Plagiarism Stories Dominate News [UPDATED]
By SusanUnPC on February 19, 2008 at 6:58 AM in Barack Obama, Cult, Deval Patrick, Hillary Clinton, Messiah
This is an even better, pithy contrast video, via Taylor Marsh. Yes, it’s from ET, but that’s actually significant — it means that the story has long legs, reaching throughout the MSM, in all venues.
UPDATE: Paul Krugman on “Hype and glory” at his NYT blog:
One thing I worry about a lot if Obama is the Dem nominee — and he’s surely the frontrunner now — is that there will be a backlash against Obamamania. Actually,it’s already starting — probably too late to have much effect on the nomination fight, but in plenty of time to affect the general election.
… But I just have a very bad feeling about the way things are going.
Then Taylor gets into the lampoon sites on the “Messiah” factor of the Obama campaign (as does the above video, with the fainting phenomenon and Obama playing “EMT In Chief” (and not very sympathetically but more to act like the big shot pretending to care, imho):
“Is Barack Obama the Messiah?” asks one of several Web sites lampooning the hyperventilation of Obama’s more overwrought admirers.
An example came from Jan Young, a 56-year-old convert from Hillary Clinton: “It’s almost like the Messiah,” she said at an Obama rally in Minnesota. “You feel something coming from him.”
When Oprah Winfrey endorsed Obama in Iowa, she proclaimed, “I believe he is The One.” It was a line straight out of “The Matrix.” … (Check out Taylor for the rest of the quote.)
Now I simply have to show you this screenshot of a great spoof site — I laugh every time I see it!
Then there’s Slate magazine’s “The Obama Messiah Watch,” run by Timothy Noah:
Is Barack Obama—junior U.S. senator from Illinois, best-selling author, Harvard Law Review editor, Men’s Vogue cover model, and “exploratory” presidential candidate—the second coming of our Savior and our Redeemer, Prince of Peace and King of Kings, Jesus Christ? His press coverage suggests we can’t dismiss this possibility out of hand. I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical details that appear in newspaper, television, and magazine profiles of this otherworldly presence in our midst.
And there’s “Is Barack Obama The Messiah” from Townhall.com in January 2007 (some people catch on faster than others):
Apparently, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, D-Illinois, is the Messiah. The New York Times reported on Sunday that in Obama’s time at Harvard Law School, he “developed a leadership style based more on furthering consensus than on imposing his own ideas. Surrounded by students who enjoyed the sound of their own voices, Mr. Obama cast himself as an eager listener, sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once.”
My admiration for Obama’s position as editor of the Harvard Law Review changed a bit after I learned it’s an elected job. (Bluntly, I suspected a bit of white guilt, as well as Obama’s very smooth style, was a factor in the vote. It’s just a guess, but i know a lot about how elite liberals think, and it had to play a factor.) Now we see that he was very skilled in maneuvering people, and getting them on board by making THEM think just how smart they were:
Also on Sunday, the Boston Globe reported, “These days, Obama is the hot new candidate for the White House, trying to end the warring in Washington with a warm message of unity and optimism. But years before taking that message to the national political stage, he was defusing battles large and small from the sharp-elbowed basketball games to the cutthroat classrooms at Harvard Law School.” And on the same day, the Los Angeles Times similarly reported, “At Harvard Law Review he showed that — on a much smaller scale — he had the savvy to maneuver through turbulent political waters.”
The next cracked me up:
Jesus didn’t get this kind of Sunday media coverage on Easter Sunday. It is no wonder Slate.com has a running Obama “Messiah Watch” dedicated to “considering evidence that Obama is the Son of God.”
The influential conservative Pajamas Media blog is taking a hard look at Obama, and the five “follies” that the GOP can get him on in “IN FOCUS: THE END OF THE OBAMA HONEYMOON?” — and remember, as Larry Johnson says, this is just a SAMPLING of what the GOP will do to Obama if he’s the nominee:
Barack Obama has glided along from long-shot to heir apparent with nary a scratch on him, writes Michael Weiss. All that is likely to change if and when he’s the Democratic nominee. Here are five random Obama follies to watch out for.
1. He plagiarizes his speeches (“Words, words, words.”)
2. His volunteers hang memorials to totalitarian mass murderers. [OBAMA-ITES, don't get hysterical; please remember this is what the conservatives will USE against Obama.]
3. His foreign policy guru travels to Syria to kibitz with murderous fascists.
4. He flip-flops on public financing.
5. He’s wavering on his Iraq withdrawal plan.
Weiss, the New York editor of the blog, provides links and detailed explanations for each of the five points.
by Ronald Scott
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