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  1. Everyday another outrage or another slant on a previous outrage. It’s hard to keep track.

    Meanwhile, Obama’s Rasmussen numbers took another dive. His Presidential Approval Index dropped another three points to -8. I follow Rasmussed daily and this is remarkable.

    People may not be able to keep track of every scandal, but they are getting a bad feeling that Obama is doing no good for jobs and the economy and they are right.

  2. Did you see the Dave Brooks column on dignity this week? He ends by saying that perhaps Obama’s greatest achievement will be to bring dignity back. I can’t figure out how Brooks finds this kind of stuff dignified.

  3. Brooks is nuts, but so are most of the educated elite. My sense of that column was that it was slyly constructed to paint Palin’s resignation as showing a lack of character, the rest was window dressing. But maybe I’m oversensitive.

  4. The big question is starting to loom: how does Obama react as his popularity declines?

    He’s only six months into his term, and the air is hissing menacingly as it implacably exits his balloon. How does a galloping thin-skinned narcissist like Obama take it when he’s no longer subject to glassy-eyed adoration, but gets even, say, 1 milliBush of vituperation?

  5. But Obama is also the guy who flipped off Hillary and McCain while campaigning, made the “lipstick on a pig” remark, appeared on the David Letterman show, and bowed as President to a Saudi king.

    David Brooks is one of those bright people who should know better but has become a sycophant to and an enabler for Obama.

  6. Excuse the serial posts. The blogging software was screening me out, who knows why.

  7. The problem is that Obama doesn’t seem to have deep and abiding values that will let him function independent of social approval/disapproval, as Bush did.

    Obama’s very much a focus-group kind of guy, someone who would be (and probably is already) severely wounded by withdrawal of popularity. What does he do when he gets lustily booed by an audience?

    (FWIW, I taught in a university that has a tradition of undergrads booing whenever a professor says something unpopular – e.g., announcing an exam. Even though it’s traditional, and good-natured, it still kind of hurt the first time or two, and that was only a few hundred students. I can’t imagine being booed by thousands, as politicians and pro athletes must sometimes endure.)

  8. “And they are getting away with it–at least for now”
    And they will continue to unless and until this story gets more exposure by the MSM, which it won’t. Except if there is some type of criminal culpability. Only then will this case get any real wide coverage. But then again, it will probably be to spin against a media that is ‘biased’ against Obama.

  9. It’s hard to believe that such a wide swath of the MSM is totally bereft of integrity. If the press were doing its job, Obama would be on the ropes by now. More accurately, he would not have been elected. How did the Russian in the street deal with Pravda? At some point won’t the public figure out the con?

  10. Brooks will be the last to get the memo that the party line has changed. He just wants to be loved by the Obamaphiles at the Times.

    I am vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. It will be awhile before my family and neighbors here understand that they are in bubble, cut off from information about the outside world. They would not have any way to process this information.

  11. Have you seen the picture of Obama that’s on the Drudge Report right now?

  12. I’ve had one motto I’ve always lived by: Dignity. Always dignity.

    — Singin’ in the Rain

    Well, the Big O at least has taste when checking out the talent, even if he’s a wee bit obvious.

    Meanwhile, here’s O cold-shouldering Berlusconi — refusing to shake the proffered hand, then smiling at Berlusconi’s discomfiture.

    Nice. Berlusconi is a democratic ally, but apparently that’s the problem. Obama’s respect is for Saudi kings, Iranian mullahs, and Central American strongmen.

  13. If Grassley keeps making noise about the IG firing it might eventually turn into something.

  14. Occam’s Beard – 1 milliBush. Loved that.

    Mr. Frank, the alert Russian citizens learned to decode Pravda, such as “We are winning glorious battles closer and closer to Moscow. Hmm.” Among Party followers, this could become extremely subtle, noting in what order people or events were listed or the relative intensity of descriptive adjectives. Yet even at this, much was left out of the news – PR by subtraction is always the most effective – and even those opposed to the government were influenced.

    We toss around comparisons to Pravda quite freely, but a better example would be the European newspapers, which are quite partisan. Our peculiar difficulty here is not the amount of bias so much as the continuing myth that there is none. For your comfort, I will note that the credibility of such entities as Time or NBC news is not only slowly eroding, but slowly aging. My adult children’s friends regard Newsweek, for example, as some irrelevant old-people’s magaizine found only in dentist’s offices.

  15. The Obama pic is not something to jump on Obama about.

    His policies are horrible.

    His policies are shared by many Democrats.

    Unless he does something really gross we can’t make it personal about Obama.

  16. Of course, it’s possible there’s a rational and innocuous explanation for the Obama administration’s actions

    No, It isn’t possible. For the very simple reason that even an administration about which the most transparent thing is the packaging around its lies would have given a rational and innocent explanation were one to exist. One doesn’t.

  17. Since the MSM is now MIA, perhaps the various special interest groups and bloggers should start their own news distribution activities focused on whatever commercial time can be purchased from the networks. air time on cable/satellite channels, and some sort of standardized commercial on blogs.

    For instance, I could see a one or two minute commercial run repeatedly for about a week detailing the firing of Walpin, giving the details without hysteria and without any slant to attempt a political advantage – just put the facts out there for all to see and then watch the MSM try to spin it’s way out of not reporting it.

    I could see the commercial going so far as to point out the lack of coverage by the MSM, simply as a way of shaming them and forming the kernal of doubt in the minds of viewers as to what they’re actually being provided in the way of “news” and begin the process of removing the mask of seriousness from the clown the MSM has become.

    As long as there is no slant, and the facts are explicit and undeniable, there isn’t much that could be done by the MSM except grudgingly move into damage control mode and provide some tepid coverage of the firing.

    It would be fun to watch, anyway…

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