Noel Sheppard used an Aug. 22 NewsBusters post to express his annoyance that Howard Fineman said that Republicans are refusing to praise President Obama for the imminent ouster of Moammar Gadhafi from Libya, adding, “If Barack Obama came out and said, ‘You know, I really love apple pie,’ they would say, ‘Apple pie is a socialist plot’”:
As I’ve said for years, it takes a tremendous number of rationalizations to be a liberal these days.
What is also quite striking about today’s left-leaning political analysts is how they conveniently feign total ignorance of politics when the situation warrants.
There’s an election next year that the Republicans would like to win. It is therefore not in their best interest to say nice things about the president they’re trying to defeat.
Surely someone that has covered national politics since 1978 is not only aware of this, but also has experienced it throughout his career.
Apart from the months immediately following 9/11, Democrats hardly ever had anything nice to say about George W. Bush. That’s called politics.
Unfortunately, folks like Fineman lose all knowledge of how this game works whenever there’s a Democrat in the White House.
At that point, Republicans are considered rude if they don’t fawn and gush over him like members of the media do.
Sorry to disappoint you, Howard.
So it’s OK for Republicans to put politics before country, Noel? All righty, then.