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The Theatre of Barack Obama: The Show Must Go On
American Thinker
Monte Kuligowski
9/21/2013
Excerpt:
Though his list of offenses against American liberty is lengthy, Barack Obama will not be held accountable. The American press will never become critical of his words or deeds in a substantive and sustained manner. And, short of an epiphany, Congress will not muster the courage to judge him with normative standards.
We all know why, but we are not allowed to say it: he is immune to substantive criticism because of skin color.
And Mr. Obama is absolved of more than criticism; he is immune to reality itself.
Attempting to remedy the former institutional injustices that black people suffered in America, the press overcompensates to alleviate the ongoing white guilt phenomenon of postmodern liberalism. Racial narratives are sometimes manufactured when racism is nonexistent in the actual story -- and in the case of Barack Obama, storylines were created out of whole cloth.
The unimpeachable sainthood afforded to Obama because of the new nobility has taken the unreal to the surreal. American journalists are the proud producers and directors of the Obama as president production.
One of the requirements of movie-going is the ability to suspend disbelief. The willing suspension of disbelief is a 19th-century concept attributable to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The term is used today when moviegoers ignore the implausible and impossible in order to enjoy the production on the big screen.
Imagine a moviegoer shouting, "That's fake!" during a moment when the good guy is doing something that would be ridiculous in the real world. That's effectively what Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) did when President Obama was pushing his health care bill before the full Congress in 2009. During his presentation, Mr. Obama was arrogant, and accusatory of those who disagreed with his grand vision of central control of our health care system. Even worse, the lecture was filled with untruths and misrepresentations. Joe Wilson could suspend disbelief for only so long, and finally he shouted out those two words which will live forever in idiosyncrasy:
"You lie!"
Congressman Wilson broke decorum, but not because of the forum alone. The public, liberals and conservatives alike, have been conditioned to suspend disbelief and exercise good manners and enjoy (or at least accept) the performance of Obama as a post-partisan, post-racial, all-American president of the United States.
Though, remarkably, almost everything about the Obama production is built on pretending one thing or another.
The very candidacy of Obama was make-believe. It was Obama himself who, when asked by a reporter if he would run for the presidency in 2008, said:
Well, once the liberal press selected him for the job, Obama became comfortable "doing that" overnight. Mr. Obama himself acknowledged that, if plunged into the White House, he would not know what he was doing. Nevertheless, once he realized that he had been ordained, indispensable experience took a backseat to clever slogans, like "hope and change" and big-voice speeches (with a little help from his teleprompters).
By running anyway, Obama revealed a complete lack of character. Nevertheless, the elitists who form public opinion pretended that Obama was ready for the White House. After, all, they were making history.
At the core was a man with no entrepreneurial, business, executive, or military experience. Yet layer upon layer of made-up persona was wrapped around the empty center until fiction somehow became non-fiction. With each layer of pretension came a new occasion to suspend disbelief. At some point, the line between the unreal and real became blurred.
For many, what otherwise would have been normal and reasonable vetting of a candidate became unreasonable persecution of a black man.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...ust_go_on.html
American Thinker
Monte Kuligowski
9/21/2013
Excerpt:
Though his list of offenses against American liberty is lengthy, Barack Obama will not be held accountable. The American press will never become critical of his words or deeds in a substantive and sustained manner. And, short of an epiphany, Congress will not muster the courage to judge him with normative standards.
We all know why, but we are not allowed to say it: he is immune to substantive criticism because of skin color.
And Mr. Obama is absolved of more than criticism; he is immune to reality itself.
Attempting to remedy the former institutional injustices that black people suffered in America, the press overcompensates to alleviate the ongoing white guilt phenomenon of postmodern liberalism. Racial narratives are sometimes manufactured when racism is nonexistent in the actual story -- and in the case of Barack Obama, storylines were created out of whole cloth.
The unimpeachable sainthood afforded to Obama because of the new nobility has taken the unreal to the surreal. American journalists are the proud producers and directors of the Obama as president production.
One of the requirements of movie-going is the ability to suspend disbelief. The willing suspension of disbelief is a 19th-century concept attributable to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The term is used today when moviegoers ignore the implausible and impossible in order to enjoy the production on the big screen.
Imagine a moviegoer shouting, "That's fake!" during a moment when the good guy is doing something that would be ridiculous in the real world. That's effectively what Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) did when President Obama was pushing his health care bill before the full Congress in 2009. During his presentation, Mr. Obama was arrogant, and accusatory of those who disagreed with his grand vision of central control of our health care system. Even worse, the lecture was filled with untruths and misrepresentations. Joe Wilson could suspend disbelief for only so long, and finally he shouted out those two words which will live forever in idiosyncrasy:
"You lie!"
Congressman Wilson broke decorum, but not because of the forum alone. The public, liberals and conservatives alike, have been conditioned to suspend disbelief and exercise good manners and enjoy (or at least accept) the performance of Obama as a post-partisan, post-racial, all-American president of the United States.
Though, remarkably, almost everything about the Obama production is built on pretending one thing or another.
The very candidacy of Obama was make-believe. It was Obama himself who, when asked by a reporter if he would run for the presidency in 2008, said:
You know, I am a believer in knowing what you're doing when you apply for a job. And I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people who might be comfortable doing that, but I'm not one of those people.
Well, once the liberal press selected him for the job, Obama became comfortable "doing that" overnight. Mr. Obama himself acknowledged that, if plunged into the White House, he would not know what he was doing. Nevertheless, once he realized that he had been ordained, indispensable experience took a backseat to clever slogans, like "hope and change" and big-voice speeches (with a little help from his teleprompters).
By running anyway, Obama revealed a complete lack of character. Nevertheless, the elitists who form public opinion pretended that Obama was ready for the White House. After, all, they were making history.
At the core was a man with no entrepreneurial, business, executive, or military experience. Yet layer upon layer of made-up persona was wrapped around the empty center until fiction somehow became non-fiction. With each layer of pretension came a new occasion to suspend disbelief. At some point, the line between the unreal and real became blurred.
For many, what otherwise would have been normal and reasonable vetting of a candidate became unreasonable persecution of a black man.
............................................
View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...ust_go_on.html