Krauthammer: W.H. Chamber Accusations 'Reptilian Desperation,' 'Oozes of Slime and Innuendo'
Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And so goes the White House with these attacks on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce drummed up by the “professional left’s” blogosphere that it is using foreign donations to finance political advertising.
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer however, had another take on what these attacks are. He said they’re not insane, but desperation of one of the highest degrees. During the Oct. 11 broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Krauthammer attacked the Obama administration, calling this campaign against the Chamber “reptilian desperation.”
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“Well, there's desperation and then there's reptilian desperation – and this is the reptilian variety,” Krauthammer said. “This thing just oozes of slime and innuendo, and it's McCarthyite. You make an accusation that the other side is using foreign funds. You don't have a shred of evidence and you answer, like Axelrod, 'Well, what's your evidence?' which is what McCarthy did. You'd raise suspicions about someone and the objective is not to actually make a case. It's to raise suspicions and leave them hanging out there."
Krauthammer explained how the Chamber’s overseas affiliates work and said it was a very low percentage of its operating budget. He also explained it was no different than what left-wing groups do but are rarely criticized for.
“Here are the facts,” he said. “The Chamber of Commerce has 110 overseas affiliates, which give annual dues and it is peanuts. It is one-half of one-tenth of 1 percent of its budget. Also, as the New York Times has written, not me and not other right-wing troglodytes – they’ve written that this practice of getting dues from overseas associations is not illegal, it’s not improper and it’s not unusual. We heard earlier in the show the Sierra Club and the AFL-CIO also have overseas affiliates, which give dues and they engage in political activity. The money from the overseas affiliates is segregated and not used in politics.”
He also noted the irony in Obama’s accusations, coming off his “citizen of the world” tour back during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“The accusation here is the money is being used again without a shred of evidence. And the irony here is that Obama is the man that ran on hope and change and this is a pure appeal to xenophobic fear,” he continued. “Secondly, here’s a man who said we have to be one with the world. He stands up in Berlin two years ago in a rally of swooning, cheering Germans and what does he say? ‘I’m a citizen of the world and now his use of the world is as a weapon. The foreigners – the sinister foreigners are influencing our elections in a secret way, again without s shred of evidence.”
Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large at National Review, agreed with Krauthammer’s view and pointed out that even the left-of-center New York Times failed to find fault with the Chamber’s practices, even though the White House is continuing to push the meme there is the possibility of foreign money influencing American elections.
“I think that this is a disastrous move,” Goldberg said. “I agree entirely with Charles it has a McCarthyite stink to it. And also, I think when The New York Times raps you on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper, it says stop doing something, then you keep doing it – it tends to make that part of the establishment angry.”
Goldberg’s observation – with President Barack Obama and his operatives pushing the meme, it comes off like the White House is hung up on the left-wing blogosphere.
“And I think what you’re going to see, I mean it is amazing how this president has managed to alienate not just his enemies, but friends,” Goldberg said. “This is such a sad farcical display that we’re seeing from these guys where they know it’s not true. It really gives the impression that the President of the United States is sitting around reading obscure left-wing blogs.”
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In his latest "rally", BHO
Submitted by d1carter on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:10am.
In his latest "rally", BHO looked and sounded like a street thug, very unpresidential and foreboding...
Somebody show me how to post
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:17am.
Somebody show me how to post a damn comment with this new setup!!! I like Mr. Shy just fine.....but we've got some issues here!!!
As far as 'the Hammer' goes..........when he speaks, I listen!!! He was a little slow to pick up on Boy Blunder's 'real' agenda, but once he figured it out, it's full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!!! The Hammer is one of the smartest and most sensical people that I've heard in this, or any, political climate.............and he doesn't shill for any dogma either - he just lays it out there, plain and simple...................
Killa
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:27am.
Go to the bottom of the thread, the comment box is there.
You don't have to open a new window, just write what you want and click save.
We Are The 53%
comment box - still learning
Submitted by mom_rox on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:34am.
I have to select "Preview" in order to see the Comment box. Is this happening with anyone else? (I'm using IE8)
Mom: I am using Firefox and
Submitted by d1carter on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:47am.
Mom:
I am using Firefox and I see the comment box at the bottom without selecting "Preview"...maybe it will get cleared up soon...
mom... Same here as to what
Submitted by bigtimer on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 2:53am.
mom...
Same here as to what d1 said...FF working okay with this for me.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Well I am using FF and now I
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:08am.
Well I am using FF and now I can't "cut" or "copy" in the comment box to edit any more.
Anyone know where to change my "security settings" to correct this? The notice says that's where the problem is.
The "recent comments" are on the HOME page now, not the "blogs" page. Sheesh.
I tried that, Toney.......but
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 1:03am.
I tried that, Toney.......but I couldn't get it to work......yet!!! And I STILL want to have the 'recent comments' easily identified!!! This number system isn't working for me. .....I know, I know....I'm just a rustic country boy........I'm used to simple, easy to understand things!!!
Killa
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 1:16am.
What browser are you using?
Chrome and Firefox both have the comment box at the bottom.
I don't know about IE, I hate that browser and avoid it like the liberal plague.
as far a recent comments, It will say NEW just like before next to the subject.
We Are The 53%
Jeez Toney......you actually
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 2:06am.
Jeez Toney......you actually THINK I know what I'm doing??? I just type on my keyboard - and believe it or not, I can type as fast as I can think (oh god, that is a hanging curveball for some of the people on NB!!!) - and I want to press some 'send' button!!! I don't know where or what the hell anything else is!!!! hahahahahahahaha!!! Don't worry, I'll survive somehow!!!
i still want to see the 'recent comments'............instead of having to find them!!!!
Killa
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:51am.
I will try to walk you through it if you go http://newsbusters.org/i-wonder-if-threads-will-disappear.html there.
I don't want to derail this thread.
We Are The 53%
Yeah, I saw Boy Blunder
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 2:08am.
Yeah, I saw Boy Blunder flapping his purple lips and trying to sound tough!!! I've said this before.....I'll say it again............Boy Barry is a f**king little PUNK, and I'd slap him before I'd shake his filthy hand!!!
I disagree
Submitted by TheHistorian on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:09am.
I thought he sounded like a defiant teenager who is scared Mommy and Daddy (the voters) will take away her toys.
Dennis Prager
hmmmmmm,
Submitted by texasborngranny on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 3:17pm.
this would mean that his true (gang) colors are showing thru.
Great observation
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:25am.
The whitehouse is getting all it's talking points from DemUnderground!
Democracy in action, right? Hey if the DUmmies agree, it must be true!
We Are The 53%
Bob Schieffer said it best.
Submitted by NeoKong on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:25am.
"That's the best you got....?"
They got nothing left. That was the October surprise and it was a cap pistol with a Bang sign. It they got something else I don't know what they are waiting for.
Obama solicited foreign donations
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:26am.
on his website!
Linked on Michelle Malkin's page:
Obama’s presidential campaign soliciting foreign donations on its website (via Doug Ross):
Shut up Democrats.
The real arguement...........
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:17am.
.............of the Obama socialist regime isn't where it ( the money ) comes from......it's the disproportionate amount......supposedly 7 to 1 favoring the Republican party.
The truth of the matter is the democrats are losing.....because they are losers... plain & simple.
Barack_Must_Go.....
This spineless POS
Submitted by gfrrman on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:44am.
"community organizer" is just that. He can't handle others questioning his regime, because he is nothing BUT a community organizer!! What do community organizers do? Rabble, rabble, rabble and never offer solutions to solve any problem. The fact that he has never gotten ANYWHERE without affirmative action shows his immense weakness as POTUS. How dare anyone question his "authoritae"? He is nothing but a FOOL and his ramblings reveal his naivete'. He is NOT a man but a child with a title. Throw as much s*it on the wall and see if it sticks, and it goes on and on. The Dims are TOAST!! Weak minded cowards! VOTE on Nov. 2!!
"Socialist eventually run out of other peoples' money......" Margaret Thatcher
Boy Blunder Barry Soetoro
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 1:05am.
Boy Blunder Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama IS, WAS, and always WILL BE a lightweight!!!!!
Arghh!!---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 2:21am.
So far, not so good.
Patience, patience, patience.
MD
May the force be with you
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:52am.
Or as my daughters favorite poem says
Patience is a virtue, virtue is a grace
Grace is a little girl who wouldn't wash her face!
We Are The 53%
Once again the damn
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 6:00am.
Once again the damn Republicans blew it. They should have brought up the $300,000,000 (?) that Obama got from overseas CC donations in 2008. I know the Dems said 'well that's from Americans living overseas' but the R's should have pushed it and pushed it hard and damn the race card that would have been thrown. Now they have little ammo.
P.S. I still don't like this new site and it's 'features', like all the wasted space and the ridiculous 'share' button. Sheesh!
DFTT... i must agree
Submitted by texasborngranny on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 3:20pm.
with your P.S.
Republicans are always slow
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:02am.
Republicans are always slow off the mark on stuff like that. By the time they get their act together the damage has been done and they are a day late and a dollar short.
On your technical issue, I agree about the "share" button. Who cares. Some time technology is just too much technology. Does everything have to have a link to Facebook and all those other social networks???
Besides, the "share" button is too close to the "read more" link. Every time I try to click "read more" I slide past the "share" and it lights up.
.....
Submitted by texasborngranny on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 3:24pm.
agree on the 'share' button. what i wanted on NB was a 'LIKE' button.
Rove made a good point
Submitted by KC Mulville on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:32am.
Monday Night Football was particularly dull last night, at least early in the game (later it got better). The Braves-Giants game was in commercial. So I was hunting for something to watch instead of commercials, and happened to catch Karl Rove on Hannity, just when Hannity asked a good question:
Well, why doesn't the Chamber of Commerce open its donor list?
Rove supplied an excellent answer. The original law was intended to protect donors from retaliation. It was passed in the civil rights era when contributing to the cause of civil rights left you vulnerable to racist backlash. They keep the donors private to protect them.
That's what Rove said. What he didn't say was that the White House's reaction here shows why you need to keep them private. This White House is just that low, craven, and petty that it would retaliate against any business who would oppose it. The Obama Gang is so thin-skinned, and so ready to punish non-believers that they certainly would retaliate against opponents. Naturally, any group doing business with the government would fear retaliation -- losing contracts, losing bids, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Obama Gang did this intentionally to smoke out the contributors. After all, Obama was a community organizer. This is the kind of thing community organizers are good at -- exploiting the system to its advantage.
Excellent point KC
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 7:52am.
And I think your right. These guys are as despicable as they get.
Expectation
Submitted by NevadanConservative on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 3:45pm.
These guys are wannabe dictators. (Yes, my same tired old drum, and its notes are sour... but to date they have not been reliably refuted.) Given the prize of absolute power, they will not cavil to use any tool, method, trick, to their ends.
In this case, it's a follow up from 2008 to shut those pesky peasants down and shut them up once and for all. All the marbles...and that "...last step into a thousand years of darkness."
For myself, I have volunteered with the local party... I don't own a car, I have some ready cash and a workable cell to hand. My town will NOT be made into a Philadelphia with brutes swinging nightsticks. If something like that starts, I will get in a cab, hitch, or run if that is what is needed, calling the newsmedia on the cell in transit, and the police as well (electioneering is a felony), and I will do what it takes within the law to stop it.
For all of that... as stated, these guys have no limits. If the earlies start going seriously against BHO and his crew, I would not even be a little surprised at his calling the results null, citing them as 'insurrection' or 'treason'. There are some on our side that worry that he might even call armed force down to 'insure' the elections are 'properly conducted'. Neither of these actions could be supported as anything but acts of a tyrant, in furtherance of its tyranny.
NVCon
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Submitted by texasborngranny on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 3:26pm.
right on the money, KC.
Peggy Noonan article
Submitted by inquiringmind on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 9:05am.
I thought this was a good read speaking as to why Obama is getting so much push back from Americans.
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
Nov 2nd Demoncrat Wipeout - 3 weeks away!
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 9:31am.
The Demoncrats see the trainwreck is coming, but they can't slow down the train The evening of the 2nd is going to be a lot of fun. :-)/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال