Kudlow echoes baseless Drudge headline on Obama supporters
SUMMARY: Echoing a Drudge Report headline, Larry Kudlow asserted that "Obama supporters [are] saying he's the best president in history." Kudlow cited no examples of Obama supporters who have said this, and the Politico article to which the Drudge headline linked contained no such assertions from Obama supporters.
On the April 23 edition of CNBC's The Kudlow Report, host Larry Kudlow asserted that "Obama supporters [are] saying he's the best president in history," but cited no examples of Obama supporters who have said this. Kudlow's remarks echoed a headline that appeared that day on the Drudge Report, "The Hundred Days: Supporters Insist He Is Greatest President Ever." As Media Matters for America Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert noted, the Drudge headline linked to a Politico article that did not cite anyone saying Obama is the "greatest president ever" or suggest that anyone is saying that. Boehlert added: "Drudge just made that up. Fantasized it. Manufactured it. Describe it however you want. But there's zero in that Politico piece that even remotely hints at the headline Drudge dreamt up; a headline designed to portray Democrats as loony Obama worshipers."
From the Drudge Report:
From the April 23 edition of CNBC's The Kudlow Report:
KUDLOW: I want to run the table on four or five really important issues. First of all, we're coming down to the first 100 days. Obama supporters saying he's the best president in history. You got a quick thought on that one?
SEN. JON KYL (R-AZ): Well --
KUDLOW: It's an easy one.
KYL: -- if the test is: Has he spent more money than any president in history? I answer, yes, in the first 100 days. How about increasing the debt? Yes. As a matter of fact, the budget that both the House and Senate have passed doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years.
I suppose this is a variation of the Straw Man fallacy. Limbug does this kind of thing all the time. During the campaign he often referred to Obama as the "Messiah", as if that's what Democrats thought.
Like most of the Troglodyte Propaganda techniques, it works very well on the weak-minded. I'll bet that, if you took a poll among Rush's listeners, most would say that Democrats called Obama the "Messiah".
Right, Nerzog. After continually lowering the bar for W, citing anything halfway competent he did as a wonderful surprise, the media had to fabricate some sort of "perfection" that Obama supporters were bestowing on him.That way, any minor gaffe Obama makes can be framed as a complete repudiation of him and his supporters.
I brought this up a while back when one of the wingnuts here kept referring to Olbermann as "St. Keith".Never mind the varying opinions of KO from liberals, and the critcism directed at him by many on the left when it's deserved, setting somebody up as infallible in the minds of their supporters makes criticism much easier.
More classic projection from the submissive, authority-worshipping rightys.
"W" did give us all some wonderful surprises in pictures. He was competent at that:
Thanks for Sharing ;-)
He put the "W" in "WTF?"
The woman behind him looks like she's wondering how in the hell he got into her underware drawer.
Unbeliveably, that wasn't photoshopped. Who knows what in hell old boy was doin'.
More classic projection from the submissive, authority-worshipping rightys.
That's exactly it. They assume that we worship our leaders the same way they do. And when they do acknowledge our internal squabbles, they mock them as weakness, as opposed to recognizing them as strength. (OTOH - having a flock of cult-like, zombie/sheep/drone-like followers is pretty handy come election time. Just ask Carl Rove.
I wonder what is it about these rightys that compels them to project on everyone else so much. It's some kind of strange solipsism or narcissism that is very untoward, annoying and dangerous. Creeps.
I sure hope this variation works for them. If it doesn't, the next likely step is tales of Obama shrines being built on top of demolished churches, where groups of Democrats engage painting Obama portraits using the blood of fetuses.
Doesn't GE also own MSNBC? Joe Scarborough is a virtual fountain of GOP talking points every morning, and his sidekick Mika sits there and nods like a bobblehead doll while he spouts his nonsense.
Yeah, CNBC has been SOOOO quiet about being critical of Obama. Give me a break O'Reilly. We know you have a "thing" about NBC and all, but jeesh, just watch their channel for a few days, and the truth shall set you free.
I had the pleasure of watching the BO segment last night on GE and I thought what BS. Him and that moron Laura Ingrham claiming GE is silencing CNBC for business so they can get govt contracts .
Oh the gall of these people.
And Laura Ingraham saying this is the biggest scandal worse than Halliburton.
Well giver some credit: She at least acknowleges Halliburton is a scandal.
I'd say let's let Obama finish out his second term, before we decide who was the best in history at leading our country. They're mad that their messiah, George W. turned out to be such a dud. I don't think anyone is saying that Obama is the best ever, and if they are, they need a reality check, because we're only 100 days into his first term.
I agree. He's already disappointed me on several issues, but he's still much better than what we've had for 8 years.
I, for one am willing to wait and see what happens.
Same here, and before some conservative comes in here and says something about me not giving W the same wait and see attitude, I did. It's just that after a couple of years, W disappointed me in ways I thought not possible.
I too have seen some things that Obama has done, or not done, that I don't like. An example, gays in the military, and gay marriage are just a couple of items I'd like to see him grab onto and change his opinions on.
I voted for Gore, but after 9/11, I, like most Americans, was shocked enough to give W the benefit of the doubt. Once it became obvious that they were lying us toward an invasion of Iraq, I reverted back to my liberal comfort zone.
How long did it take you to figure that out? I voted for Kerry BECUASE they were lying to us about Iraq!
Sounds to me like he figured it out a couple of years before you voted for Kerry.
I don't remember what in particular convinced me, but I remember debating die-hard Republicans on a local Newspaper forum and being called un-American, traitor and coward because I didn't think invading Iraq was the smartest thing to do.
I remember watching them vilify Scott Ritter and Sean Penn for saying that there were no WMD. I'm no expert, and the case seemed pretty thin to me, even then, but I think I was turned off by the blatant jingoism of the Republicans as much as anything.
I may have mis-read your post, or assumed something was in there that wasn't. Your sentiments here, are also mine - pretty much down to the letter.
For me the final nail was Powells speech. I already had lots of doubts overall and KNEW they were lying about some things. That was clear when they made the office of special plans because they werent getting the intelligence they wanted from the CIA. You only do that to cook your own. The Powell speech though HAD to have their A material. If they got the UN on their side the American people would have been gung ho. I thought it was thin when I heard it then watched the next couple of days as it was just plain eaten alive. When THAT collapsed I knew the whole Iraq agenda was built on lies. They had ZILCH.
Awwww, poor poor Kudlow & Drudge ... Me no likey when people actually likey the black man in power! They try and they try and still those dumb ignorant American people like Obama and his policies. Damn you, Obama!!!
Remember, GOP history doesn't start until 9/12/2001. Therefore, Obama is the best president in history.
Hell, not only best president in history, but fearless leader of the most ethical administration of the century!
That's not true. They have a history that says Bill Clinton said no thanks when Sudan offered him Osama bin Laden on a silver platter in 1998 (or whenever it was.) Actually if there is any truth to this claim of an offer from Sudan and if Clinton had accepted bin Laden would've become the hero of the right. There were no charges against him in the US at the time and most people didn't know who he was. Clinton would likely have been impeached for imprisoning this 'innocent' man and Osama would be a guest commentator on FOX and maybe have his on talk radio show on Clear Channel.
They can't bring that up any more because W let bin Laden go at Tora Bora. So, if anyne does say that, it's an alternate history and doesn't contradict the universe's creation via the 9/11 Big Bang.
He cited no examples because there are no examples.
I know that this is an extreme hypothetical, but let's take the time machine back to say, oh, 1997.
October 10, 1997, terrorist fly planes into the WTC, Pentagon, and crash in a field in PA. President Clinton usurps the Constitution, illegally wiretaps American citizens in the name of keeping our country safe, tortures prisoners captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, after he wrongfully invaded the latter.
What do you think the republicans would be saying, or what would they have done? They would have impeached the guy. No ifs, ands, or buts. And they would have been right in that case I think.
Fast forward to now. They supported W and everything he did (almost everything). And now all of the above is somehow OK? And we shouldn't look back?
Anyway, you'll never hear anyone on the left proclaim that Obama is the Messiah of anything. You'll hear us support him when we agree with him. You'll hear us disagree with him when we do. The only people calling him the chosen one, or the messiah, are the right wing crazies who seem to think that's what we think of him.
You should have ended it right there.
It's raising/lowering the bar. The republicans and the righty media lowered the bar for Bush that when he managed to utter a complete, coherent sentence they lauded him.
Now they've moved the bar so far up for Obama so that when anything doesn't work out perfectly they can criticize him.
And hence, we get the stupid teleprompter talking point thing that has been endlessly tossed around for months now.
Rescues that boat captain? Couldn't have been Obama giving the go ahead order, must have been the on site commander, and why would Obama want to shoot poor black kids anyway?
Markets are up? Must be because of the tea parties.
I mean, the right wing media in all of their glory have just become idiots.
Actually, all you need to do is think back to Bosnia. The wingnut commentariat were all about "mission creep" and "no end game" and boo on nation-building" -- hell, even W came out against that last one in a debate with Gore!
Wingnuttery is hyposcrisy in extremis.
They don't think, therefore they ain't.....?
Echoing a Drudge Report headline, Larry Kudlow asserted that "Obama supporters [are] saying he's the best president in history."
That's funny . . . I seem to recall:
- Tweety Matthews comparing Bush to both Churchill and Lincoln
- Someone saying Bush should be on Mt. Rushmore
- seeing a bumper sticker that read "W08"
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BUSH isn't worthyenough to lick the shoelsces of either LINCOLN OR CHURCHILL.
I can attest that I have said publicly that Obama has the makings of being one of the best presidents we will have ever had... but I to have never heard anyone say that he is the best ever... only that he is in a position to be one of the best!
To soon to tell... but I would say, other than a few iff'y moves: the recent stimulus package giving way to much to the wealthy (again!) and the hem/hawing of not yet prosecuting the criminals of the prior eight years... so far... so good!
As for Kudlow... how exactly do you have a show?