I Don't Care: Obama Is Awesome
The folks over at The Power Line drew my attention to the below video, which Jonah Goldberg said should have been entitled, "I Don't Care: Obama is Awesome."
But a thought struck me as I watched it. At 1.30, it mentions the 17 U.N. resolutions against Iraq. I hadn't realized there were that many. I certainly didn't hear that from the media covering the war in Iraq...and I was an avid consumer of media stories during this time.
The accounts given by Time, Newsweek, and USN & WR led me to conclude that we were doing this without any official U.N. statements about Iraq; it was just a harebrained military adventurist idea concocted by that simpleton, Dubya.
Of course, Newsweek, in its last days as a mainstream news weekly, gave Saddam's capture the cover the week it happened, but only devoted less than a page to the actual story. That prompted me to cancel my subscription after having grown up with the magazine.
Around the same point (1.30) in the video, mention is made of the size of the coalition formed for Iraq compared with that of Libya. I had forgotten about that. I do distinctly remember the media's narrative about us basically going it alone in Iraq.
At 2.30, mention is made of how this, uh, "time-limited, scope-limited military action" (sounds almost like something in the form of a gel capsule) is not paid for. Haven't heard much on that.
Nor, as you hear at 3.20, much about how the pearly white teeth of Obama's past quotes have firmly lodged themselves in his bahonkus. I had forgotten much about what he had said in 2007 and on the campaign road in 2008.
So, here's the irony. I learned more from a cartoon (a media genre not known for the serious transmission of ideas) than from the professional media about this whole Libya thing.
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Jun '10
Re: I Don't Care: Obama Is Awesome
Absolutely perfect! Thanks for turning me on to this. Genius!
Oct '10
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Definitely hilarious! I love these robot videos on you tube. Isn't it amazing that rank amateurs on the interwebs can condense facts better than the main stream media?
Jun '10
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"What's more real than a deep feeling? Obama is awesome. And Global Warming will make the sea rise 20ft if we don't start taxing and regulating carbon emissions immediately. It's a feeling I have."
Dec '10
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Welcome to the monkey house, Jeremias. The media don't lie so much as they determine which truth gets a capital "T".
Sep '10
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What I find really sad is that I believe some of my nieces and nephews actually get their news from John Stewart or Stephen Colbert and they profess a certain amount of liberalism. What's really sad is one of them graduated from the U of Chicago. So much for objective analytical thought!
Sep '10
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A great point and a nice comparison: A cartoon vs Mainstream Media.
But honestly, is there anyone with a brain who actually pays attention to MSM vice the alternative media? I'm genuinely curious, because I just don't watch tv anymore, or read any big newspapers.
Mar '11
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The title should be, "What's more real than an awesome feeling?"
But the satire cuts both ways, as a brilliant satire should.
This commentary was part of the satire, too. Anyone even half paying attention throughout the 90s would have been aware of a lot of UN SC resolutions, even if they weren't counting. Even so, the exact number was cited constantly in the run up to the invasion. Same goes for the size of the coalition.
So the joke's on you, too, if you were supporting the Iraq invasion without being aware of such just-war-theoretical niceties.
That's even without considering the Bush Doctrine—preemption as self-defense—which adds another dimension to the justification for the war.
Final irony: all this (and much more) was available in the evil MSM. The Obamabot in the video was so ridiculous because she got her information from John Stewart, et al, and not the MSM.
Edited on Mar 28, 2011 at 12:30pmJul '10
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I can't sit through a news cast any more, too slow, too stagey, too dumbed down, but even pre-electronics I was a newspaper guy.
Jan '11
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Yes. Some people -after a long slog at work- still sit down to the TV and catch up on the rest of the news that they didn't hear on the radio during their commute, or to get updates on the stories that they read in the morning paper. It's nothing to do with intellect; it's just a habit.
Plus, like anyone else on the planet, they want to believe what only certain media outlets say and not others.
May '10
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The is so funny! And so true. I've had a few conversations with liberal friends that have gone similarly.
Oct '10
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Glad you enjoyed it, guys, and found it informative.
Jul '10
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The little Sisyphuses get their news from James Taranto, they adore his regular feature, "Best of the Web", at WSJ. They would read the ingredients on a soup can label if it was attributed to him. For a change of pace it is usually the Long View. (And Rob, we all loved the NPR bit in the "Long View" this issue! It seems to resonate with public school students.)