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[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

I am so upset right now that I could spit nails. I'm listening to the Obama speak about the murder by Libyans of the U.S. Ambassador and 3 other Americans at the U.S. embassy in Libya.

He just said something to the effect of "we condemn people offending/belittling the religious beliefs of others."

How the hell could he bring that into this!? Its blaming the victims and it echoes the statement given by the State Dept. after the U.S. embassy in Cairo was attacked. Obama took a few hours, but he threw them under the bus yesterday after the outrage grew about the USA officially apologizing for its residents exercising their freedom of speech. How can you say that an official statement issued by your own government doesn't reflect the views of your government? Is Obama in control of his government or not? That's a totally different issue, but it sure seems like not.

So the U.S. Ambassador is dead, Obama is saying we should be more sensitive to Muslims' feelings, and we're not going to do anything. A reporter shouted "is this an act of war?" As I understand it, the assassination of an ambassador usually is, but Obama said nothing and I have no reason to believe he'll take further action than his (he believes) strongly-worded speech just now.

And that these embassy attacks occurred on September 11th is no coincidence, in my mind. I am so, so angry, and I never thought I could hate our President and I don't just yet, but right now I am feeling a deep disgust towards him.

Edit: This gets worse:

Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.

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Obama said nothing of this. How cowardly, what a liar.

Edit: More double-talk from the Administration, this time directly from Hillary Clinton, our esteemed Secretary of State. I just heard her give a statement on the radio where she called the film (which until the embassy attacks, nobody had even heard of) "inflammatory material" and then added the obligatory condemnation of the violence while stating everyone has a right to free speech.

She is literally talking out of both sides of her mouth here: by calling the material "inflammatory" she is agreeing with the point-of-view of those who murdered our ambassador and the other Americans. She is giving their actions credibility by saying "yes, it was inflammatory, so your reaction is understandable." What the hell message is the Obama Administration trying to send here? Do we or do we not have the right to express ourselves, and will or will the government not defend that right under any and all circumstances?

When I was younger, I seriously considered joining the U.S. diplomatic corps. I thought it would be awesome to be known as "Ambassador" and be able to change the world one conversation at a time. In light of the lack of support and protection from this administration, I am glad that my life took me down a different path. Its coming out that not only did the Libyan's own guards betray our people to the mob, but that the USA didn't have any defense personnel on staff (usually there are at least Marines there). Absolutely unexcuseable.

Anyone else here read TV Guide?

[jessm78.livejournal.com]

I've been a subscriber on and off since the early 90s. I received a gift subscription about a year ago, which was fine because I like reading about some of my fave shows. Just received this week's issue and it really pissed me off.

They have an article in their "In the News" section entitled "The Conventions' Winners and Losers." For "winners", they include the speeches of both Michelle Obama and Ann Romney (must've really pained them to include her), the "partisan cable networks" (MSNBC and Fox News are mentioned for getting the most viewers during the DNC and RNC, respectively), and Bill Clinton, natch.

For the "losers", they pick everyone on the right: "The convention bounce", as in the lack of bounce for Romney following his convention; Clint Eastwood, and Sarah Palin.

I shouldn't have been surprised, but it just pisses me off how they perpetrate this garbage to prop up Obama. Romney actually did receive a small bounce after the RNC. Most polls I saw, including Reuters/Ipsos (which has been known to tilt left) and Rassmussen, showed him with a bounce between 4 and 6 points at least. But of course the media wouldn't make any mention of it. Meanwhile, according to pollsters, Obama did receive a bounce (though some of those polls I saw were pretty suspect based on the questions asked and oversampling Democrats... in one, Romney trailed by 5 points, but was leading by double digits with Independents) but it's already fading pretty quickly. Of course they don't want us to know this either. I fired off an email to them. They'll probably laugh and delete it, but I don't care. Had to let them know that not all of their readers appreciate this.

I know, you're thinking, "Well, what do you expect from them?" I do like TV Guide for info on my shows. But again, I'm just so sick and tired of them bending over backwards to show how slanted they are and to prop up this President. *shakes head*

Couldn't make this up if I tried...

[ladyrogue79.livejournal.com]

So some of you may have heard that Nickelodeon is doing a reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiering this fall. Well, one of the voice actors for the new Turtles is American Pie's Jason Biggs and he's been busy causing Nick a whole lot of problems, specifically thanks to his Twitter.

A few weeks ago, Biggs had been tweeting up a storm of rather vile and disgusting tweets.

( LJ cut for vulgar language )

Why is this important? Because around the time these things were being posted? Nickelodeon was promoting the new TMNT... by linking to Biggs' Twitter account. Needless to say, parents are royally pissed and calling for Biggs to be fired. As of the last update, the Janna Ryan and Ann Romney tweets had disappeared, but the others are still there.
Also Biggs' wife wants us to know that we're bullies for wanting to protect our children from her husband's vulgarity. Classy. Is there a 'punch someone through the Internet button' yet?

ETA: Please note that dark_weezing had already posted about this here as well.

Presidential Poll

[theglen.livejournal.com]

I do this every election, which president do you associate most with each deadly sin and why? And please justify your answer.

Sins:
Pride
Greed
Lust
Gluttony
Wrath
Envy
Sloth

(Yes I know in 20 years Taft has swept Gluttony unanimously but I still ask)