The Theatre of Barack Obama: The Show Must Go On

Monte Kuliogowski * American Thinker

Though his list of offenses against American liberty is lengthy, Barack Obama will not be held accountable. The American press will never become critical of his words or deeds in a substantive and sustained manner. And, short of an epiphany, Congress will not muster the courage to judge him with normative standards.

We all know why, but we are not allowed to say it: he is immune to substantive criticism because of skin color.

And Mr. Obama is absolved of more than criticism; he is immune to reality itself.

Attempting to remedy the former institutional injustices that black people suffered in America, the press overcompensates to alleviate the ongoing white guilt phenomenon of postmodern liberalism. Racial narratives are sometimes manufactured when racism is nonexistent in the actual story -- and in the case of Barack Obama, storylines were created out of whole cloth.

The unimpeachable sainthood afforded to Obama because of the new nobility has taken the unreal to the surreal. American journalists are the proud producers and directors of the Obama as president production.

One of the requirements of movie-going is the ability to suspend disbelief. The willing suspension of disbelief is a 19th-century concept attributable to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The term is used today when moviegoers ignore the implausible and impossible in order to enjoy the production on the big screen.

Imagine a moviegoer shouting, "That's fake!" during a moment when the good guy is doing something that would be ridiculous in the real world. That's effectively what Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) did when President Obama was pushing his health care bill before the full Congress in 2009. During his presentation, Mr. Obama was arrogant, and accusatory of those who disagreed with his grand vision of central control of our health care system. Even worse, the lecture was filled with untruths and misrepresentations. Joe Wilson could suspend disbelief for only so long, and finally he shouted out those two words which will live forever in idiosyncrasy:

"You lie!"

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