Being loved by the cult in Fairfield is NOT a ringing endorsement for
Obama.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
MSNBC's Carlson on Obama: [H]e sounds like a pothead to meOn
the July 6 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson read the
following excerpt from a speech delivered by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
in Fairfield, Iowa, on July 3: Somehow we have lost the capacity to
recognize ourselves in each other. You know, people talk a lot about
the federal deficit, but one of the things I always talk about is an
empathy deficit. Carlson then asked: How high is this guy? It's
like what is he -- he always talks between bong hits? Tucker later
said: Well, he sounds like a pothead to me. I mean, look, tell me
what you're for. I don't want to hear about the [']empathy['] -- what
the hell is that? Do you know what I mean? If I want a therapist,
I'll pay for one.
On the July 2 edition of his show, Carlson said that Obama seems
like kind of a wuss, as Media Matters for America noted.
From the July 6 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, which also included
Clifford May, president of The Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, and Newsweek senior White House correspondent Richard
Wolffe:
CARLSON: Richard, you were just in Iowa with Barack Obama. Maybe
you can explain the following scene: Barack Obama goes to essentially
the Maharishi University town -- Fairfield, Iowa, home of John
Hagelin, the Natural Law Party [presidential] candidate -- and gives
this speech in which he says this -- they love him, and he
says: Somehow we have lost the capacity to recognize ourselves in
each other. You know, people talk a lot about the federal deficit,
but one of the things I always talk about is an empathy deficit.
Now, I always talk about --
MAY: You're dead inside? You have no empathy for people? What's
up?
CARLSON: How high is this guy? It's like, what is he -- he always
talks between bong hits? I mean, what is that? What does that mean,
an empathy deficit?
WOLFFE: You're -- so what, the African-American candidate is the
exotic guy, who has a Maharishi --
CARLSON: Well, he sounds like a pothead to me. I mean, look, tell
me what you're for. I don't want to hear about the empathy -- what
the hell is that? Do you know what I mean? If I want a therapist,
I'll pay for one --
WOLFFE: Let me explain something to you about what Democrats do,
because this is his standard stump speech. He didn't come up with
this last --
CARLSON: Yeah, I know. I know.
WOLFFE: Just for -- you know, there is something about the common
good that they argue about --
CARLSON: Don't have a problem with that.
WOLFFE: -- about seeing each other, helping each other. Whether
it's public education or health care, that's the core message of
every single one of these characters. They're not all on the [Dennis]
Kucinich bus.
CARLSON: And I wonder, why is it Democrats have had problems
getting elected president?
WOLFFE: You tell me.
CARLSON: I think you just explained it.
MAY: Tucker, I don't think Americans lack empathy, let me say
that. But my favorite part of the story is the Obama supporter who
had written on his car, The time is now, and a Maharishi follower
said, But the time is always now.
WOLFFE: I must say, by the way, very creative reporting. Hat tip
to The Politico there. But I was there in that crowd. You could not
tell that was a Maharishi crowd. I mean, Fairfield -- it does exist
as a real place beyond people doing yogic leaping and people doing
transcendental meditation [TM].
CARLSON: First of all, it's yogic flying.
WOLFFE: I'm sorry.
CARLSON: Second, I grew up in Southern California. My cousin was
deeply into TM. I can spot them a mile away. They're very sweet
people. They're very, very, very nice people.
WOLFFE: They wear Crocs and things.
CARLSON: Yeah, they wear Crocs and things, but they are --
they're potheads, and you're not going to convince me otherwise.
A.J.W.
A.J. Walzer is an intern at Media Matters for America.
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