Update: Serr8d at The Cutting Edge has the same idea about Liberal Fascism as I do. Check out his Obama logo.
Original Post: I repeat: The only legitimate result now for the November election is a win by Obama.
Who do you think uttered that gem of an “analysis”? Chris Matthews? Keith Olbermann? Jack Cafferty? Tim Russert?
No, the pundit in question was someone going by the name of AbtractImp who submitted a comment on the Huffington Post yesterday. The post they were responding to was a piece of drivel by Greg Mitchell called “The Debate: A Shameful Night for the U.S. Media”:
In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in Philadelphia. They, and their network, should hang their collective heads in shame.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the health care and mortgage crises, the overall state of the economy and dozens of other pressing issues had to wait for their few moments in the sun as Obama was pressed to explain his recent “bitter” gaffe and relationship with Rev. Wright (seemingly a dead issue) and not wearing a flag pin — while Clinton had to answer again for her Bosnia trip exaggerations.
Then it was back to Obama to defend his slim association with a former ’60s radical — a question that came out of rightwing talk radio and Sean Hannity on TV, but was delivered by former Bill Clinton aide Stephanopolous. This approach led to a claim that Clinton’s husband pardoned two other ’60s radicals. And so on. The travesty continued.
More time was spent on all of this than segments on getting out of Iraq and keeping people from losing their homes and — you name it. Gibson only got excited complaining that someone might raise his capital gains tax. Yet neither candidate had the courage to ask the moderators to turn to those far more important issues. Talking heads on other networks followed up by not pressing that point either. The crowd booed Gibson near the end. Why didn’t every other responsible journalist on TV?
To top it off, here is David Brooks’ review at The New York Times: “I thought the questions were excellent.” He gives ABC an “A.” Of course, “A” can stand for many things.
Yes, “A” can stand for many things: Appropriate, Accurate, Astute, to name just a few.
It also can stand for apoplectic, which is what the large majority of Obama-Goons seem to be this morning. Let’s surf on over to that other bastion of all things Obama, and read an over-the-top rant posted by Billary Redux at the Daily Kos. Keep in mind that this tirade was posted before the debate even happened. Also keep in mind that the grammatical errors are in the original.
Below is the history of how we saw the Okie-Dokie coming a mile away and how a network Subverted Democracy. President Barack should pull their Broadcasting License.
Tonight’s debate will be moderated in part by ABC News Political Director, and former Clinton War Room lieutenant, George Stephanopoulos. Yesterday, George was documented conspiring with TWO Right Wing Blowhards against Obama. Expect a GOTCHA tonight, and ahead of that, We need to let ABC News know we are watching … If this is his standard, why not let Cheney Moderate the debate, or McCain even!
To put it bluntly, should a Former Clinton Official be the one asking GOP questions to Barack Tonight?!?
George spent time yesterday taking Notes on Sean Hannity’s Show.
Billary Redux recounts Stephanopoulos’ appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio talk show yesterday, as well as an appearance with Steve Malzberg on WOR radio (New York). Interestingly, Hannity was suggesting questions for Stephanopoulos to ask Obama at the debate, and Stephanopoulos seemed willing to consider Hannity’s suggested line of questioning. The Billary Redux tantrum continues:
So George Stephanopoulos is out there chatting with Newsmax columnists and Sean Hannity…
The Same George Stephanopoulos who is the Political Director of ABC, whose Good Morning America was the first National Network Program to break the Reverend Wright Story. And the Very Same ABC that’s owned by the Disney Corporation, whose other network, ESPN is in the news for Canceling not one but TWO Obama Exclusive Interviews at the executive level….
Let ABC Know what you think about this Garbage! We Expect Objectivity, not force fed conspiracy guilt by association Gotcha Controversies (and Hannity wet dreams).
We expect Objectivity George! We’re Watching you!
A little background here: One of the questions Sean Hannity suggested that Stephanopoulos ask was the one about Barack Obama’s association with former Weather Underground member William “Bill” Ayers. Billary Redux seems particularly piqued about that one. So much so, that he/she wrote the following note to ABC/Disney:
Its come to my attention that tonight there will be a conflict of interest on stage in Pennsylvania. As a voter, there is little I can do about your placing George on stage, but I can assure you as a viewer and vocal blogger (I’m the one who started this little letter writting campaign on dKos) we can certainly turn up the heat, including a straight up boycott of DISNEY if you include the Weather Underground/Hannity Question in tonight’s Debate.
Do what’s right. Stick to the issues and be fair.
Ah, so objectivity and fairness seem to be the key issue for Billary Redux. But for Billary Redux, the fair and objective thing to do at the ABC debate last night would have been to serve up nothing but softballs to candidate Barack Obama. Again. As usual. No questions about his association with a certain nut-job pastor. No questions about his association with an admitted terrorist. No questions about why he thinks lunchbox Democrats in Middle America are bitter gun-totin’, Bible-thumpin’ bigots….
But that seems to be the overriding meme within the Obamista culture—information control. Thought control. Why, just last week, I was watching a YouTube video of one of Obama’s lame attempts to explain his “clinging to religion and guns” faux pas. I read some of the comments under the video, and was thoroughly disgusted by the perfect unanimity displayed by the fawning, drooling boobs who were making the comments. So I thought I’d spice things up in the comments section by informing them that they were behaving like morons. But lo and behold, the comments were being moderated. Ergo the unanimity.
Information control. Thought control. The Obama freaks enforced it with Stalin-esque rigidity in the comments to the YouTube video. And that’s what the nutroots on Daily Kos and the Huffington Post wanted to enforce during last night’s Democratic debate. They wanted to prevent Stephanopoulos from asking Obama probing questions about the Wright/bitterness/Ayers situations.
It’s kind of scary, really. The Obamista approach to information control is eerily echoed in the words of a certain earlier politician:
The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.
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But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
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The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince, and what I mean is to convince the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.
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[T]he example of enemy war propaganda [in World War I] was typical; limited to a few points, devised exclusively for the masses, carried on with indefatigable persistence. Once the basic ideas and methods of execution were recognized as correct, they were applied throughout the whole War without the slightest change. At first the claims of the propaganda were so impudent that people thought it insane; later, it got on people’s nerves; and in the end, it was believed.
I leave it up to you to figure out which earlier politician said those things.
The simplest ideas repeated thousands of times, the man said.
Change. Change. Change. Change. Change.
Hope. Hope. Hope. Hope. Hope.
Watch out, Obamistas, you’re treading down a dangerous path.
The masses are slow moving, the man said. Obama thinks you’re slow moving, too. And dim-witted. He thinks he just has to repeat himself over and over and over again until you eventually believe him.
Some of you have already capitulated.
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