Not exact matches
That is bad enough, but the administration
then tried to put the
blame for the event not on itself (
for its own
failures) or the terrorists (who were of course the perpetrators), but on a YouTube video.
I served this country, volunteered
for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything,
blame Israel and Obama
for your own personal
failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range),
then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.
Most of my childhood and teenage years as a neo-charismatic Christian in western Canada can be characterized by an almost identical exercise: a big American name comes to Canada to Reach Canada
for Christ ™, plant a church, and
then in rather short order, heads back over the border, usually while
blaming us
for the
failure.
If wenger is expecting the Real Fan's (who pay hard earned cash to support and watch these clowns) to fight and take the
blame for the team and wenger's
failures then mr wenger should put these same fan's on the payroll!
Then there's the «the team wasn't up
for it» jibe — again the
blame is put on to Wenger on his supposed
failure to motivate the team
for a Cup Final — A Cup Final FFS and his selection of (too) nice players — as though being intelligent is somehow a negative!
Then when we get massacred he would turn around and
blame us the fans
for his
failures!
«You may not know Jerry Zandstra, but all of you have a «Jerry Zandstra» in your state: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and
then blames the State Party and its chairman
for his
failures,» Anuzis wrote in his response.
Steve Gummer at LabourList also
blames AV's
failure on disunity on the Left and, in particular, Ed Miliband's refusal to campaign with Nick Clegg: «If Clegg and Ed Miliband had put their personal differences aside and campaigned together
for AV,
then I think people would soon have realised it was the best option, a defeat to David Cameron could have been delivered causing him problems with the loathsome right - wing of his own party.»
Imagine what would happen if doctors continuously ignored research showing what works
for condition X, and
then blamed patient deaths on the patients»
failures to respond appropriately to their ineffective treatments.
They
then blame teachers
for failure when that
failure has yet to be defined adequately.
on Malloy Admin - Drops $ 2 million on consulting firm to micro-manage Alliance Districts
then blames districts
for program's
failures.
It is an act of fancy rhetorical footwork to
blame states and municipalities
for an over focus on standardized testing when FEDERAL requirements have incentivized that very focus, first with threats to label schools as
failures under NCLB and
then with the Obama administration pressuring states to use discredited statistical models to evaluate teachers as part of Race to the Top.
If one is not mature enough to exercise control;
then, if one fails, it's easier to
blame someone else
for the
failure.
It is natural
then, given this intellectual toolkit,
for the non-democratic left, when it comes to power, to
blame their inevitable and rapid economic
failures and stagnation on traitors, spies and wreckers and hold show trials.