The AP Can't Complain Because Obama's Hubris Was Suckled at the Teat of the Mainstream Media
By Jeff Dunetz
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Six months into his second administration Barack
Obama's Presidency has become overrun with scandal.
The events of the past seven days; the Benghazi
hearings, the news about twelve revisions of the
Benghazi talking points, the IRS scandal and
yesterday's Justice Dept. attack on freedom of the
Press via the AP phone records, is a lot of
“distractions” during course of a four-year-term,
however this is only one week. Presidents tend to
have problems their second term--but Obama's second
term problems seemed jacked up on steroids.
The Obama administration may be buckling under the
weight of its own hubris, but they had help. Obama’s
hubris suckled at the teat of the mainstream media.
In Benghazi, the administration told a tale of
events which suited their own purposes--reelection.
And just to make their story look good they ran
advertising in the Muslim world apologizing for a
YouTube video we now know had nothing to do with the
attack. They also threw the video's creator in jail,
where he still sits t as a political prisoner of an
administration who does not believe in the First
Amendment. The cover-up of Benghazi was undertaken
because the administration believed they could get
away with it--they had always gotten away with it
before.
When criticism of the Administration's story line
began to arise, those critics were told to back off,
the President said they should back off here was
nothing to see it’s all a political ploy. The
mainstream media refused to look into the charges
because Obama said it wasn’t so- for eight months
they backed him up.
It didn't start with Benghazi; it began at the very
beginning of his administration. Eric Holder dropped
the charges against the New Black Panthers because
his department felt that only Caucasians could
commit voter intimidation, whistle blowers came out
to say this justice department treated whites
different than blacks. The media saw it as a
non-story and Obama’s belief that he could get away
with anything grew.
When other scandals began to break, Solyndra, Fast
and Furious; when the $800 trillion dollar stimulus
was spent on useless pork, when the Obama
Administration told lies about Obamacare, when the
President made recess appointments even though the
Senate was in session, when he sent our heroes to
Libya without congressional approval or an exit
plan--- every situation where a free press would
investigate a government the press neglected its
duty and instead echoed the "move on, nothing to see
here" coming out of the White House. And Obama’s
hubris grew.
When Mitt Romney who, whether you agree with his
politics or not, is a decent man, was attacked
personally with lies from Obama's campaign; that he
hated women, he wanted people to drink dirty water,
that he didn't pay taxes, or he caused the cancer
death of a steelworkers wife, the press gave them a
free ride. And still Obama’s hubris grew.
When grass roots Americans rose up to complain about
the attack on personal freedoms and excessive
government spending, the press joined with the
administration ridiculing the people and their
attacks on those Americans as racists. Obama knew
the press would protect him.
Something seemed to change last Wednesday when a
20+-year civil servant (and a life-long Democrat)
testified before the Issa committee telling the
country the truth about Benghazi, what it felt like
to live through that horror. He told a story much
different than the "official" media/administration
tale that he was ordered to stay silent even to a
member of Congress. He told us how he tried to
correct the Administration's lies and for that was
demoted, ridiculed, and had any real authority taken
away from him. The Administration still tries to
tell us to move on, but this time it isn’t working.
On Friday we learned the IRS had been targeting this
President's political opponents. Though his
opponents have made these charges on and off for the
past three years, the press had ridiculed those who
had been wronged---conspiracy theorists they were
called. But this time instead of feeding this
President's hubris, they investigated and found that
even Friday's story was a lie, it wasn't junior
people in Cincinnati but a scandal that reached
senior people in the IRS (and maybe higher).
Yesterday's story of the Justice Department secretly
obtaining the phone records of the Associated Press
was poetic justice. There was nothing illegal about
it because the DOJ obtained a warrant from a Judge
but it was a frightening attack on the first
amendment right of freedom of speech; just as the
Obamacare regulations about mandatory insurance for
birth control and "day after pills", etc., were an
attack on the first amendment right of freedom of
religion. Why did the DOJ attack the freedom of the
Press? Because they could! After all throughout all
of the other scandals, throughout the attacks on our
constitution, the press fed this administration’s
hubris by ignoring the wrong, the scandal, the abuse
of power.
But this time the Obama administration attacked a
major press organization. Immediately the National
Press Club complained about this affront to freedom
of the press. The liberal media is complaining about
this overreach of power.
In truth they have no right to. They created this
“monster” whose hubris taught him he could get away
with anything. Every single time they had an
opportunity to explore Obama's actions, they shied
away, thus feeding his sense of invulnerability. Why
are they surprised when, like the monster created by
Victor Frankenstein, their creation which lives on
arrogance and entitlement-- attacks its creator the
mainstream media.
Will the media’s desire for self-preservation force
it to execute its responsibilities and thus seek the
truth? Or after a few days of whining will it once
again allow this President to build his arrogance,
his hubris on the teat of the mainstream media?
Only time will tell.
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