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Conservative Commentary
by Ed
Donath
November 4, 2011 |
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Defending
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Smoke and mirrors.
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Obfuscated by
the smoke coming off PC'ers rushing to condemn the image
of a man puffing a cigarette in Herman Cain's recent
internet campaign ad was the media's eagerness to
perpetuate a "story" like this one for as long as
possible.
It's ironic, too, considering the hundreds of "environmentalist" puffers
who continue to indulge their own smoking addictions in
once-fresh-airy public venues. While Cain's man was being
mocked the smoky occupiers were painted as do-gooders,
if not heroes, by the same media elitists and, of course,
their favorite son, the occupier of the White House.
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The ad in question features Cain's campaign manager, Mark
Block, as he encourages supporters to donate time and energy to
the Cain campaign. Block's endorsement ends with him taking
a punctuating puff on a cigarette.
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How is it
that the
paparazzi are Johnny on the Spot when some royalette's toes are
being sucked on a private beach or when the First
Lady
of International Date Nights "sneaks" into a Target
store disguised as a suburbanite domestic engineer but
they repeatedly missed the shot of
a well-traveled, over-exposed presidential candidate
indulging his nicotine addiction in nearly every one of
the 57 states? How is it that not one photo of Obama lighting
up in the limo or out back behind the civic centers
ever made it into the papers or to TV news?
The
closest the MSM has ever gotten to the subject of Obama's
smoking habit is the repeating of his campaign's succinct
chuckle:
"Barack
is trying to quit."
Kind
of like when the revelation that Obama had close
ties with an unrepentant Sixties radical
leftist bomber/terrorist hit the conservative media, forcing
the MSM to repeat the campaign's official line
uncountable times..."Mr.
Ayers and his wife are just neighbors of the Obamas."
Pretty good neighbors, I'd say, considering that
they had hosted BHO's political coming-out party in
their living room just a few short years earlier -- at a time
when, if you believe the spinners, they
barely knew who he was.
Isn't it
curious that at the very moment the Cain campaign-related cigarette
smoking story reached the top of the headlines the media took
the juxtapositional opportunity to promote a
coincidental White
House's press
release asserting that your Dear Leader has
(finally) kicked the
smoking habit? The MSM's fun house mirrors
always reflect the most flattering image of this
president -- often by contrasting him with other objectionable people and/or practices and by
squashing his serious scandals as they play up the
less-consequential missteps of others.
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A memo from Obama's
campaign quoting his
physician, Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, was released on Monday...declaring
that the president is
"in excellent health
and
is
"fit for duty".
Dr. Kuhlman further notes that BHO is
now "tobacco free" after a long struggle to
give up the
"occasional stress-relieving cigarette..."
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When the
cigarette ad controversy failed to produce anything but
increased financial support and better poll numbers for Herman Cain, yet-to
be-defined (let alone
substantiated)
sexual harassment allegations
against the Republican front-runner suddenly replaced criticism
of Mark Block's smoky rant in the media. (Thus
far, those allegations have also failed to impact Cain's
poll numbers and fundraising efforts. We can only
guess what will they'll throw at Herman Cain next?)
That switch-over also
coincided nicely with the release
of new information about yet another gun-walking scandal and
the ratcheting-up of the ongoing subpoena-filled
Congressional investigation of the near-$billion in stimulus handouts
to unstable,
not-so-green corporations.
But somebody in
the White House (not
surprisingly)
bungled bigtime by allowing Obama and the MSM to meet at a
photo-op at Solyndra headquarters during the exact moment in time that the bailout
of the insolvent company was
being arranged. That media/administration goof places your Dear Leader
squarely at the scene of the crime as it was being committed...
...a "smoking" gun, so to speak.
You may or may not get a look at that Solyndra video depending on
where you get your "news".
But the ultimate slobbering media message will probably
come out sounding something like:
"The president has
remained tobacco free despite the stresses of his office and
the constant attacks against him. His doctor says he
is fit for duty..."
and it will never
mirror the actual events that are being obfuscated by their
smoke.
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