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Jay Carney, covering for Barack Obama, emerges from Obama orgasmatron

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May 15, 2013  •Leave a Comment
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I’ve joked about the liberal mainstream media enjoying “Obamagasms” since the day he started campaigning before his first term. But the look on Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney’s face at today press conference, presumably taking place immediately after meeting with Obama and together discussing the planned spin du jour or lies du jour, reminded me of Woody Allen playing Miles Monroe in Sleeper, as Obama_OrbMiles emerged from the orgasmatron (not to be confused with the creepy Obama “Orb” as seen at right).

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Maybe Carney was trying to goad the media into remembering the delights they used to enjoy as they experienced self-induced Obamagasms for these past several years. Ah, good times, huh, comrades? he seemed to be thinking.

Maybe Carney should have included that Miles Monroe photo in his idiotic photo montage which he displayed with a monologue this morning, as he tried his hardest to joke (yes, make jokes, in light of some of the most damning scandals in modern U.S. history) about the latest scandals heatedly discussed (as in denied) at yesterday’s Obama-gate spinapalooza. It was an embarrassing bit of theater  –  an effort at mocking the seriousness with which some media are taking the latest scandals involving corruption and distinct notes of tyranny, from within the Obamagasmatron.

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Carney’s attempt at humor in light of the fate of the United States of America as a democracy instead of a tyranny dropped like a brick, to no laughter that I could hear, by the way.

I’m pretty sure Carney and Obama enjoyed a smoke afterwards.

 



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Obama House of Lies

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Obama-goofball-003JUST THIS WEEK:

New IRS lies.

Benghazi lies.

Lies about spying on journalists working for AP.

LIES BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF LIES:

Lies from Obama about his not being being partisan, about gay marriage, about winning the war on terror, about closing Gitmo, about raising taxes, about Obamacare, about racism, about uniting America, about a phony Republican “war on women,” about “the rich” not paying their “fair share,” and so much more.

Yeah, YOU DID build that, Barack Obama and supporters.

What a disgrace.



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Citizens advancing on Obamamania media positions on the American front

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May 3, 2013  •1 Comment
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I get a palpable sense that it’s not just me and the usual Republican or conservative or at least right-thinking punditry and luminaries like the esteemed Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, whose column this week is entitled “Obama: The fall”, and author and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, who are sensing a change in tide. Noonan Tweeted yesterday,

In their most recent columns, they both point to Obama’s fall from grace and any hope of a positive legacy. More on that in a bit.

There’s so much more gong on out there. And it’s not just the fortunes of President Obama (falling) about which people  –  even uncommitted or non-partisan people  –  are taking notice of, and fighting with words and sundry postings in Twitter accounts or blogs. It’s the Obamamania media, a large part Obama-goofball-001of which is stuck on stupid and refuses to acknowledge they are getting caught in their own left-wing, progressive-politics-advocating biases and lies, which people are fighting back against. And that will fertilize the liberal mainstream media’s already seeded downfall.

Good, I say.

I find more and more citizens and an increasing number of well-equipped citizen journalists are looking askance at Team Progressive and their tactics  –  the deception, the division into classes or BS percentages (“we are the __%!”) , the projection, the obfuscation, what the media chooses to report and how, and what they choose NOT to report and why. The outright lies told by President Obama, and his pathological habit of engaging in some of the most malodorous, partisan politics and destructive politics of division: it’s starting to grate on the American people.

It’s particularly this odious partisanship  –  this seemingly endless attack-oriented campaigning  –  where he engages in hateful partisanship and then, sometimes the very next day, risibly blames and bashes his opponents of acting exactly as he, and only he, has been. He’s supposed to be the unifier. He’s the opposite. He’s supposed to fix just these problems. He’s making things worse. On purpose!

Both he and more generally the Democrats, liberals, mainstream media, academia, the trusty old Obama-loving liberal Hollywood, and the many professional left-wing advocacy industry lobbyists like the race-baiting industry and the feminist industry and the abortion industry, are more and more getting caught and called-out for their corruption of lies, hypocrisy, political advocacy, coverups, and whitewashes. Caught and called-out by plain folks.

And I love it. We are the 53%!

Here’s an excellent caught-on-tape video example of a citizen who happened to be there while another one of those useful idiot news reporters (from NBC) is caught red-handed purposely (or at the very least, through her willful ignorance) failing to report the whole story  –  which we should view in juxtaposition to how she or any of the mainstream media might have reported on a nice, peaceful tea party rally. This happened at the recent May Day mayhem in Manhattan, which almost nobody in the media (except possibly in Seattle where there were also outrageous anti-capitalist and violent left-wing riots) bothered to cover  — on account of it being another left-wing riot of left-wing mobs, instead of it being conservatives (which, if it were, they’d be sure to point out with a six-part series of news reports).

Let’s watch: (http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/03/wnbc-reporter-ida-siegal-doesnt-know-what-the-hammer-sickle-symbol-represents/)

These reporters  –  these investigating journalism sleuths –  are the same people who went to the ends of the earth to find the one “extreme” placard at any tea party rally that said anything other than “good afternoon, cuppa tea?” And when they couldn’t find one, they just made it up. This recent left-wing-caused May Day violence is something like you never, ever, see conservatives or the tea party engaging in. No, not at those always peaceful and generally upbeat and mostly family-oriented tea party rallies, no, not ever.

Other recent examples of the left’s glib treachery abound  –  and as usual, it’s the right-thinking blogosphere, and Fox News Channel, and very few others (CNN’s Jake Tapper and the liberal Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers being two of the few notable exceptions) who are pointing out the corruption.

The Kermit Gosnell abortion/murder trial and its lack of coverage is a news story which is only slowly becoming a story  –  ironically one now dominated more by mea culpas from the mainstream media for its failure to report on it  –  and only after being embarrassed by conservative Tweeters and bloggers and of course Fox News Channel, The Daily Caller, Weekly Standard, Twitchy.com, and similar truth-tellers, including the indispensable DrudgeReport.com.

The coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, in which the media tried its very hardest to be just like the Obama administration vis-à-vis Benghazi (you’ll remember they tried to lie to you and blame it on some benign YouTube video), and particularly at the left-wing joke of a news network MSNBC which tried as best they could to once again blame “right-wingers,” made for pure comedy gold. But it provided another excellent example of another phony narrative  –  which only a few years ago, the media might have gotten away with. Instead of facing up to the more obvious notion of the bombing being a terrorist attack and the result of radical Islamic jihadists, they were forced, rather quickly, and more quickly than they would have liked by this new and growing army of newly vigilant citizens, to actually acknowledge the truth. You know, sort of like what journalists are supposed to do.

The truth helps ruin the phony Obama narrative that Islamic terrorism and Islamic jihadism are but a thing of the past, what with Obama’s brave slaying of Usama bin Laden, and his doctrine of Islamist appeasement, and his downgrading of American power, and of course that “hope and change” thing.

Now, we have an excellent example of the continued unraveling of potentially the biggest of them all  –  the Obama (aided and abetted by his adoring, corrupt media) coverup of what we  –  and they, as we now know  –  knew was always a terrorist attack  –  possibly al Qaeda-linked  –  on the embassy in Benghazi Libya. The excellent reporting by Stephen Hayes at the conservative Weekly Standard about newly discovered proof of an Obama administration coverup, makes this a must-read for anyone interested in history, and truth, and honesty in government, instead of lies and Obama-style power politics. I and most of the right-thinking blogosphere have been shouting “coverup” since just after that horrific Benghazi attack happened and the Obamatons started blaming a YouTube video in place of the truth, and it’s finally getting more attention now. But again, only because the severity of the facts are being exposed, and the fact that the facts simply can’t be willfully ignored any more, because of the likes of “us”.

Back to those columns by Krauthammer, and Noonan: They both write this week of the failure of Obama. So much more can be said, and so much more will be. But I already know I will always look back on these years not just as the predictable years of the failed Barack Obama regime, but more specifically at how the mainstream media  –  and make no mistake it’s his media  –  was finally so caught up in its lies and perfidy and its left-wing or so-called “progressive” advocacy, that the regular people of the world started catching up  –  and ending it.

It’s not just Obama who failed, as Krauthammer and Noonan have written  –  it’s the media. And the people are winning.

 



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CNN and others purposely misrepresenting what Romney said. The perfidy of the media is amazing.

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September 18, 2012  •8 Comments
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CNN, in its mendacious teaser at its awful web site, selectively navigates through the “secret video” from a fundraiser in May, and conjures-up these choice words to attract attention:

“Romney was recorded saying 47% of voters will back Obama because they’re dependent on the CNNs pro-Obama news teasersgovernment and said his “job is not to worry about those people.”"

The implication CNN is trying to make, to people whom they obviously think of as complete idiots, is that Mitt Romney has been caught tacitly admitting that he doesn’t care about 47% of the American people.

To put it crassly, that’s utter BS reporting. It’s lies.

No wonder CNN and so much of the liberal media is failing.

Clearly what he was saying (and he’s totally right on about this), is that his efforts as a candidate (his “job”) are wasted in trying to woo those 47% of voters who simply cannot be wooed by someone like him, who is running for President and earnestly trying to help the 47% and all Americans, by breaking the growing cycle of dependence on government which is enslaving Americans. It’s that growing dependency which is actually harming those people and holding back all Americans (including that 47%), and America as a whole.

Meanwhile, a lying, conniving, truly divisive candidate, Barack Obama, keeps wooing that 47%, whom he obviously sees as useless idiots (or as the communist Vladimir Lenin called them, “useful idiots”), by promising them “free” goodies and entitlements galore, all to be paid for by raising taxes not on them (they don’t pay any!), but on other people: the “millionaires and billionaires.”

It’s the ugliest class warfare and outright lie I’ve heard from an American president and candidate, in my lifetime.

Some people, who don’t pay income taxes anyway, would be hard-pressed to not vote for Obama, if Obama’s willing to take money away from what he has repeatedly castigated as evil “rich” people, who pay taxes, and give it to people who don’t pay taxes. Many among them wouldn’t vote against that, sadly. So why waste valuable time and resources, as a candidate, trying to woo them away from that?

That’s what he was saying. You know that. And CNN knows it too.

Now I think Ronald Reagan actually might have tried, by speaking in bold colors and explaining these things to people in such a compelling way that they’d actually win their vote, but that was another candidate at another time. Mitt Romney is making a perfectly credible campaign calculation in not “worrying about” trying to woo many of those now reliably government-dependent voters to his side, rather than just concentrating on the middle of the pack who aren’t yet taken in by the specious, left-wing rhetoric. Particularly when, as never before, the liberal media is, without even the pretense of objectivity anymore, biased and working hard against him (as we’ve seen here), and campaigning for their man, Barack Obama.

But just look at that CNN.com teaser at right, which is where I saw this nonsense. It’s replete with anti-Romney BS. That’s bad enough. But when a news organization which holds itself out to be a purveyor of truth purposely misstates facts and misrepresent the truth, it actually rises to the level of perfidy, I think.

By the way, did you see the Tweet sent out by that CNN “reporter” Peter Hamby last week?

In case the Twitter link above doesn’t show up, it reads:

“Wisconsin officially a battleground: President Barack Obama going to Milwaukee next weekend > https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/o2012-September22MilwaukeeReception …

The link is to a Barack Obama’s campaign web site where you’re invited to donate to his campaign to help crush Republicans.

 

P.S. The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article regarding the numbers behind the “47%” :
The Data Behind Romney’s 47% Comments

Also see the transcript of Rush Limbaugh’s segment on this from this morning. (It’s what I said., only he has a few more people following him than I do.)

Also, a must listen: Mark Steyn on Laura Ingraham’s radio show

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Americans KNOW about the liberal-left media perfidy

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Is it really any wonder so media outlets are going down?  And that people no longer trust them? And that Fox News Channel continues to lead the pack?

51% Expect Most Reporters To Help Obama; 9% Predict Most Will Help Romney

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Most voters think President Obama has gotten better treatment from the media than Mitt Romney has, and they expect that biased coverage to continue. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Obama has received the best treatment from the media so far. Just 18% think his Republican challenger has been treated better.

FLASHBACK:

Majority Say Reporters Tried To Help Obama

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

As the presidential campaign comes to a close, a majority of voters (51%) say most reporters have tried to help Barack Obama win the presidency. …

Also see:

46% Say Average Reporter Is More Liberal Than They Are

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that most reporters, when covering a politician campaign, try to help the candidate they want to win. Only 21% think most reporters put the emphasis instead on trying to offer unbiased coverage. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure.

…  A plurality (46%) of voters continues to feel that the average reporter is more liberal than they are. Eighteen percent (18%) say the average reporter is more conservative than they are, while 22% think their views are about the same. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.

… Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters said in an April 2010 survey that media bias is a bigger problem in politics today than big campaign contributions.

I say let their death wish come to fruition. Let reporters and editors lose their jobs and be forced to wait tables and serve me my lattes. Someone’s got to. And, by the way, finance their own way back into actual journalism.



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Welcome to Obama’s Total BS Tour of Fantasy 2012

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Those huge, fake, Greek-style columns Obama had at one major event in 2008 are definitely too ironic to use this time around, given Obamas big fake columnswhat has happened economically in Greece recently, and the similarity of the trajectory Obama has set America on, circa 2012 BC, under Obama’s greasy rule. So this latest twist on the King Obama saga comes as a bit of a surprise. But it also provides an object lesson in how the mainstream media is covering for the buffoonery of the Obama campaign, since we can only imagine if a Republican had made the choices described here.

And who lays this all out for us? In still another surprise, it’s Obama’s apparent politics ally Politico.com, as they soberly (rather than in pure mocking tones  –  which they would if it were the GOP) describe what strikes me as one of the most cynical, awkward campaign decisions and displays of political cowardliness and buffoonery that I’ve seen in many a campaign cycle.

Let’s begin with a photo I found of Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte:

Bank of America StadiumSee, that’s where Team We Hate Corporations – Especially Banks Obama is holding their big huge event in September, which makes Team We Hate Corporations – Especially Banks Obama feel…. awkward!

Even though they accept huge donations from huge banks and corporations, and in the last election huge banks and corporations far out-contributed to Obama and Democrats compared to Republicans (in spite of the total lies Democrats have been telling you), this inconvenient truth certainly does not conform to their lies and their anti-business rhetoric.

So…

Welcome to ‘Panthers Stadium’

By MAGGIE HABERMAN
7/17/12
7:38 AM EDT

National Democrats have repeatedly touted their stand against taking corporate money for their convention in September, and so it was striking to see two emails from the DNC host committee referring to the Charlotte venue where President Obama will speak as “Panthers Stadium.”

It’s the place where the Panthers play, but it’s actually called Bank of America stadium.

(Also on POLITICO: Charlotte merchants not feeling the love)

A recent email from the host committee signed by former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile urged people to win a trip to Charlotte for the event, which will wrap “Thursday night at Panthers Stadium with President Obama.”

Another email in June made the same pitch about the stadium.

A host committee spokeswoman didn’t respond to an email. But it’s not like the stadium was ever called Panthers Stadium – first opened in 1996, it was Carolinas Stadium, and later Ericsson Stadium. Then the current corporate iteration.

As one commenter wrote, good thing they didn’t book their event at the Staples Center. They’d have to rename it “Reams o’ Recycled Paper Center.”

I know this seems like a jab at Obama over a picayune detail, but it’s really not. Oh it’s a jab, but it’s not a picayune detail. This betrays Obama and his team of phonies as illusionists no better than the Wizard of Oz. It’s emblematic of just how little respect they have for their base, and for the intelligence of Democrats and Americans generally. Or worse: this really is just how completely phony and sycophantic the citizens on the left have become for their emperor Obama, who now obviously wears no clothes;  to the extent where they have become nothing more than useful idiots, all obediently joining Team Obama into trying to sucker Americans into believing in him and them despite their deceptive rhetoric.

It’s pretty disgraceful from whatever angle you view it.



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Barack Obama was never vetted. Here’s another explosive example (or what should be explosive).

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Imagine if Mitt Romney had in any way ever joined or supported, say, the John Birch Society (which is something about which the left and its mainstream media division would set its collective hair afire, on account of the fact that the group officially stands for limited government and the Constitution, and against communists, etc).

But imagine if, when specifically asked about it (and he most certainly would, approximately 8,000 times), Romney lied about it and said he had nothing to do with it  –  and he covered it all up  –  and imagine if his top aides did too. And he and they were caught.

Imagine the shrieking and outrage  –  the hairy flames!  –  from the Left and their mainstream media division tools at NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and so on. Ever the optimist, just in case, I just donned a pair of industrial ear muffs and checked the expiration date on my fire extinguisher, as protective measures against Chris Matthews’s thrill-up-the-leg reactions, and that of all the other weird MSNBC anchors and the New York Times editorial division.

I know I’m stating the obvious, but Mitt Romney’s presidential aspirations would be over, to say the least. The infection would spread to the entire GOP and Republicans across the nation would be roundly defeated because of it. It would be cast as a national political scandal. As “Birch-gate” and such.

Yet journalist Stanley Kurtz wrote about the real-life juxtaposition of this, involving Barack Obama’s 1990′s involvement in a radical far-leftist group  –  a socialist group  –  several times. (Yeah I know, for those of you keeping track, another one!) Each time, mainstream media has ignored him… you know, rather than actually and honestly vetting their man Obama, and exposing his ties to radical far-leftists and socialists.

But now more proof has been uncovered. And again, so far at least, no mainstream media has been moved whatsoever.

Which is why I call them corrupt, useful idiots, and oblique water-carriers for Obama.

Here’s a snippet:

June 7, 2012 4:00 A.M.

Obama’s Third-Party History
New documents shed new light on his ties to a leftist party in the 1990s.

By Stanley Kurtz

[...]

In late October 2008, when I wrote here at National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my claim a “crackpot smear.” Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly maintained that “Barack has been a member of only one political party, the Democratic Party.” I rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press.

Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a “contract” promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office.

Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Party’s Chicago chapter read as follows:

Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.

Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined.

[...]

 

UPDATE:
BigGovernment.com columnist @NolteNC has been tweeting to left-wing media anchors and reporters all morning:



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Obama’s Manger: What if Kenya’s a Little Town in Hawaii?

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May 21, 2012  •Leave a Comment
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Who the heck was Obama getting to hawk his books back in the ‘90s when he was doing coke and weed and hanging out with Marxists? Whoever it was, it is now causing quite a bit of consternation for BHO’s camp because they put on his bio that he was born in Kenya. This publication, apparently, even confused Michelle about Barack’s country of origin, as this video points out.

Kenya? Now, what kind of crap publishing company gets the nation of origin wrong for a rising star and does not correct it until 16 years later when he begins his bid for the Oval Office? Huh? I’ll tell you what kind of company: a sloppy company … a sloppy, sloppy company. Or … or … a racist company. Someone get Sharpton on this now that the Trayvon case is unraveling, as this could be fresh investigative fodder for the revered sleuth named Al.

I’ll tell you who else could have made such a ghastly mistake: a company run by women. Yep, that’s it. I bet a woman made that error because we all know how women can’t spell very good. Or is it goodly? Goodish? Hold on, let me check and see if it was a chick who made the mistake. Yep, one Miriam Goderich was the one who bungled BHO’s bio. Oh, I’m sure she “mistakenly thought,” as my buddy Neal said, “that Obama was from Kentucky, misspelled it, and it got auto-corrected to ‘Kenya,’ and no one caught the error before it went to press.” I bet she got fired and has never, ever done any work that relates to Obama since … or am I wrong about that?

Now, for detractors who are saying, “Well, Barack should have spotted the typo [the only glaring typo, by the way, on the entire brochure] and demanded his agency correct it.” All I’ve got to say is that you cannot expect a Harvard Law student to be busied with checking this type of minutiae as he was hard at it with macro issues, such as studying critical race theory, black liberation theology and Rules for Radicals.

It’s only low-level authors like me who’ve got the time to check for blunders, and thank God I did because on my most recent book my publicist—another woman—said I was originally from Tanzania instead of Texas. Women. #barefootandpregnantplease.

The fail-safe is that we have the mainstream media who will clear up this issue of Obama’s birthplace and get us back to the big issues of gay marriage, free rubbers for female law students and cars that run on algae.



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Who Would Jesus Tax?

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February 5, 2012  •Leave a Comment
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This past Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama said that his Christian faith crafts his domestic policies—particularly his desire to rob from the rich and give to the poor. In my humble opinion, I think the president is getting Jesus and His disciples confused with Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

I don’t know which White House wizard crafted that speech for him, but the verse he or she gave to our Spender in Chief to back his socialism was more twisted out of joint than a Gumby doll being worked over by a frustrated Gary Busey.

I can’t believe that hot coffee didn’t spew from hundreds of Christians’ mouths when Obama took a text that refers directly to believers’ judgment and contorted it to be interpreted as a ratcheted-up government imposed higher tax rate upon those who already bear the brunt of the tax burden.

From a theological standpoint it appears as if the president takes more of an eisegetical approach to Luke 12:48 than and exegetical one—which is convenient. But who are we to judge? Judge not.

Now … before I plow on with the topic of Obama’s Christian faith influencing his policies, I thought that in our current culture of sassy secularism elected officials, especially the president, are forbidden to merge biblical beliefs and public policy. Hell, GW couldn’t even tell Cheney “God bless ya” after Dick phlegmed his tie without Media Matters, Maddow and Matthews calling him a theocratic dominionist Nazi who was violating the Establishment Clause and who, left to his own devices, would be hanging homosexuals and burning Harry Potter books. Does Obama get a pass when he parlays his faith-based policies? Shucks … that ain’t fair, is it MSNBC?

I wish Christianity did influence Obama’s politics; if it truly did then there would be an end to abortion, bearing false witness, and obtrusive government and would allow for more liberty than ever before. In addition:

• The entitlement mentality would be history;
• We’d yield up a solid Protestant work ethic;
• We’d enforce a tougher immigration policy;
• Our military would be stronger;
• We’d have a balanced budget;
• We’d see a decrease in national debt and an end to prodigal spending;
• We’d have a defense of traditional marriage;
• And we’d revisit worshipping God rather than feckless humans and their stilted and stymied worldviews.

Lastly, with just a cursory glance at the gospels, the honest reader will note that Christ Jesus never commanded Caesar or Herod to collect taxes in order to take care of the poor. He told his disciples to give to the needy, of their own volition, as worship to God and in service to mankind, and only—only—when it’s done by these means and motivations is it deemed virtuous and Christian.

Oh, and by the way, the Scripture has a lot to say about taxes. Progressives might want to put on a cup before they click this hyperlink to see what “God” thinks about Obama’s tax plan.

Amen.



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Obama’s Teleprompter Industrial Complex run amok: 3-min speech, 2 teleprompters

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August 29, 2011  •2 Comments
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(…But he’s so intelligent… and such a beautiful speaker!)

I can’t imagine how Obama has gotten such a pass from nearly all of the mainstream media on his excessive use of…  no sorry let me start again.  Obama’s obsessive use of teleprompters is now just hideous; and the media’s purposeful and studious ignorance of it is downright corrupt.

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So I liked this short piece today by Washington Examiner reporter Hayley Peterson, who also snapped the great picture:

Three minutes, two teleprompters

Washington Examiner,
August 29, 2011

President Obama required two heavy-duty teleprompters on Monday during a three-minute speech in which he nominated Alan Krueger to serve as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers.

“I am very pleased to appoint Alan and I look forward to working with him,” Obama said, staring at the large, flat-screen monitor to his right, then shifting his eyes to the teleprompter on his left. “I have nothing but confidence in Alan as he takes on this important role as one of the leaders of my economic team.”

Krueger stood silently to the right of Obama as the president spoke. Krueger will replace Austan Goolsbee, who recently stepped down as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A professor at Princeton University, Krueger served two years in the U.S. Treasury Department under Obama. He also served as chief economic adviser for the Labor Department during the Clinton administration. 

Obama did not give Krueger a chance to make any comments on Monday.

Obama teleprompter industrial complex

Obama announces that he will appoint Alan Krueger to replace Austan Goolsbee as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Photo by Hayley Peterson.

The words “I have nothing but confidence…” is stunningly deceptive.  This is a man who apparently lacks even a whiff of “confidence” in anything he says or thinks.  (Perhaps he’s right to feel that way.)  This is a man who is constantly touted as being “intelligent” and as “a great communicator.”  “A beautiful orator!” we’re constantly told by Obamamania media. 

Don’t say the Obamies haven’t created any new industry.  In addition to the huge advancement of, and his government’s “investment”  in the teleprompter industrial complex, the Obamamania media division has taken their perfidy to a new, advanced level, matching only that of the obedient, state-owned, sycophantic media in countries like China or Iran.  The mainstream media’s hideous display of hypocrisy and its glaring lack of fairness in its coverage about anything “Obama” is the biggest growth industry in America today.

Do I even need to invite comparisons to the hyper-critical and hyper-thorough analysis of every George W. Bush utterance and action  –  and their vetting of any of Obama’s past, current, or possible future opponents?  And how they’d run with this?  How they’d label them as “stupid” or at least “lacking intelligence” or “lucidity,” and at least lacking “the confidence needed to be president?” No.  This fact has become rather pedantic, at this point, to say the least.

Intelligence? I just don’t see it.



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