Posted on 11/18/2025 6:27:20 PM PST by Rummyfan
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," George Orwell famously noted, but he neglected to say that for some, the struggle isn't so much constant as it is ignored.
Enter, stage left: CNN's Fareed Zakaria, finally noticing what conservatives have known for years.
I was unaware that Zakaria was still on CNN, or that he anchored his own weekly show called Fareed Zakaria GPS. So you'll have to forgive me for also being unaware that he opens GPS with a segment called "My Take." Going by CNN's weekend viewership ratings, which rank right up there with ESPN's 2 a.m. showing of Low Stakes Bingo, I'm hardly alone in any of this.
But maybe I ought to be a regular viewer.
Zakaria opened this weekend's "Take" lamenting that Democrats made themselves appear "feckless" for ending the government shutdown — you know, the one they kept voting for — "with their own goals unmet and their message muddled."
He also asked, "If they didn't have the leverage or were not willing to use it to prolong the shutdown, then why did they stage it at all?"
Good question. Only Chuck Schumer knows the answer, and he probably forgot already.
But here's where Zakaria's take got truly interesting, coming from a CNN regular. While congressional Democrats "promised wonderful sounding new programs" like free childcare, in the real world, they "preside over bloated bureaucracies and inept execution."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I loved when Rush would pick him apart.
Paradox? I think it is called crookery.
An obvious and inescapable outcome of policy is hardly a paradox! It is an inevitability that people who suffer from delusions of grandeur and cognitive dissonance fail to see because they have convinced themselves they are smarter than everyone else and they can do it right this time.
Bkmk
Didn’t he call him “Fried Zucchini”?
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