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Home Front: Politix
MSNBC host claims Obama admin was ‘virtually scandal-free’
2018-03-22
[RT] Within the memory of Mike Barnicle, co-host of MSNBC’s ’Morning Joe’ show, the administration of former president Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
was "virtually scandal-free."

Barnicle asked Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs about "the damage that’s being done to the institution of the presidency today" in comparison to the "virtually scandal-free" Obama presidency. But he wasn’t finished there. Barnicle went on to remind viewers that Obama was an "exemplary person" ‐ presumably in comparison to Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Barnicle’s spiel about the wonders of the Obama presidency left Gibbs unsure as to what question he was actually being asked, forcing him to ask Barnicle for some clarification. The pair then shared a laugh before Gibbs went on to offer some platitudes about unity in politics.

"I don’t think we can solve problems in our country if we can’t sit down and talk about them, if we’re so deeply divided," he said.

Perhaps the MSNBC hosts simply forgot the many scandals that dotted Obama’s two terms as president, including the Benghazi attack which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
’s email server scandal, a war on whistleblowers, a massive stepping-up of the use of drones and a bungled Fast and Furious operation that saw thousands of guns sold to suspected smugglers.

The notion of a "scandal-free" Obama White House seems to be a sentiment shared by Obama himself, however. In remarks delivered at MIT last month, the former president commented that his administration "didn’t have a scandal" that caused any embarrassment, admitting only to "occasional mistakes and screw-ups".
Posted by:Fred

#17  The guy misread his propoganda sheet, the truth is the Obama Administration was virtual scandal-free. There were no virtual scandals, just the real kind.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-03-22 16:21  

#16  It all depends on what you mean by "scandal"
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-22 15:31  

#15   This argument is going to be hard to make after the indictments that follow the release of the OIG's report.
The most it will ever get on the MSM is a 20 second mention in passing or maybe a column inch on an overflow page.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-03-22 12:51  

#14  Mike Barnicle should join with Peter "Tailwind" Arnett and Dan "Fake but Accurate" Rather to teach Journalism & Ethics 101 at an Ivy League school.
Posted by: magpie   2018-03-22 11:46  

#13  This argument is going to be hard to make after the indictments that follow the release of the OIG's report.
Posted by: Sneasing Big Foot6518   2018-03-22 11:36  

#12  This is an actual WAPO headline today:

"Typos, spelling mistakes are common in Trump's White House"

I guess the follow-up will be "Trump splits infinitives, drops Oxford comma."

Posted by: Matt   2018-03-22 11:20  

#11  
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2018-03-22 11:12  

#10  MSLSD at it again still?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-22 08:59  

#9  While we're piling on the grandfather of Fake News, he also wrote a column back in 1991 claiming Whitey Bulger 'kept the drugs out of Southie'. Of course Bulger was the guy bringing them in.
Posted by: Raj   2018-03-22 08:48  

#8  "Blue Pills" are yummy!
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2018-03-22 08:25  

#7  Google the "technique of the big lie", Mike.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-22 05:14  

#6  ...Mr. Barnicle doesn't remember scandals in the Obama Administration?

That's cute. Ask him if he remembers this:

"Boston Globe controversy

In 1998, Barnicle resigned from The Boston Globe amid a controversy over two columns, written three years apart. The first column of more than 80 lines of humorous observations had a few lines that bore similarity to jokes in the 1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.[7] In a subsequent Globe review of all of Barnicle's many years of work, a second column was called into question. The October 8, 1995 column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the children died, the parents of the other child, who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000. When the Globe could not locate the people who had not been publicly identified because they had died as well, Barnicle insisted nonetheless that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents but from a nurse, whom he declined to identify. Mrs. Patricia Shairs later contacted the Globe to indicate that the story Barnicle wrote was about her family, although she said some of the facts were incorrect."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-03-22 04:51  

#5  Scandals...? What was that Lewis Carroll, reference again?
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
Posted by: magpie   2018-03-22 03:01  

#4  I would still always be up for kicking Ben Domonech in the nuts...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-22 01:39  

#3  And, actually, I can't even endorse my own "ideal." It's too muzzlike for me.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-22 01:24  

#2  We don't do "cruel and unusual" in the US (officially, anyway) Ideally plagiarists like Barnicle would have their fingers cut off and tongue excised so they couldn't steal other people's words anymore. Of course, some of the new access methods on computers would make eye-gouging necessary too. The price of progress...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-22 01:23  

#1  Because if YOU did not cover it, it is not a scandal. Am I right?
Posted by: newc   2018-03-22 01:15  

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