Yeah. Right.
I like Alan West (though he disappointed me on several of his votes during the debt-ceiling debates). But if you think Herman Cain is naive, imagine a Republican politician who actually believes that the reason Obama is able to avoid serious criticism is that the press is afraid of him rather than completely ideologically wedded to man.
Hell, Obama started his political career in the home of a guy who unrepentantly bombed the Pentagon — then sat for 20-years in the church of a Black Liberation Theologist and anti-Semite (who may or may not have been running a “Down Low” club out of that very church). Entire blocks of time are completely absent from Obama’s biography.
If the press wanted to take this man down, they’ve had ample opportunity. They aren’t interested. And that’s because, for the most part, they are a propaganda arm of the governing class, with a special affinity for leftwing socialists.
The only way to defeat the enemy is to first properly identify it.
Alan West should know that by now.
Calling for the media, for “journalists” to do anything detrimental to His Holy Wisdom, their Dearest Leader, is futile.
They’re corrupt. They’re rotten to the point of disease. They are a cancer on the country.
Imagine how the press would have reacted had someone traveled with Tea Partiers to one of the large DC rallies, had hidden among their number, and, when he was close enough to the White House, produced a rifle and fired multiple rounds at it.
Now, contrast that (admitted hypothetical) to how they’ve reacted when someone did just that, using the OWS loons as cover. They’ve BURIED the GD story.
Without a shred of evidence, the press continues to blame Tea Partiers in general and Palin in particular for Loughner’s insanity-driven shooting spree. In fact, this assertion is against the available facts, as Loughner’s lunacy appeared to be more in line with the drug-addled OWS pack than not. But when a lunatic is actually able to move within the circles of their precious OWS well enough to use them to conceal a scary ‘assault rifle’, well… nothing to see here. No connection.
I agree that the media is generally in the tank for Obama. However I’d give the congressman the benefit of the doubt here. It could well be that he’s trying to inspire the press to be more critical of the President. Calling them out as liberals wouldn’t accomplish that.
They are very busy at present saving the country from “the rise of the apes.” h/t Foxie News
I am not sure he doesn’t know that. I liked the press conference…as a start. There is a lot more to do. A lot more.
Then he’s tilting at windmills, and has an even lower chance of success.
Neither will appealing to their non-existent ethics or integrity. These are not crusaders for the truth, seeking to expose corruption and see that justice be done. These are courtiers jockeying for access. These are lickspittles. They are propagandists for the Leviathan.
the Keystone pipeline is as perfect an illustration of Obama’s hateful war on jobs as anything you could ask for
hey did you know today is American Thenthorthip Day?
sing for the laughter and sing for the tear I think
[…] Fear: Love Posted on November 16, 2011 9:30 am by Bill Quick Alan West to media: “Stand up to [Obama] and call him out on the shirking of his duties and re… I like Alan West (though he disappointed me on several of his votes during the debt-ceiling […]
And tomorrow is…
Progressivism has been reduced by its proponents into a quasi-religious dogma, which is peculiarly strange in the case of progressivism in particular, since the founders of progressivism rejected what they called theological and metaphysical systems of all sorts — mere superstitious accretions in their view — to be replaced by science and technology grown political. So in a sense, we may as well think of Obama and the media as coreligionists, to the extent they’ve become simply dogmatic. The current state of the typical progressive is a sad state of affairs, insofar as it amounts to a testament to the failure of their ideology, reflected in their inability to refer to the empirical effects of their labors.
And more in store for tomorrow.
I’m inclined to give West the BotD here, though I agree with Jeff in being sorely disappointed in him during the debt ceiling debacle.
I’m pretty sure West agrees with most of what Crawford has said about the press, and mocking them for cowards is just a different assault tactic.
In a time when parody has become impossible to write, and the stigma of being a socialist has changed into honor, we really got nothing left but to mock them. Painting them as pants wetting, cowering, little snots is a good way to expand the bombardment.
I actually do think, now that I’ve thought on it a little, that they probably are a little afraid of Obama. He’s the Fuhrer of the system they are building, hell, they’ve practically deified the dork.
Obama can make or break any journalist hoping to ride his coat tails with a twitch of the lip, and they full well know what happens if thrown out of the club…
That should read Allen West, not Alan West.
It is not “tilting at windmills” to point out what the Press is doing. Of course they will not listen much less change their ways.
But to say, “Well of course. They how they always behave” defeats the purpose. They should be called out, repeatedly, on their behavior and it is very good thing that Col. West does so in straightforward and uncompromising fashion.
West may be wrong about the reasons and motivations behind the media’s protection of Obama, but at least he’s reminding people about the uselessness of our current generation of “journalists.”
1. Crawford posted on 11/16 @ 9:44 am
Imagine how the press would have reacted had someone traveled with Tea Partiers to one of the large DC rallies, had hidden among their number, and, when he was close enough to the White House, produced a rifle and fired multiple rounds at it.
Tonight Brian Williams, NBC News, Washington, led with the shooter report. He specifically mentioned three times that the shooter was from Idaho and once that he was mentally ill, before he got around to reporting Ortega’s name.
What’s so notable about Idaho?