Posted on 05/14/2013 9:25:15 AM PDT by opentalk
Six months into his second administration Barack Obama's Presidency has become overrun with scandal. The events of the past seven days; the Benghazi hearings, the news about twelve revisions of the Benghazi talking points, the IRS scandal and yesterday's Justice Dept. attack on freedom of the Press via the AP phone records, is a lot of “distractions” during course of a four-year-term, however this is only one week. Presidents tend to have problems their second term--but Obama's second term problems seemed jacked up on steroids.
The Obama administration may be buckling under the weight of its own hubris, but they had help. Obama’s hubris suckled at the teat of the mainstream media.
In Benghazi, the administration told a tale of events which suited their own purposes--reelection. And just to make their story look good they ran advertising in the Muslim world apologizing for a YouTube video we now know had nothing to do with the attack. They also threw the video's creator in jail, where he still sits t as a political prisoner of an administration who does not believe in the First Amendment. The cover-up of Benghazi was undertaken because the administration believed they could get away with it--they had always gotten away with it before.
When criticism of the Administration's story line began to arise, those critics were told to back off, the President said they should back off here was nothing to see it’s all a political ploy. The mainstream media refused to look into the charges because Obama said it wasn’t so- for eight months they backed him up.
It didn't start with Benghazi; it began at the very beginning of his administration. Eric Holder dropped the charges against the New Black Panthers because his department felt that only Caucasians could commit voter intimidation, whistle blowers came out to say this justice department treated whites different than blacks. The media saw it as a non-story and Obama’s belief that he could get away with anything grew
When other scandals began to break, Solyndra, Fast and Furious; when the $800 trillion dollar stimulus was spent on useless pork, when the Obama Administration told lies about Obamacare, when the President made recess appointments even though the Senate was in session, when he sent our heroes to Libya without congressional approval or an exit plan--- every situation where a free press would investigate a government the press neglected its duty and instead echoed the "move on, nothing to see here" coming out of the White House. And Obama’s hubris grew.
... But this time the Obama administration attacked a major press organization. Immediately the National Press Club complained about this affront to freedom of the press. The liberal media is complaining about this overreach of power.
In truth they have no right to. They created this “monster” whose hubris taught him he could get away with anything. Every single time they had an opportunity to explore Obama's actions, they shied away, thus feeding his sense of invulnerability. Why are they surprised when, like the monster created by Victor Frankenstein, their creation which lives on arrogance and entitlement-- attacks its creator the mainstream media.
Will the media’s desire for self-preservation force it to execute its responsibilities and thus seek the truth? Or after a few days of whining will it once again allow this President to build his arrogance, his hubris on the teat of the mainstream media?
Only time will tell.
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I believe Bengazi will get him impeached and convicted. The AP scandal will turn the press against him and zeros Teflon will melt. By the end of October, the aricles of impeachment will be drawn up. Th AI must done in such a timely manner, that the senate will feel so much political heat for the 2014 elections; that they MUST convict.
Not only ignored his actions, but didn’t bother to research anything about him.
As far as they are concerned, his auto biography is as infallible as the Bible.
This is happened in a more limited amount under Clinton, but after 8 years of Bush, the corrupt MSM was bound and determined that they would protect their man at all costs. And so they did, until this simply spun out of control.
But the corrupt MSM is every bit as guilty as is Obama. They are one and the same.
Now reporters are starting to come forward saying they got the IRS treatment after they reported something negative on Obama. I imagine there are plenty more, but to say it would make you feel like you were a kook.
...add Holder..House voted 255-67 in contempt of Congress ...nothing changed. He seems more arrogant....
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