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Media Malfeasance and the Obama Scandals

A “free press” is the third right guaranteed by Article I of The Bill of Rights. Our Forefathers recognized the necessity of a “free press” because of the need of a truthful reporting of news and the need for investigation of malfeasance at all levels. However with that right, there is a responsibility. Our major, or ‘Mainstream Media, have failed miserably for the last five years and are now paying the price. Associated Press found that Obama’s Dept. of Justice was tapping the phones of dozens, perhaps hundred of their reporters. After five years of glorifying Obama, suppressing any criticism or negative stories, and attacking anyone that did criticize or even question his decisions, Team Obama turned on them. The “Rosengate” scandal was not a surprise, the Obamunists had attacked Fox News consistently and often because they were the only major news outlet offering any news stories that were questioning or even less than fawning to Obama and his policies, or questioned those policies that failed, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars or were further damaging the economy and job creation. But the illegal investigations of loyal ‘Lap-dogs’, finally scared them awake.

I say it is their fault that the Obama Administration has “run off the rails”. After his first inauguration, Obama ordered/allowed AG Eric Holder to quash the case against The New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia. The MSM said nothing. (Can you imagine the response if the TEA Party did that, supporting a Republican??). Holder went on the TV news saying he wasn’t wasting time prosecuting “our people”. Who are “their people”: Obama supporters? Blacks in general? Racist NBPP violent thugs? This set the stage. What about the Czars, radicals all, and their big salaries? Then followed the “Stimulus”, about $800 billion spent on “job creation and building the economy” that went to massive failures like Solyndra and Fisker ‘Green Energy scams’, and grants all over that included dozens of other failures that somehow always enriched Obama supporters, rich Democrat ‘bundlers’. The political shenanigans used to push through ObamaCare would have caused a huge uproar if pulled by Republicans, but this huge, unworkable medical scam was applauded by the MSM. They even applauded the insanity of Nancy Pelosi’s, “We must pass the bill to see what is in it!” (What if Ted Cruz said something like that?)

I believe that the MSM’s fawning praise of Obama and their culpable neglect of investigating the growing misfeasance and malfeasance in the Obama Administration was a leading cause in “Fast & Furious”. Obama, Holder, and Hillary Clinton tried that infamous gun-smuggling scam to the Mexican Drug cartels because they thought the media would cover-up for them and whip up anti-gun sentiment in the voters. Some were murdered in the US and hundreds were killed in Mexico because of this criminal piece of Political Theater. All to violate the Second Amendment. There is an on-going investigation, but the MSM still supports the ‘stone-walling’ by Team Obama. (If Republicans did this they would be screaming for murder trials! -in states with the death penalty.)

Benghazi took the spotlight off of the Fast & Furious investigation, but led to a number of new scandals, all down-played by the Lap-dogs. Why didn’t Obama at least stay awake; who made the decision not to send re-enforcements or aircraft that could stop the attack; why was the security so minimal in a dangerous area (To avoid attention to secret meeting.); and why did they lie about the attack being a riot, not a terrorist attack? We now know that they had real-time video from drones, Ambassador Stevens was there for a meeting with a Turkish General to facilitate the smuggling of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian Rebels (While Obama was telling the American people that no military aid was going to Syria.), and now we have al Qaeda leaders saying Stevens was killed in a kidnap attempt, and we knew the heavy weapons were not used until after Stevens was captured. Any proper response would have saved the SEALS. Why were commanders that acted appropriately to the tactical situation removed? This will NOT go away.

The New Scandals coming out are really old neglected scandals. IRS refusal of tax-exempt status to Tea Party and other patriot groups, IRS audits on Obama’s ‘enemies’, EPA, FBI, and BATF investigations on ‘enemies’, all these and more are old news. NSA has just gotten bigger and with computers – Garbage in, Garbage out, – ‘militia’ is an instant ‘buzz-word’, but ‘jihad’ is not. Mosques are exempt from FBI surveillance. (?? Think about it). The Media is finally seeing ‘their ox is gored’. That is why the stories are starting to come out and be investigated, but still not very diligently or thoroughly .

If the Media had properly reported and castigated Obama and Holder for not prosecuting The New Black Panthers for their voter intimidation in the 2008 election, “Fast & Furious” would probably not have happened, or any of these other scandals. The Obamunists have used the Media malfeasance as a “permission” or “license” for greater and greater evil; every year it gets worse. The Media have supported the criminality of Team Obama from the beginning, many, if not most, knowingly. They are “accessories before the fact” to every criminal act. They knew he was an ineligible criminal engaged in a criminal fraud before he was elected. The thefts, intimidation, and deaths that followed were a result in their willful participation in that conspiracy.

And they don’t dare touch on the fact that many of these scandals involve some violation of the Constitution that he swore to uphold and others involve his refusal to enforce the law as Chief Executive. Voter intimidation, vote fraud, DOMA, immigration law, bribes, fraudulent loans and grants, illegal wire-tapping, not to mention all the unlawful Regulations and actions of some agencies. And it will get worse until the Media starts to recognize their responsibility is to the American People, not Barack Hussein Obama.

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