Ending a love affair with a narcissist is even harder than ending a healthy relationship. Narcissists don’t take it well. As Bernard Goldberg put it, many Americans are “dumb and in love” with Barack Obama. The true believers continue to pose as members of an objective media, all the while being led around by the nose by the New York Times.
But despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to keep the Obamanutz cult alive, at least a few Americans are starting to question both Obama’s competency and motives. The Brits are way ahead of us. They fell out of love some time ago.
Will Heaven at the Telegraphwas longing for a Kanye moment during Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:
“It was one of the lowest moments in 2009 for American celebrity. Taylor Swift was accepting her MTV Music Video Award for best female artist, but Kayne West thought he knew better. He lept on stage nicked the microphone, and and offered this crude interruption: ‘Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and I’mma let you finish. But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.’ Beyoncé looked on, smiling at first, then – as his rant continued – with increasing alarm.”
“It became an internet phenomenon. The words ‘I’mma let you finish’ were plastered onto image after image online, and Kanye West was universally condemned. He was even called a ‘jackass’ by Barack Obama.”
“But we really could have done with Kanye West today, during the US President’s acceptance speech for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Others are ‘far more deserving than I’ he said, adding that he received the award with ‘deep gratitude and great humility.’ Great humility? More like great humiliation.”
“Obama does not deserve this prize. He knows it. And America knows it (just 19% of the US public think it was deserved). In fact, the only people that don’t know it are the ‘Distinguished Members’ of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.”
“I almost feel sorry for Barack Obama. As Toby Harnden points out, it’s a lose-lose situation for him (even the Norwegians are angry that he didn’t stay in their country for longer). But he could have kept his speech low-key. Instead, this was his conclusion:
‘We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice. We can admit the intractability of deprivation, and still strive for dignity. We can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace. We can do that — for that is the story of human progress; that is the hope of all the world; and at this moment of challenge, that must be our work here on Earth.’
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Brits Still Not Feeling it For Obama
Ending a love affair with a narcissist is even harder than ending a healthy relationship. Narcissists don’t take it well. As Bernard Goldberg put it, many Americans are “dumb and in love” with Barack Obama. The true believers continue to pose as members of an objective media, all the while being led around by the nose by the New York Times.
But despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to keep the Obamanutz cult alive, at least a few Americans are starting to question both Obama’s competency and motives. The Brits are way ahead of us. They fell out of love some time ago.
Will Heaven at the Telegraph was longing for a Kanye moment during Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:
“It was one of the lowest moments in 2009 for American celebrity. Taylor Swift was accepting her MTV Music Video Award for best female artist, but Kayne West thought he knew better. He lept on stage nicked the microphone, and and offered this crude interruption: ‘Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and I’mma let you finish. But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.’ Beyoncé looked on, smiling at first, then – as his rant continued – with increasing alarm.”
“It became an internet phenomenon. The words ‘I’mma let you finish’ were plastered onto image after image online, and Kanye West was universally condemned. He was even called a ‘jackass’ by Barack Obama.”
“But we really could have done with Kanye West today, during the US President’s acceptance speech for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Others are ‘far more deserving than I’ he said, adding that he received the award with ‘deep gratitude and great humility.’ Great humility? More like great humiliation.”
“Obama does not deserve this prize. He knows it. And America knows it (just 19% of the US public think it was deserved). In fact, the only people that don’t know it are the ‘Distinguished Members’ of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.”
“I almost feel sorry for Barack Obama. As Toby Harnden points out, it’s a lose-lose situation for him (even the Norwegians are angry that he didn’t stay in their country for longer). But he could have kept his speech low-key. Instead, this was his conclusion:
‘We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice. We can admit the intractability of deprivation, and still strive for dignity. We can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace. We can do that — for that is the story of human progress; that is the hope of all the world; and at this moment of challenge, that must be our work here on Earth.’
I’mma let you finish…”