Second in a series
Re “Dems Are Green with …? It Ain’t Alternative Energy”
How does a left-wing politician ever lose an election when the national media, almost unanimously, is behind the wheel of his bandwagon.
Here are two illustrations of scandalosu, books-cooking behavior for which a Republican President properly would have been lambasted. Mr. Obama, insulated by the press, blithely sails along untouched.
Case No. 1: With the vigorous near unanimous assent of the national media, President Obama recently gathered his journalistic children in a semi-circle at his feet and announced a bold, previously untested, campaign strategy:
“When people say that federal spending has accelerated faster, under me, than at any time in American history, tell your readers that spending in the first nine months of my administration must not be counted. That was the end of my predecessor’s last fiscal year.” The President was saying, brazenly, “The first nine months should not count because I was not ready.” And so when Mr. Romney levels the spending charge, Mr. Obama merely denies it, and no journalist even blinks.
Case No. 2: The notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in a three-hour taped interview with the author of the best-selling new Obama critique “The Amateur,” confesses that in 2008, an Obama pal, fearing his master could blow a shot at the White House over the profane minister, offered him $150,000 to clam up until after Mr. Obama had won the election.
As the work-averse, light-minded President stumps the country, begging for money with his right hand and billyclubbing finance industry donors with the other, reporters covering his campaign yawn and go back to their liquor bottles.
In that context, perhaps you can understand why when Mr. Romney visited the hardboiled black community of West Philadelphia last Thursday, reporters jubilantly mocked him just as much as the racist residents did.
This was Obama territory, and Mr. Romney was foolish for wasting his time, the Titanic reported.
In Honor of Crudeness
While Mr. Romney has been treated like cannon fodder by most journalists, he visited the Universal Bluford Charter School where he was subjected by black radicals to the rudeness and incivility that passes for standard behavior during the Obama administration.
Throughout guileless reporter Paul West’s story in the Titanic, he made fun of the Republican candidate’s stop.
Said Mr. West:
This was a rare inner city visit, but why would he bother? He is a Republican with few black followers? Surely he was not hunting for black support. He must have come to recruit suburban moderates (politically correct liberal talk for “white people”).
Mr. Romney controversially said that smaller class sizes are not necessarily better. Completely incurious about Mr. Obama’s pre-White House life beyond what he chooses to reveal, liberals love to dig into Mr. Romney’s privileged early life. Mr. West found out that Mr. Romney’s childhood private school in Michigan has capped classes at 18.
Nice Bus, Pal. Wish I Had One.
Since Mr. West is a cheerleader for the President, he managed to sneak in snide allusions about Mr. Romney’s wealth, including a reference to the candidate’s “customized” campaign bus. As you know, the President travels in a dust-laden, unpainted 1953 nearly out-of-gas school bus with busted windows and broken seats.
Later, when Philadelphia Mayor Mike Nutter, an angry leftist and a huge Obama rooter, said sourly, “It’s nice that [Mr. Romney decided this late in his [campaign] to see what a city like Philadelphia is about,” reporter West did not budge. When the nutty Mr. Nutty added, “I don’t know that a one-day experience in the heart of West Philadelphia is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America,” reporter West again dutifully shrugged.
The mayor’s crack about visiting late in the campaign – in May – failed to stir Mr. West.
On the sidewalk by the charter school, classy denizens of West Philly, probably executives-in-training, took time out from their unbusy unemployment schedule to hoot, “Get out, Romney, get out.” An old lady, one Madaline G. Dunn, said she was “personally offended” by Mr. Romney, that it is “absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”
Seth Williams, the Philadelphia District Attorney who is hoping for a role in a second Obama administration, horned in on Mayor Nutty’s sidewalk press conference.
“Instead of just talking at the school and getting back on his huge bus, “ said the angry D.A., “he should come out, he should walk 60th Street, he should talk to folks who are out here that are mad so maybe he could understand how real Americans [feel], those that live here in urban America, the issues that are important to us.”
Perhaps this provocative prodding would nudge reporter West to check into Mr. Obama’s many visits to the cultural paradise of West Philly. Wrong again. Mr. Obama has not yet visited an during the first almost 14 months of his campaign. “They ain’t got no jack,” he said.
And oh, yes, last month was the four-year anniversary of Mr. Obama’s last visit to the ghetto, April 22, 2008, when he stopped for two photo ops, and then returned to his dirty bus.
