Is Kumar from White Castle the new Joseph Goebbels?
We noted in April that actor Kal Penn, better known as Kumar, was taking a job in the White House propaganda machine. He’s officially “associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison.”
Look at the recent “liaising” schemes coming out of the White House:
1) Comrades are urged to report their neighbors who spread “disinformation” about ObamaCare.
2) Union members and Craigslist paid “volunteers” are bused in to create the illusion of popular support for ObamaCare.
3) The White House sends lesson plans to schools nationwide encouraging obedience to the President:
“Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?”
“[Students will w]rite letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.”
5) Having the National Endowment for the Arts direct artists to make pro-Obama propaganda.
… and you have to wonder, “Is Kumar the new Joseph Goebbels?”
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September 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 am
Comrades are urged to report their neighbors who spread “disinformation” about ObamaCare.
Speaking of Goebbels, you use this blog to school yourself at spin and memes with the intent to sway the public heart and mind.
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 am
Speaking of Goebbels, you use this blog to school yourself at spin and memes with the intent to sway the public heart and mind.
…….
Ignorance on display.
WC does NOT work for the gov’t. Surely you can see the difference?
Run along…
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am
WC does NOT work for the gov’t. Surely you can see the difference?
Irrelevant comment. Surely you can see that?
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 am
L.
“Irrelevant comment.”
Weak response. Want to try again?
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 am
Irrelevant comment. Surely you can see that?
……
LOL
You got schooled, admit it and move on.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:04 am
Weak response. Want to try again?
What part of “irrelevant” is weak?
Varones is using spin and memes to compare Obama with the Nazis…but Varones is using Nazi techniques to do so, thereby making hilarious his whole argument.
Got it?
Here is an exercise for you: prove that Obama wants COMRADES to report on their NEIGHBOR.
Isn’t use of language to sway hearts and minds fun?
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
You got schooled
Hilarious. By a tag-team of tin foil hatters? Not likely.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 am
L.
“Varones is using Nazi techniques ”
Oh boy! Nazi techniques? Better take one more stab at it, bub. You’re flailing.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:36 am
Is Kumar from White Castle the new Joseph Goebbels?
Oh boy! A Nazi in the White House? Better take one more stab at it, bub. You’re flailing.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 am
L. The question is simply, Should the gov’t be involved in the behavior mentioned in the original post by WC?
People complained about Bush’s Patriot Act policies but now condone policies that are more threatening to civil liberties under Obama. It is hypocritical. If liberals do it–it is okay. If conservatives do it–it is not.
Why can’t the White House have a nazui in it? Pelosi says people that show up at townhalls are nazis. Again-Liberals can say it— you cheer. Conservatives say it—there is something wrong. It is hypocritical.
L. You ever see what Huffington, moveon and Kos put on their blogs? Do you go there and complain about their content?
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
L,
I shake my head and chuckle in bemusement over you whenever you show up here.
You were most certainly “schooled” the other evening by sensible thinkers regarding your defense of Kennedy and Chappaquidick. You had no factual responses, only condescension and name-calling (typical of libs when threatened and without a cogent response.) You thought Ezra Klein was not a credible source when he was/is one of your kind. Truly you are amusing, but more so to be pitied.
Open your eyes and pray that the Obama fog clears from your mind. Have the courage to think and arrive at sound judgments. It must hurt for you liberal kids to work so hard in denying facts in your little liberal worlds.
Take care.
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
McConnell and Cornyn are having a funraiser for Trey Grayson in D.C. on the 23 rd.
So that’s the new money bomb day for Rand also.
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 am
Kind of a cheesy video, but it does the job.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 am
Pat Buchanan redesigns his website, and he’s now linking to antiwar.com article, and he even has an Eisenhower video warning about the Military-Industrial complex.
An edgier Buchanan website now.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 am
I thought this post interesting, from the Corner:
Napolitano Scolds Holder [Marc Thiessen]
The Senate Republican Policy Committee reports that this morning, on The Today Show, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (unintentionally) scolded Attorney General Eric Holder.
Napolitano was asked about Holder’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to reinvestigate certain matters involving the interrogation of certain detainees. She said: “I’m a former United States attorney. I’m a former [state] attorney general, a prosecutor. . . . I would never second-guess a prosecutor.”
She meant it, of course, as a defense of Holder. But in reality, she explained precisely what was wrong with Holder’s decision.
With his decision, Holder is second-guessing career prosecutors — the career prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia who reviewed the allegations in the CIA IG report and determined that there was nothing to warrant a criminal prosecution. Now Holder, a political appointee, is overruling their decisions, and in so doing questioning their judgment and impartiality.
This is wrong. So says Leon Panetta. And now, apparently, Janet Napolitano as well.”
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
The dem playbook for Comprehensive Immigration Reform compromise: amnesty in exchange for giving the Federal Government new powers?
Case Challenges E-Voting’s Constitutionality
by Matthew Cardinale – IPS Interpress News Service
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
Truth to Power,
What? Cheney is on record admitting to the crimes. Just prosecute them, but we need to expand the investigation.
Bruce Fein, a former associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan, says Holder investigation must be broadened to include Cheney.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
The question is simply, Should the gov’t be involved in the behavior mentioned in the original post by WC?
And the answer is, simply, that the question is moot because WC manipulated the evidence with hyperbole. As a result, all that can be done is “shake one’s head and chuckle in bemusement.”
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 am
You thought Ezra Klein was not a credible source when he was/is one of your kind.
Bit of condescension there to assume what is my kind.
sensible thinkers
That is funny.
Have the courage to think and arrive at sound judgments.
Likewise. Or would that be condescending to say?
I love your style of overwriting, reminds me of my friend Phineas.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 am
Where was “L” when his butt buddies were screaming “bushitler” for the last 8 years??
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
butt buddies
IP727, even your avatar is phallic! You are a fascinating case of habitual homoerotic release in the comment sections of political blogs.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 am
Why not use the smae title/name for all your posts?
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
Conservatives manipulate the material–bad. Liberals manipulate the material–it don’t matter.
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Hey, we’ve got a bunch of Leni Riefenstahls, too!
Wanna bet Kumar was involved in rounding them up?
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Conservatives manipulate the material–bad. Liberals manipulate the material–it don’t matter.
So, cry foul at the other guy manipulating the material, but also use it as justification for your own manipulation of the material.
It is better to simply not manipulate the material.
Particularly, the recent epidemic of comparisons with Nazi Germany have grown tedious.
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
L., “Particularly, the recent epidemic of comparisons with Nazi Germany have grown tedious.”
The recent epidemic of BHO, 40+ czars, and most of the State-Run Media doing their level best to EMULATE Nazi Germany has also grown tedious.
You want folks to quit calling your God-King and his minions Nazis? Tell them to quit acting like Nazis. 1984 was not an instruction manual.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Yeah, Taq, those are the comparisons that I am talking about.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Would you find Orwell analogies more acceptable?
I thought the Kumar / Goebbels juxtaposition was amusing, but if you’re offended by hyperbole, you might prefer an Orwell comparison.
1984 is obviously more literally similar to the Obama Administration than the Third Reich was. For starters, neither Obama nor Big Brother were known for genocide or invading France. And if you’ll review points 1 through 5 in the post above, I’m sure you’ll agree they would all fit right in to Orwell’s Oceania.
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:57 am
If you play an Obama speech backwards you hear the message:
“Order fries with your burger. Order fries with your burger.”
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
For starters, neither Obama nor Big Brother were known for genocide or invading France.
That is a good point and absolutely correct. Ayn Rand is also not known to have invaded France, a frequent point of comparison with Obama.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I would like to apologize to America for casting my vote for Obama. I made a grave mistake.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I’m not sure about Kumar, but every time I see Rahm Emmanuel I can’t help but see Joseph Goebbels; similar to ’04 when every time I saw Theresa Heinz Kerry I couldn’t help but see Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie..