Two news items today made me stop and wonder if politicians, especially those of the Dem variety, learn to enjoy sounding incredibly dense, or perhaps they’re born that way. I really don’t know or care which premise is true, but I find it incredible that most of those holding office don’t seem to care about appearing to be uninformed, intellectual dwarfs.
The first example was particularly interesting to me because it concerned the Drudge Report website, which most readers know is a regular, reliable source of information which I often use. In fact, I found the item I’m about to type about there just now.
According to Charlie Spiering, Commentary Staff Writer for The Examiner via Drudge: “During a House hearing this morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano criticized the Drudge Report for highlighting stories about the department’s purchases of ammunition and MRAP (mine-resistant, ambush protected) vehicles.”
Republican Representative, Jeff Duncan, of South Carolina asked her about reports from Forbes magazine and other stories linked on Drudge, saying, “You know, when Forbes magazine or Drudge or some reputable news sources start to repeat the numbers … the numbers cease to become Internet rumors, and they start having some credibility.” He also questioned the “long delay” from the DHS to clarify the numbers.
She replied by saying that “I will tell you, we found it so inherently unbelievable that statements would be made, it was hard to ascribe credibility to them. I don’t know if I’d put Forbes and Drudge in the same sentence.”
And that was what really struck me, because all that Drudge actually does is provide links to stories appearing in print all over the world. Whatever’s contained in those stories is written and posted by the publications involved, and Drudge doesn’t add, delete or edit a single word. Beyond that, if you scroll all the links included, you’ll find every opinion, slant, position and ideology there is from Fox News to The New York Times and even CNN.
So, once more we have a politician nailed to the wall who tries to dodge, avert and avoid her own missteps by blaming the sources that exposed her. However, thanks to sites like Drudge, all she did was take something bad and make it worse for herself, because there are still folks who know how to read in the world.
Along the same lines of political double-talk, Colin Campbell of Politicker, also via Drudge, quoted NY Governor, Andrew Cuomo, as saying, “It’s a terrible situation in Boston. And, unfortunately, … one gets the sense that this is more reflective of the ‘new normal,’ if you will. So much of society is changing so rapidly. We talk about a ‘new normal’ when it comes to climate change and adjusting to a change in the weather patterns. ‘New normal’ when it comes to public security in a post-9/11 world. Where these random acts of violence, which at one time were implausible, now seem all-too-frequent.”
In this case, just like that bozo Barney Frank tried on Tuesday, Cuomo slanted his comments on the Boston tragedy to further his case on non-existent global-warming. And naturally, he referred to the issue as “climate change,” whereas that seems to be the new code since more and more experts are exposing the whole warming issue as a complete and total farce.
But, as I’ve been noting for a long time now, this incredible need politico’s have to foist their hare-brained opinions and beliefs on others seems a very strange desire to me. Because all you have to do is learn of their misguided tendencies to realize that most of them are usually wrong about most things the vast majority of the time.
And, since that’s generally the case, what is it about them that continually drives them to try to take others down the chute with them and why can’t they just go so somewhere else far away together and leave the rest of us alone?
That’s it for today folks.
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