Shorter Dan Pfeiffer: ‘Your Partisan Questions Are So Largely Irrelevant and Offensive, I’m Not Going to Answer Them’

Posted on | May 19, 2013 | 26 Comments

When the White House sent Obama’s senior adviser out to do five Sunday shows, his orders were obviously to claim that (a) only Republicans care whether the administration is lying about Benghazi, and (b) the answer to any question about Benghazi is “largely irrelevant”:

Wallace repeatedly asked Pfeiffer where the president was and what he was doing while terrorists were attacking the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Pfeiffer refused to answer Wallace’s question of whether Obama entered the White House Situation Room during the Sept. 11 attack, saying, “I don’t remember what room the president was in on that night, and that’s a largely irrelevant fact.” . . .
On CBS Sunday, Pfeiffer said that the question of who edited the administration’s “talking points” about the Benghazi was “largely irrelevant.”

The Obama answer to everything: “Shut up, Republicans!”

Notice who is included in the Memeorandum aggregation on Daniel Halper’s Weekly Standard story: Rick Moran at PJ Tatler, Scott Johnson at Power Line, Ann Althouse, Doug Brady at Conservatives4Palin, Dan Riehl at Riehl World News, William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection and Andrew McCarthy at National Review. In other words, not a single liberal blogger or journalist considers it newsworthy that Obama’s senior adviser refused to say where the president was on the night of the Benghazi attack. This strategy of ignoring the obvious functions as a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy: If Democrats don’t pay any attention, interest in the administration’s scandals is therefore, by definition, strictly a Republican affair, and . . . “Shut up, Republicans!”

Tautologically confining any scandal to the category of “partisan fishing expeditions” (another Dan Pfeiffer talking point) does not, however, work as an explanation: If the answers to these questions are “largely irrelevant,” why won’t Pfeiffer answer the questions?

“Shut up, Republicans!”

Category: Barack Obama, Libya, Scandal

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26 Responses to “Shorter Dan Pfeiffer: ‘Your Partisan Questions Are So Largely Irrelevant and Offensive, I’m Not Going to Answer Them’”

Sirius U. Guise
May 19th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm

Mr. Irrelevant.
keyboard jockey
May 19th, 2013 @ 2:47 pm

The administration is whistling past the graveyard.
Laree Lee
May 19th, 2013 @ 2:57 pm

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Garym
May 19th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm

Elected Republicans should be out pounding this clown with questions asking where he was, but they have no balls. Here is a person with a big brass pair:

http://conservatives4palin.com/2013/05/governor-palin-scandalous-hat-trick.html
Adjoran
May 19th, 2013 @ 3:06 pm

Ah, the “Irrelevant” stage. “No scandal ever fed a hungry child,” eh?

When do they get to the “Modified Limited Hang-out”? That’s my favorite!
jwb7605
May 19th, 2013 @ 3:57 pm

Well, if it’s irrelevant, there is obviously no controlling legal authority, either. That means they can do whatever they want, because shut up, that’s why!
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Marian
May 19th, 2013 @ 4:13 pm

No, we will NOT shut up!!!!!
tropical1
May 19th, 2013 @ 5:08 pm

They intentionally released the IRS scandals, along with the wiretapping reporters outrage as a warning across the bow – you investigate us, we’ll ruin you.
Bob Belvedere
May 19th, 2013 @ 5:35 pm

Oh, that’s coming soon enough.
Are you, like me, having many 1970’s flashbacks?
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May 19th, 2013 @ 5:38 pm

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May 19th, 2013 @ 6:30 pm

[…] Dan Pfeiffer is a “senior adviser” for Team Obama. Senior adviser meaning he advises Obama on how to lie, as if the president needed help knowing how to lie. While appearing on five Sunday shows might seem daunting, Pfeiffer could have saved everyone some time by just sending his copied talking points. As Stacy McCain points out, Pfeiffer is not looking to engage in facts, because all the facts are bad for Obama, and thus, must be called “irrelevant” […]
Shawny Lee
May 19th, 2013 @ 6:33 pm

Conservatives didn’t get the memo that there was regime change not merely an election. That announcement “we won” is all you need to know. Time after time as members of this regime were brought before Congress and questioned about anything, the response was not to cooperate or simply answer the questions. Each time it was indignation, contempt, disgust, refusal to even show up or supply requested documents even after being served a subpoena and outright lies. Eric Holder was literally found in contempt of Congress……but that’s what all of this administration has shown, absolute contempt for Congress, the rule of law, and the American people from the start. Who the hell are you and how dare you question our authority? This delusional dictatorship that thought it was “too big to fail” is in for one huge bitch slap reality check.
mojo
May 19th, 2013 @ 6:47 pm

The modern-day Chuck Colson.
Hmm.
May 19th, 2013 @ 8:26 pm

If a tree falls in the forest, and no press person will report it, it didn’t fall.

Welcome to the new world order where there is no such thing as objective truth. Just objects of desire.

I don’t see how this pencils out for the continued rule of law, let alone life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Adjoran
May 19th, 2013 @ 8:51 pm

“What did the President know, and when did he stop knowing it?” (National Lampoon’s revision of the Howard Baker query is always close to my heart).
Adjoran
May 19th, 2013 @ 8:53 pm

Why do you think we are all stockpiling ammo?
Adjoran
May 19th, 2013 @ 9:01 pm

Ever notice how many of Obama’s “senior advisers” aren’t even old enough to shave yet?

Well, except for Valerie Jarrett.
Hmm.
May 19th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm

Per Ben Franklin, it was a republic we couldn’t keep.
G Joubert
May 19th, 2013 @ 9:19 pm

This strategy must’ve been hashed out in advance some years ago on journ-o-list, probably back in the primaries of the 2008 campaign– just don’t cover anything negative– call it Republican partisanship. They’ve followed it like a script. Until the AP story.
K-Bob
May 19th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm

In this testosterone-free zone that is the current Administration, clearly Ms. Jarret has first call on the leftovers from Napolitano’s stock of booster shots.
K-Bob
May 19th, 2013 @ 10:00 pm

The complaints of the Thirteen Colonies were also largely irrelevant in the court of King George, as were the complaints of the Civil Rights marchers to the ears of Southern Democrats, and that eighteen and a half minute gap in Nixon’s White House tapes was to the few remaining Nixon Loyalists (otherwise known as “Al Haig”) in 1973.

barack should take note: it never ends well.
Kevin Trainor Jr.
May 19th, 2013 @ 11:57 pm

Kevin Trainor Jr. liked this on Facebook.
chrisgale
May 20th, 2013 @ 2:10 am

Who signed off on this fresh bit of stupidity?
Bob Belvedere
May 20th, 2013 @ 8:00 am

The old National Lampoon is close to my heart.
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[…] Dan Pfeiffer is a “senior adviser” for Team Obama. Senior adviser meaning he advises Obama on how to lie, as if the president needed help knowing how to lie. While appearing on five Sunday shows might seem daunting, Pfeiffer could have saved everyone some time by just sending his copied talking points. As Stacy McCain points out, Pfeiffer is not looking to engage in facts, because all the facts are bad for Obama, and thus, must be called “irrelevant” […]