RUN DNC ... This Hit Me After President Clinton's Speech At The Convention

This caught my attention today while I was on Facebook.

Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama And Racial Politics

This video is a case of Bill O'Reilly at his racial worst.

In this clip, we see a lot of what makes Fox News (some might call it Fox Views) a hostile network toward President Obama and to black people in general.

In this video, O'Reilly (in early campaign seeking to assist potential Republican candidates who will oppose President Obama) is at his hypocritical and racially-antagonistic worst as he hosts a segment with Amos Brown of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

O'Reilly (stoking racial fears about President Obama) was all too willing to ignore the clear double standard of the appearances of white presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton at Shiloh Baptist Church to slam President Obama for his decision to attend service at Shiloh.

Why were Reagan and Clinton not under fire for their views on the nobility of the country? What is the difference between them and President Obama?

It seems to come back to race. O'Reilly, in his utopian world turns a blind eye and deaf ear to that reality.

Mary Matlin Proves To Be A Dishonest Hypocrite On CNN

There are some things that are so ridiculous that they defy basic logic. Normally, this happens on Fox News, but CNN shows that it is not immune to stupidity and the unwillingness to strongly challenge borderline insane comments. Conservative commentator and strategist Mary Matalin was on CNN with John King (appearing along with her husband, Democratic strategist James Carville) and made the following inexplicable, head-scratching comment:

MATALIN: I was there, we inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history. And President Bush dealt with it and within a year of his presidency within a comparable time, unemployment was at 5 percent.

You can check the Think Progress story for the obvious responses that easily shred Matalin’s ridiculous comments.

Here is one thing that caught my attention (as you will see in the short video clip). On the one hand she is whining about President Obama bashing President George W. Bush, but then turns right around and blames President Clinton (for the recession and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001) to excuse President Bush.

It just shows how much of a hypocrite Mary Matalin is and how little credibility she has to speak on important issues. Yet, CNN brings her back time and time again and almost never challenges her with any kind of strength.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/27/matalin-inherited-terror/

Will O’Reilly, Others On Fox Point Out Sanford Being Harsh On Clinton?

It will be interesting to see if the media (particularly Fox News) points out how tough Gov, Mark Sanford once was on former President Bill Clinton.

This is from an AP story posted by Yahoo News:

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina’s governor once cited “moral legitimacy” when he was a congressman voting for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. He became a darling of fiscal conservatives over his ideological opposition to federal stimulus cash.

I wonder if Bill O’Reilly will mention this on his show or if he will just proceed with an one-sided attack (joined by Karl Rove and Bernie Goldberg) on the so-called liberal press.

I wonder if Bill O’Reilly and others will call out that “moral legitimacy” hypocrisy.

This also is a good example of why we shouldn’t put politicians on a pedestal.

Greg Gutfeld Needs To Wake Up

Right or wrong, a current presidential administration generally blames the previous administration for problems they inherited. In the case of President Obama, he has probably been too nice about the problems he inherited from the previous administration. For example, some officials in the administration of George W. Bush blamed President Bill Clinton’s administration for 9/11. To me, that is laughable since Bush was inaugurated in January and the terrorist attacks happened on Sept. 11, 2001 (and there had been warnings, during Bush’s young administration, about Osama bin Laden).

That leads me to this from a column blog written by Greg Gutfeld:

So in a talk before a local business group, former President George W. Bush finally responded to all the mud thrown at him the previous five months. In the speech, Bush defended his policies regarding enhanced interrogation and rejected the idea of government-run health care. And to top it off, he said the new White House dog sucks.

Well, that dog part isn’t true, but it doesn’t matter. Because I already know how this is going to be played by the media – a group who takes any criticism toward Obama as a personal insult. After all, Obama isn’t just the man. He’s their man. I’m sure right now, Chris Matthews is taking an extra dose of meds to control the “thrill.”

I don’t have any problems with the way President Bush has been critical or expressing his disagreement with President Obama. I think President Bush has been respectful in his disagreement and I find no fault with that. I do find fault with a hack like Vice President Dick Cheney and his approach to trashing President Obama. Cheney’s post-White House behavior is beneath the dignity typically displayed by former presidents and vice presidents.

But, then again, Cheney is at least being consistent.

I think Bo Obama is cool.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/18/daily-gut-bush-speaks/