At times like this, I try to stop and really evaluate my own subjectivity. The last thing I want to do is act like a right-winger who immediately starts screaming that any objective, non-partisan news outlet or comedian is part of a liberal conspiracy. Am I right to find this skit to be ridiculously and unfairly partisan, or I am just viewing through my own leftist lenses?
None of those things mentioned constitute an actual scandal at all. This is just an extension of the narrative the GOP has built on the backs of a complacent media–that anything bad is Obama’s fault, though no one seems capable of articulating his administration’s missteps. It’s fitting that the writers call it “this whole ebola thing,” as opposed to attempting to explain how the Ebola crisis qualifies as a scandal at all. It’s analogous to critics of Obama’s foreign policy never having the guts or the knowledge to actually state what they think he should do differently. As a result, we get polls showing Americans giving Obama terrible foreign policy approval ratings, even though he is by and large taking actions most Americans agree with when polled on the individual issues.
ISIS, Secret Service, IRS, NSA… In a post-Nixon, post-Reagan, post-Clinton, post-GWB world, these are scandals?
The skit feels nakedly partisan as hell. That’s all fine and dandy I suppose, but to produce such a skit in the first weekend of early voting for a general election? It seems intentionally malicious.
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