Most transparent Administration evah! Daily Caller:
On Tuesday’s Laura Ingraham Show, Attkisson said DOJ spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler and White House associate communications director Eric Schultz yelled and screamed at her over the story.
“The DOJ woman was just yelling at me,” Attkisson said. “The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. Eric Schultz — oh, the person screaming was Tracy Schmaler. She was yelling, not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”
Attkisson explained the vicious tongue-lashing:
“In between the yelling that I received from the Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman — who would not put anything in writing — I was asking for her explanation so there would be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said. She wouldn’t put anything in writing,” she said.
“So we talked on the phone and she said things such as ‘the question Holder answered was different than the one he asked.’ But the way he phrased it, he said very explicitly, ‘I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.’”
Attkisson also said the DOJ and White House representatives complained that CBS was “unfair and biased” because it didn’t give the White House favorable coverage on the developing scandal.
“Is it sort of a drip, drip. And I’m certainly not the one to make the case for DOJ and White House about what I’m doing wrong,” she added. “They will tell you that I’m the only reporter, as they told me, that is not reasonable. They say The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable — I’m the only one who thinks this is a story, and they think I’m unfair and biased by pursuing it.”
Oh my. So “reasonable” people agree that this is a story that shouldn’t be pursued — and that consensus of reasonable people should therefore hold sway in agreeing that there’s no there there?
Well, then. protein wisdom humbly rests its cases.
(h/t IP)
Pursuing F&F = Global Warmening Denialisms!!!!!11!!1!one!!!
heh. Gertie was the Gertie, after all.
Oh, that’s rich. Our Attorney General doesn’t know how testimony works? Priceless.
“They’re just kids – meddlesome kids – but just kids. They’ll never figure out that I, the helpful attorney general, is actually running guns while disguised as the ghost of Sheriff Bart.”
Pablo, I’m cool with the “Holder doesn’t understand how testimony works.”
That gives the White House two options, both of which result in the dismissal/removal of Holder.
Option 1: White House has to admit Holder is incompetent. (sorta goes with your line about Holder not understanding how testimony works)
Or 2: White House cans Holder, because Holder knew about Fast and Furious but “neglected” to inform the White House.
If there are any options that allow Holder to remain in office, I’d like to hear them, simply because the excuses are sure to be very creative.
WaPo:
Holder Lied. U.S. Agents Died.Let’s Talk About Perry’s Crypto Raaaaacist Rock!I thought Obamastaffers were all cool and collected…what could get them so riled up? The press, questioning them?
If this Administration gets its nickers in a twist over inquiries from a second-rate CBS reporter, just imagine the response when Holder is facing felony charges, IN TWO DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES, and Obama gets questioned EVERYDAY by the previously sycophantic media about F&F.
I mean, that could be as bad as being as being asked “What have you done wrong thus far in your Presidency?” again and again and again…..
The ‘Chicago Way Handbook’ calls for digging up dirt to blackmail their accuser in situations like this. Sure hope Attkisson doesn’t have any skeletons….
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/10/fast-and-furious-roundup-holder-lied-people-died/
Momentum is building…
I forget, what was Watergate’s body count again?
The House should send over articles of impeachment on Holder immediately. Let the Senate refuse to confirm them, and plaster their states with ads saying “These Senators are fine with massacres.”
National Soros Radio hounded that poor mexican-american Attorney General guy out of office for much much less than what Holder has done
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/129102/
More momentum…
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/04/joe-biden-van-jones-who/comment-page-1/#comment-4973558
Maybe the WH should send Biden out there. Two words: “Plausible deniability!” Plugs just can’t remember anymore!
whee! look at me! i’m holding a banana
i’m a reporter whee-i just went to the gym
i can read.
You all saw this coming I’ll bet. I know I did.