Malkin: “Obama’s cronies of color,” including wife, “reach for the race card when their dubious judgment is questioned”
August 01, 2009 4:07 pm ET by MMFA Staff
From Pages 12-13 of conservative columnist Michelle Malkin's new book, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (Regnery Publishing, July 2009):
Fortunately, not everyone on the Left remains paralyzed in an irreversible state of Obama inebriation. This book would not have been possible without the contributions of some brave and lonely liberals -- whistleblowers at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), independent journalists and government watchdogs -- who rejected the excuse-making and white-washing of Obama's culture of corruption. While Obama sycophants in the mainstream media celebrated his "hipness"23 and his "swagga,"24 a few principled progressives finally began to question the cult.
But they are still in the minority. And there will be more predictable excuses. As I document in this book, Obama's cronies of color (beginning with his own wife) reach for the race card when their dubious judgment is questioned. And when all else fails, there's always the "I inherited the problem" alibi.
To which I reply: Read the book. Barack Obama owns this cabinet of tax cheats, crooks, and cronies. It is his and his alone. In the era of "new politics," judge him as you would judge other mere mortals. Judge him not by the company that preceded him.
Judge him by the company he keeps.
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Which colors are his cronies? Looks like a lot of white ones unless white isn't a color.
Mikey are you sure you are not jealous of Michelle Obama.
She is smarter than you, much more attractive than you, is much classier than you and is not as hateful as you. Some people say that you are green with envy. Now you can qualify a few times to be a Cronies of Color..which is much better than a 'Casting Couch Guest' of Hannity. Many suggest that you and Hannity have committed adultery. Can you prove this is a lie? Maybe some of your Cronies of Hatred can bail you out.
I believe her premise is, Sure, Bush surrounded himself with crooks and cronies. And while he was a particularly bad case, he's far from the first crook- and crony-friendly president we've had. But the thing is, pretty much all of those crooks and cronies were white. And that made it okay.
Only haven't most if not all of the people Obama's had to turn down with tax problems been white? Funny how that detail gets ignored in Malkin's treatment. In short, this is yet another variation on the current "Fear of a Black President" trope.
Anyone with a record like that needs to work hard for a while to establish credibility. Disagreeing with the "birthers" was a good start, but there's still a long way to go.
I am curious, though, about these alleged whistleblowers from the left. Will they be like "fairliberal" and similar people who claim to have been liberals, but show no evidence that they ever really were? Time will tell.
Yes! I thought the same thing: That was hilarious! It amounts to an admission that "the company that preceded him," which Malkin slobberingly adulated, was actually so very bad that this supposed group of "tax cheats, crooks, and cronies" looks good by comparison.
I guess it's time for another addition to my list of rules of rightwing arguing:
Rule #15: Seize control of the Clock of History. Insist that all events outside the time frame most advantageous to your argument are irrelevant and must not be considered.
Footnote: Dave Neiwert notes how the overall form of the argument - the corrupt president and the wife as behind-the-scenes manipulator - is the same as was wielded against the Clintons. If the GOPpers recycled everything like they recycle claims, the environment would be a heck of a lot cleaner.
You're right, Ms. Manglalang. I keep forgetting that the economic crisis and the Iraq War began on January 20, 2009 . . .
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Yet, can anyone here recall Bush or McCain acknowledging a recession or even any problem until the actual bank meltdown late in 2008???
So I guess if you go by the statements of Bush W in 2007-2008, then she is right. The problem DID NOT begin until 2009 ...
This female dog is only half the man Ann Coulter is.
Why such hypocrites????
Malkin is a hack, always has been, and has always been willing to say whatever is required to gin up controversy with little to no proof of, well, anything.
Anyone want to bet that this book suddenly becomes a "bestseller"? Meaning, I'm sure conservative book clubs snap this up to once again, make the numbers look better than they really are.
But 6 months into Obama, and he's already failed. I do think "time will tell" with Obama, but it's going to take longer than 6 months to figure out where he stands amongst the Presidents. And as I mentioned above, it's absurd for her to even write this book, because she had to have started it either before, or right after he was sworn in. And what facts did she have on hand? Supposition and theories is all.
Do you think that c-span should give Malkin a platform to spew pure hate?
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