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Frank Rich Sure Has A Man Crush

// February 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // 2009-2010, POLITICAL ARENA

After reading an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by Frank Rich entitled: “They Sure Showed That Obama” I sat at my desk marveling at how moronic and just plain ignorant Frank Rich is.

Rich claims that Obama “outwitted” Republicans and those in opposition to the so-called stimulus bill. They were “played for fools again”, gloats Rich. It seems more likely to me that Frank Rich is still on bended knee worshiping the great Obama.

The idea that Obama somehow “outwitted” the oppositions is idiotic. Perhaps Rich has forgotten that the Democrats control the House and the Senate. With or without the help of a few RINO’s they can get any bill passed that they please.  Obama did not play anyone for a fool. The only fools are the ones who voted for this bill.

Rich takes the the opposition to task for claiming that the Obama Administration has “lost control”. NEWS FLASH TO FRANK RICH: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS LOST CONTROL. In fact, they are off to a terrible start. His administration is made up of tax cheats and lobbyists. Where’s the change? If this was a Republican in the White House Frank Rich along with the media would be blasting the administration.

Rich claims that the GOP has hurt themselves by voting no on this PORK BILL.  Mr. Rich, the GOP has never been more fired up. The base of the party has been longing for a return to Reagan-ism and conservative values. The American people were not given that choice during the ’08 Election, but they will be given the choice in 2012.

The Democrats own this bill. They own the next four years. This is their economy. They will be held accountable for their votes and the results thereof.

Mr. Rich, you should be asking why Congress passed a $787 billion dollar bill without even reading it first. Instead of pitching a tent for Obama and his supposed victory, why not question Obama and his party about the lack of transparency surrounding this bill. Perhaps Mr. Rich, you could ask Reid why the bill includes funding for his long sought after railroad. Why not ask Pelosi how saving her mouse will help the economy?

I suppose you’d rather play it safe and stroke Obama’s ego. For you to make the passing of the stimulus bill out to be some kind of brilliant win by Obama only makes it clear that you have a man crush on Obama.

Limbaugh’s Op-ED: Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism

// September 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // POLITICAL ARENA

Taken From Wall Street Journal: Obama is stoking racial antagonism.

An Op-Ed Written By: Rush Limbaugh

I understand the rough and tumble of politics. But Barack Obama — the supposedly postpartisan, postracial candidate of hope and change — has gone where few modern candidates have gone before.

Mr. Obama’s campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making. And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite. What kind of potential president would let his campaign knowingly extract two incomplete, out-of-context lines from two radio parodies and build a framework of hate around them in order to exploit racial tensions? The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were famous for such vile fear-mongering.

Here’s the relevant part of the Spanish-language television commercial Mr. Obama is running in Hispanic communities:

“They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with . . . the intolerance . . . they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much.”

Then the commercial flashes two quotes from me: “. . . stupid and unskilled Mexicans” and “You shut your mouth or you get out!”

And then a voice says, “John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote . . . and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families. John McCain . . . more of the same old Republican tricks.”

Much of the media that is uninterested in Mr. Obama’s connections to unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright have so far gone along with the attempt to tie me to Mr. McCain. But Mr. McCain and I have not agreed on how to address illegal immigration. While I am heartened by his willingness to start by securing the borders, it is no secret that we have fundamental differences on illegal immigration.

And more to the point, these sound bites are a deception, and Mr. Obama knows it. The first sound bite was extracted from a 1993 humorous monologue poking fun at the arguments against the North American Free Trade Agreement. Here’s the context:

“If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

My point, which is obvious, was that the people who were criticizing Nafta were demeaning workers, particularly low-skilled workers. I was criticizing the mind-set of the protectionists who opposed the treaty. There was no racial connotation to it and no one thought there was at the time. I was demeaning the arguments of the opponents.

As for the second sound bite, I was mocking the Mexican government’s double standard — i.e., urging open borders in this country while imposing draconian immigration requirements within its own borders. Thus, I took the restrictions Mexico imposes on immigrants and appropriated them as my own suggestions for a new immigration law.

Here’s the context for that sound bite: “And another thing: You don’t have the right to protest. You’re allowed no demonstrations, no foreign flag waving, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. You’re a foreigner: shut your mouth or get out! And if you come here illegally, you’re going to jail.”

At the time, I made abundantly clear that this was a parody on the Mexican government’s hypocrisy and nobody took it otherwise.

The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts they used in order to create a commercial of distortions. Their hoped-for result is to inflame racial tensions. In doing this, Mr. Obama and his advisers have demonstrated a pernicious contempt for American society.

We’ve made much racial progress in this country. Any candidate who employs the tactics of the old segregationists is unworthy of the presidency.

Mr. Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.