Friday morning’s Huffington Post headline and article
What would Truman say?
was a disturbing signal of just how far President Obama’s reputation and standing has fallen, even in the view of his strongest supporters.
HuffPost played an important role in anointing Obama with the messianic status that led to his election. Fast forward to today: During the past few months HuffPost has been a frequent critic of Obama and his administration. However, none of the HuffPost’s criticisms (that I have seen) have come anywhere close to Friday morning’s attack on the President’s character; his honor and courage, as did this comparison to the great Democratic leader and man of character, President Harry Truman.
Obama’s failure to accept responsibility for his over reaction in the Sherrod case is yet one more example of how completely unqualified this man is to be president of the United States.
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Let them say what they will about Breitbart. I am more concerned over the knee-jerk reaction in this administration. They are more concerned about allowing a “possible” perception of racism than they are concerned about checking facts. My God, these are the people who can start a nuclear war. How the hell are they going to apologize after they press the button? You know if Bush pulled this they’d be all over him like Al Gore on a massage therapist.
Not sure the link you posted was right. Could this be the one? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/the-heat-in-the-kitchen-t_b_651700.html
In response to your link: it sounds like the president criticized the person who did the firing and discussed the remedy. I think people blame the Obama administration, rightly, for the firing, but I’m not sure the whole “I take responsibility” thing is ever really sincere. As a leader, he needs to create the climate. We’ll see if the lesson was learned. Meanwhile, we’re apparently back to the days when the media cannot be trusted to give us the basic facts–not the much-criticized mainstream media, where they have fact checkers and editors–but the wild-west blogoshpere. Is the right worse than the left? Hard to say…
This is a great link that you’ve put in. Thank you. I could not find a link to the actual headline so I had to post the visual as a picture I copy pasted when I first saw the headline.
Lynn,
I hope you are not saying we can trust the MSM because of their “fact checkers and editors”. I assume you would call MSNBC one of those with the “fact checkers and editors”, yet during the townhall outrage period, they put out a video depicting a partial shot of a man with guns strapped on him when Obama was appearing in Phoenix. They then railed about a “man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns”. Yet they failed to mention the man shown at the beginning of the video with the guns strapped to him was black. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI
Looks like in addition to the fact checkers and editors they also have a spin doctor.
But this time it’s about a right-wing blogger using edited footage to paint a member of the Dept. of Agriculture as a racist. What’s the editorial policy of his organization? None, he has none, there’s not even the pretense that his facts are straight, no editors to blame, etc. We don’t know how MSNBC or Fox news respond internally when they’re caught being wrong on the facts, presumably someone might have the job of caring?