Curious George

Before the loyal liberal readers of BigFrick.com get there undies in a big bundle and start sending hate mail, the title of this piece refers to George Stephanopoulos.

Why? What did you think?

I just completed a 6 day solo sojourn of a few thousand miles cross country in my environmentally friendly, planet saving Prius.

Actually, if I wanted to ride in a Prius I would have to lie down and allow them to build it around me, so I drove my far less socially acceptable but remarkably more comfortable “Big Black Cadillac” (so named by my grandson for his favorite mode of transport). I can’t even imagine making a trip any farther than the end of my driveway in one of those new internal combustion roller-skates, but that’s a story for another day.

I spent most of my driving time listening to the satellite radio where the political pundits on both sides of the spectrum both chided and bemoaned the recent appearances of the Messiah on the Sunday morning talk shows promoting yet another new sales pitch for ObamaCare. Obama made the circuit of 5 network talk shows omitting Fox News as the only one not worthy of his presence.

Most of the appearances went according to the script with the adoring hosts obligingly lobbing softball questions and Obama answering with equally soft-boiled replies. The one standout in this presidential media love-fest was his appearance on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”. George was curious indeed and asked the President some fairly pointed questions about the proposed surtax to be assessed on anyone that doesn’t buy private insurance under ObamaCare and what Obama thought of Congress pulling federal financial support from the Obama administrations BFF’s at ACORN.

Liberal pundits are howling that in treating Obama to such pointed and negative questions George Stephanopoulos has lost his card-carrying liberal mind. Conservative pundits, like Rush Limbaugh, are passing the heated exchange off as nothing more than a ratings grab in an attempt to differentiate “This Week” from the other gaggle of talk shows Obama appeared on.

Obama’s replies to Stephanopoulos were terse and abrupt. Morphing himself into victim mode, Obama attempted to accuse the host of misusing the term tax as it related to the money the government would be charging taxpayers. When a well prepared Stephanopoulos pulled out a collegiate dictionary and read the definition of tax Obama amazingly tried to use that as his defense, claiming that the fact that GS was prepared with the definition meant he knew it wasn’t true. He went on with his blatant prevarication in professing he hadn’t even paid attention to the ACORN debacle as it was of little or no importance to him.

All of Obama’s replies sounded eerily like a previous Democrat President who attempted to debate what the definition of is is and asserted with equal adjuration the fact that Monica Lewinski was just a low level intern of no particular import.

While historically it has been proven to be unwise to disagree with the El Rushbo, I view Obama’s answers to be the reason for George’s harsh approach rather than a mere play at a ratings boon.

George Stephanopoulos was a senior political advisor and later Communications Director for then President Bill Clinton. In his book entitled “All Too Human, A Political Education” Stephanopoulos discusses how he poured his heart and soul into the campaign and defense of a man he truly believed in only to be let down. I think GS is adroit enough to see many of the same disingenuous qualities in Obama that he became so painfully aware of in Clinton.

Obama’s performance on ABC’s This Week, as well as the other Sunday network talk-a-thons, was filled with the same jackleg hyperbole as the contraband Cuban cigar smoking, blue dress staining, land deal swindler Stephanopoulos used to work for. It's obvious the scars of that soul-shaking disappointment run too deep to be soon forgotten. It doesn’t mean that Stephanopoulos is any less a liberal than his past would dictate, only that he has walked down that primrose path before and knows what the fertilizer smells like.

He’s also learned to avoid stepping in it.