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Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:

Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.

The Chronicle’s report is accurate.

If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.

I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward’s statement… Messy ball now firmly in White House court.

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Sorry-But I Have To Say It: Badass!

  • 2011 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
  • Approx. Price: $2.8 Million
  • Type: 2-passenger coupe
  • Engine: Quad-turbocharged W16-cylinder
  • Power: 1,200 hp, 1106 lb-ft torque
  • Transmission: 7-speed dual-clutch automatic

president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce blasts President Obama’s anti-business Policies

From the video description:

Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, blasted President Obama’s anti-business administration during radio interview with Laura Ingraham.

Mr. Alford, an Obama supporter in 2008, labeled Obama’s Administration Marxist & fanatical. “They might as well put on the brown shirts and swastikas,” he said. When asked by Ingraham why he voted for Obama, his answer was; “because he’s black.”

Majority of the American people agrees with Mr. Alford, Obama is dangerous. “He’s way over his head, and its showing,” he said.

NYTs Memory Glitch or Outright Lie?

From NewsBusters:

Thursday’s New York Times lead editorial, “A Certificate of Embarrassment,” dealt with President Obama authorizing the State of Hawaii to release his long-form birth certificate. The editorial writers commit the same error its media reporter Brian Stelter did, falsely stating the rumor “was originally promulgated by fringe figures of the radical right,” when in fact it was initially circulated via email by Hillary Clinton supporters in April 2008, as noted by Politico on April 22.

With sardonic resignation, President Obama, an eminently rational man, stared directly into political irrationality on Wednesday and released his birth certificate to history. More than halfway through his term, the president felt obliged to prove that he was a legitimate occupant of the Oval Office. It was a profoundly low and debasing moment in American political life.

The disbelief fairly dripped from Mr. Obama as he stood at the West Wing lectern. People are out of work, American soldiers are dying overseas and here were cameras to record him stating that he was born in a Hawaii hospital. It was particularly galling to us that it was in answer to a baseless attack with heavy racial undertones.

To suggest the birth certificate was a distraction from Obama’s real work is an odd defense, given the president that same day attended three fundraisers and taped an appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s show. Obama also notoriously spent ten minutes on national TV discussing his NCAA basketball tournament brackets back in March, but waited ten days to tell the American people why he had gone to war in Libya.

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I discuss the origins of this conspiracy in a post that has also a long comment section below the post, “Birtherism and Blogspot Mishaps.”