Bankruptcy
Reaches beyond Obama’s plans for the coal industry and SF Chron’s news sense and professionalism to SF Chron’s logic: Failing to report Obama’s coal-industry bankruptcy remarks does not equal burying them. Busted Chron’s response is a tour de force of injured indignancy:
Obama sat with The Chronicle editorial board Jan. 17 for the interview, and it has been available in its entirety on the newspaper’s Web site since it took place in San Francisco during the Democratic primary season. In his wide-ranging session with the paper, the Democratic senator from Illinois spoke about his energy plan and an “aggressive” cap-and-trade policy, and spoke about coal technology.
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” he said. In the same interview, the senator said that “if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.”
On Sunday, Obama’s campaign said his comments were taken out of context by Palin, and that Obama called the notion of eliminating coal plants entirely “an illusion.”
John Diaz, editor of The Chronicle’s editorial pages, said the paper not only posted the entire audio and video of the Obama interview, but promoted it to readers.
“How can anyone suggest that we hid an interview that we did, immediately put up on the Web - and advertised to our readers?” said Diaz. “We promoted it like hell … and I’m sure the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign scrubbed it. You can still find the whole 48 minutes and 33 seconds online.”
Hey, not to change the subject, but what’s with the little red, black and green black-liberation-hued logo in SF Chron’s URL?
via Steyn, who cruelly remarks, never mind the lead, “hilariously indignant” Chron buried the whole dog, here’s what the Chron article actually had to say about Obama’s plans for the coal industry at the time:
He demonstrated depth on an assortment of issues: mortgage securities, coal, California air-pollution laws.
I guess “depth” is one way of putting it. About six feet of it, with Chron on the shovel.
Hot Air: OK, we’ve excavated Obama’s context … not much improvement. Hey Chron, where’d you bury the transcript?
Related:
Malkin: How Obama blocked wealth generators in Pueblo, Colorado.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:14 pm on Monday, November 3, 2008
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November 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I told the Chronicle years ago that as long as they printed the treasonous lies of Mark Morford, I’d never again buy their paper.
They kept printing his columns, and I haven’t bought a copy of their crappy fishrag since.
Hasn’t hurt me a lick.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
You know, I really think that Obama has very little connection to reality. He just doesn’t understand that doing something like making coal plants impossible to build will have real consequences. He doesn’t understand that once you start taking money from one group and hand it directly to another that it will have consequences, that people will change their behaviors in response. He doesn’t understand that we can’t just say we’ll stop using fossil fuels, and something cheaper and better will magically take their place.
To Obama, money (and power) is just something that flows to you naturally if you are smart and impress people, and since you didn’t really earn it, there’s no reason the government shouldn’t take some of it away and give it to the dummies at the bottom, who will never be as smart and gifted and important as people like you. Look at his career, look at how little of worth that he’s really accomplished in his life, and yet here he is, on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful people in the world. When you look at it that way, it’s not hard to see how somebody like Obama could become so disconnected from reality.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Re: Obama’s disconnect with reality, from the always excellent Thomas Sowell:
“Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise– whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team– is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.
The signs of Barack Obama’s self-centered immaturity are painfully obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the ideology that Obama represents.
The triumphal tour of world capitals and photo-op meetings with world leaders by someone who, after all, was still merely a candidate, is just one sign of this self-centered immaturity.
“This is our time!” he proclaimed. And “I will change the world.” But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon.
For someone who has actually accomplished nothing to blithely talk about taking away what has been earned by those who have accomplished something, and give it to whomever he chooses in the name of “spreading the wealth,” is the kind of casual arrogance that has led to many economic catastrophes in many countries.
The equally casual ease with which Barack Obama has talked about appointing judges on the basis of their empathies with various segments of the population makes a mockery of the very concept of law.
After this man has wrecked the economy and destroyed constitutional law with his judicial appointments, what can he do for an encore? He can cripple the military and gamble America’s future on his ability to sit down with enemy nations and talk them out of causing trouble.
The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama’s trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges– very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/ego_and_mouth.html
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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