Bachmann: Obama Committed to ‘Class Warfare’

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The kettle calling the pot black

Rethuglican Bachmann: The devil gives them looks so they can better fool the masses.

From time to time we seek to remind our readers how scandalously (and cynically) distorted is the flow of communications that passes for news and commentary among rightwingers. Below a classic example peddled by NewsMax.com. Founded by Christopher W. Ruddy and based in West Palm Beach, Florida, NewsMax Media operates the news website Newsmax.com, publishes Newsmax Magazine, as well as a host of health and financial newsletters.  As might be expected, NewsMax is a hugely successful operation, with deep pockets backing it up from the start. Ruddy started Newsmax.com on September 16, 1998, supported by a group of political reactionaries, including the family of the late Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey. Later, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy’s former employer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a supporter of “conservative causes”, invested in the fledging company.[2]

One of the initial board members was author James Dale Davidson who edited a financial newsletter, Davidson’s co-editor, Lord Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times and Vice Chair of the BBC, later became chairman of Newsmax Media.[3] Other news figures who later joined the Newsmax board included Count Arnaud de Borchgrave, the longtime Newsweek chief correspondent who also serves as editor at large of UPI and Jeff Cunningham, former publisher of Forbes. The late Admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War, also served as one of the company’s founding board members. Former US Secretary of State and Nixon administration Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig Jr. served as special adviser to NewsMax.[4] In sum, a crowded den of establishment worthies. In the excerpt below Bachmann inveighs against Obama, the current shill for the plutocracy in the White House, and a timid lamb when it comes to trading blows with anyone, as “waging class warfare.” Coming from a fully-accredited reactionary like Bachmann, and knowing that it’s precisely the super rich who have never stopped waging class war on the working people of America, that’s rich indeed.—Fred Bauer, with thanks to WikiPedia.

Bachmann: Obama Committed to ‘Class Warfare’

By Hiram Reisner | Thursday, 14 Apr 2011 06:33 AM
Appeared in NewsMax ||| Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann says President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the wealthy to reduce the nation’s debt shows he “is committed to class warfare.” Asked on Fox News by Judge Andrew Napolitano the reaction of the House Tea Party Caucus to the president’s deficit-reduction plan, Bachmann called it the “same song, second verse.”

“Well, no one takes him seriously with what he’s saying because it’s just the same old, same old — the same song, second verse,” Bachmann said, hours after Obama’s speech. “The president is committed to class warfare.

“If you want to see this president irritated — angry or sarcastic — watch what he says about people who he considers wealthy,” Bachmann continued. “That’s people making $200,000 a year or more, or businesses — he has something against businesses — maybe that’s why we’re not seeing prior job creation.

“What you didn’t hear out of President Obama is how we create more jobs in the private sector and how we create wealth,” she added. “He’s always attacking wealth creation.”

Fred Bauer, an editorial trainee based in St. Paul, files backgrounders on Midwest topics.

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