14 staffers, 14 gaffes
Jake Tapper of ABC notes 14 instances of staffers getting blamed for gaffes by Senator Obama’s campaign:
We started covering Sen. Barack Obama’s inability to hire good staffers in June 2007, when he blamed staffers for some opposition research trying to link Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to outsourcing in India; for injecting some venom in the David Geffen/Hillary Clinton fight; and for missing an event with firefighters in New Hampshire. In December, we noted again that Obama was blaming the answers on a 1996 questionnaire on a staffer…So, for those keeping track at home, that’s ten instances of Obama publicly blaming his staff for various screw-ups…You of course could also add Austan Goolsbee, Samantha Power, Gordon Fischer, and retired Gen. Tony McPeak…That would be 14. We will continue to keep track. And for the record, yet again, let me state that I find Sen. Obama’s staff unfailingly competent and polite, courteous and efficient…
Hmmm. Wasn’t it also ABC, in the person of Brian Ross, that broke the story and began the aggressive reporting of the Jeremiah Wright story in the MSM.