There have been rumblings among conservatives that Barack Obama is channeling Richard Nixon. The latest comes from Charles Krauthammer, commenting on NRO about the White House's attack on Fox News, saying it's not "real news" but commentary (and MSNBC isn't? who can forget the tingle up Chris Matthews' leg?). The Obama administration has shown its colors. He will "rule by fist," i.e., intimidation. I was glad to read in Krauthammer's piece that other news organizations refused to participate in an interview with Treasury Department "pay czar" Ken Feinberg unless Fox reporters--who had been excluded by the White House--were permitted to attend. The White House apparently backed down, as well they should.
I keep wondering when, oh when, people who admire and extol Obama, people (young people, twenty-somethings in particular), will realize that they are paying allegiance to a narcissistic, self-serving, imperious man who is both ruthless and cynical, and who plays political hardball for keeps. And now we can add paranoid and Nixonian to the mix. To the "Mandy's" of this world, I ask: Is this the savior you admire so much? Take off the rose-colored glasses, my dear.
Here's Krauthammer's article.
Fox Wars, by Charles Krauthammer
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