Portrait of a sociopath Thug as an ugly gay boy. Not that there is anything wrong with that!
Posted on 10/24/2009 10:00:02 AM PDT by JRochelle
It's pretty unremarkable to describe the Obama White House's growing enemies list -- the insurance companies, Chamber of Commerce, Fox News -- as "Nixonian." But there's one place where, if you venture such an opinion, you'd better be prepared to apologize -- quickly and profusely.
On National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Wednesday, NPR political editor Ken Rudin said the White House campaign against Fox News is a bad idea. "It's not only aggressive, it's almost Nixonesque," Rudin said. "I mean, you think of what Nixon and Agnew did with their enemies list and their attacks on the media; certainly Vice President Agnew's constant denunciation of the media. Of course, then it was a conservative president denouncing a liberal media, and of course, a lot of good liberals said, 'Oh, that's ridiculous. That's an infringement on the freedom of press.' And now you see a lot of liberals almost kind of applauding what the White House is doing to Fox News, which I think is distressing."
It's not the usual thing you hear from NPR analysts. Reaction from the NPR audience was negative, and within 24 hours, Rudin was in backtrack mode. "I made a boneheaded mistake yesterday," Rudin wrote on his NPR blog. "Comparing the tactics of the Nixon administration -- which bugged and intimidated and harrassed journalists -- to that of the Obama administration was foolish, facile, ridiculous and, ultimately, embarrassing to me. I should have known better and, in fact, I do know better. I was around during the Nixon years. I am fully cognizant of what they did and attempted to do."
"I apologize for a dumb comparison."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Wow.
What could possibly terrify someone into backing away from the truth so fast?
Does this guy have a Polanski moment in his past?
Surprised he’s still working. He knows he’s supposed to say FOX is a shill for the RNC.
Pray for America
The power of the DNC muscle in the ranks of NPR shows through, that only Politically Correct, DemoLeft worshipers dare expect to get or keep keep their jobs at (DNC)NPR.
NPR is as it has been for as long as anyone can remember a partisan mouthpiece for the Left.
Pendulum swing...much too far.
OBAMA ENEMIES LIST SIMPLIFIED
Not on the Obama Enemies List:
Obama, Moochers and Parasites, Leftist Media, brain-dead democrats (redundancy alert!), Goldman Sachs, America hating muslims.
On the Obama Enemies List:
Everyone else.
Portrait of a sociopath Thug as an ugly gay boy. Not that there is anything wrong with that!
- intimidated and harassed journalist Rudin explaining how he was right all along.
Dude is vicious, hateful and vindictive, nothing more. No excuse for it, I don't care what anyone says. Anger management wouldn't begin to touch this one.
The irony of his retraction is so sad.
Good Maoist style self denunciation. That should greatly shorten his stay in a re-education center.
For a self pat on the back.....back around April I predicted here that the big O would generate Nixonian comparisons before eoy because of his paranoia and ‘enemies’.
“Or was he the one who allowed the Peacenik US Congress to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the South Vietnamese people by allowing the defunding of the critical war material support for the South Vietnamese government? That “conservative?”
I’m not going to get into defending Nixon but you can’t blame him for everything.
Vietnam War
Exit of the Americans: 1973–1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war#Exit_of_the_Americans:_1973.E2.80.931975
“Gerald Ford took over as U.S. president on 9 August 1974 after President Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal. At this time, Congress cut financial aid to South Vietnam from $1 billion a year to $700 million. The U.S. midterm elections in 1974 brought in a new Congress dominated by Democrats who were even more determined to confront the president on the war. Congress immediately voted in restrictions on funding and military activities to be phased in through 1975 and to culminate in a total cutoff of funding in 1976.
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It was also Nixon that put the last nail in the coffin of the gold standard.
I used to have a monthly payroll deduction to support my local public radio station. I made a special trip in to the payroll office and cancelled the contribution, and haven't donated a nickel since, on the day after the 1992 election. I almost drove off the road when I heard the NPR newsroom burst in raucus cheering when it was announced that Clinton had won. They haven't improved one bit since.
Repressed homosexuals are often hateful raving paranoid monsters.
And so it is with Rahm.
...makes Freddie look macho...........
I almost thought I had ‘misremembered’ history.
Kinda like Herbert ‘I’m an engineer. I can make central planning work’ Hoover being blamed for causing the last Great Depression with his lassez faire capitalist ideology. (Hoover Dam, anyone?)
When they pass wage & price controls, then can we call him Nixon?
NPR is never beholden to conservative Presidents.
I’m glad he’s got his head right - he’s obviously been shown the error of his ways.
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