By: Jamie Weinstein
Not so secret service -- Voting's not for everyone -- October Surprise in The Show Me State -- Where "The Daily Caller" came from -- "The Lizard King" quote of the day -- Tweet of Yesterday | 1.) Not so secret service -- Apparently what happens in Columbia doesn't stay in Columbia. Or El Salvador. Or Panama. TheDC's Matthew Boyle reports:
"The findings of a Department of Homeland Security internal Inspector General investigation into the Secret Service prostitution scandal contradicts the agency’s initial responses to the incident, ABC News’ Jake Tapper reported on Thursday evening. At a May Senate Homeland Security committee hearing, Secret Service director Mark Sullivan said, in reference to the 12 agents who were accused of boozing with and soliciting prostitutes in Colombia before President Barack Obama’s visit to the country, that “this just is not part of our culture." ... According to Tapper, though, the internal DHS investigators’ report “revealed that one of the agents who was in Cartagena during the scandal and picked up a prostitute ‘admitted to soliciting a prostitute on two previous occasions, once in El Salvador in 2008/2009 and one time in Panama in 2009.’” | 2.) Voting's not for everyone -- TheDC's Jamie Weinstein lays out 10 groups of people who might want to consider not voting, including "The six percent of Ohio voters who who said Mitt Romney deserves more credit for killing Osama bin Laden than President Obama in a September PPP poll" and "Anyone who believes there is actually a war on women." Also, "John Walker Lindh."
Check out the full list. | 3.) October Surprise in The Show Me State -- TheDC's Matthew Boyle reports on a new twist in the Missouri Senate race:
"Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s husband used the U.S. Senate Dining Room to cut business deals selling tax credits tied to stimulus money, a whistle-blowing executive inside his company alleged on an audio recording exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller. 'The thing that irritated me about this was he [McCaskill’s husband Joseph Shepard] entertained these outside investors in the Senate Dining Room,' the whistle-blower said. 'That’s where he closed the deal.'”
Team McCaskill, however, tells TheDC that the whistle-blower shouldn't be trusted since he is a "twice-convicted felon and a disgruntled former employee" from McCaskill's husband's company. | 4.) Where "The Daily Caller" came from -- The Daily Caller's CEO Neil Patel explains to TheDC's Matt Lewis how TheDC got its name:
"[Tucker] Carlson insisted it was vital this new media outlet be given a name that resembled a traditional news outlet ... But as Patel recounted, 'it’s virtually impossible to find a domain name that includes words like the Times or the Tribune these days — unless you want to pay a lot of money for them.' So Patel started racking his brain for other name ideas. And then he remembered the time Dick Cheney shot that guy in the face. Patel, if you’re not aware, formerly served as chief policy advisor to the vice president. And when Cheney accidentally sprayed pellets in the face of a hunting companion, the controversial press strategy involved first reporting the incident to the local newspaper. … The local paper just happened to be called the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Remembering that incident was his 'aha!' moment, and it ultimately led to the naming of The Daily Caller." | 5.) "The Lizard King" quote of the day -- From "The Lizard King: The Shocking Inside Account of Obama’s True Intergalactic Ambitions By An Anonymous White House Staffer," edited and introduced by Daily Caller writers Jamie Weinstein and Will Rahn:
"'Listen here, kid. Let me give you a wake-up call. SEAL Team Seven is so secret that some members of SEAL Team Seven don’t even know they’re in it. Most of the greatest achievements America has ever had are the result of us. The Miracle on Ice in 1980 when America upset the Soviet Union in hockey? That was us. Seinfeld? Our guys wrote it during downtime propping up dictators in the 1990s. More recently, how do you think Paul Krugman achieved popular success or Lincoln Chafee was elected to a position of responsibility? You think shit like that happens on its own? That’s SEAL Team Seven.'”
Do yourself a favor and BUY ... IT ... NOW. | | 6.) Tweet of Yesterday -- GregGutfeld: Springsteen loves Obama because he finally made America as depressing as his songs. | | VIDEO: Bob Beckel says that if Gallup numbers showing Romney up 7 percent nationally are correct, "It's over." | | |
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