"Nobody had a longer resume than Dick Cheney," candidate Obama dismissed questions of his own lack of experience with a snicker in his appearance on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" back in August of 2007. We never watch the show, of course, but googled a couple of videos this morning to study the entrails after we heard the President would be taping again this week on the eve of the election. Fascinating to see how the candidate's skillful manipulation of a media elite all too willing to believe helped immunize him from scrutiny during that leg-thrilling campaign. Listen here and here. It's quite an eye-opener. More below.
"Look, I think having Oprah's support is wonderful," candidate Obama brushed off Jon Stewart's insinuation three years ago during the primaries that a glitzy Oprah fundraiser might send the wrong message to a nation looking for "change." The President will tape another "Daily Show" next week in an attempt to influence a demographic he described last time around as "a different audience, and part of our campaign is about getting people who haven't been involved in the process involved." Will he be able to conjure up the old magic? Listen to how skillfully he misdirected the audience's attention away from his weaknesses and his real agenda in a masterful demonstration of the prestidigitator's art back then:
The truth is in Iowa, in New Hampshire people just wanna talk to you. They wanna lift the hood, they wanna kick the tires, they wanna look you in the eye and get a sense are you telling the truth.
Part of the message we're trying to send in the campaign is the only way we can break out of the gridlock and overcome the special interests and the lobbyists is if people get involved, and they get engaged, and we break out of this sort of Red State, Blue State.
What people are frustrated about in politics is that so much of what we talk about and so much that we say. It's not true, people know it's not true, all the insiders understand that we're just game playing. I think that's part of what people are looking to our campaign for is just some normalcy and some common sense.
I do think that what Americans are looking for is not Washington experience, but do you have life experience that is going to lead you to make good decisions, and are you in touch with what's happening on the ground.
"He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country and that is an objective assessment," a zombified Chris Matthews infamously spilled his guts to a weary nation in the "Thrill-Going-Up-My-Leg" soliloquy of February 2008.
Had we not known at least since December of 2006 that Barack Obama was the Father of All Conmen, we might have believed. Other than the occasional diversionary "creepy, smirky smile" that transmogrified his human face into "a bizarre theatrical comedy mask" every time Jon Stewart mentioned an inconvenient truth, candidate Obama's manner was calm and his words sensible, echoing ironically today in what would become the rallying cry of the Tea Party that arose in response to the policies President Obama would try to impose upon an unwilling electorate. "Will Americans be taken in again?" we twittered in response to Howard Kurtz's frivolously breezy tweet about the "Daily Show" appearance:
Will Jon Stewart cancel his rally now that Obama's coming to him? What's left to protest? Prez's cleverly diabolical Daily Show strategy …
"Cleverly diabolical"? How silly of us Tea Partiers to think we were in the countdown to the most momentous election of our times. It's just a parlor game for the amusement of the credentialed gentry , the Ruling Class formerly known as the Elite.
Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.
That is how the ruling class has maintained its power. Pretend you are fighting a non-existent ruling class. This time the Tea Party has revealed who the ruling class really are. Vote for freedom.
Posted by: goomp | October 20, 2010 at 01:02 PM
Plus if anyone had checked Barry O out, we all would have found out that he was, and is not qualified to be POTUS.If you can find it,put it on your forehead, I triple-dog-dare-you.
Posted by: Charles Curran | October 20, 2010 at 01:36 PM
Well, he never spoke truer words than these about his own activities: "people know it's not true, all the insiders understand that we're just game playing"
Posted by: retriever | October 20, 2010 at 05:13 PM