Morning Intell: Weekday Edition:
Friday, November 13 2009

• Ft. Hood Shooter: AIDS Meds Discovered in Hasan’s Kileen Apartment
• NY-23 House Race Still Up in the Air?
• Media Matters Claims Credit for Lou Dobbs Leaving CNN
• Army Major Upset at Army, Media PCBS
• Civil Service Purges: Chicago Rules Only
• War on Terror War of Ideas: Obama Ideas are MIA
• Tim Pawlenty: The MSM Brezhnev Doctrine
• Frum-onomics
• Friday the 13th: Why it’s Unlucky Redux
  

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• ANALYSIS OBAMA’S ADVISERS SHOULD READ:Has Obama Peaked? Yes, He Has.
  

  Some figures grow during their time in the presidency; others diminish. Obama’s path was pre-ordained: unless he was able to achieve significant political victories immediately, he was destined to become – at least for a while – the incredible shrinking president.

  It hasn’t helped matters that Obama is the first president to serve in the post-Internet age. For a while, the mainstream media – what little of it is left, anyway – gave Obama a virtual free ride. Even as they have become more skeptical, however, they’ve been drowned out by the increasingly loud faithful on both sides who reflexively praise or trash him.

  The author, Steven Stark, gets the main theme right here–even if a few of his “facts”, aren’t.
  Example: “Many of the challenges Obama faces – to say goodbye to most of his old friends or recalibrate his political antenna – have been ably surmounted by others with less talent and far less brains. But brains are overrated in the presidency: just look at the politically successful Ronald Reagan and the unsuccessful Jimmy Carter.”
  Normally, positing Jimmy Carter as your example of a mental giant would discredit your entire piece. But we’re thinking that this is one of the bon-bons given liberal readers in order to drag them across the finish line of the entire piece.

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• MOVIE ALERT: Critics Consensus: 2012 Isn’t Quite Earth-Shaking
  

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• WILL YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS IN THE MSM? Pastors Will Engage in Civil Disobedience to Protest Inclusion of ‘Sexual Orientation’ in Hate Crimes Law
  It’s more of a rhetorical question…

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• THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER? Treasury Department now accepting donations to help pay off national debt
  Because there really are people who don’t think their taxes are high enough…

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• NEW FLU SAME AS THE OLD FLU: Swine Flu 1976 & Propaganda
  For the history-minded, what 60 Minutes said about the Swine Flu Scare of 1976 after it was over. A few things sound oddly familiar…

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• The audacity of extremism
  James Lewis, AmThinker:

  Audacity can be effective in warfare, because surprise assaults can break through a Maginot Line. But another word for audacity is “gambling.” The price you often have to pay is overreach and defeat. Napoleon’s audacity led straight to an historic defeat for Imperial France in Russia. France never recovered — it’s had two straight centuries of military defeats since Napoleon. His invasion of Russia also caused unimaginable suffering, just like Hitler’s invasion a century later. Audacity is not necessarily a good thing.

  When Obama uses the phrase “The Audacity of Hope,” we hope he’s talking about peaceful audacity. But we can’t be sure — because Obama and his inner circle are extremists in any reasonable meaning of that word, certainly by the standards of normal American politics.

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• JAY LENO: “Remember that congressman, William Jefferson, who the FBI caught with $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer? Well, he was convicted of 11 counts of bribery and corruption and prosecutors asked for the harshest prison sentence ever handed down for a member of Congress. Something like 20 years. The congressman still maintains he did nothing wrong. He claims he just fell in with the wrong crowd. Congress. That’s a bad crowd.”
  

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• AVAILABLE: Ideological Bigotry
  

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  ANN COULTER: ” According to numerous eyewitness accounts, Hasan denounced the “war on terror” as a war against Islam, said Muslims should attack Americans in retaliation for the war in Iraq, defended suicide bombers and said he was “happy” when a Muslim murdered a soldier at a military recruiting center in Arkansas earlier this year.
  Stranger still, he wasn’t auditioning for his own show on MSNBC when he made these statements.”

  

• OLD SHAH SAME AS THE NEW SHAH: Exile group: Iran making major security changes
  “…the guard’s intelligence agency will incorporate seven existing security organizations. These include sections of the Internal Security Directorate and Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the Security Directorate of the Basij force, anti-riot forces and the main security headquarters for Tehran, Rajavi said.”

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• THAT’S RIGHT! Palin sticks it to Obamanomics
  Don Surber: “She is getting pretty chatty on Facebook these days. I added her to the blogroll. She is pretty good at this online stuff.”
  Good idea…”add her to the blogroll.”

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• THE LIST: 39 Democrats Who Voted “NO” on Government-Run HealthCare (H.R. 3962)
  

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• ACE IS HAVING A MEET-UP: Update on Hmmm…
  It all has sounded pretty good to us since he first publicly mused about the idea…ALL EXCEPT that God-awful suggestion of having it in Vegas. That’s so ’70s?!? Why not go for Oakland, CA? It’s got all of the allure of Vegas, PLUS you can’t understand the grafitti on the walls of the buildings downtown…

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• DUNN WITH ANITA, IN WITH BOB: Well, now: Anita Dunn’s bully lawyer hubby takes over as White House general counsel
  Michelle Malkin: “The thug politics power couple of Anita “A Pox on Fox” Dunn and Bob “The Silencer” Bauer isn’t going anywhere. I said it earlier this week and on Fox News early Thursday morning (vid here).”
  She had me at “Thug power couple”…

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• ONLY YOU CAN SAVE A BOOBALIOUS BABE: Get Us to 500 Donors, Or That’s the Last You’ll See of Lobster Girl
  That would be a pity…(via Libertarian Sideboob)…

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• CONAN O’BRIEN: “Yesterday former President Bill Clinton talked to Senate Democrats about the healthcare bill, and he told them to not make the same mistakes he and Hillary did. As a result, the senators all went home and got a divorce.”
  

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• DAILY HAH! Boy Among Men
  The last four or five graphics are all keepers: I Own the World.

  by Mondo Frazier
  images: DBKP file

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