Blog Heap of Links for the day 26 March 2012

110 This timeline of events makes me curious. Bear with me.

February 28. Trayvon Martin is killed.

March 1st. Andrew Breitbart passes away. A few days later, his organization releases tapes that showcase Derrick Bell and his Critical Race Theory, and ties Bell to Obama.

March 15th. Bill Ayers makes this statement: "I think the people who practice white supremacy and who benefit from it are going to have to be stopped. And I think that's a huge undertaking and I think it takes a revolution."

March 20th. Malia Obama goes to Mexico on Spring Break. Why do I mention this? Because this is the day that we all got to witness the very blatant fact that Obama can tell the Press which stories NOT to run.

March 20th, again. The first mention of the Trayvon Martin case that I have been able to find in the National press. Why then? Three full weeks had passed between the shooting and the Media push. Was this story intentionally pushed by the White House? We know they have the power and a willing press - they just demonstrated it themselves that very day.

Then Barack Obama inserts himself into the story, not to reign it in, but to provide an empathetic cover.

Recall the quote from Professor Bell, beloved mentor of Barack Obama: “ The new crop of leaders are going to be a lot more dangerous and
radical, and the next phase will probably be led by charismatic individuals, who urge that instead of killing each other, they should go out in gangs and kill a whole lot of white people.”

…chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center for the past six years, he has functioned in a funereal capacity for al-Qaeda. Roger, which is the first name of his cover identity, may be the most consequential but least visible national security official in Washington — the principal architect of the CIA’s drone campaign and the leader of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. In many ways, he has also been the driving force of the Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killing as a centerpiece of its counterterrorism efforts.

Colleagues describe Roger as a collection of contradictions. A chain-smoker who spends countless hours on a treadmill. Notoriously surly yet able to win over enough support from subordinates and bosses to hold on to his job. He presides over a campaign that has killed thousands of Islamist militants and angered millions of Muslims, but he is himself a convert to Islam.

[h/t War News Update]