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Wednesday, December 18. 2013

Can you believe she said this?


Barbara Walters re Obama: “We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next Messiah."


As Driscoll asks, "Who is we?" The MSM, I'd guess. By the way, Barbara Walters, there is no "next Messiah" in Christianity.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:51 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I can't believe she admitted it.
#1 alanstorm on 2013-12-18 13:48 (Reply)
Wasn't there some warning somewhere about not worshiping false gods?
#2 Gringo on 2013-12-18 17:06 (Reply)
yes, but Obama wasn't a false God... He was the One True Deity (M/F/T) of Post-Modernistic Liberalism Made Flesh.

And to many of them still is.
#2.1 J.T. Wenting on 2013-12-19 10:15 (Reply)
Messiah of what exactly?

Just when I thought our major media personalities couldn't get more stupid, they never fail to surprise me.

He had it coming starting from his big introductory speech at the Dem Convention several years ago; there's just no way he could ever live up to his crafted image and disappointment was as sure to follow as day follows night.
#3 pg7984 on 2013-12-18 17:17 (Reply)
Barbara is a celebrity, not a thinker.
#4 Thalpy on 2013-12-18 17:17 (Reply)
She must be getting senile. Why would anyone admit something that screams of so much shallowness, neediness, gullibility. Messiah, really Bawbwa???
#5 pg7984 on 2013-12-18 17:20 (Reply)
Good comments all.
#6 feeblemind on 2013-12-18 17:31 (Reply)
The accusation was at the time that the media, and many liberals, were responding in exactly this way. That was laughed off the stage at the time, and taken as evidence that Republicans were paranoid and unable to contribute to the national discussion.

And now it's, gee whiz, true.

Related: By 2002, liberals were being dismissive that everyone knew that Clinton was lying but had decided it was unimportant and the stupid Republicans just wouldn't drop it. Except that is emphatically not what they were saying in 1998. Just those few years earlier, all the commentary was that it couldn't be proven and Clinton's critics were grasping at straws and small fibs in an effort to paint a picture of larger dishonesty.

I wonder if these are people who really can recreate reality because they just feel so intensely that their guys are the good guys that other realities are flexible, or if they know they lie. Some of each, is my current theory.
#7 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2013-12-18 22:27 (Reply)
Ah yes, got it figured out .... then she blithely steps right back into character with her 'pick' for 2013 person of the year ... and the logic is just about what she 'discovered' about herself.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=844310
#8 H J Briscoe on 2013-12-19 10:47 (Reply)

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