The Opinion Blog

'Clean' Commerce designee has Chinagate fingerprints

From the morning e-mail ... Right-wing firebrand Michelle Malkin dishes the dirt on the latest secretary of commerce designee:

BY MICHELLE MALKIN

Liberal media outlets are doing their best to boost former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, President Obama's third pick for the beleaguered Commerce Secretary job. "Obama's New Commerce Pick Has Clean Reputation," declared National Public Radio's Tom Banse. The Democrat possesses "a largely scandal-free resume" reported The New York Times. He is a "safe choice," the Washington Post asserted, because of his "strait-laced reputation."

'I screwed up'? Did Obama really SAY that?

Ripped from the wires ...Leonard Pitts ruminates over President Obama's admission of error this week:

By Leonard Pitts Jr.

"I screwed up.''
-- President Barack Obama, Feb. 3, 2009

Wait a minute. He said that? There were cameras and microphones? Somebody caught it on tape?

Presidents don't say that. Bill Clinton never said that. George W. Bush would have cut off his tongue with rusty gardening shears before he said that. But you're telling me Barack Obama actually said it? These are the words that came out of his mouth in a series of interviews with network news anchors?