Sarah Reese Jones
Posted on 02/22/2014 2:15:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
So we have reached the aporia of the Right’s main argument against President Obama, wherein their arguments are deconstructing themselves via their own rhetoric undermining their claims.
Republicans call the President a dictator and say his boot is on their necks, he is stomping on the Constitution, he is an “imperial” president. And yet all of them remain free to say these things in public, on TV. There isn’t even any backlash to speak of.
Leading this charge is the still bitter Sarah Palin, whose behavior post 2008 loss makes John McCain’s look magnanimous and mature. Palin posited that after Obama left Americans for “destroyed”, the press finally woke up. Palin seems to miss the fact that she is still free after all of these many years of traitor-adjacent behavior to write and speak whatever she pleases, no matter how egregious, including her attempt to portray criticism of her “speech” (her gun sights over Democratic districts prior to the Arizona massacre) as “blood libel”.
No brownshirts have come for Palin. Yet she wrote this on her Facebook page, as if Obama were Hitler, just as elected Republicans across the country inaccurately portray him:
"What? Lamestream calls for empathy, even outrage, for a First Amendment violation that’s on par with all the abuse we’ve brought to your attention as Obama stomps on our Constitution. You’ve IGNORED us, you’ve marginalized us, you’ve left us for “destroyed.” But when Obama’s boot is on YOUR neck you finally wake the h*ll up and cry foul? Good Lord."
Then she linked to this Breitbart article bemoaning the loss of freedom under this President, as if George W. Bush’s “free speech zones” and silencing of the Dixie Chicks had never happened.
They were for it before they were against it, apparently. (According to the very conservative ACLJ’s press release, the press actually had a “significant” First Amendment and free press victory today as the Obama administration pulled the plug on a newsroom “monitoring” system – aka, studying “perceived station bias.”, a thing conservatives are very against, as you might imagine.)
A dictator would never have allowed Sarah Palin to attack him while on foreign soil, during a time of war and while the country faced a huge financial crisis, no less. This is why the foreign press called Sarah Palin a traitor, while our own press continues to give her and her fellow Republicans (it says a lot about the party that Palin is no longer the most outrageous attack dog) access as if the things she says are not outrageous.
“And now she turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically elected President… “
That was in 2010, and Sarah Palin and the GOP have hardly let up since then.
While the right gets Martin Bashir fired for his suggestion that Sarah Palin might not think policy issues were just like slavery if she actually knew anything about slavery, when the Dixie Chicks said they were ashamed that Bush was from Texas, their music was shut out by mainstream outlets around the country:
"Music superstars the Dixie Chicks are finding out that criticizing President Bush’s plans for war in Iraq can cost you air play, big time."
The Right has a very selective sense of free speech and free press.
And while the finer points of their failed arguments can be endlessly mocked, it really comes down to one thing. If Obama really were the dictator they accuse him of being, none of them would be free to continue accusing him of being a dictator.
If you are allowed to have public discussions about executive branch decisions with which you disagree, and you are not being shunned for it or fired over it, then you are most likely not living under a dictator.
Living under a dictator would be more like it was under George W. Bush, when even “liberal Hollywood” shrank in fear of being accused of being unpatriotic. So they turned their backs on Michael Moore’s March 23, 2003 Oscar speech — and on film sets in the weeks that followed, hard core liberals expressed disdain for the disrespect for our president, calling Moore’s behavior uncivilized (public shaming is a good silencer). I was there.
What was Moore’s crime? He spoke out against the war Bush had just started, just days prior. This is what he said that caused such a disruption — compare this to what Republicans say every single day about a President who did NOT lead us into a war on false pretenses. Moore referenced the way Bush was not really elected (a fact, he was appointed by the United States Supreme Court), and that the war was based on fictitious reasons (also true):
"We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious President.
We — We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it’s the fictition of duct tape or the fictitious [sic] of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you.
And any time you’ve got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."
So it’s odd that Republicans keep accusing President Obama of being exactly what George W. Bush was in reality — a fake president, with dictator-esque tendencies. Under Bush, this country edged closer to a state of fascism, in which the people were kept in line through constant fear. People were arrested for wearing t-shirts that criticized Bush. ABC reported:
The Bush administration has agreed to pay $80,000 to a husband and wife who were ejected from a presidential rally because of their anti-Bush T-shirts. The settlement ends a suit brought by a Texas couple and the American Civil Liberties Union, claiming the couple’s First Amendment rights were violated when they were arrested and removed from a taxpayer-funded event featuring President Bush because their shirts read “Love America, Hate Bush” and “Regime Change Starts at Home.”
From terror alert levels to arrests for wearing the wrong t-shirt near the President to having your business ruined because you spoke out against what turned out to be an illegal war, things were bleak under Bush.
It turns out that Moore was correct. A boot on your neck? PBS reported, “And Moore was booed, stalked and threatened for it. He had to get a security detail to protect him from the death threats (some of which were encouraged by the media), and he claims that Homeland Security scratched up his Oscar at the airport on the way home.”
When you are openly criticizing the President of the United States and not too subtly trying to incite an overthrow of the government because you are still bitter that you lost to him, and no one comes to arrest you, the President is not a dictator. When you are still invited to have a reality TV show funded in part by the taxpayers of this country, the President is not a dictator. When you are still deemed to be civilized company and not being shunned for daring to suggest that you oppose something the President is doing, the President is not a dictator.
That is one fact of which you can be sure: President Obama is not a dictator and he is not silencing dissent. The proof is the fact that Sarah Palin is not in Gitmo. She is, in fact, making a living off of taxpayer money that Obama could easily put a stop to if he were that kind of petty, thin-skinned dictator — were he a Chris Christie type, for example, or a Nixon, or a Bush.
Note: For the fact challenged who got Martin Bashir fired, I did not say Sarah Palin should be in Gitmo. I am against Gitmo, just as Bashir is against slavery.
I call it “Flaming Magnesium Levels Stupidity”. Because it burns blindingly hot and is impossible to extinguish.
The author is very dismissive about the FCC issue, but can you imagine the horror, the horror, if the Bush FCC had proposed such a thing? It would have been one of the biggest stories of the year, slammed editorially in major newspapers and probably featured as the top story on the evening news for a week, and the main topic of the Sunday morning news programs. But under Obama, it has been virtually ignored by the MSM.
Hey, you have to put food on the table. I understand completely. :)
This is completely true.
I so agree with you.
The media is about a massive double-standard. Bigtime.
And yet all of them remain free to say these things in public, on TV. There isn’t even any backlash to speak of.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not true. People who speak out against Obama are attacked. Sarah Palin was attacked by frivolous law suits by the hundreds , all of which had to be defended at her personal expence, one of the reasons she had to resign her governorship. But she still speaks out about Obama, unsilenced.
Others are subjected to IRS audits , harassment by multiple
federal agencies, etc. Google Dr. Ben Carson and Becky Gerritson.
Obama is a tyrant. No doubt about it.
Good Read: Obama The Quintessential Fascist:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Martin needed no help to accomplish that.
Well...the government does currently control who gets health insurance and healthcare.
Sarah Reese Jones
Guess she forgot about Leon Trotsky and thousands of others.
Hotsie, Schatze?
Someone needs to tell Sarah Jones that if her boy ever tried to put Sarah Palin in Gitmo they’d be hell to pay in this country.
The republican presidential nominee should be whoever scares the crap out of the libs the most.
I added my own, but I doubt they will get past the “your comment is being Moderated” stage.
Classic Alinsky tactics.
A bit wordy, but it wasn’t written for conservatives...
Oh, and but of course: It’s all Bush’s fault. /s
The fools that will buy into Ms. Jones
non argument are the same fools who got us to this point to begin with. Nothing will change their minds once they bite into this bumper sticker mentality and begin repeating it ad nauseum, ala ‘I can see Alaska from my porch’.
Sarah is so far beyond these people and so far ahead of the curve, there is little to gain in going through correcting the endless falsehoods presented here.
It’s not unlike the truth that states, if you were to take all the money from the rich and give it to the poor, in short order the poor would be poor again and the rich would be on to something new to generate wealth.
We can give facts and references to the clueless, and when it’s all said and done, they will believe what they want based on their own limited perceptions.
Oh, and this chick has a severe case of pds, she should be counseled, poor dear.
You have to wonder if libs are really this blind, or are they in on the whole thing with Obama. It’s one of those situations where you’d think a total moron would grasp the implications of having gov. stooges monitoring the news. If Bush or any other Republican president had actually proposed such a fascist stunt, that would be the last time I voted Republican. As it is, I’m close to dumping the party anyway for their mealymouthed, ineffectual words about Obama. Mustn’t offend King Barack.
I’m wondering, can someone tell me if that lunatic Cindy Sheehan was were arrested for camping out in the street my Bush’s home? I just don’t recall seeing her hauled off in cuffs, I could be mistaken.
I did, and I'm very sorry that I did.
Where do these people come from?
Scary that they come from the same planet that I live on.
I see they re-upped their supply of diludinum.
Yep. The wish is the parent of the thought.
Cordially,
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