This is the huge headline on the Drudge Report as of 9am EDT on Monday October 27th 2008
2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT
You click and you link to a YouTube clip titled "Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered". The clip consists of some audio -- with misleading extracts of text -- to a 2001 Chicago public radio interview with a very studious Barack Obama in law professor mode discussing the limitations of the court and his belief that the legislative process is the appropriate way to pursue economic justice. (Which if memory serves -- accords with the conservative preference to eliminate judges who legislate from the bench.)
This clip isn't as boring as watching paint dry. It's more boring. It's like watching paint period.
The phrase "Clutching At Straws" does not do justice to this very limp attempt by Drudge to erect something he can put up against Barack Obama. Alas -- as Drudge is all too aware -- it just won't stand up any more.
The impotence of Drudge's attempts to get something to stick to Obama brings to mind the English expression "Brewer's Droop." Though perhaps in deference to his colossal lack of achievement in this field -- the phrase should be re-coined "Brewer's Drudge."
Apparently linking to this "bombshell" is the best that Drudge has been able to come up with so far. Though I'm sure he'll be plucking more things out of his arse (to be quaintly British) as we get ever closer to the end of the conservative reign of terror and error that he did so much to help usher in with his pioneering work in the field of internet muck-raking.
Meanwhile, in related news -- I am able to share with you this new scan of Matt Drudge's brain.
Inside of Matthew Nathan Drudge's brain courtesy Dr. Felcher -- Miami-Dade County Hospital
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He was murdered just before the poor peoples March on Washington.
Anyone else remember that?
The Corporate media have done such a diservice to his memory. Playing bits and pieces of his life. But ignoring his central messages.
It was not just about race. It was about equal ECONOMIC opportunity as well.
These people are so desperate a week out that they are counting on the ignorance of the voting public. Let's make sure they are disappointed come Nov. 4.
There's a HUGE difference between replacing capitalism with a socialist welfare-based system and re-tuning a capitalist system that currently only really benefits the top 1% so that it becomes a capitalist system that benefits 100%.
What I have to ask is: once Obama put his name to the bailout, how does he expect to do the latter? Because he really did stab himself in the back as far as public funding goes...unless one of his first acts as President is to repeal TARP, along with the Patriot Act and other borderline totalitarian legislation that has been passed this last 8 years.
,Just like the Miss Pott story.
I really hope that fox news do not make the same mistake like they
did with Miss Pott story.
I repeat that this audio is not real,i do not know who was talking
but it was not Obama.
This audio is fake,if you people want you people believe or not,thats everybody own choice ,but this
audio gonna be the and of REP..... and drudge report and maybe Fox news.
As well, progressive taxation and reparations are not socialism. The first is a method of taxation that's been demonstrated to work well since the inception of the income tax as a means of funding government. No evidence exists that it has ever discouraged the wealthy to pursue more wealth. The second is no different than a civil suit judgment for a plaintiff recouping losses.
It has been proven that Matt Drudge is a sensationalist who times his gossip to fit his political agenda, most of the time ineffectively. And once in a blue moon, he's been caught publishing actual news.