Rob Reiner aka Meathead: 'Obama Is Right Around Where Reagan Was' Politically

NewsBusters.org ^ | November 2, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

It really is hysterical listening to liberal Hollywoodans talk about politics.

Take for example actor/director Rob Reiner - made famous by his role as Meathead in the legendary sitcom All in the Family - claiming on HBO's Real Time Friday ("Overtime" web segment) that Barack Obama politically "is right around where Reagan was.

Rob Reiner aka Meathead: 'Obama Is Right Around Where Reagan Was' Politically

BILL MAHER, HOST: I’m just saying the Democrats have moved to the middle.

CONGRESSWOMAN DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ (D-FLORIDA): We have.

MAHER: Unfortunately, the other people have moved way over there. So now the middle isn’t the middle anymore.

ROB REINER: Obama right now, where Obama is is right around where Reagan was, right around where Nixon was. There, he’s no more left than those, those, those Republicans.

MAHER: Hardly a socialist. He’s barely, barely a liberal.

REINER: No, as Bob Dole said, he could not get…

MAHER: Right.

REINER: …anywhere in this Republican Party. And so Obama’s right around where Bob Dole is. They’re very similar, you know? There’s not much of a difference there.

MAHER: Whenever they say, “Oh, he’s the most radical president ever,”

REINER: No, no, no, no.

MAHER: …right, because they’re such experts on history. What they mean is, “He’s black.” That’s what’s the most radical thing about him.

The ignorance on display was amazing.

Ronald Reagan was a fiscal and social conservative forced to work with a liberal Congress. Obama is a fiscal and social liberal initially working with a Democrat-controlled Congress and now a Democrat Senate and a Republican House.

Likening Obama to Reagan is akin to equating scotch and vodka.

Now it's certainly true that the Republican Party as a result of the Tea Party has moved to the right. However, this movement started in 1994 when the GOP took over Congress.

As for Maher's claim that the Democrats have moved to the center, this is belied by their leader in the House being Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and in the Senate Harry Reid (D.Nev.).

The reality is the Democrats made a concerted move to the left in 2002 away from the centrism of Bill Clinton when they decided to name Pelosi as their leader in the House instead of the more moderate Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) who has since left Congress.

Frankly, I don't think he'd be welcomed back by the Democrats for he's now far to the right of most of them; one could make the case that Bill Clinton himself couldn't be a member of Congress as a Democrat today.

Just ask former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) who before his recent retirement became an independent because of how far to the left his party had moved.

Not surprisingly, Maher and Reiner don't factor in such inconvenient historical truths when they offer fallacious political opinions.

How could they? They'd be invalidating their own points.

[molson209]

Meathead is right Ronald Reagan killed the USSR and Obama killed USA

[OldNewYork]

Wow. That kool-aid must be the best-tasting drink on earth.

[lowbridge]

Meathead. Dead from the neck up. -Archie bunker

[caver]

What is that quote about the “big lie”?

[DoughtyOne]

Literally astounding!

[ConradofMontferrat]

There’s a reason we called him “Meat Head.”

Now you know.

[VanDeKoik]

“Rob Reiner aka Meathead: ‘Obama Is Right Around Where Reagan Was’ Politically”

Sorry to be that guy, but he is correct.

Reagan was politically in his 6th year as president, and Obama is as well.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Our dear Meathead may be liberal but perhaps he isn’t brainless (great intelligence does not equate to wise use of the intelligence! grr, I wish people would stop equating intelligence with wisdom).

This sounds like he’s trying to say that Obama is at a position relative to the Democrats analogous in some manner to how Reagan was with the Republicans.

Before we tickle ourselves that we can pigeonhole what a liberal has said by stereotype we might want to study it more. What sounds like a huge clueless gaffe may be nothing big.

[Twotone]

Next they’ll be telling us that Obama secretly participates in Tea Party rallies.

[rbg81]

The trouble is that most of Bill Maher’s audience are either liberal moonbats or people who are too young and/or stupid to know better.

[ToastedHead]

“What they mean is, ‘He’s black.’ That’s what’s the most radical thing about him.”

The only people who bring this up over and over and over are the Democrats. It gets so tedious.

[faithhopecharity]

the question is inescapable...
why, O why do we give such uninformed bozos access to the national airwaves and other major media?

I mean, its not like they had anything intelligent or constructive to contribute to the public discourse.///..

Reiner, Sharpton, Moore, Penn, McCain’s girl, O’s various terrorist friends (or at least the ones he hasn’t stuffed into our government yet), ....etc ....

Isn’t it bad enough that we have to listen to speeches from O, Pelosi, and Reid.....? Don’t all those create plenty of damage to the American state of mind (and any chance of rational discussion) ? Why in heck do we need to also give open access to all these idiots (and useful idiots for the destroy America campaign) outside of govt?

are we crazy to allow this, or just masochistic? or both?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

For those who think reasoning with this crowd will get you anywhere.

[Freestate316]

To borrow from Mike Sitka regarding comparisons of NFL bust Brian Bosworth versus all time great Dick Butkus, “ Obama’s about as close to Reagan as Snow White is.”

[Vendome]

“Likening Obama to Reagan is akin to equating scotch and vodka.”

[Vince Ferrer]

If anyone thinks we are losing, ask yourself why then, is the left trying now to re-brand themselves (and Obama)? If being conservative is radioactive, why paint their hero with that brush?

[max americana]

Hopeychangey Vodka proof 57

[Blood of Tyrants]

What fantasy land is he living in?

[OldNewYork]

I think it’s methyl alcohol though. Look at the resulting blindness.