Posted on 06/08/2010 7:14:27 AM PDT by Justaham
Appearing on Monday’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to promote his book, "The Promise," MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter – also of Newsweek – asserted that President Barack Obama had "prevented another Great Depression," and declared that Obama had it more difficult than Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he had to "sweep up" like a "shovel brigade" after President Bush, as he used a word that had to be bleeped out for airing. Alter: "He proceeded to make history almost right away, not only because he was the first African-American elected President ... we were all living history. This man prevented another Great Depression."
He soon added: "At the beginning, FDR only had to deal with domestic problems. Obama was left to run what you could call a shovel brigade, you know, the guys who sweep up after the elephants when the elephants leave their s- (BLEEP) all over the circus, right? ... Roosevelt didn't have to deal with foreign policy when he became President. Obama had to deal with a whole nother mess, one of Bush's messes, in Afghanistan."
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But he failed to save the Gore’s marriage from the evil clutches of George Bush didn’t he Alter??? Ha ha!! George Bush strikes again!!
Sooooo, Obama is the CIRCUS CLOWN???
Oh man, I know they’ve been real successful in peddling their bullsh*t version of history for a long time, but the leftist kooks just CANNOT be allowed to get away with this ridiculous narrative.
Jonathan Alter: The New Larry Sinclair
No: that would be a real job.
obama “prevented” a great depression (let's revisit that thought in 6 months)
and Roosevelt didn't have to deal with the results of a predecessor's foreign policy decisions... until 1941
adn they wonder why they’re about to go belly up??
We have a circus going on in our very own White House.
And the taxpayers are the ones called upon to shovel up the poop left by the maoist.
"prevented another Great Depression,"
"exacerbated an otherwise normal credit crunch"
I’ll bet little limp-writed johnie stewart was just slobbering on himself with glee. How edgy they are with their oh-so-hip curse words. Barf-arama.
He says it, it gets out, it resonates. People— The MSM is not dead. One falls another one picks up the baton. They will prevail. Do not believe all the misleading craziness at FR that the MSM is dead.
Jonathan Alter once wrote a piece about how ashamed he was to be a man. I had to admit, I was pretty ashamed he was as well.
Jonathon Alter is a craven weasel who would have given William Durant (1930’s New York Times Pulitzer-winning Soviet apologist) a real run for the George Orwell award for deliberate distortion of the truth and outright lying.
Alter needs to go to the Obama bath house in Chicago, with knee pads.
No worries, when Newsmax takes over Newsweek they’ll be sending Alter to some Kenyan hellhole to track down Obama’s birth certificate. That or throw him out on the street.
Alter is one of the reasons Newsweek is doing SOOOOO well financially and their parent company is NOT looking for a buyer of the magazine.
I cannot wait to see Alter being the first one fired at Newsweek if NewsMax or some other entity buys the rag. He is and always has been an idiot. How he stays employed is a mystery to me. He has never had an original thought and just repeats whatever the talking points are for the day.
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