Alan Colmes to GOP: If You Call Everything a ‘Scandal,’ Then Nothing Is Scandalous

When President Barack Obama held his town hall-style meeting yesterday in Minneapolis, he once again employed the term “phony scandals” to describe how the Republican Party is attempting ti distract attention from the real issues facing this country. On Friday, Fox News contributor Alan Colmes came to Obama’s defense, arguing that if the GOP turns every single thing that happens into a “scandal,” Americans will no longer know what they are actually supposed to find scandalous.

Conservative radio host Mike Gallagher began the conversation by saying the president is “starting to sound desperate” when he refers to issues like the attack in Benghazi and the IRS targeting groups for audits as “phony scandals.”

“Republicans want everything to be a scandal,” Colmes said in response. “Benghazi is not a scandal, Benghazi was a tragedy. The IRS isn’t is scandal.” He said the GOP is “taking situations that are not scandals and applying the word scandal” to them.

Unlike some of those other issues, Colmes argued that the delays veterans faced to receive treatment is a real scandal. “The problem Republicans have is that you’re calling everything a scandal. When something comes up that really does deserve that, people don’t pay attention. Everything has been a scandal.”

Watch video below, via Fox News:

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