Commenting on my post the other day on Pete Seeger, a blogger at The Nation notes that “James Kirchick has engaged The Nation in some spirited debate over the years, most recently taking on our publication of Sean Penn’s essay about Raul Castro. Normally we welcome the argument. Today, though, we had to ask ourselves if he’s running out of worthy targets.”
Forgive my decision-making talents (or lack thereof), but there’s only so much stupidity in that magazine that I can deal with on a week’s basis. However, I trust that in the months and years to come there will be no shortage of Stalinists, terrorists, and murderers praised within its pages to supply me with a never-ending series of blog posts.
All the bad apples are lining up in the Obama Administration. Tax cheaters and spies for the Chinese and Saudi Arabia having prominent position in the administration. The loyalty of this people is not for this country. Their loyalty is to their ideology, money and foreign employer who employs them.
I think the Chas Freeman pick shows the true radicalism that is guiding the Administration. I predict the more Freeman receives the spotlight, the more Obama will release Bush memos.
Is the Kool Aid wearing off across the pond?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/james_delingpole/blog/2009/03/05/was_lady_macbeth_behind_barack_obamas_snub_of_gordon_brown
There’s only been cursory MSM coverage of the Obama budget’s effect on the nation’s agriculture. The farm press, however, has jumped all over it. Maybe, the utopians don’t much care about the agri-business vote, which they probably feel is a gimme for the Republicans anyway, but even utopians like Collin Peterson of Minnesota don’t want to see their constituents marginalized. In that state, they’re called the DFL, or Democratic Farmer-Labor Party:
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“President Obama’s proposal calling for the elimination of direct payments to large “agribusinesses” is drawing a strong reaction from members of Congress and some of the nation’s farm organizations.
In his budget recommendations for fiscal 2010, the president is asking Congress to end direct payments to large farming operations, reduce subsidies for federal crop insurance programs and eliminate storage payments on cotton.
The proposal also calls for phasing out farm program payments to growers with incomes of more than $500,000 over a three-year period, eliminating funding for the Resource Conservation and Development Program and a 20 percent reduction in USDA Market Access Promotion program funding.
Leaders of the National Cotton Council, the National Corn Growers Association and the American Soybean Association said they would oppose any attempts to change the provisions they fought to include in the 2008 farm bill. . .
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson’s response to the president’s proposal was blunt. “We just passed a fiscally responsible farm bill that made cuts to farm programs, so now is not the time to reopen it,” said the Minnesota Democrat.”
I posted this yesterday but the Susan Rice thing comes right along to highlight it.
Obama’s selection for the new position of “health czarina”, Nancy-Ann Min De Perle, has a resume that few could equal and from that standpoint it’s hard to criticize the pick, if we actually need the position at all. But she’s also a an individual that represents a disturbing facet of American politics and society, the overlapping oligarchy of academia, business, media and politics. She has a JD from Harvard. She was a director of the Health Care Financing Administration and the Office of Management and Budget under Clinton. She is a member of the board of several major corporations in the health care industry. She is married to a New York Times writer and reporter. If I was a parent of Mrs. De Perle, I would be very proud. But as a denizen of fly-over country, I’m a little disturbed by these government appointments that all seem to come out of the same pool.
A few years ago, there was a media stir over a girl who’s father was a prominent NBA basketball star and mother was a sports writer covering the father’s team before her birth. There was some conjecture about the ethics of sleeping with the subject of a reporter’s beat. The more research that’s done into political pedigrees and background, the more evidence that pops up showing media types romantically involved with those that they’re supposed to be, shall we say, covering. Are there classes about the ethics of this in journalism school?
“Shouldn’t this be disclosed on air, at least when they are discussing foreign policy?”
also, the woman on CNN whose name I can’t recall is married ot the former head of the coalition provisional authority, whose name i also can’t recall
dan senor
Gee. Who knew?
“Michael Gerson discovers that Obama is radical on domestic policy”
Where do we get these “Bush” conservatives?
Seems a possible conflict of interest, doesn’t it?…
Jennifer Rubin:
You know those fawning little bios which the MSM runs? Well sometimes you learn the …
“Communist China is more capitalist than Barack Obama. There is no capital gains tax in China while Obama wants to revert to the 35% capital gains tax rate and tax overseas earnings of American corporations when repatriated”
I’ve always taken the view that the reason communism never worked was that the people doing it, Russia, China, Cuba, et al, were basically incompetent. If you want communism to work you’re going to have to have it done by Americans. I think we’re about to find out if I’m right. [JRS]
“You know those fawning little bios which the MSM runs? Well sometimes you learn the strangest things: “[UN Ambassador Susan] Rice is married to Canadian journalist Ian Cameron, executive producer of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” Wait. The EP of a top Sunday show is married to a top Obama official? Shouldn’t this be disclosed on air, at least when they are discussing foreign policy?
Disclosed on air? Wait a second. A top US government official, the US ambassador to the UN, is married to a foreign national? Its bad enough the Rice hates America to begin with and she may have divided loyalties? Doesn’t anyone find that a bit odd?
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(the terrorists choice)
-It’s never to early to campaign-
Let that soak in real good for a couple of minutes.
And who in their right mind issues even “off the record” comments like …
Oh my God .. the “official” should be fired. No wonder there is a flap about Limbaugh, they have to distract from stuff like this.
Is there anybody left at State who remembers proper protocol ?
… or have they all been sent to Gitmo ?