from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 07:21 PM PST

Appear on a lot of magazine covers, get your own Prime Time
TV special, and when things aren't going your way find a

homeless woman somewhere, prep her to say "I love you,

please give me a house" and make sure everyone sees the clip.

Oprah or Obama? Actually it's both of them. Obama has picked up
the Oprah style of publicity manipulation, and taken it all the way to
the top with constant media appearances and a perpetual "listening"

campaign that consists of Obama going to places he would never normally

set foot in, and taking some pre-screened questions from ordinary people,

while promising to give them lots of stuff out of the goodness of his heart.

It's as phony as a three dollar bill, or that birth certificate our Kenyan

friend just can't seem to find. In Oprah's case it conceals a ruthless

controlling woman whose real personality is a 180 degrees away
from the one she shows on TV. In Obama's case it likely conceals the
very same thing.

Obama has modeled the cynical tactics of celebrity, feeding out trivia

about what food he likes and his family life, to give the
public the illusion that they know the real him. And even inside the

White House, he has kept up the same charade, campaigning instead

of doing, promoting himself while quietly reversing himself.

Naturally Obama's public rise began with a book, metastasized with

endless TV and magazine appearances, and was based on
soliciting the mass worship of gullible people, many of whom expected
Obama to give everything away to them. Behind the scenes of course is
a seething mass of corruption, and a man who does his best to
limit the access of reporters to avoid denting his public image,
and elevates partisan hacks such as the Huffington Post's Sam
Stein, preferring "court jesters" to questions from the professional
press.

That's the way the country is run now. A shallow glowing
film of celebrity draped over an empire of greed. While promoting
the trillion dollar money grab that Obama can't defend, he
instead aims right for the shallow center with staged stunts such as
the Henrietta Hughes scene. Don't ask questions about all the
money we're stealing from you, is the message. Here watch the
Messiah heal the sick and give away houses, right after this
commercial for I Can't Believe It's Not the President.

If all else fails, trot out a doomsday scenario, and pretending you're

doing this all for "the little people". You know the ones you moved to

D.C. and put your kids in private school, so you would never
have to deal with, except at carefully staged events. There's phony
talk about bipartisanship in the front, and 60 Seconds of Hate on TV and the

Radio, paid for by the very people giving you the kickbacks you

want to ram through.

For all the grandiose rhetoric, the stolen poetry and lines borrowed

from his megapreacher of hate, Jeremiah Wright, what Obama
falls back on are Oprah style politics... shallow, hollow and a
deceptive shell with an ugly interior inside. Like Oprah, Obama's
outward vapidity conceals a great deal of manipulative cynicism by a
man who seeks power that he isn't fit to wield.