what does the president, what s the white house perspective? the president s interest as previously discussioned do not violate the clause for reasons that length that the justice of department filing enumerate in their friday night filings with respect to the crew lawsuit which was the first one. this lawsuit today is another iteration of the case that was filed by that group crew filed by the same lawyers. so it s not hard to conclude that partisan politics may be one of the motivations behind it. the suit was filed by two democratic attorney generals. the lawyers driving the suit are advocacy group with partisan ties. it started with a press conference as opposed to filing it which is interesting. the suit challenges the business transactions that everyone from penny pritsker and others have engaged in while in office. i think we ll continue to move to dismiss this case in the normal course of business. i wanted to just two questions. but first why leave open this
it. where are the media? the media were all over scandals and s and l scandals in the past. when it concerns this president and administration they didn t seem very interested. you want the media to attack the president for an inch accu cuss speech he gave in ohio where he didn t go out on a partisan ledge or do anything outrage just. you want the media to attack that speech? i want them to have one standard when it comes to the special interests and rich and the powerful . they were all agreeing with president obama when they were attacking mitt romney last year now they are silent when president obama has his own mitt romney in the cabinet. conservatives go after penny pritsker having of 0 shore accounts but no problem with mitt romney dock the same thing. the president is the one in charge making these choices. he didn t have to pick her. there are lots of people who could be commerce secretary that don t have offshore accounts. that s not what the speech was about. jon: y
and she of course has been sitting on hundreds of millions, maybe even bill kwrops o billions of offshore accounts. the atlantic magazine called hero bama s mitt romney. you would think if the president really meant it about taking on the powerful he would take a good look at her and maybe not appoint her. more to the point the media should be all over it. the media should be saying this is hypocrisy for the president to be denouncing special issues and having attacked mitt romney all through the campaign for his overseas accounts then he hires somebody that has a lot more money than he ever did in her own grand caymen accounts. it was because he talked about one thing and did another. the election he lost because people don t relate to offshore accounts. he might have a point about penny pritsker being on the inside. he was talking about the big money interests that get people elected, citizens united that he didn t mention directly resulted
do. let s talk about how we need to change it for everybody. it s not being hypocrite kral to play the game the way everybody else does by talking about how you can make the better and inspiring a younger generation to help make it better down the road. jon: i m sorry, jim i ve raised some kids and i know the one thing that they don t like is, well, is do as i say and not as i do kind of behavior. i think that can be summed up in the word hypocrisy. what do you want him to do? nobody likes it. the president out raised both john mccain and mitt romney in 2012 he s got more liberal billionaires on his side than the conservatives do. penny pritsker is even more egregious. in 2009 she was slated to be the commerce secretary because the bank she honed superior bank went bust in a cloud of scandal, and that seemed too hot for the president as he was seeking re-election of course in 2012. now that he s been safely reelected they think they can do
it was one commencement speech, what about the media coverage and what about what the president had to say. jim bing ker ton is a contributing editor and wire for a conservative magazine. alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes radio show and author of thank the liberals for saving america. to hear the president everything would be better in america and especially for graduates of ohio state if the evil corporations and so potter weren weren t getting handouts. i m not sure what he was referring to. i m not sure either. the president gave a populous speech calling young people to action. but if the president really meant it when he said he wants to, you know, stop special treatment for insiders he might look to his own new cabinet secretary nominee, that would be penny pritsker who is supposed to be the next secretary of commerce which is an important job in the obama administration