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Knee Pad Journalism: NY Times’ Peter Baker Absolves Obama in Secret Service Lapses
The same newspaper that crucified President George W. Bush for the Abu Ghrab scandal even though Bush was many, many layers of government removed from the American military guards at the heart of the Iraqi prison scandal has given President Barack Obama absolution for the gross incompetence of the Secret Service even though Obama is in direct contact every minute of every day with the agency charged with protecting his life.
Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times has written a churlish, excuse-making article published Tuesday night that at once hints Republican lawmakers want to see Obama killed and goes to great lengths to explain why the Obama has nothing to do with the failures of the Secret Service.
“President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days. As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting his every initiative have expressed deep worry for his security…”
“Yet it would not be all that surprising if Mr. Obama were a little wary of all the professed sympathy…”
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“Coming just weeks before midterm elections, they said, the intense focus on the matter might further undercut confidence in the government Mr. Obama runs even though it was hardly his fault an intruder with a knife made it into the White House.”
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“While the director of the Secret Service is appointed by the president, the White House under either party typically defers to the agency on how to handle the president’s security. Even when a president is angry at missteps — as reports suggest Mr. Obama was after a 2011 shooting at the White House when one of his daughters was home — he rarely expresses that publicly. For one, it might come across as impolitic. For another, it might offend the very people a president depends on most.“So even though Mr. Obama had nothing to do with the various problems involving his security beyond appointing Ms. Pierson last year, his White House now finds itself in the position of defending the Secret Service to a degree.”
Baker gives Obama a pass on the dangerous incompetence of the Secret Service even though Obama has been intimately aware of the agency’s problems for years and is on his second term as president. Obama not only appointed the current director Julia Pierson in response to previous scandals, he also appointed the director’s superior, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
Hat tip to Bird Dog at Maggie’s Farm.
The Wall Street Journal piece to which I linked in the post previous, makes an interesting observation about the Baker apologia:
Baker seems to think — or, perhaps more damning, to expect his readers to think — that it is normal for domestic political adversaries to wish violence upon each other. But the president’s safety is of paramount importance for institutional reasons independent of partisanship, ideology or personal sympathy. An attack against the president’s person is an attack against America’s constitutional order — the very order that provides for peaceable disagreements over policy.
Somewhere over on the Hello Kitty of Blogging, one of my connections reported a liberal colleague in the workplace using this line of attack: What’s up with these conservatives being so concerned about the Secret Service not doing their jobs? Aren’t you guys supposed to want Obama to get hurt and stuff?
Hopefully, they’re not all having that kind of thought on their own; it’s another talking point being disseminated from some central location. And maybe the New York Times is it. There is reason to sustain such hope; Barack Obama fans are not known for original thinking.
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“Aren’t you guys supposed to want Obama to get hurt and stuff?”
Two words – Joe. Biden.
- tim | 10/02/2014 @ 09:45“Aren’t you guys supposed to want Obama to get hurt and stuff?”
Say the folks who constantly, constantly, constantly pushed Bush-assassination porn.
Remember, y’all, the true spelling of “liberal” is P-R-O-J-E-C-T-I-O-N.
- Severian | 10/02/2014 @ 11:23