{"id":28334,"date":"2014-12-09T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28334"},"modified":"2014-12-09T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:41:24","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-december-8th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=28334","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, December 8th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Monday, December 8th, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, two brief observations. \u00a0Numero uno&#8217;s on The Obamao, who had this to say to <em>BET<\/em> during an interview scheduled to air later this afternoon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cuQYQCEd5X4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alles klar, Herr Kommissar. \u00a0Only the <em>deepest<\/em> roots of racism in America today are firmly affixed in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your<\/em><\/span> heart, Mr. President; along with that of your wife, associates and indeed the entire Progressive political movement. \u00a0How callous, indifferent and hateful must Liberals be to condemn an entire race of people to generations of pain, suffering and indentured servitude in order to gain\/maintain political power, personal wealth or&#8230;simply sleep better at night?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Next, a quick observation on the imperfect College Football Playoff format which replaced the imperfect Bowl Championship Series. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that we won&#8217;t be treated to a pair of great games on January 1st, nor whether the Buckeyes deserve to be in the top four. \u00a0It&#8217;s the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>way<\/em><\/span> the committee arrived at their final choices, taking a TCU team which won it&#8217;s last game <em>55-3<\/em>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and dropping them three places from 3rd to 6th<\/em><\/span>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Look, we don&#8217;t have a dog, or more accurately in our case, a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>goat<\/em><\/span> in this fight. \u00a0But if TCU was the 3rd-best football team in the country one week, they&#8217;re not 6th-best the next after scoring such a lopsided win; a victory in which the final tally might easily have been 75-3 had the Horned Frogs known they needed to run up the score to impress this demonstrably dimwitted committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sure, Ohio State thoroughly drubbed Wisconsin, and they&#8217;re on a roll; but they were on a roll last week&#8230;when they were #5. \u00a0And though previous #4 FSU beat Georgia Tech, it was yet another in a season-long series of close calls; so what makes them better than TCU <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span> week that didn&#8217;t the last? \u00a0As for Baylor, while they certainly made a great comeback against TCU back in October, they were aided by some <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>incredibly<\/em><\/span> questionable officiating late in the 4th quarter. \u00a0Oh&#8230;and they were number #6 last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It all adds up to &#8220;Meet the new NCAA football championship format, same as the old NCAA football championship format&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our top story today, as evidenced by Eleanor Holmes Norton&#8217;s total lack of interest in the truth (see today&#8217;s <em>Tales From the Dark Side<\/em> video clip (#3) above), Ferguson was a fabricated farce. \u00a0However, reasonable people can reasonably disagree on the wisdom, necessity and legality of the police actions which resulted in the death of Eric Garner. \u00a0And<\/strong><strong>\u00a0any number of rock-solid Conservatives do, as demonstrated by the differing opinions offered in these next three items. \u00a0First, writing at <\/strong><strong><em>Townhall.com<\/em>, Mark Davis provides not only his analysis of the Eric Garner verdict, but a few other thoughts we might want to keep in mind while&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Evaluating Conservative Attacks On The Garner Grand Jury\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/markdavis\/2014\/12\/05\/evaluating-conservative-attacks-on-the-garner-grand-jury-n1927730\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Evaluating Conservative Attacks On The Garner Grand Jury<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/resisting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/resisting.jpg\" alt=\"resisting\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/resisting.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/resisting-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Resistance: it&#8217;s not only futile, it&#8217;s just plain ig&#8217;nant!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;I\u2019m not immune to the power of the Garner video. I wish I could jump into a time machine and prevent the whole sad thing from happening. I would not go back to the point of the takedown, however. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I would go back farther to counsel Mr. Garner on the ill wisdom of resisting arrest\u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>or maybe back even farther, to offer suggestions against breaking the law in the first place<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But while we cannot jump back in time, we most surely can put aside our visceral reactions to the video in order to put ourselves in the shoes of the grand jurors. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>They were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> asked whether the video upset them. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">They were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> asked if the events were disturbing to watch.<\/span> They were <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> asked whether the arrest went flawlessly.\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They were asked whether Officer Daniel Pantaleo broke the law in the dispatch of his duties<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Their answer was no<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If they had chosen to indict, I would have respected their decision. Unlike Ferguson, the Garner case presents a wide swath of reasonable options. The decision not to indict is surely well within that range, and deserves to be spared criticism from people who are following some other drumbeat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Krauthammer advocated an involuntary manslaughter charge \u201cat the very least,\u201d tapping into two facts that are entirely irrelevant: \u201cThe guy was unarmed and the crime was as petty as they come.\u201d Excuse me? <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This cries out for another Charles\u2014 Barkley in this instance\u2014 to sit down and explain to one of America\u2019s top thinkers what was at issue here. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201c<em>When the cops are trying to arrest you, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">if you fight back, things go wrong<\/span><\/em>,\u201d the NBA legend told <em>CNN\u00a0<\/em>this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>That<\/em><\/span> is why Mr. Garner is dead.<\/span> His lack of a sidearm and the absurdity of the law he broke are of no consequence in a case of an enormous man with vast health problems choosing to fight police making a lawful arrest<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, it&#8217;s like Chris Rock said:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QR465HoCWFQ?start=87\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, Jonah Goldberg, a man whose thinking we deeply respect, takes a more Libertarian view in suggesting&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Rand Paul is Right: Cig Taxes Factored into Garner&#039;s Death\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/jonahgoldberg\/2014\/12\/05\/rand-paul-is-right-cig-taxes-factored-into-garners-death-n1927709\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;\">Rand Paul is Right: Cig Taxes Factored into Garner&#8217;s Death<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/79547029_186489425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/79547029_186489425.jpg\" alt=\"_79547029_186489425\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/79547029_186489425.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/79547029_186489425-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Reasonable people can disagree on whether racism was involved in the tragic death of Eric Garner. <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>My own suspicion is that this misfortune could have transpired just as easily with a white man resisting arrest and\/or a black cop choking him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And even though lots of people don&#8217;t want to hear it, reasonable can disagree on whether illegally excessive force was to blame. Personally, watching the ubiquitous video of Garner&#8217;s arrest, it looks like excessive force to me. But the simple fact is that a Staten Island grand jury saw evidence that led it to conclude otherwise. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>People should at least entertain the possibility that it might have gotten the ruling right.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Reasonable<\/em><\/span> people!)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>But you know what reasonable people can&#8217;t dispute? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">New York&#8217;s cigarette taxes are partly to blame for Eric Garner&#8217;s death<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>, Andrew McCarthy is a little more blunt as he more affirmatively conjectures&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"On the Staten Island Decision\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393933\/staten-island-decision-andrew-c-mccarthy\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_title\" style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">On the Staten Island Decision <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" title=\"On the Staten Island Decision\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393933\/staten-island-decision-andrew-c-mccarthy\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"article_subtitle\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The grand jury may have gotten it wrong. <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_giant_newsite_120414_gas_920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_giant_newsite_120414_gas_920.jpg\" alt=\"pic_giant_newsite_120414_gas_920\" width=\"350\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_giant_newsite_120414_gas_920.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_giant_newsite_120414_gas_920-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;The justification statute distinguishes physical force from <em>deadly<\/em> physical force. The latter may be used only if the officer reasonably believes that the subject has committed a violent felony, is armed with a deadly weapon, or is about to use deadly physical force against the officer or someone else. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Based on <\/em><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">w<\/span>hat we know at the moment<\/em><\/span>, Garner did not fit any of these categories: The untaxed cigarette sales police observed were not violent crimes; he was reportedly unarmed; and, though the video shows him resisting arrest, his resistance was along the lines of waving his arms in a manner that made it difficult for police to cuff him.<\/strong><\/span> He does not appear to have menaced the police. Indeed, it looks as if he may not even have seen Pantaleo before the latter came up from behind him while he was evading the grasp of other officers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So let\u2019s assume Pantaleo did not use deadly force. That still leaves open the question at the heart of the matter: <em>Was the force that he did use reasonable under the circumstances?<\/em> This is why I think the debate over the chokehold is mainly an academic diversion. The salient issue is <em>reasonableness<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Even if we assume that a banned chokehold was not used, it is still entirely possible that the forcible tacticsPantaleo did employ were excessive.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is here that the grand jury\u2019s conclusion that there was no probable cause to indict is most vulnerable to attack. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Again, we do not know all the evidence in the record so it is perilous to opine.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>But as the confrontation is depicted on the video, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>there is a good argument that Officer Pantaleo used more force than was reasonably necessary to effect the arrest, prevent flight, or prevent injury to himself or other officers<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>We&#8217;re frankly of an opinion which is a blend of all three. \u00a0First and foremost, as all three commentators rightly noted, we don&#8217;t know the facts the grand jury considered in reaching their decision. \u00a0That being said, (a). had Eric Garner submitted to his <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>umpteenth<\/em><\/span> arrest, or not been illegally selling loosies while out on bail for three <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>previous<\/em><\/span> arrests, he&#8217;d still be alive; (b). New York City&#8217;s cigarette taxes are unconscionably high; and (c). as our middle son Mike so accurately observed, at the very least, the NYPD should have given Garner very detailed instructions what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>he<\/em><\/span> needed to do,\u00a0along with\u00a0what <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they<\/em><\/span> were going to do if he didn&#8217;t comply with their lawful instructions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>And yes, the NYPD <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would<\/em><\/span> have approached and apprehended an overweight asthmatic <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>White<\/em><\/span> guy just as readily as they did Mr. Garner. \u00a0And most importantly, particularly in light of the statistics cited by Bill O&#8217;Reilly in the <em>Video of the Day<\/em> above, no, there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no<\/em><\/span> conspiracy among American law enforcement authorities to kill Blacks, unarmed or otherwise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If only the same were true of the Black community itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But what <em>inquiring minds<\/em> want to know is why didn&#8217;t they just taser him? \u00a0And why did they bring the cast of <em>Ben Hur<\/em> to take down a single suspect selling loosies?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, courtesy of <\/strong><strong><em>PJMedia<\/em>, more from Andrew McCarthy, who once again questions the veracity of The Dear Misleader as he wonders&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"first_headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/andrewmccarthy\/2014\/12\/04\/obama-says-his-job\/\">Obama Says His Job Is Assuring Equal Protection Under the Law \u2026 <i>Really?<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Selective-enforcement-rule-of-law.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Selective-enforcement-rule-of-law.jpg\" alt=\"Selective-enforcement-rule-of-law\" width=\"350\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Selective-enforcement-rule-of-law.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Selective-enforcement-rule-of-law-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Before he was president, Barack Obama once famously declared that there was no black American or white America but a United States of America. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Many of us doubted his sincerity, and we have been proven right as he and his subordinates \u2014 especially his Justice Department \u2014 have governed in a way designed to divide and alienate minority groups against the country.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">When it comes to the great constitutional principle of equal protection under the law in the age of Obama, it is not that there is a black America and a white America.<\/span> <em>It is that there are political supporters of the president who get one quality of justice, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and political opponents and convenient political scapegoats for whom \u201cjustice\u201d is a weapon their government has turned against them<\/span><\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>And speaking of prevaricating Progressives, one&#8217;s the subject of this rather extensive expose by John Nolte writing at <em>Briebart.com<\/em>:<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"content_0_headlineimage_0_h1Headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"INVESTIGATION: LENA DUNHAM \u2018RAPED BY A REPUBLICAN\u2019 STORY IN BESTSELLER COLLAPSES UNDER SCRUTINY\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Hollywood\/2014\/12\/03\/investigation-lena-dunhams-republican-rapist-story-falls-apart-under-scrutiny\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">Investigation: Lena Dunham &#8216;Raped by a Republican&#8217; Storey in Bestseller Collapses Under Scrutiny<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lena-Dunham-01102013-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lena-Dunham-01102013-3.jpg\" alt=\"Lena-Dunham-01102013-3\" width=\"350\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lena-Dunham-01102013-3.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lena-Dunham-01102013-3-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>That&#8217;s &#8220;L&#8221;, as in &#8220;loser&#8221;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> &#8220;liar&#8221;!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8220;Asking whether or not a victim is telling the truth is irrelevant,&#8221;<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ms. Hess proclaimed.<\/span> <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not important if they are telling the truth.&#8221;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Oberlin College\u00a0WOBC radio station manager Sophie Hess responding to <em>Breitbart<\/em>&#8216;s John Nolte&#8217;s inquiry into the truth of Lena Dunham&#8217;s rape fable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Though a bit lengthy, it&#8217;s well worth reading, especially in light of the latest example of the Liberal media&#8217;s blatant disinterest in the facts:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Rape story unravels: Rolling Stone says trust in UVa source &#039;misplaced&#039;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/12\/05\/rape-story-unravels-rollng-stone-says-trust-in-uva-source-misplaced\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">Rape story unravels: Rolling Stone says trust in UVa source &#8216;misplaced&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/54729529a41d1.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/54729529a41d1.image_.jpg\" alt=\"54729529a41d1.image\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/54729529a41d1.image_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/54729529a41d1.image_-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Mollie Hemingway, a media critic and senior editor at The Federalist, said she followed the story closely, from her &#8220;emotional&#8221; reading of the Rolling Stone story to the questions that soon followed. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>She said she prides herself on reading critically, but acknowledged buying in to Erdely&#8217;s story until only recently.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;This has been an absolutely devastating blow to Rolling Stone&#8217;s credibility,&#8221; she said. &#8220;[Erdely] has a lot to answer for as well. She literally took the memories of one person who claimed to have been traumatized and built an entire story around it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>&#8220;But the worst things is that people who are victims of rape will not be believed,&#8221; Hemingway said.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8220;That is the worst part of this story. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>I don&#8217;t think the writer or this magazine could have done more damage to victims of rape if they had set out to<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of well-documented Liberal liars, a<\/strong><strong>s <em>FOX News<\/em> reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Clinton says America should \u2018empathize\u2019 with its enemies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/12\/05\/clinton-says-america-should-empathize-with-its-enemies\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Clinton says America should \u2018empathize\u2019 with its enemies<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/funny-faces-hillary-clint-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/funny-faces-hillary-clint-008.jpg\" alt=\"funny-faces-hillary-clint-008\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/funny-faces-hillary-clint-008.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/funny-faces-hillary-clint-008-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;Touting an approach she calls \u201csmart power,\u201d Clinton urged America to use \u201cevery possible tool and partner\u201d to advance peace. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>This, she said, includes \u201cleaving no one on the sidelines, showing respect even for one\u2019s enemies, trying to understand and insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah; <em>that<\/em> oughta play well in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on an Administration, indeed, an entire political party that stinks like a whorehouse at low tide, we turn to Michelle Malkin and her report detailing&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Obama&#039;s Scandal-Tainted BCGB (Best Chicago Golfing Buddy)\" href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/michellemalkin\/2014\/12\/05\/obamas-scandaltainted-bcgb-best-chicago-golfing-buddy-n1927717\/page\/full\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama&#8217;s Scandal-Tainted BCGB (Best Chicago Golfing Buddy)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/qc52080631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/qc52080631.jpg\" alt=\"qc52080631\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/qc52080631.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/qc52080631-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;As I noted in &#8220;Culture of Corruption&#8221; in 2009, Rezko pulled the strings at the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board overseeing medical construction projects. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Whitaker sat as the resident stooge &#8220;overseeing&#8221; that panel&#8217;s budget, which crooked Rezko exploited to solicit kickbacks and payoffs.<\/strong><\/span> His wanton abuse of power over the agency led to his 2011 conviction. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Whitaker claimed he knew nothing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It seems that everyone Whitaker has surrounded himself with is either in jail or on trial. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The corruptitis is contagious. Last summer, the feds indicted Whitaker&#8217;s former chief of staff, Quinshaunta R. Golden, on bribery, theft and fraud charges related to the embezzlement of $433,000 in state health department funds.<\/strong><\/span> Golden and another Whitaker underling, Roxanne Jackson, pleaded guilty this spring.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Once again, Whitaker claimed he knew nothing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Fun fact: Whitaker also happens to be the man identified by author Edward Klein as the fixer who attempted to bribe the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright to keep quiet about his friendship with Barack Obama<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll take a wild guess and predict Whitaker claimed he knew nothing. \u00a0What a surprise, particularly in light of his close association with a man who&#8217;s never known&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ObamaIKnowNothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ObamaIKnowNothing-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"ObamaIKnowNothing\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ObamaIKnowNothing-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ObamaIKnowNothing.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anything<\/em><\/span>! \u00a0Other than of course golf, fundraising and Marx.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, in today&#8217;s edition of the <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>more evidence portions of the Left are awakening to the threat The Obamao poses to the Constitution and the Founding Father&#8217;s vision of America; as the <em>WSJ<\/em> reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Professor Tribe Takes Obama to School\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/professor-tribe-takes-obama-to-school-1417824105\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Professor Tribe Takes Obama to School<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Professor Tribe Takes Obama to School\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/professor-tribe-takes-obama-to-school-1417824105\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #003300; text-decoration: underline;\">The liberal lion blasts the EPA\u2019s climate rule as an illegal power grab.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_related_081314_SM_Barack-Obama-ISIS-G.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_related_081314_SM_Barack-Obama-ISIS-G-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"pic_related_081314_SM_Barack-Obama-ISIS-G\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_related_081314_SM_Barack-Obama-ISIS-G-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_related_081314_SM_Barack-Obama-ISIS-G-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pic_related_081314_SM_Barack-Obama-ISIS-G.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Saaaayyyy whaaattt?!?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;In his Harvard days, Barack Obama studied under law professor Laurence Tribe. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Perhaps the future President spent too much time at the law review and missed the part about limited powers. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">We say that because Professor Tribe delivered a constitutional rebuke this week to the Obama Administration that is remarkable coming from a titan of the liberal professoriate.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr. Tribe joined with the world\u2019s largest private coal company, Peabody Energy , to criticize the \u201cexecutive overreach\u201d of the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s proposed rule to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>In joint comments filed with the EPA, the professor accuses the agency of abusing statutory law, violating the Constitution\u2019s Article I, Article II, the separation of powers, the Tenth and Fifth Amendments, and in general displaying contempt for the law<\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Along with contempt for anything else related to America, her Constitution or the rule of law!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12559320141205021300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12559320141205021300.jpg\" alt=\"gmc12559320141205021300\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12559320141205021300.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc12559320141205021300-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120414dAPR20141204044517.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120414dAPR20141204044517.jpg\" alt=\"gv120414dAPR20141204044517\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120414dAPR20141204044517.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/gv120414dAPR20141204044517-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12554320141205120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12554320141205120100.jpg\" alt=\"payn_c12554320141205120100\" width=\"462\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12554320141205120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/payn_c12554320141205120100-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1205cd20141204090458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1205cd20141204090458.jpg\" alt=\"lb1205cd20141204090458\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1205cd20141204090458.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb1205cd20141204090458-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-At-Gettysburg-SC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-At-Gettysburg-SC.jpg\" alt=\"Obama-At-Gettysburg-SC\" width=\"462\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-At-Gettysburg-SC.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Obama-At-Gettysburg-SC-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0034.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"462\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0034.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image0034-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-113.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-113.jpeg\" alt=\"download (1)\" width=\"466\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-113.jpeg 466w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-113-255x300.jpeg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-26.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-26.jpeg\" alt=\"download (2)\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-26.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download-26-300x266.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download22.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download22.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download22.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/download22-236x300.jpeg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes&#8230;and then you marry her; and pay every day&#8230;for the rest of your life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday, December 8th, 2014&#8230;but before we begin, two brief observations. \u00a0Numero uno&#8217;s on The Obamao, who had this to say to BET during an interview scheduled to air later this afternoon: Alles klar, Herr Kommissar. \u00a0Only the deepest roots of racism in America today are firmly affixed in your heart, Mr. President; along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28334","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=28334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28335,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28334\/revisions\/28335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}