each other.  That fund raising dinner was so crowded that Obama didn’t really know whose house he was in.  And that school indoctrination program he and Ayers co-chaired that wasted $100M…well, they never had any meetings on that one either.  And before you even mention it, Obama did not know Tony Rezko and had nothing to do with any real estate scams.  And don’t even try to bring up how Michelle Obama’s job at the hospital was so important that they had to give her a 100% raise after Obama won the Senate seat in 2004.  Just coincidence.  Kind of like how they eliminated her $300K+/yr job once she left to go to DC.  Nothing to see here…move along.

  • Anonymous

    There is such a good joke in that one…but I won’t go there.

  • Anonymous

    You do know that the First Lady is not an actual member of the legislature or executive branch, right?  LOL. 

    You mean above and beyond using her status as first lady to bring attention to veterans and their plight to get mental/physical care for themselves and their families after the war(s), and to get them jobs after being away, and to give those still overseas support?  You mean above and beyond what she’s already done to try and bring attention to the plight of military families in dealing with the stress of war and its aftermath?  And to support all of the legislative veterans’ initiatives of her husband?

    What else is the First Lady supposed to do, except show up and use the attention they receive to try and make the US a better place?  Just like the First Ladies before her:

    Obama – Child Obesity and Veterans Affairs

    Laura Bush – Literacy

    Clinton – Child Immunizations and Healthcare

    Barbara Bush – Literacy, homelessness, AIDS, the elderly, and school volunteer programs

    Reagan – Say No To Drugs

    Carter – Mental Health

    Ladybird Johnson – National Parks and Highway Beautification

  • Anonymous

    Must be a trick question, since everyone knows the entire media (sans Fox) is pulling at least 1 atmosphere of vacuum on Obama’s butt.

  • Anonymous

    When Rahm left they stopped doing those weekly media calls to make sure everyone had their talking points down.  Guess they need to bring those back.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right I’ve noticed “Fox” holding back a lot of hate towards Obama! Another conspiracy!

  • Anonymous

    Can’t speak to the entire program, but the Chicago piece was really more of a Cook County debacle.  You’d have to be a resident here to know just how totally inept county government is…and has been since the Democrats took complete control a few decades ago.  Only in Cook County would we reelect a guy who had a completely debilitating stroke…then elect his son, a total moron (it’s descriptive and not an ad hominem attack), to replace him.  The current Board President is a wee bit better…but still a Democrat which means she’ll just be “smoother” at playing with the books.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for reporting the “ONLY” functions they’ve been part of so far! Looks like your’ve being honest and covered it all!

  • Anonymous

    Books bashing Republicans or conservatives are almost never questioned by the so-called media.  The reason is fairly obvious….90%+ of the media types are libs/Dems.  One thing that is a bit different this time around….many in the media have either written books about Obama or plan to write a book.  Do you remember when Gwen Ifill moderated one of the McCain/Obama debates in 2008…even though she was writing a book about Obama and other powerful blacks in politics?  Bottom line….there has been and most likely always will be a double standard with the media.  They will attack any conservative or Republican politician without mercy…and will make anyone who attacks a liberal or Democrat wish they were a conservative or Republican politician.

  • Anonymous

    Pablo has a hard time looking these things up himself.  Here’s a taste from the internet Pablow…

    On November 21, 2011 President Obama signed the “VOW to Hire Heroes Act” into law. The Returning Heroes Tax Credit provides businesses that hire unemployed veterans a maximum credit of $5,600 per veteran, and the Wounded Warriors Tax Credit offers businesses that hire veterans with service-connected disabilities a maximum credit of $9,600 per veteran. 

    On November 7, 2011 President Obama introduced new resources created to help veterans translate their military skills for the civilian workforce.

    On August 5, 2011 President Obama announced new commitments to servicemembers and veterans that will provide a comprehensive plan to lower veteran unemployment and
    ensure that servicemembers leave the military career-ready through
    hiring tax credits, private sector commitments, and reforms that improve
    the way we prepare, train, and educate servicemembers for life after
    the military.

    The Recovery Act provides the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America’s Veterans.

    The President announced the Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Initiative.
    Both the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs
    will work together to define and build a system that will ultimately
    contain administrative and medical information from the day an
    individual enters military service throughout their military career, and
    into the Veteran phase of life.

    Commitment and support for the Post-9/11 GI Bill – providing every returning service member with a real chance to afford a college education.

  • Anonymous

    What do ”tea” bags, Bush and misqoutes have to do with veterans?

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the world’s intelligence agencies screwed up and the Democrats were the ones who killed the economy.  Who repealed Glass-Steagall?  Clinton.  Who let Fannie & Freddie run amok?  Democrats.  Who pushed for lower lending standards?  Democrats.  Who deregulated derivatives (those pesking financial instruments that helped cause the collapse)?  Clinton.

  • Anonymous

    Nice reply, but you’re an “irrational alarmist”.  LMAO! These hate-filled trolls just can’t see how their posts showcase their poor rational and debating skills.

  • Anonymous

    Think you might have mixed in some unrelated here Gorty…don’t forget the grand Repuke that sent more than 4,500 American soldiers to their death over a lie…wow.

  • Anonymous

    Why do you even ask for examples? You deny what you see, spin, then lie about it! With those rules you will never get an example,….. just don’t ask, but that’s no fun!

  • Anonymous

    Actually knew a couple of people close to the space program…so, unless they were lying to me…we definitely landed on the moon.  Regarding the 2nd gunman…nope, never did buy that theory.  But the media being in the tank for Democrats and especially this President…that’s a hypothesis that has been made and proven.  Sorry Charlie.

  • Anonymous

    I just found out Bush took several vets with him on every vaction! No that was wrong Bush never took a vaction!

  • Anonymous

    Not you, you don’t use facts!

  • Anonymous

    Why?  Because she wants to bring more attention to the plight of military members and their families?  Because she doesn’t want kids to be on blood pressure medicine and getting diabetes?  What is so easy to target?  Come on genius – I know you’re dying to say something witty about her hair, her behind, her lips or her skin color.  Let’s go creep…out with it.

  • Anonymous

    He’s got the same agent “Fox” uses.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, most of the hate ”Obama”  books, don’t pass fact check. That’s just in “tea” world!

  • Anonymous

    That easy target wouldn’t be based on “spin, lies and hate” would it?

  • Anonymous

    Was it your “lord and master” “Fox” told you to say that?

  • Anonymous

    He’s factual! It stings sometimes!

  • Anonymous

    What kind of crap is this “decide to live or die”? Lets make sure and scare the simpletons every chance we get. The insurance companies decide if you get coverage, for what and how long you will be treated. Do they decide if you live or die? You fools listen far too much to the lies the “teas” vomit out and try to spin it as the truth. All you know is what you’re told “healthcare bad” you don’t know why, you can’t prove it, just live the lie!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    I will concede that, or did you miss “That was Bush’s fault”.  Here is the point, I don’t care if Jesus was President, Homeland security is a corrupt entity that should be dismantled, period.

    Now I must really go….

  • Anonymous

    Conspiracy!

  • Anonymous

    She is hoping to make a name for herself by writing this book, in the same fashion that woman wrote about Frank Sinatra. Note: I don’t remember her name, and I don’t care.

  • Anonymous

    Lucky for you that you have a site no one knows about.

  • Anonymous

    King is always the punchline. We know it. He knows it.

  • Anonymous

    Fly away my pretty….. fly…. fly

  • Anonymous

    I think this might have turned in to some kind of Wookie orgy around 11:42 of that evening. Thus the secrecy. :)

  • Anonymous

    lame…. put that chafed mons on ice old-timer.

  • Anonymous

    You are correct…. there is not that much there. That’s why it’s so bush-league of Obizzles PR troop to give the reaction they have gave. Feeling guilty elites?

  • Anonymous

    ” get busy livin’…. or get busy dyin’”

  • Anonymous

    I don’t “hate” the woman; I merely find her a fake and a fraud who is lavishing herself and her relatives at the expense of the hardworking taxpayers- rather a modern day Marie Antoinette.

    As I understand it, the referenced party with Johnny Depp was NOT the general party for the children of vets, but was a separate, later, “private” party attended by special guests.

  • Anonymous

    ObamaGasm !!!!

  • Anonymous

        “As I understand it . . .” Rich.

  • Anonymous

     Yet, it’s true. Sorry to pop your balloon. Also sorry that will be the only thing popping for you today.

  • Anonymous

    Since I am NOT part of the White House press corps, nor was I invited to the later, “private” party, I can only say, “as I understand it.” 

    Do see the posts on the other “Halloween Party” thread- you might find out some information you don’t know.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    William Prescott didn’t interview Cortes or Montezuma who were unavailable for comment and also didn’t respond well to charges his History of the Conquest of Mexico was an over dramatization of old news.

  • Anonymous

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