Culture of corruption: Michelle and Glenn Beck on Obama’s “remaking of America”
posted at 7:05 pm on July 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
Not only did he give her a sweet plug at the end but the lead-in to the interview was a tasty smattering of Team Barry’s most obnoxious quotes. I trimmed off all but the last few in the interests of brevity and because most are already familiar to longtime HA readers, but the one from Michelle Obama sums things up well enough. Here’s another from SEIU president Andy Stern that the boss thought would serve as a fitting ideological frame for the discussion you’re about to see: “[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t work we use the persuasion of power.”
FYI, as I write this, she’s number one with a bullet at Amazon.
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That picture of Michelle Malkin on this thread is so gorgeous, I’m gonna make a large picture of it…..good interview, and congrats on the new book!!!!!
dec5 on July 29, 2009 at 5:10 AM
It was, and don’t you wish it were so! ;)
Maquis on July 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM
My goodness is he a beautiful and brilliant woman. If she were a flaming liberal no one would know who orah was. Then again, if she were a flaming liberal she would not be so brilliant.
peacenprosperity on July 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM
My goodness she is a beautiful and brilliant woman.
My apologies. I hit my keyboard with a hammer after that slip up.
peacenprosperity on July 29, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Michelle sees what’s really going on, Glenn sees what’s really going, I even see what’s really going on. What I don’t see is, “why am I in the minority?”.
Tommy_G on July 28, 2009
You see because you have always seen or you chose to pull the veil from your own eyes. The majority of Americans still have that veil comfortably in place and the Obama-fellating, state-run media is doing it’s part to keep that veil in place. Michelle and Glenn and Mark Levin, with their books, are doing their part to remove the veil while they reinforce what so many of us instinctively know. Rush does this with his radio show, as do Sean and Mark and others. The numbers are increasing. Will they reach critical mass in time is the question.
SKYFOX on July 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Ma Bell? How did AT&T get into this conveersation?
MarkTheGreat on July 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM
“She has never, ever been challenged on her facts, but always through vile ad hominem attacks.”
Rational Thought on July 28, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Ummm, no…
http://www.isthatlegal.org/Muller_and_Robinson_on_Malkin.html
ebrown2 on July 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Michelle and Glenn are a rational reality in a sea of irrational behavior. Let’ double team those that stand in the way of uniting U.S.
MSGTAS on July 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM
If that whistleblower is getting sued, and she’s all alone, does she have the financial wherewithal to mount a defense? Maybe we should set up a legal fund for her and ask people to donate?
Kelli_D on July 29, 2009 at 11:58 AM
I’m not going to waste my time going any farther then that. The introduction smacks with hostility and then his opening position is this? What was he scouting, surf spots?
Stick your head in the sand pal and hope for the best. My bet is that while you are in that position it will be easier for the left to do to you what they are trying to do to all of us.
peacenprosperity on July 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM
“Stick your head in the sand pal and hope for the best.”
Exactly the opposite. Malkin’s atrocious and ahistorical argument gave and still gives lefties aid and comfort in opposing the necessary anti-terrorist measures we need, as the author points out:
“As I continue liveblogging my own thoughts about Michelle’s book “In Defense of Internment,” I’ll note a part of the book where I think Michelle is quite right. In her introduction (pages xiii to xxxv), or at least in certain parts of it, she makes the case that the civil liberties Left and representatives of the Japanese American community have not helped anyone think clearly about the Roosevelt Adminisration’s policies by attacking each step of the Bush Administration’s domestic antiterrorism policy since 9/11 as a reprise of the worst mistakes of WWII. This was one of the two main points I made in my article “Inference or Impact? Racial Profiling and the Internment’s True Legacy,” which Michelle graciously cites in her book.
A big part of what drove Michelle to write this book was her disgust with people on the left who have never met an antiterrorism policy they like, and who have trotted out the scary specter of the incarceration of Japanese Americans at every opportunity. In “Inference or Impact,” I worried about the Chicken Little effect of repeatedly claiming a replay of the WWII experience of Japanese Americans–that it might lead people to minimize the reality of that experience. Michelle is doing that in this book, and in at least a small way, I think the civil liberties left has some of its own rhetoric to blame. David Cole didn’t force Michelle Malkin to write this book, mind you. But maybe some of David’s rhetoric helped her build her head of steam.”
He then goes on to show how she indulges in the equal and opposite foolishness of trying to justify what Hoover and Stimson (post facto) rightly held to be indefensible.
When you are on the wrong side of J. Edgar Hoover on a high-dollar public argument about civil liberties, you’d better have your facts straight.
In point of fact, there had been a long history of German sabotage in the U.S. going back to the First World War, including one of the first incidents of deliberate bio-terrorism by a microbiologist:
http://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Horseman-Secret-Campaign-America/dp/1586483722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248889744&sr=8-1
Would that justify interning German-Americans in WWII?
ebrown2 on July 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM
A scene from the deer hunter keeps floating to the surface, when they were playing russian roulette. I can see her standing there with Obama and Biden handing them the gun and saying Mau, Mau
workingforpigs on July 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM
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