I love the new "I don't give a crap" Obama.
The President makes a thoughtful speech at the National Prayer Breakfast and mass hysteria erupts on the right, or as only Charlie Pierce can put it, the speech:
set off cranial detonations all over the conservative shut-in community and the media that serves it. As near as I can tell, it began in the Orc factories run by Michelle Malkin and then spread generally.
Crusader Rabbits, the President Livens up the National Prayer Breakfast,
(Note: If you haven't yet been inspired by "it began in the Orc factories run by Michelle Malkin," to immediately click over to Pierce's post, please do so (after reccing this diary, of course).)
One of the most egregious of the "Orcs" is Jonah Goldberg, who takes the President's mention of the Crusades and the Inquisition to defend those events. Essentially, as Pierce notes, Goldberg argues that those mostly benign events are simply victims of the liberal media!
Surely, no one ever expects a defense of the Spanish Inquisition.
Then again, writes Pierce:
it's not as though the president lacked for other examples of Christian savagery down through the years, from the slaughter of the Albigensians, to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre to Cromwell's genocide in Ireland, to the execution of Quakers in Puritan New England, to the killing of Muslims in the Balkans, to the careers of Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder, and the other murderers of the modern anti-choice movement.
Did I mention that I love the new "I don't give a crap" Obama?
How long until we hear Chuck Todd asking Hillary to repudiate Obama's Prayer Breakfast comments?