Category: Hot Air

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?

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“Unbelievable,” he says, that the White House press corps is so servile:

[Obama’s press conference] ran for one hour and six minutes, with 12 different reporters being called on 00 although, notably, not Ed Henry of Fox News — and between them they couldn’t muster one question about the catastrophe that is Healthcare.gov or the spectacle of National Park Rangers locking senior-citizen tourists out of war memorials and/or inside their hotels.

Try this, Allah: Watch MSNBC all day long and keep in mind that, for the vast majority of the reporters covering politics in Washington, MSNBC is the Gospel Truth. Realize that the ambitious younger journalists in the White House press corps dream of the day when they’ll have their own regular spot on MSNBC or, perhaps, they will be appointed to a job in the Obama administration itself, like their hero and mentor, Jay Carney.

All of these reporters are Democrats. They hate and despise Republicans, and consider it their most important duty as journalists to help elect more Democrats and then to help the Democrats to advance their political and legislative agenda. To these reporters, the superiority of the Democrats is an objective fact, and anyone who says a word in favor of Republicans is therefore a liar or a fool or both.

No reporter in the White House press corps watches Fox News, except for amusement, to laugh at it as crude sport. Nor, for that matter, does any reporter in the White House press corps read conservative blogs or Web sites. Insofar as the Internet has any influence on them, the sites that are most influential among D.C. journalists are such venues as Think Progress, Media Matters, Mother Jones and Salon.

Go read Brian Beutler’s savagery toward Republicans and realize that Beutler therein expresses the sentiments of the White House correspondents for ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today and the Associated Press.

Was it “unbelievable” that Obama faced no tough questions at the press conference? It would have been unbelievable if he had.

The press corps is a constituency of the Democrat Party in the same way that the AFL-CIO, the NAACP and Planned Parenthood are constituencies of the Democrat Party. If any of them have any criticism of Obama, it arises from the feeling that he is not liberal enough.

Our nation’s “mainstream” media are, actually, Democrat Party propagandists. Let’s stop pretending that they are interested in truth.

 

Benghazi Strategy: Bureaucratic Twister Until Americans Get Bored, Or Something

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by Smitty

Per HotAir, the latest position in the Benghazi cover-up is that the “Office of the DNI” is the bad. . .guy. Unclear at this point was whether:

  • The room where the DNI himself sits is haunted, and that some leftover from a Stephen King novel is making random edits to computer files, or
  • James Clapper, the no-kidding DNI, did the deed, or,
  • Maybe it was a the Microsoft Office of the DNI, in the conference room with the macro, or,
  • Some intern escapee from a Dilbert cartoon got his editorial jollies with the CIA memo.

What’s totally clear at this point is that Chris Cassone has written the definitive tune on the topic, which bears viral transmission wherever patriots be found.

Chris Matthews: Pecksniff

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by Smitty

Via Hot Air, Politico, emphasis mine:

“It is obvious that this is something I care passionately about: race was abused by white politicians in my lifetime, including Reagan. For someone to come on the program and deny that this is part of their process, I couldn’t take that,” Matthews said. “This is something I really, deeply believe in. We grew up in a country where appeals to race have been awful, terrible. This language — we are beyond this. It had to be called out.”

Is

Two letters. Therein lies the rub. You either buy into Matthews’s Orwellian raaaaacism plantation as a current existential phenomenon, where Chris can rub his preciousssss Gollum hands together, and sanctimoniously declaim about YOUR evil, or you can say: Get Stuffed!

Matthews, whatever little Antebellum world exists in your head, it applies neither outside that head, nor the place the head is lodged. You, Jamelle Bouie et al.  are cordially invited to stated any current, actual racism (DNA-based decision making) you can find. But this backward-looking, airbrushed historical view is no longer tolerable. Recovering the economy is going to mean putting you and Uncle Choo-Choo out in a pasture somewhere, so that sane, honest people can be about their business.

Last word to Reince Preibus, who had to tolerate Matthew’s verbal diarrhea on the Morning Joe:

Update: Daily Pundit concurs.

HotAir Misses The Larger Point In The Fauquier County Tea Party Protest

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by Smitty

Mary Katherine Ham has her facts straight about why the protest occurred on 02 August in support of farmers from Paris, Virginia:

Farmers and their supporters rallied August 2 at a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, where Boneta’s lawyer asked for reconsideration. She did not prevail, but the fight’s not over. Fauquier farmers believe the zoning rules are a violation of the state’s Right to Farm Act.

Her post is fine as far as it goes, and I won’t even veer into realms of butthurt over the personal resources this blog spent covering the event in question, and not even get a winky of the lovey-linky from Hot Air:

There are more blogs out there than anyone could possibly read. I wouldn’t want to distract Mary Katherine from her better effort spent taking Bill O’Reilly to the woodshed:

Bravo, MKH! That Fauquier County zoning board is as daft as Bill O’Reilly. Both think that the Holy State is always correct, and there is no individuality remaining to discuss, to say nothing of an agricultural tradition rooted in liberty and property rights. Yet there is a broader pattern well worth researching at work here. Follow the links above, and watch the videos. Our problems are not a lack of laws, but rather, a lack of character.

Hot Air Hires Mary Katharine Ham Too Late to Prevent My ‘SkirtGate’ Debacle

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If I had any sense, I would let this news pass without comment, but if I had any sense I never would have started blogging in the first place, eh?

An appetite for risk, however, is one of those reckless habits that endear me to my friends, even those friends who fear to associate too publicly with me, lest they acquire the same persona non grata status –“Not Good Enough for BlogCon” — that I wear as a badge of honor.

This is one of those intramural metablogging things that no one outside the blogosphere understands or cares about, and it would be easy to just ignore it and blog about the latest Mitt Romney “scandal.” But if I only took the easy assignments, somebody might accuse me of being a gutless slacker, so I occasionally risk enhancing my unpopularity by writing about painful situations like this, because otherwise it might fester unnoticed, unexamined and unexplained.

Ignore stuff like that, and next thing you know, you get a Charles Johnson-type situation, with unpleasant consequences for everyone. Butt-hurt is not fatal, but it is both real and harmful. Continue reading Hot Air Hires Mary Katharine Ham Too Late to Prevent My ‘SkirtGate’ Debacle →