{"id":20505,"date":"2014-09-11T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20505"},"modified":"2014-09-11T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:20:01","slug":"glenn-becks-latest-conspiracy-theory-why-wont-obama-use-the-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20505","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck’s Latest Conspiracy Theory: Why Won’t Obama Use The Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen Republicans go nuts because President Obama didn’t wear a tie<\/a> at a press avail. Then, at the next event, where he wore a tie, he caused another uproar because he also wore a tan suit (which all presidents have done for at least the last fifty years). And now we have a new controversy involving Obama’s alleged aversion to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

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Schlock-jock Glenn Beck dug this one up for a segment on his video Internet blog (video below). It reeks of the time-tested, delusional, wingnut tripe that made Beck what he is today. Beck ranted that…<\/p>\n

“There’s a problem with the Oval Office and this president. There’s something wrong there.” […] It is part of the fundamental transformation. This guy’s in for eight years, not speaking [from the Oval Office]<\/em>. He has erased eight years of what that office means. You know, you build up a relationship with the image and he’s changing that image. He’s changing the image of the United States, he’s changing the image of the president of the United States, he’s changing the image of what a president looks like – I’m not talking about color, I’m talking about what he looks like, what the optics are. They’re so fascinated with optics. Why won’t they use the Oval Office? Something’s not right.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. Something is NOT right. Beck is not right. Obama has used the Oval Office for televised public addresses on at least two occasions. And on the other occasions where he spoke from the East Room or the Rose Garden, he was not changing anything about the presidency, since other presidents have done the same thing without it ever being portrayed as a problem.<\/p>\n

The shallowness of attacks such as this reflect more on the attacker than the target. Especially since Beck would be the first person to condemn the President for exploiting optics if he did use the Oval Office more frequently.<\/p>\n

And Beck isn’t the only one to sink to these levels of inanity. In fact, the last time Obama used the Oval Office, Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post took a different angle by complaining that Obama “looked scrawny and ill-at-ease at the large, empty desk.”<\/em> It’s just more proof that Obama can’t win with these freaks no matter what he does.<\/p>\n

And speaking of Rubin, her current column<\/a> for the Post sought to school her Tea Party comrades on the subject of “How should Republicans respond to Obama\u2019s speech on the Islamic State?”<\/em> Clearly they need some guidance after last night’s embarrassing display<\/a>. But Rubin’s lesson isn’t much better. She opens with this note of confusion:<\/p>\n

“The president says the Islamic State is not Islamic nor a state. Huh? Members of the group sure consider themselves Muslim, so who is the president to pass doctrinal judgment?””<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Absolutely. And Charles Manson insisted that he was God, so we mustn’t argue with that either. To support her assertion she turns to uber-hawk\/fruitcake Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who contends that ISIL is a state because “It has a flag.”<\/em> Well, so does The Kiss Army<\/a>. Rubin also relies on May’s assurance that ISIL’s leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, “is a fundamentalist \u2014 not a heretic,”<\/em> and therefore a Muslim. However, Rubin later qoutes Fred Kagen of the ultra-rightist Weekly Standard saying that ISIL is governed by “its hateful version of an old Islamic heresy.”<\/em> So he is a heretic after all? It only took until the very next paragraph for this contradiction to appear.<\/p>\n

And, finally, Rubin closes with an unflattering comparison of Obama to his predecessor, saying that “Obama is no George Bush.”<\/em> Thank God for that. I’m not sure America could endure another incompetent like Bush, who was responsible for the conditions that led to ISIL, as well as leading us into a quagmire in Iraq, fouling our environment, and bankrupting our economy.<\/p>\n

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