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Secret Service Director Resigns in Light of Recent White House Security Breaches

From Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security:

“Today Julia Pierson, the Director of the United States Secret Service, offered her resignation, and I accepted it. I salute her 30 years of distinguished service to the Secret Service and the Nation.”

For the time being, Joseph Clancy will act as interim Acting Director. According to Johnson, Clancy is a former Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service.

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BREAKING: Hell Has Frozen Over As FOX News Correspondent Admits “Not Everything” is Obama’s Fault

You can imagine the heads snapping up to the monitors over at Fox News when Chief White House Correspondent, Ed Henry, chose to point out that EVERYTHING isn’t President Obama’s fault.

In this case, Henry was reporting on the current ISIS violence.

Bill O’Reilly wasn’t having it. Finally after a minute or two back and forth, O’Reilly gives in begrudgingly to say “not the whole thing” is the President’s fault.

Transcript:

O’Reilly: Turkey doesn’t fear the United States. Egypt doesn’t fear the United States. Pakistan certainly doesn’t fear us. Who fears us? Kuwait? Anyone?

Henry: We can add Putin to the list. I don’t think Putin fears us right now either. Where I would say you’re not giving the President credit though, is that there’s been about 200 air strikes in Iraq. Prevented a genocide in Northern Iraq, right? There were 10s of 1000s of…

O’Reilly: But he had to do that.

Henry: Okay, well he did it. Whether he had to do it or not, you just acknowledge he acted.

O’Reilly: Let me decimate your argument there.

Henry: Alright.

O’Reilly: If he had listened to me six months ago, ISIS never would have expanded into Iraq. We were calling for him to knock ISIS out six months ago when they weren’t nearly as strong. So you can say that the mountain and the humanitarian disaster is partly Mr. Obama’s fault because he didn’t listen to the CIA and he didn’t listen to guys like Panetta, who are now killing him. You know Panetta’s now killing him, right?

Henry: Sure and he said we should have left some troops behind in Iraq.

O’Reilly: Well, you can say well yeah, he prevented it, but it’s his fault he was even there to begin with. You can make that argument.

Henry: I’m not sure you can pin the whole thing on him.

O’Reilly: Not the whole thing.

Henry: Okay, right but if you listen to your talking points a moment ago, it’s basically like, “this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, why isn’t Obama done more. I don’t think we can make that case. Not everything is his fault.

What happens at the Fox News HQ when this happens? Are there lashings scheduled? Does Ed Henry see his bathroom privileges revoked?

Watch below:

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Quote of the Day: President Obama

“When trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don’t call Beijing, they don’t call Moscow. They call us. That’s the deal.

“That’s always the case. That’s always the case. America leads. We are the indispensable nation,” he said. “We have capacity no one else has. Our military is the best in the history of the world.”

– President Barack Obama speaking on CBS’ 60 Minutes regarding why the US leads the world in times of trouble

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Jon Stewart on the Cognitive Dissonance of LatteSalute

On last night’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart addressed the hypocrisy (shocker!) of the right wing media’s outrage over the recent “Latte Salute” incident involving President Obama and an inartful salute.

Among other things, Stewart points out that President Obama is not the first prez to have a sloppy salute moment. We’ve all seen the now-famous photo of President Bush saluting with his dog in his hands.  Nuff said…

And, Stewart contrasts Fox News pundit Eric Bollings’ statements “These people put their lives on the line for us. Show the respect” with his later quip in the very show when he dissed a female pilot performing air strikes in the Middle East saying “Would that be considered “boobs on the ground” or no?”

Stewart suffers no fools easily here. Watch below:

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CNN Panel Discusses Right-Wing Media Meltdown Over Obama’s “Latte Salute”

It’s worth noting that not only did President George W. Bush have his own awkward salute moments, President Eisenhower – who as a five star general was the highest ranking military leader to become President – did NOT salute at all during his presidency because he felt that as “out of uniform” military, it was inappropriate.

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Dow Industrial Index Closes At (Another) Record High

After the Federal Reserve affirmed today it’s commitment to keeping short term interest rates low for a “considerable time,” the Dow index closed at a record high of 17,156, also hitting an intraday trading high of 17,221.

Someone remind me again how President Obama’s policies are sooooo bad for business?

Stock market hitting record highs; corporate profits bouncing through the ceiling?

Worst. Socialist. President. Ever.

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Bill Maher on President Obama: ‘History Will Treat Him Very Kindly’

Bill Maher speaking to Charlie Rose on President Obama:

“He’s dealing with things no other president has ever had to deal with. He’s the first black president, they hate him in a way they never hated before.”

“I think Obama’s greatest quality has been calm. I think he’s the calmest president we have ever had. He drives them nuts. They don’t drive him nuts.”

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Who did a better job with job creation – Reagan or Obama?

If you did an informal poll asking which president has done a better job of creating jobs – Reagan or Obama – you’d probably get a lot of Reagan answers.  In memory, often things seem so much better than they might have been.

But the facts show that President Obama has actually done a better job creating and reducing unemployment than the Reagan administration.

From Forbes.com:

President Reagan has long been considered the best modern economic President. So we compared his performance dealing with the oil-induced recession of the 1980s with that of President Obama and his performance during this ‘Great Recession.’

As this unemployment chart shows, President Obama’s job creation kept unemployment from peaking at as high a level as President Reagan, and promoted people into the workforce faster than President Reagan.

President Obama has achieved a 6.1% unemployment rate in his 6th year, fully one year faster than President Reagan did. At this point in his presidency, President Reagan was still struggling with 7.1% unemployment, and he did not reach into the mid-low 6% range for another full year. So, despite today’s number, the Obama administration has still done considerably better at job creating and reducing unemployment than did the Reagan administration.