KLAVAN: Obamagate And The Press

In a recent speech at MIT — meant to be off-the-record — Barack Obama declared, “One of the things I’m proud of in my administration was the fact that … we didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us. There were mistakes, we’d screw up. But there wasn’t anything venal in eight years.”

There is nothing surprising about a former president peddling rose-colored memories of his administration. What is downright startling is how many members of the press concur with Mr. Obama’s benevolent self-assessment. A video compiled by the conservative media watchdog Media Research Center shows journalists from such major outlets as ABC-TV, CNN and The New York Times confidently declaring the Obama administration “scandal-free.”