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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Cheerleaders
In her column of today, the incomparable Ann Coulter delineates one of the funniest, and yet most tragic, aspects of the current political scene: the cheerleading carried on throughout the Main Stream Media for Barack Hussein Obama. It's much too ludicrous for your Curmudgeon to excerpt; go hence and drink your fill.
Well, what did you think? Whose nose was most deeply buried in The Won's nether passage? More important, does it really matter, and to whom?
Actually, it does matter. It matters because of the character of the man who sits in the Oval Office.
There are any number of persons attempting to exercise influence over the president at any time. Some will always have more success than others. Given that one must think well of oneself to contend for the presidency in the first place, he who tells the president "what he wants to hear" -- that is, he who concurs emphatically with the president's own preferences -- will always have that as an edge. It might not be an insuperable edge, but were all other things held equal, it would carry the day more often than not.
The sole counteragent to such indirect praise is experience with the hard realities of life: regular abrasion against the laws that constrain human enterprise and innovation. He who has been sheltered against the practical necessities and limitations the common man must face will not possess enough such experience to resist groping for Utopia, according to whatever ideology he favors. He won't know to ask, when confronting a scheme for "improving society" or "solving" some "problem" much in the air, "If it could be done that way, why hasn't someone already done it?"
Inadequate real-life experience correlates very strongly with an excessively high opinion of oneself. Our Teleprompter-Reader-In-Chief is a case in point.
President Obama, if he's not merely a cleverly disguised villain who seeks to destroy the United States from his position of power, must believe himself and his circle to be a great distance above the rest of us in foresight, comprehension, and ability. He accepts every effulgence of flattery, without questioning whether it might be insincere. He grants no one who contradicts him the slightest respect. His repetitive, relentless, interminable speechmaking and world gallivanting suggests that he expects to talk his opponents and enemies into furling their banners. So either he's an enemy of the United States or the most self-exalted, utterly vain man ever to reach his office.
And the Main Stream Media have surrounded him with cheerleaders, perpetually ready to laud him to the heavens regardless of what he says or does.
There are ironies aplenty in this, starting with the number of things Obama has said and done for which a conservative officeholder would be publicly crucified. But the practical consequences are what matter most. Obama's public resolution to "fight even harder" for his agenda -- CO2 cap-and-trade, federalization of medical care, increased federal borrowing and tax increases, card-check for the unions, overall expansion of the federal government, and so forth -- in the face of undeniable popular reaction against it is sustained from below by the unceasing, unstinting flattery he receives from the media. He basks in adulation as a kitten will bask in the sun; he ignores both argument and evidence against his initiatives as irrelevant compared to the praises of persons he really respects.
Welcome to government of the cheerleaders, for the cheerleaders, and by the cheerleaders.
Given Obama's statements and actions in the aftermath of the Christie (NJ), McDonnell (VA) and Brown (MA) victories, your Curmudgeon is persuaded that nothing short of the "Mussolini cure" will deflect Obama from his course. His cheerleaders in the media will ensure that he never gives weight to the arguments against it. His henchmen are determined on it for reasons of their own, and will nudge him toward the reinforcements he needs as necessary.
Obamunism can only be stopped nonviolently by massive, nationwide electoral reversals...and even that might prove insufficient, as long as he remains at the levers of power.
Food for thought.
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What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.~John Ruskin
This is a quote my dear dad often recited to us kids. It brings me back to reality if ever I get caught up in someone’s bull. It isn’t that Maddlow, Mathews, Oberman etc haven’t heard similar advise, they don’t care. So hey, doesn’t that speak volumes to their character?
Posted by on 02/04/2010 at 10:54 AMSo either he’s an enemy of the United States or the most self-exalted, utterly vain man ever to reach his office.
With all respect to the Curmudgeon, I think this not an either/or position.
After watching The Won flounder for over a year and which direction he’s floundering, I’d say both.
Posted by Russell on 02/04/2010 at 01:28 PM"It matters because of the character of the man who sits in the Oval Office.”
Here’s how the “trickle down” theory works: the only thing that trickles down is not money, opportunity, or any of those fondly touted things. What trickles down is ATTITUDE. The second-stringers, the Pelosis, Holders et al (like the Goebbels and Goerings before them) only do things that they instinctively know the Boss will approve of - even if he or they say otherwise. If America is going to hell - and it is - it’s because Obama wants it to. The questions are (1) why? and (2) how did you manage to elect someone so UN-American?Posted by on 02/04/2010 at 02:37 PM"Obamunism can only be stopped nonviolently by massive, nationwide electoral reversals...and even that might prove insufficient, as long as he remains at the levers of power.”
During the inertia of the post-election honeymoon period, I remember remarking how FAST Obama was moving, even then. He obviously wanted to get his distorted systems in place (treating Muslim terrorists like “common criminals”, for example) before we caught up with him. Again, the parallels with early-30s Nazi Germany are quite eerie. Once it’s in place, you find that the tools you need to do something about it (the justice system, the military, the electoral system) have become THEIR tools. In the end, all hell has to break loose, to shake it loose again.Posted by on 02/04/2010 at 03:04 PMObama must be removed from office and TV screens, post haste. I’m personally enchanted by your Mussolini suggestion.
You might call me a “rope activest.” Dump the chemicals and shut off the volts, let’s go green and eco-friendly; build the public gallows.
Posted by on 02/04/2010 at 08:10 PM"Welcome to government of the cheerleaders, for the cheerleaders, and by the cheerleaders.”
Great line.
If I had pom-poms and a short skirt,
I’d stand up in front of my cats and do some cheers for you. RachPosted by on 02/05/2010 at 01:18 AMYes he must go as soon as he can be voted out (if not sooner). But what will the long-term damage be to this great nation? How long (if possible) will it take to turn things around.
Posted by Debbie on 02/06/2010 at 06:00 PMThe arrogance is simply breathtaking. He actually believes we don’t like his healthcare plan because he’s failed to explain it to us in a manner that we can understand.
Posted by on 02/07/2010 at 01:48 PMAllow me to submit for your consideration that “Main Stream Media” is no longer sufficiently descriptive. “Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind” is a more substantive description of the class.
Posted by David on 02/10/2010 at 01:34 PM
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