Obama’s Search For Lap Dogs
By K. Daniel Glover | June 12, 2009
President Obama has fired the supposedly independent watchdog of AmeriCorps and other national service programs because he lost confidence in him. By sheer coincidence, or so America is supposed to believe, the inspector general in question, Gerald Walpin, accused an Obama supporter of misusing federal grants.
As Instapundit noted, "Under a Republican president, this would be a huge scandal." And you don't have to travel any further back in time than the Bush administration to see how the media responded to just such a scandal under a Republican.
Here's an excerpt from a 2007 article by Time:
An unusually high number of Bush IGs, such as Janet Rehnquist at Health and Human Services, have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission. At the same time, a number of good IGs have felt undermined or even been forced out by their political superiors after uncovering major problems.
Bush's decisions about IGs was so scandalous that even Rolling Stone covered the story under the headline "Bush's Lap Dogs: What Happened To D.C.'s Watchdogs?" "Just as he politicized every other facet of government from [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] to the Farm Bureau, President Bush has ignored the law and stocked the inspector general posts with inexperienced cronies," writer Tim Dickinson argued.
That sounds like the kind of mission Obama has embarked upon early in his tenure -- and in an even more egregious way than Bush. But don't hold your breath for the media to make that connection obvious to its audiences.
K. Daniel Glover is a project manager for Accuracy In Media. He has worked as an editor, writer and new media specialist in the Washington area since 1991, spending most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly.
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Re: Post 1;
To me, there’s some “prostitute” in EVERY politician - regardless of party, regardless of issue, and to somewhat varying degrees - but most politicians prostitute themselves to whatever force each believes will help insure his/her re-election.
That is like saying, “Everyone is Gay”. I certainly disagree with you. Everyone is different. We are not all the same. Obama is a one of a kind Pimp that thinks everyone is his Whore.
I for one am not an Obama Whore. You are free to make your own choices in this country, just try not try to spread Social Disease.
Try Social Propylaxis and give others a break.
In fact he is ridiculous. Americans find this Fact self evident.
Obama is a living riddle.
So when will the Presidential Ridculousness be unriddled?
Re: Post 9;
Ahhhh, you know, I’m kind of really referring to “Poster Ridiculousness”, rather than to “Presidential Ridiculousness” here!
For me, eight years of “Presidential Ridiculousness” ended on January 20, 2008. In three or four years, I expect to be able to offer an update.
For you, I guess Election Day, 2012, may well unriddle YOUR particular riddle. If not, que sera, sera.
Bongiorno.
Re: Post 9;
Ahhh, correction! Make that January 20, “2009”!
Mea culpa; mea maxima culpa!
TK is playing with you. He wants to bait you into making personal attack. His real name is Brian.
There was an Old Man of Dunluce,
Who went to sea on a Goose;
When he’d gone out a mile,
He observed with a smile,
“It is time to return to Dunluce.”
Re: Post 12;
Yeah, I guess “Julius Rosenberg” WOULD be the name of someone who would be peddling a supposed big and important “secret”!
But, Jule, you are wrong!
(Besides, Jule - extremist ideological partisans ALWAYS make personal attacks! You NEVER have to bait them! It’s what they do!)
June 15 at 2:12 pm | #1 | Link
Lap Dogs/Lap Dancers; they are all the same, prostitues. Real fancy footwork Pimp in Chief.
Back to the slums where you belong!