{"id":28478,"date":"2016-06-10T22:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28478"},"modified":"2016-06-10T22:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T02:54:52","slug":"sometimes-it-is-totally-amazing-what-makes-the-news-and-what-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28478","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It Is Totally Amazing What Makes The News And What Doesn&#8217;t!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/06\/10\/the-obama-admin-blocked-an-iranian-american-judge-from-hearing-iranian-immigration-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story today about an Iranian judge barred from hearing immigration cases involving Iranians. The story is not a new story, but somehow it wasn&#8217;t widely reported in the press at the time it happened.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In 2015,\u00a0<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Executive Office for Immigration Review\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Executive_Office_for_Immigration_Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">immigration Judge<\/a> A. Ashley Tabaddor sued the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.89325,-77.0249722222&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.89325,-77.0249722222 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20Justice)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">United States Department of Justice<\/a> after it forced\u00a0her to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Judicial disqualification\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judicial_disqualification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">recuse<\/a> herself from \u201call immigration cases involving Iranians.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to reporting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=379550390\">NPR<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama<\/a>\u2019s DOJ\u00a0first\u00a0became \u201cconcerned with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Appearance of impropriety\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appearance_of_impropriety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">appearance of impropriety<\/a>\u201d after Tabaddor \u2014 who is of Iranian descent \u2014 attended a 2012 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">White House<\/a> meeting with other high-profile <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iranian American\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iranian_American\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Iranian-Americans<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am simply amazed at the things that the mainstream media reports and the things that the mainstream media doesn&#8217;t report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller posted a story today about an Iranian judge barred from hearing immigration cases involving Iranians. The story is not a new story, but somehow it wasn&#8217;t widely reported in the press at the time it happened. 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