Obama Round-up:
Obamamania On The Right
Based on Obama’s associations and influences, which we can document over most of his life and career, one must realistically conclude that he is a revolutionary Marxist. One of his more troubling associates, as we at AIM have written about for many months, is Anthony Lake, a Democratic Party foreign policy specialist who made headlines by doubting whether Alger Hiss, the United Nations founder and a U.S. State Department official, was really guilty of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. Lake is not a figure from Obama’s distant past; rather, he has been one of Obama’s closest foreign policy advisers for the last two years. In the 1980s, he had controversial ties to the pro-Marxist think tank known as the Institute for Policy Studies, which was dedicated to the establishment of revolutionary Marxist and anti-American regimes in Central and Latin America and elsewhere.
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This is disgusting, but not unexpected:
Barbara Walters Falters
On the night before Thanksgiving, just an hour after Rosie O’Donnell had publicly belly-flopped with a horrible attempt at an old-time variety show on NBC, Barbara Walters made a fool of herself interviewing Barack and Michelle Obama. The toughest questions dealt with whether there was enough “change” in his cabinet picks, and whether he was “waffling” on tax hikes for the rich — questions his (and ABC’s) liberal base would enjoy.
Let’s go back eight years. On the Friday before the Inauguration, Walters interviewed then-President-elect George Bush and his wife Laura. But it was only one part of a routine “20/20” hour, and she brought harsh questions to carve up Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft as a divisive disaster.
This time, the media’s favorite won. The Obama interview drew a whole hour, which Walters promoted with a gooey splash of Obama fawning and interview clips all across the ABC News schedule. She was so ubiquitous one might have expected her to plug the Obamas in a cameo appearance on an ABC soap opera like “All My Children.”
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Brace For The Change You Do Not Believe In
From The Huffington Post and Daily Kos to National Review and The Washington Times — and all the mainstream media in between — commentators are puzzling over who the dickens President-elect Barack Obama really is. On the progressive left, they are beginning to fear he may not be for “redistributive justice.” On The Wall Street Journal free market right, they are seeing in his economic team the possibility that he is really as safe for capitalism as a banker. Karl Rove has concluded: “(The) announcement of Mr. Obama’s economic team was reassuring. He’s generally surrounded himself with intelligent, mainstream advisers.”
Those impassioned by the anti-war slogan “no blood for oil” are getting nervous. According to Politico, Jodie Evans — a CodePink co-founder who, with her husband, helped raise a lot of money for Obama during the primary and general elections — recalled her interaction with Obama: “It has gotten to the point where he sees me coming and before I am close he just keeps repeating, ‘Jodie, I PROMISE, I will end the war, I promise I will end the war.'”
The mainstream media, still warmed by the success of their work electing Obama, comfortably headlined an article on the topic in the National Journal: “The President-Elect’s Appointments Reflect His Confidence In His Own Idiosyncratic Blueprint And His Ability To Hold Together An Eclectic Administration.”
It is a pity the conversation about what Obama might actually do as president didn’t begin in the media until after the election. But not to worry. As Emma Goldman, a 20th-century anarchist and Marxist, is reputed to have said: “In America, elections are the opium of the people.” Well, we have had our fix, no matter how uninformed we were during the injection.
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