A Sycophant in Wolffe’s Clothing
Without a barrette of evidence, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are labeled as “two of the biggest propagators of destructive politics.” Really? Are they worse than Michael Moore or Oliver Stone? Oh, that’s right. Moore and Stone are leftists, so they are immune from consideration.
Wolffe confirms another Democratic Party talking point: that the war on terror is a “so-called war on terror.” Moreover, he agrees that John McCain “disparaged” my former senator by dubbing him “that one,” but this could only be construed as belittling if one’s sensibilities conform to the false pretenses of political correctness.
Unbeknownst to conservatives, “Obama’s work as an Alinsky-style community organizer” did not evidence a belief in socialism and neither did the nominee’s telling Joe the Plumber that he wanted to spread his wealth around. Further, Wolffe views our current economic shenanigans as being not the biggest federal power grab in history, but instead his hero laboring “to save business from itself.”
We also find that Obama’s ridiculous Greek temple backdrop at the Democratic convention was not over the top. No, it was wholly in keeping with “presidential memorials” and “the White House” — only Obama had yet to accept his party’s nomination or win the presidency. The setup reeked of Bonapartism, as Barack placed an emperor’s crown atop his own head.
There is practically no rampart that Wolffe refuses to man on behalf of his muse, including the foolish assertion that “people in Iowa know what arugula is.”
As with all pseudo-liberal, pseudo-intellectual rodomontade, Wolffe’s observations of the right are filled with lament over our presumed limitations. Conservatives were superficial for confusing with a lack of patriotism Obama’s original refusal to wear a flag pin and to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem.
Had we understood the nuance and sophistication that went into these acts, then we would have comprehended that what they really embodied was devotion to the nation.
Another thing non-glitterati types like me failed to grasp is that Obama is “a Democrat who sought to understand the Republican perspective.” I suppose that is why he told Eric Cantor, “I won. So I think on that one, I trump you.”
Yes, Obama trumped and played everyone who thought he offered the nation something new. So old school is our president that twenty-two handmaidens now serve his non-productive, over-hyped wife in her role as sleeveless dress-wearing purchaser-in-chief. The man is only a renegade if that word is defined as “one who rebels against truth, sincerity, and honor.”
The need for subterfuge alone explains why Wolffe, during a discussion of Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis, fails to identify for readers that the nefarious individual was a communist.
Renegade regularly blurs the line between ignorance and indoctrination. I walked away from it truly wondering if its author knew anything at all about conservatives. For example, Wolffe believes that Republicans find Obama’s ties to William Ayers offensive because they illustrate his “soft touch on terrorists.”
Ah no, that has nothing to do with our objections. We were, and are, completely bewildered that any person could love their country while associating with America-hating figures like Father Pfleger, Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, and Rashid Khalidi. That Obama got elected with such an anti-social registry beside him remains amazing.
Lastly, independent of its pervasive bias, Renegade fails in its central mission to depict the president as a renegade. From the beginning, Wolffe admits that his literary operationalization of the term is … well, different: “Although he was a renegade, he was also a cautious and pragmatic one, who played by the rules when he needed to win.”
One must be forgiven for interpreting this statement as “he’s not really a renegade.” Indeed, so muted is our president’s assault on the establishment that he has been in complete agreement with the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader on everything from health care to the stimulus plan to cap and trade.
The truth is that Wolffe confuses Obama for a renegade because that’s what his subject told him he was: “I’m not running for president to conform to Washington’s conventional thinking. I’m running to challenge it.” A non-toady would question this assumption as big-spending statism has been all the rage since 1989.
Hagiography notwithstanding, Obama appears to be more retrograde than anything else. Yet to leftists the term “renegade” is deemed a compliment. After all, it’s what most of them want to be when they grow up.
A friend warned Obama before his epic 2008 run, “Either you made a deal with God or a pact with the devil,” but this quote more appropriately applies to Renegade and its author because Wolffe burnishes the image of our executive narcissist for all of its pages. The president confessed to him, “You know, I actually believe my own bulls***.” We cannot be certain of whether he does or does not, but of Richard Wolffe there can be no doubt.
And the media wonders why more and more people aren’t taking them seriously. Eventually, the book publishers will have to start making profit based decisions so that these types of books aren’t being churned out at the cyclic rate.
These books are the ones that wind up in Wal-Marts discount trash bin.
You know…
The $89.95 hardbacks on sale for $2.99.
Ted Kennedy’s $1,000.00 dollar book will be in it about 2 years from now.
And people tell me I can’t turn a profit?
These will become as kitsch as the 1976 Bicentennial detritus was. Come 2010 (and again in 2012) this clown won’t be able to get a book advance to save his life. As observed above, $1.99 in the remaindered pile at B. Dalton’s and as pathetic as his administration.
If Obama is “sort of a god,” then a god from where? No one has to smear Obama,he comes red already. Obama is a rebel against capitalism,equal justice under the law,and individual liberty.
Can not wait to see how the sales of this garbage go. I certainly will not contribute anything to the sales of outright BS. This is all you see anymore in the media either print, radio or television. Hopefully most of America has had enough of this and will come out in droves to vote out the horrid government we have ruining our country in 2010.
…another article whining about sycophants kissing obama’s ass. So what? Who cares? Talking about this is a gigantic distraction from the serious policy issues facing this country. Its time to start talking about your own ideas instead of constantly following this brown-nosing train around Washington DC and talking about its every move and wiggle.
Pajamas articles have been whining how the media is obsessed with Michael Jackson funeral coverage instead of talking about the real issues, but you’re pulling the same damned thing with crap articles like this one.
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck
a really good read…
Richard, I somewhat agree with you. But on the other hand this *is* relevant to the many critical issues confronting the country, because our chances of emerging from this nightmare with healable injuries are very much tied up with the Obamanaut propaganda offensive and the extent to which it deludes the electorate.
Obama to media, “you all voted for me”.
Glenn Beck is sort of entertaining in a frenzied way but don’t take him seriously.
He is H. Ross Perot without the money.
Richard, maybe PJs should start doing some reporting? I hear they’re going to replace the AP!
Just kidding, folks. As we all know, this is still a Roger Simon vanity project for losers.
I wonder if left-wing publishers often know they will lose money on these books. They simply need some tax write-offs—and this is a way to reward leftist authors.
A (lock-stepping Goebbelsesque propagandist/pamphleteer) sycophant in Wolffe’s clothing writing about a self-and-own-culture-loathing moronically-marijuana-mumbling mobbed-up modified-Marxist Mussolini-modeled murtadd-Muslim empty-galabiyah glove-puppet disguised as a snake-suited sail-eared-simpleton!
Has a nice ring to it and all!
Brian Richard Allen
Los Angeles Califobambicated 90028
And the Far Abroad
“The need for subterfuge alone explains why Wolffe, during a discussion of Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis, fails to identify for readers that the nefarious individual was a communist.”
Exactly how was Davis “nefarious”? It appears that you believe AIM’s falsehoods regarding the Davis-Obama relationship.
Right. Wolffe neglected to “expose” Obama for being a Mooslim. Or a Martian, or something… therefore he is a sycophant and all the media is biased.
Thanks for opening MY eyes.
The irony in the use of ‘renegade’ in the title is rich indeed. Most liberals fancy themselves renegades but are in complete unified agreement on every single issue. They are so desperately in need of reaffirmation from each other that it has actually served to unite them as one big, nutty bunch of puppies who are scaring the daylights out of most Americans, many of whom voted for them. They have become so predictable in their conformity that it is boring even bothering to pick on them anymore.
Poor democrats waited so long to get back into power and they are already about to squander it.
obama said he was going to be different. those of us that heard him, never heard him say he was going to be better. those in a daze from his halo, read into it, different has to be better than what we had the last 8 years, he’s going to be better, yes thats what he means by different. the word was change not different, uh what do words mean anyway. the big O says we are whatever he says we are.