From the Obama Post:
Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a prospective Republican presidential contender, said Saturday he does not know whether President Obama is a Christian.
“I don’t know,” Walker said in an interview at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington, where he was attending the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.
Told that Obama has frequently spoken publicly about his Christian faith, Walker maintained that he was not aware of the president’s religion.
“I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that,” Walker said, his voice calm and firm. “I’ve never asked him that,” he added. “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?”
Walker said such questions from reporters are reflective of a broader problem in the nation’s political-media culture, which he described as fixated on issues that are not relevant to most Americans.
“To me, this is a classic example of why people hate Washington and, increasingly, they dislike the press,” he said. “The things they care about don’t even remotely come close to what you’re asking about.”
The “interview” was actually a hallway ambush. The Democrats were quick to respond:
DNC Press Secretary Holly Shulman said:
After sitting silently by when Rudy Giuliani made an outrageous comment that our President doesn’t love America, today Scott Walker has doubled down on his divisive politics saying he doesn’t know if the President loves our country, and then questioning President Obama’s religion.
Scott Walker had a simple test. He could have risen above the fray, but he continues to flatly fail and instead push the same polarizing agenda and politics he has for years in Wisconsin. Today, Walker has proven himself once again to be unfit to lead.
The usual suspects were clutching pearls and hyperventilating at this unprovoked sleazy attack on President Obama’s honor. Oh, the humanity!
Meanwhile, I was having flashbacks.
Remember way back in the Spring of 2008, when Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked Hillary three times if she believed that Obama was a Muslim? She said no twice, but after the third time she hedged her bets and said “As far as I know.” The media and blogospheric reaction was to clutch pearls, hyperventilate and accuse Hillary of stoking rumors that Obama was indeed a Muslim.
Last night, two hacks from the Washington Post recycled the trick. The difference is this time Twitter exploded:
For the record, I do not believe that Obama is a Christian OR a Muslim. Either one would require him to believe in a power higher than himself.
The Crawdad Hole 
As for all the people saying “What Walker should have said” that’s great, but that’s the whole point of ambush questions – to catch someone unprepared and off guard. Why would he have been prepared to answer questions about Obama’s religion?
I thought his answer was just fine.
I’ve been admiring Walker’s political skills since I first started reading about him at Althouse. I like that he doesn’t try to satisfy the media. I hope he manages to keep telling them their questions are irrelevant and so are they. It’s refreshing.
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/569520381930971136
I thought his answer was just fine too. In this case, on Giuliani, and on the evolution-gotcha question. He’s basically refusing to play their game, and uttering complete enough soundbites that they can’t chop them up universally. Sure, the most dishonest, vituperative leftist media critics will (see Dana Milbank for an prime example in need of a spittoon & fainting couch), but for the most part Walkers message about the media being disliked for asking stupid out-of-touch questions is getting through.
Also, I was going to write about this, too, but you beat me to it. I was going to call it A Serious Drama for Trivial People. Heh.
Great read!
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/21/the-double-standard-which-allows-dana-milbank-to-call-scott-walker-a-coward/
double standard media.
they must be scared to death of Scott Walker. That is a good thing for Scott Walker, gives him more stature with thinking people and show just how far the press has fallen in this country
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/is-barack-obama-now-or-has-he-ever-been-a-christian.php
good article. some good advice for republicans on how to handle stupid questions from the msm.
the are going to have to really understand, in today’s world the press is a PR arm of the democrats and not what it used to be and handle them accordingly
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/walker-says-he-is-unaware-whether-obama-is-a-christian/2015/02/21/6fde0bd0-ba17-11e4-bc30-a4e75503948a_story.html
Scott Walker asks the msm a good question
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/02/wisconsin-english-prof-democratic-candidate-offers-students-extra-credit-to-join-anti-walker-protests/
prof offers students extra credit to join anti-Walker protests.
I remember during the Viet Nam war a professor at Temple telling his students he would give him an A for the semester if they joined the march of Washington against the war.
I have wondered for a long time how many protesters really believe what they are protesting or if they are getting paid in money or credits to protest
Along the same line. Remember when Obama was running for President he would hold rallies on campus during classes. They were packed with kids who just wanted to be somewhere, anywhere but class and hang with their age group. The kids at these rallies had no real political understanding but they voted for cool. It’s been pretty funny to watch them graduate, try to find jobs, then have a third of the pay they expected confiscated by the government for programs that it seems will never benefit them personally.
Speaking of Razzies, here are the winners (losers)….
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/1932807/2015_razzie_award_winners/?hub=24
Cage was robbed. No way Saving Christmas was worse than Left Behind.
Probably the first time ever I haven’t seen any of the Raspberry nominated movies 😉
My daughter, a huge fan of the original Annie when it came out when she was a child, saw the remake with her kids. She totally concurs with the Razzie award it got, and is very glad she didn’t see Megan Fox in TMNT if her performance was worse that Carmen’s. It’s funny to me because I will always remember Carl Burnett wearing the curtains, and to my daughter she will forever be Miss Hannigan.
I’m surprised there aren’t shrieks of racism because they used black characters in the remake? That’s the only reason I can think of it was voted worst remake /sarc. I think they modernized it too, the story works much better in the mid-20th century dark ages.
There are lots of crappy remakes these days.
Little Orphan Annie is an iconic American comic book character, but kids today don’t know that. So while making her black seems a stretch for me, it shouldn’t have been a issue for the demographic the movie was aimed at. But my grandson, whose is 8, prefers watching the old one on DVD. He thinks it’s funnier and the singing is better.I was lucky enough to see Hello, Dolly on Broadway twice. Once with Carol Channing and once with Pearl Bailey. While Bailey could belt out a song better than Channing, the whole Jewish Yenta thing is a central part of the story, and making all of the characters black suffered in the translation. No one would ever have thought of giving Channing the lead in Porgy and Bess.
em – I thought the trailer looked good and did want to see it but never did get around to it. I like the little girl and Jamie Foxx, and Cameron Diaz seemed to be camping it up. I think black Hollywood needs to look to The Wiz to see how it’s done. 🙂 Like The Wiz, I’ll see the new Annie on t.v. one day.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/the-medias-cynical-scott-walker-game/
the msm cynical Scott Walker game.
this article nails it
Good to get this out of the way, he’s got time. I don’t think he’s even declared his candidacy yet. Voters have a short attention span which will work to his benefit.
That is what I was thinking, the left media has premature speculation when it comes to Scott Walker 😉 , this is way too soon if he is running …
I see what you did there 🙂
😀
Pile on ! It’s like the nightmare that was Couric’s question to Palin, what newspapers do you read? The Gotcha that got Katie her award. IMO, that’s what this is all about. Too bad they didn’t play this game with Obama in 2008.
https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/569336474845503488
Katie who?
LOL, I think the perky one is flying a desk at Yahoo news now. How the mighty have fallen 🙂
And yet, Sarah endures. Still living rent-free.
😆
It’s a rhetorical Madison 2011. All of these organized buffoons coming out of the woodwork with their drum circles and manufactured outrage. That didn’t work so well for them.
The proper response should have been, “Go ask Obama, if you don’t know his religion, why are you bothering to ask me?, Oh and if you’re going to ask a bunch of stupid questions we can end the interview now”.
I responded elsewhere that Hillary wasn’t sure what Obama “was” as far as she knew, he was a Christian. In 2008. So in 6 years the media hasn’t found out for sure ? So it’s them that’s coming across stupid to me 😉
I like your thinking, too…..;)
I like your thinking.
True Story 😉
https://twitter.com/thetrueoorah/status/568266554686746624
sweet
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We will have a Not Watching The Oscars Live Blog so you can not follow along with the show.
Will the left coast get the Oscars live or will the Twitter nannies keep reminding us not to spoil the results for them ? Heh.
Who cares? I’m not watching.
Me either….I’ve come to dislike these “award” programs.
Never have watched em and it is too late to start now. 🙂
I only like the People’s Choice awards because I can vote in them 🙂 Usually the winners are the opposite of the Emmys and Oscars.
It’s live out west. I may have the TV on, but I won’t be glued to it. 😉
The weather out here is amazing. I doubt many on the west coast will be watching TV tonight as they will be tired from working/playing in the garden, hiking, biking, talking to all the neighbors who are hanging in their yards etc. Most will probably be grabbing a late dinner and finally getting around to reading the paper and then bed.
Okay, that’s it. Spoilers are the price the West Coast pays for nice weather.
loved this picture
https://scontent-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10922781_284124311711916_6057917037583439351_n.png?oh=fd84f9a1f0739a1d5238126fb02a19cd&oe=558D7426
Hillary’s hiring the best in their fields to “re-brand” her for 2016, including the creator of the infamous 3 a.m. call campaign ad. But, but, but ….. she didn’t answer it either, Benghazi ! Let’s see if the media remembers that……..snort.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-making-of-hillary-50-marketing-wizards-help-reimagine-clinton-brand/2015/02/21/bfb01120-b919-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html
Why haven’t the Dems looked at Mark Warner or Tim Kaine ? Former Virginia governor moderates who did a pretty good job, now in the Senate are far more experienced than Clinton or Warren.
I guess I just know the GOP can still lose this thing in 2016 and I want a backup that won’t finish flushing our country down the toilet (Obama’s sure got her circling the drain now!).
Very good point.
http://ulstermanbooks.com/governor-scott-walker-positions-anti-bush-candidate/
why the dems and the msm are afraid of him. some republicans too
Walker’s a Tea Party favorite, that should concern them. I can’t get Jazzed Up for Jeb, that’s for sure.
I agree No more Bush’s.
I’m so done with the Bush family.
I liked Walker’s answer also–screw them..the media is so damn transparent. Anybody else see Brett Baier’s interview with Jim Webb last night?
Thanks for the reminder, I really wanted to see that.
http://io9.com/10-worst-misconceptions-about-medieval-life-youd-get-fr-1686799982
He speaks Arabic?
Not fluently, but he can recite the Call to Prayer.
I’m going to be charitable here and assume he learned that going to school in a Muslim country. Most American school children my age and older can recite the Lord’s Prayer whether they are Christian or not. You can’t recite something every morning for 180 days each year w/o its getting implanted in your head. I had a teacher who preferred the 23rd psalm in 2nd grade, and I can still recite that one, too. I think she was Jewish.
The Lords Prayer, Hail Mary and Act of Contrition are all still in my brain (I just checked, heh). Though I think it was the years of having to say them over and over as penance after confession.
Priest in Confessional: My dear, your penance is 5 Our Fathers, 10 Hail Marys now say the Act of Contrition with me.
Me: Kneeled at altar and thought about the bad thoughts I just confessed to (boys were bad thoughts back then) for about ten minutes. Yep, that ought to do it.
You mean you thought more bad thoughts?
myiq – you betcha.
SO if he speaks Arabic, then he lied yet again. He urged students to learn a foreign language and said he wished he had as he only speaks English.
http://www.schoolsandagents.com/news-archive/president-obama-emphasizes-the-importance-of-bilingual-language-edu.aspx
https://twitter.com/edgeoforever/status/569509522961780736
I actually read some of these.
Hinterland Gazette:
Isn’t that what Walker said? lol
How funny, the only comments thus far are from TCHers.
LOL, that’s great !
❤ ❤ ❤
Well, he’s too young to be audited. He is in trouble with his peers, though. I wonder how protected his parents are against IRS investigation.
I just liked him on his public figure FB page and saw this one too…..
CJ’s helping write legislation in Georgia! Raise the minimum age to run for local office, the kid’s got a plan!
http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/cj-pearson-young-conservative
Just reminds me why my husband hates anything Kennedy. He grew up a poor boy in the shadows of their fine homes in MA and became a lifelong Republican because of how they treated the little people then lied about it to win elections.
That never gets old. Mary Jo Kopechne and a dog walk into a bar, followed by Ted Kennedy and Obama…
Seems like Walker is going to take a different tack this time around when asked these set up questions. And, of course, the next step will be a full scale, “viral lying” campaign against him…just put out intentional falsehoods until caught and then sheepishly, and slyly, apologize in the dark of night.
I’m waiting for the coeds to come forward claiming Walker made unwanted advances towards them. Though I’m sure everythings been thrown at his head during his 3 elections to Gov. in 4 years ? He survived those rounds of Prog Stonings, I really think he’s untouchable now.
I’m watching “Sunday Morning” on CBS and the film critic just now said, “…And why is this the WHITEST group of nominees in decades?” Frankly I’m so sick of the race card being played on and on and on and on……… Did they think that no persons of color voted to begin with? Because I know they did. And if there weren’t the votes, then there weren’t the effing votes.
OTOH, this critic also said that he thought the performance of Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle was the very best of any of the current nominees even though he wanted David Oyelowo (MLK in “Selma”) to win. But because the Academy is so racist he wasn’t nominated.
I’m still hoping “Birdman” wins the most Oscars.
I saw “Boyhood” last night. I fast forwarded through about a sixth of it. It was a good film, but it felt like it really was 12 years long.
I think the Boyhood director will win because INNOVATION ! Thank goodness they didn’t film Forrest Gump this way 😉
I guess what we need are Affirmative Action Academy Awards … but wouldn’t that be insulting? 🙂
There’s about a gazillion awards shows each season for blacks, gays, you name it. It’s just that the Oscar’s the Holy Grail of awards, like the Presidency once was 😉
Walker got it half-right — he said “I don’t know” but he should have added “And I don’t care. Why do you?”
Great answer. 🙂
Ayup, turn the question back on them. If I were Mrs. Walker I’d start asking him stupid questions all day to keep him in shape. 😀
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/569327504567234561
I can’t stand Bill O but this is bullshit.
He is pretty untouchable in the ratings. Mother Jones is only read by people who already hate him.
I think they smeared him with something taken out of context. I used to subscribe to the print MJ and The Nation, I can’t believe I used to inhale their “facts”.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-this-filmmaker-just-revealed-how-obamas-govt-makes-a-mockery-of-the-border-fence/#vEYOoz1PkQbyJWjH.97
check out the so-called border fence
Bill Nye is an antisemitic fucking idiot,
European Jews should just get to know their neighbors …
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/02/20/bill-nye-european-jews-should-get-to-know-neighbors/
Blegging: https://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/state-of-the-confluence-and-request-for-input/
My favorite part:
I think she means hits.
And how many has she had she kicked all of the cool kids out?
I think most of her hits come from here 😉 I would suggest to her adding an Amazon Portal to her blog then her readers can place their orders using her link and she’ll get a percentage, but thought I’d suggest it to you first myiq. 😀 Koffler and Althouse make a lot of money that way. I think you have enough unique commenters to keep you in beer and cat food. Not sure about RD. I’m not a Pay Pal fan, so I would prefer using the built in safety and anonymity Amazon provides …. hint, hint.
RD should sell her house and rent til her dream job falls back in her lap. I’m not too sympathetic with people who own their homes free and clear. So, she’d put money in the bank and have none of the hassles of ownership and maintenance.
I wonder if the income generated from amazon portal has gone down since they started the Smile program. A percentage of everything I buy goes to St Jude’s. I bought a bread maker and 24 containers of coffee mate( bought for my mother she loves her coffee– saved 24 dollars buying in bulk) today.
Koffler was quite pleased with the response last Christmas. I think it’s the same per cent for anybody who signs up. Doesn’t cost the shopper any more and Amazon’s still making buckets of cash.
getting an Amazon portal is a good idea.No Quarter has one, and I go there to get Amazon stuff. I would also like to go here
Yes, I order enough off Amazon to share the wealth.
That’s pretty bad if she doesn’t have $50 for a locksmith. I would just crawl through a window.
I notice she’s not thanking Chris Christie for her lower than PA property taxes.
She needs to talk to Dakinikat and learn how to spin a tale of woe.
Don’t we all hide that spare key outside somewhere? We do. Also a spare car key taped somewhere on our car.
Yeah! How hard is hiding a key? And how predictable is it that your going to eventually need it? I left her a comment but she will likely lash out at it. I told her she should take a renter in to pay taxes and insurance or she should rent the whole place for a year and move to a cheap one bedroom apartment. People who own huge homes act like selling it or living there alone are their only options.
The economy has changed and many people over 50 have been pushed out of their high paying professional jobs. I’m down to 10 hours a week and expect to be completely laid off in March. These jobs are not going to come back. She is dreaming if she thinks she will ever get another job like the one she was pushed out of.
Opps! that was me Constance under my nom de plume.
LOL, I really liked “Bes”, now I know why 😉
Voted Worst Remake of a Movie in 2014 by the “racist” Razzie voters. Razzist Razzie voters? 😉
Far to iconic to be remade. What’s next all black Grease? The Sound of Music?
I have no desire to see anything associated with winfrey. I’m also not going to spend fifty dollars in a theater to be preached to. Not my idea of fun.
These hollywood folks sure have delusions. Yeah because of a movie my world view is going to change. I am that malleable. What a bunch of self important twits.
I don’t have a problem with movies where the primary characters are black, but remaking “white” movies with black casts isn’t very creative.
On an episode of Strangers with Candy they cast ARaisin in the Sun with all white actors.
I have no problem with all anything casts. Doubtful I will go see and spend my money on a hispanic or black film. Going to the movies for me is not a social justice effort. It is entertainment. I don’t cosider Kevin Hart or Tyler Perry as black directors. I see them as two funny dudes. Spike Lee and Spielberg a big no thanks if i want to be preached to I’ll go to church or a play.
I’m a huge Madea fan, but lately Perry’s movies haven’t had enough of her in them, but she comes around to save the day!
Going to the movies for me is not a social justice effort.
I gave up social justice for lent. Then I decided to give it up for good. Guilt free and with no social justice burden is the only way to go. It’s a zen thing.
I gave up celibacy for Lent, but I’m not having much luck with that.
Just got done talking to my daughter about this. She said one of the things that my grandson had a hard time with was that a modern Annie lives in an orphanage. In the old movie the orphanage was something from the “olden days”, but it’s something he has no experience with today. He knows some kids in foster care so Annie going to live with Daddy Warbucks makes sense to him, but all of the little girls living together looked more like a boarding school to him. And rich kids are the ones who go to boarding school. I love to take him to the movies because he likes to go out to eat after and talk about what we saw.
Just from the trailer, looks like Cameron’s Miss Hannigan was abusive, that wouldn’t happen today in real foster homes. Even in Harlem. Imagine an updated remake of Oliver! CPS would be all over that place.
At this point, Walker may have to resort to two responses for these attacks: “Next question” and “Is that a question?”
Bush more or less successfully shut down questions about drug use by a blanket statement that he would not talk about his past for the sake of his daughters. The media managed to have the last laugh by saving the “drunk driving” October surprise for the weekend before the election. That and erroneous election calls in 2000 probably cost Bush the majority vote.
“FYNQ”
Crying Koch vs. Hillary’s Foreign Sugar Daddies
Who’s really trying to “buy America?”
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/02/crying-koch-vs-hillarys-foreign-sugar-daddies/
I think Hillary will lose even more Dem support over this “foundation”. They weren’t allowed foreign donations while she was SoS, but they sure poured in after she resigned.
Boom! Well played.
The Telegraph:
Walker left college after 3.5 years. It’s not like he didn’t go at all.
The Democrats still ‘inspired’ by drunken coward who drowned a woman
http://twitchy.com/2015/02/22/the-democrats-still-inspired-by-drunken-coward-who-drowned-a-woman/
Sadly, that makes sense in a twisted sort of way. The drowned woman is the perfect symbol of perpetual victimhood, as is the drunk who killed her.