The Obama Simulacrum - This administration sneers at reality and its consequences. (Mark Steyn)

National Review Online ^ | January 25, 2013 | Mark Steyn

[neverdem]

If I’m following this correctly, according to one spokesperson for the Marine Corps Band, at Monday’s inauguration Beyoncé lip-synced to the national anthem but the band accompanied her live. However, according to a second spokesperson, it was the band who were pretending to play to a pre-recorded tape while Beyoncé sang along live. So one or other of them were faking it. Or maybe both were. Or neither. I’d ask Chuck Schumer, the master of ceremonies, who was standing right behind her, but he spent the entire performance staring at her butt. If it was her butt, that is. It might just have been the bulge of the Radio Shack cassette player she was miming to. In an America with an ever more tenuous grip on reality, there’s so little to be sure of.

Whether Beyoncé was lip-syncing to the band or the band were lip-syncing to Beyoncé is like one of those red pill/ blue pill choices from The Matrix. Was President Obama lip-syncing to the Founders, rooting his inaugural address in the earliest expressions of American identity? (“The patriots of 1776 . . . gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.”) Or maybe the Founders were lip-syncing to him as he appropriated the vision of the first generation of Americans and yoked it (“preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action”) to a statist pitch they would have found utterly repugnant...

[Rummyfan]

Honorable? I don't think so!

When it comes to facing the music, Obama is peerless at making a song and dance about tunes nobody’s whistling without ever once warbling the real big numbers (16 trillion). But, like Beyoncé, he’s totally cool and has a cute butt.

[Gritty]

At one time in this once fair land, a Secretary of State (or anybody in government "service") making such an appalling remark would have been fired within 2 hours. Now, the outrages simply pile up one on another, and the politicians, their purring lapdog media, and their loutish followers just laugh until they are forgotten.

America is headed down the broad road to Hell. If the rapid slide isn't stopped soon, we will all end up in burning in the flames and we will deserve it!

[Dustbunny]

I think those glasses that Hilary is wearing are total BS. Just part of the play that she is acting out.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[dervish]

I find myself thinking the same thing lately when I listen to Rush or Levin or read commentators.