During his recent appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball, Evan Thomas, who is Newsweek’s assistant managing editor, engaged in a spirited praise-the-dear-leader contest with tingly-legged host Chris Mathews. Thomas’ chances weren’t looking good at the outset because defending champion Mathews, speaking right before him, set what appeared to be an impossibly high bar:
The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world; if he can, he will be honouring what happened on D-day 65 years ago tomorrow, he will be delivering the world, once again, from evil.
In a stunning upset, Evans cleared the bar with ease, and soared to new heights:
Reagan was all about America…Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial, we stand for something. I mean, in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of god, he’s going to bring all different sides together.
Noemie Emery, in the Weekly Standard: “There is the God of the Old Testament, and the God of the New Testament, but this is the God of the Newsroom. Religious tradition tells us that God created man in His image, but the press has created this God in its image–diverse, multilateral, and nonconfrontational…”
But, surely to heavens, they must see it themselves, don’t they???
Do they really believe the stuff coming out of their own mouths?
Was Matthews that girl in the Obamagirl video?
I guess this is what passes for jounalism at MSNBC,a couple of more statements like this and they will both be receiving job offers from the CBC.
“Was Mathews that girl in the Obamagirl video?”
Close enough. I don’t know if you watched the video, (it’s at the live-linked blue “question) but there’s something about Mathew’s demeanor and voice and physiognomy that I actually find disturbing. He’s sort of a cross between frantic and heartbroken a teenage girl reading Tiger Beat saying “Oh, Donny, Donny, Donny…’ and a North Korean talking head reading the latest propaganda.
He *clearly* sees his hopes for personal salvation resting in the Great Leader. Unbecoming for any free man, but inexcusable and repellent in a journalist.
I mean, in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of god, he’s going to bring all different sides together.
For those of us who fear the Living God and tremble at His Word, the above statement is not a surprise. We have known for centuries that such a man will come at the appointed time. It is doubtful that Mr. Obama is the “man of lawlessness” spoken of in Scripture; yet, there are at least a few similarities. The worship for the one spoken of in Scripture will be even worse than for Obama.
Revelation 13
3 …And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast;
4 they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”
5 There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
7 It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.
8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
I think I know where the adulation comes from: Obama’s been sold as the “new JFK.” Remember the hand-wringing over those less-than-credible assasination warnings?
The Democratic Party has sold, and has sold him well. Pity that the circle of buyers is smaller than in ’61. Things were easier for the Demoganda machine back then.
Y’know, I’ve never been particularly religious, though my grandmother made sure I went to sunday school. Still, when I read the entry, something in me went uh-oh. Brent pretty much says what went through my mind. Something about this whole messiah/god mantle that’s been placed on Obama makes me uneasy, like looking over my shoulder waiting for lightening to strike.And as I said, I’m pretty secular for the most part. I wonder if the devout feel it even more intensly. I never thought I’d see the day when a cult of personality leader would be so embraced in America.
how long before the story of a double star at O’s birth start to make the rounds? that these journalists believe their own pap.. wow.
What happened on D-Day 65 years ago did deliver the world from evil, but it wasn’t a grand vision accomplished through starry-eyed rhetoric and soft-focus “bringing together”; evil doesn’t yield to puffery. It was the result of a detailed and intrepid plan brought to fruition with strength and determination and conviction, and at the cost of an inestimable volume of blood and sweat and toil and tears. That’s what works, on the ground, in the real world.
the higher the pedestal, the greater the fall
These “journalists” don’t know a thing about history. Reagan strengthened NATO, and showed the resolve that eventually forced the Soviet empire into submission, which reduced nuclear tension all over the world. About 300 million people were freed with remarkably little bloodshed (although Putin is trying to re-establish a dictatorship with some success).
But I guess freeing eastern Europe was all about America. I guess removing the threat of a nuclear holocaust was all about America. I can’t believe these ignorant jerks have any credibility.
A cat has nine lives. Can Obama be reincarnated that many times? First he was JFK, then Lincoln, just recently FDR, now he is a nameless God who transcends the earth. Five more lives to go – must be exhausting for him – spirit channelling is hard work and he has only been at it for 7 months. Here’s hoping the next embodiment will be a rock and roll star – Elvis anyone?
fernstalbert, at first I pictured Obama in rhinestone jumpsuit. Nope. Then i pictured him in leather, ala the comeback special-nope. Then, horrors, I pictured him making a speech and changing the timbre of his voice – Thank ya,Thank ya very much. Bingo.
These guys aregoing to blame us for ruining the Obama and his effort to change the world as if we were roman and rush was pontiuos pilot (sp). Practically every single thing he has and will attempt to do is going to finish in ashes, but rather than being misguided naive or just plain wrong (and that’s being polite) it will b because we were heathens who weren’t worthy. These two Guys are supposedly grown men and they are carrying on like fools; imagine what some of the young obamaists are saying and will say and do when he is routed on policy and from power.
reagan was a superior president and american. obama is a fake a liar a charlatan. the truth will come out about the man and the aftermath will be violent. there must be enough intelligent americans out there who will, at some point, put a stop to obama and his machine.
‘Nothing new under the sun, as Brent Weston points out.
Whenever humankind declines to worship the One, True, and Living God it invents gods to bend the knee to. The worship of these man-made gods usually comes to nothing or, worse, tragedy.
If the drooling of the media over the empty-suit-empty-rhetoric Lord Obama wasn’t so dangerous it would be totally laughable. ‘Talk about useful idiots.
How did we arrive at this appalling adulation of the I’m-the-Great-Powerful-and Munificent-Obama? Read 2 Timothy 3 and 4: 3,4.
Bam bam’s deliverer persona was the sole fabrication of the liberal media. John Ziegler’s documentary on the media malpractice which facilitated the electoral victory is a must see.
http://tinyurl.com/m32ere
The newsies remind me of working for the Feds. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon cuz if they don’t people will begin to notice they have nothing of value to offer. The nail that sticks out the farthest gets pounded the most. We need more nails. In the end you get pounded but if you are right you will win the war.
Last Thursday, I had entered the waiting room at the local Chrysler dealership pending a service check. They had a television set mounted from the ceiling. The channel was CNN. It had on and for quite a while a sort of town hall meeting with an audience and the President.
I am fairly sure it was in Green Bay, Wisconsin. At one point, after President Obama made a telling point, one of the audience rose to their feet, applauding. The whole crowd arose.
What followed was remarkable. Nobody dared to sit down. They all just stood there. Barack Obama then said in a quiet, but authoritative voice “you can all sit down now”. There was a chuckle from the audience.
I have never seen anything quite like it.
Even Iranians rioting in the streets are raising their hands to the sky and shouting “Obama, save us!” They didn’t say “Allah”, they said “Obama”.
Sheeesh.
For some real help, maybe they should have said “Dubya” a couple of years ago….
Would this be the same Evan Thomas who said:
“Well, our job is to bash the president, that’s what we do.”
One and the same, Kathryn. The day after Obama’s victory speech last November, Evan Thomas appeared on Charlie Rose:
Rose: “Have you ever seen a victory speech where there was no one else onstage? No adoring wife, no cute kid, HE is the messen….”
Thomas: “There IS a slightly creepy cult of personality about this. I mean, he’s such a…”
Rose: “‘Slightly creepy cult of personality…’
Thomas: “Yes.”
Rose: “What’s slightly creepy about it?”
Thomas: “It just makes me a little uneasy that he’s so singular, he’s clearly managing his own spectacle, he’s a deeply-manipulative guy…”
Based on last week’s MSNBC appearance, Thomas has apparently converted in the months since to a faith that worships a creepy, deeply-manipulative god.
UN- Evan .
So a few MSMer performing public demonstrations of fellatio makes the subject of their of their salivation a GOD …. ??
What a pair of Beeatches!
MSMers….
How the hell can he deliver the world from evil? After all wouldn’t that be way above his pay grade.