Christmas Message from Chairman L. Brent Bozell

The year’s coming to a close and finally, just for a few days, maybe even just a few hours, it’s quiet around here. There are some staff still here, and will be working through Christmas, and through New Year’s Eve. Others are wrapping up and preparing to leave for the holidays. Some have already gone. This is good. They work exhausting hours and they need this time off, especially those with families. My office door’s closed; email’s shut down; the phones are off. There are no copywriters, no editors for this letter.

I am thinking about our consequential times. We are at a seriously critical and equally dangerous moment. Next year we will vote as a nation to embrace socialism, or to reject it. I take comfort in the confidence I (still) have that America will reject socialism if presented with a referendum on that form of governance. But if the forces of the Left are successful in muddying the waters, as they were in 2008, the transformational moment that was promised will be reached. And if these Leftists are given another four years with the keys to the kingdom, surely the kingdom will fail.

How many Americans see this? Not enough, unfortunately. It’s never enough. It’s always in the hands of the few to lead the rest.

Last Sunday President Obama was making his umpteenth visit to “CBS 60 Minutes,” that program that regularly unleashes pure vitriol on conservatives, then rolls out the red carpet for the left. It was a typical love-fest, but this time Obama made what is probably the most outrageous statement of his entire presidency.

Obama declared his socialist administration to be at least the fourth greatest presidency in history.

“I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln —in terms of what we’ve gotten done.”

Obama is more accomplished than… George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? John Adams? Teddy Roosevelt? Ronald Reagan? Obama is greater than all of them? What sheer arrogance! This is a man blinded by power. But here is what should really frighten us: He is destroying the America we know – there is no question of that — and that is an accomplishment in his eyes, so great an accomplishment that he sees himself as at least the fourth-greatest president in history for doing so.

This is a dangerous man.

How many Americans see this? In the case of the “60 Minutes” audience – not a one. CBS purposely edited out that sentence. The single most striking moment in the interview – and CBS deliberately took it out.

The leftists in the “news” media will say and do everything, including spiking the news, to promote this man’s re-election. By the same token, they will say and do everything, including acts of character assassination, against anyone who dares challenge his rule.

This is what we’re up against. Next year will be the most important election since 1860, and the second most important in our history, and the national “news” media are absolutely committed to getting Barack Obama re-elected so he can complete the transformation of America.