Cenk Uygur
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Benghazi Outrage - Where Were You When Bush was President?
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May 15, 2013
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7:07Now Playing"As your kindergarten teacher probably told you, two wrongs do not make a right. But the discrepancy in reactions to wrongs does, indeed, show how Washington so often serves the interests of the political right.
That's one of the big -- if deliberately ignored -- takeaways from the reaction to news that the Internal Revenue Service allegedly targeting conservative organizations for extra scrutiny in their larger review of political groups' tax exempt status. In the last few days, the allegations have generated a wave of national headlines, a congressional investigation, federal legislation and ever-louder calls for impeachment."*
There's a lot of "outrage" over Benghazi-- with some conservatives crying out that it's worse than the Watergate scandal-- and what about the AP phonetapping scandal and the IRS targeting the Tea Party? What if George W. Bush did that?!? Well, that's almost precisely what Bush did. None of it is good, but why are Democrats and Republicans held to different standards? Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies) and Mark Thompson (Broadcaster) discuss.
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