Posted on 04/19/2010 3:30:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Time's Joe Klein got some attention over the weekend when he said, on "The Chris Matthews Show," that statements from Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are "right up close to being seditious." What received less attention was the statement immediately following Klein's, from New York magazine's John Heilemann, author of the best-seller Game Change. "Joe's right, and I'll name another person," Heilemann said. "You know, name Rush Limbaugh, you know, who uses this phrase constantly, talks about the Obama administration as a 'regime.' That phrase, which has connotations of tyranny."
Heilemann's accusation echoed one that Chris Matthews himself made on MSNBC's "Hardball" April 2, when he denounced Limbaugh's use of the word 'regime.' "I've never seen language like this in the American press," Matthews said. "We know that word, 'regime.' It was used by George Bush, 'regime change.' You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They're juntas. They're military coups. The use of the word 'regime' in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell [Limbaugh] to stop using it." A quick search of the Nexis database revealed more than 6,500 uses of the word "regime" to refer to the Bush administration since January 20, 2001, in the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, and, yes, by Chris Matthews himself.
So now John Heilemann has spoken up. Which leads to an obvious question. Has Heilemann himself ever used that word, with its "connotations of tyranny"?
A search of the Nexis database shows four recent examples of Heilemann using "regime" to refer not to tyrannies but to American domestic politics. He even used the phrase "Obama regime." For the record:
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A$$ho!es.
I would sure like to see a youtube video of Joe Klein’s comments and the “regime” comment with clips of them talking about the “Bush regime” over the years.
The MSM regime is imploding.
Libs are a sub-species of human.
They just have different brains than the rest of us.
They do not think like rational human beings.
The guys at MSNBC have to be scratching their head over how they got talked into using this comparison. I don’t think they were smart enough to come up with this...I’m think it came straight from the White House.
The problem now is that they lose face with another three percent of their audience. Piece by piece...they’ve lost viewers. Fox could even sit there and build a 90-second clip of these guys and the 1000 times they used regime during the Bush era.
Petards can be dangerous things to be hoisted on.
A Google search for "Bush regime" currently yields "About 179,000 results," while "Obama regime" yields "About 65,200 results."
However, the MSMinistry of Truth has stated that the first search result does not exist.
The MSM regime. Let's start calling them that. Never use "MSM" or "U.S. press/media" without following it with "regime".
Amusing, but I favor switching to calling them "Minitru", seeing that the keep writing in Newspeak instead of English.
Regime is too high class for the Obama things.
I prefer the words, “Obama Junta.”
They had viewers?
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