Fox News Scares Obama Admin - EPA Resignation

Fri, 16 May 2014 02:32:00 +0000

Via Talking Points Memo: "From the moment President Obama took office, conservatives have made a small sport of attacking obscure functionaries within his administration — surfacing old, often out-of-context statements and actions that make his political appointees appear extreme. Over the past three years, they've taken aim at a handful officials, and almost without exception, they've felled their targets. The goal isn't really to root bad actors out of the executive branch, but rather to amass a pile of scalps and contend that Obama is radicalizing the government. Al Armendariz is the latest victim. He resigned from the EPA on Sunday after conservative media latched on to comments he made years ago about deterring bad actors in fossil fuel industries by making examples of — or 'crucifying' — those that get caught breaking the law. In context, his remarks were harmless, if a bit hyperbolic. Most reports ignored the context — he said the word "crucify," after all...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. *Read more from Ryan J. Reilly and Brian Beutler: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/epa_white_house_armendariz_oil_limbaugh.php Subscribe to The Young Turks: http://bit.ly/eWuu5i The Largest Online New Show in the World. Facebook: Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks Google+: http://www.gplus.to/TheYoungTurks Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tytnetwork

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Fox News Scares Obama Admin - EPA Resignation