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."It got better: "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and peopleare feeling that there's a lot of change that needs to take place.But that's not the vast majority of Americans," he insisted."I do think that everybody has a responsibility, Democrats or Republicans, to tone down some of thisrhetoric.I am concerned about a political climate in which the other side is demonized." Of course, he feelsno shame about demonizing talk radio hosts or anyone else who disagrees with him.THE DIARY OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMATHE OVAL OFFICEMay 20, 2010I'm driving with Reggie today, and since NPR's signal was kind of weak, we tuned in to Rush Limbaugh'sshow for kicks.Huge mistake.The ego of this man! He constantly refers to himself as America's Anchorman.He's America's Anchorman the way I'm America's tax cutter! If this is truly the biggest radio program, this countryis in serious trouble.The whole show is "Obama did this, Obama did that." I wanted to cal in, but Reggie thought it would diminishmy stature, so I stood down.The problem with Limbaugh is that he reacts on instinct; it's al driven by emotion.The man is obviously out of touch with the right-wing intel ectuals--the real idea people of the GOP--the folks whounderstand me (partly).His show would be a lot better if he read conservative thinkers like Peggy Noonan, DavidBrooks, and Chris Buckley.These are fair-minded conservatives, people who are happy to adjust their opinionsfor a White House Christmas party invitation.I like them.But al that Limbaugh can do is spread his hate andintolerance.I imagine this sort of thing plays wel with his fan base, listening in their trailers or at their militiacamps.Once I got back to the Oval, I told Plouffe and Gibbs what the country real y needs: The President BarackObama Hour--my own daily radio show! This is why my pol numbers are sagging; my people need to hear fromme each day.I'l describe my agenda in depth and take preplanned, union cal s--it'l be great.After the reelection,we'l pass that Fairness Doctrine and then I'l personal y bring fairness back to the airwaves.Each day, afterLimbaugh, I'l come on coast to coast, to correct him.I mean, if he can draw twenty mil ion listeners a day, I candouble that.And if we have a slow start, we'l add an amendment to the Fairness Doctrine that limitsbroadcasting from Florida.America's Anchorman?! He's right here at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--or he wil be.And my talent isn't evenon loan from God--I just took it from myself!Obama is a classic elitist.He claims that his opponents spread hate and dissension, while his cheap shots andmalicious characterizations are what--compliments? He should mind his own counsel.Obama piously toldattendees of the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 4, 2010: "Progress doesn't come whenwe demonize opponents.Progress comes when we look into the eyes of another and see the face of God."Mr.President, one has to first look into the eyes of one's opponents and accord them the decency ofanswering their substantive questions before there can be any true progress.This is something you and youradministration have never done.Though I think you've got the demonizing part down to a science.Once the president began savaging conservatives by name, his media mouthpieces were only too happy tofol ow his lead.Time magazine columnist Joe Klein, during an April 18, 2010 appearance on The ChrisMatthews Show, picked up the refrain of the left, essential y accusing Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin of sedition.You'd have to be deaf, dumb, or just a stark raving liberal to miss the pattern here--or the talking points."I looked up the definition of sedition, which is 'conduct or language inciting rebel ion against the authority ofthe state, '" Klein said."And a lot of these statements, especial y the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and, to a certain extent, Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious." On the same broadcast Klein addedSean Hannity and Fox News to his sedition list.His fel ow panelist, the New Yorker 's John Heilemann, added,"Joe's right and I'l name another person.Rush Limbaugh."To disagree with this president or his policies is now seditious behavior.Funny how no one on the left,including Joe Klein, ever questioned the unrelenting attacks upon the legitimacy of George W.Bush's presidencyor the lunatic antiwar marches that labeled him a war criminal.Were those seditious actions? Of course not.These days, sedition can come only from conservatives, and from those who in any way oppose Obama.THE DIARY OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMATHE OVAL OFFICEJuly 28, 2009I think we've got him--we've got him! That Glenn Beck is as good as off the air.He showed up on Fox &Friends this morning, shooting off his big mouth, and said that I had a "deep-seated hatred for white people orthe white culture." Had he cal ed me up, I would have told him: I have a deep-seated hatred of Glenn Beck! I oftensee him on television when I wander into Rahm's or Axe's office--the show is there in the background, but thevolume is always turned down, so I don't know what the hel he's saying.The visuals are arresting, however.Onetime he was cutting up hunks of pie in a frenzy.It was like watching Elena Kagan dive into a Chicago deep-dishpizza.On another show, he had a blackboard fil ed with pictures of some of my favorite people: Chairman Mao,Che Guevara, and several of my appointees.Valerie is putting a cal in to our Green Jobs Czar Van Jones.He's got this front group he runs cal ed "Color ofChange." The idea is to have them start a boycott against Beck's advertisers.We'l knock him off the air quickerthan you can say Don Imus.Personal y, I think people are sick of Beck blubbering about America and how greatthis country is.Once we finish with Beck, we're going to hit that hate-jock Michael Savage.Even that man's name isaggressive.He hates the conservatives and the progressives! I read somewhere that he's a doctor of herbology.So if our boycott fails, we might be able to win him over with a special appointment--you know, Senior Consultantto the White House Vegetable Garden or something.I always say if people don't love you at first, give them anofficial appointment and they wil.If the president is so worried about the media feeding the "more extreme sides of every issue," why hasn't heever raised his voice to condemn MSNBC or CNN? Or do they get a pass because they serve to further hisextreme agenda? Of course they do.On October 22, 2009, the president held a (not quite) off-the-record meeting with some of the most partisanpundits and writers in the industry.Talk about extremes.But when Obama is feeding and nurturing hissurrogates, I suppose we should avert our gazes and pretend that it isn't happening.The guest list included:Eugene Robinson, E.J.Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib,Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifil.Lots of ideological balance at thattable!The New York Times described the meeting and its aftereffects this way: "Mr [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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."It got better: "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious, and peopleare feeling that there's a lot of change that needs to take place.But that's not the vast majority of Americans," he insisted."I do think that everybody has a responsibility, Democrats or Republicans, to tone down some of thisrhetoric.I am concerned about a political climate in which the other side is demonized." Of course, he feelsno shame about demonizing talk radio hosts or anyone else who disagrees with him.THE DIARY OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMATHE OVAL OFFICEMay 20, 2010I'm driving with Reggie today, and since NPR's signal was kind of weak, we tuned in to Rush Limbaugh'sshow for kicks.Huge mistake.The ego of this man! He constantly refers to himself as America's Anchorman.He's America's Anchorman the way I'm America's tax cutter! If this is truly the biggest radio program, this countryis in serious trouble.The whole show is "Obama did this, Obama did that." I wanted to cal in, but Reggie thought it would diminishmy stature, so I stood down.The problem with Limbaugh is that he reacts on instinct; it's al driven by emotion.The man is obviously out of touch with the right-wing intel ectuals--the real idea people of the GOP--the folks whounderstand me (partly).His show would be a lot better if he read conservative thinkers like Peggy Noonan, DavidBrooks, and Chris Buckley.These are fair-minded conservatives, people who are happy to adjust their opinionsfor a White House Christmas party invitation.I like them.But al that Limbaugh can do is spread his hate andintolerance.I imagine this sort of thing plays wel with his fan base, listening in their trailers or at their militiacamps.Once I got back to the Oval, I told Plouffe and Gibbs what the country real y needs: The President BarackObama Hour--my own daily radio show! This is why my pol numbers are sagging; my people need to hear fromme each day.I'l describe my agenda in depth and take preplanned, union cal s--it'l be great.After the reelection,we'l pass that Fairness Doctrine and then I'l personal y bring fairness back to the airwaves.Each day, afterLimbaugh, I'l come on coast to coast, to correct him.I mean, if he can draw twenty mil ion listeners a day, I candouble that.And if we have a slow start, we'l add an amendment to the Fairness Doctrine that limitsbroadcasting from Florida.America's Anchorman?! He's right here at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--or he wil be.And my talent isn't evenon loan from God--I just took it from myself!Obama is a classic elitist.He claims that his opponents spread hate and dissension, while his cheap shots andmalicious characterizations are what--compliments? He should mind his own counsel.Obama piously toldattendees of the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 4, 2010: "Progress doesn't come whenwe demonize opponents.Progress comes when we look into the eyes of another and see the face of God."Mr.President, one has to first look into the eyes of one's opponents and accord them the decency ofanswering their substantive questions before there can be any true progress.This is something you and youradministration have never done.Though I think you've got the demonizing part down to a science.Once the president began savaging conservatives by name, his media mouthpieces were only too happy tofol ow his lead.Time magazine columnist Joe Klein, during an April 18, 2010 appearance on The ChrisMatthews Show, picked up the refrain of the left, essential y accusing Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin of sedition.You'd have to be deaf, dumb, or just a stark raving liberal to miss the pattern here--or the talking points."I looked up the definition of sedition, which is 'conduct or language inciting rebel ion against the authority ofthe state, '" Klein said."And a lot of these statements, especial y the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and, to a certain extent, Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious." On the same broadcast Klein addedSean Hannity and Fox News to his sedition list.His fel ow panelist, the New Yorker 's John Heilemann, added,"Joe's right and I'l name another person.Rush Limbaugh."To disagree with this president or his policies is now seditious behavior.Funny how no one on the left,including Joe Klein, ever questioned the unrelenting attacks upon the legitimacy of George W.Bush's presidencyor the lunatic antiwar marches that labeled him a war criminal.Were those seditious actions? Of course not.These days, sedition can come only from conservatives, and from those who in any way oppose Obama.THE DIARY OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMATHE OVAL OFFICEJuly 28, 2009I think we've got him--we've got him! That Glenn Beck is as good as off the air.He showed up on Fox &Friends this morning, shooting off his big mouth, and said that I had a "deep-seated hatred for white people orthe white culture." Had he cal ed me up, I would have told him: I have a deep-seated hatred of Glenn Beck! I oftensee him on television when I wander into Rahm's or Axe's office--the show is there in the background, but thevolume is always turned down, so I don't know what the hel he's saying.The visuals are arresting, however.Onetime he was cutting up hunks of pie in a frenzy.It was like watching Elena Kagan dive into a Chicago deep-dishpizza.On another show, he had a blackboard fil ed with pictures of some of my favorite people: Chairman Mao,Che Guevara, and several of my appointees.Valerie is putting a cal in to our Green Jobs Czar Van Jones.He's got this front group he runs cal ed "Color ofChange." The idea is to have them start a boycott against Beck's advertisers.We'l knock him off the air quickerthan you can say Don Imus.Personal y, I think people are sick of Beck blubbering about America and how greatthis country is.Once we finish with Beck, we're going to hit that hate-jock Michael Savage.Even that man's name isaggressive.He hates the conservatives and the progressives! I read somewhere that he's a doctor of herbology.So if our boycott fails, we might be able to win him over with a special appointment--you know, Senior Consultantto the White House Vegetable Garden or something.I always say if people don't love you at first, give them anofficial appointment and they wil.If the president is so worried about the media feeding the "more extreme sides of every issue," why hasn't heever raised his voice to condemn MSNBC or CNN? Or do they get a pass because they serve to further hisextreme agenda? Of course they do.On October 22, 2009, the president held a (not quite) off-the-record meeting with some of the most partisanpundits and writers in the industry.Talk about extremes.But when Obama is feeding and nurturing hissurrogates, I suppose we should avert our gazes and pretend that it isn't happening.The guest list included:Eugene Robinson, E.J.Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib,Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifil.Lots of ideological balance at thattable!The New York Times described the meeting and its aftereffects this way: "Mr [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]