I don’t tend to put a lot of Fox News clips up on the site; the network has basically become Pravda for Republicans, a propaganda outlet that dabbles in news reporting.
But this clip is interesting because it shows how conservative pundits have been reduced to sputtering, babbling incoherency by Obama’s decision-making.
In this case, they are trying to square their false premise (Obama is a big scary Leftie who wants to make the United States a Socialist paradise) with the very pragmatic, competency-based decisions he has made about his cabinent.
Look, those of us on the left have known all along that Obama is not a Far-Left Radical. Everything about his record and style suggests a relatively mainstream progressive who is cautious, practical, and a consensus-builder.
And so, no, Fox news analysis panel, we are NOT freaking out when he picks Clinton (who used to be a Far Left Radical to Fox News types, until she was the only alternative to Obama—hmmm, that’s curious, isn’t it? Funny how they all talk like she’s some kind of conservative soul mate now) or Robert Gates.
Liaason’s suggestion that progressives have so much to be pleased with that they’re willing to cut Obama some slack is a reasonable statement, but the basic truth is the majority of those on the left did not suffer from this delusion that Obama was The Most Liberal Evah.
When Fox News is struggling to align its talking points with reality instead of parroting the Bush Administration line, that’s change I can believe in.
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