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Will the press ever turn on Obama…
Legal Insurrection ^ | July 30, 2013 | neo-neocon

Posted on 07/30/2013 1:15:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

…the way much of it has now turned on Weiner? That’s the question asked by a commenter at this post about The New Yorker’s new cover mocking Weiner.

My answer, in a nutshell, is no.

After all, there is no real cost to turning on Weiner. The election is not a national event. No one seemed to like Weiner all that much to begin with; perhaps the only people getting thrills up the leg about him might have been a few of his sext partners. Weiner’s misbehavior was sexual and simple to conceptualize, and most especially it was not political in nature (except for the over-arching issue of lying). Those who supported Weiner earlier and excused his personal failings—once—could rest easy in knowing that had shown them to be personally magnanimous. They had given him another chance, he blew it, and now by turning on him they’re showing they have morals and standards. Win/win.

And besides, his offenses had nothing to do with politics or policy. Abandoning Weiner now threatens no particular political or theoretical belief system of his previous supporters, and helps them look righteous and even-handed. And it doesn’t hurt that his activities lend themselves quite easily to mockery; the double-entendres just keep coming (oops!).

Nor is there any racial angle with Weiner; he’s Jewish, and therefore not of a protected group.

Obama is very different. For him, the press has compromised every ideal it professes to have. His sins are not personal, they are political abuses of power, and the abuses of power are for the most part in furtherance of the agenda of the left. For supporters and press to turn on him now would mean a re-organization of their much more basic belief system and perhaps even their politics. Even worse than that, it could mean saying the right was right about Obama all the time. That would be most threatening of all.

No, the only way the liberal press would ever really turn on Obama would be for not being leftist enough—for joining the conservative enemy, as it were. And although there were moments of that with Obama’s policies on Guantanamo, drones, and NSA spying (all of which involved him appearing, in the eyes of liberals and the left, to be too much like Bush in fighting Islamic terrorism—even though Obama refused to call it that), the Obama-dike of the MSM held.

It’s hard to imagine anything else that could ever threaten it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: anthonyweiner; carlosdanger; media; msm; newyork; newyorkcity; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; weiner
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To: glennaro

I’m convinced there is NOTHING he could do that would make them turn on him. NOTHING. He could strangle his own daughters on the white house lawn and they’d say, so what?

Look at what he’s done and they’ve got NOTHING to say about any of it.

Nope, live boys, dead girls, roasted puppies, we are stuck with him for the next 3 years; we very well may never recover.

And I love, love, love how they are lining up to crown Hillary! as the next president.

Think how great it will be to have Bill Clinton back in the WH, with nothing but time on his hands.

Sheesh, we better find somebody good to run this time. And no, it’s not that fat cow Christie.


41 posted on 07/30/2013 3:59:48 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Back in the 80's it was a joke.


42 posted on 07/30/2013 4:39:11 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
My answer, in a nutshell, is no. After all, there is no real cost to turning on Weiner. The election is not a national event. No one seemed to like Weiner all that much to begin with; perhaps the only people getting thrills up the leg about him might have been a few of his sext partners. Weiner’s misbehavior was sexual and simple to conceptualize, and most especially it was not political in nature (except for the over-arching issue of lying)... Nor is there any racial angle with Weiner; he’s Jewish, and therefore not of a protected group. Obama is very different. For him, the press has compromised every ideal it professes to have. His sins are not personal, they are political abuses of power, and the abuses of power are for the most part in furtherance of the agenda of the left. For supporters and press to turn on him now would mean a re-organization of their much more basic belief system and perhaps even their politics. Even worse than that, it could mean saying the right was right about Obama all the time.

43 posted on 07/30/2013 5:05:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SMARTY

But seriously...maybe, JUST MAYBE some will turn on him when their friends are thrown into re-education camps for writing a slightly critical article about il Duche.

When that happens, they'll either TURN on him or they'll become even more devoted bootlickers.

44 posted on 07/30/2013 5:39:45 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
At that point, your clothes will be smoldering and the floor under your feet will be on fire.

Either “O” goons will have come after you at home or U.S. enemies will have delivered the coup de gras ... and it won't matter any more.

45 posted on 07/31/2013 4:02:18 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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