June 12, 2009 First Bush Worship, now Obama Worship. Gods Come Cheap These Days!
When President George W. Bush was first elected back in
2000, I well remember the way
Christian conservatives
went gaga over him. They would deny it, of course, but
it was more than hero worship: they acted as if he were
a god.
Life-size posters filled Christian bookstores. Religious
broadcasters and televangelists swooned over him like
16-year-old girls used to swoon over Elvis Presley.
Pastors invoked his name almost as a prayer. The
Religious Right acted like they had died and gone to
Heaven. In the minds of Christian conservatives, G.W.
Bush could do no wrong.
The result of all this sophomoric silliness was that the
Religious Right became blind, impotent lackeys to a
Big-Government, big-spending, Orwellian, and inept
administration—maybe one of the
worst in U.S. history.
And all of this was not lost to the political left. They
called Christian conservatives
"dupes,"
"buffoons,"
"gullible,"
and a whole lot more.
But now it is the liberals' turn to take a voyage in the
vehicle of villainous vulnerability.
First, there was the major media's
"anointing"
of President Barack Obama. Yes, I use the word
"anointing" on purpose. Make no mistake about it: in the minds of
the major media, Obama was not inaugurated; he was
canonized. No pope, king, or potentate of history
received the coronation that Barack Obama received. To
the liberals who dominate the news media and
entertainment industry in this country, Obama is not a
President: he is a god.
For example, did readers see the way NBC newsman, Brian
Williams, bowed to his majesty, Barack Obama? (If you
missed it, see it
here on YouTube.
Where are
Keith Olbermann's
eloquent rebukes of the
Military Commissions Act
(MCA), the suspension of
Habeas Corpus,
and many other Big-Government intrusions into the
private lives of the American people that were first
instituted under George W. Bush and that now continue
under Barack Obama?
When he wants to, Olbermann can be a very convincing,
articulate defender of constitutional liberties.
However, it seems that Olbermann is only interested in
constitutional government when it is a Republican
trampling it. Since Obama became President, Olbermann
has not only muted his criticism against
unconstitutional policies emanating from the White
House, he has joined the chorus of mindless worship of
the new President.
(Here are Olbermann's trenchant comments on President
Bush's support for the Military Commissions Act and
denying Habeas Corpus—something we will not see from
Olbermann regarding the same policies emanating from the
Obama White House:
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=sAjVHtSO_As
The list of ways that media and entertainment lemmings
fawn over Barack Obama is almost endless. And just when
one thinks he has heard it all, out comes the blathering
balderdash from
Newsweek editor-at-large Evan Thomas.
Appearing on last weekend's Inside Washington, Thomas
lauded President Obama as a
"brave,"
"great teacher" who "stands
above everybody." But Thomas saved his most
outrageous oratory for last Friday's Hardball program.
On Hardball, Thomas gushed,
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above--above the
world, he's sort of God."
There you have it: according to
Newsweek's
Evan Thomas, Barack Obama is
"sort of God."
Well, now that God is in the White House, I suppose we
don't need the Constitution; we don't need the Bill of
Rights; we don't need Congress; we don't need the
Supreme Court; we don't need individual sovereign
states; we don't need the media; and we certainly don't
need Evan Thomas, do we?
There it is, my friends: because Barack Obama is the
President, the major media now worships toward 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue. Goodbye resistance; goodbye
objectivity (if they ever had it); goodbye fairness;
goodbye investigative reporting; goodbye accountability
(at least for Obama); goodbye professional journalism;
and goodbye free and independent press. Hello
propaganda; hello favoritism; hello yellow journalism;
hello socialism; hello
"monarchalism"; hello globalism; hello elitism; and hello Pravda.
What in the world has happened to us? How is it that
otherwise intelligent and educated people can so quickly
forget virtually everything their principles and values
taught them, and become little more than clumsy chumps
for a Presidential administration—any Presidential
administration?
Are we that slavish? That childish? That foolish?
Apparently so.
As bad as it was under Bush, it will be twice as bad
under Obama. Only because, at least with Bush, the major
media's natural liberal bias tended to want to keep Bush
somewhat honest, which meant that Bush would often face
criticism from the media for some of his
unconstitutional policies (such as Olbermann's eloquent
repudiation of Bush's policies regarding the MCA and
Habeas Corpus referenced above).
Forget it with Obama. The liberal bias of the major
media will tend to cause them to support anything this
guy says or does, and to always look the other way
whenever unconstitutional or illegal activity surfaces.
For eight years, Christian conservatives had
"Lord Bush."
Now, liberals have
"Lord Obama."
Seems to me that gods come pretty cheap these days.
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next column will return the week of June 28. Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He hosts a weekly radio show. His website is here. |
