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PICKET: (VIDEO) NYC Obama supporters have trouble supporting Obama's policies
The website, wearechange.org, taking a page from the Howard Stern Show's Sal the Stockbroker and Richard Christie's famous bit in Harlem, went to Times Square and interviewed Barack Obama supporters. WRC's Luke Rudkowski told these Obama supporters that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney proposed the following ideas that President Obama already put into action.
PICKET: (AUDIO) Father of killed Navy SEAL - Hillary told me she would have filmmaker 'arrested and prosecuted'
Radio host Lars Larson interviewed on Wednesday Charles Wood, the father of Tyrone Woods, the retired Navy SEAL who was killed in Benghazi during the September 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission there. Tyrone Woods died trying to protect U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens who also was killed along with Sean Smith and Glenn Doherty.
PICKET: State Dept. warned U.S. travelers in Aug. of 'political violence in the form of assassinations' in Benghazi
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday downplayed State Department internal e-mails regarding the deadly attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi on September 11th, reported by Reuters, and Fox News by telling the AP, "Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence.” Clinton added, "I think it just underscores how fluid the reporting was at the time and continued for some time to be."
PICKET: Calif. U.S. Atty.'s odd handling of anti-Muslim filmmaker case
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California handling of the individual Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (AKA Mark Basseley Yousef)who the Obama administration initially and falsely blamed for inciting the terrorist attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, an attack that took the lives of four Americans—including Ambassador Chris Stevens, is odd to say the least.
PICKET: White House told of terrorist claim two hours after Benghazi attack
In a series of e-mail given to Reuters, it is being revealed that officials at the White House and State Department were notified two hours after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 that a terrorist group called Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for the attacks.
PICKET: (VIDEO) Obama campaign mgr. - Fort Hood shooting aftermath 'not a campaign issue'
Although it was the Obama administration that designated the act as "workplace violence" the Obama campaign does not want to talk about the Fort Hood shooting aftermath regarding survivors and their families demanding the president designate the incident as a terrorist act.
PICKET: Washington State King County voters receive two ballots
King County, Washington residents received two ballots in the mail, reports My NorthWest.com According to the Washington state news outlet, early voting ballot are currently arriving at voters' homes in King County and some are saying they got more than one.
PICKET: (VIDEO) Reps. Danny Davis and Bobby Rush on Jesse Jackson Jr. - 'He's struggling' '...has a lot of decisions to make'
Rep. Danny Davis, Illinois Democrat, and Rep. Bobby Rush, Illinois Democrat, visited Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Illinois Democrat, in Washington on Monday morning to see how the embattled Congressman Jackson Jr. was faring.
PICKET: Sandra Fluke gives get out the vote speech to 10 people in Reno
The Reno Gazette Journal is reporting Sandra Fluke, the woman who found fame after demanding that Georgetown University's health insurance plan cover the cost of contraception, appeared before 10 people at a Sak ‘N Save in north Reno to discuss early voting.
PICKET: Anti-Muslim filmmaker detained for almost a month...next court date three days after election
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the 55-year-old filmmaker responsible for the anti-Muslim video that President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice initially and wrongly blamed for inciting the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, is still being held at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) without bond.
PICKET: Report - Israel says Obama admin 'had not informed' them of upcoming U.S. talks with Iran (UPDATED)
The New York Times is reporting the Obama administration and Iran have agreed to direct one on one talks regarding Iran's nuclear program.
PICKET: Illinois pol wants $55,000 for unpaid Obama 2008 campaign rally
The Obama campaign still owes $55,000 in police overtime costs from a 2008 Obama campaign rally, says Springfield Alderman Frank Edwards.
PICKET: Rep. John Lewis dances Gangnam style
The popular new hit song "Gangnam Style" by South Korean rap artist Psy has found it's way into a number of parodies and Congressman John Lewis, Georgia Democrat, managed to work it into his latest campaign ad. Watch Rep. Lewis dance Gangnam style.
PICKET: 'Hating Breitbart' opens in select theaters
"Hating Breitbart", a film documenting the last two years of conservative media citizen journalist Andrew Breitbart, opens in select theaters.
PICKET: (VIDEO) Man taken away by Capitol Police screaming about Bachmann
A disturbed man was taken away in a police van at the senate park today shouting threats at Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican. The Congresswoman was not in Washington today, however.
