For the second day in a row, liberal talk show host and MSNBC guest anchor Cenk Uygur pushed the outlandish notion that President Obama is a conservative. Filling in on July 7 for Dylan Ratigan on his 4 p.m. show, Uygur exclaimed, “I didn’t realize we voted for a Republican president!” Uygur preceded this statement with a rant on how ridiculous it is for Obama to express concern about the ever-growing deficit when “60 percent of Americans favor additional government spending to create jobs and stimulate the economy.” Uygur and liberal guest Ryan Grimm of “The Huffington Post” could not understand President Obama’s rationale for focusing on deficit concerns. Grimm argued that, “when people say they are concerned about the deficit” they are just really saying that, “they are nervous about the economy. That’s all they mean. So if you solve the economic problems, you’re going to solve the deficit concerns.” Of course, Uygur and Grimm agreed that the only way to improve the economy was for the president to spend more, neglecting the fact that President Obama has already spent some $3.5 trillion in his first year in office, which more than exceeds any other first-year president. If Obama were a truly fiscally responsible statesman, he would recognize that our nation has a spending problem. However, with unemployment close to double digits, and in need of a scapegoat, the hosts at MSNBC are growing restless, asking, “when will our president stop adopting Republican talking points and start giving us real change instead of pocket change?”
