"... one of O’Reilly’s producers asked people on the street in Manhattan about Benghazi. Many didn’t know what it was. He then asked a young man to name the vice president of the United States. He couldn’t do it. The young man, it should be noted, is a college student – and not a student at any old college. He’s a student at Cal-Berkeley, one of the top schools in the country.This is what Barack Obama has going for him: detached Americans who don’t know much about what’s going on in the country."
Does the IRS Scandal go to the White House?
May 19, 2013 By Bernard Goldberg
Not long ago on his radio show Mike Huckabee said Benghazi would bring down President Obama.
“When a president lies to the American people and is part of a cover-up, he cannot continue to govern,” Huckabee said. “As the facts come out, I think we’re going to see something startling. And before it’s over, I don’t think this president will finish his term….”
A few days later I went on the Factor and told Bill O’Reilly that, “This is wishful thinking masquerading as political analysis.”
Conservative pundits do this a lot. And frankly it’s getting tiresome. Remember all those “take it to the bank” predictions by conservatives on Fox on how President Obama couldn’t win re-election? Wishful thinking. Not serious analysis.
In the United States of Clueless, the Benghazi cover-up isn’t going to bring Mr. Obama down. We’re a deeply polarized nation, so while Republicans think Benghazi matters, Democrats continue to play the story down and remain loyal to the president. The so-called mainstream media remain loyal also, and a good portion of the population is so uninformed that it thinks Benghazi is the new hot club on South Beach.
What about the AP scandal where the Department of Justice secretly got hold of journalists phone logs to try to find out who was leaking sensitive national security information to the Associated Press? Journalists care about this one because it’s about them. The public couldn’t care less.
Which brings us to the IRS scandal, where agents targeted conservative groups for special tax-exempt scrutiny. It wasn’t just groups that had the name “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their name. The IRS went after groups that said they wanted “to make America a better place.” They asked certain groups what books they read. They told the Coalition for Life of Iowa: “Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers.”
Yes, it all sounds outrageous, even un-American. And this story may have legs, especially for those Americans who hate the IRS, which put another way, is all Americans except those working at the IRS.
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