Posted on 01/16/2009 11:44:44 AM PST by Mike Bates
On yesterday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips made no effort to curb her enthusiasm for Barack Obama. She spoke with feminist author and Democratic activist Naomi Wolf about a recent cover of Ms. Magazine featuring Obama in a Superman pose. Some feminists took exception to the cover; others, like Wolf, did not. As the segment ended, Kyra Phillips summed up as follows:
PHILLIPS: Well, if anything, I think this just exemplifies how Barack Obama is going to be out of the box on everything, whether it's who he decides to have speak at the inauguration or what covers he decides to go on the front of or who he puts into his administration. It is all going to be about going out of the box and making people talk and bringing everybody together, whether it's gender, race, whatever it is.
Thinking out of the box, that's Obama alright. Mr. Originality's stacked his administration with loads of Clinton administration retreads. In terms of magazine covers, it's doubtful that he decides which periodicals feature him. Did he pose as Superman for Ms.? Not likely. That would have been a step down for his messiahship.
Then there is Phillips's belief that Obama is "bringing everybody together, whether it's gender, race, whatever it is." That's patently unrealistic. The notion that any politician can bring everyone - regardless of life experiences, political views, values, opinions, and traditions - together is a liberal pipe dream. And a selective pipe dream at that. After years of bashing President Bush and other Republicans, it's expected that magically all Americans will suddenly, joyously unify as one big happy family under Obama.
Earlier this week, Phillips mentioned in an exchange with Tony Harris, another CNN Newsroom anchor, that she's attending the inauguration on her own time:
HARRIS: Good stuff. OK. We are one week, one day out from Inauguration Day. Look at that scene.
Kyra, can you imagine Washington, D.C.?
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: I'll tell you what. I mean, even though I'm not working that day.
HARRIS: Right. I know you're going to be there, right?
PHILLIPS: I am going to be there. I do not want to miss this moment in history. That's what it is. I mean, when's the last time we remember this kind of buzz over a president?
I'm sure that Kyra Phillips, with her starry-eyed prediction of Obama "bringing everybody together," is more than happy to keep amplifying the buzz.
That woman is a moron.... she could also be considered a space case for Obama... an Obamanaut
Remember when Clinton brought ‘everybody’ together??
These coming days are going to be good for my diet, I won’t be able to keep any food down.
BS!!!!!!!
About subjugating the nation.
I will defy them to the end.
You know, if I cover my eyes, I can make the sun go out.
What a total lie, Obama is about dividing to the max. His behavior during his entire campaign proved that.
They are setting themselves up for a huge disappointment.
There’s nothing to see next Tuesday, unless your thing is watching several million dopes have a big collective orgasm. I’m very carefully avoiding the whole thing. Almost 2 1/2 months after the election, even seeing the guy’s picture or reading about his delusions of Godhood still very nearly make me physically ill.
The only way he will bring us together, will be by galvanizing the nation against their actions.
We will be brought together in rebellion and defiance.
Wow, that’s some great reporting! Who would’ve thunk to just use an Obama campaign slogan?
well... bring all but the 48% that didn’t want him anywhere near the white house.
Kyra herself is Ms. Originality. As long as the teleprompter’s running.
Kyra Phillips, Rich Sanchez, Keith Olbermann, what do they all have in common...All CBS 2 rejects
That’s why, as soon as O starts doing things the media doesn’t like, and in response he tries to go after them in typical Chicago fashion, I’ll be laughing. That is, if I’m not already crying because everything’s already gone to h&ll in a handbasket.
Think I’ll need some super strength Xanax by next Tuesday.
I love my country. However, there are more than a few people that I would not like to get together with...if you know what I mean?
This is the template they are setting. The clear implication is that anyone not drooling over him and jumping on board with whatever socialism he proposes, why those people are just dividers! Hopelessly bent bigotry and divisiveness for daring to oppose things. They have been working hard at it for years to define the ‘compromise’ position to be firmly in the area of liberalism. Unfortunately the republican establishment is been helping them with that.
I think I know what you mean.
As they say down South:”Well, Bless her little heart! Isn’t she spatial?”
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