Tag Archives: Rahm Emanuel

The Obama report is BS—a summary

In four posts, we’ve established that the incoming Obama administration’s internal report that cleared itself was a fraud. Here are the highlights: The report states Obama did not “actively” favor any candidate yet he picked up the phone a day before the election and lined up SEIU chief Tom Balanoff to send the message personally [...]

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Why the WH report on Blago is BS, part 4

As will be a surprise to no one except perhaps the MSM, the Rahm Emanuel section in the Dec. 23, 2008 report by the incoming Obama administration on its contacts with the Blagojevich administration is particularly slippery. The report conveniently omits any contacts between Obama and his advisors and Blagojevich and his advisors BEFORE the [...]

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Obama didn’t “actively” seek to get Jarrett seated if you don’t count four major communiques

So far, we have learned that the Obama administration’s report that said Obama didn’t actively seek to have Valerie Jarrett succeed him in the U.S. Senate is laughable. Here are the four efforts he made that we know of: His incoming Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Blagojevich Chief of Staff John Harris two days [...]

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Why the WH report on Blago is BS, part 3

Recent testimony in the Blagojevich trial revealed another major problem in the WH report on Obama’s senate seat—one that slipped right by the MSM. The WH report makes a big deal of saying that Valerie Jarrett withdrew her name from consideration as Obama’s successor on Nov. 9, 2008. After Ms. Jarrett decided on November 9, 2008 [...]

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Did the WH know contents of tapes?

After this week’s testimony at the Blagojevich trial, a few MSM outlets joined us in figuring out that the incoming Obama administration was not truthful in outlining contacts with the Blagojevich administration on the eve of its Inauguration. Ben Smith of Politico called the Obama story “slippery” and Time Magazine wonders what else the WH [...]

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