Ok, now it’s just weird.

I’ve been following politics for a while now, since Ford became President.  He took office on my 7th birthday.  It’s a condition boarding on obsession.  It’s probably not healthy in the long run, but what the hell.  I gave up diet coke, American politics is my only vice left.

Having said that, I must say the current situation is possibly the oddest thing I have ever witnessed.  I’m not talking about all the crisis surrounding the Obama administration, that’s just incredibly disappointing.  I’m talking about the strange bedfellows the scandals have created.

I mentioned it on our last podcast, but it has gotten even weirder since then.

Now, even Dick Cheney has pulled up a pillow.  Yeah, that Dick Cheney.  But lets start from the top.

The National Security Administration got caught data mining all of our phone calls by using a “secret” warrant.  With the rise of the Tea Party in 2010, bent on the destruction of Obama and his administration, you would think they would be foaming at the mouth over this.  You would think they would be calling for an impeachment.  So far, crickets from them.

One of their supposed leaders in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, (R) SC, said on FOX-n-Friends that he had no problem with the NSA listening into his calls.  Graham said he doesn’t understand why people would have a problem with this if they have done nothing wrong.  Amazing.  The constitution is weeping. The actual document is shedding tears right now.

Senator Mitch McConnell, (R) Ky, made it clear in 2009 that all of his effort would be spent making Obama a one term president. The hell with the poor and jobless, Mitch wanted to bring down Obama.  So this seems like a great opportunity for ole Mitch to do some serious damage to the President.  If he was on radio you would think you were listening to Harry Reid, (D) NV and progressive leader of the Senate.  In other words McConnell’s mortal enemy.  Mitch stopped just short of saying, “I fully support the president on this.”

I need to take a shower.

Too late anyway, former Bush 43 press secretary Are Fliescher beat Mitch to it when he said exactly that.  But Ari didn’t stop with the NSA stuff, he elaborated to say he also supported the drone strike campaign the President has been using to target Americans abroad for execution. When you get Fleischer in bed with you, you’re…, you’re… well you’re just not having a good 2nd term.

Look man, even Glenn Beck got in on it. Except he went the other way.  He attacked FOX news and a lot of republicans.  Beck is calling Edward Snowden a hero.  Which is odd because Beck called Bradley Manning, the wiki-leaker, a traitor.  But calling Snowden a hero puts Beck at odds with a lot of the conservative movement and in league with a lot of progressives who have turned on the President for basically running Bush era programs.

Obama’s brother from another mother.

If that wasn’t confusing enough, I bring you back to Darth, er I mean Dick Cheney.  He goes on FOX News Sunday and says he’s with Obama on this one.

Yeah, let that sink in for a minute.

I mean Obama has been blaming Bush for everything since O’s inauguration speech. Which, by default, blames Cheney.  And actually, a lot of people refer to Cheney as the 43rd President, not Bush.  Anyway, I was just stunned to hear Cheney defend Obama on this issue.

All the scandals are bad enough, but now we have dogs sleeping with cats, tea partiers siding with progressives, it’s complete anarchy.  Where will it all end?  And more importantly how the hell are we supposed to keep track of all this?

When it was the simple minded tea partiers led by Trump and Hupp’s girlfriend, Sarah Palin, it was easy to keep up.  Those knuckleheads were chasing down some Kenyan birth certificate and blaming Muslims for everything.  Turns out they were just running a smokescreen for Obama’s real agenda which was carrying out Bush’s policies.

When the Occupy Wall Street hippies decided to stop bathing, live on the street, and someone else pay their tuition, the players were obvious.  The lines between the parties were clear and the aim point for our anger and derision was as big as could be.

Well now it’s just one big muddled mess.  Who am I supposed to insult and denigrate now?  Without a scorecard it’s just too hard to keep up.

So, in the next week we will chart the scandals and then list out who’s with or against the President and post it right here at Unfiltered and Unfettered.  That way we can hate the players and the game more efficiently.

Gonna be a lot of work.

Thanks a lot Obama.

Podcast Episode 11: Stop the ride I want to get off!

Episode 11: Stop the ride, I want to get off! 

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What happened to the paradise Obama promised?

We were promised this:

Camelot

 

 

Instead we got this:

Rome is burning

 

Even Nero wouldn’t fiddle while all these scandals were burning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hero or Criminal?

Snowden starts an avalanche.

Leaks info to The Guardian detailing US Intel Agency collecting all data on all calls in US all the time.  Obama Admin gonna need a bigger shovel, it’s getting deep.

 

 

 

 

Did he do the right thing?  Is he a hero, as some have said?  Take our poll and let us know what you think.

 

 

The unintentional comedy will be epic.

Trump makes the big board!

This will be pure awesome sauce. Please run hairpiece, please run!

 

 

 

 

 

All this and more on

Episode 11: Stop the ride, I want to get off.  

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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

ATTENTION ALL VERIZON PHONE USERS:  The National Security Agency(NSA) has been cataloging your phone calls.  ALL. OF. THEM.

The best guess so far has the collection of all Verizon phone activity in the United States starting the day after the police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Bush tested, Obama Approved!

This is not a joke and I am not making this up.

Read here: NSA Collecting millions of Americans phone records daily.

To say it’s been a tough month for the President would be an understatement.  It would also be completely illogical.  It’s not like he’s having bad luck or catching bad breaks.  He is being tripped up by snares of his own making.  Obama is also reshaping National Security policy and his legacy in the mean time.  My guess is by December he’ll be wishing someone reignites the birth certificate scandal.

Of course the defense being offered up by a lot of progressives and liberals for all this – Bush did it too.

No he didn’t.  Not like this.  Not to this magnitude. Obama passed Nixon and Bush three scandals ago.

Let me count the ways.

The spying scandals are mounting.  First it was the illegal collection of AP reporter’s phone and email data.  The legality of this is still in question.

Then the FBI and DoJ began the same invasive surveillance on FOX news reporter James Rosen because he, get this, reported on a story.  They eventually tagged Rosen as a co-conspiritor in the leak of sensitive national defense information and named him a flight risk.  That means Rosen cannot leave the country.  What was the big story he broke that got him in hot water?  Well, it seems Rosen got confirmation from 2 sources in the State Department that Kim Jong Un would respond with more nuclear testing if the UN Security Council passed another meaningless resolution.   Now some people have called out Rosen because he said in his story that the State Department official or contractor, learned this info from “sources inside North Korea.”  The theory being Rosen may have jeopardized some sources, even putting their lives in danger.

Guess what soft, liberal media, if you’re a spy inside North Korea, your life is in danger every minute you take a breath.   Rosen’s obscure use of the word “sources” isn’t going to ID anyone or amp up the threat any more than it already is.  North Korea only advertises what they want us to see.  Any story about other events in NK would obviously come from sources within the country.  This seems like a veiled scare tactic attempt by the Obama Administration to intimidate and now try and prosecute a reporter who just happens to work at a network that skewers Obama on a minute by minute basis.

All this in the name of National Security.  If they can make us believe that Rosen violated NSA policy and endangered people then they can get our passively implied permission to do things like, oh I don’t know, collect all cell phone data in the US without a warrant, hell without probable cause.  Just because they want it.   All in the name of National Security.

But I digress.  Moving on.  After the Rosen story broke, a story pops up that the IRS has been targeting Tea Party groups who apply for tax exempt status.  By targeting I mean, asking what their religious affiliation is, asking for donor and member lists, asking for the political affiliations of the leaders of said organizations, delaying applications for three years and counting, etc…   The list of questions is pages and pages long and are questions police can’t even ask criminals without a lawyer present.   It was impossible to get tax exempt status in this country from 2009 to 2012 if the name of your organization had words like freedom, take back america, prosperity, and the like.

Again liberals dismissed this as a rogue office in Cincinnati doing this on their own. Basically giving us the “These are not the drones you’re looking for.  Move along, move along” routine.  Turns out it’s not just the Cincy office.  Turns out several offices have been doing this since long before the last election.  You know the one.  The election where the President got reelected in a landslide with a 23 million people still out of work.  Also turns out that the director of the IRS, a Bush appointee, made 157 trips to the White House oddly enough during the exact time of this targeting tea party business.

How far do you have to go back to find a director of the IRS visiting the WH that many times?  All the way to the start of the organization, then add all of them together and they still get no where near 150 visits.  The last dude in charge of the IRS, who by the way was there during the mushroom cloud of the financial meltdown, visited the WH a grand total of 1 time, once, one, uno.  And it was a perfunctory visit for a photo op.

And still were told there is nothing to see here.  Move along, move the hell along.

A few weeks ago we saw the woman in charge of the branch of the IRS doing these invasive stall tactics, Lois Lerner, exercise her 5th amendment rights and refuse to answer any questions during a congressional hearing.  I said then she was smart because her own administration was coming to lock her up.  No need to hand it to them by incriminating herself.

Boy was I wrong.  Turns out old Lois has a past, and her past conflicts with the administrations’ story that it was some rogue field agents who decided on their own to bring down the tea party.

Whoops.  That lie just blew up.

In 1996 Lerner accused Al Salvi, a Republican State Representative from Illinois who was challenging then Democratic Congressman Dick Durbin for the open Senate seat in Illinois, with election fraud.  Lerner was head of the enforcement division of the Federal Elections Commission at the time.  Her accusation stemmed from an accounting error Salvi made on a personal loan to his campaign.  He broke no law, committed no violation. When he tried to explain this to Lerner she said “We’ll drop the case if you promise to never run for elected office again.”  Yeah, in case you are wondering, that’s illegal.  Salvi asked her to put that in writing and smartly Lerner did not.  So Salvi decided to proceed with the court case, and he won.  But he was so tied up in this legal issue, the FEC had his money tied up, he was unable to campaign effectively and Durbin won the Senate seat.

Flash forward to 2010.  Now Senator Dick Durbin (D) Illinois, sends a letter to Lerner asking her to target conservative groups who apply for tax exempt status prior to the run up for the mid-term elections.  Yeah, that’s not legal and certainly not ethical.

And still we are told to move along, nothing to see here.

Then we’re told anyone who thinks there is a conspiracy is just a conspiracy nutjob.  This isn’t coming from some liberal dope on MSNBC, but from the President and his spokesman.

Then the pice-de-resistance. During the congressional hearing into the IRS scandal, the tea party groups came foreword to testify.  The line of questioning from the democratic congressmen was not to be believed.  At one point Rep Jim McDermott says this is all their fault for applying for tax exempt status in the first place.

Watch this, you have to see to believe.

http://youtu.be/12RGIxYivi0 

Read: Salvi vs Lerner & Durbin

More on Lerner  

Watch: Salvi himself explains what happened in 1996 

And still we’re told to move along, nothing to freaking see here.

Now we find out that the President obtained a special writ that allows the NSA to collect all phone data, from everyone.  Currently only Verizon customers have been targeted.  And let me reiterate, all Verizon customers have had their phone data and phone conversation data collected, no matter if you’re a terror risk or not.  All customers from April 25th on.  So yeah, that means currently if you use Verizon and you make a call, the time, date, to who, duration, who disconnected first, all that is being collected by the NSA.

iPhones can’t be far behind.

While all this goes on, no one has been held accountable for the deaths of an American Ambassador and his security team in Benghazi and the Administration’s cover up of the mistakes and willful disregard that led to their deaths.

In the name of National Security I will now await the collection of my iPhone data by the NSA.

Hey NSA dudes, if you get into my LinkedIn app, can you tell me what my password is?

Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along.

Podcast Episode 10: It’s a magic number.

Yeah man, 10 episodes.  Hard to believe.  To celebrate our 10 episodes and 5 months on the air we have some special features tonight, including a little Red Hot Chili Peppers video to us help celebrate.

The news has been fast and furious to say the least.  Listen to our take here

Episode 10: It’s a magic number 

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Here’s a taste of the magical 10th episode.

Funny, but I weep for society.

Weiner’s in!

Disgraced NY Congressman Anthony Weiner is running for NY City Mayor. Already dodging questions about how many more crotch shots might be floating in the web -o-sphere.  Can a 2016 run be far behind?

 

The unintentional comedy will be epic.

The Donald: Dropping coin, checking temps.

Trump spends 1 mil on presidential exploratory committee.  How awesome would that be.  Will America say “your hired!”   Probably not but presidential races can always use a good carnival barker.  Lets hope he stays in to the convention.

 

 

Ok, so, ah, 2nd term off to a bit of a rough start.

Benghazi, IRS, AP Reporters, James Rosen: Where will it all end?

The President is in the hurt box for his second term.  All, I believe, of his own doing.  The serious question is will he still be President by the end of it.  We report, you decide!

 

We may have to air once a week to keep up with the scandals.  It’s getting serious folks. And by that I mean we are moving closer and closer to resignation talk.

As always listen for yourself and make your own call.

Episode 10: It’s a magic number

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Bob Woodward was on point

I’m feeling very uncomfortable

Back in Episode 4 of “Unfiltered and Unfettered, the podcast” Fran and I talked about the story concerning Bob Woodward and how he felt threatened by the Whitehouse and their treatment of reporters (didn’t listen? Shame on you) when he was reporting on the sequester.

We played a clip from Bob Woodward’s conversation with CNN shill Wolf Blitzer. The interview clip is even more startling in consideration of the recent Department of Justice scandal concerning spying on reporters and the treatment of James Rosen.  If you’d like to hear the clip, tune in to “Unfiltered and Unfettered episode 10,” out next week, and we’ll play it.

Well, I’m wondering what Bob really knew at the time. I’m thinking he may have known more than he was telling. I wonder if Wolf will have him back on the show, and if so, if he would downplay  the nature of the threats that had been leveled at Woodward like he did the first time. Wolf, you’re such a tool.

Bob Woodward used the term “threatened” and then sort of backed off the term. I wonder about that. Of course, back in February, the Huffington Post, liberal rag and Obama supporter, made light of the threat as well.

It’s been widely reported that the way this administration has dealt with reporters is different from any other. This case, much like Benghazi and the IRS scandal, is only beginning to unravel.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/doj-fox-news-james-rosen_n_3307422.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/bob-woodward-emails-white-house-threat_n_2781052.html

Podcast Episode 9: Benghazi, Ben-lyin, & Ben-spyin

Really, really big show tonight – hear that in Ed Sullivan’s voice and it works nicely.  Yes, google Ed Sullivan.

Man I’m not sure we’ll even get to everything tonight.  We are creeping up to the edge of a very big cliff, and when I say we, I mean the President and his administration.

You absolutely have to listen.

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Podcast Episode 9: Benghazi, Ben-lyin, Ben-spyin

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OK on to the teaser.

There are 3 more graves just like Amb Stevens’. Don’t lose focus.

Benghazi heats up again.

Whistle blowers are coming forward in droves now.  Not just disgruntled State Department employees, but current CIA operatives and admin folk.  2016 is a long way off but Hil-Dogg may be damaged goods after this.

I’d love to stay, but I got a thing

White House Press Secretary’s Ben-Lyin

Jay Carney, WH Press Sec, gets caught in not one but two bold face lies in a matter of minutes in a press conference about Benghazi, the IRS, and the case of the O Administration collecting info on Associated Press reporters.  It seems the White house press corp has decided to take the gloves off.  Hmmm… I wonder what caused their change of pace all of a sudden?  Oh yeah it was because the ….

Can’t improve on this.

…President’s Ben-Spyin

Obama administration caught using the Department of Justice to spy on reporters from the Associated Press. On the same day this story breaks, it quietly gets out that Vladimir Putin has a “US Diplomat”/CIA agent in custody, embarrasses him on Russian television, and kicks him out of the country.  Ryan Christopher Fogle was nabbed after trying to recruit a Russian into the CIA.  Too bad for Ryan that Russian was an undercover Secret Service agent.

All this plus a lively, and I do mean lively, debate on wether the Government has overstepped their bounds in the sexual education of our children.

You absolutely have to listen.

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Podcast Episode 9: Benghazi, Ben-lyin, & Ben-spyin

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