Talking to yourself in a mirror isn't too healthy...
Posted on 10/31/2009 11:27:25 AM PDT by JLS
Valerie Jarrett announced the other day that “we’re going to speak truth to power”.
Who’s Valerie Jarrett? She’s “Senior Advisor” to the President of the United States – ie, the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. You would think the most powerful man in the most powerful nation would find a hard job finding anyone on the planet to “speak truth to power” to. But I suppose if you’re as eager to do so as his Senior Advisor, there’s always somebody out there: The Supreme Leader of Iran. The Prime Minister of Belgium. The Deputy Tourism Minister of the Solomon Islands. But no. The Senior Advisor has selected targets closer to home: “I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we’re going to speak truth to power. When we saw all of the distortions in the course of the summer, when people were coming down to town hall meetings and putting up signs that were scaring seniors to death…”
Ah, right. People “putting up signs”. Can’t have that, can we? The most powerful woman in the inner circle of the most powerful man on earth has decided to speak truth to powerful people standing in the street with handwritten placards saying “THIS GRAN’MA ISN’T SHOVEL READY”. Was it only a week ago that I wrote about this Administration’s peculiar need for domestic enemies?
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Steyn ping opportunity.
Talking to yourself in a mirror isn't too healthy...
Steyn is really good at whacking the crazies around.
Nero.
Was Bibi speaking truth to power when he reminded Obama that Israel is a sovereign state? It’s true. And Obama is powerful. So does that count? Huh? Huh? Does it?
“we’re going to speak truth to power”
This is a central problem with the White House. They campaigned primarily on supplying red meat to their followers, portraying Bush as some sort of genius Satan who was cheating everyone in America with devious schemes. Now that they are in the White House, they keep looking for Demons and scapegoats without accomplishing any positive results for voters. They were more effective as professional nitpickers.
Every person I’ve every met who made odd, paranoid statements like that has been on drugs. I mean that’s the first thing that pops into my head when I see something like that.
Jarrett may have inadvertently spoken words that betray her real fear: The People of the United States are the real power. The people in the White House had better remember that.
I agree - some day 100 years from now historians will write
about the effect drugs had on the 2008 elections - not just
Zero’s people but the brain-dead-addled voters as well.
If Jarrett wants to speak truth to power the first stop should be at the office of her Lord And Master Obama, and she should tell him what an incompetent, narcissistic jerk he is. But something tells me she doesn’t have the guts to do that. Easier to put the blame on ordinary citizens who take the time to show up at town halls and protests.
Good article.
Valerie Jarrett really said this???
Sheesh.
What a whacked out little commie.
Speaking truth to those “powerful” sign holders and marchers on 912? Those big bad mobs who had the audacity to gather by the hundreds of thousands to protest her communist boss and his comrades in Congress and their communizing of America?
Speakig truth to the powerful Fox News network, to the powerful Sarah Palin, to the powerful Town Haller gray hairs?
Come on, Valerie.
Truth = LIES for you.
Powerful (in your comments) = ANYONE who IS WORKING AGAINST YOUR COMMUNIST AGENDA.
I have a “FUBO” bumper sticker on the back of my car.
“Speaking truth to power” means trampling “The Man” under foot.
So who’s Brutus?
Please stop posting that graphic.
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