Hillary's Iron Control of Campaign Media Coverage

Daily Pool Reporter Denied Access to Events

It was the Daily Mail.com's turn to do pool reporting at Clinton campaign events Monday but the chosen reporter, David Martosko, was refused entry and told he was not approved by the Clinton campaign for Monday's events.  The pool was formed at the request of the Clinton campaign, with one reporter traveling with the Mrs. Clinton each day. The campaign agreed not to have a say in which reporter chosen, with the news correspondents themselves deciding the rotation. Some in the media are finally starting to ask whether the presumptive nominee is taking an unusually heavy-handed approach to controlling her coverage.  

Media Equalizer:

"A source close to the situation told the Media Equalizer earlier that when Martosko was informed last night of the rescinded credential, the consensus among others in the media pool was to decline to send a replacement at all, leaving at least one event without anyone to report on it. The position normally rotates each day, as the campaign only allows one print reporter at a time inside many of her events.

While the left-leaning Mediaite speculates the issue is related to a 2013 story about Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and the campaign cites the Daily Mail’s foreign ownership (a can of worms were this to be applied evenly across the board), it’s more likely related to a recent series of scoops by Martosko about events on the trail.

It was Martosko, after all, who has reported on a number of behavioral missteps by Clinton’s team, such as her reliance on private jets as opposed to commercial travel even as she rails against the rich during campaign stops.

In April, he caught Clinton’s entourage reaching or exceeding 80 miles per hour in a 55 zone as they “raced to Boston” in order to catch a plane in Logan with a first class section. That’s despite skipping “the Manchester, NH airport [which] would have been 55 miles closer and had a flight two hours earlier – but it was on smaller plane with only coach seats.” 

In addition, he uncovered Clinton’s now-infamous “Scooby van”– the vehicle used to move her across Iowa, featuring armor plating and tinted windows." - READ MORE

Looks like to me Mr. Martosko is being made an example of for the other media to be careful what they report.  After what he has reported so far of Ma's elitist type campaign behavior, maybe it could be said Mr. Martosko has the honor of being the first name on President Hillary's Enemies List.

So the Jebster Wants to Be a President Too.....

The intuition of a Mother...

Dumb or Dumbest?

You may recall that a while back, President Obama spoke of three former Presidents making prisoner swaps at the end of wars that took place on their watch, “ much like this swap ” he said convincingly.  

CNN carried this quote, “This is what happens at the end of wars.”

Barack Obama boasted when he was asked about swapping American Army Sgt. Deserter for five vicious Taliban terrorists:

“That was true for George Washington…That was true for Abraham Lincoln and that was true for FDR. That’s been true of every combat situation, that at some point, you make sure that you try to get your folks back…And that’s the right thing to do.

Really?

That statement blatantly demonstrates that the most powerful man in the World and two term President of the United States lacks even a grade school level of knowledge of American History; specifically, history as it relates to three of our most famous presidents and it demonstrates again that we have essentially elected one who has no understanding of the very country that he reigns supreme over.

Then again, he was educated at an Ivy League school so you can’t expect too much.
So what’s wrong with his statements? Let’s keep it simple – EVERYTHING is wrong! 

  1. George Washington did not become president until six years after the Revolutionary War ended in 1783. By 1789 there were no longer any prisoners for him to exchange.

 2. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in mid-April of 1865. The Civil War ended the following month. He was still dead at that time. No deals were made to exchange prisoners after the war. All prisoners were simply freed.

 3. FDR died of a stroke before the end of WWII. Like Lincoln , he stayed dead after the war so he couldn’t do what this jerk says he did. You’ll recall that Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan , ending World War II. He made no deals for prisoners. We went in and released them when necessary.

 4. None of the Presidents that Obama noted were in office at the ends of those wars, making it impossible for them to make any sort of prisoner swaps, let alone the 5 for 1, plus unspecified cash, for a deserter and traitor by our ” 57 States “ president.

 5. It should be pointed out that countless deserters and traitors were shot or hanged during all three of the aforementioned wars.

What amazes one even more than the ignorance of this Muslim President is that he has managed to surround himself with a staff that is just as clueless, or willing as the media are to cover for his dumb, lying rhetoric and behavior!

And just a side note:  Obama mentioned while being interviewed on Super Bowl Sunday while in the White House kitchen, that George Washington drank beer in the White House when he was president.

 George Washington never lived in the White House; it wasn't built yet!!!

h/t Chair of Bullies

A Good Monday Morning

Journalist Calls For An “Overthrow” of the American System

Progs Today - 

It has become all too apparent that the battle for America’s soul is being waged by basically two types of people. Those who wish to return the nation to its former glory as a beacon of liberty for the American people and the world; and those who wish to see the Constitution and all it stands for burn in the fires of collective tyranny.

An example of the latter was recently demonstrated during a New York fundraiser for Seattle Socialist Councilwoman ( and fromer organizer in the local Occupy movement) Kshama Sawant.  FDL reports that during a speech given at the event Progressive author and journalist Chris Hedges called for the overthrow of the American system.

“The only response, if we are going to recover a country that does not slip into a corporate, oligarchy tyranny…is if we overthrow the system,” Hedges said. “Let me repeat that word in case anyone from Homeland Security is here and that’s overthrow.”

This isn't the first time Chris Hedges has openly called for a revolution. During an interview in 2013 Mr. Hedges stated that, “I’m calling for the overthrow of this system”.

A quick like at the Nation Institutes's stable of writers makes me believe he is  probably not alone in this type thinking. 

You Too Can Hide Your Embarrassing Whiteness....

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

The Draft Linden Borden Campaign

Businessman Linden Phuken Borden III

In late 2011, at the begining of the presidential campaign primary season, we at DMF saw no candidate with an ability or worthiness to defeat Barack Obama. Then came out of the blue a man of the people, one who we believed had what it took to pull America back from the brink. That man was  Linden Phuken Borden.  

Unfortunately, today we see the same thing we saw then in the 2011 GOP candidates: career entrenched politicians, wealth business tycoons and inexperienced junior senators all lining up for a shot at being famous. This is not what America needs.
We need a leader, a sensible leader for a 'New Century of American Greatness'. 

Below is our editorial from November 2011. We stand firmly behind it's ever word today as we did then. We hope you will join us to help push forward and start the ball rolling for a Draft Linden Borden for President Campaign 2016. 

* Editors Note:  In a December 12, 2011 story in the press of Mitt Romney's refusal to debate Mr. Borden one-on-one, also mentions the following day's discovery of the cutting down of ever single tree on the Romney Family Estate in Massachusetts and hauled away during the night, attributed by some as the mischievous handy work of Mr. Borden and his symbolic Viking Hatchet. Our in-depth investigation of the matter showed no conclusive proof of any involvement of Mr. Borden with the missing trees.  It remains a mystery.

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Editorial

From the Board of Diogenes' Middle Finger

Linden Borden is a Harry Truman type character. Only five foot two inches in stature, but of strong Viking stock, the Presidential Candidate is a self-sufficient small businessman; a boat builder by trade from the wilds of Minnesota. His business savvy and understanding of the needs of small business is sorely missing from the present field of GOP candidates. Sure, there are Tax Lawyers, moneyed Ex-Governors, wealthy Ex-Congressmen and even a Space Cadet vying for the nomination. But we feel Mr. Borden is heads above the rest of the field.

His strong suit is his understanding of simple economics: You can't spend more than you take in. Borden knows how to wield a mean ax, and plans to lay waste to the bloated federal budget and stop the idiotic wasteful spending. The present field of candidates see billions as chump change, Linden Borden sees that as the problem. 

We feel Mr. Borden is scary enough to get congress in-line and threating enough to keep our enemies at bay. We know he will not have any empty sexual harassment allegations leveled at him as some candidates have because as far as we know, no women has gone near him in years.

The almost unbelievable ground swell of support we witnessed on College Campuses as well as in Bingo Parlors and Burger Doodles all over New Hampshire last week make us believe the third tier candidate is poised to explode in a major breakout and run to the front, leading the pack into the early primary contests. All across the state, from the prestigious environmentally conscious, cutting edge 'Cannabis Technological Institute' to the 'New Hampshire School for the Blind and Infirm', to the historic 'New England Academy for Wayward Nymphomaniacs', we witnessed rallies and grassroots support we haven't seen since the Dukakis campaign.

We at Diogenes Middle Finger think it's Linden Borden's time to shine, and wholeheartedly endorse his campaign for President.

He has surrounded himself with some impressive advisers, the likes of the eccentric but knowledgeable Professor Ichabod Butouski of the Minnesota State Junior College Ethnic Physics Department, Will Profit, Chief Editor and CEO of Capitalist Preservation and Texas State Chairman for CTFBA (Cut the F**king Budget Already Campaign), Snags Fitch, Grand Lizard of the St. Paul Masonic Elks Optimist Club and Sequela Butts, contemporary poet and rummage expert. His intended Cabinet nominees we find also impressive. Announced as his potential Commerce Secretary is English born Marvin Ashcott Hayes, the somewhat eccentric Minnesota Tampon Magnate, and for Transportation Secretary, Link Pilsner, former outlaw biker and expert on the nation's back roads and highway systems.  

On Foreign Policy, we here at Diogenes Middle Finger unfortunately do not agree with Candidate Borden's insistence on nuking Guatemala in retaliation for his 1981 conviction (later overturned) for importing Toupees made from hair of endangered species, but do feel his views will be tempered by his choice for Secretary of State, Klash Bazbo, who should be over the ugly head wound suffered in a Viking Raid reenactment on a Wisconsin girl's school, and out of physical therapy in time to be confirmed.

The only possible problem we see with presently announced Cabinet choices in Congressional Conformation Hearings could be the pick for Attorney General, Vincent “The Knee" Peolotso. Mr. Peolotso is a businessman and expert on Law and the Federal Correction System, having been through it many times. 

 The Editorial Board of Diogenes Middle Finger believe it's time to cut the crap and get the country back on track. We also believe this is the first and most important endorsement of The Linden Borden for President Campaign, with many to follow in our steps. 

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