Leno: Obama Scandal Jokes

JAY LENO: The heat wave just continuing here in California. They're warning this could be a long, hot summer, and they're telling everyone to cover up. Believe me, you don't have to tell the Obama White House twice. They know about covering up, not a problem.

Today, the White House unveiled its latest high tech weapon -- the IRS audit. Did you hear about this? The IRS has admitted they were targeting conservative groups. President Obama called the IRS targeting of conservative groups, he called it outrageous and he said he would immediately have his Benghazi investigators look into it. So we will find out, we will get to the bottom of this.

I love what IRS commissioner Steve Miller said today about this whole targeting conservative groups thing. He said, 'Mistakes were made, but they were no way made with a political or partisan motivation.' Mistakes were made. Try that during your next IRS audit....

Well, first it was Benghazi, then the IRS scandal, now this phone records scandal - Remember the old days when President Obama's biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden? What happened to those days?

Video:

Obama Out of the Loop

It would appear Obama is the "most out of the loop/center of it all" guy in the history of the universe.

— Dennis Miller Show (@DennisDMZ) May 14, 2013

Jay Carney May 14, 2013, Press Briefing (Video)

Here's the complete video of Jay Carney's press briefing yesterday:



Holy moly.

I'd like see Obama have to answer the same questions.

I'd like to see the press hold Obama accountable.

Jay Carney: Press Briefing Game Plan

White House gives Jay Carney's orders for the press briefing today:

Say "the president wants to help the middle class" as many times as possible.

Say "I'm not going to give specifics about an on-going investigation."

Say "it would be inappropriate to comment on the specifics."

Say "I don't have specifics."

Say "the president believes there needs to be a balance."

Say "the Republicans are preventing Obama from doing what the people want."

Say "FOX News is to blame."

Say "unfettered."

Say "I'm not aware."

Say "political circus."

Say "on-going effort to politicize this."

Say "IF this turns out to be true."

Say "we must wait and see before we comment on how to proceed."

Smoke and mirrors. Lies and more lies.

I have never heard anyone say "unfettered" so many times in one appearance.

Obama's message to Americans, via Carney: "Wait and see. Balance. Middle class. I must be unfettered. No comment."
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Eric Holder is speaking live, dueling press conferences. Anything to get attention off of Carney's meltdown.
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According to the White House transcript of the press briefing, the word "unfettered" was used 12 times by Carney and 3 times by reporters.

Obama: What's Happening?

"Guess I'll turn on the news to see what the government is up to" - The President of the United States

— Andy Levy (@andylevy) May 14, 2013

Think about it: Obama is content to depict himself as a buffoon.

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

When it was reported on MSNBC or in the New York Times.

IRS Washington Office Targets Conservatives

So the Obama administration's IRS scandal doesn't just involve some "low-level workers" in Cincinnati.

What a shocker!

From the Washington Post:

Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved with investigating conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea-party-affiliated groups, the documents show.

IRS employees in Cincinnati told conservatives seeking the status of “social welfare” groups that a task force in Washington was overseeing their applications, according to interviews with the activists.

Lois G. Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt groups for the IRS, told reporters Friday that the “absolutely inappropriate” actions were undertaken by “front-line people” working in Cincinnati to target groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their names.

In one instance, however, Ron Bell, an IRS employee, informed a lawyer representing a conservative group focused on voter fraud that the application was under review in Washington. On several other occasions, IRS officials in Washington and California sent conservative groups detailed questionnaires about their voter outreach and other activities, according to the documents.

“For the IRS to say it was some low-level group in Cincinnati is simply false,” said Cleta Mitchell, a partner in the law firm Foley & Lardner who sought to communicate with IRS headquarters about the delay in granting tax-exempt status to True the Vote.

Another cover-up?

More lies from the Obama administration?

...In a news conference Monday, President Obama said he learned of the investigating in media reports on Friday and has “no patience with it.”

“If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on, and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that’s outrageous,” Obama said. “And there’s no place for it. And they have to be held fully accountable.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Monday that the White House counsel’s office learned of an upcoming IRS inspector general’s report on April 22 as part of a routine notification but had not received access to the report.

Obama is a horrible leader.

I'm sick of him playing ignorant and distancing himself from the abuses of his administration.

He feigns outrage and vows to get to the bottom of the matter, whether it's the Benghazi terrorist attack or the IRS targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups for harassment.

Obama acts as if his hands are clean. They aren't. Ignorance is no excuse.

Even when the facts are known, he lies as he did yesterday during his press conference with Prime Minister David Cameron.

OBAMA: Well, let me take the IRS situation first. I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday. And this is pretty straightforward.

Obama is the president! He is a liar.

He should not be learning about his government abusing its power and harassing Americans from the same news reports we get.

Is he really so detached that he's clueless about something as egregious as using the IRS against political enemies?

I don't buy it.

Even Jay Carney isn't on the page as Obama.

[D]uring a press gaggle about Air Force One on Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney insisted the White House was unaware of the investigation or its political implications until last month.

Last month isn't last Friday.

Back to Obama's remrks:

If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it.

More distortions!

Not "IF, IN FACT, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups" - we know with certainty that it happened. I guess Obama didn't listen very closely to those news reports we all heard last week.

And they have to be held fully accountable, because the IRS as an independent agency requires absolute integrity, and people have to have confidence that they're applying it in a non-partisan way -- applying the laws in a non-partisan way.

And you should feel that way regardless of party. I don't care whether you're a Democrat, independent or a Republican. At some point, there are going to be Republican administrations. At some point, there are going to be Democratic ones. Either way, you don't want the IRS ever being perceived to be biased and anything less than neutral in terms of how they operate. So this is something that I think people are properly concerned about.

I have no patience left when it comes to King Obama. I can no longer tolerate Obama drawing from his bottomless well of BS.

The guy is shredding the Constitution. It's happening on his watch. The buck stops with him, but he refuses to take responsibility.

I always thought Obama was most like Jimmy Carter, one of the worst presidents of the 20th century. Now, Obama's morphing into Richard Nixon in terms of abusing his power.

If he's impeached, Obama will be in Bill Clinton's league.

Obama thinks he can get away with anything. So far, because of his willing partners in the Leftist media and weak, wobbly Republicans, Obama has done exactly that.

I've had enough.

Just some low-level workers in Cincinnati. What a crock!

Leno: Benghazi Cover-Up Joke

JAY LENO: Sources say that soon the Obamas will have to start looking for a place to live after they leave the White House, and they think he's planning to go back to the Chicago area. They're looking for a house with two stories - two, which is ten stories fewer than Benghazi. That's amazing.

Leno: IRS Scandal Jokes

JAY LENO: I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to get audited by the IRS. So, forget that!

The IRS has now admitted that they targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. That's why Mitt Romney wanted to be president so bad, keep the IRS off his back, of course.

Oh, good grief.

Turn the Obama administration's abuse of power and harassment of American citizens into a Romney smear.

Not funny at all.

Obama and the Associated Press

Another OBAMA SCANDAL!

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

This is outrageous.

BUT, you made your bed, AP. Lie in it.

You're an arm of the Obama administration's media army. You protected this guy. You've aided Obama's rise to power.

What now?

Any regrets?

I suppose Obama and his team thought you wouldn't mind. You cover Obama's ass. You kiss Obama's ass. You worship Obama's ass.

How's that working out?

Lord, what fools these Leftists be!
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Ironic that #Obama and #Holder would choose to track @ap staffers, but not guns sent to Mexico. #FastandFurious
— Brad Thor (@BradThor) May 13, 2013

Gosnell Guilty: First Degree Murder

"Dr." Kermit Gosnell, the serial murderer of infants, has been found guilty.

Dr. Gosnell is one of the faces of the abortion movement, so the trial received little coverage in the mainstream media. The story was buried or completely ignored by Leftist outlets.

It was awkward to report that Gosnell kills babies for a living. He runs a gruesome death chamber. He kills babies born alive during his "abortions." And now, after decades of murder, what some refer to as "women's health care," the justice system is holding Gosnell accountable.

The New York Times does report on the trial's verdict. But even now, its reporting is messed up, factually inaccurate.

From the Daily Caller:

The New York Times referred to three murdered children as “fetuses” in an article about the conviction of Kermit Gosnell Monday.

Gosnell, a former Philadelphia abortion doctor, was found guilty of first-degree murder Monday afternoon for severing the necks of three born-alive infants.

The New York Times referred to those infants as “fetuses” six times in the paper’s write-up:

The verdict came after a five-week trial in which the prosecution and the defense battled over whether the fetuses Dr. Gosnell was charged with killing were alive when they were removed from their mothers.


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Dr. Gosnell was acquitted of one first-degree murder charge involving an aborted fetus.


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Clinic workers who appeared as witnesses for the prosecution said some of the fetuses appeared to move or make noises.


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…Dr. Gosnell kept the severed feet of aborted fetuses in dozens of jars around his clinic…


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…Mr. McMahon argued that there was no evidence that any of the fetuses were born alive…


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Mr. McMahon also dismissed prosecutors’ arguments that one of the fetuses, Baby C, was alive after being aborted.

These were not fetuses. They were babies, slaughtered babies.

Why would any human being want to cover up and mischaracterize the truth about these atrocities?

Soulless.

Here's reaction from Barbara Lyons, Wisconsin Right to Life:

Kermit Gosnell is guilty, and justice has been done. According to one courtroom observer, Gosnell seemed surprised that he was found guilty, and it is that aspect of his cold attitude that describes the monster he is. If sane, moral people had tried to conjure up the most monstrous abortionist alive, they would have been hard put to come up with the atrocities committed by Gosnell. Our fear that he would be acquitted is unrealized, and America is once again a nation with a conscience which recognizes a grave injustice.

The jury found Gosnell guilty of first degree murder on three counts for killing babies who survived his abortion attempts and third degree murder in the death of the woman who died at his hands. The question is now raised as to why it is perfectly legal to brutally kill babies in the womb, but not outside of the womb. In the abortion context, location is everything, whether it makes sense or not. We look forward to the day when the abortion nightmare is over, and all babies in the womb are recognized in life and in law.

I share the relief and satisfaction Barbara Lyons expresses, but I don't believe that America, in general, is "once again a nation with a conscience which recognizes a grave injustice."

In this case, thankfully, Gosnell was charged and convicted.

However, we have a president incapable of recognizing grave injustices. Our nation reelected him. People of conscience have many more battles to fight.

Benghazi Cover-Up

Happy Mother's Day

SNL: Benghazi Hearings (Video)

Saturday Night Live's cold open was about the Benghazi congressional hearings.

Here's the video:



Did they slam Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for lying to the American people and engaging in a cover-up?

Of course not.

At first, I thought maybe it was possible that the sketch would trash the mainstream media for failing to follow stories of importance. It could have gone that way. It could have been a commentary on Americans' obsession with goofy murder trials and lurid stories rather than something as significant as a 9/11 anniversary terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate, killing four Americans including the ambassador.

Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, that was not the direction it went. The target was the Republicans. The intent was to protect Obama and Hillary Clinton. The result was disgraceful and dishonest.

Republicans were mocked. Darrell Issa (Bill Hader) was a complete buffoon. FOX News was mocked. The hearing was depicted as purely a political stunt, with convicted murderer Jodi Arias as a witness.

Democrat Elijah Cummings (Kenan Thompson) was shown as reasonable, calling the hearings a witch hunt and suggesting the witness was chosen purely to boost ratings.

Trey Gowdy (Taran Killim) questioned Arias (Nasim Pedrad). When Arias, the expert witness, was asked when she first learned about Benghazi. She replied that she found out about it this morning. She asked if the attack was still going on. When told it happened eight months ago, she asked if they knew who did it. When told the terrorists responsible were identified, Arias asked why they were holding hearings.

The Republicans were dumbfounded, unable to answer, and told her that they asked the questions, not her.

Cummings complained about the political nature of the hearings, wondering if the Republicans would stoop so low as to ask the "guy from Cleveland who kept those women in his basement" to testify.

The next witness up WAS going to be Ariel Castro.

The sketch ended at that point with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night."

SNL completely trashed the Republicans and left the Democrats untouched.

Cover-up? What cover-up?

Dead Americans? As Cummings said, "Death is a part of life." To quote Hillary, "What difference at this point does it make?"

None of the lies were mentioned at all. The many unanswered questions about the administration's response to the 9/11/12 terrorist attack, the order for the military to stand down, the talking points revisions, and the concocted story about the video were ignored. The amazingly awful press briefing by Jay Carney yesterday was left untouched.

I'm so sick of these distortions. The families of the dead deserve better than this, not this sort of treatment. They deserve respect. They deserve answers.

Hillary Clinton and Benghazi: Political Ad

Election 2016 battle lines are being drawn.

Greg Gutfeld, the 'Scandal Condom,' and Jay Carney (Video)

Friday on The Five, Greg Gutfeld declared that the Leftist media, Obama's "scandal condom," failed.

Video.

GREG GUTFELD: Dismissing a cover-up while having an off the record discussion or briefing about a cover-up is like denying you have a drinking problem by doing shots of tequila.

The scandal condom has burst and Carney got soaked. Twelve versions of talking points - that's not a memo, that's a Harlem Shake, more versions than you can count.

Jay Carney, actually, he used to be a reporter. The transformation from truth-seeker to a truth-hider is stunning. It makes a sex change look like a haircut.

And when you obsess over a memo that much, it's like Lady Macbeth washing her hands. It just tells you that there's something wrong and it's not going away.

You can question Gutfeld's imagery, but he's spot-on about the Obama administration and its handling of this major scandal.

"Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!"

Still there.

Hillary Clinton: Then and Now

Jay Carney Dodges Questions on Benghazi Talking Points (Video)

Obama and Gitmo

Obama is weak. I think that's why he's so dishonest.

Leno: Benghazi Jokes

JAY LENO: While President Obama was in Texas, he told people to 'Remember the Alamo' and forget about Benghazi. Just forget about that. That's a whole nother thing.

Well, actually, the administration now is very concerned that the Benghazi hearings are gaining momentum. Like today they had a press conference. Even a non-FOX reporter asked about Benghazi. That never happens.

Jay Carney Press Briefing, Benghazi

Jay Carney just gave a master class on how to implode during a White House press briefing.



Watch video of Carney's May 10, 2013, press briefing here.

Reaction:

Carney failing to reconcile his claim that WH made one "stylistic" change w/wholesale rewrite reporters see with their own eyes. #Benghazi

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 10, 2013

Carney basically is saying the CIA did the typing: "The CIA wrote another draft" - after getting input from other agencies.

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) May 10, 2013

Time Magazine reporter Jay Carney would have been the 1st person to object to how the WH is handling the press today.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) May 10, 2013

CNN's @jimacostacnn: "These are not stylistic edits, Jay." #Benghazi

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 10, 2013

Huh? Carney Blames Mitt Romney For Benghazi Scandal… shar.es/lBQlk

— Weasel Zippers (@weaselzippers) May 10, 2013

Streeettttch! Carney blames Romney for politicizing Benghazibit.ly/10LAGdH

— The Right Scoop (@TheRightScoop) May 10, 2013

Carney says efforts to "politicize tragedy" can be traced back to Romney

— Jim Acosta (@jimacostacnn) May 10, 2013

It's obvious these White House reporters didn't hear Greg Hicks say on Weds. "I talked to Hillary at 2 a.m. and told her this was an attack"

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 10, 2013

In response to Q, Carney says he spoke of video because he was working from same #Benghazi talking points as Rice. Video wasn't mentioned.

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) May 10, 2013

Paging Candy Crowley: Jay Carney repeats debunked Benghazi lie from presidential debates bit.ly/YzzZYq

— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) May 10, 2013

Thought Carney @presssec looked strange today.Nervous, hiding things. What's going on in there? 2nd term jinx. Scandal scandal scandal...

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) May 10, 2013