By David Limbaugh
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Is it possible that Obama's arrogance, personal
pettiness, sanctimoniousness and egotism (for starters) could finally be his
unraveling? Even the liberal media are starting to notice, but will it last?
Up to this point, they've dutifully played along with his
Alinskyite tactics -- converting the office of the presidency into a
headquarters for community organizing at a federal level and a position to
organize and fund a perpetual campaign against his political opponents instead
of governing.
The liberal media share Obama's leftist policy goals and
the ends-justify-the-means mentality that accompanies them and have thus far
been eager not only to ignore Obama's thuggishness and deceit but also to
proactively help him in accomplishing his goals and concealing his chicanery.
But perhaps his willingness to hurt the country to make
political points, which until recently they'd overlooked, has finally gotten
their attention -- with his brazen lies about the sequester cuts and his
release of dangerous criminal illegals onto the streets. I'll not be
Pollyannaish in hoping for a sustained liberal-media blowback toward Obama, but
these matters have at least caught their attention and inched ever so slightly
forward from the back burner. That's something to build on.
Cocky from his re-election and from a string of triumphs
in his negotiations with Republicans, Obama calculated he could continue to be
as dictatorial and unreasonable as he had been and even ratchet it up a notch
and get away with it. He knew he was lying when he said Republicans were
currently causing the sequestration because they wouldn't agree to more tax
increases. He was the one primarily responsible for the impasse because he had
already gotten his tax increases and was still refusing to play ball on the
spending and entitlements side -- the only side that can make a difference in
solving our debt crisis -- as he always has.
The media didn't call him on that, as flagrantly
dishonest as it was. Why should they have? They rarely had before, and they support
his quest to punish the successful. Loyalty to the truth hasn't been enough to
motivate them to behave like true journalists and just report the news fairly.
But we saw a hint of media dissatisfaction with Obama
when reporter Chuck Todd criticized Obama for "ceding the moral high
ground" concerning the corrupt influence of money in politics because his
campaign arm, Organizing for Action, has been "selling access to the
president."
Then veteran reporter Bob Woodward came forward to expose
a second category of lies from Obama on the sequestration. Even if some in the
liberal media turned on their former Watergate-famed icon, at least others
called White House press secretary Jay Carney's hand over this.
It was now obvious that Obama was lying not just about
the primary reasons for the gridlock over the sequester cuts but about who
authored the idea in the first place. After Obama blatantly lied about this and
sent out his minions to do the same, the administration had to grudgingly
concede that it had been his idea. Even then, the administration tried to spin
its way out of it by misrepresenting that Republicans had agreed to revenue
hikes as part of the sequestration.
But amazingly, the spin doesn't seem to be getting much
traction for Obama for a change. Perhaps it is because Obama went too far when,
like a petulant child, he showed he was willing to hurt the nation to get his
way on the sequestration and further damage Republicans.
He went way over the top, even for him, in his promises
of gloom and doom concerning essential services he falsely claimed would be
cut. Education Secretary Arne Duncan incorrectly claimed that schoolteachers
were already being laid off, which even The Washington Post wouldn't let stand.
Other liberal outlets came forward to contradict Obama's hysterical claim over
pay cuts on Capitol Hill. Even "Saturday Night Live" lampooned
Obama's absurd posturing on the sequester cuts.
Journalist Byron York reported that Obama now seems
"resigned to the possibility that he cannot win the further tax increases
he seeks, and that after enlisting his entire administration in a campaign to
frighten Americans about sequestration, the cuts have become a reality that he
has to acknowledge." Obama has now admitted that the cuts aren't going to
be apocalyptic as he warned.
Obama has outdone himself with his administration's
unilateral release of thousands of dangerous criminal illegal immigrants onto
the streets of America in order to leverage his sequester arguments and then
sending Carney out to grossly misrepresent the scope of this outrage.
I won't hold my breath for a wholesale transformation of
the liberal media's attitude toward Obama, but I'm encouraged to see anything
at all in that direction and that the political winds seem to be changing, even
if slightly so far, against Obama.
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