{"id":13495,"date":"2012-04-28T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2012-04-28T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T17:32:27","slug":"the-friday-night-document-dump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13495","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Night Document Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday night document dump is not unique to the Obama Administration&#8211;it has become an American tradition during the last twenty years. It usually includes something that the administration involved hopes the major media will not notice. Sometimes that works; sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Last nights Friday night document dump included some interesting information about how American taxpayer money is being spent. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Andrew McCarthy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/andrew_mccarthy\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/297202\/triple-play-obama-blows-congress-funds-palestinians-lies-about-pa-stance-israel-andrew\">National Review<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today\u00a0stating that President Obama has authorized sending $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress\u2019s freeze on PA funding. The funding to the PA was cut off after President Abbas attempted to declare statement unilaterally last September, in violation of the PA&#8217;s treaty commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>White House spinmeister Tommy Vietor stated that President Obama made the decision to pour American taxpayer dollars into Palestinian coffers in order to ensure \u201cthe continued viability of the moderate PA government.\u201d He added the claim that, as the report puts it, \u201cthe PA had fulfilled all its major obligations, such as recognizing Israel\u2019s right to exist, renouncing violence and accepting the Road Map for Peace.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PA has not recognized <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Right to exist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Right_to_exist\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Israel&#8217;s right to exist<\/a>&#8211;the article further reports the comments of Adil Sadeq, a PA official writing in the official PA daily, <em>Al-Hayat Al-Jadida<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>(Israelis) have a common mistake, or misconception by which they fool themselves, assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their state to exist, and that it is Hamas alone that loathes them and does not recognize the right of this state to exist. They ignore the fact that this state, based on a fabricated [Zionist] enterprise, never had any shred of a right to exist\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew McCarthy suggested how we deal with the President&#8217;s ignoring the wishes of Congress&#8211;cut the State Department&#8217;s budget. That will give the President less money to give to those who are friends of neither Israel or America.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=504dde2b-b2f5-4767-be70-cfefa63b8866\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday night document dump is not unique to the Obama Administration&#8211;it has become an American tradition during the last twenty years. It usually includes something that the administration involved hopes the major media will not notice. Sometimes that works; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2889,108,97,86,911,227,285,211],"class_list":["post-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-hayat-al-jadida","tag-andrew-mccarthy","tag-barack-obama","tag-israel","tag-national-review","tag-palestinian-national-authority","tag-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}