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Andrea Mitchell: IRS, AP Scandals Among 'Most Outrageous Excesses I've Seen'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/14/2013 6:31:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

President Obama knows he's in trouble when Andrea Mitchell—Andrea Mitchell!—proclaims the IRS and AP scandals to be among "the most outrageous excesses I've seen" in all her years in journalism [which pre-date Watergate]. The strength of Mitchell's statement drew gasps from Scarborough and Brzezinski. Then Ron Fournier, former AP editor now with the National Journal, darkly described the White House being "consumed" if it turns out someone there or in the Obama campaign had been aware of the IRS targeting of conservative groups. It happened on Morning Joe today.

But hey, President Obama still has his hangers-on. Take good old Carl Bernstein. As we reported, on yesterday's Morning Joe, Bernstein blathered that he "can't imagine" that President Obama coudl be involved in the IRS mess. And there was Bernstein again today. When Fournier spoke of consequences of White House or Obama campaign knowledge of the IRS targeting, Bernstein quickly burped out that "we have no evidence of that whatsoever." Joe Scarborough had to remind the former Watergate reporter: "that's why you have investigations. You know that."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; apscandal; carlbernstein; irsscandal
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To: listenhillary

Too late!


21 posted on 05/14/2013 6:43:29 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I conclude from this weekend’s events that their Deep Throat source on this stuff is utterly unimpeachable, and has told them there’s more where this came from...

For all practical purposes the Obama Presidency is over. It’s all Select Committees and Special Prosecutors and Democrats running for the tall grass from here on out.

Hoping and praying you're right, B-M! Nothing would make me happier than to see conservatives proven right regarding Obama and his anti-American beliefs and practices.

22 posted on 05/14/2013 6:43:49 AM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea why don’t you make yourself useful.

Put your biggest asset to work and find me some truffles.


23 posted on 05/14/2013 6:43:50 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: listenhillary

And had the media done their jobs, this stuff might not have happened.


24 posted on 05/14/2013 6:44:09 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Second American Revolution)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Enemies List. Check.

IRS abuse of opponents. Check.

Illegal Wiretapping. Check.

Suppression of First Amendment. Check.

Obstructing Congressional Investigations. Check.

COPY NIXON’S ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT WRITTEN BY HILLARY CLINTON, AND INTRODUCE THEM INTO THE HOUSE FOR 0BAMBI.


25 posted on 05/14/2013 6:44:13 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mandatory BB Guns for 10 Year Old Boys would solve most of America's problems.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
As for Bernstein--he obviously satisfied whatever hunger for truth he might have had by exposing the Nixon scandals. No such hunger lead him to subsequent Presidential scandals--and there were plenty of them!

Maybe it wasn't truth that he hungered for in the first place. Maybe it was something else.

26 posted on 05/14/2013 6:44:36 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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To: Steely Tom

This time there is “a Presidency on the Cancer”

Not enough ethics in government to make John Dean’s

comment relative these days.


27 posted on 05/14/2013 6:45:27 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Is the Liberal Media Racist?

Film at 11:00

28 posted on 05/14/2013 6:45:56 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: pabianice

Ok... here. I found it.

“The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.”


29 posted on 05/14/2013 6:45:58 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Steely Tom

Ron Fournier is the most leftist lying commie “reporter” ever. If 0bambi has lost Ron, there will be very few left.

Methinks the journalists see the ship sinking.


30 posted on 05/14/2013 6:46:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mandatory BB Guns for 10 Year Old Boys would solve most of America's problems.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
OK,Angrier....give a little more thought here.How about Benghazi? A youtube film? Our people were mercifully taken to the hospital? Any chance that two individuals who had Presidential ambitions (guess which ones) might have decided on a coverup that would save their political hides?
31 posted on 05/14/2013 6:46:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; butterdezillion; All

In the failed world of Communism, all functions of a Society are controlled by a Central Government.

Our Central Federal Government has been easily taken over by Obama to the gleeful cheers of MSNBC, and others in the Liberal Agenda Media.

Perhaps this is as good a time as any to take note of those who have willingly enabled the blatant Communist ideas and programs of Obama to take hold in our Central Federal Government.

Currently, there are 3 major Impeachable Scandals that our sorry RINOs could use to remove Obama from our Central, semi-Communist Government.

My question is: “Do our sorry Congressional RINOs have the POLITICAL MOTIVATION to Impeach and Remove B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of Indonesia?”


32 posted on 05/14/2013 6:46:56 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: IMR 4350
Put your biggest asset to work and find me some truffles.

Classic!

33 posted on 05/14/2013 6:48:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: dfwgator

I just loved it when she called Brad Pitty her “partner”.


34 posted on 05/14/2013 6:49:07 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She will never get that Obama taste out of her mouth.


35 posted on 05/14/2013 6:49:12 AM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Bernstein quickly burped out that "we have no evidence of that whatsoever"

Juan Williams has started using this as cover for Obama and the Rats lately.
If Obama came out and said he ordered it they would still use the line.

36 posted on 05/14/2013 6:50:35 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism needs a re-awakening plan for the American public)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Taking a step back - you wonder why any president runs for a second term. It seems like they all inevitably end up like this. If it were me I’d take the money and run after 4 years. This is NOT a defense of any of this - simply an observation on a very well entrenched trend in American politics.


37 posted on 05/14/2013 6:51:09 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: dfwgator
She’s trying to get into Heaven, now.

They all do, in the end, just in case. God will sort them out.

38 posted on 05/14/2013 6:51:39 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism needs a re-awakening plan for the American public)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is flabbergasting.


39 posted on 05/14/2013 6:51:47 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: pgkdan
Andrea Mitchell: IRS, AP Scandals Among 'Most Outrageous Excesses I've Seen'
...But... you gotta break a few eggs to make mayonnaise.
40 posted on 05/14/2013 6:52:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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