White House Groucho Marx defense: “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

Flyover Culture ^ | 6/3/13

[Impala64ssa]

The corrupt—even criminal—activities rife in the Obama Administration has panicked its staunchest defenders.

Forget the comparisons to Watergate or even to classic TV sitcom’s “I know nothing; I see nothing” Hans Schultz. Oh so yesterday. The triage of scandals, which initially stunned Democrats and Obama apologists into uncharacteristic silence, has since been re-branded to be something quite different than it actually is. For this, they owe Groucho Marx a debt of gratitude.

Lying and cover-ups regarding Benghazi; stomping on the First Amendment; the IRS criminally targeting American citizens? Time to roll out the “Groucho Defense:” Who are you going to believe, me are your lying eyes?

Using social media and their obedient lackeys in the press, the Administration’s strategy is to obfuscate, deny and out-and-out change the facts. Some might call this clever. The smarter among us call it lying.

This past Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former White House senior advisor David Plouffe said the IRS intimidation “was not a political pursuit,” adding “…Are we just going to be obsessed with scandal and trying to score political points, or the American people could not be screaming any more loudly, ‘worry about us.’ ‘Work on the economy.’”

Obfuscate; deny; change the facts.

Enter the counter punches from conservatives. In the following segment from Fox News’ “America’s News HQ,” author and FreedomWorks Outreach Director Deneen Borelli KO’s the dishonest, repetitive “Groucho defense” parroted by Democratic strategist Richard Goodstein. Our eyes ain’t lying:

[Impala64ssa]

video at link. Dineen Borelli calling out AG Holder, as well as reminding us Holder was censured for not co-operating with congress during the Fast and Furious hearings.

[Red Badger]

Duck (the question) Soup...................

[Iron Munro]

You know things are going bad when your supporters defend you by claiming you are too stupid to figure out such a complex abuse of power and that you are too lazy to implement it.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Obama and Holder are a living example of a South Park episode.

Yeah--this one comes to mind as well.

[grundle]

Here are 180 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, government waste, and other misdeeds

[bigbob]

They’ve got that wrong, it’s “Who you gonna believe, your own eyes or lyin’ me?”

[KarlInOhio]

Groucho isn't the Marx I think of when I see Obama.

[joethedrummer]

Grouchos line is actually:

“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”, which I think is much funnier and more to the point of what’s going on here.

[Vendome]

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is often difficult to verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln

[MtnMan101]