Posted on 09/30/2009 12:12:10 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The left is in an uproar today. They got their panties in a bunch over a piece that ran on the conservative newsblog NewsMax.com where it was suggested that Obama's irresponsible actions as president could result in a military coup that would "restore" the Constitution.
Not completely without reason, many lefty blogs have lost their tiny little minds over this article. The piece was written by NewsMax blog contributor John L. Perry and talked of a "bloodless coup" where "Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars." Perry wondered if some "patriotic general" might confront the president (or a president of the future) and demand that he allow the military a shared power in government or face a military overthrow.
It was all speculation and phrased as a question, not asserted as fact or presented as imminent, of course. But this sort of over-the-top foolishness really does not add to the national debate, I have to agree. So, the lefty sites that railed against this NewsMax.com piece were right on that base level.
NewsMax.com has since removed the article and issued a statement that Perry is an unpaid member of NewsMax.
But there is one tiny, little, bitty fact about this story and its author that every single one of these lefty sites that are railing about this story have left out.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Didn’t Orson Scott Card write a book about that a few years ago?
Leftist speculating about overthrow. Please wake me when dog bites man.
Teh left-win stae owned Ministry of Propaganda (i.e., the “mainstream” media) never lets facts get in he way of a good story line.
It was also a stupid article, fits right in with all the leftist alarm that daring to oppose Obama will lead to “violence”.
There is not one thing about Mr. Perry’s article that I would disagree with. He was talking about a hypothetical. The Left should be up in arms. He’s calling them out for the Constitution-trampling Marxists they are. The mask is coming off the Democrat Party, finally.
Punking the lefty blogs? Not letting Breitbart have all of the fun?
I think so yes
I’d like to read the article. After Obama screws the CIA, and loses Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran and gets rid of the missile deterrent in Poland, to not think a military coup possible would be blindness.
Didn’t Better Midler say basically the same thing would happen because of Glenn Beck?
I would hope senior military officials are weighing their responsibilities in this area.
They don’t let the facts get in the way of a good rant!
Since when is NewsMax running liberal’s columns?
Someone had to approve this article it would seem. Even if the writer were a democrat, something is fishy here.
Bump
John L. Perry, an award-winning newspaper editor and writer, who served on White House staffs of two presidents, contributes a regular column to NewsMax.com.
Newspapers under his direction were consistent winners of awards for journalistic excellence. The Associated Press Managing Editors Association named him one of the 12 best newsroom managers among the AP's member newspapers.
Perry has received numerous awards for column and editorial writing and for public-service and spot-news reporting.
He has worked as an editor or reporter for several daily newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the Buffalo Evening News and the Clearwater Sun.
With a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he was one of the first American journalists allowed into the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.
Perry also has had a distinguished career in public policy. He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce and was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.
In the Jimmy Carter administration, he was executive assistant to the under secretary of Housing and Urban Development and was interim director of public information for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Perry served as press aide to Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida and executive assistant to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
A specialist in corporate communications, strategic planning and crisis management, he was public-affairs counselor to several international and national businesses.
Perry was also assistant to the president of the National Association of Broadcasters, a member of the top-management team and director of public relations for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and an academic fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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