{"id":7645,"date":"2014-07-09T05:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2014-07-08T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:18:53","slug":"are-obamas-advisers-unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/are-obamas-advisers-unhinged\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Obama\u2019s Advisers Unhinged?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">by\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/382208\/are-obamas-advisers-unhinged-victor-davis-hanson\" target=\"_blank\">National Review Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Surely reports that President Obama is going down to Texas at the height of the Katrina-like border debacle to raise money at the home of the popular but often polarizing filmmaker and Quentin Tarantino\u2013collaborator Robert Rodriguez are the stuff of right-wing mythology?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">No one could be so politically dense as to head south in the direction of this catastrophe only to pull up short to huckster campaign funds \u2014 while under a lingering cloud that such special-interest money solicitation in the past typically has taken precedence over national security (cf. the need to retire early on the night of Benghazi in order to prep for an important fundraiser the next day in Las Vegas, where the selfish go to blow their kids\u2019 tuition money).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">That the Obama money-raiser is purportedly being hosted by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez also cannot be true. The latter is famous for ultra-violent exploitation films of just the sort that gun-control liberals have insisted glorify (true) assault-weapon violence for profit and influence the deranged to translate such violent fiction into murderous fact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">More disturbing at this volatile time of national tensions on the border is the fact that Rodriguez directed the\u00a0<em>Machete<\/em>\u00a0and<em>Machete Kills<\/em>\u00a0movies, which offered cheap exploitation about the immigration debate, caricaturing any who disagreed with the present policy of non-enforcement as more or less evil, Neanderthal-like racists and demented militiamen worthy of death (cf. the pseudo\/spoof racist trailer for one of the films that envisioned killing border-enforcement politicians).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">What would the media have thought if George W. Bush went to Louisiana during Katrina only to avoid New Orleans and the devastation, instead raising campaign cash (at $32,000 a head) at the home of a right-wing filmmaker of violent films that tended to glorify gunplay and to reduce controversies over disaster relief into caricatures of culpable dependents?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">In short, it would be impossible to dream up a worse mercenary presidential trip \u2014 in terms of morally indifferent omission and self-interested commission \u2014 at this critical time than what Obama supposedly now intends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Surely, the junket will be canceled out of embarrassment or quietly recalibrated \u2014 or perhaps the entire story about the trip is simply an urban legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online Surely reports that President Obama is going down to Texas at the height of the Katrina-like border debacle to raise money at the home of the popular but often polarizing filmmaker and Quentin Tarantino\u2013collaborator Robert Rodriguez are the stuff of right-wing mythology? No one could be so politically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[844,977,46],"tags":[12,1021,901],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1Zj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":720,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamas-hypocritic-oath\/","url_meta":{"origin":7645,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s Hypocritic Oath","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama has a habit of identifying a supposed crisis in collective morality, damning straw men \u201cthem\u201d who engage in such ethical lapses, soaring with rhetorical bromides \u2014 and then, to national quiet, doing more or less the exact things he once swore\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Second Term Policies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Second Term Policies","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/obama-administration\/second-term-policies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9165,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-buck-never-stops-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":7645,"position":1},"title":"The Buck Never Stops Here","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Tribune Media Services In a cover story in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine, President Obama offers astonishing scapegoating for his own foreign policy disasters.According to Obama, the deterioration of the ISIS wasteland that is now Libya was not due to improvident administration bombing followed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Middle East&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Middle East","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8571,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-obama-administrations-chicago-politics\/","url_meta":{"origin":7645,"position":2},"title":"The Obama Administration\u2019s Chicago Politics","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIf they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.\u201d by Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0\/\/ National Review Online Barack Obama is the first American president from Chicago. 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