(and he got by with it).
The only reason he got by with it is because American voters for the most part are low information types and do not have time to pay attention to the political shenanigans being carried out in the District of Corruption,
AND Zero gives orders to the Goebbels propaganda machine each morning
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government;... whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789. ME 7:253
"Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1805.
"No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 1821. ME 19:408
Well yea, even more depressing is that the “media” have been trained like a bunch of seals balancing beach balls on their noses. The “pool” reports are now “edited” by the White House and also distributed, as a gratuity.
I am reading Sheryl Attkisson’s books “Stonewalled” and we are still in the “media has lost its mojo” part where she is essentially whining that the media has sold out lock, stock and barrel to not only their government masters but also the corporate side which pays the advertising fees. No criticism of pharmaceuticals, hospitals, bid bidness, government. Reporters soon learn that they will be ignored, left out, ?, if they do not play along. Their bosses tell them to not PO anyone, keep it light, happy, positive. no no no negative (bad, bad, bad).
Woodward is going around saying the same thing, “Why doesn’t someone DO something?”
Why doesn’t HE?
Sharyl is not particularly political. She is not a conservative or anything but a cypher. She just got shut down down investigating things (Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Autism from inoculations, etc.) and says everyone one else is feeling it (e.g. Lisa Myers NBC forced out)