In the Obama administration, it's not uncommon for a White House press official to scream profanely over the phone at journalists whose stories they dislike, plant questions from friendly media outlets, and deny access to briefings to reporters who ask tough questions.

yah, I'll never click RCP. Or Brietbart, newsbuster, the blaze, NRO, and a handfull of other right wing propaganda sites. Go ahead and whine that i'm so "closed minded", or don't listen to alternative points of view. And fark you if you don't like it.

First term -- play the strong, crazy neocon (teabagger, in Obama's case) card to try to distance yourself from Bush. Second term, play that down a bit to make yourself look a bit more sane and rational, and concentrate on throwing scandals at him until something sticks so you can resume raping the country's assets in the next term.

KyngNothing:KyngNothing: Republicans and 'conservative media' spend all weekend comparing Obama to Nixon.On Monday, they google "Obama Nixon" and spend all week righting articles about how "people" are making the comparison.

And in the end, we're no closer to finding out what really happened, or why it's a scandal.

In the ObamaANY administration, it's not uncommon for a White House press official to scream profanely over the phone at journalists whose stories they dislike, plant questions from friendly media outlets,

IF what this shiatty reporter at a shiatty blog is saying is true about the Obama administration, I wish shiatty reporters from these shiatty blogs would STOP acting like the Bush White House and, oh, EVERY WHITE HOUSE PRIOR engaged in this kind of thing.

AdolfOliverPanties:In the Obama ANY administration, it's not uncommon for a White House press official to scream profanely over the phone at journalists whose stories they dislike, plant questions from friendly media outlets,

IF what this shiatty reporter at a shiatty blog is saying is true about the Obama administration, I wish shiatty reporters from these shiatty blogs would STOP acting like the Bush White House and, oh, EVERY WHITE HOUSE PRIOR didn't engage in this kind of thing.

Yes, because Arugula should is actually called "rocket" and Israel was trying to prevent Syria from transporting rockets to Hamas. But Barack likes "rocket" and therefore hates Israel, so he should be impeached.

Let me get this straight. In order to point out how bad these "scandals" are, Republicans can only compare Obama to Republicans. And they can only compare the current "scandals" to Republicans scandals.

Wow, the Dems must be better people than I thought. No wonder Obama's approval ratings went up.

Jackson Herring:No evidence has been unearthed connecting Obama, or anyone under his direction, to illicit activities. But the absence of criminality isn't the only test here. Nixon's "enemies," at least in his mind, also included vast swaths of the Fourth Estate. That apparently is how the current president operates, too.

Wow what a piece of shiat

It's almost as if "innocent until proven guilty" isn't a thing anymore.

I dated a girl in college who was surprisingly assisted with a paper by Bob Woodward himself (over the phone, which I listened to). It was sometime in the 90s. No matter what you may think of Woodward's fairly recent abandonment of sanity, he was an actual journalist uncovering a very serious problem that brought down the leader of the "free world."

The folks squawking right now? They suck. Some of them appear to be grasping at straws for ideological reasons. I say that not as a partisan but as someone who appreciates actual investigative journalism. Articles this year/week/day seem more full of innuendo than fact. And it's beginning to piss me off. "What, if anything, did the president know" is not a news article. It's cheap pandering, and also more evidence (not that we haven't given you enough) of the "liberal media" canard.

If the Brietbarts and "liberal media" provide me with stone-cold evidence of impropriety at the executive level, I will be the first in line to throw a rock at my president. Until then, stop making mountains of molehills for the sake of drama.

heinekenftw:Jackson Herring: No evidence has been unearthed connecting Obama, or anyone under his direction, to illicit activities. But the absence of criminality isn't the only test here. Nixon's "enemies," at least in his mind, also included vast swaths of the Fourth Estate. That apparently is how the current president operates, too.

Wow what a piece of shiat

It's almost as if "innocent until proven guilty" isn't a thing anymore.

That's not even innocent until proven guilty. It's more presumed guilty, absence of evidence confirms guilt.

dickfreckle:I dated a girl in college who was surprisingly assisted with a paper by Bob Woodward himself (over the phone, which I listened to). It was sometime in the 90s. No matter what you may think of Woodward's fairly recent abandonment of sanity, he was an actual journalist uncovering a very serious problem that brought down the leader of the "free world."

The folks squawking right now? They suck. Some of them appear to be grasping at straws for ideological reasons. I say that not as a partisan but as someone who appreciates actual investigative journalism. Articles this year/week/day seem more full of innuendo than fact. And it's beginning to piss me off. "What, if anything, did the president know" is not a news article. It's cheap pandering, and also more evidence (not that we haven't given you enough) of the "liberal media" canard.

If the Brietbarts and "liberal media" provide me with stone-cold evidence of impropriety at the executive level, I will be the first in line to throw a rock at my president. Until then, stop making mountains of molehills for the sake of drama.

I don't think you're following. You really need to be upset about this, so you can give Fox News more ratings, and maybe vote Republican in the mid-terms.