The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
They Taste Like Paper
“A Taste of the Gluten-Free-Dessert Cookbooks Out There”–headline, ScrippsNews.com, June 6
News of the Tautological
“Netflix Going Commercial Free an Opportunity Lost for Advertisers”–headline, MediaPost.com, June 6
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Bethel Town Hall Phones Are Down Today”–headline, News Times (Danbury, Conn.), June 6
- “Despite Buzz, Cicadas Aren’t Too Close for Comfort”–headline, Washington Post, June 6
‘I Do Not Eat in Their Clubs’
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen complains that “the business community” is prejudiced against President Obama. He cites an exchange at a CNBC town hall in which investor Ken Langone called on the president to stop vilifying businessmen:
“Are you vilifying business?” the moderator, John Harwood, asked the president a bit later.
“Absolutely not,” Obama replied. “Let’s look at the track record here.”
Ah, yes, the track record. My reading of it is not much different than Obama’s, but then I am not a businessman, do not eat in their clubs or fly charter. I do know that many of them feel that Obama is at root a hostile liberal, a former community organizer (this is often cited as if the word “community” was synonymous with communist) who would tinker with God’s most perfect economic system by giving the government an inordinate role. You will look in vain for anything Obama has said to substantiate this view.
One has to wonder if Richard Cohen has ever even met a businessman.
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