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MSNBC: Um, we can’t reach a conclusion about whether the Sandy Hook dad was “heckled” or not

Allahpundit — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:16:11 +0000

"[D]raw your own conclusion."

Via Newsbusters, you’ve been in suspense since this morning about what MSNBC’s “review” of Neil Heslin’s testimony would turn up. Time now to solve the mystery. They had two options: Either double down on the “heckling” interpretation of what happened or admit error and retract find a way to “set the record straight” in the [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:31:29 +0000

Responsibility.

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday defended Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s assertion that the administration’s initial claims the Benghazi attack was the result of a violent protest — rather than terrorism — made no “difference” in the big picture of the tragedy. Carney, speaking to reporters at the White House daily briefing, [...]

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Hillary’s opening statement on Benghazi: “I take responsibility”

Allahpundit — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:31:24 +0000

The buck stops here-ish.

As was true the first time she issued a mea culpa over Benghazi, in no way will she accept actual responsibility for what happened replete with specifics about her own failings. That could damage her presidential prospects. A vacant buck-stops-here statement, by contrast, will enhance them because the American public likes when its politicians engage [...]

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Oh my: E-mail contradicts Corzine testimony about tapping MF Global customer funds as firm collapsed

Allahpundit — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:12:04 +0000

“Per JC’s direct instructions.”

Remember, fully $1.2 billion of customer money was “vaporized,” possibly never to be recovered, as the firm scrambled to stay afloat last fall. The suspicion was that MF Global managers had dipped into customer accounts — which are supposed to be strictly segregated just in case, oh, say, the firm fails — to fund firm [...]

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