Chris Wallace and the Fox All-Stars

Wallace defended Susan Rice. Charles Krauthammer said fine, if everyone wants to let Rice off the hook then let's take Obama up on his challenge and go after him since he's responsible for Rice's lies to the American people regarding what happened in Benghazi. I see it differently -- even if Rice was given bad information, that's not the end of it. Let's think about shortly after Rice goes on 5 tv news shows and repeats the same misinformation over and over. Surely, given what we now know, that the intelligence community knew it was a terrorist act from the beginning, they would would have contacted the White House and Rice informing them the information given on the five shows was false information, thus causing retractions from the White House and Rice. Instead of retractions, the same lies and misinformation were spread for awhile longer. This is scary stuff. That professionals like Wallace are still obscuring this issue is incredible. That the Left is defending Obama and Rice is pathetic.

Later in the show, Tucker Carlson said that the US has to re-think spreading democracy, given what's happened in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood rising to power. I say the US needs to re-think interventionism period. We don't need to spread anything in the mideast. We only need to let them do what they want to do as long it doesn't threaten our national security. We need to stop intervening, and that includes intervening with billions in aid.

Bill Kristol on Fox News Sunday

I don't usually agree with Bill Kristol, but today I agreed wholeheartedly with his response to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday regarding short-term solutions to the down economy and long term solutions. Wallace said Obama would have to address short-term stimulus ideas because long term deficit and debt reduction won't do anything to help the economy immediately. Kristol disagreed and said it is actually the opposite -- until we come up with a long term plan, US companies and consumers will not gain confidence to invest and spend.

This is what liberals, moderates, Big Government Republicans and progressives are missing -- we need fundamental, long term solutions so companies become confident enough to invest and start hiring. The myopic view that government has to intervene and pump money into the system, create temporary jobs and apply short-term tweaks to relax regulations for a year or so is incredibly unaware of what it take to create economic progress. There's no such thing as stability in an economy, but there can be confidence that the long term direction is characterized by non-intervention and an end to government central planning which constantly changes the rules and costs of doing business. Plus, if industry and the American tax payer know that government is serious about non-intervention and spending reduction, there will be a psychological boost , and also a boost of confidence to international investors -- and it's the international investment we need to really get the economy going.

Little Timmy Geithner

I caught Tim Geithner being interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox today. Man, this administration is Mickey Mouse through and through. Geithner sounded like an automaton as he mechanically hit every talking point imaginable. The gist of it is that Bush left a mess, and congress is scaring the public and that's why the recovery Geithner forecasted last year has stalled. What can I say?

Jon Stewart and specious snark

Stewart falls far short of the traditional American humorist, and he represents the modern devolution from great satire to specious snark. Jon Stewart is a clever smart-ass, but nothing more. Stewart's recent bout with Chris Wallace made Stewart look small and manipulative -- oh the big bad Fox did him wrong with "gotcha" editing!

Most of Stewart's attacks on Fox and right wing personalities are hit jobs - he takes something out of context then devises a juvenile joke around it with a zinger at the end that's supposed to be profound, I guess. Now Stewart is complaining about editing. Stewart should be happy he doesn't get what he deserves, someone like himself trying to twist his every public statement into a sloppy joke that gets giggles from pot-heads and 15 year olds who think Stewart's a real, live reporter - "Yeah, dude, that's the news, there -- he tells it straight, dawg".

To show he's objective, Stewart will even make fun of Obama, but Stewart's weighted heavily to the Left, and this is what prevents him from being a serious humorist and keeps him snarking on a two bit comedy show. Snark on, Stewart, but quit yer crying about Fox -- you're lucky anyone there gives a shit what you think.

Chris Wallace -- Fox News Sunday 3/20/2011

There is much confusion and double talk on Libya. Wallace interviewed Admiral Mullen and, later, Lindsey Graham and Jack Reed. Graham, as usual, is taking a neocon stance, while Reed is taking Obama's position of protecting the people, then backing off and letting allies handle it. Mullen said the same thing he said on Meet the Press -- nothing. None of them have any idea what we will do if Qaddafi doesn't give up and continues to kill Libyans. Graham is the only one saying that we should go in guns blazing and kill Qaddafi. That's the unspoken purpose of this invasion.

It's obvious that the US has led this from the beginning, and that Obama is manipulating to make it appear as a coalition of forces blessed by the UN. Statism in the US is out of control, and there is no clear purpose to our actions in the Mid-East. Two weeks after Secretary Gates said anyone who advises getting involved in a Mid-East conflict in the future ought to have their head examined, we're in another conflict. But, we allow the tyrants in Yemen and Bahrain to kill inncocent people. The hypocrisy, manipulation and confusion is astounding.

The All-Star Panel were all in agreement that our involvement in Libya is necessary. Bill Kristol is beginning to sound like an Obama advisor. I'm disgusted with the entire political realm. America is politically poisoned.