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To: tejek who wrote (729767)	7/29/2013 11:29:08 PM
From: TopCat	8 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 FJB jlallen longnshort one_less and 3 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573062

"How come you guys have so much time on your hands? Don't any of you work?" LOL...says the guy who has over 120,000 posts on this thread alone. That was a joke, right?

To: tejek who wrote (729767)	7/30/2013 12:42:40 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1573062

What scandals? The media ignores or covers up bad news about Obama ............................................................... By L. BRENT BOZELL III and TIM GRAHAM July 28, 2013 nypost.com In-mid May, new Obama scandals piled up at the White House. A portrait emerged of a president whose Internal Revenue Service was harassing his enemies, a State Department that lied to the world about the fatal debacle in Benghazi and a Justice Department spying on reporters who might leak anti-Obama information. But several national journalists announced that Obama had been scandal-free for the first four years-and-change of his administration. On NPR’s “Morning Edition,” anchorman Steve Inskeep asserted to Cokie Roberts that “this administration has been described — I don’t even know how many times — as remarkably scandal-free.” “Greetings, my tame media pets — here’s what I want you to write about me this week.” On ABC’s “World News,” reporter Jonathan Karl proclaimed “a White House that takes pride in being scandal-free has been hammered by a series of controversies.” On MSNBC, Rana Foroohar of Time magazine lamented, “What’s so sad about it is the President has been very rightfully proud of the lack of scandal in his administration so far.” These journalists suffered from complete, mentally paralyzing amnesia about the first term, with the deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-running fiasco, the embarrassing decline and fall of Solyndraand other solar energy companies funded by Energy Department loans and Benghazi-gate, to name a few. Now, several months after a brief flurry of scandal coverage in the national media, journalists have gone numb enough that President Obama is shamelessly campaigning around the country attacking the Republicans for dwelling on “phony scandals.” He’s formed such a close bond of collusion with reporters that they tell him his second-term ideas are all great: “A lot of reporters say that, well, Mr. President, these are all good ideas, but some of you’ve said before; some of them sound great, but you can’t get those through Congress,” he said Wednesday. Obama makes it sound like the reporters are all thinly disguised Democratic strategists who advise him on how to succeed, but they all worry about those horrid Republican obstructionists in Congress who hate Obama (perhaps because they’re racists) and want him to fail as a president. Reporters aren’t embarrassed enough by the president’s boasting of his chummy reporter-advisers to sound like independent journalists. The networks engage in outright censorship of information that could damage Obama’s gloriously, prematurely decorated place in political history. That’s become especially obvious on the IRSscandal in targeting Tea Party groups. The real Americans who have been targeted don’t think this is a “phony scandal.”