Comments on: Watch the rats leave the sinking ship: Olbermann, et al, on the President’s oil spill speech

By: Daniel in Brookline

Daniel in Brookline — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:15:17 +0000

“I like being President. And it turns out I’m pretty good at it.”
– Barack H. Obama, early March 2009

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:47:13 +0000

put this in the wrong thread sorry guys

The hounds of hell have eaten their own puppies again….

Keith Olbermann Checks Out Of Daily Kos After Criticism From Left
http://www.mediaite.com/online/keith-olbermann-checks-out-of-daily-kos-after-criticism-from-left/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+%28Mediaite%29

[which should also highlight that if a feminist is criticizing feminist points not of critical value to the ideology, she is not being reasonable, she is benig good cop to the others bad cop. if she was actually opposing anything with meaning, she would be an apostate too. but we are not swift enough to apply rules without arbitrary exceptions to feel better]

ultimatey he learned a big lesson here

by taking the side he has for gain, he has sold his soul (freedom), as he now has no personal anyting.

he decided to say something from a personal point not from the collectives point and the reaction was swift and telling.

message, either you tow the line and tell everyone about the purple horse, or your no good to us, and so you no longer get to benefit.

of course greater minds, like Richard right (not reverend), Bella Dodd, and others changed their course when they realized that their judgment of the system was not real but a false perspective born out of being useful.

a mind like doberman olbemans will just conform and hope such contrition will be enough for him to be allowed to earn more than the rest of the prols.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:16:58 +0000

Kurt: This is off topic, but the obviousness of Lady Gaga drives me crazy. Those who “get” Lady Gaga, are responding to the message she is sending that there is peace in the renunciation of identity. That’s what happens when babies and children are sexualized. She is a tool of a sick wickedness that seeks to trigger and re-perpetrate that transgression.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:47:55 +0000

Bob from Virginia: I don’t know where I read it, but someone did a breakdown of the number of words in Obama’s speech. The analysis identified four areas and out of something like 2700 words, over 800 was on the topic of promoting cap-n-trade (although they are changing that name–I expect to hear the world “sustainability” alot); and a chunck was dedicated, as always, to Bush bashing; another chunck was “I’m gonna get you sucker, BP;” and another topic which I don’t remember. However, I bring the point up because even from the standpoint of watching the media for one day, it appears they are quickly focusing on Obama as a champion of the people against BP. This dovetails nicely with the congressional hearings.

This has been done before and it almost seems scripted. Obama is blaming BP like FDR blamed Andrew Mellon.

“People in the mass,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “soon grow used to anything, including even being swindled. There comes a time when the patter of the quack becomes as natural and as indubitable to their ears as the texts of Holy Writ, and when that time comes it is a dreadful job debamboozling them.”

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:42:40 +0000

Hong,
was already done, your late to the party..
the meme was the north koreans did it..
[after all they did recently sink a ship]

though, given the sea cables cut a short while ago
and other interesting events, it wouldn’t be Korea.

By: Hong

Hong — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:41:11 +0000

Just wait for the wacko lib conspiracy mongers to start talking about an ‘outside job’ to blow the rig months before the election.

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:29:14 +0000

The whole oil spill thing is really about Obama fighting the good fight against BP and the other big shots, wasn’t that the crux of his speech, for that matter isn’t the crux of all his speeches?
What a guy!

If only we had elected someone with experience managing as much as a lemonade stand, alas the Obama crowd is proud that they never sullied their hands with commerce.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:58:31 +0000

Aaarrrggghhh. Sometimes you might think English isn’t my native language–evidently blog commenting fluently is more of a challenge than I might have thought. “You are so true about”=a combination of “You are so right” and “That is so true.”

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:36:23 +0000

Occam’s Beard: You are so true about the credentialism. It infuses the left’s judgements about anything. The other day, an acquaintance of mine (a professor of education) remarked that he didn’t “get” Lady Gaga. Well, this prompted some remarks by people who were similarly puzzled, as well as some who weighed in that it was all flash and no substance. Those who claimed to like her couldn’t actually explain why other than to remark that she was “a genius” (by what standard?) or to note that she had impressive credentials or that people had compared her to distinctive pop stars of previous years so there must be something there.

By: Julia NYC

Julia NYC — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:26:50 +0000

Perhaps I’m naive but I never thought MSNBC would ever say anything critical of Obama no matter what he did, so I am quite thrilled that they are furious about this oil spill bungling. It does bring a ray of hope into this dismal situation. Of course destroying the Gulf of Mexico and who knows, perhaps the Atlantic Ocean is a big boo boo, and is too much even for these water carriers to witness. Still, it is refreshing to see these guys waking up to Mr. Moron.

Still, the environment is a big deal to the liberals, they like to think they are far superior to conservatives on this issue, and that they only understand conservation. It’s a sacred cow to them, and for many of them it is their religion because so many are atheists, so it’s nice to see them genuinely upset about Zero’s cluelessness, and actually aghast at his incompetence. I never thought I’d see this day. Sorry to see that this had to be what happened to wake them up.

Still, his rhetoric about law suits is so innapropriate as we all watch the oil gushing out of the earth at an alarming speed. He seems completely out of touch with reality. He doesn’t realize that the language we all want to hear is “we’re going to stop the sucker” not “we’re going to sue BP”. Tone deaf as usual.