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Posted on 09.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 3:12 pm
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday has been in the media game for a long time now. He’s reported good news and bad news about both Democratic and Republican presidents, and the White House staffs took most of the bad news in stride. They knew Wallace was just doing his job. Not Barack Obama and his White House. The president snubbed Wallace and Fox News in his flurry of visits to Sunday news shows tomorrow, and last night, Wallace told Fox colleague Bill O’Reilly that Obama’s team is just as petty as their boss. “These guys, everything is personal. I gotta tell you, everything,” Wallace said. “They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.” Barack Obama is single-handedly destroying the concept of what it means to be “presidential.” He has cracked a joke at the expense of Special Olympians on late-night television; he has said a local police officer just doing his job “acted stupidly“; and he has mocked taxpayers wary of his policies as “bed-wetters” and “folks waving tea bags around.” Now Obama and his high-paid press aides are acting like children toward Wallace and the rest of Fox News because the network refuses to get in Obama’s tank with the rest of the establishment media. Statesmanship appears to be dead in the White House for the next few years. Filed under: Government and Media and News & Politics and People and Video Comments:
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Next he’ll be scattering spittoons (ashtrays?) everywhere and firing off six-guns at dinner.
;-)
Comment by spool32 — September 19, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
Dare I say it? Obama will be needing a Secret Service Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhmbulance on call for the rest of what, we most of us hope, will be his miserable, epic-fail, truly Carteresque, single term in office.
Comment by MarkJ — September 19, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
Like Jimmy Carter before him, Barrack Obama suffers from a monumental inferiority complex. And it shows, time and again, in his response to critics of all stripes. His view of the Presidency is that it’s his opportunity to prove himself (to himself) and at the most personal and the deepest psychological levels.
This is a man who shouldn’t hold any sort of managerial or leadership position, let alone President of the most powerful nation on Earth.
Comment by Steven — September 19, 2009 @ 4:55 pm
The incredible, shrinking president is the most classless act we’ve ever had in the WH, and that’s saying something. If this is what the media says, what on earth must the Secret Service be saying? We know what our enemies around the world are saying.
God help us.
Comment by Peg C. — September 19, 2009 @ 5:03 pm
Somebody Call a Waaaambulence!…
Tough words from a guy I think is pretty fair, FOXNews’ Chris Wallace: Hat-tip: The Enlightened Redneck (Gotta love taht name) via Instapundit……
Trackback by Three Sources — September 19, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
To the whole Alinskyite crowd, and more generally to radicals of all sorts, the political is personal.
It’s their one great weakness.
Comment by Trouble — September 19, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
In the past year or so it was noted that chicago has had ONE party rule for five more years than the Soviet Union.
To the extent that the Republican party is not a joke in Chicago it is a wholy owned subsidary of the Democratic party. The majorty of the l;ocal main stream press is a Dempcratic pparty press offrice.
The President and his Chicago staff have never really had to deal with an oppostion on principle. An indepndent press person like Mr Wallce is outside their esperiece. They just don’t know how to deal with this sort of thing.
Hank’s Eclectic Meanderings
Comment by Hank — September 19, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
Reminds me of those great MacNelly cartoons of Jimmy Carter. As the years went by, Jimmy got smaller and smaller, until he looked like a 4-year-old.
Obama is on the same trajectory. If these peebabies can’t get it together, they will implode before their four years are out (and we can safely assume there won’t be another four years for them).
Comment by Conrad — September 19, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
Obama is the President of a dumbed-down America. Chris Wallace is very well-informed, intelligently-critical, and Obama/Rahmbo want no part of that. They know they have to play to a country who’s ( 53% at least) economically-illiterate and don’t understand the danger of Obama’s mindset and his policies. We’re in big trouble. Wallace probably knows it.
Comment by stevebourg — September 19, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
Sir, Please Step Away From the Football…
Comment by Dan Maloney — September 20, 2009 @ 1:06 am
Obama lacks respect for the office of President and doesn’t honor the role that he won via the election. There were hints in the campaign when he was acting like he was already President. He created his own set of symbols which mocked those of the President. Then he took his campaign to Germany and I wondered if he was running for king of the world. Once he was elected, he began acting like he was already inaugurated.
All of this stuff was a travesty to most of us who grant the office of the President an honored place in the country’s life.
Since then he has usurped the normal bounds of the President. When he’s with the press he schmoozes with them and then expects them to do his bidding. All of this is very unprofessional and, as someone above said, shows no class.
When he goes abroad we sit here powerlessly, scared to death that he’s going to give us away to any petty dictator. He can’t wait to apologize for America.
He grants nothing to the people that work and support themselves and the government. He could care less except to figure a new way to get our money.
All of this is disgusting and despicable. And for anyone that thinks at all, is painful at best. Since he grants no respect, he gets no respect. And that is going to have to come down on him in spades at some point.
Comment by Principlex — September 20, 2009 @ 2:20 am
Conrad, I don’t think we should “safely assume” any such thing. It might look bad for a second term right now, but - as with the 2008 election - who’s in the wings waiting to go on for the Republicans? We need to find our stable of viable candidates. Here, candidates, candidates, candidates…
Comment by Jamie — September 20, 2009 @ 3:34 am
Wow, I had almost forgotten “wee-weed up”. There is so much freaky perversion of reality daily that weeks seem as eventful as years.
But the bedwetter thing…. coming from a Liberal like Barry, doesn’t that have the playground genius of, “I know you are but what am I?”
Comment by megapotamus — September 20, 2009 @ 7:08 am
Barrack Obama suffers from a monumental inferiority complex.
It’s not so much an inferiority complex, as actual inferiority. The biggest organization the man ever ran was his own presidential campaign, and he farmed most of that work out to his handlers.
Obama is completely out of his depth. He doesn’t have the guts to cut taxes like Kennedy did, or to say no to any of the voting blocs that turned out for him except the ones that he considers powerless: the gays and the medical marijuana advocates.
-jcr
Comment by John C. Randolph — September 20, 2009 @ 7:28 am
I’ve no particular beef with any of the aforementioned comments. I believe them largely accurate. But can we please tighten up on our grammer and spelling? It makes us look bad!
Comment by DLA — September 20, 2009 @ 8:37 am
#3. No, Steven. He IS inferior.
Comment by Wide Awake — September 20, 2009 @ 9:02 am
Can’t improve upon the above comments. I would just add that when the worm does turn and Obama finally gets the press scrutiny and pushback that others have gotten, he is going to have a freaking aneurysm. His head might just explode all over the TOTUS.
Comment by PD Quig — September 20, 2009 @ 11:14 am
It’s all Bush’s fault of course. Bush made Obama and his people do it.
Comment by vrytix — September 20, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Chris Wallace is whining about whining. He is a whiner.
Comment by franglo — September 20, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Thoughts On A Sunday…
For the first time in a while we’ve had a quiet weekend, even though Deb and BeezleBub had to work on Saturday and Deb had her final exam today for a class she’s been taking over the past two-and-a-half……
Trackback by Weekend Pundit — September 20, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
But can we please tighten up on our grammer and spelling? It makes us look bad!
“Grammar”, not “grammer”. (If you intended that as a joke, sorry; I’m humor-impaired this morning.)
In re Wallace as a crybaby: I don’t think so. He works for Fox News; is there anything more natural than him talking, on the air, to another Fox News colleague about their work?
Perhaps the Obama Administration expected him to take the snub and just whimper quietly to himself. That’s a bad gamble to make. As someone or other once said, don’t make an enemy of someone who buys ink by the gallon.
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President Obama reminds me an awful lot of something I’ve seen before: charismatic people who think they can talk their way out of anything. They have such confidence in their gift of the gab that they never learned to be careful of what they say, or how they say it, because they assume they can always say a few words later and fix things.
And so we’ve seen President Obama alienating all his core constituencies, one by one. From the unions to emergency services to the “why haven’t you closed Gitmo yet?” crowd, just about everyone who strongly supported Obama in the election has been snubbed by him. Some don’t take it personally yet, but many do.
Amazingly, the man appears to be an amateur even at politics, which is pretty much the only career he’s ever had. 2012, when he will have to ask us to let him keep his job, is not that far away; does he imagine we’ll have forgotten everything by then?
DiB
Comment by Daniel in Brookline — September 21, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
[...] Crybabies in the White House. Not Barack Obama and his White House. The president snubbed Wallace and Fox News in his flurry of visits to Sunday news shows tomorrow, and last night, Wallace told Fox colleague Bill O’Reilly that Obama’s team is just as petty as their boss. [...]
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