Well, I hope Dan Rather and Chris Mathews are happy -- and Brian Williams and espeically Candy Crowley, who continues to labor at whitewashing White House activities. (Hey, Candy, have you checked? Your phones may be tapped. Or maybe you know they are, and that explains you.) They and many of their cohorts in the national media -- Fox News excluded -- have shown themselves so blindly supportive of this disastrous federal administration that the Whiute House has become completely unfettered in its efforts to control the news and apparently any information related to government activity.
Apart from appropriating the telephone records of apparently a couple hundred AP journalists and editors, the White House -- or the Comrade's henchman, Eric Hold'em at the Dept. of Social Justice -- also "investigated" James Rosen, Fox's chief reporter in Washington. They even "investigated" his parents' telephone records. And it seems that the subpoena they got for this should have assumed some kind of genuinely criminal behavior on Rosen's part -- completely unfounded on anything, and he was never charged with anything.
But wait!! When you illegally "investigate" Rosen, why not double your pleasure and take it to the to the next level? Why stop at one shady subpoena, when DOSJ also "investigated" phone lines throughout the Fox News organization -- all the way up to Roger Ailes.
Similarly, Susan Atkisson, a CBS (I think) news reporter who also criticized the White House -- or actually developed news stories to reveal the truth of its activities -- had her emails or something monitored and scrutinized by the DOSJ.
Puts me in mind of Hugo Chavez, the totalitarian dictator in Venezuela who recently died of cancer -- that his poeple claimed was given to him by the US ambassador there. (These so-caled progressive clowns, wherever in the world they are, believe anything.) When a news outlet in Venezuela protested Chavez's illegal and dictatorial practices there -- his election corruption, terrorizing the Venezuelan legislature, et. al. -- Chavez shut down newspapers that criticized him, along with a TV channel that didn't like his tactics.
For the Comrade, it seems Chavez's actions in Venezuela proved to be a "teachable moment."
Then on the IRS Scandal front, Lois Lerner, who headed up one or another division of the IRS, was summoned to speak at a congressional invesigative hearing today and pleaded the Fifth Amendment. That is, "I refuse to answer the question on grounds that it may inciminate me."
For the last several years, the IRS has been harrassing Tea Parties and other conservative activist organizations who applied for tax exemptions. And in at least one case, they even got OSHA and the ATF to "investigate" one small group that applied -- the group wanted to educate people on the importance of voting. OMG!!! How subversive can you get? Next they'll be driving people to the polls!!! Can America withstand such a violent onslaught?
Lerner was the IRS blockhead who knew the Inspector General's report on the IRS's illegal activities was about to be published, so at a news conference of some kind, she actually planted someone in the audience to ask her about the IRS targeting Tea Parties. She confessed to it and said, gee golly, so sorry about that. Like no one would notice, and certainly the public would forgive such a cute little transgresion -- of the US Constitution and everything this country stands for.
Yeah, Lois, no harm done! Glad to hear you're sorry! We understand. So hard to keep your filthy, lying face out of other's peoples' business. We all have these irresistible impulses to seize dictatorial powers. No harm done, except to 300 million US citizens -- and since they aren't the people in the White House, who really gives a damn?
And interesting for her to stand on the Fifth. That's another kind of confession, isn't it? Her answers may incriminate her? Well, she's a lawyer -- she said she was a lawyer, that's why she isn't good at math -- so she's probably painfully aware of the fact that she probably deserves 10 to 15 at Leavenworth. And hopefully, she'll eventually get it. She'll be abe to wave to Eric Hold'em across the prison yard.
Meanwhile, poor, pathetic Jay Carneybarker, who was actually at one tiume a professional journalist, is spinning so hard at the daily press briefings that he looks like Odette from Swan Lake.
That's it for now. And that's plenty.
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