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Beans and Susan Rice

April 4, 2017 by Pops 27 Comments

Spilled beans over Rice

Susan Rice, the ex-Obama confidante and National Security Adviser, known for her  famous lies about a video being the cause of the Benghazi attack, is once again caught in a sticky web of her own weaving.

She has been revealed to have been the driving force behind the “unmasking” of Trump officials who were supposedly surveilled “incidentally” by the Obama administration for the year leading up to the election.

As the facts continue to dribble out, Rice has gone from “I diddin doo nuffin” just two weeks ago to “What I did was necessary and proper.”  This broad is just too much.  Put her under oath, and I’ll bet that she evokes her 5th Amendment rights before they get to ask her to state her name for the record.

The surveillance beans are continuing to be spilled. Democrats scramble to plug the dribbles and endeavor to un-say those things that they have already said.  When the rats begin to turn on one another (and they most certainly will), this debacle is going to be quite a mess.

Trump was right about one thing – Washington is a swamp.  And he may even have been correct about them “wiretapping” his phones.  We will see.

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Tucker Carlson – Mr. Nice Guy

April 1, 2017 by Pops 28 Comments

Tucker Carlson is hard to figure. His primetime Fox News program, in the slot following O’Reilly, garners a huge audience to watch his witty and genuinely amiable interviews. Two aspects of the show are fairly unique in the modern world of news sound bites and 30 second hit-and-run spots.

The first is that Tucker actually spends some time with his guests, and probes them with intelligent and thought-provoking questions. He is always well-prepared, with his facts ready and his pre-interview research complete.  And when his interviews are over, the audience knows the truth about the guest. Nobody walks out of a session with Tucker Carlson with their mask still on.

The second is that Carlson is just too darn nice. He frequently allows people to run on and on, totally evade questions, and monopolize the conversation with their agenda of talking points. It is infuriating to watch as liberal hacks refuse to defend their positions, babble into topics unrelated to the point of the interview, and Tucker politely (but firmly) tries to steer the discussion back on track. Carlson suffers fools with as much dignity as he can muster, and to his credit he never loses his cool. His tool of choice is his laugh, which he uses effectively as either a handshake to welcome friends, or as a karate chop to the throat of the clowns who venture onto the program to do verbal battle with him.

Just once, it would be nice to see Tucker cut someone’s mike, or tell them to shut up, or reach across the desk and slap the crap out of them. Maybe have a sheep’s crook come from off camera and yank them out of their chair. Or a bucket of slime dump on them from above. Something – anything. Please?

Of course, if he did things like that, he wouldn’t be the affable Tucker Carlson.

But I’ll bet that there are some times when he just wants to go home after the show and kick the cat.

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Messenger Season Opens in DC

March 31, 2017 by Pops 27 Comments

They are coming to take you away, Ha Ha!

With the arrival of the cherry blossoms, hunting season is in full swing in our nation’s capital.  There is no bag limit, and any weapon is permissible.  Once again, it is time to cull the messengers, and the beltway is bulging with targets.  If some of these names don’t sound familiar, you may not be a conspiracy news junkie.  In that case, Google can be your friend.

 

President Trump
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
Michael Ellis
Evelyn Farkas
Chairman Devin Nunes
David Laufman
James Comey
James Clapper
Various unnamed “senior U.S. government officials”
Various unnamed “Trump campaign officials”
Various unnamed “Clinton campaign officials”
Various unnamed “national intelligence sources”
Various as-yet-unnamed people who are suspected of leaking something sometime
Edward Snowden
Julian Assange & WikiLeaks
Every single Russian who owns a computer

Messengers Taken in Past Seasons:
Victor Thorn
Joe Montano
Seth Rich
Gareth Williams
Carlos Ghigliotti
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

 


From the “Some Things Never Change” Department:

Ever since that event on the hilltop at Calvary a couple of thousand years ago, messengers have regularly suffered at the hands of those who don’t want to hear the message.

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