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2/25/2015

NYT Confuses Scott Walker’s Skill And Dexterity With ‘Struggling’

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:02 pm



[guest post by Dana]

In the media’s continuing efforts to break Scott Walker and put him in his place, today’s New York Times opened their article titled For Scott Walker, a Consistent Approach to Tough Questioning by informing readers – as if it were a fact – that Walker is struggling with questions posed by the media:

As Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin struggled to respond to questions about the president’s patriotism and religion last week, some saw an unprepared presidential hopeful in the national glare — not ready for “the N.F.L.,” as one participant in a Sunday morning talk show put it.

As the NYT cited those two vexing questions that the existence of civilization apparently hinges upon, I thought surely I must have missed something in Walker’s responses. Something like a struggle, and an undeniable one at that.

Asked whether he thought Obama was a Christian, Walker answered:

I don’t know.

And when reminded that the president has publicly spoken about his faith:

I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that. I’ve never asked him that. You’ve asked me to make statements about people that I haven’t had a conversation with about that. How [could] I say if I know either of you are a Christian?

Asked whether he thought Obama loved America, Walker answered:

You should ask the president what he thinks about America,” Walker told The Associated Press while in Washington for a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association. “I’ve never asked him so I don’t know.”

Struggle? What I see is a politician walking through a minefield with skill and dexterity and deftly taking control of the conversation. And I definitely see a man who is infuriatingly smarter than those who seek to trip him up.

Of course none of this has anything to do with Walker “struggling” to answer gotcha questions or what he really thinks of Obama, and it certainly has nothing to do with an indignant media defending the president’s honor, this in spite of Dana Milbank’s hysterical efforts to appear as such. It is simply further evidence of a smug and partisan press continuing their hit job on Walker and most amusingly being unable to grasp that their very actions are having the opposite effect they hoped for: instead of branding Walker as a president-hating presidential-hopeful who pandered to the “Obama is a Muslim from Kenya who hates America” crowd and displayed a cowardice and insidiousness by his responses, they have instead helped shoot Walker right to the top of the polls. When a group is so smugly enamored by their own cleverness they are rendered without self-awareness, and the painfully obvious goes unseen.

–Dana

34 Responses to “NYT Confuses Scott Walker’s Skill And Dexterity With ‘Struggling’”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864)

  2. ‘struggled’ is Carlos Slim piece for not giving the answer they want,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  3. Walkers’ media shop should just publish all the Reverend Wright “sermons” and let everyone see what Obama sat through for 20 years.

    Mike K (90dfdc)

  4. Mike K,

    …with the qualifier that, yes, Obama is a kind of ‘Christian’ – and here’s the kind of Chrisitian he is.

    Dana (86e864)

  5. When your enemy is making a deadly mistake, don’t try to stop them.

    I say let the media keep prattling on. The louder they yell and the
    more they exaggerate, the more they point out that they’re afraid of
    this man.

    I believe that the past years of bias and double standard will finally
    come home to roost for the media. They’ve lost their position of trust,
    they’ve lost their claimed position of neutrality.

    Even the most unattentive know they have become propagandists, ad men,
    shills for an ideology that even they don’t follow in practice but demand
    everyone else to.

    And the NYT has led that drive and they’ll lead this one over a cliff.

    jakee308 (49ccc6)

  6. The insanity of unadulterated liberalism has so infused entities like the New York Times and other cross sections of the media, that even a masquerade of impartiality is no longer being attempted. However, by the same token, I guess my originally wondering if I should feel a bit sheepish about rooting for the economic and operational demise of such institutions no longer pings my consciousness.

    Mark (c160ec)

  7. the Times exists at the sufferance of a Mexican oligarch, who is consuming it like Fiat is Chrysler, as in the former example, he is a beneficiary of a bailout,

    narciso (ee1f88)

  8. Counter proposition.
    The MSM want Walker to surge early and then peter* out.. They know attacking him will increase his appeal, but expect he will fade in the long run…or they think he is a weak general election candidate.

    *appropriate groveling PC apology to anyone named Peter.

    kishnevi (9c4b9c)

  9. These are the people who derided Goddard saying that rockets would not work in airless space, and only 30 years ago said “Why would anyone want a cell phone?”.

    nk (dbc370)

  10. I don’t believe they’re that clever. Plus they run the risk of
    making him a bigger candidate than he was and he already was the
    leader.

    He has the added benefit that he’s been vetted. The Unions made him
    into the candidate he is and now they’re trying to knock him down.

    The only way that happens is if he makes a genuine misstep with
    conservatives.

    jakee308 (49ccc6)

  11. Kishnevi,

    Given his resiliency and increasing popularity throughout the Wisconsin wars, that would appear a foolish strategy.

    Dana (86e864)

  12. The New York Times is loved by my worms. It helps produce high quality castings.

    mg (31009b)

  13. Dana, did I say the MSM is wise?
    The strategy is possible. Whether it is foolish is a different question.

    kishnevi (adea75)

  14. Kishnevi,

    I think Proverbs is fitting… Man, men…

    Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

    Dana (86e864)

  15. And here I’ve been ripping up all my ATM receipts and throwing them away. What if the federal government is investigating my bank? I could be facing 20 years. Stupid laws, stupidly written, with draconian penalties, do not deserve deference.

    I do praise Kagan for citing Dr. Seuss. Seuss is far finer intellect than any sitting on that court.

    nk (dbc370)

  16. Wrong thread.

    nk (dbc370)

  17. Perhaps powerful republicans in d.c. could come up with a simple talking point or points in which to back Mr. Walker.
    nah, too busy crafting amnesty plans for majority leader reid.

    mg (31009b)

  18. Whistlin’ thru the graveyard, the intrepid prog’s sole leather lets go splaying it headlong onto a granitic monument.

    Death by quartz, mica and feldspar united.

    DNF (086127)

  19. Seems the Guv not the only exec schtruggeling:

    http://shoebat.com/2015/02/20/islams-greatest-contribution-united-states-slavery-obama-proof/

    Careful Barry, youse could strain at yer gnat.

    DNF (a7e265)

  20. I wonder If Hillary will be cornered and asked about the foreign money her foundation received while she was in the state dept.

    Or maybe a question or two about paying her women staffers less than her men staffers.

    Michael Spangler (0303eb)

  21. sleazy hillary tucked away her New York Times and caressed her potentially historic aging breasts lovingly

    you and me she said to herself

    we so got this

    happyfeet (831175)

  22. My ace in the whole locally is i’m known as the anglo que se habla un pocito.

    DNF (a7e265)

  23. It’s not that skillful, just a really basic way of letting right wingers that think the president is a secret Muslim think that Walker agrees with them.

    sing (bbbfe8)

  24. What’s secret about the Mau Mau’s Muslimness?

    nk (dbc370)

  25. I am surprised nobody asked Walker a follow up question – Does he think George Bush, or for that matter, Jeb Bush loved America/was a Christian. to maintain consistency he would again have to claim not to know.

    Northener (f4ba09)

  26. Good point, nk. There’s a broader paranoid set out there it reaches as well.

    sing (bbbfe8)

  27. Daddy Muslim; stepdaddy Muslim; childhood Muslim; childhood education in Indonesian madrassa; only “Christian” connection with “god damn America” Wright’s jackleg church. It’s all right there. It’s just that nobody wants to to talk about it.

    nk (dbc370)

  28. BTW, are you indw or ty?

    nk (dbc370)

  29. Not even Walker, apparently.

    sing (bbbfe8)

  30. Yeah, you’re imdw.

    nk (dbc370)

  31. If Walker was competing in the Olympic Gymnastics rings event, went around 42 times at near-the-speed-of-sound, stood in a 45-minute handstand while eating a ham sandwich, and got a 10.0 even from the judge who used to be from East Germany, the press would still report that he slightly wobbled on the landing, whether he did or not.

    Democratic operatives with bylines.

    Beldar (fa637a)


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