Legacy media beginning to see through Obama’s appeal?
Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds linked a post that I first read on my iPhone, then read again after I had returned to LA (when a reader e-mailed me the piece as it fit in nicely with a conversation we were having.
That piece is Stacy McCain’s reflection on Chris Cilizza’s piece asking whether Obama is overrated as a candidate where the Washington Post reporter duly notes that “Four years ago, that question would have been unimaginable.” ”That the question ‘would have been unimaginable’ in 2008″, Stacy offers
. . . is likely a result of Cillizza having his head inside the liberal media echo chamber where never was heard a discouraging word about Obama. Democrats were pumped up and eager for action after eight years of Bush, and having a completely untested candidate allowed them to project onto Obama whatever they wished to see there. If you bought into that hype (as Cillizza evidently did), then it was easy to imagine Obama the Light-Bringer riding to glory astride a flying unicorn, eating Magic Peace Flakes for breakfast and farting rainbows all day long.
Read the whole thing. It is fascinating to see so many folks in the legacy media saying what conservatives have been saying at least since Obama started racking up victories in Democratic primaries and cauci in 2008. Our reader Kurt shared with me this image that Dr. Sanity posted on February 14, 2008:
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You cannot resonate with people slave to their emotions. All they can understand is BUSHITLER!!1!!11 and oooohhbama DREAMY!!111!!!ELEVENTY
It is worse than talking to a Bieber 11 year old fan. With the latter at least you know that in another 2 years she will be infatuated with another celebrity and potentially after 10-20 years with none, I cannot say the same of the obamabots. I believe they will require massive dose of therapy to try to cope with the loss.
Was anybody successful ‘resonating’ (using the term loosely) with levi? I am not talking about actual facts, people like him probably believes that the ambassador in Benghazi must have done something wrong to deserve his fate, but simply pointing out that obama never wrote anything during his tenure as a ‘professor’, that his ghost writer wrote in his bio that his grandmother was a typical white person. When someone denies pure evidence how can you ‘resonate’?
During a debate, the tenets of logic must be shared. Not the case with leftists. There is no other cult comparable to the 0bama cult. Not even Camelot Kennedy comes close. Hell at this point not even Kim Sung Il comes close. At least those people are FORCED to be cultists. Our local leftists do that sadly out of free will.
I personally made the conscious decision to avoid spending time with leftists. They just do not resonate with my worldview (or resonate at all).
Comment by susan — October 9, 2012 @ 5:45 am - October 9, 2012
Susan said, “I personally made the conscious decision to avoid spending time with leftists.”
On behalf of leftists everywhere I offer you our heartfelt THANK YOU!
Comment by Richard R — October 9, 2012 @ 8:36 am - October 9, 2012
Andrew Sullivan at the Beast intones:
That is the problem with leftists. They can only name call. They fix their anger on their enemy and they get their bile roiling and they will not allow the divide to narrow, nor step away from the demagoguery.
Susan said @ #1:
And now, Axelrod is running around saying that Obama was totally overwhelmed by the endless pile of lies that Romney heaped one upon another during the debate.
And what were the lies? Why anything that diverges from the Obama narrative, of course. There is but one “truth” and that is whatever comes out of Obama’s mouth.
Again, Susan nails it by pointing out that Obamism and leftism is a cult. It is statism, fascism, communism, the Dear Leader, “Forward with Hope and Change and What’s Happening Now” all wrapped up in one endless swoon. Leftists and cultists have an extra gene that tells them what “feels” right. They consider it to be a superior, extra rational gene. Sort of an elite common sense ability that forces them to sneer at the poor suckers who “just don’t get it.” That is why leftist and cultists are the luckiest people in the world. They have each other and it is always them against the sheeple who must be herded.
Susan said:
To which Richard R replied:
I take Susan’s point. What is the use of trying to interact with a person who is given over to Obama the Light-Bringer riding to glory astride a flying unicorn, eating Magic Peace Flakes for breakfast and farting rainbows all day long, while declaring that Romney was and is a shameless liar and opportunist?
Leftists are happily and deeply delusional. They like themselves and really dislike those who are not one of them. There is no diversity beyond the limits which define the leftist world. That is what it means to be delusional.
Comment by heliotrope — October 9, 2012 @ 10:06 am - October 9, 2012
Here’s the problem in a nutshell, girls – SnObama believes his own fawning press.
As Rob pointed out – the Emperor has no clothes.
Case closed.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — October 9, 2012 @ 10:46 am - October 9, 2012
Exactly.
I can’t imagine what it is like to live in the world of Richard Rush, where not only is anyone who disagrees with you wrong, but is in fact a drooling idiot, a complete homophobe, a person who is just waiting for the opportunity to get into political power so that s/he can order you to be rounded up, put in cattle cars, and shipped to the death camps.
This really is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives are conservatives because they acknowledge that, even though they may not have made a decision, it could certainly be the right one, even if they disagree with it. Liberals, on the other hand, will accept no decision that they did not make and/or with which they disagree.
The funny part is how Richard Rush and his fellow bigots make fun of Christians and Jews (but not Muslims, natch) by pointing out God’s alleged foibles…..but then turn purple and shriek “homophobe” and “racist” when you point out the very ACTUAL failures of their god Obama.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 9, 2012 @ 11:00 am - October 9, 2012
“Inside the media echo chamber” loosely translates to “up Obama’s rectum.”
Comment by Bruce (GayPatriot) — October 9, 2012 @ 11:31 am - October 9, 2012
Damnit, Bruce @6—you beat me to it!
Comment by Bastiat Fan — October 9, 2012 @ 11:38 am - October 9, 2012
I have just finished Ann Coulter’s new ballistic missile, Mugged, and it is a fantastic read.
Warning: you will continually feel the effects of the slime as she reports the game of leftist demagoguery as the play the race card without any discernible provocation.
It is, to build on Bruce’s observation, a trip up the fecal shoot of the common leftists to examine their polyps of technique which they try to pass off as thinking.
Out of general curiosity, has Richard R ever posted a salient comment? Or, is it always just about him?
Comment by heliotrope — October 9, 2012 @ 12:02 pm - October 9, 2012
Shoot, chute, whatever. I kinda like shoot as it calls up the imagery of what is being fired. But, chute is what the feeble mind did not write, but should have. I am so disgusted with myself that I will refrain from beating my wife for 24 hours.
Comment by heliotrope — October 9, 2012 @ 12:04 pm - October 9, 2012
Susan – you nailed it. I’ve also made the decision as you did not to interact with a lot of my leftist friends during election time. They can’t be reasonable about the fundamentals, they just think this guy is the Messiah and can do no wrong. I have other liberal friends who can debate the issues without name calling and overtalking, but man, they are few and far between.
Comment by Leslie — October 9, 2012 @ 12:05 pm - October 9, 2012
“Inside the media echo chamber” loosely translates to “up Obama’s rectum.”
Bruce, the amazing part is that not only have so many people accomplished this feat, but they’ve managed to push far enough to maintain a firm liplock on his ass…or other part.
The mind boggles…
Comment by alanstorm — October 9, 2012 @ 1:42 pm - October 9, 2012
I prefer to relax with my leftest friends, remaining bemused and letting their rhetorical flourishes doom them.
I’ve said before, here and elsewhere, that I’m a ‘here and no farther’ kind of guy. (i.e. for the issue of SSM, I’ll stand with my gay friends for domestic partnerships, ala ‘Fred’ but oppose changing the definition of ‘marriage’) So when my liberal friends (and their friends) use broad flourishes, I’ll calmly hang them with their own rope.
“See! [religious person X] said [stupid statement Y], that’s the problem with you religious types!”
“Wow, may I borrow your broad brush there to equate you with noted athiests Hitler, Mao, and Stalin? Thank you.”
“You shouldn’t oppose Same Sex Marriage! People should be able to act on their genetic attraction!”
“Why X, I didn’t know you supported child molestation. After all, paedophelia has a genetic component and you just said people should be able to act on their genetic attraction. I’m shocked.”
Live by the broad statement, die by the broad statement.
Comment by The_Livewire — October 9, 2012 @ 2:06 pm - October 9, 2012
In 2008, I asked a liberal friend why she was voting for Obama. Her response, “He speaks to me.”
She became unemployed in the beginning of 2009. She is currently vastly underemployed. I asked her again why she is voting for Obama. Her response, “He speaks to me.”
Comment by TnnsNe1 — October 9, 2012 @ 3:13 pm - October 9, 2012
Co-dependency is a wonderful-thing.
George Orwell was right….
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — October 9, 2012 @ 4:30 pm - October 9, 2012
In 2008, during the presidential campaign, I was a Canadian high school student in Grade 11, and I saw through the hype surrounding Obama. I didn’t pay nearly as much attention to politics then as I do now (I still payed attention, though). I can remember thinking that Obama’s campaign lacked substance and that he was popular like a celebrity might be, not like someone who is trying to be given the most powerful position in the world (that is, his appeal was based on nothing more than a “celebrity factor” and had nothing to do with substance).
Not only did I think that, but it couldn’t have been more obvious to me. So what is the excuse of all the people, particularly the supposed “pundits,” who fell for Obama’s “snake oil”?
Comment by Rattlesnake — October 9, 2012 @ 8:25 pm - October 9, 2012
The Fascist Media have one agenda; to preserve and promote Socialism. Obama was just the latest face of the movement and now that he is faltering, it’s only a matter of time before they throw HIM under the bus. To them the ideology is what’s important.
Comment by Ad Noctum — October 10, 2012 @ 5:12 am - October 10, 2012
“Legacy media beginning to see through Obama’s appeal?”
See through it? They helped create it, and then hyped it up!
Comment by AF_Vet — October 10, 2012 @ 7:18 am - October 10, 2012
#17 – Of course, Vet. After all, he’s “Barack the Magic Negro,” according to a black writer for the LA Times.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — October 10, 2012 @ 11:53 am - October 10, 2012
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