[O'Reilly Factor] The President of the United States under siege

[Ubiquitous]

The Obama administration has trouble on three fronts as you may know. The
IRS illegally investigating conservatives; the assassination of Libyan
Ambassador Christopher Stevens still not defined after eight months; and
the Justice Department secretly obtaining the phone records of some
journalists.


Today, the President met with the Turkish Prime Minister who looked a
little confused and then answered questions about the three
controversies. We begin with the IRS deal.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: I'm outraged by this in part because, look, I'm a public figure.
If a future administration is starting to use the tax laws to favor one
party over another or one political view over another, obviously we are
all vulnerable.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: Ok. Mr. Obama fired the IRS acting director last night and
replaced him today with another bureaucrat. But there is deep suspicion
in some circles that the liberal Obama administration created an
atmosphere where far left zealots in the IRS were basically unsupervised.
They could do what they want.

That's a hard charge to prove but, there is no question that Mr. Obama's
administration is ideological. Thus, suspicions run deep.

Today, Mr. Obama pledged a big IRS clean-up.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: We will be putting in new leadership that will be able to make
sure that following up on the IG audit, that we gather up all the facts
that he we hold accountable those who have taken these outrageous
actions.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: Of course, the President had to say that. What's he going to
say? I'm not going to do anything. I'm not going to fix it. I don't care.
He had to say that. But again, there is suspicion because after eight
months the Benghazi deal still has not been fixed. And today the
President fell back on an old canard.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: I'm calling on Congress to work with us to support and fully fund
our budget requests to improve the security of our embassies around the
world.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: And you may remember that Senator Barbara Boxer and some other
Democrats blamed Benghazi on the fact that Republicans want to cut
spending. The "Washington Post" looked at that charge and found it
completely bogus. The security screw up in Libya was solely the fault of
bad management in Washington.

Why Mr. Obama would want to revisit the spending deal is a mystery
tonight.

The President is on more solid ground, I should say, when he speaks about
the Associated Press controversy. There are about 20 phone lines secretly
scrutinized by the Justice Department. Not tapped. All right they just
got the phone line records. And why did they do that? Here is what Mr.
Obama said.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: When we express concern about leaks at a time when I've still got
60,000 plus troops in Afghanistan and I have still got a whole bunch of
intelligence officers around the world who are in risky situations in
outposts that in some cases are as dangerous as the outpost in Benghazi,
that part of my job is to make sure that we're protecting what they do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: But "Talking Points" believes that's a legitimate concern; that
the war on terror, covert operations have to be protected to some extent.
If the press prints everything, some of our people will die.

But there is always the abuse of power question. Did the Justice
Department go too far with the Associated Press? We won't get an answer
from the Attorney General. He says he doesn't know anything about it. He
has recused himself.

The assistant attorney general still has not been forced by President
Obama to say what he knows and therein lies the problem. The President
should be a problem solver. He has the authority to make his people talk.
Get them out there. Stand next to them.

If there is a legitimate reason to pull the phone records of reporters,
then, in a general sense tell us what that reason is the story is over.
If there is a legitimate reason not to provided added security in Libya,
tell us the reason.

On the IRS front, please explain why the IRS director lied to the country
in November and how that department could get so out of control. It's a
sad fact of life that politics almost always intrudes on leadership.

Instead of really solving problems President Obama and most every other
modern president tries to deflect them. Mr. Obama did that again today
when he put a happy face on the A.P. matter saying there should be new
laws that protect reporters.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OBAMA: To the extent that this case has prompted renewed interest about
how do we strike that balance properly and I think now is the time for us
to go ahead and revisit that legislation.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: See what I mean? So the President now wants more protections
for reporters, even as his administration rifles through their phone
records. This is great. You know.

All right. This has been a tough week for the Obama administration and
things will get even tougher if more whistleblowers emerge. Big mistakes
were made on many fronts. In order to salvage his credibility Mr. Obama
must be very aggressive in explaining to the American public exactly what
happened and why it happened. And so far he hasn't done it.

And that's "The Memo."


--
"When exactly Mr. President, were you convinced the Benghazi attack was
generated by organized terrorists and not by a spontaneous mob? Two
weeks after the attack on 9/11, you were still referencing an
anti-Muslim video when you were just told days after the attack by your
own national security people that al-Qaeda was most likely linked to the
killing of the Ambassador."
-- Bill O'Reilly

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On May 20, 7:27 pm, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
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