Have you noticed how many crises and near-crises are, to the media, “distractions” from the really important news (like the new Obama puppy)?
Mark Steyn certainly has:
Tom Blumer of Newsbusters notes that in the last 30 days there have been some 2,500 stories featuring Obama and “distractions,” as opposed to about 800 “distractions” for Bush in his entire second term. The sub-headline of the Reuters story suggests the unprecedented pace at which the mountain of distractions is piling up: “First North Korea, Iran — now Somali pirates.”Er, okay. So the North Korean test is a “distraction,” the Iranian nuclear program is a “distraction,” and the seizure of a U.S.-flagged vessel in international waters is a “distraction.” Maybe it would be easier just to have the official State Department maps reprinted with the Rest of the World relabeled “Distractions.” Oh, to be sure, you could still have occasional oases of presidential photo-opportunities — Buckingham Palace, that square in Prague — but with the land beyond the edge of the Queen’s gardens ominously marked “Here be distractions . . . ”
Why, it’s almost as if the mainstream media want the whole world to cooperate with a triumphalistic narrative they’ve already written, in which the Obamessiah and his Hope and Change sweeps all the world’s benightedness before it!
Or something like that.
NOTE TO FLASH: This piece is a commentary on the media’s kid-gloves treatment of Obama. Not, as it happens, on his performance in the pirate standoff.
Chris Cilizza may think you’re hot stuff, but around here, you’re still just Flash. 🙂
Oh stop whining. Like nobody paid attention when St. Ronnie went horseback riding or made a weepy, Polly Noonan authored speech at Pointe du Hoc.
Why it’s as if the wingnut blogsphere wants the whole world to cooperate with the Chicken-Little doomsday narratives they’ve already written.
You’ve been caught out, far-righties, rooting against America earlier in the week, full of sour grapes the day after we win.
rooting against America
Nah, Clown. We’re the Real Americans (TM). F**k yeah!
And any Real American knows that the President is not the Nation. I’m nt going to say hose who equate the leader with the Nation belong in North Korea or Cuba or Zimbabwe, but if they took a long, honest look, they might be more comfortable there…
A shame Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa no longer exist. Otherwise there’d be a lot of righties moving there right about now.
Wow. Lotta “Nazi” and “Traitor” references lately.
Not had your coffee yet?
angryclown said:
“A shame Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa no longer exist. Otherwise there’d be a lot of righties moving there right about now.”
Is this just more for the “projective slander angryclown can’t back up” list? Yeah, I thought so.
Now, Troy, I issue a disclaimer about this annually, but sometimes I need to ramp it up a bit.
Clown exists to pull chains. He’s a master at it.
The secret is to pull right back.
For example, when he says: “A shame Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa no longer exist. Otherwise there’d be a lot of righties moving there right about now”, a proper response would be “What? Passaic is full-up until you move?”
Or “speaking of South Africa, that long reliever the Mets put on the mound the other day throws like a soccer player”.
That kind of thing.
Carry on.
I see, you’re entitled to claim the people who disagree with you belong in North Korea, Cuba or Zimbabwe. But when Angryclown counters with Nazi Germany and pre-Mandela South Africa, that’s excessive.
And speaking of baseball, looks like the Twinkies dropped a series to the Chisox. Looks like the president had a good weekend at the expense of a certain baseball-loving St. Paul conservative.
By the way, love that you guys have taken on “projection” as the latest reflexive meme. First relativism, then Chomsky, now Freud – you’re embracing all the lefty ideas you once pretended to hate.
angryclown said:
“you’re embracing all the lefty ideas you once pretended to hate”
Says the guy who’s found a new definition for patriotism (“supporting the POTUS”) since the election. 🙂
Angryclown has always loved America. Angryclown just hates evil wingnuts.
It’s unfortunate for angryclown that his “evil wingnuts” are America. Someday he’ll learn. And then his head will explode.
Think you’re wrong about that, Trojan Man:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/president?view=race08
Sure, the big rectangular states sparsely populated with ignorant slack-jawed yokels have a pretty high proportion of evil wingnuts. But that ain’t America. That’s simply a backward minority.
Oh, I though angryclown was referring to “Real Americans”, not the ones who say they love America but constantly complain about Americans.
“Not had your coffee yet?”
AssClown holds off on the coffee until he’s ready to cleanse his pallette of that shit taco taste, before swabbing out the next cornhole of the morning.
“Clown exists to pull chains. He’s a master at it.”
Yes, AC is one of the most effective chain yankers I’ve ever –
Hey, waaaaaait a minute… THAT’S NO CHAIN!
AssClown’s Liberal Fascism will ruin America.
Flush charecterizes all the “distractions” as “inheritance tacks” that prick the One.
Flush also supports regressive taxation (tabaky tax, ect.) and he is waiting for Obama to replace Sandra Day O’Conner when she retires. (Ha ha ha ha ha)
Liberal Fascist or Useful Idiot or just plain tool?