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Irrefutable Proof of Liberal Bias at the New York Times
The long-simmering case has centered on Mr. Perry’s veto power as governor. His critics asserted that he used that power as leverage to try to get an elected official — Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney in Travis County — to step down after her arrest on a drunken-driving charge last year. Ms. Lehmberg is Austin’s top prosecutor and oversees a powerful public corruption unit that investigates state, local and federal officials; its work led to the 2005 indictment of a former Republican congressman, Tom DeLay, on charges of violating campaign finance laws. (New York Times, 8/16/2014)

In a story on the indictment of Texas governor Rick Perry, the New York Times reminds us that Republican Tom DeLay was also indicted. Here is what the New York Times "forgets" to mention:

The Travis County District Attorney’s office has a long history of politically-motivated prosecutions, including the 2005 indictment of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for alleged campaign finance violations. DeLay’s convictions were completely overturned and he was acquitted after an appeal to the Third District Texas Court of Appeals in 2013—too late to save his political career. (Breitbart.com, 8/15/2014)

An honest, unbiased news organization would have mentioned this fact - inconvenient to those who want to eliminate Rick Perry as a potential challenger for Hillary Clinton. Alas, the New York Times is not an honest news organization.


Deficient
“At least since World War II, presidents have been unwilling to discuss deficiencies in capability because they’re expected to do everything, and they like that sense of omnipotence,” said Jeremy Shapiro, a former Obama State Department official now at the Brookings Institution. “Obama has been trying to change that in the last year because he senses that the requirements of omnipotence have gotten so far out of whack with what he can actually accomplish that he needs to change the expectations.” (New York Times, 8/16/2014)

With Obama and his apologists it is all about what he CANNOT do. We never heard Ronald Reagan speak thusly. He recognized, as Obama does not, that appearances matter. Even George Bush understood this. Derided by U.S. Liberals as a "cowboy," the bad actors in the world were just frightened of Bush enough to be wary. None of the world's bad actors - in North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, the Middle East - are afraid of Obama. They know, because he has told them, that he will run from the fight. 


Unexplained
Some Democrats said Mr. Obama’s challenge has not necessarily been his approach to these crises, but his ability to explain and sell it.

“What he’s come up with in Iraq and in Ukraine are sensible strategies,” said former Representative Jane Harman of California, now president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “He now needs to link them with a narrative that explains to the American people why we have to re-engage in foreign policy matters, and I hope he does that.” (New York Times, 8/16/2014)

The greatest orator the world has ever seen and heard cannot explain his foreign policy? Did Democrats oversell this guy or what?


Here We Go Again
With the release of tape today by the Ferguson Police Department of a man who appears to be Michael Brown allegedly physically assaulting a much smaller clerk while stealing Swisher Sweet cigars, the media’s narrative has collapsed. The media – and top-level politicians across the political spectrum – portrayed Michael Brown in saintlike fashion. That narrative no longer holds. (Ben Shapiro, Breitbart.com, 8/15/2014)

We are sorry for the death or Michael Brown as we were sorry for the death of Trayvon Martin.

Unfortunately, in both cases the rush to judgment that the deceased were blameless allows Liberals to berate Florida gun laws and police procedures. Only when pictures of George Zimmerman's battered head are made public does his story that Trayvon Martin was on top of him smashing his head into the concrete sidewalk gain credibility. And now we have video of Michael Brown robbing a convenience store while manhandling a clerk. Is it possible that the 6'4" 300lb Brown caused a cop to fear for his life. Just maybe.