George Rebane
Well, it appears that Glenn Beck is back, and in spades. Where before he had just an hour on Fox News, he has virtually taken over Dish TV’s channel 212 programming. His format is basically the same with some news programming added on. I still don’t understand how many of his hour long programs are new during the day. Setting my DVR for recording only the new stuff produced five one-hour recordings. Some of them had the same content and could have been just repeats. It sure fooled my DVR. (For more, google ‘glenn beck, dish network’)
I was impressed by the credentials of the guests he had on various panels that came from recognized institutions, Congress, and foreign diplomatic corps. The appearance of Israel’s number two from its US embassy was surely a tweak to Obama in the current awkward relationship that our community organizer has slipped into.
Speaking of Obama and Romney, and the campaign, NPR this morning interviewed the Brookings Institution expert stationed in Doha about the ongoing anti-American unrest in the world’s Islamic lands. What he made clear right away was that the ugly video in question was definitely a pretext for launching the Cairo and Benghazi demonstrations. He was somewhat chagrinned (it is Brookings after all) at the ineptness of Obama’s diplomatic team in how the Cairo embassy’s pre-riot and post-rioting apologies about the video were mishandled.
And if the kid from Chicago’s south side doesn’t already have one foot in his mouth, he deftly stuck in the other in short order by not identifying Egypt as America’s bought and paid for ally. This pissed everyone off around the world, since we have bribed them to the tune of about $80B in aid and regularly train their officer corps at various US installations and military schools. We have been doing it for over thirty years, and everyone knows it.
And it is now clear that Romney’s quick draw criticism of Obama’s diplomacy was timely and on the mark. The left-leaning lamestream and local liberals all fell into a synchronized rant on Romney’s remarks, led of course, by El Lidder’s ‘he sometimes seems to shoot before he aims’. That’s what it must look like to a guy who himself is a bit slow on the draw.
We now get to listen to the open mike audio of colluding lamestream ‘journalists’ coordinating their question to nail Romney on his left-manufactured gaffe. It was beyond comedy that in a ten minute session these crack reporters spent over 9.5 minutes grilling Romney in the attempt to get him to admit a mistake, and less than 30 seconds on the important worldwide events unfolding, and Romney’s take on them. Unfortunately, that’s all that is made available to our progressives monitoring their favorite pundits like Maddow. As the 13sep12 WSJ observed about those pundits, “They’re upset that Mitt Romney had the gall to criticize the State Department for a statement that the White House itself disavowed.”
I’ll have more to say about these goings on in my KVMR commentary this evening, the transcript of which will be posted here as usual.
Exiting on a funny, I note on Martin Light's blog there is a picture of Bush2 musing, "If Obama is elected for a second term, just think of the mess he will inherit this time."
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