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Politico: None of These Obama Scandals Mean Anything
Tom Scocca
Yesterday 5:08pm
The Politico, America's worst news outlet, is all over the news that President Obama ordered IRS agents to murder Americans in Benghazi or whatever exactly is going on ...
But back to what matters: D.C turns on Obama (translation: This story itself is being written, in The Politico). Obama's dangerous new narrative (translation: The Politico is writing a story about the story being written by The Politico). Scandals could roil 2014 elections (translation: The Politico plans on continuing to write stories about this story The Politico is writing) ...
There is little doubt that Obama and Democrats would be making precisely this argument if the same set of controversies had descended on a Republican president.
There may actually be some doubt that Obama would be making precisely this argument under a Republican president, because under a Republican president, Obama would not be president ...
http://gawker.com/politico-none-of-these-obama-scandals-mean-anything-506849215