On FOX and Friends, I talk with Alisyn Camerota and Clayton Morris about the continued violence at #OWS events across the country, as well as the truth behind their claims of “income inequality.” I end with asking the questions that the MSM refuses to ask President Obama - Why do you condone the violence of OWS? Why does you condone the bullying of school children? Why are you silent?
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Speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, President Barack Obama continued the meme that he started over a month ago when he opined that America is getting”soft.” At a $5,000 per ticket event, the President Obama stated:
“We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge…”
Having failed so often, the President finally succeeded in outdoing the infamous President Carter “malaise” speech. People look to the President for inspiration. Think President Bush standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center, his arm draped around a firefighter, letting America and the world know that we would not allow this murderous attack to go unanswered. Think President Reagan at Checkpoint Charlie, stating clearly, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Or, his vision of a shining city on a hill. Think of President Kennedy, who willed America to take on space exploration and put a man on the moon.
President Obama’s objective wasn’t to inspire but rather to discourage, dishearten and dispirit. But, in the end, he underscored the meme that has been the hallmark of his presidency – it’s not me, it’s you….and I’m the answer.
I’ve summed up Obama’s views on foreign policy , the “Obama Doctrine”, as ”What I want, when I want, where I want, how I want – Nobody does it better than I.” In his talk in front of the crowd in San Francisco, he proved the Doctrine can be applied to domestic policy as well (which is, to say, it doesn’t matter what he’s talking about, the Obama Doctrine is all about him!) Obama wants to paint the picture that America has gone soft, America has lost its edge. That America, and Americans, are incapable. But, if we listen to Obama, if we do what Obama says, if we live up to the standards Obama sets for us (Obamacare, the Democrat-defeated jobs bill, cap and trade), America will be better.
It is no wonder that Obama’s poll numbers are so low. Americans, with the exception of hard-core ideologues and some attendees at Occupy Wall Street, aren’t buying what Obama is selling. Not his Doctrine, nor his negative view of the American people. At this point, Obama is incapable of inspiration. With 9+% unemployment, a U-6 over 16%, a misery index of over 12% and the states of Ohio, Florida, and Virginia up for grabs in 2012, it’s looking like President Obama is also incapable of re-election.
Here is my latest piece on TownHall.com, discussing the Occupy Wall Street disruptions going on across the country. In this article, I make a unique connection between the “movement,” the “message” and the “Man.”
OCCUPY WALL STREET GETS “MAN” LOVE
The anti-war protests of the 60′s, which gave birth to the hippie movement, taught future generations ofprotesters the concept of the enemy as “The Man.” The Man, in general, is the person, group of people or entity with power – economic, political, or both. The protesters are the people, angry with the power entity for corrupt, dangerous, or disingenuous or otherwise disagreeable behavior.
So, when Occupy Wall Street – and their blind allegiance minions – took to the streets in New York, they merely filled in the blanks in the protest template. Like a game of Mad Libs, the veracity of their statements was irrelevant. They (the people) were opposed to the crooked dealings between Wall Street (banking industry) and Government (see Republicans, because when the OWS crowd realizes that Obama is just a shill for Wall Street they will crap their pants, not police cars!)
They are protesting the bailouts, the way Wall Street puts profits ahead of people (a still unprovable thesis) and how they manipulate money to keep rich people rich and poor people poor (a still unprovable thesis.)
Protesting bank bailouts is fine. It is also smart. Most Americans view bailouts in general unfavorably. Why is it that government is in the game of picking winners and losers? So-called “winners” aren’t always – or ever – the most solvent, smartest, best-for-the-people investments; just look at Solyndra! The free market should be the only factor to determine whether a business succeeds or fails – not government. Government involvement in these decisions is just wrong. This is the Tea Party thesis, and has been advocated by the millions of Tea Party members across the nation for over two years.
Who is backing Occupy Wall Street? We’ve seen the outpouring of support from Leftist Hollywood -Michael Moore , Roseanne Barr, Susan Sarandon have all shown their love for the movement. A basic Google search of “hollywood supports occupy wall street” brings an article that has even moreHollywood people – Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Yoko Ono, Penn Bagdley, Alec Baldwin and music mogul Russell Simmons – supporting the cause of viciously attacks on those who work on Wall Street (and increasingly, Main Street) by those who don’t work at all. (The very next article highlighted that George Clooney also supports OWS, just proving that there is no lack of star-power support.)
Who else supports OWS? Democrats who desperately want to be integral to the movement. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently stated, “Well,I support the message to the establishment – whether it’s Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest – that change has to happen.” She also stated, “God bless them….it’s young….it’s spontaneous.” Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) supports the OWS crowd(even though he was not allowed to speak at a OWS rally in Atlanta).
The DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) has a petition on its website trying to get 100,000 people to agree with OWS. It has even sent out Tweets about it.
President Obama has voiced – clearly – his support for OWS, stating:
“The protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works…”
Support of Hollywood? Support of leaders in Washington? Support of the Democratic Party? Support of the President? That is The Man – and The Man loves Occupy Wall Street! The protesters aren’t fighting The Man (or the system,) they are legitimizing it. They are allowing themselves to be co-opted by the forces that make, in their eyes, too many decisions. The controlling forces of Hollywood and government – both of whom are financed by the banking industry! – are now working hard to control Occupy Wall Street, and OWS is more than happy to let them in (with the notable exception of Rep. Lewis….racism, anyone?)
While the protesters in Manhattan, Los Angeles and other cities may think they are fighting The Man, the truth is they are in love with The Man, and The Man is in love with them. Their protest isn’t a protest, then, but rather a needed vehicle of the Democrat party and the Progressive movement to bring some excitement to a political party and a political ideology that has been cast aside by Americans in the run up to the 2012 elections. Maybe one day they’ll realize this, and then be able to answer the question – why are you here?
Until then, the protesters and The Man are in mad crazy love. They are registered at the local Apple store, because some corporations are still ok by (most of) them. A wedding date hasn’t been confirmed.
As I posted on Pajamas Media, President Obama is now in a full throated assault against the United States Constitution. Using his own words, I piece together Obama’s disdain for our current system of government, and how the media is not catching the pieces to the story:
Obama Advocates For New Form Of Government For America
President Barack Obama has had many things to say about the Constitution, and America. He has talked about both in radio interviews as a State Senator, and in his two books. In the months and weeks that preceded the election, we heard then Senator Obama talk about transforming the United States. As President, he has recently spoke of the problems of a tough, messy democracy. A cursory look at his words and deeds set forth a thesis from the President; one that is far more insidious than is being reported.
The words of the President have a long and sordid history, yet put together a simple strand of belief. A look at his books, gives the start of the string; the desire to search out Marxist professors. (Certainly, one could go further back, and a review of PJTV personality Bill Whittle’s expose on Obama’s history would be good for those people.) It was with Marxist professors that he felt most comfortable. It was with these teachers that he saw role models. It was within their teachings he found his own salvation – which leads to his talking far too often about our collective salvation as the way to a better tomorrow.
This fascination, and the desire for like-minded role models, led him (via his wife, Michelle Obama) to the church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, where he spent 20 years. He did not spend them repudiating the viciousness of his chosen spiritual leader, he spent them reveling in it. Obama formed a mindset that we see today, focused on the collective over the individual. He formed his understanding in Black Liberation Theology, which former congressional candidate Chrystopher Smith refers to as the single reason why Attorney General Eric Holder was given the job, and why it will take the most extraordinary of circumstances to make Obama remove Holder. (Gunwalker may be that extraordinary circumstance…time will tell.)
As a state Senator in Illinois, President Obama gave an interview to a local radio station where he was discussing civil rights and the courts, and it moved into a conversation on the Constitution. Obama, a supposed Constitutional scholar, did not spend much time in praise of the first of its kind, one of a kind document. Rather, he derided it. In the 2001 radio interview Obama specifically stated that the “problem” with the Constitution is that it is a grouping of “negative liberties.” Paraphrasing, he said the Constitution states what government can not do to you instead of what the government must do for you.
The Constitutional scholar has a problem with the basic tenets of the Constitution, as his entire basis (home life, college, spiritual adviser) put forth a competing (failed) theory of how the world should work. The Constitution, based on the concept of Natural Laws as described in the Declaration of Independence – that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – says man should be able to live without being told how to live (by a King or a centralized government.) Obama states that government should do more for people, which historically comes at a “Freedom Cost.”
(NOTE – The “Freedom Cost” is the same as the idea of “Opportunity Cost” in economics. It is the Freedom lost in the guise of alleged government support or safety. Therefore, the Freedom Cost of ObamaCare, for example, is the loss of choice (Freedom) in one’s medical decisions. Some may consider that ObamaCare is about wealth redistribution, not medical care. I do not argue this. It is just another Freedom Cost to Obamacare.)
In the lead up to the 2008 election, then Senator Obama spoke to a crowd of thousands, and crowed with great passion, “We are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” If it weren’t for Glenn Beck, that phrase would have simply dropped under the radar. At most, it would simply have made some on the political right say, “What is he talking about?” It’s the same way most right-leaning people took to the phrase “Hope and Change.” They are words that mean nothing in the macro sense. It’s flowery rhetoric. But, to the individual, they force a personal reaction. That is why Obama used them, and continues to use them. But what, then, could the majority of people have thought about “fundamentally transforming” the United States? Was it about extricating ourselves from Iraq and Afghanistan? About curbing runaway spending? About forging stronger relationships with our allies, and establishing new relationships with our enemies to bring about lasting peace? Quite obviously, the answer to those questions is no.
In the recent debt limit debate, the president spoke frequently, giving multiple press conferences to demonize the political right while offering no solutions of his own. During this time, he gave a speech to the racist organization La Raza at their annual convention in Washington, D.C. In this speech, he said the following about immigration reform, and “other” subjects:
“The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you, not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written,”
The words stun. While the press may play on the theme of doing things on his own, the real incendiary statements come just after. His statement of our system, our democracy, our Constitution is not one of praise. It is one of disgust. In front of La Raza, a group that believes in open borders and intimidation, Obama is letting his disdain for the our system of government, our system of laws, be known. He is pining for the better tomorrow, where he is not burdened with a system that prevents him from fashioning immigration policy in his image (in La Raza’s image.)
Just a few weeks later, after the signing of the debt limit increase – and the ensuing Dow drop of 200, then 512 points – President Obama spoke on the evening of his birthday, during a $38,500 a plate celebration. He stated:
“When I said ‘change we can believe in, I didn’t say change we can believe in today. I didn’t say ‘change we can believe in tomorrow,’ not ‘change we can believe in next week.’ We knew this was going to take time. Because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy.”
The pattern is now formed. Never mind that we are a republic, and not a democracy. That isn’t the point. It is the continued attack on our system. The problem, according to Obama, is not him, or his policies, or his big government point of view. The problem, as previously stated – going as far back as 2001 – is the Constitution; “…this big, messy, tough democracy.”. As he frames it, the rule of law keeps getting in his way of doing what he thinks is best for all of us. As my colleague at PJTV, Katie Pavlich, reminds in her article on Townhall.com (with a H/T to HotAir.com):
FLASHBACK: Gee, sure would be easier to President of China
Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”
His upbringing, his college desires, his spiritual leader, his own words, his own actions and, most recently, his clear-as-day assault on the Constitution, and how much easier his job would be without it. (Even the First Lady has been commenting recently on how hard President Obama works, how gray his hair is getting. Perhaps he would be more energetic, getting more sleep, if it weren’t for this tough, messy, Democracy?)
President Obama is actively engaging in a pre-meditated attack on the United States Constitution, and the American way of life. His words are not missteps, like 57 states or the insulting inability to properly pronounce the word corpsman. Obama is attempting to plant the seed into the already vitriolic and boisterous Progressives that the problem with America is the thing that makes America great – the rule of law that does not allow government to rule us. (A very disappointing note for Valerie Jarrett, whose slip of the tongue before Inauguration Day may have been more telling about Obama’s desires than we realize.)
While Progressives, the main stream media and Obama devotees will attack this thesis, the words of the president throughout his known history can not be undone, or misconstrued. Obama has an obvious dislike for the Constitution, and, as president, a true hatred for the things that get in his way – like the rule of law, and Congress, and open debate, and the Tea Party, and questions from the press or others Americans.
Recently, I was sent this cartoon from a friend of mine in Tampa Bay, which originally ran in the Chicago Tribune in 1934:
In the bottom left corner, it shows a man (perhaps Leon Trotsky?) writing on a placard. On top, as a title, the character wrote, “Plan Of Action For U.S.” Underneath that, the character has written:
SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
Under The Guise Of Recovery – Bust The Government – Blame The Capitalists For The Failure – Junk The Constitution And Declare A Dictatorship
Next to that, in small letters, as if a commentary from inside the Trotsky character’s head, it reads, “It Worked In Russia!”
There is no claim being made that President Obama is working towards a dictatorship. But President Obama has clearly shown that he has a vehement disdain for the Constitution, and is actively engaged in sowing the seeds of derision and division in an attempt to bring about its modification, its ineffectiveness or it ultimate demise.
As many of you know, I host a weekly show on PJTV called The Conversation with Tony Katz. My scheduled guests this week were Hot Air‘s Ed Morrissey, Newsbusters‘ Noel Sheppard and comic/blogger Stephen Kruiser. How fortunate that on my way into the studio, I found out that President Obama was having a press conference that morning on the debt. Here is our analysis of the presser, and how little vetting the Obama administration does of itself.
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May 21
Bibi gives Obama a history lesson
In a joint conversation with President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and just after the speech by Obama where he stated that Israel should return to 1967 borders, Netanyahu proceeded to give Obama, and the world, an important history lesson, along with a masterful refutation of Obama’s call for the new border set up.
Netanyahu also reminded the President, and the world, that it was Israel that absorbed many refugees during the formation of Israel. However, it was the Arab states — Israel’s neighbors – who refused to accept the Palestinian refugees. This is important to remember when viewing the Middle East — the Palestinians were left for dead by the same nations that now use them as a rallying cry to wage war against Israel. The Palestinians are being (and have been) played as pawns by their so-called allies.
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May 17
Eight is Enough – as long as there is a law about it
A short piece from the Associated Press is meant to be a human interest story, to
show the fun, enjoyable friendship and camaraderie between President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. The piece focuses around a speechClinton gave at a State Department forum, where she was relaying a conversation the two had, presumably while drinking a beer and talking about leftist love. She mentioned how they “marvel” at despots and world leaders who want to be in power for life.
She says she and the president joke: “Oh, my gosh. Can you imagine?”
Clinton says Obama told her, “I’m going to win re-election, and then I’m done,” a remark that drew laughter from the audience.
Race-ers exposed on MSNBC
Apr 30
Recently, I appeared on MSNBC with Contessa Brewer to discuss President Obama, Donald Trump, the birth certificate and the political fall-out. In the conversation, the leftist meme came forth about those who question the President, on anything, are actually racists. My response was simple – if those who are consumed with Obama’s birthplace are “birthers,” then those consumed with unfounded and uninspired conspiracy theories that all Obama opponents are racists should be called “Race-ers.”
Watch the video for yourself:
This term, whether spelled “Race-ers,” “racers,” “raceer,” or “raceers” is being embraced in all corners. John Nolte of Big Hollywood is now using it in his posts, Newsbusters highlighted it while saying “Bravo, Tony. Bravo!” Lucianne.com has posted it, and Pajamas Media has released articles here, here and here on the subject. (Full Disclosure – I host a weekly show on PJTV.com and my articles have been published by Pajamas Media.)
The leftist, Progressive narrative of race is over. Feel free to speak freely about Obama’s policies, and his results.
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Apr 11
Government Motors falls apart…literally
In an article from the WSJ, it looks like Obama’s latest invention, the Chevy Cruze, is falling apart on drivers while they “Cruze” on down the road. In a very scary development, the steering wheel on certain cars has fallen off while the car was in motion. GM has stated this affects about 2100 cars, and a recall has been issued.
