The George Soros-funded Clinton front-group Think Progress expressed disappointment Sunday that conservative journalists who attended a dinner party with Barack Obama a few weeks ago haven't abandoned their political principles and become bleeding-heart liberals.
I kid you not.
Readers are forewarned to remove all food and fluids from their computer's proximity, for this is some truly hilarious stuff:
Several days before taking office, President Obama traveled to George Will's home to dine with a handful of conservative media elites. The beltway conventional wisdom suggested that Obama's aim was to "neutralize potential adversaries" by way of a "charm offensive." After the dinner, Bill Kristol explained on Fox and Friends that while "no one's mind was changed," he would "end up supporting [Obama] on some things." Charles Krauthammer joked about Obama's apparent goals, "I am brainwashed entirely. I'm in the tank."
Just one week later, Obama's right-wing acquaintances have already shown the futility of engaging in a good-faith dialogue with them.
TP then cited some statements made Sunday by Kristol and Krauthammer, as well as part of an article published Friday by New York Times columnist David Brooks.
What was their mutual transgression?
They're not pleased with Obama's stimulus package, and despite having broken bread with him at George Will's house, had the nerve to actually say so.
Imagine the chutzpah!
The president-elect takes the time to meet with you, and you have the unmitigated audacity to not suddenly agree with everything he says and does?
Oh the humanity.
For additional hysterics, readers are advised to view the comments posted about this piece by TP members as they further demonstrate the absurdity in the sociopathically intolerant demanding compliance from their most-reviled enemies.
Now THAT's entertainment.
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Noel, I had followed your
January 25, 2009 - 23:37 ET by TheBigBNoel, I had followed your warning, but when I read the comments page I started laughing so hard I woke up my wife. Oops!
Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
Sorry
January 25, 2009 - 23:38 ET by Noel SheppardSorry. :-) ns
Actually, don't worry about
January 25, 2009 - 23:46 ET by TheBigBActually, don't worry about it. Thanks to your beverage warning, I ended up catching less hell about waking her up than I would have if I had spewed my Boulevard Lunar Ale all over the keyboard. Although chastised, I am honestly grateful.
Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
I followed the comments links too
January 26, 2009 - 00:12 ET by legacyrepublicanMan, what idiotic comments. Especially that Logan feeding his cat video.
Luckily, my wife was awake. ;)
comments.
January 26, 2009 - 09:50 ET by dronetekHas anyone read the comments? Its all "shoot them" and "they should die". If these people wanted a fight, why dont they start one? I'm game.
Well according to the
January 26, 2009 - 07:21 ET by motherbeltWell according to the comments, treason is now redefined as disagreeing with the current President. One commenter says:
Wake up Dems and Obama, the traitors to the country who only think of
party first and are determined to destroy anything Dems try and do for
the country. They will do anything they can to stop all legislation
that helps the country because it means that they might not get elected.
And another suggests that rather than tryign to deal with them, they should be taken out and shot.
Take heart, Mr. President; even Jesus Himself didn't convert everyone He spoke to!
Treason
January 26, 2009 - 07:31 ET by Sergeant ROCK...treason is now redefined as disagreeing with the current President.
Of course, these same lunatics believe bashing Bush was/is patriotic. The hypocrisy is nauseating.
Bolton/KEYES 2012
Bunch of geniuses over there
January 26, 2009 - 09:58 ET by BlondeNo wonder we're in trouble.
Not true
January 27, 2009 - 01:37 ET by km2002It's not true that the Democrats sat on their hands. Hell, Chuckie Schumer triggered the whole bank collapse scenario single-handedly just by his calculated pre-election innuendo that started the banks falling (I'm committing a serious blog faux pas by not taking the time to locate the citation; [1] newbie mistake and [2] I gotta get to bed, sorry). But as has been amply cited in other places, here and on other thoughtful (read conservative) blogs, the blame for this mess actually goes back to congressional Democrat initiatives, such as forcing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lend outrageous sums of money to classic lower-class Democrat constituencies that had no means and no hope of repaying these dangerous mortgages. So you can't say that the economic policies were controlled by President Bush when (1) the Democrat-controlled Congress undermined him whenever they got the chance and (2) a lot of these policies and practices go back to a time just like now, when the Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches.
km2002
January 28, 2009 - 00:55 ET by NorthCoasterWelcome aboard the life raft. Glad to hear you restate the facts. Citations don't usually become important until you want to pass on new information or you need to support a serious discussion. Citations are absolutely critical when chasing a troll with the truth.
No one squandered good faith Dialogue more than liberals
January 25, 2009 - 23:43 ET by Dee BunkBush constantly treated them with respect and got personal attacks in return.
I just read Fox News Sunday transcript with McCain and was pleasantly surprised that he's not backing Obama on stimulus OR closing of GITMO. He said closing Gitmo without a plan in place was bad and that stimulus had too much pork and things that didn't create jobs. I was impressed - Giving him more time now.
→ Too late John
January 25, 2009 - 23:50 ET by Cool ArrowJohn wilted like a flower when he had a chance to stand up to President Bush on the original $700 bn. He could have been his own man, leaving Obama and Bush on the same side (now who's 4 more years of Bush?)
What John McCain does now is simply posturing. He's sooo yesterday.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
I am so sad
January 25, 2009 - 23:43 ET by legacyrepublicanPoor Obama. All those right minded people he can't make think his way.
It is tough being the One.
Here is hoping it gets even tougher!
I really laughed at
January 25, 2009 - 23:44 ET by MidAmericaI really laughed at Krauthammer's comment:
Charles Krauthammer: “Look, this is one of the worst bills in galactic history. … FDR left behind the Hoover dam and Eisenhower left behind the interstate highway system. We will leave behind, after spending $1 trillion, a dog run in East Potomac Park.”
Dinner w/Obama
January 25, 2009 - 23:47 ET by merlin61I too laughed at Charles Krauthammer's comments.
Drudge has a comment tonight that Nancy Pelosi
claims states will be saving money by contraceptives being in the stimulus package
because they won't have to spend money taking
care of children. What a loser.
This is going to be classic
January 26, 2009 - 00:30 ET by doug1950I am looking forward to the day a couple million dollars worth of condoms arrive in Tallahassee and see what they do with them.
They could look at them and say ...
January 26, 2009 - 01:16 ET by legacyrepublican"Damn those Democrat's got small thingys. Maybe because they've been whittling them down for them feminazis."
Pelosi Brand Condoms
January 26, 2009 - 07:17 ET by Sergeant ROCKDoes that mean abortion vouchers are also in there somewhere?
Bolton/KEYES 2012
Some guest on Fox this
January 26, 2009 - 12:01 ET by Chris NormanSome guest on Fox this morning asked Bob Beckel if euthanasia was next.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
→ Chris
January 26, 2009 - 12:12 ET by Cool ArrowWas that woman a pistol, or what?
She had Beckel blustering and crying foul over his party's Abortion and Birth Control millions in the Bill.
I guess it truly is a "pork" bill.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
CA, I really wish Fox
January 26, 2009 - 13:15 ET by Chris NormanCA,
I really wish Fox would cut back on Beckel. He's a blustering verbal bully who thinks he's a tough guy know-it-all. He really brings a distinct unpleasantness to any show he is on. His claim to fame and expertise? Why, managing Walter Mondale's triumphant '84 campaign.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
→ Now that's funny
January 25, 2009 - 23:46 ET by Cool ArrowOne of the posters called for Obama's dinner guests to be shot.
Long as it's the Government doing it to a conservative, it's fair game.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
"Better to shoot the
January 25, 2009 - 23:48 ET by Blazer"Better to shoot the bastards and put them out of their misery - and help the nation out at the same time."
Never bring a bag of Cheeeto's to a gunfight son. Unlike playing X-Box in mom's basement sport, you don't get extra lives when the real bullet's start to fly.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Wrond thresd
January 25, 2009 - 23:59 ET by cocodrieWrond thresd
Libs reap what they sow!
January 25, 2009 - 23:55 ET by jarrett.edwardsHow many times did Bush break bread with the libs, and then they stabbed him in the back.
What goes around comes around, deal with it!
→ Dinner with Teddy
January 26, 2009 - 00:06 ET by Cool ArrowYeah, that night out with Teddy did wonders for President Bush.
Good thing President Bush didn't need a lift home.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
That observation bought about.......
January 26, 2009 - 05:31 ET by old croa much needed and body cleansing laugh......Thanks.
Old Cro... LOL! ...and
January 26, 2009 - 05:42 ET by bigtimerOld Cro...
LOL!
...and who says Bush doesn't have a brain?
I think he made sure he had his own wheels.
Ha, Bush is the scarecrow.......
January 26, 2009 - 06:06 ET by old croand the "O" is the man behind the curtain.
So, PrezBo had dinner with a bunch of RINOs.
January 25, 2009 - 23:56 ET by R D HelmWhen is he planning to meet with some real conservatives?
ROFL-And those red-diaper-wearing, freedom-hating commie kooks over at ThunkRegress are almost as nutty as the DU asylum dwellers.
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
Could not take anymore
January 26, 2009 - 00:02 ET by bigtimerCould not take anymore after the Waynebro and Bilbro Show.
Don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Time to Regroup
January 26, 2009 - 00:26 ET by doug1950I guess him being able to sweet talk Terrorists, Putin and all the other nefarious ner-do-wells in the world is not going to as easy as he thought.
I'm home again.
January 26, 2009 - 00:51 ET by clubchamp6Wow I should not have gone into the comments section. It was like being lost in a dark forrest. I got down to 115 comments. Pretty dark people over there. Then I saw the light again and managed to click the back arrow and boom I have awoken again. Like Dorothy in the wizard of Oz but w/ a johnson.
I thought I was the only one
January 26, 2009 - 06:31 ET by thebutlerdiditWho had read that far into that muck. I actually made it to comment 120. I guess there's only so much you can really take of this stuff. I was like BT, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The sad part is they had the one person on there making half-way sense, and they were flaying him alive. And he kept saying, of course he was a prgressive. In other words, don't deviate from the talking points. At all. Not even a hair. I noticed there were several calls for Bush'd death, imprisonment, and Krauthammer to be shoved from his wheel chair, also, for them to be put in some-sort of round cage, and then something about towel boys at gay bathhouses, or lube boys. I don't know, it got weirder as it went along, and started sound like a freaky sex fantasy instead of punishment. Or maybe in their minds they are one and the same. I did notice, also, that their grasp of economics and history are not really grounded in a real kind of reality.
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
"Think" and
January 26, 2009 - 00:55 ET by RR GOP"Think" and "progress"...doesn't seem to be much of either going on there. Just mindless Marxist propaganda and a regression to the good ol' days of Socialism that exist only in their pouty, juvenile minds.
You know, they really need to move out of their parents' basements, at least pay the old man some rent or something.
I know the type. Perpetual college students (Ward Churchill and Bill Ayers type courses...not stuff like organic chemistry and calculus), like to mutter about stuff that's so deep no one knows what the hell they're talking about...including themselves...drop names like "Hegel" and "Kant" once in a while...
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Nothing I haven't heard before...
January 26, 2009 - 01:12 ET by PewahThe comment section sounded like one of our family get-togethers just before the half of us with private sector jobs show up and interrupt the conversations being had by the other half who have been in the public sector their entire adult lives.
Liberalism = Common sense, unfettered by experience, logic or concern for consequence.
The chutzpah
January 26, 2009 - 01:16 ET by KC MulvilleWhat made me laugh at the original story was the idea that Obama could blow the conservatives away with his personality, at a single dinner ... I can't imagine that Obama is that naive and self-adoring all at the same time.
Nah, I'm sure Obama went there to "reach out to everyone," whatever he thinks that means. And I'm sure the invited guests made it clear that they intend to go on attacking what they they dislike ... but I'll bet that both sides went to embarrassing pains to reassure each other that they don't want it to get personal. ("I, too, want to say, Mr. President ..." for the fiftieth time ... ) That was all there was to it. I'll bet it was like the handshakes at the coin toss. Each side shows a little sportsmanship, just before they try to rip each others' heads off on the field.
Personally, I'll bet they all bent so far backwards to be civil and kind that it must have been a dull evening. Long pauses, broken by endless long stories. Then they played charades, Pictionary, Twister, and finished playing Halo3 on the xBox360.
The thing that I've noticed
January 26, 2009 - 02:23 ET by danebramageThe thing that I've noticed over the last decade and a half is the transformation that's taken place in the population of the left. Their arguments and insults used to be of the type an educated or semi-educated Marxist might have for his educated or semi-educated adversary. He disagreed with his enemies, but he had at least some inkling of the arguments and the principles they were based upon and conducted himself accordingly.
The kids of today are a different breed altogether. They seem to be completely uneducated and beyond the reach of reason, having been narrowly trained by their handlers to do one dance and one dance only. They very obviously don't believe what they believe on any intellectual merits of the case, but simply because that's literally all they know. I'm seeing this not only in your average street soldier, but even in those with Ivy League "educations." Their self-aggrandizing belief that they are better educated and intellectually superior to your average American, if superficially plausible in the past, has become frankly laughable today.
The upside is that, with such a low caliber of believer, the left as it's constituted today can't possibly maintain power in a democratic system over the long run. The downside is that these kids are such a pack of mindless, mad, feral dogs that their threats to murder everyone who disagrees with them are entirely believable. Indeed, they remind me of nothing so much as those Khmer Rouge kids forcing their parents to plant rice at the end of their rifle barrels in The Killing Fields...
The downside of your upside.......
January 26, 2009 - 05:37 ET by old crois, as Duh1 says, "I won". It is the "now" I am concerned about.
You might be right...
January 26, 2009 - 09:09 ET by retroconUnfortunately, "can't possibly maintain power in a democratic system..." might be all too correct -- I would argue that we might not remain a democratic system.
When more than 51% of the voting population are stupid and/or on government payrolls and/or welfare or subsidies, how do you think they'll vote? I hope we're not there, but it's not looking good.
The problem is, as fewer people carry the burden for more and more, to return to being a great capitalist nation might require a total collapse of government. Then you have about an even chance... some form of dictatorship, or a constitutional revolution.
Also, go watch the movie "Idiocracy" ;-)
According to liberals
January 26, 2009 - 02:25 ET by jcrapes4According to liberals dissention is the highest form of patriotism. At least that is what I kept hearing for the last 4 to 5 years. So now that Barack is our President we are not suspose to dissent? So what is good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander? What a bunch of hypocrites.
"Think Progress"
January 26, 2009 - 05:49 ET by blazermaniacThere isn't a chance in the world, that a liberal group called "Think Progress" is going to help things. Remember, we are talking about loony liberals.
Think? Progress?
January 26, 2009 - 07:56 ET by P. AaronJudging from the comments at Think(?) Progress(?), there appears to be none of either.
If comunism is such a great idea, why didn't they put up a picture window instead of an Iron Curtain?
Resistance is futile!
January 26, 2009 - 08:35 ET by c5thenThey will be assimilated (or put out of business). No one must be able to critisize The One! There shall be no opposition. This has been handed down from The One himself.
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012
Now let's hear again how the Right
January 26, 2009 - 09:56 ET by katiejaneis supposed to be good little troopers and not respond in kind to the Left. Someone tell me again why we're supposed to actually think the Left is interested in our opinions/positions and how they want to work in a bi-partisan manner.
The comments confirm that the Left's idea of bi-partisan is "Go along with the O " or STFU. Republicans should support those things that are good but also make sure they don't allow themselves to be used as political cover for the Left's leap off the cliff.
This little dinner get-together...
January 26, 2009 - 10:06 ET by JPR1Was this an overture on the part of Will el al, or something Obama concocted? I don't remember any lib pundits ever offering the same kind of opportunity to GW.
I only got into about 15 comments. No evidence of anyone intelligently addressing the opinions of the conservatives, so I bailed.
Here's one of the stupid comments from over there
January 26, 2009 - 10:14 ET by Karin"Come to think about it, now he could also use some of Bush’s favored strategies, invoke the Patriot Act on them and send them all (Rush especially!) to Gitmo!"
Come on kids, let's put on a show!
These people call Krauthammer and Kristol "zealots" and "extremists" as if these two perfectly reasonable, informed, and intelligent men are Iranian mullahs. Stupid moonbats.
→ I'm with you Karin
January 26, 2009 - 10:22 ET by Cool ArrowDid you know that under Obama's administration's Patriot Act, the government has the right to listen in on phone calls?
I wonder why this new President didn't rescind the Patriot Act.
Obama was quick to start the money flowing down South to facilitate the infanticide of brown babies, but not so much with rescinding the Patriot Act.
Wonder why?
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Understanding the threat
January 26, 2009 - 10:23 ET by Sergeant ROCKAnd I believe that the numbers on the 'left' that feel this way are greater than what some perceive. This is why I believe you cannot reason with the unreasonable - they should be declared the enemy and treated as such. Not compromised with, as some would suggest. You cannot expect reasonable discussion with such irrational people. So, why bother?
This threat has been brewing for decades and only in recent years, after the distraction of the Cold War was ended, has it received attention. But I fear, it's too late to stop it.
Bolton/KEYES 2012
If anyone could have been
January 26, 2009 - 11:26 ET by marpelIf anyone could have been swayed at this soiree it would have been David Brooks, I would think would have been swayed a tad. He was very very disappointing during the election, and some of his columns indicated that he was "tanking".
He did sorta...
January 26, 2009 - 12:48 ET by StarAZBrooks did come out this morning and say the stimulus thing was a crock.
so these conservatives are
January 26, 2009 - 11:55 ET by right of wayso these conservatives are supposed to sell their souls to obama for a free dinner?
Well, many Liberals can be
January 26, 2009 - 12:29 ET by Roger the ShrubberWell, many Liberals can be bought and sold so cheaply, they assume Conservsatives/Republicans are easily-bought as well.
The comments are hilarious, a Bizarro World to Newsbusters.
RINOs, Not Conservatives
January 26, 2009 - 12:13 ET by BW222Obama didn't have dinner with conservatives; he had it with a bunch of neocons and RINOs. Peggy Noonan hasn't been relevant since the Reagan Administration - the first Reagan Administration.
BW222
Peggy Noonan is now a PIMP
January 26, 2009 - 12:21 ET by marpelPeggy Noonan is now a PIMP for MSNBC. She's a "has been".
Hate to speak ill of a woman
January 26, 2009 - 12:47 ET by StarAZBUT...we call her "The Murmuring Matron" at our house. Her cols in the WSJ are getting spongier and spongier on The One.
Amen to that!
January 26, 2009 - 14:12 ET by doug1950Her column is lukewarm pap and reeks of patronizing babbling. You could curdle gasoline with most of the crap that comes out of her mouth or pen.
Don't Laugh
January 26, 2009 - 12:50 ET by slickwillie2001Don't laugh too hard at this. 'The One' is so vain and arrogant that I suspected he thought he could actually change (so-labeled) conservatives with his magic words. What's more dangerous for our country is that he probably thinks he can work his black magic on North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and Western Europe.
ditto....sorry.
January 26, 2009 - 12:57 ET by marpelditto
I hate to sound like a
January 26, 2009 - 12:55 ET by marpelI hate to sound like a "bible thumper" because I'm not. But, isn't there something in the Book of Revelations about "the false prophet"? That's what I think of Obama. It's a little scary when you think about it.
I made the mistake of drinking some water when....
January 26, 2009 - 13:43 ET by connman.....I read this comment.
WAYNEBRO Says:
This
is the worst partisanship that I’ve seen in my life. When George W Bush
was placed into office by the Supreme Court in 2000, democrats accepted
it and made every effort to work with the new President. Even though he
was doing little but taking vacations and squandering the surplus
handed him by Clinton, House and Senate democrats continued to work
with him, vote for his programs and generally gave him the benefit of
the doubt. And when times got tough, like right after 911, the Congress
worked with Bush like never before, giving him whatever he asked for.
After all the country was in a crisis.
A real bunch of comedians, funny stuff indeed!
Pssssst <whispers> Emperor Barry isn't wearing any clothes!