Wednesday, September 4, 2013

"He's a good person, period,

De Niro says,
“He’s trying his best. He’s going to do things that people feel are not right or violating one right or another. But at the end of the day, he represents, I think, the best of the type of people that I would like to see running the government. He has to play that game, the political game. They all do. They make statements they can’t honor because they’re impossible to honor. Once you get into that Washington machinery, you’ve just got to figure it out and swim against the current and grab onto this rock and that, and just try to maintain your course.”
That's Robert De Niro in a quote pulled from Politico I saw on Twitchy.

That is a sampling of actor-logic where the conclusions of syllogisms are stated first as premises. 

Minus five points for the use of "period," a term intended to bluster with unearned authority, and twenty points off for the use of "end of the day," a metaphor so dead it identifies its user as zombie.

No, Robert DeNiro, it is not seen that he is a good person, period, so Robert DeNiro's analysis is wanting, although his metaphor of presidency as job in the unreality of film is more apt than he intended.  

They tear him up at Twitchy and at Politico. De Niro's heartfelt defense at Politico is very sad. 

32 comments:

rhhardin said...

Obama does not mean well.

rhhardin said...

Amazon gives awful and clueless suggestions if you have a habit of following unrelated links from elsewhere.

Product suggestions for a crazy person.

KCFleming said...

"He’s trying his best"??

The Special Olympics Preezy.

Hugs! Everyone got a ribbon!
Pile in for Chuck E. Cheese!

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Mr. De Niro's defense of Barack Obama exemplifies the soft bigotry of low expectations.

rhhardin said...

Blame everybody else. That's the mark of a good man.

AllenS said...

Is there a link to the DeNiro/Politico story?

chickelit said...

Not going to read the link.

Is de Niro talkng about Obama? If so, he's wrong. Just witness POTUS' words and behavior in Sweden.

De Niro takes himself down a notch by hitching his own credibility to an embarrassing failure.

KCFleming said...

DeNiro: "If you took the time to explain it all to the public, they’d say, ‘OK, I get it.’ Can you explain to everybody? No. You just have to say, ‘I made this choice because I felt it was the right choice.’”

So exactly why can't he "take the time to explain it" to the idiot public, so we can say 'OK, I get it’?

Unlike a film director, the President of the US can in fact explain it to everybody.





AllenS said...

Found it. Waste of time.

The Dude said...

How could DeNiro take himself down a notch - he is a liberal/commie zero already.

Fuck him and his celebretardity.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Hollywood is a leftwing propoganda machine. De Niro reporting for duty.

edutcher said...

Just because he's doing his best doesn't mean that's any good.

As his the rest of his life has shown, but, for the Lefties, it's all about feelings and intentions.

If you're for The Agenda, you're a good person.

You may end up sending 40,000,000 people to the gulag or was 66,000,000 down the Yangtze, but your intentions were good, so it's OK.

KCFleming said...

Deniro's a stupid person, period.

bagoh20 said...

I wonder if De Niro trusts his investments or even his plumbing to people who's qualifications only consist of being a "good person, period"?

ricpic said...

Hey, DeNiro's a true blue liberal. Experience has taught him nothing. It's no different than the party loyalty that will soon hand NYC back to a Democrat mayor hell bent on punishing the police, thereby reversing 20 years of Giuliani/Bloomberg tough on crime that made the city livable again. This will be done by many who lived through the mugging years yet have convinced themselves that another round of, I don't know, compassion for thugs is in order.

edutcher said...

OK, according to the latest news, Choom is telling the world press he never set a red line and his credibility isn't on the line.

He also disses Congress.

On foreign soil, of course.

All he wants is to do the same swell job he did for Egypt and Labia

(you heard what's going on in Labia these days from your nightly news, didn't you?)

Mumpsimus said...

Once you get into that Washington machinery, you’ve just got to figure it out and swim against the current and grab onto this rock and that . . .

What I want to know is, if the water and rocks are inside the machinery, why is there a current?

bagoh20 said...

So maybe we needed a plumber, or a mechanic, or a plumbing mechanic, or maybe a good white water swimmer, but I still don't get what makes a failed community organizer a solid choice.

bagoh20 said...

When the President's supporters have backed down their defense to "at least he's a good person", then it's pretty much unanimous that the voters really screwed up on this hire.

Methadras said...

People defend morons all the time. People defend the indefensible people all the time. People will defend anything as a justification for their political and ideological agendas all the time. The one thing many of them don't do is say, "You know what, I made a mistake. I believed in him and he is a mistake." You don't see that happening often if at all.

Icepick said...

When the President's supporters have backed down their defense to "at least he's a good person", then it's pretty much unanimous that the voters really screwed up on this hire.

I can understand people fucking up like that once. But the man got re-elected, despite everything. Everyone that voted for this man in 2012 is more dangerous to this country than bin Laden could have ever hoped to be. Only the voters can fuck the country up beyond repair, and goddamn if they haven't gone and done it.

Icepick said...

Kerry is now saying that Arab nations have offered to pay the full cost if the US mounts a full invasion of Syria. Not that this is even being considered, of course.

No mention of how the Arabs would pay for the lost lives of American military personnel.

Also, no mention of the Arabs mounting their own invasion, instead of treating the US as their servant.

bagoh20 said...

Hey, maybe the Arabs can form a coalition with Israel to invade Syria. Finally a war might do what peace talks never could.

Anonymous said...

FWIW, De Niro is voicing the typical position of Obama supporters these days.

Gone are the claims of Obama as messiah or 3-D chess player or LeBron. Obama's supporters consider him a smart decent guy trying his best in an impossible position against all those nasty Republicans.

You can't argue with them. There are no facts or arguments involved. It's the impregnable stance of the low-information voter.

virgil xenophon said...

I've said it before and I don't hesitate to say it again: The depths of the Marianas Trench are as but a shallow street-corner puddle after an after-noon's summer shower compared to the depths of my loathing for Obama..

edutcher said...

Icepick said...

Kerry is now saying that Arab nations have offered to pay the full cost if the US mounts a full invasion of Syria. Not that this is even being considered, of course.

I take it now Lurch's "global test" is selling our foreign policy to the highest bidder.

Icepick said...

I take it now Lurch's "global test" is selling our foreign policy to the highest bidder.

What could possibly be more honorable or principled?

(Yeah, I just about gagged typing that.)

AllenS said...

Virgil, you might loath Obama, but I detest McCain.

We were fucked no matter which one of them was elected.

We are so fucked.

AllenS said...

Just thought of something. If McCain had been elected, there would have been a good possibility that if he did something really stupid, Sarah Palin would have kicked him in the nuts.

So, there's that.

bagoh20 said...

" If McCain had been elected, there would have been a good possibility that if he did something really stupid, Sarah Palin would have kicked him in the nuts."

And so would the Press. Stupid would at least get entered into evidence under a Republican. This alone made McCain a better choice. Besides, we wouldn't be stuck with all the Al Sharpton race bating Obama can't help doing.

The biggest danger to the world and us is the perception or fact of a weak American foreign policy. A flaccid U.S. President is more dangerous than any dictator anywhere, and McCain isn't afraid to use the Viagra.

rcocean said...

I think Obama is going to be our first - and last - black president.

As for Johnny McCain - his contempt for the average American becomes more and more overt. His snark about the Video poker was a classic example.

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