Admission of Nothing
...and
now from the back of the closet comes our most ridiculous item of
the day.
The liberal press has been having a field day this past week, or should I
say a field week? Never mind the politically correct terminology, it is
sufficient to say that the liberal press has been having a week of field
days following reports that the White House has been so chastened by trumped
up reports of wrong doing, that it has decided to require all staff to
attend mandatory briefings on ethics rules and handling of classified
information.The left leaning Denver Post is typical
of the liberal schadenfreude being echoed elsewhere throughout the secular
press. Today's editorial reads in part "We applaud the notion that the
administration has realized it has a problem with unethical behavior and is
trying to solve it. Yet it is unsettling, to say the least, that there is a
need for an ethics class in the first place - after all, the president
pledged to run the most ethical administration in history."
Oh really, Denver Post? I'm afraid that all of us here at
the Bill O'Reilly No Spin
Christmas Store must inform you that there is no story at all here. On
April 12, 1989, the first President Bush issued
Executive Order 12674 which required annual mandatory ethics training
for, let me quote, "all employees appointed by the President, all
employees in the Executive Office of the President, all officials required
to file public or nonpublic financial disclosure reports, all employees who
are
contracting officers and procurement officials, and any other employees
designated by the agency head."
Now I know that this is dry, boring stuff, but sometimes
you have to just wake up and smell the coffee, preferably in a
No
Spin Coffee Mug, which in my humble opinion is the finest mug in the
world. In 1997, President Clinton signed off on
CFR 2638.703(b), which required ethics training for all government
employees within ninety days of their hire, and annual mandatory ethics
training for all employees whose position in any way put them in position to
affect the public trust. In other words, if you know anybody who works for
the feds, ask them about it. Chances are they are taking it.
So there you have it. No story, just business as usual.
The mainstream media is once again spinning you in order to help accomplish
there loathsome agenda of embarrassing the president. The Factor wants to
help you put it all in perspective. To do anything less would be ridiculous.
And it would also be ridiculous to not stop by the
O'Reilly store and pick up a
Spin Stops Here
Tin of Soft Mint Puffs, just in time for the holidays. They're so good,
they almost eat themselves.
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