A Way Too Common Headline: 'Obama Unaware' of Everything Scandalous

NewsBusters ^ | 10-28-2013 | Tim Graham

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October 28, 2013 A Way Too Common Headline: 'Obama Unaware' of Everything Scandalous

Tim Graham

When President Bush didn’t know about something scandalous going on in his administration, starting with Iraq, reporters mocked him for a lack of curiosity and intelligence. (See Scarborough, Joe.) But when intelligent liberals (oops, for the media this is redundant) are in charge at the White House, being unaware is a shield against scandals. The clueless president gets to walk in and say “Nobody’s madder than me about” (fill in the blank: Healthcare.gov, IRS scandal, NSA scandal....)

Liberal Washington Post editor and Obama biographer David Maraniss claimed Obama was even relatively unaware of racial issues until high school: “Like Obama, she was relatively unaware of racial issues until she got to prep school.” On Monday, James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal came up with a nifty list of headlines making excuses for Allegedly Unaware Obama:

• "Obama 'Unaware on Investments"--headline, Albany (Ga.) Herald, March 8, 2007
• "Obama 'Unaware of Illegal Aunt' "--headline, BBC website, Nov. 1, 2008
• "Obama Unaware of Tea Party Protests"--headline, Examiner.com, April 15, 2009
• "Obama Unaware of Backroom Deal, White House Says"--headline, Dallas Morning News website, June 4, 2010
• "Blago Judge: Obama Unaware of Seat Exchange Bid"--headline, Associated Press, May 16, 2011
• "Sebelius: Obama Unaware of ACA Website Glitches Before Launch"--headline, CaliforniaHealthline.org, Oct. 23, 2013
• "Obama Reportedly Unaware NSA Spied on 35 World Leaders"--headline, ABCNews.com, Oct. 28

Taranto's headline was "The Buck Stops Ware?" Obama never wants to take any responsibility for Obama scandals. "Who, me? I was unaware. Nobody's madder than me...."

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FUTURE HEADLINE TODAY!!!

Unnamed Administration Officials Claim Obama Is Unaware That He Is President

[Paladin2]

Unexpected and unprecedented.

[ogen hal]

What me worry?

[Hoodat]

Yet when it comes to bin Laden, Obama was leading the raid himself.

[kempster]

What taxes? I was unaware that I had to pay them. None of my advisors ever mentioned them to me.

[Ray76]

Where was he 9/11/2012? Smoking a bone with Reggie Love?

[Vince Ferrer]

People laughed and made jokes about Reagan's Alzheimer’s disease. Perhaps Obama is medically unfit to be president.

[sickoflibs]

He heard about it on AF1 coming back from golfing.

He had no idea this was going on...

No one tells him anything....

He is frustrated as anyone with the situation...

He has compete faith in his appointees.

Says he fixed it, time to move on to immigration.

[MeshugeMikey]

obamas secret weapon now revealed

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Gene Eric]

Don’t tarnish the varnish.

[tumblindice]

Obama is only aware of legal, successful things attempted at his direction, so yes—there is a very great deal that goes on he makes a point of having no knowledge of.
At all.
Another way of putting it, he is only engaged in hopeful matters that bring welcome change, like lowering the Earth’s temperature and oceans levels. He does these things all the time and everyone takes them for granted.
For shame.

[bigbob]

Remember how the left made the meme “Bush Lied, People Died” stick?

We need to come up with the same kind of thing for Obama.

Maybe something like: “Hell No, Barry didn’t know”

[When do we get liberated?]

Yet, still historic...

[Dysart]

Today’s lesson is we now know unquestionably that The Wan we’ve been waiting for is either dangerous incompotent or dishonest to his core.

[Paladin2]

Hopium and Choom.

[Paladin2]

Bammy lies, Liberty dies.

[Ronin]

And yet there are still those who love this hamster and proclaim him the Messiah...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

The OBama Legacy :" a Post-coital Zzzzzzs .. !!"
That's because we're all f**Ked !!

[bunkerhill7]

A Way Too Common Headline: ‘Obama`s Underwear Everything Scandalous