Jim joins guest host Brett Winterble to discuss new polls showing a close governor's race in Massachusetts, reports that President Obama skips most of his intelligence briefings, and a string of Secret Service security breaches.
Obama's '60 Minutes' dodge tears the Administration apart
One of the reasons it's extremely unwise to put people like Barack Obama in charge of anything is that their frantic efforts to save their own skins have a way of tearing apart the teams they lead. It's hard to keep up with their ever-shifting excuses and prevarications. A subordinate might find himself fiercely defending every word the boss said on Monday as gospel truth, "clarifying" those words on Tuesday, retracting them on Wednesday, and denying the boss ever said them by the end of the week. Other people in the operation often object to being used as scapegoats for failure, leading to nasty internal battles.
When that team is the gigantic federal government of the United States, and it's at war with a savage foreign enemy, the results of Obama-style anti-leadership can be catastrophic. His team is now sweating through Day Two of damage control for the President's latest attempt to spin away his foreign policy failures on "60 Minutes." When your damage control needs damage control, you're in a bad place. This particular effort went so badly wrong that even the designated softball pitcher for CBS News, Steve Kroft, felt obliged to call Obama out for lying during what was supposed to be a friendly interview. The intelligence community Obama tried to saddle with the burden of his failures wasted no time speaking up and making it perfectly clear they did warn the President about the threat of ISIS, long ago...
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Greg welcomes guests John Gibson, Carrie Sheffield and Sherrod Small.
Univ. of New Mexico to host 'threesome' sex event for students
The University of New Mexico (UNM) is hosting a "Sex Week," where students can learn "How to be a Gentleman and get laid," negotiate threesomes, and orgasmic blow jobs.
The event, sponsored by the University of New Mexico Women's Resource Center and the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), is offering lectures on "How to be a Gentleman AND Get Laid," "Reid's Negotiating Successful Threesomes," "O-Face Oral," and "BJs and Beyond with Reid."
According to local news station KOB4, "The events are designed to prevent sexual assault, but organizers have taken a new approach...Instead of teaching students how not to get hurt, they're teaching them how to have safer and better sex."
"[S]ex educators will teach students how to have consensual, safe sex through PowerPoint, and puppet demonstrations," writes KOB4.
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Jim and Greg love that Iowa senatorial candidate Joni Ernst is pulling away from Bruce Braley in the polls, ridicule Obama for throwing the intel community under the bus over ISIS, and shake their heads at Politico's "breaking news" reporter Kendall Breitman consulting astrologers over Chelsea's baby.
Politico: Iowa's got a woman problem, and only Hillary can cure it
Iowa has not elected a woman in a statewide contest since 1990, one example of election trivia that floats to the surface every couple of years when political journalists look for hooks on which to hang narratives. Twenty-four years later, Iowa has a chance to end that streak, thanks to the emergence of Joni Ernst, who won the Republican nomination for US Senate and is currently leading Democratic nominee Bruce Braley in the polls. With one midterm focus on gender demographics, the 24-year drought in Iowa of statewide wins for women makes for a pretty decent frame to take a deep dive into the Ernst campaign.
Except that's not what Politico's Dave Price did. Instead, he used that frame to take a deep dive into someone who's not on the ballot at all this year. Instead, Price asks the question: "Can Hillary Overcome Iowa's Woman Problem?"
It's not as if Price ignores Ernst entirely, but the first mention of a woman who's actually running for office comes in the 37th paragraph of Price's article. In fact, although Ernst's gender can be assumed from the spelling of her name, Price never mentions Ernst's gender until the 44th paragraph, when Price notes that three women are running for federal office in Iowa in this cycle — and never even names the other two. So much for Iowa's "woman problem."
This piece is nothing more than a fluff piece for Hillary, hung on a false framework of a "woman problem" in Iowa. If Price and Politico had wanted to focus on the supposed woman problem, they would have profiled the one woman who may very well solve it in November, rather than the aspirational candidate who may or may not bother to try in a couple of years to redeem herself from a surprise third-place finish in 2008. The next time Politico wants to promote Hillary Clinton, perhaps they'll have the integrity to do so honestly.
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