Obama Threatens Fox News, Limbaugh
[Obama
Threatens Fox News, Limbaugh by Ben Shapiro] "In a sycophantic interview with
The New Republic, conducted by former campaign staffer Chris Hughes and leftist
writer Franklin Foer, President Obama suggested that he had all the answers to
the pressing issues facing America and therefore no compromise was necessary
with Republicans. He added that Republicans should compromise. And if those
Republicans don’t compromise, Obama suggested that the fault would lie at the
feet of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh – and that the calculus had to be changed to
force Fox News and Limbaugh to stop holding Republicans accountable to
conservatism.
Here’s Obama on how he’s going to fix the country:
The truth is that most of the big issues that are going to make a difference
in the life of this country for the next thirty or forty years are complicated
and require tough decisions, but are not rocket science. We know that to fix our
economy, we've got to make sure: that we have the most competitive workforce in
the world, that we have a better education system, that we are investing in
research and development, that we've got world-class infrastructure, that we're
reducing our health care costs, and that we're expanding our exports. On issues
like immigration, we have a pretty good sense of what's broken in the system and
how to fix it. On climate change, it's a daunting task. But we know what
releases carbon into the atmosphere, and we have tools right now that would
start scaling that back, although we'd still need some big technological
breakthrough. So the question is not, Do we have policies that might work? It
is, Can we mobilize the political will to act?
Despite the fact that Obama’s policies have been abysmal failures on virtually
every front, the question for Obama is not what to do, but how to swindle the
American people into doing it. And Obama said he would not be focusing on how to
get things done in Washington, D.C.; instead, he’d be attempting to drum up
public support on every issue. Obama then compared himself to Lincoln for such
tactics:
I always read a lot of Lincoln, and I'm reminded of his adage that, with
public opinion, there's nothing you can't accomplish; without it, you're not
going to get very far. And spending a lot more time in terms of being in a
conversation with the American people as opposed to just playing an insider game
here in Washington is an example of the kinds of change in orientation that I
think we've undergone, not just me personally, but the entire White House.
But what of his Republican opposition? That opposition, said Obama, has to be
forced to embrace his positions:
And I think if you talk privately to Democrats and Republicans, particularly
those who have been around for a while, they long for the days when they could
socialize and introduce bipartisan legislation and feel productive. So I don't
think the issue is whether or not there are people of goodwill in either party
that want to get something done. I think what we really have to do is change
some of the incentive structures so that people feel liberated to pursue some
common ground. One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes
debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by
Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then
you'll see more of them doing it.
How, exactly, will Obama achieve changing that incentive structure, exactly? Fox
News and Rush Limbaugh are a free press. But according to Obama, that media must
apparently be curbed. The media on the left, however, need not be curbed,
because “more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a
dirty word...”
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Obama Threatens Fox News, Limbaugh
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "...No one is to blame but the Republicans."
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