{"id":26376,"date":"2014-07-22T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26376"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:11:00","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-july-21st-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=26376","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, July 21st, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, July 21st, 2014&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, courtesy of <em>The Daily Caller<\/em>, what must come as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no shock whatsoever<\/em><\/span>\u00a0to anyone with even <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">half<\/span><\/em> a brain&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2014-04-07_2246-770x330.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2014-04-07_2246-770x330.png\" alt=\"2014-04-07_2246-770x330\" width=\"450\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2014-04-07_2246-770x330.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/2014-04-07_2246-770x330-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Darn! \u00a0That leaves <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">us<\/span> out!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;not to mention all the inquiring minds who want to know why the facilities housing these illegals are shrouded in secrecy:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"White House Hid Huge Spike Of Families Crossing Border\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/07\/18\/white-house-hid-huge-spike-of-families-crossing-border\/#ixzz382un4McN\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">White House Hid Huge Spike Of Families Crossing Border<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/flow-of-immigrants-texas-border-e1404421940957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/flow-of-immigrants-texas-border-e1404421940957.jpg\" alt=\"flow-of-immigrants-texas-border-e1404421940957\" width=\"433\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/flow-of-immigrants-texas-border-e1404421940957.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/flow-of-immigrants-texas-border-e1404421940957-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;New data shows the White House has painted a false picture of the Central American migration by hiding a huge spike in \u201cfamily units\u201d who are illegally crossing the Texas border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">The data, which was dumped by the U.S. border patrol late Friday afternoon, shows that inflow of youths and children traveling without parents has doubled since 2013, to 57,525 in the nine months up to July 2014. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But the number of migrants who cross the border in so-called \u201cfamily units\u201d has spiked five-fold to 55,420, according to\u00a0the border patrol\u2019s data, which came out amid a storm of news about the shoot-down of a Malaysian aircraft in Ukraine, delays in failed U.S. nuke talks with Iran, and on Hamas\u2019 continued war against Israel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\">In the Rio Grande area where most of the migrants are crossing the border, the number of so-called \u201cunaccompanied children\u201d was actually outnumbered by the inflow by adults, parents and children in \u201cfamily units,\u201d according to the data. <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The much-faster growth in \u201cfamily units\u201d has been hidden by White House and agency officials, who have tried to portray the influx as a wave of children fleeing abuse and violence&#8230;<\/span><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gee&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-if-my-lips4-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-if-my-lips4-11.jpg\" alt=\"obama-if-my-lips4-11\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-if-my-lips4-11.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama-if-my-lips4-11-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;what a surprise!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congressman Mike Rogers hits the nail on the head with DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, but drives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>our<\/em><\/span> point home at the 34-second mark:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gSiVIeANVo\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Which begs the question why Rogers&#8217; point hasn&#8217;t been the subject of a commercial run relentlessly by the RNC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>In a visual presentation worth far more than thousand words, courtesy of Balls Cotton, here&#8217;s the utter inconsistency of The Obamao in a single picture:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003.png\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"462\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image003-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>In a related item, <em>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em> warns us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #fc3803; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"The Bear is Loose\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/the-bear-is-loose\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Bear Is Loose<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subheadline\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #3e3d3d; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"The Bear is Loose\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/the-bear-is-loose\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama fundraises while Putin runs amok<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pony_zps90f7a12c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pony_zps90f7a12c.jpg\" alt=\"pony_zps90f7a12c\" width=\"400\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pony_zps90f7a12c.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pony_zps90f7a12c-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3e3d3d;\">&#8220;\u201cThe bear is loose!\u201d\u00a0<\/span>President Obama has been saying<span style=\"color: #3e3d3d;\">, whenever he leaves the White House to visit Starbucks, or sandwich shops, or burger joints, or BBQ shacks, or neighborhood diners, in his increasingly rote and pathetic attempts to \u201cconnect\u201d with \u201creal people.\u201d Obama, we have been told, is frustrated, \u201c<\/span>restless<span style=\"color: #3e3d3d;\">,\u201d bored with the responsibilities and chores of office. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>He thinks of himself as the bear\u2014intimidating, wild, untamed, roving\u2014escaping his den.<\/strong><\/span> But he is flattering himself. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Obama is not the bear. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>He is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cub<\/span><\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>aimless, na\u00efve, self-interested, self-indulgent, irresponsible, irresolute<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bear<\/span> is in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Moscow<\/span><\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>True&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phony-scandals.jpg\" alt=\"phony-scandals\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phony-scandals.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phony-scandals-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb071914dAPC20140718074533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb071914dAPC20140718074533.jpg\" alt=\"cb071914dAPC20140718074533\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb071914dAPC20140718074533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb071914dAPC20140718074533-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;true!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And since we&#8217;re on the subject of a President seemingly hell-bent on compromising national security, courtesy of Bill Meisen and <em>The Washington Times<\/em>, here&#8217;s another utterly asinine move by a man incapable of any other kind&#8230;but guaranteed to keep America&#8217;s enemies laughing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"mb min entry-title\" style=\"font-weight: 200; color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Highway to the danger zone? Obama picks non-pilot to head Air Force in Pacific\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/17\/air-force-command-nominee-is-1st-woman-non-pilot\/?page=2#ixzz37rsELfg5\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Highway to the danger zone? Obama picks non-pilot to head Air Force in Pacific<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"ss grey mb min\" style=\"font-weight: 200; color: #666666; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Highway to the danger zone? Obama picks non-pilot to head Air Force in Pacific\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/17\/air-force-command-nominee-is-1st-woman-non-pilot\/?page=2#ixzz37rsELfg5\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Promotion sought in diversity drive<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lt_Gen_Lori_Robinson_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lt_Gen_Lori_Robinson_2013-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lt_Gen_Lori_Robinson_2013\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lt_Gen_Lori_Robinson_2013-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lt_Gen_Lori_Robinson_2013-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lt_Gen_Lori_Robinson_2013.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The\u00a0White House\u00a0has picked the first female general to head the\u00a0Air Force\u00a0in the Pacific, which will make her the first non-pilot to command air power in such a large theater of operation. The\u00a0Pentagon\u00a0announced this week that\u00a0Air ForceLt. Gen. Lori J. Robinson\u00a0has been nominated for promotion to four-star general and as commander of Pacific Air Forces, the\u00a0Air Force\u00a0component of U.S. Pacific Command. It is a major combatant command whose air, ground and naval forces have broad responsibility for security in the Asia-Pacific region. Her nomination was sent to the Senate for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Officials said pilots historically have commanded\u00a0Air Force\u00a0war-fighting components for the Pacific and for U.S. Air Forces Europe; Air Forces Central, which covers the Middle East and Afghanistan; and the 1st Air Force, which is part of Northern Command and protects U.S. skies. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Gen. Robinson\u00a0is not a career pilot.<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Her military profession is air battle manager.<\/span> She has served aboard the\u00a0Air Force\u2019s surveillance aircraft, the E-3 AWACs and E-8 JSTARS, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and she was nominated for a promotion amid a drive for more diversity in the\u00a0Pentagon<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>This bit of politically-correct bullsh*t begs the question posed by Donald Sutherland to Robert Ryan in <em>The Dirty Dozen<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bJJHSsLhE24?start=156\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those who choose to look on the bright side of any given set of circumstances, she&#8217;s at least flown\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>in<\/em><\/span> military aircraft!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, in today&#8217;s installment of<\/strong><strong>\u00a0the &#8220;This is What Happens When Liberals Begin Believing Their Own Bullsh*t&#8221; segment, as <em>FOXNews<\/em> reports, the previous possessor of the Progressive Press-awarded position of Smartest Man in the World apparently didn&#8217;t know Jack Sh*t either:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"New York Times story prompted Clinton to question CIA&#039;s info on bin Laden, according to newly released memo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/07\/18\/new-york-times-story-prompted-clinton-to-question-cia-info-on-bin-laden\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">New York Times story prompted Clinton to question CIA&#8217;s info on bin Laden, according to newly released memo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clinton-Memo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clinton-Memo-3.jpg\" alt=\"Clinton Memo 3\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clinton-Memo-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Clinton-Memo-3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>When a New York Times article cast doubt on the accusation Usama bin Laden had a hand in the 1998 bombings of African embassies<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>President Clinton questioned his own CIA<\/em><\/span>, according to a note he scrawled to his national security adviser.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The memo, part of a 1,000-page release of documents Friday afternoon by the National Archives, was written after the president apparently read an article in the self-professed &#8220;paper of record&#8221; casting doubt on the U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s case that the Al Qaeda mastermind was involved in the Aug. 7, 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.<\/strong><\/span> Some 224 people were killed in the twin attacks, including 12 Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\">Two months later, a federal grand jury in New York indicted bin Laden and 20 others for participating in a terrorist plot to kill Americans. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But the Times article, entitled \u201cU.S. Hard Put to Find Proof bin Laden Directed Attacks,\u201d and written the following April, raised doubts about bin Laden&#8217;s involvement, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>at least with Clinton<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u201cSandy, if this article is right, the CIA sure overstated its case to me \u2014 What are the facts?\u201d Clinton wrote in pen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The Times article came just two-and-a-half years before Al Qaeda mounted the 9\/11 attacks.<\/strong><\/span> But even though the Saudi terror boss would become Public Enemy No.1 until a U.S. Navy SEAL team killed him in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011, the Times suggested there was little proof he ordered the truck bombings in Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cCapturing Mr. bin Laden alive could deepen the complications,\u201d read a line from the Times article.<\/span> \u201cAmerican officials say that so far, firsthand evidence that could be used in court to prove that he commanded the bombings has proven difficult to obtain.<\/strong><\/span> According to the public record, none of the informants involved in the case have direct knowledge of Mr. bin Laden&#8217;s involvement.\u201d&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It must be noted Clinton had three&#8230;count &#8217;em, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>THREE<\/em><\/span>&#8230;documented opportunities to kill bin Laden in the 2-1\/2 years immediately prior to 9\/11, yet he passed on all of them, due at least in part to the &#8220;paper of record&#8221; and its best imitation of Uncle Walter definitively declaring the North Vietnamese victors in the wake of their devastating defeat in the Tet Offensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of utterly unbelievable Progressive pronouncements, James Taranto offers these observations on what passes for cutting-edge, hard-nosed journalism in the UK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a class=\"icon none\" style=\"color: #c74b15; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/read-the-puffiest-hillary-clinton-puff-piece-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_new\" data-ls-seen=\"1\" data-ls-clicked=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8216;Utterly Mind-Blowing&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BsqGpyICYAA2iu4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BsqGpyICYAA2iu4-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"BsqGpyICYAA2iu4\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BsqGpyICYAA2iu4-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BsqGpyICYAA2iu4.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Are you familiar with\u00a0Stylist\u00a0magazine? Neither are we, but the Washington Free Beacon&#8217;s Andrew Stiles <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(link above)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>&#8211;no relation, we assume&#8211;credits the British freebie with having published &#8220;one of the puffiest Hillary Clinton puff pieces of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Stiles has a series of excerpts, but here are just a couple of choice bits:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em>Throughout my interview with Hillary, she is fiercely engaged; her eyes&#8211;sparkly, wide, alert&#8211;remain firmly focused on me. She is warm, considered, talks slowly and thoughtfully and uses&#8211;consciously or not&#8211;tactics that put me at ease. She frequently answers my queries with the response: &#8220;Now, that&#8217;s a great question&#8221;, she litters her answers with colloquialisms that put us on a level and, listening back, I am struck by the amount of times she says, &#8220;You know&#8221;. And of course there&#8217;s that charming laugh. I can see that these natural skills make her the perfect diplomat, the ultimate leader.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><em><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>All I can say in conclusion is that Hillary was warm, engaging, charismatic, ambitious, smart, determined <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and busier than any other woman I am probably ever likely to meet<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>We also enjoyed the reference to Mrs. Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>utterly mind-blowing life<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We can only assume the author of the <em>Stylist<\/em> article&#8217;s never met a housewife with three small kids, let alone a single mother with same.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item detailing Liberal detachment from reality:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Acting VA Head: We need $17 billion to stop mistreating veterans\" href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/07\/16\/acting-va-head-we-need-17-billion-to-stop-mistreating-veterans\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Acting VA Head: We need $17 billion to stop mistreating veterans<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-3.jpeg\" alt=\"download (3)\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In which the agency that\u2019s been giving millions in bonuses to people for causing and lying about the untimely deaths of veterans asks for the GDPs of\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Anguilla, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Equatorial Guinea\u00a0combined from taxpayers to stop doing that.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Super<\/span>&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us, appropriately enough, to the Lighter Side:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lb0718cd20140717083246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lb0718cd20140717083246.jpg\" alt=\"lb0718cd20140717083246\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lb0718cd20140717083246.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lb0718cd20140717083246-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mrz071814dAPR20140717114513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mrz071814dAPR20140717114513.jpg\" alt=\"mrz071814dAPR20140717114513\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mrz071814dAPR20140717114513.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mrz071814dAPR20140717114513-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sbr071914dAPC20140717094539.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sbr071914dAPC20140717094539.jpg\" alt=\"sbr071914dAPC20140717094539\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sbr071914dAPC20140717094539.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sbr071914dAPC20140717094539-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz072014dAPC20140718074516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz072014dAPC20140718074516.jpg\" alt=\"mrz072014dAPC20140718074516\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz072014dAPC20140718074516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz072014dAPC20140718074516-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv072014dAPC20140719034548.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv072014dAPC20140719034548.jpg\" alt=\"gv072014dAPC20140719034548\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv072014dAPC20140719034548.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gv072014dAPC20140719034548-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Killer-Jokes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Killer-Jokes.jpg\" alt=\"Killer-Jokes\" width=\"462\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Killer-Jokes.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Killer-Jokes-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-13.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-13.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-13.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-13-246x300.jpeg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-21.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-21.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-21.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download-21-300x229.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download6.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"500\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download6.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/download6-300x245.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, July 21st, 2014&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up, courtesy of The Daily Caller, what must come as no shock whatsoever\u00a0to anyone with even half a brain&#8230; Darn! \u00a0That leaves us out! &#8230;not to mention all the inquiring minds who want to know why the facilities housing these illegals are shrouded in secrecy:\u00a0 White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26377,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions\/26377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}