Ann Compton's story about Obama and his sycophants launching into profanity laced tirades against the press behind closed doors because they weren't being quite fawning enough in their reviews of him is quite funny - this man very simply would have no political career and could never have become president of United States without the willing participation of a biased media and I'd say this invective is a reflection of that: like a true dictator he expects total devotion and so anything that looks even slightly disloyal enrages. Some are saying this was just a deliberate tactic to try and intimidate the press into a an even more subservient state as his presidency started to go bad - no doubt but I'd say it also sounds like the rantings of a spoiled child who expects to get everything he wants and cannot endure the insult of being disappointed. 

What does the Rolling Stone rape story debacle tell us about liberalism as the far left practices it? The same thing that the unfounded cries of racism regarding the Ferguson grand jury decision told us and the selling of Obamacare through lies told us and the Benghazi cover-up told us and what the entire Obama presidency and the media's open endorsement of it has been telling us - namely that liberals don't care about facts or reality or objective analysis or even open debate - all they care about is the narrative they want to perpetuate and if it's not actually true or even rationally defensible or just logically coherent in the most basic of ways according to, ya know, facts they don't really give a shit about that. When people who think like this ascend to a power that cannot be effectively challenged and contained and pushed back against by moderating forces that's when you end up with Stalinism and fascism and Maoism and Islamism and people lined up against a wall and shot for not believing what they've been told to believe or for being a threat to the sanctity of the preferred ideology. 

Not to suggest America is about to turn into a Stalinist state, but the tendency towards oligarchic fascism underpinning much of the liberal agenda and thinking is pretty evident. For the kind of closed liberal mindset that produced the Rolling Stone story quite possibly the most awful thing in the world is the white heterosexual male who has not been saved by the grace of progressivism and repudiated  his privileged status - that was the narrative that needed to be told and if the facts sort of got in the way well who cares because every good zealot knows truth is what you want it to be. 

Hillary says the US needs to empathize with its enemies - yes if only FDR had done a better job of feeling Hitler's pain we just might have won that war... oh wait. She calls this 'smart power' which I take it it is her version of Obama's 'don't do dumb things' which as far as I can tell means do nothing but dumb things but call those dumb things nuanced and maybe no one will notice.

Of course it is a fundamental rule of war and diplomacy that you must know your enemy and understand what they're thinking and why they're thinking it - but the connotations of empathy are to feel what another is feeling in order to better sympathize with them - that is a vastly different thing then the cold calculation of understanding.

Since she said this thing during a written speech I have to believe it was not a blunder and was done deliberately, the language is deliberate - worried that the progressive base is going to torpedo her campaign again as it searches for an Obama clone? Sorry, Cankles,  but you're going to have to join Code Pink if you want to out lefty Elizabeth Warren. 

With liberals now it seems willing with Obama's blessing to declare rhetorical war on white America as if Jim Crow were still alive and all the problems afficting the black community were the result of racist oppression with the pointy end of this oppressive spear apparently being the police forces of American cities - I have a solution: stop policing black neighborhoods. If liberals truly believe that the police forces of America's inner cities are the storm troopers of a new effort to keep the black man down then what they're  really arguing for is a withdrawal of those evil white forces from black communities - implied in what Mayor DiBlasio said yesterday is that very notion - so let it be done. 

All joking aside (and I'm not really joking) a semblance of this withdrawal will be the practical effect of liberals deciding that by far the greatest problem facing the country right now is white on black racism and that the leading edge of this plague are cops. 

So let it be done - and then we can all stand back and watch the fun that ensues. 

Rand Paul says regarding Obama's executive action on amnesty that he can't defend the indefensible - in other words he can't simply ignore logic and reality and the reasonable objective norms of common sense - ahhh... yes he can, he's built a political career on doing precisely that because if the press and media are not going to challenge your lies and gibberish then lies and gibberish become pretty effective political tools - and with no election left to fight he's doubly free to sling bullshit wherever he pleases.

All Obama needs is for the media to protect him just enough so that his approval rating hangs around 40% and then he can move forward as if he has some kind of legitimate mandate - he starts slipping to 35 or 30% approval rating then not even his friends in the media can save his credibility and Democrats in Congress will start to harbor grave concerns about how much irreparable damage the guy is doing to the party. But I tend not to believe his approval rating will sink that low especially with the media running cover for him - Romney said the number was 47% but I'm guessing that probably overstated things a bit, but certainly roughly 40% of the electorate doesn't care about facts and is gonna believe Obama no matter how full of shit what he says is and are gonna continue to support him. I mean look at the poll numbers regarding the Ferguson grand jury decision - more than 40% of people thought it was wrong - you either have to be an idiot or unmoved by facts and reality to think that - and so it is that Obama believes he can get away with whatever his ideological arrogance desires to attempt. 

People keep asking can racial problems in America ever go away - the answer is the

perception of a problem is not going away at least not easily - but that's  not because of entrenched racism, it's because liberals need the perception of the evil white overlord to persist in order to win elections and push their extremist agenda along - liberals need people of color to be poor and poorly educated and they need lefty whites to feel guilty about it so that the two can remain an easily manipulated voting bloc serving the progressive agenda - and as long as the mainstream media through silence and willful ignorance continues to endorse if not openly support this behavior it's never going away.

Which makes me think when it comes to the political process there's not a lot separating an extremist group like Hamas and the Obama presidency or the liberal elite in general - both feed off the poor and ignorant by stoking grievances that they know the left wing media and press are going to endorse and validate regardless of truth and reality because in Hamas' case the lefty media hates Israel and in America's case the lefty media hates conservatives or capitalism or white people in general or the colonial history of the West or democracy or God and guns and pick up trucks or the military or whatever  the hell it is liberals just simply cannot abide, which often seems to be anything that does not comport with the way they believe the world should be. 

Liberals are fundamentally and by nature, at least in their modern incarnation, not realists, not skeptics, not empiricists - they're idealists and quite naïve and delusional and vain and intolerant ones at that. 

Let's put aside the reams of idiotic words and thoughts being spouted by the left regarding Ferguson that have nothing at all to do with justice and everything to do with pushing forward an extremist liberal agenda - and let's put aside the flagrant and wholly dispiriting reality that demagogues like Al Sharpton do much much much more harm to the black community than they do good and that so long as the liberal elite need African-Americans to forever be an underemployed and under educated underclass dependent on big government and 'legitimately' blaming all their misfortunes on a brand of racism that disappeared more than a generation ago then their fortunes in America will continue to wallow in dysfunction and decay - let's put all that annoying nonsense aside and ask a more pragmatic and possibly more important question: how are the other two significant minority groups in America viewing this race baiting circus?

As for latinos there's certainly no love lost between them and blacks and so they may conceivably be turned off by the whole farce and therefore potentially be turned off by the liberal silliness  that props it up - on the other hand the way that the populist politics of racial grievance can bury the truth and distort debate and bring the giddy media clamoring to your side can also serve the interests of Latinos - so i'd be interested what the polls say but you could see some ambivalence there which in and of itself would be a curious development. 

The really fascinating group to watch as regards reaction to this farce is Asians. Little remarked upon but of significant importance is the fact that in 2014 the GOP won the Asian vote after losing it badly in 2012 - if this trend continues the key to stopping America from becoming the liberal autocracy Obama is so diligently trying to turn it in to could be the Asian vote.

Many have wondered why Asians seem so reluctant to vote republican given that their cultural predilections and sympathies lean right - this is especially true when it comes to issues of law and order - so it's certainly possible the race mongering circus playing out in Ferguson that seems intent on demonizing a cop for doing his job while treating a thug as some sort of hero may be causing Asians to a significant degree to question whether they've been backing the wrong party. 

If 2014 was the beginning of a new trend with Asian voters sure would be a good time to nominate someone like Nikki Haley - with one stroke you neutralize Hillary's only selling point and make a strong appeal to a voting bloc that could be key to the GOP's long term fortunes. 

With Obama now looking for his fourth SECDEF in six years, his foreign-policy in tatters and the Oval Office's relationship with the Pentagon and the military in general obviously let's say

troubled people are wondering what is causing this malaise and coming to the conclusion it's groupthink taking control of Obama and his inner circle and leading to the spoilage of good ideas and coherent strategic thought.

How is this new? The liberal elite is defined by its contempt for other people's ideas and anyone who does not share in their ostensibly enlightened view of things - they're idealists and therefore by nature, given the flimsy assumptions that hold their ideological pretensions together, must guard against open debate and the opinions of skeptics. These people are all about groupthink. 

No clear thinking unbiased person should be shocked at all by what we're seeing here. Obama came into into office with the clear intention of emasculating American power and shrinking its strategic footprint - his arrogance, seconded by the grotesque delusions of the liberal elite, told him that the vacuum left behind would be filled by his Progressive brilliance and the world would be led by him into a new and oh so pretty direction. (What would've been of note is if such a detached from reality view of things had not brought Obama into conflict with the reality-based community of the military. It was a virtual guarantee that the US military would come to dislike and distrust this commander-in-chief - and I'm guessing the distrust began when he ignored the advice of his generals and decided to apply an arbitrary endpoint to his phony 'surge' in Afghanistan)

Again, anyone who bought into the utter nonsense spouted by this man should be utterly ashamed of themselves. There is absolutely nothing surprising about how awful a president this guy is. 

I've been saying for a while now that Turkey can no longer be considered a reliable member of NATO and a trusted ally of the West given Erdogan's arch Islamist sentiments and therefore its continuing membership in the Western alliance should be deeply questioned and the sale of the F 35 to them should be suspended or at least brought under review - and yet we hear absolutely nothing from the leaders of the West.

Two recent events should absolutely bring an end to that silence and if they do not then one will only be able to conclude that political correctness by Western leaders is judged as a more important thing than strategic coherence. Erdogan has openly declared in a speech that the West is the enemy of Islam and went so far as to say that the people of the west enjoy watching Muslims die - there's no way to rationalize rhetoric like that in defense of Turkey's  continuing membership in a Western alliance - but damning as those words are there's something worse: Israeli intelligence has uncovered material support by Turkey for Palestinian terror by allowing Hamas to set up a 'command' infrastructure in Turkey - this is completely unacceptable and should be condemned at the highest level.

And yet we hear nothing except of course from Israel which is rightly outraged. Only a fool at this point would expect leadership on an issue like this from Obama and so it will be up to the Republican controlled Congress to raise the appropriate concern - if they don't one is really going to have to wonder just how detached from coherent strategic thought the West overall is.

Now I suppose one could argue that booting the only Muslim entity from NATO would do more harm than good and so the best of the Bad options is to ignore Erdogan's abuses and that amounts to a form of strategic coherence. Okay, maybe - it also amounts to a form of sticking ones head in the sand when it comes to the problem of Islamism not being compatible with Western notions of liberty and personal freedom and the open marketplace of ideas enshrined in our democratic institutions. I get that you often form alliances with people you don't agree with - but you do not form binding alliances with people who see you as the enemy and give open support to the enemies of your strategic partners - that's insane. 

I got to say I know the left-wing is unhinged and it's various activist branches are unhinged and irrational and pretty much addled into a blinded intemperate stupidity by their ideological fixations - but still I'm shocked at how desperate they are to turn what happened in Ferguson, a perfectly justified act of self-defense against a kid who thought it a good idea to go gangster on some cop, into some great cause of social justice - it's almost beyond belief the utter nonsense you hear being spoken by supposedly intelligent people never mind the atrocious and rabid hatred you hear coming from people with no claims to intelligence whatsoever. And there's even protests in London, England? Where are the protests condemning young British Muslims running off to Syria to behead people? It's absolutely absurd what's going on here.

Western civilization will not survive the modern incarnation of liberalism if this is the irrational form it is increasingly going to be taking.