Another left-wing journalist bailed out by Obama
I can’t even keep count anymore, can you? Meet the newest left-wing journalist rescued from the ailing newspaper industry by the Obama administration: former LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks. She’s the daughter of liberal writer Barbara Ehrenreich and an acolyte of George Soros. And she’s working in the…Pentagon. Not a joke.
Nile Gardiner gives you the rundown:
In what has to be one of the most extreme appointments yet by the Obama Administration, ex-Los Angeles Times columnist and Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks has just been made an adviser to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy – a move Brooks describes as “my personal government bailout.”
Bailout is certainly the right word for someone who appears to have no relevant national security qualifications for the position. She does though have experience working as Special Counsel for George Soros’s Open Society Institute in New York, and as a former adviser to Harold Koh, the hugely controversial nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department.
Brooks’ new boss Fluornoy holds one of the most powerful posts in the Pentagon, and is already playing a key role in shaping the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan as well as the wider war against al-Qaeda. She will also be a central figure in shaping U.S.-UK defence cooperation and Washington’s policy towards NATO. As an adviser to Fluornoy, Brooks will wield an extraordinary degree of influence in helping shape U.S. policy. Her extreme views should therefore be closely scrutinized.
Brooks’ description of the previous occupant of the White House as “our torturer in chief” is hard to square with President Obama’s call for bipartisanship. Nor is her ludicrous comparison of the Bush Administration’s legal arguments on the war on terror with Adolf Hitler’s use of political propaganda.
She has also accused civilian White House and Pentagon officials from the last administration of being “eager to embrace the values normally exemplified by military juntas,” while urging “military personnel to speak out, regardless of the cost, when they think our civilian leaders have gone beyond the pale” – little more than an open-ended call for the politicization of the armed forces.
Rowan Scarborough at Human Events has more:
Some in the Pentagon, normally a conservative and patriotic enclave, are reacting with alarm at Brooks’ appointment. One Gates staffer told Human Events that Brooks is an “extremist.” The source emphasized she was Flournoy’s appointment, not Gates’. “Gates did not hire her,” the official said.
“Any time you have people with extreme views on the right or left it makes people nervous here,” said a senior official.
In response to a query from Human Events, the Defense Department provided Brooks’ job description. She is a “principal adviser” to Flournoy to “develop cross regional planning.” In other words, Brooks will help shape the Pentagon’s relations with foreign governments and militaries.
Later, the department amended her job description. “Ms. Brooks was hired as a Special Advisor to the USDP to address a range of issues of interest to the Undersecretary, including speechwriting and special projects,” the statement said.
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Another screw in the “WE’RE SCREWED” machine…
“She has also accused civilian White House and Pentagon officials from the last administration of being “eager to embrace the values normally exemplified by military juntas,””
Talk about projection. What a scarry world we now live in: A Soros led Pentagon.
BOHICA
So now we can kiss goodbye EVERY new weapon system. Gay’s can OPENLY serve (will the Army start a new unit called the “Pink Berets” for them?). Christians will need to go into the closet. All other religions can serve openly.
I haven’t gotten to the REALLY bad things yet.
Simply disgusting.
so many rotten apples in the basket, it’s stinking badly.
Just stacking the deck to take America down in flames.
Another nibble by the liberal duck… that’s nibbling us to death.
every day a new level of incompetence is brought into this joke of an administration. the crap keeps on piling up in dc, an enema can’t be given soon enough. the pentagon just aquired another diseased parasite to add to its chain of command.
I thought Pentagon positions were best served by those whose qualifications included winning wars…
…does this mean, now that liberals have over populated all branches of government, that the new enemy is us average Americans (including former and current military personnel)?
Yup… ‘fraid so.
Another nation wide search for the best and brightest bears bitter fruit! Please! Can we have Jimmy Carter and the Clintons back!
The trend continues and we (Conservatives) can’t do a freaking thing about.
NOT A THING !
a “Bad moon” is rising.
Liberals slay me – on one hand they’re whining about the previous administration “eager to embrace the values normally exemplified by military juntas”
On the other hand they’re giving the ‘Full Monica’ to actual military juntas.
Just another shot fired in Obama’s war against the military.
conservatives should leave the military, let the liberals die for THEIR country…if we are hit again, in a blue area, oh well…
…and the economy
…and capitalism
…and the family
…and babies
…and marriage
…and national security
…and American strength…
When we see him reaching for the chain, hold tight to the rim folks.
The commies have been infesting the Department of State and the Pentagon for years. What’s different now is that they are comfortable showing their socialist colors in the open. We need to continue to act. The silent majority is now awake and preparing to get our country back.
Talk about Obama’s administration being bought and paid for. This is total payola to Soros.
Heaven help us…
My oldest starts basic in July at MCRD. Will he be able to defend himself and country? I am still very proud, but just a bit more worried now.
Why does our new president hate America so much? Was he confused about the job description of “United States President”?
Unfortunately, this kind of crapola happens no matter who is in the White House. If the American voters were given veto power over these type of appointments, there would be a lot less of them.
This administration is the great crap sandwich we all have to eat because of “slavery.” This is it, this is payback time.
Will we survive the next 4 years? Can we stay afloat until the next administration comes in and reverses all of this madness? I don’t really know.
All I know is I better not see ONE SINGLE VOTE for some third-party losertarian during the 2010 mid-term elections. Republicans may be spineless right now, but surely they are a damn site better than THIS! Everyvote for a losertarian party helps ensure a second term for this radical marxist $#)*%. And can you imagine what he will do in his SECOND term???
GET OUT AND VOTE IN 2010 TO STRIP THE DEMOCRATS OF THEIR SUPER-MAJORITY!!
Another phony baloney job.
Considering the man’s entire life since birth and all that he’s been spoon-fed to believe, I’d be surprised if he behaved any differently.
Like my momma always said, “Ya cain’t waller in a pile of pig potty and ’spect to come out smellin’ like a rose!”
Out of his own mouth Obama told us all where he is. Asked a general question his answer ” that’ above my pay grade ” never rang so true about his entire life!!!!!
No, you’ll see it in 2012 and get told it’s a great idea.
Here is more on Rosa Brooks:
The most radical left wing administration in history. Unbelievable. And it’s only April 2009. Not sure if I can last until 2012. Will there even be a country left?
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy?
The True Believer has done Delivered again. And just who is the Pentagon suppose to defend us from-Switzerland or Norway? Iran or Al Queda will be able to carry a damn bomb over the southern border with Defense and Homeland InSecurity providing lighting and water stations.
“develop cross regional planning”and “special projects”: Yes, “WE’RE SCREWED”. Rule .223/308 does apply.
Check Rule .223/308. We are on our own for the current emergency-we usually are.
How can Democrats protest being labeled ineffectual at national security when they appoint people w/ NO experience?
And how can liberals laugh whenever someone suggests Soros has undue influence w/ the current administration, when this is a glaring example?
Where else do failures go but the Obama administration? My guess is that his next appointment will be Jeannine Garafolo as Secretary of Defense and Michael Moore as Secretary of Health.
I swear to F’ing Gawd, if this crap keeps up, I am not going to feel as bad as I otherwise would have if al Qaeda ever again succeeds at attacking a Federal target.
Yes, I know that sounds awful. But if the Idiot American electorate is too stupid to understand the damage being done (and as of the last election, it is), then maybe it wouldn’t hurt to have an outsider send a “reminder”?
In a way, that’s what we did in Iraq. As justified as that was, it certainly did PO a lot of them; and, PO’d patriots is something we could use more of here.
Just sayin’.
???
Oxymoron much?
yeah the USSA…power to the people comrade!!
viva la revolutione..
viva la raza!!
its not too early to buy brown shirts!! and lots of starch…
Gorebot, It won’t help either…the loons on the left will blame Bush for that too.
Speaking of ‘journalists’–will Obama call another press conference today? Isn’t it time for his weekly TV appearance? Hasn’t Rush got something important lined up today that needs pre-empting?
And I am starting to feel like I am stuck in the bottom of that barrel and can’t get out! Every day, we see more and more evidence of Obama’s agenda. Those of us with a brain knew it before he was elected, but too many in this country don’t bother with facts and were bamboozled by empty rhetoric. And now we are living our worst nightmare. We need to have more protest rallies, at least one per month, and keep them growing louder until we can’t be ignored any longer! Something is starting to snap…now we just need to keep at it. Hey, David…I didn’t get a chance to thank you for representing me at the St. Paul rally. Thanks!!! Hopefully, I can get to the next one. I want my husband to come too, so I am waiting for his strength to return. He is doing well.
Bush hired half of Fox News for his PR staff. Did that make the White House fair and balanced?
… and where are the Republicans on this and the Obama/Democrat exploitation of the financial crisis? Answer: AWOL. Incompetence and malfeasance of the worst order.
yeah lets talk about Tony Snow, a very decent, intelligent, honest man, compared to that lying weasal stooge gibbs…
I knew Tony Snow did a lot, but I didn’t know he did half the work. Have you any other names to share with us?
Also, is there no distinction between hiring journalists to the PR staff and hiring them to a policy writing position?
Lgm you are a disgusting nazi….We can tell you eat your young……..lol
Obama was on this a.m. with the King of Jordan. Not sure if he ran into Rush’s time or not, since I turned it off as soon as I saw Obama’s face.
That’d be kewl. They will be our “secret weapon” since then it will be ILLEGAL to ask folks their HIV status. Then we can send them to the Iraninan/American war that will happen when Israel finally gets it’s “stuff” together and bombs the snot out of Mahmood Ahmanutjob and his “nooklear” reactors.
Gotta look at the bright side of these things, Boys.
OT – Weren’t those little “Juice” boys in the clown wigs great at Durban???
And lgm will be their Commander-in-Pink. I can just see him in his starched tutu and tights.
Oh wait. Rahm will fight for that spot.
Or maybe they will gaily tiptoe over there together, holding hands and giggling.
Holy crap, Ehrenreich’s kid? What the hell.
Making sure the Taliban takes back Afghanistan.
Oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms.
Liberal Journalist isn’t contradictory is it?
I’d say the words are redundant.
Half as in 1/2? The math teacher does not even know the number of staff at FOX but knows Bush hired 1/2.
I bet you are half Nazi.
It is obvious that Obama is staffing government with leftist thugs and bootlickers. He is not filling positions based on competence (Napolitano) but like-minded people that want to change this country into a self-hating socialist nightmare!
Elections have consequences and we have yet to experience the worst of it. Rosa Brooks is a sad joke and everybody knows it.
Who besides Tony Snow?
I cannot imagine what a member of the military deployed to Iraq or Af’stan (or elsewhere) must think of the constant middle finger they have been given over the past few months. It never quits with these lunatics.
First Urkel wants to charge them for medical care when they get shot up, now this raving a$$hat gets a job influencing policy for them.
My first thought when reading this is, What kind of Gorelick-like policies will she push to further tie the hands of our soldiers?
Considering so many in the Donk party have a hard time seeing extremism in those who like to saw off heads, yet can see it in veterans, one wonders what the views of this nutball can be.
The only thing we can do is vote in the next election. Meanwhile, those who had been elected to supposedly represent us can’t find their azz with both hands.
Yeah I can remember all the hilarious lines by Tony Snow referring to Clinton as Hitler, torturer in chief, etc., while he was secretly being funded by some ultra right wing person bent on the destruction of America.
For as dumb as you are, you certainly epitomize why Obama is now in office and the country is going down the tubes.
What did they call them when they always had a “political officer” on board ships etc., during the heydays of the USSR?
It does if the other half is composed of Clinton hanger-ons like those infesting the “justice” department.