While we have been hearing for several days of all the “phony scandals” the current administration is having to deal with, there have been no details from them as to which ones are phony. Therefore we have to assume that they are calling any scandal that involves them a phony scandal.
But we know the scandals they are talking about aren’t phony at all. For example, the effort to call to account those responsible for both the failure to have adequate protection for our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and for no one coming to their aid when the consulate was attacked on September 11, 2012, is not a phony scandal.
The gun-running scandal called Fast and Furious is not phony either. Guns were sold to criminals in Mexico which were used to kill border agent Randall Terry and others, as well as in the death of hundreds of Mexican citizens. This scandal is still under investigation and those responsible for it have not been held accountable.
The scandal of the Internal Revenue Service delaying and denying tax-exempt status to organizations deemed anti-Obama leading up to the 2010 and 2012 elections, has not been resolved. And the President even indicated he would get to the bottom of the problem. So this one can’t be a phony scandal, either.
In fact, what we have seen is phony scandal after phony scandal perpetrated by those who are crying “phony scandal” now.
The so-called “War on Women” by Republicans was a phony scandal created by Democrats, ginned up to push political issues for the 2012 election. And phony scandals were time and time again brought up in 2012 against Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, because his opponent would not argue the actual issues.
The strategy against Romney was to try and make him lose by getting people to believe one or more of these phony scandals, whether it was manufacturing a story that made Romney’s business decisions responsible for the death of individuals, or Senator Harry Reid making up a story about Mitt Romney not paying his income taxes, basing it on the “somebody told me” pretext.
And since the Democrats seem to think they have an advantage over Republicans when it comes to padding elections with the votes of unregistered voters, they call any effort to insure voter integrity “racism.” This is another phony scandal, since IDs are required for things such as buying alcohol and tobacco, flying on commercial airlines, driving a vehicle, and gambling. If none of those ID requirements are racist, then how can requiring people to prove who they are at the polls during elections be racist?
Yes, there are numerous phony scandals, but why come up with a phony scandal against the President and his administration when there are so many actual scandals in which they are actually involved?
Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years
