Reporter who said Obama should crush the GOP: That was analysis, not advice
In my editor’s note in the February issue on how the “fact-checking” press gives the president a pass, I discussed how the go-to pose by lefty opinion journalists in the Obama era is to cloak their essentially partisan cheerleading in the holy glow of “facts,” “science,” and “math.” Dickerson deploys all three words in the main section of his non-apology…
I’ve always found the enthusiasm among opinion journalists for helping build a permanent governing majority to be as creepy as it is futile. But different strokes, etc. What interests me here is how the Cloak of Empricisim is beginning to blind wearers to the plain meaning of their own words. That, and I think Dickerson was on to something in his description of Obama’s divide-and-conquer strategy. As he put it in the original column, “The president already appears to be headed down this path.”
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No it isn’t analysis…it is a dream. The left isn’t interested in sharing power.
PierreLegrand on January 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM
Hmm…you keep using that word….
James on January 24, 2013 at 3:03 PM
Sorry. What’s the difference?
vityas on January 24, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Yeah?
Here’s my advice…..
Article V convention and divorce.
harlekwin15 on January 24, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Should?
Good Lt on January 24, 2013 at 3:07 PM
You win.
thebrokenrattle on January 24, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Yup, they are willfully conspiring to not teach civics while teaching racial grievance theory because they plan to human wave us and simply ignore the Constitution and dare us to stop them.
I think if we do not call them on it and ask for an article V and threaten dissolution our grandkids will have no idea what our system ever looked like.
You and I swore an oath to the document Good LT.
Neither side does it great honor but one side holds it so actively in contempt I cannot imagine our governance ever reverting back to historical mean.
The Secretary of state answers “so what” at a willful error in judgement allowing the opfor to murder a full bore Ambassador and NOBODY CARES.
5 short years ago the President was held to the standard of the man to blame for every feather falling from the tail of a sparrow.
This is not one nation and the office Obama is in is not the one Bush was in.
The Democrat party feels no shame at their hypocrisy because they have no shame, they are not bothered when foreign national engage in war on us because frankly they view their domestic fellow citizen who disagrees politically as the true foe to focus martial wrath on with law as weapon of war. The media is in willful collusion mode with the democrat party empowering Obama to play Emperor Momjeans I-The Scoamf.
They have rather serious plans, and they have no intention of following the rulebook anymore.
harlekwin15 on January 24, 2013 at 3:37 PM
the CBS leftist is stupid enough to say this
yeah, a math problem like 2+2=5. We always laugh about the useful idiots…but there are those who just enjoy being part of the Other Team…idiots, sure but not in the sense that they fall for the propaganda…they are the propaganda…tools, yeah
r keller on January 24, 2013 at 4:10 PM
A laughable assertion from those who put extraordinary effort for for years to govern from the minority and not only “not share power” with the opposing party, but grabbing every wrench within reach to throw in the gears to keep the MAJORITY from governing at all.
You expect them to share power now? Face it, the republicans started the “destroy or bust” game and went bust. You can’t cry now and act all indignant once it’s turned back on them.
Genuine on January 24, 2013 at 4:50 PM
Um, 52 yyears you guys had the gavel.
You are a partisan fool if you think that the media that held Bush personally responsible for every child that got sniffles in America to “so what” about Obama lying about Benghazi and jailing a religious refugee for a specious “parole violation” exercising free speech….
well like I said you’re why we need a divorce.
You want to punish me, the “worst” I want is the damn government to follow at least even a third jokingly its rule book.
See you when Barry’s bills start coming due.
harlekwin15 on January 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM