A really awesome speech tonight at the Alfred E Smith dinner by Mitt Romney. This really is not only funny, but the points are absolutely well placed. I had no idea they could script something so well. It really is incredibly well written and executed. Enjoy…

(From Complex ) Earlier today, [actually two days ago now] a website claiming to have potentially damning information about one of the presidential candidates appeared on the web: Calling itself An October Surprise, the site is pretty bare save for the text, “One of your presidential candidates isn’t being honest with you. Stay tuned to find out which one it is,” and a timer counting down to exactly 5:30 pm ET on October 22nd, which is when whatever possessed “evidence” the person behind the site has is set to be revealed. An official Twitter for the page, @OctSurprise, was set up as well to add more intrigue and mystery to the site, with tweets assuring users that the info they have is “rock solid” and “irrefutable.”

Turns out, however, the website may not be exactly what it seems. (more…)

Two weeks ago the Obama/Bill Burton SuperPac pulled resources from Florida and Wisconsin which was viewed as resetting the fire line.   Now the Obama campaign hints at shifting focus away from NC, FL, VA and potentially CO.

(Via National Journal)  […] What also became clear after the dust began to settle from the rumble on Long Island was the electoral map has narrowed and Obama’s team, while conceding nothing publicly, is circling the wagons around Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. Plouffe said that Obama remains strong in all four states, but he would not discuss the specifics of internal polling or voter-contact analytics, saying only that Obama has “significant leads” in all four places. (more…)

Joe Biden says he sits with President Obama every day for four to six hours. Granted they are probably not sitting, but the fact Biden could state he is “with” the President for four to 6 hours a day is profoundly disconcerting.

Last year I read the Reagan Diaries, which, by the way, I highly recommend. One of the key takeaways I noted was how important it was to Ronald Reagan, and his Vice-President George Bush, to coordinate a two-hour lunch together every Thursday no matter what.

Both Reagan and Bush’s schedules were so busy with executive management challenges they rarely were able to see one another and discuss events, policy, and strategy. They made their Thursday lunches a central component of their cohesion. It was their time to catch up, plan, coordinate and organize their approach to challenges. (more…)

In the history books of wool-over-sheeple-eye-removal this might, just might, go down as one of the most obvious and over-the-top Machiavellian media manuevers ever.

Watching it unfold on live TV it did not seem right. It was awkwardly and comfortably scripted, and too smooth in execution. But watching it on replay the agenda filled manipulation was obvious. It appears Candy Crowley and CNN together with the Obama Administration scripted the Libyan injection into the Presidential Debate.

I’m not just talking about Candy Crowley interjecting on behalf of President Obama, and interrupting Mitt Romney, I mean the whole segment seemed like it was a set up.

So we did a little research:

Candy Crowley told Erin Burnett on CNN’s show Out Front, Monday Night 10/15, that she had collected the questions from the invited and vetted debate audience at Hofstra University and was reviewing them. This was Monday on the 7pm broadcast of Erin Burnett. The Debate was Tuesday.

When the question on Libya was asked by audience member Kerry Ladka, he prefaced the question by saying:

….this question actually comes from my, err, um, a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola, yesterday we were sitting around talking about Libya…

If Candy Crowley already had the audience questions assembled the day before, how could Kerry Ladka and his brain trust friends have been writing one? (more…)

I’ll come back later and add my thoughts.   Gotta spit more first….

“Ahhhhh….  Dreamy”

Tonight is the second presidential debate.   This one is a Town Hall format moderated by CNN’s Candy Crowley.  Again broadcast on most cable news outlets at 9pm.   But CSPAN does a great job covering without all the talking head punditry.

Please Share Your Thoughts As You Watch In The Comment Section

Lying as a profession must be exhausting…..   Trying to test the water temp on the media pool Cabinet Member, Ambassador Susan Rice, pokes head out.   Briefly.    Yet, doubles down on stupid.

WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, in her first public comments on Libya since her controversial account days after the attack, blamed intelligence community talking points for the faulty narrative.

“What the Flip you looking at me for?…. she [Hillary] already done took the blame”….

The light-on-details explanation Monday came as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for any security failures leading up to the consulate attack last month.

But with the accounts coming as both presidential candidates head into a debate Tuesday night that will focus in part on foreign policy, neither appeared to settle mounting questions on the Hill about how the administration got the story so wrong. (more…)

Probably because indeed he is. It is useful to remember this recent post about CNN as it pertains to covering up for the White House Cairo Embassy fiasco. Then watch the video:

Propaganda Panel. The 2012 U.S version of 1938/9 German media.

This was predictable. See the below Huffington Post article intended to create cover in advance of the Second Presidential Debate tomorrow. Their Goal is to make discussing the Benghazi attack seem like political opportunism, thereby stopping Mitt Romney from leveraging it against President Obama with honest questions.

I hate the Media.

(HuffPo) The father of Christopher Stephens, the United States ambassador who was killed in the attack in Libya last month, said Saturday that it would be “abhorrent” for his son’s death to be politicized in the presidential campaign.

In an interview with Bloomberg News, Jan Stevens said the attack on Benghazi and the ensuing investigation has no place in the upcoming election.

“The security matters are being adequately investigated,” Stevens, who is getting briefings from the State Department on the investigation, said. “We don’t pretend to be experts in security. It has to be objectively examined. That’s where it belongs. It does not belong in the campaign arena.”

Since the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Mitt Romney has been critical of President Obama’s response to the tragedy, slamming the president for lapses in security at the American compound. (more…)