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2014-02-03 Government

Obama Blames Fox News For Scandals, Sez No IRS Targeting of Political Opponents

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Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Do you know ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-03 00:33|| 2014-02-03 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 In May of 2013 Obama said that what the IRS did to conservative groups was 'inexcusable.' ("Its inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.")

By now he has realized that the IRS scandal had no negative consequences for his side. Some Republicans and conservatives have been constantly whining about it but they have been powerless to do anything substantial.

Obama is throwing down the gauntlet now. What was called the 'IRS scandal' is the new normal.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-02-03 03:11|| 2014-02-03 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 "These kind of things keep resurfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them," Obama said.

Um... isn't that what the press is supposed to do? That's why they have special privileges (freedom of the press). Oh I get it - Obama doesn't believe in freedom of the press - and the MSM is only to willing to accommodate him.

And Fox News isn't a 'TV Station' it's a Network.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-02-03 08:05|| 2014-02-03 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 If you get away with it, it's not a crime.

Nero fiddling. Most administrations face a 'black swan' moment or two. That's when having friends and allies counts to keep the mob at bay. However, when you hit the low 30's in the polls and you've given your opponents and opportunistic hangers-on more than enough fuel to burn you if they need to, it's delusional to think you can keep racking up impeachable crimes and issuing fiat as you might find yourself the one being thrown under the bus.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-03 09:31|| 2014-02-03 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The Clintons have undoubtedly tutored him on plausible deniability, cutouts, and speedy interments. I'd be beefing up my security detail, using frequent SDR's [surveillance detection routes], and avoiding air travel, if I were Roger Ailes.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-03 10:13|| 2014-02-03 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Change the thrust, It's not a lie, only a "Mistake" (Regardless of how many times he said it).

Bullshit, You make a "Mistake" and you don't repeat it publicaly and loudly over the News media, alsso you DON't Say it again,and again.

It's no "mistake", Just another lie, and a cover up. (Again)

THe only "Mistake" was trying to minimize it so publicly.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-02-03 10:15|| 2014-02-03 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 It's always someone else who is to blame. First it was George W. Bush, then conservative Republicans, then anyone who disagreed with him, and the Tea Party, and now Fox news. Man up Obama and take some responsibility. What a whining cry-baby.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-02-03 10:36|| 2014-02-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#8 He's getting away with it because the people who are supposed to hold him accountable aren't doing their job. The media is a lost cause, but the Republicans in Congress have no excuse.

Posted by Iblis 2014-02-03 11:35|| 2014-02-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Thought I was watching a pre-game sports show when this damn liar appears on the TV. I watched him equivocate a for a few seconds about if and when Leon Panetta told him Benghazi was a terrorist attack and then I switched the channel. It's bad for my blood pressure.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-02-03 11:41|| 2014-02-03 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't know who to be angrier at anymore-- the lying, scheming, power-mad, leftwing totalitarian monster in the White House, or the fifty million clueless, drooling submorons who not only voted him into office in 2008, but voted to RE-elect him in 2012 as well. Or, for that matter, at the RINOs who seem determined to cement the Republican Party's reputation as the "Stupid Party" firmly in place.

Frankly, I think we're f*cked. Seriously, irredeemably f*cked. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in 10 years, America resembled 1970's Cambodia or 1970's Argentina, depending on whether the left or the right comes out on top. Either way, IMO we're headed for a disaster that ordinary politics cannot prevent.

Posted by Dave D. 2014-02-03 12:05|| 2014-02-03 12:05|| Front Page Top

#11 "It wouldn't surprise me at all if in 10 years, America resembled 1970's Cambodia or 1970's Argentina"

Financially, we are almost there already.

Posted by Iblis 2014-02-03 13:09|| 2014-02-03 13:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Which Developed Countries Will Be Spending More Than They Can Afford In 2014?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-03 13:15|| 2014-02-03 13:15|| Front Page Top

#13

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-03 18:08|| 2014-02-03 18:08|| Front Page Top

#14 I think I'll watch the movie Top Secret tonight. Which, if you think about it, is like the story of Obama.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-02-03 20:50|| 2014-02-03 20:50|| Front Page Top

#15 ...imho, the most amazing thing is that the President thought he needed the on-screen appearance badly enough to give another set off screen <LINK to NBC analysis> to .

Also, the Hillary tweet, if read the "right" way could be seen to be quite a swipe at Mr. Obama...

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-02-03 22:11|| 2014-02-03 22:11|| Front Page Top

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