The Year in Obama Scandals -- and Scandal Deniers?

With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.





Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan asserted in May -- while Operation Fast and Furious subpoenas were flying on Capitol Hill -- that "one of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals." Conveniently, he defines scandal as a "widespread elite perception of wrongdoing."





So as long as left-wing Ivy League scribes refuse to perceive something to be a scandal -- never mind the actual suffering endured by the family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whose death came at the hands of a Mexican cartel thug wielding a Fast and Furious gun walked across the southern border under Attorney General Eric Holder's watch -- there is no scandal!





Self-serving much?





Mother Jones' Kevin Drum likewise proclaimed: "Obama's presidency has so far been almost completely free of scandal."





This after the year kicked off in January with the departure of lying eco-radical czar Carol Browner. In backroom negotiations, she infamously bullied auto execs to "put nothing in writing, ever." The previous fall, the White House's own oil spill panel had singled out Browner for misleading the public about the scientific evidence for the administration's Draconian drilling moratorium and "contributing to the perception that the government's findings were more exact than they actually were."





The Interior Department inspector general and federal judges likewise blasted drilling ban book-cooking by Browner and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who falsely rewrote the White House drilling ban report to doctor the Obama-appointed panel's own overwhelming scientific objections to the job-killing edict.





In February, federal judge Martin Feldman in Louisiana excoriated the Obama Interior Department for defying his May 2010 order to lift its fraudulent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in the Gulf. He called out the administration's culture of contempt and "determined disregard" for the law.





Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks %26amp; Cronies|||Michelle Malkin got it right., you go girl.|||Is there a question here or a cut and paste job from Fox News and Malkin - the biggest loser in the Fox stable?



Your answer is NO [even though there is no question] - there are no scandals. Just RNC/Fixed Noise spin, which most moderates/centrists are now conditioned to ignore.



Loser.|||This isn't a question. This is a series of rants. And to that I say, blah, deedee, blah, blah, blah!|||Compared to Bush and the current crop of repubes, Obama is a Sunday School Teacher.



And Michelle Malkin is a straight-up idiot.|||When scrolling by, I thought this said "A Year in Obama Sandals".





Jesus, I hate sandals.





But yeah, Obama's administration is far from scandal free.