RANDOM ACTS OF LIBERAL MEDIA HYPOCRISY

I was surfing around the other day and came across a quote from Sam Donaldson:

"The greatest slogan that I hated during this last campaign was 'We want to take back our country.' Guys, it's not your country anymore - it's OUR country."

I didn't really pay attention to it at the time because I was looking for something completely unrelated.  A little later, however, I happened to be watching a YouTube clip of Howard Dean's epic primal scream following his surprising loss in the 2004 Iowa caucuses.  And while watching a funny remix clip of the freakout I noticed in the background a sign that said "LET'S TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!"

I'm sure this phrase or something very close to it has been used in a great many campaigns over the years.  Howard Dean didn't invent it but he is the guy who used it in the 2004 Democrat primaries.  

I'm not going to bother looking up any Sam Donaldson quotes criticizing Dean and his supporters because I'm sure there aren't any.  That's because there's nothing wrong with the phrase.  Unless, of course, the people saying it are Tea Party people and The Narrative according to Establishment Media fossils like Donaldson is that their motives are suspect.  Besides, he may very well have been drunk when he appeared on the show.

Anyway, as Jonathan Last pointed out in 2011, it's really disingenuous for the Left to get squeamish about somebody else using their old catch-phrase:

What's funny is that, best I can tell, "take our country back" emerged in modern political rhetoric with Howard Dean's campaign tartare in 2004. "Take our country back" wasn't just the biggest applause line in Dean's stump speech—it was the entire rationale of his candidacy: That insidious forces (the Bush family, Fox News, Big Oil, Big Media, corporate America, the military industrial complex, the Religious Right, Haliburton, etc.) had stolen "America" from its rightful owners, and now it was time for Dean supporters (wealthy white political donors, young white professionals with graduate degrees, and young white college students) to take it back.

Voters—even Democratic primary voters—didn't much like this sort of talk. (Remember that Howard Dean had all the money, organization, and momentum in the world and the only contests he carried were Vermont and the District of Columbia.)

But Dean's rhetoric outlived his candidacy. And in 2008, the candidate who wanted to "take our country back" was Barack Obama.

He began his campaign in 2007 by saying, "Tomorrow, we begin a great journey. A journey to take our country back." That February he told New Hampshire voters, "You have the power to take this country back." That April he told students in an Iowa high school that ''Thousands of people across the country feel we are in this moment of time where we might be able to take our country back.'' Heck, that June Obama spoke at the lefty "Take Back America Forum," telling attendees that "It's going to be because of you that we take our country back."

I could go on and on and on, but you probably get the idea.

"If you join me, we're going to take our country back."

 "We're gonna take our country back."

 "We want to make sure that everybody who wants to come and join in the party and join in the effort to take this country back."

Yup. That was all Barack Obama doing his best to unite Purple America by ending the partisan Washington political culture.

Now that he's president, Obama can't really talk that way anymore. But it would be nice if the people on his side would remember that, once upon a time, he did.

The Dems ran the "Take Back America" forum from 2003 thru 2008.  You remember those days, right? When opposing the POTUS was considered patriotic - not "racist" - by the proglodytes?  Good times.