Top Headline Comments (5-16-2013)

Today's scandal prediction: the press begins aggressively moving into "nothing to see here, move along" mode.

Update: The Internet was abuzz last night with CA Rep. Devin Nunes' accusation that the DOJ "essentially wiretapped the House of Representatives cloak room".

But if you pay close attention, he explains that "... when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now."

This has been known since the story broke.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

As you might imagine, the cloak room and the press gallery are two different things.

I hope we haven't reached the point of Scandalpalooza where people on our side try to gild the lily and in doing so toss the left a shiny object that they can focus on instead of the real abuses of power of their boyfriend's administration.

posted by Andy at 07:03 AM

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