' Not a Parody': Newsweek Writer Faults Halperin for Distracting from GOP 'Threatening to Blow Up the World Economy'
Under the headline "Not a Parody," Jonah Goldberg highlighted a piece on Mark Halperin's crotch reference on Morning Joe. The writer is Michelle Goldberg (no relation), a "senior contributing writer for The Daily Beast/Newsweek." She insisted the D-word was bad, but "His far greater sin: being so cowed by conservatives that he’s offended by Obama’s mild poke at the GOP." He touted the introduction:
Here's why Mark Halperin is a disgrace. It's not because he used a mild obscenity to describe our president on Morning Joe, disrespectful as that was. Rather, it was the circumstances of the slur. Right now, the Republican Party is threatening to blow up the world economy unless Democrats agree to savage cuts in spending while refusing any of the revenue increases that all serious economists say are necessary to actually address the national debt. Obama, whose greatest fault in office has been a misplaced faith in the GOP's capacity for reasonableness, went on television and chided the party for this stance. Apparently, this struck Halperin as unreasonable. His response embodies all that's rotten and shallow about D.C.'s pundit class, which fetishizes bipartisanship even as it only demands it of one political party.
Jonah noted "It’s funnier if you try to read it aloud with as much drama as possible)." He added: "I love — love — this part: Obama, whose greatest fault in office has been a misplaced faith in the GOP’s capacity for reasonableness…"
He also could have suggested a dramatic reading of the final paragraph:
Because Halperin is so determined to bend over backward for the right, he can't come to grips with the central fact of modern politics -- the death of Republican moderation. Today's GOP is a congeries of Birchers, fundamentalists, nativists, and gold bugs that considers longtime conservatives like Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch unacceptably left-wing. Right now, it is playing a game of chicken with all of our financial futures, counting on the widespread fear that it really is crazy enough to unleash financial Armageddon, and the knowledge that the Democrats are not. The president tried, in a very mild way, to address his opponents' dangerous intransigence. What kind of political journalist regards that as wildly inappropriate? Halperin has given us the answer.
Goldberg is touted as "author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism." Earlier this week she appeared on the radical-left Pacifica Radio show Democracy Now to discuss her journalistic crusade against Michele Bachmann.
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It's amazing how they consume
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 1:54pm.
It's amazing how they consume their own like a school of piranha if any liberal dare speak ill of their Messiah.
The cult of personality continues...
Agree, Beuke....
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 2:03pm.
Liberal cannibalism is nasty but fun. Grab some popcorn.
Typhoid Michelle Goldberg strikes like a vexed viper trying to repel a honey badger. Of course, the honey badger always wins.
30 something
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 3:22pm.
anti-Christian, abortion-loving UC Berkeley grad. Classic product of her environment. Archemedes couldn't wedge her to the right.
This Goldberg woman doesn't know what she is talking about
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 2:12pm.
The total number of "true" conservatives in the national republican party can probably be counted on one hand. The remainder are pretty much firmly ensconced in the squishy middle, or even to the left of that.
The RINOs long ago took over the party and still control it, despite the number of TEA Party candidates that managed wins last November, as many of them have since been rolled by the establishment since taking office.
Her other problem is that she is a Christian-hating communist.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Revenue increases Revenue increases Revenue increases Revenue
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 2:14pm.
The American public isn't stupid, you smug moonbat. They pulled the same **** time and time again on MSNBC this morning. SShhhh - (whispering) not "raise taxes", people!
I'm so confused!!
Submitted by Morganfrost on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 2:15pm.
"Obama, whose greatest fault in office has been a misplaced faith in the GOP's capacity for reasonableness, went on television and chided the party for this stance."
Which Obama is she talking about?
Looks like a baby Amanpour
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 3:09pm.
sounds like it, too.
Here's The Fallacy of the Liberal Argument
Submitted by Bourbeau on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 3:29pm.
To the end, they'll scream and cry we can't absorb these draconian cuts in spending without incorporating tax increases to bring in more revenue. It's not that goverment is too big; it's not that we've become reckless in our spending behavior; it's not that Democrats are so brazen they do even present budgets any more; it's none of that. It's simply the Republicans are trying to ravage the poor and helpless and how dare we let them do that.
Here's a flash for the liberals; go back to school and learn something about goverment responsibility. As a country we have the obligation to provide for the poor, help the disadvantaged, and do all the social engineering you subscribe to: what you're missing is, WE'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR DECADES. We're now underwater with these programs and that's what needs to be cut. You refuse to accept the premise that the goverment is bloated and out of control; yet, you pay scant attention to the daily horror stories of goverment blowing money like it grew on trees.
Ask yourself one simple question: what has this President and this Congress done, in the past three years, to give you the slightes suggestion they get it. Have they reduced staff? Have they cut back on travel? Have they reduced staffing at any agency in goverment? Have they shown any inclination to want to do any of those things? The answer is a resound "Nothing!!!!"
Start with the cuts and then lets work on the tax code - that's the deal that will work; reduce expenses today, and tee up the tax code tomorrow. Oh, and by the way, when we tee-up the tax code, we'll just dust off Simpson-Bowles and use that as the blueprint for going forward. See, that wasn't hard.
Unfortunately fallacies tend
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 4:29pm.
Unfortunately fallacies tend to work with liberal voters.
Here's the disconnect
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 5:51pm.
Liberal government's responsibility lies in creating the poor so they can provide for them so they can look oh so enlightened and humanitarian, economy, freedom, country be damned. It's a nice catch-22 they've created for themselves and are more than willing to perpetuate.
This is all a diversion from
Submitted by dscott on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 4:36pm.
This is all a diversion from Obama's arrogant and condescending behavior. Notice that Halperin's act has diverted attention from Obama to himself, this is a liberal falling on his sword to save his master. Now notice that now the rest of the MSM will quickly take up the narrative to ensure that Obama is NOT the issue but Halperin is the issue. Notice that there was ample discussion over a period of a couple of minutes of the 7 second second delay as though they were ginning up the nerve to express the expletive.
Halperin basically said what he knew most people were thinking. Obama is a jerk (my paraphrase), an arrogant condescending JERK. In falling on his sword for Obama, he knew a transference would take place. Halperin is NOT the victim of liberal cannibalism, he is a martyr to the cause. Liberals like Halperin realize when Obama floats a lead balloon he needs to be saved from himself. The more desperate Obama becomes, the more lead balloons he risks putting out there to distract from his INCOMPETENCE. This is all about waving furiously with the right hand so you don't watch what he is doing with the left hand. What Goldberg has essentially done is set Halperin's hair on fire for a dramatic effect while blaming the GOP for striking the match. It's all good theater, but the point of theater is a distraction.
No, obama IS a dick.
Submitted by jessieH on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 5:24pm.
No, obama IS a dick.
Didn't I read in the liberal
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:04pm.
Didn't I read in the liberal press that serious economists stated unless the porkulus package passed, unemployment would go above 8 percent and the economy would be seriously distressed with GDP under 2 percent? Funny how passing the porkulus gave the exact conditions these serious economists warned against.
Funny how those serious economists always seem to mirror the DNC party line.
"serious" economists? Try
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:33pm.
"serious" economists? Try Thomas Sowell - he'll tell the TRUTH!!!
Ronald Reagan
Borrow Borrow Borrow
Submitted by LaVallette on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 2:35am.
Borrow! Borrow! Borrow!: but what idoit will lend money to a quasi bankrupt?
How about Personal Responsibility.
Submitted by THBarb on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 11:12am.
"for the liberals; go back to school and learn something about government responsibility."
If they GO back to school, they will probably have the same Professors that messed them up in the first place.
We may need to TAKE them to school and teach them a few things about economics, history, and perhaps throw in some logic. However, we should probably start with the very basics: Like
"You shall not murder. (abortioin) "You shall not commit adultery. (sex out of male / female marriage) "You shall not steal. (Excessive taxes) "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (like calling conservatives fascists) "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; ... nor anything that is your neighbor's." (tax the rich more)
(Exodus 20:13-17 NKJV)
Perhaps that's wishful thinking on my part.