Newsweek on Obama: He's sort of God

[Mike (Premo)]

More bowing from the media

Newbusters has this, although Power Line and pretty much everyone else has it linked. Newsweek’s Evan Thomas talks about Barack Obama with Chris Matthews, and in the kind of skeptical, detached tone we have come to expect from the national media:

EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
THOMAS: He’s going to bring all different sides together.

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I'm fighting the strongest urge to hurl all over my desk. The media continues their Obamanation media blitz. Suggesting he is even remotely "sort of" God seems blasphemous to me.

[vraiblonde]

THOMAS: He’s going to bring all different sides together.

Someone better inform the North Koreans and the Iranians.

[backagain39]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Someone better inform the North Koreans and the Iranians.

[chernmax (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

Someone better inform the North Koreans and the Iranians.

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[cwo_ghwebb]

The kowtowing has gotten so bad even radical leftie comedians are mocking these fools.

[ImnoMensa]

*****I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. ******

Can you imagine two intelligent men, TV talking heads, that would openly say something that stupid on the air?

A god would never create ears like that on himself. LMAO.

[bcp]

has anybody heard what color rug we are supposed to be rolling out when we have to start facing DC and praying to obama, god of the ears?

I just want to be ready.

[cwo_ghwebb]

No political figure in modern American history has been so adored by the press. JFK came closest — but even he was not deified, even in death. The depth and intensity of the passion for Obama among the press is something young children need to be shielded from.

A second thing to note in Thomas’s comments is his assertion that “we [the United States] were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way.” Well, it might have felt that way to many conservatives. But to many liberals, it was actually something very nearly the opposite. It’s worth reminding those on the Left with selective memories that Reagan was mocked and ridiculed as a dangerous figure, trigger-happy, a war-monger, reckless and provocative. His support for the Nicaraguan contras, his build-up of America’s defense, the installation of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe to counteract the Soviet deployment of SS-20s, and Reagan’s talk about the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” unnerved and infuriated liberals.

“I wonder how many people, reading about the [”evil empire”] speech or seeing bits on television, really noticed its outrageous character,” Anthony Lewis wrote in the New York Times in March 1983. “Primitive: that is the only word for it. … What is the world to think when the greatest of powers is led by a man who applies to the most difficult human problem a simplistic theology — one in fact rejected by most theologians?… What must the leaders of Western Europe think of such a speech? They look to the head of the alliance for rhetoric that can persuade them and their constituents. What they get from Ronald Reagan is a mirror image of crude Soviet rhetoric. And it is more than rhetoric: everyone must sense that. The real Ronald Reagan was speaking in Orlando. The exaggeration and the simplicities are there not only in the rhetoric but in the process by which he makes decisions.”

Commentators like Lewis and magazines like Newsweek had contempt for Reagan’s approach; it is only now, after history has vindicated him, that we’re supposed to believe we all supported Reagan and that Americans were seen as “the good guys.”

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And radical lefties wonder why Newsweak and the rest of the LSM are going down the toilet? They certainly have very short memories. And rewriting history seems to be one of their favorite pasttimes.

[cwo_ghwebb]

And now the utterer of Obama is 'sort of God' tries to paint Chris Dodd as a 'victim'. What b.s.! Dodd is his father's son. Another Donk crook.

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[Mike (Premo)]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

And now the utterer of Obama is 'sort of God' tries to paint Chris Dodd as a 'victim'. What b.s.! Dodd is his father's son. Another Donk crook.

Limbaugh had yet another great line today on this topic:

Obama does have something in common with God: "Neither he nor God have a birth certificate."