Posted on 02/25/2015 12:44:52 PM PST by Kaslin
Editor's note: Tim Graham coauthored this piece.
Some might insist Barack Obama is a lame duck, but our national media elite still think of him as a very graceful swan. When this man comes under criticism, journalists are incapable of any sense of objectivity, balance or fairness. The accuser must be forced to withdraw the criticism, or be punished.
First, Rudy Giuliani said at an event for Gov. Scott Walker that the president doesn't love America like previous presidents did. That might be a little unfair. Jimmy Carter also loved to get up in front of a podium and lecture about all of America's flaws.
The media erupted. Outraged that anyone dared to question Obama's love of country, they pounded the table and demanded that Walker denounce Giuliani. The New York Times ran a defensive story headlined "President Obama Has, in Fact, Expressed Love for His Country."
Perhaps the most ridiculous lecture came from MSNBC star Chris Matthews: "Mr. Mayor, you should never go after someone's love of his country. It breaks the rules we live by. It divides us when we should be united. I urge you to take it back."
This is the same guardian of civility that asked the day after Obama was inaugurated the first time, "Does Rush Limbaugh hate this country? Wait till you hear what he said about the new president."
Mika Brzezinski spoke for too many Obama-loving journalists when she kvetched: "I question the patriotism of someone who questions the president's patriotism."
It's apparently not always outrageous to denounce a president's patriotism ... if you're Saint Barack. On the campaign trail on July 3, 2008, Obama said President Bush took out "a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt" and said "That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic."
Try to find The New York Times story defending Bush for expressing love for his country. You won't find one. Shouldn't Mika now publicly question this president's patriotism?
By Obama's own national-debt measurement, he's now far more "unpatriotic" than Bush ever was.
In the wake of this brouhaha, two Washington Post reporters tried to open another wound. They pestered Gov. Walker at a governor's conference about whether he felt Obama was a Christian. Walker replied, "I don't know. ... I've actually never talked about it or I haven't read about that." He added: "To me, this is a classic example of why people hate Washington and, increasingly, they dislike the press. The things they care about don't even remotely come close to what you're asking about."
You know how that was reported by the non-partisan press: Walker Questions President's Faith.
All this caused a second outburst of wailing and gnashing of teeth against the Republicans. The Walker team later issued to the Post an obligatory "of course he's a Christian" explanation, but to no avail. Columnist Dana Milbank suggested that Walker's "I don't know" was comparable to calling someone a ... Nazi. The political analysts at the Post attempted to explain "How Scott Walker's confidence led him to an unnecessary error on President Obama's Christianity."
Once again, it's not outrage to denounce a politician's Christianity ... if you're a Democrat. Take, for example, Hillary Clinton, in 2004, saying "I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time." Reporters agree with that, so what's the controversy?
It's like journalists are still fighting the battle over Reverend Wright, insisting despite the video clips that Obama's membership in that church showed he was devoutly Christian and patriotic. The media demand everyone say "Of course, Obama is a patriot. Of course, Obama is a Christian."
This should be followed by "Of course, the media will never stop bowing and scraping before this president." Woe to him who thinks they are ever impartial.
I am not arguing he is particularly bright. Carter just strikes me as a good man with different politics from myself.
There is not a dictator or Marxist in the world this guy hasn’t supported. He hates Israel with a passion and has sided with Arafat and anyone against Israel nonstop for the last 30 years. Obviously I don’t know and am not the Judge but he seems like just another NWO stooge always on the side of the revolution and against God’s people and kingdom while declaring himself a CHristian as cover. Much like Obama wants to be declared a Christian so he can then be an insider and authority as he redefines it and molds it into his blasphemous image.
Just Saying!
“good” is a relative term.
I question how a “good” man can come to such terrible conclusions about things.
Hilarious -- as in, digusting -- how the media only care about Christians when the fake one they worship is being criticized.
Are there people that still need to be TOLD this? /rhetorical
“A political solution to America’s decline will never be possible due to the strength of contemporary neo-Bolshevism.”
The Bolsheviks have no strength; it’s a Sun-tzu bluff. Take a walk thru any federal fascist agency and look at the fat, doughnut-eating jellyfish occupying those chairs. Any general would be horrified at the prospect of leading these 50 IQ apes onto a battlefield.
An FBI investigation has found that 80-percent of police officers in the U.S. are overweight. That’s because 100-percent of donuts are delicious..
http://estergoldberg.com/fbi-80-percent-police-officers-fat-really-fat-cops/
For your viewing pleasure:
http://www.funinstore.com/2011/01/some-funny-police-officers-with-their-fat-tummy/
He is an anti-Semite of the highest order and he is the reason North Korea has the bomb. He may have some sort of personal faith, but ultimately, leftism outweighs all else.
“An analysis of air samples collected on October 11, 2006 detects radioactive debris, confirming North Korea’s nuclear test.”
Baraq Obama has done a lot of bad things, but it’s hard to blame him for the Norks having nuclear weapons.
Carter single-handedly negotiated the agreement with NK. Of course Clinton was happy to go along. After all, it’s not like those guys were ever going to build a bomb...
Obama’s legacy bomb will be Iranian, and if you don’t believe that he will arm the mullahs, I have a nice nuclear weapon silo I can sell you for a fallout shelter—get em while they’re still cheap!
This jug earred punk has been on his high horse for 7 years now.
Time for him to get bucked from his horse.
“He Needs To Get Knocked Off His High Horse”
Did someone say knocked off?
I do not believe Carter is an anti-Semite. People confuse disagreeing with anti-Israeli policy with anti-Semitism.
If there is something else Carter has done or said that is anti-Semitic, I am unaware of it.
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