Posted on 09/16/2009 7:34:58 PM PDT by pissant
Last week, the president delivered an education speech that fell somewhat short of the standard set by Lenin in his address at the Finland Station launching the Bolshevik Revolution. Barack Obama told America's schoolchildren to work hard, respect their teachers and take responsibility for their own success.
Which, in the language of the tinfoil-hatters, reads: Allahu akbar, comrades.
It would be a pleasant surprise if conservatives who took the president of the United States addressing youths as an opportunity to stumble toward the fainting couch realized that they had made fools of themselves. Fat chance. Obama Derangement Syndrome is pandemic on the right -- and it's leaving conservatives like me politically homeless.
I've always taken complaints about the Fox News Channel as evidence of liberal whining and intolerance. But I don't watch TV news. And then I tuned in to Glenn Beck's popular Fox show the other night and saw him tutor his audience on the president's conspiratorial plan to institute "oligarhy" (sic) in America. And I thought: How does a paranoid like this get on national TV?
Last weekend, I tuned into a Fox program hosted by the avuncular former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, of whom I am a fan. There sat actor Jon Voight, staring gravely at the host, who praised the thespian's "courage."
"We're witnessing a slow and steady takeover of our true freedoms," Voight scowled. "We're becoming a socialist nation, and Obama is causing civil unrest in this country. ... I say that they're taking away God's first gift to man: our free will."
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barf!
Dreher is no conservative
Rod Dreher—no liberal but a useful idiot.
Star Tribune? Is that the Red Star in Wisconsin or that rag in NJ?
Rod...just go away. Dreher has actually been a Kmeic-style crypto-Dem for a long time now.
I think he’s currently Orthodox. I believe he was Catholic but left to become Orthodox - correct me if I’m wrong.
Yup. Enough with the wussy conservatives. I’m tired of top-down punditry.
It's his actions, executed in either raw naivete or stubborn pig-headed arrogance.
If conservatives didn’t object, they wouldn’t have pulled the “What can I do to help the President?” assignment. The outrcry yielded very positive results. Very positive.
We can think. Dreher’s problem is that he can’t.
He missed the problem with the speech last week just like the media — it was the materials they wanted teachers to use plus if there had not been such an uproar I cannot imagine what Obama would have said in the speech.
Dreher needs to find a new line of work IMHO!
And what does Dreher have to say about Obama telling the 9th.grader that he hopes to get universal health care passed?
Lookit little Roddy, makeing believe the speech delivered was the one originally planned. Lookit little Roddy, makeing believe the event as it went off was what was originally planned. Lookit little Roddy who probably will never be quite bright enough to understand what an utter F***ing Moron he is. Lucky little Roddy....
We had copy of the original speech. Bummer toned it down only after the uproar.
Minneapolis?
Oh is a chill wind blowing Mr. Dreher. You sound like Tim Robbins.
Who is this pud? Does he get thrills down his leg?
Blow it out your pie hole, roddy. Conservatives were angry over the LESSON PLANS ASKING STUDENTS TO WRITE ABOUT HOW THEY COULD HELP obama. If you recall, the whitehouse quickly REMOVED that portion once people took note.
He was an idiot even before he left National Review. I remember him writing a column about being a “crunchy con”: a conservative who eats granola. He said things like, “I’m a conservative, but unlike most conservatives, I like rock and roll!” Might as well write, “I’m a conservative, but I like black people, unlike most conservatives.” Not only does it exhibit the idea that you can pigeonhole conservatives, but that we are what the media defines us to be. They say we’re backward hillbilly racists who only like banjo music, and Rod says, “Well, I like low taxes, but I’m not like those other right-wing neanderthals!”
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