In a Stunning Turn of Events, Jason Mattera Disses Obama

At just 27 years old, Jason Mattera, author of Obama Zombies and editor of Human Events, seems too young to be a right-wing fanatic, at least to Imus, who noted that most people Mattera’s age “have more sense than that.” Moments later, the 70-year old host of this program displayed his own lack of sense by asking Mattera, “Sup, dog?”
 
A known hater, Mattera summed up President Obama’s 62-minute State of the Union speech in around ten seconds: “Trains are great; check out my website; I’m going to bring you the Internet; the last two years never happened; have a good night America, and have some smoked salmon.”
 
In fact, Mattera noted that a survey conducted by NPR found that the phrase from the speech that stood out most to people was when Obama, trying to illustrate the need for reorganization in the U.S. government, joked about how freshwater salmon and saltwater salmon are handled by two different departments. Then he said, “I hear it gets even more complicated once they’re smoked.”
 
But the only smoke Mattera was interested in discussing was the smoke and mirrors he believes the Obama administration has created to make it seem like they are moving toward the political center.
 
“While they’re adopting a lot of rhetoric that’s center-right, we’ll have to see if their positions actually move away from the hard Left,” he said. “The same three Democrats who were in charge before the election are still in charge now—that’s Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama.”
 
The media has been running a narrative lately characterizing Obama as “Reagan-eqsue,” a comparison Mattera called “absurd,” given President Ronald Reagan’s tendency to defend property rights, and to speak out against class warfare.
 
“If you even look at Obama’s State of the Union address, he’s still hammering the tax cuts for the rich, and that government is the solution to many of our problems,” Mattera said. “Whereas I would say, and I think a lot of the country would say, government is the root cause for many of these problems, and we’re looking for him to step out of the way.”
 
Imus wondered if, despite Mattera’s inherently opposite view, his guest could at least acknowledge that the President is probably trying to improve the country, and to create jobs, even if neither are happening.
 
“If he were actually going to position himself to unleash the power of the free market, you’d think he would have done so already,” Mattera said. “I think Obama is just so arrogant, he thinks he has a great shot at being elected. Depending who the GOP puts up as a candidate, he may get elected.”
 
Like Monica Crowley yesterday, Mattera thinks Sarah Palin can better serve the Republican Party by recruiting newcomers and energizing the base. Imus noted that her describing Obama’s “winning the future” premise in the State of the Union as, literally, “WTF,” was clever, possibly the most clever thing she’s ever said.
 
More to the point, Mattera noted, “This entire presidency has been a ‘WTF’ moment.”
 
Sort of like the entire run of this program.
 
-Julie Kanfer