March 24, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Nine – Tick…Tick…Tick…

“Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.” Richard Nixon

There was a time when seven simple words were more feared, "60 Minutes is hear to see you" than “the IRS called to schedule your audit” (unless you’re a high ranking member of the Obama Administration or a senior democrat in Congress of course, who all seem to be exempt from paying taxes), "the proctologist will see you now” or “Dad, this is my fiancé Tater Salad, he gets off parole next week and hopes to get his old job back bagging at the Piggly Wiggly, ain’t he something.”

In their heyday a phone call from 60 Minutes or having Mike Wallace or Morley Safer knocking at the front door could truly strike fear in the halls of congress, corporate board rooms, the ivy covered columns of academia and make a Harvard educated PHD run for cover like a scalded dog after catching one glimpse of Dan Rather heading their way.

Despite being a charter member of the left wing media elite there was a time when this hard charging, aggressive TV News Magazine set the standard and raised a very high bar for excellence in investigative journalism. It’s this legacy of hard hitting, take no prisoners and truth seeking reporting that makes Steve Croft’s fluff, I’ve come to worship at the altar of Obama, suck up, kiss up, comedy of the trivial, expose on President Obama that aired on 60 Minutes Sunday night so disappointing, if not expected, but sad just the same.

So even though the show had demonstrated great promise and journalistic integrity at times their true liberal core values eventually won out and now dominate their content and editorial slant. Croft’s Sunday night performance certainly did nothing to alter their far left leaning journalistic agenda. This is by no means verbatim but certainly captures the spirit of his interview with the President:

· Croft – Mr. President, Your Holiness, Oh Great One, we are so grateful and forever in your debt for granting us an audience in your angelic presence
· Obama – Why Steve, Yes, Yes We Can. Healthcare, Green Energy & Education
· Croft – Oh Master, the Anointed One, how will you lead us to economic Nirvana?
· Obama – Steve, I’ll Sheppard the masses from Wall Street to Main Street inspiring all with Change We Can Believe In. You know, Healthcare, Green Energy & Education
· Croft: Your Eminence, Abe Lincoln, FDR, JFK, & Michael Jordan incarnate, how can we mere mortals ever repay your benevolence, mercy and divine leadership?
· Obama: Steve, by believing in but not paying a bit of attention to the “Change We Can Believe In that will bankrupt our economy and Yes We Can convert our entire economy and culture to socialism” policies I’m currently putting in place while diverting everyone’s attention with the chump change AIG bonuses issue and Timmy “Turbo Tax Cheat” Geithner’s incredibly confusing public statements and appearances.

The real travesty here is Croft’s missed opportunity to probe and draw out the leader of the free world on his opinions and beliefs on important, substantive issues. Questions about the President’s view on down grading the War on Terror to some yet to be determined status; the success of the surge and his thoughts on victory in Iraq and not just withdrawing troops and ending the war; his exit strategy for Afghanistan; his reaching out/appeasement strategy towards Iran, Syria and other terrorist nations; what type of new math he is using to support his claims that by tripling the deficit with his socialist spending proposals over the next two years he’ll actually cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term; or how he could actually have the audacity to compare his Secretary of Treasury Tim “Turbo Tax Cheat” Geithner to Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, our nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury and author of the Federalist Papers, built our fledgling country’s federal financial system from scratch with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison fighting him tooth and nail all the way.

The only past administration this crowd compares to so far is Peanut and his gang of terrorist appeasers, socialist and economic wizards that gave away the Panama Canal and created double digit unemployment, inflation and 21% interest rates back in the 70’s.

Instead of serious, aggressive and important investigative reporting we got Victory Gardens, swing sets and personal attacks on Dick Cheney for speaking truth to power.

Week nine of the “Yes We Can Print New Money Faster Than We Can Spend It” crowd kicked off with Madame Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi committing felonious acts on national TV by encouraging criminal illegal aliens to break our nation’s laws. At a minimum she should be charged with accessory to a crime, impeached from office, thrown in jail and forced to share a cell with one of her criminal alien pals. Six to twelve months in a ten by ten cell with a criminal alien drug dealer and sex offender just might provide the Speaker with a needed attitude adjustment regarding her views on criminal illegal immigration.

Speaking of our soon to be incarcerated Speaker, a friend shared the folowing story with me:

· On a Saturday afternoon, in Washington, D. C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's aide visited the Cardinal of the Catholic cathedral. He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day's sermon, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint.

The Cardinal replied, "No. I don't really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi's views." Pelosi's aide then said, "Look. I'll write a check here and now for a donation of $100,000 to your church if you'll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint. The Cardinal thought about it and said, "Well, the church can use the money, so I'll work your request into tomorrow's sermon."

As Pelosi's aide promised, House Speaker Pelosi appeared for the Sunday sermon and seated herself prominently at the edge of the main aisle. And, during the sermon, as promised, the Cardinal pointed out that House Speaker Pelosi was present.

Then the Cardinal went on to explain to the congregation -- "While Speaker Pelosi's presence is probably an honor to some, she is not my favorite person. Some of her views are contrary to those of the church, and she tends to flip-flop on many other views. Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thumb sucker, and a nit-wit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a cheat, and a thief. Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a Catholic I have ever personally witnessed. She married for money and is using it to lie to the American people. She also has a reputation for shirking her Representative obligations both in Washington, and in California. She simply is not to be trusted."

The Cardinal completed his view of Pelosi with, "But, when compared to Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Barney, “Freddie in the Fannie Mack” Frank, Chris, “AIG Bonus Boy” Dodd, Chucky Schumer, Maxine Waters, Henry “the Hobbit” Waxman and John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi is a saint."

Week nine continued with the AIG farce up on the hill and concluded with our fearless leader’s 325th made for TV appearance of the week with a nationally broadcast hour long Liars and Scoundrels Conference, I mean Press Conference, so we could all have yet another chance to hear and see our Commander and Chief blame W. for all his problems, play the victim card and slowly but surely lead us one step closer to his utopian socialist society.

Now, a final satirical thought from "Andy Rooney:"

Barack Obama. What kind of name is Barack? I’ve never met anyone named Barack before. Barack sounds more like a type of furniture or maybe one of those strange looking musical instruments all the big city orchestras have in their wind section. Barack, the more I say it the better I like it, just rolls right off the ole tongue. Yes sir, I do like it, definitely a name worthy of a U.S. President.

Investigative journalism at it’s very best!

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God” Ron W. Garikes