You can’t fact-check emotion

Barack Obama was 'angry' ... at least according to him and according to the media who repeated what he wanted them to repeat.  But you can’t fact-check emotion, can you?  That's what the Columbia Journalism Review asks. 

Was Obama really angry at Wright for what he said over the weekend at the National Press Club, because I don't think so.  Maybe Obama was angry that Wright didn't stay in the basement and keep his 'theology' under wraps.  Perhaps Obama was angry that Wright had confirmed to American's what Wright (and Obama) really believe in and what they really are -- hatred against America and Black hatred for Whites.  Either way, Obama didn't really look or act angry.  We only have his word that he was angry.

Barack Obama is angry. He is outraged. He is appalled. He is offended. He is profoundly, genuinely sad and shaken. He is impassioned. He is pissed. And he is full of, as the New York Daily News puts it today: FURY!  [snip]

...  the Obamian Emotions that have been swelling headlines with their own dramatic solipsism—were things we took at his word. Literally. (What else could we do? You can’t fact-check emotion.) Obama’s declarations of outrage, strongly worded though they were, were uttered in his typical tones of laid-back self-possession. When the candidate discussed his personal relationship with Reverend Wright, to be sure, his sadness and disappointment about the apparent dissolution of that relationship were visible, nearly palpable. But when it came to the outrage he described…description was all we got.  [snip]

...  Maureen Dowd in her Times column today, in which she parses the idea of “angry” blackness through the differences between Obama and Reverend Wright. “Barack Obama has spent his life, and campaign, trying not to be the Angry Black Man,” Dowd writes. But “on Tuesday, the Sort Of Angry Black Man appeared, reluctantly spurred into action by The Really Angry Black Man.” We can’t know what Obama meant, exactly, when he described his own anger yesterday...

Where has Oprah been in all this?  Silent and hiding out in her own basement I presume.  Maureen Dowd continues:

For some, Obama didn’t offer enough outrage. “He talks about Reverend Wright violating his core beliefs as if he is detailing why he doesn’t like cheesecake or cream cheese,” said one Hillary Democrat. “He’s more passionate about basketball.”

It wasn't that Obama didn’t offer enough outrage, it's that no one believes he was actually outraged at all (except the MSM).  Because as Rev. Jeremiah Wright said, Obama's just another politician, saying what he has to say to get elected.

Amen.

Also see "Obama Expresses 'Outrage'... Wink, Wink" and "Obama's Elitist Vacation" at The Loft; and "Free People Are Happy People—especially when strong personal morality guides their choices.;" also "EVERY 30 YEARS YOU HAVE TO SWITCH SIDES" ________________________________________________________________ Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Pooh Flinging NeoCons, The Virtuous Republic, Rosemary's Thoughts, The World According to Carl, Shadowscope, The Pink Flamingo, Cao's Blog, Democrat=Socialist, Conservative Cat, Right Voices, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Comments

[Rosemary]

Well how about that. The dinosaur press sticking up a democrat. Who'd a thunk it? *wink wink*

[Angel]

he should have been fired like Imus but noooooo..excuse after excuse for Nobama and his racist compatriots!!!

[Steve Harkonnen]

Commenting on Faultline's comment: My friend's online T-shirt shop has some good ones on Obama. One of them has his face and "WHITE GUILT" stamped below it.

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[Faultline USA]

Excellent article! Do you think we can get some bumper stickers printed up. “BHO - Explain your 20 years in a racist church!”????

Here’s what I’m looking for. If JW (I refuse to use the title “Rev.” for JW without quotation marks) doesn’t come back on Sunday (surely he has another speaking engagement lined up at one of the BLT churches) with a strong hit back at Obama, then someone has put the muzzle on him. My bet is some bigger BP heads in Chicago have cut a deal with BHO to shut JW’s mouth. Payback will come after he’s president!