I’ve been planning to write this blog for a week and things just keep getting more and more surreal. What started me thinking was watching the Saturday morning MSNBC show Up w/ Chris Hayes on the 16th. I was so stunned I wrote notes on it. I don’t usually do that but…..
He had a panel with Washington Post’s Jamila Bay, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, and political reporter Dave Weigel. They started off on the interruption of the President by a reporter, okay, that was rude but as we know not unheard of. But what they went on to talk about was surreal.
Here is what really stunned me:
They criticizied Pacs as if large donations by any organization to politics was totally new, yet there was absolutely no mention of unions and their large amounts of money and support, i. e. busing to Wisconsin. Amy Goodman criticized the press on institutional blindness – without mentioning this does not happen when the focus is on a Republican. And of course it is has a racial subtext, in her opinion. I kept thinking, “wait a minute, the press didn’t report on Penn State or any of that terrible scandal until they absolutely had to; they didn’t report on John Edwards. The Fast and Furious investigation had been going on a long time and still on that date it has been barely reported.” And in my mind I contrasted all that with the press and the fierce pressure they put on President Bush and his administration.
They mentioned some were worried about sticking their neck out and getting it “cut off.” Well, I started pondering that. In truth some people have actually lost their jobs for not doing the PC thing, and believe it or not they are few and far between.
So, on that same day I believe, comes the news of Andrea Mitchell and friends editing a tape of a Mitt Romney speech to make it appear he was stunned to see a new computer in Wawa’s. They were trying to do to him what they did to George H W Bush, make him look out of touch. Well, we have the internet now and we have what amounts to instant replay on those things. So while she still has her job she looks like a complete and utter, opinionated fool. That edited tape was run on the NBC nightly news and on the Saturday morning news shows. Shameless. liberal. bias. In our free press. There was an anemic, oops sorry, little mistake type of apology. Yeah, sure. I believe her neck is still intact.
As it happened that Friday I had sent out “Links” here are some of them:
The funny thing about this is that Olbermann is describing himself! while saying they are racist “code words.” At least Olbermann acknowledged that not all white people are racist; but three and a half years into the first “post-racial” presidency, one might get that impression. Take the list Olbermann enumerated on air: “Cocky, flippant, punk, and especially, arrogant.” Last week, Congressional Black Caucus executive director Angela Rye added cool to the list: “Even cool, the term cool, could in some ways be deemed racial.”
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Notice the surreal theme? This week it has just become more so. Dream, Dream, Dream is not just a song anymore, it is an edict; Executive Privilege for others than the executive. And today the Arizona ruling with the Administration and Napalitano immediately proving Justice Scalia’s dissent to be true. If you don’t know the basis of his dissent it is this:
Today’s opinion, approving virtually all of the Ninth Circuit’s injunction against enforcement of the four challenged provisions of Arizona’s law, deprives States of what most would consider the defining characteristic of sovereignty: the power to exclude from the sovereign’s territory people who have no right to be there.
So there you have it. The surreal, Alice in Wonderland we are living in, and I am just getting started going on about it!
Read a legal discussion of the Arizona decision at SCOTUS Blog.
