Have Americans finally tired of the Obama narrative?
I’ve got a new article up at PJ.
It’s all about the narrative, you know.
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I’ve got a new article up at PJ.
It’s all about the narrative, you know.
The ‘narrative’ was strong with FDR and JFK too. FDR probably made the depression the depression. I cannot think of any real accomplishments of JFK yet his administration was portrayed as ‘camelot.’ Is the spinning any different with Obama or is it just being uninterrupted by reality (ie, the end of the ponzi scheme known as progressivism)?
” . . . with neatly pressed pants . . .”
That is funny . . . and Clinton did sum it up in that video:
“the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen.”
Only this one doesn’t have a happy ending.
Too many people believe that ‘perception is reality’. It can be, until you run into reality. Violent conflict; war or being attacked brings things into reality. As long as the dinosaur media will cover for Barry’s narrative and people choose to believe their excuses, he will do well. When the reality of the world intrudes, some will have to face the facts.
Who are you going to believe: Media or your lying eyes?
Eventually history will catch up to Obama, hindsight being 20-20. Unfortunately it may take a generation.
In a way it will be funny if he is re-elected; imagine people voting for their own destitution because the candidate is so sexy. Like that movie where somebody is transported to a future in which everyone is a complete idiot.
Great article, Neo.
Concerning why Bill Clinton is supporting Obama now….
I think he wants to keep the door open for Hillary to run in 2016. He has to act within party guidelines to do that. He has to seem to support this year’s candidate.
Sometimes, he lets a little something slip that hurts Obama (eg. Romney has passed the test to be a candidate for the presidency and has been a successful businessman).
Sly strategy to hurt Obama? You be the judge.
If the next debate is another massive flop for Obama, I imagine we might expect to hear Bill Clinton making some sort of positive comment about Romney’s debate performance, indirectly giving the green light to Democrats who are thinking about abandoning Obama in this election.
Good piece.
BTW, having recently reconsidered the last 100 years of American history in light of my recently acquired awareness of the Gramscian Tide, I don’t think the MSM will ever “tire” of the Obama narrative. They may tire of it as such, but that would only be because they’ve found a new — and better!- champion for “the cause”….
I think Obama is so disinterested in the alternative point of view that he can change his style but not his substance
As you said, when all he’s got is narrative, it’s not only exhausting, its offensive. It was bad enough we were asked to ignore his lack of accomplishment (and paper trail) prior to his first presidential run, but now? Please. He owns the current mess – all of it. And it came crashing in on him during last week’s debate.
The MSM will never tire, but the stories are starting to come out. Whether it’s Jerome Corsi getting Trinity Church folks to finally talk about the Chicago Obamas we’ve never known, or State Dept. and CIA folks revealing the inexplicably intentional lack of security for our diplomats in Libya on 9/11. I’m just heartened that this is coming out before the election.
Good question. The media likes to manufacture heroes, and then destroy them. Americans supporting the Golden Boy act more like adoring fans than voters.
I remember hearing this saying once from an aetheist friend, who said of God: “if the man did not exist, the moment would create him”. Not exactly appropos to God, but maybe it explains Obama.
I wonder if he is consciously aware of the narrative as much as responding to the cues he’s received, that teach him to behave as he does. Maybe there’s no difference, but mostly what comes across to me is a typical phony who doesn’t know much about anything, and relies on BS and a cool demeanor to deflect any substantive questions from coming his way. A BS artists at heart, and effective only because he’s a minority, and has a vaunted Harvard degree – nobody has dares challenge his knowledge on anything, which is a mile wide and half an inch deep. Just watch him try to think of little words we can all understand. A Harvard education obviously isn’t what it used to be.
I’m wondering if that isn’t the case with Obama – he had less to do with all this than a society that holds up actors, night show comedians, and musicians in higher esteem than statesmen or scholars, and as such, has no way to evaluate people on any other basis.
i have no education or background in social science (except what they made me take in college), and am probably as full of it as Obama. But i wonder if the real narrative isn’t a statement about where we are as a society – “the emperor’s new clothes” to me was more about blindness and cowardice of the subjects than the vanity of the king.
carl in atlanta: agreed. Many in the MSM are True Believers, telling a conflicted people a higher truth.
southpaw: I have long felt that the Obama phenomenon says far more about the American public than it does about Obama (although of course it also says something about Obama).
Neo:
Even today, it’s still hard to accept that “the avuncular Walter Cronkite” was in fact a Fellow Traveler.
neo, enjoyed the article. This part, “the altitude was too high for Obama, he didn’t have time to practice because he was too busy with weighty matters,” reminded me of something, so I searched until I found it.
Enjoy. (I think Al Gore has seen this, too.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYNBwCEeH4
Carl in Atlanta @ 1:06 wrote: “I don’t think the MSM will ever “tire” of the Obama narrative.”
I don’t think it makes sense to treat the media as monolithic. It may well be in terms of the participants (“journalists,” editors and even station owners) but remember that the media is, first and foremost, a business.
It has trended leftwards because leftwards has sold. Now, with the demise of Time, Newsweek and perhaps even The New York Times, things may change. In this regard the growing ratings of Fox news is a blessing. IMO it will reach a tipping point where the media will start to say let’s be more like Fox. Why? Not because they care ideologically, but because that is where the money will be. The profiteering and capitalism they revile in oil companies is, indeed, what drives them too.
You say narrative, I say narrishtive. Some wish to stay in dreamland–they take the blue (DemoMarxist) pill from Morpheus and go back to believing whatever they want to believe, complete with Phonem Et Circenses.
Another good, well thought out PJ article. It is all about the voters and the voters will send BHO back to Chicago and/or Hawaii. The “narrative” has fallen flat. Obamaphone has a limited number of minutes and text messages.
Today at the grocery the woman in front of me paid for a cart full of junk food with a food stamp card. The young teller had a definite smirk on her face when she handed the receipt to the woman. IMO, the youth vote will be suppressed this time around. The ranks of the zombies will be thinned and the MSM can do nothing about it, rant and tingle as they may. R&R by 4%.
Seems to me Obama is just one facet of a much larger and insidious narrative perpetrated by journalist worldwide.
These perpetrators aren’t mere liberals as we understood them 20 years ago. They’ve morphed into narcissistic fascist without a conscience, that will do anything to force the whole world into their likenesss.