{"id":11681,"date":"2014-03-14T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11681"},"modified":"2014-03-15T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T23:11:58","slug":"president-obama-makes-breitbart-editors-brain-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11681","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Makes Breitbart Editor’s Brain Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The staff at Breitbart News has never distinguished itself as particularly astute or intellectually gifted. A recent case in point was their giddy victory dance<\/a> when Coca-Cola supposedly validated the right-wing campaign for English-only ads by adding the Latin phrase “E Pluribus Unum”<\/em> to a TV commercial.<\/p>\n

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Today Breitbart’s senior editor-at-large, Ben Shapiro, penned a column outlining what he called “Obama’s Top 5 Distractions.”<\/em> The article regurgitates a well-worn attack strategy<\/a> that alleges that anything the President says or does that is not about ObamaCare is a deliberate attempt to distract from that issue, rather than the responsible performance of the duties of his office. BreitBrat Ben begins by admitting his own mental shortcomings:<\/p>\n

“Psychologists posit that the brain can only handle so many narratives at one point; if we are distracted by problems at home, for example, we tend to perform less well at work. The same holds true in politics: if our brains are occupied with worries about the war on women, for example, we\u2019re less likely to be thinking about the horrors of Obamacare.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poor Ben. By inconsiderately managing the broad array of issues that any president must address, Obama is taxing the shallow capabilities of one of Breitbart’s senior staffers. How dare Obama deal with trivialities like raising workers out of poverty; or mitigating the environmental, economic, and national security threats of Climate Change; or taking action to relieve the suffering of poor families and hungry children; or advocating on behalf women who are exploited, abused, and discriminated against; or endeavoring to advance solutions to the long-term hostilities in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

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In Shapiro’s world, placing those five items on the presidential agenda are merely attempts to distract people from the only issue that really exists: ObamaCare. And for the White House to engage in any other domestic or foreign policy can only result in a cognitive breakdown, emotional distress, and a severe brain owie. In the view of these mental deficients, political leaders must always concentrate on a single issue to the exclusion of every other event in the world. Shapiro closes by claiming that…<\/p>\n

“…the bottom line is that the Obama administration will do everything in its power over the course of the next few months to distract from the issues Americans care about most.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, according to the Pew Research Center, the top five issues that Americans care about most<\/a> are:<\/p>\n