Second term president dogged by mundane scandals? History does indeed repeat.
From what I can tell the media is covering this stuff because there isn’t much else to cover right now. Those women held captive in Cleveland, I guess. OJ Simpson is in the news again. The immigration bill is bouncing around Senate committees but there won’t be much exciting there until the House GOP rips in to it. Not much to comment on about our slow, steady economic recovery, booming stock market, and nose-diving deficit.
I imagine when none of this scandals stick to Obama either it will be because he won back the media, probably by standing outside the medias window in the rain with a boombox playing a special song that holds deep meaning to their relationship.
No the fact is the media reports things that will sell papers, gain viewers, earn clicks, and attract listeners. If the mass public isn’t buying, watching, clicking and listening, the mainstream media outlets lose money. It’s capitalism at it’s fucking worst. However, on a slow news day, and with easy-to-digest stories, even Democrats get hit sometimes. Funny how conservatives cream all over the NYT and NBC News when those outlets say things they like.
And really, the biggest story right now isn’t Benghazi, it isn’t the IRS thing, and it isn’t the AP thing. It’s the fact that all three of these things are being talked about right now, this week. That’s the story. “OMG! The White House is having a really bad week!” “OMG! Even the liberal media is turning on the president!”
Newsflash #1: All presidencies have administrative headaches. This is nothing new.
Newsflash #2: The mainstream ‘liberal’ media isn’t really ‘liberal.’ The fact that they sometimes say things that don’t fit into the conservative world view doesn’t make them ‘liberal.’
Newsflash #3: The mainstream media is just trying to make money. They could care less who’s in the White House. In the past they’ve “targeted” Bill Clinton, Walter Mondale, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and now-- OMG!-- Barack Obama, with harsh news coverage. The only thing this is indicative of is Barack Obama makes money for the media corporations.
News Flash - right-wing websites claim rest of media is not criticizing Obama as much as they’d like them to. Color me shocked.
“They” do?
Perhaps because they’re actually more to blame for those problems? Naaaah. Economic crash, credit downgrade, sequester - we all know the Republicans had nothing to do with any of those things.
Confirmation bias much? Show me them taking Bush to task in any serious way. Hell, the media happily beat the drum for his little pet war, which hardly suggests they were in the pocket of the left.
RealClearPolitics isn’t a right wing website, and the claim is not that the rest of the media isn’t criticizing Obama. What the 60 Minutes reporter said was that he does not do “gotcha” questions with Obama. Which is rather different from their usual patterns.
Yes, they do. All the things I mentioned did actually happen.
No, hardly at all. Even lefties see the bias. Cite.
RCP is mostly republished articles from other sites, very little of their stuff is original. It’s my opinion that they regularly feature much more right wing viewpoints than lefties. Sort of like a right wing Reader’s Digest of politics.
I’d like a bit of clarification - does this new (sic) media focus on the administration’s scandals (sic) mean that the leftward bias of the mainstream media is decreasing? Or just that these scandals are SO HUGH AND SERIES and that even the blinkered media can’t help but cover them?
[Heard at the Republican National Headquarters]: "Shit, the IRS lady apoligized? Well goddamit, what are we gonna do with these freshly printed articles of impeachment? We spent alot of time figuring out Word 2010 to do this.
Selling guns to criminals leads to more gun crime. I don’t know that anyone has ever questioned that.
The problem is that there is no evidence of a link between the white house and the use of the IRS for political purposes. Find taht smoking gun and you’ve got yourself a case for criticizing Obama. I don’t know enough about the AP wiretaps to have an opinion but once again you will need a link between the white house and the wiretaps for it to mean anything.
Its wrong to only question the conservative organizations about it.
Cops treat criminals differently than law abdiing citizens.
You have to prove that the difference in tratment is unwarrranted. AFAICT, most of the outrage against Obama is either manufactured or overblown while Bush invaded Iraq based on lies, Reagan had Iran Contra, and Nixon was Nixon. Clinton got a blow job from an intern. I don’t recall any crippling scandals from Carter of George HW Bush.
+1. The reason Republicans get criticized more is because they have more to criticize. Exposing hypocrisy sells more newspapers than pointing out mistakes.
He has actively protected torturers by prosecuting the whistleblower while refusing to prosecute the torturers - not even the one who destroyed evidence and then wrote a book gloating about it. His administration is the enemy of the Sixth Amendment, fighting for indefinite detention without trial and actively refusing a US citizen on US soil his right to counsel. He literally had an American child murdered by the CIA, and wants to retain the power to kill whoever he wants, wherever he wants, without oversight.
Hmm, if only there was some way to prevent sales of guns to criminals. Perhaps some sort of ‘check’ or way to ‘track’ these kinds of sales. Hmm …
Then its good that this didn’t happen. Liberal groups were scrutinized too. In fact the only group in this process that actually faced any consequences was a liberal group.