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How dare you?

VanC

Well-known member
Thou Shall Not Question Barack Obama
Austin Hill
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Perhaps they just don’t want to think through the details. Then again - - maybe some of them don’t have the capacity to think through the details.

I’m referring to the apparent plethora of partisan, passionate, “see-no-evil” Obama minions, who become outraged should any of the rest of us ask questions about the forty-fourth President.


I continually encounter the minions both as callers on talk radio, and as mailers responding to my various editorial columns. Whereas last year during the election cycle when I would dare to ask questions of the dear leader Obama, the minions’ first line of attack would be to call me a “racist” (or as one talk show caller put it to me last October, “you just can’t handle the idea of being under the authority of a black man, Austin”), today the line of attack is different. And while each talk show call and each email message are unique, the minions nonetheless typically follow a predictable pattern.

These days, the minions’ first line of attack on those of us who dare to ask questions about the dear leader seems to be to change the subject back to President George W. Bush. I heard plenty of this in March when I was back at my Washington, D.C. radio home, 630 WMAL, during the fiasco with the AIG Corporation and their executives. When I posed the question “why did President Obama hand-over $30 billion of our tax dollars to AIG in the first place?,” the responses frequently followed this pattern.

“This whole bailout mess got started with Bush” one caller stated to me (this is true, of course - - but it didn’t answer the question about Obama’s bailout behavior). “Obama wouldn’t have to bailout AIG had Bush not destroyed it,” and “if you think things are bad now, let’s go back and review the previous eight years” were some of the other subject-changing comments I got on talk radio. And after authoring a column entitled “Is Obama The Moral Alternative to Capitalism?” wherein I detailed the President’s propensity to control private corporations, and determine who their CEO’s and board members will be, one simple-minded minion emailed “I suppose you think things would be better if Bush and his cronies were in charge…”

After attempting to change the subject, and get the focus of the conversation OFF of dear leader Obama, the second line of attack from the minions seems to be to demonize the talk show host, and talk radio generally. I got an earful of this during a recent show I hosted at Phoenix, Arizona’s NewsTalk 92-3 KTAR. Noting President Obama’s plans to set earnings limits on corporate executives, I posed the question, “should President Obama determine how much money you’re allowed to earn?”

“You all can’t do anything but hate on this guy” a caller said in response. “All you talk radio guys know how to do is trash Obama” another caller said.

Oh really? I was “hating on” the dear leader, and “trashing” him? I pressed further with one caller, saying “seriously…should President Obama set the limit on how much money you’re allowed to make at your job - - just to make certain that you don’t make ‘too much’?”

“He’s not proposing to limit my pay, you idiot” the minion replied. “He’s only limiting the salaries of corporate CEO’s, which he should be doing.”

“So, are you saying that some of your fellow Americans deserve less freedom that you do?” I asked. “You should be free to make as much money as you can, but your fellow American should not - - is that your point?”

“That’s not what I’m saying, you idiot!” the angry minion replied.

Of course, that was precisely what the angry minion was saying.

The third line of attack from the minions seems to be a simple “how dare you?” response. I encountered this after the publication of a column in my local hometown newspaper. After stating the obvious about President Obama’s economic plan - - that his plan has essentially nothing to do with growing the private sector economy, and everything to do with creating more government control over private individuals and businesses - - I had people, literally, stopping me around town to ask “how dare you?” - - or something similar.

While attending a school function with my ten year old son, another Dad confronted me and asked, “how could you say such a terrible thing about the President of the United States?”

“I supported my claims in the column” I told the Dad. “It’s all right there in the text.”

“But how could you say such a thing about the President?” he asked.

“What part of my analysis was inaccurate?” I replied.

“But this meltdown isn’t Obama’s fault” he stated.

“So what‘s your point? What part of my analysis was inaccurate?”

“But he’s trying to do the right thing, Austin…….”

I hope you remain willing to ask questions. But be prepared for the attacks - - and by all means, don’t expect any rational answers.
 

Tam

Well-known member
I hope you remain willing to ask questions. But be prepared for the attacks - - and by all means, don’t expect any rational answers.


Gee how nice of him to warn us about minion attacks and not to expect any rational answers how would we have ever known. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Lonecowboy

Well-known member
I've often wondered about Liberal/Democrats
it's like every response comes out of a rhetoric playbook.
are free thinkers not allowed in??
Why not just pass out copies of the playbook to everyone and save your breath.
Kind of like when obama speaks, it's all printed out on a teleprompter, why not just post it for those who care to read it. Why waste you're time reading a speach everyone could just read for themselves. or is just for the benefit of the non reading Democrat/liberals??
 

hypocritexposer

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Kind of like when obama speaks, it's all printed out on a teleprompter, why not just post it for those who care to read it. Why waste you're time reading a speach everyone could just read for themselves. or is just for the benefit of the non reading Democrat/liberals??

You bring up a good point Lonecowboy? Most forget to go back and deseminate the words, they are too memorized by the way he speaks!

An example, when over in Europe he spoke about this not being a war on Islam and how the US is not a Christian nation.

Big love in for Obama, he's a great man, "That warmongering Bush", would never say those words right?

Now look at the words Bush spoke.



“Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practised by the Muslim people.”

“There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know — that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love and compassion.”

He you first demonize someone, Bush in this case, you can say almost exactly what they said and get a totally different response!
 
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