Obama Worse For Press Freedom Than Nixon: Goodale

There is that NiXON comparison again.

James Goodale, who represented the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, tells Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Sir Harold Evans that President Obama is fast becoming the worst president ever when it comes to defending freedom of the press.

Goodale is the author of “Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles.”

The Obama record:
** Worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
** Worst recovery in history
** Blew a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus
** Lost or losing two wars
** Four straight years of trillion dollar deficits
** Most Americans on food stamps
** Most Americans on disability
** Most Americans to leave workforce
And on, and on, and on.

Now this … Reuters headline:
Obama worse for press freedom than Nixon: Goodale

 

From the video: James Goodale, who represented the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, tells Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Sir Harold Evans that President Obama is fast becoming the worst president ever when it comes to defending freedom of the press.

New grads pay attention … The debt he has recklessly run up — It’s all yours.

IRS Asks Tea Party Organization to Detail It’s Prayers

QUESTIONS: “Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers.”

In the Obama era, the question isn’t whether you’re paranoid. It’s whether you’re paranoid enough.

 

Massachusett Democrats For Fast Tough Action … Perhaps they See A Problem Ahead

IRS SCANDALS HIT HARD EVEN IN BLUE MASSACHUSETTS: Democrats take  a hard line ….

Frantic Democrats want tough action in the ongoing IRS scandal, fearing the damage that a slow bleed could do to their own electoral futures as President Obama struggles to get out ahead of the issue.

U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden), running for U.S. Senate, quickly denounced the Internal Revenue Service’s 
actions earlier this week and upped the ante yesterday as the scandal spread, saying, “Whoever did this should be found and fired.”

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester), one of Massachusetts’ more liberal House members, told the Herald his party in Congress is afraid of the ramifications of the scandals, now collectively known as Obamagate — a threefer encompassing the IRS harassment of conservative groups, the Justice Department’s seizure of Associated Press phone records, and the handling of the Benghazi attacks.

“They do worry about what their constituents think about them and how they respond to these issues,” McGovern said yesterday, adding with regard to the IRS scandal that “anybody connected to this ought to be fired.”

Acting IRS chief Steve Miller resigned Wednesday, but a number of those who oversaw and executed allegedly politically biased policy in the tax-exemption unit remain at the IRS. Democrats demanding action include U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who called for an “audit” of the IRS, which U.S. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) supports, her spokeswoman said.

 

The Economy

TWEET OF THE DAY: “These scandals are so bad that for the first time Obama wants to talk about the economy.”

 

The Dead Get Pinocchios — Cute Way Of Saying Obama Lied

Benghazi Revisited:

In a column published on Sept. 18, 2012, I argued that verified tactical military details of the engagement, the iconic date itself, and subsequent, very explicit statements by Libyan government authorities, left no doubt that on 9-11-2012 the U.S. consulate in Benghazi suffered a planned attack by an organized anti-American militant Islamist militia. A terrorist force had hit us with another 9-11 terror attack, and Americans had died, among them our ambassador to Libya.

Given the facts, the Obama administration’s bizarre claim that a sacrilegious Internet video had inflamed peaceful Libyan demonstrators — and in an outburst spurred by overwhelming theological pain, this moody crowd murdered our unfortunate ambassador — just didn’t wash. . . . As for passing major media smell tests before the 2012 presidential election? Of course the blarney passed ‘em! But eight months after the attack and six months after the election, even President Barack Obama’s chief media enablers have begun to acknowledge the video-did-it propaganda tizzy the administration orchestrated was stench itself.

And orchestrated propaganda it was, with the video-did-it narrative hedged by presidential statements calculated to slyly finesse terrorist complicity in the attack.

Glenn Kessler, who writes the Washington Post’s fact-checker column, now informs his readers that the president’s claim he called the Benghazi attack an “attack of terrorism” rates four Pinocchios. That’s Kessler’s cute way of calling our president a complete and thorough liar. . . .

The video whopper and the slippery presidential phraseology were coordinated spin — the video to fool the rubes pre-election, the slick rhetoric to fool them now.

Read the whole thing. And note: “On Sept. 16, Libya’s interim president, Mohammed el-Megari, announced that he had no doubts the militia’s leaders had predetermined the date of the attack. That same day U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five television shows and repeatedly blamed the video.” Scapegoated filmmaker Nakoula is still in jail.

 

Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says

You have to either be stoned or dead to not think Obama knew what his government was doing to the Tea Party.

From The New York Times…

The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of politically active organizations seeking tax exemptions, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.

 

Some Headlines You May Have Missed

IRS stalled conservative groups, but gave speedy approval to Obama foundation…
Agency used ‘planted’ question to reveal scandal…
‘Absolutely Not Illegal’…
‘IS THIS STILL AMERICA?’
Charlie Rangel outraged: ‘Wrong to Abuse the Tax System’…
Franken urged IRS to target tea party in 2012 …
Did bias extend to targeting conservative companies?

IN CHARGE DURING ‘TEA PARTY’ TARGETING, NOW RUNS IRS OBAMACARE OFFICE…

But don’t worry, the IRS won’t check voter roles with Obamacare …. Just because the woman who did that with the Tea Party tax exempts is now running the IRS Obamacare outfit.

You want it repealed yet???

Washington vs the people.

Gun Control Fizzle

POLL: Only 33% want Congress to take up gun control again.

 

IRS Head On Targeting Tea IRS Head On Targeting Tea Party: ‘It Is Absolutely Not Illegal’

See what did I tell you. Big Government types think knowing to see here, nobody did anything wrong.

So we blocked the TEa Party from getting what was rightfully their right to have. In the rule book… But nobody did anything illegal.

So we cut off your fundraising ability. TOUGH… The Government is after you. They will only find new ways to accomplishing the same thing. Eliminate the opposition, it’s been the Obama way since he began his political career.

This is your warning …

The outgoing leader of the Internal Revenue Service drew audible “wows” from Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday for saying he doesn’t think what the agency did to tea party groups was illegal.

“It is absolutely not illegal,” Steve Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS who resigned this week because of the scandal, said while being questioned by Georgia Rep. Tom Price.

A number of legislators let out bursts of “wow” at his answer.

Here’s their exchange:

Price: Is it illegal what they’ve done?

Miller: It is absolutely not illegal.

Price: It is not illegal what the IRS has done?

Miller: So let me understand the question. What is your statement as to what is illegal?

Price: Do you believe that it is illegal for employees of the IRS to create lists, to target individual groups and citizens in this country?

Miller: I think the [Department of] Treasury inspector general indicated it might not be, but others will be able to tell that.

Price: What do you believe?

Miller: I don’t believe it is. I don’t believe it should happen.

Price: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Miller: Please don’t get me wrong. It should not happen.

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This is Constitutionally protected Free Speech at it’s roots.

 

 

 

Rubio: Obama ‘Doesn’t Have Clean Hands in This’

Rubio on IRS Scandal … Culture of INTIMIDATION.

From Fox News Insider: “We’re not talking about a mistake, we’re talking about a deliberate abuse of power,” Rubio said. He continued, “The president doesn’t have clean hands in this because, as I said yesterday on the floor of the Senate … this administration has created a culture of intimidation.”