New York Times Editorial, "Scandal Machine": It's All a Republican Conspiracy

Those blockheads from the editorial board of The New York Times are back with yet another inane defense of the One, entitled "Scandal Machine" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/opinion/the-republicans-scandal-machine.html?ref=opinion&_r=0), in which they blame the Republican Party for all three scandals currently plaguing the Obama administration. These hyper-partisan buffoons write:

"The Internal Revenue Service, according to an inspector general’s report, was not reacting to political pressure or ideology when it singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny in evaluating requests for tax exemptions. It acted inappropriately because employees couldn’t understand inadequate guidelines. The tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, never a scandal to begin with, has devolved into a turf-protection spat between government agencies, and the e-mail messages Republicans long demanded made clear that there was no White House cover-up.

The only example of true government overreach was the seizure of The Associated Press’s telephone records, the latest episode in the Obama administration’s Javert-like obsession with leakers in its midst.

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There are no 'things like this,' beyond a coincidence of bad timing. But they do have one thing in common: when bound together and loudly denounced on cable television and in hearings, they serve to obscure the real damage that Republicans continue to do to the economy and the workings of government."

The IRS targeted conservatives owing to "inadequate guidelines"? The IRS needs detailed guidelines to prevent it from engaging in politics? Heck, The New York Times has a comprehensive set of guidelines for ethical journalism, but they are completely ignored by its senior editors (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/sodom-and-gomorrah-plagiarism-and.html). Sorry, boys and girls, but we're not all on drugs.

Benghazi was never a scandal? I suppose the 12 drafts of the talking points were intended to provide Americans with a more accurate description of what happened in Libya. The editorial board of The Times also seems to forget that scathing op-ed  written by Maureen Dowd, a Republican among Republicans, denouncing the Obama administration for its Benghazi perfidy (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/maureen-dowd-when-myths-collide-in.html).

Thank goodness, The Times is willing to acknowledge that there was government overreach involving the AP fiasco.

These scandals were all just a "coincidence of bad timing"? Sorry, but the scandals were more than a coincidence, and derived from a combination of no leadership at the top, overzealousness of sycophantic idolaters, and a devotion to "spin" rather than to truth.