AN EYE FOR AN EYE

“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”

 

Groucho Marx

"The Obama administration isn't dirty...the air is."

Bill Maher

May 17, 2013


P.S., After further reflection---and staring at the eyes of Nixon and Obama---I realize that I have an eye problem, and what I wrote is hogwash.


But here’s why you should care — and why this case, along with the administration’s broad snooping into Associated Press phone records, is more serious than the other supposed Obama administration scandals regarding Benghazi and the Internal Revenue Service. The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration, and it uses technology to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.
To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn’t want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based. Guns? Privacy? Due process? Equal protection? If you can’t speak out, you can’t defend those rights, either.
To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn’t want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based. Guns? Privacy? Due process? Equal protection? If you can’t speak out, you can’t defend those rights, either.
From " In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters"
May 21, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-in-ap-rosen-investigations-government-makes-criminals-of-reporters/2013/05/21/377af392-c24e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html?hpid=z2



 

 

I’ve done this a few times.

I’ve covered the entire face of Barack Obama except for his eyes, and I’ve seen the eyes of Tricky Dick…

Yes, the “I am not a crook” Richard Milhous Nixon.

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At first, it was one of those things where I thought that I was just seeing things, but now, after events of this past week, the eyes not only have it, but possibly even Mr. Obama himself.

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How many of us really believe that President Obama only learned about the snoopings of the IRS and reporters from news reports?

Great balls of fire and holy smoke…

This is quite a dubious assertion.

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But back to the eyes of Nixon and Obama.

 Actions speak bigger than words or eyeballs.

Nixon said that he wasn’t aware of Watergate, and he lied.

Bill Clinton didn’t exactly lie, but just said that what he did (or was done to him) wasn’t sex.

Barack Obama is also throwing his own dubious curve balls, and this time he can’t just slam dunk them away (forgive the mixing of metaphors).

As Commander-in-Chief, we expect the President of the United States to know about almost everything (except UFOS and aliens), and when he doesn’t we smell a rat, or at least a cover-up.

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Now, let’s be fair, and point out that for beadiness, Nixon’s eyes win the prize.

Barack Obama’s eyes aren’t so beady, but they still look similar to Nixon’s.

 

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We now know that Barack Obama isn’t a messiah or a Manchurian candidate, but the jury is still out about whether he’s Mr. Mabus.

 

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This theory about orbs is itself a shady and dubious business.

But it doesn’t hurt to wonder.

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