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Mark Steyn: Obama a tough guy, at least with Fox News
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| 10/23/09
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 10/23/2009 6:29:15 PM PDT by pissant
Benjamin Disraeli's most famous advice to aspiring politicians was: "Never complain and never explain." For the greatest orator of our time, a man who makes Churchill, Lincoln and Henry V at Agincourt look like first-round rejects on "Orating With The Stars," Barack Obama seems to have pretty much given up on the explaining side. He tried it with health care with speech after speech after exclusive interview for months on end, and the more he explained the more unpopular the whole racket got. So he declared that the time for explaining is over, and it's time to sign on or else.
Meanwhile, to take the other half of the Disraeli equation, Obama and his officials and their beleaguered band of surrogates never stop complaining. If you express concerns about government health care, they complain about all these "racists" and "domestic terrorists" obstructing his agenda. If you wonder why the president can't seem to find time in his hectic schedule of international awards acceptance speeches to make a decision about Afghanistan, they complain that it's not his fault he "inherited" all these problems. And, if you wonder why his "green jobs" czar is a communist 9/11 truther, and his National Endowment for the Arts guy is leaning on grant recipients to produce Soviet-style propaganda extolling Obama policies, they complain about Fox News.
The most recent whine the anti-Fox campaign is, apart from anything else, unbecoming to the office. President Obama is the chief of state of one of the oldest free societies in the world, but his official White House Web site runs teasers such as: "For even more Fox lies, check out the latest 'Truth-O-Meter.'" It gives off the air of somebody only marginally less paranoid than this week's president-for-life in some basket-case banana republic ranting on the
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bho44; foxnews; larrysinclairslover; marksteyn; obama; steyn; weakling
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Mark Steyn is the man
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posted on
10/23/2009 6:29:15 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
"Orating With The Stars,"
LOL.
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posted on
10/23/2009 6:35:51 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
To: pissant
George W Bush: Remember him? Of course, you do. He's the guy who's to blame for everything, and still will be midway through Obama's second term.That's quite presumptuous of Steyn.
To: pissant
I reasd this piece then went to whitehouse.gov. It’s sickening.
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posted on
10/23/2009 6:43:31 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(GIVE ME YOUR MONEY B***!! - President Obama)
To: pissant
Even Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from the Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.Great stuff!
To: pissant
Mark Steyn, I love you.
Don’t tell my husband.
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posted on
10/23/2009 6:50:54 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
To: hole_n_one
In Mao's China, everyone wore the same clothes. So when Communications Commissar Mao Ze Dunn starts berating Fox News for not getting into the same Maosketeer costumes as the rest of the press corps, you begin to see why the Chairman might appeal to her as a favorite "political philosopher". Utter brilliance.
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posted on
10/23/2009 6:54:32 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
To: hole_n_one
That's quite presumptuous of Steyn. No. It's Steyn accusing the Obama administration of continued presumptuousness.
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posted on
10/23/2009 6:55:26 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: pissant
Maoskateers? LOL!
I love reading Steyn. It’s like being the first guy splashing through the stream above Sutter’s mill.
Big chunks of gold just waiting to be picked up.
To: pissant
Benjamin Disraeli's most famous advice to aspiring politicians was: "Never complain and never explain." ...I thought it was "never apologize, never explain" - won't expect either from Obama ever.....
To: pissant
Yup, president limp d*ck sure can get tough with a network.
Trouble is, Fox will won.
Something about brains against vapidness.
To: Da Coyote
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sorry,
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posted on
10/23/2009 7:35:16 PM PDT
by
bravotu
(Have a Nice Day !)
To: pissant
HAS HE GOT THEIR NUMBER! The question is” When and how will the Pibblies stand up to these bullies? Throw down the gauntlets!
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posted on
10/23/2009 8:15:29 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(ECCE HOMO!)
To: pissant
Anyone who worries whether they look “tough enough,” isn’t.
It’s like Barney Fwank worrying about whether he looks manly...
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posted on
10/23/2009 10:20:03 PM PDT
by
5by5
To: isthisnickcool
Was there really a “Fox Truth-o-Meter” on whitehouse.gov? I went there and didn’t see anything on the home page.
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:25:16 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
To: pissant
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posted on
10/24/2009 6:33:09 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: pissant; Rummyfan; kellynla; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...
Pinging the Mark Steyn Ping List.
Welcome to the newest members of this ever expanding list.
On or off, please FReepmail me.
Cheers,
knewshound
knewshounds blog
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posted on
10/24/2009 7:21:52 AM PDT
by
knews_hound
(Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd E. Clampus Vitus)
To: pissant; Liz
...if you wonder why his "green jobs" czar is a communist 9/11 truther, and his National Endowment for the Arts guy is leaning on grant recipients to produce Soviet-style propaganda extolling Obama policies, they complain about Fox News. Nixon's White House didn't go paranoid until the second term. Obama's White House birthed that baby in the first 9 months...
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posted on
10/24/2009 7:35:20 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Rahm Emanuel IS Uriah Heep - - - It's NOT "hate" when it's true.)
To: pissant; knews_hound
Mark Steyn is the manIndeed, he is. Thanks for the post and the ping, guys.
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posted on
10/24/2009 8:58:01 AM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(We're all Detroiters now.)
To: pissant
Another bit of venerable Disraelian insouciance, on the scribblers of Fleet Street: "Today they blacken your character, tomorrow they blacken your boots." For two years, the U.S. media have been polishing Obama's boots, mostly with their drool, to a degree unprecedented in American public life. Once again, Steyn is doing the job American MSM lapdogs won't.
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posted on
10/24/2009 9:13:14 AM PDT
by
MaggieCarta
(We're all Detroiters now.)
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