EVEN LAP DOGS GET THE BLUES!

 

“I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.”Will Rogers

"Unfortunately, you grew up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works, or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner," President Barack Obama Commencement Address Ohio State University five days before the IRS scandal became known.

The love affair between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the press may be ending. Even nightmares must one day come to an end and you wake up. The specter of using the IRS to hobble or destroy your political enemies or obtaining the phone records of Associated Press reporters who broke a story on a second failed “underwear bomber” has frightened the press into a semblance of credibility like nothing else that has occurred in this administration. After all the lap dog press had treated this President and his subordinates like royalty. They now feel betrayed and insulted by a President to whom they have given a free pass while he systematically ripped the Constitution to shreds. They are feeling the hot breath of a tyrannical government that they in large part created by being unabashed fans of this man and not objective reporters of his actions and the complaints of his critics whom they dismissed as extremists.

He gave such wonderful speeches…he was our first Black President…he stood for all the right things…all the things they learned in J School about what was wrong with a racist, sexist, homophobic Christian America.

The question becomes will the 4th estate, finally admit that “Fast and Furious”, Obamacare, joblessness, the economy, the budget deficit, debt and spending , actions by the EPA and NLRB, Benghazi, the IRS and the AP at last be acknowledged for what they are…scandals fueled by an ideology so un-American that rational people have been warning the country about it for the last five years of this deplorable regime.

Will they admit that this administration has routinely lied to the American people…distorted the truth about it’s opponents,.. rewrote history when it was politically convenient for them…denied responsibility for everything and any thing that went wrong…and placed the blame for any mistakes on low level officials who always magically operated in a universe of their own without any adult supervision.

This President has wandered for five long years from speech to speech accompanied by an omnipresent set of grinning faces framing the backdrop behind him …all designed to evoke a powerful psychological veracity to those watching him. His shtick has been mythic and hypnotic and it worked because the press refused to do it’s job and thereby gave credence to the spectacle and hence the man. He became the one everybody loved and no one blamed. He had to be saved from all disrepute because he had become such a formidable Avatar for our hopes and dreams even while it had become all too apparent that he could not lead he could only talk. His talking however was designed to turn this country into something it never was and was never met to be.

George Wills said it best in a column on Tuesday in the NY Post when he described what the President said to the graduates at Ohio State University
“He stigmatizes as the vice of cynicism what actually is the virtue of skepticism about the myth that the tentacles of the regulatory state are administered by disinterested operatives. And the voices that annoy him are those of the Founders.”

Barack Obama is the President who was never vetted because he represented the “we who are the ones we have been waiting for“. Hillary Clinton has become the President in waiting for whom all past sins, incompetence and transgressions are to be forgotten or ignored because she is the next transcendental figure to save us from ourselves. Both fantasies are among the most egregious lies of this new century!

ERLANDSSON

(A VERSION OF THIS COMMENTARY WAS BROADCAST ON THE VERNUCCIO/ALLISON REPORT ON WVOX 1460 AM/ www.wvox.com ON SATURDAY MAY 18, 2013)