Deceitful Canned Music As Apt Metaphor For Obama Presidency

Obama got the big pretentious names like Yo Yo Ma, Anthony McGill, Gabriela Montero, and Itzhak Perlman to perform for him.  But the performance was for his ears only; everyone else got the “canned music” piped to them in a show of deception that makes one reminisce to Communist China’s false presentations during the Olympics.

Live’ Inauguration Performance Used Canned Music
Written by Sunrise on KGMB9 – sunrise@kgmb9.com

Remember that amazing quartet that played that beautiful “live” performance at the inauguration? Turns out it wasn’t live at all.

The frigid temperatures apparently made it impossible for the four renowned musicians to keep instruments in tune. So a cleaner version of John Williams’ “Air and Simple Gifts” was fed over the loud speakers.

The excuse was that the weather was too cold for the instruments to hold their tune.  Two responses: 1) GLOBAL WARMING!!! and 2) Who would ever have figured it it would be cold in Washington DC in January?

So use canned music in an open, honest manner, or have a brass band play, or whatever.  But don’t give us one thing while claiming to give us another.

Stop The ACLU was there first, saying:

Unfortunately it was a recording. The classical gas was a mere Milli Vanilli-a-rama…

[I]t remains to be seen if this mild subterfuge will be a metaphor for the Obama administration; a facade thrown up while canned music plays to fool the public.

But I would argue that we’ve already SEEN one facade being thrown up after another from Obama.

Let me give two particularly galling examples.

Juan Williams had this to say January 22nd:

During the Democrats’ primaries and caucuses, candidate Obama often got affectionate if not fawning treatment from the American media. Editors, news anchors, columnists and commentators, both white and black but especially those on the political left, too often acted as if they were in a hurry to claim their role in history as supporters of the first black president.

For example, Mr. Obama was forced to give a speech on race as a result of revelations that he’d long attended a church led by a demagogue. It was an ordinary speech. At best it was successful at minimizing a political problem. Yet some in the media equated it to the Gettysburg Address.

Obama was “forced to give a speech on race” because it was revealed that the man had spent 23 years in a racist, anti-American church spewing “No, no, no.  Not God Bless America.  God damn America!”  And routinely demonizing white people and white society as completely racist, immoral, and greedy.

Of course, all that bile Wright spewed was “Just words.”  Move on, folks.  Nothin’ to see here.

Barack Obama was inspired by one of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist tidbits:

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!” (Pg. 293, Dreams of My Father).

Barack Obama reacted to the revelations of statement after statement dripping venemously from the lips of Jeremiah Wright as his fellow congregants stood and cheered by the thousands by first saying nothing; then by defending Wright; then by giving his “Gettysburg-like” speech in which he said, I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community”; and “I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother“; and ultimately by TOTALLY disowning him a couple weeks later after it became obvious that he needed to do so for political expediency.

He had called Jeremiah Wright his spiritual mentor, a father figure, a role model, and the inspiration for his book Audacity of Hope.

“I spent 23 years smoking Wright’s whacko-weed.  But I never once inhaled.”

So – even as the fact that Obama spent 23 years in Wright’s church, had Wright marry him, had Wright baptize his children, appeared in Wright’s Trumpet Magazine, etc. – Obama piped a different tune to replace the one that didn’t sound so good.  And the media – as Juan Williams noted – fell all over themselves buying the “Milli Vanilli” version.

The second glaring example of Obama replacing reality with canned music was when he elected to abandon his promise to accept public funding.  He went on to raise FOUR times as much as the McCain campaign while patting himself on the back for what turned out to be his “Milli Vanilli” integrity.

When Barack Obama announced he was breaking his promise to accept public funding, the reason he cited was that he was raising all his money from small donors and therefore his system was even more open and honest than the public financining system.  But that was never true.  It turned out that Obama’s money DIDN’T significantly come from small donors, after all, in spite of Obama’s “Milli Vanilli” version to the contrary.  The whole version of the truth that allowed Obama to outspend John McCain 3-1 (and 4-1 in battleground states) was a myth.

Given that Obama in all likelihood won this election due to his 3-1 fund raising advantage, it would have been only FAIR to investigate his fund raising.  But the media was far too occupied with digging through Sarah Palin’s and Joe the Plumber’s trash.  The McCain campaign vigorously attempted to prevent fraud, while Obama cared only about maximizing his contributions by any means available.  The result was ALL SORTS of documented fraud that proved Obama’s fundraising was a disgrace to fairness, or public access, or accountability, or anything else.  We find out that Obama took millions from overseas donors.  We find out that there were all sorts of fraudulent shenanigans going on in campaign financing that Obama never even bothered to try to correct.

I could also go into detail about the guy who Obama picked to run the IRS being a tax cheat, but what’s the use?

I expect one case of blatant dishonesty followed by a media-swallowed case of “canned music” after another from this President and from this administration.  And we won’t know about most of it, because the media is dishonest and corrupt due to its partisan liberal ideology.