Posted on 05/17/2013 8:19:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No, really, Jay Carney would like to know. Even though he only showed his face in the briefing room twice this week, and even though the White House press corps used him as a punching bag, Barack Obama’s press secretary wants you to know he’s really enjoyed having to address this avalanche of scandals. Wait — did we say scandals? We mean, er, opportunities:
“I dismiss the premise, the idea that these are scandals,” Carney said flatly, calling the controversy over Benghazi a “total concoction by Republicans,” and the IRS scandal merely “inappropriate behavior” by the IRS.
Targeting the political opposition of the current administration is certainly “inappropriate behavior” by the IRS, but it’s also most likely criminal. Hearings begin today in that scandal, and the most recent IRS Commissioners will both have to explain to Congress why they deliberately misled the House when repeatedly denying that targeting activity was taking place at all. That’s the kind of “inappropriate behavior” that we call felonies.
The Hill has a little more on Carney’s denial:
“I would say that it’s been a challenging week, but in many ways a week that I’ve enjoyed,” Carney told CNN’s Piers Morgan. “Because I think that when a press secretary goes to a briefing room and there’s a lot of intensity in the room and a lot of news that is inspiring reporters to ask tough questions, you know, that’s what it’s all about.”
This week, two high-ranking IRS officials resigned amid a controversy in which the agency admitted to targeting conservative groups filing for tax-exempt status. Carney at times struggled through questions with reporters at a Tuesday press conference on the matter, and has faced criticism, including from former press secretary Robert Gibbs, over the administration’s “passive” response to the controversy.
In addition, the Department of Justice has been under fire for secretly seizing phone records belonging to the Associated Press during an investigation into a leak the White House says threatened national security. The administration has also continued to push back against Republican charges it wasn’t honest with the public about last year’s attack in Benghazi and that it didn’t do enough in the hours during the attack to protect U.S. personnel on the ground in Libya.
If Carney doesn’t believe these are scandals, maybe he should read the newspapers a little more. That seems to be how his boss figures things out.
This is satire, right? Please tell me this is satire.
The Regime is going full Alinsky.
Baghdad Bob.
He’s right, they’re not scandals. They’re crimes against the United States.
I know we’re supposed to think of this guy as the President’s mouthpiece... but I always think of him as the President’s gaping rectum!
"I don't have a scandal, you have a scandal....Did I say there was a scandal? You said there was a scandal."
This is the total “Ted Kennedy” type of disconnect you get with these people. You’re talking and asking them questions on one thing, and they have their concocted answers.
I must tell you, that it is “shades” Nixon’s response to Watergate. Carney has, probably from Valerie Jarrett or whomever is in charge over there, decided that we’re going to:
1. Be sure to not accept any of these stories as scandals.
2. Blame the republicans for the Benghazi side show.
3. Minimize any of these to being simply people who made mistakes.
No, regrettably, this is NOT satire.
Well, Jay, this could be the first time a president has been impeached for “high crimes, misdemeanors, and opportunities.”
All i can say is Saul Alinsky.
:: the most recent IRS Commissioners will both have to explain to Congress ::
And will any of them have the spine to become “Gabby Johnson” and speak in “real frontier gibberish”?
A paraphrase of “The sheriff is a *****!”
They been doin’ dat since 2007........
Time to fill all the DC police paddy wagons.
Shut down the government.
Fire all IRS employees and sell off all properties under the aegis of that criminal organization. Tear out their phone and internet lines, sell all the furniture and stop their government assistance checks for doing nothing important immediately.
The occupants of the infamous White Hut need to be cleared out as well and put in the long, long line of illegal aliens being shuttled across our southern border. First seize all their bank accounts and all the wealth they’ve accumulated by nefarious means.
These people are easy to despise.
"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
LOL.
Authentic Fronier Gibberish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U
Blazing Saddles explains it all, hat tip SERKIT
The resemblance to BB is uncanny, and grows closer every day - right down to the vocal inflections, annoyed, arrogant facial expression, and dismissive hand gestures.
I think they get their thick black plastic rimmed glasses from the same Sears & Roebuck vision center.
Beltway Jay could pass for Baghdad Bob’s Son... are we sure that he isn’t?
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