The cognitive dissonance continues. I don't understand how people who otherwise hold themselves out as intelligent and thoughtful people can continue to support a president whose policies are questionable at best and whose vows of transparency and bipartisanship are lies at worst. Without a doubt, there are Hollywood types who are disappointed in the president and have had the gumption to say so publicly. Despite that, it continues to lend a hand to buoy an administration that seems as if it's clueless.
The latest entry in this circus is the a show on Laugh or Die, Between Two Ferns, hosted by Zack Galifianakis, on which President Obama appeared to pitch Obamacare. From the early reports, the show was a success in getting the so-called invincibles, the young set relied upon by Obamacare to fund the debacle, to check out the website. But as The Daily Beast states, it's one thing to get the invincibles to check out the website and another to get them to sign up. Time will tell.
All that is beside the point. Whether it's Earvin Johnson, Zack Galifianakis, Katy Perry, Robert Redford, Ben Affleck, Beyonce or any of the other self-appointed presidential acolytes, they seem more eager to blame Republicans in Congress for the failed policies and untoward behavior than the President and his cohorts. Unabashed liberal supporter Robert Redford is already looking ahead to 2016, producing a show for CNN called Chicagoland, which is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt at propaganda that seeks to boost the image of the mayor, Rahm Emanuel, two years before the next presidential election. Apparently, quotes from two Chicago-born celebrities, Marlee Matlin and Jeremy Piven, are being used to tout the series. Interestingly, Piven is best known for playing Ari Gold, the insufferably rude and ruthless agent on Entourage, who was loosely based on a real-life Hollywood agent and power broker named Ari Emanuel. Yes, Mr. Emanuel is the brother of the Chicago mayor. Amazing how that just happened, isn't it?
So Hollywood is closing ranks to support a president who vowed to raise the country out of what many described as the morass left by President Bush only to press it deeper into a bog of filthy politics, lies and ham-fisted intiatives. It isn't possible for them to admit that their faith was misplaced, that they were deceived by a smoke-and-mirrors publicity machine orchestrated by longtime political campaign strategist David Axelrod (who will doubtlessly be used by the expected Clinton-Emanuel ticket in 2015). To lose face would be unforgivable, as it would be equal to pulling the curtain back to show a wizard who had no clue as to what he was doing, or what he was supporting.
Meanwhile, Sharyl Atkisson, an award-winning investigative journalist, resigned from CBS, citing a liberal bias at the network that made her work difficult. People are criticizing her departure for that reason, claiming that Ms. Atkisson had an obvious agenda against the Obama administration because of her ongoing efforts to uncover information on the Benghazi attack, failed green energy investments and the Fast and Furious incident. That Ms. Atkisson would be tarnished thus is a joke.
It's odd to me that a journalist who won awards while at CBS for investigating incidents that occurred during the Bush administration can now be accused of having an anti-liberal bias. Where were accusations of anti-conservative bias when Ms. Atkisson was winning those Emmy's during the Bush years? Since she has investigated governmental wrongdoing regardless of the party in power, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that Ms. Atkisson has a bias against governmental wrongdoing? That she's criticized for being too hard on liberals when her record suggests a fair and balanced approach shows that the MSM has been co-opted by liberalism. The best move would have been to wish her well and say nothing. But the wonks in MSM had to take a swipe at her because of her comment and, by the way, because Ms. Atkisson is finishing a book that has the working title Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington. I can't wait to hear the wails, the gnashing of teeth and the rending of garments when that book is released. I predict that the acolytic angst will hit a fever pitch, the tar brushes will see lots of overtime and worse when Ms. Atkisson hits the publicity trail.
It's sad to think that image is more valued than truth nowadays.
To quote Paula Cole, where have all the cowboys gone?
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