Fevered Obama Conspiracy Theory from the National Review
This piece from andy McCarthy at the National Review is pretty dumb* (much much more on this topic here), but there are two things that stand out.
First, this is exactly the kind of stuff that the right laughed at about five years ago when some on the left made similar comments about Bush and that the right scoffed at.
Second, I don't think any mainstream "liberal" publication engaged in such over the top rhetoric about Bush-- it was mostly a few bloggers and commenters who ever went this far (and while I courted these theories, I can't say I ever really embraced them).
Mostly, it's just SO FREAKING FUNNY how easily high-profile right-wingers slip into conspiracy theory mode -- the same kind of conspiracy theory that they would mock endlessly if the coin were flipped!
*e.g. "Sen. Obama and his supporters despise free expression, the bedrock of American self-determinism and hence American democracy."
First, this is exactly the kind of stuff that the right laughed at about five years ago when some on the left made similar comments about Bush and that the right scoffed at.
Second, I don't think any mainstream "liberal" publication engaged in such over the top rhetoric about Bush-- it was mostly a few bloggers and commenters who ever went this far (and while I courted these theories, I can't say I ever really embraced them).
Mostly, it's just SO FREAKING FUNNY how easily high-profile right-wingers slip into conspiracy theory mode -- the same kind of conspiracy theory that they would mock endlessly if the coin were flipped!
*e.g. "Sen. Obama and his supporters despise free expression, the bedrock of American self-determinism and hence American democracy."
posted by spooked at 9:40 AM
3 Comments:
King G and King O have all that counts (for the Right) in common; these are in one package mit Zutaten:
1. huge military expenditures (MCIC),
2. permanent ME occupation, i.e., permanent imperialism,
4. Israel first,
5. endless expansion such as with missile sites,
6. war on terror,
7. perpetual cold war,
8. totally obedient judges from the supreme court to the night city clerk, (fed government never to be held accountable, screw you buddy, here is my middle finger),
9. homeland security,
10. patriot act,
12. police state,
13. dominate the world's commodities, (instead of designing a system which needs this none what soever).
14. maintain an infrastructure which relies solely on fossil fuels (play down solar, fight global warming),
15. single world control (NWO or whatever) as ultimate goal (through expansion without check of NATO).
16. kiss fatty Merkel.
But the right Loved George for this and Hate Barry for the same.
missed 3:
keep old binny osama and El-Kaida alive for ever, if you have to dig 'em up.
It seems that the "right" are/is helping the cause of the good side of King O, actually.
In the WorldNetDaily, they/it accuses Obama of hiring a socialist to oversee the environmental alternatives programs. This is Van Jones, with former ties to the Weatherman "Terrorists" (really Weathermen, I know).
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95013
Problem here is that he has socialist leanings. But that would be an absolute requirement if they give a shit about the environment, so what can you do.
Anyway, this is becoming fairly common, where they shoot themselves in the foot.
But why does not the US peel back the killer budget by about $500 billion and put into alternative development. Until it does, their intentions ring hallow.
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