Rusty Humphries: Oh, Look… Another Obama Lecturing Me… Again

Posted 02.26.13 by Rusty Humphries, TRN Nationally Syndicated Radio Host & TPNN Contributor

By Rusty Humphries
TRN Nationally Syndicated Radio Host
TPNN Contributor

I am trying to remember the last time I went a week without turning on my television, only to find that one or both of the Obamas weren’t there, attempting to lecture me on something while still trying to sound hip.

I don’t mean to start off with a “Back in my day…” vibe, but I really do remember a time when if someone wanted to hear what the president or the first lady had to say, they picked up a newspaper or watched the news. I just don’t remember Nancy Reagan espousing her rhetoric at me while I was watching the Academy Awards.

On Sunday night, Michelle Obama ruffled some feathers because she made a telecasted appearance on the Academy Awards. She was introduced by Hollywood icon Jack Nicholson and she gave a short speech just prior to the Best Picture Award.

“These nine movies took us back in time and all around the world. They made us laugh, they made us weep, and they made us grip our armrests just a little tighter. They taught us that love can endure against all odds and transform our lives in the most surprising ways. They reminded us that we can overcome any obstacle if we dig deep enough and fight hard enough and find the courage to believe in ourselves. These lessons apply to all of us no matter who we are, or what we look like, or where we come from, or who we love, but they are especially important for our young people…”

Her speech was cringe-worthy for several reasons:

1) The Time and Place- Many viewers were likely wondering, “Hmm. The first lady is helping to present the Best Picture Award? What movie was she in again…?”

I understand that in this day and age that the president and first lady are not merely political personas; they’re famous in a way. But their kind of fame is not related to movies. I mean, Mick Jagger is famous, but I would think it was odd if he presented a Best Picture Award.

Some have pointed out that Laura Bush was featured at the 2002 Academy Awards. However, her brief soundbite was during a homage to movies- a “what do the movies mean to you?”- kind of thing. Her part, sandwiched in with dozens of people, lasted six seconds.

2) The Content- I am genuinely getting tired of being lectured all the time. I’m lectured by nanny-staters telling me that trans fat is bad; I’m lectured by anti-gun zealots telling me that if I don’t want stricter gun laws that that means I hate children and want to see them die violently; I’m lectured by leftists in Hollywood that make $5 mil a movie that tell me that we all need to “pay a little more.” I’ve had it.

I didn’t like it when Bob Costas turned a football game into a bully pulpit and I don’t like Michelle Obama lecturing me about the importance of movies because leftist Hollywood advances the progressive social agenda. Her liberal, thinly-veiled praise for the leftist propaganda spewed out from Hollywood each year is the most smug thing heard at the Academy Awards since George Clooney lectured America on the value of Hollywood and how they’re all ahead of the curve and oh-so-enlightened.

But at least he is actually a movie star…

3) The Set Decorations- Michelle used some interesting props in the background as she addressed the crowd. She had some of our brave men and women in the military stand there to lend some kind of legitimacy. It was disgusting.

It seems that every time the Obamas have something to say, they cloak themselves in innocents. When Obama wanted to overstep his Constitutional authority and sign 23 executive orders to limit gun rights, he made sure kids were there for political cover. When he discussed the sequester, he pulled out the firefighters to hide amongst. It’s tacky and immoral.

Michelle placing soldiers in the background is just another example of providing political cover. She didn’t even address their presence there and having them there as she addressed the crowd felt exploitative and crass.

Bottom line: I know the ever-present and ever-continuing Obama political machine is dedicated to relentlessly pushing a liberal agenda. Can we just give the nagging a rest for one night?

Rusty Humphries is a nationally syndicated radio host heard across the USA on over 300 radio stations and is listed as the 6th largest radio audience by Talkers Magazine. He is also a regular contributor to TPNN.com



  • wally12

    I agree with the article. It is and always has been Obama’s plan to do what he does best and that is community organize. Only now, he has the entire country to organize and the sad thing is that too many people believe him even when he states one thing and does just the opposite. What is even sadder is that he has much of the main stream media hooked as well. There is a ray of hope that Obama will dig his own downfall. I believe it has started to happen and hopefully it will multiply. Bob Woodward’s recent remark that he hasn’t heard such madness from an elected official meaning Obama in a long time. The white house was noticeably upset and sent Woodward that his remarks will not be taken lightly and I would guess they will attempt to discredit Woodward in some way.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

    Bollywood is more real than Hollywood these days.

  • Rod T

    You are witnessing a gathering of psychiatrically diagnosable individuals, malignant narcissists, enablers, co-dependents, so-called progressives which translates to my way is more evolved, more sophisticated, and more righteous than yours, than your imaginary antique God’s, than the architects of our American Nation — and our banding together here tonight in unity is truly the content of our message — the apotheosis of vanity. We are the rich, the beautiful, the admired (Never mind who we copulated with to get here. Those scenes weren’t so glamorous, nor was our cowardly desperation to be loved which caused us to obsequiously please the evil political masters and enthusiastically support the theft of your birthright — precious freedom — further empowering ourselves and simultaneously allowing us to appear excessively righteous and sensitive. We’re the adults who are going to divide up the candy and scold you with lessons on behavior. If you’re good and cooperate we’ll let you keep your soiled peanut butter sandwich and continue playing with your little friends, but remember this — if we have to — we’ll force you to do the right thing– our thing. These are our credentials. Sure, we’re beautiful and admired, but that came about as a natural consequence of our righteousness, which can be defined as following evil leaders into the subversion of the rarest of national attributes, the source of our greatness — freedom. We pretend to be courageous crusaders for moral causes, unintimidated by mob opinion, but in fact no film we every make in any way challenges the unwritten but very real political code of the left. In fact, we’ve become so deranged that if a whiff of political ambiguity exists in a film it is suspect and never ever endorse. If our collectivist matrix is outright violated by a film’s political or cosmological content, we will not give a drop of water to it as it thirsts to death. The Passion of The Christ was nominated for NO academy award, though it was the largest grossing picture of the year (in its year) and was brilliantly made on a modest budget. Not one mention, not even for best craft services (which having been made in Italy almost guaranteed great food.) To think and act not as individuals (there’s that dirty word) but as loyal members of an ideological body is not courageous but cowardly. There is a war of ideas going on and it’s going to determine the fate of the world, to a large extent. But by our very nature we’re good at posing. So while we assault your liberty in every single area of your lives, from authority over your children, to your religious freedoms, to all your constitutional rights, to the expropriation of your money and your weapons to the regulation of your speech and thoughts and in general the remolding of your world down to its most minute detail — we’ll pose as defenders of justice, standing in the gap for the little guy, the blue collar man or woman worked to death (in the increasingly rare instance of having work, with which we’re unconcerned because to have a worldwide revolution of the proletariat you have to have a large proletariat, a landless, indebted peasantry, which we’re doing best to create. We grow joblessness. We grow regulation. We grow taxes. We grow insecurity. We grow our power. We grow our control. We grow our wealth, not yours. We know not how to grow the economy because we won’t look in that direction — the path that would require us to get out of the way, not presume to run the world. ps. — the middle class must go. Read your Marx.)

    So they’re standing up for all of us who have no personal power, and it they have to do the unpopular thing, they’re ready to sacrifice themselves. The truth is they’re standing up to you — in support of our enemies, from radical Islam to the Marxist elite. They’re standing up to the common working man or woman. They’re standing up to the children who’d appreciate an unencumbered future, an honest education including non-redacted or fictionalized history, a real chance, not a manufactured illusion of opportunity which they substitute for the real thing. They’re standing up to the dead heroes. They’re standing up the ancestors and the architects of a constitutional system of government for, by, and of the people. They’re standing up to the straw men they create then knock over with a powerful swell of THX quadraphonic musical score (Big applause, electronically enhanced.)

    Yes, we are the sentinel species of the future, sent not to embody the new virtues of obedience to totalitarianism – but to preach the anti-gospel of the new world in which we will rule. (They’ll be in for quite a surprise at some point. Ever seen a movie star sent to a concentration camp or shot and pushed in a ditch with ranks of dead fans? I didn’t think so.)

    Of course they’re entirely exempt from all the coercive laws intended to constrain the peasantry with the pretense of making us secure — no ObamaCare for them, no disarmament, no coach class flying and being disrespected or handled by the unwashed rubber-gloved hands of TSA — our government’s front line representatives sent to educate the populace about who’s in charge. With secured cabin doors and a hostile flying citizenry no plan will be taken over ever again. Instead of all these billions and an army of agents armed against our own citizens we could get by with way less, which I won’t detail here.

    They’d could say of themselves and justly that they’re members of an elite society that cannot do wrong because they and their progressivism, ie. secular humanist socialism and marxist materialist social justice — are the definition of good. All who are not members of their cult of beauty and smug soul-superiority are by definition racists, sexists, homophobes, war mongers, greedy capitalists, small minded, gun fetishists, and misguided religious zealots — and if you weren’t those things you’d be one of them. It’s master race theory but with an ideological race instead of a biologic one. We’re in charge. Be careful what you say. Your doctor or psychological counsellor reports to us now. We keep a database — and you’re in it. You don’t remember giving us permission? You didn’t have to. We took it because we are your saviors.

    In fact, so Godlike are we — that we’ve undertaken to run the atmosphere itself, the heating and the cooling of the planet. That’s how powerfully righteous and inevitable our vision is. Even the planet will obey. We love our planet and it loves us when we’re good to it. It doesn’t like you “freedom lovers.” What do you need freedom to do or think that’s different from our guidelines? We demand to know. If you’re saying we’ve left out anything worthwhile or included anything wrong — speak up. Don’t you listen to our Leader’s speeches? He a uniter, not a divider. He’s all about creating jobs. LIke some mythic god he brought in the Arab Spring, the Allah-worshipping Sharia nations which are now evolving toward — what? I think we know. It isn’t Americanism. Even we movie stars aren’t fond of that. It’s a worldwide Caliphate, nuclear-armed, financed entire by western European culture – because the only thing these middle eastern nations have to market, other than oil which resulted from our activities and then was nationalized, is suicide bombers and impoverished, dissatisfied, disgruntled refugees — which are here by the millions.

    They believe in the vengeful God Allah. They know only authoritarian theocratic societies and sharia law rule where everything is governed by a code book — so who do you think these “communities” will vote for? the liberty candidates of the legalistic dictator class wearing ten thousand dollar Armani suits as they dictate austerity to the people.

    And how can springtime bring forth green things when the soil of the Islamic world is itself toxic. It can grow only weeds. You’re deceiving yourself if you think otherwise. It’s never happened, a spring in Islam, not even by accident in all these centuries. It’s their fundamental religious beliefs that hold them in bondage, not us, not Israel. The only good things they have are the things they complain about, resulting from contact with “the great satan.”

    Our leader is an African American, a disenfranchised man who’s suffered at the hands of colonialist white people and was forced to stay up late to work his way through Harvard where he learned (while shining shoes in Harvard square during his off hours) to venerate the constitution, at least enough to learn how to nullify and circumvent it so that he could turn rights into entitlements dispensed by him (the one against whom the rights were intended to protect us. Please see O’s state of the union message for full explication of what “God-giving and unalienable” mean to him.

    All that staying up late and shoe shining – no, it never happened. Any money he earned (and without a job it’s hard for most but that lesson escaped his highness) it didn’t go to pay living expenses or tuition. All that was paid by racist American largesse. But he did need little pocket money to afford his dope and his socializing with Islamic fundamentalists and marxist fools who’d just as soon dump you in a mass grave as urinate on you as you burned. They have no love in their hearts, only outrage at their imagined circumstances. , just like it says in his “autobiography” written by William Ayers.

    Of course we of the enlightened Hollywood, like our leader, use the people as extas to fill out the background of our scenes — the military, the ridiculous white-coated doctors with stethoscopes hung around their necks , uniformed firemen, children, unions and so forth, a rainbow coalition of misdirected extras which is appropriate because even in real life (wow, seems so long ago) we project reality out of our own brows and manifest it before your eyes. You’re all props. You have to prove your worthiness and take the pledge to work you way up to the status of an extra – — but what’s wrong with that? We are the authors and directors of America. Satan, the prince of the powers of the air, is and always was a charmer. It’s not that far from the temple of self love seen at the awards to the stench of mass graves that their misguided advocacy brings us closer to by the day.

  • Doug

    I agree extremely and wouldn’t it be nice if they just left!!!!



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