Why Is No One Laughing?

The American Spectator ^ | November 19, 2009 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

[IbJensen]

WASHINGTON -- What would the mainstream media's response be if former governor Sarah Palin described China's economic growth to an audience of students in Shanghai as "an accomplishment unparalleled in human history"?

That is what the most inexperienced president in modern American history said in Shanghai this week. I wonder if any of the assembled journalists choked.

President Barack Obama makes such unhinged pronouncements with the kind of frequency that if he were anyone else he would be set down by the media as a boobie. I take that back. Vice President Joe Biden is equally gaffable, yet no one in the mainstream press makes him out to be a boobie.

When he was tapped to be Senator Obama's running mate he was widely acknowledged -- from ABC to NBC and with all the like-minded newspapers in between -- as a foreign policy colossus.

Both of these men, when untethered from their Teleprompters, are prone to gibberish. Actually I suspect that the President's Shanghai preposterosity appeared in the text rolling down his Teleprompter. His speechwriters are as prone to the absurd as their boss. Nonetheless, President Obama is reputed in the media to be an orator of great gifts and anyway he is very charismatic. So apparently the journalists are insensate as the gaffes, the howlers, the jaw-dropping exaggerations roll forth.

Sarah Palin is accorded no such dispensation. During the 2008 presidential campaign, in answering a foreign policy query by Katie Couric about Russia's proximity to the state Palin then served as governor, she was mocked for saying Russia is so close it can be seen from Alaska.

[IbJensen]

Obama is a lousy orator. He's even a lousy teleprompter reader. Nor is he charismatic. The media keep assigning these qualities to him like they're the boobie prizes for being black. They're actually prizes for being inane, clueless, but doing a hell of a job of destroying this nation!

What Obama is is bloodless.

[NewCenturions]

Agreed. This is the same MSM that kept telling us Bill Clinton was sexy and Hillary the smartest woman in the world.

[DBCJR]

Obama makes Palin look like Einstein.

[caver]

Your assessment nailed it.

[paulycy]

I wonder if any of the assembled journalists choked.

Certainly none of them wrote down that particular quote.

The 0ne used to be charismatic when all he was doing was running based on the well-rehearsed, fictional character and messiah story he was acting out.

Now he's got to deal with life in real time and he is clearly unfit for that challenge.

[netmilsmom]

You can see Russia from Alaska.

Look up Little Diomede.

[DemforBush]

“an accomplishment unparalleled in human history”

Couldn’t you just see Obama being one of the intellectual boobs back in the 30’s who visited the Soviet Union and came back praising the robust economic gains they were making?

Now, I will admit, the economic changes in China that have taken place since the early-to-mid 1980s are pretty danged impressive. I just don’t think it’s something the U.S. President should gush over, especially one who claims to trumpet environmentalism and human rights so much.

[uncbob]

What would the mainstream media's response be if former governor Sarah Palin described
the 57 United States

[Carley]

The entire administration from top to bottom is filled with ignoramuses (is that a word?).

Along with their corruption they are the most incompetent boobs we’ve ever had in office.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

But it wasn’t a gaffe to Zero.

HE BELIEVES China’s economy is the greatest of all time.

Of course he does. It is a communist country - so to him - of course it is THE BEST!

[Huebolt]

The "emperor" not only has no clothes, he has NO CLUES.

Aren't there any shots of people in these audiences laughing their asses off?

He's like a pimp surrounded by his media ho's.

[UnChained]

“Look up Little Diomede.”

Cool, Thanks!

[Elvina]

Answer to Title Question:

Lifton’s 8 Criteria for Thought Reform:

Milieu Control
Mystical Manipulation (Planned Spontaneity)
The Demand For Purity
Confession
Sacred Science
Loading the Language
Doctrine Over Person
Dispensing of Existence

http://www.reveal.org/library/psych/lifton.html

[mad_as_he$$]

I have spent a great deal of time trying to figure out why 0 has such great appeal to many. I have discussed it with many of his supporters in great length. Now I, from the first moment I heard him speak knew he was a self serving BS artist of the first order. His supporters on the other hand seem to be prone to buying pure BS. The only conclusion I can come to is that they are defective in the thinking area of their brain. They are ALL feelers not thinkers(at least the ones I have talked to). I consider the men to be for the most part girly men. They are typically limp wristed (not in the gay way) and raised by their mother. The women are mostly the kind who want to have someone take care of them and not have to do too much for that care.

I have put all of them on my list as sales calls if I ever have to go into house to house selling. Pure suckers.

[anglian]

Now for something completly different.

A 12 story building lying flat on the ground.

[MrB]

Palin is probably SMARTER than FUBO,

but she, unlike leftists in general, does not feel the narcissistic need to APPEAR to be the smartest in the room.

[MajorThomas]

It's too bad that Obama's lame stream supporters appear to think that since he can "pull off a good speech" with what they revere as charismatic, that this equates with truly and uniquely stellar "smarts", when, in fact, it has nothing to do with this. If this were really true, Obama would never had picked up the nickname, TOTUS- for obvious reasons.

It has been reported that President Thomas Jefferson, our Nation's third president, was not a very charismatic speaker, and he really disliked speaking in public, and therefore had very few meetings with press/public. Under todays lame stream reporting, Thomas Jefferson, probably would be tagged as bad as was G. W. Bush, because of his shyness of public speaking.

How truly wrong this would be, as we all know, that his actions, and decisions towards keeping the young Nation in the right direction as well as his words on paper (the Declaration of Independence) and his letters, etc, all support the fact that he was truly far superior and obviously more stellar than our current president, who cannot make a speech without a teleprompter. Remember, such devices were non-exisentant in Jefferson's time.

Bottom line: Obama is a very very good teleprompter devoter. Nothing more. Actually, I mis-spoke. He is a fantastic Marxist.

He has also been very good in picking his best team to push his agenda:

[MrB]

Due to an ethic that involves bribing officials, and officials who accept bribes,

to pass inspections on buildings that use about 1/3 the amount of reinforcement steel as is necessary.

Life is cheap when your society is based on secularism/atheism, and the State is Supreme.

[MrB]

In my limited discussions with FUBO supporters,
I’ve concluded that it’s a matter of pure religious level FAITH that they put in the elite ruling class.

Analogous to the Christian view of God’s Will, we as inferior beings cannot know the “biggest picture” as He does, but trust Him to work out all things for Good,

so do the leftist view the actions and decisions of the elite ruling class.

[anglian]

“In America we have one poor indigent person for every nine working and making it. In China its flipped. You have nine poor people working for $5 a day, maybe even $2 a day, for every well-to-do middle class $20K per-year person. It’s a very Darwinian, Dickens-like capitalist world, perhaps like US in 1880.” http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/02/inside-china-sculptors-view.html