This statement isn’t strictly factual. It isn’t even loosely factual.
So the question is, “what did the President know, and when did he know it?” Hmmm, rings a faint bell, that . . .
Wait, Diceman, are you telling me that easy access to guns leads to gun-related crimes? I thought it worked the other way around!
Sort of. Except instead of “what did the president know, and when did he know it,” the question is “Does anyone have any evidence that this had anything to do with the president?” Because for at least two of these situations and possibly all three it would be odd if he did have anything to do with them. One would hope he’s too smart to tell his people to tell people to tell IRS bureaucrats to give Tea Party 501(c)(4) applications the once-over or edit Sunday TV show talking points himself, and I don’t know that he’d be involved with the ins and outs a Justice Department inquiry either.
I suppose this overzealous pursuit of leaks is something that served Obama well on the campaign trail, but as president it does not, and it’s gone way, way too far. There are reasons for agencies to look into reasons information has leaked out, blah blah blah. But when it’s a presidential administration with the full power of the Justice Department, there need to be firm limits to that kind of culture.
Cite?
Seriously, because you state as a plain fact a thing very hard to believe.
Something bad happened therefore Obama.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “As a lot of American adults not so fondly remember, the last time the government was found looking into the phone calls of reporters and using the IRS for political purposes, it was the Nixon era, and while times have changed and circumstances are different that subject came up at the Obama White House today as the administration now scrambles on several fronts.” (NBC Nightly News, May 14, 2013)
If NBC is indicative of “the media” then yeah, they are starting to turn on him. Jon Stewart too.
Elsewhere on RealClearPolitics, “Media Shocked to Learn Obama Not a Faun From Narnia”
Jon Stewart has always criticized Obama where criticism was due, right from the start. Right-wingers like to claim that Stewart is a partisan hack because he focuses more attention on FoxNews and the Republicans, but this is entirely because FoxNews and the Republicans produce more dumbassery in an average three-day period than Obama does in a year (see the SRIOTD thread for evidence).
Well, shit, there goes the President for Life Amendment… So close! Someone go tell Romney he’s only got about a year or so to get “tanned, rested, and ready”.
And so far only the NY Times has covered the Pigford scandal. The media might take a renewed interest in that multibillion dollar scam the administration has going.
The Republicans are going to need a bigger, stickier wall to throw things against.
The Republicans don’t need to do anything if the media starts doing its job.
Well, I read the RedState story on it but by the third time the author used the word “Blaxploitation” I gave up any hope of taking it seriously.
But hey, since Benghazi’s getting no traction let’s move on to Pigford. This could be just the break the McCain campaign has been waiting for!
But they won’t.
Obama scandals are something the MSM simply does not want to talk about. So they don’t. They don’t have to meet together to decide this; it’s something they agree on already.
“A fish rots from the head down” unless the head is Democratic.
Regards,
Shodan
You keep saying this, ignoring the fact that the media pretty much did squat during the Bush administration too. And they only got excited about Clinton because blowjobs were involved.
Basically, the media suck.
The media is complicit with the Rethugs in creating scandals out of whole cloth. Let’s see:
Benghazi: We’re supposed to believe that four guys armed with six-shooters would have held back a mob. We’re supposed to believe that it’s a Big Fucking Deal that Obama didn’t sprint to a microphone and shout “terrorism!” as soon as he heard about it. We’re supposed to care whether the UN Ambassador made 100% factually accurate statements on Sunday talk shows before the events were fully understood.
IRS: We’re supposed to believe that Karl Rove runs a social welfare organization which is entitled to tax-exempt status. We’re supposed to believe that Astroturf organizations whelped by the Koch Brothers are social welfare organizations entitled to tax-exempt status and that it’s wrong to question them about it.
AP: If the president didn’t pursue the source of leaks that endangered American lives, he’s soft on terrorism. If he does pursue those leaks, he’s trampling on the First Amendment. What he’s really guilty of is Governing While Black.
Why read the redstate story instead of the NY Times?
You sound like a whining conservative media critic.
I was looking for other sources too.