October 30, 2008
Mark Steyn on Obama, the L.A. Times, and Joe the Plumber
Hugh Hewitt and the indispensable Mark Steyn got together for their weekly review of the news, and Steyn was in top form.
Hewitt started off by asking Steyn about the L.A. Times' refusal to release video it has of Obama at an Israel-bashing dinner.
MS: Well, I think there’s absolutely no reason to repress it. Clearly, when you look at the stuff that the media have been happy to leak since September, 2001, details of financial scrutiny of terrorist transfers, details of precise military and intelligence matters, it’s a shame that Khalidi and Obama weren’t sitting around discussing confidential troop movements in the Sunni Triangle, because then the L.A. Times and everyone else would have had it, they’d been happy to leak it on the front page of every newspaper. There’s no reason to keep this secret.
HH: Now you have known, you’ve been around journalism for a long, long time, Mark Steyn. Does their explanation, the source asked us not to leak it ring true to you after the source gave it to them for whatever use they got out of it?
MS: No. I find it very difficult to believe that. Let’s just say that the source, the source leaked it to the L.A. Times, so he wanted the story out there. And the video is part of the corroboration of the story. Now if there’s something in that video that might perhaps identify him or something like that, then it is certainly possible to release it in a form that takes care of that concern. But I’ve never heard of this kind of deal. And you say I’ve been in journalism a long time. You know, the L.A. Times isn’t in the journalism business right now. The problem with the American media is that they’re in the Obama electing business. That’s why, for example, it was the London Times which had this extraordinary story about Obama’s penniless aunt in a housing project in Boston. It was the London Times 3,000 miles away who broke that story rather than the Boston Globe which is in the tank for Obama. So these guys are not, at this stage in the game, they’re not, they’re in the Obama cheerleading business rather than the journalism business.
HH: Yesterday, I watched CNN’s Rick Sanchez mug Joe the Plumber, mocking him, along with David Gergen mocking him, for daring to have an opinion on Israel. It’s really gone over the top in many places, Mark Steyn.
MS: Yes, and I mean, I find this revolting. I mean essentially, they’re saying that Joe the Plumber being a citizen is unqualified to do anything except stand in the chorus and sing hail the great Obama. Maybe it takes a subject of a monarch to point out to these poltroons like Gergen that this is a citizen republic of citizen legislators. And the idea that somehow Joe the Plumber is demonstrating grotesque lese majeste, and having the impertinence to ask a question of King Barack the good, I think is revolting, and I think is one thing, actually, people are disgusted by when they look at the media. The media basically are behaving like a corrupt version of the House of Lords. So actually, it’s not even that good. The media have simply announced that they’re content to be the eunuchs in Sultan Barack’s harem.
The nerve of that man, having an opinion about the Middle East! Who does he think he is, questioning experts, doubting the wisdom of the rulers who know best what needs to be done?
Oh, wait a minute, is he a subject or a citizen?
There's a phrase that's been making the rounds of the punditocracy this election: "game changer."
Folks, I think this election is truly a game changer; although the left has been shrieking for years about the Bush administration destroying freedom in this county, there's only one party that seems to delight in trying to destroy an American citizen for committing the worst crime of all: Daring to disagree with their candidate.
And it ain't the Party of Lincoln.
Can we question their patriotism now?
Posted by Mike Lief at October 30, 2008 11:04 PM
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