These are tough days to be a serious news reporter or a humble Amish farmer in America. You're liable to have Obama and/or his overbearing federal government minions all over your ass. But if you're a suspected terrorist, have no fear. We'll make you a damn citizen!This'll Teach Her to Give Obama Unfavorable Coverage!
She just didn't get it. If Obama bestows upon you the illustrious honor of getting to be a part of the press pool covering one of his events, then you had better toe the party line. You better ask the questions they want, and if anything unflattering to His Majesty occurs at the event, you had better ignore it in your coverage!
That was the lesson reportedly learned the hard way this week by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci. She finds herself now banned from Obama's press pool -- ordered to make like a "Ghost."
Marinucci's crime? Recording and reporting the below video showing singing Obama protesters at an Obama fundraiser in the Land of San Fran Nan. The Obama crew is offering up the rather absurd excuse that the press pool at this event was only supposed to take pen-and-paper notes, as if this was 1973 or something when the original Tricky Dick was in the White House.
This also from an Obama administration that uses modern media techniques and resources (video, social media, etc.) more than any prior administration in order to pump out its propaganda 24/7. I mean, Obama tweets and facebooks more frequently than a new fly strays into in a Mississippi Shithouse.
But if you're a reporter, don't shoot and report any video of Obama unless he approves of it first! Otherwise, you'll be banished.
What's more, you had better not complain! The linked Chronicle story reports that several reporters have said that the White House has been making "implied threats" of "additional and wider punishment" of reporters if the Marinucci banishment became public. Methinks that before you know it, there's not going to be any reporters left in the Obama press pool!
[Late Friday Night UPDATE: This story is really starting to Explode. The latest has the White House denying everything, but the SF Chronicle (hardly a right-wing bastion!) standing beside its story. EXPLODING so much so that this story at Midnight 4/29-4/30 Sits Atop the Drudge Report!]
He Ain't Amish, He's My Brother!
His name is Dan Allgyer, and they were all over this Amish cat's case for a damn year. A yearlong sting operation, to be exact. And they pulled out all the Nixonian stops! This included "aliases, a 5:00 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from [Allgyer's] Amish farm in Pennsylvania."
And now, apparently armed with all the evidence it needs, Obama's FDA announced this week "that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers."
So what exactly was this buggy drivin' bearded man pushing out of his farm? Drugs? Guns? Paca Lolo? Black market cigarettes? Shabby quality horse carts? Black market DVD copies of the film Witness?
Nope. None of those things. Instead, this Amish farmer's sin was to sell milk. Raw milk straight from his own cows, to be precise. Can't have that! Nope. Obama's creeps want you to get your sorry ass down to the supermarket, where Obama-driven inflation now has a pathetic gallon of milk selling for around $4.00 or more nationwide.
And if you do otherwise, then Obama's gonna spend a year of federal government resources and manpower harassing you and trying to build some kind of court case against you. This despite the fact that (1) local patrons are reportedly "extremely happy" with the milk and other products sold on the farm and (2) there have been no complaints. Except from Obama's FDA.
So look for the Milk Wars to continue across Amish America while Obama and his flunkies turn a blind eye to other legal and regulatory areas that don't jive so well with their leftist 20 percenter agenda. As the linked story from the Washington Times states:
"The FDA's actions stand in contrast to other areas where the Obama administration has said it will take a hands-off approach to violations of the law, including the use of medical marijuana . . . and illegal-immigrant students and youths, whom the administration said recently will not be targets of their enforcement efforts."
So to quote (actually butcher) the old song: If you smoke the tree, we'll leave you be. If you jump the fence, we won't dispense. But if you're Amish -- Oh Brother!!! -- Get Back, Get Back, Get Back!
Giving "the Great American Melting Pot" a Whole New Meaning
Even Tricky Dick would agree, I'd assume: We've always been a country that's welcomed the world's immigrants. In the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, it was such immigrants as the Italians, the Czechs, the Scandinavians, etc., not to mention my ancestors, your Kraut Mick friends.
The broad diversity of our great country is truly something special to behold (OK, in that sentence, I'm actually being very serious for once). Over time, we've welcomed tens of millions of additional immigrants from Asia, Africa, South and Central America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, etc.
And now we can proudly add to that list a new group: Suspected terrorists. The linked story from CNSNews.com reports that since Obama took over the crown, three international terrorism suspects have been granted U.S. citizenship.
The threesome was reportedly naturalized as U.S. citizens after Obama's Department of Justice convicted them of crimes as a result of a "terrorism-related" DOJ investigation. (You know, I've heard of the Bizarro-world phrase "crime does pay," but this is ridiculous!). We welcomed these sleazebags with "Open Arms"!
The result of all this foolishness is that I'm afraid the New Colossus plaque at the Statue of Liberty is going to have be modified and amended, as follows:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses -- and toss in your criminals and pato puffers too -- yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse and hive of scum and villiany of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the terrorists, tempest-tost to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door to all measure of ex-cons, slimeballs and scuzjackets alike. Welcome Aboard! (But Amish people and serious news reporters need not apply)."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=87978
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/28/feds-sting-amish-farmer-selling-raw-milk-locally/
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/3-persons-convicted-terrorism-related-ca
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