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LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

The press is aboil with stuff about the IRS, Benghazi, AP and other "scandals" too numerous to mention.

This is a sign of it being a slow news period.

Today's Oklahoma twister may overshadow a lot of this nonsense but don't count on it.

Maybe I am not trying but I cannot follow it all.

It is micro-reporting at its worst.

In general, I have a few impressions.

The first is that rightly or wrongly, the IRS had an operation to smoke out those organizations that were using charity cover for what were actually campaign finance operations.

The fine print says that this involved liberal as well as the conservative types of groups but, in reality, there are many many more conservative ops than liberal simply because the right is so fractious. We are not reading this. We are reading about the victimization of the tea bag people. It ignites their rages about "freedom" and so on.

On Benghazi, long ago, I decided that it was a tragic loss. There should have been more security but there was not. A mistake. Parsing the words of the President or the UN Ambassador's characterization of the attacks seems to me to be simply stirring up shit.

There are terrorists. All kinds. What do we call them? How do we know when there are real terrorists and accidental terrorists? All bullshit noodling. You can lay a lot of this on McCain and the southern sissy who ought to know better. McCain is still a sore loser if not just a plain all around loser and Lindsay Graham is just a plain middle of the road senator (a good thing actually) burnishing his bonafides on the right so he doesn't get a primary challenge.

The rest of them? Standard GOP bloviators.

The AP thing? Standard government versus press tensions. There are leaks. They should be plugged.

He is in trouble with the left and the right on this but, oddly, more the left. Even Mitch McConnell gave him some support on this yesterday.

I am impressed with this result below.

Obama's Support Steady During Firestorm

In fact he has increased his approvals by as much as 4 points.

Shows that I am not the only one to see through all this trouble making. Mischief. Politics as usual.

GOP Scandal Mongering Making Obama More Popular GOP Much Less So

I liked this headline better. Article is about the same.

Labels: media, republican whack jobs