Thursday, January 22, 2009

As far as weigh-ins go, I'm back to 200.0. Which means it has taken me pretty much all week to get back to the point I was at almost three weeks ago. Yay.

Saw an interesting video on CNN today. It's a CNN reporter discussing with a CNN analyst on Rush Limbaugh's anti-Obama sentiments. Apparently they were concerned because Rush said he wants Obama "to fail". They found this appalling.

First of all, I don't know why they would be surprised to find this sentiment coming out of Rush's mouth. Limbaugh advertises himself as the voice of the Republican Right. Naturally, the Republicans were...hoping McCain would win! *gasp* So it stands to reason that they would be hoping Obama would fail. If Obama fails, it shows the Democrats were wrong. That's how this works. Why CNN is so shocked, I dunno.

Second, the CNN reporters were convinced that Rush must be anti-American, because wishing for Obama's failure would be wishing for America's failure. So, none of these guys were wishing for Bush's failure? None of them were pleased to see Bush's policies doing poorly? None of these guys cackled with glee when Bush did something unsuccessful? Because that would make them anti-American too, wouldn't it? You know, since Bush was our President for eight years?

Even Saturday Night Live made fun of the media's obvious Obamania. They did a skit that was a send-up of a debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton, where all the questions towards Obama were things like, "Can I get you anything to drink?" and all the questions towards Hillary were, you know, QUESTIONS. Heck, when even SNL makes fun of it, you know there has to be something to it.

1 comment:

iamhoff said...

Yeah, my weigh-in's this week have been teh suck, too. Hopefully I'll get the post up tonight.

Regarding the Rush thing, you are spot on. He wants Obama to fail to illustrate the failure of Democratic policies and such. America is strong, too strong to be brought down by a failed President. If it were that weak, we never would have survived the Lincoln assassination, Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression, JFK, Nixon and Watergate, and even Dubya.

That being said, I did an interesting post on my "evil twin" blog. Check it out. http://tinyurl.com/9qtxm2

GL on the corpulence. Lord knows we both need it.