Lord SCOAMF and Screaming Friends
“CBS Reporter Says WH Screamed at Her Over Fast and Furious,” blogger JammieWearingFool notes, quoting from Sharyl Attkisson’s appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio show:
6:05 – Laura: So they were literally screaming at you?
Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”7:33 – Laura: Do we know the exact number [of guns] that went over to Mexico?
Attkisson: We know more than 2,000 in Fast and Furious and I will soon be reporting on the fact that that is not the only case. 2,000 for that operation according to the agents involved.8:28 – …Is it sort of a drip, drip. And I’m certainly not the one to make the case for DOJ and White House about what I’m doing wrong. They will tell you that I’m the only reporter–as they told me–that is not reasonable. They say the Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, the New York Times is reasonable, I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.
Yes, CBS, former home of Dan Rather and Katie Couric, is a bastion of Al Gore’s patented Right Wing Media Bias™. That’s the card to play, Obama-ites!
Even successful administrations usually start running on fumes during the last year or two of their second term, and begin to start screwing up on a regular basis. While no one knows what will happen next year, this administration has arrived at that level about five and a half years early — not exactly the best springboard for success next November.
Especially when this is coming down the pike:
House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, was sending a letter to President Obama on Tuesday arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself, and requesting the president instruct the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel.
At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey writes, “Now Obama has to decide whether to defy Congress and create a precedent for protecting appointees who willfully mislead Congress, or submit to a special prosecutor that could run wild on his administration. I’m going to guess that Obama will defy the House, but that may not last very long, especially with Darrell Issa probing Solyndra and other potential scandals”
As the last place network in news ratings, CBS has a vested interest in continuing to report the F&F story, if for no other reason than hopes of putting more Nielsen eyeballs in front of the set. But the other networks sans Fox have been actively trying to ignore the story, and with Ms. Attkisson now showing up on Laura Inghram’s show, expect the effort in some quarters to go from not just trying to ignore the story into irrelevance, but to start to try and discredit the sources of the CBS reports (and possibly the reporter herself).
Ms Attkisson has scared the bejesus out of the DOJ and the White House. You know she is getting close, when they start bringing out the big guns to plug the leaks. I wonder how long it will be, before CBS gets the word from the Administration that Attkisson must go? If she does go, Fox will pick her up in a heart beat and tell her to continue to investigate the F&F scandal
But as long as a scandal is on Fox, the WH considers itself safe. It’s when it starts bubbling into the 6:30 PM network news programs watched by low-information undecided voters that they get worried.
Kudos to Ms. Attkinsson. She has been dogged in pursuing this story. Unfortunately there might be repercussions. She seems committed to standing strong and doing good work.
The MSM learned the wrong lesson when Drudge broke the Lewinsky scandal — they thought “if only we could have kept it under wraps a little bit better . . .” It became too big for them to ignore, and then they went haywire.
Of course, Clinton was on his way out anyway, so they had little to lose in getting into the story (though they still covered as much as possible for him). In this instance, they are even more in the tank for Obama, plus they want nothing to do with being seen as somehow “against” Obama during an extremely difficult reelection campaign. So it will take a whole lot more than is on the table now for them to go all Lewinskygate on Obama.
In fact, I doubt that F&F plus Solyndra will ever get seriously MSM press time. What’s in it for the MSM? Ratings? Hey, these aren’t sex scandals, like Weinergate. It’ll stay a Fox story until the election is over, then it will be dropped like a rock even by Fox, regardless of who wins.
The way I hear it, Janeane Garofalo pointed out to Chris Matthews that CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson is a racist. A hating hateful and hate mongering racist. And Morgan Freeman agrees. She’s nothing more than a hate mongering racist Tea Bagger suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, with a touch of islamophobia. CBS should be punished for hiring such a blatantly racist hate filled hating hate mongering hatingest hater racist and islamophobe with Stockholm Syndrome by having CBS taken off the air by the FCC. Or maybe the Federal government can take over the network and rename it. Call it OPN: the Obama Progressive
Network. (slogan: “Where Hate is a Four Letter Word”). At the least, Ms. Attkinson should be fired for racism!
Hear!! Hear!!
As much as the MSM have their collective head up Obozo’s rear end; there is nothing that appeals to the media more that the opportunity to bring one of the great and powerful down. It’s just the way they are. Eventually the MSM may not be able to fight that particular compulsion off, any longer. “Dirty Laundry”. The chance to be the next Woodward and Bernstein might become overpowering.
Come on, be reasonable, Sharyl.
The screaming will continue until the bias improves.
Folks, you all have got to stop complaining about the “MSM” burying stories. They are finished; you have to look inside the numbers, just like in baseball or football. Even if the individual in Indiana on a farm who just gets the 3 nets, at this point has determined to discount what he or she hears, they are looking with a jaundiced eye toward their screens. I’ll say it again “Bill Safire” one of a handful of truly great journalists had it write as he walked away into history paraphrased The only thing we journalists have to see is credibility, if we lose that we have nothing to say and no one will listen.
The MSM did not learn that lesson. In fact they are so desperate that you can see their commercials promoting their programming on fox all the time. They are through in their current paradigm as a force. They don’t know it but they are through it does not matter. The MSM-net news as now constructed is over as a force, so too the Grey Lady. All they have are their media centers-the country has passed them by. Its not about fox or talk radio. I was death by a thousand cuts over the last decade.
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I wish I could agree with you — while the right has certainly helped to narrow the information gap, a lot of low-information voters still take their cue from ABCCBSNBC and CNN, which is why those networks work so hard at bottling up information that could negatively impact their candidate.
What started as a tingle, has now become a trickle. so sad. so very sad.
If The Won stiffs the House, appropriations bills are gonna be a problem for The Won.
I have been waiting for someone new at the suckiest network to finally smarten up. Fox, which can’t even get into so many households, is eating their lunch when they own the building, the counter, the Chef, and the food. Even the dumbest of all bunnies had to catch on.
I’ve been waiting for it ever since Jake Tapper came on the scene. I think he kind of gets it: I can just be “Bama’s buttboy and never get ahead, or I can pick just a bit of this low hanging fruit, and look the hero. Someone at CBS must have finally thought, “Well. We can’t go much lower, and we can’t outsmooch NBC. Let’s play “opposites”, and see what happens?
Add to that the age-old rivalry between those two networks, and a pinch of the feeling that Obama has become radioactive, and a tectonic shift could occur. Those undecided fools may not read PJ Media, but everybody at CBS probably does, except Andy Rooney. (Is he still alive?) If you worked at CBS, and all you had to do is go on the internet, and start reading PJM copy, and double your sub-basement level ratings, it must be somewhat tempting.
I ain’t holding my breath, just thinking out loud.