Oh, you mean the End Times! Well, why didn’t you just say so?
Well you would think that leaving 4 people to die in an 8 hr terrorist attack with no explanation as to why a rescue team was told to stand down would be news. But what the hell. It’s one thing to swoon over a beloved leader it’s another thing to ignore such a lapse of support and then to ignore the political lie that followed.
Wow, the administration managed to irritate the AP. Guess which other friends they are alienating? Just about all of 'em:
The complaint explains there was no warrant authorizing the seizure of the medical records and the records were not germane to the IRS search. The complaint alleges that the seizure violated the 4th Amendment, according to the extensive quotes from the complaint complied by Courthouse News.
“These medical records contained intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans, information that by its nature includes information about treatment for any kind of medical concern, including psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual or drug treatment, and a wide range of medical matters covering the most intimate and private of concerns,” the complaint reads.
The records are believed to concern the medical records of every judge in California, every state court employee in California, members of the Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild, and people in “all walks of life.”
Read more: IRS sued for improperly seizing the medical records of 10 million Americans | The Daily Caller
But wait! There’s more! Looks like even the EPA has become politicized.
Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative Enterprise Institute.
CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several conservative groups, to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy for media and watchdog groups. Government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit.
“This is as clear an example of disparate treatment as the IRS’ hurdles selectively imposed upon groups with names ominously reflecting an interest in, say, a less intrusive or biased federal government,” said CEI fellow Chris Horner.
It’s hard to believe that a government could become this politicized without direction from the top.
And as for the media still turning against the President, the Washington Post has given Obama 4 pinocchios for saying he called the Benghazi attack an “act of terrorism” right away.
Well, you’d also think that repeating endlessly debunked right-wing manufactured talking points and the ridiculous “beloved leader” meme would be seen as a ludicrous, credibility-destroying thing to do, but what the hell.
This could be the unintentionally funniest comment in this thread.
Obama ran a relentlessly negative campaign? You’re aware that the tall white guy with the good hair was from the other party, right? I’m really wondering what your basis for comparison is.
We got nothing? He hasn’t implemented anything?
Ah, the “liberal media” thing. So nice to see it again. To recap:
A) When the media gives positive coverage - or fails to give negative coverage - to Obama, it’s because they’re biased in his favor.
B) When the media gives negative coverage - or fails to give positive coverage - to Obama, it’s because he’s so bad he’s managed to overwhelm their natural bias in his favor.
Is that about how you see it?
This news broke Friday afternoon.
Minor quibble: won twice.
Well, sure its minor, that’s the trouble with quibbles.
Btw I was wrong about this; there’s been so much reporting on these scandals the last couple of days that it feels like it’s been going on for a week.
It was Bush who got the Kid Gloves treatment. Hell, the media, up to and including the supposed liberal bastion of the New York Times, was complicit in the buildup to the Iraq War. They HELPED the Bush administration! Kind of the opposite of “kid gloves.”
I’m fairly certain that Obama’s Presidency is going to finish in January of 2017, and not a moment before. Enjoy it while you can, son. I know I will.
I would say more, the conservative media, especially Fox News, has been pimping Benghazi desperately for months. The rest of the media have been correctly ignoring it, as it is obviously a made-up scandal, and more to the point of the news organizations, it’s a boring scandal. Basically, it’s about which government functionary made up which talking points when? It’s a real yawner.
Very true. And his administration doesn’t even have the balls to prosecute admitted money launderers for Mexican drug cartels and Al Qaeda, when they’re bankers. Yet Somehow, Republicans are not upset about that … or the drone strikes.
It hasn’t gotten the coverage some people want, but the different hearings and things have been covered. And of course there was much breathless reporting of some of the emails on (I think) Friday- and not as much coverage of the fact that the reported emails were essentially fake.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist or very big into the slippery slope but a partisan IRS isn’t just a bad thing it is a dangerous thing. Its is dangerous to our democracy and its hard to overreact to actual partisanship being demostrated by the IRS.
I think your quibbling. The IRS wasn’t just not totally in the right, they were totally in the wrong. If they can find a link to the white house (and I don’t think there is a link to be found), it would be a very big deal.
There will need to be an investigation to find out who knew what and when.
He won because the Republican party imploded on itself with tea party rhetoric and ended up with a country club moderate candidate that had taken such hard right positions during the primary that it was hard to tack back to the middle.
Obama blew his political capital on a bunch of things, other than gun control, I don’t see where he wasted it. There has been a lot of progress on legislation since the beginning of the year.
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Yeah, but a lot of that was from the first term, primarily from the first half of his first term.
All the crap the republicans have thrown against the wall (hoping something will stick) has had a “boy who cried wolf” effect on critics of Obama but the IRS thing is pretty bad.
I hate to derail this thread further, but I was under the impression (please correct me if I’m wrong) that the only reason that any of those things were “admitted” was because of the equivalent of a plea bargain, and that prosecuting them for the things they admitted under those circumstances would be equivalent to the DA trading man 1 in exchange for a confession, then using that confession to prosecute for murder 1.
Anyway, I’m always a little surprised at how easily many people assume that prosecutions of the rich and powerful would succeed in court. Perhaps the process is more important than the winning in cases like that (to discourage future wrongdoing), but the people in charge would be poor criminals indeed if they didn’t insulate themselves enough such that cases would be dismissed for lack of evidence before they even got close to a grand jury.
Well, no. A press that is supposedly objective has to prove that their differences in treatment, stretching back over thirty years, and consistently treating the Republican Presidential candidates worse than they do the Democrats, is justified. Since that is an opinion, it is not something that the supposedly objective media can prove. So by definition, they are violating their own standards by slanting their coverage to fit their opinions.
Regards,
Shodan