A new piece in Politico Magazine has some readers turning their heads and going, ‘wait, did they really just say that?’
The article, written by former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporter Ronald Kesslerf, addressed the growing criticisms of the US Secret Service in recent weeks. But the part that’s raising eyebrows comes at the very last paragraph:
“Agents tell me it’s a miracle an assassination has not already occurred,” Kesslerf wrote. “Sadly, given Obama’s colossal lack of management judgment, that calamity may be the only catalyst that will reform the Secret Service.”
So wait, the only way to improve the Secret Service would be if Obama was assassinated? And if that did happen, it’d be Obama’s own fault for not fixing things in the first place?
Salon called the article a “sickening piece.” Talking Points Memo called it a “bizarre” statement and wondered “what the Politico editors were thinking.”
Other readers had similar reactions:
#Sickening: @politico runs article claiming only assassination will change POTUS’ mind re #SecretService leader. Really.
— sfpelosi (@sfpelosi) October 1, 2014
Politico Mag pubs article implying Obama will be the one to blame if Secret Service lets him get killed http://t.co/IHRdTezpgn
— Elias Isquith (@eliasisquith) October 1, 2014
@joshtpm @AdamSerwer Didn’t expect Politico to be front-runner in the ‘blame Obama for his own assassination’ sweepstakes. Good grief.
— nancy wiler (@nw8pdx) October 1, 2014
Read the full piece from Politico here.
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