{"id":33919,"date":"2013-05-17T20:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T02:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/when-is-a-scandal-no-longer-a-scandal.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:28:58","slug":"when-is-a-scandal-no-longer-a-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/when-is-a-scandal-no-longer-a-scandal.html","title":{"rendered":"When is a Scandal no longer a Scandal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">When the zany Right suggest that all the Benghazi \/ AP \/ IRS shenanigans so obsessing the media and the pundits and the GOP &#8230; are really <i>a cunning, diabolical Obama plot<\/i> to <i>distract<\/i> the nation from his <i>real<\/i> agenda &#8230; <i>letting all the Illegals into the country to take our jobs and our women<\/i> and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>One might be tempted to think this is a humor piece, but the comments demonstrate it&#39;s anything but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101040998703128232705\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"101040998703128232705\">Jeremy Nixon<\/a><\/span>)<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/MUFVhT9P1GH5dCBlL0ytIbw8lWddK-dHqEQTYA7MoA22zx3k3DMIH23FolTmkVNmnZb5SdDREZYhu4R2hk1d--UwhgIIAJPkiKHBxaj02LmOG4TVDDhGR-PYXrzXuLcTmSEJrvkrq5VuT-EJFQDpwJyrUCA=w125-h125' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/05\/16\/obamas-most-fiendish-plot-yet\/'>Obama\u2019s most fiendish plot yet \u2026<\/a><br \/>\n                                                An idea so crazy it just might &#8230; Opponents and supporters of \n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/QHLrgQKA68X' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the zany Right suggest that all the Benghazi \/ AP \/ IRS shenanigans so obsessing the media and the pundits and the GOP &#8230; are really a cunning, diabolical Obama plot to distract the nation from his real agenda &#8230; letting all the Illegals into the country to take our jobs and our women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/when-is-a-scandal-no-longer-a-scandal.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When is a Scandal no longer a Scandal?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50838,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/rt-georgewiman-if-nothing-else-we-got-ghazi-to-replace-gate-now-the-phony-scandal-suffix-is-from-an-actual-phony-scandal-instead-of-a-real-one.html","url_meta":{"origin":33919,"position":0},"title":"RT @georgewiman If nothing else, we got &#8220;-ghazi&#8221; to replace &#8220;-gate&#8221; Now the phony-scandal suffix is from an actual phony scandal instead of a real one.","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-May-15 1:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @georgewiman If nothing else, we got \"-ghazi\" to replace \"-gate\" Now the phony-scandal suffix is from an actual phony scandal instead of a real one. 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