I'm a visual person, so when I hear there is a gang of bullies in the White House beating up on people who disagree with them, I picture it very clearly.
We have Rush Limbaugh, certainly no fan of Obama but a big fan of football, who wanted to buy into a team, and whose membership of part of a consortium was very hush hush. But suddenly it leaked along with a lot of racist quotes attributed to him. Did he really say those things? Not that anyone could find. For this man who is taped speaking three hours every day not to mention speeches and other events, you'd think finding the genesis of the few racist quotes attributed to him would be easy to locate. But no. Best researchers in the world couldn't find them.
He didn't like a particular quarterback who was black; didn't back away from anything he said about him and only in this post racial Obama world could what he said be found to be racist.
Rush was asked, because of these things he didn't say, to remove his name from the consortium. He refused and said if they wanted his name removed to do it themselves. They did. What was less publicized was that George Soros was also one of the bidders.
And would this be the same George Soros who I recently read a transcript of admitting that he turned in Jews to the Nazis and then looted their things, but really didn't feel any guilt about it because, well, gosh, if he didn't do it someone else would have?
So on the one hand we have doing business with outspoken conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. And on the other hand we have doing business with a sneaky philanthropist who backdoors political contributions to liberal Democrat organizations and who happens to have been a Nazi sympathizer.
Well, if you're the NFL, of course you're going to want to do business with the Nazi sympathizer. Suddenly Monday night football doesn't seem as much fun as it used to.
Did the long arm of the White House reach into this for the simple pleasure of undermining an outspoken conservative and to watch the back of a good buddy? I'll just say yes, because I can, using the same kind of proof the White House does. And it went to their heads.
So what else have our little buddies been up to?
"That went well, so let's go after Fox News. Brewskis all around."
"What can we say, Axelrod? "Rahm wonders.
"Oh, I know, I know," says Obama. "We'll tell everyone they're not a real news organization."
"Yeah, yeah," says, Rahm excitedly, "and then we'll make some threats, but we'll smile so they don't really sound like threats, that if the other networks start trying to educate their viewership and ask questions like FOX, we'll cut them out of the loop too."
"Who else?" asks Axelrod.
"It goes without saying that we can get Move.On on board. Maybe they can do a petition or something, "says Obama.
"Yeah," says Rahm. "I'll put that on my to-do list."
"We should have a meeting with FOO (Friends of Obama)," says Rahm. "We'll let Gibbs in on this one. We'll have folks from The New York Times, MSNBC commentators and others we know who are firmly in our camp. Make them feel like part of team Obama. That should get us even more favorable coverage. And don't tell anyone. This has to be kept under the table."
"Great."
"But we need another enemy."
"I know, I know," says Axelrod. "There's no point in governing when we can stay in campaign mode. Any ideas?"
"How about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? They've been a thorn in my side since I took office. Lobbyists all over the place. And not the kind I like. You know what I'm saying," laughs Obama.
"Yeah," says Rahm. "Let's go after them. This is how Nixon must have felt. But let's makes sure we don't write any of this down. Poor slob. Imagine actually recording yourself planning nefarious deeds. I mean actually getting it on tape. Dude deserved to get caught."
"Yeah. Nothing on paper. Nothing on tape. Stealth all the way."
"I've got it. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce."
"Yeah," say Obama. "Who needs something that calls itself 'the voice of American Business'. They're against all three of my major initiatives on healthcare, climate change, and financial re-regulation. We'll take them down. We schmooze away some of its members, invite them here to meet Michelle and the girls. Promise them stuff like we did the insurance execs and doctors. We already bought off that General Electric guy. Man, Immelt has been the gift that keeps on giving."
"Gift? He's cost us a fortune."
"It's taxpayer money. Doesn't matter. And so he gets his name on a board or two. Makes him feel like somebody. What a tool. When someone finally puts the pieces together about who he's done business with, he's the one who's going down, not us."
"He's been worth every penny and position we've given him."
"But back to the Chamber of Commerce. We'll tell companies they don't need it. All power rests with the presidency. Not the Chamber. They'll see the light, just like General Electric. Just like the insurance companies until I turned on them. Hey, I just made a joke."
"Man, we're good," says Axelrod.
"That General guy is outside. He wants to talk to you about Afghanistan or something."
"Man, he's persistent. Tell him to go away and come back later. We've got important business here."
"Press is going to be all over you about that."
"Just Fox. But we've marginalized them. You watch. No questions about it at the press conference tomorrow. They'll be asking about Fox. Not about healthcare or Afghanistan or the economy. So now we'll target the Chamber of Commerce. Get Gibbs in here to set up those double secret meetings."
"And get what's his name in here so we can talk about going in through the back door and taking over those conservative talk shows through fines at the local level until they can't afford to operate any longer. We'll do it under the guise of diversity," said Rahm.
Obama kicked back and put his hands behind his head with a wide smile. "Power is a good thing, Rahm, my friend. It's going to be a great world once we get rid of all of our enemies."
"I love ya, man."
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