Welcome To Moonbat Nation, Mr. President!
Howie Carr does the honors as Obama arrives in Beantown to the boos of the moonbat peanut gallery. Boston Herald:
Welcome to Boston, Mr. President. Stand by for the angry moonbat demonstrators.
They’re mad as hell at you and they’re not going to take it anymore. They don’t like what you’re saying on two or three issues out of a hundred. So you have to be ridden out of town on a rail.
Celebrate diversity – get somebody fired for having a different opinion. Welcome to my world, Barack.
So the moonbats will be parading around wherever you stop today and stamping their little Birkenstock-clad feet and demanding that you be held accountable . . . for something.
Welcome to Boston, a demonstration in search of a cause. A rabble in search of a rouse.
Hurtful cruelty alert:
Will you be visiting Auntie Zetuni today, Barack?
First the president will deliver a very riveting speech at MIT on global warming – er, climate change. No one will mention last weekend’s snowstorm. This is about saving the polar bears, man.
Darfur – that’s the name of that place in Africa. What are you doin’ about Darfur, Obama?
After MIT it’s off to the Westin, and the $6,000-a-head fund-raiser – $500 for Deval, $500 for Timmy Murray and $5,000 for the party, which is Deval and Timmy. For $6,000, the Politically Correct greedheads will get to hear the president denounce . . . greed.
The moonbats will be protesting there, too, count on it. Barack could deliver those two Gitmo prisoners to Amherst on Air Force One and personally accompany them down to the welfare office to sign up for reparations, and it still wouldn’t be enough. They’re all on antidepressants, and they’re all very depressed.
Hey, moonbats, what time does the candlelight vigil for Tarek Mehanna start tonight?
You can laugh. These are serious issues! Here are the hangwringers themselves. Plus the bad news that he can’t fill a room. Herald again:
President Obama blows into the bluest state today facing a cold shoulder from once true-blue admirers, as gay rights activists, anti-war protesters and vexed environmentalists vow to picket a fund-raiser he’s headlining for Gov. Deval Patrick – a marquee event that hasn’t even sold out.
As of last night, liberals who once braved frigid temperatures to behold Obama were shunning tickets to the fund-raiser at the posh Westin Copley Place featuring the president, sources told the Herald. And despite campaign denials, Patrick operatives reportedly were pushing the ducats – between $500 and $6,000 – by e-mail up to the last minute.
“He’s reaching the point in his presidency where not only has the honeymoon ended, but the fighting has begun,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia presidential scholar.
Among the groups planning to dog Obama during his scheduled afternoon swing through Cambridge and Boston:
Anti-war activists CODEPINK, who are irate with the president for backpedaling on promises to withdraw from Iraq and weighing a surge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“It’s disturbing and very upsetting,” said Sarah Roche-Mahdi, the group’s Greater Boston coordinator.
Donning bright-pink wigs and hats, these anti-war women said they’ll shadow Obama from MIT, where he’s slated to give a speech on the environment, to the swank Westin Copley fund-raiser.
Environmental coalition 350.org – which has soured on Obama’s efforts to curb global warming – plans to protest the MIT address. They’re also taking out a full-page ad in the MIT student paper questioning Obama’s commitment to the green cause.
Gays and lesbians are furious with Obama for forsaking campaign vows to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
About 150 members of gay marriage advocate Join the Impact-MA plan to converge on the Hub hotel to give the commander in chief an earful.
“I voted for him because of his speeches and rhetoric and his promises,” said Paul Sousa, the group’s co-founder. “I thought he’d act on those promises.”
In the interest of further balance, let’s check the Boston Globe.
Damn. Crickets. Hope and Change is coming to Beantown today and doesn’t even rate the front page on the lefty lickspittle NYT-owned broadsheet. The Pulitzer-angling champions of first gay marriage in the nation must really be PO’d at him. This search suggests a total blackout … can’t be, will have to check the newsprint version. At work, so I don’t have to give Pinch a buck.
Hey, maybe Obama and/or his aides will start dissing the Boston Herald, “wing of the Republican Party,” “not a newspaper,” whatever. It’s been great for Fox!
On that front in the ongoing White House media war, here’s Rutenberg at NYT with sober, measured coverage of the Fox dispute, which you could read and not know that this naked effort to squelch one of the few critical news outlets is an outrage.
If you want the sober, measured take on what an outrage this is, you have to go to Krauthammer:
There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality or constitutionality. We have norms, Madisonian norms.
Madison argued that the safety of a great republic, its defense against tyranny, requires the contest between factions or interests. His insight was to understand “the greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties.” They would help guarantee liberty by checking and balancing and restraining each other — and an otherwise imperious government.
Factions should compete, but also recognize the legitimacy of other factions and, indeed, their necessity for a vigorous self-regulating democracy. Seeking to deliberately undermine, delegitimize and destroy is not Madisonian. It is Nixonian.
You will want to read the whole thing.
Surber, slightly less restrained than the Hammer of the Krauts, reads between NYT’s genteel lines:
Sounds like Axelrod wants Rupert Murdoch’s tit in a wringer.
ACORN seems to be the trigger. Obama is the mighty oak that from an ACORN grew. ACORN is where he launched his political career — and his Achilles heel.
Obama is a terribly vain man who like Narcissus before him is in love with his own image. Fox News is the one mirror on the wall that is not telling him he is the fairest one of all. Old Narcissus did not live happily ever after.
(Hats off to my pal Don on an astonishing six metaphors mixed in three graphs, BTW. They should have a contest for that kind of thing. At no loss for words he navigates, let’s see, about three millenia of metaphor with pinpoint accuracy. Only blind outrage could produce that kind of vision. Some people might look down their noses, but you know what they say, hindsight is 50/50. No use crying into your spilt beer. What goes around is yesterday’s news tomorrow. Que sera whatever … can’t make an omelet without cracking some tough nuts.)
Playing off Krauthammer, Moonbattery comments, “It appears even the MSM realizes that in an authoritarian state of the kind Obama has been working to impose, there is no role for a free press,” but adds, “To be fair, how can you expect a red diaper baby like Obama — steeped in leftist ideology from his earliest memories — to grasp a concept like fair competition?”
Back to the business at hand, Gateway: “You must pay homage. You must not mock.”
Legal Insurrection notes that at least some elements of the media are confronting “the monster they created.”
NPR’s Rudin may have backed off the Nixon comparison, but Newsbusters notes Anderson Cooper made one, too. Carille kvetches that Obama’s not exactly felonious yet. You know, when people who didn’t say boo to all the Bush-Cheney = Hitler comparisons …
Here’s the original NPR program. I was listening the other day, and recall that Rudin wasn’t bad, and NYT’s David Carr was pretty good, too.
Politico: White House attacks have moderate Dems worried. Maybe they’re figuring out that Obama isn’t one. They also don’t think O wins this pising match, which they note has expanded to inlcude the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Protein Wisdom: “An enemy too far?”
Malkin, meanwhile, wants to know what was on the agenda in Obama’s 2 1/2-hour confab with the “bootlicker media.”
(That illustration at top is today’s front page of the newspaper for which I toil. Along with Murdoch’s NY Post, one of the last non ass-kissing newspapers in the United States.)
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Topics: Boston, Obama, moronocy
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:24 am Comments (5) on Friday, October 23, 2009
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October 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Jules – You are on a roll!
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Ordinarily, protests by moonbats might serve as a means to recover more moderate leftists, but in this case, this Administration has alienated if not angered such a wide array of voters, who knows?
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
The red diaper baby description is perfect, especially with all the whining and foot-stamping coming out of the White House these days. Miracles do happen, though. I expect the president to have a come-to-Jesus moment when the Code Pink harridans start taking off their clothes.
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