Jay Carney: These Are Not The Scandals You're Looking For...

Apparently, if you’re a member of the Obama administration, all you have to do to rid yourselves of a scandal (or three) is tell the American people the scandals don’t exist. 

The White House, and the more hard core liberal media, is doing just that.  Just when some of the mainstream media has begun seeing the President as a human being who actually can screw up and they’re actually reporting negative things about him, the White House is telling us that the scandals surrounding Benghazi, the IRS and the Associated Press aren’t real.  It’s rather like an old Jedi mind trick…  “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”

The other day White House Press Secretary Jay Carney went on Piers Morgan’s show and for the first time in a while Morgan was actually asking intelligent and serious questions.  In an interview that must have caught Carney by surprise (he was in friendly territory, afterall), the Press Secretary found himself being questioned about how the Administration could restore Americans’ “faith” in the president.

“You’re concocting scandals that don’t exist,” Carney said.                                        

Really?  Scandals that don’t exist?  Even the Democrats are outraged about the IRS scandal.  And the media is in an uproar over the seizure of AP’s phone records.  The only one neither the Democrats nor the mainstream media seem to care about is Benghazi, which I find revolting.  Four Americans died, the administration – from the President to Hillary to Leon Panetta – screwed up royally and they want us all to simply pretend it didn’t happen.  In a morning briefing last week Carney said “Benghazi was a long time ago.”  I wonder how the families of the dead and the surviving victims feel about that statement…?

Bill O’Reilly says the AP phone records aren’t a scandal until more information becomes public.  As he often does, he’s giving the Holder Justice Department the benefit of the doubt.  Sorry Bill – I must disagree.  It’s definitely a scandal for how it was done and the fact that Eric Holder and the President deny any knowledge of it. I don’t believe either of them.  The investigation is concerning a national security leak and for Holder and Obama to deny knowledge of the investigation is more evidence they believe Americans are stupid.

In other news, the woman who was in charge of the IRS department caught targeting conservative groups, Israeli groups, Hispanic conservative groups, pro-life groups, etc., has been given a promotion.  Sarah Hall Marshall has been appointed as the head of the department that will control Obamacare.  One cannot help but wonder two things…  should she be fired for the targeting of conservative groups (or even prosecuted) and will conservatives be in danger of being denied medical care based on their political beliefs?  Don’t scoff.  No one thought the IRS was targeting certain groups either…  except the groups themselves.  And they were told they were wrong.

All in all it’s been a long, difficult week for the Obama administration.  It’s tough sometimes when people demand the truth and accountability – especially when you wish all the problems would just go away.  Keep working on that Jedi mind trick, Jay.  Maybe you’ll get some people to believe you.