The Pursuit of Control

Isn’t there something ironic about the latest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate declaring war on… Fox News?

This started long ago but when President Obama’s thugs all came out and accused Fox News of not being a news organization it became clear that we aren’t dealing with your average Chicago politician, this guy is much worse.  As Michael Calderon over at Politico points out, way back in June President Obama complained to John Harwood of CNBC about the “…television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration…”.

President Obama is the most divisive, partisan politician to ever live in the White House and his closest advisors and cabinet members including Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, and Anita Dunn have all tried to marginalize Fox News by labeling them as a wing of the GOP.

Are they the only ones that can’t see what they are doing to themselves? Attacking a giant like Fox News, who has more viewers than many of the other ‘news’ channels combined, can’t be good for business. Besides, I thought we were beyond partisanship, I thought Barack Obama was the great moderate that would cross the aisle.

Our president is encouraging violence by prolonging his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, lying to the American public about his healthcare takeover plans and waging a war on Fox News.

How Nobel of him.

Wilson, Carter, Roosevelt, Gore and now… Obama?!

I guess I never realized how ridiculous the Nobel Peace Prize really was until I woke up this morning listening to Obama accept the award. In typical Obama fashion though, the first thing Obama did was credit foreign leaders for his award. I guess when you really have absolutely zero reasons to win the award you have to dig pretty deep to figure out why you should be waking up to this prize.

Even past presidents who have won the awards while in office had actual reasons to be granted the prize. Both Roosevelt and Wilson were awarded the prize for treaties signed under their watch. In the last several years though the prize has fallen off of a cliff and has been awarded to Carter in 2002, Gore in 2007 and now Obama in 2009.

Since the prize is awarded for accomplishments over the last year  maybe Obama’s speech in Germany was enough to land the prize. Maybe denouncing Jeremiah Wright was enough to push him over the edge and win the award. I know, maybe adopting the family dog was enough of a peaceful gesture to grant him the honor.

If they really wanted to grant the award to a liberal why not President Clinton? His charity has raised over $1 billion towards humanitarian causes all over the world. Gandhi never even won the award!

Some are saying this was merely a stunt to take a swipe at the Bush administration. If that is the case we are in much worse shape than I thought. To grant an undeserving rookie president who has managed to do nothing to help the economy, improve the lives of citizens of the United States, or the world for that matter with zero tangible achievements is not only obviously biased, but is also absolutely ridiculous and points to the mindset of those around the world that value the weak, conformist agenda of the Obama administration.

I guess the only other question would be how is Obama going to redistribute his prize money?