Monday, March 11, 2013

Furloughed joke writers

The president spoke at the annual super elite Gridiron Dinner the other evening about the goings on in his administration and Washington. He stated he didn't have a big bunch of jokes because his joke writers were on furlough.

Chirp.

Chirp.

It's probably okay that he didn't lay a bunch of humor on the audience considering the appalling manifestations that the president's decisions have caused, unbelievably among them, a closed White House. However, they did laugh as only elites can do because in Washington one notices the unemployment rate is not very high. Government has been very good to people in Washington and outlying areas close by.

And then there's this unfortunate part of his speech: the inevitable public humiliation that can only come from a Me president, not a We president as he observed there were a few people not in attendance. He's referring to Bob Woodward who recently pulled Obama's covers on his participatioin in Sequestration. He marginalizes Bob Woodward as a has been by questioning his current abilities, making outright fun of him.

Mr. Obama employs the most insidious little trick in the book by calling out Mr. Woodward's "advanced" age--he's nearing 70. He is intimating that Mr. Woodward is simply prickly and somewhat bitter. Only someone way off the mark, like Woodward, would misunderstand the White House personnel in such an off way.

Again, this display of ageism is something I've come to expect from a president and the people who work for him, along with lies, deception and cover ups. Ageism is the smug, condescending cousin of racism, tokenism and the rest of the isms that keep people apart by a winking/nudging, self-satisfied gang who can't be trusted with anything important or life threatening.

Life goes on
The president did not tell the divine dinner crowd that regardless of the cuts, he and the First Mrs. are continuing their extravagant ways by he going on a vaca and she jumping the D.C. ship of fools for less lugubrious climes, a ski trip in Snowsville. That's the in-your-face kind of arrogance we're sorrily getting used to.

While the White House is closed, unemployment remains high, there's been a huge increase in taxes all around and gas is over $4.50 a gallon, these clowns try to impress each other at their stupid, insipid insiders' dinner.

Thanks for the read.





Friday, March 1, 2013

Failure of duty

Bob Woodward's criticism of the White House's lack of ownership of the Sequestration policy on a public information level, as well as the administration's threats "that he would regret it" if he exposed said facts have turned out much differently than I first dared to think. 

Today, I'm extremely disappointed. Extremely.

And worried and alarmed.

Instead of journalists jumping on Woodward's bandwagon, they have taken personal aim at Mr. Woodward. Ageism was sickeningly obvious at the White House as we listened to David Plouffe's analogy of some baseball pitcher who is over the hill--like Woodward and millions of the rest of us. Another TV twit called him a baby boomer relic who is so over, or close to that--again, like millions of the rest of us. Still another said that when he dies--soon we hope--there will be lots and lots of bad info, FBI/J.Edgar type stuff that affects DC insiders, that will fall to the ground when he croaks.

I should have known they'd go personal

Other media critics actually minimized the issue saying Woodward overreacted, adding they were yelled at all the time by the White House. No big deal. Of course, the rest of us know the results of their "hostile" relationship with the White House. We see it on a daily basis--like the weekend that POTUS was AWOL with Tiger.

This attitude and arrogance is what the country is up against: a quickly developing state run media who will do anything its government bosses want, to anyone its government bosses want to do it to. It pains me to realize that--the thought of it shakes me to the bone.

Our next question has to be why? And of course, what is the motivation? Why would an entire group of mature, supposedly sophisticated, educated  people hang on every morsel and ort of this president? Why the adoration? Is it ideology? Cult of personality? Is the fear of losing access so overpowering that they fawn over the president to the extent they cannot tell the truth? Ego?

Bob Woodward's job has been to attempt to find the answers to such questions for 37 years; and most of time he got to some, if not all, of the truth. 

Mr. Woodward has been beaten on by better than these folks. Although I have trepidation, my cards are on him for the long pull of a nasty fight.

Thanks for the read.

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