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Beck Promotes Smackdown Between 'Lone Survivor' Film Reviewer & Marcus Luttrell

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Amy's Duckface

Glenn Beck has gone righteous again. And I agree with him. Some silly bimbo with LA Weekly who is probably just old enough to be off of her parents’ health insurance policy wrote an inane review of the film, 'Lone Survivor'. She has obviously never read the powerful account of a mission gone wrong or met Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL who survived to tell the real life story. Beck discussed the movie review that appeared in some rag called LA Weekly and invited Miss Nicholson (the snarky, talentless author of the review) to sit down with Marcus Luttrell and defend her piece.

Here is the unedited version of the first half of her "film review":

Here's a movie that'll flop in Kabul. Lone Survivor, the latest by Battleship director Peter Berg, is a jingoistic snuff film about a Navy SEAL squadron outgunned by the Taliban in the mountainous Kunar province. After four soldiers — played with muscles and machismo by Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster — get ID'd by Afghan goat herders, they're in a race to climb to the top of the nearest summit and summon an airlift before these civilians can sprint to the nearest village and alert local leader Ahmad Shah. It doesn't go well.

Berg's flick bleeds blood red, bone-fracture white, and bruise blue. It's based on the memoir Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by sole evacuee Marcus Luttrell (played by Wahlberg) — and that's only a spoiler if you've ignored the title. Luttrell didn't exactly write his book. Rather than sitting in front of a word processor, he was back in action in Iraq. Instead, the United States Navy hired British novelist Patrick Robinson, who, among other embellishments, upped the number of enemy Taliban fighters from 10 to 200. Hey, whatever, man. Those aliens in Battleship weren't real, either.

Lone Survivor's problems are more complex than its Rambo-esque exuberance for machine-gun fire. The near-wordless second half is a deadly dubstep of bullets and snare drums punctuated with the occasional curse. Here's 90 seconds of dialogue transcribed in its entirety: "Goddamn, this sucks!" "Fuck you!" "Fuck!" "Damn, fucking burns!" This doesn't help advance the plot, which can pretty much be summed up as: Don't die. And the film actually gets worse when the guys open their mouths.

One can only imagine Nicholson, too plain to get a television gig, chugging her non-fat latte at her Lenovo laptop that her parents bought her for Christmas two years ago, dreaming of the day she will be followed around by the paparazzi like Khloe Kardashian.

Alas, like so many of these ignorant Carrie Bradshaws,  Nicholson took to twitter to defend her ridiculous review and pour on some more snark. 

Glenn Beck listeners: My review calls the SEALS heroes. My problems were with the director, not Luttrell: http://t.co/QgtG1Wie1u

— Amy Nicholson (@TheAmyNicholson) January 15, 2014

 

Since Glenn Beck can't grasp that my review attacked a movie, not the troops, who wants to read it to him? Very slowly, so he'll comprehend.

— Amy Nicholson (@TheAmyNicholson) January 17, 2014

 

Too bad Beck gave this cartoon version of Bill Maher (without the writers, the edge or the very small penis) her 15 minutes of fame. It is undeserved. 

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True Story. Go see this film this weekend. 

 

Tight-Lipped Former Sec Def Robert Gates Slams Obama's Leadership in New Book

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“All too early in the [Obama] administration suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials — including the president and vice president — became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders.” - Robert Gates from Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”

Bob Woodward reported in The Washington Times that former defense secretary Robert Gates criticized President Obama’s leadership and strategy in Afghanistan  in his new candid book “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.” Gates was named Secretary of Defense under President Bush in 2006 after serving for almost 3 decades on the National Security Council and later as the Director of the CIA.

According to his book, Gates said about Obama that he “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”

Woodward wrote that Gates’ analysis of what happened was “contradictory,” highly emotional” and that Gates wrote the book with a “sometimes bitter tone.”

Excerpts from the Woodward's review of the Gates' book: 

It is rare for a former Cabinet member, let alone a defense secretary occupying a central position in the chain of command, to publish such an antagonistic portrait of a sitting president.

Leveling one of the more serious charges that a defense secretary could make against a commander in chief sending forces into combat, Gates asserts that Obama had more than doubts about the course he had charted in Afghanistan. The president was “skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail,” Gates writes in Obama, after months of contentious discussion with Gates and other top advisers, deployed 30,000 more troops in a final push to stabilize Afghanistan before a phased withdrawal beginning in mid-2011. “I never doubted Obama’s support for the troops, only his support for their mission,” Gates writes.

In Gates’s highly emotional account, Obama remains uncomfortable with the inherited wars and distrustful of the military that is providing him options. Their different worldviews produced a rift that, at least for Gates, became personally wounding and impossible to repair.

In “Duty,” Gates complains repeatedly that confidence and trust were what he felt was lacking in his dealings with Obama and his team. “Why did I feel I was constantly at war with everybody, as I have detailed in these pages?” he writes. “Why was I so often angry? Why did I so dislike being back in government and in Washington?” 

Woodward’s article in The Washington Post points out Gate’s ambivalence and contradictory statements from a liberal’s perspective, but Woodward has a point. Gates did not stand up against Obama’s political machinations and putting our troops in harm’s way. I suspect standing up against the Obama administration at the time would have been much more difficult than writing a hit (and run) piece after you have retired.

READ ARTICLE HERE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty/2014/01/07/6a6915b2-77cb-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_print.html

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In response to the latest NYT fictional report about Benghazi, monozygotic communist twin Rep. Castro from Texas claimed Benghazi attack was a "fairy tale" appearing on Meet the Press Sunday. Seriously, this guy is missing a tamale from his El Deluxe Comida. 

 

Syrian Muslims Selling Christian Blood (VIDEO)

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From Walid Shoebat By Theodore Shoebat:

A nun in Germany uncovered horrible abuses of Christians at the hands of Muslims in Syria. Muslims are “butchering Christians, draining their blood in bottles, and selling each bottle for $100,000 to Muslims in Saudi Arabia who take it to wash their hands in Christian blood, with the belief that it atones for their sins.”

The religion of peace knows no bounds in its horrific barbarism. To pretend otherwise is patently absurd. We are involved in a Holy War whether we like it or not.  

See her presentation here: 

 

http://shoebat.com/2013/12/26/muslims-kills-christians-bottle-blood-sell-100000-piece-saudis/

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Support Builds for Iranian Deal to Allow Development Nuclear Power

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Despite pressure  from our ally Israel to kill the current nuclear deal on the table  with Iran (Israel is calling for even  imposing stronger sanctions), Congress seems to back the deal claiming that  new sanctions could  lead to military action that could inflame the entire region.

Congress’s reluctance to listen to Israel's admonishments shows the tin ear they have applied to the Obama/Kerry schizophrenic foreign policy.  Iran's economy has suffered under the sanctions which have taken years to take effect. Money is no longer flowing to the bellicose nation and its banking, oil and chemical industries are stalled.The deal does has no teeth to enforce Iran curbing its enrichment program except to lift sanctions and wait another several years for them to take effect. There is also no real guarantee that  Iran will not continue weapons development during the negotiations. 

The fact that Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is all for ignoring Israel and the danger it faces with a nuclear armed Iran should tell even the most casual observer that this deal is a very bad idea: 

Obama/Kerry = best policy team since Bush I/Jim Baker. Congress is finally becoming embarrassed by Netanyahu’s efforts to dictate US policy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski (@zbig) November 19, 2013

 After all, Iran has been sponsoring terrorism against the West for years. So why is the United States hell bent on making sure that Iranian terrorist leaders have nukes? Ask Obama. 

From the 9/11 Report: 

 

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From Reuters & Jerusalem Post :

Before the ink dried on the Geneva deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that the Iranians will begin construction (with the help of Russia and $11 billion)  on a SECOND nuclear power plant. They have identified sites for 16 more plants.

Of course Iran supposedly agreed to stop developing nuclear weapons in exchange for the United States limited economic sanctions on the financially beleaguered nation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to stop criticizing the deal,  pointing out that the Obama administration lifted sanctions just when they were starting to effectively place pressure on the Iranians. Last week Barack Obama reportedly told to Netanyahu to keep quiet about the Iranian nuclear deal. Even former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused Netanyahu of “declaring war” on the Obama administration.

Netanyahu’s response:  “I will not be silent.”

 “In contrast to others, when I see that interests vital to the security of Israel’s citizens are in danger, I will not be silent. It is very easy to be silent. It is very easy to receive a pat on the shoulder from the international community, to bow one’s head, but I am committed to the security of my people. I am committed to the future of my state and in contrast to periods in the past, we have a loud and clear voice among the nations and we will sound it in time in order to warn of the danger. And as to the actual threat, we will act against it in time if need be. I would like to dispel any illusions. Iran aspires to attain an atomic bomb. It would thus threaten not only Israel but also Italy, Europe and the entire world. There should be no going astray after the attack of smiles.”

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Israelis Meet With Saudis to Inspect Bases for Possible Launch Against Iran, Brzezinski Tells Obama to Shoot Down the Israelis

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From Aaron Klein (http://kleinonline.wnd.com):

 

Obama has driven Israel into the arms of the Saudis with the Iranian deal that allows Iran to continue with its enrichment program and eases sanctions against the rogue nation.

Klein reported that Israeli officials travelled to Saudi Arabia to inspect bases to be used to launch attacks (airstrikes) against Iran. The U.S. is trying to prevent an Israeli strike,

Former Carter Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski  and Obama advisor told The Daily Beast to shoot the Israelis down if they strike Iran and then pretend it is accidental like Israel’s accidental strike of the American ship the Liberty in 1967:

“They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? We have to be serious about denying them that right. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not. No one wishes for this but it could be a 'Liberty' in reverse.’"

 The Obama administration is apparently threatening Israel and the Saudis, reminding the two unlikely allies that Americans control radar capabilities over the skies around  Iran and any strike against Iran requires U.S. permission.

The deal is a bad one – it allows for Iran to enrich uranium up to 20% (which is 80% of the way to weapons grade enrichment anyway) and keep current centrifuges. The Iranians  are not required to completely dismantle their reactor. At the same time, Iran gets sanctions relief, including the freeing of $7 billion or more in frozen assets.

 

READ MORE: http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2013/11/24/officals-israelis-in-secret-trip-to-inspect-saudi-bases-could-be-used-as-staging-ground-for-strikes-against-iran/

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Al Jazeera America Fails to Find a U.S. Audience

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“People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.”   - Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher and editor, b. 1935.

Shocking shocker.  Al Jazeera America is having major troubles attracting a U. S. audience.

After just two months on the air, Al Jazeera America kept less than half of the viewers who previously watched its predecessor - Al Gore’s feeble network, Current TV. The ratings are so low they are not even picked up by Nielsen.

Despite the fact that they are advertising the heck out of the network and it is carried in 44 million households, Al Jazeera America has averaged only 13,000 viewers a day since the August launch date.

For some reason Al Jazeera network executives have failed to address the fact that Americans view the network as “terrorist TV” – a vast propaganda machine designed to promote radical Islam and justify their acts of barbarism throughout the world.

Al Jazeera promoted videos sent to them by notorious terrorists including Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the heinous American traitor -  Adam Gadahn. A reporter for the network was arrested for being a member of al-Qaeda. The network stood by him. And yet Paula Deen was fired from the Food Network for saying the "n-word" 27 years ago. Go figure. 

“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” - Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist, 1908-1965.

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Manchurian PuppetMaster Valerie Jarrett Has Been Secretly Negotiating with Iran for the Past Year

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From The Times of Israel:

Oddly enough, The Times of Israel reported that Obama’s highly-touted  Geneva negotiations with Iran over its nuclear weapons program are a “façade.” The news agency claims that Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s top advisor) and an Iranian official (the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi) have already been secretly negotiating for at least one year meeting clandestinely at various countries in the Middle East.

Of course, Israel claims they were never “fully informed.” Kerry’s job in Geneva it seems is to merely sign off on the deal that allows the Iranians to continue to enrich uranium up to 3.5% while the U.S. will significantly relax crippling economic sanctions against Iran. France balked at the deal and caused the talks to end early without a formal agreement.

So what are the odds of this being true? Probably darn good. Valerie Jarrett just happened to be born in Shiraz, Iran. Jarrett is a second-generation communist sympathizer, buddies with radical bomber Bill Ayres whose father, Thomas Ayers was a a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis. Davis, an avowed Communist, worked with Jarrett’s father who was reportedly a member of the Communist party and wrote for the Communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender. Later, Jarrett’s daughter Valerie Jarrett went to work for the city of Chicago and hired Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (FLOTUS), who also  worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also worked  and where Barack Obama had a summer job.

The Times of Israel said:

“Sunday’s Channel 10 report ‘a key figure in secret contacts the White House is conducting with the Iranian regime.’ That report said  ‘Jarrett served as the personal and direct emissary of the president to secret meetings with the Iranians, which are understood to have taken place in one of the Gulf principalities.’ White House spokesman Bernadette Meehan was quoted by Haaretz as saying that the report was ‘absolutely, 100 percent false.’

 

READ MORE: http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-and-us-held-secret-talks-for-over-a-year/

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