Newsweek Kook: Obama Should Be on Mount Rushmore For His Speech (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 28, 2010, 11:58 AM
Nuts. Do they really not understand why they’re losing millions?
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman told MSNBC host Keith Olbermann that Obama’s SOTU speech last night was so good that he deserves a place on Mount Rushmore for it.
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And, they wonder why FOX News trounces them night after night?
These media cranks are in worse shape than we thought if they believe that Obama’s dishonest and offensive attacks on business, banks, Republicans, the Supreme Court, and George W. Bush, in his SOTU last night deserved some kind of award. Never has a president given such a dishonest speech to the American public… since, well, his last speech to Congress on health care.
NewsBusters reported on this nut’s crazy talk:
HOWARD FINEMAN, NEWSWEEK: If presidential leadership were only about giving speeches, the jackhammers would already be at work on Mt. Rushmore. I thought the guy dominated the room, used humor, occupied the middle ground. It was both theatrically very good, playing in the hall much better than it read on the page, tactically quite smart. Keith, this was one of the most conservative speeches that I, leaving aside the fact that the tax, some of the Bush tax cuts will lapse, some of the other features in there. By and large, talking about tax cuts, stressing tax cuts, spending freezes, talking about the virtues of the econ, free enterprise and the economy. In many, many ways, this is one of the most conservative speeches that a Democratic president has given since I think the middle of Bill Clinton’s time. And it was tactically quite smart on the President’s part. And his tone, which was all sweet reasonableness, designed as Rachel said to force the Republicans to stand up as they eventually did, I thought it was, it was very, very well done, and really left the Republican governor of Virginia very little to say. He didn’t have much to say to begin with.
What liberal garbage.
That speech did nothing but annoy Americans and hurt democrats. That’s it.
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Militant Conservative commented:
NO, NO,NO he does deserve to be a part of Mt. Rushmore. On the back side where the ass should be.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Barack Obama is in dire need of a psychiatrist, and obviously Fineman is as well. What a group of misfits.
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Kevin commented:
They were laughing at him, laughing for Christ’s sake!!!
Sherry commented:
It’s almost not worth the energy to take umbrage at anything K.O. or the MSM says. They love him. They love him. They hate everyone who does not love him and they tripple dog dare anyone to say that they love him more than they do.
pst314 commented:
Considering his politics, it would be more appropriate to say he should be embalmed and put on display in a glass coffin.
Dana White commented:
I thought it was illegal for those televisions hosts and guests to smoke crack cocaine right before they went on air . . . I guess not!
Major Kong commented:
I cannot imagine what it must be like to look at yourself in the mirror and understand that you have so completely sold your soul. Fortunately, we have little to no need for “journalists” of Fineman’s ilk to learn the true nature of today’s events. Fineman, et al. simply make themselves increasingly irrelevant when they utter such absurdities.
Patrick in Des Moines commented:
The 35 people who paid to join the Newsweek membership site have just asked for a refund.
Auntie Em commented:
That is the most ignorant thing I’ve heard since the address last night. Good job, Fineman…idiot.
Sherry #6…that’s hilarious!
manateespirit commented:
Jim,
The last two sentences of this blog said it all. Thank God the people of MA woke up. I have no idea what happened to Fineman. I know what will/is happening at Newsweek, though.
Mass exodus by the people.
CattusMagnus commented:
“Obama dominated the room.”
Of course he dominated the room! He was the only one with a microphone!
thomas b. commented:
It’s scary how brainwashed liberals are. Shocking. I live in the Northwest and people act like citizens of North Korea.
Gary Gross commented:
That’s rubbish. I said in this post that Gov. McDonnell badly upstaged President Obama.
President Obama sounded defiant, oblivious to the election results from Virginia, New Jersey & Massachusetts.
Frankly, President Obama sounded more like a spoiled brat than he sounded like leader of the free world.
So Cal Chick commented:
“dominated” is not a word I want associated with the President of the U.S. … Leftist lap dogs look like complete fools … on a cold day in hell . that’s when the Liar in Chief’s countenance will disgrace Mt. Rushmore…
Comrade Terry commented:
Newsweek?
They’re still in business?
BurmaShave commented:
This is a perfect example of how Liberals despise our American heritage.
Scott commented:
Ain’t love grand?
Valerie commented:
He made a commitment to build nuclear power plants, to allow drilling offshore, to listen to anybody who has a better idea about how to reform the insurance industry (health care reform), etc., and I think the smart thing to do would be to take him at his word. That is, to say, if you are serious about building nuclear power plants, the first thing that needs to happen is…
The conservatives and the Republican party have better ideas — and it is time to put them forward.
silent_rage commented:
He is already there.
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101217
twolaneflash commented:
Spot on, Kevin. They were laughing at him! Not just a tittering or the single guffaw in the back, but an uncontrollable explosion of disbelief by dozens in the audience that Obama would try to sell ClimateChange Snake Oil given the public awareness of the global fraud. The Chief Justice called him a liar. McCain snarked: “Blame Bush”, mocking Obama’s predictable scapegoating tactic. The military leaders in the audience were in shock, imagining the storm headed their way over “Don’tAskDon’tTell”. On FOX, Hannity had Frank Lutz in Philadelphia with a focus group of about 25 people after the SOTU. Given a barrel of pitchforks and access to The White House, they would have solved America’s executive problem last night. Those focus groups are usually calm and balanced, but those people were all wee wee’d up, on the edge of there chairs, and calling Obama delusional, a liar, hollow. Hannity had a poll going on the SOTU and the last I saw it was 86% rated it “Terrible”. Yep, Obama dominated the room, just like the guy that jumps up on the table, drops his pants, and pinches off a loaf in the punch bowl.
Thomas Jackson commented:
I loved Obamao’s speech! He buried the dhimmierats last night.
BertoGem commented:
Mt. Rushmore for the Nobel Prize winning POTUS? Why not?
rich commented:
… and every last one of those 35 with website subscriptions agree … heh
makes you wonder what it is that acutally drives these people.
Rich
Major Kong commented:
BHO’s SOTU: Double plus good bellyfeel.
John commented:
It’s pretty sad to see what’s happened to Howard Fineman, kind of like seeing a former pro player or a celebrity whose descended into the deep reaches of alcoholism.
Back in the old days of The McLaughlin Group, you’d barely put him in the Top 3 of liberal pundits on the show — Eleanor Clift, Jack Germond and even Morton Kondracke came across as more liberal during the Reagan, Bush I and early Clinton years. Now he’s to the point where if Keith Olbermann proposed offing Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin and five-ninths of the U.S. Supreme Court, Howard would just nod in agreement. Even Richard Wolfe exhibits more self-respect on his MSNBC appearances. Really sad.
Joanne commented:
The Truth is Out There – all Obama does is talk – he’s been saying those things for a year now and what does he have to show for it? Not a d*amn thing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Obama is due to arrive any minute.
proof commented:
Although Obama’s head does share some similarity to a large block of stone, I do not think that Obama is ready for Prime Time, much less Mt. Rushmore!
Neo commented:
Howard Fineman must really be feeling the effects of age discrimination to sell his soul so cheaply on MSNBC
mike191 commented:
A churlish speech orated by a delusional person and this becomes “Mt. Rushmore ” material, by a “journalist” who has dementia.Nothing to see here-standard journalism by our vaunted “fourth estate.”
The Joker commented:
No credibility left with anyone who has half a brain. We were laughing out loud at some of the claims and boasts. Leaders don’t employ the “blame Bush” tactic, they just roll up their sleeves and fix the problems they inherited. The scold the Supreme Court moment was one of the most shameful I’ve seen in a State of the Union speech. It was an embarassing farce from start to finish.
Wyatt Earp commented:
Maybe it’s just me, but I liked the speech. I thought it was absolutely crap-tastic.
Lynn commented:
Of course he is the only Dem Precedent to make a SOTU speech since Clinton…..just saying.
anonymous commented:
No! He doesn’t deserve to be part of Mt. Rushmore.
Buffalobob commented:
And that is why I would rather read an old copy of Ladies Home Journal than touch a newsweek rag while I’m in the dentist office.
Dem no more commented:
Further proof that the biggest idiots in the world sometimes fall through the cracks of the natural selection order.
I didn’t know it was “take an insane person to work day” already
exceller commented:
The speech was another Obama embarrassment for the country. It was unpresidential. he was angry, mocking, scolding, sarcastic, unconvincing, and told innumerable lies. It was so full of contradictions that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Howard Fineman must be out of his mind.
JPL17 commented:
aprilnovember811
January 28th, 2010 | 12:44 pm | #4
Barack Obama is in dire need of a psychiatrist, and obviously Fineman is as well. What a group of misfits.
Exactly! It’s like Fineman and other liberals want Obama to lie to them. Heck, they crave it.
“Tell me another one, Mr. President! Ooh, Barry baby, lie to me all night long! Bigger, bolder, faster! Inwardly, downwardly, pulsating, now now now!”*
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*My apologies to the writers of Seven Year Itch.
Neo commented:
You know things are bad when you lose your cheerleader …
No Man commented:
Holy cow! I missed it!
I was out getting batteries for my Obama BS decoder device. I’m going broke! I go through a set each day.
DON SURBER: “The mouthing of words was one of the few newsworthy moments in a speech that dragged on for more than an hour as Obama grasped at any and all straws in a desperate attempt to salvage his presidency. He failed. He has become an uninspiring speaker who has used up all his magic. Quantity cannot make up for quality.”
AND
ANN ALTHOUSE: “Isn’t it fascinating that the lengthy, amplified, magnified speech of the most powerful man in the world with his big captive audience — in the magnificent room and in smaller rooms all over the country — are outweighed by one man’s headshake and silent mouthing of 2 or 3 words? And isn’t it ironic that, right when we saw the judge’s minimalist expression that overwhelmed the President’s torrent of words, Obama was railing about the ‘powerful interests’ and that would use their great wealth to speak far too much during election campaigns?”
The prez has half a brain.
No Man commented:
For that speech, he deserves to be scouring Rush Limbaugh’s toilets.
Moonbat Killer commented:
THESE PEOPLE ARE ON WEAPONS GRADE CRACK/COCAINE!!!!!
bg commented:
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oh, don’t they already have a carving of him in Egypt??
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jim commented:
Newsweek has become a joke.
Solaratov commented:
Isn’t fineman the newsweek editor that said that d’ohbama was”……like…like….God.”?
Or was it another one? I know that whoever it was was from newsweek.
There is something seriously wrong with these obots.
bg commented:
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Solaratov @ 7:08 pm #48
that was Evan Thomas..
but is there truly any difference??
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John Gargano commented:
Some people just don’t get it. Some people eventually get it, but its often too late. Then there are those that don’t get it and never will get it. These are the most dangerous people because they insist on trying to make the world conform to their view of it. Since the world never conforms to any one person’s view of it, and since they never get it – their actions keep escalating until something calamitous happens.
andycanuck commented:
Won’t they have to change the name to Nob Hill, then?
befuddled commented:
holy crap valerie, this is why they invented the term “bitch slap”. go back to watching the view and reading newsweek, for if you listened or had seen anything other than shows like the behar show you would know tby now that what obama says doesn’t correlate to what he actually does.
why are these idiot kool-aid drinkers so quick to take a swig from the bowl. i am sick and tired of trying to help them through their delusions. once again, liberal ideas are literally killing this planet, from obama to hugo chavez these morons and their willing dupes need to go away. throw them from office and then lets jail them. no cures, no bipartisanship, liberals have had their chance and they are worse crooks and liars than republicans so lets thrown them out of office and into a cell with madoff.
Chisum commented:
Valerie @ 21,
Get real. You think he’s being honest about anything, much less nuclear? I notice that he didn’t mention domestic natural gas exploration.
Do a little research on his latest antics at Yucca Mountain and come back and tell us how serious BO is about nukes.
You need to stop listening to what he says and pay attention to what he does!
bg commented:
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don’t know how anyone else is reading it,
but i didn’t read Valerie’s post that way..
i read it as if Valerie was saying he made a commitment to do all of those things & the Reps should not only take the initiative, but hold his feet to the fire..
or am i losing it??
j/k.. hmmm hmmm hmmm
way too late!!
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patp commented:
“…this is one of the most conservative speeches that a Democratic president has given…”
Yes, Mr. Fineman, and that’s the point. In liberal circles, scaling back to soft-porn socialism is as close as you guys ever get to family values and a free-market society. Sad, really.