Posts with the tag 'Barack Obama'
While many of us will do what we can to avoid tomorrow’s ‘O’verdose, our children will not be so lucky. That’s because nearly all of them will be compelled to watch (and regurgitate via classroom assignments) tomorrow’s Oprah-infused ‘O’verkill, whether they like it or not.
Clearly, Obama’s cultists are using Tuesday as an opportunity to bring even America’s youngest children into their fold.
With fresh powder on the ground and sunshine, today was a beautiful day for sledding in New England. At a nearby school with hills perfect for the occasion, the place was packed, ironic given that classes were not in session.
Though I wasn’t aiming for it, the inevitable question came up with a couple of parents: will their children be forced to participate in this over-the-top nonsense? The consensus: short of pulling kids out of classes, resistance is futile.
Should we do that?
Partisan teachers and administrators, none of whom would have dreamed of interrupting classes for Bush’s inaugurals, are determined to ram this down their throats. One parent with high schoolers believed the situation would be particularly bad in that setting.
It’s not just occurring here: in Ohio, schools are banning viewpoints seen as unfavorable to the Obamists and in my Californian hometown, students are creating art using leftist buzzwords and connecting it to the “peace-loving” new regime.
Interestingly, so many families with children have fled Santa Cruz (and many other Californian cities) that a number of public schools have closed, with smaller, private charter outfits sometimes taking their place.
Meanwhile, Margery Eagan’s Boston Herald column tying the heroic USAir pilot to Obama has generated quite a backlash, not just here, but at their own site as well. At the New York Daily News, Mike Lupica tried the same ridiculous approach.
As for the relentless Obamist media overkill, at some point over the weekend, my anger dissipated as I realized that all of this has become so extreme that it can only help the emerging resistance movement.
Obama himself has made a key strategic error by promising the moon and making daily comparisons to Lincoln, FDR and others. Smart politicians place the bar low, but this guy has set himself up for failure from the get-go.
As Oprah, Will Smith and the other annoying, divisive figures in our society party it up tomorrow, remember that it will all be over on Wednesday. At that point, a harsh reality will set in: we’ve just elected an unknown novice during a time of great global upheaval. He will fail, it’s just a matter of when.
Obama’s rise was much too sudden and steep, the resulting downfall will be just as severe. I’m reminded of Jimmy Cliff’s classic anthem “The Harder They Come”:
So as sure as the sun will shine/
I’m gonna get my share now of what’s mine/
And then the harder they come the harder they’ll fall, one and all/
Ooh the harder they come the harder they’ll fall, one and all
Keep these words in mind tomorrow, they will prove prophetic.
Tags: Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Michelle Obama, obama, WTKK
January 19th, 2009
Inside any American mainstream media outlet today, the internal pressure to conform to the Obamist Overload is clearly enormous. For many newspapers and Barack’s over-the-top cheerleaders at NBC, newsrooms are already so far to the left that good news judgment is now a distant memory.
To see just one of thousands of examples from recent days, take a look at Friday’s Providence Journal, which features a gaggy fluff piece on a furniture purchase by the Obamas.
But those who have the courage to stand up to this wild (and frankly divisive) excess will quickly experience a newfound appreciation from grateful readers, viewers and listeners. Certain conservative talk show hosts have already recognized the need to fight back, but we are also lucky enough to have a newspaper willing to balance its coverage as well.
In recent days, the Boston Herald has carried at least two catty anti-Palin columns and today offers a sappy love-letter to Barack written (shockingly) by one of his Harvard buddies.
But it was also willing to consider that many here at home are feeling overwhelmed by the nonstop reminders of Obama’s supposed (yet unproven) greatness. Friday’s front cover provides a rare example of fairness. In an environment where the mainstream media believes it can compel us to love him, it’s a refreshing approach.
Another welcome perspective comes from conservative talk icon Rush Limbaugh, who on Friday refused to cave into the silly notion that all Americans “want Obama to succeed”. Keeping the country safe is one thing, expecting single-party rule with no political opposition is another.
From his show:
I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, “Well, I hope he succeeds. We’ve got to give him a chance.” Why? They didn’t give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I’m not talking about search-and-destroy, but I’ve been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don’t want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he’s talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don’t want this to work.
So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.” (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here’s the point. Everybody thinks it’s outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, “Oh, you can’t do that.” Why not? Why is it any different, what’s new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what’s gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don’t care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: “Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.” Somebody’s gotta say it.
Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed?
With the Obamists poised to assume power, his media supporters have now shifted their focus back to hyping “threats” against their Messiah by bitter, gun-clinging whiteys. See coverage here, here, here, and here.
For those of you not yet grabbed by the body-snatchers, now is no time to get sucked into to this absurd excess.
And finally, for the remaining respectable media types reading this, here’s a tip: it might be worth your while to check out local and state offices on Tuesday. Apparently, some workers may be planning to take a fun-filled four-day weekend culminating in local Obamist celebrations on Tuesday.
Nice work if you can get it!
Tags: Barack Obama, Boston Herald, Howie Carr, Massachusetts, Rush Limbaugh, WRKO
January 17th, 2009
If you’re in need of a fresh reality check on just how downright creepy the Obamist media cult has become, there’s no better example than this, from today’s San Jose (California) Mercury News:
The political contrasts between Obama, who arrives in Washington with the largest electoral plurality of any Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and George W. Bush, who will slink out of office with history’s most abysmal approval ratings, are stark. But as the nation’s first African-American president, and the first post-baby boom chief executive, Obama will doubtless influence Americans in ways never seen before.
Jolt of vitality
“It’s going to be fascinating to see how that spins off in terms of movies that people watch, music that becomes more fashionable, even the clothes that people wear,” says Chris Lehane, who worked in the Clinton White House and is a close confidante of Obama’s expected nominee for secretary of state, Hillary Clinton. “When you move from one era to another, you usually have all these cultural issues that accompany the transition.”
Just as 43-year-old John F. Kennedy brought an electrifying jolt of vitality ‚Äî or “vigah,” as he called it ‚Äî when he introduced the country to its new first family in 1961, much of the excitement about the Obamas swirls around 7-year-old Sasha and 10-year-old Malia, the first pair of young children to move into the White House since Caroline and John Kennedy Jr. Even hardened Washington veterans still talk mistily about those touch football games at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.
The prospect of having a youthful first family again in the White House has set the nation’s capital aflutter with talk of the torch being passed to a new generation, a whole new black-inflected White House of Style. Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning style writer for The Washington Post, has referred to the adorable Obama brood as “Camelot with a tan.”
“They’re good-looking, stylish people, with attractive children,” says Letitia Baldrige, White House social secretary to Jackie Kennedy and a lifelong Republican. “And Americans like attractive people. They just do. The Obamas are going to bring a whole new style, start a whole new national conversation. And it’s going to be a wonderful thing for the country.”
‘The Obama Show’
Obamastyle is already taking hold in the capitals of fashion, media and music. If the TV audience for Obama’s campaign infomercial (34 million viewers) and the first postelection interview he and Michelle gave to the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” (25.1 million viewers, the biggest audience for any prime time show this season) were treated as a series, “The Obama Show” would be the top-rated program of the fall.
On Election Night ‚Äî with 71 million people watching on TV, another ratings smash ‚Äî former Bush adviser Karl Rove asserted that the Obamas will not be America’s first “first family” of color. “We’ve had an African-American first family for many years in different forms,” Rove said on Fox News. “When ‘The Cosby Show’ was on, that was America’s family. It wasn’t a black family. It was America’s family.”
The Huxtables first appeared on NBC in 1984, midway between the gathering of the Kennedy and Obama clans at the White House. By presenting an intact black family as successful, and unthreatening to a broad swath of white America, Bill Cosby’s hugely popular TV series helped build a bridge for the Obamas to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., says psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint of Harvard Medical School, an African-American and the script consultant for the program.
“That show represented a breakthrough in sending the message that we are just like all other American families, that we have the same concerns for our children,” Poussaint says. “It was a black family that was different from most of the portrayals people had seen on TV before.
Here, it deteriorates further:
One way Cliff Huxtable differed sharply from the characters on those shows also happens to be one of the big differences between George W. Bush and Barack Obama: their skill using the language.
As Andy Borowitz noted last week on Huffington Post, Obama “has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences. … Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama’s appearance on CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ “… witnessed the president-elect’s unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.”
In other ways great and small, what comes out of the new president’s mouth ‚Äî and evidently out of his wife’s closet ‚Äî will likely make the Obamas the center of attention no matter where you look the next four years. Michelle Obama’s election night dress ‚Äî a black and red number by designer Narciso Rodriguez ‚Äî ignited a fashionista firestorm worthy of any Oscar-night red-carpet controversy, a designer dust-up that was taken by some fashion followers as an encouraging sign of life in the capital.
“When was the last time people even cared what the first lady wore, and were dissecting it?” asks Pamela Keough, author of the book “Jackie Style,” which unraveled the mystique of Camelot’s high-threadcount queen. “That hasn’t happened since Jackie.”
During the campaign, Michelle Obama appeared on “The View” in an off-the-rack outfit she bought for under $150 at the aptly named chain White House/Black Market. Within 24 hours of her appearance, the dress had sold out nationwide.
Until now, Oprah Winfrey was the only black woman in America who has exerted that sort of powerful influence in matters of style, taste and professional aspiration. But with her confident parenting style, political acumen and that strand of Jackie power pearls, Michelle Obama is about to become the “O” the country looks to first.
Michelle Obama has also disarmed the fashion world by frequently going sleeveless. “Forget her husband, I want her arms,” Keough says. “She has gorgeous, gorgeous arms. I think we better start doing push-ups and getting our arms in shape, because sleeveless is back.”
All the early attention to what the Obamas are wearing suggests a hunger for glamour ‚Äî even, or maybe especially, if it’s done on a budget ‚Äî following an era of staid pantsuits worn by Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. Nancy Reagan’s expensive designer wear was nice if you happened to be a size 2.
Hip Lincoln bedroom
On the social front, longtime Washington hands are anticipating the return of glittering state dinners ‚Äî Obamastyle, of course ‚Äî that should go a long way toward banishing the gloom that’s lingered over the town during George W. Bush’s ghastly second term. At times, the White House incumbent has felt less like an occupant than occupier.
“Forget the Oscars,” Keough says. “I think state dinners are going to be big national social events. With the Obamas, there’s clearly a renewed sense of optimism and style, just a sense of joy that we’re back from the wilderness.”
Amazingly, that’s just an excerpt from this work of art.
It’s one thing to support a candidate and wish him well once he has achieved victory, but this is positively, stunningly creepy coverage.
Will it be possible to deprogram these people? Could modern medical treatment save them?
And with these weirdos in control, what happens to our country?
Tags: Alvin F. Poussaint, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Chris Lehane, Cliff Huxtable, Hillary Clinton, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Karl Rove, Michelle Obama
November 23rd, 2008
Though he hasn’t even taken office, schools, parks and streets are already being renamed for Barack Obama.
All of this for a guy whose battle plan apparently ended on election day and has subsequently handed his power over to the Clintons so he can serve as their figurehead.
Worse, he’s chosen a snooty private institution for his own daughters, so why would public schools want to celebrate that?
Tags: Barack Obama, election day, the Clintons
November 21st, 2008
From here, what will become of Obama’s creepy cult? As the body snatchers demand total compliance to the Dear Leader, does it grow, or will disillusionment quickly set in?
For now at least, it’s a powerful sect, one which will soon have control of every branch of government.
During my trip to DC this week (read more about what I encountered here), the Borders bookstore inside Terminal A at Logan took the prize for creepiest cult-like displays.
Upon entering the tiny outlet, the customer is bombarded with prominently-placed images of the Messiah on books, magazines, souvenirs and even Obama playing cards (a bargain at $9.95 per deck).
At Reagan National Airport (probably soon to be renamed for Obama himself), it wasn’t much better, with those life-size cardboard cut-outs I previously saw at Newbury Comics featured in several shops.
But at least I wasn’t forced to look at Obama’s goofy face when buying a Metro ticket, as those won’t be issued until January, according to the Politico.
Why are Obama’s followers so determined to plaster his face all over everything in sight? How far will they take this?
Tags: Barack Obama, borders bookstore, newbury comics, reagan national airport
November 20th, 2008
Just back from DC, where I encountered Obama cultists in the flesh, infiltrated an event and even got into a debate with one of the Dear Leader’s campaign managers at a cigar-filled restaurant.
And sure enough, all kinds of crap was going on around here while I was away:
– My email in-box was filled with folks wondering how I could have missed the arrest of yet another Entercommie employee, this time a WEEI air personality on vehicular homicide charges.
Do we need a full-time person here at SaveWRKO just to handle the media police beat?
Until Entercom fails and (hopefully) more competent owners take over, however, there’s not much that can be done. The company has a history of poor hiring decisions based on emotion, sheer incompetence and bizarre agendas. That has led to similar flaps nationwide.
Entercom WILL collapse, it’s just a matter of when. Do they figure out how to survive a bit longer, or disappear before the end of the year? Even failed CEO David Field may not know the answer.
In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers are with Barbara Riley, who has just lost her 19-year-old son to yet another drunk driver.
– How soon will the word “embattled” be used to describe deranged Senate President Therese Murray (D- Furybury) and Mayor-For-Life Menino? Can’t think of two more deserving individuals.
– For another reason why local talk radio beats syndication in New England, look no further than this story: State House page arrested on ammo, pot charges.
Tags: Barack Obama, Barbara Riley, Entercom, New England, therese murray, WRKO
November 19th, 2008
Just posted at the Radio Equalizer, see it here.
Tags: Barack Obama, economic trade
November 15th, 2008
The creepy Obama cult’s followers continue to push forward with a weird, but so far successful push to have the Dear Leader dominate every aspect of our lives.
Even visiting a local mall yesterday, it was impossible to escape Obama overkill. At the entrance to Newbury Comics, there was a lifesize image of the Messiah, apparently to let us all know they have been fully indoctrinated and expect us to follow suit.
And just try to find a newspaper without the Chosen One’s photo on the cover and glowing coverage inside, it’s nearly impossible. Turn on the local news and the anchors lead off with partisan propaganda about how Obama is going to save the world.
For its part, talk radio is gearing up to fight him for as long as possible and ready to beat back their attempts to wipe out the medium.
Sunday, I was interviewed for a live Monday morning drive time talk program in Canberra, Australia. The host seemed alarmed by what was going on here and told me that any successful move to shut down opposition voices in America would quickly be emulated by his own government as well.
I tried to reassure his listeners that 58 million Americans who didn’t join the cult are ready to fight for this country, especially to protect freedom of expression. There are a lot of spooked people over there right now, however. They wonder what the hell is going on here.
I wish I had a better answer, as McCain’s crappy campaign explains only part of the problem.
But the hands-down creepiest development on the Obama front is news that a movement is underway to create a national holiday to honor the Dear Leader himself. No, that’s NOT a joke, I wish it were.
Obama’s support base has now moved so far into cult territory that there’s really no distinction between his followers and those who followed Jim Jones to Guyana, other than in terms of size and scope.
As Americans, we’ve long viewed ourselves as above the sort of extreme movements that have brought (often initally democratically-elected) dictators to power elsewhere. Obama is quickly becoming our Chavez, Castro or Ahmadinejad.
Will his supporters wake up before it is too late? I doubt it, the brainwashing is now complete.
Tags: America, Barack Obama, freedom of expression, morning drive time, talk radio
November 10th, 2008
Another silver lining coming from Election 2008 is that the left really blew their wad on Obama: $700 million they won’t have to defend Congress in 2010.
With the financial meltdown further wiping out wealthy white suburban boomer Obama supporters, they will be strapped for cash next time around. And when the inevitable disillusionment with Obama quickly sets in, they won’t want to give Corruptocrats another penny anyway.
Meanwhile, conservatives held back this year because McCain was forced upon them and due to his reliance on public financing, a fatal error. They’re already gearing up for a repeat of 1994 in 2010 and 2012.
In Massachusetts, we have similar good news, as labor unions blew $7 million on an income tax repeal measure that probably wouldn’t have passed anyway. Here are the numbers from the pro-One camp:
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BALLOT QUESTION 1 RESULTS BY THE NUMBERS
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$7,000,000 in Union dues and Union in-kind contributions swelled our
opponents War Chest and overwhelmed our private fundraising efforts.
Teachers Unions pumped in $5,687,565 – 86% of all “NO on Question 1” money, 93% of the cost of all “NO on 1” advertising.
With the Committee For Small Government as YES on Ballot Question 1, and the Teachers Unions and their Allies as NO on 1, here’s Question 1 by-the-numbers:
2008 Votes on Ballot Question 1
YES: 901,802 (30%)
NO: 2,063,891 (70%) – 1,162,089 more votes than us.
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2008 Cash and In-Kind Donations Ballot Question 1 – through 11-1-08
YES: $487,491
NO: $7,268,816 — $6,781,325 more than us.
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2008 Petitioning Expenses on Ballot Question 1
YES: $304,000
NO: Zero cost — $304,000 LESS cost than us.
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2008 Advertising Spending on Ballot Question 1
YES: $81,000
NO: $6,120,000 – $6,039,000 MORE money for advertising than us. 76 times our ad spending (as of the 11/5/08 campaign finance report.
With the economy on a long road to recovery, especially with a novice now in charge, these guys are going to have a tough time coming up with two nickels to rub together next time. The warchest is depleted.
They got their people in office, now, let the backlash begin!
Tags: Ballot Question 1, Barack Obama, campaign finance report, Congress, election 2008, fundraising efforts, Massachusetts, Petitioning, teachers unions
November 7th, 2008
I don’t think it’s much of a surprise to anyone that Question One was defeated.
Even in some South Shore towns where McCain is actually beating Obama, the income tax repeal initiative is being crushed.
Public sector unions spent (wasted?) millions fighting it, even though it probably never would have passed.
And yet, this could have been a great year for a measure like this, if only it had been a bit less radical.
I do believe taxpayer advocates should try again, but with a measure that reaffirms the electorate’s previous desire to cut the rate to a flat 5%. At best, a 4% measure might have a prayer.
But to push to eliminate the tax entirely in two years, without having the war chest to make the case for it, is an exercise in futility.
When even McCain voters aren’t backing the measure, it’s time to rethink the strategy.
Tags: Barack Obama, mccain voters, South Shore, taxpayer advocates
November 4th, 2008
