{"id":865,"date":"2008-04-14T23:01:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=865"},"modified":"2008-04-14T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T06:01:35","slug":"right-wing-media-label-obama-a-marxist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Media Label Obama A Marxist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media has gone haywire (again) ever since Barack Obama had the temerity to tell the truth about economically struggling small town Americans.<\/p>\n

Obama:<\/strong> “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For some reason, many news analysts believe that people who are getting shafted by economic policies that devastate their communities and burden their families are never bitter or have no right to be. They believe that the only proper characterization of these folks is as noble, hard-working, optimists who never complain.<\/p>\n

But it gets even worse. The evolving theme that the press is embracing is not just that Obama is an elitist, a charge that makes no sense given both his personal history and the substance of his comments, but that he is a Marxist:<\/p>\n

William Kristol put it this way in the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It’s one thing for Karl Marx to assert that ‘religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature’ and another for Barack Obama to claim that we ‘cling to … religion’ out of economic frustration.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

“I find Senator Obama very smart, but that comment struck me as sort of stupid — the kind of half-baked Marxism that might be expected to appeal to a Bay Area audience.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When asked if Obama is a Marxist, Sen. Joe Lieberman told Andrew Napolitano<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Well, you know, I must say that’s a good question.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rich Lowry of the the National Review<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

“Versions of Obama’s insight have been expounded by a world-famous 19th-century economist (Karl Marx)…”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Brit Hume of Fox News twice said on air that Obama has a Marxist view of religion.<\/p>\n

Let the propaganda smears begin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media has gone haywire (again) ever since Barack Obama had the temerity to tell the truth about economically struggling small town Americans. Obama: “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,8,16],"tags":[183,127,161],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-brit-hume","tag-william-kristol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1182,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1182","url_meta":{"origin":865,"position":0},"title":"Obama Already Undoing The Bush Era Of Secrecy","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/21\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"One week ago I wrote that the Bush Era Of Secrecy May Be Coming To An End, noting that: George W. 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