Conservative Media Look At Hosni Mubarak And See Barack Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 3rd, 2011 5:45 am by HL
Conservative Media Look At Hosni Mubarak And See Barack Obama
In the wake of protests in Egypt, right-wing media have compared President Obama to corrupt Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled that country as a police state for 30 years. Conservative media have long accused Obama of being “anti-Democratic” and a “dictator.”
Right-Wing: Obama Just As Corrupt, Oppressive, And Intolerant As Mubarak
Beck Suggests Obama Is Exhibiting “A Sign Of A Dictator.” On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck stated:
BECK: Did anybody notice the remarkable statements from the president last week where the president was saying, look, as long as people are peacefully assembling, they have a right to speak and the government should listen to them. All of — when he’s saying that, all I can think of was the speech where he’s walking around going, “And they’re carrying tea bags,” and mocking the American people.
And then, while they’re pushing for an Internet kill switch for the president, that does not have judicial review — in fact, it specifically says courts cannot review the decision. While they’re pushing for that in our own Congress on Friday, he’s telling Mubarak, anybody who tries to control the Internet and television and radio, that’s a sign of a dictator. Come on. [Fox News, Fox & Friends,
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Conservatives Routinely Accuse Obama Of Being “Anti-Democratic”
Limbaugh: China’s Political System Is “Very Different” From Ours: “Yeah, Maybe — But Not For Long.” On his radio show, discussing Obama’s press conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Limbaugh seized on Obama’s remark that China’s political system is “very different” from the United States’, saying, “Obama’s up there telling the press corps that China has a very different political system than we do. Yeah, maybe — but not for long. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 1/19/10]
Wash. Times‘ Kuhner: “Obama’s Regime Has Abused Its Power And Fostered Anti-Democratic Behavior.” In his Washington Times column, Jeffrey Kuhner referred to Obama as an “anti-American political thug,” writing that Obama “despises the Constitution and capitalism” and “bristles under the restraints of democratic governance and the system of checks and balances.” Kuhner went on to compare Obama with Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez, saying that “they have one goal: revolution.” Kuhner later stated:
Mr. Obama’s regime has abused its power and fostered anti-democratic behavior. He is slowly erecting a soft police state. It is not one with a fascist jackboot on your face but with a unionized TSA bureaucrat in your crotch — all in the name of public safety. Say hello to Big Brother Barack. [The Washington Times, 11/26/10]
Beck Says “The Trends That We’re Headed Towards” Is To “Install A Dictator.” On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck purported to explain the “trends that we’re headed towards,” saying “the whole dictator thing” is not just a “crazy theory.” Beck added: “What more is there to be done? Have we not given everything he has asked for? … After financial reform, the government controls 70 percent of the economy. How much more control do they want?” Beck continued: “Plus, phase two of the Weather Underground is to install a dictator. Now, I know that’s heavy, man — to use the 1960s lingo — but is it possible? Step one is grab control, grab control of the economy, grab control of the imperialistic system and then, step two is to install a dictator.” [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/27/10]
Levin On Obama Administration: “We Have Been Tormented And Abused Far More Than The Colonists Were By The King Of England.” Discussing the tea party on his radio show, Mark Levin said: “The tea party activists are acting out of history and patriotism. I said many months ago that we have been tormented and abused far more than the colonists were by the King of England. Far more, far oftener, and far more aggressively.” [ABC Radio Networks, The Mark Levin Show, 7/20/10]
Levin: What Obama Is Doing Is No Different Than “What’s Going On In Venezuela.” On his radio show, Levin stated:
LEVIN: No, there isn’t going to be a robust recovery, ladies and gentlemen. No, foreign individuals are not going to continue invest in this country, when they can get a better deal somewhere else. This is a disaster. And so what is Obama going to do about it? Keep building and building and building his empire. Keep seizing more assets. This is what’s going on. This is what the quote-unquote bailout is all about. They’re seizing private-sector assets, transferring them from private parties and turning them over to politicians and government. Now, they put smiles on their faces. They do it with legislation. Sometimes they don’t.
But how is this any different in the end, and in theory, to what’s going on in Venezuela? I ask you. No aspect of the private sector feels safe from this president and his administration and this Congress. No aspect. That’s why people aren’t spending and investing in R&D. We’re not even standing still. We’re regressing. Because we have a man in office who is a destroyer. He’s destroying all the magnificence that was created before him. Because he’s petulant, because he is inexperienced, because he’s immature, and most of all because he’s a Marxist. [ABC Radio Networks, The Mark Levin Show, 6/30/10]
Rove Accuses Obama Of Engaging “Intimidation” Tactics “Worthy Of A Third World Dictator.” In his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove wrote:
Before his health-care bill passed, Mr. Obama sent a tough letter to health-insurance CEOs and then castigated them 22 times in a follow-up prime-time televised speech. This is behavior worthy of a Third World dictator — not the head of a vibrant democracy.
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But it is the president’s intimidation that is most troubling. Mr. Obama has the disturbing tendency to question the motives of those who disagree with him, often making them the objects of ad hominem attacks. His motives, on the other hand, are pure.
Mr. Obama often makes it seem illegitimate to challenge his views, and he isn’t content to argue issues on the merits. Instead, he wants to make opponents into pariahs. And it’s not just business executives who are on the receiving end. We’ve also seen this pattern with the administration’s attacks on the tea party movement and those who attended town-hall meetings last summer on health care.
This is a bad habit — and a dangerous one. The presidency is a very powerful office, and presidents need to be careful not to use it to silence dissenting voices. [The Wall Street Journal, 4/29/10]
Limbaugh: “If I Didn’t Know Better, I Would Say That Hugo Chavez Is Actually Running This Country.” On his radio show, Limbaugh claimed that “this regime and its willing accomplices are engaged in the effort to vilify the backbone of this country — the people who work and thus make it work. They are the objects of derision. They are the targets for destruction.” Limbaugh went on to accuse the administration of treating critics and business owners like the “enemy,” concluding: “If I didn’t know better, I would say that Hugo Chavez is actually running this country. And I’m probably downplaying this a bit.” [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 4/15/10]
Savage: Obama “Is A Neo-Marxist Fascist Dictator In The Making.” On his radio show, Savage accused Obama of being a “neo-Marxist fascist dictator in the making,” saying:
SAVAGE: “Super aides for health, the economy, energy, and urban issues, with more to come, prompt lawmakers and groups to worry he may be concentrating power and bypassing Congress.” Of course he is. He’s a fascist. I know that you don’t want to hear this, but the man is a neo-Marxist fascist dictator in the making. He is not using his fascism yet, because he doesn’t have enough power to wield the fascist instruments of power, but he is aggrandizing enough power to become a very dangerous president, and you must understand this is an important story. [Talk Radio Network, The Savage Nation, 3/5/09]
