I stopped watching Bill O when he sold out for an interview with Obama. After the interview he went soft on Obama. So in my opinion Bill O is a hack.

UncleZeb on April 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM

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Agreed!

I would add that we also need to stop believing our own obituary. We need to stop being distracted and dispirited by what he MSM’s and the administration’s talking points.

I stopped watching Bill O when he sold out for an interview with Obama. After the interview he went soft on Obama. So in my opinion Bill O is a hack.

UncleZeb on April 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM
How did he sell out? He’s been pretty hard on Obama so far. And when he does go easy on the guy, he has Dick Morris or Karl Rove there to trash him.

Doughboy on April 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM

I felt the same way about BOR (i.e. sellout) just before the election. I would listen to him on radio, and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. One female caller mentioned O was an “empty suit”, and BOR took her to task in full support of zero.

Post-election, BOR sounds like he’s tiptoeing back to the right, but I wonder what impact he had with the “undecideds” before they took to the polls.

In spite of BOR, and with the help of ACORN and MSM, the die was cast for the Manchurian Candidate.

Heaven help us.

Obama got 52.92% of the vote with cheating and the “glow” and Bush’s huge unpopularity and the massive, massive amounts of money.

I’d say that the death of Conservatism has been highly exaggerated. In fact, I’d say that if it takes all of this to get a Democrat elected, we’re doing pretty good.

29Victor on April 2, 2009 at 1:03 PM

I like your spirit! The problem confronting America is not the death of conservatism, but rather the birth of fascism. Conservatism is fascism’s natural enemy – the battle cannot be won without it.

The Republicans, as the only readily available political vehicle for conservatism, need to accomplish a few urgent tasks by 2010:

1. Find a charismatic leader or leaders they can rally behind, and begin grooming them as presidential candidates for 2012.

2. Make the moral case against national socialism. Obama-style fascism is not just inefficient, it is immoral. The battle against it will not be won by a legion of accountants.

3. Clean up the Republican party’s candidates and elected officials, to position the party to run against the cosmic corruption of Obama’s Democrats. We all know how the media game is played. One Mark Foley, Ted Stevens, or Larry Craig trumps a thousand Tim Geithners.

4. Reform the election system and combat voter fraud.

This Times scandal is the latest evidence for the very, very obvious truth that the Republicans must rally their courage to deal with number 4 themselves, because they will receive absolutely no help from the media.

Now that we know the Times spiked the Story of the Century – a shattering expose that would have caused the spectacular destruction of a very high-profile corrupt poltiical candidate – does anyone still want to try peddling the notion that the press always “goes after the story” and just wants “big headlines?”

“Is that oak?”

Captain Ed writes that there might be a deliberate redaction after “stand down.” I don’t know if there’s a cut there; it could be the cell phone dropping for a second. If there is a cut, though, it might……

it means that you can get burnt if you’re hyping hoaxes.

sesquipedalian on April 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Yes, unfortunately, we’re all feeling the pain of that lesson with our current administration.

“Every day we make news judgements about which stories to publish and which ones not to pursue. Political considerations played no role in our decision about whether to cover this story”

One more thing—-I sure hope Stephanie Strom has a well trained body-guard. And has the Times recieved any under-the-table bailout money for keeping the story buried?

“People say this is a military or intelligence concern, but it’s a lot more than that,” Rockefeller, a former intelligence committee chairman, said in an interview. “It suddenly gets into the realm of traffic lights and rail networks and water and electricity.“

When in doubt, control it. – Obama

it means that you can get burnt if you’re hyping hoaxes.

sesquipedalian on April 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Obama wants your internet. – Of course, it’s all in the name of “security”

Enjoy your serfdom!