WSJ Turns Red, Throws Fit

Posted on May 29, 2008
Filed Under Media, News, Politics, Reading List | By Ester Bloom

Barack Obama, the Maddox of the Kennedy clan, was asked to tag in with very little notice after Ted was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor and couldn’t speak at Wesleyan University’s Commencement. While students raved about his performance, the Wall Street Journal–otherwise known as The Man, embodied here by David Boaz–took Obama’s words as a personal attack. If you close your eyes, you can hear his voice getting higher and squeakier as he rants:

The people Mr. Obama is sneering at are the ones who built America – the traders and entrepreneurs and manufacturers who gave us railroads and airplanes, housing and appliances, steam engines, electricity, telephones, computers and Starbucks. … “A greater cause,” “community service” –- to many of us, these gauzy phrases sound warm and comforting. But their purpose is to disparage and denigrate our own lives, to belittle our own pursuit of happiness.

The Man must be on the rag or something, because that’s a tad over-sensitive and melodramatic. What exactly is un-American about encouraging kids to pursue community service in, you know, America?

The list of the achievements that Obama is supposedly pissing on, ranging from steam engines to Starbucks, is pretty hilarious. Someone should probably inform The Man, though, once he takes two Midol and calms down, that “the manufacturers who gave us railroads” were immigrants from China.

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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3 Responses to “WSJ Turns Red, Throws Fit”

  1. Jamie Holts on May 29th, 2008 10:35 am

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