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1. Promoguy:

My greatest wish and dream for hope and change is that just one of these four who quite frankly were the greatest proponent of the O – Man will stand up say, forgive me for I knew not what I done did.

Will hell freeze over first. Yeah, unfortunately, I think so.

Mar 22, 2009 - 9:14 pm 2. Lee Merrick:

Friedman taking on Eric Freakin’ Cantor?! Give me a break….

Mar 22, 2009 - 9:19 pm 3. Steve:

How right you are. The Tea Party movement not only challenges the narrative of the MSM but maybe has the potential to become a new political party. What do you think about the Tea Party movement starting a petition for Obama’s resignation? Is that too radical?

Mar 22, 2009 - 9:42 pm 4. David Thomson:

I may very well be the very first individual who saw clearly that Barack Obama is a shallow and poorly read individual. The fact that he earned a Harvard law degree simply means that he can probably pass a state bar exam. That’s the beginning and end of it. Has anybody actually tried to read Obama’s books? They reflect nothing more than a guy possessing the intellectual depth of a second year college student. Furthermore, Obama has virtually no executive experience. I strongly believe that he will resign before the end of his term. It’s just too much for him. We should also ask this delicate and awkward question: what will we do if the current elected leader of the nation has a mental breakdown?

Mar 22, 2009 - 9:53 pm 5. Neobuzz:

Today Scott Johnson at Powerline was busy placing the blame for the fiasco of Democratic leadership at the feet of the President and now you are fingering the press. Whatever happened to caveat emptor? And why are conservative like the two of you so quick to absolve the electorate of all blame? Have we conservatives become blame shifters too?

But you’ve go it wrong anyway. You are projecting your own dissatisfaction onto everyone else and Obama voters, in particular. Obama is their man and these are the policies they have waited a generation to enact. They are free at last to rid this nation of its provincial rules, traditions, and alliances. They have reached the mountaintop. If you have a problem with that, then you have a problem with what this country and its citizens have become. Get used to it.

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:03 pm 6. HealthCareCynic:

Mr. Simon

You are exactly right. Bravo!

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:13 pm 7. Lynn:

Wow, Neobuzz. You rival Obama himself in arrogance. No mean feat.

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:13 pm 8. David Thomson:

“If you have a problem with that, then you have a problem with what this country and its citizens have become.”

The majority of Americans do not share Barack Obama’s vision for the country. Many people who voted for him were deluded into believing that he is something of a political moderate. This is especially true of the Yuppies who were convinced that Obama would lie to everyone but themselves. Never forget that Austan Goolsbee essentially told Canadian officials to ignore his campaign rhetoric on protectionism—because he had to lie to the blue-collar yahoos of Ohio to get their vote. The Wall Street crowd especially bought into the con job. Most of these affluent capitalists supported Obama. Does anybody think they would do so today? Oh by the way, I also expect the stock market to drop a minimum of 100 points tomorrow.

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:24 pm 9. Yossi:

how terribly true, sad sad thing it is…

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:54 pm 10. Minerva:

A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talkin’ real — naw, I’m too depressed…

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:55 pm 11. Gaffe Prices:

Brilliant premise, for MSM’s record for promoting the candidate Obama and their covering up the slim professional record of Obama is like one of those graphs where the two lines
rise/fall in inverse proportion to the other.

Mar 22, 2009 - 11:27 pm 12. Yael:

Roger, they elected him and they can (maybe)slow him down. While we would all enjoy hearing dhimmedia’s mea culpas, we don’t have time for it (the O-junta certainly isn’t wasting any time). Our efforts would be best spent exploiting any cracks in the dam, such that the dam bursts sooner rather than too late. As the MSM starts to wake up, or come down, from their mass messianic hallucination, we should be there to welcome them, encourage them and feed them information. If all goes well, there will be plenty of time later on for I-told-you-so’s. We have to keep our eye on the ball and not blow this; at the current rate of Change, we may not get another opportunity.

Mar 23, 2009 - 2:55 am 13. Joe:

The media helped bring this presidency about with its constant fawning over him and their failure to vet him. Now, we are having to live with the consequences. A result of all this is that the country is being turned into a bankrupt, socialist state. Shame on the media and shame on the clueless ones who voted for “the one we’ve been waiting for”.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:06 am 14. HardHeadedWoman:

Yes, yes and yes. However, I think that things are pretty much going as planned with BO. Evidently MSM isn’t QUITE as ready to ruin America as much as the Messiah is. In two short months–seems like two hundred years actually–this man has bankrupted and rendered defenseless the most powerful nation on Earth.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:07 am 15. Larry:

the media gave a free ride to that know-nothing Bush Jr when he ran his campaign in 2000, people knew nothing about him. His disastrous track record as governor of Texas was swept under the carpet, his track record of incompetence and spoilt son of privilege was simply bypassed like it didn’t matter. The media have done the same with this empty suit and cipher that is Obama (admittedly with Obama they were arguably worse, I mean the whole hopeandchangemessiah thing was gag inducing), so nothing changes.

The media have been a joke for decades, longer. Simon should know, the award winning movie Network which won Peter Finch a posthumous Oscar mocking the “news” (ok broadcast news but so) media’s stupidity and irrelevance to real news and analysis came out in 1976! That’s over three decades ago now.

Mad as hell and you’re not going to take it anymore? Give me a break, the line is over three decades old, and you have been taking it and then some for all this time, and the public will go on taking it, and taking it, and taking it, because escapist pap passed for news is what they want to hear, always.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:13 am 16. ElMondo:

Roger, you know what the scary thing is? The fact that this election demonstrates to non-democratic, totalitarian states that you don’t need to actually control the press to get it to march in lockstep with you. You merely need the presence of sycopanthic sympathizers to proactively push your message. Hell, you don’t even need to interact with them beyond the minimum, cursory contact.

The only saving grace with America’s free press is that they’re able to jump off the bandwagon when the hoi-polloi gets agitated. Which is why I still would rather have it, but it’s not a panacea. At any rate, what a terrible thing to have taught potential foreign megalomaniacs.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:18 am 17. Cutting, Concise, and Accurate! « Stronger Than Death:

[...] Roger Simon says what we have been saying

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:23 am 18. Chad3337:

NEOBUZZ–

Sorry, but Obama’s beginning to tank with part of his coalition, who believed he was really a centrist who was forced to run to the left to get his party’s nomination, but didn’t really believe in the leftist dogma. They thought they were getting another Clinton. Americans of all stripes were unaware of how opposed Obama is to individual liberties, how much he believes in Government as a solution, and how hostile he is to industriousness and wealth creation. While the MSM is not solely responsible for Obama’s election, they share some responsibility for being cheerleaders and uncritical, and assuming the validity of his talking points over his record. When will people learn that ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!!!!

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:24 am 19. Neo:

CNN is appalled the President pushed through a skillion page skillion dollar stimulus bill no one seems to have read.

This plain and simple is Speaker Pelosi’s fault.
Her planned trip to Italy (probably on a US government jet) just could wait for anybody to read the darn thing. And to think that the Pope then proceeded to take her down a peg.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:33 am 20. elvis:

“Hello, children, you elected this guy. Take some responsibility!

The children responsible for the election of Obama, the most controversial figure in history are of course the media. The ones that glory in their adolescence

Step one: Getting back to basic character building.

No, don’t go complaining the people did that. You did it. Obama is your man, your hero. You never vetted, never examined him in any depth at all, even though the candidate had hardly any experience other than running for office. (Oh, yes, he was a “community organizer.” So was I, in a sense. You want to elect me?)”

The problem with this is that the media doesn’t have any depth.We need to go back to step one.

We are still at step one. Maybe soon we can move to step two?

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:35 am 21. RobertS:

Great article. Thanks.

No doubt the MSM should step up and say, “We blew it.” (I won’t hold my breath, thank you.) But Neobuzz makes a point – and no less than Victor Hanson has echoed it -the electorate needs to accept some responsibility for this, too. Not just for Obama (for he is only the most recent example) – but for Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy and company. They’ve been in office for decades sowing the seeds we are about to reap. To strain the metaphor, Obama is simply the harvest.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:45 am 22. Open Thread | Latest Technology News - Business News And Expert Advice:

[...] Are the media to blame? Hello, children, you elected this guy. Take some responsibility! No, don’t go complaining the people did that. You did it. Obama is your man, your hero. You never vetted, never examined him in any depth at all, even though the candidate had hardly any experience other than running for office. [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:02 am 23. Meryl:

4.David Thomson

I don’t think your query about the potential for a mental breakdown should be considered delicate. I think it’s obvious and timely, and before too long will become the elephant in the room (if it’s not already).

Once again, I’m realizing that there are two things it is impossible to do with regard to this piece of work that is our wannabe POTUS:

1) exaggerate either his arrogance or ignorance and

2) make jokes (because the joke inevitably becomes tomorrow’s headline news)

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:13 am 24. Sgt. Mom:

I confess to taking a mean-minded satisfaction in watching the main-stream press organs go down with him. They hauled him over the finish-line like devotees hauling the god-like image on the juggernaut. They were stuck on him, and stuck with him… and now they are all stuck together. Sort of reminds me of the story of the tar-baby – all stuck together and can’t pull lose. Or is that racist to have that image pop into my mind? Oh, well – never mind then.

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:31 am 25. Alan Kellogg:

Here’s what I think. The man calling himself Barack Hussein Obama is actually a performance artist by the name of Reginald Willins, a 43 year old street mime from Tucson Arizona, who got together with some friends and concocted a life out of whole cloth. It was his goal to run a joke campaign poking fun at both major political parties, most especially at their socialist leanings.

Having, much to his surprise, actually won election to the highest office in the land, Reggie is now seeing how far he can go before somebody notices his policies are basically a spoof of socialist thinking. Unfortunately for poor Mr. Willins, there is nothing so outrageous, so extreme that somebody won’t take it seriously.

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:36 am 26. Instapundit » Blog Archive » ROGER SIMON: The MSM should resign over Obama’s failure. Barely two months after the inaugurat…:

[...] ROGER SIMON: The MSM should resign over Obama’s failure. [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:45 am 27. shaun fischer:

Can any of you guys good enough on downloading , youtube and such,putup that speech from Good Will Hunting in which Matt Damon in the bar scene dress’s down that arrogent freshman Harvard student.In which he basically tells him that all he is doing(the student) is mouthing excepts from published books,that his proffessors are just mouthing from and that HE(the student) has never had or will have a original thought or idea.

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:54 am 28. Don51:

MSM, the Billy Mays of the 2008 Obama Campaign. There’s a difference between being the pitchman and the sucker, as in ‘one born every minute’.

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:59 am 29. aloysiusmiller:

Who broke first? Was it someone who may have been upset because he wasn’t clued into JournoList?

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:59 am 30. Lightnin' Hopkins:

Remember the other, scarier elephant in the room, Meryl. How will he react to another embassy attack, another Cole, another direct attack on America itself? My guess is new levels of ineptitude would be reached in the event of such a “man-caused disaster.” If the attack were spectacular and devastating enough it would be safe to assume that the radicals in power would use the crisis as another “opportunity” for more even more state control.

The “Clampdown” that the late, politically misguided Joe Strummer of the Clash sang about may yet take place in the West – only it won’t be Maggie Thatcher or Reagan implementing it, but a two-bit leftist he would have supported. Oh, the irony.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:00 am 31. Enableate » Blog Archive » MSM Responsible for Obama:

[...] Simon has this to say about the MSM ever evolving position on Obama: According to Politico and PJM’s own [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:06 am 32. Mwalimu Daudi:

This lovers’ spat between the government-backed media and the Won will never last.

Around November of this year (if not before) the media will be gushing about “signs of recovery” even though the economy will still be in free-fall and unemployment will still be rising. In 1992 they created “the worst economy since the Great Depression” out of this air. They did something similar last year. Don’t underestimate their ability to create a “recovery” where none exists.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:07 am 33. GoldenEagle4444:

And, as Dear Leader approaches the “100 days threshold”, we can all look forward to cake and cookies VERY soon. That would be day 144, when The One eclipses his entire previous political record as an elected official! There will be dancing in the streets as Amateur Hour continues inside the beltway. Let’s all print more money…We’re going to need it.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:08 am 34. Some Housekeeping | The Anchoress:

[...] L. Simon demands the press resign!. After all, they put Obama in [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:18 am 35. Charlie Martin:

His disastrous track record as governor of Texas was swept under the carpet,

Leading to his disastrous re-election campaign which he disastrously won in a landslid.

Motes and beams, man. Look it up.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:20 am 36. Neo:

I wonder how long before Chris Matthews figures out that the “thrill” he felt up his leg was Obama’s hand trying to perform a “wallet-etomy”

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:23 am 37. Matthew Ridsdale:

Roger, the MSM is being punished… they are just too inept to realize it. There is a reason that their new organizations are all in the red. Unfortunately for them, they are once again blaming everyone else for the fact that they stopped reporting the news years ago and have decided that they should be part of the news.

As an aside, why do Obama supporters always point to alleged failings of Bush to justify Obama’s actions? If they were horrible under Bush (as we were told), aren’t they still horrible under Obama? Nah, that is just silly… if Bush did it, I guess it is alright if Obama does it too!

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:25 am 38. cfbleachers:

Roger, as you well know…I am at one with this article of yours.

But…I hesitate. The entrenched media (as you also know, I will never give them the honor of an appellation of “mainstream”), cannot at once provide cover AND simultaneously fire upon the objects of their devotion.

They can (and they do) DUCK and cover. Which is more of what I see from my seat in the cfbleachers.

We are at war with our information stream. I see absolutely nothing to encourage me to believe that they are now going to open up dialogue, cease and desist the one-sided and myopic worldview, allow open debate and true dialogue. Rather…I see these photoshoppers, document forgerers, false documentary revisionists,…ducking and running for cover.

Where is the serious investigative inquiry into Barney Frank, Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines? Nowhere to be found. Where is the serious investigative inquiry into the Walt/Mearsheimer crowd finding voice in proposed selections to key posts? (Freeman, Brzezinski, Malley…and $900 million dollars given to Hamas)

Where is the serious investigative inquiry into not a single position under Geithner having been filled?

Where is the serious investigative inquiry into no bi-partisan review of any of the TRILLIONS of dollars being spent?

Where is the serious investigative inquiry into the cooked books at Fannie and Freddie?

Where is the serious investigative inquiry into the credit card authorization check being turned off and the potential influx of foreign money?

Where is the serious investigative inquiry into the CBO outline of how we could have a TRILLION dollar deficit for 10 years?

Where can one find anything but puff pieces on TV…including attack pieces by comedians on anyone who dares to question the administration?

No…my estimable friend, there is NO change in the entrenched media. They are not now and have never been in the last 50 years reflective of MAINSTREAM thought. They are one track propagandists. They feel no shame because they have no conscience. What you are witnessing, are predictable acts in part and parcel of carrying out the art of the Information Stream Terrorism.

You demonize the Republican candidate by making his eyes look redder on the cover of a magazine, then pretend to apologize for it. You create tribal warlords in colleges and universities that punish anyone who strays from the “message”. You bury facts, you distort information…and then you run and hide in a cave until you strike again.

Presently, what you are witnessing …is the entering of the caves. The pencils are furiously scribbling out the Oscribe bin Leaden messages to the faithful. WE are not to blame,…THEY are. And if the “they” has to morph into a slightly different group…so be it. The “message”…never changes.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:29 am 39. Stephen:

Obama seems to have committed the greatest sin of all: so far, he’s been something of an embarrassment to those who saw in him a reflection of themselves. If he’s making a hash of things, well, that can’t possibly be them – or could it? Here, I can’t help but think of David Brooks, in particular, with his self-conscious recollection of an off-the-cuff discourse on Niebuhr by Obama.

Well, for all the deep thinking by Niebuhr, perhaps they all should take a cue from AA members and ponder, with some humility, the thoughts expressed in Niebuhr’s simplest expression found in the full text of his Serenity Prayer from 1943.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:40 am 40. Omar:

David Thomson:

“what will we do if the current elected leader of the nation has a mental breakdown?”

______________

Obama’s not sufficiently invested in anything, either emotionally or intellectually, to “breakdown.” He might check out – as in “who gives a f***” – but he won’t breakdown.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:42 am 41. Dennis:

I’m surprised that the disciples are abandoning the One before Easter.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:42 am 42. The Democrats Are Worse Than We Thought They Would Be « Tai-Chi Policy:

[...] media should resign. Or actually start covering events outside of their political [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:44 am 43. Insufficiently Sensitive:

But they [MSM] will be blamed – by us and by other people. They deserve to be. Their day is over. While pretending to be the friends of democracy, they have been the enemies of it. Their views have been so monolithic serious debate nearly vanished in this country.

Bravo Roger! I think it will take another half-decade or so for faith in MSM to fizzle out among our urban planners and NPRs and other folks in the oh-so-smart racket. However, no point in failing to ramp up all alternate means of informing (NOT indoctrinating, for a change) the public and restarting the proper opinion turbulence of a democracy.

Thinking back three or four years, who were the main media puppets created by MSM to belabor the Bush administration? One the ridiculous mouthy Cindy Sheehan (remember her?), the other the ever-so-PC and mouthy Barak Obama. Neither had more than glibidity, hatred of the Bush admin, and wafty platitudes about what course government should take – mainly defeatism in Iraq, and joining hands with the transnational progressives.

Now that one of them is in the trashbin of history, and the other is President, we can indulge all our buyer’s remorse (you, oh MSM, may join in if you’d like), and reflect on the pernicious effects of running the national news on an engine powered by MSM-hatred. Then, it was directed against President Bush. But now it continues, with rapidly shifting targets – ‘the rich’, some executives (hell, our President led the ‘outrage’ against the AIG bonuses that his admin and Congress approved), and the compensation structure of private businesses. Next week, talk radio, and citizens with guns. I could wish we had an articulate Republican Party, but when last seen, Michael Steele had it kiyoodling along with the anti-AIG-bonus mob without a thought in its head.

So, more power to PJ Media, and here’s to investigation and reporting, without the hate-of-the-day theme this time.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:49 am 44. Claude Hopper:

Hey Neobuzz, let’s reflect on something (from cnn.com). Of 125,225,901 votes:
Whites voted for 55-43% for MacCain (74% of the electorate).
Latinos voted for Obama 67-31% (9% of electorate).
Asians voted for Obama 62-35% (2% of electorate).
Blacks voted for Obama 95-4% (13% of electorate).

If Blacks had voted 60-40% in the range of the other 2 minorities, MacCain would be our president. But they didn’t; I wonder why.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:55 am 45. OSweet:

He’d hate himself for it, but Obama needs to hire Dick Morris.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:56 am 46. AlanC:

Damn CFB you sure know how to harsh a good schadenfreude.

Has anyone seen the 60 mins. Kroft interview? “Are you punch drunk?”

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:58 am 47. Ken Hahn:

The Obama catastrophe is the media’s fault. They created the legend. They protected the candidate. They gave the campaign a trillion dollar contribution in kind. Opinion columnists can be forgiven. They did what they’re paid to do, write opinion. The reporters, editors and others who were supposed to report the news were too busy adoring Obama to see the simple truth. He is an empty man. He wants the office, not the job. He wants the title, not the responsibility. He’s got both and it puzzles and frustrates him. He has no magic wand.

It is no wonder the media are dying. Like Cassandra, no one believes them anymore. And unlike her they are not always right. I work for a newspaper ( in the circulation department ). The management is in panic mode. Layoffs, furloughs, reduction of content and price increases are the order of the day. With all that, revenues are down and costs are up. There is no path to correct that. I’m old enough and not dependent on a pension that it doesn’t really bother me. Those not so lucky or disinterested are looking for anything to replace the jobs that are disappearing.

The media do not deserve a better fate. They have brought it on themselves.

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:09 am 48. Andrea:

“Where is the serious investigative inquiry of…”

Stanley Kurtz tried a serious investigative inquiry of Obama, Ayers, & the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and look at the road blocks he ran into.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:10 am 49. LeftBrainFemale:

Agree with you absolutely. From the moment I heard the childish “I won”, I knew that we would all regret this election as a huge mistake.

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:19 am 50. TedN:

#4 — Resign before the end of his term?

Three words for you: President Joe Biden

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:25 am 51. Alice O'higgins:

Or at least we should call them what they are. Not the MSM, but the Democrat Media

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:25 am 52. betheweb:

In honor of the Press’s solidifying Evan Thomas’s 15% for Obama, I suggest that Obama hereinafter be referenced as Pressident (sic) Obama to squarely fix the blame.

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:30 am 53. Linguist:

Re: #4. “We should also ask this delicate and awkward question: what will we do if the current elected leader of the nation has a mental breakdown?”

You presume there is something with structure there in the first place. You can’t break what doesn’t exist.

That the President’s resume wouldn’t qualify him to pick specks of fly poop out of pepper, and that he refuses to allow the release of any educational or medical records to be viewed by the public should have been a big red flag right out the gate. The MSM does, indeed, deserve as much blame as the DNC for their lack of investigation and honest reporting.

I’d say it’s a shame that the American people have to suffer the consequences of all this, however, by continuing to take the easy way out and believing what is convenient at any given moment in time, I guess “we” deserve what we’ve gotten. I just pray those who saw through all this can recoup some of the losses as we go forward.

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:33 am 54. ruaqtpi2:

The MSM is fully aware that millions of Americans accept what they hear at 6 pm and 10 pm to be the truth, and that only 10% to 20% of the electorate care enough to do their own research into politicians’ accomplishments, plans, history, etc. Because of this, the media has an implied duty to be objective, and to resist urges to take political “sides” (non-profit government sponsored media are required by law to give equal time to all main political parties, of which we presently have just two.)

The MSM loves its power, so I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for a public apology.

But the electorate is to blame as well. Every voter has an equal power to influence elections, and with that power comes the responsibility to know enough about choices so that votes are intelligent, thoughtful choices. The media made so much of a fuss over Obama’s “black” status (even though he is 1/2 “black” and 1/2 “white”), that the African-American community saw in him their chance to occupy the White House. With exit polls showing that 95% of blacks and 43% of whites voting for Obama, his victory was all but assured. The MSM loves and cherishes its power to sway public opinion, so I seriously doubt that we’ll see any mass apologies from those pseudo-reporters. They got their jollies out of villifying Bush Jr. AND portraying John McCain as a Bush rerun. The MSM was so caught up in the thrill that they were helping to usher in “Change” that they failed to investigate Obama’s history of change. Had they done their job, they would have found little of substance in the big-city community organizer, except for some legislation that he championed on campaign finance reform. Obama even agreed to limit campaign spending to the same $85 million that McCain would be allowed to use out of the federal presidential campaign fund, but reneged on this promise when in early 2008, he realized he could outspend McCain by an overwhelming amount if he opted to use the campaign funds that he and the Democratic National Committee had raised. So after proclaiming that large private campaign financing was dangerous because of the negative influnce that money could buy, Obama flip-flopped 180 degrees when that money had the power to get him elected president.

So my questions to Obama voters are as follows:

Why did you vote for Obama? What “facts” about the candidates (especially those “facts” put forward by a non-trustworthy mainstream media)? What did you think Obama meant by “change?” Have your thoughts about Obama changed since election day? If it’s true that, as Bill Clinton said “It’s the economy, stupid!”, why is Obama still spending so much time campaigns to get the public to support his health care system overhaul while his Treasury Secretary still has to fill over a dozen key positions in the Treasury?

This country is going to Hell in a handbasket – a basket made with the cooperation of an asleep-on-the-job media and an electorate unwilling to think for itself. If you’re not proud of yourselves, please promise either to do much better next time OR at least stay out of the way of those of us who take the responsibilities of government seriously and have the best interests of the country in mind when we mark our ballots.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:00 am 55. craig:

Con men say it’s impossible to con an honest man. In other words, the mark is inevitably taken in by his own desire to get something without earning it.

So the electorate needs to take a hard look in the mirror. All the people (left and right) who pretend that the government spends other people’s money; all the people who pretend they have “rights” to someone else’s labor in the form of services (e.g., health care); all the people who pretend that indebtedness can be perpetuated forever without consequences; all the people who pretend that we can have Judeo-Christian civilization and prosperity while jettisoning Judeo-Christian moral judgments; all the people who pretend that we can have peace while vacillating and displaying weakness; all the people who pretend that repeating a pleasing wish often enough can make it true; all these people were willing marks.

The MSM were willing marks too, those not in on the con. They knew Obama would have been laughed out of the presidential race had he not been The Great Black Hope for the left. Mere speech-making skills would not have vaulted him to frontrunner status had not symbolism triumphed over substance. The MSM marketed Obama like shampoo or ready-to-wear, tempting the public with the desire to belong, to be part of the In Crowd. (C.S. Lewis had some good observations on the perils of this innate desire.)

Deluded folks like Larry (#15) above forget that Bush, for all his faults, earned the standing to run for the presidency: he governed a large state un-disastrously enough to be re-elected. That by itself made him a plausible contender for high national office, because he lasted long enough in one place to have a record capable of being judged.

By contrast, not only did Obama have no serious accomplishments in any of his prior offices, he never lasted long enough in any of them to stand for re-election. He followed the pattern of a lot of the outrageously compensated corporate executives currently making news: spend about two years in any one job before moving up and out before any long-lasting evidence of performance can be accumulated.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:09 am 56. Al Gibson:

Tea Party protests should be held not just against politicians, but against media outlets.

More than likely, your local newspaper is full of AP or Reuters copy that whitewashes all the time or contains syndicated columns of writers who failed to vet Obama or Congress.

Instead of throwing tea bags into water, we should be throwing reporter’s notebooks, recording devices, and expensive cameras. The MSM should be tarred and feathered constantly until they wake up.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:09 am 57. HC:

The GOP deserves their share of blame for Obama. Obama, and the Dems generally, were quite vulnerable, despite the fawning, sycophantic ‘old media’, but the GOP simply refused to take advantage of their opportunities.

The party fixated on running ‘Rudy McRomney’ almost from the end of the 2006 count, and ignored the steady pushback and warnings of discontent from key voting blocs in their own coalition. All three of those candidates were running campaigns that depended, to one degree or another, on the mirage of ‘crossover appeal’, which none of them actually possessed in any meaningful degree, and McCain and Guiuliani had positions which were simply anathema to large blocs of GOP voters.

I actually heard Rudy say in an interview that yes, he’d lose part of the South because of his social positions, but he’d make up for it by being competitive in the northeast, in New York State, New Jersey, etc. That was fantasy.

Likewise, McCain’s so-called ‘crossover appeal’ was a media artifact. The press played to his ego in 2000, because he was a primary candidate and a useful tool against GWB. There was no chance whatever that McCain would get the same kind of fawning media support once he had the nomination. If he’d won the nomination in 2000 they’d have turned on him the day after the convention, and they were going to support whoever the Dems ran against the GOP in 2008, McCain or no McCain.

McCain wasted enormous amounts of time and money in Michigan, a State that was a lost cause, for example, while neglecting States that should have been slam dunks but weren’t because McCain didn’t know what he was doing. I mean come on, Georgia was a close race?!! We lost North Carolina?!!

If the GOP hopes to come back in 2010 and 2012, and they can, they’re going to have to take a hard look at who votes for which party, and admit to themselves who their voters are. They can not come back without the social conservatives, it’s a pipe dream, the math just does not work. No SoCons means no GOP revival.

Likewise, it’s not good enough that the Dems run a disastrously bad candidate,t he GOP has to have one who:

1. Understands basic politics and 2. is someone the GOP voters can be enthusiastic about.

If the GOP candidate is basing his/her plans on the idea that he can replace some large segment of disaffected GOP voters with a Dem group, then the GOP is probably on track to another embarrassing and needless defeat.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:19 am 58. Barnacle Bill:

#4:

In the entire history of the US, only one President ever resigned before the end of his term, and in that case he was a sure thing to be removed by impeachment if he didn’t. Presidents just don’t go voluntarily.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:25 am 59. Dotar Sojat:

Obama is all ______________ and no _________________.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:26 am 60. I second this motion but… « DaTechguy’s Blog:

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Mar 23, 2009 - 10:32 am 61. DaTechGuy:

I agree with your pummeling of the press but it is 2008 not 1972 or even 1996.

Today almost every American has access to the net, All of these items were discussed and re-discussed on sites like this one, and instapundit, and drudge etc etc etc…

It wouldn’t have taken a ton of effort to find this stuff in the end people decided that they were too busy playing pogo to bother to even look.

We don’t need the MSN to inform us, we have the ability to inform ourselves, its about time we take the responsibility to do so and if we don’t bother, then we get the government we deserve.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:35 am 62. Brown Line:

Roger, I agree wholeheartedly. But it ain’t going to happen. Back in the early 80s, the late Joseph Kraft, as fine a Washington journalist as ever put pen to paper, published in “Commentary” an article entitled “Our Imperial Media”. In it, he compared the media to an occupying army. The comparison was apt 25 years ago, and it’s even more apt now, as the media grows ever more politically monolithic.

Unlike the 1980s, there are now alternative media, and we do have a means of talking back to the talking heads. But as long as CNN is playing in every airport terminal and bus station in the country, and the NY Times and the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times are sold on every streetcorner, our attempt to counter the media will have only limited success.

But in the end, responsibility resides with We the People. We may have been misled, but we were misled willingly. We chose to take con man’s honeyed words at face value. In other words, we were suckers, and we got what we deserve. I hope we’ve learned better: but I doubt it.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:36 am 63. Insufficiently Sensitive:

Stanley Kurtz tried a serious investigative inquiry of Obama, Ayers, & the Chicago Annenberg Challenge [CAC], and look at the road blocks he ran into.

Stanley Kurtz suffered some delays (and I admit those would have been sufficient for the Annenberg defenders to purge some files), but did finally get access to the CAC records in late September 2008, and he did publish an article in the Wall Street Journal, and more in blogs and elsewhere. It was clear from his work that the CAC in Chicago was a creature of Bill Ayers (Walter Annenberg must have spun in his grave when his funding was captured by Ayers to use in ‘progressive’ ways instead of educational), and that Ayers and Obama were a long way past the casual acquaintence phase. In fact, Ayers or a crony probably emplaced Obama as chairman of the CAC. From the WSJ:

“Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).”

But Kurtz was an individual, and certainly had no resources nor supporting team of the sort that MSM provides when they’re out to attack an ideological opponent. Nor did his articles appear in nationally-circulated media for days on end, as media campaigns of ‘investigative reporting’ typically do.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:38 am 64. Ed Driscoll » Washington: Behind Closed Doors:

[...] Perhaps because having aided in both men soaring to heights far above each of their comptency levels, as Jennifer Rubin notes, Hell hath no fury like a bunch of Gray Ladies scorned.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:56 am 65. Sissy Willis:

How refreshing. You’ve put a big smile on my face.

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:08 am 66. ked5:

13. Joe:

The media helped bring this presidency about with its constant fawning over him and their failure to vet him. Now, we are having to live with the consequences.

~~~~~~~~~~~

They did more than “just” fail to vet him, they downright ATTACKED anyone who *dared* to ask him a “hard” question. They *aided* him, and *abetted* him. They are an *accessory* to putting into power someone who wants to destroy this country. There is no apology that will reclaim them. (anyone remember the fits they threw the day after he got a “real” debate question? or having attacked Geraldine Ferraro for daring to question his experience?)

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:10 am 67. Peter the Bubblehead:

4. David Thomson asked:
We should also ask this delicate and awkward question: what will we do if the current elected leader of the nation has a mental breakdown?

Peter writes: I think we came close to seeing just that, live on TV, during 60 Minutes last night.

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:13 am 68. Peter the Bubblehead:

21. RobertS wrote:
-the electorate needs to accept some responsibility for this, too. Not just for Obama (for he is only the most recent example) – but for Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy and company.

Peter writes: The biggest problem, especially here in the Northeast, is the candidate could be a brain-dead duck, but would still be elected by these sheeple around here as long as it has a (-D) after its name.

I would be willing to bet a Democratic candidate could shoot every member of a family but one, torture that one remaining member to an inch from death, and that sole surviving person would STILL vote for the Politician in Massachusetts as long as he is running as a Democrat!

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:23 am 69. ked5:

45. OSweet:

He’d hate himself for it, but Obama needs to hire Dick Morris.

~~~~~~~~~~

Are you aware Dick Morris is a republican? He flat out has stated he realized how dems talked the talk but came nowhere *close* to actually walking it. That republicans were demonized, but they actually did more to help joe average american. So he switched parites. (yeah, worked for Clinton for 20 years – why do you think he was so against Hillary during the campaign?)

I’d also suggest reading what he’s said about zerO.

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:33 am 70. Peg C.:

David Thomson always writes what I’m thinking and better than I could write it. What I think of is the 2 complete dolts in the backup positions should TOTUS either resign or break down: Biden and Pelosi. It’s enough to drive us all to…nope, won’t say it, give us a year or 2.

I attended the Ridgefield Tea Party. Never saw so many cheerfully outraged folks in my life, and in a deep blue town. Very reassuring.

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:38 am 71. JMH:

At the risk of spraining a shoulder patting myself on the back, I did predict that Obama would be the last nail in the MSM’s coffin. The voters who put Obama in office are realizing they screwed up. Badly. Most of them won’t want to accept responsibility for basing their vote on stupidity and a desire to be hip. They’ll instead turn it on the media who covered for Obama and the media is done. 40% of the country already didn’t trust the media before the election. Now another 40% will join them. Even those who lean towards socialism feel betrayed, since even if the media didn’t need to convince them Obama’s policies would be okay, it still needed to convince them he was at least competent.

This is an opportunity. PJMedia is a good start at taking advantage of it. Millions of voters who have spent their lives misinformed and led towards socialism will wake up. They may not yet realize they need a new philosphy, but they’ll realize they need a new source of information and that’s a start. Better information might just led them away from the lie of a socialist utopia.

Mar 23, 2009 - 11:57 am 72. Pops in Vienna:

I hate to say it but I think we are deluding ourselves. If the election was tomorrow, Obama would still win big. He still has a 60.2% approval rating and even in a State like N. Carolina his approval numbers are high.

He was put into office by a huge turn out of the black vote. That won’t change. The hispanics will also vote for him in huge numbers. Throw in the stupid college kids and their dopey professors and Obama will win by a margin similar to his last victory.

The Republicans don’t have any attractive candidates. Who will they run in 2014, Arland Spectre and Olympia Snow? You can almost count on them doing something stupid like that.

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:18 pm 73. Larry J:

The MSM will never resign over their incompetence in covering Obama. That would require personal character. However, the next best thing is happening all over the country as media outlets are closing and/or cutting their personnel. The market is holding them accountable in ways they would never do for themselves.

Heh!

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:20 pm 74. Ghostbuster:

It is oft asked if Obama will either resign or have a nervous breakdown. Yeah, well, look who’s lined up in the bullpen; Biden, Pelosi, the Prez of the Senate (Whomever the clown of the moment is) and, finally, Hillary Clinton. Those are the heir-apparents. Not an enticing prospect, no, not one!

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:22 pm 75. Gaffe Prices:

How about, You (Dowd, et al) broke it, you (with your “matching gift” of hundreds of millions in free PR and trail covering) “FIX” it. ( i.e. you pay the bill for doing business w/ this narcissist potentate, now you got him installed)

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:32 pm 76. Annette Rogers:

Remember these MSM “journalists” puffing that they “speak Truth to Power.” Uh huh. What they really do is “speak Power to readers.” They have become the house mouths for the Obama administration they promoted, and they continue to overlook issues like the tea parties which don’t fit “the story line” they themselves created.

Now they throw a hissy that their annointed Messiah and his Twelve aren’t measuring up to the celestial standards “the story” demands.

And they wonder why readers drop newspapers and tv news, turning instead to blogs like Roger’s pajama-clad writers, citizens and professionals, who are not committed to the story line. OK, so we’re an outpost of facts, brains, research, and nerve–giving fresh and individual views rather than their standard tiring increasingly threadbare misfiring volleys. Damn the torpedoes…..

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:39 pm 77. Michael:

Spot on.

I vote that we make them offers they can’t refuse. They chased Frankenstein out of his castle didn’t they? The precedent has been set and the plan works.

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:45 pm 78. Annette Rogers:

Remember these MSM “journalists” puffing that they “speak Truth to Power.” Uh huh. What they really do is “speak Power to readers.” They have become the house mouths for the Obama administration they promoted, and they continue to overlook issues like the tea parties which don’t fit “the story line” they themselves created.

Now they throw a hissy that their annointed Messiah and his Twelve aren’t measuring up to the celestial standards “the story” demands.

And they wonder why readers drop newspapers and tv news, turning instead to blogs like Roger’s pajama-clad writers, citizens and professionals, who are not committed to the story line.

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:47 pm 79. Jamie Irons:

JMH (Comment #71),

I hope you’re right.

Your analysis seems optimistic, but I’d like it turn out to be true.

Jamie Irons

Mar 23, 2009 - 12:48 pm 80. Nightly Ramble: Goin’ Mobile Edition | BitsBlog:

[...] Diosaurs, meanwhile, should resign over Obama’s failure, says Roger Simon over at Pajamas Media. I can’t say I disagree. Roger dares use the phrase “manchurian [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 1:02 pm 81. Jamie Irons:

Of course I intended to write:

…I’d like it to turn out to be true.

Jamie Irons

Mar 23, 2009 - 1:02 pm 82. Whitehall:

Anyone else ever seen Nancy Pelosi’s district? Pure gerrymanded liberal elites and ghetto tax-eaters. Blame them for Pelosi and the California legislature (ie Democrats) for creating a safe seat.

Mar 23, 2009 - 1:16 pm 83. DavidN:

A number of people here seem to think Obama is trying deliberately to destroy the country. I seriously doubt this. I think, instead, that he’s completely out of his depth, and hope things will get better (at least during the remainder of his term) so that he can be remembered as the black Jimmy Carter, a one-term wonder who had great promise and turned out not to be as good at his job as everyone imagined.

One notable incident happened during the transition. Bush invited, and welcomed, Obama into the White House, showed him where all the little secret cubbyholes are, how to jiggle the handle on the toilet, etc. Afterwords, it was reported in the press that Obama was surprised at how polite and courteous Bush was, given all the vituperative nastiness that’s come out of the left over the last 8 years. I think what was going on was this: it was perhaps partially natural courtesy on Bush’s part, his Southern Gentleman upbringing, but I think it also was probably at least somewhat concealed sympathy. Bush had been president for 8 years, and he knows it’s not an easy job. He also could easily see that Obama and his crowd had badly underestimated how difficult and time-consuming the job is. To make matters worse, Obama et al had set the bar so high for themselves–not just doing the job well, but brilliantly–that it was virtually impossible that they’d get things right as often as they confidently predicted. I can just see then-President Bush shaking hands with Obama on Inauguration Day, and muttering under his breath “Good luck, Kid. You’re going to need it.”

Mar 23, 2009 - 2:30 pm 84. Today’s Links « bright line rules:

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Mar 23, 2009 - 2:39 pm 85. Terrye:

Pops:

One thing I did notice, in Rasmussens latest polling Obama is at 56, but when it comes to very supportive or very disapproving, he is only at a 4%+.

That is about 20 or 30 points less than he was.

I don’t know how this will all come out, events will probably make the difference. But if the media is starting to turn on Obama, then that means they are seeing and hearing things that lead them to believe he might not be a strong horse after all.

Mar 23, 2009 - 2:42 pm 86. Terrye:

DavidN:

I think you are probably right. Bush can also remember there was a time when he had an approval rating approaching 90%. In fact 50 days in his numbers were as high or higher than Obama’s in spite of all the President Select stuff. Bush knows better than anyone what can happen to the man in the Oval Office.

Mar 23, 2009 - 2:45 pm 87. Terrye:

From NRO, this might have something to do with the media’s nervousness:

In the new National Public Radio poll conducted by the Democratic polling company Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and its Republican counterpart, Public Opinion Strategies, 42 percent of the 800 likely voters surveyed March 10 to 14 said that if the next congressional election were held today they would vote for the Republican candidate; an identical percentage of respondents said they would vote for the Democratic one. For several years, Democrats held a substantial lead on this question.

Democrats still outnumbered Republicans in terms of party identification in this poll by 6 points, 45 percent to 39 percent. Democrats also favored their own party’s congressional candidates 83 percent to 7 percent. But voters who call themselves independents gave GOP candidates the edge by 14 points, 38 percent to 24 percent. And self-identified Republicans supported their own party’s candidates 85 percent to 3 percent.

Republican pollster Glen Bolger, who worked on the survey for Public Opinion Strategies, says that this is the first time since 2004 that he has seen independents favoring Republicans on the generic ballot test. Although he concedes that poll participants agreed — by margins of 6 to 11 points — with Democrats more than Republicans on each of the issues tested, he contends that the generic question’s results are “evidence that voters, particularly independents, are worried that they overcorrected in the 2006/2008 elections combined, and now have more of a liberal slant to government than they want. They want change but with checks and balances.”

Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg is hesitant to reach any strong conclusions before seeing more data. So far this year reputable national pollsters have conducted only a handful of generic ballot tests involving live interviews. Two national surveys in January showed large Democratic advantages: A CNN/Opinion Research poll of 1,245 adults taken January 12 to 15 pegged the Democratic edge at 25 points, 56 percent to 31 percent; a Diageo/Hotline survey of 803 registered voters, conducted by Financial Dynamics from January 21 to 24, gave Democrats a 24-point advantage, 46 percent to 22 percent. In the next Diageo/Hotline survey, taken February 28 to March 2, the Democratic margin shrank to 6 points, 40 percent to 34 percent.

Mar 23, 2009 - 3:06 pm 88. R Greenlee:

David Thompson (yesterday):

“Oh by the way, I also expect the stock market to drop a minimum of 100 points tomorrow.”

You came thisclose — just 600 points off. Any predictions about tomorrow?

Mar 23, 2009 - 3:21 pm 89. PhillipMarlowe:

Yeah, and let’s put up Joe (Me Too Horny) as their replacement.

Mar 23, 2009 - 3:40 pm 90. Hi-Tech Redneck:

You can fool some of the people, all of the time (Leftists, MSM);

You can fool all (52%) of the people, some of the time (Nov 4);

BUT YOU CAN’T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOLE ALL OF THE TIME

Mar 23, 2009 - 3:59 pm 91. JMH:

JMH (Comment #71),

I hope you’re right.

Your analysis seems optimistic, but I’d like it turn out to be true.

I wouldn’t call it optimistic. There’s no guarantee what replaces the MSM will be any better. It’s just an opportunity, that’s all.

The MSM shot its bolt. The bolt hit home and they got their man elected. But now they’re done, having consumed all their remaining store of credibility in the effort. Whatever happens from now forward, they’re not a factor.

However, we should – as with all creatures of the Night and the Left – treat them like vampires and make sure we pound the steak in good and solid. Don’t want them rising up again.

Mar 23, 2009 - 4:12 pm 92. Roughcoat:

Some of you are calling the game too soon. I predict that Obama will do a few things right (the Stopped Clock Phenomenon)and when he does the MSM will go right back to worshipping him and building him up. The cycle will begin anew. And it will repeat, over and over and over.

Just watch: if today’s stock market rally continues, you will soon see the MSM brown-nosing Obama.

Mar 23, 2009 - 4:44 pm 93. Helen K:

Calling for the MSM to resign. I’m all for it. If not, can the congress tax them 90% of their income for getting us into this mess?

Mar 23, 2009 - 5:32 pm 94. shrubnose:

David Thomson @ Post #8 wrote: ” I expect the stock market to drop a minumum of 100 points tomorrow.” Actually the Dow ended the day up 497 points ( over 6.8% ). President Obama was elected by the majority. The sore losers can’t change that. Rapidly changing demographics will wash the GOP away like a tidal wave. By 2050 the majority of US ciizens will be non-white. Do you think ( hope,dream ) they will be voting for the GOP ( Greedy Ofay Party ). As Michael Steele might say – ” No fricken’ way !” Buh-bye GOP . Wasn’t it President Truman who said, ” I don’t have to give ‘em hell, I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell. ” Have a nice day .

Mar 23, 2009 - 5:44 pm 95. Insufficiently Sensitive:

By 2050 the majority of US ciizens will be non-white.

Amusing thought. At the exact instant when us honkies go into the minority, all the civil rights preferences, rakeoffs, scams and guilt-trips shall go into reverse. Whether or not there’s a Republican party, all your minority percs will belong to us. Fair’s fair.

Mar 23, 2009 - 5:56 pm 96. Big Red:

Just a thought. Yes, the line of secession goes Biden, Pelosi, and so forth. However, if Biden were to become Pres. he would name a VP, who would then be next in line, not Nawncee. This would depend on the numbers inside the party. If the lefty whackjobs are numerically superior, we get another lefty whackjob. But if the moderates and conservative dems, concerned for the future viabilty of the party gain the numbers, we could see a more moderate choice emerge, such as Bayh or someone on that order or one from the Zell Miller wing. This would give Joe the cover to move the party back toward center or at least get out of the way (resign) and keep the whackos from driving the party off the cliff. Much would depend on future events and polls. Again, just my thoughts.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:14 pm 97. Alas, « Perfidious Canada:

[...] then there’s this: According to Politico and PJM’s own Jennifer Rubin, barely two months after the inauguration, the [...]

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:39 pm 98. Les:

If Obama resigns, Joe Biden becomes President. So is Joe Biden going to better than Obama? And than if Joe Biden resigns, Nancy Pelosi is President.

This post serves no useful purpose. The only competent person that the Republicans have, Mitt Romney, cannot run for four more years.

This is a waste of space.

Mar 23, 2009 - 6:56 pm 99. Independent:

shrubnose wrote:

Rapidly changing demographics will wash the GOP away like a tidal wave. By 2050 the majority of US ciizens will be non-white. Do you think ( hope,dream ) they will be voting for the GOP…

*********

Hate to bring up an uncomfortable fact, but did it ever occur to you, shrubnose, that pre-judging people based on the color of their skin is, you know, racist?

Common sense is not limited to one ethnic or racial group. There are certain approaches to government and human nature that tend to work (human rights and free markets), and others that don’t (government control and socialism). Over time, the successful approaches become more and more clear, and people of common sense — regardless of the color of their skin — vote for what works.

The story of America is not a story of human perfection, but a story of people working together to achieve the freest and most successful society in human history. Let’s skip the racial categorization, shrubnose, and come together as Americans to solve our problems and continue our success.

Mar 23, 2009 - 7:28 pm 100. Terrye:

shrubnose:

It is amazing how excited some people get with one good day on the DOW.

I can remember when Bush was president and the DOW hit over 14,000.

Don’t get so cocky, anything can happen.

Mar 23, 2009 - 8:59 pm 101. Bruce Majors:

But the media takes all their cues from Greenberg and Carville and have as “guest experts” and insiders people like Joan Walsh and Hillary Rosen. Ms. Rosen has founded a new lobbying firm to sell access to Odumba for $75000 a pop. So she will keep defending him.

Mar 23, 2009 - 9:37 pm 102. XD45ACP:

Roger, this is what I want to hear over, and over, and over, and over….and over again. The MSM elected BHO, and they’re responsible for him — lock, stock and barrel. Any and every criticism and attack on BHO and his “administration” should be reflected directly back at the media the shilled for him and got him elected.

The fraud that precipitated the financial crisis isn’t any different than the fraud that precipitated the election of Barack Hussein Obama.

Mar 23, 2009 - 10:06 pm 103. shrubnose:

Here is an uncomfortable fact; check out the low numbers of people of colour in the GOP. Now, tell me how the GOP will survive if it does not change those numbers. The GOP would have to change to survive, but if it changes it will lose it’s redneck base. The 1st step in the Problem Solving Process: Accept that you have a problem. The GOP has not really got very far with that 1st step. I do NOT like the idea of the USA as a one party country, but that IS the future without drastic change at the GOP. Don’t think so, wait and see. You can call me a racist if you want, I am just passing on some facts. If the GOP does not adjust to the changing demographics in the USA it will fade away to a minor regional party. May all of you GOPers continue to live in interesting times as you dream on. Hoping for President Obama to fail is hoping for America to fail. America will not fail .

Mar 24, 2009 - 1:50 am 104. Nahanni:

To those who think that the Dow going up was a sign that the markets “approve” of the 0bamamessiah’s minions plans are the namesakes for that rally. It is known as a “sucker rally”.

To those who support the 0bamammessiah (including his MSM whores and fluffers) YOU now have “Chains you can believe in”. Your fates are now chained to his and you will not get out of it by saying “Sorry, I was wrong”.

Mar 24, 2009 - 1:55 am 105. Mars vs Hollywood:

shrubnose:

What you’re forgetting is that conservatism is much less wrapped up in ethnic grievance-mongering than liberalism, and as such its principles (if adhered to) will be able to transcend racial lines far better than liberals would like to admit.

Consider this: if you told a black person in the first half of the century that the Democrats, the party of slavery, the early KKK, and George Wallace, would become the standard party of black America, they would have laughed in your face. Interesting how things change, isn’t it?

Hoping for President Obama to fail is hoping for America to fail. America will not fail .

Amazing, is it not, how people who spent the last decade yelling about the necessity of dissent now declare that anything less than total fealty to the President is “wanting America to fail”? Too funny.

Mar 24, 2009 - 2:30 am 106. David Thomson:

“David Thomson @ Post #8 wrote: ” I expect the stock market to drop a minumum of 100 points tomorrow.” Actually the Dow ended the day up 497 points ( over 6.8% ).”

That is why one should be wary of making a prediction based on only one day’s results. The true test is over a period of time. Investors yesterday were betting that the worse is over. Will they feel the same way in the near future? I doubt it very much. If nothing else, entrepreneurs must constantly be fearful that the Obama administration will change the rules in the middle of the game. It is probably prudent to sit on the sidelines until the current president is out of office. The stock market has already dropped dramatically since Obama’s inauguration. There might be a few up days here and there, but over the long haul—I see little reason to be optimistic.

Mar 24, 2009 - 2:56 am 107. Peter the Bubblehead:

103. shrubnose wrote:
Hoping for President Obama to fail is hoping for America to fail.

Peter writes: No, Hoping for Obama to fail is hoping Obama’s socialist-facist programs do not get implemented. Hoping Obama’s Civilian Security Force (ie The Obama Gestapo) never comes into being. Hoping Obama’s ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ (ie, steal from the rich and give to the lazy and non-tax paying) never comes about.

In other words, Hoping Obama Fails is also Hoping America Survives and Prospers for another generation!

Mar 24, 2009 - 6:26 am 108. Anonymous Descendant:

whatever happened to “follow the money.” ?? Does anyone realize MSM is rank & file military structure? You even breath wrong & you’re out of the pecking order. As if that isn’t trouble enough… Follow the money… Anyone consider the possibility that Monopolists like Gates, Turner, Murdoch, Immelt ALSO have little interest in industriousness, individual rights, competitive advanced abundance, free minds, free markets, level, NOT LEVELED playing fields, ummm, hello, Rule of Law? — etc. etc. Anyone think about Corporatism? Monopoly? Centralized power? The hornet’s nest? Collectivism? Folks, yes, the boomers are a trampling heard of powder sniffing addicts who froze music in time for 30 years, traded real estate like base ball cards, & handed the country over to Mao’s little red book, as John Lennon worried they might…

But, c’mon. “You say you’ll change the Constitution… well, ya know, WE ALL WANNA CHANGE YOUR HEAD.”

Fix the manufactured consent with a little refreshing dose of Liberal Natural Law folks. It’s from the Enlightenment dummy. Jefferson and Locke… and a few other self educated sons of farmers and chandlers and the many unsung heroes of their age – understood the Nature of Things… Liberal means Liberty. Conservative means conserving Liberal Natural Law. These two adjectives, “conservative” and “liberal” are perfectly compatible adjectives that are interchangeable in a free society.

“Common People now. Call on your brother. Everybody Get together. Try to love one another right now.”

When it comes to matters of anti-trust, catching the MSM on anti-competitive practices… etc., etc., down the line & up the Fascist ranks. We DO have a Constitution here. Let’s love it and use it…

ALL TOGETHER NOW. C’mon baby boomers.

“Sail the ship,
Boom, bam, boom
Chop the tree
Boom, bam, boom
Skip the rope,
Boom, bam, boom
Look at me !!!”

Morons. Stop going after the small change. Start going after all the Monopolists who are in bed together. Decentralize it as the Founders & the Enlightenment designed it for us. Equality was never about “getting even.” Getting even was Mussolini’s idea. Equality is about Liberty – equality under Rule of Law – not Rule by Men. You like Rule by Men? Move to China. There are 90 White Men over there calling all the shots, too.

Yeesh. Speaking Common Sense to baby boomers is tiring.

Mar 24, 2009 - 7:05 am 109. Mike_K:

Shrubnose may very well be right although the blacks who voted Obama into office may not turn out in 2010. Secondly, many of them had no idea of his policies as so beautifully demonstrated by Howard Stern. Also see Prop 8 in California on this topic. You may well be correct, however, that a populist wave of ignoramuses is going to take over the country. Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of Africa. All it took was ignorant people voting by race to get where it is now.

Mar 24, 2009 - 7:16 am 110. Promoguy:

Mike_K, I think you have a point on the turnout in 2010. I believe there was a runoff and I believe it was in Georgia where the runoff brought out far less of the black voters which made it less difficult for the GOP candidate to win. If I have the wrong state, I apologize to the Shrubnose’s of the world

Mar 24, 2009 - 8:14 am 111. Spurwing Plover:

He hasnt been in the blighthouse very long and already OBAMA is already failing to live up to anything but being a crook and a liar OBAMA andother failed demacreep and a sinister evil commie crumb bag

Mar 24, 2009 - 8:21 am 112. shrubnose:

Terrye @ Post # 100 wrote: : “shrubnose: It is amazing how exited some people can get with one good day on the DOW. I can remember when Bush was President and the DOW hit over 14,000. Don’t get so cocky, anything can happen.” My post at #94 was in response to David Thomson at Post # 8 Who said,”I also expect the stock market to drop a minimum of 100 points tomorrow.” I was simply pointing out that this person was full of it. you should be addressing your comment to David Thomson. Do you get my point ? Me, I do NOT get excited about the stock market. I invest in real estate in emerging markets, and am doing quite well, thank you !

Mar 24, 2009 - 8:21 am 113. shrubnose:

At 106 when David Thomson says, “one should be wary of making a prediction” HE is the one he is talking about. HE is the one that made the prediction ! Real men admit their mistakes. And , hopefully learn from them. One lesson from this would be – don’t open your mouth before you turn your brain on ! Works better that way .

Mar 24, 2009 - 8:32 am 114. onetireddad:

How hard has Obama made it on the “Second ever” African-American President? He has maybe screwed that up too! You know, TQFU.

Mar 24, 2009 - 8:47 am 115. R Greenlee:

David Thompson May 21st: “The stock market will probably drop another 200 points by late Monday afternoon.”

David Thompson May 22nd: “I expect the stock market to drop a minumum of 100 points tomorrow.”

David Thompson May 23rd: “That is why one should be wary of making a prediction based on only one day’s results.”

I think David Thompson has had a talk with David Thompson and put him straight. Now maybe David Thompson can explain what he means when he says, “The stock market has already dropped dramatically since Obama’s inauguration.” Is he referring to the NASDAQ, which is up 100+ points since January 20th?

Mar 24, 2009 - 8:59 am 116. Rose Ann:

Excellent article and well said. I agree; the MSM is responsible for Obama’s presidency. I grew up in the 50s and 60s where in jr high and high school we were taught civics and reponsibility to country. We were also taught that the news media is our country’s watchdog. How horribly sad that instead of a watchdog, our country has a MSM so bloated with personal conviction and self-serving political neuroses, that they, collectively, are now so very un-respectable!

Mar 24, 2009 - 9:32 am 117. Terrye:

shrubnose:

Well sometimes David does jump the gun. But we all do that from time to time. looking at the Dow today, I would say all that triumphant talk of a rally yesterday was a little premature.

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Mar 24, 2009 - 1:56 pm 119. nosinin:

Shrubnose-you are David S Peace. Right? Why don’t you go read some news. Even your main stream boondoggles are horrified with this clusterf_ck. If these new spitballs that our current admin continue ie: “seize” other institutions that are “about to totter” Well my young lad, our gov will then own EVERY PENNY that each and everyone of us has worked hard to earn, THEN they will decide WHO gets it. I hope you think you will be on the recieving end. Obviously you do or you would not keep spouting your idiotology. I have worked and saved since I was 16. I should be able to retire in a few years. NOT. Yes, we are in a horrible mess, grant you that. I don’t at this point even really care who/what caused it. What I am looking at is these not even thinly veiled attempts by Oba to make it look like he gives a rats ass and is trying to fix this, when in fact he is slurping up OUR money faster than he can print it. Look around you little 20 yr old. China wants a global monetary system. Who gets the short end of that stick? So Peace mister. If you gave a crap about anything other than who you can blame and your ideology, you might see that you are rapidly losing any chance of a decent life. Have a nice day

Mar 24, 2009 - 1:58 pm 120. Dave the Engineer:

You know the Dems as a political party are in a quandary. The elitist party leaders will soon have to face the reality that their policies are not working. But what to do? Congress will have to go more centrist. But how will this be justified after all the hype? As a party they can not admit that they are wrong about their policies, so they have to have someone to blame. They may even sacrifice a few leaders like Dodd and Frank. Another way out is to “find out” that Obama is not a US citizen. Just another “crisis” to solve and, of course, take advantage of. Remember this is the party that will do anything to remain in power. Once the media falls out of love with Obama the Dem’s elitist leaders will move to distance themselves from him, possibly even being somewhat racist about it, “we were duped by this smooth talking non-white who took advantage of our guilt, we should have known better” yada yada. How far it will go beyond that is dependent on how bad the economy gets, how angry the people get. It will be fun to watch. But bad for all of us, especially those of us with something to lose, savings, homes, jobs.

Mar 24, 2009 - 4:52 pm 121. Never For Obama:

Neo!

Love your pithy and true comments!
That remark about Chris Matthews had me falling out of my chair laughing.

Mar 24, 2009 - 6:36 pm 122. David Thomson:

“I think David Thompson has had a talk with David Thompson”

My previous predictions on the Dow have been extremely accurate. Please feel to look them up. As for yesterday—I consider that a “sucker bounce.” And today—the DOW did indeed drop over 100 points. I was merely one day premature. Lastly, I suspect that Monday’s huge jump will disappear before next Monday. Let’s see if I’m right.

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Mar 24, 2009 - 11:51 pm 124. R Greenlee:

You’re a brave man, David Thompson. For your sake, I hope you’re right. As it is, you’ve missed the biggest 10-day gain since 1938.

Mar 25, 2009 - 8:24 am 125. shrubnose:

nosinin @ 119 obviously did not plan well for retirement. I pity this person. I am retired and doing great – NOT waiting for a handout from Uncle Sam ! ! I got out of the stock market BEFORE the slide started. nosinin needs to look in the mirror. THAT is the person responsible for nosinin’s retirement problems, not shrubnose or anyone else. Whining about problems YOU created is not an answer. Try getting off your butt and , you know, actually doing something (anything) to help yourself. People have survived worse times. Look at how Europe and Japan recovered after WWII. They sure didn’t do it by whining! The USA will be OK, with or without nosinin’s help . Have a wonderful life.

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Mar 26, 2009 - 1:41 am 127. shrubnose:

David Thomson @ Post #122 continues to bet against America. He wants America to fail, so he can say Obama failed. This is NOT a patriot. If he is able to predict ( ” my previous predictions on the DOW have been EXTREMELY accurate” ) accurately what the DOW will do, why is he wasting his time telling US about it ? The DOW will go up and the DOW will go down, no matter who is in the White House . David Thomson is a poseur. No substance there at all. A total loser who is full of himself and also full of other things he can take care of on his own with a visit to a small room ! . May he continue to live in interesting times until he receives the reward he deserves. Let’s see if he can predict what THAT will be !!

Mar 26, 2009 - 10:07 am 128. Ughe:

You guys are deliberately pretending not to realise that the rot of 8 years of Bushe’s irresponsible and wide off the goal misrule cannot be corrected in few months.I think and i am not alone in this,that Mr.Obama is in the right direction trying to wake up a comatose economy and restore back confidence in American leadership the world over.The least we could do as patriotic Americans is to support him and quickly join the ongoing movement to rebuild our nation.Unconstructive arm-chair criticism and nay-saying is not only unhelpful and lacking in the spirit espoused by our Fathers,it portrays a sad refusal to see anything good about the man we have wisely voted to steer our ship of state for the next 4 years.And that to me would be sinister and personal.Lets remove bitterness from politics Americans!!

Apr 5, 2009 - 9:31 pm

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