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| Atlanta Journal Columnist Tucker Says USA is 'The Enemy' |
| 2010-06-24 |
| Columnist Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner, has found the enemy and he is us. During a recent episode of the Chris Matthews show, Tucker decided that because we are "addicted to petroleum" we are our own enemy just as much as communism was our enemy during the Cold War. Tucker characterizes our "addiction" to oil as an "external threat" -- just like communism was -- and presents oil as an enemy that we should defeat. Tucker also makes excuses for Obama saying that it's "harder" for him to call on Americans to sacrifice because of this addiction. Leave it to a member of the Old Media to construe capitalism, progress, a growing standard of living, and even our own fellow citizens to be as great an enemy as an antithetical foreign system that was sponsored by those that promised to destroy us. Leave it to a member of the Old Media to pinpoint our own system as the enemy. But one wonders, if we take Tucker at her most hyperbolic word, wouldn't the solution be to increase oil and natural gas exploration on our own soil? If the enemy is oil from abroad, why aren't we looking for our own to supplement what we purchase abroad and, thereby, take some of the power away from foreign suppliers? For that matter, why not enlarge our nuclear power capacity in this country if we want to alleviate the supposed over usage of oil? Even France is smart enough to rely heavily on nuclear power. Tucker also makes the absurd claim that the BP oil spill is a result of our not listening to failed president Jimmy Carter back in the "malaise" days of the late 70s. Of course, it is rather childish to draw such a simple-minded conclusion. Accidents sometimes happen but we don't cease all activities because of accidents. We kept exploring space after the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, didn't we? Well, we did at least until Obama came to office and canceled nearly all our space exploration programs. Tucker is too typical of the Old Media, though. They never see an enemy as evil as our own system, our own citizens, and history. No foreign threat is ever as bad as we the people to these folks. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 you oughtta see how Denny treats her at GrouchyOldCripple Cynthia is an affirnative-action Peter principle in action. She should've stayed at interviewing puppies |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-24 23:05 |
| #12 "Atlanta Journal Columnist Tucker Says USA is 'The Enemy'" Then get out, bitch. There are 194 other countries in the world - pick one and move there. God, I hate Lefties. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-24 22:20 |
| #11 That's when you get a length of rope and tighten another body part. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-24 13:17 |
| #10 people who have already tightened their belts don't like to be told how greedy and glutinous they are Just wait until people have no belts to tighten. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-24 13:12 |
| #9 Ever read about peasant revolts in Old Europe? They were NASTY, real nasty. Given what I've seen in the Uzbek neighborhood purges of late, they still are. People like Tucker should consider that possibility long and hard before they push too far. People in general don't like scolds, and people who have already tightened their belts don't like to be told how greedy and glutinous they are. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-06-24 12:32 |
| #8 Another jet setting socialist lecturing Americans on their fuel usage. What next, one square of toilet paper per bathroom sitdowm? Rocks perhaps? But only one. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-24 12:25 |
| #7 Denny Shaffer always refers to this rag as the "Atlanta Journal Communist" |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2010-06-24 11:30 |
| #6 It's all quite simple in their tiny little minds: Civilization is evil. Civilization needs energy. Therefore, energy is evil. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-06-24 10:16 |
| #5 It seems lots of people are waking up to realise that it's the legacy media that's the wests real #1 enemy. The left infiltrated the MSM and destroyed it. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-06-24 08:28 |
| #4 It works both ways, Cynthia. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-06-24 07:30 |
| #3 I've not read the leftest rag, Atlanta Constipation in years and do not intend to begin anytime soon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-24 04:00 |
| #2 It is just as Pogo said. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-24 01:09 |
| #1 It's so nice when your target self-acquires. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-06-24 00:19 |