The Obamapologists

Obviously, with the MSM so in-the-tank for Team Obama, and having bet all their chips on blue some time ago- they will now be finding it difficult to extricate themselves from the role of knee-jerk apologists for a president who's popularity is in steep decline. 


Surely many have been caught by surprise by Obama's collapsing support, and will rapidly formulating a Plan B they didn't think they'd be needing for awhile... if ever. For people with a business to run, their blind support of the Dear Leader seems to have been a reckless gamble... perhaps fueled by liberal hubris and delusions of their own power.

But many of those who have painted themselves into this corner will not be able to reverse course, and their residual credibilty will evaporate. They are actually complicitous in covering-up Obama's shady past and dubious credentials, and in the process saddled us with the most radical and anti-American of presidents. 


These media figures -the Courics, the Gibsons, Williams', MSNBC- will likely go down with the USS Obamamania, while those who put a little more effort into seeking the actual truth -like ABC's Jake Tapper- will be recognized for fulfilling their duties as more principled journalists.

The entire American media scene might be shaken to the core, and in the wake a new landscape with the traditional MSM in smoldering little bits- and new media emerging as the most likely victors. 


Obvious exceptions would be Obama pumpers at Daily Kos, HuffPo, and other online toadies who will be recognized as the propaganda organs that they actually are. It will also be interesting to note just how many people will still be reading these rags when Americans wince at the mere mention of the name Obama- and George Soros' son Jonathan isn't putting them on the top of the Google Blog Search results any more.

There are supposedly free-thinking American citizens still be deep in the ether, cheerleading as Obama re-arranges the deck chairs on the Titanic. Many seem oblivious to the fact that this administration is far more focused on quickly and irreversibly inflicting a radical liberal agenda upon this country than any practical management of our actual priorities. Monotonous drones appear on political forums and blog comments, and continue to be accomplices with MSM- willing to put a substantial, sustained effort into creating excuses for Obama's habitual dishonesty, hidden past/agenda/asscociates... as well as serial incompetence and shocking ignorance for a man with degrees from Columbia and Harvard... one purported to be "the smartest president ever" (hat tip: American Thinker).

But these poeple who are enabling this Bolshevik con-artist are doing a terrible disservice to this country, as he is doing everything possible to bring us down. His otherwise inexplicable disregard for things the rest of us hold dear -while lying to our faces about his true intent- appears to be part of a plan to gain from an orchestrated crisis- per the Cloward-Piven strategy.

This is a man who hates America because he had a bad childhood and was raised by far-left freaks... and unsettlingly appears to be a clinical narcissist in the mold of Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot. Yet there are those who still never tire of telling us how great, kind, wise, and cool he is... while doing their level-best to keep a contrasting focus on the "disaster" of the Bush Administration... just so we all realize just how good we've got it now.

Back in reality, it has become apparent to most that Obama is not only completely unqualified and incompetent, but he's little more than a racist, arrogant, self-absorbed Chicago Machine hack. His divisive comments on the Gates arrest -and nomination of a La Raza member to the SCOTUS- shows you just how far he will be setting back race relations in the country... for decades.

Many wishful-thinking or guilt-tripped voters are finally waking up to all this... although conservatives have been warning them for over a year. And Obama's disowned Chicago allies -felons Blagojevich and Rezko- haven't even started talking yet. Yet still we have those unwilling to see, many of them perhaps liberal one-issue voters who see no home for them in the GOP... and/or are directly involved with the DNC.

I'm really not that interested in the Birthers' crusade- for purely pragmatic reasons, as Biden is even worse. And you can bet that Obama planned it that way, since narcissists need to be surrounded by obsequious sycophants to confirm their omnipotence.... as-well as provide political security as an upalatable alternative. 


But as the Obamapologists aggressively try to bury the birth-certificate issue, one has to wonder why they show such energetic concern... as with Sarah Palin, if she's so silly and irrelevant... why the obsession? Is the president again hiding something? He's already been proven to be a shameless liar... perhaps even a compulsive one. I'd like to see any such issue resolved in a comprehensive manner- I'm sure not going to take Obama's word for anything, after the 12 mos of his habitual dishonesty, his credibility is already non-existent.

And the numbers don't add up here: you have a guy that is supposedly so smart... yet he will spend over a million dollars to have a bunch of lawyers fight these kind of cases in court... rather than just cough-up 20 bucks and be done with it? And why seal all his records?

And the reality that they are attempting to obfuscate is that Barack Obama has not only scrapped myriad campaign promises, is not bipartisan, and is not post-racial... but that he has actually accomplished precious little in his first six months except spend trillion$ that we don't have, reach out to the scum of the earth only for them to spit in his "extended hand"... while creating new, deep divisions in this country financially, politically, and racially. All of this is in direct conflict with his past pledges and "soaring rhetoric", of course.

Why will some people defend Obama regardless of his failures and lack of moral clarity? Is this the remnants of the Totalist Cult mentality that many of us saw developing last summer? One of the most common traits of cult members is that they don't realize it's all a scam until it's too late. This is indeed a luxury that we can't afford in this country as a whole.

If these relentless Energizer-Bunny Obamapologists aren't paid by David Plouffe's "Organizing for America", they must be willingly ignorant, and/or they really need this one to work out... bad. That, or they're as naive as an 8-year-old Girl Scout. A lot of dopey wishful thinkers voted for Obama, a terribly irresponsible act without doing their DD on his past- especially since the MSM covered it all up... while only vetting the Republicans. 


But with America's admirable tendancy for self-correction, a lot of these voters are now realizing their mistake, or at least starting to ask the questions they should have last year. This fact is made clear by Obama's plummeting support among the independent voters.But why would anybody still making wall-to-wall excuses for this guy still at this point? The preponderance of evidence would make any thinking person re-evaluate their support of Obama, you would think... or at least adopt a more nuanced position of support.

Myopic, delusional, or DNC volunteers/posters paid by David Plouffe... what else could they possibly be thinking?

Alinsky Left in Full-Court Press

With Barack Obama's poll numbers starting to look just a wee-bit shakey, and embarrassing TEA Party II protests about to put to bed the nonsensical Everyone-Just-Loves-Barack myth, it's not by chance that now we see fresh attempts at baiting fake conflicts on the right... in-order to divert attention from the president's habitual dishonesty, hubris, disregard for the law/constitution/ethics, and general all-round incompetence, while keeping the GOP back-on-their-heels for 2010 and beyond.

And the most obvious conclusion that can be drawn from their words and actions is that the Democratic Party is terrified of Sarah Palin- pure and simple.

Nobody in the GOP could care less what Colin Powell says... nor Meghan McCain, anonymous sources/"leaks" in Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair, blather from MSNBC's Obot-drones, repulsive "humor" from David Letterman, et al. But the left is attempting to create the appearance of ceaseless chaos and disunity within the Republican party- there's little doubt about that.

Various naive or disingenuous RINOs and other mysterious "sources" -with their puerile he said/she said statements- aren't news, and not relevant in any way. Obama and the MSM/left are simply exploiting them to create their own politically-useful stories and manufactured GOP "scandals".

The left have been employing despicable Alinsky-inspired divide-and-conquer and character assassination techniques since before The One was even sworn-in… promoting synthetic “fights” like Limbaugh vs. Steele, in-addition to ceaseless ridicule of Jindal, Palin, and others- even shameful distortion of the legacy of Ronald Reagan. The strategy's larger purpose is to eliminate GOP rallying points and philosophical framework for 2010/12... while making the Republicans look like they're mired in petty, peripheral issues.

Now we again have yet another crude attack on Sarah Palin, factually inaccurate and mostly unsubstantiated by Vanity Fair so as to stir-the-pot, so then the press can descend upon various Republicans to try and quote them in contradiction to one another... same underhanded game for months now.

Typical in support of this effort is calculating articles like here on Politico- telling us all how "high profile" Republicans are allegedly fighting like cats-n-dogs regarding the recent Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin. But Steve Schmidt is far from relevant- as a matter of fact after bungling the McCain campaign, his career has got to be over. But for some reason, the left hangs on his every word... how about that. Rather, I'd take Kristol's version of events- if you have any interest in the truth here.

As for Meghan McCain's latest sage advice that Republicans forgive disgraced, irresponsible, and selfish Governor Mark Sanford... well, it's just about time that her daddy finally told her to shut up. I've never met one person in my life who gives two hoots what this girl has to say- why should they?

The fact is that this poor thing is so hungry for her 15 mins of fame... but sadly is too dumb to see she's only being put on TV as a tool of the Alinskyite left, and with no greater moral or intellectual authority than, say, a Levi Johnston. But now that she's had a taste, she can't handle going back to hang-out at the mall in obscurity... and man, are they making a fool out of her. You'd think her parents would have educated her on how the world works- perhaps she wouldn't have turned out to be such a useful idiot for the DNC.

The Democrats know perfectly well Obama's poll numbers are going to be in the toilet by 2012, so they've opted for pre-emptive attacks and character assasination on all fronts- and as far as they're concerned, the best defense is a good offense, coupled to Alinsky-style diversions. As indicated by their substantial efforts in her direction, Governor Palin has clearly emerged in their minds as the gravest threat to an Obama 2nd term.

And what a coincidence it is then, that all this specious "advice" for the GOP coming from Team Obama, Pelosi, Reid, assorted B-league RINOs, and the press just happens to involve the party abandoning the principles that bring it votes and/or conflict with the Obama agenda. All this in order to morph into some sort of Obama-lite, and a silent partner in Obama's stealthy, yet radical makeover of this country. Hey liberals, if we wanted your "advice"- don't you think we'd ask for it?

It’s also not difficult to see why Democrats might prefer to banter playfully about made-up GOP “scandals” and irrelevancies like Meghan’s latest drivel than debate Obama’s ongoing destruction of the country-

Back in (MSM-ignored) reality, Obama is being largely humiliated overseas, and this week Al Jazeera harshly criticized Obama's tepid and useless "support" for the protesters in Iran- who even this pan-Arabic news network said were largely pro-American. Oh well, they won't be anymore by the time Obama's done allying himself with their slave-masters- and since they're mostly the young and educated of Iran, they will be hating us for the next 50 years now. Note that Chairman O sure didn't waste any time in voicing support for a corrupt Honduran leftist, though.

North Korea's already telling us they're going to fire missiles right at us- could you imagine that crackpot trying this on Reagan's watch? He'd have made it abundantly clear that if they struck us, Pyongyang would be turned into a glass-floored, self-lighting parking lot. What does Obama do? Issue some wishy-washy statement of "concern"- then cowers under his desk.

And as reported by Sammy at Yid-with-Lid, this week, even the far-left, uber-Obama fans at Der Spiegel ripped him a new one for his ill-advised and treacherous print-money spending. Meanwhile, the socialist bastions of Germany and Hungary this week both enacted tax cuts to stimulate their economies... a stark contrast to the United States' precarious path.

What is becoming apparent is that when the Democrats' reckless pork-n-welfare spending spree fails to create any real economic gains -but stokes vicious inflation and crashes the dollar instead- the Democrats will face significant setbacks in November 2010- which is now only 16 mos away.

The moment is fast approaching when the propaganda and immoral attacks on Palin, Jindal, and others are as exposed and despised as the Democrats' serial mismanagement of America is destined to be. There is then to be a heavy electoral price for the Democrats... while history is likely to be an even harsher judge. This could play-out as the largest wasted political opportunity of all time, with the Democratic Party not wholly-entrusted with the purse strings ever again, once we all digest the price for the catastrophic folly of Obamamania.

The employment of such bad-faith media disinformation tactics -coupled to the plastic, disingenuous front that Obama presents- is absolutely un-American. Sadly, this fits-right-in with the rest of his statist, anti-freedom agenda. Many in this country are belatedly coming to realize these things... and they don't like it.

Yet another reason to put the grownups back in charge next fall-

Of Expectation Inflation... and the Barack Bubble

For those who value the principles that our country was founded upon, the behavior of the press in the 2008 election was deeply disappointing- particularly that of the notionally-balanced, traditional mainstream media. They were at best neglectful of their duty to the nation- and at worst, flippant and borderline treacherous.

When the Founding Fathers enshrined the First Amendment right of press freedom, it was done with a consideration that duty fell to this same press to properly investigate the candidates' background/claims during the campaign process, the performance of officials once in office, accuracy of their statements, etc. Press freedom was to be a right of free people, but also a means to an end; journalists had a requisite function to supply a vital service to America, by providing a fair and efficient system for the distribution of information ... the oxygen of any democracy.

The Fathers were also likely assuming such a free press would foster competition, balancing itself through market-forces, and consequently covering a wide range of opinion. It is doubtful they ever imagined instead a biased, bubbly, and ballyhooing media could emerge, doing handstands in unison and shaking their pomp-poms for one candidate (who they resolutely refused to investigate), while treating as a leper the old friend who's usefulness to them had run-out, (former) press favorite John McCain. Obama's MSM sycophants, such as Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, and Brian Williams, in an act of monumental ingratitude, basically gave the Founding Fathers "the finger" with this shamelessly prejudiced group-think.

With the exception of right-leaning Fox News, it often appeared as if the MSM were trying to out-cheer and out-slander new media competition on the left like the Daily Kos and Huffington Post, dropping the once-valued principle of at least some semblance of balance like a hot potato. This was similar to how network TV simply walked away from prior standards of TV probity in a bid to compete with cable television's more-racy fare in the early 90's... they didn't think they had a choice. And in addition to any political bias/elitist arrogance, the media also seemed to have reached the conclusion that the role of unbiased observer simply no longer fit their business model.

Some of the MSM's talking heads have recently admitted the obvious, that they harbored a pro-Obama agenda all along... and seem to see absolutely nothing wrong with this. MSNBC's Chris Matthews states "it's my job to see that Obama is successful". I thought he was there to report the news, but Matthews has deemed it now preferable to model his work along the lines of the Soviet Union's ITAR-TASS, for some reason.
____________________________________________

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism just published their findings in a study of recent campaign coverage. Ironically, they didn't find much excellence. Instead, the data points to a strongly negative tone in coverage of McCain... in contrast to far more positive coverage for Barrack Obama. Senator McCain had one-third less positive stories... and twice as many negative ones.

In an attack that appeared concerted, the character-assassination of Sarah Palin as carried out by the media was probably more valuable to the Obama campaign than any other single event, save the financial crisis. According to Pew, Governor Palin endured triple the amount of coverage Joe Biden received... with 72% of that glaring spotlight either negative, or "neutral" in tone. And once the afterglow of her strong convention performance receded, the media came at her with guns blazing. While they couldn't effectively deny her popular appeal, they simply neutralized the unavoidable reporting of her success with diversionary, petty issues- like "Troopergate" (where she tried to protect the public from an alky rogue cop who tasered a 10-yr old ), private family issues, hypocritical feminists' diatribes, a handful of Alaskan malcontents... death by a thousand cuts.

The revelation that CBS's Katie Couric interview of Palin was edited to make her appear foolish was beyond-the-pale... but ABC's Charles Gibson reportedly did the same in his interview too. It then emerged that Couric was actually coached by pro-Obama advisers on how to "handle" Palin in the interview. As for the print media, the slanderous and disingenuous "Us Magazine" cover "Babies, Lies, and Scandal" was particularly appalling.

Conversely, there was little attention paid to loose-cannon-supreme Joe Biden's countless howlers, such as "FDR went on the television" to address the nation re. the depression in 1929... a year in which there was no public TV, no depression, and no President Roosevelt. The MSM's general lack of interest in Biden could be perhaps be explained in that if editors wouldn't approve negative coverage of Biden (no shortage of material there), perhaps the writers were too lazy or preoccupied to tackle the daunting challenge of producing a positive piece on this wholly-unimpressive and misguided career apparatchik.

The incredible display of arrogance and lack of journalistic principle in the 2008 campaign was akin to suspecting that a long-trusted friend (who's opinion you often seek and value) has been manipulating you for over a year- then suddenly one day they admit it, saying "Yeah, I lied to you... so what?- I know what's best for you anyway, stupid."
____________________________________________

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch had some interesting observations last week re. the future for the (rapidly fading) newspaper business. Murdoch said the profession may still have a bright future if it can weaken the grip of journalists and editors who have lost the trust of their readers- "... it's not newspapers that might become obsolete. It's some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper's most precious asset: the bond with its readers".

Murdoch, whose company's holdings also include new media assets such as MySpace, criticized what he described as a culture of "complacency and condescension" in some newsrooms.

"The complacency stems from having enjoyed a monopoly-and now finding they have to compete for an audience they once took for granted. The condescension that many show their readers is an even bigger problem. It takes no special genius to point out that if you are contemptuous of your customers, you are going to have a hard time getting them to buy your product. Newspapers are no exception."

He added: "Journalists like to think of themselves as watchdogs, but they haven't always responded well when the public calls them to account." He then used the example of CBS's reaction to bloggers disproving Dan Rather's 2004 "60 Minutes" report (that falsely claimed President Bush had evaded service during his days in the National Guard).

"Far from celebrating this citizen journalism, the establishment media reacted defensively.... a CBS executive attacked the bloggers in a statement that will go down in the annals of arrogance: '60 Minutes is a professional organization with multiple layers of checks and balances'. The executive then went-on to demean the bloggers that had caught Rather lying as "a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas, writing" In the end, as is now the stuff of blogger lore, Dan Rather and his producer consequently resigned in disgrace.

Murdoch continued: "A recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let's be clear about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves."
_____________________________________________

Post election, the media's Obama-fest is getting worse, if anything... with their vexatious victory lap inflating expectations beyond anything that can be reasonably expected. Since they are a capitalist enterprise, media outlets cannot be blamed for trying to cash in on any trend that they can. And, it is natural for the country desire re-unification after a long, bruising campaign. But the irresponsible promotion of the bloated Obama myth by the media has definitely entered some new and risky territory- now far past the point of helping him in any practical way.

With print media in decline, and in a terrible economy, newspapers are elated at having to run the presses overtime to meet demand, and the sound of cash-money has been addictive. As for the TV networks, NBC is releasing an Obama DVD; ABC (and USA Today) are publishing books; and HBO will soon be showing a documentary on the campaign. Of course, serial flatterers Time and Newsweek are going all-out with nonsensical, even tacky portrayals of Obama as FDR, "Camelot II", etc. when the man hasn't even taken the oath, nor accomplished one thing as president... and yes, precious little as senator too. Interestingly, one of the only publications taking a more realistic, wait-and-see approach is the UK-based Economist (which actually endorsed Obama): "With such a victory come unreasonably great expectations" states last Friday's editorial.

Come January 20th, it will be time for Mr Obama to earn our respect... and he's got a lot to prove to the less-smitten amongst us. Perhaps the press should consider taking a break from their self-righteous gloating and moralizing, and drop the premature and baseless assertions about how we have now "shown the world" that we are nice and moral after all, and have chosen a "cool" president, so we're obviously not racist, militarist- or anything like that.

Truth is, this rookie QB may have entered the NFL draft a bit early... especially considering that he never once took a snap in college. In his pending big-time debut, facing a daunting situation that would make even a seasoned vet a little shaky, the kid's about to be handed the ball at his own 5-yard line... and is hoping against hope his (media) blockers can provide adequate protection.



President John F. Kennedy had affected a serious tone in the 1960 campaign, to counter for his young age and limited experience. Soon after the victory over Nixon however, the narrative took on a life of it's own, of "Camelot" fame. The press and country simply went ga-ga over the handsome, charming, and articulate young president and his photogenic family... and it appeared to many to be the dawn of a new era.

Despite his popularity and seemingly-impressive cabinet, Kennedy promptly stumbled into the Cuban Bay-of-Pigs debacle, in which he was comprehensively outwitted by Fidel Castro. JFK was again tested soon thereafter by the Soviet Union's aggressive nuclear brinkmanship on that very same island, just 90 miles from our shores... which brought the world to the precipice of WWIII. He later proceeded to launch our ill-fated move into Vietnam in a most ineffective manner.

So, despite a few historical speeches- Kennedy's Chicago gangster connections (sound familiar?), serious strategic errors, shameless promiscuity, and other character flaws have left his legacy in tatters. To some students of history, the media's dubbing Obama's White House "Camelot II" is really not a compliment... more like a bad omen.

Obama's image as an all-knowing, transformational savior surely won't last forever, as reality is bound to intervene. It may be advisable for the president-elect to dampen the expectations that are now snowballing out-of-contol. He has made a number of seemingly contradictory pledges in the campaign, as well- what happens when he makes decisions that inevitably disappoint a section of his erstwhile supporters?

There was in the 2008 campaign still some that counted on major network broadcast/cable news for much their political due diligence. But, the day will come when many realize that they were sold a bill of goods in the heavily biased coverage of the election. They will also likely come to see just how badly they were condescended to, by a media that felt it had the right to make decisions for them... rather than put all the facts on the table.

This dawning realization of having been done wrong will perhaps come after the first international strategic setback; insatiable enemies such as Al Qaida and the Iranian regime care little if we, "The Great Satan", think that we elected a "historical" and "transformational" candidate. These enemies' ambitions aren't going to change, far from it- their agenda doesn't allow for that. And allies like Israel are planning unilateral, self-sufficient military plans... both defensive and pre-emptive in nature. As history has shown us repeatedly, simply desiring peace, or attempting to attain it through appeasement provides little in the way of national security.

The media continues to irresponsibly inflatethe Barack Bubble, with ludicrously high expectations now pushing his approval rating to 70% for doing nothing... while he faces the most daunting challenges any incoming president has in decades. Unless simply a ploy to maximize ratings and newspaper circulation, it's hard to see the wisdom for creating such exaggerated suppositions. If they are seeking confirmation from the electorate after attacking the Bush administration for years, it now seems a substantial gamble to be placing a continued unhedged bet on the least qualified president in US history.

Mr Obama faces a number of complex issues, and tends to offer liberal solutions that have failed in the past. The lack of checks and balances in a Obama-Pelosi-Reid regime is another cause for concern. And with a still unfolding financial crisis, two unfininshed wars, and other military rivals probing for weakness throughout the globe, satisfying the current level of reverie while avoiding pitfalls would be difficult for even a the most seasoned leader... which Obama so clearly is not.

Any major disappointment with the Obama Administration would make it unlikely that the MSM are ever-again taken seriously by voters. The American mainstream media have piled all their chips on blue like a Vegas down-and-outer, in what seems a last-ditch attempt to restore some relevance to themselves in the age of new media.

Now that they've boosted Barack Obama sky-high, what are they going to say when he falls back to earth... or something worse, like a real political crash-n-burn?