The media’s slimy assault on Gov. Walker
David Limbaugh | Tuesday Feb 24, 2015 6:00 AM
I’m not sure which is more absurd, for the media to be up in arms about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s statement that he doesn’t believe that President Obama loves America or for them to mug Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for declining to weigh in on the subject.
Many of us have been speculating for years about Obama’s affinity for this country as founded. He promised to fundamentally transform this nation — something he wouldn’t have done if he embraced the American idea.
There is so much evidence that Obama has a different feeling about America than all of our past presidents that it borders on disingenuous to pretend otherwise. What other president has ever denigrated the Founding Fathers as “men of property and wealth”? What POTUS has repeatedly apologized for the United States and its record? Obama has done so, often on foreign soil, complaining to Europe about America’s arrogance, admitting to the Americas that we have sometimes dictated our terms, telling the Turkish Parliament that we have “our own darker periods in our history,” sending a letter to the Afghan president apologizing for coalition forces inadvertently burning copies of the Quran but failing to object to the killing of U.S. troops in return, apologizing to Japan for our nuclear bombing of its cities, criticizing Americans for distrusting Islam, and even going so far as to blame America for the rampant gun violence in Mexico. What other president has belonged to a church whose pastor was openly racist and anti-American? What other president has scoffed at the idea of American exceptionalism?
What other president has bad-mouthed his own country’s record on civil rights to the United Nations Human Rights Council and submitted U.S. laws and policies to that council for review? Has another POTUS married someone who admitted to never being proud of America in her adult life before her husband was elected president?
Even venerated conservative commentator Thomas Sowell has said, “I think this is a man who has enormous resentments toward this country, especially towards those people who have flourished and prospered here.” Giuliani’s statement was neither outrageous nor unique. Some of the rest of us have been talking and writing about it for years now.
What about the media’s hysteria over Walker’s refusal to contradict Giuliani, saying that Giuliani was free to speak for himself and that he was not going to comment on whether Obama loves America.
What is wrong with that answer? Why should the media ask Walker about it? He didn’t make the statement. The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank skewered Walker for “avoiding anything that might resemble leadership,” because Walker wouldn’t condemn Giuliani and because he hadn’t fallen for the media’s loaded question on whether he believes in evolution.
https://humanevents.com/2015/02/24/the-medias-slimy-assault-on-gov-walker/
