Charles Krauthammer Accuses Press of 'Accepting Every Leak Out of the White House'
Charles Krauthammer on Friday marvelously demonstrated just how in the pockets of Barack Obama America's news media are.
After claiming on PBS's "Inside Washington" that we now have a "completely compliant, pliant, supine press accepting every leak out of the White House," he silenced the entire panel by asking them to name one specific cut to entitlements the President has proposed (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: [The President] talks a good game. “Oh, I’m prepared to do entitlements, I’m ready to do entitlements.” Not once has he ever enunciated in public - other than all these leaks which I don’t trust for half a second – one structural change in entitlements, and without that, everybody over the age of nine knows we are not going to get a handle on the debt. So let’s hear him say it in public once.
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: So why is it when he offered the big deal, the $4 trillion deal…
GORDON PETERSON, HOST: The grand bargain.
TOTENBERG: …the grand bargain, Republicans backed away from it?
KRAUTHAMMER: When did he offer that?
TOTENBERG: He offered that last week.
KRAUTHAMMER: Where?
TOTENBERG: In, he did it, publicly and in negotiations.
KRAUTHAMMER: In your leaks? What’s in the $4 trillion?
TOTENBERG: But Charles.
KRAUTHAMMER: Give me a number. Explain to me what’s in it.
TOTENBERG: Why is it, in two, in matter of two days, Republicans backed away from that and said we don’t want it?
KRAUTHAMMER: You accept everything he says, a $4 trillion deal, if you don’t have a single item in it that you can enunciate.
TOTENBERG: Well, I’m not at the table. Perhaps you are, but I’m not.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well then how does he expect America to accept something in which he explains nothing?
TOTENBERG: He actually said I’m going to get heat from my own people.
Moments later when others on the panel continued with similar rhetoric concerning the President’s so-called plan to reduce entitlement spending, Krauthammer struck again:
KRAUTHAMMER: My colleagues are demonstrating a point I’ve been trying to make about how you have a completely compliant, pliant, supine press accepting every leak out of the White House. Tell me, we have been told, I’ve heard it again and again that the President’s prepared to do, to make cuts in entitlements. Name me one.
PETERSON: Charles, a complete and compliant supine press. I love that.
KRAUTHAMMER: Yeah.
PETERSON: Let’s move along.
KRAUTHAMMER: I’ve got, I’ve got other adjectives, but we’re short on time.
PETERSON: Yes, and we have to keep it on the air.
Once again, Krauthammer demonstrated a fabulous point.
For weeks the media have been telling Americans the President's big budget plan offered cuts in entitlements, but none of them can actually name what those cuts are.
Seems like that would be an important part of a report on spending cuts - specifically identifying what was going to be cut and by how much.
But that hasn't been important to the Obama-loving media during this debt ceiling debate.
If the President says his plan includes cuts to entitlements, that's good enough for them.
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Comments
The "Hammer" Strikes again!
Submitted by Bhaal on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 6:18pm.
The "Hammer" Strikes again!
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:11pm.
Krauthammer again made them look absurd.
But, but, but he is so cool
Submitted by d1carter on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 6:18pm.
But, but, but he is so cool and erudite....
This was talked about on
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 6:31pm.
This was talked about on Rush's show yesterday or today. Apparently Jake Tapper kept asking Obama in the presser to name one thing he was willing to cut, and Obama kept answering "I will....[eventually, I guess] and....but...the Republicans etc., we have to, etc.etc. no matter how many times Tapper asked the question. He never named a single cut; just kept promising that he would.
Totenberg just accepts that, I'm sure..
.He SAID he will make cuts, why can't you people just believe him??? $4 trillion in cuts!! He said so!
What happened to the 4 W's
Submitted by AGreer on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 11:02pm.
Who, what, where, when, and how.
I learned this in grade school in the 70's.
You Always Have to Challenge The Liberals!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 6:33pm.
...and when you do, there is nothing left but smoke and fog. These people should be ashamed to be called journalists. Anything, their WH mouth piece tells them to say, they populate into the air waves; without fact checking, without research for as long as the WH tells them to do it. Like Ms. Pelosi said "we have to pass Obamacare to know what is in the bill". A 10 year old can run a lemonade stand better than the idiots we have running the WH.
Actually, they can't
Submitted by 4eyes50 on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 9:24am.
according to recent news reports. Poor lemonade stands are being shut down across the country. Seems they're required to have a permit now, costing more than will be made from the lemonade sells!
The Obama lap dogs in the
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 6:39pm.
The Obama lap dogs in the media are so good at doing their master's bidding.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James Madisonmaster's bidding
Submitted by LarryG on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 2:17pm.
Just thought I would throw this in:
A newspaper (liberal talk radio, tv) is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organizer.
- Lenin
And who is the great failed attorney organizer? Christ! The state of reporting, if you want to call it that, in this country is so out of balance. Manipulation by a communist cabal.
ditto
Submitted by right of way on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 2:31pm.
after i saw the video the first thought in my head was the term "lap dog media". and a line from star wars when darth vader is speaking to the emperor, "what is thy bidding my master". this mentality is what is going to make it hard to beat obama in 2012. if the media did their job, obama is a shoe in for being a one term president.
BS
Submitted by serfer62 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:08pm.
OUT...Media has long relied on the buys-ink-by-the-barrel means of controlling the news.
IN...Tweeter, Facebook, rallies, internet, campaign buses tours, books, movies.
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Hmm sounds like someone who can beat The Won easily.
Lesson Learned
Submitted by Bourbeau on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 7:10pm.
Or, at least, it should be learned by every Conservative/Republican that goes on these talking head shows and are confronted with this mind boggling stupidity. Charles is exactly right, "Name one cost reductio; name one benefit reduction; name anything remotely comprising a plan."
When you ask that simple question, you get exactly what Charles got - Nina Totey Bag mumbling about how the President has made the offer twice but can't name a damn thing he offered; or, even more impressively, stone silence.
The problem is the main
Submitted by bmac32 on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 7:19pm.
The problem is the main stream hears what they wanna hear not what is said. Then they take that and turn it into something that wasn't said.
BRAVO...CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Submitted by cbeyer on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 7:31pm.
He is the most effective conservative pundit out there. Many would debate that...some purists even call him a RINO...which is pure B.S. He goes on shows as the ONLY conservative and takes them on. Lot different than just going on Fox News.
Actually people that call him a RINO may not know
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:27am.
what a true RINO is exactly. Charles doesn't always tow the line of anyone but he is definitely no fan of socialism/liberalism.
I watched Special Report on FNC yesterday and he was the only one of the three that gave it to Obama and the republicans alike. He may not be everyone's brand of conservatism but he is on our side.
X
Submitted by serfer62 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:11pm.
Charles is that you?
Score one for Chuck!
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 7:42pm.
Seeing that gibbering half-wit Nina Totenberg sputtering for a response is golden.
Say what you want
Submitted by TXTRUTH on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:00pm.
Say what you want about Charles, sometimes he can cut deep. I love the way after he asks for someone to name one cut Obama has proposed, the moderator says it's time to move on.
Priceless!!
Calling Obama's bluff......
Submitted by big.league.slider on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:10pm.
Listening to Obama warning the GOP not to "call his bluff" reminds me of this great piece of cinematic art. In this clip, you will find all of the current federal debt limit drama players- Obama, hapless GOP congress members, and even the lone voice of reason Harry Reid.
I don't know if this is a case of life imitating art, or art imitating life. Either way, the clip is spot on.
There are no “Presidential” cuts…period!
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:26pm.
A bit off-topic but: The budget “negotiations” (and I use that word in all sarcasm) are no longer about the financial health of our nation. They are now all about Obama’s saving face.
So I propose that the Republican’s resubmit the Ryan plan, but just rename it “The Biden Plan.” That would allow the relatively few sane democrats remaining in the House and Senate to get onboard as well as giving the supreme mullah an easy out. Of course “Mr. Peas” will claim it was his plan all along, but so what? The truth will eventually come out.
- Grump :o)
P.s. “The Hammer” really did nail those idiots to the wall… well done!
Kraut doesn't get it right
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:34pm.
Kraut doesn't get it right every time. But when he does, he nails it.
Silenced. The entire panel of Obama's media puppets. Just like Obama has been silenced. Neither Obama, nor his media slaves, have listed ANY cuts they are willing to make. None. Zero. Zip.
All they do is go on these stupid shows and say, 'Oh we're making BIG cuts! You have no idea how much we're cuttin'! That's all we're doing all day is cut, cut cut, cutting out the pork! The kings of cut, that's what we are!'
But when you ask them to point something specific out - nothing.
Where are the jobs, errrrrr, where is your plan Sotero?
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:36pm.
He can't Demagogue the Republicans if he showed his plan now could he.
Sh**tty, boring, spineless cowardly, guless, leftist, elitist talking points is all he spews.
Ideas, not from someone who has NEVER worked a day in his life, NEVER.
"Obama has promised cuts in entitlements....
Submitted by Prester John on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:55pm.
.....name me one."
(crickets chirping)
The three liberals just sat there. Even Mark Shields couldn't think of anything to say.
Classic.
"Stupid people are ruining America"
Herman Cain 2012
Charles...you are God!
Submitted by fatboy on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:03pm.
Charles...you are God!
Charles...you are God!
Submitted by fatboy on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:03pm.
Charles...you are God!
Sorry for repeating it...but
Submitted by fatboy on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:06pm.
Sorry for repeating it...but you ARE God!
Obama is not interested in cutting anything
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:07pm.
All he is after is getting enough votes from the parasites to get reelected so he can complete his task.
If the country goes TU financially in the process, what does he care?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
another Hammer strike!
Submitted by ironhead4099 on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:31pm.
I've never been a big fan of the Hammer, but when he's right, he certainly hits the nail right on the head! He silenced all of them, must like MSLED's token republican, Joe Scabro did yesterday! Hey Hammer, hit em again!
I am as aggravated
Submitted by octavioj on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:35pm.
These people in the media make me furious. As Dr. Krauthammer points out no specific details have come forward. Also the president talks about tax loopholes. But no one in the media even mentions the Republicans HAVE ALREADY VOTED for the elimination of these loopholes when they voted for the budget. That makes me mad.
No surprise to me
Submitted by Robersire on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:39pm.
Jesus warned us about Obama 2,000 years ago in many ways so there are any surprises to me from Comrade Obama.
This is something that has
Submitted by Reaver on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 9:51pm.
This is something that has bothered me for some time. If you recall the reporting during the Bush years every statement coming out of the White House was greeted with high suspicion by the media. Phrases like “the President claims” or “the White House alleges” were common but now every statement and yes leak that comes out of the Obama White House is treated by the media like the word of God.
A New Name
Submitted by BMorgan53 on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:11pm.
Hereafter and forever more, the MSM shall be known as the FM (Felatio Media) as that's what they've been doing for Obama since 2007.
Can't get a handle on Krauthammer
Submitted by JamesPhilip on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:29pm.
I get peed off when Charles bitches and complains about Palin as I am a supporter and I think he is way off base with her. On the other hand, occassionally (as he did with great gusto in this instance) he spanks the dolt liberals on this panel so hard their buttocks start hurting and they start squirming their seats.
The Hammer is good at badgering and intimidating...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:34pm.
not so good at constructive discussions.
Medicare and Medicaid are entitlements. 500bil is a number.
Jer
Sorry Uncle Jer.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:16am.
There are no cuts in there. It is more magic pie in the sky crap this administration has been spewing for 2 years.
Holding down the growth in per-beneficiary Medicare costs. --- Oh goody yummy yummy. Holding down growth is now a cut?
Reforming the Medicaid program. --- "The president's framework would replace the current complicated federal matching formulas with a single matching rate for all program spending..." ---- And this would save one nickel how?
Cutting unnecessary prescription drug spending. --- Oh my, you will cut unnecessary spending to save us money? Anyone ever look up the word unnecessary before? It takes a budget fight, a near crisis on debt levels to figure out that we might wanna cut unnecessary stuff out? 14 Trillion dollars in the hole and someone says, say, let's cut out that unnecessary spending. After all, it is not all that necessary right? I mean, that is what the un is for, right?
Reducing abuse and increasing accountability in Medicaid and Medicare. --- Here we go again with reducing waste, fraud, and abuse. Again, this takes a budget fight, a looming government shutdown, the possible collapse of the western world because we may not pay our bills, it takes a crisis for this guy to say, hey, let's stop people ripping us off, mmmmkay? Bull. It did not work in the arguments for Obamacare, it don't work now. You don't need to stop waste, fraud, and abuse as an excuse to save money.
Vet..This is how the Medicaid cuts
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:24am.
of approximately 100bil are explained by Robert Kirsch.
Jer
100 bil?
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:35am.
Well that is less then the suspected fraud?
Who?
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:37am.
Anyhoo, why couldn't the people on the panel explain this? Why does it take an Uncle Jer to say he has a proposal or 2, crappy as it is, out there?
Oh, and the headline --- OBAMA'S PROPOSED MEDICAID CUTS WILL HURT MILLIONS OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND SENIORS!! --- AKA the expendables, the hangers on, the unneeded, the foot draggers, the no-loads, the cry me a rivers, the future soylent greens, the dregs of society, the burden the needs to be shirked, the can't keep ups, the lifeboat too crowded? Guess who is shark food's, etc..
Ah,
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:52am.
Yep,
But between Jer and Obama, they have "that" super secret plan!
And were all dupes
I do love the Vet when he gets on a roll..
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:57am.
U J
Really?
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 1:15am.
I never got that impression?
Boudin...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:21am.
But you did get the impression I was posting deportation numbers "every other week". So your representations about your impressions aren't particularly reliable.
You are more than welcome to check with the Vet if you need any clarification.
Jer
I am still disappointed
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 11:39am.
You quit : [
Vet-- you beat me to it--
Submitted by milootoole on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:52am.
PLUS--let us not forget---:
September 2010 Self contradiction. Narcissism personified.
"IBM CEO Palmisano made an offer to Obama.......IBM offered to help identify all kinds of healthcare fraud......they have been studying healthcare plans, etc... and found many cases of obvious fraud and opportunities for fraud and offered to serve up that info to the White House.
Answer: Obama said "No". Don't want your help.
IBM CEO said...White House is obviously not interested in stopping fraud in medicare / healthcare.
Is Obama aiding and abetting the fraud?"
White House man speak with forked tongue.....
milootoole...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 4:14pm.
Will you please provide me with a link to that conversation?
Thanks,
Jer
cuts?
Submitted by LarryG on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 2:29pm.
So what comprises the remaining 3500 bil in the 4 trillion? Where did that number come from? I read lots of news and I guess I missed the announcement.
LarryG...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 4:22pm.
I think a chunk of it comes from the adoption of many of the proposals made by the Simpson-Bowles Deficit Reduction Commission.
Jer
Uncle Jer faced The Vet. Uncle Jer loses.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 6:33am.
Wall Street Journal: In April, the president changed course and made a speech in which he proposed a new "plan" he claimed would decrease the deficit. The terms were so vague that CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told Congress he could not score it.
Back to the chalkboard Uncle Jer.
CK: ...one structural change in entitlements... ...Give me a number. Explain to me what’s in it.... ...he explains nothing... ...to make cuts in entitlements. Name me one.
Vet...Permission requested for power point display rather
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 4:33pm.
than use of chalkboard. The irritating high-pitched screeching sound of chalk scraping board causes both my dog and my wife to commence painful howling.
In any event, my rejoinder is brief. I regrettably do not currently have a subscription to the WSJ, but I do not question the inability of the CBO to properly score Obama's plan enunciated in April. However, as I read the transcript, that was technically not what the Hammer was demanding, i.e. a comprehensive proposal sufficiently detailed to enable CBO scoring, but rather a request to provide a single number related to a specific item which Obama had put on the table with respect to entitlement reduction. I believe that challenge was met with the Medicaid example.
Uncle Jer
I read enough for all of us.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 9:28pm.
Say, my link don't work? It was showing the whole article this morning.
Anyhoo, you don't remember this?
Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, told the House Budget Committee this morning that his office was unable to estimate the long-term viability of the "budget framework" President Obama outlined in his April 13 budget speech.
"We don't estimate speeches," said Elmendorf. "We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis."
Vet....
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 9:35pm.
The link works, but it just displays the introduction to the article. To read in its entirety requires purchasing a subscription. Your quote didn't make the cut. [I think there may be a 2-week trial offer...I'll check it out.]
Jer
The 2nd one here is from the Weekly Standard.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 9:39pm.
Says the same thing and quotes the man.
Okay...got it.
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 10:12pm.
I'm not disputing the CBO's conclusion of the overall non-scoreability ot Obama's plan. That doesn't mean that specific components can't be addressed and reductions explained. The Hammer was just asking for one.
Jer
Laura Ingraham on Bill O'Reilley Talking Points
Submitted by Trosp on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 11:13pm.
Just this morning, Philippine time, I have just watched another liberal advocate being demolished claiming something about an 80% and 20% thing on your debt crisis debate.
Pathetic.
I am hoping
Submitted by Indie Dude on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 1:12am.
I hope that outside the bubble of the MSM, and Washington, we the people, normal hard working people understand that these Libs, MSM, and Obama are liars.
Totenburg knows where her bread is buttered.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 1:28am.
$4 trillion in cuts.........starting in 9 years....versus $4 trillion in borrowing...... that takes effect immediately? And Totenburg claims that's a great deal? If NPR is a federally-funded, non-profit, how do these NPR shills get away with this type of propaganda?
There was a great recent piece in the WSJ that basically said we are already screwed. Even without increasing the debt limit, if the US keeps spending at the pace projected in Obama's budgets, US taxpayers will accumulate another $14 trillion in debt by 2016.
"Everything's on the table...", "I'm willing to talk about xyz..
Submitted by krendler on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 8:58am.
How many times have were heard similar lines out of Obama's mouth, on everything from nuclear power (when it was politically expedient for him to do so) to supposed entitlement cuts he might be possibly willing to consider maybe, containing ZERO specifics but that somehow amount to $4 trillion.
Pure joy watching Krauthammer humiliate these Obama toadies.
Wow! And crickets after Krauthammer's final question :-)
Submitted by krendler on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 9:02am.
And normally these panelists are constantly talking over each other. Krauthammer silenced them with a simple question that a *responsible* press would have been hitting Obama with for months.
Liberal commentator's behavior mimic what dogs do
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 9:37am.
If a group of dogs are sleeping and one hears something and starts barking, the others will leap up and bark too, not necessarily knowing what they are barking at.
The same is true of liberal commentators. They hear a soundbite from another liberal and that's all they need. One liberal starts yapping about a "4 trillion dollar deal" and then the next one parrots the first and no one knows what they are talking about.
I adore Charles Krauthammer
Submitted by totsotvaitn on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 10:31am.
He has a wonderful way with words and phrases and is able to translate the liberal bullcrap being fed to the American People.
Charles, YOU ARE MY HERO!
the Hammer
Submitted by Farley on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 10:43am.
He is so far and above anyone else on TV and in his columns. What's fascinating is to read the comments of outraged liberal readers of his columns in the Washington Post. You can just picture them sputtering and choking as they are finally exposed to some rational, intelligent writing in that broadsheet.
Ed Morrissey had a great
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 10:59am.
Ed Morrissey had a great column the other day asking the basic question: If no deal is a catastrophe, then why is a short-term deal unacceptable? Jake Tapper echoed this somewhat in his questioning of Jay Carney yesterday, though as you'd expect, Carney filibustered and Jake eventually backed off without a real soundbite quote. Here's the transcript.
But it's still the best question out there. As Verum Serum notes, the average debt-ceiling increase -relative to time- has been about 8 months for the last 6 increases- all during the Democratically-controlled Congress of Pelosi and Reid. Additionally, all six, including the three Obama has already signed, passed without tax increases. Yet now Obama is insisting on a debt-increase large enough to fund the government for 18 months so that it won't interfere with the general election.
So, which is worse? Failing to come to an agreement and running a budget shortfall around mid-August? Or, reaching a agreement now and having to have this same conversation again in roughly 8 months? Obama seems to think that having this convesration again in 8 months could be damaging to his re-election chances, so he's rather "default" (as he and his allies in the press call it) now. This is, in every way possible, a battle with a president wholly unserious about dealing with the real issues of spending and debt; this president is willing to sell America short -and then campaign on it being Republicans fault- for his chance to reside four more years on Pennsylvania Avenue.
What's he going to cut?
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 11:02am.
Obama: "Well just go along with the deal and then I'll tell you..."
GOP: *agree*
Obama: "SUCKERS!!! HAHAHA!!! I can't believe you fell for that!!"
Media: "Good on boss! hehe! Would you like another softball interview to boost your public image?"
Dr K is Da Man
Submitted by michiganruth on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 11:22am.
I'm so happy we have Charles Krauthammer on our side! that "compliant pliant press" line is a classic. truly he is one of the most brilliant--if not THE most brilliant--commentators out there.
and the crickets after the "name me one entitlement"? that was...priceless.
there are many of you newsbuster types who don't care for Dr. K. because he doesn't support your Princess Sarah. now I like Palin just fine, but I know, as Charles knows, that running her for president would be suicidal to our cause. we MUST MUST MUST have a new president in 2012. all else pales in comparison to that. Charles understands that, and he (and I) would like to find someone who could actually win a general election.
Oh?
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:56pm.
Care to explain what's so "suicidal" about Palin? Kraut said something similar but also neglected to mention -- specifically -- what's so wrong with her. So did Geo. Will. I think those guys don't like Sarah because she's not part of the NE Snot Establishment, but that's just my opinion.
Romney and those like him would just be Bush III. They're part of the same Establishment, averse to any true person of the people. Will sneered at Reagan for "laziness," since Will has never run anything, either, and has no idea how to handle big egos or get them to do things.
Reagan won the Cold War without George Will's help. Palin is in Reagan's mold. No, not "another Reagan." IN THAT MOLD. Palin as president would galvanize the Left, pull them rampaging into the streets, and that's precisely what's needed. We no longer need doubt the Left's intentions, as we did 40 years ago.
Mitt Romney would continue to pussyfoot with the destructive, America-hating Left. I don't think Sarah Palin would. Nor would America stand for that again. Now that Obama, Pelosi and Reid have made it clear just what they have in mind for us -- poverty, criminality, black racism, hatred of all for all, paid for by normal Americans -- we can fight back with a clear conscience.
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The truth
Submitted by ironchefofmunchies on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 11:40am.
The truth is the press CAN'T name one cut to entitlements (even though they've already been leaked that information) because as soon as they name an entitlement to be cut-Obama's approval will take a hit from that group.
Thus, the press will NOT report that information, even going so far as to look THIS stupid (if you haven't watched clip-please do) rather than saying anything that might harm this President's re-election.
This is really an indictment of how badly the press looks down on the public and the public's intelligence. The fact that the press has sold out "journalism" is actually secondary.
Once the public realizes how much the media hates them-then the second fact becomes meaningless. The media's spell on the public will be broken.
The truth is the public doesn't NEED the media to bring us the news anymore. The public can now go get the news themselves. The gates have been breached, yet the gatekeepers are oblivious.
jer
Submitted by milootoole on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 4:27pm.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4366002/did-white-house-snub-fraud-fighter/
I have many more, but I have visited this site off and on for over 5 years,. I know your track record and I will not waste another minute of my time on you other than to say you are Newsbusters' Alan Colmes..
Gee, milo...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:26pm.
I apologize for my incredibly rude request and for the apparent imposition upon your very valuable time. I appreciate the link.
Jer
update. Wow...I note a total of five whole comments in your archives. I guess your time IS quite valuable. But, I must say, the ones I read were well-articulated. You should post more often.
Jer
Submitted by milootoole on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 6:28pm.
You are as I remember you. First you challenge, then you piut on the velvet glove, then you compliment. Nice courtroom technique. You have(had?) won over a host of friends here last time I looked--(quite some time ago).
Sweet talk the folks you have challenged, stroke them and admit they have some good points, yada ., yada.
When done, you still come across as Alan Colmes. I don't come her to check often, but I do recall that Matthew Dean did not buy into your gamesmanship. He challenged you daily. I, on the other hand , do have plenty of other things to do than to humor the prez of the Jer club.
Perhaps some of your longtime loyal conservative fans can provide more information on the IBM/Obama deal for you.
I, most likely, will not be back to the site to peek for a few weeks. So, have fun you slick devil.
milo...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 8:25pm.
I've been asked for links more times than I can count during my years at NB. I don' complain about it--except in the rare instances when it's solely for the purpose of harrassment--and gladly comply whenever I can. I likewise request links on occasion and generally try to ask in a polite manner. [Out of curiosity, was it the "Please" or the "Thanks" which you found especially offputting?]
But, that's how I was brought up: small town southern etiquette of the 50s and 60s. Perhaps your obnoxious boorishness is more of a natural generational and/or regional idiosyncrasy. So, I want hold it against you.
By the way, check your PMs in a day or so. You may be in for a shock with respect to your "gamesmanship....prez of the Jer club" assumptions.
Jer
Nothing boorish at all about milo, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 8:39pm.
you're just pissed cuz he nailed you with the Alan Colmes comparison. :o)
MD
Admittedly, the Colmes comparison didn't help,
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 9:07pm.
Matthew. :-)
Nevertheless, his responses were clearly and unnecessarily uncordial.
Jer
Hhmm,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 9:11pm.
So who would you compare yourself with?
Thank you for your interest, Boudin...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:53am.
Having given the question some considerable thought, it may be that the composite characteristics of several individuals would best illustrate an appropriate comparative self-portrait: the endearing wit and common sense of a Will Rogers, the passionate political advocacy of a Thomas Paine, the towering brilliance of a John Stuart Mill, the theological intellectualism of a C. S. Lewis, the healthy skepticism of an H. L. Mencken, and the comfortable array of endless perks available 24/7 to Mr. Brad Pitt.
Colmes nauseates me.
Jer
And just where, Jer,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 9:14pm.
is it written that conservatives must be clearly and necessarily cordial to a liberal?
Not all conservatives channel William F. Buckley. :o)
MD
Sorry to break up the Krauthammer love-in here,
Submitted by lsudolemite on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 4:34pm.
but he's stated multiple times now that tax increases are a necessary component to any debt-limit increase. He's put himself firmly in the camp of commentators who now want the Republicans to produce a short-term deal that raises the ceiling. It's a decent idea, but the rationale behind this seems to be "Well, we're putting forth a plan and the Dems/Obama just keep saying no. There's no way the media can blame us for that."
Uh, think again.
The fact is Republicans are terrified of the media/Obama complex. Every time Obama and the Dems haul out the "granny won't get her Medicare and SS checks", "the end times will happen if the gov't shuts down" scare tactics, the GOP folds up like an accordion. It's like football, if you have a play that the defense can't stop, then you run it over and over again until the other team shows they can stop it.
Since Obama wants to take his case to the public, then we should take Obama up on that. No more closed-door negotiations, nationally televised talks out in the open. If he's not going to honor the private talks with these repeated leaks, then neither will we. Repeatedly, aggressively challenge Obama and Senate Dems to produce a plan, and offer a short-term deal with no tax increases and specific, significant, IMMEDIATE spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling by a modest amount.
Obamalamadingdong
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 5:38pm.
After grousing and moaning about Pubs not putting anything specific on the table, Obama hasn't put anything specific on the table in over 800 days. He wants the Pubs to do that, so the press can shout and heave about how the Pubs want to starve [name your group] or deprive [name another group].
Obama does not negotiate in good faith. He is as sorry at negotiating as at any other skill a president should have. He hates America and doesn't WANT to make a deal, being perfectly content if we just drift slowly right over the falls, laughing at us all the while sending Michelle on expensive vacations, courtesy of the taxpayer.
This isn't Dem vs Pub, or even liberal vs Conservative. It's America lovers vs America haters. You don't get to stand "somewhere between," because there is no between.
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Saguaro Jack---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 6:30pm.
Two good posts on this thread.
Nice work.
MD
(Totenberg's) "But Charles."
Submitted by GG_NB on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 6:45pm.
I love it.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
No one believes this guy anymore.
Submitted by telecaster on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 3:02am.
I mean come on. No one can take anything Obama says to the bank. No one is that gullible....except maybe.......? What a joke this president has become......an obvious, sad joke.
"..if the media did their
Submitted by joev11 on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 4:55am.
"..if the media did their job, Obama is a shoe in for being a one term president.
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If the media had done it's job Obama never would have been president. If they made 1/10th the effort investigating Obama as they did investigating Bush and rehashing decades old issues such as his time in the Air National Guard, Obama would never have made it past the New Hampshire primary.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/15/charles-krauthamme...