{"id":9309,"date":"2012-10-06T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/06\/obama-the-imaginary-man\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:04:39","slug":"obama-the-imaginary-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/06\/obama-the-imaginary-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, the Imaginary Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outstanding analysis<\/a> by Andrew Klavan. Excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The mystery Obama\u2014the hollow receptacle of out-sized fantasies left and right\u2014is not a creation of his own making, political chameleon though he may well be. It emanates instead from a journalistic community that no longer in any way fulfills its designated function, that no longer even attempts the fair presentation of facts and current events aimed at helping the American electorate make up its mind according to its own lights. Rather, left-wing outlets like the New York Times<\/em>, the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em>, Time<\/em>, Newsweek<\/em>, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and the like have now devoted themselves to fashioning an image of the world they think their audiences ought to believe in\u2014that they may guide us toward voting as they think we should. They have fallen prey to that ideological corruption that sees lies as a kind of virtue, as a noble deception in service to a greater good.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is the nature of the Left to conflate the world with the world as leftists want it to be.  Whereas the conservative stands on the terra firma<\/em> of antecedent reality<\/a>, the leftist trades in nebulous hopes and dreams, many of them impossible.  (it comes as no surprise that the late Edward Kennedy's favorite song was "Impossible Dream.")<\/span><\/p>\n

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Theirs are largely passive lies and lies of omission. The active frauds\u2014NBC\u2019s dishonest editing of videos to reflect a leftist worldview, ABC\u2019s allowing Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos to masquerade as a newsman, the Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u2019 suppressing even the transcript of the video in their possession that shows candidate Barack Obama at a meeting with a PLO-supporting sheik\u2014these are only egregious salients of the more consistent, underlying dishonesty. The real steady-state corruption is revealed in the way Obama scandals like Fast and Furious, Benghazi-gate, and the repeated breaking of federal campaign laws have been wildly underplayed, while George W. Bush\u2019s non-scandals, like the naming of Valerie Plame and the firings of several U.S. attorneys at the start of his second term, were blown out of all proportion.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it is revealed in Obama\u2019s blankness, his make-believe greatness, and the suppression, ridicule, and dismissal of any evidence that he is not the man this powerful media faction once wanted so badly for him to be. No other modern president could have associated so intimately with lowlifes like Wright and Ayers and the now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and not had those associations exposed in every detail. No other president could have made the radical remarks he\u2019s made\u2014about wealth redistribution, religion, and the federal government\u2019s alleged ill-treatment of blacks\u2014and not had them headlined all over for weeks. No other could have presided over such a crippled economy and such universal failures at war and in foreign policy and escaped almost without mainstream blame.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outstanding analysis by Andrew Klavan. Excerpts: The mystery Obama\u2014the hollow receptacle of out-sized fantasies left and right\u2014is not a creation of his own making, political chameleon though he may well be. It emanates instead from a journalistic community that no longer in any way fulfills its designated function, that no longer even attempts the fair … Continue reading “Obama, the Imaginary Man”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}