{"id":9070,"date":"2009-03-22T20:21:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9070"},"modified":"2009-03-22T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:21:53","slug":"has-%e2%80%9c60-minutes%e2%80%9d-noticed-the-emperor-is-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9070","title":{"rendered":"Has \u201c60 Minutes\u201d noticed the emperor is naked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with 60 minutes tonight, Steve Kroft started asking a series of questions about the economy and the endless trail of bail outs; President Obama kept smiling and even laughing.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/20339.html\">\u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview <\/a>in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou&#8217;re sitting here. And you&#8217;re\u2014 you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, \u2018I mean, he&#8217;s sitting there just making jokes about money\u2014\u2019 How do you deal with\u2014 I mean: explain. . .\u201d Kroft asks at one point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you punch-drunk?\u201d Kroft says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quick note to Mr. Kroft:<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not punch drunk you idiot.  He is simply not letting a good crisis go to waste.  You and your cohorts sold this socialist, community organizer as the Messiah and now you have the balls to question him?<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s laughing at you Steve; you and the millions of dumb-asses who blindly bought his shit sandwich wrapped as hope and change.<\/p>\n<p>And 60 Minutes is not alone.  Even the New York Times is beginning to show signs of wavering on the anointed one:<\/p>\n<p>And believe me, if you\u2019re a devout leftist and you\u2019ve lost Frank Rich, you have problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has a \u2018Katrina Moment\u2019 Arrived? <\/p>\n<p>By FRANK RICH March 21, 2009 <\/p>\n<p>A CHARMING visit with Jay Leno won\u2019t fix it. A 90 percent tax on bankers\u2019 bonuses won\u2019t fix it.<br \/>\nFiring Timothy Geithner won\u2019t fix it. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans\u2019 anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed. <\/p>\n<p>It would be foolish to dismiss as hyperbole the stark warning delivered by Paulette Altmaier of Cupertino, Calif., in a letter to the editor published by The Times last week: \u201cPresident Obama may not realize it yet, but his Katrina moment has arrived.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there a sea change coming or is Obama laughing because he has a plan that will render the useful idiots in the media totally disarmed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with 60 minutes tonight, Steve Kroft started asking a series of questions about &hellip; <a title=\"Has \u201c60 Minutes\u201d noticed the emperor is naked?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9070\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has \u201c60 Minutes\u201d noticed the emperor is naked?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}