Growls

Ask my family one thing about me, and they’ll probably tell you I talk about little other than politics. I admit it, I’m a news junkie. Which leads me to say that if Sen. Obama wins Tuesday’s presidential election, he will owe a gigantic debt to the news media, or what Rush Limbaugh calls the Drive-Bys.

On Friday, Rush Limbaugh provided his listeners “a montage of Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw trying to figure out who Obama is.” The essence of it is that news media icons Tom Brokaw of NBC and Charlie Rose of PBS do not know who presidential aspirant Sen. Barack Obama (D) is. Take your choice from: 1) 4:09 minute segment from Charlie Rose’s October 30 interview with Tom Brokaw admitting they know almost nothing about Obama; 2) a 31-second audio montage of sound bites available at You Tube; and 3) transcript of the audio montage from the Rush Limbaugh Show’s website, which follows:

ROSE:  I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW:  No, I don't, either.

ROSE:  I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW:  We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE:  I don't really know.  And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW:  Yeah, it's an interesting question.

ROSE:  He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.

BROKAW:  Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE:  What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW:  There's a lot about him we don't know.”

As Rush quipped, “Incredible!” My sentiments, exactly.

Yes, there has been some effort to fill-in what Sen. Obama means by hope and change, but it is random and scattered at best. For example, in an interview with Iowa public broadcasting in November 2007, Sen. Obama advocated ‘price signals’ to change peoples’ behaviors. He then admitted that when government takes from companies (taxes anyone?) those companies do nothing but raise their prices on consumers. Essentially, he said the middle class can sit in a dark house while the power companies figure out how to produce power at a lower cost. Watch this presidential aspirant in his own words, thanks to this video posted by Little Green Footballs.

If you think that is radical, watch this video from a January 2008 interview Sen. Obama had with the San Francisco Chronicle. The entire transcript is also provided, thanks again to Little Green Footballs, but here’s the substance:

“Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there . . . So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

Note what LGF adds: “NewsBusters points out that the SF Chronicle didn’t mention this statement in their article based on this interview. Shocka!“

Shocking? Shocking, indeed! Tell me I shouldn’t think that paying for another Washington Post, New York Times, or another liberal newspaper does anything but continues their incompetence. The same applies to the liberal broadcast media. I’m willing to be convinced the Drive-Bys aren't "in the tank" for Sen. Obama, however.