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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: OrangeHoof
A sustained Obama presidency will be weighed by the democrat party very carefully vs. an amputation done soon and quickly. A Biden / Hillary replacement will bring them a better outcome in 2016.

There is little patience for 100,000 papercuts and the salt that is Obama.

61 posted on 05/14/2013 7:30:23 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

TREASON - “acting”/appointed/entrenched unaccountable bureaucrats (socialists) elevating to TOTALITARIAN tactics for the powers that be when the time is right.

DISMANTLE the IRS.

TREASON - continuous, PRE-MEDITATED, agenda-driven, in-your-face, media-complicit, AGENCY-ABETTED, representative-enabled, ongoing...

What, AM is off her medication? WUZZUP Al?


62 posted on 05/14/2013 7:31:31 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: MaxMax
Yeah...but I loved when Joe replied to Bernstein after that remark: "Well, we have to investigate, right, Carl?" Bernstein looked a bit sheepish after Joe tagged him with that one.
63 posted on 05/14/2013 7:31:45 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea ... I'm outraged that you're outraged.

I mean, after all, what difference, at this point, does it make?!

64 posted on 05/14/2013 7:32:02 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The-day-the-Obama-administration-went-all-Nixon-on-us.html
The day the Obama administration went all Nixon on us

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/213344/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-the-justice-departments-seizure-of-ap-phone-records/#disqus_thread
What journalists need to know about the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records


65 posted on 05/14/2013 7:32:43 AM PDT by abb
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
in all her years in journalism [which pre-date Watergate].

In all her years, pre-dates the dinosaurs.

66 posted on 05/14/2013 7:33:19 AM PDT by llevrok (2013: - Obama vs America. The new cold war)
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To: nikos1121

Woodward called Obama a liar a few months ago. Can’t remember what for though.


67 posted on 05/14/2013 7:34:57 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea Mitchell: IRS, AP Scandals Among 'Most Outrageous Excesses I've Seen'

She's probably worried that someone is looking at her phone records.

68 posted on 05/14/2013 7:35:41 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sure, but will she blame The Almighty Won or blame a few underlies?


69 posted on 05/14/2013 7:37:07 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: Steely Tom

The problem here is there are no John Deans anywhere in Obama’s cabal who will come out and say there is a cancer here. Unless that happens this will generate smoke but no heat.


70 posted on 05/14/2013 7:56:43 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Uncle Miltie
'hoist by one's own petard'

(idiomatic) To be hurt, or destroyed by one's own plot or device, of one's own doing which one intended for another; to be "blown up by one's own bomb". He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard........... from Wiktionary.org

71 posted on 05/14/2013 8:09:56 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea Mitchell is an expert on scandals: she has helped cover up so many the last few years.


72 posted on 05/14/2013 8:10:14 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The left is pushing the IRS/AP story to distract us from the real scandal of Bengazi.


73 posted on 05/14/2013 8:18:27 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea climbs on the bandwagon! Must have been the AP surveillance that finally got to her.


74 posted on 05/14/2013 8:21:03 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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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.

So either climb on board the train as it’s leaving the station, or get left in the dust of what used to be your credibility.

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.


In a sane world, you would be correct. I am not convinced we live in a sane world anymore.

However, I would propose one thing seemingly different than the conventional wisdom here on FR. Out of all the breaking scandals the most damaging to this administration will likely be the AP scandal. This was an attack on the media that had defended this administration at every turn and failed to scrutinize the President.

We’ll see how long their outrage lasts.


75 posted on 05/14/2013 8:23:10 AM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
You said...
“For all practical purposes the Obama Presidency is over”

I agree. Oh, he will finish out his remaining WH years, but we are probably done with any efforts to “fundamentally transform America.”

76 posted on 05/14/2013 8:37:16 AM PDT by LMAO ("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The White House is in real trouble when these types of die hard Liberals can see that there have been abuses of power.


77 posted on 05/14/2013 8:39:22 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: Uncle Miltie
Methinks the journalists see the ship sinking.

Or they fear running to his defense not knowing what the next five shoes to drop will be.


78 posted on 05/14/2013 8:57:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LMAO
Oh, he will finish out his remaining WH years

There are lavish European Vacations to take and many rounds of golf to be played.


79 posted on 05/14/2013 8:58:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

From your lips to God’s ears.


80 posted on 05/14/2013 10:13:39 AM PDT by SuzyQueIN
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