Inquiring minds really do want to know – even in the MSM. Sestak says he was offered a bribe in return for backing out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. People would like to know who in the White House made the offer:
Gibbs…managed to successfully not answer a question although it was asked of him 13 times in a row…
…So was he offered a bribe or not? ABC’s Jake Tapper took the first shot at Gibbs.
“Jake, I don’t have anything to add to what I said in March,” Gibbs replied.
Back then Gibbs didn’t answer the question either except by saying “whatever conversations have been had are not problematic.”
Tapper politely noted that he didn’t say anything in March. “Then I don’t have anything to add today,” Gibbs replied.
Fair enough. So how about if you don’t have anything to add, just starting from the beginning then? “Jake, I don’t have anything to add to that,” he said.
And on it went. Quite stupidly, too – its not something that will actually go away. In the heat and passion of the campaign, this will just bubble up more and more, especially as a GOP win in Pennsylvania may be crucial to whom controls Congress in 2011. This is the sort of drip-drip-drip scandal of which Watergates and Lewinskys are made.
The MSM is curious about it and I’m certain that Obama’s media team is issuing instructions that the question is not to be raised again. But it might not work as well as it has in the past – Obama is a greatly diminished figure and the MSM might have to start currying GOP favor in order to retain access in DC. Slavish devotion to liberalism does come second to one thing in MSM-land: career.
The Chicago Way politics of the Obama Administration is generating a lot of problems – small and just a bit annoying, for now, but to grow in to grand proportions as time goes on, and especially if Republicans wind up with Congressional power.
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