National Review Editor Compares Obama to Caesar Over One-Liner
National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez is stunned at the president’s imperious behavior in front of the press corps yesterday:
He Actually Said That
Caesar President Obama, upon announcing Bernanke’s second term: ”I apologize for interrupting the relaxing I told all of you to do, but I have an important announcement to make.”
Here in America, the White House press corps can actually act without the president’s permission. Though it is true that they may not all know that.
*What Kathryn Jean Lopez Thinks Happened*
Obama: I have summoned you all from the far corners of those lands that our fathers obtained for us not only through the sword, but through those virtues for which we have always been known – the virtues that sustained us through more than what could be delivered by that fallen merchant power across the sea which once threatened us without cause or prompting – in order that I might announce my adaptation of the attributes of Apollo. You may now venerate myself both as your divine intercessor and your emperor, and Apollo in turn by way of my own godhead.
Press Corps: Hail Augustus!
Helen Thomas: May He forever be known as Obamus Epiphanies! To the Tiber with Cheney!
Press Corps: To the Tiber with him!
Rick Santorum: I find you very attractive, Kathryn Jean Lopez.
*What Actually Happened*
Obama made an allegedly amusing reference to the fact that he’d previously told everyone to get some rest.
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K-Lo is to journalism what Mengele was to medicine.
That’s not fair. Mengele performed atrocious and unforgivable acts as a doctor, as K-Lo has done as a “journalist,” but some of his research was scientifically and medically valuable. Can the same be said of the writings of Jonah Goldberg’s beard, Ms. Lopez?
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