Mike Lupica: Obama's Crotchmonkey

From Mike Lupica's column in the Daily News:

Those idiots come to these town hall meetings more to be seen than heard, and think creating chaos makes them great Americans.

Those people have been convinced by the current culture that we are dying to hear from them, and the louder the better. People who think that all they need to star in their own reality series is a couple of TV crews. But then this is Twitter America now, where no thought is supposed to go unspoken.

We hear that all of this is democracy in action. It's not. It's boom-box democracy, people thinking that if they somehow make enough noise on this subject, they can make Obama into a one-term President.

I wonder if Mr. Lupica had such a problem with all the anti-war activists who spouted their shrillness in every direction for eight years. Or the gay rights activists. Or the environmentalists. Or pick a left-wing nutjob cause of the week. Thirty people march around outside somebody's building with picket signs chanting some variation of "hey-ho..." and it makes every news channel as if its some incredible legitimate movement that we should care about. That's not even what this is. This is actual citizens - not the professional or for-hire protesters that champion left-wing causes - standing up for their liberty and speaking out, loudly, against something that their government wants to push upon them that they don't agree with.

So much of this comes from people who get all their information from right-wing media, or their cheerleading from political has-beens like Betsy McCaughey, people who don't see this as a fight for better and more inclusive health care, but who now see it as something grander and more noble, a fight to reclaim America from Obama.

They couldn't win the fight last November, when he laid out John McCain and Palin and a whole party with one election, so they try to do it now, with lies and rather amazing distortions. They want everybody to believe that if Obama gets his way, he'll eventually be in charge of insurance and doctors and whether you use CVS or Duane Reade. He's a Socialist selling socialized medicine. He'll kill Grandma. Come on. The notion that this is all honest dissent is just one more lie.

I don't even have the energy to start with this piece of nonsense. Better, more inclusive health care? How, exactly, is forcing everyone out of their private plans and into a government plan more inclusive? It's not a fight to reclaim it from Obama. He's only a symptom. It's a fight to reclaim it and stop it from headed down this socialist (if not worse) path that our country is so willingly being sold down under the guise of "fairness" and "inclusiveness" and "compassion" and "security."

And the notion that Obama "laid out" McCain and the Republicans in one election is ridiculous. A seven percent victory for Obama isn't a landslide. 18% is a landslide. And let's remember for a moment that John McCain was despised by true conservatives. He was the weakest Republican candidate since Bob Dole's joke of a candidacy. And the Republicans in Congress did it to themselves by forgetting why they were there and for selling out their base on almost every issue to the wishes of the Democrats in the interest of "bipartisanship" and "cooperation."

Hacks like Lupica are exactly why people are turning to the web and other non-traditional media sources for their news. People don't have to sit here and have a condescension sandwich shoved down their throats anymore. We don't have to sit here and be told we're stupid for voicing our opinion, either. The only difference between us and you is that you've gotten someone to pay you for it.