Nicholas Chamberas joins WorldNetDaily’s Larry Elder with a sadly latent case of Obama derangement in his Oct. 7 Newsmax column:
Former U.S. President Barack Obama’s depressing although entirely predictable narrative on Charlie Kirk’s assassination, seeks the political upper hand by attacking President Do]nald Trump.
While the former president’s recent arguments fall drastically short of persuading any disinterested party, his remarks prove convincingly that you don’t only encounter outlandish tales in movies and novels.
Charlie Kirk is dead because the radical left encourages violence and employs insane rhetoric without any regard for the truth, or accountability; their stewards are dispossessed of any sense of restraint or rectitude.
President Obama and the radical left have become standard bearers for an agenda that won’t pass scrutiny with Americans.
[…]During his time in Office, President Obama embraced Black Lives Matter (BLM), going so far as declaring them to be far better organizers than he was.
Whether BLM are better “organizers” than President Obama is certainly debatable, unless of course the goal of “organizing” involves burning down lots of private property, in which case BLM absolutely has the advantage.
President Barack Obama “sold” the American People on the idea that he would foster unity and work towards ending racial division in our Country.
It’s no coincidence that after winning a second term, Obama said that racism was still “deeply rooted” in America. President Obama left Office with 60% of Americans saying that race relations had gotten worse during his administration.
Chamberas did not explain why it was solely up to Obama — and not white people — to fix race relations. Instead, he repeated some old falsehoods:
In 2009, President Obama, infamously went on an “apology tour” for prior U.S. foreign policy. In a historic March 20, 2016 visit to Cuba, Mr. Obama refused to disagree with Raul Castro when he accused the United States of massive human rights violations.
There was no apology tour, as we documented, and Politico described what Obama actually did to Castro:
Monday afternoon here in Havana, he did it to Raúl Castro, right in the Revolutionary Palace, letting him be pressed with questions for the first time — ever — and joining in himself. And not just that: He had to answer for the political prisoners whom the government rounds up almost daily — yet denies even exist.
Cubans watching on state television, which broadcast the whole thing live and in full, had never seen anything like this. Neither has the White House press corps. Or anyone who works at the White House.
After making dubious accusations about the Russia “hoax” (it wasn’t), Chamberas concluded:
President Obama was a duly elected president who remains relatively popular to this day. But when it comes to playing a leading role in healing as a country and promoting unity, President Obama should really sit this one out.
Michael Dorstewitz folowed with an Oct. 31 column in which he took offense to Obama’s statement that celebrated “new forms of journalism,” but cautioned that “regulatory constraints” had to be placed upon it to protect the truth:
But in fact there’s nothing “new” about Obama’s “new forms of journalism” — especially given the manner in which he would want them controlled.
It was described in a classic work of science-fiction.
[…]It’s precisely what the late British novelist George Orwell warned us about when he imagined a society where the government had that power, and where “Big Brother” was everywhere, to make sure everyone walked the straight and narrow.
Orwell wrote in his 1949 dystopian novel “1984” that “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
And that’s exactly what the Democratic Party is asking us to do today — to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears, making the wide publication of Obama’s comments a case of bad timing for Democrats.
Dorstweitz continued to grouse:
[Jonathan] Turley describes freedom of speech as “The Indispensable Right” in his latest book.And Barack Obama wants government to infringe upon that “indispensable right” by becoming the final arbiter of distinguishing fact from fiction.
Orwell explained what life would be like in a “1984” world in that event.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.”
That’s a world where we can’t speak openly, where we can’t state an opinion, where we’re unable to engage in spirited debate, and where “Big Brother” tells news outlets what to report.
That’s Obama’s world; that’s the Democrats’ world.
That’s not the world the Founders created for Americans.
Dorstewitz didn’t explain why partisan activists like himself should be trusted as caretakers of the truth, or how there cannot possibly be a single standard for truth.