PRESIDENT OBAMA, VP JOE BIDEN, AND FORMER CLINTON ADVISOR PAUL BEGALA DEEM SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY UNPATRIOTIC.

Shot: “See, I think we should look at people who are trying to avoid U.S. taxes…Isn’t that unpatriotic?”

—Paul Begala, then-co-host, CNN’s Crossfire, August 1, 2002, segment titled, “Corporations Establishing Off-shore Tax Havens Called Unpatriotic; Will Hillary Run for President in 2004?”

Double-shot: “President Obama suggested it’s ‘patriotic’ for well-off Americans to pay more in taxes, bringing back an argument then-Sen. Joe Biden first made before the 2008 election.”

—“Obama brings back Biden pitch, suggests tax-paying ‘patriotic,’” Fox News, August 4th, 2012.

Chaser: “EXCLUSIVE: Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens.”

—Headline atop article by Richard Pollock, the Daily Caller, yesterday.