Krauthammer On Obama's Explanation Of WH Tours: He Has "Arm's Length Relationship With The Truth"
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Well, it's another demonstration of the White House arm's length relationship with the truth. Benghazi was a spontaneous riot, a week later the president says, 'well, we are not really sure.' And then the Secretary of State angrily says, 'what difference does it make at this point?' And everybody considers it a brilliant retort, when it was an empty bluster and challenge that nobody picked up. The difference it makes is that truth matters and the origins of all that, what is happening in North Africa, really matters.
This is a more trivial example, but again, it always has a point. And the point was to shut down the tours, deliberately, as a way to apply the pain of the sequester in a way that will be unmistakable, that will be out there and then you could then turn and blame the Republicans, which is the way the administration has handled it.
Actually, it didn't help them. People understood it was a cynical move. If the president had cut out one of the golfing trips by the new calculations, he could have had three months of kids going through happily on White House tours. So he can make choices. He didn't. Now he puts out story a, the second story is out there, and then he leaves it up to Jay Carney to do gymnastics and work it out. (Special Report, March 13, 2013)
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