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And I can’t find any comment from notorious anti-car tosser and alleged economist Duncan Black, the Philadelphia-based apologist for Paul Krugman, regarding this absurdity.
What’s up with that? I mean, Black’s blog is obviously a money-maker, so is he going to be, as Joe Biden says, patriotic —or is he gonna fight the power?
Word on the street is that the White House gave NBC/MSNBC extra access and privileges to play up the withdrawal last week of what was nominally the last American combat brigade from Iraq. Why would they do this? Because most people don’t stop to consider that Obamajesus is a creation of Big Media and that it behooves them all to keep up the fluffery for his profoundly incompetent regime. Thus, we have a President who once denounced the War for Iraq and who derided those whose policies made success possible there now not only taking the credit for it, but relying even more heavily on his predecessor’s top guys. What a miserable hypocrite Barack Hussein Obama is.
Incidentally, there are still more than 50,000 American servicemen and women in Iraq. Do they not have means of self-defense and weapons of offense? Are they still not in great danger? The war isn’t over for them. So what occasioned such heavy coverage from NBC? What was that all about, anyhow?
I just saw a nightmare for Democrats on Chris Wallace’s Sunday morning program on FOX: a generous and accommodating interview between Wallace and Ted Olson, an unquestioned Republican hero, on the latter’s recent vindication in a Federal judicial ruling against California’s Proposition 8.
If interviews like this become more common, Democrats will no longer be able to credibly accuse all Republicans of homophobic bigotry. As their strawman loses its heft with every sympathetic word from such conservatives as Limbaugh and Cheney and Olson, the truth reveals the Democrats as laughable bigots themselves, prepared to cast apsersions against all facts and fairness.
As I see it, libertarianism is much more naturally at home with the GOP than with the party of Slavery, Secession, Segregation, and Socialism. If Republicans do more to appeal to individual rights and the libertarians who insist on them, they will earn together the demographic balance they need to stay in the long-term fight against the Totalitarian Left.
Watching Howie Kurtz’s Reliable Sources program on CNN and enjoying a bunch of Democratic partisans (professional media propagandists like Chip Reid and Frank Sesno) sitting around wondering what’s become of their credibility. How can people who presume to set and shape the debate in this country through their high media profiles be so un-self-aware? It’s appalling that they (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, WaPo, the newsweeklies, etc.) are capable of such shameless pro-Democratic partisan hackery, but without any sense that their manipulations are an abrogation of their first public duties. You can still make money and keep the public informed simultaneously, right?
And, contrary to what panelist Lauren Ashburn says, nobody cares about objectivity in media –unless, of course, objectivity is what they’re calling context now. But who expects for-profit media corporations with ideological identities to really inform the electorate?
Un-self-aware idiots do.
I think it’s great that the President of the United States is comfortable enough in his own skin to share a beer with a couple of guys out on the lawn of his house.
But what brought him there is ridiculous, although entirely predictable: pride, arrogance, and a kind of narcissism that deserves to be examined and laughed at —for the good of the Republic.
I have zero respect for anyone who cannot see the cultish element in Obama’s support. The post-racial post-American anti-Bush makes monkeys out of men: poor little nothings (often employed as “journalists”) who are too afraid of being stigmatized as racists for making even the most basic kind of criticisms of him that one must expect of the fourth estate. How will these Democrats be held accountable if the people on the TV and the editorial boards are too afraid of false accusations? For that matter, how can we expect cops to do their jobs if we assume that they are authoritarian bullies bent on oppressing minorities? That’s what the President did. And he was wrong.
So has he now apologized to James Crowley? I doubt it.
Pride goeth before a fall.
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Why has Obama found himself inviting Cambridge (Mass.) police sergeant James Crowley and Br’er Rabbit to share some beer with him in the White House? Because he is an egotistical bastard who made a huge blunder that he cannot bring himself to apologize for. So, instead, he raises the stakes beyond all proportion (much like interjecting himself, as the President of the United States, into a local police matter involving a personal friend for no apparent reason except to race-hustle) and is now stuck with the consequences of his ridiculous pride.
And all this is going on while his party’s plans for socialized medicine are completely tanking. Where the hell is he? Off to make another goddamned stump speech? What a tedious man!
Oh, and the “teachable moment” you’re hoping to have actually happened as soon as you opened your mouth about race, Barry —and when you insulted a good man’s professional integrity in a very public way. There’s a lot of lessons I learned in that “moment.” Even Juan Williams had to say that you can’t have a teachable moment “based on a lie,” so what is even the premise of this meeting? Sounds like Crowley’s really up against it. I just hope he gets out of it without getting messy.
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He’s not sweating, really. He’s effervescing —like the insubstantial clown and stain on the American People’s judgement that he is: into the ether and between the threads.
Tapper’s question was great and also had thorns.
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I like how that boy from the AP gulped as he went in for the last clause of his inquiry.
That means he’s scared shitless, but deems the effort worthy of his own terror. They still make such reporters, right?
We shall see.
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I actually have my TV on CNN right now: if the diseased freak Michael Jackson actually is dying, I want to get my breathless, celebrity-obsessed bullshit straight from the horse’s ass.
That’s Wolf Blitzer, baby.
Fucking garbagemen, all of you.
UPDATE: That may have been the stupidest mixed metaphor I’ve committed in days. Carry on.
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