Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt on the media, Obama, terrorists, and a dying America

In his weekly interview with Hugh Hewitt, Mark Steyn, as usual, made some astute observations. He noted that the media basically functions as a palace guard for Obama, enabling Obama to get away with much.

Mark also noted that America during the last quarter century has not had a two party system in the White House, but a two school system (Yale and Harvard). Clinton and the elder Bush from Yale, and Bush Jr. and Obama from Harvard.

Steyn notes that Obama spent some time this summer with His friends Bill Ayres and Bernadette Dohrn, when they all attended the wedding of White House chef Sam Cass and MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner. The media did not report the fact that Weatherman terrorists Ayres and Doryn were present.

Hugh noted that the media is making a big deal out of the fact that Governor Scott Walker did not complete college, while the media is still not saying a word about Obama's college years at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard.

Mark believes that America is dying. Hugh said,

There’s another reason this republic is dying, and that’s because ISIS is killing it, and Iran’s getting ready to do it. And there are, the president sent over one of the most unusual documents in American history, a please make me a prisoner of you, Congress. He asked to be limited in his authority to strike at America’s enemies...But have you had a chance to look at this document, yet? It’s extraordinary.

MS: Yes, I have, and you know, it’s been a long time since America unambiguously won a war. And that is a serious issue. And one of the reasons that we do not win wars is because we fight in this kind of one hand tied behind our back kind of manner. And it is absolutely ridiculous for a man who is supposed to be commander-in-chief to in effect authorize the legislature to tie one and a half hands behind his back. You can’t wage war if you rule certain things off of the table. You imagine how any war would have gone. Wars never go according to plan. And if your plan is to wage a sort of desultory, half-hearted, a little bit here, a little bit there kind of war, as we speak, by the way, there are stories about ISIS taking the town of al-Baghdadi, north of Ramadi, on the Euphrates, where I was about a decade back, and menacing the 300 U.S. non-boots on the ground that are in an Iraqi training camp near there. Who know what’s going to be necessary to get those 300 guys out of there? But you’re not going to be able to do that effectively if you ask Congress to tie one and a half hands and a leg behind your back before you even start.

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