At today’s White House press briefing a question was asked that illustrates the press corps’ dedication to the news that America cares about most:
The question that pushed this item to the top of Fox Nation was asked by none other than Fox News White House correspondent, Ed Henry. So what we have here is a Fox News reporter being featured on a Fox News web site for asking an ignorant question that nobody cares about. Here is the actual transcript:
Henry: I wonder if you could clear something up. Newt Gingrich keeps saying on the campaign trail that the President’s vision comes from Saul Alinsky, the community organizer. I haven’t heard you asked about that but I was wondering … Is there some kind of portrait of him in the White House that people look up to or is this BS?
Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary: Have I said how much fun I had as a reporter covering Congress from 1996 to 1998? There was a certain bombast to it at the time. A lot of colorful things to cover.
The President’s background as a community organizer is well documented in the President’s own books. His experience in that field obviously contributed to who he is today. But his experience is a broad-based one that includes a lot of other areas in his life. So I’ll just leave it at that.
Perhaps the reason that Henry has not heard Carney asked about an Alinsky portrait in the White House is that no one else would ask such a stupid question. This is an obvious attempt to legitimize the wing-nut rhetoric of Newt Gingrich (which he picked up from Glenn Beck). Gingrich has taken to disparaging President Obama as a European socialist and Alinsky radical in order to suck up to the Tea Party dimwits who are still suffering withdrawal symptoms since Beck was booted off of Fox News.
In fact, it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between Gingrich and Beck. A couple of years ago Gingrich was pontificating on Obama as a “Kenyan anti-colonialist” who only became president as the result of “a wonderful con.” And he featured the same subject matter in his South Carolina victory speech. Not that Romney is any better. In a 2008 campaign ad he actually preceded Beck’s insane fear-mongering of an Islamic caliphate bent on taking over the world.
The GOP candidates are desperately trying to leapfrog each other to see who can spew the most ludicrous right-wingisms, and Fox News is valiantly stepping forward to prop up their lunatic pandering. Too bad Fox can’t even accomplish that act without misspelling the name of their designated demon (Alinksky?). And their transcript of the exchange between Henry and Carney erroneously quoted Carney as saying “[Obama]’s experiences abroad also included alot of other areas in his life.” What Carney actually said was that “[Obama]’s experience is a broad-based one that includes a lot of other areas in his life.” I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Fox’s mistaken version fits nicely into the Birther fantasy that Obama is a foreigner.
The more Fox News and their inbred candidates focus on irrelevancies like Alinsky, the more cheering can heard from the White House. Not because they have succeeded in concealing from the nation their secret plot to invoke Sharia law, but because they know that the American people are more concerned about jobs, income inequality, and the sort of real national security that brought about the demise of Osama Bin Laden and an end to the war in Iraq. Most Americans have no idea who Saul Alinsky is, nor could they define socialism (much less Kenyan anti-colonialism). So if these are the themes of the Republican campaign in 2012, the Democrats can rest easy as they cruise to a landslide victory in November.
I can’t decide if the fact that Gingrich can be taken seriously as a candidate for POTUS should make me laugh or cry. It’s so completely demented! What kills me is the same morons who criticize Michelle Obama for planting an organic garden have no problem imagining a FLOUTUS who carried on for years with a married man?
Well, I was sorry when we lost Palin as a source of mirth so, I guess the Gingriches won’t be such a bad replacement this cycle. Two videos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uJWemnpvrSM
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/feaa3a44b1/callista-gingrich-on-open-marriage?playlist=featured_videos
If, God forbid, Newt is elected president, should we call Calista FMOTUS (First Mistress of the US)?
That Michael Moore video is awesome.
The flubbed transcript part is what I really grabbed onto from that article. That proves all these ‘mistakes’ are perfectly intentional. They are liars and goddamn criminals. You bet you’re ass they employ hacking and other illegal shit if they do this. Goddammit this SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO HAPPEN TO AMERICAN MEDIA!!! As long as information is SOLD to us by corporations the media will never be what it should be in modern America. This being legal is a goddamn travesty.