JLF president John Hood issues a follow-up response to the New Yorker hit piece on Art Pope:
Now, if you purport to write a news story about North Carolina’s 2010 legislative elections and you don’t know that Democrats outspent Republicans by millions of dollars, you are incompetent. If you do know it but still allege that Art Pope “bought” the 2010 election, you are dishonest.
So why am I not upset? Because I quite like that my adversaries are either incompetent or dishonest.
Earlier today, I took the time to read the NYT’s lengthy obit on Steve Jobs. You can imagine what impressed me —Jobs’ underground path to his fortune, without any assistance from the government. When he was young, poor and hungry, where did he turn? Not to the government, but to the Hare Krishna temple seven miles across town. Jobs would later state that he ‘loved’ this period in his life, adding that “much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
Then you have BET founder and former Charlotte Bobcats owner Robert Johnson, who told evil Fox News:
“I think the president has to recalibrate his message,” Johnson said. “You don’t get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I’ve earned my success. I’ve earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so. And by attacking me, is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy.”
Johnson joked that it was like “the old Ethel Merman approach to life — I‘ve been poor and I’ve been rich and I happen to like rich better. It doesn’t mean I’m a bad guy.”
Use this information as the backdrop for the President Obama’s press conference yesterday. He doesn’t get it, and I’m frankly embarrassed for the guy.
