RON HART: From a war on terror to a war on Fox

NEW YORK CITY — For his entire life, President Barack Obama has received accolades for what he says and not for what he has done.

The media seek to explain and guide our appreciation of him, molding him in their likeness. They are vested in him; they will not let him stumble — unless, of course, voters get the facts. And the voters will not get those facts if Obama has his way and undermines the free press. His administration has declared war on Fox News, the only organization left on TV which will take Obama to task and report the truth. 

Our president possesses that rare ability to make you believe he agrees with you even when he does not. His henchmen and — women do his daily dirty work while he smiles and strokes people, just as his minions wrote it for him on his teleprompter.

Not until they come after you does it become clear how dangerous they are.

Based on the theory that employees reflect the employer, Obama is not the nice guy he plays on stage. He is just a Chicago-style politician with a Socialist bent, out to control as much of the economy as he can by using his “dependency” agenda.

Remember, he backed former Illinois Governor and Shoney’s Big Boy look-alike Rod Blagojevich.

Doing Obama’s hatchet work is a cast of willing hangers-on, led by fellow Chicago politician Rahm Emanuel. If not for the allergic reaction he would suffer, this man is very close to sitting at the end of a big conference table full of Communist sympathizers and stroking a big white cat.

Emanuel revealed himself early by saying that Democrats “should never let a good crisis go to waste.” Translation:  Take advantage of any opportunity you get to push your spending bills and agenda, and never mind that they are not related to the “crisis.”

And if there is one thing that politicians produce well, it is a crisis.

In a heated competition to see who will get the most airtime in 2010 Republican attack ads, White House communications head Anita Dunn recently said to a class of graduating high school seniors that one of her favorite political philosophers is Mao Tse Tung, the man who ruthlessly killed 60 million of his own people so that he could establish the Communist Party. 

Folks, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.  

Pretty soon Obama will say he is recalling our troops in Afghanistan just to attack the Fox newsroom. As Obama and Dunn learned from Mao Tse Tung, it will be easier to purge opponents once you force gun control on them. Like they also learned from Mao Tse Tung, once you take folks out to the public square and execute them, others pay attention.

Obama’s administration even told federal law enforcement not to go after California’s marijuana sales.  I guess his new motto is “Yes we cannabis.” It will be easier to pass their agenda if the country is stoned.  

In another assault on free enterprise, Obama overreached and cut salaries of some executives 90 percent (no word on cutting his own administration’s salaries based on performance). This came after passing a bill that purchased more personal jet aircraft for the government. To be sure, our elected officials should fly in style since they are now auto executives and bank presidents.

They are also after the insurance companies that take them to task on the facts of health care reform. It actually shocked the insurance companies that Obama took them on. 

They never thought a U.S. president who smoked would live long enough to be a problem for them.

Through the teachers unions, who make our school kids sing songs of adulation to him, Obama exhorts the young to volunteer for free, while his liberal staff is working 70-hour weeks to advance his Socialist agenda. He has gone from wanting to be like Abe Lincoln to being more like Jefferson Davis.

So let’s recap: the White House has a war on insurance companies, Wall Street, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, talk radio and Fox News.

I predict that the Taliban will soon fall out of the top ten.

Ron Hart is a libertarian columnist who can be reached at www.ronaldhart.com. His book “There is No Such Thing as a Pretty Good Alligator Wrestler” is out in November.