Michaëlle Jean vs. Sonia Sotomayor

Rex Murphy provides a fascinating analysis.

Report Card on the American MSM: D-

Here's a very interesting editorial from Rex Murphy. One thing that he doesn't touch upon however is what has quickly become the key ingredient for Obama & Co. to do WHATEVER they want: The vast majority of the MSM refusing to criticize, or even just mildly question, ANYTHING that the Administration is doing.

I have absolutely no reason to compare Obama with Hitler or Stalin BUT I do wonder if there are some parallels with the MSM today and the press in Germany & Russia respectively when those two aforementioned tyrants took over.

May I offer a prediction? The Obama Administration doesn't appear to like even the mildest form of dissent so I do believe that over the rest of this year we are going to witness underhanded attempts to try to curtail both Fox News and conservative talk radio. It won't be done directly of course but through their legions of brown shirts .... ummmm, I mean "3rd Party Loyalists".

Dangerous times we're living in.

Rex Murphy: The Greens are Ecstatic about the World's Financial Troubles

Are you worried about the current financial crisis? If your name is Al Gore or David Suzuki or Elizabeth May then you're not worried whatsoever. In fact, you're jumping for joy ... but can't express your happiness because you're smart enough to know that some might take it the wrong way.

So goes the recent brilliant treatise from Rex Murphy. Here's a snippet:

Markets are drying up, private wealth is shrinking, the engines of industry are slowing. Layoff notices are going out all over the world. Governments everywhere are leaping into urgent deficit financing on the premise that a stalled or stopped world economy must be buttressed by massive intervention. Such is the emergency that almost every government, of every political stripe, has abandoned the great dogmas that warned of the evils of public debt, and embraced with an almost frantic abandon the opposite mantra: They must spend their way out of the recession.

Is there no light amid all this gloom?

Well, if you are among the great tribe of global warming catastrophists, surely there is. If the industrial economies of the world are in a forced slowdown, if auto companies - the manufacturers of those demonic gas-guzzling SUVs - are facing ruin, if long-standing business are cutting their work forces by 20 per cent and 30 per cent and 40 per cent, if people are buying less and, consequently, business is making less, then surely the entire world's carbon emissions are, per necessitatem, going down. The world is burning less oil, because the world is doing less.

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Charles Adler and Lorrie Goldstein discuss the same here @ 7:00.

A Not So Serious Presidency

Rex Murphy shares his thoughts on the very strange "celebrity" presidency that has become Barack Obama's time in office. Here are a few snippets:

And where is Barack Obama in all this. Well, Mr. Obama is acting curiously. He doesn't so much preside over the crisis as act like America's chosen master of ceremonies, who appears on stage to introduce its component segments. Good patter, well-chosen appearances. There's no centre to his performance.

Mr. Obama drops in to everyday events more than he actually manages them. He's very cool, as always, but he lacks affect. He doesn't seem to connect with the great swirl of events around him. He shows up. He doesn't act. He likes to tour, and visit happy places.

Is Barack Obama leading the United States at this time? Or is he just a really cool guy with all the power in the world and not a whole lot of clues about how to use it?

It has long been said that the politicians we elect are a reflection of our collective selves. Obama is thus perfect: A non-serious president for a childish group of adults who are more interested in celebrity and entertainment than serious discussion and history.

Rex Murphy: The Hypocrisy of National Geographic

Thanks to commenter Mary T, I learned of this video editorial from Rex Murphy. He points out an obvious fact, which is seemingly beyond the grasp of understanding of many on the Left: In order to enjoy the benefits of the modern society, some parts of the Earth need to be damaged, even if just temporarily. Failure to do this means no energy, no materials, and ultimately no modern lifestyle.

Rex Murphy on the Current Crisis

Rex Murphy on the continuing "Human Rights" Joke that is Canada

A must read!

Rex Murphy Speaks Out FOR Free Speech

Rex Murphy, of the CBC, speaks out in support of Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine.

If you wan to read something really scary - and dare I say NON-CANADIAN - then take a look at many of the comments on the CBC website. It's rather disturbing to me that most every commenter with a Muslim sounding name was completely against Murphy. I have to believe that these people grew up outside of Canada because no Canadian I know would ever be against free speech. I'm sorry for what Mark Steyn has to go through but it's now clear that this debate is long overdue.