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LA Times' Andrew Malcolm will make your head hurt, again

December 04, 2009 8:20 am ET by Eric Boehlert

The fact that his visceral hatred for President Obama seems to know no rational bounds, means Malcolm's LA Times blog continues to be a running source of embarrassment for the newspaper. (i.e. It's hard to find college newspapers that regularly print this kind of nonsense.)

For his latest, Laura Bush's former flak claims Obama is personally responsible for wasting energy because he helped light the national Christmas tree:

Juvenile headline:

Allegedly green Obama lights National Christmas Tree, leaves them on

The too-dumb-for-words conclusion:

The lighted tree will continue wasting precious electrical energy resources throughout the holiday season.

That's right, according to Malcolm, Washington, D.C., is apparently facing a shortage of "electrical energy." Somebody alert the LA Times newsroom!

UPDATED: Imagine the idiotic things Malcolm would write if Obama announced that, in order to save energy, the national Christmas tree would not be lit this year?

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    • Author by raine315 (December 04, 2009 8:37 am ET)
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      UPDATED: Imagine the idiotic things Malcolm would write if Obama announced that, in order to save energy, the national Christmas tree would not be lit this year?

      Just the other day the buzz on wingnut blogs was that The First Family would not celebrate Christmas, they were going to ban Christmas in America and all the usual Obama is not a Christian nonsense.

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      • Author by Cannonball (December 04, 2009 9:10 am ET)
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        Only one word will do: unhinged.
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      • Author by jediknight65 (December 04, 2009 11:30 am ET)
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        billo is going to be upset that the first shot in the 9th annual war on christmas was fired by someone other than him
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    • Author by goesto11 (December 04, 2009 8:50 am ET)
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      I heard a rumor that the Obamas plan to have the heat on in the White House this winter -- even in rooms they rarely use!

      Can you believe such hypocrisy?

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    • Author by The_Cat (December 04, 2009 9:29 am ET)
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      Perhaps the most glaring example, to be sure, but still only one more in the 'no-win' approach the media takes towards our President. Had he not lit the tree, it would of course be a war on Christmas, and jokes about whether or not he would approve more troops to storm the North Pole. Since he is lighting the White House Christmas tree and leaving the lights on, as perhaps 5-10% of my neighborhood does, he's suddenly not 'green' enough for people who worship big oil and deny climate change.

      You'd think eventually they'd begin to chafe themselves, as contorted as their reasoning has to be to continue this foolishness. Never mind the facts! Just keep saying bad things about him and maybe he'll go away! Not for at least three more years, and more likely a shade over seven guys. See, this president actually has some idea on what to do about the various crises we face. And, when he is unsure, he knows enough to ask people who are bright enough, and know enough about a particular situation, to come up with workable solutions. You keep right on, Mr. Malcom, FOX Propaganda, and all the rest. You've exiled yourselves to a fantasy land where it's possible to report news without fact or logic. Fun to watch, but you're being taken less and less seriously.
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      • Author by mk3872 (December 04, 2009 10:11 am ET)
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        Didn't the breathless approach the media took to following Bill Clinton around and obsessing on "no-win" scenarios used to be called "The Clinton Rules", if I recall properly ?
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        • Author by The_Cat (December 04, 2009 10:17 am ET)
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          Quite right, mk3872. Though, the Clinton Rules seem to apply to most Democrats in positions of power.
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          • Author by mk3872 (December 04, 2009 10:36 am ET)
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            Exactly. We either need to start calling this the Obama Rules or simply just the Democratic Prez Rules.

            Only when the press fears the WH (ala Dick Cheney) do they not create these false no-win themes.
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    • Author by New Frontier (December 04, 2009 9:56 am ET)
         
      Allegedly dieting LA Times columnist Andrew Malcolm was actually seen eating yesterday morning, and then again in the evening.
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    • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (December 04, 2009 11:02 am ET)
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      A right-wing Obama hater might see Malcom's learned essays as giving Obama a journalistic screwing. Actually Malcom is just jerking-off.
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    • Author by Arundel (December 04, 2009 11:14 am ET)
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      It's worth nothing that this year the WH is using LEDs to light the Christmas tree, which use up drastically less energy than conventional lights.
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    • Author by jediknight65 (December 04, 2009 11:29 am ET)
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      malcolm will rail no matter what is done. like all other good neo cons, their only objevtive is to derail the president.
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    • Author by mjshep619 (December 04, 2009 11:35 am ET)
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      The LA Times? Wait a minute!

      Are you sure it wasn't The Onion, because I would believe they could write that. Remember the headline, "Black Man Gets America's Worst Job?" Sort of like that.

      Or maybe its a dirty trick by crazy, un-American, freedom hating libs to make conservatives look stupid.
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (December 04, 2009 10:06 pm ET)
         
      Malcolm is constipated. All far rightwingers are constipated.
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