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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Bloomberg News Rolls Out the Full Goebbels: The Miracle of Obama's Scandal-Free White House!

2011-10-31

H/T Drudge from a few days back

By Jonathan Alter
who if memory serves is yet another JournoLista
President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that may doom his reelection. But he has one asset that hasn't received much attention: He's honest.

Although it's possible that the Solyndra LLC story will become a classic feeding frenzy, don't bet on it. These kinds of stories are unlikely to derail Obama in 2012. If he loses, it will be because of the economy -- period.

Even so, the president's Teflon is intriguing. How did we end up in such a scandal-less state? After ~~contacting Ezra Klein and Jay Carney for the latest talking points~~ investigating the question for a recent ~~DNC press release~~ Washington Monthly article, I've been developing some theories.

For starters, the tone is always set at the top. Obama puts a premium on personal integrity, and with a few exceptions (Tim Geithner's tax problems in 2009) his administration tends to fire first and ask questions later.
We'll just ignore those little piddling matters of gunrunning to the Sinaloa Cartel, stealing GM and Chrysler from their bondholders for the enrichment of the UAW, publicly stabbing Poland in the back after they agreed to host American missile-defense sites, the unleashing of SEIU goons on people who publicly disagree with The One's policies, the ballot fraud, the campaign-finance fraud...
Unfortunately, we might not know of scandals in stimulus spending or elsewhere because of changes in the news business. For today's media, talk is cheap and reporting is expensive
unless the "story" involves a Republican.
That means we get more chatter and less scrounging for official wrongdoing
unless the "story" involves a Republican..
t doesn't help that so much "news" coverage -- as opposed to commentary that is explicitly opinionated -- nowadays takes place in a partisan context
which of course is the sole fault of Faux News. MSNBC? The NY Times? Newsweek? Objective middle of the roaders, all of 'em.
Every time Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who leads a House investigative committee, calls the Obama administration "corrupt" without offering any evidence ~~that the MSM will allow the public to see~~, he hurts his cause. It's much harder to make a story register as a bona fide scandal when the political motivation is so obvious.
Also a lot harder when the entire MSM adopts the "if a tree falls in the forest and my editor spikes the story, it didn't really fall" approach.

This is just the opening salvo, folks. Politico's rollout of an "Anita Hill" attack on Herman Cain is another. 2012's going to be a MUCH tougher fight than any of us figured even two or three months ago. These bastards are playing for all the marbles this time. If they win just this one last big battle (especially if they can retake both houses of Congress as well), say hello to one or two more leftist Supreme Court justices and a de facto open-borders immigration policy, which combined mean unbreakable leftist rule for the next fifty years or longer.

Posted by:Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)

#19 Food Security in the United States:
By providing definitive guidance and the definitions of Hunger and Food Security/Insecurity to success-challenged Amerikan urban sophisticates;

Posted by: Creger Hapsburg9613 2011-10-31 23:09

#18 Impressive indeed newc.

Didn't the fam just take a safari to Africa?

Did I miss siding against Honduras?

Goes with some, cancelled his tour of Central America when that reporter broke the laugh and giggle appearance by asking why the US was launching cruise missiles.

MLKjr statue is a shame.

Unrecorded visitors to the White House.

Golf.

"I Bowl like a retard" on late show during Special Olympics.

Armored Misery Tour buses for Made in 'Merica speeches, made in Canada.

And just because, J. Caesar actually served in and understood the military, even wrote his own books. At the time the media was playing He's So Cool you can't even make fun of his name, which is when Nerobama popped up.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-10-31 17:18

#17 Jonathan "Addled" Alter re-writes history with the strokes of his magic pen. This is the biggest whopper yet.

Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-31 16:45

#16 Was the 747 buzzing of New York in there? Air Force One for his personal promo.

Posted by: Bobby 2011-10-31 16:12

#15 And that, newc, is only the items we know about.

Who knows that the MSM had successfully hid under the rug.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-10-31 13:36

#14 Thanks pebbles. Noted.

Posted by: newc 2011-10-31 13:01

#13 Supporting Argentinan claims for the Falkland Islands.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-10-31 12:59

#12 You almost have to remember to update the list daily. It was actually started by another rantburger, I just added 4 pages to it.

Please let me know if I missed anything We will all be able to post / blog it just prior to the election :)

Posted by: newc 2011-10-31 12:47

#11 newc -- thanks for this -- something I've been wanting to see for a long time! Outstanding work.

Posted by: Sherry 2011-10-31 12:37

#10 That's a great job of keeping score there, newc. Now the real trick is finding a Republican candidate who will use this information.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-10-31 11:58

#9 I am sure there is a scandal in there or two -

Apologies abroad for everything from slavery to Hiroshima
Bows to other foreign leaders
Appointment of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state - against Constitution (Sitting Senator)

Got rid of e-verify
"We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress"
The Census given to executive branch to conduct and run by ACORN
The on-again/off-again Guantanamo shut-down mess
The fight with the former CIA directors
The public show trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed
The reach out to Ahmadinejad Castro, Chavez, and assorted scum
Opposing the Honduras Supreme Court led Constitutionally legitimate Coup
Czars everywhere
The Queen of England/I-pod fiasco
Unceremoniously shipping back the Churchill bust
The end of the special relationship with the UK
The New York on-the-town presidential trip to Broadway
Anita Dunn and her Mao worship
Gov. Richardson?
"No lobbyists" = nothing but lobbyists
The Podestas' insider influence-peddling
Sotomayor's "wise Latina" crap
Trashing Nancy Reagan
The Skip Gates/police acting "stupidly" mess( and then telling America "not to jump to conclusions about the murders at Fort Hood by a moslem)
The get-Chicago-the-Olympics jaunt to Copenhagen
Cap-and-trade boondoggle
Millions of green jobs" that ended up going out of business
Cash-for-clunkers
Jobs "saved" or "created" rather than references to the actual unemployment rates
Van Jones
Desiree Rogers won't testify
Rangel/Dodd corruption - silence
The union payoff stimulus
The demonization of the Town-Hall citizens
The Acorn Mess
Kevin Jennings/Safe School Czar
Closure of the successful DC school program for no reason
The SEIU direct access to the White House
The useless Asian Tour comedown
The politicization of the take-over of GM and Chrysler
The Obama readjustment in the order of paying back car creditors
GM Car dealerships closed on political, race, and sex considerations
Obama as "Caesar"
The Emanuel "never let a serious crisis go to waste" boast
The Black Caucus/Rangel/Waters bid to bail out the inner-city radio stations
Yosi Sergant and the NEA
$4.7 trillion deficit His spending alone
The planned $9 trillion added to the national debt
New income tax rates; health care surcharge talk; and payroll tax caps to be lifted
Rahm Emanuel's promised payback to those states that trash the stimulus
The supposed C-span aired health care debate
The promised website posts of pending legislation
Czechs and Poles sold out on missile defense
Sermons to and finger pointing at the Israelis
Getting stiffed and blown off by just about every govt. on Earth as a patsy/
The failed 'Putin helps to stop a nuclear Iran' gambit where Putin signs the START treaty on an etch-a-sketch - Nuclear weapons deal with the Russians as they are sending nuclear fuel to Iran.
Voting present on the Iranian reformers in the street
Serial but empty deadlines to Ahmadinejad
The good war/bad war twisting and turning on Iraq/Afghanistan
The months-long dithering over Afghanistan and sticking it to the American military
Renditions, tribunals, Patriot Act, etc. once trashed, now OK
Health-care take-over- passed without reading, signed without voting and excluded themselves from it.
The 2,000 page proposed new health code
The embarrassing Nobel Peace Prize nomination
The attacks on surgeons, Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc.
The Islam mythologies in the Cairo Speech
The al Arabiya "Bush did it" interview
Obama's TV "my Muslim faith" gaffe
Office of Personel Management "Conservative Lockout" (do not hire conservatives)
SEAL prosecution
ethanol subsidies
Financial "reform" bill - small bank killer
DADT in the middle of 3 wars
Tried to slip in a $1Trillion spending spree right after the election in omnibus
Standing in the way of states in oil cleanup
Using the epa to shut down 30% of oil refining capability in Texas
TSA places restrictions on web use
The 2000 page insipid financial "reform" bill that exempts SEC from public disclosure
The horrible selection of Elena Kagan for supreme court justice
Mirandizing the enemy on the battlefield
Weak ROE putting Soldiers more at risk.
"At some point, you have made enough money"
Dalai Lama Out the Back Door by the trash
Slaughter rule
felons get to vote
Food Safety Modernization Act
FBI may subpoena electronic communication from private companies without judicial oversight.
Refusal to allow the Justice department to peruse the voter intimidation with the black panthers after they were already convicted
Bypassing congress and destroying NASA's next space mission
Congress coming in on recess to vote to bail state unions out with $26 billion.
Michelle in Spain in middle of hard recession.
Oil drill moratorium for no reason
class warfare speech then vacation to the richest places in the nation
justice department tosses military votes in state roundup - Soldiers get no vote
third-country nationals, including Chinese, Syrian, and Iranian citizens, granted much greater access to U.S.-controlled military technology.
support for a super mosque at the 9/11 site
Signing statement limiting our use of nuclear weapons
Disparaging of Israeli prime minister
9 days to respond to gulf coast oil spill.
Support of union thuggery by "card-check"
Bashing the Arizona law that reinforces federal law
Apologetic to chinese over Arizona law
Holders control over intel agencies
Allowing the EPA to become an aristocrat controlling force over our economy with carbon counting
Ensuring the EPA has no congressional oversight by funding it through the federal reserve.
Forcing oil companies to cap 5 year old wells for good while funding oil drilling projects by the billions in Brazil and Mexico.
the Paycheck Fairness Act
"Our country can absorb another terror attack"
The un needed "Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness" act
Violated a Federal District Judge in implementation of health care
Violated a Federal District Judge in refusal to lift moratorium on drilling
Sided with the unions against the citizens of Wisconsin
Was weak with allies like Mubarak causing the whole middle east to engulf in a fire storm
Forced international inflation with QE2
Leaving the country while starting Libya war, missing the Honors of a past President at the same time
Consulting the Arab League and the UN before Congress in Libyan action.
Appointing tax evaders to run the financial and legal services as head executives.(Timothy Geithner/Tom Daschle/Hilda Solis and their taxes)
Backing the government unions for little else than asking them to take a hit like all of the rest of US.
Project fast and furious, Gunrunner, gun-walker, cocaine and guns to Mexico
Threatened to veto bill to pay troops during government shutdown during 3 wars.
Refusal to cut the budget furthering the country into debt crises.
The military is a "distraction"
Tax the rich as a solution to our debt crises which does not even cover .03% of the issue
S&P and Moodys threatens downgrade due to his non-serious nature on the National Debt Crises
Spent less time in the Oval Office than any other President
Allowed the congress to not pass a budget for 2 years when democrats held the house and senate - mentioned nothing about budget back then.
Refused to appoint any Inspector Generals - guarantees lack of accountability
Investigates "oil speculators",
National Labor Relations Board snuff out of SC Boeing plant.
All of a sudden, the war powers act means nothing.
Feckless military action in Libya
DOMA is ignored by decree
Refuses to cut government spending - insisted on raising taxes in recession
Lost the AAA credit rating for America then hid at Camp David
American tax payers pay for his campaign inside the Whitehouse
His childish war on ATM's, big oil, corporate jets, millionaires and billionaires.
Was never on time for any of his own press conferences - keeps the nation waiting like a Monarch.
$6 million bus tour - flying buses across the country -campaigning on taxpayer expense
By decree, illegally removed law SB-1070 preventing deportation of Illegal immigrants.
SEC investigates S&P?
Justice department investigates S&P?
all appointments are recess appointments
spends $10 million dollars on Martha's Vinyard vacation
Creates Office of Diversity Via Executive Order
Jobs speech delivery during GOP debate
Illegal alien employee rights
Dual flights 4 hours apart for his vacation
Dream act initiated by signing statement
DOJ re-institutes "Community Re-investment Act"
The National Popular Vote bill

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pass this bill when there is not yet even a bill to pass. (Phoney jobs bill)
Attackwatch
"You Cant Have a Modern Industrial Economy With Lower Taxes"
Curtailing patents - paralyzing the R&D for Pharma
Van Jones - "occupy wall street" fake drummed up protests
Obama Calls for Restraint by Egypts Christians when they are under assault
Honors South Korean President With Japanese Food.
My drawdown from Iraq allowed us to get bin ladin
Ortega gains power in Nicaragua
Vail, Marthas Vineyard, and Costa del Sol
Bypassing Congress for his "jobs bill"

Posted by: newc 2011-10-31 11:35

#8 which combined mean unbreakable leftist rule for the next fifty years or longer.

If 0 gets another term, which seems probable given the clown alley that is the Republican field, he will get to spend the next four years completing the destruction of the credibility and public faith in the New Deal institutions as well as his socialized medical plan. People will be ready for radical change by then. Let's just hope it doesn't include WWIII.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-10-31 11:26

#7 Weird as a football Bat.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-10-31 11:06

#6 ..for John Edwards.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-10-31 10:57

#5 ...well, they were there John Edwards.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-10-31 10:56

#4 Where were these guys when Nixon was in trouble?

Posted by: Clyde Bucket3505 2011-10-31 09:19

#3 Is this the same Jounolist Alter who referred to anyone on the political right or the center as subhumans or some such term?

Posted by: no mo uro 2011-10-31 07:06

#2 Son of a muslim child abandoner wants to negotiate with mullah omar. If that isn't a scandal, then what is?

Posted by: Bugs Splat3318 2011-10-31 02:37

#1 I wanted this to be from The Onion.
I'm afraid it's not.

Posted by: Skidmark 2011-10-31 02:22

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