Chief PR Guru: Obama's Error

[From article]
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Axelrod said that if he were still an Obama adviser he would not have included the line in the president’s speech last week in which Obama said: “I’m not on the ballot this fall ... but make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.”
“It was a mistake,” Axelrod said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2014/10/axelrod-obama-ballot-line-a-mistake-196592.html

Axelrod: Obama ballot line a 'mistake'
By JEREMY HERB
10/5/14 11:18 AM EDT

So Carol, How was Your Date?

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Keen for a boyfriend, El Houari must have seen romantic promise in their online friendship — enough to buy a plane ticket and fly to the North African nation to meet him in person.
She arrived in Fez, Morocco’s third-largest city, on May 19 and booked herself into a five-star hotel before heading out to meet her date, according to regional daily La Provence.
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The man, who has not been named, told police that the evening was going well until El Houari suddenly and inexplicably keeled over and collapsed.
Believing she had dropped dead, the man says he went into a panic about how to dispose of her body. He decided to bury her in his back garden, claiming he was in such a rush that he failed to realize she was still breathing.
It later emerged that El Houari was an undiagnosed diabetic and had been in a diabetic coma when she was placed in the makeshift grave.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/04/woman-buried-alive-after-worst-first-date-ever/

Woman buried alive after worst first date ever
By News.com.au
New York Post
June 4, 2014 | 8:26am

Science Corrupted

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Typically, there is a core of real science behind each scare and then the danger is blown up out of all proportion to the real danger.
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Human nature being what it is, the scientists engaging in corrupt behavior always believe they are engaged in a noble crusade.
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Peer review and open discussion is supposed to keep scientific sin in check. However, if the scientific journals are controlled by a clique, and if hellfire rains down on dissenters, then peer review fails and open discussion takes place only in secret.
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Tim Ball has written a book: The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science.
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Government agencies as a rule never admit to making mistakes.
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Because the media organizations are scientifically illiterate they cannot distinguish real science from junk science.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/the_corruption_of_science.html

May 24, 2014
The Corruption of Science
By Norman Rogers

Jay Leno Too Funny, Too Old?

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“The main thing is to get people from 18 to 42 watching your station, and for 18 to 40, [Leno] is considered oldie,” Mason continued, on Leno’s release. “Obama had nothing to do with it; it’s all the age, it’s all the age range. The whole idea is to get the young people to watch, and they assume the 20-year-olds are buying everything and if you’re over 50 you’re buying nothing. They’re too stupid to realize that in fact the opposite is true. How many times do you see a 23-year-old person with a Rolls Royce?”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/jackie-mason-leno-fired-because-hes-too-old/

JACKIE MASON: LENO FIRED BECAUSE HE'S TOO OLD
'Tonight Show' veteran says NBC 'stupid' for requiring younger host
Drew Zahn
March 2, 2014

CBS Journalist at 60 Minutes Misled By Source, Used For Broadcast

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The report also said Logan should not have done the story in the first place after making a speech in Chicago a year ago claiming that it was a lie that America's military had tamed al Qaeda.
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'The most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake. That's very disappointing for any journalist, that's very disappointing for me.
‘Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong and in this case we were wrong.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514060/Lara-Logan-producer-suspended-false-60-Minutes-report-Benghazi.html

Lara Logan and her producer 'suspended' over false 60 Minutes report on Benghazi after she was forced to make humiliating on-air apology for 'disappointing mistakes'
60 Minutes aired an interview with a security contractor who claimed to rush over to the American consulate after the attack began in 2012
After the interview with Dylan Davies aired, CBS learned that Davies told the FBI a different version of events
Logan apologized for being 'misled' less than a week after the segment aired on October 27 but today CBS announced her leave of absence
By MEGHAN KENEALLY and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:51 EST, 26 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:37 EST, 26 November 2013

TV News Bloopers 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254020/Hilarious-compilation-regional-news-bloopers-proves-2012-year-stuffing-camera.html

Never work with children, animals... or local TV reporters! Hilarious
compilation of ALL 2012's regional news bloopers
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:48 EST, 27 December 2012 | UPDATED: 00:50 EST, 28 December 2012

Be Careful What You Wish For

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_snd-human-perversity.html

ANDREW KLAVAN
No Joke
Of human perversity and oranges for heads
City Journal
Vol.2 22, No. 2
Spring 2012

Obama Losing Tenuous Connection With Voters

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What is happening is that the president is coming across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who's not operating in good faith. This is hardening positions and leading to increased political bitterness. And it's his fault, too. As an increase in polarization is a bad thing, it's a big fault.
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Not ill-advised, devious.
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the president wasted history's time. He wasted time that was precious—the debt clock is still ticking!—by following an imaginary bunny that disappeared down a rabbit hole.
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All the books written about the creation of economic policy within his administration make clear the president and his aides didn't know it was so bad, didn't understand the depth of the crisis, didn't have a sense of how long it would last.
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there always seems a lack of lived experience among them,

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

Peggy Noonan
Updated March 31, 2012, 12:28 p.m. ET
Not-So-Smooth Operator
Obama increasingly comes across as devious and dishonest.
Wall Street Journal

Are Obama's Errors Intentional?

Are Obama's Errors Intentional?


"Since things didn't work out as planned, the Obama administration last week decided it would tax the nation's biggest banks to recover $100 billion in bailouts.
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That would further slow the economy, which will reduce tax revenues. And less money coming into the IRS collections because of a slower economy will mean that Obama's people won't improve the deficit, they'll worsen it."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/white_house_solutions_creating_new_lkG0pnzcDQaYTnMbbdVXaL

White House solutions creating new problems
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:36 AM, January 23, 2010
Posted: 2:30 AM, January 19, 2010