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Post by avordvet on Feb 11, 2017 6:45:57 GMT -5
Blue State Blues: The Media Suddenly Discover Presidential Ethicsby Joel B. Pollak, 9 Feb 2017 It is gratifying to watch the media suddenly discover such concepts as the independence of the judiciary, conflicts of interest, and press freedom. For the eight years of President Barack Obama’s tenure, the media treated conservatives who raised those concerns as racists, or cranks, or both. Now — as predicted — checks-and-balances are suddenly en vogue. The media pounce on every Tweet — every joke — as an sign of the imminent, lawless tyranny that President Donald Trump will foist upon us all. Not so fast. And not without an apology first — from all of you, from every single journalist who covered up Obama’s abuses, from every so-called “good government” champion who looked the other way, from every pundit that pooh-poohed the IRS scandal or excused Hillary’s email server or said nothing when “stimulus” cash went to Obama’s cronies and political allies. I’m talking about people like Norm Eisen, who left Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to become Obama’s ethics czar. There, he opened White House visitor logs to the public — a new policy that Obama relied upon, for years, to claim that his was the most transparent administration in history. www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/09/ethics-blue-state-blues-mainstream-media/
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