Instapundit: A Convicted Felon Doesn’t Like Obama, LOOK
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Glenn Reynolds links, with an “Ouch” to this column by Conrad Black attacking President Obama. Before you reach your fainting couch upon hearing that Black compares Obama to Herbert Hoover, you might want to consider the moral… elasticity of the source of the attack.
Black was convicted in Illinois U.S. District Court on 13 July 2007 and sentenced to serve 78 months in federal prison, pay Hollinger $6.1 million and a fine of $125,000.
Black was found guilty of diverting funds for personal benefit from money due Hollinger International when the company sold certain publishing assets and other irregularities. For example, in 2000, in an illegal and surreptitious arrangement that came to be known as the “Lerner Exchange,” Black acquired Chicago’s Lerner Newspapers and sold it to Hollinger. He also obstructed justice by taking possession of documents to which he was not entitled.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard his case on 8 December 2009[4] and is expected to render a decision in June 2010. Black’s application for bail has been rejected by both the Supreme Court and the US District Court judge who sentenced him.
Black, Federal Bureau of Prisons #18330-424, is incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Low, Coleman, a part of the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex Black will be released on October 30, 2013.
That’s right. Conrad Black is writing this attack on President Obama from the confines of prison. Where he’s serving a sentence, for fraud.
“Ouch” indeed.
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Aww, another white conservative criminal doesn’t like Obama…I’m sure he’ll be devastated at the news.
Instastupid remains dumb as ever, on everything.
“Conrad Black was framed”-Glenn Reynolds
It is surprising, in the sense that felons are normally a reliable Democrat voting block.
He’s a Canadian right winger who denounced his Canadian Citizenship to become an American. When he got caught frauding, he asked to become a Canadian citizen again and was denied. I guess the jails are better in Socialist Canada!! Not even man enough to own his beliefs and principles. Typical nut.
Felons can’t vote, SaveFerris, like former San Diego Rep Cunningham(Stealing-R), Ney from Ohio, etc…….
Wait. Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and Tom DeLay are DEMOCRATS?
So in other words, SF, you’re conceding Oliver’s point, right?
Wow… that’s pretty impressive. He’s strung together an awful lot of unpleasant words about Obama. Of course, the actual semantic comment of the article seems to be “I disagree with Obama on a lot of issues, and he’s therefore a poo-poo head!”
Ouch, indeed… a thought-free, meaningless list of complaints, prettied up in declarative language, in order to preach to the choir. I would feel pain if someone on *my* side said something like that.
Now, some of the greatest and most transformative works of literature in history have been written while the authors were in prison…
King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
Machiavelli’s “The Prince”,
and the all time genre classic, “Mein Kampf”…
Heh, I personally find it even more funny that the “newspaper” publishing Black’s column is the National Post, which is owned by Black’s holding company. So it’s not like this crooked plutocrat has won some valued commentary position because of his thoughtful analysis, he’s just getting his verbal diarrhea printed in his personal vanity press!
Con artist, fraudster, thief, and liar, whose patriotism is only for convenience: in other words, a typical Republican.
Sorry. Have not read the Conrad Black article. However, I find it instructive that you’ve elected to discredit the author than refute anything in piece. Typical.
The silver lining here is that he won’t be voting Republican in 2010 or 2012.
Unless he’s jailed in Maine or Vermont – inmates can vote in those two states from jail.
Wait. Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and Tom DeLay are DEMOCRATS?
Well DUH…Fox News does put a “D” next to their names, so they MUST be Democrats
Gosh, Johnny, I find it instructive that you haven’t read the article but are able to reach a conclusion about it.
BTW, Oliver wasn’t attacking the content of the article. But perhaps you didn’t read his post either.
“He’s a Canadian right winger who denounced his Canadian Citizenship to become an American.”
No, he renounced it so he could become a British Lord. This is a guy who values puffy wigs over country.
I guess it is surprising to find a convict that doesn’t like Pres. Obama.
Yes, Frank, honey, I thought he freed them all to be on his death panels.
Really? This is what you think is timely? An article that no one read?
With the Obama administration collapsing, the liberal agenda off the tracks, this is all you can talk about?
Epic fail.
OBTW. The disbarred former president supports Obama…..do we get to ridicule him too?
I don’t know how this guy can criticize Barack Obama for the job he’s doing.
Obama is being attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off in the morning. He never made such a promise. It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.
He’s doing a wonderful job for all of us, we just need to give him more time.
Not just convicted felons are saying it, though. Michael Goodwin nails it today:
End of O’s cowardly lyin’
There’s more.
Must reading.
The election of Scott Brown cured the common cold. The election of Scott Brown means I’m not going to pay too much for my muffler. The election of Scott Brown means the sun will always shine and it will rain pink lemonade. The election of Scott Brown means elementary school students everywhere will sit up straight and pay attention. The election of Scott Brown means this year’s Super Bowl will be a close, exciting game right up to the final minute.
Just ’cause somebody wrote it doesn’t make it true, Den’.
Conrad Black?
Funny, Qibner, seems like just yesterday that’s how you guys were referring to Barack Obama. That you actually thought he could do all those things; that he would do all those things and a whole lot more.
Judgment call that that comment wasn’t on-topic, Quibs. I’d throw out the red flag for further review if you were the ref here and called it that way.
You’re MSU again, Den’.
MSU? The polite term is “reality challenged.” The impolite one is “NY Post reader.”
Dennis, the point isn’t that a convicted felon wrote something nasty about Obama, it’s the dishonesty of Instacracker in quoting him without mentioning to his readers where Lord Black resides and how he got there.
No, no. Repubs all value the views of the British peerage currently residing in US jails.
Not even the slightest rebuttal of the actual message to go along with the attack on the messenger?
Apparently you missed the point. Asking a convicted felon who has displayed no understanding of morality about the morality of others is like fishing in the sewer. Sure, you can catch something, but who cares what it is?
Perhaps Instapundit knows someone whose opinion is worth more than that of a thief, but if so why didn't he go there instead?
Not even the slightest rebuttal of the actual message to go along with the attack on the messenger?
Fred Flintstone says Obama is a failure. Liberals now must run around and cogently rebut Mr. Flintstone’s critique.
Apparently you missed the point. Asking a convicted felon who has displayed no understanding of morality about the morality of others is like fishing in the sewer. Sure, you can catch something, but who cares what it is?
Perhaps Instapundit knows someone whose opinion is worth more than that of a thief, but if so why didn't he go there instead?
Conrad Black didn't mention anything about Obama's morality, Repack; he addressed his incompetence.
Did you even read the article, or do you just have no clue what you're talking about?
I think you missed my point, which is that it's lazy (and worthless, frankly) to jump straight to ad hominem attacks without any material rebuttal made in conjunction (at least). This post will accomplish only three things: direct people open to ideas from both sides to an article unflattering towards Obama, reassure those already anti-Obama of his faults, or reassure those that are pro-Obama and uninterested in what the other side has to say that it's fine to keep being uninterested.
Also, in what way was that article about morality?
Seriously. Blacks article is little more than a bunch of name calling with zero evidence to back up any of his factual claims it and completely convoluted logic to support his opinions.
Black declares Obama incompetent for not passing more of a legislative agenda that Black, conservatives and DINO senators have vehementally obstructed and lied about in the process? In other words, “Obama is incompetent for not being able to overcome our whiny, childish obstinance!” How is that kind of reasoning even worthy of response?
Sorry, Dennis, I was addressing O-Dub’s point on morality and doing it clumsily.
Let me rephrase that. One guy is the president of the United States, the other is a convicted felon and failed embezzler. If you had to guess, which of those positions suggests competence and which does not?
Why should anyone give a rip about an opinion that wouldn’t have been published if the guy didn’t have an ownership stake in the publication?
I Googled Mr. Black, and boy, is he a mess! If bad writing were a crime, he would be on death row. A sample of his content-free, overblown prose:
Help me here. Does Mr. Black represent some faction of the conservative cause? Why is Mr. Pundit linking to him as though his thoughts mattered, or as though, indeed, he could write a simple declarative sentence?
BK sed,
> it's lazy (and worthless, frankly) to jump straight to ad hominem attacks without any material rebuttal
It is not an ad hominem attack to call someone a convicted felon, when, well, they are a convicted felon, penning from their cell in the pen.
As for ad hominem attacks, well, #18330-424's column is exactly that. It reads like the only material the prison wardens are allowing him to have is Newt Gingrich's Word List.
hello
Yes, please, remove the D after my name, there are now plenty of Democrats in ethical trouble–hmmm Nancy Pelosi must have lost the pump to “Drain the Swamp”
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