The pearl-clutching press is up in arms over Trump TV. It's "Orwellian". It's "State-Run Television". Please. Spare us.
Under Obama, the entire media, every single news program, every cable news channel except FOX News, was Obama TV. Nearly every major paper and magazine were the Obama Press.
From the moment he came on the stage, we were treated to incessant sycophancy, glorification and boot-licking of a kind that had never been seen in this country before. Obama was brilliant, cool, a deep thinker, intelligent, messianic and everything that the country needed.
This went on for eight miserable years.
Photos of Obama surrounded by haloes. Descriptions of him as magical. Non-stop attacks on his critics. Constant lies about his policies. Obama was great. The economy was great. The only problem was that some racists didn't like him.
Since the left forgets its crimes every 5 minutes, here's a reminder of what Orwellian and State-Run propaganda looks like.
Is Obama an enlightened being?
No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.
I'm sorry, but you don't get to do this for eight years and then flutter your hands about State-Run media. You just don't.
You know what's Orwellian? The fact that this hasn't stopped. That Obama taking a picture with a baby after leaving office is a major media story. While CNN's idea of a major story is that President Trump had two scoops of ice cream.
If the media had a fractional ounce of ethics, responsibility and professionalism, it would course correct. Instead it responded to Trump's win by launching an aggressive campaign to force him out of office.
Now Obama TV is furiously denouncing Trump TV. And whatever your politics, there are now two types of media consumers in this country. Those smart enough to see it. And those dumb enough to repeat whatever Obama TV, the New Obama Times and the Obama Post tell them.
Can you see Orwell's grave from here? It's rotating.