Next “controversy”

September

Now that Obama’s school speech is over, perhaps the trumped-up controversy will die down. I suspect there were, at most, a half-dozen parents who were legitimately upset that the President of the United States would be delivering an address to encourage kids to stay in school (Oh, horrors! What a socialist message!), and the rest were just part of the make-trouble-for-Obama brigade.

So don’t be surprised if the minute the speech is over, another “controversy” swamps the airwaves (or blog-waves), and then another, and another. The goal is to distract the public and weaken the president, which seems much easier to do in the age of blogs and twits. Why can’t these detractors offer some helpful alternatives instead.

Associated Press Photo: Pres. Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan speak at a school in Virginia.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 12:19 pm by Debra West. | Email This Post

2 Responses to “Next “controversy””

Sara M. September 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
As long as we’re asking questions, why can’t your editorial page hold Obama to the same critical standards to which it held Bush? How do you justify your double standard?

Why are you so busy pushing Obama’s left-wing agenda that you don’t bother to objectively assess its flaws, including the historic, outrageous debt increases it is creating?

And why does the Journal News routinely put the term socialism in scare quotes when socialized medicine is exactly what ObamaCare is, and when so many of the people Obama has had as role models throughout his life have been avowed socialists?

You hypocrites created one bogus “controversy” after another during the Bush years. Now you’re just bitter that you’ve been marginalized by blogs, talk radio, and Fox News. As Obama’s mentor famously stated, “The chickens … are coming home … to roost!”
Sam September 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
We need the bloggers and talk radio to tell us about “controversy” because the liberal media repeatedly fails to do so. We never read about Van Jones in the NY Times until he was fired, and we still haven’t read about him in the Journal News. Where is the Journal News’ coverage about the Cass Sunstein controversy? We could go on ad nauseum, but it is very clear that you choose what is newsworthy and what isn’t based on your left-wing ideology and not on objective criteria.

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