Posted on 09/09/2009 6:24:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Jon Meacham strikes me as a knowledgeable man. Surely the author of a well-regarded biography of Andrew Jackson knows his history. Ignorance thus cannot explain how the Newsweek editor could with a straight face describe Barack Obama as "the real Burkean in American politics right now." Yet that's just what Meacham did on today's Morning Joe . . .
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I read his book on Andrew Jackson. Boring. He cut and pasted a bunch of stuff and strung it together with a lot of politically correct garbage. No scholarship. No insight. It seemed to have been written by a committee of interns.
Probably was.
Meachum strikes horror in me. Of all the media intellectuals, he is, by far, the is the most dishonest among them, and the most brown-nose. If the Stalinist model didn’t already exist, Meachum would have invented it. He is a man in search of a tyranny to be consumed in.
Meacham simply found a word he wanted to use in conversation on the TV to try to define himself as the smartest guy in the room. Edmund Burk had more common sense and class in his pinkie than Obama will ever have. Meacham actually downgraded Obama from God to Burk. These people are simply full of themselves.
He did seem to have a man crush on Andrew Jackson because he was such a strong leader. Other than that he was a white slave owning Indian killing bigot.
More claptrap from our supposedly brilliant news commentators.
Oh, Obama is an absolute reactionary. He’s trying to revive and make relevant a Marxist style of government that went out with the fall of the Soviet Union.
Newsweek and Meacham what a combination. Last July(I think it was the 7-24-08 issue)there was a cover story”what He Belioves” written by that fawning white guilter Meacham, who discussed “all” of BO’s philosophic and religious influeneces and NOT 1 NOT 1 mention of black liberation theology, its founder Rev. James Cone, NOTHING. NADA.ZIP. He thinks he’s “intellectually honest”? A big bullshitter is more the case. That’s OK though. It won’t be too long before we’re speaking of Newsweek in the past tense and he can go teabagging with KOthe JO over on that trustworthy msdnc.
No liberal spouts the party line louder than a Southern liberal. Meacham is a Tennessean, born in Chattanooga, graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee, TN.
White Southerners are automatically suspect in liberal circles and they have to work doubly hard to prove their liberal authenticity over and over again.
Burke observed then, ". . . it is the spirit that has made the country. . . ."
He went on, "Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired, and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. .. . This is a persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it . . . This religion, under a variety of denominations agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty, is predominant in most of the northern provinces. . . . The Southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward."
He went on to refer to the "temper and character" of the colonists, "In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole. . . ."
By far the greatest indicator that Burke's qualities are not to be found where this writer attributes them is in the following Burke observation about their "untractable spirit" and "education":
"In other countries the people . . . judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle." Americans, he said, could detect "misgovernment at a distance and sniff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
“He did seem to have a man crush on Andrew Jackson because he was such a strong leader. Other than that he was a white slave owning Indian killing bigot.”
Yes, precisely. Meacham is a creep.
“Meacham simply found a word he wanted to use in conversation on the TV to try to define himself as the smartest guy in the room. Edmund Burk had more common sense and class in his pinkie than Obama will ever have. Meacham actually downgraded Obama from God to Burk. These people are simply full of themselves.”
Best four successive sentences I will read for some time, I think.
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