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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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1 posted on 05/13/2013 5:57:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Pathetic: Carl Bernstein says he’d be “very surprised” and “can’t imagine” that Obama is involved in IRS scandal. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/13/2013 5:58:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These old Lefties cringe when they hear “Obama” and “Nixon” being used in the same context. Good.


3 posted on 05/13/2013 5:58:28 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He has soiled his depends a long time ago. I no longer have any respect at all for him.

Woodward still has *some* street cred, although not nearly as much as he once had.


4 posted on 05/13/2013 5:58:55 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The actigity of the IRS constitutes a clear “Hate Crime” This is a violation of the Civil Rights Act.

A special prosecutor needs to be appointed.


5 posted on 05/13/2013 5:59:57 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama must be impeached for this , using the IRS like a gestapo which it is of course as government is evil and doesn’t work.

Also targeting conservative groups invalidate the U.S. presidential election of 2012.

Obama and Obama’s IRS targeted conservative groups during the election to rig the results of the election.


6 posted on 05/13/2013 6:00:03 AM PDT by Democrat_media (D's & Mary Landrieu voted 4 UN to take away our 2nd amendment rights)
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To: txrefugee
These old Lefties cringe when they hear “Obama” and “Nixon” being used in the same context. Good.

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The IRS thuggery has Jarrett and Obama written all over it.

7 posted on 05/13/2013 6:00:33 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

8 posted on 05/13/2013 6:00:55 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not very imaginative, is he?

But then again, he is a liberal.


9 posted on 05/13/2013 6:01:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nooooo....

0bama would NEVER use the power of government to target his political enemies! Absurd! He’s a “liberal” and a good person, just like me, his supporter!


10 posted on 05/13/2013 6:01:29 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

Pathetic old POS. Bob Woodward doesn’t fear seeking out the truth, even when castigated for it. I guess Bernstein would rather keep the invites to the cocktail parties.


11 posted on 05/13/2013 6:02:31 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
A Community Organizer doing something sleazy?

That never happens.

12 posted on 05/13/2013 6:03:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Impeachment in the United States is an expressed power of the legislature that allows for formal charges against a civil officer of government for crimes committed in office. The actual trial on those charges, and subsequent removal of an official on conviction on those charges, is separate from the act of impeachment itself.

Impeachment is analogous to indictment in regular court proceedings, while trial by the other house is analogous to the trial before judge and jury in regular courts.

Typically, the lower house of the legislature will impeach the official and the upper house will conduct the trial.

At the federal level, Article II of the United States Constitution (Section 4) states that “The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching, while the United States Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. The removal of impeached officials is automatic upon conviction in the Senate. In Nixon v. United States (1993), the Supreme Court determined that the federal judiciary cannot review such proceedings.

Impeachment can also occur at the state level; state legislatures can impeach state officials, including governors, according to their respective state constitutions.

At the Philadelphia Convention, Benjamin Franklin noted that, historically, the removal of “obnoxious” chief executives had been accomplished by assassination. Franklin suggested that a proceduralized mechanism for removal — impeachment — would be preferable.


13 posted on 05/13/2013 6:04:24 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Carl, i can’t believe you’re still alive... yet there you are. What is it with you stupid old white liberals, you think the whole world heals when you give power to the “downtrodden”. No my blubbery lipped friend, they get revenge... you are at the end of your life, so what does it matter to you... for the rest of us who has to live with being enslaved to Obamacare and the IRS mandate to oversee it... people like you make the rest of us spitting mad you old coot.


14 posted on 05/13/2013 6:04:48 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: txrefugee
These old Lefties cringe when they hear “Obama” and “Nixon” being used in the same context. Good.

So do I. Nixon had his faults but he was a patriot and fought to defend this country. Nixon's faults pale to complete insignificance when compared to obama's crimes against this country!

15 posted on 05/13/2013 6:04:58 AM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

With any other journalist, I would say these comments result from him being a good liberal who sees no evil, even when its blindingly obvious, in a Dem administration. But when it comes to Carl, his enormous ego outstrips even his liberal zealotry and so I’d say his comments have more to do with protecting his legacy of having Watergate be the only true presidential scandal rather than his knee-jerk liberal reaction to protect the president.


16 posted on 05/13/2013 6:05:28 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That’s enough for one day Carl. Now finish your soup and get back into bed.


17 posted on 05/13/2013 6:06:03 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What phony baloney job does HIS brother have in the Administration?


18 posted on 05/13/2013 6:06:28 AM PDT by DManA
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Of course Zer0 can't be involved in the IRS scandal. That would imply he actually does something in the public housing at 1600 PA AVE besides plan vacations, hold concerts and parties and shoot hoops with Reggie Love.

What a pathetic excuse for a human being this man is.

BTW has anyone besides The Blaze and Mark Levin been covering the helicopter crash where the members of seal team 6 were killed?

19 posted on 05/13/2013 6:08:19 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He was never an “investigative reporter”. He was Mark Felt’s stenographer.


20 posted on 05/13/2013 6:08:19 AM PDT by DManA
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