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Carl Bernstein 'Can't Imagine' Obama Involved In IRS Scandal
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/13/2013 5:57:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

When it comes to investigative reporters, how do you change a bulldog into a lapdog? Easy: change the occupant of the Oval Office from a Republican into a Democrat.

Witness Carl Bernstein's pitiful performance on today's Morning Joe. The man who teamed with Bob Woodward to bring down Richard Nixon now credulously claims that he "can't imagine" that President Obama is possibly involved in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Bernstein instead blames the "hyper-partisanship" in Washington. Yeah, cause politics were so kumbaya in 1972, Carl.

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To: mardi59

Why would low level employees risk their jobs by doing this on their own. They got orders from high up the chain


The standard Nuremburg defense, “I only did what I was told.” we better get used to this.


41 posted on 05/13/2013 6:32:16 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
So - low level employees, independently and without direction from higher management:

1 - Hatched this plan on their own

2 - Designed a complicated form

3 - Had the form printed and distributed

4 - Set up a data base to process the forms and collate the data

5 - Found the time to do it all without impacting their other work

6 - Did it all without drawing attention from their superiors?

Only a member of the Slobbering Obama Media would believe a Fairy Tale like that.


42 posted on 05/13/2013 6:36:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: .45 Long Colt

Basically, if you could get them to answer honestly,
they should answer what they’d want to see happen if a conservative president were involved.


43 posted on 05/13/2013 6:38:26 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Iron Munro

With apologies to Golda Meir, the likes of Carl Bernstein will not report factually so long as their hatred for Fox News et al trumps their journalistic integrity.


44 posted on 05/13/2013 6:41:39 AM PDT by Lacey
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I find it laughable the way the media is saying that the administration “might have” “messed up”.


45 posted on 05/13/2013 6:43:14 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: Kharis13; MrB
I'm with you MrB, but as my distrust of this administration continues to grow and grow, I can't help but wonder why this IRS information is being released right now? Cover to take our eyes off Benghazi? Obama could be in real trouble with the Benghazi cover-up and I can certainly see him and his administration trying to change subjects.

It probably is to take eyes off of Benghazi, possibly also to try to generate smoke for more gun-ban talks/legislation [the statists, this includes many Republicans, really want gun-control]. But here's the thing: the IRS's activities are an impeachable offense itself -- if we had a patriotic or morally secure congress with any brains they'd be snapping this up and pursuing it up trying to frighten them into implicating Obama to save their own skin, just like they'd already have been doing w/ Benghazi.

46 posted on 05/13/2013 6:45:14 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

If the president were white, and especially a conservative,

yeah, this would lead to impeachment.


47 posted on 05/13/2013 6:46:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bernstein’s the same old liberal partisan idiot he always was.


48 posted on 05/13/2013 6:50:25 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
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49 posted on 05/13/2013 6:51:47 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Committed leftists don’t see reality as normal people do.


50 posted on 05/13/2013 6:58:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Given Benstein’s lack of imagination, what would he think about how 0bama mismanaged Benghazi or is he completely ignorant of what went on there.?

Typical liberal can’t see the truth that 0bama was “seeking revenge” and he even said he would do it during the campaign in 2012. Bernstein will continue thinking that Nixon was the most evil President ever and that 0bama could do no wrong.


51 posted on 05/13/2013 7:02:15 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; crosslink; onyx; Liz; penelopesire; MestaMachine; LucyT
FLASHBACK:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/13/obama.commencement/

TEMPE, Arizona (CNN) — President Obama on Wednesday turned a flap over his commencement speech at Arizona State University into a joke — then a lesson about never being satisfied with one’s accomplishments.

The university said last month that it would not be awarding Obama an honorary degree at the ceremony, saying that “his body of work is yet to come.”

Saying he wanted to address “the little controversy everyone was talking about a few weeks back,” Obama said, “we all learned an important lesson.”

“I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket,” he said, referring to the school's basketball team. “It won't happen again.”

“President [Michael] Crow and the board of regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS,” he joked.

(snip)

52 posted on 05/13/2013 7:08:41 AM PDT by maggief
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; ...
The President is a front man. We have figured that out. But what it means is that his Presidency is an exercise in Passive/Aggression. That is, they NEED our criticism to thrive, because they have the resources to PROVE that nothing is their FAULT and to keep information from the voting public.

Solution? Ignore Obama. That's what his administration does. He is assigned to teleprompter reading and fund raising. He is NOT involved in policy. His office hours are scant and just for show. In fact, his keepers really prefer him to be out of town. They keep him busy with an appearance schedule, and distract him with golf and Reggie Love weekends. And God knows what else. Does this look and act like a normal human to you?

IMNVHO, what we need to do is completely ignore the SOB, just like his handlers, and accentuate a positive PROGRAM, and PLAN to implement it. Of course it goes without saying that we had better come up with a LEADER to to do this. Please Christ, before the elections of '14, which just might decide the fate of the Republic.

What the enemy is doing is burying us in Bullshiite, running the old GBP power sweep against us time after time to set us up for the long pass of The Social Revolution. We are tackling Obama. Why? He ain't got the ball, Jim.

53 posted on 05/13/2013 7:13:36 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ("Obama" The Movie. Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica." .)
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To: Democrat_media
Obama must be impeached for this

The list of impeachable offenses continues to grow at an exponential rate. Considering that they man was not eligible for the position in the first place should head up the list.

54 posted on 05/13/2013 7:15:10 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: Kenny Bunk

obama is, and has been, trying to serve two masters. When push comes to shove, he will stand with the muslims. His handlers are okay with that until and unless it begins to affect them adversely. So far, they have made a fortune off it.


55 posted on 05/13/2013 7:21:14 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’d love to see Carl cry when Barry has to resign.... Well, I can dream about it anyways.


56 posted on 05/13/2013 7:26:26 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: MestaMachine
Pearl, stop thinking about Obama. It is a waste of brain band-width.

He was put out front to distract us. Speaking of brain band-width, by now it must be obvious that he ain't got none ... which is one major reason they chose the fool as point man! Thank God there are some teenie signs that The Socialist Master Plan Hoax just might be starting to unravel. The way to complete that process is to do what they do, and that is completely ignore Obama.

Concentrate on Program ....Plan ... LEADER to implement it. Time's a wasting. The Election of '14 has to be our mantra.

Obama? Fuggedabout him, will ya. He's a symptom, not even smart enough to be a disease.

He's the decoy.
We do not have to be the ducks.

57 posted on 05/13/2013 7:31:08 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ("Obama" The Movie. Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica." .)
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To: immadashell
Beginning the impeachment process would be the ideal way to make sure that:
(a) We (who TF that might be)lose The Election of '14 and give the Democrat Party full power.
(b)Making The Front Man a Canonized Martyr of the Democrat Party, and
(c)Complete the process of wasting the House Majority, already well underway.

Ignore Obama.

He's the decoy.
We do not have to be the ducks.

58 posted on 05/13/2013 7:38:19 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ("Obama" The Movie. Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica." .)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wow. This is the guy who helped expose Watergate?
Yep. Pathetic.


59 posted on 05/13/2013 7:59:07 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Carl cannot tolerate the thought that there might ever be a scandal as big a the one he believes he OWNS.


60 posted on 05/13/2013 7:59:39 AM PDT by EDINVA
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