The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : IG Firing Is a Big Deal

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I call on Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, Eugene Robinson, Keith Olbermann, the NY Times editorial page (okay, most of its news pages, too), all of CBS, CNN, MSNBC, much of NBC, most of the Washington Post headline writers, and, heck, let's just say virtually the entirety of the Establishment Media to stop doing their continuous collective Lewinsky on President Obama long enough to raise Cain about this incident of their Obamassiah improperly firing a politically inconvenient Inspector General. Note that the IG worked at an organization that now almost certainly will fund ACORN, an organization so vastly expanded that it raises serious questions about whether it will stay within proper bounds, and one that many fear is being heavily politicized. It is an organization headed by a man who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Democratic candidates, and whose top staffer just was sent over there from Michelle Obama's personal staff. And the fired IG had been embarrassing close allies of President Obama. Because this goes straight to the top, to Obama himself, this highly suspicious firing looks worse than anything seriously alleged in the flap over the perfectly legitimate firings of attorneys general by the Bush Justice Department. More to come on all this. Michelle Malkin is on the case. So are lots of others now. And so am I, big-time. Watch for much, MUCH more on all this. But just don't watch for the Establishment Media to pay attention. They are otherwise occupied.

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ds80| 6.12.09 @ 4:43PM

Quin, the correct term is "State-run Media"
Ahem.

jr| 6.12.09 @ 5:33PM

Missy| 6.12.09 @ 7:29PM

The Establishment Media is part of the Democrat party now. It's their misinformation/propaganda wing.

I think that's been obvious for a long time.

Warrior| 6.12.09 @ 9:28PM

I have it on good authority that the transparent most open government will tackle this after they get to depose Harriet Myers and Karl Rove on the politically motivated attorney firings. The second theory was that it was really the Jews who forced his most high to this deed.

J. Kelley| 6.13.09 @ 9:10AM

This is just more machine Chicago politics. If Obama had been vetted, at least the public would have known this is the way politics is done in Chicago. This is a big story, but the Main Stream Media will ignore it. How close are we to having a State run media as Iran does?

Oldefarte| 6.13.09 @ 1:02PM

Whoa, Quin, if I understand this correctly, a governmental IG was summarily fired by Obama because he/IG may have known something about Acorn that may not have been legal/proper? You got my attention! Fox Network's reporter recently stuck a microphone in Barney Frank's face and asked it he/Frank would investigate Acorn; and he/Frank gave some BS/non-responsive answer about the Bush Administration's funding of Acorn. I just hope that this is the beginning of the crack in Obama's Liberty Bell, politically speaking. The Democrats are going to want to sweep this under the carpet and pull a Pilosi moment of attempting to make any hint of a Acorn connection/coverup to them go away. If this IG was fired because he knew or had legal evidence of an impropriety by this administration over Acorn, the [as the old saying goes] FECIS IS GOING TO HIT THE POLITICAL FAN, big time! Keep us informed!!!!